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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3928 Registered: 05-2005 |
Upside Down - The Creation Records Story. A wonderful film. You need to see this. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3978 Registered: 05-2005 |
Live Forever. A great Brit pop documentary. I've also spent much of June watching every episode of Green Wing, a very funny English sitcom. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3984 Registered: 05-2005 |
Get Low. Robert Duvall and Bill Murray are both superb in it. So is everyone else. Film of the year for me so far. Has anyone else here seen it? I know it came out a year ago in America. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2218 Registered: 01-2005 |
As soon as they arrive: The Prowler (long lost 1951 film noir just released on DVD) Casque d'Or: The Criterion Collection Hotel Terminus: The Life & Times of Klaus Barbie Mouchette: The Criterion Collection | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2136 Registered: 09-2006 |
Been years since I've seen Hotel Terminus, but I remember being very struck by it. Mouchette is an absolute trip. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2219 Registered: 01-2005 |
Allen, Same here regarding Hotel Terminus. I remember renting it from the video store and how the long story unfolded in a perfect pace that drew you right in. Barbie (aka The Butcher of Lyon) killed one of the real life Resistance fighters that was being portrayed as the Luc Jardie composite character (by Paul Meurisse) in Melville's Army Of Shadows. The Hotel Terminus DVD has just been released in the last year. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1321 Registered: 10-2008 |
shameless. the usa version with william h macy. not a patch on the uk version. even though they stick closely to the brilliant uk scripts it just comes across as lame and unfunny. the uk actors made the show so wonderful, the us actors dont seem believable especially macy as frank gallagher. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3999 Registered: 05-2005 |
In Treatment - Season 2 | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2230 Registered: 01-2005 |
Casque d'Or: The Criterion Collection What an acheivement by director Jacques Becker, as it seems at times that maybe Renoir or Lautrec are actually behind the camera and directing the movie. The award worthy performances by Simone Signoret and Serge Reggiani are breathtaking. Highly recommended. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4007 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bridesmaids. Funniest film I've seen since I don't know when. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1345 Registered: 10-2008 |
conviction. great performances by sam rockwell as kenny "muddy" waters, the larger than life local character/thug who gets framed for murder, and hilary swank as his sister turned lawyer who wouldnt give up on his innocence and eventually proved he that was not guilty after he spent about 20 years in jail. one strange fact: although this was a movie based on a true story there was no mention of how kenny tragically died , not even in the credits at the end. "On September 6, 2001, Kenneth Waters fell from a 15-foot wall while taking a shortcut to his brother's house after a dinner with his mother.He slipped and fell, dying from injuries related to head trauma, just six months after his release from prison" | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 654 Registered: 04-2005 |
Calexico with Francoiz Breut : great version of 'Si Tu Disais' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67zr8xcut Ls | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4035 Registered: 05-2005 |
Saw Red Dog with my daughter yesterday afternoon. I was expecting it to be all parents and kids, but she was the only kid in there. It's a terrific, and very moving, film. Once it started and one of the characters spoke my daughter said to me "It's Australian", which made me realise that almost all the films she sees are American. And this morning I went to see a preview of an Irish film called The Guard. It's very good. Official opening in a couple of weeks in Australia. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4049 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Great film. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 470 Registered: 10-2006 |
The Who live at Kilburn 1977 Having just finished Tony Fletcher’s excellent Moon biog, it’s easy to understand the pure glee on the drummer’s face as he finds himself back in the seat that gave his life meaning. ("I'm just going to pop backstage for a second and OD ..." ) Townsend, meanwhile, is simply terrifying. I’ve never been a big fan of the shouty rock bare-chested perm school, Zep and Free and so on, but this is gripping stuff, with Pete taking on the sudden rise of punk in baleful fashion, “I’ve got a guitar up here if any young bastard git wants to come up and take it off me …” They screw it up royally a couple of times but the energy level is spikey. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2253 Registered: 10-2004 |
Just saw Hobo With a Shotgun. Classy stuff! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2153 Registered: 09-2006 |
The Illusionist A simple story perfectly told, and a lovely blending of the worlds of Chomet and Tati. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 356 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kill List - absolutely stunning, like a mix of Mike Leigh, Michael Reeves, Chris Morris and the Wicker Man | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 660 Registered: 04-2005 |
