American HIstory X is great, I just bought it from Best Buy not to long ago!
It has long been one of my favourites. Too long even... I must've been way underage the first time I saw it.
"I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
I actually watched that a couple of weeks ago on VHS, the video store I rent from has a lot of foreign films. It was hard to follow, but a lot of Godard's movies need to be viewed more than once. I'll probably see it again when Criterion releases it on DVD next month.
And The Vanishing (the original) rocks.
So you're saying I have buy both Breathless AND Pierrot le fou on Criterion Collection DVD? I'm not made of money.
I refuse to see the remake of the Vanishing, just because I know how they completely ruined the ending. (And it was the same director!)
The car's on fire and there's no driver at the wheel
And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides
"I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
oh I saw an Irish film a while back called 'dead bodies' which I'd never heard of, which is surprising. It was surprisingly really good.
The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
If you're tired of Will Farrell, Owen Wilson, Jim Carrey, etc., type "funnymen", check out these two GEMS from Albert Brooks:
Lost in America
Mother
Might be a bit slow (i.e. no crotch or flatulence jokes) for some, but I love this dude!
ever seen 'defending your life'? i think that's my favorite albert brooks movie, although i haven't seen all of his movies.
some other movies i dig:
-10 (not really a lesser known movie, but the younger people here might not have seen it before)
-bubba ho-tep (pretty good movie about elvis and a black JFK in a nursing home, fighting a mummy)
-dear wendy (saw it on IFC one night. not the greatest, but still a good movie)
-beyond the valley of the dolls (this movie is just......it's really bad, but bad in the way you can't stop watching it, and there are some parts in it that had me saying out loud "holy shit!" made in the early '70s and written by roger ebert)
Twin Town.
An early Rhys Ifans role, very funny, very dark.
p.s. I shit on Fight club . Seriously, that Ed Norton is wooden, in the extreme. Pitt is under rated as an actor though, in Meet Joe Black he is simply excellent.
seriously you have got to be joking.
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Made
Ivans XTC
The Straight Story
La Haine
Cinema Paradiso - Directors cut
The Battle Of Algiers
Grizzly Man (Think 'Into the wild' with bears)
The Proposition
The Indian Runner
Last Tango In Paris
Waking Life
Slacker
Rivers Edge
Network
Man Bites Dog
Cool Hand Luke
I watched the Wind That Shakes The Barley last night and thought it was pretty good stuff.. powerful film actually.
oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
I watched the Wind That Shakes The Barley last night and thought it was pretty good stuff.. powerful film actually.
oh very much so dunk. it made me so angry. but then the irish are very close to my heart. and the ending... i just thought wow... i could scarcely believe it.
hear my name
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
oh very much so dunk. it made me so angry. but then the irish are very close to my heart. and the ending... i just thought wow... i could scarcely believe it.
i thought that there were far too many scots in the Black and Tans for my liking... all the vicious bastards seemed to be scottish?!?!? i thought the ending was slightly too dramatic.. i just didnt think that Teddy would be the one who would shout fire on his own brother.. but you never know? i mean Michael had Fredo killed didnt he
oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
i thought that there were far too many scots in the Black and Tans for my liking... all the vicious bastards seemed to be scottish?!?!? i thought the ending was slightly too dramatic.. i just didnt think that Teddy would be the one who would shout fire on his own brother.. but you never know? i mean Michael had Fredo killed didnt he
fredo betrayed the family. and so did teddy. and for what? i kept hoping he wouldnt give the order but...
hear my name
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
get rid of the spoilers :eek: or put a warning up.
I dunno, the wind that shakes the barley was good but there's nothing that makes me angrier than in the name of the father :mad: now THAT'S powerful!
The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
"Dead Man's Shoes" - Amazing movie by Shane Meadows who also directed 'This Is England' (nice recommendation urbanhippie... you beat me to it! )
"The Devil's Rejects" - DON'T dismiss this one.... it is a 'horror' movie (for want of a better word) but it really is visual treat. The last scene, shot to Lynyrd Skynyrd's Freebird in it's entirity, is absolutely stunning and oddly emotional. How Rob Zombie created these characters that are complete bastards, yet you feel sorry for them and see their human side is amazing... even if you only watch it once, watch it.
