What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[keirarts]

DEATH WATCH.

In Bertrand Taverniers sci-fi thriller, Harvey keitel's character Roddy has cameras implanted in his eyes so he can follow Teminally ill Ketherine (romy schneider) for reality tv programme Death Watch.

Tavenier locates the action at first in the streets of 70's glasgow, which manages to evoke a run down urban hell (though in the interests of fairness, the last time I visited it It looked lovely) of ruined buildings and urban decay amongst litter strewn tenement buildings. The future in this film is pretty bleak, teachers are being replaced by computers, unemployment is rife and all popular culture is created by computer in order to appeal to the broadest possible audience. Shops are large warehouse like complexes piled high with cheap packaged goods and the audience stare blankly at televisions that broadcast intrusive sould destryoying reality TV. Death watch is made for this world.

So not really that far removed from today really.

Death watch is a wonderful and very humanitarian piece of film making and deserves to be watched, be warned though its not the happiest film ever made either and left me feeling blue.

Also HARRY DEAN STANTON is in it as the crooked tv executive and he's great. Look out for his office with some amazing posters for cult movies like masque of the red death and a huge mickey mouse phone!

[Frankie Teardrop]

Originally Posted by keirarts

DEATH WATCH.

In Bertrand Taverniers sci-fi thriller, Harvey keitel's character Roddy has cameras implanted in his eyes so he can follow Teminally ill Ketherine (romy schneider) for reality tv programme Death Watch.

Tavenier locates the action at first in the streets of 70's glasgow, which manages to evoke a run down urban hell (though in the interests of fairness, the last time I visited it It looked lovely) of ruined buildings and urban decay amongst litter strewn tenement buildings. The future in this film is pretty bleak, teachers are being replaced by computers, unemployment is rife and all popular culture is created by computer in order to appeal to the broadest possible audience. Shops are large warehouse like complexes piled high with cheap packaged goods and the audience stare blankly at televisions that broadcast intrusive sould destryoying reality TV. Death watch is made for this world.

So not really that far removed from today really.

Death watch is a wonderful and very humanitarian piece of film making and deserves to be watched, be warned though its not the happiest film ever made either and left me feeling blue.

Also HARRY DEAN STANTON is in it as the crooked tv executive and he's great. Look out for his office with some amazing posters for cult movies like masque of the red death and a huge mickey mouse phone!

Thanks for reminding me of this one, I really need to check it out.

[JoshuaKaitlyn]

Santa Claus (1898)

http://www.cult-labs.com/forums/memb...tml#post309946

[Linbro]

Watched Argento's 'Deep Red' this afternoon. Film was very good, but I kept having audio issues - it would switch from the English track, to the Italian with subtitles. It would then switch back when the next chapter started. Happened about six times. Very distracting. Is this a known issue with the Arrow BD?
Lincoln.

[PaulD]

Originally Posted by Linbro

Watched Argento's 'Deep Red' this afternoon. Film was very good, but I kept having audio issues - it would switch from the English track, to the Italian with subtitles. It would then switch back when the next chapter started. Happened about six times. Very distracting. Is this a known issue with the Arrow BD?
Lincoln.

The longer cut of the film switches to Italian audio at some points because the English audio was always missing/ never recorded.

[Linbro]

Many thanks for clearing that up, Paul.

[keirarts]

Originally Posted by Frankie Teardrop

Thanks for reminding me of this one, I really need to check it out.

The uk blu-ray release looks fantastic.

[PaulD]

Catfish - seen it before but felt like a rewatch. Still an interesting documentary although the questionable authority of the filmmakers is a problem. Some scenes are clearly set-up and not captured on the spot as suggested, which isn't to say they didn't happen but does make it harder to fully believe what you're seeing.

Prom Night - the original. Fairly dull, plodding slasher bereft of scares or decent setpieces and with a predictable ending. I genuinely believe if this film didn't star Jamie Lee Curtis it'd have no reputation at all

[keirarts]

Originally Posted by PaulD

Prom Night - the original. Fairly dull, plodding slasher bereft of scares or decent setpieces and with a predictable ending. I genuinely believe if this film didn't star Jamie Lee Curtis it'd have no reputation at all

No love for the disco scene at least?! I enjoy prom night but it's definately aged badly.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

I had a look at the Microsoft Access database I keep to record everything I watch and last year I watched 1076 films (including duplicates), watching 76 of them with commentaries.

Including commentaries, I have seen 21 so far this year – three a day.