Amazing movies you'd like to recommend to everyone here

Pitch Black · Post by **Pitch Black** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 5:35 am

^^^ Wicked! Thanks!

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oblique strategies · Post by **oblique strategies** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 5:54 am

Yeah mon, it wicked!

And now, for your amusement, Peter Tosh on a unicycle.

Goran@Irrupt · Post by **Goran@Irrupt** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:57 am

NOT new X Files, that's fo sho.
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ethios4 · Post by **ethios4** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 3:10 pm

I just watched Network last night...awesome '70s movie about the media! "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!!"

TITBAG · Post by **TITBAG** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 4:31 pm

ethios4 wrote:I just watched Network last night...awesome '70s movie about the media! "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!!"

yeah good film

D K · Post by **D K** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 5:10 pm

if it hasn't been mentioned already, i'll add brazil to the list...

tjwett · Post by **tjwett** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 5:16 pm

City Slickers
City Slickers II

Pitch Black · Post by **Pitch Black** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 7:05 pm

ethios4 wrote:I just watched Network last night...awesome '70s movie about the media! "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!!"

That is a fantastic film!!

danryanfl · Post by **danryanfl** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 10:40 pm

My favorite of all time: Memento

Someone mentioned a documentary about the sex pistols... you like that check out "Dig" about Brian Jonestown Massacre (the band)

Also, I've seen lots of talk about foriegn horror thriller films but no mention of "Old Boy" (Korean) and "Suicide Club" (Japanese)... both very original but a little scarring

Also, someone mentioned "Snatch", of course the other Guy Ritchie films are great too: "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" and a little different flavor with "Revolver"

A movie that reminds me a little of "Human Traffic" is "Groove", although "Human Traffic" is defenitely better....

Also there is a documentary about electronic music called "Better Living Through Circuitry" that is entertaining and if you search the internet you can download a 3 part BBC series called something like "the history of house music" that is good too...

chris vine · Post by **chris vine** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 11:47 pm

Get Carter
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067128/

Woman in the Dunes
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058625/

Kwaidan
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058279/

+1 for Network, excellent

musicmachine · Post by **musicmachine** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 12:14 am

Kevin and Perry Go Large

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nENwy9GRyF0

oblique strategies · Post by **oblique strategies** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 12:28 am

danryanfl wrote:Someone mentioned a documentary about the sex pistols... you like that check out "Dig" about Brian Jonestown Massacre (the band)

Dig is an exceptional film. It is the best rock documentary I've ever seen.

Apparently, the DVD has much of the footage that was left out of the film for running length reasons. I saw some of this material before the film was released, & there is quite a bit that is funnier & more revealing than anything that made it up on the big screen!

Anton Newcomb used to come to a studio that I also worked in. He was amazing. He'd show up late in the evening, work till dawn, & have a complete song finished. He'd sing, play guitar & bass, drums, everything. And the thing of it was, the songs were very good. Still are.

This was during the time when he was pals with Dandy Warhols singer Courtney Taylor-Taylor, & sometimes they'd both show up. Sometimes other members of the two bands would come by as well. It was interesting because there were no other rock people that ever used the studio -it was primarily for noise, soundscape, & industrial music production.

The one "problem" with Dig is that many of Anton's best songs are not heard. So you have everyone saying he's a genius, he's amazing, etc. But the film doesn't really demonstrate this as well as it could because we don't have the opportunity to hear all his songs. There is one moment when one of his most glorious songs is heard in concert, & it's like this big "Ahhhhh..." moment! Maybe in some of that extra footage -which I confess I have not seen yet.

All in all it's a great documentary, & Anton is a damn genius! His songs stand head to head with all the influences he loves & emulates. And for one artists to have a catalogue of songs that can only be matched by a hoard of other bands & artists is why he's so damn good.

I heart Anton.

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 12:44 am

^ that one's good.

'Made In Sheffield' is another good music documentary, talks about that music scene (Human League, Heaven 17, Def Leppard, the whole lot.)

'Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars' - awesome, Mick Ronson is a stud. Bowie's last concert as 'the man who fell from the sky', D.A. Pennebaker did it, great shit. I've shown that to people who don't like Bowie and they still loved it.

non-music docu-

'The Endless Summer' - the original surfing movie for surfers (I can't surf.) I could watch that for the rest of my life, so relaxing!

non-docu
Office Space - if you work in an office or have any connection to that lifestyle, you must watch this movie.

my not quite so famous faves (because Fight Club, Trainspotting etc are well known.)
Cool Hand Luke
Breaking Away
Rear Window (OK Hitchcock is famous but I think a lot of people shy away from his films.)

Pitch Black · Post by **Pitch Black** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 12:52 am

siliconarc · Post by **siliconarc** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 12:55 am

oblique strategies wrote:
spkey wrote:
oblique strategies wrote:Valerie & Her Week Of Wonders - 1970 Jaromil Jires, Czechoslovakia
+1

Also reccomend movies made by Jan Svankmajer and Alejandro Jodorowsky such as Faust, Alice, Santa Sagre and El Topo
Santa Sangre !!!!!

And what great music Valerie & Her Week Of Wonders has. Just perfect.