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Post by missdonk on Feb 21, 2006 16:52:20 GMT
I am looking forward to Grizzly Man, it is showing at Warwick Arts Centre sometime soon. I will check the dates but I believe it is only showing for 3 days. I have the leaflet at home so I will let you know. It would be a bit of a drive though, but I can imagine worth it to see it on the big screen instead of DVD.
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Post by Companero on Feb 21, 2006 16:56:40 GMT
I am looking forward to Grizzly Man, it is showing at Warwick Arts Centre sometime soon. I will check the dates but I believe it is only showing for 3 days. I have the leaflet at home so I will let you know. It would be a bit of a drive though, but I can imagine worth it to see it on the big screen instead of DVD. In all fairness, the pic is assembled from DV camcorder footage, so it'll probably feel best at home on video, anyway. I saw it on DVD, as I said and it didn't leave me wishing I'd seen it at the pictures.
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Post by Morell™ on Feb 22, 2006 11:18:01 GMT
How can we forget:
Hero, Crouching Tiger..., The House of flying daggars, Romper Stomper, Chopper, Shogun Assasin, Fist of Fury, Kagemusha. Lady snowblood.
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Post by Phill on Feb 22, 2006 15:53:36 GMT
A few more...
La Strada Weekend 8 and a Half Riffifi Les Valseuses 400 Blows Aphaville Aguirre Wrath Of God Fitzcarraldo Subway La Haine La femme Nikita Wings Of Desire Seven Samurai Stray Dog Throne Of Blood Stalker Mirror The American Friend
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Post by RydCook on Feb 23, 2006 11:13:44 GMT
hmm i woulda thought grizzely man would have come to cambridge, but the arts picturehouse has said nothing about it.. weird.. hopefully it'll come soon, i'll happily see it on dvd though, just gotta wait till may
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Post by Workshed on Mar 1, 2006 22:48:20 GMT
The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg La Grande Bouffe Day Of Wrath/Gertrude Life And Nothing But The Wages Of Fear Farewell My Concubine Diva The Vanishing The Gospel According to St.Matthew/Salo Faces/Husbands (yes, I know they're 'American' but it feels like I'm watching a 'foreign movie') Rome, Open City/Paisa A Generation/Kanal/Ashes and Diamonds L'Age D'Or/Belle De Jour Audition L'Atlante/Zero De Conduit La Dolce Vita/ '8 and 1/2' /Fred and Ginger The Seventh Seal/Fanny and Alexander Au Revoir Les Enfants Man Bites Dog Woyzeck (My personal fave Kinski flick) La Dolce Vita Rashomon/Seven Samurai/Ran Night and Fog/Shoah Les Mistons/Jules et Jim/Alphaville Picnic At Hanging Rock/Cars That Ate Paris Les Enfants Du Paradis The Conformist Le Samurai Battle Royale (for the sicko in me) Les Diaboliques The Bicycle Thieves The Red Balloon La Regle Du Jour The Leopard Harpya (animation short that freaks everyone out!) Grave Of The Fireflies/Spirited Away (the two greatest Ghibli films) Mother India Pelle The Conqueror I could go on for ages but that's an 'essential' list off the top of my head designed to compliment what others have suggested.
So, last, but by no means least, any (and I mean ANY) film by the master of them all, Sergei Eisenstein i.e.Strike, Oktober, Battleship Potemkin, Alexander Nevsky, Ivan The Terrible Pts I and II and Que Viva Mexico.
The language of all cinema is contained here in these few movies. Watch 'em, love 'em, learn.
p.s. If you want a few slightly more oblique flicks suggested just ask. Phill was on the right track and Morell - if you like Shogun Assassin make sure you check out the original flicks it was culled from. The first five Lone Wolf films are all fab. My fave out of others suggestions is 'Battle Of Algiers'... still relevant and as exciting as the day it was first shown.
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Post by Workshed on Mar 1, 2006 22:51:17 GMT
Oh yeah... forgot the best trilogy of all-time and I'm not talking 'Star Wars'
Pather Panchali/Aparajito/World Of Apu
Now go get 'em all..!
