The Film thread

[dwyhajlo]

Nobody mentioned Invasion of the Body Snatchers or The Thing? What's more paranoid than believing that a loved one has been replaced by a nearly indistinguishable double who is nevertheless not the person you once knew.

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capgras_delusion and

 

[noob in 89]

Ha, yeah, that seems to be trending pretty hard right now, surfacing in Rivka Galchen's debut novel, as well as a couple other recent dramatic works I can't remember.

 

[FlyingMonkey]

That's a nice list. I highly recommend The Lives of Others.

Of films from the last ten years, Michael Haneke's Caché (Hidden) also stands out. But then most of his films do...

 

[dwyhajlo]



Ha, yeah, that seems to be trending pretty hard right now, surfacing in Rivka Galchen's debut novel, as well as a couple other recent dramatic works I can't remember.

I wasn't aware that this was becoming or had become a popular topic, to be honest. Is the Galchen book (just looking at some quick synopses I'm guessing it's Atmospheric Disturbances) worth reading?

 

[noob in 89]

Others think so. I haven't gotten to it yet, still sort of miffed she beat out an e-quaintance for the New Yorker's super-career-making Twenty Under Forty, which as it turns out, is surprisingly haphazard and arbitrary. But yeah, that's the one. It reminds of Lost Highway as well, also based on one of those syndromes, but reading about it kind of sucks away the magic, IMO.

 

[kindofyoung]

Just saw "The Guard", quite liked it

 

[Donut]

Might be late, but Tony Leung in the grail Dries paint splatter shirt.

 

[YOLO EMSHI]

Lots of films from the 70s-80s dealing with paranoia. The Conversation (Coppola) and The Tenant (Polanski) are brilliant and the first that come to mind but there are a lot of others: all the conspiracy thrillers from the 70s (Three Days of the Condor, The Parallax View,...), Rosemary's Baby/Repulsion/Chinatown (Polanski again, always a safe bet), Don't Look Now (Roeg), Brazil (Gilliam), Possession (Zulawski), the Cronenberg stuff etc etc

For more recent stuff there's Safe (Haynes) and yeah The Game is a good one. Pi (Aronofsky) also deserves a mention.

For inexplicable reasons I still can't watch Repulsion at home alone.

 

[YOLO EMSHI]

Since winning the Lifetime Achievement Award, it has me wondering again, why are we so permissive when it comes to Woody Allen?

 

[hennree]



Just saw "The Guard", quite liked it 

Thought it was hilarious

Have you seen 'In Bruges'?

 

[kindofyoung]

No actually, have been meaning to for quite some time but haven't gotten around to it

 

[noob in 89]

Pardon me, but here's a special tie-in from the All New 2014 50 Book Challenge thread, OMG! -- in which you should all (please) be taking glorious part!

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

Fans of Witold Gombrowicz:

After Ferdydurke, I was officially obsessed. A few days ago, I found out there are at least three film adaptations of his work; subsequently, I was stoked.


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This is Pornografia. It was.... It had good scenery. It also deviated from the book in stupid and pointless ways.

I wonder: have any of you seen or can you recommend (or point me to) a Ferdydurke adaptation? I know it's out there! Possibly it's good!

 

[Lionheart Biker]

So I watched "Django Unchained" yesterday. I gotta say it was somewhat entertaining but there was too much overkill and a lot of bad decisions. I didn´t like the random, two second flashbacks. Some gave a little background story but others were pointless. I thought the score was all over the place as well, and the blood, oh the blood. It was fin in "Kill Bill", it went perfectly with the aesthetic, the tone of the story, but seeing jamie foxx shooting next to a body being shot with blood jumping into the air was too much. I don´t mind extreme violence, but this "signature" thing of his could have been left out.

 

[maverickm]

Watched a bit of movies in last 2 weeks:

Mindfuck Movies
1. La Casa Muda
2. Farm House
3. Turn of the Screw (2009) - 1999 will watch next week
4. The Killing Gene
5. The Tortured

And few misc entertainers
6. In The Electric Mist
7. Frozen
8. A Lonely Place to Die
9. Blow Out
10. World War Z
11. Chronicle
12. New Police Story
13. Internal Affairs (Exact same as The Departed)
14. The Fog
15. The Gift

 

[Donut]



Watched a bit of movies in last 2 weeks:
13. Internal Affairs (Exact same as The Departed)

You do know that The Departed is a remake of Infernal Affairs right?