No, really! 

managed to capture the essence of Constantine in his short review. 

If this film is like Starbuck discribed it, for sure I will not go to see it.. It seems to suck a lot ! 

Nelly and Mr Arnaud - Pretty good french film by Claude Sautet with the stunning Emanuelle Beart. Not much plot but the acting and script are well done.

La Notte - Very good film by Michaelangelo Antoinini (Blow-Up) with well pitched performances from Jeanne Moreau and Marcello Mastroianni as a married couple with no emotions for each other. The framing in this film is also the best I've seen since my viewing of Playtime. Also features a cameo from the very hot Monica Vitti.

Repulsion - Another awesome film from Roman Polanski's early days. Has the same eerie and unsettling atmoshpere that was displayed in Rosemary's Baby and an excellent turn from Catherine Deneuve as a woman who is sexually repressed and has some very strange halucinations. The Direction is also outstanding.

Crossifre - Very good noir film with a nice script and good performances. Not up there with the greatest noirs but definitely close. 

You rock. Seriously, one day when I get some free time, I'm gonna compile a list of all the movies you liked that sound interesting to me and seek them out. You seem to put a good deal of thought and effort into your evaluations, so I just wanted to say thanks for reccomending some of the more obscure films to those of us who don't have the time or the education on that sort of thing. Cheers. 

no problem, although I'd hardly call the comments thought out. 

this might be more helpful, if you ever want make a list :

http://www.dvdaficionado.com/dvds.html?cat=1&sub=All&id=nitin

That ones without ratings I havent got around to seeing yet. 

The eminently quotable film that probably has more than a few parallels with the amateur game development scene, and failed to grab my interest or evoke more than a couple of grins. Good movie, I just didn't like it. 

hm, 25th hour is one of my personal favorites, does anyone know of any other movies of the same brilliance by spike lee ? movies listed at imdb dont ring a bell. 

is supposed to be his best, havent seen it though. 

Do the Right Thing -- it is quite good...the one thing about it though is that it leaves a lot of unanswered questions in terms of what it brings up during the course of it. Great performances all around.

Bamboozled -- OK. The first half was really promising, but it starts to get a bit dilluted. The whole movie is like that "Black People Love Us" webpage. You'll see what I mean :D It's along the same lines as Do The Right Thing in that it brings up alot of tough questions, and doesn't resolve them in any definite way. 

I have seen a fair number of Spike Lee movies. Here are my general assessments. If I get any titles screwed up, it is because I haven't seen these flicks in a long time.

School Daze -- I don't like musicals nor marching bands but some of the numbers were pretty catchy. Probably some of his smartest dialog on matters of inter-racial conflict.

She's Gotta Have It -- where as marching bands and musicals don't do it for me, sexually aggressive black women -- I like. The male characters were a bit iritating, either too whiny or too control freakish.

Do The Right Thing -- Over rated. The conflict was completely manufactured and the dialog of whiteys was not realistic. Burn a place down because the owner had pictures of Italians and not blacks? Get the fuck out of here, that is just stupid.

Jungle Fever -- Kind'a boring, except for the sex scenes and even there it ain't Cinemax or Showtime.

Crooklyn -- He filmed his sister nekad. How twisted! I don't remember much about the movie, however, except his sister's titties.

He Got Game -- A movie I liked better than most critics did. Paints a pretty corrupt portrait of Collegiate Athletic programs, and Denzel is excellent in this one. His first anti-hero role, I believe.

Get On The Bus -- my personal favorite. It reads like a swan song for the Civil Rights movement; it's sentimentalist vision is quite moving here and the late Ossie Davis was memorable.

Summer of Sam -- great idea (and title) for a movie, just not well executed. 

a VCD version of Ed Wood Jr.'s Plan 9 From Outer Space from alt.binaries.monter-movies.

(And no, I have not misspelled the group name.)

Yea verily, I am fucked in the head. 

Plan 9 is a true classic of American Film. I admire your taste. 

I was watching Re-Animator yesterday when a friend pointed this out to me...

http://www.re-penetrator.com/

I doubt HPL would approve of this. 

Someone underground comic label is coming out with a series "Army of Darkness vs The Reanimator." Just thought you'd like to know they're finally combining to of the most class artworks cinema has to offer into one glorious amalgam of orgasm and chainsaws. 

A new film genre is born: it can be called X-Gore... it's like Hell's blood Demons having a sex party... bbrrrrr.... 

for the spike lee info! 

http://previews.diamondcomics.com/default.asp?t=1&m=1&c=23&s=130&ai=18385

START COLLECTING NOW KIDS!

ps I'll trade you 4 scientists for 1 sarge 

Throw in a Turbo Turkey Puncher 3 foil card and you got a deal. 

I'm looking for a film (French?) that consists of long still frames shot from a train. I believe the camera never moves (in itself) but the train does, when the train moves the doors to the carriage (boxcar?) are closed and when the train stops the doors open.

Ring any bells? 

...was fucking awesome :)

Didn't go in expecting it to be perfect, holy, and true to the books, just that it'd be funny and has stunning visuals and I wasn't disappointed at all. 

http://www.animationshow.com/

It's a little festival of animations making a tour of arthouses. Check the trailer and act quick if you want to see it. 

...was fucking awesome :)

I hope I feel the same. I've read some pretty horrible reviews for it (it's not doing too well on Rottentomatoes atm :( ), and I really wanted this film to kick arse. 

Fallen Angel - Caught up on a few Otto Preminger films and this was the first one. It started off well but lost its way afte about halfway not really knowing how norish it wanted to be.

Whirlpool - A total misfire from Preminger, the plot is very hard to take seriously. If it werent for the hot Gene Tierney, I wouldnt have botheed sitting all the way through.

Un Coeur En Hiver - Took a break from Preminger to see this French film and it's very good. Another combination from Emanuelle Beart and Claude Sautet, I preferred this a bit more to Nelly and Mr Arnaud, which was a good film to start off with.

Where the Sidewalk Ends - This is more like it from Preminger, apart from a bit of corniness at the end its pretty good. A worthy entry into the noir genre.


Also saw National Treasure, which IMHO was a pile of wank. I'd heard that it was a fun film along the lines of Indy and Sky Captain but it took itself a lot more seriously than either of those. But hey, if you're into Bruckheimer's stuff, it's more of the same I guess.