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Quadrophenia (1979)
Produced by and based on the Who's album of the same name, this is easily my favourite movie of all time. Directed by Franc Roddam (who will go on and create a little format called MasterChef in the '90s), this movie revolves around a mod named Jimmy Cooper, and his conflicts of identity, his family, his friends, his work, and the mods enemies, the rockers. The movie second act, set in Brighton, is one of the best portrayal of youth and civil violence and the whole movie captures the essence of the conflict when trying to find your own individuality.
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Funniest thing I've watched in weeks, and free on Tubi.
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Narvik: Hitler's First Defeat (2022)
This was a really good and down to earth World War II movie. It's a surprisingly nuanced World War II film. In it there are no good guys or bad guys.
Just desperate people trying to survive and do what they think is right. Best War War II film since... Hacksaw Ridge, maybe.
This was a really good and down to earth World War II movie. It's a surprisingly nuanced World War II film. In it there are no good guys or bad guys.
Just desperate people trying to survive and do what they think is right. Best War War II film since... Hacksaw Ridge, maybe.
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The Tragedy of Macbeth is a very well made film and if it doesn't prove the beauty of Black & White to an unappreciative viewer then likely nothing will.
There was some 4chan whining that you've got Blacks playing these middle age royals, that was dumb because Shakespeare is theater sure having an English accent is appreciated but not a necessity. I only had one gripe, they have a little black boy playing Macduff's son and it took me out of it as he just had a very plain American accent. To be fair Denzel Washington also doesn't try to change his accent but his skill as an actor shines thru. Also Frances McDormand proves once again her being apart of almost every Coen Brothers film isn't just incessant nepotism.
It's built on one of the greatest, most influential plays of all time. If Apple greenlit more top of the line directors to adapt the rest of Shakespeare's tragedies (sans Romeo and Juliet) I'd be so damn happy. I doubt Joel Coen would ever double dip but I could so easily see the same cast and crew do Hamlet as a direct sequel.
There was some 4chan whining that you've got Blacks playing these middle age royals, that was dumb because Shakespeare is theater sure having an English accent is appreciated but not a necessity. I only had one gripe, they have a little black boy playing Macduff's son and it took me out of it as he just had a very plain American accent. To be fair Denzel Washington also doesn't try to change his accent but his skill as an actor shines thru. Also Frances McDormand proves once again her being apart of almost every Coen Brothers film isn't just incessant nepotism.
It's built on one of the greatest, most influential plays of all time. If Apple greenlit more top of the line directors to adapt the rest of Shakespeare's tragedies (sans Romeo and Juliet) I'd be so damn happy. I doubt Joel Coen would ever double dip but I could so easily see the same cast and crew do Hamlet as a direct sequel.
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Walkabout (1971)
Walkabout is a film about two white kids that get stranded in the Australian outback and eventually befriends an aboriginal kid.
A lot happens in the film that can't be talked about here otherwise it will ruin much of the film for those who haven't watched it.
It's an old but multilayered and artistic film that doesn't explain the whys of the film but makes you think.
It's a really good kid's film.
Walkabout is a film about two white kids that get stranded in the Australian outback and eventually befriends an aboriginal kid.
A lot happens in the film that can't be talked about here otherwise it will ruin much of the film for those who haven't watched it.
It's an old but multilayered and artistic film that doesn't explain the whys of the film but makes you think.
It's a really good kid's film.
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I have been enjoying Buster Keaton's silent comedies of the early 1920s. A long time ago, I had watched his critically acclaimed comedy-epic "The General" while browsing through the early listings of the National Film Registry and thought it was a pretty good film with impressive stunt-work, but now I find I am really enjoy Keaton's earlier films. His comedy shorts and "two-reelers" (not really sure of the exact distinction, but maybe 20 min - 40 min in length) have really good pacing, better than some of his full length feature films, I think.
The visual gags are quite technically inventive even to my modern eye and so well executed that it gives me a lot more respect for the movie-going public of that era. The 1920s audience's tastes and familiarity with camera tricks and special effects was already so refined that Keaton and his collaborators really had to pull out all the stops to impress them and fool their eye.
There's even some clever wordplay, puns, and other audio-based jokes worked into some of the silent films, by means of lip-reading, matching musical accompaniment, in-film signage, all without the use of inter-titles, to my surprise.
And of course Keaton's stuntwork is legendary, but that's not an obscure fact.
