tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42652934145932130272024-02-19T16:33:16.081-08:00One Paragraph Or LessLawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08968026418965458002noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4265293414593213027.post-37406898120263601582015-12-07T11:11:00.002-08:002015-12-07T11:11:52.020-08:00Funny Games (1997)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">The film that put Haneke on the map. Two young men take a family hostage in their summer home. Really uncomfortable to watch despite the fact that almost none of the violence happens on screen. By far and away the best film to deal with one of Haneke’s major obsessions - the depiction of violence in films and how the audience reacts to it. Haneke doesn’t make bad films. Essential viewing.</span>Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08968026418965458002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4265293414593213027.post-62741513215482323762015-12-07T08:32:00.000-08:002015-12-07T08:32:23.122-08:00Hesher (2010) <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Mum dies in a car crash, dad finds it hard to leave the sofa and TJ (Devin Brochu) their teen son is getting into all sorts of post-traumatic trouble. So far so American indie drama. Then Joseph Gordon-Levitt turns up as the title character. It's almost as if he’s stepped out of a totally different movie. Hesher is a potty-mouthed delinquent. You know this as he has long hair and looks perma-stoned. The whole thing never really gels. Levitt tries his best to act like he imagines those sort of people are, but comes across as a total caricature. Could have been good, Brochu is a real find, but the film just doesn’t work. Best avoided.</span>Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08968026418965458002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4265293414593213027.post-20786608425559466052015-12-07T08:12:00.000-08:002015-12-07T08:12:24.693-08:00Suspiria (1977) <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Arguably Argento’s masterpiece, this is a step away from his Giallo roots and into the world of full-on horror. An American ballet dancer turns up for her first day at her new school in Germany only to find that everything is a little upside down. Oh and a couple of students have been brutally murdered (in one of Argento’s greatest set-pieces). Witches, huge Goblin soundtrack, lots of rain, cinematography that you sink into and a script that only just hangs together. Horror films never looked this good again. </span>Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08968026418965458002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4265293414593213027.post-22554186738183757152015-12-07T08:06:00.001-08:002015-12-07T08:06:18.552-08:00The Offence (1972) <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Gritty British cop drama staring Sean Connery as a cop that kills a suspect during an interrogation. Not quite up there with Lumet’s greatest films (Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, 12 Angry Men), but for a taught itchy '70s drama you could do far worse.</span>Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08968026418965458002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4265293414593213027.post-60147444360268013642015-12-07T08:02:00.001-08:002015-12-07T08:02:37.225-08:00 Profondo rosso [Deep Red] (1975) <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Argento’s first stone-cold classic, is this tale about a jazzer (David Hemmings) who witnesses one of his neighbours being offed, and sets about trying to figure out what the heck is going on. Argento makes a huge leap forward with his cinematography with elaborate tracking shots and incredible close ups. If you’re new to the big world of Argento you could do worse than starting here. Gorgeous score by Goblin too.</span>Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08968026418965458002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4265293414593213027.post-24986301858536037302015-12-07T07:58:00.003-08:002015-12-07T07:58:02.151-08:00Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">The title says it all, this is a wild, fast-paced doc about Australian b-movies from the late '60s through to the start of the '90s. Leaping through porn, car-porn, horror and comedy director Hartley obvious not only knows his subject but is head-over-heels about it. By the time the end credits roll you’ll have scribbled down a huge list of ‘must see’ films. Really entertaining.</span>Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08968026418965458002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4265293414593213027.post-54903838175212713832015-12-06T13:01:00.004-08:002015-12-06T13:01:41.443-08:00Mitt liv som hund [My Life as a Dog] (1985)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Wonderful Swedish film about a boy who goes to live with his weird uncle in rural Sweden once his mother becomes ill. Odd, dark, very dramatic and best of all surprisingly funny. Sadly Hallström wouldn’t make many more films as well balanced as this once he crossed the pond. Perfect rainy Sunday afternoon viewing.</span>Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08968026418965458002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4265293414593213027.post-83893300817982630312015-12-06T11:47:00.003-08:002015-12-06T11:47:27.160-08:00Mississippi Grind (2015)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Fairly run-of-the-mill poker film that starts off well enough despite lifting it's opening first third from Robert Altman's superior California Split, then quickly pisses away any promise by the time the end credits role. A chance meeting between Curtis (</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Ryan Reynolds) </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">and Gerry (</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Ben Mendelsohn) results in the two of them hitting the road for a high stakes poker game in New Orleans.