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Working through seasons 4 of Mad Men and Skins but got Dogtooth for tonight. Oscar nominated Greek film not highly rated by many but a friend recommended it. Listed as 'Cerebral, Dark, Mind-Bending, Scary'. We'll see...
Picked that up as my freebie from the local shop along with Dogtooth.
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^^"Wild-eyed Klaus Kinski is a 16th-century explorer in search of El Dorado who is slowly undone by fever, tribal incursions and delusions of grandeur. From its stunning first shot of ant-like human voyagers descending the Andes to its final hallucinatory rain of monkeys, Aguirre is an unforgettable journey into the void."
adding Aguirre der Zorn Gottes to Netflix cue now!
Game of Thrones pilot
adding Aguirre der Zorn Gottes to Netflix cue now!
Game of Thrones pilot
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Me three...I see Werner Herzog directed and really like his work...just saved his Cave of Forgotten Dreams about Chauvet Cave in France. His Fitzcarraldo was pretty crazy.adding Aguirre der Zorn Gottes to Netflix cue now!
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Dogtooth - totally bizarre, definitely perverted and beyond strange.
MillitantHippie
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The tourist with johnny depp was pretty good.
just watched centurion and it was lame compared to gladiator
just watched centurion and it was lame compared to gladiator
GuerrillaG
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Just watched the Fountain with Hugh Jackman.
8 out of 10 on the official GG movie review scale.
Recommended.
8 out of 10 on the official GG movie review scale.
Recommended.
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After seeing it in the local store for the last few months finally took the plunge after your post...lots of fun!
Got Black Swan and Tamara Drewe locally to fill the gap before the rest of Mad Men shows up in my box.
I read The Tourist did much better overseas than in the US.
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Tamara Drewe was barely watchable, Black Swan was wild stuff and got about 1+ hour into Fish Tank and the disk crapped out. FT is a fairly recent 'coming of age' film from the Criterion Collection about a young teen girl living in a kind of OK part of Great Britain. Hope the store can fix the disc otherwise gotta Netflix it cause worth it to finish it off.
With the Masters on this weekend I think "Tin Cup" would be appropriate
igrowkushbitch
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I just watched 9th company on netflix and it was an epic war movie. I would definitely suggest anyone feeling like an intense war movie check it out.
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Added to my queue.
Saw a film last week that really affected me in a way I wasn't expecting.
It's called "Wasteland". Not your typical mainstream film.
It's a Brazilian film, about a world famous artist who's pictures sell for tens of thousands, and hang in museums all over the world. He goes back to Brazil in an attempt to "give something back". In Rio de Janeiro, you have the world's largest landfill, with mountains of garbage being dumped there daily.
Working there are very poor people called "cantadores", or "pickers".
As the garbage is being dumped from massive trucks, they are waiting, and immediately jump into the garbage, to grab things that are recyclable. These people are from the favelas, the worst slums imaginable, and it's all they have ever known. So the artist goes into the dump and begins talking to and taking photos of the workers. These photos are then made into beautiful works of art using nothing but garbage. it's an incredibly depressing place, but the spirit of the people was indomitable-smiles on their faces as they work in the garbage. A few individuals are singled out and you get to go to their "house", and see how they live. Makes you thankful for what you've got.
The artist takes a few of the people whom he photographed, and takes them to London, to see their portraits auctioned off for megabucks, and hung in the London art museum.
These folks had never been outside of Rio, never been on a plane, really never had anything in their lives.
Needless to say, when they saw themselves hanging in the museum, it touched them deeply-they were crying tears of joy, and so will you when you see it. As one of the female subjects said, I will be in that museum forever, long after we are all dead. The proudest moment of her life.
Highly recommended film-sad, yet uplifting. Unforgettable, really.
It's a documentary, but there is real drama there.
Partly in English, partly in Portuguese with sub titles.
Won many awards, but is little known.
One of my favorite films.
It's called "Wasteland". Not your typical mainstream film.
It's a Brazilian film, about a world famous artist who's pictures sell for tens of thousands, and hang in museums all over the world. He goes back to Brazil in an attempt to "give something back". In Rio de Janeiro, you have the world's largest landfill, with mountains of garbage being dumped there daily.
Working there are very poor people called "cantadores", or "pickers".
As the garbage is being dumped from massive trucks, they are waiting, and immediately jump into the garbage, to grab things that are recyclable. These people are from the favelas, the worst slums imaginable, and it's all they have ever known. So the artist goes into the dump and begins talking to and taking photos of the workers. These photos are then made into beautiful works of art using nothing but garbage. it's an incredibly depressing place, but the spirit of the people was indomitable-smiles on their faces as they work in the garbage. A few individuals are singled out and you get to go to their "house", and see how they live. Makes you thankful for what you've got.
The artist takes a few of the people whom he photographed, and takes them to London, to see their portraits auctioned off for megabucks, and hung in the London art museum.
These folks had never been outside of Rio, never been on a plane, really never had anything in their lives.
Needless to say, when they saw themselves hanging in the museum, it touched them deeply-they were crying tears of joy, and so will you when you see it. As one of the female subjects said, I will be in that museum forever, long after we are all dead. The proudest moment of her life.
Highly recommended film-sad, yet uplifting. Unforgettable, really.
It's a documentary, but there is real drama there.
Partly in English, partly in Portuguese with sub titles.
Won many awards, but is little known.
One of my favorite films.
NINJA BACHELOR PARTY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-7qrTkwkic
BEST EVER, sorry if it was posted already but it's really that good, especially if you like Bill Hicks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-7qrTkwkic
BEST EVER, sorry if it was posted already but it's really that good, especially if you like Bill Hicks
Fish Tank was watchable as a human interest story but honestly it wasn't that great. The story goes nowhere and is rather predictable.
If you didn't see the end it ends pretty much how you'd imagine. BTW its on netflix streaming instantly if you want.
Felt bad for the girls. Especially tyler the young one. But I have to admit compared to what slums look like here that was beverly hills. Hard to get a gritty urban feeling into a movie when your countries worst neighborhoods look like somewhere I wish I could afford rent.
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exit through the giftshop
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long time dead.(uk, about a djin) za good one.cracking tunes as well.
There's No Country For Old Men - It will make you think twice about offering someone a glass of water.
