Seen any good movies lately? - Films you MUST see

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Last night re-watched the first "Bourne Identity" .
I love Matt Damon in these action filled thrillers. It was very good.
Tonight will watch Planet Earth as medication
before my blood pressure scores too high.
 
The Razor's Edge with Billy Murray. Great adaptation of the WS Maugham book but with a different perspective. One of my favorite books. One of my favorite movies.
 

Black Swan

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3:10 to Yuma. Great western in an old style. Worth seeing on the big screen. I was never a fan of Russell Crowe but now that was something. Love Christian Bale.
 
I recently saw State of Grace for the umpteenth time. One of my all time favourites. The Fisher King is also excellent, as is Children of Men, 300 and Mystic River. I regularly watch the original Watership Down with my daughter, which happens to be one of my fave books. Dog soldiers is good fun.

As Rubyred said, Carnivale was fantastic tv. As is the Sopranos.

I hate Quentin Tarrantino. Realy, I do!
 

justine

stop the penistry
i watched 'the departed' a couple of days ago: pretty damn good. scorcese on form as usual. the ending upset me, but i don't deal well with non-happy endings, so no surprise there. for such a long movie, it was incredibly well-paced.
 

hoochmonkey9

Art should be its own hammer.
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I hated the heavy-handed rat ending.
we know he's a rat, I don't need to see an actual rat to clue in. I was a bit let down by that.
just me.
 

mjp

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It's a pricey buy at $31.96, but netflix has it, if you do the netflix thing. I don't know if any of the big chain walk-in video rental joints would have it. It's not really mainstream stuff.

But man, what a film! I am in awe of this guy.

Be sure to check out the 1969 short film "Several Friends" in the dvd extras.
 

hoochmonkey9

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I have the the Canadian equivalent of netflix (zip) and I put it in my top ten picks to get here pronto. both discs. I'm a sucker for bonus features.
 

mjp

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I only saw disc 1, the "Several Friends" short is on there. Disc 2 is apparently two versions of a later movie he made, haven't seen that yet.
 
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funny
awkward
bizarre
different
definitely jarmusch
 

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Visions Of Dylan

Todd Haynes "I'm not there"
Cate Blanchett plays one side of Bob Dylan and she pulls it!!!!!
Christian Bale
Carl Franklin
Ben Whishaw as Dylan asked to spell his name, Rimbaud. . .
Marcus Carl,
Heath Ledger
Richard Gere
His influences Guthry and Allen Ginsberg among others

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I watched Jarmusch's Ghost Dog recently and I loved every minute of it.

There is an Italian film around called The Family Friend (L'amico di famiglia is the original title) and the actor that plays the main character, Giacomo Rizzo, reminded me a lot of Buk. A lot. Here is a photogram from the film, maybe someone will agree with me. None of my friends did ;-)
 

Father Luke

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[...] the actor that plays the main character, Giacomo Rizzo, reminded me a lot of Buk. A lot. Here is a photogram from the film, maybe someone will agree with me. None of my friends did ;-)

i don't know if i'm your friend or not but i see the resemblance in the hair line,
certainly, and the way his bottom jaw is out a little bit more than his top.

yeah. i can see it, sure.
 

number6horse

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I hated the heavy-handed rat ending.
we know he's a rat, I don't need to see an actual rat to clue in. I was a bit let down by that.
just me.

I could not agree more, hooch. I was actually shocked at that clumsy visual stuck on at the end there. Was that supposed to be funny ? I didn't laugh. And the hell of it is, is that the rest of the film is fine - probably the equal of most other Scorcese films. And then........the rat comes along and fucks everything up. Like a gourmet meal that ends with rotted fruit for dessert.
 

Gerard K H Love

Appreciate your friends
No Country for Old Men and the Cohen Bros are rumored to have movie rights to some Bukowski books. I hope they do some.....No Pulp for Young Men.
 

Black Swan

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The Stone Merchant, tasteful, very good film,
by Renzo Martinelli, with Harvey Keitel,
a view of extremism,
"Man is the only religious animal,
in the holy task of smoothing his mother's path
to the happiness of heaven,
he has the globe in a graveyard." Mark Twain
 

ROC

It is what it is
Zodiac

A great mystery, based on a true story.
Apart from one nasty murder scene, there was nothing about this movie I didn't like.

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