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Yes it's that time again where I take you through the DVD releases in the coming month (or two). This month I'm recommending that you go for an uber-depression viewing schedule, because just look at the line-up coming out in the next month:
Storytelling by Todd Solondz - June 17th release
Depression factor 10/10 - this man directed a film called "Happiness". Anyone who directs a film called "Happiness" is being ironic. The latter film starts with a guy dreaming about massacring people in a park with a gun and a lot of thoroughly messed up people: from a fat woman who can't get a date (and who decapitated (the other "head") a careless caretaker) to a paedophilic father whose son is jealous that his father likes other boys. "Storytelling" is divided into two parts - Fiction and Non-fiction - originally there was going to be a third but the studio vetoed it saying the film was already too depressing. On a plus point it features Selma Blair. Naked.
Harold and Maude - Out Now
Depression factor 5/10 - This one's actually VERY funny...
... but it's about the love affair between a young man and an octogenarian
although it's sad as well. I like it and you probably will too.
The Believer - Out Now
Depression factor 8/10 - I've not watched this yet but it's about a Jewish Neo Nazi and the last chapter's titled "Nothingness without end". So it must be pretty depressing. It won the best picture at the Sundance festival, which is no mean feat as that's where Darren Aronofsky first peddled his wares. I'll post an update on this one after I watch it tonight.
The Lost Highway by David Lynch - June 17th
Depression factor 10/10 (0 points for real depression 10 points for "ow my brain hurts because this film is totally weird like all Lynch films) Yay david Lynch's first piece of lets change a character's name halfway through jiggery pokery. With Mulholland Drive coming out later this year you should get this one now to brace yourself for it.
Other recommended releases out now:
Dekalog 1 - 10
Polish films based on the 10 Commandments. Each one is an hour long. Thus a total score of 100 depression points. Just because. Well because Polish films are always depressing because it's so damn cold there. I've managed to get through one of them so far. A child fell through some ice and died. Depressing.
Devil's Backbone
so you liked Blade did you? Well this is what director Guillemo (sp?) Del Toro does in his spare time. He operates on a basis where he makes one film for the studio and then they give him the funds to make one for himself. This really is a brilliant horror film only problem is it's in Spanish. But it proves that good films do get made outside Hollywood. This isn't a classic film, but it's better than most Hollywood horror films.
L'Appartement
This one's been out a while but I thought I'd pop it in because it really is a fantastic film. Forget French art-housey pretentions this one's a straightforward Coens/Hitchcock thriller (even though straightforward makes the last phrase an oxymoron) It's absolutely brilliant though as you really won't want it to end because it has such a twisty plot. One of the few films I've watched where I haven't been able to guess *anything* and it's the constant surprise that makes this one a must-see film. So go on. You'll thank me afterwards.
Amelie
Continuing in the vein of NON-PONCY foreign films comes Amelie. I'm going to plug away at this one until everyone's seen it because it's easily one of the best films of last year and put most of the oscar nominees to shame. Last time I recommended it some of you complained about the over-Frenchified trailer. Well, I downloaded the trailer and I'll agree with you on that one. The rest of the film is Gallic, but it's not in a bad way. It takes all of the good things about French humour and puts them into a beautifully imagined film. Everything about this film is perfect. The Director, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, is such a perfectionist that he added lots of little things using CGI to make the film a more vivd experience. This isn't gay star wars CGI, this is the way CGI should be used. For instance, he added steam coming off a bowl of pasta in one scene, simply because it's one of those insignificant things that adds to a film even though you don't see it. Also he made all the skies blue and added shapes into the clouds in some scenes. He enhanced all the colours in post-production and so made a really beautiful film that enfuriated some Parisians because Paris just isn't like that, to which Jeunet replied "I'm a director - films aren't meant to be real!". One of the best things is the way people are characterised in the things they love and hate using a lot of jump-cutting. It works brilliantly. In fact it has one of the best openings in cinematic history. I love it. Possibly my favorite film ever. Pleaaasssssssseeeeeee buy it.