Went to only my second 3D film; the first was Jaws 3 (end of the 70s ?), which had one great moment when a severed arm floated up towards you. And the second is Werner Herzog's "Cave of Forgotten Dreams", about the remarkable paintings (30,000 years old) found in the Chauvet cave in the Ardčche region of France. One big problem for me: the French version overdubs that wonderful Herzog voice doing the narration! Kind of understandable in the sense that he sold the film to the French state for one euro, and given that it is unlikely that other filmmakers will ever be allowed in the cave, the film will now serve as an educational tool (shown in schools and collčges). Worth seeing for the stunning art. The section with 4 horses' heads is breathtaking. And there are the usual quirky Herzog moments. But I'm not a fan of 3D. Maybe I fall into the third of the population for who it doesn't really work ? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4053 Registered: 05-2005 |
Is that a scientific figure about 3D not working on 1/3 of the population? It doesn't work for me either, but that's mainly because the extra cost at the box office is not justified. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2155 Registered: 09-2006 |
My guess would've been an even larger percentage - my wife and Roger Ebert both find it a big blur, whereas with the two 3D movies I've seen (Toy Story 3 and the last Harry Potter) it worked very well for me, adding a nice extra-immersive element, just like it was supposed to. I missed the Herzog when it came through...it was only in 3D in Seattle, 60 miles away. Watched "Uncle Boonmee, Who Can Recall His Past Lives" last night. If that title grabs you at all, look into it - talk about absolutely immersive. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4061 Registered: 05-2005 |
30 Rock, season 4. Even better than the first three, and they set the bar pretty high. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4071 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ireland beating Australia in the rugby world cup. How sweet it is. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 357 Registered: 05-2005 |
Tinker, Tailor,Soldier,Spy - brilliant film, very good cast, great,grey and grubby 70s look and feel | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2265 Registered: 01-2005 |
The Conspirator - A decent but not great film. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4076 Registered: 05-2005 |
Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times. Very good documentary. Brilliant to get a look inside the inner workings of one of the world's greatest newspapers. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 509 Registered: 01-2007 |
I know I'm behind the times but finished watching the Killing ( bbc iplayer) which really has spoilt me for anything else. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 662 Registered: 04-2005 |
Went to see a very odd film : Paolo Sorrentino’s “This Must be The Place” starring Sean Penn as an aging goth rock star (Robert Smith !). Despite being touted as an interesting European view on the ‘American road move’ (like Wenders “Paris Texas”), this is a complete Frankenstein’s monster of a film. It feels like (at least 2) films stuck together and is lacking a coherent feel; it starts in Ireland,where the Sean Penn character lives and there is a story about a teenage boy that has run off (Bono’s daughter plays his sister), and then switches to the States after Penn goes back for the death of his father. The film then turns into a Nazi chase movie, with Penn trying to track down a guard from Auswitch that tormanted his father. One of those films that can’t decide where it wants to position itself. Sean Penn has some great deadpan lines to deliver, but the whole Nazi plot feels like a seperate film. On the positive side there is some great music (David Byrne did the soundtrack with Will Oldham and appears in the film), some beautiful images and some nice cameos (Harry Dean Stanton as the man that claims to have invented lugage with wheels). Kerry Condon is excellent, an actress that I was not aware of before. But on the whole, very very odd. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4098 Registered: 05-2005 |
The West Wing. I got the complete box set with all 154 (or whatever) episodes. I never saw it on TV apart from a few episodes of the final series, so I'm delighted it lives up to the hype. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2282 Registered: 01-2005 |
Boardwalk Empire - 2nd Season on HBO | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 159 Registered: 06-2005 |
Breaking Bad - Just finished Season 4, I haven't enjoyed a series as much in a long time, acting, script and character development all very engaging. I read good reviews of a French series called Spiral, don't know if anyone here is familiar with that one? | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 486 Registered: 10-2006 |
Just got the first series, Peter, but haven't had time to watch it yet. Heard conflicting views of it. Hope to start it soon. Good to hear that Breaking B has made it to 4. Meanwhile, what a feast for Padraig there! Perhaps the best written series ever; which possibly explains why it was treated like sh** here in Italy and massacred by the schedulers, making it almost impossible to follow. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4101 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just saw Contagion. I need to wash myself. For hours. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4108 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just back from Midnight In Paris. Best Woody Allen film in 20 years (not that there was a whole lot of competition). | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 385 Registered: 04-2005 |
Denver Broncos are on tonight over here in the UK, so its my 1st chance to see Tim Tebow. Cheers Jon | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1440 Registered: 10-2008 |
The Story Of Creation Records on BBC 4 Pretty interesting, even if it seemed like 50% of it seemed to be about Alan McGee telling us how trashed he got over the period. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 489 Registered: 10-2006 |
