Films I like

[caballero reyes]

 LORENZO´S OIL (1992) U.S.A. Dir.George Miller.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgu3slXcaMA

[Jason (ocean59)]

WHITE OLEANDER (U.S.A.) 2002 Dir.Peter Kasminski.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An6T_66uHLI&feature=related

POWER TRIP (Rep. of Georgia/ U.S.A.) 2003 Dir.Paul Devlin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPGKgo7WkVQ


POWER TRIP--ROSE REVOLUTION.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9k2L7rzC0E&feature=related

LORENZO´S OIL (1992) U.S.A. Dir.George Miller.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgu3slXcaMA

It may be helpful to post a description of the movies and links. We know that these are movies 'you like' - but that doesn't really tell us anything about the content of the films, or whether others would be interested in watching. Fwiw.

[caballero reyes]

MOTHER AND SON (RUSSIA) 1997 Dir. Aleksander Sokurov.A very touching movie.

Mother and Son (Russian: Мать и сын, Mat i syn) is a 1997 Russian film directed by Aleksandr Sokurov, depicting the relationship between an old, dying mother and her young son. It was Sokurov's first internationally acclaimed feature film, and is the first part of a trilogy that has for its subject matter the study of the drama in human relationships. It is followed by Father and Son (2003), and by Two Brothers and a Sister, the final installment, which is in its preliminary filming stage.

The film opens on two human forms, which soon reveal themselves to be that of a young man and a frail, old woman. They recline in a silence penetrated only by whispers and indistinguishable noises. The young man is the son (Alexei Ananishnov) who is taking care of his exhausted, sick mother (Gudrun Geyer). Her illness is undefined and from time to time causes her great pain as she gasps for air. Her son combs her hair, feeds her, covers her with a coat, and takes her in his arms. She is totally dependent on him as he himself was once totally dependent on her. As the film progresses, the son carries his mother on a long journey, from her sick-bed to her death-bed. It is a circular motion, which travels a long walk through a dream-like landscape in the countryside, along winding dirt roads. At each of their brief stops on the journey is a moment of contemplation, caresses, and tender murmurs. These soft murmurs tell of the mother's love for her son when she was nurturing him and of the son's love for his mother as he opens for her the mysterious path to her death. They progress under the leaden and luminous ski of the Baltic, in totally isolated landscapes. From time to time, there is a far away train or a sail on the sea, emphasizing further their isolation from the rest of the world
They return to the house. The son tenderly lowers his mother into her bed, which now seems to resemble a coffin. Both know that the end is nearing, although he tries to reassure her to the contrary. He leaves her for a time and goes for a long, solitary walk. When he returns, his mother may have died.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q3MbTm9TCU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et1XK0sOUN8

[caballero reyes]

ORLANDO (USA)1992 Dir.Sally Potter.

Session 10 December 1994

Q: (L) So, we all selected certain bodies before we incarnated that would be prime for this programming?

A: Are you ready to be hermaphrodites?

Q: (L) Is that what we are going to be?

A: Wait and see.


Young nobleman Orlando is commanded by Queen Elizabeth I to stay forever young. Miraculously, he does just that. The film follows him as he moves through several centuries of British history, experiencing a variety of lives and relationships along the way, and even changing sex. Written by Phythian

Orlando, a man of ideal nobility starts his search for love, poetry, a place in society and a meaning in life, in and around the court of historical England in the late 16th century. The blessing of eternal life from Queen Elizabeth I enables him a long and deep philosophical quest, accompanied by the features of "noble" English life with a good taste for irony. Both sides of the coin are shown when Orlando, partly fed up and disgusted with how men think and act, returns from his ambassadorship in the Far East as exactly the same person, let alone his sex. Orlando, a woman of ideal nobility continues her journey to realize the truth about life, love, and approaching one's own sex in the late 18th century England. For one who lived four hundred years and haven't aged a day, finding humanity's forgotten need for androgynity as the key to the happiness of her own as well as her daughter's. Sally Potter's adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Orlando not only tells the story on film with brilliant visual design, but also tries to extend the plot as Woolf would have, had she lived to the end of the twentieth century. Written by Adam Dobay


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJlT5j9SEeY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MorOaD61KUI&feature=related

[caballero reyes]

POSSIBLE WORLDS (CANADA- 2000) Dir.ROBERT LEPAGE.