Long Good Friday
Regarded by many, including our very own Goatboy no less, as the best British gangster film. Forget Snatch and Lock stock and other Mockney gangster films; this is the real deal. It features a pre-Super Mario Bob Hoskins on top form (how the mighty fall) as a gang-land leader whose empire is falling apart at the seams following the arrival of a rival gang of Turks. Absolutely brilliant and well worth buying.
Brasseye DVD
This is fantastic. Seriously. Seeing Tanya Briers telling viewers about new technology that allows farmers to grow mile-high crops in one-metre-squared pieces of land is worth the DVD price alone. Chris Morris is clearly a bit of an Anthony Burgess fan given the amount of Clockwork Orange-ish phrases he uses, and more surprisingly gets well-known idiots, sorry celebrities to repeat. They speak on behalf of organisations called H.O.E.C.S (say it aloud..) and fight to save an elephant whose got his trunk stuck up his own ar$e. Oh and the interview with Jas man of pop also rans Babylon Zoo is hilarious. It's actually better than Tanya Briers. Morris plays on celebrities' idiotic need to blag if they don't know an answer:
Morris: Will you ever create a spherical song?
Jas man: I don't know but I think I might do one day
Morris: Are you a genius?
Jas man: I might be
Morris: Does that mean you have more genes than the rest of us?
Jas man: Yes I think it does
And one of the pretend interview shows is called "Zeit-guest". Morris is a legend. a genius. hated by the Daily Mail. How can one man be so good... buy the Brasseye DVD and find out.
Storytelling by Todd Solondz - June 17th release
Depression factor 10/10 - this man directed a film called "Happiness". Anyone who directs a film called "Happiness" is being ironic. The latter film starts with a guy dreaming about massacring people in a park with a gun and a lot of thoroughly messed up people: from a fat woman who can't get a date (and who decapitated (the other "head") a careless caretaker) to a paedophilic father whose son is jealous that his father likes other boys. "Storytelling" is divided into two parts - Fiction and Non-fiction - originally there was going to be a third but the studio vetoed it saying the film was already too depressing. On a plus point it features Selma Blair. Naked.
Harold and Maude - Out Now
Depression factor 5/10 - This one's actually VERY funny...
... but it's about the love affair between a young man and an octogenarian
although it's sad as well. I like it and you probably will too.
The Believer - Out Now
Depression factor 8/10 - I've not watched this yet but it's about a Jewish Neo Nazi and the last chapter's titled "Nothingness without end". So it must be pretty depressing. It won the best picture at the Sundance festival, which is no mean feat as that's where Darren Aronofsky first peddled his wares. I'll post an update on this one after I watch it tonight.
The Lost Highway by David Lynch - June 17th
Depression factor 10/10 (0 points for real depression 10 points for "ow my brain hurts because this film is totally weird like all Lynch films) Yay david Lynch's first piece of lets change a character's name halfway through jiggery pokery. With Mulholland Drive coming out later this year you should get this one now to brace yourself for it.
Other recommended releases out now:
Dekalog 1 - 10
Polish films based on the 10 Commandments. Each one is an hour long. Thus a total score of 100 depression points. Just because. Well because Polish films are always depressing because it's so damn cold there. I've managed to get through one of them so far. A child fell through some ice and died. Depressing.
Devil's Backbone
so you liked Blade did you? Well this is what director Guillemo (sp?) Del Toro does in his spare time. He operates on a basis where he makes one film for the studio and then they give him the funds to make one for himself. This really is a brilliant horror film only problem is it's in Spanish. But it proves that good films do get made outside Hollywood. This isn't a classic film, but it's better than most Hollywood horror films.
L'Appartement
This one's been out a while but I thought I'd pop it in because it really is a fantastic film. Forget French art-housey pretentions this one's a straightforward Coens/Hitchcock thriller (even though straightforward makes the last phrase an oxymoron) It's absolutely brilliant though as you really won't want it to end because it has such a twisty plot. One of the few films I've watched where I haven't been able to guess *anything* and it's the constant surprise that makes this one a must-see film. So go on. You'll thank me afterwards.
