Recommended Films

[pete]

Buffalo Soldiers is good. Jarhead is worth a look too on similar theme if different war.

[superfrank]

I recommend No Country For Old Men too. Not funny like other Coen films that I liked such as Raising Arizona or Fargo but very interesting and intriguing.

[geysir]

A Coen film on Sky Movies last night, Blood Simple.
It's a raw masterpiece.
The earth certainly moved :)

[centre mid]

Saw Bobby over the weekend, based around the assasination of Robert kennedy, it focuses on the lives and the relationships of the staff of the hotel (cant remeber the name) where he was shot. Amazing cast and great inter-twining storylines.

[passinginterest]

Bobby is excellent. Had forgot about that one.

Jarhead is another one that I'd agree is very good.

[Billsthoughts]

saw that "walk hard" last nite. mildly amusing.

[bennocelt]

Saw a german movie today called "The tunnel", very good
It was about some west germans digging a tunnel under the berlin wall and trying to get their loved ones from the east. Brilliant acting, and good suspense. Worth a look

[geysir]

The Tunnel is very good, that same director did Downfall.

Fallen was on Sky M tonight. It's a very clever film.
I was trying to think of a better ending for it and I couldn't come up with one.

Usually I'd have to be nailed to the sofa to sit through a big budget special effects so called horror. I missed the first 15 minutes, I couldn't figure out why Ezabel would be so focussed on Hobbs the detective. Wouldn't you think that someone with those ambitions, (bring down Babylon) would have bigger fish to fry and the capacity to do it?

[shakermaker1982]

is fallen the one with Denzel Washington and John Goodman? "Time is on my side - yes it is" is that the right song they keep singing?

[geysir]

That's right, it annoyed me a bit that they use the Rolling Stones songs in that context, a bit of a cheap commercial trick and then what a great leap in imagination to have Sympathy for the Devil as the closing song.
Who started all that? find a classic pop tune, shovel it into the film in some context and have the audience humming it in their heads.

[Billsthoughts]

Sergio Leone?

anyways another film worth checking out is "Shadow of The Vampire"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0189998/

[Bondvillain]

Sergio Leone?

anyways another film worth checking out is "Shadow of The Vampire"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0189998/

Nah. Leone marshalled Morricone into composing beautiful memorable melodies for his films, that became legendary afterwards.

Leaving out the "Rock n roll" movies of the 50's & 60's (The girl cant help it, Blackboard Jungle, Help, the endless conveyor belt of Presley vehicles etc.) I'd hazard a guess at Lucas with American Graffiti (Louie Louie, Chantilly Lace, Rock Around the Clock etc.) or Scorsese with Mean Streets. (Jumpin Jack Flash, Be My baby etc.) , both 1973.

Shadow of the Vampire is excellent, and I'd recommend Gods and Monsters as a nice companion piece for the era. Very different Genre, but equally well shot, well cast & well structured & featuring a similar 20's horror background.

[Billsthoughts]

There is another one with Malkovich. Its about Orson Welles and the making of Citizen Kane. Cant remember the name of it but very good anyways. Has the famous american charater actor who had a play on in Galway lately as Randolph Hearst. Name escapes me!
As for best use of a song. Its "Downtown" in an episode of Seinfeld.

[Bondvillain]

There is another one with Malkovich. Its about Orson Welles and the making of Citizen Kane. Cant remember the name of it but very good anyways. Has the famous american charater actor who had a play on in Galway lately as Randolph Hearst. Name escapes me!
As for best use of a song. Its "Downtown" in an episode of Seinfeld.

It's RKO 281, (after the original studio production code designated for Kane) and yes, it is top notch.

It's a HBO movie with a fantastic cast (and Melanie Griffith) - Malkovich, Liev Schreiber, Roy Scheider, Liam Cunningham, Brenda Blethyn, and the bloke your thinking of, James Cromwell, forever doomed to be known as "The Oul farmer out of Babe"

[tetsujin1979]

the bloke your thinking of, James Cromwell, forever doomed to be known as "The Oul farmer out of Babe"
He'll always be Zephram Cochrane to an army of Trekkies out there!

[Bondvillain]

He'll always be Zephram Cochrane to an army of Trekkies out there!

Agreed, he DID instigate First Contact, but If you dont want to be beaten to a pulp with cheap plastic imitation phasers, I'd recommend you call them Trekk-ers, not Trekkies...:D

[geysir]

Raising Arizona on Sky movies tonight at 8pm.
Always worth a 5th look.

[pete]

Raising Arizona on Sky movies tonight at 8pm.
Always worth a 5th look.

One of my favourites. When Nicholas Cage was good.

Go is on TV now. Well crafted film.

