BunsenLabs film thread

pozric · 2018-03-11 16:30:28

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043456/

pozric · 2018-03-11 16:45:36

Freaks (1932)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022913/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Martin · 2018-03-11 18:13:36

pozric wrote:

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043456/

+1
I have seen it in a proper cinema theater with a big screen -- beats youtube any day.

/Martin

pozric · 2018-03-11 21:38:20

Martin wrote:

pozric wrote:
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043456/
+1
I have seen it in a proper cinema theater with a big screen -- beats youtube any day.
/Martin

Nice that there is cinema theaters that show these old but gold movies, movies today suck so much well most anyways.

hhh · 2018-05-22 04:33:34

This should be a trivia thread...

Clues to make the first one easy... early eighties, amazing British cast, Wagner. Scrot from the opening scene...

Name the movie, director, character/mythological figure, and actor.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2018-05-22 06:02:44

^ Excaliber by John Borman (spelled wrong, I know), I would have to consult el search engine for the rest.

EDIT: Ha! I even spelled the film name wrong — that's how you know I didn't cheat

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PackRat · 2018-05-22 10:02:04

^^ Nicol Williamson as Merlin.

Also an early, breakthrough movie for Gabriel Byrne, Liam Neeson, and Helen Mirren.

Martin · 2018-05-22 16:31:54

Another one, hints:
The film was shot here with the exception of some coastal scenes.
The director was born 100 years ago.
The bronze statue in the centre of the photo is inspired by the film.

/Martin

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PackRat · 2018-05-22 17:04:53

^ The Seventh Seal

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ohnonot · 2018-06-23 10:05:10

Hypernormalisation must be hands down the best documentary I ever saw. Two hours long, I watched it all in one go, I was so mesmerised.
This is in fact part of what the author criticises: news and politics as entertainment, and it isn't even expected to have any connection to reality - that's hypernormalisation.
Made just before Trump became president (2016), it now seems a little prophetic even.

There are quite a few very broad statements that would require proof, but because of the very complexity of the whole topic, and the length of the film, and its visual qualities (those carefully chosen clips of high quality BBC material from four decades speak volumes), I forgive the author - and hope that his broad statements are well-researched and have merit. I looked up one or two of these, and so far they were correct (e.g. here).

Critics of Curtis’s films say that his jump-cut techniques and abrupt mood changes in some ways cheat on the dogged legwork of documentary journalism. As ever here, shifts in geopolitics are routinely represented by a couple of seconds of arresting footage – the banality of puppet dictators is illustrated by Colonel Gaddafi checking his hair off camera; the emergence of me-culture becomes Jane Fonda giving up on activism and donning a leotard; to explain the collapse of communism there is a punch-up in a Soviet breadline. Arguments become impressionistic, the criticism goes, an atmosphere of conspiracy is not the same as the exposure of truth.

(source)

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johnraff · 2018-07-06 06:31:23

Saw Shoplifters 万引き家族 last night.
I guess a small payoff for putting in 40+ years here was being able to enjoy it in the original Japanese, but it must have been good enough dubbed/subtitled to convince the Cannes jury to give it the Palme D'Or this year.

Anyway, excellent, I thought. The Japanese title 万引き家族 (man-biki kazoku) has a double meaning which becomes apparent towards the end.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoplifters_(film)

ohnonot · 2018-07-06 08:55:08

^ that looks nice (saw a trailer on imdb).
Reminds me a little of another film i saw earlier this spring: The Florida Project - and not only because it features a little girl.

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I've been watching some more Adam Curtis documentaries. Crazy choices of imagery and soundtrack (and good music for the most part!), and the constant struggle to find some golden thread that explains what is happening in the world today. the themes of the documentaries intertwine & build on each other, i guess they should be watched in chronological order (which i didn't) - Hypernormalisation feels like a culmination.

hhh · 2018-09-13 02:27:09

I just watched John Carpenter's The Thing again, what a masterpiece.

That led me to some lesser-quality 80's films.

"You're father seemed to be cooperating. You will be together with him soon. Won't that be nice?"

"Not nearly as nice as watching him smash your face in."

Name the movie (no web-searching).

damo · 2018-09-13 02:29:55

"Chuck Norris Junior"?

hhh · 2018-09-13 02:47:57

Sorry, no!

"Remember, Sully, when I promised to kill you last?"

"THAT'S RIGHT MAJOR, YOU DID!!!!!"

"I lied."

hhh · 2018-09-13 02:48:53

"What'd you do with Sully?"

"I let him go."

hhh · 2018-09-13 03:21:02

Don't break radio silence until they see me.

How will I know?

Because all fucking hell is gonna break loose.

So many quotes, and it doesn't even have his best one.

hhh · 2018-09-13 03:46:14

This is his best line, IMO...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nz9-NWdsis

hhh · 2018-09-13 04:24:12

Arnold's best, but not Jessie Ventura's, that would be Predator. Anyway...

Are you ready for pain? Are you ready for suffering? If the answer is yes, then you're ready for Captain Freedom's workout!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LazUZz3K6IY

PackRat · 2018-09-13 14:12:55

The quotes about Sully are from Commando,

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