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;"> The characters never really come to life and the direction is fairly flat. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Reynolds doesn't stand a chance next to an on form </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Mendelsohn as the grubby low-life. Disappointing.</span>Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08968026418965458002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4265293414593213027.post-54404941828380140702015-12-06T10:42:00.000-08:002015-12-06T10:42:33.719-08:00Gli orrori del castello di Norimberga [Baron Blood] (1972)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Gothic horror set in the then modern day about an evil type being bought back to life by an idiot ancestor. As painful as it is to see the once great Joseph Cotten slumming it as the titular Baron this is a film that has lots going for it. Light on gore but has oodles more imagination that the majority of schlock that passes for horror nowadays.</span></span></span>Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08968026418965458002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4265293414593213027.post-33167879056101195712015-12-06T03:23:00.000-08:002015-12-06T03:23:16.041-08:00The Music of Chance (1993)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">When Witek’s father dies he quits medical school and we witness three versions of his life play out, one after the other.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Kieslowski’</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">s masterpiece about possible futures, fate and chance was suppressed by the Polish government and didn’t receive a cinematic release until 1987, and even then it was heavily edited. Extremely good, highly recommended especially for anyone who liked the concept of Sliding Doors but not the actual film.</span>Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08968026418965458002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4265293414593213027.post-39703865135219715812015-12-06T03:00:00.000-08:002015-12-06T03:00:42.749-08:00The Legend of Barney Thomson (2015)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Carlyle </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">directs and stars in this black comedy about a Scottish hairdresser who finds himself the prime suspect in a serial killer case after accidentally killing his boss. Starts off well, but drags </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">its feet and feels stodgy after the first fifteen minutes. On the plus side </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Emma Thompson and Tom Courtenay turn in superb sweary performances. File under missed opportunity. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Shame.</span>Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08968026418965458002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4265293414593213027.post-15987588223481781242015-12-06T02:45:00.001-08:002015-12-06T02:45:49.705-08:00Hundstage [Dog Days] (2001)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">A total oh-my-God-watch-did-I-just-watch film. Various messed up Austrian’s lives overlap at various points like a kind of queasy Altman film. Not for everyone, but worth sticking with if you have a strong stomach. Black humour throughout, but whatever you do don’t watch it with your mum.</span>Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08968026418965458002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4265293414593213027.post-90207062316912905132015-12-06T02:34:00.002-08:002015-12-06T02:34:26.721-08:00Deux jours, une nuit [Two Days, One Night] (2014)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Disappointing sequel to the enjoyable first Maze Runner film. Picking up where that film left off the surviving kids find themselves chased from location to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">location</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;"> trying to find figure out who can be trusted along the way. Whereas the first film had momentum this one just plods, the savvy plot twists of the original are sadly absent too. So what we end up with is a road movie that goes nowhere. Missed opportunity.</span>Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08968026418965458002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4265293414593213027.post-82663267285733254992015-12-03T02:33:00.000-08:002015-12-03T02:34:54.849-08:00Cash on Demand (1961)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Peter Cushing stars as a bank manager duped into helping a villain rob his bank. Worth watching just to see Cushing sweating his way through the brief running time (80 minutes). Very good.</span>Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08968026418965458002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4265293414593213027.post-78621006730000014042015-12-03T02:29:00.001-08:002015-12-03T02:29:55.876-08:00Soaked in Bleach (2015)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">The Kurt Cobain documentary that no one is talking about but really should be. Centred around private investigator Tom Grant’s time working for Courtney Love and all the weird shit that went down during his time in her employ. You would wave a hand in the air and mutter ‘bullshit’ to yourself at the facts that emerge in this doc, if it weren’t for the fact that Grant taped all of his conversations with the key players. It’s a bit of a jaw-dropping OMG doc, and a real must see. You’ll be shocked by the time it finishes. In the hands of a better director this would have been even better. Which just goes to show how the fascinating the story actually is. </span>Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08968026418965458002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4265293414593213027.post-83572245408091875082015-12-03T02:25:00.000-08:002015-12-03T02:34:43.095-08:00The Full Treatment (1960)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Hammer always churned out more than just horror films and this twisty psychodrama is one of their better '60s efforts. Famous racing driver has a road accent and needs to unlock what happened with the help of a weird French psychoanalyst. Overlong, but worth sticking with as the last half hour is the business.