Film

[Scáthach]

Watched Climax (2018) last night, still chewing it over in my head, so that's usually a good sign. I think I enjoyed the technical aspects (one continuous scene lasting 40 mins!) and the music the most. Giorgio Moroder and Aphex Twin, savage.
Though my inner music nerd couldn't help nitpicking that though the movie was set in 1996, Windowlicker wasn't released til 99.

Would i recommend it? Not sure yet.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Nicely spotted! Didn't even register with me that it was set in 1996 tbh.

We watched an old one last night, The Chase from 1966. Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Duvall, Robert Redford...should have been great, but within an hour or so you understand why, despite the stellar cast, it's not very well known. It should have a bit of a Rebel Without A Cause style vibe, but instead the scenes of reveling and debauchery feel like something from the Reefer Madness school of propaganda morality tales. An interesting glimpse into neo noir cinema though, for anyone really into Americana.

[Cailleach]

The Wolf's Call.  A good movie.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Watched Irreversible for the second time last night. I think I saw it first around fifteen years ago and was surprised at how muddled I had remembered parts of it, and how much I simply hadn't remembered at all. Obviously, since it was the first Noé film I ever saw, I didn't twig then that the cameo at the beginning is actually the protagonist from his first full-length, Seul Contre Tous. It's still a very difficult film to watch; that scene just never ends, but overall I think, from a film-making point of view, it might be his weakest offering, while still being very powerful cinema. A lot of the techniques he uses are employed to much stronger effect in his subsequent movies. Seul Contre Tous sort of stands apart from all the rest because, I would say, it's not really his style yet at all. And that is a film - much like Angst which influenced it so much - that I have no particular desire to ever watch again, even though the lead performance is staggering.

[blessed1]

Have any of ye watched his other film into the void?
I was not a fan of that one at all. It dragged on.
Watched climax when it came out and really liked it.
I still think of all the ones I've watched by him irreversible was the most hard hitting.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I'm a huge fan of Enter The Void, it's the film that really got me into him as a director, long after I'd first seen Irreversible. It is fairly long alright, but throw it up on a massive screen, let yourself space out as much as possible (narco assisted if possible), and it's a proper trip.

[Cailleach]

Watched Irreversible for the second time last night. I think I saw it first around fifteen years ago and was surprised at how muddled I had remembered parts of it, and how much I simply hadn't remembered at all. Obviously, since it was the first Noé film I ever saw, I didn't twig then that the cameo at the beginning is actually the protagonist from his first full-length, Seul Contre Tous. It's still a very difficult film to watch; that scene just never ends, but overall I think, from a film-making point of view, it might be his weakest offering, while still being very powerful cinema. A lot of the techniques he uses are employed to much stronger effect in his subsequent movies. Seul Contre Tous sort of stands apart from all the rest because, I would say, it's not really his style yet at all. And that is a film - much like Angst which influenced it so much - that I have no particular desire to ever watch again, even though the lead performance is staggering.

I think Irreversible is his best film, although Climax is up there too.
I find it  curious that you mention being disturbed by a particular scene in Irreversible, yet you felt indifferent to watching another graphic scene in Martyrs.  Has it anything to do  with you being not as exposed to drawn out displays graphic of violence back when you first watched Irreversible?

[blessed1]

Violence and rape in irreversible is much more realistic than in martyrs imo.
I didnt have any feelings of disgust while watching martyrs but irreversible kinda scarred me after watching it.

[Pedrito]

Anyone seen a movie called Lowlife? I've read reviews saying it's a modern classic, but god knows what that might mean these days.

[blessed1]

Anyone seen a movie called Lowlife? I've read reviews saying it's a modern classic, but god knows what that might mean these days.

I actually have that downloaded. It seems to have good reviews but I can't be arsed with it yet.

Watched a great film called Big bad wolves the last night as well. Definitely worth checking out.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Violence and rape in irreversible is much more realistic than in martyrs imo.
I didnt have any feelings of disgust while watching martyrs but irreversible kinda scarred me after watching it.

This for me too, pretty much. I found the scene in Irreversible just as difficult to watch last night, though I was watching it with herself, who had never seen it before, in silence. Let's just say it really magnified the tension of the brute male force over female dynamic.

[Cailleach]

Violence and rape in irreversible is much more realistic than in martyrs imo.
I didnt have any feelings of disgust while watching martyrs but irreversible kinda scarred me after watching it.

I  thought the scene in Martyrs of the drawn out brutal beating of the woman in chains just as hard to watch as the rape scene in Irreversible, but i can see how people see the rape scene as more relatable.

[Cailleach]

Anyone seen a movie called Lowlife? I've read reviews saying it's a modern classic, but god knows what that might mean these days.

I actually have that downloaded. It seems to have good reviews but I can't be arsed with it yet.

Watched a great film called Big bad wolves the last night as well. Definitely worth checking out.

Is it this one:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2309224/?ref_=tt_mv_close

I must give it a watch.

[ochoill]

Enter the Void was the only one of his films I've seen and I loved it, .  Must check out some of the others he've mentioned above.

Watched Saving Private Ryan the other night, for the first time since my teens.  Still a great film, bar the fairly cheesy bits here and there (the very end in particular).

Series:
Martian Successor Nadesico
Dominion Tank Police/ New Dominion Tank Police
Cyber City Oedo 808
Full Metal Panic

Film:
Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise.
Future War 198X

Cheers for those, will start out with one of the films soon!   Got Viva TV working again so I can find the odd stream of stuff you'd be hard pressed to find otherwise.

[Cailleach]

Anyone seen a movie called Lowlife? I've read reviews saying it's a modern classic, but god knows what that might mean these days.

It's  a good movie, but I  think describing it as modern classic is going too far.