Guest Len B'stard Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Watched American Hustle…really good film Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 I reckon they're in each others league, definitely. The story is told interestingly and the way it unfolds makes it more edge of your seat-ish and thats not really what Wolf is offering, Wolf is like a rise and fall tale, like Goodfellas or Casino or a lesser non-Scorsese example in Blow. In fact I'd go so far as to call it a well presented Blow.Departed was a cracker though We had to study Russ Meyer, it was hard work.I remember Steve Jones from The Sex Pistols doing an interview around the time Russ Meyer was drafted in to make Who Killed Bambi (later to be called The Great Rock n Roll Swindle) and it's just SOOOO funny listening to this working class illiterate (literally) reform school tea leaf attempting to answer these fuckin' questions that are like, y'know, intellectual questions, it's like:Interviewer: How do you feel about the partnership between The Sex Pistols and Russ Meyer and what do you think the two parties will offer each other and what their coming together will offer the project.Steve: Well, the fing is we're just gonna like, do our thing, bring our thing and then like, he's gonna bring his thing, y'know, birds with big knockers and what 'ave ya and there ya go. meyer is actually a talented director. Nobody has captured boobies so perfectly. Tinto Brass was more of an assman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Rossellini's Roma, citta aperta, aka, Rome Open City (1945), starring Anna Magnani and Aldo Fabrizi. The film which really got Italian Neo-Realism up-and-running - Scorsese calls it, ''the most precious moment in film history''. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 The Departed was on Film 4 last night and I watched it again. They had a bit of a Scorsese night as The King of Comedy was on after (though I didn't stay up to watch it).I definitely prefer Departed to Wolf. By quite a margin actually. The story is just way more interesting.It's a lot more punchy. Each scene in Departed is a comedy. There's no real story to real life. He was doing dodgy stuff and the Feds closed in on him. There's an arch but nothing as twisty as Departed and no Sgt. Dignam, he has a style of his own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixes Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Tried to watch Iron Man 3...fell asleep a bunch of times...boring crap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forsaken Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Safety Not Guaranteed on Netflix streaming. Enjoyed it more than I should have probably.Aubrey Plaza I love you so 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixes Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Aubrey Plaza I love you so That has been my facebook status more times than I'd care to admit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forsaken Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Can't believe she's months from turning 30, I thought she was my age. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixes Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Watching Faces directed by CassavetesCan't believe she's months from turning 30, I thought she was my age. I would have guessed she was about 25 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Len B'stard Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 (edited) Escape Plan - Sly and Arnie…how you liking Faces fella? Edited January 19, 2014 by sugaraylen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Miracolo a Milano Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nosaj Thing Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Safety Not Guaranteed on Netflix streaming. Enjoyed it more than I should have probably.Aubrey Plaza I love you so Great movie and I loved Aubrey in that. She's just lovely.Watching Amadeus tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Sabbath Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Just finished watching The Hunt. Highly recommended. Mads Mikkelsen is a fantastic actor. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 (edited) Safety Not Guaranteed on Netflix streaming. Enjoyed it more than I should have probably. Aubrey Plaza I love you so Great movie and I loved Aubrey in that. She's just lovely. Watching Amadeus tonight. Salieri gets absolutely slaughtered in that. There is no evidence that he killed Mozart. Edited January 20, 2014 by DieselDaisy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixes Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Escape Plan - Sly and Arnie…how you liking Faces fella? Loved it. Seymour Cassell was brilliant in it.I've been on a Cassavetes/Altman kick latelynext up is Shadows by Cassavetes and Images by Altman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Len B'stard Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 (edited) There's a really wonderful documentary out there on Cassavetes, the name of which escapes me at the moment, i think its one of the discs on his Criterion box set, it's fantastic, really in depth, you should check it out. A Constant Forge, thats what its called (looked it up). My favorite of his is Woman Under the Influence. Did you ever see any of his studio stuff like A Child Is Waiting? It's actually quite good, despite his distancing himself from it.There's a great interview of him, clearly having had a drink but not sloppy and embarassing with it, on the Dick Cavett Show, clearly taking the piss out of the whole situationhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsVBySqgIbQ Edited January 20, 2014 by sugaraylen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Not like Oliver Reed in other words! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Len B'stard Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 There are those that say Olly put it on too. GiveEm what they want and all that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixes Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 (edited) There's a really wonderful documentary out there on Cassavetes, the name of which escapes me at the moment, i think its one of the discs on his Criterion box set, it's fantastic, really in depth, you should check it out. A Constant Forge, thats what its called (looked it up). My favorite of his is Woman Under the Influence. Did you ever see any of his studio stuff like A Child Is Waiting? It's actually quite good, despite his distancing himself from it.There's a great interview of him, clearly having had a drink but not sloppy and embarassing with it, on the Dick Cavett Show, clearly taking the piss out of the whole situationhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsVBySqgIbQI've seen A Child is Waiting and while it's different from his typical style, it's still very good and essential.I have not seen Big Trouble. I know he distanced himself from that too.And I've not seen Too Late Blues but am currently searching for it. I'm a big Bobby Darin fan and Cassavetes + Darin is such an odd pairing that I'm completely intrigued by it.I loved the Dick Cavett Show. It was so loose and he let you basically talk about anything. I'm a huge Peter Falk fan as well....thanks for the link, such a great interviewI would say A Woman Under the Influence is probably my fav of his films too with Opening Night a close second Edited January 20, 2014 by axl666axl666 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Len B'stard Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 I got Too Late Blues as a torrent a coupla years back, i can have a dig around for it if you're interested Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixes Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 I got Too Late Blues as a torrent a coupla years back, i can have a dig around for it if you're interested I wouldn't say no! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Len B'stard Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 http://bayproxy.me/torrent/5378552/John_Cassavetes_-_Too_Late_Blues_(1961)There you go 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixes Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Len B'stard Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Welcome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelica Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 (edited) Courtesy of the Totally 80s freak out last weekend at the Anthology Film Archives - Ray Parker Jr (!) and a sickly looking yuppie get trapped in a Cabrini-Green type housing project and are hunted by the building's dominant gang (led by Tony Candyman Todd). Inexplicably obscure (it's never been available on DVD), this is a very solid piece of urban/crimesploitation. Judgement Night basically fleeced the living hell out of this movie. Slightly less obscure, but still terribly underseen and a minor masterpiece of genre filmmaking. Edited January 20, 2014 by Angelica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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