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Oh! And I watched this great Nick Zedd film yesterday called They Eat Scum (1979). It's loooow budget, super fun, with a great angry and bizarre DIY aesthetic via Buñuel or something.
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Nah man I haven't it looks great so I'll be sprting myself out with a copy ASAP.
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Tetro (2009)
http://l.yimg.com/eb/ymv/us/img/hv/p...mallposter.jpg Francis Ford Coppola's new intense family drama. Though I was expecting something more from the story but I'm still highly recommending it for its stunning piece of camera works & magical use of lights & shadows. Coppola beautifully shot the film in Black & White format where all the flashbacks comes in color. There are some criticisms as Vincent Gallo played the title role but I think he did a fine credible job. And the young actor Alden Ehrenreich, played Tetro's younger brother 'Bennie' all the time reminding me of Leonardo DiCaprio...mainly with his eyes & smiles...there are pretty much similarities between them in look actually. >>: A- The Graves (2009/2010) http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/1152/thegraves.jpg A pretty weak entry for this year's After Dark Horror Fest with having Tony Todd & Bill Moseley in the cast. Though it actually deserves a solid "D" or hardly a "D+" but I like to give it a "C-" just for the Bill Moseley's part & for that hot chick Clare Grant...the only watchable things in this movie. >>: C- Legion (2010) http://l.yimg.com/eb/ymv/us/img/hv/p...mallteaser.jpg >>: B |
"Dark country" 5/10
I guess most of the low budget went to the Hollywood actors involved. What we get is a newly maried couple driving through the desert in the middle of the night. For 1 and a half hour. Sure they hit somebody along the way and then pic him up. Turns out he's a weirdo. Things gets weird and violent and more and more fucked and in the end we get a twist ending. But all in all Dark Country is two people driving through a desert in the middle of the night.. Would've worked well as a short. |
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"Nightmare city" 5/10
Horrible acting and dialogue, and... Why do most of the infected people in this movie walk around with poo on their faces?? |
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12 Angry Men (1957). i can see why this is one of Roshiq's favs, if not No.#1. This classic is nigh perfect if not so. 12 Angry Men takes place almost solely in one room, the jury room. The stifling heat only adds to the symbolism of the boiling emotions as these men decide the fate of a young man. This great character study beautifully typifies the hidden agendas as well as the inculcated notions as instilled into man by culture. We have bigotry, boredom, apathy, insecurity, peer pressure, repressed anger, alienation, arogance,... Well, you get the idea. There is one scene that absolutely portrays the power of man's social nature so wonderfully that it was chilling. And those closeup shots at the end-kudos. All in all a movie deserving the moniker of a classic. Bad Lieutenant (1992). Thankfully, this movie was only around 96 minutes or so, because i could not have taken any more. That said, Harvey Keitel really portrayed a rather bad cop in this disturbing flick. In fact, Keitel's performance was nothing short of brilliant. Flip flopping from rage to blatant opportunism to heartfelt bouts of angst and despondency, one can say that this whole flick hung on Harvey's performance, and he came though big time. This was not an entertaining nor a fun movie, but an important movie nonetheless. The story itself was a perfect mess, pretty much a snapshot out of an anti-hero's last couple of days in a deep downward spiral, but it somehow tightened up just in time to take a mess of a story and turn it into art. Abel Ferrara's direction was incredible, extracting every ounce of Keitel's talent and deftly capturing it onto film. As a punch-gut movie, it was sheer brilliance. Mercie beaucoup. d |
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