Films I like

Necrophilia and "Vertigo"

"Vertigo" is a film that has been included in the lists of the best films in cinema history.

Synopsis
San Francisco police detective Scottie Fergusson DEVELOPS a fear of heights and is forced to withdraw When a colleague Falls To His Death During a chase. An old college friend (Gavin Elster) hires Scottie to watch His Wife Reportedly Become Madeleine Who has possessed by her ancestor's spirit named Carlotta. Follows Her Scottie around San Francisco and is drawn to Madeleine and her obsession with death. I have unwittingly Becomes a figure in a complex plot, and is Determined to discover the truth behind it all.

The film is based on the screenplay of the novel "D'Entre les Morts" (From Among the Dead) of the French authors Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac.

Nightmare sequence:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCBo1Yg3JsM

The subject of necrophilia main character is explained by its director Alfred Hitchcock in the interview that he does in this video:

The shocking hidden meaning of VERTIGO
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc2s9uSXWKM
 
Thought I would put some films foreword,

Children of Men (2006)

In 2027, in a chaotic world in which women have become somehow infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea. Stars CLive Owen and Julianne moore.

Its from the director of gravity Alfonso Cuaron. very well made film, some of the long shots are truly incredible!

Buffalo 66 (1998) is an indie film starring vincent gallo and Christina Ricci, a personal favourite of mine.

Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry

Tetro (2009) staring Vincent Gallo. Very interesting character films, Tetro was directed by Francis ford Coppola

"Bennie travels to Buenos Aires to find his long-missing older brother, a once-promising writer who is now a remnant of his former self. Bennie's discovery of his brother's near-finished play might hold the answer to understanding their shared past and renewing their bond"
 
STARMAN (1984) U.S.A. Dir.John Carpenter.

Critics Consensus: What initially begins as sci-fi transforms into a surprisingly sweet, offbeat drama, courtesy of John Carpenter's careful direction.

An extraterrestrial crashes to Earth and, to disguise himself, assumes the likeness of a woman's recently deceased husband in this science-fiction drama. The kindly, intelligent alien seeks help from the understandably stunned woman in order to escape government agents and reach a rendezvous with his fellow aliens. ..

www.youtube.com/watch?v=__RzpqMRe7Q

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJsCfnuytEk

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXeuYw2I7-4

Complete film in italian.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrbPMed2-2A
 
The Saragossa Manuscript

This is a very strange Polish movie, a story in a story in a story, etc. You have the fantastic genre with gothic, historical situation and the absurde. Very interesting. Also some macabre and comedy.



The Saragossa Manuscript (Polish: Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie, "The Manuscript found in Zaragoza") is a 1965 Polish film directed by Wojciech Has, based on the 1815 novel The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki. Set primarily in Spain, it tells a frame story containing gothic, picaresque and erotic elements. In a deserted house during the Napoleonic Wars, two officers from opposing sides find a manuscript, which tells the tale of the Spanish officer's grandfather, Alphonso van Worden (Zbigniew Cybulski). Van Worden travelled in the region many years before, being plagued by evil spirits, and meeting such figures as a Qabalist, a sultan and a gypsy, who tell him further stories, many of which intertwine and interrelate with one another.
The film was a relative success in Poland and other parts of communist eastern Europe upon its release. It later also achieved a level of critical success in the United States, when filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola rediscovered it and encouraged its propagation.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saragossa_Manuscript_(film)
 
loreta said:
The Saragossa Manuscript

This is a very strange Polish movie, a story in a story in a story, etc. You have the fantastic genre with gothic, historical situation and the absurde. Very interesting. Also some macabre and comedy.



The Saragossa Manuscript (Polish: Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie, "The Manuscript found in Zaragoza") is a 1965 Polish film directed by Wojciech Has, based on the 1815 novel The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki. Set primarily in Spain, it tells a frame story containing gothic, picaresque and erotic elements. In a deserted house during the Napoleonic Wars, two officers from opposing sides find a manuscript, which tells the tale of the Spanish officer's grandfather, Alphonso van Worden (Zbigniew Cybulski). Van Worden travelled in the region many years before, being plagued by evil spirits, and meeting such figures as a Qabalist, a sultan and a gypsy, who tell him further stories, many of which intertwine and interrelate with one another.
The film was a relative success in Poland and other parts of communist eastern Europe upon its release. It later also achieved a level of critical success in the United States, when filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola rediscovered it and encouraged its propagation.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saragossa_Manuscript_(film)
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Hi Loreta, I did not know there was a movie, thank you ... John Potocki, the author of the novel, made two versions, one in 1804 and a more successful 1810. Potocki is an incredible character. This is one of the oldest and most powerful families of the Polish nobility. Potocki just like Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (fifteenth century), who was Italian humanist philosopher and theologian, wanted to make a synthesis of Aristotle and Plato from the Christian faith, or reconcile liberal arts, philosophy and morality theology, which led to his being regarded as heretical by Pope Innocent VIII. It is also one of the founders of the Christian Kabbalah (or cabal Renaissance philosophical). Mirandola officially never managed to finish his work that brings together all the knowledge. But John Potocki seems to have sources on the work of Mirandola, and quotes from his book. Potocki also visited many countries and regions such as the Pyramids of Egypts and the Pyrenees. It féquente major world and is involved in the arts, sciences and politics. sometimes considered an enemy, sometimes as a hero, he is also the first Polish to rise in a hot air balloon. He gets Accademia science scientific research mission 25 objects, including China, Turquie, Russia and America, where it will epistolary correspondence with Thomas Jefferson.
 
