What Movie Are You Watching Or Watched Today?

[Tal]

Killing Season(2013)

Two veterans of the Bosnian War -- one American, one Serbian -- in the woods years after the war.
Director: Mark Steven Johnson Writer:Evan Daugherty Stars:Robert De Niro, John Travolta.

If you can get past one actors Eu accent ,not a bad film at all.J. Cash track makes it that much better.

[firehazard]

Dig!

2004 rock-doc carting the love/hate relationship between Courtney Taylor and Anton Newcombe and their respective bands The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre, both of whom went through phases of being the next big thing. Entrancing.

[fermenter]

i have just watched searching for sugarman ,the story of musician rodriquez and it was one of the best docmentaries i have ever seen.
it was uplifting ,moving and truly remarkable a true unsung hero of the music business ,its a must see dvd you wont be disapointed .

[Frances]

Dig!

The band member with the bug glasses and Jagger t-shirt hits that fourth wall hard.



on youtube

[Mike from Boston]

Caught a Harry Dean Stanton trifecta this week-Repo Man, Escape from New York, and Red Dawn

AVENGE ME BOYS

[Tal]

R.I.P.D.(2013)

A recently slain cop joins a team of undead police officers working for the Rest in Peace Department and tries to find the man who murdered him.
Director:Robert Schwentke Cast= Ryan Reynolds, Jeff Bridges, Mary-Louise Parker ..

Jeff Bridges plays a really good looking role in a good film.Lots of big hollywood special effects & a ok storyline.

[Frances]

[Frances]

[Low D]

The Triplettes of Belleville (2004)

Saw it back in '05 with the two older kids, 7 and 9 at the time. The 7 (now 15) year old told us when we put it on last night that it was the only movie that has ever given her nightmares. She said those big square-shoulder guys totally freaked her out and she basically left after they came on screen last night. Wuss.

What a strange, but a wonderful, film.

[Low D]

Hillary and Jackie (1998)

Been meaning to watch this since, i think, O'Blivion wrote it up on the history blog page. A brilliant telling of the life of cellist Jacqueline du Pré, based on the book by her sister Hilary. Two seperate but intertwined tellings from the perspective of each sister - ike how they did the recent "Arrested Development". Except with more beauty and sadness. A great film.

[Frances]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTf25FJdGYI

Back when Steve Guttenberg got higher credits than Liam Neeson.
With Beverly D'Angelo, Jennifer Tilly and creepy ass Peter Gallagher.

Also Mary Coughlan who I didn't realize was in Breakfast on Pluto, which I love.

[Low D]

Revengers Tragedy, directed by Alex Cox (2002), soundtrack by Chumbawama

A film adaptation of the 1606 play (attributed to Thomas Middleton) set in post apocalyptic Liverpool. With language as flowery as Shakespeare, it tells a tale of revenge not unlike something we might see in the Bard's work, but pushed to a more sarcastic, cynical extreme. It's been called "black camp". Christopher Eccelston plays the protagonist, something of an Iago character, manipulating others like pieces on a chessboard (although for deeply personal reasons of righteous revenge), and proves himself capable as a narrating lead who can pull off "Shakespearean" as well as anybody. Eddie Izzard, while not the best actor in the film, certainly surprises that he can pull it off even a little.

I think i liked the play, and much of the acting in this is great, but the production ultimately failed for me. The punk stylings come across like a high school play (especially the various sons of The Duke, whose goofy physical acting didn't help matters), and some scenes fall flat against what is obviously an insufficient budget. It would have been interesting to see Cox to compensate for his lack of a hollywood budget by trying something more creative and play-like in his staging. Instead, it just looks like a b-movie Mad Max.

Great soundtrack, which I've actually owned for years despite having never seen the film. Cox fanatics and fans of historic theatre will want to watch this (why DO we ever get only just Shakespeare?), but it's inability to actually draw me in ultimately made it tedious, and i had to watch it in two sittings ('cause clearly i AM a Cox completist).

[Frances]

Just 149 more times to go.

[Tal]

Freebird 2008

Phil Danniels and two other biker friends on a trip to Wales from London.
http://www.motorcyclenews.com/upload/20 ... eebird.jpg

[Frances]

How he goes from growing up skating, attaining fame and fortune to finally ending up in jail (after evading arrest for years) for four of ten on drug charges. On youtube.