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carstuff1000 · 20-06-11 05:46:30

At the moment there is a "currently listening to" thread, would a currently seen thread work on this forum ? e.g. last night went to the movies and saw "Bad Teacher" with Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake, it was a great sexy / comedy / romance film, highly recommended. (I appreciate that movies are personal and what one person likes, another person may dislike). P.S. I think that Miss Diaz would make a great contributer if she ever knocks on your door ;-))

WLV612 · 30-08-11 16:47:44

Nothing at the box office but films I thought noteworthy,

Cracks with Eva Green.

Black Swan

Red Road with Kate Dickie.

The Marine Story with Dreya Weber.

The Kings Speech

All three of the "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" films. (Look forward to the American version but have doubts it will hold up.)

New Town Killers.

Inside Man.

carstuff1000 · 30-08-11 20:28:56

Eva Green, I love, saw her in James Bond, beautiful and fantastic. Last great film I saw "Super 8". Really really good. I go to cinema once every week or two. Love the big screen experience.

carstuff1000 · 01-09-11 07:20:38

The Boy In Striped Pyjamas, on TV earlier this week. Great film 10 out of 10. Have the tissues ready for the ending.

carstuff1000 · 16-10-11 10:46:12

Real Steel, in the cinemas now, fantastic move starring Hugh Jackman famous Australian movie star. Seen it once, may see it twice. Knockout film. Rocky with robots.

artemesia · 18-10-11 01:15:11

Recently saw Gaslands, very well made enviro doco, the personal connection the film-maker has with the land surrounding his house is so beautiful. It makes you really want to protect that river!

I also really dug the film with the philosopher Slavoj Žižek, "Living in End times." Somehow it had a real Dogville feel to it (damn I love Lars Von Triers), they screen stuff at him on a whole bunch of walls and he responds to it, sharing his views, mostly on capitalism... geez, hot topic!

Ohhh, and I recently saw the WonderWoman movie. Totally slipped off the radar as it was a straight to video release in 2009. Loved it, made a completely plausible case for how her costume came to be....

Um other than that, cartoons cartoons cartoons; Foster's home for imaginary friends is very cute

VeronicaF · 19-10-11 06:52:28

I watched The Thing last night. Still wanna go to Antarctica though.

aven frey · 19-10-11 07:25:26

Errol Morris's new documentary 'Tabloid' was both hilarious and horrifying. I also saw the doco 'Jesus Camp' the other night, at first hilarious than so terribly, terribly horrifying.

domC · 19-10-11 07:55:57

I was watching Jesus Camp on iView the other night, too. I liked how it wasn't passing judgement (a la Louis Theroux - who I sometimes find interesting, but more often just find really fucking irritating and patronising). I watched it trying to see the good in something like that (camps for fundamentalist Christian children) - I guess, the idea of telling a group of kids that they have power, they have potential, they are the future and that they are not disempowered - is kind of good, right? With that said, whenever I see kids being told to "talk in tongues" and chanting, I get the creeps. My housemate went to a fundamentalist Christian school where shit like that happened and from all accounts, it was traumatic. She also made me watch Saved a while ago, as a kind of tonic to all that. It's a really hilarious look at fundamentalist schools, that manages satirical comment without damning Christians.

aven frey · 19-10-11 08:12:33

I did notice how the kids were really so lovely, smart and quite confident but that scene with the little fetus dolls, the tape over their mouths and the crying, wow! I do wonder how those kids will feel watching this as teenagers and adults. I wonder if they'll feel exploited by the film makers or by their parents or the camp people.

domC · 19-10-11 09:19:34

I normally get all concerned about exploitation when I watch documentaries that feature children in situations that may not be socially acceptable (again: Louis Theroux) but I thought Jesus Camp was pretty respectful and because there wasn't a running commentary or any kind of condemnation of the children themselves, it might be ok? I don't know: that could just be overly optimistic. Whatever the case: the kids themselves were beautiful and so obviously just wanted to do the right thing, which was definitely heartbreaking.

blissed · 19-10-11 14:16:41

I think the deal with Louis Theroux is that the people are advised by their publicist to accept him onto their lives to raise their public profile and sell books and bump up their fee at pesonal appearances and guest speech events. Louis knows this and lets them have it Though in the process revealing what an ass he can be and is. When he interviewed Ann Widdecombe a UK right wing tory MP at 00:55 he becomes yet another person who takes the piss out of her apearance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8dmRYfB-jE

I generally don't agree with her views but I hate what she has to face I think it's very hurtful and wouldn't embarressing loui get more publicity. Telling him being mean makes him look like an arse. Even if I was kind of a bit famous and needed the publicity push I wouldn't let him in my home unless I could have someone filming him too and that I'd own my footage of him So unless his own fame was waining that's never gonna happen, not while footage of insulting the famous is commercially viable. Personally, rather than contrived verbal fireworks I prefer to see something interesting, or genuinely concerning or fascinating made by people who are interested, genuinely concerned or fascinated.

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viva · 20-10-11 00:20:46

DomC, I love that you watched Jesus Camp with an eye for what's genuine and good despite the movie's obvious propoganda about the horrors of christian fundamentalism. I'm sure a movie shot of the same camp from an intelligent member of its staff would show the whole place in an entirely different light.

I'm reminded of one of the worst "documentaries" of all time, Bill Maher's Religulous. He was trying to take the piss outta christianity, but in my opinion he just made himself look like an arrogant, close minded fool. He'd interview people at the christian amusement park, asking rude, leading questions and interrupting incessently, and the folks interveiwed would just be saying things like, "Yeah, it makes kids happy to come here. No, I'm not saying everyone has to be christian. These are just my beliefs."

What an ass.

Recently went to the cinema to see Norweigan Wood, a film based on Murakami's book of the same name. Slow, sad, long, deep - I absolutely loved it. It was such a beautiful expose of the Japanese way of things - every moment is aesthetically perfect, down to the way a woman's nose presses into a man's scarf as they hold each other in the snow. The communication is intense every step of the way, silence as much a part of it as speech - and for all that, when control breaks, it's ugly and big and monstrous and grievous, so much more in comparison to the constantly maintained perfection of Japanese life.

Ah. So beautiful.

blissed · 20-10-11 01:08:03

Ooh it has got a nice trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqiYXmpb41I

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viva · 20-10-11 01:26:26

I really recommend seeing it the cinema rather than at home. The depth and beauty of the imagery combined with the slow pace of the film makes it one of those movies for sure.

I found it interesting how the experience of the book and the experience of the film differed strongly for me. Also based on the time of my life - when I first read Norwegian Wood, I barely conceived of Naoko who is one of the major themes in the book. Instead the book for me was about Midori, the quirky, fucked-up, sex-brained girl in the city. The movie was more about both of them, for me, and a much more broadly themed experience.

Funny, because the book and the movie both are actually about Watanabe, the boy.. ha!

blissed · 20-10-11 01:55:29

I love the way the Japanese and English text appear together on the screen. That vertical text at the end on that image, it's very sensitive, visually and emotionally aware. The absence of this is why I never seem to watch any hollywood movies. i just don't care what happens in them, because I usually already know what's going to happen in them. Lets try that Norwegian wood trailer again "In a world..........."

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