Amelie
Continuing in the vein of NON-PONCY foreign films comes Amelie. I'm going to plug away at this one until everyone's seen it because it's easily one of the best films of last year and put most of the oscar nominees to shame. Last time I recommended it some of you complained about the over-Frenchified trailer. Well, I downloaded the trailer and I'll agree with you on that one. The rest of the film is Gallic, but it's not in a bad way. It takes all of the good things about French humour and puts them into a beautifully imagined film. Everything about this film is perfect. The Director, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, is such a perfectionist that he added lots of little things using CGI to make the film a more vivd experience. This isn't gay star wars CGI, this is the way CGI should be used. For instance, he added steam coming off a bowl of pasta in one scene, simply because it's one of those insignificant things that adds to a film even though you don't see it. Also he made all the skies blue and added shapes into the clouds in some scenes. He enhanced all the colours in post-production and so made a really beautiful film that enfuriated some Parisians because Paris just isn't like that, to which Jeunet replied "I'm a director - films aren't meant to be real!". One of the best things is the way people are characterised in the things they love and hate using a lot of jump-cutting. It works brilliantly. In fact it has one of the best openings in cinematic history. I love it. Possibly my favorite film ever. Pleaaasssssssseeeeeee buy it.
Long Good Friday
Regarded by many, including our very own Goatboy no less, as the best British gangster film. Forget Snatch and Lock stock and other Mockney gangster films; this is the real deal. It features a pre-Super Mario Bob Hoskins on top form (how the mighty fall) as a gang-land leader whose empire is falling apart at the seams following the arrival of a rival gang of Turks. Absolutely brilliant and well worth buying.
Brasseye DVD
This is fantastic. Seriously. Seeing Tanya Briers telling viewers about new technology that allows farmers to grow mile-high crops in one-metre-squared pieces of land is worth the DVD price alone. Chris Morris is clearly a bit of an Anthony Burgess fan given the amount of Clockwork Orange-ish phrases he uses, and more surprisingly gets well-known idiots, sorry celebrities to repeat. They speak on behalf of organisations called H.O.E.C.S (say it aloud..) and fight to save an elephant whose got his trunk stuck up his own ar$e. Oh and the interview with Jas man of pop also rans Babylon Zoo is hilarious. It's actually better than Tanya Briers. Morris plays on celebrities' idiotic need to blag if they don't know an answer:
Morris: Will you ever create a spherical song?
Jas man: I don't know but I think I might do one day
Morris: Are you a genius?
Jas man: I might be
Morris: Does that mean you have more genes than the rest of us?
Jas man: Yes I think it does
And one of the pretend interview shows is called "Zeit-guest". Morris is a legend. a genius. hated by the Daily Mail. How can one man be so good... buy the Brasseye DVD and find out.
Really, you don't need to convince me. I will rent it :)
Plus, for effiminate, you mean camp, right? Heh.
Plus, for effiminate, you mean camp, right? Heh.
Stryke wrote:
> I'm going to rent Amelie this weekend. Promise :)
Success!! Yay! It's amazing. And women love it. So you can show that you are a new-man in touch with your feminine side and woo all the intelligent women with your sophisticated charm.
It's also a damn good film. You can download a little taster from:
http://www.amelie-themovie.com/trailers/amelie_004_300.wmv
(if you've not got broadband change the 300 to a 100..)
Oh and they've pushed up the narrator's voice on that clip to drown the sound out, but it's much better in the actual film. That's a condensed version of one of the funniest bits.
> I'm going to rent Amelie this weekend. Promise :)
Success!! Yay! It's amazing. And women love it. So you can show that you are a new-man in touch with your feminine side and woo all the intelligent women with your sophisticated charm.
It's also a damn good film. You can download a little taster from:
http://www.amelie-themovie.com/trailers/amelie_004_300.wmv
(if you've not got broadband change the 300 to a 100..)
Oh and they've pushed up the narrator's voice on that clip to drown the sound out, but it's much better in the actual film. That's a condensed version of one of the funniest bits.
Oh, I was playing Jedi Starfighter with a mate the other day, and the computer warned me not to touch the ground.
"I wasn't going to touch it, I was gonna shoot it's ars."
