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Posted by: u5227470736789439 on 27 November 2005

Just about to watch the secong half of 'The Odessa File.'

All the best from Fredrik
Posted on: 23 July 2007 by Mr Underhill
His Girl Friday:
Cary Grant in a Howard Hawks version of 'Front Page'. Good film, poor transfer & soundtrack.

In Her Shoes:
Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette & Shirley Maclean. NOT a comedy, more of a drama. Going to re-watch it.

Bedazzled:
Remake of the Peter Cook & Dudley Moore film. I know this will be viewed as sacrilege but in some ways I prefer this version. Bredan Fraser is a superbly comic actor, which makes up for Liz Hurley's woodenness.

Jumping Jack Flash:
Whoopi Goldberg. Somehow I'd never gotten round to seeing this. Silly plot line & ludicrous finale, some comic moments; but overall I'd say it was just about OK - Sunday afternoon material.

Serving Sara:
Matthew Perry & Liz Hurley. Matthew Perry makes the best of a poor co-star and OKish script.
Posted on: 23 July 2007 by Gianluigi Mazzorana
now
Posted on: 23 July 2007 by Rico
quote:
Bedazzled:
Remake of the Peter Cook & Dudley Moore film. I know this will be viewed as sacrilege but in some ways I prefer this version. Bredan Fraser is a superbly comic actor, which makes up for Liz Hurley's woodenness.


hmmm. try and use a sentance to describe Liz Hurley without using the word 'wood'. Cool I challenge you. This is kinda funny - Hurley is scorching in this one as the devil.
Posted on: 24 July 2007 by Richard Dane
Hidden (Cache) - No soundtrack, very French, a bit obscure at times, and no simple conclusions... A recipe for a stinker, BUT... probably the most thought provoking films I've seen in a long time. This is one film where you MUST go into the extras and watch the interview with the director, Michael Haneke. Daniel Auteil is amazing as the bourgeois everyman. It's a film about truth, lies, guilt, responsibility and how, no matter how hard you try, you cannot hide from the past. Watch it. Watch the interview. Then go back and watch the film again...

Last night I watched Black Book. Great film and a superb transfer onto DVD. Carice van Houten and Sebastian Koch are superb. Nice twist at the end too... I won't give any more away. Just watch it... Highly recommended!
Posted on: 24 July 2007 by Mr Underhill
quote:
Originally posted by Rico:

hmmm. try and use a sentance to describe Liz Hurley without using the word 'wood'. Cool I challenge you. This is kinda funny - Hurley is scorching in this one as the devil.


Winker ..I grant you that LH is incredibly sexy ...I just wish she could act. She's not bad, but she doesn't enhance dialogue. Fraser & Perry can make mundane lines come to life, LH needs good lines to raise a smile.

M
Posted on: 24 July 2007 by Cyrene
quote:
Originally posted by Richard Dane:
Hidden (Cache) - No soundtrack, very French, a bit obscure at times, and no simple conclusions... A recipe for a stinker, BUT... probably the most thought provoking films I've seen in a long time. This is one film where you MUST go into the extras and watch the interview with the director, Michael Haneke. Daniel Auteil is amazing as the bourgeois everyman. It's a film about truth, lies, guilt, responsibility and how, no matter how hard you try, you cannot hide from the past. Watch it. Watch the interview. Then go back and watch the film again...

Last night I watched Black Book. Great film and a superb transfer onto DVD. Carice van Houten and Sebastian Koch are superb. Nice twist at the end too... I won't give any more away. Just watch it... Highly recommended!


loved Hidden; several very disturbing scenes in there but holds up well as a film, not just a series of incidents.
Now Black Book... interesting subject matter, generally well acted, especially the main German officer ( him from the recent Das Leberen der Anderen) but didn't you think it was all a bit, well, lavish?
Posted on: 24 July 2007 by Rico
quote:
I just wish she could act. She's not bad, but she doesn't enhance dialogue. Fraser & Perry can make mundane lines come to life, LH needs good lines to raise a smile.

