What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Make Them Die Slowly]

Originally Posted by Wes

I completely agree and I've found that intangible quality (that beauty in the eye of the beholder) in the strangest of places, in the likes of Snuff and Don't Go Near the Park - that thing that no one can talk you down from. Thankfully I revisited Dolomite recently and I still think it's a masterpiece (or at least an anti-masterpiece)...

Wes, you are my friend for life, another fan of SNUFF. I've got a tear in my eye knowing I'm not alone.

[it'smebilly]

V/H/S, the anthology film at the Leeds film festival.

I enjoyed this for the most part, though it could have done with tightening up, lots of slow tedious scenes mixed with genuine creepy atmospherics.

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[Delirium]

Beast of the Southern Wild - Stunning, lyrical film about a child growing up in a Southern American bayou, trying to process the illness of her father and the inevitable destruction of their fragile community from a forthcoming storm the best way she can - by imagining giant, frozen prehistoric creatures have been unleashed from the melting icecaps and are heading for them. I've heard Oscar buzz for 6 year old Quvenzhané Wallis, and she deserves it. A beautiful film, with a soundtrack that sticks in the head, and yet another stand out cinema trip this year. It’s been a while since I’ve seen a film that felt this alive.

Rust and Bone - For fear of sounding like a philistine, I never got the appeal of director Jacques Audiard's A Prophet. I found it a chore, and full of the conventional tropes one generally associates with prison dramas, despite its rather sumptuous, languid cinematography and dreamy metaphysical approach to its subject (don’t tell anyone, but I had a similar bemused disinterest for Haneke’s much lauded The White Ribbon – and I generally adore Haneke) Rust and Bone is far more grounded (thus will probably take less plaudits), and even more heart-warming as a relationship develops between an orca trainer (the ever stunning Marion Cotillard) who loses her legs in a work accident, and a handsome, roguish, bare knuckle fighter/part time security guard played by Matthias Schoenaerts. Affecting without every descending into melodrama, it's a love story for those who don't like twee, cloying love stories. Like me.

Skyfall – My hand’s up, I'm not a Bond fan. I don't mind them - I used to watch them on TV as a kid - but I've never cared that much for them. Never owned the videos, the DVDs, nor will I on shiny blu ray. So it was absolute indifference that I approached Skyfall, finding Casino Royale 'ok' in a gritty, grizzled kind of way, and Quantum of Solace a shambolic mishmash that I can barely remember. As for Skyfall, yeah.. was fun. Loved the credits (not a bad opening song too) and got the in-jokes. I also liked its sense of melancholy and Javier Bardem’s camp villain. Wasn't blown away; will forget about it in a week or so, but pretty good. Y’know, for a Bond film.

That's it recently. All cinema flicks and nothing particularly cult. : )

[bdc]

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[Rik]

Originally Posted by Delirium

My hand’s up, I'm not a Bond fan. I don't mind them - I used to watch them on TV as a kid - but I've never cared that much for them. Never owned the videos, the DVDs, nor will I on shiny blu ray.

This is exactly how I see them, in fact the last "new" Bond film I watched was Licence To Kill at the cinema

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by bdc

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What's this?

Is it the Japanese 'Dark Water' or the American remake of the film?

Looking at the tagline - 'Les Serviteurs De Satan' (The Servants of Satan?) - suggest that it isn't

[bdc]

It's Mariano Baino's Dark Waters (1993).

[ScottishMermaid]

I'm very much a Vampire fan and until recently had never seen 'Near Dark'. I was recommended it (the person recommending said it was the best Vampire film he had ever seen) but unfortunately I did not agree and was rather disappointed. I would watch again though.

[keirarts]

Originally Posted by ScottishMermaid

I'm very much a Vampire fan and until recently had never seen 'Near Dark'. I was recommended it (the person recommending said it was the best Vampire film he had ever seen) but unfortunately I did not agree and was rather disappointed. I would watch again though.

Tell the person who recommended it to watch nosfatu, either the origional or the Herzog re-make. Oh and Vampyre.

[Rik]

Originally Posted by keirarts

Tell the person who recommended it to watch nosfatu, either the origional or the Herzog re-make. Oh and Vampyre.

...or the far superior Lost Boys!









Apologies for resurrecting this age old argument, but Lost Boys beats Near Dark hands down!!!