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Old 31st January 2012, 10:51 PM
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Peek a panty everyone! I've just watched Love Exposure, all 4 hour hours of it. What can I say, it's a work of utter genius, I loved it. The last time I was blown away like this was seeing Lindsay Anderson's O Lucky Man, another 3 hour plus, balls out, surreal epic. This is just as good - take a day off and watch both - cinema heaven.
Gotta agree, this is an enjoyably insane piece of cinema that is just so, well.... Japanese. Highly recommended.
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Old 31st January 2012, 10:54 PM
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I gave a rewatch to Valhalla Rising last night.

What a pretentious arty bit of celluloid nonsense it is.

It can easily be summed up as a bunch of hairy blokes sat about staring meaningfully at the horizon for ninety minutes. Things pick up as they set off in a boat, however normality is soon resumed and we then have twenty five minutes of hairy blokes sat in a boat gazing meaningfully out to sea. When the boat arrives in the New World our hardy souls obviously decide the best thing to do is stare meaningfully at the mountains which look pretty simillar to the ones they just left, except in this place you can clearly notice a tarmaced road, they fail to spot this as they are gazing in the other direction.

Mads Mikkelson who you may remember as one of the worst Bond villains ever in Casino Royale plays the hero of the piece, cunningly named One Eye as he has, yes, one eye, this obviously makes him cooler than the other hairy blokes as he only stares at the horizon with one eye.

Fortunately for the viewer the film is broken up into segments.

Act one - mildly interested due to sporadic acts of violence

Act two - mind starts to wander

Act three - off to make a brew

Act four - begin channel surfing / reading teletext

Act five - zzzzzzzzzz

Unfortunately for the viewer director Nicholas Winding Refn throws in occasional shouty acts of violence which prevents you falling into a deep slumber, whilst the bulk of the film is largely dialogue free.
I think you are being generous with your review. It is a cinematic turd of the highest magnitude., and I would rather have my eyes gouged out than have to watch it again.
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Old 31st January 2012, 11:12 PM
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ELVIRA,MISTRESS OF THE DARK,some funny stuff on the first half,totally childish on the second. GOJOE,a retelling the story of Benkei and Yoshitsune with a twist,it was so so really. THE SHOOTING,directed by Monte Hellman,well,nothing really happening,horse riding to an unknown destination for unknown reasons(until the last seconds),very experimental! TWILIGHT ZONE:ROD SELRING'S LOST CLASSICS,two stories written by Serling,the first was ok,the second starring the great Jack Palance was very good and could have work as a feature film too.
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Old 1st February 2012, 10:10 AM
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ROLLING THUNDER (1977) (Blu ray)Still an excellent film.William Devane should've gone on to better things than KNOT'S LANDING.
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Old 1st February 2012, 11:45 AM
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TOMIE UNLIMITED - Newish release from the director of 'Machine Girl' et al. I'm not familiar with the series / Manga, so have little to go on by way of context apart from my exposure to Japanese horror in general. Seems to conform to a certain J-Horror template, one that blends Cronenbergian imagery with putatively supernatural themes, although the latter might be thought to be displaced by metaphysical headf*ckery in this case, another Cronenbergian trope. Whatever. It's certainly very strange and ultimately priveleges warped imagery over narrative, although I say this often in relation to Japanese films of its ilk and then am never very sure as to whether I've missed/misunderstood culture-specific aspects which might render some of the outward bizarreness sensible (intuitively, I somehow think not, though). Also features more than its quota of wrongness... wonder how it would've fared down at the BBFC a decade ago (ie a centipede made up of a recursive sequence of evil daughter's face crawls into skirt of mother). After all this freakery I found myself having to re-watch MAN BITES DOG in an attempt to return to earth. Still for me a brilliant film, love the way it all veers drunkenly (but calculatedly) from the killer's insouciance to social critique to bleak scenes of cruelty that for once really do stick in the throat and honour the attempt at deconstruction (of the complicity of media with violence) offered here. But maybe I'm being too earnest - it works as a blacker than black comedy, that's the way I always approach it. I mean, it's just hilarious, like the bit where the second film crew pops up and... but then, there'll be a really depressing murder and the laughter too will die - wonderful piece of manipulation, ABOUT manipulation. I like the film's harsh monochrome look - verite noir in the ruins of modernity. And I like it all way more than I like Haneke - similar themes, but less evasive.
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I watched Fight for Your Life and found it to be decent, though some scenes where so hysterical and un-PC that they made me laugh.
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Watched Guinea Pig : He Never Dies....charming tale of lust and obsessional behaviour...i found it to echo the work of Strindberg....

Motel Hell....after years of only having a few images in my head, this quirky tale is still very relevant (especially considering the population boom in the last 10 years), i loved this and it joins the other 2000 films in my All time Top 10! great performances, apart maybe from the "heroine" who i found to be a bit stilted....
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Old 1st February 2012, 03:11 PM
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Watched Source Code last night, which wasn't bad at all. Surprised me.

Kind of like Inception but with human warmth!
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Old 1st February 2012, 03:24 PM
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Tried watching White elephant but the fake dubbed supposedly naff english accent they gave Kevin Bacon was so annoying and laughable that i realy couldnt concentrate on the film every time he spoke...Not sure if the film any good but it realy put me off watching it.. stopped it after 15, 20 min..
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Old 1st February 2012, 07:45 PM
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Watched Source Code last night, which wasn't bad at all. Surprised me.

Kind of like Inception but with human warmth!
I enjoyed Source Code but must admit to finding the love story aspect of it a little bit under-developed and a bit ham-fisted. I thought Inception dealt with the emotional narrative so much better.
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