thats brilliant! think i might steer away from cathy come home for a while, but defo going to get the others. thanks very much for that. the darling is the one you mean, although if it comes on a double dvd with lshapedroom thats fantastic. julie christie won an oscar for it.
Get a DVD player AFKA, a cheap DVD player will cost you around £30-40 and then hire, borrow or buy these films. Over the last couple of years since I bought my DVD player I've collected a ton of these movies - Lord of the Rings, the Godfather trilogy, Das Boot, Monty Python, etc I don't think I've paid any more than around 15 Euros for a DVD and the great thing is not just that own these movies but all the extras you get with them, the deleted scenes, director's cut. On the Godfather films you get Francis Ford Coppola doing a running commentary adding in details of what the shooting was like and how it was to work with actors like Marlon Brando etc. In part one he talks about how he nearly got the sack halfway through shooting and so on.
the only extras i've ever watch, and not a film, but on a dvd is the extras in ricky gervais stand up dvd's where they talk to karl pilkington.
never bothered with other bits of dvds apart from the main piece.
I watched Nil by Mouth last night. mind you the end is a bit vague as was fairly well oiled strangely enough. But by god Ray Winstone is some actor - i started to hate him. especially when he beat his wife up - so disturbing.
Watched All or Nothing the other night, Also a very dark film. Timothy Spall was very convincing as a taxi driver wondering what life was all about and Lesley Manville as his wife trying to work out if this was all there is!
Didn't think either of these films show sarf london in a particularly good light.
Saw The Simpsons Movie yesterday.
Now if that doesn't cheer you up nothing will. Hillarious.
Also saw Hot Fuzz last night on DVD, good but like SOTD went on 20 mins too long IMO.
if you want to see something different, definitely not heavy, full of people that went on to bigger and better things, get out American Graffitti...its about cruising in the 60's and set over one nght, obviously one for the car buffs and has a great sound track (rock and roll)...i remember seeing it at the woolwich abc (is that still there ?) when it first came out...
The Woolwich ABC! Sadly not there any longer. I saw the Dad's Army film there in the early 70's.
Eltham had an ABC too, where Millets is now. I used to go to Saturday morning pictures there and also saw Holiday On The Buses there.
One film, if you can find a copy of it, is well worth watching is We We're Warriors'. If anyone else has seen it you'll know what I mean. Can't really describe it
Once were warriors, one of my fave films. The sequel 'What Becomes of the Broken Hearted' was abit of a letdown though, but still worth watching if you really enjoyed the first one.
Oldboy is the dogs nuts - one of the best films I've ever seen.
if you can track them down its also worth looking at some of Beat Takeshi's earlier films - particularly Violent Cop and Sonatine - both excellent examples of a man completely over the edge.
I actually really enjoyed the Silent Hill film - having spent many nights (and nightmares) playing the game as a younger lad, I thought the film was really excellent.
And my all time favourite film is probably Glengarry Glen Ross - probably the best ever ensemble acting performance on film.
[cite]Posted By: Curb_It[/cite]I watched Nil by Mouth last night. mind you the end is a bit vague as was fairly well oiled strangely enough. But by god Ray Winstone is some actor - i started to hate him. especially when he beat his wife up - so disturbing.
Sarf London at its best.
Have finally seen this film. Watched it over 3 nights. Extremley harrowing, mainly because so much of it is POTENTIALY relevent, especially if you or your kids happen to fall in with the wrong crowd.
Now the chatacter that is my lookielike plays is a 24 carrott ****, but, because it is such a good film and he is such a good actor, he does attract a small piece of sentiment.
be interesting to see if the black dahlia tranfers to film as well as la confidential did, with brian de palma directing you'd certainly hope so. with material as good as ellroy's there should be no excuse
Ellroy is my favourite author, indeed probably my favourite celeb. The man's my opposite politically and in almost every other way, but his writing just blows me away. The Dahlia is a better book than LA Confidential, too, but the film is not within a million miles of LAC sadly. I met him and he said at that time that he believed his books were too complex too translate into movies, but LAC proved him wrong but I think it's an exceptional freak of a screenplay. Dahlia proved him right again - by all means see it, but don't over-extend your expectations. With the money spent on TV series in the US now though I think that this could be the way to go with his adaptations. I'd love to see my favourite book - American Tabloid - in the hands of The Wire team.
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Shall have to look out for that .... is it ever on telly?
thats brilliant! think i might steer away from cathy come home for a while, but defo going to get the others. thanks very much for that. the darling is the one you mean, although if it comes on a double dvd with lshapedroom thats fantastic. julie christie won an oscar for it.
As is Schindlers List
but city of god is a great film as is lost in translation and blade runner.
in total agreement......
one of my all time faves is Cinema Paradiso
Just want to watch the film.
never bothered with other bits of dvds apart from the main piece.
Sarf London at its best.
Didn't think either of these films show sarf london in a particularly good light.
Also caught "Inside Man" too - also a great film!
I know neither of them show south london - but just wanted to highlight 2 good films!
Mx
Now if that doesn't cheer you up nothing will. Hillarious.
Also saw Hot Fuzz last night on DVD, good but like SOTD went on 20 mins too long IMO.
I saw that at the flicks when it came out - very harrowing.
Eltham had an ABC too, where Millets is now. I used to go to Saturday morning pictures there and also saw Holiday On The Buses there.
Another depressing story but good film.
Only talking about this on Friday night with the Kiwi's in my office. Far too near to the truth apparently.
Oldboy http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364569/
sin city http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=sin+city
two absolutely amazing films that will be marked down as classics in years to come..
once were warriors is a terrific film.. never seen part two but heard its not all that as well.
if you can track them down its also worth looking at some of Beat Takeshi's earlier films - particularly Violent Cop and Sonatine - both excellent examples of a man completely over the edge.
I actually really enjoyed the Silent Hill film - having spent many nights (and nightmares) playing the game as a younger lad, I thought the film was really excellent.
And my all time favourite film is probably Glengarry Glen Ross - probably the best ever ensemble acting performance on film.
Have finally seen this film. Watched it over 3 nights. Extremley harrowing, mainly because so much of it is POTENTIALY relevent, especially if you or your kids happen to fall in with the wrong crowd.
Now the chatacter that is my lookielike plays is a 24 carrott ****, but, because it is such a good film and he is such a good actor, he does attract a small piece of sentiment.
Ellroy is my favourite author, indeed probably my favourite celeb. The man's my opposite politically and in almost every other way, but his writing just blows me away. The Dahlia is a better book than LA Confidential, too, but the film is not within a million miles of LAC sadly. I met him and he said at that time that he believed his books were too complex too translate into movies, but LAC proved him wrong but I think it's an exceptional freak of a screenplay. Dahlia proved him right again - by all means see it, but don't over-extend your expectations. With the money spent on TV series in the US now though I think that this could be the way to go with his adaptations. I'd love to see my favourite book - American Tabloid - in the hands of The Wire team.
Jake the Muss. :-)