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Old 24th January 2012, 08:40 PM
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SISTER STREET FIGHTER - HANGING BY A THREAD. Another hugely,enjoyable slice of Etsuko Shiomhi. As she slices and dices her way through another collection of weird and wonderful comic-book style martial arts villains. Also stars a young Yasuaki Kurata.

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Old 24th January 2012, 08:41 PM
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I just watched the Exterminator such a great film gotta go and order the Blu Ray now.
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Old 25th January 2012, 02:31 AM
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recent viewings....

ABDUCTION: Pretty average teen action film starring Taylor Lautner as the kid that former russian black ops soldiers are looking for so they can use him as leverage to get his father (who he doesn't know and happens to be a spy) to hand over a database of names of people who have sold info to the other side. Pretty much your average chase movie with retard face as the main star. Uninspired but if you have 106 minutes free, it's not a bad switch off brain film.

WARRIOR: absolutely brilliant film that focuses on two estranged brothers who both enter an MMA contest. Much more in here than that mini plot synopsis though as the story of their pasts and the relationship with their alcoholic father beats in the background of all the face bashing. Top turns from everyone involved, Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton and especially Nick Nolte who has been nominated for an oscar for this. Highly recommended.
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Old 25th January 2012, 05:02 AM
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Went to the GFT last night to see the 'new digital print' of one of my favs - Herzogs Nosferatu. It looked great, a few degraded scenes but leaps and bounds over the Anchor Bay DVD - amazing detail and colour, will always be a slightly gauzy looking movie but I loved this transfer. Queston is are these new prints (Aguirre and Fitzcarraldo have also been on) indicators of blu rays down the line? (I know there's a French one but it's not even German friendly never mind English) Surely if they've gone to the trouble of digitally restoring these films they'll be blu rayed? A program of Herzog's 70s/80s classics in Hi Def would be my dream, even moreso than the Universal Monsters and Hammer and I'm desperate enough for those.
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Old 25th January 2012, 08:56 AM
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Went to the GFT last night to see the 'new digital print' of one of my favs - Herzogs Nosferatu. It looked great, a few degraded scenes but leaps and bounds over the Anchor Bay DVD - amazing detail and colour, will always be a slightly gauzy looking movie but I loved this transfer. Queston is are these new prints (Aguirre and Fitzcarraldo have also been on) indicators of blu rays down the line? (I know there's a French one but it's not even German friendly never mind English) Surely if they've gone to the trouble of digitally restoring these films they'll be blu rayed? A program of Herzog's 70s/80s classics in Hi Def would be my dream, even moreso than the Universal Monsters and Hammer and I'm desperate enough for those.
which version of nosferatu? the anchor bay dvd has two different prints. Either way though I'll definately upgrade to blu-ray for herzogs back catalouge!
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Old 25th January 2012, 09:39 AM
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Either way though I'll definately upgrade to blu-ray for herzogs back catalouge!
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Old 25th January 2012, 09:54 AM
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I'll definately upgrade to blu-ray for herzogs back catalouge!
Same here.

Last night, I watched the Region A Women in Cages Collection (Big Doll House, The Big Bird Cage, Women in Cages). The Jack Hill ones are great with some bizarre humour to go with the tougher aspects of the films but Women in Cages has none of the humour and is a really bleak and tough film with Pam Grier as an incredibly sadistic lesbian matron with a mediaeval torture chamber!
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Old 25th January 2012, 10:47 AM
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Another triumph for blu ray - Manhunter...As for the movie - one of the best procedurals of all time, the scene where Graham twigs about the cine film still sends prickles up my spine. And the tiger scene. And the flaming wheelchair. And Iron Butterfly at the end. Tom Noonan and William Peterson - perfect and not forgetting Brian Cox as Lecktor. To sum up - what a movie! buy this blu!
On a par with Skynyrd at the end of 'The Devil's Rejects' I think
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Old 25th January 2012, 11:20 AM
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which version of nosferatu? the anchor bay dvd has two different prints. Either way though I'll definately upgrade to blu-ray for herzogs back catalouge!
It was the original German rather than the English version. Slightly longer I think - there were a couple of scenes I didn't remember but that could just be incipient senility.

Meant to say, (probably a different thread this) but I think Kinski's performance in this movie is tied with Karloffs Frankenstein as horror's greatest ever performance - they are both incredible at portraying something completely alien yet somehow sympathetic, even tragic.
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Old 25th January 2012, 04:40 PM
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To be honest I can't remember hearing that line and it was the theatrical cut I watched - wouldn't swear it wasn't there though, I might've missed it.
Sorry not to be more help!
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