FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality

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Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality

Postby Iamwhomiam » Mon May 02, 2016 12:47 pm

You're welcome, Harvey. Thanks for locating and sharing the one you were looking for. Did you locate it here or on the web? If here, would you please share with us a link to the thread?

Now I have a few more to watch, in addition to the funny video btia posted, and will as soon as I can obtain a free wifi connection. Thanks for sharing Baraka, AOC.
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Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality

Postby Harvey » Wed May 04, 2016 4:44 am

And while we spoke of many things, fools and kings
This he said to me
"The greatest thing
You'll ever learn
Is just to love
And be loved
In return"


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Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality

Postby guruilla » Sun May 08, 2016 2:22 pm

The Witch = a real horror movie. About as rare as wings on a pig.
It is a lot easier to fool people than show them how they have been fooled.
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Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality

Postby DrEvil » Sun May 08, 2016 8:32 pm

^^Agreed. Pretty freaky at times. The twins made me reconsider my attitude to corporeal punishment.

A few low budget affairs I recently watched and liked:

The Invitation:


Creep:


Resolution:
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Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality

Postby brekin » Mon May 09, 2016 6:23 pm

guruilla » Sun May 08, 2016 1:22 pm wrote:The Witch = a real horror movie. About as rare as wings on a pig.


And as believable.



DrEvil wrote:^^Agreed. Pretty freaky at times. The twins made me reconsider my attitude to corporeal punishment.

A few low budget affairs I recently watched and liked:

The Invitation:


Creep:


Resolution:


Nice, will probably check out Resolution, all three are more reasons not to leave your house.
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Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality

Postby vince » Thu May 12, 2016 11:54 am

Another fundraiser for another documentary about another group of people I LOVE:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/medi ... nd-story#/
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Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality

Postby Cordelia » Fri May 13, 2016 8:09 pm

If not already included, two 1973 futuristic films


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEHniGifKyE



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf6bQ_5_q24
(Worth watching if just for Edward G. Robinson in his final role.)
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Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality

Postby Wombaticus Rex » Fri May 13, 2016 9:07 pm

Earlier tonight I watched "Welcome to Leith" -- currently on heavy NTFLX rotation -- and it was just perfect. It's about a bunch of WN's moving to a small (tiny, almost non-existent) North Dakota town. Very heavily reminiscent of the '91 monument "Blood in the Face," in terms of 1) the sheer access and 2) a non-judgemental tone that just lets the subjects talk.

Dr Evil, thank you so much for the heads-up on "Resolution," I skipped it based on the description but that is a truly arresting film. Like so many horror gems, deeply flawed and far from perfect, yet that seems to make it more haunting.

Strongly co-sign "The Invitation" -- a very RI kind of film, in terms of the pacing, ambiguity and sheer intelligence. That was a serious piece of work.
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Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality

Postby David » Sat May 14, 2016 2:32 am

here's a few i liked lately

non-spoiling trailers





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Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality

Postby kelley » Sat May 14, 2016 7:04 am

as a heads up: ben wheatley has directed 'high rise', adapted from jg ballad's novel, and it's been in limited release since the end of april. haven't yet seen this film but it's on my list, and will probably spur a bit of discussion here :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality

Postby kelley » Sat May 14, 2016 1:52 pm

http://artforum.com/film/#entry59954


AS REAL ESTATE BECOMES A LIVING NIGHTMARE in cities like London, New York, and San Francisco, it seems a good time to revisit novelist J.G. Ballard’s fictional nightmare of real estate, High-Rise, recently made into a film by British director Ben Wheatley. A pitch-black social satire typical of its author, the 1975 source novel concerns a state-of-the-art, high-tech apartment building—all mod cons and then some—whose residents quickly slide into violent and sexual depravity, losing touch with the outside world, as its conveniences begin to malfunction.

Ballard was interested in situations where the thin veneer of “civilization” is stripped away from human relations, either by technological developments or natural disasters, revealing the ignoble savage within. As in his unclassifiable, technopornographic 1973 novel Crash, in which “the deviant technology of the car-crash provided the sanction for any perverse act,” the rigorously automated citadel of the high-rise, which “[b]y its very efficiency… took over the task of maintaining the social structure,” left its residents “free to explore any deviant or wayward impulses.” The high-rise was, as one of Ballard’s characters reflects, “a model of all that technology had done to make possible the expression of a truly ‘free’ psychopathology.”

Like many literary authors who flirt with science fiction, Ballard was regarded as a prophet of dystopia, but it is not always acknowledged how prophetic he really was. Contemporary readers of High-Rise will come upon this passage, as accurate a description of ardent social-media users you’re likely to find in a mid-’70s text: “A new social type was being created by the apartment building, a cool, unemotional personality… who felt… no qualms about the invasion of their privacy by government agencies and data-processing organizations, and if anything welcomed these invisible intrusions, using them for their own purposes. These people were the first to master a new kind of late-twentieth-century life. They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never disappointed.” Pressing the point, one of the characters in the film delivers a line that doesn’t appear in the book: “We’re all bio-robots now. None of us can live without the equipment we surround ourselves with—cameras, cars, televisions, phones.”

Superficially, High-Rise can be seen as an adult version of William Golding’s 1954 novel Lord of the Flies (made into a film in 1963), but Luis Bunuel’s The Exterminating Angel (1962) and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) are also cornerstones of its architecture. Taking cues from the Spanish surrealist, Ballard and Wheatley depict the decadence and barbarism of the upper classes as they insulate themselves from the lower-floor residents and “what’s going on at street level,” as one penthouse partygoer contemptuously puts it in the film. There are also echoes of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) in the epic journey a lower-floor resident, coded as coarse and working class, makes to the very top of the high-rise to confront its architect and owner.

