MOVIES

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.

Edited by: thoughtpolice

She has glorious tits,

More:

Millennium Actress (Satoshi Kon) movies, memories and lost love.
The Life & Tiimes of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell) Deborah Kerr in 3 roles & the fabulous
Anton Walbrook

"She has glorious tits,"
wasted in a crap movie, weak and pointless plot with the director sleepwalking his way through the whole thing.

Belle De Jour. First time I saw the film I was 15 or 16 yrs old. Saw it again a few weeks ago - as good as the first time. Bunuel was one of my favourite film directors.

From the recent ones:
Redacted - Brian de Palma (recommended)
Hania - a low key Polish film (how a little boy from orphanage can change one's outlook on life).

Just bought a dvd but haven't watched yet - Kolya, a czech production from '96.

Ah. heard about Kolya but yet to see it. Tell me how it is.

Belle du jour really is fantastic. what an actress.

Recently seen that I would not recommend: Son of Rambow. Cute kids and sometimes funny, but pretty bland fare in the end.

love bunuel's los olvidados and the mexican flicks
paprika by satoshi kon is brilliant. vibrant colors. love the dancing frogs, the scary girl doll and the allusions to roman holiday.
i love the bos in belle du jour.
audrey hepburn in funny face
repulsion is pretty awesome, too.

poor mme deneuve, she had some wretched ps and looks really weird.

I agree about the bit on American Gangster.

"have you seen RED BEARD by Kurosawa? Its exceptional."

Ah Kurosawa... I remember my first Kurosawa movie, Rashomon. Well he didn't really direct it but as a writer, I admired him for that movie.