Film

[The Butcher]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbW5ns_pIZo

Looks awesome, I heard about this movie a few years back. Seen an interview with him he mentioned this movie he's been working in for years. His muppets are unreal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlemDMFWNbQ

[Eoin McLove]

Watching a film about the Holodomor called Mr. Jones.  It's very good, if bleak, and it's visually stunning. Great atmosphere. My only issue is that there are no subtitles when people speak in Russian so you have to watch it with the hard of hearing subtitles on to get the translation. You get everything else other than the dialogue too...

[Chatter]
[Children speaking nearby]
[A forlorn donkey screams in terror]
[Hubbub]
[A lost 67A passes nearby with a flat tyre]

[Eoin McLove]

I watched The Shawshank Redemption again this evening and while it's undoubtedly an excellent film, as a fan of law and order I think the ending is quite disturbing. A better and more fitting ending would have been for the dangerous,  and lawfully convicted double murderer, to have been recaptured after his escape and to have ended his miserable, squalid life frying in the electric chair. I might have shed an emotional tear in that case. Still, a decent watch.

[astfgyl]

I think that justice element was somewhat addressed in The Green Mile if you're feeling unfulfilled

[Ealaín]

Andrei Tarkovsky - The Sacrifice  (Swedish: Offret)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKKdtCxZHZM


Filmed in 1986 before the  Chernobyl disaster  and released a month after. This was Tarkovsky´'s last work as he passed afew months later.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

That's top of my to watch list. We were over with friends a short while ago and they had a massive A0+ poster of it on the wall, and I realized I'd never seen it. Just waiting for the right evening.

[Ealaín]

Well worth an evenings watch! 

I'm only a novice on his work but Mirror was my first introduction to Tarkovsky and I've stll to get through more of his masterpieces. You can see the  Bergman influence in his films.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Love Mirror, think it's my personal favourite, though the last one I saw out of everything I've seen by him.

[91/30]

Andrei Tarkovsky - The Sacrifice  (Swedish: Offret)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKKdtCxZHZM


Filmed in 1986 before the  Chernobyl disaster  and released a month after. This was Tarkovsky´'s last work as he passed afew months later.

I have only seen Ivans Childhood, bought the DVD years ago, must try and track this one down (with English subs)

[Ealaín]

No doubt about it , the quality of the youtube upload doesn’t do any justice for Tarkovsky´,  at least the subtitles are included in the link but aye best to track it down.





I´d recommend this strangely banned French film too, as it is different from most and pretty uplifting!

La Belle Verte - The Green Beautiful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bKI1puNaVY

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Aye, that's a pretty good film. Not banned as far as I know though, perhaps no longer distributed.

[Ealaín]

That could be it, I think it did poorly when it was released initially so,  I cant make head nor tail why it would be banned but that is what is stated in the link.

[StoutAndAle]

"The Living Daylights" - another weekend, another James Bond film.

The series seems to be back on track after some seriously ropey efforts late into Moore's tenure. Good action sequences, not too convoluted in terms of plot and Dalton is pretty much perfect as Jimmy B.

16 down. 9 to go.



"Stillwater" - One of the best and most enjoyable American films that I have seen this year.

Matt Damon is great as oil-rig roughneck Bill Baker whose daughter is imprisoned for a murder in Marseille. Camille Cottin and Abigail Breslin are brilliant in the supporting roles.

Some of the trailers are completely misleading - this is not "Jason Bourne's Taken".  It's a drama not an action movie. I knew that going before I watched it but looking at some of the discussion on Twitter - some people are expecting a totally different film.   

[jobrok1]

"The Living Daylights" - another weekend, another James Bond film.

Licence To Kill next...   One of the more memorable Bond flicks IMO.

Dalton was great as Bond. Shame he didn't get a few more under his belt back then.

[ldj]

I went to see 'Censor' last night, it's a good new horror, it's set in the 'video nasties' era of the 80's where horror movies were banned or censored so it's a bit meta.