Amazing movies you'd like to recommend to everyone here

Remco Halderhooter · Post by **Remco Halderhooter** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:44 pm

pat garrett and billy the kid
american werewolf in london
a few dollars more
hearts of darkness
burden of dreams
the conversation
the thing
michael collins
heat
zodiac
miller's crossing
dawn of the dead (remake!)

oblique strategies · Post by **oblique strategies** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 3:38 am

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
1953

It's a Dr. Suess movie!

"...it is quite subversive stuff with its anarchic, even Oedipal, child’s revenge fantasy, and containing the kind of black humour that Roald Dahl would specialize in. 5000 Fingers was really the first screen attempt, outside of occasional versions of Alice in Wonderland (1865), to convey the delirious absurdism of the children’s tale. The later adaptation of Dahl’s Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) draws much upon The 5000 Fingers of Dr T.

The production designers have gone completely wild – at times the film is like a giant Technicolor remake of a German silent film like The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1919) with mazes of hallways all in sharp, white linear lines; giant red ladders that reach hundreds of feet up into thin air; and, of course, the huge twisting 500-seater super-piano.

The choreography is equally dazzling, notably with the marvelous dungeon orchestra including the likes of antler bells that are rung by strangling the wearer, cymbals that are painted with targets and rung by being shot with air pistols, a horn that has three players blowing into one tube, maraca boxing gloves, violins built enwrapped around their players’ necks, players encased inside tubas and drummers dancing on their drums."

Plus it has the ever-marvelous Hans Conried as Dr. T! Check out his "Dress Me, Dress Me" number! Hoo-haw!

http://www.moria.co.nz/fantasy/5000fingersofdrt.htm

longjohns · Post by **longjohns** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 3:50 am

generally I say that my favorite movie is box of moonlight

danryanfl · Post by **danryanfl** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 1:20 pm

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
The Wind that Shakes the Barley

oblique strategies · Post by **oblique strategies** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 2:45 pm

No Country For Old Men

roby · Post by **roby** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 3:23 pm

Kung Pao - Enter The Fist
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0240468/

musicmachine · Post by **musicmachine** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 4:01 pm

Ronin, good old school thriller.
LA Takedown and the remake, Heat
Ong Bak, incredible martial arts.
Scent of a Woman, one of Pacinos best imo.

As for documentaries i recommend Land Of The Jaguar. A team go to unchartered territory in the Guyan rainforest to discover new species to show that it is worth preserving as the Guyan government is considering logging it for much neeed money. It was on the bbci player but if you can't watch it you should be able to find on the interweb

I'm hoping that it will be released to dvd which would tie in with the outcome. Awesome doc.

andydes · Post by **andydes** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 4:31 pm

Most of my favs already listed somewhere. But:

Leaving Las Vegas

Fantastic performance from Nick Cage. Shame about everything else he's done. How the hell he became an action hero I don't know.

lvehon · Post by **lvehon** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 4:46 pm

Leaving Las Vegas

Fantastic performance from Nick Cage. Shame about everything else he's done. How the hell he became an action hero I don't know.

This is the best acting hes ever done, the rest pretty much suck. He wasn't bad in matchstick men though.

joeyfivecents · Post by **joeyfivecents** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:55 pm

Jesus, what about 'Raising Arizona'?

oblique strategies · Post by **oblique strategies** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:45 pm

joeyfivecents wrote:Jesus, what about 'Raising Arizona'?

Jesus, what about 'Life Of Brian'? Jesus... Jesus?

funknotik · Post by **funknotik** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 6:46 am

Everything from Akira Kurosawa.

Yojimbo

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=JuAskRsP5K0

Seven Samurai

Also check out Harakiri.

Amazing shit!

mr.adl · Post by **mr.adl** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 7:59 am

Not sure if mentioned yet:
Requiem for a dream (my alltime favorite movie, flashed me bigtime)

silverlulu · Post by **silverlulu** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 8:10 am

i loved garden state.

but oh my god "in to the wild" was AMAZING!

GUY SMILEY · Post by **GUY SMILEY** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 8:28 am

elektra glide in blue
dead mens shoes
the pusher trilogy
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