I think they are all pretty good, but if I had to pick just one of his earlier silent films to recommend, it would be "Sherlock Jr." (1924). 45 minutes long. It is crammed full of the most technically impressive tricks and gags I have ever seen in silent film.
Also, I noticed when watching these Keaton silent comedies that the quality of the soundtrack can be quite important to the viewing experience. The films were meant to be viewed with some kind of musical accompaniment that mirrored the events and actions on screen, so it's best to watch a video version that has a decent quality sound track composed and synched specifically to the film and not a version where the audio track is some shitty generic wurlitzer organ sample that loops after 5 minutes.
Some of the on-screen gags are even based on the fact that the characters in the film are hearing or playing specific songs, which would definitely have been reflected in the original musical accompaniment for the theater audience
The visual gags are quite technically inventive even to my modern eye and so well executed that it gives me a lot more respect for the movie-going public of that era. The 1920s audience's tastes and familiarity with camera tricks and special effects was already so refined that Keaton and his collaborators really had to pull out all the stops to impress them and fool their eye.
There's even some clever wordplay, puns, and other audio-based jokes worked into some of the silent films, by means of lip-reading, matching musical accompaniment, in-film signage, all without the use of inter-titles, to my surprise.
And of course Keaton's stuntwork is legendary, but that's not an obscure fact.
I think they are all pretty good, but if I had to pick just one of his earlier silent films to recommend, it would be "Sherlock Jr." (1924). 45 minutes long. It is crammed full of the most technically impressive tricks and gags I have ever seen in silent film.
Also, I noticed when watching these Keaton silent comedies that the quality of the soundtrack can be quite important to the viewing experience. The films were meant to be viewed with some kind of musical accompaniment that mirrored the events and actions on screen, so it's best to watch a video version that has a decent quality sound track composed and synched specifically to the film and not a version where the audio track is some shitty generic wurlitzer organ sample that loops after 5 minutes.
Some of the on-screen gags are even based on the fact that the characters in the film are hearing or playing specific songs, which would definitely have been reflected in the original musical accompaniment for the theater audience
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Southern Comfort (1981) There's a full copy on YT right now, but it's well worth tracking down/pirating, regardless. Absolute classic- Kinda like Deliverance, or maybe First Blood, but from the perspective of the town cops, about weekend warrior National Guardsmen on excercise in the Lousiana bayou, when they piss off the wrong Cajuns/rednecks.
Southern Comfort is one of a few under-loved movies directed by 70s/80s action-movie legend, Walter Hill, probably best-known for 'The Warriors' (1979) and '48 Hours' (1982). But 'The Driver' (1978 ) [heist movie about a getaway driver] and 'Streets of Fire' (1984) [super-stylized 80's action-movie, about early 60s street/biker gangs] are also classics. And 'Last Man Standing' (1996) [set in a depression-era dustbowl town; A gangster movie with strong Western vibes; A stranger turns up to play local gang factions against each-other] is decent, too.
Random under-watched 70's classics (not Walter Hill)
'Mikey and Nicky' (1976). The strained friendship between two mobsters on the run from their bosses, stars Peter Falk and John Cassavetes.
'The Freinds of Eddie Coyle' (1973) Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle. An aging, low-level hood trying to duck a prison sentence, ends up in a frantic race to rat on enough peers to stay free, while staying a step ahead of the vengance of those he already informed on.
'The Last Detail' (1973) Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid. Two Navy MP's have to escort another sailor cross-country, delivering him to serve a prison sentence, but decide use the trip to give him a 'last hurrah' before getting locked up.
'Badlands' (1973) Loosely based on the true story of Charles Starkweather, a 19yo garbage-man (Martin Sheen) leads a naive 15yo highschool girl (Sissy Spacek) on an interstate killing-spree through the rural South (the superior inspiration to 4/5ths of movies made in the 90s- Natural Born Killers, True Romance, Kalifornia, etc.)
'Wake In Fright' (1971) A snooty, city school-teacher gets stranded in a remote, Autralian outback town. Initially disgusted/scared of the local culture of 24/7 boozing, fighting, whoring, and roo-shooting, he gradually finds himself going feral/going native, and becoming what he used to hate... (directed by Ted Kocheff, who did 'First Blood' a decade later)
'Punishment Park' (1971) Bizarre kind of "mockumentary"/hoax doco, about a (fictional) court program to subject hippy protesters and political dissidents to brutal torture in the desert, even showing some inmates being shot and killed. Presented as a real doco (and pretty well-done; Acting was believable, even if the premise was a reach), at close to the peak of the "Counterculture" hippy era, it supposedly convinced a bunch of people that the US Government really DID have a program of shooting and physically torturing political dissidents (mostly spoiled college students) for WrongThink. One of the most belivable, 'troll documentaries' I've seen, from the pre-internet era.
