I really enjoyed Party and the Guests. I haven't seen A Blonde In Love, but I've been meaning to check out some more Czech films, so I'll add it to my ridiculously long watch list.

That it is - I would highly recommend a Portugese film that they've put out - "Our beloved month of August". It's the sort of film you need to rewatch several times to appreciate it.

Morgiana and O Sangue are also must haves.

Great call outs Nemesis, I must grab Our Beloved Month of August and the Pedro Costa films - I though Juventude em Marcha (Colossal Youth) was pretty mesmerizing...

Have you seen the XXX one? Cum splattered and skanky to say the least.

No. Not sure I'm that interested in seeing it to be honest :)

Is it any good?

Damn, I never got that one, and I love the Golden Age stuff. Must try find a copy. I'd completely forgotten about it actually. Trailer fans should check out the Something Weird sampler as well for some mind boggling trash and treasures... 6 bucks over at Amazonia

I'm not sure how much you've seen Wes, but there's so many more gems. I don't think Second Run has ever put out a disappointing title yet, although Adelheid comes close. Here are my faves in no particular order:

Our beloved month of August
Diamonds of the Night
O Sangue
Valley of the Bees
Marketa Lazarova (took 3 watches before I made sense of anything)
The two Kim Longinotto documentary discs - Divorce Iranian Style/Runaway (seriously good films) and Shinkuku boys/Gaea Girls (I found the latter quite tough)
Blissfully Yours and Tropical Malady (I need to be in a certain frame of mind to watch these though)

I've still got to watch Casa de Lava - but I'm confident with Costa. And I agree - I got the Costa Criterion boxset; MoC's Colossal Youth blows it out of the water in terms of PQ and arguably supplements.

There are a couple of films that look interesting but on the whole it's an almost endless series of cum shots from mainly 1980s porn. One film, the title of which escapes me at the moment, looks great with loads of mannequins and a giant vagina chasing a man up a flight of stairs.

WOW If my missus was away for a month, Id struggle watch that lot! Time never seems to be available, its like Father time knows I have time to spare so puts someone in hospital, or breaks something in the house for me to fix etc

Agree with Dark Shadows, love Tim Burton and his dark mind but this smacked of commercialism. Not watched Hugo BD yet. The Octagon...ha, the old days of VHS!

That's a great list Nemesis, many thanks. Yeah, I've been pretty much sticking to the Eastern European stuff, the Czech and Hungarian stuff (just because funds are always tight), but I love the label so much I feel I could happily blind buy Second Run's catalogue. There's supposedly a stunning Czech Blu of Marketa Lazarova but so far have not found a place to grab it...my Czech being on the rusty side...

I don't know anything about this site, but it has been mentioned on blu-ray.com; it appears to be english friendly:

Markéta Lazarová - BRD | Bontonland.cz

Hope this may be of help.

Update: there's also this one:

VyhledávánÃ* (Terry posters)

Many thanks Nemesis, I'll try to find someone in the office tomorrow to walk me through it. I have the Russian Blu of Andrei Rublev and it's a beauty...

I am also adding another site to my previous post that may be of help.

KILLER JOE - Very impressive. Full of twisted men and women who plot against each other endlessly. Feels much less like a stage play than 'Bug', while the intensity of that film is still present. Moves its black heart along at an effortless pace. Great turns from Matthew McConaughey as psychopathic cop / hired killer and Juno Temple as his waifish ingenue victim. Recommended.
BEREAVEMENT - Prequel to its director's other slasher film. A slaughter house worker kidnaps a child who suffers from an inability to feel physical pain and takes him on as a murder-apprentice. Several killings follow etc. It's nice to see horror done seriously, and this plays as much like a character driven drama as a full on genre piece. Although it ticks a lot of boxes for me (sombre, relentlessly grim, telepathy involving animal skulls), I didn't find it entirely captivating. It's well made and acted, but I sometimes struggled to get into it. Maybe just one of those days. The killer's raison de massacre is pretty good - he dehumanises his victims on the basis of their own inability to empathise with animals.
HOUSE OF WHIPCORD - Speaking of sombre and relentlessly grim, this (sort of) WIP flick from P Walker's horror heyday still delivers for me. The more I see it, the more I feel it actually benefits from not being particularly sleazy or exploitative. It's a hysterically dour melodrama that couldn't have sprung from any other time than the seventies, and I find its central construct, the idea of a mad judiciary that's seperated itself from the world outside, fascinating and disturbing. Sheila Keith is always an intense presence in Walker's films, oozing forboding and venom. Like many of Walker's films it's a concoction of oil and water, with woodeness meeting intensity, interesting ideas rubbing up against cliche and, most strangely, potentially subversive notions mixed in with reactionary ones.

watched remake of the grudge for the first time. usure of it seems to be disjointed in a way and did get lost in it until the cop basicly told you what was going on. certainly not a bad film but feel not a film worthy of what it got in the box office

Decalogue V - Krzysztof Kieślowski (1988)

I was impressed by this very,very dark story. Works on many levels. Great cinema (though it's actually made for TV)

'Hound of the Baskervilles' (1939) Good fun!:)

'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' (1939) Enjoyed this one as well.:)

'Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror' (1942) The series moves from 20th Century Fox to Universal Pictures and is brought out of Victorian England and into contempory (at that time), war time Britain! Not too sure 'modern holmes' works, beyond the current BBC series. Apart from a great in joke revolving around Holmes's Deerstalker hat this came off as less of a movie and more of an old serial with Holmes pitted against the Nazis.:pop2:

'Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon' (1943) Again more of a serial and again pitting Holmes against the nefarious Nazi's although in this one Moriaty returns.:pop2:

I was hoping Lenzi's Spasmo would be on those lines.

