The Cranes are Flying
Closely Watched Trains
Ashes and Diamonds
Kanal
Night and the City
Contempt
Tokyo Drifter
to name a few
Closely Watched Trains
Ashes and Diamonds
Kanal
Night and the City
Contempt
Tokyo Drifter
to name a few
Film The Redcafe Movie review thread
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I'll get on to those.
Blimey - 4 films in one day! Haven't seen many of Roeg's films apart from Performance and Walkabout. Always visually interesting. Need to see Don't Look Now though.
I noticed there's a Roeg film on over Xmas - Track 29. Is it any good?
Worth it simply for a surreal nightclub fight!!! Typical of the Japanese 'Yakuza' films of the 1960s...the colour is so over-the-top! A good if slightly barmy gangster film!
Its certainly watchable, but not one of his greats. Spoony has said that Don't Look Now divides people on here...would be interesting to hear from those who don't rate it as to why. In my opinion one of THE classics of the 1970s - and chilly in mood as the backstreets of Venice in winter!
Suzuki certainly did have a style didn't he?Worth it simply for a surreal nightclub fight!!! Typical of the Japanese 'Yakuza' films of the 1960s...the colour is so over-the-top! A good if slightly barmy gangster film!
Who Gets to Call it Art? Intriguing documentary about Henry Geldzahler and his part in the Pop Art phenom of the 1960's.
Notorious. Not exactly what I was expecting, I'd say it was more of a film noir/romance. Having said that, it was a great film and I loved it. Tolkein was clearly influenced, the hack.
Might give the movie Cache a watch next. Anybody seen it to tell me if it's good?
It's a bit like LOTR. I've been wanting to see that for a while. Keep forgetting to download it. I've seen Funny Games, and I thought it was a bit disappointing.
Is there hobbit-like pron in it?
No, but there are a couple of orc type characters in it.
Hobbit porn will be the next big thing.
Hobbit porn will be the next big thing.
Danny Boyle will be the main director leading the way.
Spammy would love it.
He could add to the posters to his 'Danny Boyle room'.
Saw it after a few glasses of wine and fell asleep half way through. Didn't finish it. Seemed liked a good interesting plot but was incredibly slow.
I don't mind slow films.
No. I'd imagine it'd be slow. Is it one of the ones of people just sitting around smoking? I heard he made a few of those.Ever seen Andy Warhol's 'Empire State'? Now that's slow!!!
It's okay; a bit slow and a little bizarre. Not my kind of film.
Tarkovsky's films are slow. I think you have to be in the right mood. That said, so are Kitano's movies. . .and I've loved most of his stuff, especially Sonatine and Dolls.
Watched Straw Dogs last night, fantastic film. Went a bit OTT near the end but it didn't spoil the film. Anyone else seen this?
Anyone seen this trilogy?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047444/
I'll check it out after watching a few more Kurosawa films.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047444/
I'll check it out after watching a few more Kurosawa films.
On the Waterfront - great movie, brilliant acting but what the feck was going on with Brando's eyebrows??
I've seen all three from the Samurai Trilogy. All good movies. Toshiro Mifune is pretty much a badass.
Seen these, Ole?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0442286/ (Kakushi ken oni no tsume)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0351817/ (Tasogare Seibe)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0359692/ (Mibu gishi den)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056058/ (Seppuku)
I'm going to watch every decent Samurai film made, next year.
I've only seen Twilight Samurai. Been wanting to see the others. Have you seen Samurai Fiction?
Haven't seen that one. Sounds good though. Samurai Fiction is good. It's a bit different than most Samurai films.
what about Twilight Samurai then?
I say give it a watch. Come to think of it, I can't think of a Samurai movie I have seen that I wouldn't recommend to someone. Except for Six String Samurai, that's a god awful movie.
A bit LOTR then?
There is a fair bit of walking, and sword fighting, so yes very LOTR.
Top 5 samurai films, Ole?
Will do it later. Now I'm off to eat breakfast before going to a shoot.
Laters. I hope there's some incest.
Shoot?
I've seen that one. It was ok. Very different if I remember it correctly. A bit slapstick in a way.
Empire State is something like 12 hours of the building, taken from one spot with no cuts. The only 'action' consists of lights going on and off.
He made one called 'Sleep'...which, funnily enough was about a man sleeping...for about eight hours. He could have filmed last season's Cup Final, pruned six hours off the running time, and achieved the same result!
Is a director's cut DVD a good Christmas present?