Southern Comfort is one of a few under-loved movies directed by 70s/80s action-movie legend, Walter Hill, probably best-known for 'The Warriors' (1979) and '48 Hours' (1982). But 'The Driver' (1978 ) [heist movie about a getaway driver] and 'Streets of Fire' (1984) [super-stylized 80's action-movie, about early 60s street/biker gangs] are also classics. And 'Last Man Standing' (1996) [set in a depression-era dustbowl town; A gangster movie with strong Western vibes; A stranger turns up to play local gang factions against each-other] is decent, too.
Random under-watched 70's classics (not Walter Hill)
'Mikey and Nicky' (1976). The strained friendship between two mobsters on the run from their bosses, stars Peter Falk and John Cassavetes.
'The Freinds of Eddie Coyle' (1973) Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle. An aging, low-level hood trying to duck a prison sentence, ends up in a frantic race to rat on enough peers to stay free, while staying a step ahead of the vengance of those he already informed on.
'The Last Detail' (1973) Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid. Two Navy MP's have to escort another sailor cross-country, delivering him to serve a prison sentence, but decide use the trip to give him a 'last hurrah' before getting locked up.
'Badlands' (1973) Loosely based on the true story of Charles Starkweather, a 19yo garbage-man (Martin Sheen) leads a naive 15yo highschool girl (Sissy Spacek) on an interstate killing-spree through the rural South (the superior inspiration to 4/5ths of movies made in the 90s- Natural Born Killers, True Romance, Kalifornia, etc.)
'Wake In Fright' (1971) A snooty, city school-teacher gets stranded in a remote, Autralian outback town. Initially disgusted/scared of the local culture of 24/7 boozing, fighting, whoring, and roo-shooting, he gradually finds himself going feral/going native, and becoming what he used to hate... (directed by Ted Kocheff, who did 'First Blood' a decade later)
'Punishment Park' (1971) Bizarre kind of "mockumentary"/hoax doco, about a (fictional) court program to subject hippy protesters and political dissidents to brutal torture in the desert, even showing some inmates being shot and killed. Presented as a real doco (and pretty well-done; Acting was believable, even if the premise was a reach), at close to the peak of the "Counterculture" hippy era, it supposedly convinced a bunch of people that the US Government really DID have a program of shooting and physically torturing political dissidents (mostly spoiled college students) for WrongThink. One of the most belivable, 'troll documentaries' I've seen, from the pre-internet era.
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Some recent things, all on Netflix, surprisingly:
Cunk on Earth: A continuation of Cunk on Britain, a mockumentary history show, with the gimmick being that the host is a (fake) idiot, but the experts she interviews are real. I suspect this might not be as good if you don't enjoy bong humour (obviously), but I found myself chuckling aloud more often than any show in the past few years. The writing is really good ("religion became the fidget spinner of the Middle Ages, something that spread very quickly and for which the enthusiasm would never die" or something like that), Diane Morgan's delivery is amazing, the interactions with the academics are terrific (I mean they're in on it, but are still hilariously flummoxed by her; and they got some freaking real ones...Irving Finkel is on there and is great), and there are some actually quite impressive set pieces in the show - her castle monologue in the second episode is very impressive on every level. Anyway, they're only 30 minutes so very worth checking out.
Copenhagen Cowboy: Ok if you don't like any of Nicolas Winding Refn's stuff, you're definitely not going to like this, but if you do, you'll probably love it. It's extremely pretentious, occasionally ploddingly slow (although not in a boring way, just in a "come on NWR we can take it as read that you're building tension or whatever here), all over the place plotwise, and has way too much male nudity in it; but it is also very fun, very interesting and very compelling. The trailer kind of made it out to be some bullshit girlpower revenge movie, and it's definitely not. The fights are actually kind of few and far between, and the ones she does go girlboss in have kind of (maybe) supernatural reasons (like a guy she beats the shit out of is because she 'stole' Chinese boxing knowledge (and possibly strength) from a Chinese gangster (again, maybe - it's NWR so it's not really spelled out, but that's the impression that I got) - and anyway the guy was pretty much a wheetus anyway (I mean he would have destroyed her IRL, because she's 90 pounds soaking wet - but that wouldn't be a show, would it). So again, if you don't like NWR, don't bother, but if you do, it's definitely worth a watch.
