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Last House is a great little disturbing gem. But, even though the above story concerning its director "Victor Janos" sounds alluring and perfectly molded to the gritty exploitative vibe of the film, it was actually made by porn director Roger Watkins. All of this is detailed in the excellent book called "Sleazoid Express" by Bill Landis and Michelle Clifford, which is a must-own for any lover of down-n-dirty films. There's even a picture of Watkins taken in 2001 and the detailed history of the film that was restored, lost, cut, lost again, restored from a Spanish print with gore intact then eventually losta again! |
Exit Through the Giftshop. Best film I've seen in a while.
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Inception
7/10 It certainly didn't suck, but it's easily the most overrated movie of last year. I think everyone was just impressed with the special effects, which were pretty cool (nice MC Escher homage in there), but that's not enough to carry a film once it leaves the big screen. Also, the subplot with Leonardo di Caprio's wife was a bit depressing. Are we really so starved for quality Hollywood films these days that even the most slightly intelligent film gets hailed as a masterpiece? One last thing: I don't know about you guys, but my dreams are never that literal... |
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There's another great article on that in the (I think) first issue of Flesh and Blood magazine, produced in the UK in the 90. I'm not sure if it had any US distribution but if you like Sleazoid Express you'd love it. I'm not a big fan of LH but the whole backstory is pretty fascinating. Anyway, watched this yesterday  Local Hero (10/10) A completely irrational 10/10 but it's a film I still get nothing but joy from, even after seeing it countless times. Just a really lovely film. |
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Such a great film. Bill Forsyth is an under rated director of great little humanistic comedies. Even his "mainstream" effort, "Breaking In" with Burt Reynolds in the 80's, is pretty damn good. I wish his '87 film "Housekeeping" would get an official DVD release. |
Watched "The Mattei Affair" last night. Francesco Rosi is a great director that receives no cred. And at least one scene MUST HAVE influenced P.T. Anderson and "There Will Be Blood".
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tremors 3: 5/10
cheyenne autumn: 10/10 it's difficult to give it a ten because of the overlong wyatt earp/comedy part(which had it's moments at least) but it was really a moving and disturbing film experience |
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Definitely gets weaker with additional watching. At the theater I was impressed at home not so much. 3rd time through I fell asleep and my dream was better. |
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At first I read this as 3.5/10 instead of what it really is, and I was thinking 'you're out of your fucking mind!'. But yeah, probably right call, that 3rd movie is eh... As for the Inception talk, that movie might be overrated, though I still really enjoy it. I just enjoyed all the stuff it made me think about, which is alot more than most hollywood pictures these days. What might have gotten it an excessive amount of praise is the otherwise lack of hard sci-fi films these days. Instead we usually get uh, green lantern and transformers. So it's nice when I get to say "huh, that's something to think about.' instead of 'huh, I wish that guy would stop making movies.' So in that regard it felt pretty fresh.  This movie was great. Super sad and felt like a bunch of little mini movies which was really neat. Giulietta Masina is absolutely intoxicating in it and she steals every scene (as she should, being the lead). But now I think I could watch everything she's been in. Fellini sure manages a really bleak atmosphere through means I can't even put together. I'm not sure if it was intended to be an anti-male picture, but almost every guy in this picture is an absolute puss. Moochers, faux macho bravado, chauvinists, and more of the same. The end is terrific, and not even a surprise, but works on some level that's really moving. Thank God there's no dialogue during it. Fantastic. |
Natural Born Killers, Scarface
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 talk about a blood fest. Haven't seen any other Argento movies that I know of. What are the other two movies in this witches' trilogy? I thought his daughter was a looker despite her lack of top notch skills.... |
Faces of DEATH
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Chika I'm assuming you watched "Mother of Tears" cause I think that's the only one from the trilogy with Asia in it. The other two are his most famous film "Suspiria" the first film, and "Inferno" the second film.
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I'd definitely recommend you see La Strada if you liked Masina in Nights of Cabiria. A beuatiful film. I sometimes wonder about the roles Fellini gave to Masina (his real life wife). There's a cruelty about them but Masina herself was apparently completely happy with it. And did you know the Shirley MacLaine musical Sweet Charity was a remake of Nights of Cabiria? |
Yeah, La Strada has always interested me, but I've never gotten around to seeing it. The whole movie it didn't occur to me that she was in La Strada until the end when she's walking on the road with that black tear or whatever, for some reason it reminded me of the cover to La Strada, which I've seen a zillion times at the library.
I didn't know that about Shirley Maclaine and that movie. I'll definitely watch that. Love Shirley, especially in Some Came Running. |
 pretty funny movie. kind of expected it to be more funny. but i liked it |
Troll Hunter.
