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The Film Thread

RonBurgundy

Will read up about those, Ricky and Burnsy. Always fascinated by what humans can do when survival is at stake.

Burnwinter

In the case of Shackleton and his men, camp on a floating ice floe eating nothing but penguins for the best part of a year 😃 the whole story is far more insane, though.

Ricky1985

Touching the Void is a feature length documentary mate. Well worth downloading. Incredible story.

RocktheCasbah

Just watched Don't Look Now for the first time in a long time. Knowing what was coming at the end somehow made it all the more unbearable and I got an all over body chill at that final denouement. Brilliant film, and an example of how scary a film can be without strewing guts all over the place.

Burnwinter

Saw this production of Macbeth, starring Patrick Stewart and Suzanne Burden last night. Pretty average if I'm honest, Macbeth is hard to get right though.

RonBurgundy

Ricky1985 wrote:
Touching the Void is a feature length documentary mate. Well worth downloading. Incredible story.

Watched it last night. Quite unbelievable. Truly terrifying story. I don't blame the guy who cut the rope, for what it's worth. Interesting to note that at the end of both 127 Hours and Touching the Void, it is stated that in both cases the men since have returned to climbing/mountaineering. They're braver men than I am.

Need to check out Burnsy's story now. They haven't made a movie about it by any chance? 😃

Also Burnsy, I heard about that production of Macbeth. Thought I might give it a watch as we'd studied it back when I was at school. Sounds like it might be worth skipping though?

Burnwinter

Ron: I haven't actually seen this film about Shackleton's Endurance voyage, but it'd probably be ok.

Burnwinter

Oh, and that version of Macbeth isn't bad at all - certain aspects of it are really good.

I do think Stewart's a bit old for Macbeth, he's into his King Lear years now. The sets - it seemed to have been filmed on location at a hospital or asylum - were a bit poorly conceived, and Lady Macbeth as envisaged by Suzanne Burden doesn't evolve from sexy to mad - she evolves from quite bonkers to utterly, utterly insane.

Ricky1985

Anyone seen a film called The Lemon Tree? Fancy watching a film and it's just coming on Film Four. Heard it's good, but got a couple of others to choose from that I keep meaning to watch.

James

Saw Paul the other day. Was actually alot better than i was expecting.

Really looking forward to seeing Submarine next week.

RocktheCasbah

Burnwinter wrote:
Oh, and that version of Macbeth isn't bad at all - certain aspects of it are really good.

I do think Stewart's a bit old for Macbeth, he's into his King Lear years now. The sets - it seemed to have been filmed on location at a hospital or asylum - were a bit poorly conceived, and Lady Macbeth as envisaged by Suzanne Burden doesn't evolve from sexy to mad - she evolves from quite bonkers to utterly, utterly insane.

Recorded that to watch a while ago. Not got round to it yet. Got Four Lions to watch tonight, looking froward to that.

And also lookin forward to Submarine. Loooove Paddy Considine.

RocktheCasbah

Four Lions is brilliant. If you haven't seen it already, do so now!

Yes, now!

Burnwinter

Four Lions is really quite subtle, but also hilarious. Nice change of pace for Chris Morris I thought.

Ricky1985

I've been meaning to watch that for ages. Looks really funny.

Went and saw Battle Los Angeles tonight and I absolutely loved it. A mix between a hardcore war film and a good sci-fi. Non-stop action from start to finish.

Captain

Reviews didn't seem all that positive so I gave it a miss but given the glowing reports, I may pick it up this weekend.

(four lions that is)

Burnwinter

It's a bit of a grating concept for a lot of people, I think. The content would tend to rub against the habits of mind of both your average anti-Islamic bigot (it carefully humanises and also Anglicises "home-grown terrorists") and your average apologist (it caricatures the practice of Islam).

I thought it was worth a good review on that basis alone. Because it refuses to adopt the emotional pitch of one of the established camps of thought on the subject.

Pepe LeFrits

I watched Hors de Prix last night - Yep, a French language romantic comedy! Right up Burnwinter's street.

In my defence, firstly it wasn't my decision; I watched it with my mate and his girlfriend. Secondly, Audrey whatsername is pretty amazing, and finally, it was actually quite funny.

y va marquer

French comedies can be a bit hit and miss- haven't seen Hors de prix.
Of the those I've seen recently I'd recommend Tatie Daniellle or Tanguy.
Not laugh out loud funny, but original and witty.

Anyone seen Rango yet?

I like the look of the animation but have seen some mixed reviews.

Burnwinter

What's my street Pep?

Tatie Danielle's a good'un - saw that on a French class excursion when it came out 😃

In more recent years I enjoyed Le Couperet and the original version of Wild Target with Jean Rochefort and Guillaume Depardieu.

I watched a film called Renegade earlier, starring Vincent Cassel, Juliette Lewis and Michael Madsen. Partly in French, partly English, partly some sort of Apache. It was a bit of an 'orrible mess, but about three quarters of the way through there's a fairly amazing 3d-animated vision sequence that lasts for about ten minutes.

Burnwinter

Just saw Inside Job. Would recommend 4/5 stars

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