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Bring It On. I'm watching it right now. At work. On my G4's DVD player.

Hah.

― JM, Friday, 6 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The Lottery The Warriors

― Chris Hawkins, Friday, 6 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Kingpin. Thus named because it obviously the KING of film.

― Nicole, Friday, 6 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Bad Company"--early Seventies western with Jeff Bridges and Barry Browne.

― Michael Bourke, Friday, 6 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"La Jette" by Chris Marker is maybe my favorite film ever. Largely because it clocks in under an hour. And has no moving images. So is it a film? Yes, but not a "movie".

"Matewan" about a coal strike in West Virginia. WILL OLDHAM puts in the performance of his life, along with Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, many others.

Does everybody talk about "Election"? Should have won everything at the Oscars.

Everything by Edward Yang, especially "Confucian Confusion", "Taipei Story", and "Yi-Yi".

This very afternoon I'm going to see "Baise-Moi". I'll tell you how it is.

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 6 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Nobody - even Powell & Pressburger fanatics - ever talks about "Gone To Earth" from 1950, it seems. Pity, because it's awesomely dramatic and OTT (the colour is "unnatural" - deep greens, blood reds - in the best sense). From, I think, Mary Webb's novel, and one of the disappointingly few films set in Shropshire (offhand I can only think of "Penda's Fen", which was for television anyway). Of course Jennifer Jones's Brit accent is atrocious but that only adds to the camp element (more so than the accepted "classic" P&P films from 43- 48 tend to be, which is I think what turns people against it).

I think it's underrated relative to how "The Red Shoes" is slightly overrated.

― put in a basket bound with skin, Saturday, 7 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Okay, Baise-Moi... Dogme 95 does "Natural Born Killers". Never seen genitals represented on such a scale before. Lots of fucking and killing, all on crappy DV, acted by un-made-up porn actresses. Inspiring really.

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 7 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

three weeks pass...

slacker will not be seen as a period piece 10-20 years from now, because already it's twelve years old and it's exactly like my life and the lives of everyone i know, and that is never going to change, ever. there were people like that in 1971 and 1959 and 1923 and 1631 and there always will be. dazed and confused though, christ.

― ethan, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF

― anthony, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The Blackout, New Rose Hotel, The Addiction, Safe and Stendhal's Syndrome = all semi-forgotten masterpieces.

Last Days of Disco = yea.

For some reason I dislike Fucking Amal without even having seen it (must be that "if the art-crowd love it, it must suck arse." thing)

― Omar, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Bedazzled with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. CLASSIC. Especially Sophia Loren.

― Sam, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

To Jimmy the Mod's list, add Class of 1984, Screwballs, Boys Next Door

― dave q, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Peter's Friends. You all probably hate Kenneth Branagh vehicles, esp. ones about friends from school, but the sequence where their lives all kind of fall apart, esp. Branagh's going-back-to-the-bottle scene, is pretty awesome. Also best ever use of "Rio" by Mike Nesmith.

Can anyone reccommend 60s Brit gangster films? I'm curious.

― Dave M., Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Get Carter

― anthony, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

That's 70s there matey. Now i'll have to bash your face in and have a pint afterwards. ;)

― Omar, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

sorry . please forgive me. I can recommend Boys Boarding School pics

― anthony, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Thinking of 'If?' there?

― Omar, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Spies Like Us (I've always wondered whether this gave Pynchon the idea for Mason & Dixon?!?), Lock-Up, Over the Top, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (w/ Sarah Jessica Parker, Helen Hunt, and a dance contest!), Dead Man on Campus, Fletch.

― Kris, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Save The Tiger. RIP JL.

― Ally C, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Killer Klownes From Outer Space

― JC, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The Iron Giant!

― 1 1 2 3 5, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Gridlock'd

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

'Sonatine' - mid-80s French-Canadian flick about isolated, depressive schoolgirls. Shall I spoil it for everyone by revealing the final scene?

Girls board subway train with placards proclaiming something like 'We will take our lives in protest at the indifference of the world', and swallow a bunch of pills. No-one takes a blind bit of notice, they fall unconscious, the placard slips down out-of-view, the train pulls into its destination and the crew (who've just heard that their union have voted for immediate industrial action) leave the girls in their deserted carriage. To die, presumably.

To call it a screwball comedy would be a mistake.

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Tracer - I second 'Gridlock'd'. 'Gang Related' and 'Juice' were good too. Tupac was actually a fine, underrated actor (kicked Tim Roth's ass) - it's a shame he instead elected to become the worst rapper in history and get wasted in the Death Row wars.

― dave q, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Spaceballs... the arse end of Mel Brooks career. And I like arse ends. Unlikely to see schoolgirls swallowing pills, but are likely to see characters such as Pizza the Hut, Dark Helmet and Yogurt. It's so much more than just a parody of Star Wars... well actually that is all it is and that's good enough for me.

