Films You May Have Missed..... Part 2

[I, Cosh]

I Went Down. A mild-mannered comedy about a pair of inept Irish gangsters. Contains the immortal line: "I'm not talkin' to ye. 'Cos ye're a cunt!"

[House of Usher]

LOL at 'EVEN THOUGH ITS FRENCH ITS STILL GOOD'. !!

Yeah, right: 'coz no-one ever heard of a French film that was any good, did they?

:-P

[Goaty]

even the brilliant film, Amelie! :)

[Floyd-the-k]

French films that are good (of course there are many more):
- Pardon Mon Affaire
- The tall blonde man with one black shoe
- Le Samurai

Films I think I haven't recommended here yet:

All Night Long - a 1962 retelling of Othello set in a Jazz club with Patrick MacGoohan in the Iago role

The Big Sleep (the Bogart/Bacall version)

[Satanist]

French films?

City of the Lost Children. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat!

[Ignatzmonster]

*All Night Long - a 1962 retelling of Othello set in a Jazz club with Patrick MacGoohan in the Iago role *

Are you kidding!? Why have I never heard of this?

[Hoagy]

La Heine man. grokkin top.

Driller Killer. stonkin' blood fest fun.

WATCH THIS FILM REALLY LOUD

[House of Usher]

Alphaville. Delicatessen. Betty Blue.

Ah heck. Take your pick!

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[Floyd-the-k]

I'm not kidding! It's good stuff. There are a lot of actual jazz musicians in it and as you'd expect, they can't act for toffee, but MacGoohan and the other real actors are great

[Jim_Campbell]

"Anyone mentioned Near Dark yet?"

Repeatedly, but mostly in the context of:

Pointless Hollywood remake in the offing ... Why, God? Why!?!

Cheers!

Jim

[nofuture]

Recently watched Next, starring nicolas cage. Perfect throw-away fodder for a sunday afternoon and highly enjoyable:-

In "Next," based on the Philip K. Dick story "The Golden Man," Nicolas Cage plays a man with the unique ability to see future events and affect their outcome. Relentlessly pursued by the FBI, which is seeking to use his abilities to prevent a global terrorist threat, he is ultimately faced with the daunting choice of saving the world or the woman he loves.

[Buttonman]

I liked Next too, if you suspend disbelief to accept his ridiculous 'power' it's quite fun. Good action sequences and I liked his multiple selves searching a warehouse.

In a similar vein is DEJA-VU with Big Denzel doing the time travelling. I liked how they sprinkled elements throughout the present that we then saw created in the past - like the ansaphone message for example.

[nofuture]

i've seen that before!!!

[vzzbux]

Had a stand in teacher who reckoned he was an extra in Threads.
I liked the bit where the woman pissed herself

[satchmo]

I was recommending Cormac McCarthy's The Road to one of my mates and told him it was like a cross between Threads and Shogun Assassin, only he's not a samurai, just a frightened middle aged man with a shopping trolley full of tins of beans. He laughed, but he wasn't laughing much after he'd read it! It's a brilliant, unforgettable book, as relentlessly bleak as Threads is.

Great French Film: The Wages of Fear

And I watched Night Of The Demon the other day, that was fab.