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Recommend me a fucking amazing film

Started by Small Man Big Horse, November 23, 2018, 04:21:18 PM

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Johnny Textface

Few good ones that were first time watches for me recently.

Barry Lyndon
Mandy
Thief (Michael Mann one)

All very entertaining in their own way.

Come and See was recommended a few pages back but I can't understate how mind blowing that film is. It's deffo my favourite film ever but I've only managed to sit through it twice - and burst into tears both times.

zomgmouse

Restored director's cut of Until the End of the World

amputeeporn

Quote from: zomgmouse on June 22, 2020, 02:53:03 AM
Restored director's cut of Until the End of the World

Never seen this and just got a copy - Not sure when I'll get round to it but thanks for the nudge as I love the rest of his work that I've seen.

NoSleep

All I remember about the film is that it attempts to foresee the (then) near future and somehow misses its target, all set to a soundtrack that mysteriously has no EDM or hiphop. And that it seems to be two shorter films glued together. It's no Paris, Texas.

zomgmouse

Quote from: NoSleep on June 22, 2020, 05:44:45 PM
All I remember about the film is that it attempts to foresee the (then) near future and somehow misses its target, all set to a soundtrack that mysteriously has no EDM or hiphop. And that it seems to be two shorter films glued together. It's no Paris, Texas.

For a very long time the film only existed in a shorter, heavily cut version. Most accounts I've read seem to share your views about that version, but state that the longer director's cut flows much, much better. I thought it was incredible!

Quote from: amputeeporn on June 22, 2020, 04:28:56 PM
Never seen this and just got a copy - Not sure when I'll get round to it but thanks for the nudge as I love the rest of his work that I've seen.

Enjoy! It's a commitment but very rewarding. Incredibly intricate and immersive.

Cheesewogg

'Dragged Across Concrete' is magnificent, well worth a watch and has possibly the most terrifying armed robbery and concomitant gang in film history. S. Craig Zahler of 'Bone Tomahwak' fame is the director - deservedly lauded as greater than Tarantino by Red Letter Media, Mel Gibson (yes, he's in it but his problematics are diluted by a great film and his baggage actually brings extra flavour) actually acts in it, too.

Free to watch on Prime if you have it.

Fr.Bigley

Ernest goes to the Job Centre- Fantastic Kitchen sink drama directed by Mike Leigh set in Halifax about a failed, alcoholic american comic actor who marries a Yorkshire woman (sue Johnston) who worked at Kwik Save but lost her job due to her son dying in a mining tragedy that force the townsfolk into ruin. Ernest becomes jaded by the lack of stand up opportunities in the area after Bernard Manning's Embassy club is burned down by Jim Davidson. Its a tough watch but it really is an important piece of social commentary.

M-CORP

I just put this in the Non-New Films thread, but if it's alright I'm gonna pop it here as well, because IT'S IMPORTANT YOU SEE THIS. (God help us.)

Britannia Hospital, a black comedy directed by Lindsay Anderson (If..., O Lucky Man!) and originally released to much derision in 1982, is coming out on Blu-Ray this Monday thanks to Powerhouse Films. My pre-order came through the post today, and have watched the film for the first time (it's been on my watchlist for a while now)... Blimey. The humour is very subtle and deadpan, as is the satire, which doesn't spoon-feed you or make itself obvious, but it's an interesting watch just to see how prescient Anderson's depictions of pretty much every aspect of the British class system have become. The over-rational scientist, the violent anarchist, the self-interested and corrupt union leaders and bourgeoisie, and so on...

The first hour might be a little sedate for some, but the last 10 minutes form maybe one of the most underrated and powerful endings to any film ever. The direction is excellent, as is the casting... a young Robbie Coltrane has a bit part, as does Richard Griffiths, and the new school mix brilliantly with the old school, with Leonard Rossiter, Graham Crowden, Brian Pettifer, Robin Askwith and pretty much everyone else delivering fantastic, if occasionally melodramatic but still engaging performances.