[Newryrep]

James Cromwell, forever doomed to be known as "The Oul farmer out of Babe"

surely as the police captain in LA Confidential

[Neish]

Just watched 3:10 to Yuma, very good show

[osarusan]

I just watched Traffic, it was very well made I thought, even though I'm not a big Soderbergh fan.

[bennocelt]

I just watched Traffic, it was very well made I thought, even though I'm not a big Soderbergh fan.


a straight copy off Traffik from C4, not original at all. Swap mexciao for pakistan

[Anto McC]

Anyone ever see "Night of the hunter"? One of my favorite films of all time, if you haven't seen it then try your best too. Robert Mitchum is amazing in it.

[Bondvillain]

Anyone ever see "Night of the hunter"? One of my favorite films of all time, if you haven't seen it then try your best too. Robert Mitchum is amazing in it.

Fantastic film. If you watch it again, watch the kids acting. The movie was pretty much shot in sequence, and the kids in their very early scenes are a little bit stilted and inanimate. Thats because Charles Laughton absolutely hated children, and couldnt bring himself to give them any direction in person. It's only later in the movie do they start to shine, as Mitchum took the unofficial directors mantle and coached the kids in rehearsals & off camera, with excellent results.

Interesting on two fronts, as Laughton was obviously (but for this one massive personality flaw) a brilliant director, and Mitchum, who was obviously a gifted communicator, never expressed any further interest in either coaching or Direction.

Anyway. Sermon over.

This weekend , we have been mostly enjoying the Christopher Guest collection. Particularly "Best in Show" - another 'Mockumentary', this time : Everything thats wrong with America wrapped up neatly in 90 Mins of Dog show allegory.

Very funny, with a great cast (Parker Posey, Eugene Levy, Catherine O Hara, Fred Willard, Michael McKean) and a stand out performance from Larry Miller (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0588777/) as a hostage negotiator with so many 'issues' that he cant even manage to talk his troubled teen son off the roof of his own house : "Hey! Hey! Get Down! I'll gouge your right eye out with my thumb, I shiit you not, you little freak! Now, will you get down here? I'm gonna punch you in the eye till it turns to jelly! I'll stab you with forks till you bleed, how bout that for negotiation, eh? Y'little twerp!"

Great fun. Not for everyone, but if you liked Spinal Tap or Waiting for Guffman, you'll find something here.

[SligoBrewer]

Juno.

Very clever and witty film

[paudie]

Anyone ever see "Night of the hunter"? One of my favorite films of all time, if you haven't seen it then try your best too. Robert Mitchum is amazing in it.

Watched it again recently. Thought it is a bit dated and the end is a bit lame but definitely worth seeing.

[Block G Raptor]

Watched The Man Who Fell To Earth last night on sci-fi. Hadn't seen it since adolescence and wondered would it hold up to my fond memories and I have to say it did more than that . It's a cinematic masterpiece IMO and bowie is outstanding in the title role as an alien who lands on earth on a mission to bring water to his droughted planet only to be sidetracked by materialism, Sex, alcohol and ultimately love and insanity.It's not to everyone's taste with it's non-linear plot and diminutive dialouge but if you haven't seen it I'd recomend it to anyone who's interested in stunning cinematography and top notch acting

P.S. I taped it so if anyone wants a lend of it PM me

[superfrank]

Watched it again recently. Thought it is a bit dated and the end is a bit lame but definitely worth seeing.
Thought that too but it's still a great performance from Mitchum.

I'd also recommend City of God. Brutal and visceral depiction of the life in the favelas. It's funny in places too.

[DmanDmythDledge]

Anyone see No Country for Old Men? Top class film in every department.

[HarpoJoyce]

Anyone see No Country for Old Men? Top class film in every department.


Dman,
I like alot of the Coen Bros. probably the commercial stuff more than their quieter films. But My Old Man from the Country saw the film and he said No.
I think he prefers Mel Gibson Bloodfests.

I've yet to see it.

[Neish]

Watched Closer last night great show

[Aberdonian Stu]

Just saw Michael Clayton earlier, very good.

[pete]

Dman,
I like alot of the Coen Bros. probably the commercial stuff more than their quieter films. But My Old Man from the Country saw the film and he said No.
I think he prefers Mel Gibson Bloodfests.

I've yet to see it.

Don't listen to the naysayers. I thought it was a captivating film & really draws you in. Don't think about the end too much,

[sligoman]

Saw Crash, Juno and Bee Movie(:o) in the past few days. All good, Crash & Juno especially.

[John83]

Don't listen to the naysayers. I thought it was a captivating film & really draws you in. Don't think about the end too much,
Do.
It's an utterly anti-Hollywood movie. Every cliche about what the ending should be is ignored; a main character is killed off-screen; there is no soundtrack.
It's a very interesting film.

