Seen any good movies lately? - Films you MUST see

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cirerita

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Have you seen Fitzcarraldo or Aguirre or that early movie with the midgets? Crazy motherfucker, indeed.
 
hank solo

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Just practicin' steps and keepin' outta the fights
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He's crazy alright. I only heard this recently. British film critic and journalist Mark Kermode was interviewing Herzog in L.A. with regard to his movie Grizzly Man, when someone shot him with a pellet gun (I guess that's a Beebee gun in the US?) Anyway, Herzog was just happy to continue the interview...

The poet must not avert
his eyes.
You have to take a bold look
at what is your environment.
What is around you?
Even the ugly things.
Even the decadent things.
Even the dangerous things.
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Grizzly Man (2005) interview in full:
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adrian

Police Academy 1 - 6. The first one was absolutely horrible but every instalment after that just got progressively better
 
hoochmonkey9

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hey! we don't like film snobs here! move on, brother! we're working class!
or something...
 
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adrian

hehe, sometimes I just wanna watch something that either makes me laugh or where stuff simply gets blown up (death death death :mad:to all arty farty pseudo intellectuals NOW)
 
hoochmonkey9

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just kidding, adrian. sometimes I don't know when to stop a joke. just ask my wife.
 
cirerita

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yup, My Best Friend is a nice doc about Kinski. In fact, most docs by Herzog are pretty good. I recently saw the one about the hot-air balloon in South America and that other one, Wild Blue Yonder, or something like that.
 
mjp

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Klaus Kinski's greatest achievement was his daughter Nastassja.





You know, the Tess/Paris Texas/Hotel New Hampshire era Nastassja, not the Quincy Jones era what-the-fuck-were-you-thinking Nastassja. ;)
 
hoochmonkey9

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there's a lot of talk about Juno around my parts because the lead actress is from this city.
haven't seen it yet, but it's on the radar.
 
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Mitzidupree

Eastern Promises ; A very good movie, doesn't really show the face of organized crimes, but rather inside the "family". You wouldn't expect what you'd see eventually, but you'll get the sense of it during the movie.

The Burmese Harp (1956); A very influenceable movie, during the era of the Japanese defeat in WWII.
 
justine

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This Divided State
really interesting documentary about UVSC bringing michael moore to speak in utah 2 weeks before the 2004 election. sean hannity also gets brought in to speak - that dude is such a patronising, smug, smarmy creep.

highly recommended.
 
justine

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stop the penistry
it has some really interesting extras, too. steven greenstreet interviews an assistant professor of philosophy at UVSC, and he talks about how right-wingers have totally hijacked christian theology for their own political gain.

the funniest part is when the hard-core mormon dude, who insists he represents the community of orem, starts yelling about how michael moore 'hates' america, 'hates' conservatives, 'hates' the values of their community etc., but whenever he's asked to pinpoint exactly where moore ever states this, he has absolutely no answer.
 
mjp

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Well now there's no excuse! ;) If you have TCM, I can highly recommend Killer of Sheep and Several Friends. Haven't seen the others, so I will try to grab some of them when they are on.
 
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