High-Rise is Wheatley’s fifth feature, and as with most of his films, its screenplay was written by his wife, Amy Jump, who stays fairly close to the novel, even if she occasionally puts certain characters’ thoughts into other characters’ mouths. The team is known for their mordant wit and mild surrealism, their most effective works to date being the truly shocking three-genre mashup Kill List (2011) and the dark Beckettian farce A Field in England (2013), which is set during the English Civil War and manages to be convincingly psychedelic despite being shot in black-and-white. The set and setting of High-Rise, as well as its tone, suit them well.

Wheatley lacks the cold, nearly inhuman artiness of Nicolas Roeg, slated to direct the film adaptation in the late ’70s, whose sensibility lies somewhere between Kubrick and Antonioni, but he is equipped and prepared to walk the razor-thin lines between humor and violence, prophecy and satire, realism and science fiction that Ballard traces in his novels. Ballard’s signature clinical distance, literally acquired in medical school and evident in his seemingly amoral descriptions of the increasingly appalling tableaux of the building’s degeneration, is honored by Wheatley in the film, leading to matter-of-fact plot points in my notes like “The morning after being raped by Wilder, Charlotte serves him a half-eaten can of dog food on the terrace.”

As with its budget and promotional push, the cast of High-Rise is a step up for Wheatley, though he still finds minor roles for some of his recurring actors. Of the stars, Tom Hiddleston brings his slightly effete, thin-lipped reserve to the role of Robert Laing, a medical school professor whose name is tellingly close to that of R.D. Laing, the unorthodox psychiatrist who theorized that psychotic episodes were legitimate human expressions and might be waystations to more enlightened states of being. Sienna Miller, here a dead ringer for Elizabeth Hurley in the Austin Powers cycle, plays Charlotte Melville, a vampy widow with a young son of mysterious provenance, who sleeps with Laing and other male residents of the building. Reprising his George Sanders–as–zombie role from Margin Call (2011), as a member of the urbane, moneyed undead who only inhabit stratospheric penthouse suites, Jeremy Irons is the building’s architect and “father,” Anthony Royal, whose name—like Laing and Richard Wilder, the story’s avenging id—is a bit too on the nose.

The prominent class-warfare theme of the novel would have made less sense to Americans in the ’70s. It is far more apposite today in a country that, despite its tediously ballyhooed Horatio Alger myth, is now commensurate with the UK in terms of (lack of) social mobility. US audiences will recognize in Irons’s unchecked arrogance and casual sociopathy the demeanor and attitudes of disgraced Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld, the model for the CEO in Margin Call. Toward the end of High-Rise, as the camera scans the concrete desert of the larger development where the building sits, Wheatley cuts in audio of a Margaret Thatcher speech, presumably from her late ’70s rise: “There is only one economic system in this world, and it is capitalism. Where there is state capitalism, there will never be political freedom.” The irony here is that the “freedom” so often lauded by Objectivist sock puppets like Alan Greenspan and Paul Ryan is truly realized in Ballard and Wheatley’s high-rise, a model of totally unregulated private capitalism where the law of the jungle prevails. Ayn Rand, to say nothing of Thatcher, would be proud. Perceptive viewers will detect the underlying message of the film, which couldn’t be more timely: Beware wealthy, self-satisfied men bearing skyscrapers; they will usher in a social system where only the richest and most brutal will survive. It’s gonna be yuge.

— Andrew Hultkrans

High-Rise opens in select theaters on Friday, May 13th.
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Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality

Postby chump » Sun May 15, 2016 5:25 pm

DrEvil » Sun Feb 07, 2016 1:43 pm wrote:
guruilla » Wed Feb 03, 2016 8:47 am wrote:

Highly recommended, esp. to Wombat.


+1 for Marshland. Very good movie.


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Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality

Postby JackRiddler » Sun May 15, 2016 6:40 pm

Kill List, intriguing. Hell of a trailer. The guy hiring the killers looks like a dehydrated Joe Biden.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqkqF--v1tg
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Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality

Postby DrEvil » Sun May 15, 2016 8:56 pm

A couple of french movies:

Maléfique:
Prisoners trying to escape via occult means.


Vidocq:
God knows what it's about, something to do with an alchemist, but it's very stylish.


There's also a movie that I'm always reminded of when I see Kill List mentioned. It's about two killers hired to kill a guy who is more than he seems, but I can't for the life of me remember the title. It's a low budget movie and it has a long scene with the two killers waiting in their victims kitchen, one of them telling a story to pass the time. Anyone know what movie I'm talking about?
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Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality

Postby Cordelia » Sun May 15, 2016 9:12 pm

^^^Haven't seen the film, but familiar with 'The Vidocq Society', thread or mention somewhere in RI I think..........

Veritas Veritatum - The Truth of Truths

The Vidocq Society
was founded in 1990. Philadelphia’s second-in-command U.S. Customs Service Special Agent, a well-known forensic sculptor from Philadelphia, and a prison psychologist from Michigan were the first members.

The trio wanted to establish a venue at which like-minded persons, in and out of forensics, would gather to discuss and debate crimes and mysteries.

http://www.vidocq.org/

edit to add: Vidocq Society and Detective Collectives
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=32756&p=418851&hilit=vidocq+society#p418851
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