FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality

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Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality

Postby 8bitagent » Tue May 31, 2011 1:34 pm

I didn't quite get into the original version, but David Fincher's version of Girl With The Dragon Tattoo has me intrigued:

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Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality

Postby 8bitagent » Mon Jun 20, 2011 2:34 am

Just saw Tree Of Life...that was quite a doozy. If you've seen Koyaanisqatsi, 2001, Cremaster Cycle/Drawing Restraint 9, The Fountain, or Baraka than you might dig it.
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Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality

Postby brekin » Mon Jul 11, 2011 4:22 pm

Just saw this Norwegian film.
I thought it clever even though it is
a little Blair Witch & District 9 like.
Has some neat visuals and has got
some humorous moments.

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Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality

Postby justdrew » Sat Jul 16, 2011 12:01 am

FYI...

The Year of the Sex Olympics
The Year of the Sex Olympics is a 1968 television play made by the BBC and first broadcast on BBC2 as part of Theatre 625. It stars Leonard Rossiter, Tony Vogel, Suzanne Neve and Brian Cox. It was directed by Michael Elliot. The writer was Nigel Kneale, best known as the creator of Quatermass.

Influenced by concerns about overpopulation, the counterculture of the 1960s and the societal effects of television, the play depicts a world of the future where a small elite control the media, keeping the lower classes docile by serving them an endless diet of lowest common denominator programmes and pornography. The play concentrates on an idea the programme controllers have for a new programme which will follow the trials and tribulations of a group of people left to fend for themselves on a remote island. In this respect, the play is often cited as having anticipated the craze for reality television.

Kneale had fourteen years earlier adapted George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four as a classic and controversial BBC broadcast and the play reflects much of Kneale's assimilation of Orwell's concern about the power of the media and Kneale's experience of the evolving media industry.

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/560006/index.html

Now regarded as one of the 1960s' most effective and engaging one-off pieces of science fiction, the play is chiefly remembered for the prescience of the scenarios it develops. Most obviously, the play's characters devise a television programme called 'The Live Life Show' in which a group of people is separated from society. The ensuing struggle to adapt to new surroundings is broadcast live, with the viewing public's voyeuristic pleasure heightened by the problems participants endure. Both the template for this fictitious entertainment and the audience's rapt reaction seem to presage the proliferation of 'reality' television in the 1990s, and, in particular, Castaway (BBC, 2000), a show in which members of the public volunteered to live on an inhospitable island deprived of everyday luxuries normally available to society. Similarly, the 'dumbing down', 'sexing up' and sheer predominance of television appear to have been predicted by Kneale's play.


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Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality

Postby semiconscious » Sat Jul 16, 2011 1:30 pm

some excellent asian madness/chaos:

old boy (park chan-wook, 2003)



battle royale (kinji fukasaku, 2000)



save the green planet (jang jun-hwan, 2003)



paprika (satoshi kon, 2006)



&, just for fun:

kung fu hustle (stephen chow, 2004)

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Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality

Postby justdrew » Tue Aug 02, 2011 11:03 pm

on the one hand it's a sort of post-apoc type, but with interesting ideas I think people here would like :)

don't read the whole plot summary if you can see the movie...

2008-2009 Inhabited Island (aka Obitaemyy ostrov )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inhabited_Island

based on...

1969's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoners_of_Power
The novel is set in the 22nd century of the Noon Universe. Mankind is capable of near-instanteneous interstellar travel. Earth social organization is presumably Communist, and can be described as a highly technologically advanced anarchistic meritocracy.[citation needed]

There is no state structure, no institutionalized coercion (no police etc.), yet functioning of the society is safeguarded by raising everyone as responsible individuals, with guidance of a set of High Councils accepted by everyone in each particular field of activity.

It is a society of highly morally evolved individuals that has solved all of its material problems, knows no crime, feels no threats (except possibly from unchecked scientific exploration) and spends much of its efforts in scientific research (space exploration done mostly by volunteers), arts, education and caring for the young. Teachers are the most honorable profession.

One of the controversial occupations is progressor. They are agents embedded in less advanced humanoid civilizations in order to accelerate their development or resolve their problems. Progressors' methods range from rescuing local scientists and artists to overthrowing local governments.

The book is set on one such war-torn post-nuclear war planet, Saraksh, where a space-exploring Earth youth gets stuck after his rocket is first damaged and then blown up, forcing him on his journey of discovery and contact within a fascist society of one of the planet's countries.


Noon Universe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noon_Universe
Description

The victory of communism and the advance of technological progress on the Earth of the Noon Universe resulted in an over-abundance of resources and eliminated the need for most types of manual labor.

The most striking difference between Noon Universe and most of the other fictional sci-fi universes (most famous include Dune, Star Wars and Babylon 5) is a complete denial of imperialism. This means that no sentient race in the Noon Universe builds an inter-planetary state (republic, empire etc.) or has ever built one. Instead, most of them keep to their own planets, and the only space-faring ones (humans and, probably, Wanderers) have chosen a selfless existence assisting in the scientific development of less advanced civilizations ("progressing" or "progressorizing") rather than building a galactic empire based on their technological advantage.

Mankind is capable of near-instanteneous interstellar travel. Earth social organization is presumably Communist, and can be described as a highly technologically advanced anarchistic meritocracy. There is no state structure, no institutionalized coercion (no police etc.), yet functioning of the society is safeguarded by raising everyone as responsible individuals, with guidance of a set of High Councils accepted by everyone in each particular field of activity.