A man moves across space and time to do the right thing for the woman he loves in this sci-fi-tinged fantasy thriller. George (Tom McCamus) is a man who possesses an unusual level of awareness -- he not only understands that people exist in parallel worlds at once, but also is able to experience several of his alternate lives at once, even remembering what happened on one plane of existence while functioning in another. This is as much of a curse as a blessing for George; his wife Joyce (Tilda Swinton) was murdered in one life, and he finds himself thrown from one life to another, in which he encounters Joyce's other lives while he searches for her killer. As we're introduced to George, he's been murdered and his brain has been removed from his body; Berkley (Sean McCann), a veteran police detective, is assigned to investigate the killing with his less experienced partner, Williams (Rick Miller). Berkley and Williams are eventually led to a laboratory run by an eccentric scientist who performs odd experiments on animal brains and studies the effects of sensory deprivation. Meanwhile, George still lives in another parallel world, where he meets Joyce again -- not once, but twice. Possible Worlds was based on the play by John Mighton, who also wrote the film's screenplay. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Session 28 December 1994

A: Expand your mind.

Q: (V) I'm trying to. (L) By what means?

A: Less prejudice.

Q: (L) Bet you never thought you would be called prejudiced, did you? (V) Prejudice about what? I don't think they are talking about blacks and whites... (L) I know, but there are other kinds...

A: The universe is an infinite illusion.

 QUOTE

A: Variable physicality is the key.

Q: (L) What makes the physicality variable?

A: Awareness of link between consciousness and matter.

Q: (L) What is the link between consciousness and matter?

A: Illusion.

Q: (L) What is the nature of the illusion?

(T) That there isn't any connection between consciousness and matter. It is only an illusion that there is. It is part of the third density...

A: No. Illusion is that there is not.

Q: (L) The illusion is that there is no link between consciousness and matter.

A: Yes.

Q: (T) The illusion is that there is not a link. In third density...

(L) I got it!

(T) Don't disappear on me now! [Laughter] The relationship is that consciousness is matter.

A: Close. What about vice versa?


Session 23 December 1994

Q: (L) How many lifetimes have DM and S__ had together?

A: 59.

Q: (L) Well, that's high. (D) Let me tell you something, the last time I killed her...

A: Twins.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3jk6WiP6Y4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cknb4pXBWJw&feature=relmfu

[caballero reyes]

MONKEY BONE (2001--- USA)Dir.Henry Sellick.


Q: (L) Is there a difference between essence beings and incarnate beings?
A: Yes.

Q: (L) So we have a distinct difference. Okay, who were the ant/fly beings she described?
A: Her essence too.

Q: (L) And what were those snakey, slug-like beings that she saw?
A: Same.

Q: (L) Are you saying that all of this stuff is who she is? All of these horrible creatures and these..
A: In some of the alternate realities.

This feverishly energetic comedy combines stop-motion animation and live action from director Henry Selick, creator of The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) and James and the Giant Peach (1996). Brendan Fraser stars as Stu Miley, a cartoonist who created a randy monkey character called Monkeybone that has taken off in popularity, making him a celebrity. Stu's set to launch a TV series based on Monkeybone and marry his beautiful fiancée Julie (Bridget Fonda) when he's injured in a freak accident that puts him in a coma. He travels to Dark Town, a holding area for the comatose who wait to either regain consciousness or move on to the afterlife with the help of Death (Whoopi Goldberg). Dark Town is also a realm where fictional characters reside and before long Stu has met the vulgar Monkeybone, who travels back to the land of the living to inhabit Stu's body. Aided by Kitty (Rose McGowan), Stu must find a way to reclaim his body and put Monkeybone back in his place before the raunchy primate ruins his charmed life. Monkeybone is based on the cartoon graphic novel Dark Town by Kaja Blackley. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abg1G2mt_tQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y38ehcpRBIs

[Goemon_]

I highly recommend "The Company Men"(2010) with Ben Afflick, Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Cooper and Kevin Costner. No other movie I've seen in years ("Up in the Air", "Glengarry Glen Ross") shows the realism and betrayal of employees in corporate downsizing and the cascading financial disaster quite like this. It brought back all the painful emotions of the day I was, long ago, fired from a large company and before I went to work for myself.