</span>Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08968026418965458002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4265293414593213027.post-60295502824968445762015-12-03T02:22:00.000-08:002015-12-03T02:22:07.511-08:00Nanook of the North (1922)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Hailed as the first real documentary then later booed for being scripted and faked. Flaherty’s most famous film is this documentary about a family of Eskimos. Made long before there were rules for documentaries this deserves applause for </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Flaherty</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> having the balls to take his camera out of the studio and onto the tundra. If you don’t like seeing animals killed on screen (which I don’t) then this might not be your cup of tea.</span></span></span>Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08968026418965458002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4265293414593213027.post-31553459469541964612015-12-02T07:06:00.000-08:002015-12-02T07:06:34.498-08:00Crossfire (1947)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">How the social media phenomenon of the noughties came to be. Despite the subject matter being about as exciting as the that time your dad got into an dispute with his neighbour about the shared driveway, this actually works. It helps that Aaron Sorkin was on script duties, and Fincher has seems to have dropped his flashier visuals of yore and adopted a more mature visual style. Perfect Sunday afternoon drama. </span>Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08968026418965458002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4265293414593213027.post-43699145398758914262015-12-02T06:47:00.000-08:002015-12-02T06:47:25.605-08:00A Night in the Show (1915)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Very funny Chaplin short (25 minutes) set at a variety show. Surprisingly Chaplin isn’t one of the acts but instead plays two different annoying characters in the audience, one in the cheap seats and one in the moneyed seats. Very good, even manages to work in a few custard pie in the face gags. </span>Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08968026418965458002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4265293414593213027.post-36188275241278356792015-12-02T06:42:00.000-08:002015-12-02T06:42:34.894-08:00Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs (1974)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">One of those ‘adapted from the stage’ films that struggles to get away from its theatre roots. John Hurt is on fire as perma-angry Malcolm, who having been thrown out of art school is determined to get back at his teacher by kidnapping him. Suffers from the usual stage adaptation problem of being very talky and trundling along quite slowly. Despite some great actors (Hurt and David Warner are both up to their usual standard), you can’t help but think they they were already way to old to be playing angry teens. The humour feels ever so dated too, the analogy between Malcolm not being able to get an erection and not being much of a political leader</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">quickly</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> becomes</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">tiresome. All a bit ho-hum really, only worth a watch if you really want to see John Hurt acting his young socks off.</span>Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08968026418965458002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4265293414593213027.post-25256409962991706442015-12-01T12:06:00.001-08:002015-12-01T12:06:58.813-08:00Passe ton bac d'abord... (1978)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Pialat </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">turns his eye on a group of bored teens in a tiny French town. We follow them as they mooch about town, meet up in the one café where they hang out, watch them form relationships that fall apart in the time it takes to smoke an incredibly strong French cigarette. They all dream of escaping to Paris, but will any of them actually get it together to do it? On paper it sounds dull, on screen it’s anything but. H</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">ypnotic.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> </span>Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08968026418965458002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4265293414593213027.post-67645460970752769512015-12-01T11:58:00.001-08:002015-12-01T11:58:44.526-08:00The Thin Blue Line (1988)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Morris’</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> breakthrough documentary about a murdered policeman and the trial that followed is chock full of OH-MY-FUCKING-GOD moments. If you like documentaries, and modern documentaries in particular then this is a must see. Essential viewing.</span>Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08968026418965458002noreply@blogger.com0