[SA Chris]

After the 'My Neighbour Totoro' recomendations on here I set the digibox to record it and got around to watching it the other night.  What a fantastic film! absolutely brilliant and it left a warm feeling inside....

Have you seen Spirited Away yet? Similar but better.

[Nibile]

lord of the rings
  sorry

[Nibile]

maybe off topic again but, ive recently seen two absolutely brilliant surf movies.
surf movie reels 1-14
and litmus.

fuckin great. cant wait to go on a surf trip with my renewed van, the portable dvd player i was given for xmas, and the movies to get even more psyched before the session.

[Stubbs]

Film trailer cross post.

Am looking forward to this a lot!

[Falling Down]

Falling Down - I saw Grizzly Man a few months back. Didn't you think Herzog was a bit eerie? I spent quite some time trying to master an impression of him from the scene where he is listening to the tape. The whole thing weirded me out actually.

Yeah - I thought the whole thing was eerie... lots of very odd people and lots of stuff unsaid.  Quite uncomfortable viewing really.

Nibs - Have you seen Glass Love?  Andrew Kidmans follow up to Litmus... it's really good.

[unclesomebody]

I watched Old Joy last week and have since been mulling it over. Thinking about what I have to say about it. I'm still not entirely sure, but it's a film I thoroughly enjoyed. I suppose it's along the lines of other films I've recommended. It's an independant film, no crazy storylines, no special effects. Just well shot, simple, spartan, film. It's a film that doesn't tell you so much as what it let's you tell yourself. It's just a film that I really liked. I am recommending it on the merit that I think it's truly wonderful. I know plenty of people who would disagree and most likely fall asleep. I just view them as uneducated moron's though. 

Find it if you can, it might be showing at a cinema near you. I downloaded a copy.

[Jim]

did you get the kvcd version? I am after the .avi file now I have got my media player

[unclesomebody]

Here is a trailer, because after I thought about it, I didn't actually say much about the film.

I got a really good DVD copy from a private torrent site.

[dontfollowme]

Here is a trailer, because after I thought about it, I didn't actually say much about the film.

I got a really good DVD copy from a private torrent site.

This looks great, cheers for the heads up. 

[Jim]

Went to see Babel last night at he cornerhouse.
I thought it was excellent and would highly recomend it

[Will Hunt]

I saw Blood Diamond. That was very good indeed.

[andy_e]

Went to see Babel last night at he cornerhouse.
I thought it was excellent and would highly recomend it

Really? I thought it was crap, the storylines only just fitting together...

Hot Fuzz is fucking brilliant. Go and see it!

[Mike Tyson]

Blast from the past, I am currently watching Point Break, classic!

[Duma]

a scanner darkly - one louder, as it were.

[dontfollowme]

Blast from the past, I am currently watching Point Break, classic!

Was this after seeing Hot Fuzz? I saw Hot Fuzz at the weekend and it was a great film.

[Stubbs]

Im adding my support to the Hot Fuzz bandwagon - great film.   

[Nibile]

american history x.

i really liked it even though it left me a bit sad.

[Houdini]

Am History X!  Yikes!  What a shocking piece of cinema this is.  That shower scene...  Ye Gods!

[Somebody's Fool]

It's the kerbstone scene that my long term memory took from that film.  Grim.

[Nibile]

 
something to remember.

[Paz]

I can't remember either, and from what you're all saying. I'm glad of that. 

To follow up on someone's Ong Bak recommendation a long long time ago, Warrior King/ Tom Yung Goom (sp!) with Tony Jaah is indeed also awesome I've decided.  Maybe even slightly better.  It combines revenge/ rescue motivated Muay Thai violence with Elephants - two of my favourite things in the world to see in a film, so it's a big thumbs up from me. 

[Pemb]

I watched Warrior King a few weeks ago and was well impressed with the stunts and fight scenes so big thumbs up from me as well. That guy certainly loves his elephants that’s for sure!

[Paz]

I really love the long fight scene in the restaurant in Warrior King, it's like a 5,6, 7 minute take with no CGI.  Massive hit rate.  Think they got one of those steady cams they use to film the Golf. 

Thought I'd just give everyone else the head's up that while on a Mother's day Mission for Walnut Whips that required straying away from my normal haunts of Asda, Aldi and Lidl I came across the following DVDs going for like between £5 and £7 in Sainsbury's:

Ong Bak
Spirited Away
Howl's Moving Castle
Amelie
Old Boy

plus a couple of other non-Hollywood martial arts type sword films that I'll check out.  Shameless plug (I don't work for them), but they don't look like going up at my local ponce shops (sorry arts cinemas) or on film four and they've all been recommended on here (apart from Amelie but that's sweet trust me). This is way cheaper than I've seen them online (even before valentines day) or in borders /waterstones specialist foreign film shops/ other ponce factories. 

Has anyone recommended Kung Fu Hustle?  It's a CGI one but with humour and an ace sound track.  Essential viewing.

[SA Chris]

Spritied Away has been on Film4 a few times, along with Nausicaa, Kiki's Delivery Sevice and Porco Rosso (and possibly others).

I think Tommy TT and others recommended Kung Fu Hustle when it was on general release.

[BenF]

I think Tommy TT and others recommended Kung Fu Hustle when it was on general release.

Word to the KFH tip and indeed to Shaolin Soccer - a really funny film I thought. 

On a similar Asian film vibe, Infernal Affairs and Infernal Affairs 2 are both utterly fantastic if you like triad gang thrillers with clever twists and intelligent writing.  I could draw a simile with the Godfather series, but that would be a bit lame so I won't!

There is a third part to this epic series, but I haven't seen it yet.  I hope it is as well written, shot, acted and styled as the first two parts.  Both heavily recommended by me (admittedly not exactly Barry Norman though)