Has anyone watched West side story?
The Redcafe Top 100 movies: Discussion and Preparation
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Does this mean your list won't have the big 4 by Leone? The Good, Bad trilogy and Once Upon a Time in the West?
Evening.
Feck, out of them I've only seen this one, great fecking film though as is Cool Hand Luke, and as mentioned Newman is class. Both these films will make my list I think.
Download them then.
No. Gone with the Wind's another I can't quite get myself to watch.
I've seen Leone's Westerns. I'll re watch them, though.
I'm downloading TMF at the moment. There's a couple by Buster Keaton I want to see(shit, that reminds me of Blackadder Goes Forth). The General, I think is one of them.
Anyone here seen a film called Kidulthood, a highly underground film set in inner city London about one day in the life of different kids in and around a school. All the "actors" are just kids off the street which gives it a real gritty urban feeling to it. It impressed me and I recommend it highly.
8.5/10
Edit: Will not be on my list though.
8.5/10
Edit: Will not be on my list though.
Yeah it's cool, got a good soundtrack too if you're into the UK hip-hop/grime scene.
This is what I was told Kids was like and that was utter crap.
Not Kidulthood.
Will do.
Know what Mehro, I always seem to forget the Leone movies when talking about Westerns!
Two which have just sprung to mind are High Plains Drifter and The Unforgiven...think I might now have a 'Western' weekend.
Well, that bollocks my list big time!
You might want to add High Noon to that list too.
Right most of them films I listed have been downloaded. I've also started to download The General.
Has anyone seen - The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari?
Has anyone seen - The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari?
Yep, I've seen it Spooney...a few times. Probably a 'one-view' film for most...very inventive in use of set design and performance. I have read that it could be an allegory of the German nation 'sleepwalking' from the aftermath of the First World War into Fascism under Hitler...not entirely sure about that, but I can see the historical and social connection.
You can certainly trace quite a few horror films back to this one.
The General(if you're referring to the Buster Keaton one) is fecking brilliant. Watch it as soon as you can.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is also quite good.
Yes it's the Buster Keaton one.
I'm also going to check out Eisenstein's work(I'm sure he was recommended on here and all). Seen any of his work, Ole. . .Hammer? Probably download Bronenosets Potyomkin first, then Ivan the Terrible.
Spoons, if you still need that Hindi movie I recommended gimme a confirmation. I'd have to rip it and all cos I can't find any links...
Is it really really good?
Yes, I think it's very good with a few minor influences from Hollywood which doesn't affect the movie
Does it have any Bollywood influences? those worry me, the most.
If you mean song and dance then none of it. Technically, it ain't Bollywood, it's Indian cinema for the above reason
Does Mehro like it?
Dunno. If I'm looking for a pattern, then no
What's next on the questionnaire?
What's next on the questionnaire?
I really can;t be arsed with this, Salvo. And the fact that you like it, doesn't help.
I, generally speaking, dont like Indian movies
I've seen most of Eisenstein'a major work over a period of years...did part of my degree on Soviet Montage, but can I remember much of it now? No!
Anyway - start with Potemkin. Can recommend Strike and October as well. These are the three 'Revolution' films which made his name...you might want to do a little bit of reading up on Soviet Montage and the period of history that he is referencing to get that bit more out of them.
I have only seen the first part of Ivan the Terrible, which I can barely remember, now.
One that I can also recommend which portrays the same historical period is Warren Beatty's Reds. Certainly not a Hollywood-version of history and tells the true story of the American Communist, Jack Read. Its just been released on DVD and I'm saving up for it (along with about 50 other 'essential' dvds at the moment!)
Hope all this helps, Spooney!
Do Satyajit Ray's films have song and dance?
I've read a lot about Reds. I'll try to rent it sometime soon.
I like Warren Beatty as an actor. He was class as Bugsy.
I'd still highly recommend it. Can understand your apprehension towards it though. But I'd ask you not to stereotype movies
Don't confuse Indian movies with Bollywood Geebs. Regional cinema in India at times can truly blow you off
Not all of them. Apu trilogy for instance has an amazing background score by Ravi Shankar
If anyone else wants the said movie, just give a shout. Just don't expect a lot cos now, I have definitely overhyped it
i went to the cinema about a year ago to see an indian gangster film called Don. I should have expected it, but didnt, and was therefore aghast when the gangsters themselves started singing and dancing, bollywood style. The first song did my head in, but by the third I had got over it. In the end I thought the film was excellent, (though in spite of, rather than because of, that aspect of it.)
I think one of the main reasons the film was so good though was Priyanka Chopra:
I think one of the main reasons the film was so good though was Priyanka Chopra:
It's quite long from what I remember (haven't seen it for about 15 years)...nearly three hours, I think...but a great film. I did some Russian history at school, which kind of helped, but as long as you have a general knowledge of what was going on in Russia in 1917 onwards i think you'll enjoy it. Jack Nicholson is in it, along with Diane Keaton, so a great supporting cast.
And yes, Beatty is much under-rated as an actor - excellent in Bonnie and Clyde, very good in The Parallax View (one of the great 'conspiracy' movies).
That was a rubbish movie
Don that is, not yours Hammer Michael
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid is my favourite film of all time.
Yes Spammy, we know. you can get back to sucking off Bale.