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I might have put this list on here before, I forget. A young chap I know asked for some ideas for 'interesting' films. Here's what I gave him:

 

Dogville

 

Lars von Trier’s gripping minimalist drama. Nicole Kidman is actually really good

 

Forbidden Planet

 

Freud meets The Tempest in iconic 1950s sci-fi. “Monsters from the id!”

 

The Vanishing

 

Truly creepy Dutch-Belgian film, not to be confused with useless Hollywood remake

 

Run, Lola, Run

 

Poundingly entertaining German film. Famka Potente (sp??) lights up the screen.

 

Dancer in the Dark

 

Lars von Trier musical(!) Many hate it. I thought it was brilliant and emotionally lacerating. Thom Yorke and Bjork soundtrack.

 

It’s a Wonderful Life

 

Ancient but uplifting Frank Capra classic. Weep with joy.

 

Happiness

 

Todd Solenz’s blacker than black comedy about the grotesqueness of sexual desire

 

Magnolia

 

Complex interwoven stories of redemption. Tom Cruise is unrecognisably brilliant as a vile lifestyle guru.

 

Crash (not the David Cronenburg one)

 

Social and racial tensions explored through the interlocking stories of the key characters. Satisfyingly grown-up.

 

Atomized

 

Weird, interesting, disturbing German film

 

Pan’s Labyrinth

 

Del Tormo’s best – brutality and fairytales starkly juxtaposed

 

Brazil

 

Terry Gilliam’s bleakly dystopian satire

 

Tetsuo Iron Man

 

My partner’s most hated film of all time. Relentlessly barmy Japanese surrealism.

 

Pi

 

I don’t remember much about this except that I liked it

 

Roxanne

 

Steve Martin’s charming retelling of Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac

 

Amelie

 

Quirky in every respect – from the elfin Audrey Tatou to the whirling Yann Thiersen score.

 

Jean de Florette and Magnon des Sources

 

Leisurely paced but gently engrossing tales with brilliant Gerard Depardieu performances

 

Delicatessen

 

A French black comedy about cannibalism – what’s not to like?

 

Mulholland Drive

 

David Lynch messes with your head in his take on a Hollywood detective story

 

Eraserhead

 

David Lynch again. John Nance wanders around with the same pained expression on his face throughout this bleak, surreal film noir classic.

 

Blue Velvet

 

And one more David Lynch. Dennis Hopper is as mad as toast in this tale of the dark underbelly of a wholesome American town.

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You bet your sweet ass i am!

 

 

 

Sod ya then :tongue:

Matt,.... we need another stunt cock.

Charlotte is out :(

 

It's on!

 

Umm, I'll work on charlotte, she'll poo poo it at first, but once she see's the benifits package I'm putting together, she'll be like a horse to water :sly:

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

 

I'm not one for subtitles, I feel like you can’t get lost in a film when there’s a constant reminder of reality at the bottom. Pan’s Labyrinth for example; a film with such atmosphere just didn’t work with subtitles for me.

 

But it didn't matter too much in this picture. It has a great story line with a brilliant character in Lisbeth, performed brilliantly by Noomi Rapace – both the story and the Character developed really well.

 

 

I hear Hollywood are doing a remake of this film in English, but I wouldn’t hold out for it over the current version as the subtitles don’t detract as much as I thought they would.

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I walked out of the cinema half way through this film. Not impressed at all

 

Because of the violence or just the film in general?

 

Rocknroller is one of my fairly recent favourites. On par with Snatch, Lock Stock, Layer Cake etc. :)

 

Rock'n'roller was average. It certainly sit nowhere near Snatch or Lock Stock. Layer cake was good, but then again no Snatch or Lock Stock either imo.

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

 

I'm not one for subtitles, I feel like you can’t get lost in a film when there’s a constant reminder of reality at the bottom. Pan’s Labyrinth for example; a film with such atmosphere just didn’t work with subtitles for me.

 

But it didn't matter too much in this picture. It has a great story line with a brilliant character in Lisbeth, performed brilliantly by Noomi Rapace – both the story and the Character developed really well.

 

 

I hear Hollywood are doing a remake of this film in English, but I wouldn’t hold out for it over the current version as the subtitles don’t detract as much as I thought they would.

 

Interesting. I find the opposite. I find subtitles force me to concentrate much more, and I get drawn in as a result. I wish my language skills were good enough to watch them without, but that's never going to happen.

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Interesting. I find the opposite. I find subtitles force me to concentrate much more, and I get drawn in as a result. I wish my language skills were good enough to watch them without, but that's never going to happen.

 

This.

 

I actually prefer watching subtitled films. I'd rather eat my own hand than watch a badly-dubbed one though.

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well after staying away

 

surprised no one mentions any of the Classic John Ford Westerns,

 

or of course

 

The Searchers.... :D

 

 

anyone ever seen

 

By Dawn's Early Light.. (not Porn Ed :rolleyes:)

 

bit of an old theme but do love some of the quotes..

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Infernal Affairs (trilogy)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338564/

 

Spawned 'The Departed' which I refuse to see. I doubt they could better the original trilogy.

 

Battle Royale

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266308/

(Ed may like this - lots of japanese school girls killing each other in uniform)

 

Zatoichi

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363226/

 

Almost Famous (the extended director's cut anyway)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181875/

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