Movie recommendations

[omagh_gael]

I've just watched Dead Man's Shoes based on the recommendations here. I can only add mine to the list of recommendations. Excellent.

If you enjoyed DMS I would also recommend another Meadows/Consadine film called 'A room for Romeo Brass.' Another cracker.

[Main Street]

Hidden (Caché) 2005 was on again last night,  probably BBC4, I forget. which one

Imo, one of the best French films ever. A pure mystery and even after 4 viewings, I'm still somewhat mystified.

[Billys Boots]

Hidden (Caché) 2005 was on again last night,  probably BBC4, I forget. which one

Imo, one of the best French films ever. A pure mystery and even after 4 viewings, I'm still somewhat mystified.

Good movie alright, but no Betty Blue! 

[Hardy]

I've just watched Dead Man's Shoes based on the recommendations here. I can only add mine to the list of recommendations. Excellent.

If you enjoyed DMS I would also recommend another Meadows/Consadine film called 'A room for Romeo Brass.' Another cracker.

Yes - thanks for the recommendation - I've been looking at it on IMDB OK and thinking of having a gander at it.

[Main Street]

Hidden (Caché) 2005 was on again last night,  probably BBC4, I forget. which one

Imo, one of the best French films ever. A pure mystery and even after 4 viewings, I'm still somewhat mystified.

Good movie alright, but no Betty Blue! 

Betty Blue is not a mystery, except that she's a 'sensitive' woman and that in itself naturally brings up a raft of mysterious concepts

It's very rare that you get a well crafted mystery like Hidden, in a film where you are just totally flummoxed as to the identity of the core question at the end and this director pulled it off to absolute perfection.
The 'Hidden' director also did the screenplay and directed the 'White Ribbon' a superb film set in pre WW1 Germany.
It's "different class", Billy.

[Billys Boots]

Must have a look for 'White Ribbon' - is it recent?

[Main Street]

2009,
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/white_ribbon/reviews/?type=top_critics

Subtitled and B&W as well.

What I got from the film is where the roots of German fascism were bearing fruit, the transformation/rejection of the old order into some new direction which eventually turned out be fascism. The Treaty of Versailles was just 'incidental'. But that's just personal and the film is about so much more on human behavior, social norms and  reactions to that.

[Billys Boots]

Have you watched 'Heimat'; chronicling life in a German village from 1919 (eventually to 1980s)?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087400/

I liked it anyway.  A bit surreal in places. 

[Main Street]

I might have watched one episode on BBC4, ages ago.
Farm, pitchfork, hay, village, nice young women, Germans. 

I forgot about the series totally,  I'll get a loan (download) of S1 from one my friends.

But surely this should be in the TV drama thread?  different class entirely.

[Billys Boots]

Yes indeed, but we were talking about German historical stuff and I got distracted.   

[nifan]

White ribbon was good -  very strange


Watched "as if i am not there" the other night - set in the bosnian war about a captured bosnian woman. Very bleak - directed by an Irish woman as well.

[Puckoon]

Dead mans shoes was excellent. Ruined any romantic mood that may have been in the air.

[CiKe]

Hidden (Caché) 2005 was on again last night,  probably BBC4, I forget. which one

Imo, one of the best French films ever. A pure mystery and even after 4 viewings, I'm still somewhat mystified.

One of my favourite films non-stop. Not seen White Ribbon, Funny Games wasn't such a fan of.

[mouview]

Just saw Chinatown again last night. Absolutely superb, even if I'm not a particular fan of Nicholson or Dunaway. John Huston as Noah Cross has to be one of the most chilling, repulsive screen villains of them all. Was there ever a more correct piece of theme music than Jerry Goldsmith's? Just seems to capture perfectly the mood and indolence of the time;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYondMo40nA

"Hello, Claude. Where'd you get the midget? "

[spuds]

Just saw Chinatown again last night. Absolutely superb, even if I'm not a particular fan of Nicholson or Dunaway. John Huston as Noah Cross has to be one of the most chilling, repulsive screen villains of them all. Was there ever a more correct piece of theme music than Jerry Goldsmith's? Just seems to capture perfectly the mood and indolence of the time;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYondMo40nA

"Hello, Claude. Where'd you get the midget? "

Clicked on link above, says the content owner has not made this avilable on mobile. Why would they restrict this ?