What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I've yet to see Avatar. I bought it with shopping the day it came out for £5.

I may never watch it.

Whilst I'm all for stating how much of a wise choice that is, I'd never intentionally dissuade anyone from checking a film out (no matter how much I hated it) because: different strokes for different folks and all that.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Pandora's Box (1929)

Brilliant German silent film in which Louise Brooks plays a prostitute who marries one of her clients, is then convicted of shooting him but escapes during her trial and flees to London where she lives in squalor and is driven back to prostitution before she is eventually murdered by Jack the Ripper.

The film that made the delightful Brooks a worldwide star. Despite a decidedly grim story line the film is a superb watch and i was captivated by Brooks' multi dimensional performance. Had i been able to hear what she was saying i'd no doubt have floated away on a dream cloud. She is that good. In fact it's testament to both her and the rest of the cast that the film doesn't need that many speech cards to convey emotions and the plot line.

Pandora's Box is moodily lit and mischievously sexy and a fine example of German Expressionism. Wonderful stuff.

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

It really is excellent isn't it.

Plus: Louise Brooks...

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

It really is excellent isn't it.

Plus: Louise Brooks...

I could watch it again already. The 131 minutes flew by.

There's an hour doc on Brooks on the dvd, presented by Shirley MaClaine which i'll watch tonight. Louise and Shirley is a real win win .

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I could watch it again already. The 131 minute flew by.

Have you seen Diary of a Lost Girl? Whilst not as good as Pandora's Box, in my opinion, I'd definitely recommend it.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

Have you seen Diary of a Lost Girl? Whilst not as good as Pandora's Box, in my opinion, I'd definitely recommend it.

I haven't. Last night was the first time i've had the privilege of watching her.

I'll have to buy it. There doesn't seem to be an awful lot of her work on disc going off Amazon. just those two in fact.

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I haven't. Last night was the first time i've had the privilege of watching her.

I'll have to buy it. There doesn't seem to be an awful lot of her work on disc going off Amazon. just those two in fact.

No, there isn't much of her work available on disc unfortunately.

I think Miss Europe has had a release via Kino in the US but may be OOP.

[iank]

Dead Heat. Treat Williams and Joe Piscapo are a pair of maverick cops (are there any other kind in the movies?) who fall into the strangest case of their lives when two uber-violent jewellery store thieves killed in the robbery turn out to have already been dead. The investigation leads to a suspicious tech/drug company, where Williams himself is killed - and then reanimated, and the two set out to expose the mystery and defeat zombie henchmen to get to the real villain of the piece. Haven't seen this flick for decades. Vincent Price and Kolchak's Darren McGavin co-star in the kind of utterly barking, utterly gratuitous, wildly imaginative and wildly OTT flick that could only have come out of the 80s! Great fun.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

I only watched Pandora's Box because it was on the 1001: Movies You Must See before You Die list, something I'm working my way through the moment, and thought it was brilliant, so much so that I really want to buy the DVD once I've worked through the rather large watchlist I have.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

I only watched Pandora's Box because it was on the 1001: Movies You Must See before You Die list, something I'm working my way through the moment, and thought it was brilliant, so much so that I really want to buy the DVD once I've worked through the rather large watchlist I have.

I've just checked, and Diary of a Lost Girl was another watched because it's on the list, and another brilliant movie.