Cool, really looking forward to watching them now. Ive been trusting rotten tomatoes for reviews, only bought films which have an alright rating.datura wrote: Aha, good old Miike, not watched any of his more recent films, he can be hit and miss (which is expected as he makes 5/6 films a year!).
Ichi is good, but extremely gruesome. 3 Extremes is good also.
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the new miike looks typically bonkersThomas wrote:Cool, really looking forward to watching them now. Ive been trusting rotten tomatoes for reviews, only bought films which have an alright rating.datura wrote: Aha, good old Miike, not watched any of his more recent films, he can be hit and miss (which is expected as he makes 5/6 films a year!).
Ichi is good, but extremely gruesome. 3 Extremes is good also.
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idle hands 
its a cheesy horror movie!
i recomend it, made me laff lots
trailer:
http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi680591641/
i also watched "america's sweetheart's" today
its a cheesy horror movie!
i recomend it, made me laff lots
trailer:
http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi680591641/
i also watched "america's sweetheart's" today
check out "Machine Girl" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1050160/
that will make you laugh
japanese are sick. .
that will make you laugh
japanese are sick. .
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no PAL region 2 for this or Meatball Machine as yetgumilap wrote:check out "Machine Girl" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1050160/
that will make you laugh
japanese are sick. .
Watched 'The Seventh Seal' the other night.
Highly recommended, one of the strangest films I've ever seen though. Not nearly as bleak and depressing as you might expect. Death is seen as a terrible and Godless thing, but life is also presented as being potentially glorious and joyful.
I think people are put off films like this because they expect them to be pretentious and deliberately difficult. That's probably the case with a lot of arthouse films but a film like this to me is about an artist looking at aspects of life in a creative and interesting way.
Highly recommended, one of the strangest films I've ever seen though. Not nearly as bleak and depressing as you might expect. Death is seen as a terrible and Godless thing, but life is also presented as being potentially glorious and joyful.
I think people are put off films like this because they expect them to be pretentious and deliberately difficult. That's probably the case with a lot of arthouse films but a film like this to me is about an artist looking at aspects of life in a creative and interesting way.
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If ya dug on that and are still interested in seeing more Bergman, watch Persona next. It's his greatest and most visually stunning film.
Past that, there's a whole new world to behold in his films. His "Chamber Trilogy"(Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, The Silence) are three of my favorite films ever made.
edit: couple more comments on The Seventh Seal...
It's impossible for me to see a Bergman film and not draw all the correlation to his stagework(practically all his film started out as stage productions, many times with the same casts as the film productions), The Seventh Seal is no exception.
With that said, I think it speaks volumes to see how much care Bergman takes in showing the importance of a supporting cast in the outcome of a story. Many people would have shot that film isolating Max Von Sydow and the Death character as larger-than-life personas(hehe), making all those around just caricatures. Bergman does a great job of avoiding this, in fact, I'd argue that Gunner Bjornstrand's character is more central to the movement of the film than anything(he's almost like a narrator).
*spoilers below*
I also like the sudden ways he will introduce his most striking visuals in the film: the bumbling Joseph's realization that his child is a vision of Christ in that one shot of him smililng, the sudden introduction of the Flagellants, the first shot of Max Von Sydow's wife, etc.
Past that, there's a whole new world to behold in his films. His "Chamber Trilogy"(Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, The Silence) are three of my favorite films ever made.
edit: couple more comments on The Seventh Seal...
It's impossible for me to see a Bergman film and not draw all the correlation to his stagework(practically all his film started out as stage productions, many times with the same casts as the film productions), The Seventh Seal is no exception.
With that said, I think it speaks volumes to see how much care Bergman takes in showing the importance of a supporting cast in the outcome of a story. Many people would have shot that film isolating Max Von Sydow and the Death character as larger-than-life personas(hehe), making all those around just caricatures. Bergman does a great job of avoiding this, in fact, I'd argue that Gunner Bjornstrand's character is more central to the movement of the film than anything(he's almost like a narrator).
*spoilers below*
I also like the sudden ways he will introduce his most striking visuals in the film: the bumbling Joseph's realization that his child is a vision of Christ in that one shot of him smililng, the sudden introduction of the Flagellants, the first shot of Max Von Sydow's wife, etc.
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I think, with Persona, there was such an intense circle of relationships between Bergman, Liv Ullman and Bibi Andersson that it created it's own psychological dimension that's hard for a viewer to grasp, let alone experience.
*spoiler*
I also find it fascinating that Bibi Andersson winds up trying to become Liv Ullman, almost telling on Bergman's history with his leading ladies(they were both leading ladies in his films at different periods of his career, with Liv Ullman certainly being Bergman's most talented and celebrated)...
*spoiler*
I also find it fascinating that Bibi Andersson winds up trying to become Liv Ullman, almost telling on Bergman's history with his leading ladies(they were both leading ladies in his films at different periods of his career, with Liv Ullman certainly being Bergman's most talented and celebrated)...
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