We laughed.
"I wasn't going to touch it, I was gonna shoot it's ars."
We laughed.
I got in a "Can't express myself monosyballically enough for you to understand me" to a git at school before a History exam. :) Then I ran, because he's bigger.
I'm going to rent Amelie this weekend. Promise :)
I'm going to rent Amelie this weekend. Promise :)
Right on.
And never miss a good opportunity to quote:
last weekend I rolled out the "Don't you just love the smell of commerce in the morning" in Cheshire (where my Grandma lives) highstreet in the morning. I got a few laughs from fellow Smith fans and an odd look from an old lady. Fortunately I managed to avoid any iron girders coming my way :-)
And never miss a good opportunity to quote:
last weekend I rolled out the "Don't you just love the smell of commerce in the morning" in Cheshire (where my Grandma lives) highstreet in the morning. I got a few laughs from fellow Smith fans and an odd look from an old lady. Fortunately I managed to avoid any iron girders coming my way :-)
Praise be to Smith, brother.
oh and Jay and Silent Bob.. damn forgot that one. Yes that's another must-see and get Mallrats, Chasing Amy and Dogma while you're at it.
(not you Stryke you saw the light long, long ago)
(not you Stryke you saw the light long, long ago)
I got the Long Good Friday yesterday, but haven't got round to watching it. In a more mainstream note, the Great Escape was released recently. Damn good film.
Yes it's that time again where I take you through the DVD releases in the coming month (or two). This month I'm recommending that you go for an uber-depression viewing schedule, because just look at the line-up coming out in the next month:
Storytelling by Todd Solondz - June 17th release
Depression factor 10/10 - this man directed a film called "Happiness". Anyone who directs a film called "Happiness" is being ironic. The latter film starts with a guy dreaming about massacring people in a park with a gun and a lot of thoroughly messed up people: from a fat woman who can't get a date (and who decapitated (the other "head") a careless caretaker) to a paedophilic father whose son is jealous that his father likes other boys. "Storytelling" is divided into two parts - Fiction and Non-fiction - originally there was going to be a third but the studio vetoed it saying the film was already too depressing. On a plus point it features Selma Blair. Naked.
Harold and Maude - Out Now
Depression factor 5/10 - This one's actually VERY funny...
... but it's about the love affair between a young man and an octogenarian
although it's sad as well. I like it and you probably will too.
The Believer - Out Now
Depression factor 8/10 - I've not watched this yet but it's about a Jewish Neo Nazi and the last chapter's titled "Nothingness without end". So it must be pretty depressing. It won the best picture at the Sundance festival, which is no mean feat as that's where Darren Aronofsky first peddled his wares. I'll post an update on this one after I watch it tonight.
The Lost Highway by David Lynch - June 17th
Depression factor 10/10 (0 points for real depression 10 points for "ow my brain hurts because this film is totally weird like all Lynch films) Yay david Lynch's first piece of lets change a character's name halfway through jiggery pokery. With Mulholland Drive coming out later this year you should get this one now to brace yourself for it.
Other recommended releases out now:
Dekalog 1 - 10
Polish films based on the 10 Commandments. Each one is an hour long. Thus a total score of 100 depression points. Just because. Well because Polish films are always depressing because it's so damn cold there. I've managed to get through one of them so far. A child fell through some ice and died. Depressing.
Devil's Backbone
so you liked Blade did you? Well this is what director Guillemo (sp?) Del Toro does in his spare time. He operates on a basis where he makes one film for the studio and then they give him the funds to make one for himself. This really is a brilliant horror film only problem is it's in Spanish. But it proves that good films do get made outside Hollywood. This isn't a classic film, but it's better than most Hollywood horror films.
L'Appartement
This one's been out a while but I thought I'd pop it in because it really is a fantastic film. Forget French art-housey pretentions this one's a straightforward Coens/Hitchcock thriller (even though straightforward makes the last phrase an oxymoron) It's absolutely brilliant though as you really won't want it to end because it has such a twisty plot. One of the few films I've watched where I haven't been able to guess *anything* and it's the constant surprise that makes this one a must-see film. So go on. You'll thank me afterwards.