[geysir]

A big point about the ending is that you makes you think.
It's not gift wrapped.
I'll be having another look at it soon.

[shakermaker1982]

I've bought the book on the back of the movie. I read the Road (same author) and found it boring so fingers crossed that it turns out decent.

Watched the Kingdom on Saturday and have to say it's very average.

[jebus]

I've bought the book on the back of the movie. I read the Road (same author) and found it boring so fingers crossed that it turns out decent.

Watched the Kingdom on Saturday and have to say it's very average.

How could you find the Road a boring novel? Genuinely probably the best post-apocolyoptic book I've ever read. No Country For Old Men is the best movie I've watched this year, although I hear it's gonna get challenged pretty strongly by There Will Be Blood

[centre mid]

Wathced "The Pursuit of Happyness" last night. Will Smith starred and I think directed. Very touching story best performance i've ever seen Will Smith give. I didnt think he had it in him.

[shakermaker1982]

How could you find the Road a boring novel? Genuinely probably the best post-apocolyoptic book I've ever read. No Country For Old Men is the best movie I've watched this year, although I hear it's gonna get challenged pretty strongly by There Will Be Blood

His writing style didn't appeal to me. Very very descriptive in outlining the landscape. I don't want 6 pages telling me how the dust settles on the vegetation. I know there was just him and the kid and you can't just fill the page with dialogue but it lacked something. I know it's praised to high heavens but I really struggled with it. It may be just his writing style but I just couldn't get stuck into it.

Fingers crossed I get to see There Will Be Blood this weekend - from the sound of things it's a masterpiece.

[bennocelt]

Has anyone seen Into The Wild yet? I have read the book, excellent, and Im very curious how it is portrayed on the big screen.

[Saint MacDara]

Anyone see No Country for Old Men? Top class film in every department.

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is a superior film imo

[HarpoJoyce]

Has anyone seen Into The Wild yet? I have read the book, excellent, and Im very curious how it is portrayed on the big screen.


Yes its a good film, the actor playing the lead role looks and acts like a young Johnny Depp. I was talking to someone else who had read the book before she saw the film and she was impressed with the film too.

[DIFChick]

Great film, great book and soundtrack is fab too. Love Eddie Vedder's voice!

[jebus]

Has anyone seen Into The Wild yet? I have read the book, excellent, and Im very curious how it is portrayed on the big screen.

I actually prefer the movie, it's very true to the account given in the book, but thankfully cuts out the author's ego trips

[geysir]

Did anybody see an okeyish humorous French Film on Film 4 some months ago called
Romuald et Juliette with Daniel Autiel?
Where he is the CEO of a yoghurt company, he appoints one director to be his VP, who turns out to be the spitting image of John Delaney, who unwittingly poisons a production batch and elopes with Daniel's wife.
The resemblance was uncanny.

[geysir]

I'm a fan of the classic 50's westerns. Shane was on Sky movies last night.
I have mixed feelings about it. Van Hefflin (my mother's hero, so I guess he could have been my father) and Jack Palace were class but if ever a wife needed some bitch slapping it was Van's wife, she whined on and on and on and the least said about the son the better.
I still rate the 3:10 to Yuma 1957 as the best out of the 50´s, especially with the acting, casting, direction, understated psychologically gripping plot and realistic.

Shane is the one that could do with a remake.

[HarpoJoyce]

I'm a fan of the classic 50's westerns.......I still rate the 3:10 to Yuma 1957 as the best out of the 50´s, especially with the acting, casting, direction, understated psychologically gripping plot and realistic.

Shane is the one that could do with a remake.

A friend of mine said to me a few years ago. " why do they remake good films, they should think about remaking rubbish stuff".

[Block G Raptor]

picked up a great bargain in Virgin megastore in blanch yesterday "the little black book of movies" (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Movies-Century-Greatest-Scenes-Speeches/dp/1844035905/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203846402&sr=8-1) for €9, it's a couple of thousand pages of the pivotal film's, people and Scenes from world cinema, it's done in chronological order by Decade and has some fantastic movie stills in it, would recomend for any movie buff

[ken foree]

"there will be blood" is an epic. a masterpiece. it's not flawless by any stretch but it's got incredible, elemental power. the movie works as an obvious narrative on the surface but it kept me awake last night for 2 hours going over every interlocking layer. there is heavy symbolism, mind-blowing imagery, and it says something about both the movie and the viewer that i just didn't get it when i saw it. it stayed with me and revealed itself like a puzzle-box in the days after. it's a work of art. johnny greenwood from radiohead does the soundtrack which is also excellent. fantastic film, day lewis is the best i've seen him. i didn't know hollowood made movies like this any more, p. anderson is a genius.