It is a society of highly morally evolved individuals that has solved all of its material problems, knows no crime, feels no threats (except possibly from unchecked scientific exploration) and spends much of its efforts in scientific research (space exploration done mostly by volunteers), arts, education and caring for the young. Teachers are the most honorable profession.

One of the controversial occupations is progressor. They are agents embedded in less advanced humanoid civilizations in order to accelerate their development or resolve their problems. Progressors' methods range from rescuing local scientists and artists to overthrowing local governments.

The main governing body is the World Council, composed of the brightest scientists, historians, doctors and teachers. The local matters are handled by the regional versions of the council. Planetary councils are present on each Earth colony (e.g. Rainbow), as well, although "colony" in this context refers to a planet that wasn't home to any sentient life before the arrival of Terran settlers. In the Noon Universe, Earth has never attempted to seize permanent control over any other civilization.

While the ethics-based society has managed to successfully provide for all human beings, some have difficulty finding their place, instead taking to space exploration, traveling to previously uncharted worlds. The practice is generally frowned upon, seen as diversion from creativity and self-realization.

The universe is populated by a number of sentient races. Some of them are humanoid, while others are so alien that humanity didn't realize that they were sentient for decades. Several sentient races maintain diplomatic relations with Earth's government. Many planets in Noon Universe are inhabited by races identical to humans in all but minor genetic differences. It has been speculated that they were humans who wound up on other worlds due to the Wanderers' manipulations (as Beetle in the Anthill shows, that is hardly unprecedented).

The Wanderers are, without a doubt, the most mysterious race in the Noon Universe. Incredibly technologically advanced and highly secretive, the Wanderers manipulate sentient beings throughout Noon Universe for their own purposes. While those purposes were never clarified, it was hinted that they try to "progress" various sentient beings.
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Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality

Postby eyeno » Wed Aug 03, 2011 12:17 am

For those into occult Disney spotting here is a great little nuts and bolts tear down of "Princess Protection Program".

http://pseudoccultmedia.blogspot.com/20 ... elena.html
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Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality

Postby Elihu » Thu Aug 25, 2011 4:51 pm

don't get to see many movies but took in "La Soga" last night via netflicks. 2009/2010 spanish subtitled. shot on location in dominican republic. very good imo. if you're cynical like me and tend to bail on things, don't do it. it's much more than a "he killed my father and i want revenge!!!" flick.

and come to think of it, i also saw "countryman" an early 1980's rasta-themed movie shot in jamaica. also very good.

certain aspects of the two movies were very similar. just thought i would share. e

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Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality

Postby JackRiddler » Wed Jan 18, 2012 6:26 pm

Here are votes for

Enter the Void
Tree of Life

as innovative films. You takes yer chances, sees something new.
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Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality

Postby Searcher08 » Wed Jan 18, 2012 7:21 pm

One of the best war films I have seen in a long long time. Poignant, affecting and very raw.

From IMDB

The film shows the heroic defense of the Brest Fortress, which had taken upon the first strike of German fascist invaders on June 22 1941. Story describes the events of the first days of the defense. The film tells about three main resistance zones, headed by the regiment commander, Pyotr Mikhailovich Gavrilov, the commissar Efim Moiseevich Fomin and the head of the 9th frontier outpost, Andrey Mitrofanovich Kizhevatov. Many years later veteran Alexander Akimov again and again recalls the memories of the time, when he, then a 15 year old Sasha Akimov was deeply in love with the beautiful Anya and suddenly found himself in the middle of the bloody events of war.

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Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality

Postby Luther Blissett » Sun Feb 12, 2012 6:53 pm

I need to recommend: "The Tree of Life" and "Art of the Steal." Everyone here is probably aware of "Tree of Life"'s exploration of Malick's universal gnosis and artful cinematography. "The Art of the Steal," while on its surface is about the Barnes's collection moving from the suburbs into the city of Philadelphia, is a good introduction into a real, actual, studied conspiracy planned in the halls of power, at the expense of beauty and humanity. I thought that, as a mainstream documentary, it was rather brave in its willingness to even explore the term "conspiracy" as levelled against actual living politicians and leaders.
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Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality

Postby Elihu » Sun Feb 12, 2012 9:12 pm

Breaker Morant. 1980. Setting: The Boer War. adapted from a book about the experience written by one of the protagonists. Takeaway line: "The kaiser is our beloved queen's grandson".
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Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality

Postby MacCruiskeen » Sun Feb 12, 2012 9:43 pm

Blue Valentine (2010) - a very good true honest exact film about love, marriage, money, work and alienation, and very well acted (Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams). Not the shallow hipsterish shite the poster might lead you to imagine.
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Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality

Postby justdrew » Sun Sep 02, 2012 1:42 am



don't know why I only now found out about this movie by accident.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twixt_(film)
Twixt has received high anticipation for release among fans of Coppola. As of November 2011, it had not had a wide release, with screenings exclusively at film festivals. It was a featured film at the November 2011 American Film Market.

Twixt will be given a theatrical release in the UK in spring 2012, after one in France in April.


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Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality

Postby justdrew » Sat Nov 24, 2012 7:15 pm

you may recognize the theme of this one from Kill Bill...






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