Secret Ninja Movie Club (aka what have you watched lately)

__________ · Post by **__________** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 2:01 pm

saw ''man on wire'' the other day.
brilliant film. inspiring, shit scary, funny and kind of emotional all at the same time.

its about this french matey who WALKED A TIGHTROPE BETWEEN THE TWIN TOWERS!

WATCH IT!

edit: this is a documentary, not fiction. this shit really happened!

d-T-r · Post by **d-T-r** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 4:34 pm

bit late but only just got round to watching pans labrynth recently. good film.

had seen that scattered across the interwebs for ages but never knew where it was from.

datura · Post by **datura** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 10:19 pm

Black Snake Moan

Mostly famous as Wednesday gets them out a lot, but not a bad film when you get past the exploitation type stuff.

diss04 · Post by **diss04** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 1:20 pm

datura wrote:Black Snake Moan

Mostly famous as Wednesday gets them out a lot, but not a bad film when you get past the exploitation type stuff.

sweet, i still wanna see that.

charlie_g · Post by **charlie_g** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 12:43 am

Probably already been mentioned but...A Bittersweet Life.

It's a very involving Korean film with lot's of blood and guts.

I've not usually got the patience for most films, but this was tops.

slickvega · Post by **slickvega** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 5:23 am

HELL RIDE

thomas · Post by **thomas** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 7:52 pm

Let The Right One In

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1139797/

Figure the book would be alot better, but the film is seriously amazing.

gchrist · Post by **gchrist** » Sat Dec 27, 2008 3:43 pm

I watched Animal House.

wolf hood · Post by **wolf hood** » Sat Dec 27, 2008 11:39 pm

Pan's Labyrinth last night, what a sad sad film!

sinc_vision · Post by **sinc_vision** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 3:56 pm

Love and Honour

Third in the samurai 'trilogy' by Yoji Yamada. Brilliant film, on par with the other two, Twilight Samurai and The Hidden Blade. Would love to get a box set of all three films.

Not a typical samurai tale (but Yamada's films never are) so don't expect much in the way of sword fights. This and the other two films are about the social struggles the samurai have to live with, without all he grandeur conveyed in most films. This is about 'close' filming (virtually no wide shots, all mid - close range, really keeps you in touch with the characters), excellent acting, nice subtle humour and simple yet engrossing storytelling.

theaccuria · Post by **theaccuria** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 4:53 pm

£10 Bag wrote:saw ''man on wire'' the other day.

I've seen this before - damn awesome I can say.

Thing is also this was back in the day before health and saftey, if he fell - he went splat. Shit scary that. Bun that! But mega props to him.

Tekki · Post by **Tekki** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 9:08 am

Old Boy (in French!) and Hot Fuzz.

ch3 · Post by **ch3** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 1:35 pm

Andrzej Żuławski - Possession

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3rMRGC_NEcg

I'm not sure if any of you knows Żuławski, but his idea of the cinema is that it's not supposed to pretend to be reality, therefore his stuff is exaggerated, theatrical, dialogues pretentious and all in all totally over the top. Which makes it brilliant. And this movie is about love, in the words of author (sorry about the translation, it's weird in Polish as it is):

"Possession is a film about someone, who led by love to one who doesn't understand, wants to understand, and wants to understand one who doesn't understand, therefore has to understand what the other one doesn't understand and in effect one descends to hell, slides into someone else's madness to save the person they love but who is clearly insane"

It's got a beautiful woman, gore, a tentacle monster and great cinematography - what else does one need

reverendmedia · Post by **reverendmedia** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 9:46 pm

Paprika. Colourful.

reverendmedia · Post by **reverendmedia** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 10:45 pm

The Unbearable Lightness Of Being. 2 discs.

reverendmedia · Post by **reverendmedia** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 1:29 am

The Fly (1986). Woah.

reverendmedia · Post by **reverendmedia** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 3:21 am

Carrie. Climactic!

spooKs · Post by **spooKs** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 3:57 am

Watched Babel tonight, heard some dodgy reviews of it, but also some gushing ones. I really really enjoyed it! The director, Alejandro González Iñárritu, always does the multiple seemingly unrelated strands of narrative later turning out to be linked thing,m and it works really well, though there's far more distance between them in this than in 21 Grams or Amores Perros. And I must say the deaf mute girl is fucking fantastic, and the boy, Yussef actually. Great performances, mainly from the lesser known actors, rather than Pitt and Blanchett (sounds like a solicitor's company lol)

And Carrie is sick by the way - didn't watch it cos I was going to bed, and now look at me

djdowee · Post by **djdowee** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 11:47 am

http://www.sendspace.com/file/ip4s4w

I've heard this track in countless number of films now but still dont know what it is, can anybody enlighten me?

Thank you!

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