"Into The Wild" - Nuff said really
and finally....
"Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" - An instant Tim Burton classic, brilliant musically, cinematically and visually. Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Sasha Baron Cohen and Timothy Spall are all magnificent. Go and see it in the cinema before it goes to DVD!!!
Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...
... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
get rid of the spoilers :eek: or put a warning up.
I dunno, the wind that shakes the barley was good but there's nothing that makes me angrier than in the name of the father :mad: now THAT'S powerful!
at least Barley was accurate... In The Name Father has so many "artistic licence" moments its almost funny... like Braveheart did... why lie in a movie
oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
"this one, anytime I say love if you wanna say love, uh, say it, and if you say it you might as well say it loud, and if you don't feel like sayin' it, don't say it, but if you feel it, certainly say it..."
NOTE: Everything I write in the P,P&M section are intended to be songs, not poetry.
at least Barley was accurate... In The Name Father has so many "artistic licence" moments its almost funny... like Braveheart did... why lie in a movie
cause you can and the truth is probably not all that interesting.
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cause you can and the truth is probably not all that interesting.
i know but the truth of In Name Father is actually interesting enough without embellishing the story with inaccuracies? just find it weird... same with Braveheart.. why he even meets the queen is beyond me... i mean it wasnt like William Wallace's life was ever dull
oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
i know but the truth of In Name Father is actually interesting enough without embellishing the story with inaccuracies? just find it weird... same with Braveheart.. why he even meets the queen is beyond me... i mean it wasnt like William Wallace's life was ever dull
well i'm still wondering why superman is so earth humanlike when he is an alien.
hear my name
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
at least Barley was accurate... In The Name Father has so many "artistic licence" moments its almost funny... like Braveheart did... why lie in a movie
I don't care about accuracy in this case... I don't watch a film to learn history. I'm saying that as a film in the name of the father was MUCH more powerful. the wind that shakes the barley, they weren't even real people, were they?
The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
I don't care about accuracy in this case... I don't watch a film to learn history. I'm saying that as a film in the name of the father was MUCH more powerful. the wind that shakes the barley, they weren't even real people, were they?
but INOTF made you angry because of its power.. and yet some scenes create anger and yet didnt happen... his dad being in the same prison... all of them being tried in court together, etc... i'm saying that if you're going to make a film that stirs up some ill-feeling towards people, the British in this case, then it should be at least accurate.
oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
but INOTF made you angry because of its power.. and yet some scenes create anger and yet didnt happen... his dad being in the same prison... all of them being tried in court together, etc... i'm saying that if you're going to make a film that stirs up some ill-feeling towards people, the British in this case, then it should be at least accurate.
Hmm... I'm sure Emma Thompson didn't make her big speech in the court either... if they had shown the courts as they probably WERE it would have been pretty dull... were we supposed to sit through fucking YEARS of deliberations? The main point of the story is accurate though, they were found guilty of something they didn't do blah blah blah, scenes were changed for dramatic effect. Show me ONE film where everything was word for word fact for fact scene for scene, it doesn't happen! Nobody watches a film expecting to learn the facts of the case.
The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
Show me ONE film where everything was word for word fact for fact scene for scene, it doesn't happen! Nobody watches a film expecting to learn the facts of the case.
Born Free
and i do!!! i watch a movie like Amistad and i want it to be as close as possible to the actual events... INOTF is a brilliant film though... i just don't understand why as story as good as that needs to have fictional frilling up.
oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
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If you liked Snatch you should see Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
A couple of other random ones: 21 Grams, Pans Labyrinth, Equilibrium, Memento, Fast Food Nation,
So you're saying I have buy both Breathless AND Pierrot le fou on Criterion Collection DVD? I'm not made of money.
I refuse to see the remake of the Vanishing, just because I know how they completely ruined the ending. (And it was the same director!)
And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides
oh I saw an Irish film a while back called 'dead bodies' which I'd never heard of, which is surprising. It was surprisingly really good.
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
Brilliant movie.
Zatōichi
Rurouni Kenshin animated movies are great as well.