There is also "Violence des échanges en milieu tempéré" de Jean-Marc Moutout with Jérémie Reignier and Laurent Lucas.

[caballero reyes]

"DENISE CALLS UP" (1995 USA) Dir.Hal Salwen.

Denise Calls Up is an American comedy released by Sony Pictures Classics in 1996.[1] Written and directed by Hal Salwen, it has an ensemble cast which includes Liev Schreiber, Timothy Daly, and Alanna Ubach. The plot revolves around a group of friends in New York City who, while working at their PCs and laptops and keeping in touch by phone and fax, never seem to be able to get together.

Linda (Aida Turturro) wakes up one morning to her ringing phone. Her friend, Gale (Dana Wheeler Nicholson) wants to know how her party went last night. To her dismay, Linda tells her that no one showed up. "Not a one." Thus begins Denise Calls Up, the story of seven friends living in New York City who no longer find it necessary to actually meet face to face due to the new age of the internet and wireless phones. But Gale is less upset about the absolute absenteeism, than about the fact that her friend Barbara (Caroleen Feeney) never got to meet Jerry (Liev Schreiber). Gale has been trying to set them up. So she calls Barbara, chastising her for not making it to Linda's and goading her into meeting Jerry. After protesting that she's just been too busy, Barbara eventually acquieces. Meanwhile, Denise (Alanna Ubach), who has gotten pregnant by an anonymous sperm insemination, locates the donor, Martin (Dan Gunther) and decides to call him. And so it goes, as the characters, via phone and fax, duck and miss each other time after time, using one excuse after the other to avoid meetings, births, and even a funeral until, finally, Frank (Tim Daly) determined to finally get everyone together, plans a New Year's Eve party. All swear that they will be there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKM5mOuWAY8

[Goemon_]

That looks interresting... but expensive. I have order the american VHS but i'm not sure I will be able to play it with my equiment.

[caballero reyes]

Hi, Goemon. You or somebody for you, can makes a transfer from VHS format to CD, is not expensive this way to get a copy of your favorites movies.There are another ways to watch good movies in tv cable, for example. Here in mexico, there are two cultural channels by cable:CONACULTA channeL 22 (consejo nacional para cultura)and POLITECNIC channel11. It is a good way to use our taxes.If you live in France will be more easy for you, I think, becauce france have a great tradition in cultural movies, if theres is a cultural service they can allow, like here, to get copy of some of these movies that are considered culturals.

[SeekinTruth]

As this thread already exists, here are some of my favorite movies. I found a bunch of my favorites on youtube so you can watch the whole film in each case. These are films that, in my opinion, excel in all important aspects of filmmaking. Although, like any really good films, the best experience would be to see them projected on the big screen from a great quality print, as in most of these cases it would be next to impossible for most people, I think you'll still get a somewhat decent idea of what a full cinematic experience would be.

"Blonde Venus" (1932) Starring Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Cary Grant. Directed by Joseph von Sternberg. Drama about a family -- mother, father, and young child -- in which the father is suffering from radiation related illness due to his work as a chemist. The plot revolves around how his wife gets money to send him to Germany for a cure and the fall out from it.

Part 1 of 9 (follow each next part from youtube)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeZgsOAZp8A



"Shanghai Express" (1932) Starring Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong. Directed by Joseph von Sternberg. Drama about a group of people traveling to Shanghai on the Shanghai Express during civil war in China. Plot revolves around revolutionaries/spies and the personal relationship of the two main characters (though it's kind of an ensemble cast) and the issue of trust/faith.

