Dope films

[tempest]

Being John Malcovich... slept on this for ages, finally saw it.. pretty far out movie, really good

[parson]

i'm trying to track this one down rite now

[dubloke]

watched some of this last night on Cahnnel 4 but couldn't watch the end cos i was too tired

Boy A
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1078188/

[datura]

A few Japanese and Korean films to check:

Track down some Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Cure, Bright Future and Charisma are amazing films.

Also Kim Ki Duk: 3 Iron, Spring, Summer etc

Memories of Murder is one of the best serial killer films i've ever seen..

[*grand*]

clover field.

[betamaxnomates]

Best films I've seen recently:

'No Country For Old Men'
I expect most of you have seen this. If you haven't though, check it out. Highly recommended.

'Lake Of Fire'
Two-hour plus documentary on the abortion debate. Remarkably even-handed and beautifully shot in B&W by Tony Kaye (American History X).

'Eagle Vs. Shark'
Funny little New Zealand movie with Jemaine from 'Flight Of The Conchords' in it. If you like FOTC, you'll probably like this.

[bright maroon]

Just watched another good one - Japanese called Cure..has to be by the same person that did Angel Dust, which is another excellent psychological detective film..





nope upon research these are by different peoples...maybe they are hommage to each other..

[wil blaze]

Oh forgot to mention, im looking forward to seeing "little miss sunshine" been highly reccomended by a few people

YES

[bright maroon]

Oh big up Datura on the "other Kurasawa" picks - I was just reading backwards..I loved Bright Future as well..

I also love The Isle.. Marie Baie Des Anges...Tony Takitani..and Dolls

[datura]

Oh big up Datura on the "other Kurasawa" picks - I was just reading backwards..I loved Bright Future as well..

I also love The Isle.. Marie Baie Des Anges...Tony Takitani..and Dolls

i seriously rate Cure was one of the best films i've ever seen..

[parson]

Tony Takitani's real name was really that: Tony Takitani.

Because of his name and his curly hair and his deeply sculpted features, he was often assumed to be a mixed-blood child. This was just after the war, when there were lots of children around whose blood was half American G.I. But Tony Takitani's mother and father were both one-hundred-per-cent genuine Japanese. His father, Shozaburo Takitani, had been a fairly successful jazz trombonist, but four years before the Second World War broke out he was forced to leave Tokyo because of a problem involving a woman. If he had to leave town, he figured, he might as well really leave, so he crossed over to China with nothing but his trombone in hand. In those days, Shanghai was just a day's boat ride from Nagasaki. Shozaburo owned nothing in Tokyo¡ªor anywhere else in Japan¡ªthat he would hate to lose. He left without regrets. If anything, he suspected, Shanghai, with its well-crafted enticements, would be better suited to his personality than Tokyo was. He was standing on the deck of a boat plowing its way up the Yangtze River the first time he saw Shanghai's elegant avenues glowing in the morning sun, and that did it. The light seemed to promise him a future of tremendous brightness. He was twenty-one years old.

[menacetosobriety]

Cinema Paradiso

a beautiful masterpiece

[thief]

Tony Takitani's real name was really that: Tony Takitani.

Because of his name and his curly hair and his deeply sculpted features, he was often assumed to be a mixed-blood child. This was just after the war, when there were lots of children around whose blood was half American G.I. But Tony Takitani's mother and father were both one-hundred-per-cent genuine Japanese. His father, Shozaburo Takitani, had been a fairly successful jazz trombonist, but four years before the Second World War broke out he was forced to leave Tokyo because of a problem involving a woman. If he had to leave town, he figured, he might as well really leave, so he crossed over to China with nothing but his trombone in hand. In those days, Shanghai was just a day's boat ride from Nagasaki. Shozaburo owned nothing in Tokyo¡ªor anywhere else in Japan¡ªthat he would hate to lose. He left without regrets. If anything, he suspected, Shanghai, with its well-crafted enticements, would be better suited to his personality than Tokyo was. He was standing on the deck of a boat plowing its way up the Yangtze River the first time he saw Shanghai's elegant avenues glowing in the morning sun, and that did it. The light seemed to promise him a future of tremendous brightness. He was twenty-one years old.

This is the Haruki Murakami one eh? Beautiful film, actually does justice to Murakami's writing I think.

[parson]

yeah the film is one of the most faithful adaptations i've ever seen. its like the exact story but with pictures. really nailed the tone.

[datura]

I'm surprised there aren't more Murakami adaptations, given his increasing propularity outside of Japan.

[parson]

some hardboiled wonderland action would stoke my fire i tell u whut

[parson]

and bigup on the kim ki-duk avatar datura. thats one of my favorite films

[thief]

It's completely dreamlike, I remember feeling strangely peaceful when I walked out of the theatre...

[thief]

some hardboiled wonderland action would stoke my fire i tell u whut

This was my introduction to Murakami... never looked back.

[datura]

some hardboiled wonderland action would stoke my fire i tell u whut

that's the one that immediately came to my mind.