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I don't know if it is available where you live but do try to rent 'After life'.It is one of the most beautiful,intelligent,insightful and welcome japanese movies that i have seen in years.
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After Life is a new feature film by KORE-EDA Hirokazu, the award-winning director of Maborosi (1995). Based on KORE-EDA's original screenplay, After Life explores our profound human need to discover meaning in everyday life.
After Life is set at a way station between Heaven and Earth. There, guides have less than a week to help the newly dead sift through their memories for one defining moment to take with them to Heaven.  As the film discovers, finding a life's worth of meaning in a single event is no simple task. Interactions between the soul-searching dead and their dedicated guides explore the range of human experience. The film centers on the grudging respect that develops between Watanabe, an undistinguished old man, coming to terms with his uneventful life, and Mochizuki, the young guide assigned to help him.After Life draws on the recollections of hundreds of elderly Japanese, some of whom join the cast of the film. Their stories reveal not only their personal pleasures and horrors, but also the broader history of postwar Japan. By portraying characters struggling to come to terms with the past, the film explores our attachment to life - bursting with pride and falsehood, pain, and pleasure - and, most importantly, to love. ARATA, a newcomer chosen among hundreds of actors, leads the cast in the role of Mochizuki. NAITO Taketoshi plays the old man, Watanabe. The supporting cast includes KAGAWA Kyoko and TERAJIMA Susumu. The film also introduces ODA Erika as Shiori Satonaka. |
Sounds like a film Kurosawa would have done.
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If you are not squeamish,try this:
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Nick Cave's The Proposition, but I don't think they're renting it yet. If you wanna see an old movie, 12 angry men, the Seven Samurai, or inherit the wind are my faves. Or Batman Begins!
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rent bob roberts. laugh and be scared at the same time.
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hey laila! rent this movie if you haven't already seen it.
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800206673/info PCU. one of the best movies ever the wall is cool. make sure you watch the diectors commentary first so you know what the hell is going on |
Not a movie but you should watch it and laugh out loud:
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My favourite film.  But since you've seen it, LAila, I would heartily recommend this Icelandic masterpiece.  |
you should get Willard. It's nicely done. Also Mirrormask is great, and the music in it is awesome.
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The Good the Bad and the Ugly. I saw this for the first time over the weekend and quite enjoyed it.
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Me and You and Everyone We Know Rushmore or Royal Tennenbaums Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 12 Monkeys Dr. Strangelove Psycho- the original Rhys- I was going to recommend that at the same time! I decided that she might not like it though because it is very much made for guys. You gotta see High Plains Drifter man, that is another good one. |
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Some libraries have outstanding film collections.
The gone underground, hard to find pseudo-documentary and excellent film Punishment Park (1971) is one of the sheer beauties I managed to locate in one. Go with this, and disappointment will not be yours. |
I would say, Laila, "the War Within". it's fantastic. the subject matter is a little heavy, but it deals with a Pakistani engineer who gets abducted by the American's, then later joins a terrorist group and decides he wants to blow himself up at Grand Central Station, NYC. the movie is basically his struggle with his conscience. Excellent film. 10/10..
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basket case-best horror film ever or anything directed by dario argento
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most university libraries have
Home of the Brave: A Film by Laurie Anderson (1986) or Laurie Anderson: Collected Videos (1990) (V) on vhs... check one out it features guitar by Adrian Belew & a cameo by William S. Burroughs even. so that's my musical choice; my action pic choice of the too seldom seen is Year of the Dragon (1985) by Michael Cimino starring Mickey Rourke & the mesmerizing John Lone as one of film's best villians or The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) featuring the great Robert Mitchum in his twilight years or Dog Day Afternoon (1975) which showcases the best performance of Al Pacino's career. My comedy picks are Woody Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993) & Stakeout (1987). The above two have a little of both action & comedy (& some drama too); if that is what you are really looking for, then it's tough to beat Midnight Run (1988) or Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989). for a dramatic thriller, Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958) is a goodie. for a drama about music watch Bird (1988) (Charlie Parker) directed by Clint Eastwood & starring Forest Whitaker or Lady Sings the Blues (1972) about Billie Holiday; Sidney Furie's direction isn't spectacular, but Diana Ross & Richard Pryor are sublime. & for more true stories, it's Frances (1982), Chaplin (1992) or Lynch's marvelous The Elephant Man (1980). I'm assuming in all of this of course that you've already seen most Kubrick, Coen Bros., early Scorcese, Lynch's Blue Velvet, Hitchcock's Psycho, Cimino's The Deer Hunter & Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather and Apocalypse Now. |
Dawnson's Crack.
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