Exploitation, child abduction, underage smoking and drinking, Disney's Pinnochio has got it all!
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Exploitation, child abduction, underage smoking and drinking, Disney's Pinnochio has got it all!
Mr Brown. I can forgive the billy Connolly ego-trip for the sheer pleasure of the magnificent Anthony Sher cameo as Disraeli.....a tour de force of oleaginous characterisation.
The casting director pulled a blinder with that one eh Graham?
Just watched Barfly written by Bukowski and starring Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway. Fantastic, every shot is a picture enhanced by great words and acting. Definitely going to have a look at more Barbet Schroeder films.
What do you mean you dont like Blade Runner:w00t:
Well you are not the only one. Even Phillip K Dick was unhappy with it. He did love the sets though, apparently it was just as he had imagined it to be, when he wrote Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
Flawed but it is still a favourite. I get sucked in every time I watch it and think it has rightly gone from cult to classic. Ridley Scott Knows how to do action scenes. As a youngster I loved it but the thing that has kept me coming back to this film is; the way it questions what is it to be human? especially the darker aspects.
One day I will learn how to make an origami unicorn.
The Duellists, his first film is also worth a look, even if just for the duelling scenes. If you have ever stepped into the ring, stepped up to the line or had a prearranged scrap at the school gates. You should get it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3ksvHXBHH0
LOL!
just realised that 2 of the 3 film posters I have up in the lounge atm are Blade Runner and The Duellists!
Red Riding Hood
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Lincoln.
Even Breezy should appreciate this one.
As the credits roll, its the director and screenplay writer who get first billing, followed by the principal actor.
And with good reason. For this is a symphony of light and language executed through the unflinching glare of hyper-real close up cinematography.
The use of light renders each scene to have the atmosphere of Holbein or Vermeer.
The script flows like shakesperean oratory. But there is no hiding place for Day Lewis who spends almost the entire movie in microscopic close up. But he shrinks not from the challenge, possessing the ability to transmit the subliminal processes of thought and turmoil that drives his speech without resort to mugging or theatrical gesturing. Ably supported by Lee Jones and Field he gives perhaps the finest character performance I have ever seen.
And Spielberg is transcendent, finally delivering a tale of human drama without descent into mawkishness or unnecessary flash.
Totally rivetting. Oscars should flow.
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Originally Posted by Wheeze
.....and no Vampires :rolleyes:
Can't wait to see it :cool:
Who's been? I don't care if it's hyped. We loved it.
Although a song and a dance always does it for me.
I know Mr B will adore it. https://youtu.be/kbZLkdIGOqs
Er...no, but I can give you 1000 words on the merits of Jackie and, in due course, on T2Trainspotting and Denial.Quote:
Originally Posted by millipede
Maybe over dinner after a Bedlamite race sometime?
La La Land will catch you off guard, it's a feast for the soul. Forget what you think you know about it.
Awwww Mr Brightside.Quote:
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Can you please practise your la la songs and we can do some karaoke at the Haworth Hobble this year.
What's your favourite Song?
I will let you know
https://youtu.be/EsozpEE543w
Hey Emily, 'here's to the ones who dream, foolish as they may seem...'Quote:
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Well Ewan McGregor falling off a running machine is funny, and there a few other LOL moments, but actually it isn't very good: hence the excessive hype.
I quite liked Venus in Fur, which was free on the BBC site. It kept me guessing and the charged sexual tension was very well maintained. It kept me somewhere between intrigued and uneasy throughout.
Trainspotting 2.
If you liked T1 you will love it. I did. Sharp dialogue, great soundtrack and lots of nods to T1. Begby is still menacing, spud is still gormless but it is mostly the Sickboy and Rentboy show.
Choose life, choose facebook, twitter. Choose the FRA forum.
Lion, not my first choice, but thoroughly engaging, disturbing and emotional.
Five year old Saroo gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of miles across India, away from home and family. Saroo must learn to survive alone in Kolkata, before ultimately being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty five years later, armed with only a handful of memories, his unwavering determination, and a revolutionary technology known as Google Earth, he sets out to find his lost family and finally return to his first home.
Elle
Any film including Isabelle Huppert - the finest actress of her generation - is of interest but her performance in Elle is riveting. Directed by Paul Verhoeven, Elle is profound and complex and shocking and mesmerising. It lasts 2 hours 10 mins (and 42 seconds) and every minute matters. It is the sort of movie that makes the world you rejoin as you leave the cinema seem dull and mundane and predictably grey. Unforgettable.
Churchill is a worthy film: a tour de force for Brian Cox, well supported by performances of quality and not too long (98 min) for the material.
I saw it today in Pictureville (now Picture House) in Bradford; one of the best equipped cinemas in the world, in cool, air conditioned and isolated splendour.
