Rumblefish
Manhunter
Millers Crossing
Das Boot
La Haine
The lady from shanghai
Daywatch/Night watch
Brother 1 and 2 (russian)
Once Upon a Time in The West
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Rumblefish
Manhunter
Millers Crossing
Das Boot
La Haine
The lady from shanghai
Daywatch/Night watch
Brother 1 and 2 (russian)
Once Upon a Time in The West
I will second the recommendation for Japanese flick Audtion mentioned above. :eek:
I was disappointed by Old Boy & especially Battle Royale.
Chinese movies all choreographed & flying swords now & all the same.
A good strategy of mine (similar to my John Lennon / After '66 Beatles strategy) is when I'm really stuck, just to get a Hitchcock movie.
It only works because I don't otherwise get those film out. ie. thats the only time i've actually bought John Lennon albums.
Last Hitchcock film i saw was Spellbound
Absolutely love Night Watch. Is Day Watch available on DVD? Didn't realise it had been released here yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by RogerMilla
i picked it up on e-bay from a film dealer bohs. havent seen it on any rack yet and i may buy the official release anyway just for those mad subtitles !! the version i got was excellent quality and subtitled but not like the day watch package !
85 posts and nobody has mentioned Dekalog. (perhaps as it isnt strictly cinema?)
I recommend Dekalog above all others.
City of God is one of the best films i've seen ever.Top Class!Quote:
Originally Posted by anto1208
Going back a bit main stream and for stupid funny i think Dave Basset England Manager is worth a look.Made me laugh:D
La Haine which was mentioned already is another very good film which should be seen!
Other ones worth a look are Battle Royale and Chopper
In case not mentioned,
13 Tzameti- good French thriller
Mountain Patrol- just a good Chinese/Tibetan flick
Memory of Murders- Korean thriller
Twilight Samurai
The Hidden blade(almost the same movie as Twilight samurai, same director, worth watching though.
Chaos(the French one from a few years back)
Kill Zone", -stupid English title(like Infernal affairs) but pretty decent Hong kong action flick, with some great fight scenes toward the end, will probably be re-made by Hollywood.
"The Aura"- very, very good Argentinian thriller.
Taxi - The original French version is a good laugh.
Kubrick is probably a bit too obvious but Full Metal Jacket and Clockwork Orange are masterpieces, Eyes Wide Shut is not as bad as some critics suggest either.
I would have said Dekalog, but I wanted to stick to recommending only one Kieslowski film, which is a feature length version of one of the stories anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by osarusan
Dead Mans Shoes, directed by Shane Meadows, director of This is England.
Great show, not to be watched though if you are on acid.... apperently!!
Surprised noone's mentioned Bullet In The Head yet, John Woo at his best. Also The Killer and Hard Boiled. Just mad gunplay for an hour and a half, brilliant.
I knew there was a movie I was missing and there it is, Hidden, the best movie of last yearQuote:
Originally Posted by shakermaker1982
Saw Brother, Very good film What is the sequel like?Quote:
Originally Posted by RogerMilla
Another one I recently saw Amandla http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303297/
I'm sure someone must have mentioned the Film Noir classic:
Teen Wolf 2
Actually, this wonderful opus, a forray into the mid-1980's fear of communism and the burgeoning culture of inverse celebrity, e.g. Traci Lords, etc, is properly entitled Teen Wolf, Too, in an effort to distinguish it from the work it succeeds, Teen Wolf; and also to excuse the fact that Michael J Fox was not in it. Nevertheless, to paraphrase the only writer who could successfully rival it's insight, age cannot diminish, not custom mar it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wolfie
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Originally Posted by pete
yef def agree there
but there are chinese movies that are made for western audiences.......i hate them movies..........."Crouchin Tiger", "Flying daggers", "hero"
rubbish storylines, rubbish acting, rubbish action moves
believe me.......ordinary Chinese TV has much better Kung Fu on all day 24/7
good chinese movies to watch..........
