Seen any good movies lately? - Films you MUST see

bogthing

bogthing

Finally got over to theater and saw "No Country For Old Men", great stuff. Javier Bardem and Tommy Lee Jones were brilliant. As per usual with Coen Bros. films the dialogue was just the best.
 
roni

roni

Rewatching 'The Thin Man' yesterday, reminded me of someone writing about the Hank&Sarah-couple in 'Hollywood', to act a little like Nick&Nora, which of course they do.

What I wonder about is:
Could it be, Buk was intentionally using this couple to build his and Linda's behaviour in 'Hollywood'?

The reason I wonder:
Though Nick&Nora, as a couple, work very fine together (they're even funny, I think) the movie itself is lame, ridiculous, obvious and sucking on the napkin of the rich like some Scott Fitzgerald thing - so that Buk must have HATED that movie. - But then: Around the time he was writing 'Hollywood', Linda has read Fitzgerald's 'Tender is the night' (as we know from two poems in 'You get so Alone'), so maybe she was also reading This book - and he had a look into it. Could also explain his sudden interest in detective-stories, which arouse later in his last novel 'Pulp'.

I know we're into pure speculation here. Anyway - any thoughts on this?
 
jose leitao

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I saw last week the Final Cut of Blade Runner, just out now, and the long documentary Dangerous Days which accompanies it. A definitive edition for fans.
 
Father Luke

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roni said:
(snippage)

What I wonder about is:
Could it be, Buk was intentionally using this couple to build his and Linda's behaviour in 'Hollywood'?

Could also explain his sudden interest in detective-stories, which arouse later in his last novel 'Pulp'.

I know we're into pure speculation here. Anyway - any thoughts on this?

(/snippage)
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Interesting speculation. As we know creativity occurs through an incubation
type process, and all things become ammunition for the muse.

Quite insightful, and worthy of consideration.
Very good roni. Very good.

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Father Luke
 
hank solo

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Gerard K H Love said:
No Country for Old Men
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bogthing said:
Javier Bardem and Tommy Lee Jones were brilliant. As per usual with Coen Bros. films the dialogue was just the best.
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I quite enjoyed No Country for Old Men. No Hollywood ending. I thought it was a little unusual for the Coens; many of their films have a good guy wins sort of moral. Good that they stuck with the source. Reminded me a little of their early film, Blood Simple.
 
justine

justine

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i recently saw:
fast food nation - killing floor scenes are pretty horrific, even if you grew up on a farm. interestingly told, you see how the meat industry impacts a whole lot of people.
this film is not yet rated - hilarious and intriguing.
ghost dog - great jarmusch film i had to revisit.
last night - the world is ending at midnight, the movie follows a bunch of characters in their last 6hrs. pretty cool.

my review skills aren't much better than mjp's.
 
Gerard K H Love

Gerard K H Love

Appreciate your friends
Just saw The Syrian Bride. Very good, the kinds of things in the world you never think about. Had to read subtitles for 95% of it, even my dyslexic ass could keep up. I was surprised it was made by an Isreali film company. Very objective view of injustices.
 
bootblack

bootblack

Last King of Scotland with Forest Whitaker....Good. Great reminder of historcal events, even if it has been corrupted by Hollywood.
 
chronic

chronic

old and in the way
I watched Lost in La Mancha last night. A documentary on Terry Gilliam's doomed Don Quixote project wherein everything that can go wrong does go wrong. Pretty entertaining, though by the end you wonder why Gilliam doesn't just shoot himself.
 
cirerita

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yeah, the Lost in La Mancha doc was interesting. Gilliam sure is quite a character. But Tideland sucks!
 
Rob.

Rob.

The Station Agent has been playing on IFC lately. I have to watch it every time it's on. I have a problem, but it is one of the best films I have seen in a long while.
 
Black Swan

Black Swan

Abord the Yorikke!
Barbet Schroeder documentary

In French with English subtitles
"L'avocat de la terreur", brilliant documentary about a famous lawyer Jacques Vergés who defends unpopular causes, like people labelled as terrorists, revolutionaries, war criminals. Jean-Paul Sartre is cited. Was born of a Vietnamese mother and French father, therefore sensitive to how it feels to be a visible minority.
I think it is a very important film to see since it give you a true perspective on the real workings of justice system.
 
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Father Luke

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Just got this in the mail. I'll watch it soon. . .

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number6horse

number6horse

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There's a new Kurosawa film out on DVD called Drunken Angel. This is one that Tarantino really loved - you can see Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill sources of inspiration all over the place. The film is actually from 1948, but new to DVD.
 
mjp

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Black Swan said:
In French with English subtitles
"L'avocat de la terreur"...
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The Criterion Collection (as opposed to the cirerita collection) has also made Schroeder's documentaries on Idi Amin and Koko the "talking" gorilla available on DVD...both worth a look. Schroeder is a unique guy, but we knew that.
 
cirerita

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The first two movies by Schroeder, More and La Vallée, are not that good. Kind of boring, if you ask me. But at least the soundtracks are good enough. La Virgen de los Sicarios won me over, though.
 
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hank solo

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Schroeder? Hey, he made a movie in the eighties about some drunken poet guy. Think it was called Barfly. Anyone see it? :D



Sorry.
 
Bukfan

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"The law is wrong; I am right"
Black Swan said:
In French with English subtitles
"L'avocat de la terreur", brilliant documentary about a famous lawyer Jacques Vergés who defends unpopular causes, like people labelled as terrorists, revolutionaries, war criminals. Jean-Paul Sartre is cited. Was born of a Vietnamese mother and French father, therefore sensitive to how it feels to be a visible minority.
I think it is a very important film to see since it give you a true perspective on the real workings of justice system.
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I saw it on TV a while back. It's a very interesting documentary.
Btw, the lawyer seemed very fond of cigars...
 
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hoochmonkey9

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just watched Volver. Almodovar is mellowing a bit, but it was still very good.
 
cirerita

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I didn't like Volver nor the previous one, can't recall the title now. I think he's mellowing in the same sense B. mellowed, if you know what I mean.
 
Black Swan

Black Swan

Abord the Yorikke!
Bukfan, yes indeed Vergés seemed to love cigars, huge ones, cuban I bet and great art
Hooch I saw Volver and liked it too ,edited in a way difficult to follow but if it is not Holliwood I am generally very happy
Something I saw last year that left an impression on me was "nobody knows", about Japanese guettos, movie made after article ,relating a true story in the paper. That was a shock to me. About 4-5 brothers and sisters living alone in an apartment.
 
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