zhao

there are no accidents
dear contributors of this thread,

right now I'm leaving myself entirely in your hands. music and books seem to take up all of my free time and i find myself entirely CLUE-LESS about current (and vast majority of old) films. thanks for the lust caution recommendation and in my download cue now, all from the last few pages of this thread:

paranoid park
naboer (next door)
cool hand luke (can't believe i haven't seen this as i used to be an artful dodger in my youth)
before the devil knows you're dead
4 months, 3 weeks
southland tales
no country for old men
i am legend
28 weeks later (this is not from here but i just wanna)
inland empire (not sure if this was mentioned?)

bigups! :D
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
"have just seen Lust Caution."
I thought that was a really good film, seems to have been lost a bit because of the immense critical reaction to No Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood but certainly deserves to be seen.
Anyway, another recommendation for you Zhao, yesterday I watched "Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?" and I kind of think it's maybe a flawed masterpiece. Almost. It's a cheap British rip-off of 8 1/2 (this is pretty much acknowledged as there is a bit where one of the critics of the film within a film says something about blaming Fellini for all the autobiographical films in this style) but with less money and less talent but more weirdness, more human/donkey love and more Bruce Forsyth. It's written, directed and starred in by Anthony Newley with Joan Collins (who said it broke up their marriage) as one of his wives and has loads of characters with names such as Goodtime Eddie Filth, Penolope Poontang and Felicity Fondle. The story deals with Hieronymus making a controversial "warts and all" movie of his life, including his relationship with schoolgirl Mercy Humppe (one of his love letters to her begins - Dear Mercy, on consideration of the problem, the farmer will be left with two oranges, he will also have three grapefruit and a banana...), his dawning realisation that he probably hates women and his thoughts on approaching death (the date of which he has calculated from his life assurance policy).
Oh yeah, and it's a musical. It's almost totally rubbish but it genuinely does have something of the same madcap feel as 8 1/2, check it out I reckon.
 

noel emits

a wonderful wooden reason
so yep I did go and see diving bell, and it was wicked! wept buckets
For a true story some of the details are so weirdly poetic in a slightly corny sort of way. Like the pre-echos of his predicament in the book he was already planning to write, and what had happened to the guy (his friend?) that was hijacked. Also that he should end up being attended to by all these beautiful women while unable to reach out and touch so to speak, of course that's the way he wrote it anyway.
 

slim jenkins

El Hombre Invisible
Recently saw Douglas Sirk's 'Imitation Of Life' and we wept over that ending...when Mahalia Jackson's singing...love Sirk, now having watched all his classics (I think) over the last few months.

If you like this stuff, you should also see 'Far From Heaven', by the way - a fantastic homage with Bernstein's final soundtrack as a bonus.
 

polystyle

Well-known member
Diva was a good one G , nice soundtrack too

I have to mention -Three Times by Hsiao -hsien Hou from 2005.
Watching Qi Shu is a pleasure ...

Think many of you will enjoy ...
 

UFO over easy

online mahjong
interesting looking film called Garage, I think about homosexuality in small town america but I forget (anyone know anything about this?),

lol, so I as completely wrong about this - it's not about homosexuality and it's set in Ireland. still want to go see it though, seems to have had pretty decent reviews
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
I've got Control on order - will get back to this thread when I've seen it. Heard lots both for and against (including a poster on this forum who thought it was rubbish because they used Marshall amps in the gig scenes, and a band like JV wouldn't have been seen dead using anything as 'stadium' as a Marshall amp... :slanted:)
 

crackerjack

Well-known member
I've got Control on order - will get back to this thread when I've seen it. Heard lots both for and against (including a poster on this forum who thought it was rubbish because they used Marshall amps in the gig scenes, and a band like JV wouldn't have been seen dead using anything as 'stadium' as a Marshall amp... :slanted:)

I think I'd have been much more interested in that if it wasn't Anton Corbijn directing. The guy's aesthetic is so particular - and so particular to JD - I feel I knew what it would be like without seeing it. If he'd shocked us all bby, say, filming in colour I'd have been game.
 

crackerjack

Well-known member
Guilhèm de Peitieus;130622 said:
Yes. Both stunningly beautiful and intellectually articulate. It isn't on DVD (or video), happily.

But it is currently in the cinema. Went to see it last night and lived right up to expectations. I was surprised (dunno why) at how new wave it was (all that intercutting early on, and the scene where he's talking to his mum and the camera moves from bathroom to bedroom with just an open dividing wall in between).

Great story, brillliantly told and I kept staring at Anna, wondering if she was Uma Thurman's mum.
 
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vimothy

yurp
This isn't exactly unreserved, but I recently saw "eternal sunshine of the spotless mind" and didn't hate it.
 

zhao

there are no accidents
This isn't exactly unreserved, but I recently saw "eternal sunshine of the spotless mind" and didn't hate it.

i walked out of that one. as i did the one after that... the cutsey music shit with that mexican actor...
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
"i walked out of that one. as i did the one after that... the cutsey music shit with that mexican actor..."
Hmm, don't remember that bit at all (appropriately enough) but I didn't much rate the film I have to say.
I watched The Night Train Murders the other day, very nasty Italian flick that was banned when it came out in 1976 I think. Morricone score but not one of his best with some frankly annoying singing over the credits but a fairly good sinister harmonica refrain that dominates a lot of the rest of the film. Basically a couple of young girls are travelling overnight by train to visit their family for Christmas but they run into a couple of wrong 'uns who have hidden on the train to escape the police. Things are slightly complicated by the fact that the bad guys have just hooked up with this weird glamourous sadist woman who took a shine to one of them after he raped her in the train bog. She eggs them on with disastrous consequences. Kind of a weird film with this sordid feel to it - much darker than any of the giallos I've seen, worth watching more as a curiosity than anything else.
 

zhao

there are no accidents
Quote:
"i walked out of that one. as i did the one after that... the cutsey music shit with that mexican actor..."

Hmm, don't remember that bit at all (appropriately enough) but I didn't much rate the film I have to say.

i meant the film he made after that, the cutsey one with the cutsy imaginary sequences with the cutsy mexican dude. just stick to music vids is my advice for him.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
"i meant the film he made after that, the cutsey one with the cutsy imaginary sequences with the cutsy mexican dude. just stick to music vids is my advice for him."
Sorry, misread what you put.
I watched loads of films at the weekend but apart from You, The Living none of them was much cop. From the rest, probably the pick of the bunch was Baba Yaga/Kiss Me, Kill Me which is a nice looking Italian film with a pretty cool score by Umiliani. It's based on a character called Valentina who I understand features in a number of cartoons drawn by a bloke called Guido Crepax. I know nothing about him at all (I really struggle to read comics) but flicking through google shows that he has a very distinctive and striking style, mainly based on black and white drawings of naked women. The film itself is a bit of a mess but has some good imagery and weird erotic nazi dreams which makes it seem fairly current if nothing else.
I also watched Wild Angels which is terrible but noteworthy for the "Just what is it that you want to do?" bit I guess.
 

crackerjack

Well-known member
All the talk of Funny Games (which didn't really interest me at all) has led me to Hidden, which i absolutely loved. Brilliant acting (Binoche especially, ages since I'd seen her in anything) and so many memorable scenes, esp. the one where he first meets Majid in adulthood, and he's so calm. I liked how so many things were left unexplained - at least I did once I'd watched the interview afterwards and being reassured i hadn't just missed half the story.

So anyway, anyone seen Funny Games, new or original and would recommend? I know the new one's been mostly panned...
 
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