Amelie
Continuing in the vein of NON-PONCY foreign films comes Amelie. I'm going to plug away at this one until everyone's seen it because it's easily one of the best films of last year and put most of the oscar nominees to shame. Last time I recommended it some of you complained about the over-Frenchified trailer. Well, I downloaded the trailer and I'll agree with you on that one. The rest of the film is Gallic, but it's not in a bad way. It takes all of the good things about French humour and puts them into a beautifully imagined film. Everything about this film is perfect. The Director, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, is such a perfectionist that he added lots of little things using CGI to make the film a more vivd experience. This isn't gay star wars CGI, this is the way CGI should be used. For instance, he added steam coming off a bowl of pasta in one scene, simply because it's one of those insignificant things that adds to a film even though you don't see it. Also he made all the skies blue and added shapes into the clouds in some scenes. He enhanced all the colours in post-production and so made a really beautiful film that enfuriated some Parisians because Paris just isn't like that, to which Jeunet replied "I'm a director - films aren't meant to be real!". One of the best things is the way people are characterised in the things they love and hate using a lot of jump-cutting. It works brilliantly. In fact it has one of the best openings in cinematic history. I love it. Possibly my favorite film ever. Pleaaasssssssseeeeeee buy it.
Long Good Friday
Regarded by many, including our very own Goatboy no less, as the best British gangster film. Forget Snatch and Lock stock and other Mockney gangster films; this is the real deal. It features a pre-Super Mario Bob Hoskins on top form (how the mighty fall) as a gang-land leader whose empire is falling apart at the seams following the arrival of a rival gang of Turks. Absolutely brilliant and well worth buying.
Brasseye DVD
This is fantastic. Seriously. Seeing Tanya Briers telling viewers about new technology that allows farmers to grow mile-high crops in one-metre-squared pieces of land is worth the DVD price alone. Chris Morris is clearly a bit of an Anthony Burgess fan given the amount of Clockwork Orange-ish phrases he uses, and more surprisingly gets well-known idiots, sorry celebrities to repeat. They speak on behalf of organisations called H.O.E.C.S (say it aloud..) and fight to save an elephant whose got his trunk stuck up his own ar$e. Oh and the interview with Jas man of pop also rans Babylon Zoo is hilarious. It's actually better than Tanya Briers. Morris plays on celebrities' idiotic need to blag if they don't know an answer:
Morris: Will you ever create a spherical song?
Jas man: I don't know but I think I might do one day
Morris: Are you a genius?
Jas man: I might be
Morris: Does that mean you have more genes than the rest of us?
Jas man: Yes I think it does
And one of the pretend interview shows is called "Zeit-guest". Morris is a legend. a genius. hated by the Daily Mail. How can one man be so good... buy the Brasseye DVD and find out.
Storytelling by Todd Solondz - June 17th release
Depression factor 10/10 - this man directed a film called "Happiness". Anyone who directs a film called "Happiness" is being ironic. The latter film starts with a guy dreaming about massacring people in a park with a gun and a lot of thoroughly messed up people: from a fat woman who can't get a date (and who decapitated (the other "head") a careless caretaker) to a paedophilic father whose son is jealous that his father likes other boys. "Storytelling" is divided into two parts - Fiction and Non-fiction - originally there was going to be a third but the studio vetoed it saying the film was already too depressing. On a plus point it features Selma Blair. Naked.
Harold and Maude - Out Now
Depression factor 5/10 - This one's actually VERY funny...
... but it's about the love affair between a young man and an octogenarian
although it's sad as well. I like it and you probably will too.
The Believer - Out Now
Depression factor 8/10 - I've not watched this yet but it's about a Jewish Neo Nazi and the last chapter's titled "Nothingness without end". So it must be pretty depressing. It won the best picture at the Sundance festival, which is no mean feat as that's where Darren Aronofsky first peddled his wares. I'll post an update on this one after I watch it tonight.