Walking dead, season 2 dear lord, what an anguishing series this is. Not much room for humour when you're haring around the USA trying to avoid being eaten alive. But I have very little sense of the who the characters are, apart from the main couple. Hats off to Andrew Lincoln though, never would have thought he had it in him. I rarely watch anything in the horror genre, the real world supplies more than enough. Have to watch two episodes of Modern Family before I can go to bed. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4113 Registered: 05-2005 |
I just watched two episodes of Modern Family! | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 490 Registered: 10-2006 |
Cue gasp! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2170 Registered: 09-2006 |
Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life and the newly released 25th anniversary Blu-ray of Blue Velvet, with almost an hour of lost footage. | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 327 Registered: 05-2005 |
Autoluminescence - documentary on the late great Rowland S Howard now showing in Australia. Terrific - and quite moving. Lots of interesting interviews with the likes of Nick Cave, Wim Wenders and hosts of other musos from Aus, UK, US etc. Good archival footage - really creates the atmosphere of the Melbourne post-punk scene. A must-see if you ever get the chance. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4119 Registered: 05-2005 |
The YouTube highlights of Ireland trouncing Estonia 4-0. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 495 Registered: 10-2006 |
Spiral - season one All in all, pretty good viewing, though no big plot surprises in the fairly standard dirty-work-in-high-places and ooops, could my best mate be involved storyline. Nice steely visual texture and the dead body make-up is gruesomely effective. One weakness is the tiresome computer-whoosh shot for changing scene, a bit unnecessary for a gritty show like this. Strong acting all round, especially Caroline Proust as the skinny "I've just got up and really could do with a shower" man-hungry police captain and Thierry Godard as her coke-hungry Alberto Tomba lookalike lieutenant. One main story is mixed in with a lot of smaller cases to give a panoramic view of Paris police work, a system substantially different from the British and American styles.Worth seeing, anyway. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4121 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just googled Caroline Proust. She looks remarkably like and old flame of mine. Quite bizarre. Meanwhile, I'm now on season four of The West Wing. It's all West Wing all the time round my way. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1463 Registered: 10-2008 |
Padraig, have you watched The Slap? I just stumbled across it while surfing what was on the tv one night, its on BBC4 in the UK. The subject matter seems quite controversial, guest at an adult birthday party somewhere in Australia (where exactly I'm not sure)slaps annoying child, and the adults reactions veer from horror to "the brat deserved it". The subsequent episodes apparently focus on various adults who were at the party and their views on "the slap", while also focussing on whats going on in their own particular lives. Only watched the first two episodes so far but it seems promising, the characters appear interesting, and the actings of a high quality. Hopefully its doesn't descend into a soap like farce! | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 496 Registered: 10-2006 |
It's set in Melbourne, where apparently the drug use between well-off middle-aged couples is amazing. In fact, just about everyone seems to be on something. The book left a nasty taste in my mouth for some reason. The most interesting aspect perhaps was the contempt he paints immigrants as having for the white "native" population. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4122 Registered: 05-2005 |
No Kevin. No interest. The book didn't appeal to me and nor does the TV adaptation. It's on here at the moment too. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1466 Registered: 10-2008 |
Padraig, I must admit, against my better judgement I'm quite enjoying it. The main point of interest for me is that each character is pretty interesting in their own right, even when not central to the plot. Each episode focuses on one particular character who was at the party where The Slap took place. The episode I watched today centered on the teenage girl Connie, and in this episode she lusted after her work colleagues 40 yr old husband, got drunk/high, failed twice to lose her virginity to two different men, and fell out with her needy male gay friend. Despite this she still found time to listen to Cattle and Cane in her bedroom, while gazing at a picture on her wall of a young David Sylvian in all his blonde quiffed pomp! Quite impressive taste in music given she is only 17 and its not set in the 80's - it appears to be set in the naughties, or even this decade. I realise all the above has probably done absolutely nothing to sell it to you :-) | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 359 Registered: 02-2007 |
Am reading the book at the moment. realy enjoying it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4126 Registered: 05-2005 |
Not selling it to me, but I'm impressed to hear they used Cattle And Cane. Might convert a few people to all things Go-Betweens. Did you get the emails I sent about Cathal Coughlan? | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1468 Registered: 10-2008 |
Yep, I'll get round to giving them a good listen on Monday or Tuesday. I started the first of four 12 hour nightshifts on Thursday so not much time for anything else but working,sleeping or eating and watching a little TV till I finish up on Monday morning. The only music I have heard recently is the radio at work and The Fall and Disco Inferno CD's in the car on the way to bloody work!! That's enough winging from me, looking forward to a week off starting on Monday, so I'll give the Cathal stuff a good listen then and report back. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4139 Registered: 05-2005 |
Arthur Christmas. I fell asleep for a bit, but my daughter loved it. Mission accomplished. |