Seen and not seen's, recommendations and queries on top films in general.

[online prowler]

BLEAK STREET (2015)

This flick have a lot of potential! Being out in the woods the cinema selection here is quite poor. Anyone seen this?

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeqtG4mwsOg

.... Other than that... I've caught a documentary about US photographer William Eggleston titled the - In The Real World - Quite good. Also caught the religious self-annihilation of 'The Passion of Joan of Arc'. Silent film by Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer (check 'Ordet' if you haven't seen it already!). Plus rewatch of: Alexander Sokurov's "biographic" about Hitler - Moloch -. If I remember correctly, the latter is part of a film-triology which included 'Sun' and was it Lenin? Can't remember the last.

[THE RITA HN]

Also caught the religious self-annihilation of 'The Passion of Joan of Arc'. Silent film by Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer

Always preferred Sandrine Bonnaire in Rivette's JOAN THE MAID [1994].

[online prowler]

Also caught the religious self-annihilation of 'The Passion of Joan of Arc'. Silent film by Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer

Always preferred Sandrine Bonnaire in Rivette's JOAN THE MAID [1994].

Can't remember if I've seen that one, though Rivette is a well-known name. Have to check, thanx! Dreyer's version is masterclass in lighting and immediate minimalist composition (as seen in Ozu). The acting is like watching fluid russian icons. Remarkable.

[martialgodmask]

Gaspar Noe's "Love" (2015)
Pornographic melodrama with enough sentimental substance to avoid being merely a "glamourous" sex movie. Enjoyed it and is substantially better than Von Trier's "Nymphomaniac". It apparently has 3d elements too but I don't know about that.

"Circle" (2015)
Simple set-up, 50 people in a room against their volition being picked off by "them" based on a voting system employing everyone else in the room. I guess it seeks to exploit the best and worst of people and lead perhaps a conversation about morals, ethics, prejudice and I don't know that it achieves this as cleverly as it tries. But I quite enjoyed it, would've just preferred it to be a little more sincere.

[david lloyd jones]

Arrow's recent Blu-ray and DVD Cronenberg reissues also include Videodrome with a boxed set including early films Stereo and Crimes of the future. Videodrome extras are pretty much as on the previous DVD from Crierion

[oOoOoOo]

I just watched the anime Perfect Blue last night. It was a very surreal experience, especially considering I have been having a bit more anxiety than usual. I don't have the patience to sit all the way through films or any form of media albeit video games, what have you. So I ended up watching 20 - 30 minute segments and then putting it down at the more intense parts, walking away so I could process what I just saw and then come back when I feel ready. I really loved that movie, it's not often that I feel a movie takes over the senses and just lets me sink into it. Often I feel like what I'm experiencing is gimmicky, but that's not the case with Perfect Blue. I was a legitimately mind fucking psychological thriller.

[Marko-V]

Just watched Kim Ki-Duk's Moebius. I've seen probably all his movies and I knew to expect a bunch of unhappy characters in distressing situations but I still was kinda surprised about Moebius. At first, an off-the-wall crazy mom castrates her teenage son and that's where the story begins. Failed penis transplant leads to a search of alternate ways of self-satisfaction and when loony mama returns home things get 'a bit complicated'. Somebody could state this as a story of father-son relationship, but I say this is a movie where wacky characters do nasty things to each other and themselves in not-too-gory fashion. You really don't need any gory details in this one in order to squirm uncomfortably and check out if everything is ok 'downstairs'. One more remarkable thing, there's no dialogue at all.
Back in 80's and 90's I used to check low budget horror films in order to find some far-out nasty & entertaining flicks but nowadays international art house cinema seems to fill that need much better.
Perfect companion to Lars von Trier's Antichrist (which I enjoyed as well).

[aububs]

Back in 80's and 90's I used to check low budget horror films in order to find some far-out nasty & entertaining flicks but nowadays international art house cinema seems to fill that need much better.

Maybe you've just gotten more sophisticated.

[david lloyd jones]

Re the prior entry-sophistication may be part of it but equally the past is the past and the terrain changes so what was extreme/outre is no longer so.
For me current horror appears largely tame whilst films I used to dismiss  drying the 80's and90's now seem  wilder than they were- with some exceptions, Maniac was a favourite at it's release and remains so alongside Basket Case (though not the sequels).

[C601]

The VVitch-2015 great Puritan occult darkness.

http://youtu.be/iQXmlf3Sefg

[cr]

Watched 'Tale of Tales'  by Matteo Garrone (Primo Amore, Gomorrah,...) yesterday. Based on a collection of 17th century fairytales called Pentamerone. Was nice entertainment with some great pictures and fine soundtrack. Also with known actors like Vincent Cassel and Salma Hayek.

[Sturmfieber]

"The Revenant" was fucking awesome! "The Witch" was quite good as well.

A few others I saw lately were "Nosferatu the Vampyre", "Contraband" (1980), the "Violence Jack" series, "Kashchei the Immortal", and "The Defiance of Good".

Oh yeah, also watching "M" at the moment. Pretty good so far.

[cr]

Really looking forward to The Witch, but I think I'll have to wait for an eventual DVD/Blue-Ray release, as it surely won't be in cinemas 'round here.

Watched "City of the Living Dead" (Paura nella città dei morti viventi) by Lucio Fulci this morning.
Good with very good soundtrack (Fabio Frizzi)

[aububs]

Watched "City of the Living Dead" (Paura nella città dei morti viventi) by Lucio Fulci this morning.
Good with very good soundtrack (Fabio Frizzi)

Just watched that last weekend, reeeeal good stuff. Flying maggots scene is the business. Watched another one before it called The Boy which was excellent too. It's not that lame looking one about a scary dolly, it's a different one set in the late 80s about a young kid growing up in an isolated motel with his dad and sinister things ensue. It ended exactly how I wanted it to.

Went to see Sion Sono's new monster turtle film last night called Love & Peace. It was as bonkers as we've come to expect from Sion Sono. Sometimes you want a film to show you things you've never seen before and never thought you would, and that's when he comes in handy. It was kind of like Toy Story and Phantom of the Paradise met Godzilla and some christmas movie and they all fucked.

[Andrew McIntosh]

Watched "Observance" in the cinema recently and it worked for me. A few loose ends I suppose but still pretty good. But I couldn't understand why the movie was set in Sydney but everyone had American accents. Probably to get more of a market overseas I suppose.