no argument from me. Cool

wood. there you go, I said it.
Posted on: 26 July 2007 by Chris Kelly
"If", the Lindsay Anderson masterpiece from the late 60s. Got it from Amazon, who bundled in a copy of the script. I went to see it from my boarding school when it first came out, and enjoyed every bit as much nearly 40 years on.
Posted on: 26 July 2007 by Former member
A classic film Chris,and a very very good sound track. When it was first on tv back in 1976, so many people rang in to find out the name of the main bit of music. It was out on a 45 within two weeks and i think it went to no 1 in the charts.
Munch
Posted on: 26 July 2007 by Chris Kelly
It's a very compelling Sanctus munch. I remember when Anderson was scouting for suitable locations he came to our place for lunch. In the end it was filmed at Cheltenham College.

It is a very powerful piece of film-making, which slips further and further into the surreal as it unfolds. Also an initially perplexing flip between colour and black and white.
Posted on: 26 July 2007 by Gianluigi Mazzorana
Posted on: 28 July 2007 by Gianluigi Mazzorana
right now
Posted on: 28 July 2007 by Gianluigi Mazzorana
It started with revenge.
The revenge of those who spent the money for the ticket.
Posted on: 28 July 2007 by Former member
Tonight some friends down for the weekend.After a nice load of food and some good music .We had Crash on, one of the best films of the last few years IMO.
Posted on: 29 July 2007 by BigH47
Junior has just bought(Saturday) the Bill Bailey triple DVD. He was watching "PART TROLL" when I came in. Very funny his "interpretations" of music Kraftwerk doing the hokey kokey, U2 (when the effects fail" all very good.
Posted on: 29 July 2007 by Chris Kelly
"Blood Diamond". Pretty gruelling, but a well-told story, with some astonishingly beautiful shots of Africa. I thought Leonardo di Caprio did a reasonable job with the accent.
Posted on: 29 July 2007 by Chris Kelly
"After The Wedding", a Danish film (with subtitles) starring the guy who played le Chiffre in "Casino Royale". Utterly absorbing, a terrific drama. And no gratuitous poker scenes.... Smile
Posted on: 29 July 2007 by Rico
the hunt for red october - still entertaining viewing after all these years.
Posted on: 30 July 2007 by Gianluigi Mazzorana
quote:
Originally posted by Rico:
the hunt for red october - still entertaining viewing after all these years.


Yes.
It's a good action movie to me.
And this takes me to the shelves and makes me look for "Gorky Park".
Posted on: 30 July 2007 by Gianluigi Mazzorana
Remembering Ingmar Bergman
Posted on: 31 July 2007 by Gianluigi Mazzorana
Posted on: 01 August 2007 by Frank Abela
A Scanner Darkly - Hmmm, I think this was a good movie, and the rotoscoping was very cool, but I felt a lot of the time I was looking at the filmcraft as opposed to being immersed in the story. That said, Woody Harrelson and Robert Downey Jr gave excellent performances I thought.

On the whole, I thought it a good film worth seeing once.
Posted on: 01 August 2007 by Allan Probin
300 - Film adaptation of a Frank Miller graphic novel. Every frame could be lifted off the screen, framed and hung as a piece of art. Check out the extras, especially the test footage. The opening sequence they mocked-up should have been used for real, quite stunning. What started with Sin City seems to have been taken even further and better with 300.
Posted on: 01 August 2007 by neil w
allan
on blu ray or hddvd , i went to the pics to see this . the opening sequence they used was stunning and very loud . check out transformers imho on par with 300

neil
Posted on: 01 August 2007 by Allan Probin
I went with Blu-ray for this one. Wasn't realy interested in the additional extras on the HD-DVD. The blu-ray disc was a couple of pounds cheaper and has the additional PCM soundtrack.

Hate to say it, but I'm quite looking forward to Transformers in HD Smile