Some new flicks posted this week worth watching:
Some new flicks posted this week worth watching:
Brick was very strange, but good. Thanks for the recommendation.
Classy links. Thanks for the recommendations.Originally Posted by Anti-Bunny
The Gamers: Dorkness Rising is on instant watch now. Watched it yesterday and had a blast. Protip for D&Ders, look for the Monte Cook cameo!
This somehow showed up for me as a recommendation; I guess my viewing habits are a bit odd. Very low budget with very bad acting, similar to The Guild and Legend of Neil. However, I watched the whole thing, had a few chuckles and ended up rating it three stars. Worth a look if you have time to kill and you're in a forgiving mood.
They've added SAMURAI MOVIES?
I'm screwed.
Hidden Fortress has been up for a few weeks. It's especially worth watching just to see where George Lucas got the plot for Star Wars. Also, it's a better movie.
The Princess, the samurai general, R2-D2 and C3PO
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Colour of Magic is a fine movie for fans. Hogfather is more stand-alone and can be watched by non-fans.
On the Criterion DVD, there's actually an interview with Lucas where he talks about this being an inspiration for Star Wars.
I just finished watching Deliver Us From Evil, an absolutely chilling documentary about a Catholic priest and pedophile. The interviews with him talking about his crimes in a fairly nonchalant way made my skin crawl.
I watched Summer Hours last night and it's been lingering in my mind ever since. It kind of snuck up on me emotionally. It's not at all tear-jerky; just knowing and matter-of-fact about families, homes, and the slow, sad passing of time. And the ending is just brilliant. Highly recommended.
I watched a couple of good music documentaries this weekend.
Loud Quiet Loud
An interesting behind the scenes look at the Pixies 2004 reunion tour.
And
Pink Floyd - The Making of Dark Side of the Moon
Great look at how the best album of all time (more or less) came together.
Pink Floyd - The Making of Dark Side of the Moon
Great look at how the best album of all time (more or less) came together.[/QUOTE]
I watched this a while back and it is indeed excellent. Great insight on the engineering of the album as well as the iterations a lot of the songs went through.
The Count of Monte Cristo is up. Good, but I prefer the Gerard Depardieu miniseries version, which isn't up for streaming.
Also:
Unfortunately, it is not the recut Orson Welles' version.
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One more:
But I am a huge Jean Reno fan.
For anybody who watched Tokyo Drifter and liked it, I highly recommend Youth Of The Beast (which is a Japanese Yakuza film spliced with a Godardian French New Wave style) and Branded To Kill (which is deeply crazy and strange and provided more than a little inspiration for Jarmusch's Ghost Dog), both by the same director.
I love Seijun Suzuki so much.
The world will be a more beautiful place when they finally get some Bunuel on watch instantly.
There's none now? (I'm in Canada, so Netflix is like a beautiful fable told to me of a magical land just over the horizon that I can never, ever visit.) That's a real shame. When I'm king, my first decree will be to make everybody watch The Phantom Of Liberty.
People need to be aware that the subtitles on this are terrible to the point of leaving out about 20% of the dialogue, and often really critical stuff. Neither my wife nor I have a really good grasp on the details of the plot because so much of the key dialogue was inexplicably absent.One more:
But I am a huge Jean Reno fan.
Now you too can inflict Howard the Duck on your friends!
I wouldn't even subject my enemies to that cinematic abomination.
Keane. Wonderfully tense and an excellent performance by Damien Lewis. Being a parent yourself definitely heightens the tension.
What the hell is WRONG with you?
It does have some of the best stop motion animation that Tippett studios ever produced. Too bad about the rest of the movie.
For those interested in 70s neo-noir, and caper films, the "forgotten classic" Charley Varrick, starring Walter Matthau, is now available.
There are a couple Discworld TV movies up now, The Color of Magic and Hogfather. I've only had the chance to watch The Color of Magic and I actually enjoyed it quite a bit. Looks like they are releasing Going Postal this Easter :)
With the Super Bowl coming up, I was in the mood for some football movies lately. Are there any good ones on Instant Watch?
It's a documentary, but a lot of people love Harvard Beats Yale: 29-29. I'm not one of those people, but YMMV.
There's also The Last Game.
Watched this last night. Talk about the banality of evil...
We watched Big Fan the other night. I thought it was awesome, the wife did not like.
I think all of American Gothic is on Hulu. For free. I'm about halfway through it.
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