Cunk on Earth: A continuation of Cunk on Britain, a mockumentary history show, with the gimmick being that the host is a (fake) idiot, but the experts she interviews are real. I suspect this might not be as good if you don't enjoy bong humour (obviously), but I found myself chuckling aloud more often than any show in the past few years. The writing is really good ("religion became the fidget spinner of the Middle Ages, something that spread very quickly and for which the enthusiasm would never die" or something like that), Diane Morgan's delivery is amazing, the interactions with the academics are terrific (I mean they're in on it, but are still hilariously flummoxed by her; and they got some freaking real ones...Irving Finkel is on there and is great), and there are some actually quite impressive set pieces in the show - her castle monologue in the second episode is very impressive on every level. Anyway, they're only 30 minutes so very worth checking out.
Copenhagen Cowboy: Ok if you don't like any of Nicolas Winding Refn's stuff, you're definitely not going to like this, but if you do, you'll probably love it. It's extremely pretentious, occasionally ploddingly slow (although not in a boring way, just in a "come on NWR we can take it as read that you're building tension or whatever here), all over the place plotwise, and has way too much male nudity in it; but it is also very fun, very interesting and very compelling. The trailer kind of made it out to be some bullshit girlpower revenge movie, and it's definitely not. The fights are actually kind of few and far between, and the ones she does go girlboss in have kind of (maybe) supernatural reasons (like a guy she beats the shit out of is because she 'stole' Chinese boxing knowledge (and possibly strength) from a Chinese gangster (again, maybe - it's NWR so it's not really spelled out, but that's the impression that I got) - and anyway the guy was pretty much a wheetus anyway (I mean he would have destroyed her IRL, because she's 90 pounds soaking wet - but that wouldn't be a show, would it). So again, if you don't like NWR, don't bother, but if you do, it's definitely worth a watch.
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The Gumball Rally a 1978 release - loosely inspired by the real life illegal race known as the Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, this is a fun, auto-slapstick romp about a group of automobile enthusiasts, gathered by bored candymaker businessman Michael Sarrazin, for their annual cross-country automobile race. It's very illegal and the only prize is the honor of coming in first amongst their little circle. Along the way, from NYC to LA, they are dogged by a long-time LAPD detective who has been trying to put an end to the race for years. Among the racers are Raul Julia and Gary Busey, though in the trailer the cars got billing instead of the actors.
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It's probably better than the other famous film based on that race, but I admit to having a soft spot for The Cannonball Run thanks to Dom Deluise. I think it was also the debut film of Jackie Chan as well.
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Gold, Lies, and Videotape is a 2023 discovery channel documentary show kind of like Tiger King and it's about the Noss family trying to find their family claimed gold at Victorio peak in the white sand missile range.
It's a very interesting and engaging show.
It's a very interesting and engaging show.
Damien Thorne
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Infinity Pool
Easily one of the most fucked-up movies to obtain wide distribution in the US, it is one of the most enjoyably fucked-up movies I have seen recently even in its neutered R-rated version. I am looking forward to buying the NC-17 version if it ever gets released in 4K. Brandon Cronenberg is proving to be worthy of carrying on the torch his father started.
Easily one of the most fucked-up movies to obtain wide distribution in the US, it is one of the most enjoyably fucked-up movies I have seen recently even in its neutered R-rated version. I am looking forward to buying the NC-17 version if it ever gets released in 4K. Brandon Cronenberg is proving to be worthy of carrying on the torch his father started.
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He was a (minor) stunt actor in Enter the Dragon and some other martial arts films. I think it was his first major turn as an actual actor.
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I just re-watched a movie i saw on cable back in the 90s: True Stories. It takes place in a small Texas town and is about the characters in said town. Can be seen with ads on youtube. It's very 80s and just a fun watch.
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Getting caught up on Better Call Saul via Netflix...love and seen Breaking Bad many times of course. BCS is a different kind of show for sure but it has grown on me a lot. The first 2ish seasons are kinda slow and have more of a quirky dramedy vibe than the gritty style of Breaking Bad, but once it picks up it gets really exciting. Big fan of Bob Odenkirk and Jonathan Banks, Lalo Salamanca and Nacho are prolly my fav characters.