Worth seeing, but maybe if you have a good second-run cheap theater in your area that shows low-budget semi-parody-delivered-totally-dry Norwegian Troll movies. |
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If you can, try and watch La Strada and Bresson's Au hasard Balthazar one after the other. They're almost identical but manage to complement and in a way complete one another. Im not sure if that was Bresson's intention when making Balthazar (I'm sure it wasn't) but, well I'm also sure you'll get my point if you watch them like that. Individually they're both fantastic but placed side by side they become a kind of epiphany. They should be put together in a boxset. |
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"Public Housing" by Frederick Wiseman. If you don't know this guy's (very long) films, try to download or find copies now. His latest, "Boxing Gym" filmed in Austin is currently playing on PBS. Also liked "13 Assassins". |
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over the weekend I saw Machete and Social Network. Machete was better as a trailer. Social Network was definitely worth the time invested even though I had seen it before.
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Watched Ingmar Bergman's "The Touch".... his first English language film and a real wankfest of earlier themes about infidelity and doubt. von Sydow and Bibi Anderson are good though.
Also watched Michael Winterbottom's "Summer in Genoa". Love this guy and his work. I think I'll watch his latest called "The Trip" now. |
Haha I saw SOCIAL NETWORK on tv today and it was hilarious. Just a bunch of rich snob pricks saying smartass things to each other. Was this supposed to be a recreation of actual events? I remember the prereleaser hype promoting the accuracy of the movie, and if SO, wow... these people sure are clever non-fictional smartass billionaires with too much time on their hands! Either way, it was funny shit. I really like Fincher's style -- worked great for THE GAME, FIGHT CLUB, and SE7EN -- and seeing it applied to a movie about smartass "social networkers" was kinda surreal. And strangely entertaining. Even if I didn't like anyone in it or anything about it.
Hey, Henry, I'm a big WINTERBOTTOM fan. You should watch Butterfly Kiss if you haven't, one of my alltime favorites. I'll post some rartings for stuff in another post... |
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I am assuming the wink hints at your sarcasm in deeming Faces of Death a "Classic", so no need to run it into the ground. If you want to see ACTUAL DEATH, Death Scenes, Traces of Death, and -- ugh -- EXPLODING VERMANTS (seriously) shows REAL, UNCENSORED death. Faces of Death 1-5 is mostly fake shit, with some real shit too, as most of you know. Either way, all that shit grosses me out a bit. *goes off and watches SLAUGHTED VOMIT DOLLS TRILOGY PART 3: SLOW TORTURE PUKE CHAMBER* |
X2: X-Men United. Better than I remembered it...
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midori - 9/10
 1992 cult anime movie that was banned when originally released for depiction of animal abuse. It was directed, written and animated by the one guy and it's just a really depressing arty fucked up anime that runs for about 50 minutes. Great melancholy keyboard music also.    |
Potter marathon. going for movie 3, 5-7.1 before the premier tonight
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a few recent films since I last posted:
man walking in snow - 8/10 BOOTLEG FILM - 10/10 beast in the shadows - 6/10 bullitt - 7/10 defending your lief - 6/10 la belle betta - 8/10 shojo: an adolescent - 8/10 the onion field - 7/10 the ice harvest - 7/10 lair of the white worm - about a 3/10 except for the hallucination sequences, which are 10/10 by themselves! red (the prank phone call movie based on the tube bar calls) - 9/10 demon lover diary - 6/10 startime - 6/10 Mainly just been watching some Bill Plympton stuff I was missing, and TV Carnage/other video mixtapes. |
thanks for the MIDORI reccomendation derek.
hey everyone on cg BRIDE OF FRANK is a featured torrent. one of the best films ever made! |
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It's just a staple of my childhood. The wink was moreso a "good on ya mate" |
Yeah, I was more into "Budd Dwyer shoots self dot aye vee eye" as a child, so I can't really say much.
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Love "Butterfly Kiss". I recently tracked down a couple of Winterbottom's very early TV efforts such as "Forget About Me" and am looking forward to seeing those. |
The last couple of days ...
 Black Narcissus (9/10)  If you've not seen this before, please don't be put off by the less than inspiring poster. This is a masterpiece, creepier in its way than almost any horror film you're ever likely to see. And visually, there's not much in all of cinema that even comes close to it.   For a Few Dollars More (7/10) Probably my favourite Leone western (which I'm generally not a huge fan of). This gets the top spot though, largelly for Gian Maria Volonte's El Indio character, for me the most genuinely sinister western movie villain ever (although Jack Palance's character in Shane runs him pretty close). |
ok.. not that I'm asking for a handout, but whats the deal with CG? I've heard it mentioned on this site before, checked it out and heard it mentioned from several dealers I trade/buy dvd-r with. risks of virus and the like? how does it work with the ratio thing? how does one maintain a good ration if they don't have much to upload etc? color me curious as i'm a bit torrent virgin
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