The Lost Highway by David Lynch - June 17th
Depression factor 10/10 (0 points for real depression 10 points for "ow my brain hurts because this film is totally weird like all Lynch films) Yay david Lynch's first piece of lets change a character's name halfway through jiggery pokery. With Mulholland Drive coming out later this year you should get this one now to brace yourself for it.
Other recommended releases out now:
Dekalog 1 - 10
Polish films based on the 10 Commandments. Each one is an hour long. Thus a total score of 100 depression points. Just because. Well because Polish films are always depressing because it's so damn cold there. I've managed to get through one of them so far. A child fell through some ice and died. Depressing.
Devil's Backbone
so you liked Blade did you? Well this is what director Guillemo (sp?) Del Toro does in his spare time. He operates on a basis where he makes one film for the studio and then they give him the funds to make one for himself. This really is a brilliant horror film only problem is it's in Spanish. But it proves that good films do get made outside Hollywood. This isn't a classic film, but it's better than most Hollywood horror films.
L'Appartement
This one's been out a while but I thought I'd pop it in because it really is a fantastic film. Forget French art-housey pretentions this one's a straightforward Coens/Hitchcock thriller (even though straightforward makes the last phrase an oxymoron) It's absolutely brilliant though as you really won't want it to end because it has such a twisty plot. One of the few films I've watched where I haven't been able to guess *anything* and it's the constant surprise that makes this one a must-see film. So go on. You'll thank me afterwards.
Amelie
Continuing in the vein of NON-PONCY foreign films comes Amelie. I'm going to plug away at this one until everyone's seen it because it's easily one of the best films of last year and put most of the oscar nominees to shame. Last time I recommended it some of you complained about the over-Frenchified trailer. Well, I downloaded the trailer and I'll agree with you on that one. The rest of the film is Gallic, but it's not in a bad way. It takes all of the good things about French humour and puts them into a beautifully imagined film. Everything about this film is perfect. The Director, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, is such a perfectionist that he added lots of little things using CGI to make the film a more vivd experience. This isn't gay star wars CGI, this is the way CGI should be used. For instance, he added steam coming off a bowl of pasta in one scene, simply because it's one of those insignificant things that adds to a film even though you don't see it. Also he made all the skies blue and added shapes into the clouds in some scenes. He enhanced all the colours in post-production and so made a really beautiful film that enfuriated some Parisians because Paris just isn't like that, to which Jeunet replied "I'm a director - films aren't meant to be real!". One of the best things is the way people are characterised in the things they love and hate using a lot of jump-cutting. It works brilliantly. In fact it has one of the best openings in cinematic history. I love it. Possibly my favorite film ever. Pleaaasssssssseeeeeee buy it.
Long Good Friday
Regarded by many, including our very own Goatboy no less, as the best British gangster film. Forget Snatch and Lock stock and other Mockney gangster films; this is the real deal. It features a pre-Super Mario Bob Hoskins on top form (how the mighty fall) as a gang-land leader whose empire is falling apart at the seams following the arrival of a rival gang of Turks. Absolutely brilliant and well worth buying.
Brasseye DVD
This is fantastic. Seriously. Seeing Tanya Briers telling viewers about new technology that allows farmers to grow mile-high crops in one-metre-squared pieces of land is worth the DVD price alone. Chris Morris is clearly a bit of an Anthony Burgess fan given the amount of Clockwork Orange-ish phrases he uses, and more surprisingly gets well-known idiots, sorry celebrities to repeat. They speak on behalf of organisations called H.O.E.C.S (say it aloud..) and fight to save an elephant whose got his trunk stuck up his own ar$e. Oh and the interview with Jas man of pop also rans Babylon Zoo is hilarious. It's actually better than Tanya Briers. Morris plays on celebrities' idiotic need to blag if they don't know an answer:
Morris: Will you ever create a spherical song?
Jas man: I don't know but I think I might do one day
Morris: Are you a genius?
Jas man: I might be
Morris: Does that mean you have more genes than the rest of us?
Jas man: Yes I think it does
And one of the pretend interview shows is called "Zeit-guest". Morris is a legend. a genius. hated by the Daily Mail. How can one man be so good... buy the Brasseye DVD and find out.