Part 1 of 8 (follow each next part from youtube)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r-dinTpvlk



"Morocco" (1930) Starring Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, Adolphe Menjou. Directed by Joseph von Sternberg. Drama about a musical performer who falls in love with a soldier in the French Foreign Legion in Morocco and a very wealthy and magnanimous third man who wishes to marry her.

Part 1 of 9 (follow each next part from youtube)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiBoH1bXpwQ



"In the Soup" (1992) Starring Steve Buscemi, Seymour Cassel, Jennifer Beals. Directed by Alexandre Rockwell. -- **Warning: adult language / profanity and brief nudity (breasts)** A very offbeat comedy, with a great sense of the absurd. A young filmmaker trying to make his first feature film meets a shady character (and his circle) who takes him on a wild roller coaster ride.

Part 1 of 10 (follow each next part on youtube)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POuYsb3Kyvc


As in any great film, the plot may be great or just OK, but the way the story is told and all aspects of the filmmaking contribute to the whole being greater than its parts (many great films would have been nothing special if the same script was given to a lesser director to make, being just a run-of-the-mill melodrama, or really silly or stupid, etc. -- one of the signs in my opinion of an outstanding director), so I gave the bare necessity of what the plots are about, but don't want to give too much away and no really great film can have a synopsis that does it justice anyway. If I find any other of my favorite films in full on youtube, I may add more. Enjoy.

[loreta]

SeekinTruth! "In the soup" is one movie I saw one day at tv, in Spanish and I always wanted to see it again in English but I did not remember the title! Now I can see it again thanks to you. I remember I found the movie very funny, and I love Steve Buscemi, I always love him in all the movies he plays (he play in Fargo) and I think he is so good... He plays also in some chapters of The Sopranos... Wow. I will see this movie today. 

(I need to see an absurd comedy because the situation here, in Spain, is becoming absurd. Thank you!)

[SeekinTruth]

You're welcome loreta. Enjoy it. It IS really funny and absurd. And it's one of those movies that's really hard to find for some reason, so I was pleasantly surprised to find the whole movie on yt. Probably the fourth time I watched it, and I did watch the whole thing again, but I hadn't seen it for twenty years or so. By the way, there's two versions of the film, black & white and color, and the one on yt is the black & white version which is much better. Oh, and I actually watched the credits at the end and it turns out that I know 3 crew members that worked on it -- 1 that worked on a film of mine in 1990 and 2 that worked on a film of my girlfriend at the time in 1992, but I never knew they were on the crew of this film.

[loreta]

You're welcome loreta. Enjoy it. It IS really funny and absurd. And it's one of those movies that's really hard to find for some reason, so I was pleasantly surprised to find the whole movie on yt. Probably the fourth time I watched it, and I did watch the whole thing again, but I hadn't seen it for twenty years or so. By the way, there's two versions of the film, black & white and color, and the one on yt is the black & white version which is much better. Oh, and I actually watched the credits at the end and it turns out that I know 3 crew members that worked on it -- 1 that worked on a film of mine in 1990 and 2 that worked on a film of my girlfriend at the time in 1992, but I never knew they were on the crew of this film.

Yes, I was surprised to see it in black and white, I had the impression that the version I saw was in color. Now you have answer my doubts.

This type of movies, small movies with a relatively low budget, are my favorites. This movie reminds me another type of films, for example the movies of Jim Jarmusch. Lately I saw Coffee and cigarettes, that I love it very much but that my husband hate completely saying that is too banal. But I like banality, normality, I like to see the actors playing this banality that in fact surround us every day if you think about it. Cause banality is very near, sometimes, with absurdity.

Here are some scenes of Coffee and cigarettes, that surely many of you know!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxYRsqkRS_k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhNyafL1cm4&feature=related

This is my favorite sketch (because of Tom Waits):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49tTzEifY6M&feature=related

[caballero reyes]

« Reply of Seekin Truth#40 on: June 07, 2012, 02:55:52 PM »

"Blonde Venus" (1932)

"Shanghai Express" (1932)

"Morocco" (1930)

I watched the three movies of marlene Dietrich, It's a full journey of entertainment if you could watch them the three in a row.

 "In the soup", I haven't seen it yet.