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The 24th Day_Tony Piccirillo. [2004] A flawless, and beautiful moving independent film. A important work for our time. 
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Cache (or Hidden) by Michael Haneke.
Very mysterious, very complex, very thought provoking. Had me pondering for days.
Very mysterious, very complex, very thought provoking. Had me pondering for days.
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niknak wrote:Cache (or Hidden) by Michael Haneke.
Very mysterious, very complex, very thought provoking. Had me pondering for days.
Did you see Benny's Video [1992] and Funny Games [1997] 2 very disturbing movies from Haneke.
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ExitEuXa wrote:niknak wrote:Cache (or Hidden) by Michael Haneke.
Very mysterious, very complex, very thought provoking. Had me pondering for days.
Did you see Benny's Video [1992] and Funny Games [1997] 2 very disturbing movies from Haneke.
Yeah a long time ago. I must watch them again. He's an amazing filmmaker.
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niknak wrote:ExitEuXa wrote:niknak wrote:Cache (or Hidden) by Michael Haneke.
Very mysterious, very complex, very thought provoking. Had me pondering for days.
Did you see Benny's Video [1992] and Funny Games [1997] 2 very disturbing movies from Haneke.
Yeah a long time ago. I must watch them again. He's an amazing filmmaker.
Yeah he is.
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So I saw "A Scanner Darkly" tonight. I loved it. But man, if you haven't read the book, GOOD LUCK. Linklater doesn't throw you any bones in this one.
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Thanks to bunnyrabbit. Nostalgia rushing through my body
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Saw Scarface tonight. Um.. pretty morally vacuous in a lot of ways, but I enjoyed it. I can't really articulate why, though. 
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thedisavowed wrote:Saw Scarface tonight. Um.. pretty morally vacuous in a lot of ways, but I enjoyed it. I can't really articulate why, though.
Did you play GTA ever before?
ExitEuXa recommended me this movie a while ago and I think ìt was to show how drugs can fuck people up. Well.. it sure does fuck people up, isn't it?
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Aesthetics wrote:thedisavowed wrote:Saw Scarface tonight. Um.. pretty morally vacuous in a lot of ways, but I enjoyed it. I can't really articulate why, though.
Did you play GTA ever before?
ExitEuXa recommended me this movie a while ago and I think ìt was to show how drugs can fuck people up. Well.. it sure does fuck people up, isn't it?
Yeah, I've played GTA a few times. But I always just ran around and shot civilians so I could fight the cops. Never got very far in the game.
I can see why rappers identify with that movie. Although I really have to wonder what it is in a person that would make them walk away from a movie like Scarface thinking "hell yeah, I'm going be just like that guy" because Tony Montana, at bottom, was a pretty miserable guy, imho.
Hardly one of the great movies of our time, but it was one of those omnipresent cultural things that I felt like I had to be familiar with.
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Gefangen_Jörg Andreas [2004] a German movie about love in jail, sweet...
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Happiness - which centres around the lives of three sisters - Joy who's permanently unlucky in love, Helen a successful poet whose next door neighbour is obsessed with her and phones to explain this in graphic detail and finally there's Trish who has it all, a big house, a couple of kids and a successful psychiatrist husband who himself harbours uncontrollable urges.
The sisters are all somewhat fractured of mind - for example Lara Flyn Boyle's character plays an author suffering writers block bemoaning the fact that she wasn't abused as a child that could lend her work some authenticity - so she's delighted when she gets an obscene phone from a one of the many fat ugly sex obsessed dysfunctioning American neurotics that seem to be this seasons slim sexy movie star successes. Happiness manages to be truly provocative and also madly comical at one and the same time... for instance I never thought I could feel sympathy for a paedophile or a bloke making obscene phone calls but with tact and courage Happiness confronts these modern folk devils.
Happiness is anything but; as the characters lives intertwine in the search for happiness they find only loneliness, obsession and some serious psychological problems. In particular the psychiatrists story is remarkable with performances second to none as he tries to explain to his son about his paedophile tendencies.
Happiness explodes some of the fear related misconceptions showing that repression is the oppression of our generation... as if an open mind is just that. Open and willing for some perverted notion to crawl right in...
Directed by Todd Solondz Happiness is a slice of American life that isn't normally dealt with this honesty, making it a compelling watch, which will both amuse and seriously disturb for its two hours and fifteen minutes running time. Happiness is a must see!!!!!
The sisters are all somewhat fractured of mind - for example Lara Flyn Boyle's character plays an author suffering writers block bemoaning the fact that she wasn't abused as a child that could lend her work some authenticity - so she's delighted when she gets an obscene phone from a one of the many fat ugly sex obsessed dysfunctioning American neurotics that seem to be this seasons slim sexy movie star successes. Happiness manages to be truly provocative and also madly comical at one and the same time... for instance I never thought I could feel sympathy for a paedophile or a bloke making obscene phone calls but with tact and courage Happiness confronts these modern folk devils.
Happiness is anything but; as the characters lives intertwine in the search for happiness they find only loneliness, obsession and some serious psychological problems. In particular the psychiatrists story is remarkable with performances second to none as he tries to explain to his son about his paedophile tendencies.
Happiness explodes some of the fear related misconceptions showing that repression is the oppression of our generation... as if an open mind is just that. Open and willing for some perverted notion to crawl right in...
Directed by Todd Solondz Happiness is a slice of American life that isn't normally dealt with this honesty, making it a compelling watch, which will both amuse and seriously disturb for its two hours and fifteen minutes running time. Happiness is a must see!!!!!
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ExitEuXa wrote:Happiness
WOOOO! One of my favorites!
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I do too. I saw a trailer for it last weekend when I saw Scanner. Looks so good.
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I love Michel Gondry! Did you enjoy "Eternal Sunshine For The Spotless Mind"?
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thedisavowed wrote:Aesthetics wrote:thedisavowed wrote:Saw Scarface tonight. Um.. pretty morally vacuous in a lot of ways, but I enjoyed it. I can't really articulate why, though.
Did you play GTA ever before?
ExitEuXa recommended me this movie a while ago and I think ìt was to show how drugs can fuck people up. Well.. it sure does fuck people up, isn't it?
Yeah, I've played GTA a few times. But I always just ran around and shot civilians so I could fight the cops. Never got very far in the game.
I can see why rappers identify with that movie. Although I really have to wonder what it is in a person that would make them walk away from a movie like Scarface thinking "hell yeah, I'm going be just like that guy" because Tony Montana, at bottom, was a pretty miserable guy, imho.
Hardly one of the great movies of our time, but it was one of those omnipresent cultural things that I felt like I had to be familiar with.
I hate all this gangsta bull shit. Watching a movie which is fantasy then going home and making it a reality is fucking ludicris. There have been over 300 homicides in Philly this year so far! Thats more than one a day! These kids have families, talent, ability and they get caught up in this bullshit because 'Yo, it be gangsta', NO it be fucking stupid! Those fucking rapping morons don't care what happens to these kids, Where is the responsibility for there neighborhoods?? Guess it doesn't matter as long as you are rolling on 23s. I'm really sick of how people make the world a more horrible place because it's 'cool' to be that way. Wake the fuck up!! I guess I should say that this isn't directed at anyone here and i'm sorry to be a downer, but it really is disheartening. So again sorry to be off-topic, NOT directed at anyone here. Smile it's sunny!
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