Would certainly recommend this.

zomgmouse

Quote from: M-CORP on June 24, 2020, 05:59:51 PM
directed by Lindsay Anderson (If..., O Lucky Man!)

in fact the third in the trilogy that those other two films you mention make up!

Puce Moment

Yeah, I adore both of those films. I haven't seen Britannia Hospital since it first aired on C4 back in the 80s. My main memory was being confused by the presence of Luke Skywalker and also a marvellous scene with a human brain being eaten.

Definitely due a rewatch.


Mr_Simnock

The Colour of Pomegranates if you want something completely bizarre but very beautiful

Mr Farenheit

I second Come and See, already metnioned a few times.
Also second Awake in Fright. Definitely one of the drunkenest films ever, along with Under The Volcano which is also great but is a pretty depressing depiction of alcoholism.
Not sure if Battle of Algiers has been mentioned.... a depiction of events in Algiers during the uprising against French rule made in a realist, documentary style. I give it 5 out of 5 Fuck on the Fucking Amazing scale.

Famous Mortimer

I notice that there's a new OSS 117 movie coming out next year, so I'll recommend the other two (made by the director and stars of The Artist):

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006)
and
OSS 117: Lost in Rio (2009)

They're both absolutely fantastic. 

zomgmouse

I really enjoy every film by Hirokazu Kore-eda but I watched Like Father, Like Son a month or so ago and it was just absolutely stunning.

Head Gardener



Fr.Bigley

Quote from: Marner and Me on July 19, 2020, 10:35:47 PM
Donnie Brasco.

I preferred Johnny Brasso: The ken loach film about an unemployed french polisher trying to get a degree from the open university but is befallen by savage illiteracy and an unbreakable stammer. 

Small Man Big Horse

Quote from: Marner and Me on July 19, 2020, 10:35:47 PM
Donnie Brasco.

I'd have put that in the "Recommend me a film which is alright I suppose" thread personally.

shagatha crustie


Gulftastic


zomgmouse


evilcommiedictator

Children of Men. The last big set piece is amazing on a massive rolllercoaster ride

Marner and Me

Quote from: Small Man Big Horse on July 20, 2020, 02:02:46 PM
I'd have put that in the "Recommend me a film which is alright I suppose" thread personally.
Good thing we all have opinions. I think what makes it amazing for me is it was real life. The book was even better.

Gulftastic

Quote from: Marner and Me on July 21, 2020, 10:51:44 AM
Good thing we all have opinions. I think what makes it amazing for me is it was real life. The book was even better.

Indeed. Some of the changes from the book annoyed me a lot. I know why they did it, but some were a bit too much.

Sin Agog

You ever seen Twentieth Century before?  Still my favourite screwball, largely because Lombarde and John Barrymore are the most over the top luvvies ever put on film.  Delightful, even if Barrymore's character's behaviour could be seen as somewhat menacing in retrospect.  It's almost like a Marx Bros version of The Red Shoes.

Also, as I know you're into b-movies, and Brian Trenchard-Smith is one of the b-movie kings, Turkey Shoot is ludicrous fun.  A stoopid as hell Aussie take on The Most Dangerous Game.  Hardly amazing, but I get the vibe you're not looking for Oscar bait here.


Marner and Me

Quote from: Gulftastic on July 21, 2020, 08:13:38 PM
Indeed. Some of the changes from the book annoyed me a lot. I know why they did it, but some were a bit too much.
Always fucks me off when films change things from books, Harry Potter being the main one for me, and the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. They always ruin the book.

Sonny_Jim

I found it a bit weird to see people recommending 'Upstream Color' but not Shane Carruths first film, 'Primer':

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390384/

It's one of those 'don't look it up, just watch it' films.  It didn't have a very large budget, so it's very rough in a few places, but it's probably the first film I've seen since childhood where I felt the need to watch it again immediately after it had finished.  Upstream Color has much, much higher production values and looks gorgeous in places, but I always preferred the tighter plotting and scenario of Primer.

It's a real shame he seems to have wandered away from film making as those two films showed he had a great talent for it.