THE BAY.

Barry levinson does a found footage film by way of outbreak. Chronicles a deadly waterborne epidemic that breaks out at a 4th of july celebration, very grim depictions of medical horror and surprisingly plausible (froma laymans perspective) I thought this was actually very enjoyable in a grim sort of way.

Had a break from 42nd Street Forever to watch 12 Angry Men. Still expertly made and masterfully engrossing and quite possibly a contender in my top 10 films ever list were I ever forced to make one. Can't imagine Criterion's release will ever be bettered.


The girlfriend's now gone to bed so it's more whiskey and 42nd Street trash and sleaze.

NAKED HUMAN NATURE
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So so films....

Watched Goodfellas the other night and as I was cueing up lines of dialogue in my head for upcoming scenes ("And then there was Pete the Killer, who was Sally Balls' brother"), I made the shocking discovery that this was the first time I was seeing the film on DVD, meaning the last time I saw the film was at least 10 years ago - but the film is so burned on my brain I feel like I've seen it every year...

Anyway, easily Scorsese's best film, the imagery, the dialogue, the music, the epic sweep - all incredible...

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Same here, though I doubt I've seen it in well over 5 years. Can't think of another film packed so full of great moments. One of my favourites is when Scorsese plays the same quick shot of Henry looking out for helecopters twice, to highlight his drug fueled paranoia. Also get George Harrison's 'What Is Life' on the soundtrack in that sequence too, one of my all time favourite songs :cool: . . .

That's a fantastic section of the movie, all those fast cuts, and the pile up of great rock music. George Harrison, Harry Nilson (the great Jump In the Fire) and Jagger's Memo from Turner from Performance. Amazing. Jeez, I'd love to take Martin Scorsese to dinner...

Also the supreme work of Thelma Schoonmaker in full force throughout that whole section. One of my Desert Island films for sure, could watch it on a loop and never get bored . . .

Well said... Schoonmaker's work on Cape Fear is the best thing about that movie which is otherwise a completely disposable Scorsese I think... Someone said to me yesterday that Taxi Driver is better than Goodfellas and while Taxi Driver is one of the finest American films ever made, it could never be a desert island disc. I'd end up wading into the surf to end it all...

Aww I disagree with he disposable part! I love Cape Fear for all it's gaudy technicolour overblown campy hammy beauty! I was hoping Shutter Island would be a return to that style, but I found it pretty dull . . .

I know... I've been shouted down in the past for my harping on about Cape Fear... Yeah, I saw Shutter Island at the pictures and liked it, but have not had the urge to see it again. I thought After Hours and Color of Money were fantastic, two films I never feel there's enough love for...

Not seen The Colour of Money, but After Hours is another of my favourites. Love Scorsese letting loose with the bonkers entertainment. Reckon After Hours would make an awesome double bill with Miracle Mile . . .

Miracle Mile ! All the classics are out tonite, love that movie...one of those films you try to push on your friends. Yeah, After Hours is a great slice of Kafka, it's Scorsese's jazz solo... Damn, I'll have to catch all these at the w/end...

All you MS fans, is Hugo worth picking up?

Oddly sometimes i feel Casino is better than Goodfellas. Or at least as good.

I like CAPE FEAR, whole bits felt like a bit of BAVA homage in terms of color and style.

Just after watching Toxic Zombies.
Oh my god.
Sorry i'm just speechless and i can't write anymore.

Hugo is great and well worth watching in either 2d or 3d. Scorsese actually manages to make the 3d work as well as it ever will. (still not a fan of 3d though) I think casino and goodfellas are on par in terms of quality. I love after hours as well and king of comedy deserves more love. Also don't forget mean streets!

Off work ill:( so spent the day watching movies:

Sherlock Holmes in Washington(1943) Holmes goes after a top secret microfilm in yet another wartime setting.

Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943) Almost a return to the Victorian type of mystery with murder a spooky house and a whodunit!

The Last Exorcism (2010) Some movies should have an extra warning on the box 'Mockumentary / Found Footage / Shakey Camera'. Please NO MORE! Second one in a week!:eek:

The Deadly Spawn (1983) Alien chestbursters star in their own low budget movie! I liked it...whether I see it again?

The Delta Force:) Just realised how much better this film would be if the music was more varied:nod:

Just spent the morning watching Polanski's "The Tenant"

Seen it before, many years ago, but I'd forgotten it

A very disturbing, and highly recommended movie, which raises more questions then it answers

Oh - the director/star makes a very good looking girl as well!!!!

Watched Cold Fish (Shion Sono, 2010) last night. Very slow start but delivers the goods, one of the goriest films I have ever seen. Anyone else given it a whirl yet?

Ta folks!

Showed mates The Tunnel and they were suitably impressed.:)

Might watch The King Of Kong again, as I like a laugh on me birthday cough cough, though the BBC4 doc about the 7" single is calling me.....;);)

Yeah, I watched this a couple of months ago and thought it was excellent. As you say, it's a slow burn, but not without its rewards. I'm definitely going to pick up the Blu-ray at some point.