"Fairwell My concubine"
"Beijing Bicycle"
"Raise the red lantern"
"Devils on the doorstep"
and the best Chinese movie of them all........"The shower"...great
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shower_%28film%29
also the director Jia Zhang-ke is cool, small time movie maker making movies about life amongst young people in rural chinese towns where nothing much happens, but very quirky
some westerners are too easily fooled
Slapshot is another great one. Its about an Ice Hockey team in a declining industrial Northern US town. Very funny, stars Paul Newman.
I've never laughed so hard.Quote:
Originally Posted by BohsPartisan
/Not in a good way.
It's by the same guy who made Old Boy. Sympathy for Mr Vengeance is another of his - I haven't seen it, but it's supposed to be in the same class as the other two.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bluebeard
FUBAR
check out this canadian movie. Its deadly! Think Waynes World crossed with Beavis and Butthead but done in a documentary style... so funny.
Devdas
21 Grams
Crash
The Coneheads
Alien
The Blues Brothers
Silence of the Lambs
Traffic
Blue Velvet
Watching American History X on BBC2, long time since I saw it.
The discussion at the dinner table about Rodney King made me think of the film "Dark Blue" - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0279331/ - check it out if you find it. It's a cop drama set in the run up to the Rodney King trial in LA, and the boy's club attitude in the police force, covering for each other, etc.
Best film I've seen Kurt Russel in, in a long time.
I rented Running Scared with low expectations. Was really surprised - a really great chase movie. Well worth watching if you like a thriller, never let up for a moment. Fantastic.
Red Sorghum delivered a hefty punch on the big screen.
Snakes on a Plane
Snakes on a Plane has its own thread here ...
http://foot.ie/showthread.php?t=38678&highlight=Snakes
It probably comes under the "too obvious" category, but Hot Fuzz is out on DVD this week. I thought it was a hoot. "Shaun of the Dead" is great too. And if you've never seen the Pegg/Frost sitcom "Spaced" that's well worth checking out too.
i taught ''Hot Fuzz'' was terrible.... i went the cinema with a friend when it came out and i said to him it should be good looking back at ''shaun of the dead'' which i taught was genius...but it was terrible...no word of a lie with about 20mins left, a few ppl left(and there was only bout 20 there) and id never seen that before with a film!
was nowhere near as good as shaun' and it wasnt even funny in the slightest(not sure were they even trying to make it funny, it didnt look like it anyway!!)
I thought Hot Fuzz was funny. Can't see why anyone would walk out tbh.
If you want to see a terrible film look no further than Smokin Aces.
I enjoyed Hot Fuzz, as did the fairly full audience I seen it with
I watched "American Splendor" in the cinema and thought it wa excellent but at least 15 people walked out of it.
Only film I've ever seen people walk out of was "Closer".
A few girls I know told me they walked out of "Heat", couldn't believe it
I liked Closer too.Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
I fell asleep during Apollo 13.
I fell asleep twice in the cinema. One of the Star Wars (the 5th/2nd one) and the second Pirates of the Carribean. The things you do for girlfiends....
Has she got a narcolepsy fetish? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
Nah, just a cheesy blockbuster fetish
Only film I ever walked out on was Meet the Fockers, due to a combination of a stomach bug and the movie being God awful.
Personally I liked Hot Fuzz and Closer so don't see why people would walk out, that said I was a screening of Soy Cuba recently and people walked after 20 minutes, maybe after years of Capitalist oppression they just couldn't get into a good ol' Communist propoganda movie ;)
That reminds me of people walking out of Zidane:a 21st Century Portrait, I mean what did they expect? A 2 hour thriller that culminates in Raul being unmasked as the mystery headbutter?
Oh, forgot about Brotherhood of the Wolf. Decent "leave your brain at the door" entertainment disguised as something deeper.
How about Dog Soldiers actually, quality low budget movie, or Me, and You and Everyone we Know, and (although people will probably disagree) I Heart Huckabees
Yeah, Dog Soldiers was pretty cool in a 28 days later kinda way.
It was a massive hit with the Wolf community, Bohs!! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by BohsPartisan
Another film I love that I've just remembered is the 70s cult classic "The Warriors"
Completely cheesey, totally unbelievable but for some reason it just rocks...