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Post by Tim on Feb 26, 2020 16:19:18 GMT
Assume what you like, I shall leave you to bask in your self righteous indignation... There is no need for this. Unlike some forums which delight in belligerence between members, we're all friends here and we try to find alternative ways of challenging each other, like the use of humour. Agreed Martin, pot, kettle, black methinks? |
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Post by Tim on Mar 4, 2020 9:15:44 GMT
Tim can you recommend some foreign films of any genre? A lot of the ones I've seen make American films seem like kids stuff. Going on from recommendations regarding International film rfan8312
I have just signed up for Mubi which might be more your thing? Unlike Netfilx (now binned) it focuses on World Cinema, showing art house and Indie films, with each one being curated and hand picked - no long form TV, which I don't care for. There's 30 titles which revolve with a new film added everyday, plus there are rentals too. I really like that model, less is more with no mainstream entertainment clutter, just quality World Cinema.
So far I'm very impressed with Mubi - it won't be for most people as it's very different to Amazon Prime/Netflix.
Thomas Flight is a video editor/filmmaker with a very good film oriented YouTube channel.
Here's an interesting video essay he made about Parasite - **Spoiler Warning**
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Post by julesd68 on Mar 4, 2020 10:06:24 GMT
Nice one Tim, looks very interesting.
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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 5, 2020 1:43:32 GMT
Jesus. Jackpot. This could make watching films more like watching films again instead of it being like sifting through a dumpster hoping there might be a still decent mostly uneaten cheeseburger at the bottom. I usually have to watch many films to find one that I see any value in.
Thanks Tim I lived in Argentina for a while and never understood how they make films, it seems at least partly, for the sake of making films. Which leads to good content.
Will be checking, thanks.
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Post by Tim on Mar 5, 2020 8:07:36 GMT
This could make watching films more like watching films again instead of it being like sifting through a dumpster hoping there might be a still decent mostly uneaten cheeseburger at the bottom. I usually have to watch many films to find one that I see any value in. Exactly.
I used to trawl Netflix for ages trying to find a film to watch, feeling more frustrated each time and often giving up. Amazon Prime was harder and when I did find something that looked interesting, it wasn't on Prime anyway.
I watched a Hungarian film last night, 'On Body And Soul' (2017) - truly wonderful. I'd never heard of it before but Mark Kermode has reviewed it and loved it. It expires at midnight, so I'm going to watch it again as I haven't stopped thinking about it.
There's also a Mubi community on it's website with a News feed, Notebook and International Film information, so for me Mubi's a real winner.
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Post by Tim on Mar 9, 2020 8:00:19 GMT
This weekend, Parasite became the highest grossing foreign language film at the UK box office of all time  |
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Post by Slinger on Mar 17, 2020 20:56:28 GMT
It starts this Thursday (19 th March) at 21:00 on on BBC 4 and is also on iPlayer. Part One, of three, is all about Superheroes. |
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Post by MartinT on Mar 18, 2020 3:25:11 GMT
Thanks, Paul. I greatly enjoyed his first series.
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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 26, 2020 0:46:50 GMT
Wow re-watched Under the Skin. I've never a actually seen the ending. Two things that struck me besides how interesting the visuals are, are that it's by the same director from Sexy Beast, Jonathan Glazer. Sexy beast for me is an excellent Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, Ben Kingsely and others ensemble drama bank heist that reminds me of Quentin Tarantino but even more stylish with a really good score.
Secondly, that child on the beach was too young to be acting they must have really put him out there to get scared.
Director Jonathon glazer has two absolute bangers on his resume imo with Sexy Beast and Under The Skin.
Having watched the Lighthouse on Monday, Under The Skin on Tuesday I had really hoped to top it off tonight with that Netflix original movie The Ritual. But my Netflix is canceled. Has any one seen The Ritual?
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Post by MartinT on Mar 26, 2020 9:18:08 GMT
Two things that struck me besides how interesting the visuals are, are that it's by the same director from Sexy Beast, Jonathan Glazer. Sexy beast for me is an excellent Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, Ben Kingsely and others ensemble drama bank heist that reminds me of Quentin Tarantino but even more stylish with a really good score. The visuals are very stylishly done, which make it seem even more creepy. |
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Post by naim1425 on Mar 26, 2020 12:56:15 GMT
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Post by naim1425 on Mar 29, 2020 17:22:04 GMT
as above just mercy
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Post by naim1425 on Mar 29, 2020 17:24:22 GMT
A Guy Richie film
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Post by Tim on Apr 20, 2020 10:27:53 GMT
Bacurau - 2019
After Parasite, this is the next best film I've seen this year which is a new release.
It might make it to mainstream streaming services or Film4, so look out for it. It's a hoot (not family friendly mind you)
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Post by julesd68 on Apr 20, 2020 13:17:41 GMT
Thanks for the heads up Tim, not a film I've heard of!
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Post by petea on Apr 20, 2020 13:21:37 GMT
We watched, "Red Joan" last night. What a super set of performances and story.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 20, 2020 13:53:47 GMT
We watched, "Red Joan" last night. What a super set of performances and story. Yes, I enjoyed it a lot. Not that I had any empathy for her, but it was very well performed. |
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Post by Slinger on Apr 26, 2020 18:54:40 GMT
Much weirdness. I've just watched "Oats Studios: Volume 1," which is a "collection of experimental content" from Neill Blomkamp, the South African director of the superb - and criminally underappreciated, in my opinion - District 9, as well as Elysium, and Chappie.
Dakota Fanning, Sharlto Copley, and Sigourney Weaver feature, amongst a myriad of others.
It's a collection of shorts, some actually seem unfinished, but I think that's the idea.
They don't all work.
There are a couple of scenes where you might be glad you're not eating dinner, there are rare occasions you may find yourself laughing, there are many places where you will almost certainly catch yourself finally grasping the true meaning of "boggling" when referring to the mind.
You may never look at your hands in the same way again.
The stories, if you can call them that, are set in the past, the future, the present, all points connecting those three and there's one starring God, featuring the Serengeti which is, by necessity, set outside of time altogether.
You can watch as many, or as few, as you want in a sitting. I watched from start to finish, 97 minutes. It's on Prime. Here's the trailer. Now bring on Volume 2.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 27, 2020 22:09:46 GMT
If you liked Alien, this is a remarkable piece of fan footage of the history of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation.
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Post by rfan8312 on Apr 27, 2020 22:10:33 GMT
^you know, I'm kind of baffled to see this.
I've been posting it all weekend on the Weyland-Yutani Facebook page, Weyland-Yutani "the company" from the film series Alien.
Sigourney Weaver is actually in the short film. Here called Rakka, available on YouTube.
The fb page is filled with vitriol and hatred for the latest movies released with the canon of the Alien franchise, Prometheus and Alien:Covenant, both films which I loved for their great strengths and rolled with the punches for their weaknesses. The fans hatred apparently also extends to Ridley Scott for squashing another directors chance of directing what would. Have been Alien 5. It would have. Been Neil Blomkamp.
But like Slinger said, Neil does have some. Great sci-fi films to his credit a d his work with Oats studios is breath taking with these short films. One about a brutal river God witnessed by soldiers fighting in Vietnam, but also the one called Rakka to me is quite special.
It is a bit disturbing though so beware.
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