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Post by DeLarge on Mar 6, 2006 20:41:42 GMT
few foreign films in my dvd collection Man Bites Dog La Haine Irreversible The Tin Drum City of God Battle Royale I Stand Alone Amores Perros Run Lola Run Zatoichi and the Antoine Doinel boxset ( 400 blows etc ) I've not got round to watching yet
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Post by missdonk on Mar 7, 2006 10:13:12 GMT
I am still to watch Irreversible. Dave has it on DVD but I think I ought to be in the right mood too.
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Post by Companero on Mar 7, 2006 10:20:13 GMT
I am still to watch Irreversible. Dave has it on DVD but I think I ought to be in the right mood too. It's very unpleasant and although it's a very worthy film, I don't think I could watch it again in a hurry. There hasn't been many films that have left me feeling that way (I've seen some weird and wonderful stuff, too) but I would certainly add this to the short list of films that have repulsed me, along with Cannibal Holocaust and Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salo. All three are very well made but definitely not for the squeamish.
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Post by missdonk on Mar 7, 2006 11:42:27 GMT
Yeah Dave watched Salo but said that I shouldn't. He said it wasn't very nice.
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Post by Companero on Mar 7, 2006 11:58:18 GMT
Yeah Dave watched Salo but said that I shouldn't. He said it wasn't very nice. That's an understatement - I would call it repugnant. It's funny because if a lesser know director had made Salo, it would have been trashed at the time (which it was) and fall into complete obscurity thereafter - but because was made by Pasolini, it’s now considered an important film. That said, Pasolini is certainly a fascinating individual – his murder remains shrouded in mystery to this day. He was killed a few months after Salo was released and there have been all sorts of speculation and conspiracy theories. The official story is that he took a rent boy to a secluded beach, whereupon the youngster bludgeoned him and then ran him over with his own car. However, Italy has had a history of corruption within its government (which still persists today) and Pasolini had written a two-part article in a newspaper detailing what had been happening. Pasolini was murdered the week the first part was published and before the conclusion (which is said to have implicated key politicians in wrong doings) was to be printed the following week. Others believe he was killed because of Salo or even his overt homosexuality... Pasolini’s friend and fellow filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci is adamant that is WAS a political assassination.
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Post by namewithnohorse on Mar 7, 2006 12:11:09 GMT
Yeah Dave watched Salo but said that I shouldn't. He said it wasn't very nice. That's an understatement - I would call it repugnant. It's funny because if a lesser know director had made Salo, it would have been trashed at the time (which it was) and fall into complete obscurity thereafter - but because was made by Pasolini, it’s now considered an important film. That said, Pasolini is certainly a fascinating individual – his murder remains shrouded in mystery to this day. He was killed a few months after Salo was released and there have been all sorts of speculation and conspiracy theories. The official story is that he took a rent boy to a secluded beach, whereupon the youngster bludgeoned him and then ran him over with his own car. However, Italy has had a history of corruption within its government (which still persists today) and Pasolini had written a two-part article in a newspaper detailing what had been happening. Pasolini was murdered the week the first part was published and before the conclusion (which is said to have implicated key politicians in wrong doings) was to be printed the following week. Others believe he was killed because of Salo or even his overt homosexuality... Pasolini’s friend and fellow filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci is adamant that is WAS a political assassination. Why wouldn't you watch a film because it's not 'nice'? Things don't have to be nice. Most nice things are shit. Apparently about a week before Pasolini died he said 'I will be killed very soon'. Shortly before his death he was also researching the Mafia. Who knows. Still a great filmmaker though. It always makes me think what would all these filmmakers who died before there career was over would be making now. Imagine what kind of films Cassavetes, Fassbinder, Pasolini, Clarke, Jarman, Tarkovsky etc would be making if they were still alive.
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Post by PatrickCoyle on Mar 7, 2006 12:15:42 GMT
I haven't watched Irreversible for about three years now - I can't imagine any mood I'd be in that I'd want to watch it. It's not even the bumraping, it's the first scene with the swirling and the noise that does me in.
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Post by Companero on Mar 7, 2006 12:36:29 GMT
Why wouldn't you watch a film because it's not 'nice'? Things don't have to be nice. Most nice things are shit. I'd never be put off watching a film because it was unpleasant - I just wouldn't be in a hurry to watch it again. I'm a firm believer that in order to have an opinion about something, I have to watch it. Salo was a very, very unpleasant viewing experience for me - it's harrowing in the extreme and evoked feelings and emotions that I don't think I'm ready to endure again, for a very long time.
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