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17 September 2004 @ 03:40 pm
Recommend a movie day  
Picked this up from [livejournal.com profile] ludditerobot, it's apparently recommend a movie day today meaning that everyone should recommend films on their LJ that you guys probably haven't seen before. Now I've done it, you all have to as well!

So, here goes!



[livejournal.com profile] ludditerobot had this on his list but I'm putting it here as well because it's just a great film. Blade Runner - those of you who know me will know about my belief that this is the best film ever.

Shaun of the Dead coming in at a very close second in the best film ever category. I know this isn't released yet in the States for those of you on the other side of that Atlantic, but when it is released - go see it. It rocks!

Motorcycle Diaries Let the world change you... and you can change the world. Beautifully done, never preachy, funny, moving, exhilerating. What more do you want?

Shallow Grave can I just say that IMDB's summation of this film sucks? "Three friends discover their new flatmate dead but loaded with cash." Yeah, well, okay, so that's the basic premise I guess. But this film is so loaded with that really bitter, dark and ultimately sick Scottish humour that it encouraged me to finish my film degree in the mistaken belief that if John Hodge and Danny Boyle could do it, then so could I!

28 Days Later. Okay, so now I look like a Danny Boyle fan! This is seriously a great film - one of the first mainstream films to be shot entirely in digital and a cracking story right the way through (even if I think the alternate ending is better and the three people I saw this in the cinema with hated it - yes, I'm looking at you [livejournal.com profile] smileawhile)

Jésus de Montréal I first saw this film as part of my film degree and was so moved by it that I rushed out to buy it straight away and paid quite a bit of money for it since foreign language films never appear in the bargain bins... Young actors put on a highly controversial Passion Play which infuriates the Catholic Church in Montréal but things take a dark turn when their lives begin to reflect the play.

etaout of interest I followed the "watch trailer" link for Jésus de Montréal on IMDB and my God that's an awful trailer! The film is so much better than that makes it out to be!
 
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[identity profile] ludditerobot.livejournal.com on September 17th, 2004 08:39 am (UTC)
I know I rented Shallow Grave. I can't recall if I finished it. Did it start with a creepy guy in therapy taping over the red light on his videocamera so he could fake his therapist into thinking it was off?

The others I haven't seen.
[identity profile] whiskyinmind.livejournal.com on September 17th, 2004 09:08 am (UTC)
it's not actually that one, although that sounds so familiar to me! Shallow Grave starts with the camera panning round Christopher Eccleston who seems to be lying down thinking. He's doing a voiceover as the camera pans around him, talking about friendship and then it immediately cuts to a high speed tracking shot along cobbled streets. The next shot I believe is a variety of interviews the three main characters have for potential flatmates. I couldn't find a cap of the very first part but this is from near the beginning.

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[identity profile] rileysaplank.livejournal.com on September 17th, 2004 08:48 am (UTC)
Okay. I'm gonna head over to my LJ and do my recommendation, but I know there's a few more people on Sho's F/list than there is on mine so I'm gonna recommend it here as well. It's 'The Thirteenth Warrior' a film I absolutely love, but don't many people have seen.

Andy

PS Sho, head over to the EOD yahoo group when you have a chance. You'll see why when you get there.

Andy
[identity profile] whiskyinmind.livejournal.com on September 17th, 2004 09:09 am (UTC)
not seen Thirteenth Warrior - think I'll give that a look.

As for the EOD thing, as you know I agree with you, however it's a little confrontational don't you think?
[identity profile] rileysaplank.livejournal.com on September 17th, 2004 09:34 am (UTC)
Felt it was the only way to get the message through. Could you tell I was angry? And that's with me having had a couple of days to calm down as well.

Andy
[identity profile] acrazywench.livejournal.com on September 17th, 2004 09:19 am (UTC)
Thanks for this Sho - you just drove me bats trying to remember the name of a (blackish?) comedy that peeps probably haven't seen. I knew it began with a T and I remembered the song from it - but it took me a while scrabbling around to find the title - Toto le Héro. It's years since I last saw it, but every time I've seen it I've enjoyed it. It is a French (well ok, Belgian) film, so as you might expect it's got a little bit of the wacky going on. If that's not easily available, but you randomly fancy a french comedy, Amélie is great:) I find the goldfish scene at the start hilarious and I love the gnome action!

Beck.






[identity profile] acrazywench.livejournal.com on September 17th, 2004 09:31 am (UTC)
btw, I didn't put this in my LJ because:

1. that would mean updating my LJ - and if I did that I would have to withdraw my evil comment from yesterday!*eg*

2. I'm lazy - and I couldn't be doing with exiting this to get into my own journal

3. the small number of peeps who know about my LJ are on Sho's f-list anyway.

Beck.
[identity profile] rileysaplank.livejournal.com on September 17th, 2004 10:10 am (UTC)

I think all the people on my f/list are on Sho's as well. Doesn't stop me updating. Poor excuse Beck. :)