Films you've seen recently and would unreservedly recommend:

[scottdisco]

See Fucking Amal!

I made my ex's friend cry and scream in horror when I took her to see Lilya at the cinema. Bad choice for an afternoon's friend-sitting?

Moodysson is in my canon just for those two films.

have to second the Amal love.

 

[baboon2004]

cool - have you seen Container? Was debating whether to buy it in Fopp, cos his fourth film wasn't great (can't remember the name...featured an unfeasibly sexy girl, but she was being horribly exploited - God morality is confusing). Then again it was only £3.

The Foreigner moment in Amal is sublime.

 

[baboon2004]

See L.I.E. - superb US indie drama with a phenomenal, complex performance from Brian Cox.

 

[continuum]

 

[slim jenkins]

'The Beat That My Heart Skipped' - great lead, direction, story (although nicked from an earlier film called 'Mr Fingers')...not the 'gangster' film as hyped on the box but even better, more interesting struggle for artistic achievement and escape from dubious life...

 

[nochexxx]

any of you film buffs seen Hausu? watching the film felt like a warped cartoon.
fly-agaric childsview jap horrorcore! no idea what the parental guidance rating should be for this beast, parts of it were so brilliantly juvenile, felt Scooby Doo in places. blew my socks off!

 

[mms]

any of you film buffs seen Hausu? watching the film felt like a warped cartoon.
fly-agaric childsview jap horrorcore! no idea what the parental guidance rating should be for this beast, parts of it were so brilliantly juvenile, felt Scooby Doo in places. blew my socks off!

yes i have a good copy of it. it's unsane.

 

[nochexxx]

yes i have a good copy of it. it's unsane.

haver you seen any of his other films? anything else worth watching?

my understanding is Hausu is his film debut. start as you mean to go on!

 

[mms]

haver you seen any of his other films? anything else worth watching?

my understanding is Hausu is his film debut. start as you mean to go on!

no i've not, but the music is cool, same guy that did monkey magic music

up for watching this

 

[slim jenkins]

Rear Window again.
Stand-out moment: Grace moving towards the camera then slo-mo kiss of JS...like a dream...

 

[crackerjack]

Massacre in Rome
despite hammy turn from rumpole, this is good I'm posting when I should be watching

 

[zhao]

Sin Nombre. about gang life within MS13 and immigration. made in hollywood, but it tells the story, as far as i, someone who has never been a member of MS13 or made the trip from Honduras to the Mexican American border, can tell, in an honest fashion and it does not flinch.

 

[crackerjack]

'The Beat That My Heart Skipped' - great lead, direction, story (although nicked from an earlier film called 'Mr Fingers')...not the 'gangster' film as hyped on the box but even better, more interesting struggle for artistic achievement and escape from dubious life...

That was top. Only just realised it was the same director as this, which I saw last night. Brutal and brilliant, though I can't figure out the 'prophet' part of what seemed like a straightforward tale of a kid rising through the rank, playing the politics and using the little he had to his advantage. Last night I kept running biblical stories through my head looking for parallels. But nah.

 

[IdleRich]

I enjoyed Dementia 13 - a very early (black and white) Coppola one which I think he made with some spare studio time, film and actors from a Roger Corman film he was working on. It's a kind of psychological type horrow in a Hitchcock style with some genuinely creepy moments - although some of them were ruined by the crappy print which meant that you couldn't quite work out what was happening.
Then I watched Piranha (I think that's how you spell it) which is another Corman production that starts off as a freshwater Jaws but loses some of the tension with some silly jokes and strange plotting. Still worth checking though I reckon.

 

[IdleRich]

Oh yeah, and also a Hungarian film from the sixties called The Round-Up. Beautifully filmed on the great plains it deals (as with so many Eastern-European films of the time) obliquely with the oppression caused by the Communist regime but also has themes of treachery from both the leaders and the resistance. Brilliant use of the seemingly free open plains as a prison.
And, er, Kung-Fu Panda which is great fun and which puts in lines for the adults without resorting to sexual innuendo.

 

[slim jenkins]

Mesrine Pts 1&2 - great performance by Cassel...stylish, tough, some touching scenes and slick direction...conveys the mindset of a publicity-seeking wannabe 'hero' brilliantly.

 

[baboon2004]

Nighthawks - has two of the most intense, what-the-fuck conversational scenes I've ever seen.

oh yes - not the stallone one.

 

[matmustard]

@Baboon, have you seen Cop Land? Film’s great in my eyes, with Stallone excellent as Slothful-Po-Po-With-Conscience. Otherwise man’s a turd, obv.
Having said that, I recently watched (PG13ish) Coraline and was amazed at the references to Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead, so maybe I think too much

 

[baboon2004]

Tbh I didn't even realise there was a Stallone film called nighthawks til this morning - it's no doubt a very different beast form the film I watched.

Stallone is obviously an arse, but in a way that makes me laugh, so he's alright. I liked his charcterisation in Star Stories too.

Not seen Copland - tbh the title turns me off. Not big on police/gangster stuff, aside from Donnie Brasco and The Departed.

 

[matmustard]

Give it a try. I'd be interested in another opinion.
It's 'cop' in a similar way to The Wire (but of couse nowhere near, blah blah)
Coppola / Gene Hackman's The Conversation is another great cop-not-cop film incidentally, believe this was already bought up in a Noir thread