[Ghostchase]

Watched a whole slew of amazing movies...

Chris Marker's
La Jetée (Iconic! ah! and ISIS used images from this for some of their artwork)
&
Sans Soleil (Relaxing and zen)

Chan-Wook Park's
Oldboy (I finally saw it! Worth its weight in gold! I think Mr. Vengeance is even better, but its a trilogy, so its one entity in my books)

Yasujirô Ozu's Tokyo Story

John Cassavetes's A Woman Under The Influence
Gena Rowlands with the performance of a lifetime, this even interested my braindead MTV loving sister

Goodbye Lenin!
Been meaning to watch this for ages since its soundtrack by Yann Tiersen. My University had it for rent so finally sat down and watched it! A real keeper this one. Germany indie film gold.

Carlos Saura's Cría cuervos
Ana Torrent rules. I prefer this over Beehive, I felt more captivated to the story and characters.

Luis Buñuel's The Exterminating Angle
Spanish, from the 1960's, and awesome.

[keep poppin pimples]

i hadn't seen paprika, i don't watch all that much anime and just found out about perfect blue and checked it out right away,reminds me a lot of dario argento's the stendahl syndrome.

i'll try see that paprika sometime

i downloaded movie #150 of that list thing so that's my next watch, also i got this john wayne collection thing and still need to watch one more, the sons of katie elder

[TheDom]

Coming from someone who has barely any interest in anime, Paprika is a great watch.

[demonrail666]

Funhouse is such a massively underrated horror movie, IMO. I think people felt let down because it felt a bit lightweight after Texas Chainsaw Massacre . It isn't as intense but that's not to say it doesn't have a unique force of its own. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a big influence on Rob Zombie's House of a Thousand Corpses.

[LifeDistortion]

Love Satoshi Kon's work. Both "Perfect Blue" and "Paprika" are fantastic. I already own "Paprika", but do need to get "Perfect Blue" at some point.

[demonrail666]

Originally Posted by Murmer99

I could watch "cheesy" Ed Wood movies all day and everyone I've ever known who has spoken of him thinks he is one of the worse directors to ever live. I don't even enjoy him strictly for the "so bad it's good" appeal... I truly think some of his movies have a lot of artistic value.

I couldn't agree more. They're technically inept but they have what I can only describe as a spirit to them which transcends all of that. They're like a force of nature. Have you read Rudolph Grey's book about him? Amazing stuff.

[stu666]

 

[demonrail666]

Originally Posted by Murmer99

no but I'd love to. I also think the movie "Ed Wood" is one of tim burtons best films... especially if you watch a few of woods' classics beforehand to refresh your memory. That's cool that you liked Funhouse too! I personally enjoyed it more than Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Even to this day TCM has this agonizing and disturbing quality to it. I'd say it's worth watching if only for the scene where the victim is tied to a chair and Leatherface serves dinner dressed as a woman. It is a very flawed movie as well, in my opinion. I think the pacing was a bit off. But then again I feel the same way about many "classic" slashers like friday the 13th and halloween. Maybe it isn't really my thing.

I have to admit that I think TCM is a real masterpiece, but it does seem to divide a lot of people. I love how Funhouse starts out almost as a kind of comedy before descending into something that's almost as disturbing as TCM. The bit where the girl is pleading with the monster really reminds me of the bit you describe around the dinner table in TCM.

If you're a Wood fan, you really must try and track down the Rudolph Grey book. It goes way beyond the usual stuff about his angora sweaters to go into loads about his whole circle, much of which was even more interesting and eccentric than Wood himself. The bits on Criswell are particularly amazing and, in their way, quite inspiring.

[sonic sphere]

 

[demonrail666]

Thanks for the compliment. Needless to say I enjoy your posts here, too.

I only really like a handfull of Woody Allen films, roughly those from Annie Hall through to Hannah and Her Sisters. For me, though, even that period is a bit inconsistent, and I'd definitely put Stardust Memories as one of his lesser ones. It's a while since I last saw it, but it does seem more like a tribute to loads of other films, rather than a substantial one in its own right. The intro is definitely a homage to 8 1/2 and there are other references to Bergman and some others in it.

Regarding Ed Wood, I think there are far worse filmmakers than him, they just have better technical staff. Wood was working with fellow amateurs on a shoestring. But that's not so different from a lot of punk bands, and you'd rarely hear people dismissing punk as being simply 'so bad it's good', at least not nowadays. It's a shame that while fans of almost every other art form have embraced a quite open attitude to ideas of quality, film fans on the whole still seem hung up on a really quite rigid idea of it. Ed Wood never made a film as 'bad' as say Transformers 2 but Michael Bay will never be written off or ghettoised in the way that Ed Wood has simply because on the surface Bay's films look expensive and polished. Imagine where we'd be if that were applied to music: wall to wall Meat Loaf.

[Genteel Death]

 

6/10

 

8/10

[Genteel Death]

hungarian dvd release of the film.

[demonrail666]

I don't think I've ever actually seen 12 Angry Men, even though I've somehow managed to convince myself that I have.

Just watched ...

 

Bicycle Thieves

The real joy of watching this again was seeing it with someone who'd not seen it before and loved it every bit as much as I'd hoped. It's as much the cliched 'great' film as Citizen Kane, I suppose, but where I appreciate and respect Kane I've never been able to love it in the way that I do Bicycle Thieves. I put it up there with My Darling Clementine as not just 'great' cinema, but the kind I seem able to watch at any time, regardless of mood and just wallow in it. One of the few what I'd describe as truly beautiful films.

[me.]

 

[EVOLghost]

^ ??

[startur]

 

nutty

see it in a town near you http://www.everythingisterrible.com/...ewoochiez.html

[demonrail666]

 

Return of the Living Dead

It may not be the best horror film, or even the best zombie movie, but it's probably the most fun. Zombies that actually look disgusting, some real laugh out loud moments, an almost constantly nude Linnea Quigley, and The Cramps, TSOL and 45 Grave on the soundtrack. Stupid in the best possible way. I know Noisereductions is a massive fan.

[ilduclo]

Originally Posted by Murmer99

 

such a simple film, yet I've seen it a dozen times without getting bored. Put Lumet and Henry Fonda together and you're guaranteed a masterpiece. I really like these types of films for their simplicity... James Foley's Glengarry Glen Ross is next.

GG Ross is a great movie

[Ghostchase]

Originally Posted by EVOLghost

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Hosoda Mamoru's "Summer Wars". Excellent anime film, but maybe only for anime fans, I wouldn't say it has much crossover to non-anime fans. But then again Hosoda-san's "Girl Who Leapt Through Time" is a quite popular and mainstream anime film. Anyways, I love both.


Just found that J.Spaceman and the Sun City Girl soundtracked Korine's "Mister Lonely"?!!?!!?!!! Damn I have to hear AND see this film!

[gast30]

Originally Posted by Murmer99

 

after i seen this movie i wanted a leathersnake jacket
wanted to flow the cool niclas cage way


euuhhh
the movie i have seen today was soo shit that i watched it half