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

[martialgodmask]

Potential:

UK crime thriller.

HYENA



Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR1A2e7Vx8A

Yes, very much looking forward to this one. It looks like it may have all the right elements.

[online prowler]

martialgodmask .... you boiled it quite well down to purest essence.

[anomalie]

Good news!



Acclaimed writers and directors Jörg Buttgereit, Andreas Marschall, Michal Kosakowski are back behind the camera with a supreme feature film, controversial, mystical and disturbing. With a "fil rouge" of old images of Berlin scariest architecture, the film is built around three tales. The first episode, tells the story of a young girl who lives alone with her guinea pig in a dirty apartment in Berlin... is she alone? In the bedroom lies a man, bound and gagged... The second episode tells about a powerful "if-only" scenario in which a young deaf-mute couple is attacked by a group of hooligans. However, they are in possession of a mysterious talisman that could help them... In the last episode, a man stumbles upon a secret sex club that promises the ultimate sexual experience by using a drug made from the roots of the legendary Mandragora plant. The ecstatic experiences have horrific side effects...

http://twitchfilm.com/2015/01/german-angst-trailer-delivers-love-sex-and-death.html

TRAILER included in link above.

Ohhhhhh... YES!!!

[Euro Trash Bazooka]

Not sure how I feel about the trailer. It has potential, obviously, but the trailer makes the film look like a cheap US DTV torture-porn flick to me.

[bitewerksMTB]

I've watched NIGHTCRAWLER, STARRY EYES, & THE BABADOOK lately. All are okay; NC had an okay ending (should have ended right after the chase/shooting) but the other two, their endings sucked esp. Babadook. S.E. has a really good, brutal bludgeoning & a cute actress running around in her white panties.

I pre-ordered the blu-ray for THE CANDLE FOR THE DEVIL on Scorpion. Looking forward to some Euro-trash I've never seen.

[Harcamone]

Polanski's Venus in Furs has been sitting in a Netflix envelope in front of my television for weeks. As a fan of both Polanski and the source material he's adapting, you'd think I would have watched the damned thing by now. Can't stop binge watching ID channel.

[JHC]

Speaking of Polanski..watched the beautifully (and excessively) wordy "A Day At The Beach".


http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0065616/


An alcoholic and his niece.One dreary and very rainy day at the beach...

[online prowler]

True crime docu.

Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEPG9z9rHsc

[bitewerksMTB]

Robert Durst has been in the news all week long. Authorities are trying to connect him to two more disappearances (or murders). I haven't seen the docu. series other than the few clips the news has been running about the misspelled letters & his lone 'confession' in the shitter.

I watched VALHALLA RISING yesterday & I have the new Arrow USA blu-ray for MARK OF THE DEVIL on the way along with the Nikkatsu film, FAIRY IN A CAGE.

Last night: OUTLAW KILLERS: THREE MAD DOG BROTHERS (Japanese yakuza)
Earlier today: EMPEROR OF THE NORTH (American '70s classic train film with Lee Marvin & Ernest Borgnine)

[bitewerksMTB]

DEADBEAT AT DAWN- great, awful action! too bad Van Beeber doesn't get along with anyone so this film could be released on blu-ray as a film so cheap & unattractive should be seen in High Definition!

A CANDLE FOR THE DEVIL- Spanish horror from 1973 by the dir. of HORROR EXPRESS. reasonably tame but interesting- a couple of sisters run an inn & one of them
really, really hates saucy British girls, they're just too immoral for her tastes. some blood, nice close-up shots of extreme religious paintings, some nudity. a curious film but not
worth the nearly $30 w/postage. it is a limited ed. of 1000 copies that, i'm guessing, will not sell out anytime soon.

I think I'll watch MARK OF THE DEVIL next to make it a religious double-feature...

[algiz]

DRIVE - Not bad. I guess the main character helps making this movie a classic

[THE RITA HN]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5QYYlfXQFk

[collapsedhole]

yes! that pic rules sam!

but i guess to stay on topic... i've just been watching a lot of spaghetti westerns... TWICE A JUDAS, GODS GUN, DEATH RIDES A HORSE, BEYOND THE LAW, FIND A PLACE TO DIE, THE YOUNG LAND.... dozens other on these budget dvd comps... trying to find one that tops the FISTFUL OF DOLLARS trilogy but that really is the best to me... any suggestions on westerns that can hold up to those?

[THE RITA HN]

I have a complete 'favorites' list in a past issue of Cinema Sewer, but my all time favorite Italian western is THE DIRTY OUTLAWS aka THE BIG RIPOFF.
I wrote about it here:
http://www.spectacularoptical.ca/2012/01/massacre-time/

[tiny_tove]

se sei vivo spara by giulio questi
faccia a faccia by sergio sollima
the Ringo franchise
Django and the early sequels..

etc.