Duck and Cover

I only watched it last week. As good as anything they've done.

PiP wrote: - Terry Gilliam (Brazil; 12 monkeys; tideland)
- Charile Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Adaptation)
- Lars Von Trier (dogville, dancer in the dark, the idiots)
- Akira Kurosawa (7 samurai; Ran; Rashomon; Throne of Blood)

Alright, FUCK Tideland, see Fear and Loathing or Time Bandits instead. Also FUCK Eternal Sunshine, see Human Nature instead. Oh and FUCK Rashomon, see The Bad Sleep Well instead.

PiP: While on Lars, have you seen The Element of Crime or Breaking the Waves?

Aonaran wrote:PiP: While on Lars, have you seen The Element of Crime or Breaking the Waves?

no. The only other larses I saw were Kingdom and Manderley.

Also, I think Eternal Sunshine, Tideland, and Rashomon are great flicks so fuck off

FUCK Rashomon

Heathen!

Rashomon is like Kane only terminally foreign. They are both goddamned important films and I have an ocean of respect for what they have done for film narratively and otherwise but they are both a fucking chore to watch. Sorry. It's fucking true. Toshiro, badass that he is, hopping from one foot to another yelping doesn't help the cause either. FUCK that film.

PiP: I have heard Element of Crime isn't as good as other Lars but it's a post-apocalyptic neo-noir crime thriller shot entirely in sephia. So, you know, take from that what you will. Personally I loved it.

hey guyz i've been re-watching all the great stuff again lately:

videodrome
naked lunch
eraserhead
lost highway
blue velvet
the prisoner (series)

any recommendations along them lines?

Aonaran wrote:Toshiro, badass that he is, hopping from one foot to another yelping doesn't help the cause either. FUCK that film.

That was pretty ridiculous and way too over-the-top, especially in such a staid Japanese flick.

One of the best old-school Japanese movies I've seen is Hara-kiri/Seppuku. That's an intense movie.

any recommendations along them lines?

Scanners
The Dead Zone
Gozu
Mulholland Drive
Inland Empire

Not a movie, actually, but there's a planned rerelase of the classic Cold War era spy series I Spy on dvd. I've been waiting for a decent dvd release of the series for a while. Unlike most tv shows, this one doesn't suck. 69 hours of material for $60 is quite a bargain, in my opinion. :blurb:

Harakiri kicks major ass. Tatsuya Nakadai is a bad motherfucker. Seen Face of Another or Sword of Doom? Also badass Nakadai flicks.

Cimmerian Nights wrote:

Nicolai wrote:come and see

Too fucking heavy on the propoganda and way too oversimplifed.

Pretty funny movie if you treat it as entertainment and not a history lesson. The Russians still refuse to own up to the war crimes committed by their troops when the tide turned, so you can't expect their take on WW2 to be particularly balanced.

Cimmerian Nights wrote:For a good, multifaceted movie about the Eastern front, where there are no good guys and bad guys, I recommend Cross of Iron.

Another great WWII movie is Hell in the Pacific - the whole movie

Totalement, Stalingrad is also quite good.

:piano:

Cimmerian Nights wrote:Scanners
The Dead Zone
Gozu
Mulholland Drive
Inland Empire

Cheers, have only seen Scanners before and that was ages ago.
Also getting The Elephant Man and The Brood. muchos love for davids.
And Q-Bert's Wave Twisters

Cimmerian Nights wrote:Inland Empire

Holy fucking noodles, I'll never watch anything contaminated with that vermin Lynch again. His previous movies were somewhat OK, but Inland Empire is a fucking insult. If you're into unconventional movies, you're better off with a Bergman or a Tarkovsky or even a Godard movie.

Aonaran wrote:Harakiri kicks major ass. Tatsuya Nakadai is a bad motherfucker. Seen Face of Another or Sword of Doom?

No and yes, have to check that out, thx.

Twilight Samurai is a damn good contemporary samurai flick.

I love those old Zatoichi flicks too, real dark, lots of pathos, mixed in with fart jokes and the trademark of Japanese cinema the "arterial spray".

Pretty funny movie if you treat it as entertainment and not a history lesson. The Russians still refuse to own up to the war crimes committed by their troops when the tide turned, so you can't expect their take on WW2 to be particularly balanced.

What's weird is the Hollywood version of Stalingrad (Enemy at the gates) is probably worse. :Zionist controlled media conspiracy?:

Also getting The Elephant Man and The Brood. muchos love for davids.

E-man scared the shit out of me as a kid when it first came out. It's actually Lynch's most conventional and human story - still can't beleive Mel "Blazing Saddles" Brooks fucking produced it!
The Brood I loved when I was a teen and into gorey Clive Barker novels, can't say that I think it aged well since then. (I take that back, I'm thinking of Nightbreed)

Inland Empire is a fucking insult.

Well, it does seem that most Lynch movies now start off digestible, and slowly descend into wacky shit. It's the "holy shit" moments where smoke starts shooting out of your ears that - but yeah, the bunny suits wtf was that?

Thank you Nicolai for the suggestions, I'm about to get 'Stalingrad' 'come and see' and 'The Winter War' shortly.

Cimmerian Nights wrote: What's weird is the Hollywood version of Stalingrad (Enemy at the gates) is probably worse. :Zionist controlled media conspiracy?:

Abso-fucking-lutely

Withnal and I is an awesome movie, Go watch it before I ring your neck with my force powers

Here are a few films with a very common theme of general badassery:

The Bad Sleep Well
Branded to Kill
Le Cercle Rouge
Cockfigther
Duck You Sucker
The Element of Crime
The Face of Another
Harakiri
Husbands
The Hustler
In the Company of Men
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
The Last Detail
The Long Goodbye
Mean Streets
Naked
One-Eyed Jacks
Pickup on South Street
Point Blank
The Ruling Class
Le Samourai
Samurai Spy
The Searchers
Two-Land Blacktop
The Wild Bunch