Films that I would highly recommend from the past 2 months of viewing.
The diving bell and the butterfly- schnabel
Yurika- aoyama
The Weeping Meadow- angelopoulous
Belle De Jour- bunuel
When Father Was Away on Business - kusturica
La Vie de Bohème (Bohemian Life) - kaurismaki
Sorry. no American Gangster or Eastern Promises here.......both piles of shit.
Talk to Her
Shampoo
Open Your Eyes
The Piano Teacher
Performance
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Seven Samurai
All have something to recommend them
irrumatio
talk to her was a great one
piano teacher was hmm interesting.
seven samurai of course is legendary.
saw joan of arc also
have you seen RED BEARD by Kurosawa? Its exceptional.
Will check out the others you mentioned. haven't head of them.
Good ones:
The Tunnel
Valentin
Cautiva
Mother of Mine
Eastern Promises
Average:
American Gangster
Didn't Think I Would Like But Did:
Gone Baby Gone
Thought I Would Like But Didn't:
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Hello truckstop,
Absolutely Belle du Jour.
Mine:
Volver
Mala Educacion
The World (Jia ZhangKe)
The Terrorizer (Edward Yang)
tzarine.
volver was great despite everyone criticising almodovar for it (i dont know why).
Mala Education was good too.
Have not seen/heard of The World or Terrorizer. Will google them. Cheers.
No, truckstop, the only other Kurosawa I've seen is Ran. Problem is most of his films are Criterion and hence expensive.
Performance is a hippy-trippy 'gangster' film featuring Mick Jagger that's ridiculously convoluted and dated, yet oddly likeable.
Shampoo works as a good companion to Performance. Warren Beatty is hilarious.
Open Your Eyes was remade as Vanilla Sky.
Finally, I saw a film yesterday, Kings of the Road (aka. In the Course of Time), which, given your musical tastes, I imagine you'll like. It's beautifully shot and has a bizarre and touching ending that's still resonating with me now.
Double Suicide. I've always loved that movie. Had the chance to attend a bunrako show in Japan some days ago and watching the movie afterwards was even more awesome.
Best movie I've seen recently is the documentary young@heart.
You'd hate it truckstop, it's made by and about Amerikkkans.
Also good was The Counterfeiters.
Volver was rubbish, except for Penlope Cruzs chest. Clearly Aldomovodar is on cruise control with this one, chasing the bucks or Euros.
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