It deserves a big audience but alas, today, I was the only person in the auditorium.
I'm trying to think what you could have done in there that you couldn't with other people present. You could have moved to a different seat every 30 seconds. Or shouted at the characters: "go on, kiss him" or similar. Or watched the whole thing just wearing your undies. Or stood really near the front for the IMAX experience.Quote:
Originally Posted by Graham Breeze
Hill Reps.Quote:
Originally Posted by noel
Churchill repsQuote:
Originally Posted by Quosh
Oh yes!Quote:
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Poor reviews in some papers for this one Graham. Were they unjustified? Mark out of ten please?Quote:
Originally Posted by Graham Breeze
"Brian Cox dazzles in a scalpel-sharp, timely lesson in political leadership"Quote:
Originally Posted by CL
Daily Telegraph
"(Churchill)... emerges as a more ambiguous and human figure than we are used to seeing"
"...brilliantly posed by Churchill's opening scenes"
Sight & Sound
I don't know what newspapers you read CL but Churchill is a good 7-8 /10 film.
Not as good as Elle or Jackie or A Sense of an Ending but better than T2 or The Founder or A Quiet Passion.
Not a film I would want to own like those of Godard, Chabrol, Truffaut, Melville, Becker and even Peckinpah on a good day: but Churchill is a film that makes you think about the human condition, leadership, flawed heroes, the futility of human existence and life!
And all for the price of a ticket and 98 min 14 sec of your time!
I find half an hour on the forum ticks most of those boxes for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Graham Breeze
Ah yes...and humour and irony. ;)Quote:
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Baby Driver (Edgar Wright)
Too many films from the USA nowadays are based on comic book scripts but when a movie has the breathtaking brilliance and bravura of Baby Driver, it's worth holding on tight for the ride. Is Kevin Spacey in it for the money? Hardly. He just knew it would be a damn fine Woo hoo! of a movie.
Sight & Sound describes it as "joy giving" and any reviewer (Henry K Miller) who name checks a 1932 Rouben Mamoulian film can clearly tell a Mazda from this Maserati of a movie. Vroom vroom.
Come on Graham B what's good at the cinema?
Oh you little tease...Quote:
Originally Posted by CL
The last films I saw were Logan Lucky (Soderbergh) and Detroit - neither were perfect but were well worth my time, Detroit (Kathryn Bigelow) was searingly brilliant - and the next film I shall see will be The Death Of Stalin (20th October ) which is directed by Armando Iannucci. But I have an opera, a concert and plays in the next few weeks; and a holiday and books to read and races to run, so I can't be at the movies all the time!
BR 2049.
Too long, too slow.
That's British Rail for you Simon!Quote:
Originally Posted by Wheeze
Was wondering around the outer fringes of Freeview looking for a film to gently entertain. Found a channel called Spike showing The Siege. Never heard of it but it had Denzil Washington and Annette Benning so I thought it might be OK.
What unfolded made my jaw drop. This was released in 1998. It is ridiculously prescient.
If you've not seen it, dial it up and watch. Talk about a blueprint!
The Death of Stalin
Acerbic, hilarious, scatological, prescient...simply brilliant.
I will give a bottle of champagne to anyone who doesn't laugh watching this film (T&C apply).
Do you want my address GB
For ale I can do most things ��
I went to see this last night and thoroughly enjoyed it! Actually loved that it was slow, felt that gave the whole thing 'space'. Loved the sound track, though as always cinema played it a little too loud. Possibly a bit long but in honesty I never got bored as such. Felt it worked with the original and too a large degree the style fitted too. It would have been easy to just cgi the hell out of it and build a whole new world and style. Maybe I could pick a few holes in the storyline and there was a couple of unanswered questions possibly? But over all a great film!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Wheeze
I know, I know. Stylistically a triumph. Sonically spine tingling. Visually gorgeous. And I'm a 100% fan-boy having got DVD's of most of the original films 'cuts' and the New York Philarmonic soundtrack of the original (because of the issues with Vangelis!). So you can imagine, I was willing to forgive all sorts of things. But, at times, I was sitting there thinking 'Oh, come ON!. I get the point, now GET ON WITH IT!' Not what I expected to feel after all the anticipation. Lingering, loving exposition is one thing, but dragging it out is another.
maybe I need to go see it again?:rolleyes:
Well I'm off to see it at an imax cinema this evening which is exceedingly rare for me given the price so it had better not disappoint!
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...I do have one small confession....I kind of dozed off at one point only to look up to see the female being 'birthed' from the ceiling in a poly bag!!? So I don't discount your premises entirely. Also my job does have long periods of nothing so maybe I'm more 'in the zone' already!? :)