'Sonatine' - mid-80s French-Canadian flick about isolated, depressive schoolgirls. Shall I spoil it for everyone by revealing the final scene? Girls board subway train with placards proclaiming something like 'We will take our lives in protest at the indifference of the world', and swallow a bunch of pills. No-one takes a blind bit of notice, they fall unconscious, the placard slips down out-of-view, the train pulls into its destination and the crew (who've just heard that their union have voted for immediate industrial action) leave the girls in their deserted carriage. To die, presumably.

To call it a screwball comedy would be a mistake.

― Martin, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Arse... I was supposed to paste that into my Jonesy scrapbook not my post. Stalking obsessions are not as easy as they look...

― Martin, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The Watcher. But they should take all copies of said movie and destroy it. Rushmore was a major dud.
Classic movie: Crazy Love based on Bukowski's life.

― nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

six months pass...

i hate Kevin Branagh!

― BB, Saturday, 16 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

nobody ever talks about jurassic park but we should.

― ethan, Sunday, 17 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

jurassic park is a godawful movie ethan.

― jess, Sunday, 17 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

the last picture show , in fact most of brogdanovch's(sp) work has not got alot of press and its unfortunate.

― anthony, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

GHOSTBUSTERS II!!!

― ethan, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

in fact most of brogdanovch's(sp) work has not got alot of press and its unfortunate.

Are you counting the legendary 'live recording by nonsingers' musical flop At Long Last Love? Always wanted to see that to see if it really is that bad (and I'm sure it is).

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ginger Snaps should have received a bit more attention. It was quite good.

― Kim, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I second Ginger Snaps. That's an excellent movie.

― Michael Bourke, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'd never heard anyone talk about "The Collector" before I saw it, and I was really impressed by it.

― Simon, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"After Midnight"

― MarkH, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

'The Pallbearer' (1996) starring David Schwimmer and Gwyneth Paltrow.

― N., Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

one year passes...

I just saw "Juice" last night. Weird movie: it starts like Boyz in Da Hood but ends up like Scream! And, uh, what happened about the DJ competition?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 9 June 2003 14:38 (twenty years ago) link

I second the emotion re: Peter's Friends. The perfect movie for an Anglophile who's also a fan of British humor. Plus, it's a wonderful excuse for a reunion of some of the people involved with the Cambridge Footlights in the early '80s (Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson, and Tony Slattery), which I feel rocks the casbah.

― Dee the Lurker (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 9 June 2003 15:14 (twenty years ago) link

the cher vehicle "Mask"

― james (james), Monday, 9 June 2003 15:19 (twenty years ago) link

Tis pure Bollywood, amen, but I just saw a film called Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (The Big-Hearted Shall Win The Bride) on the US version of TCM. Pure fun, since it was shot in various parts of Europe and India. The heroine wasn't some wilting flower, and her guy was a bit of a goof. Both fought their attraction for most of the film, and had to work hard to be together.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 9 June 2003 15:30 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.automatedculture.com/sam_elliott/images/moviepix/mask06.jpg

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 9 June 2003 16:36 (twenty years ago) link

You Can Count on Me, and not-that-obscure Irish film I Went Down.

Also Brotherhood of the Wolf, but that's just because y'all are hataz.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 9 June 2003 16:45 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.lisarein.com/monsturd/monsturdposter.gif

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 9 June 2003 16:52 (twenty years ago) link

I have the soundtrack for 'Gas, Food, Lodging' which is mostly J. Mascis noodling instrumentally with a random Renegade Soundwave track thrown in!!!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 9 June 2003 16:55 (twenty years ago) link

Deep End. I've a feeling there may be more than one film called that, but I mean the Jerzy Skolimowski from 1970 starring Jane Asher. JS's The Shout is really good too.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 9 June 2003 17:06 (twenty years ago) link

"Zardoz"

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 9 June 2003 19:13 (twenty years ago) link

Coldblooded!!!

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Monday, 9 June 2003 19:22 (twenty years ago) link

Nobody ever talks about the dark, dark, dark 1977 animated feature The Mouse and his Child, apapted from a Russell Hoban book and used to be all over the cable networks but now appears not to be on VHS.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 9 June 2003 20:58 (twenty years ago) link

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Justyn - I think so yeah. Ive only seen it once so I have only a very dim recall of it, just that it was indeed really trippy and had a weird soundtrack and wasn't all that much about the regular jack and the beanstalk story at all. I'd love to see it again.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 04:33 (twenty years ago) link

Ned, that Billy Jack site is funny. Oprah and Dr. Phil are "the man". That is so classic that Laughlin does seminars.

― earlnash, Tuesday, 10 June 2003 19:19 (twenty years ago) link

I'm trying to imagine the guy's demographic these days.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 19:22 (twenty years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005QCVN.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 19:25 (twenty years ago) link

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

Huge inspiration for Tarantino according to a documentary he did sometime ago.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 20:08 (twenty years ago) link

That movie is great.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 20:11 (twenty years ago) link

Bulworth

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 17:19 (twenty years ago) link

Has Barb Wire been mentioned yet?

― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 17:39 (twenty years ago) link

By the late Juzo Itami:

Tampopo
A Taxing Woman
The Funeral

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 17:52 (twenty years ago) link

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