A Scanner Darkly.
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Very Bad Things
Home Alone & Home Alone 2 !!!
Love, Honour & Obey
PJ albums, at the moment!! -
1,Vs 2,Vitalogy 3,No Code 4,Yield 5,Ten 6,Backspacer, 7Pearl Jam 8,Binaural 9,Riot Act.
thats a weird movie, but very good
Bill Murray and Harold Ramis are geniouses
Reading 2006 - WOOOOW!!!!!
Paris 2006 - Fucking amazing
Wembley 2007
ever seen 'defending your life'? i think that's my favorite albert brooks movie, although i haven't seen all of his movies.
some other movies i dig:
-10 (not really a lesser known movie, but the younger people here might not have seen it before)
-bubba ho-tep (pretty good movie about elvis and a black JFK in a nursing home, fighting a mummy)
-dear wendy (saw it on IFC one night. not the greatest, but still a good movie)
-beyond the valley of the dolls (this movie is just......it's really bad, but bad in the way you can't stop watching it, and there are some parts in it that had me saying out loud "holy shit!" made in the early '70s and written by roger ebert)
that's all i can think of right now.
~D.K.S.
ooh yes way better than the crap hollywood version.
the last supper.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
seriously you have got to be joking.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
Ivans XTC
The Straight Story
La Haine
Cinema Paradiso - Directors cut
The Battle Of Algiers
Grizzly Man (Think 'Into the wild' with bears)
The Proposition
The Indian Runner
Last Tango In Paris
Waking Life
Slacker
Rivers Edge
Network
Man Bites Dog
Cool Hand Luke
oh very much so dunk. it made me so angry. but then the irish are very close to my heart. and the ending... i just thought wow... i could scarcely believe it.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
i thought that there were far too many scots in the Black and Tans for my liking... all the vicious bastards seemed to be scottish?!?!? i thought the ending was slightly too dramatic.. i just didnt think that Teddy would be the one who would shout fire on his own brother.. but you never know? i mean Michael had Fredo killed didnt he
fredo betrayed the family. and so did teddy. and for what? i kept hoping he wouldnt give the order but...
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
I dunno, the wind that shakes the barley was good but there's nothing that makes me angrier than in the name of the father :mad: now THAT'S powerful!
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
yeah dunk... put up a warning.
injustice, helen... thats what stokes the anger. :(
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
"Dead Man's Shoes" - Amazing movie by Shane Meadows who also directed 'This Is England' (nice recommendation urbanhippie... you beat me to it!
"The Devil's Rejects" - DON'T dismiss this one.... it is a 'horror' movie (for want of a better word) but it really is visual treat. The last scene, shot to Lynyrd Skynyrd's Freebird in it's entirity, is absolutely stunning and oddly emotional. How Rob Zombie created these characters that are complete bastards, yet you feel sorry for them and see their human side is amazing... even if you only watch it once, watch it.
"Into The Wild" - Nuff said really
and finally....
"Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" - An instant Tim Burton classic, brilliant musically, cinematically and visually. Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Sasha Baron Cohen and Timothy Spall are all magnificent. Go and see it in the cinema before it goes to DVD!!!
... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
at least Barley was accurate... In The Name Father has so many "artistic licence" moments its almost funny... like Braveheart did... why lie in a movie
NOTE: Everything I write in the P,P&M section are intended to be songs, not poetry.
cause you can and the truth is probably not all that interesting.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
i know but the truth of In Name Father is actually interesting enough without embellishing the story with inaccuracies? just find it weird... same with Braveheart.. why he even meets the queen is beyond me... i mean it wasnt like William Wallace's life was ever dull
well i'm still wondering why superman is so earth humanlike when he is an alien.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
but INOTF made you angry because of its power.. and yet some scenes create anger and yet didnt happen... his dad being in the same prison... all of them being tried in court together, etc... i'm saying that if you're going to make a film that stirs up some ill-feeling towards people, the British in this case, then it should be at least accurate.
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
Born Free
and i do!!! i watch a movie like Amistad and i want it to be as close as possible to the actual events... INOTF is a brilliant film though... i just don't understand why as story as good as that needs to have fictional frilling up.