Has anyone seen the movie "1001 faces"

The movie seems interesting. I found this trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2XV_aYZlRM

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I really enjoyed "Powder", from 1995.

A strange young man who changes the lives of those around him in an emotional and mystical drama. The man in question is Powder, a hairless, albino youth who has strange kinetic powers and an incredible mind. After his grandfather's death, he is sent to a school where his abilities get him into trouble.


Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVhha4fjO4k
 
Danny Macaskill Videos:

Way back home
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj6ho1-G6tw

Macaskill's imaginate
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv3xVOs7_No

The Ridge
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ_IQS3VKjA

Cascadia
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL0rbxB9Lqg
 
ABOUT PARALLEL LIVES AND REINCARNATION.

THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE.

French: La double vie de Veronique, Polish: Podwójne życie Weroniki is a 1991 French- and Polish-language drama film directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski and starring Irène Jacob. Written by Kieślowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz.

The film explores the themes of identity, love, and human intuition through the characters of Weronika, a Polish choir soprano, and her double, Véronique, a French music teacher. The two women do not know each other, and yet they share a mysterious and emotional bond that transcends language and geography. The film is notable for Sławomir Idziak's innovative cinematography and Zbigniew Preisner's haunting operatic score. The film was Kieślowski's first to be produced partly outside his native Poland.[1] The Double Life of Veronique won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival for Krzysztof Kieslowski, and the Best Actress Award for Irène Jacob.[2] The film was selected as the Polish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 64th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.[3] From Wikipedia

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlcWrglVZEA



AUDREY ROSE.

Audrey Rose is a 1977 psychological horror and drama film directed by Robert Wise, and starring Marsha Mason, Anthony Hopkins, and Susan Swift. It was based on the novel of the same title by Frank De Felitta. The plot deals with a young girl who is believed by a man to be a reincarnation of his dead daughter.
Ivy Templeton (Susan Swift) is a ten-year-old girl, living with her parents, Janice and Bill Templeton (Marsha Mason and John Beck), in New York City. Her parents notice a stranger stalking them over the course of a few weeks, and discover, over lunch with him, that his name is Elliot Hoover (Anthony Hopkins). Hoover is convinced that Ivy is a reincarnation of his daughter Audrey Rose, who died in a fiery car accident, along with his wife, two minutes before Ivy was born. Hoover had come to believe this through information given to him by two clairvoyant psychics.

Trailers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA472APep1k

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kH5viz8ZFY

I found the whole film in this version, it appears Polish language.
http://www.cda.pl/video/50753060
 
The Sound of Music

A family movie that should be seen and if you saw it, it's worth seeing it again.
The music of rodgers and hammerstein takes the plot to a wonderful dimension

From wiki.
A 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise, and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. The film is an adaptation of the 1959 Broadway musical The Sound of Music, composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. The film's screenplay was written by Ernest Lehman, adapted from the stage musical's book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. Based on the memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp, the film is about a young Austrian woman studying to become a nun in Salzburg in 1938 who is sent to the villa of a retired naval officer and widower to be governess to his seven children.[4] After bringing love and music into the lives of the family through kindness and patience, she marries the officer and together with the children they find a way to survive the loss of their homeland through courage and faith.

Do re mi
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEodUg43Zpo&list=RDPEodUg43Zpo

Do re mi with lyrics
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp0opnxQ4rY

The Lonely Goatherd
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaD9Ozdthg8

So Long Farewell
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy9_lfjQopU

My Favorite Things Julie Andrews Sound of Music
Www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_KfL71yf2Y

The sound of music - My favorite things (children reprise)
Www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrU6e6kvFR8

Clip 3
Www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGABqdbtQnA

Clip 4
Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLm07s8fnzM

Christopher Plummer - Edelweiss - The Sound of Music
Www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMuTDdWXbNo

Sixteen Going On Seventeen
Www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwK_WOXjfc0

Sound of Music - Climb every mountain
Www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoCPuhhE6dw

The Sound of Music Clips aferthe anchlus
Www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FrsFDEy_EY

The Sound of Music - Maria and the Captain dance the Laendler
Www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUfWRBGQkz0
 
The Englishman Who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain.

The Englishman Who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain is a 1995 British film with a story by Ifor David Monger and Ivor Monger, written and directed by Christopher Monger. It was entered into the 19th Moscow International Film Festival[1] and was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.

The film is based on a story heard by Christopher Monger from his grandfather about the real village of Taff's Well, in the old county of Glamorgan, and its neighbouring Garth Hill. Due to 20th century urbanisation of the area, it was filmed in the more rural Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant and Llansilin in Powys. The Welsh Male Voice Choir used to provide background music throughout the film was, in fact, the London-based Gwalia Male Choir (From Wiki)

In this charmingly old-fashioned British comedy, the residents of a Welsh village endeavor to convince a stuffy British official that they do indeed live in the shadow of a mountain, not a hill. The trouble begins in 1917 when cartographer Reginald Anson is sent to Wales to make an official map of its terrain. He winds up in a tiny, anachronistic hamlet where the people do not have surnames, but are identified by their occupations or unusual characteristics. The humble townsfolk are hardworking and proud; especially of their mountain, Ffynnon Garw, which they claim is the first mountain in Wales. Unfortunately, the British government has officially decreed that only points that exceed 1,000 feet in elevation can be designated as mountains. Rotten Tomatoes (edited for not spoil )

Trailers:

The Welsh were Created by Mountains SCENE www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Oq_-Pu3ALM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Oq_-Pu3ALM

| ‘930 Feet’ (HD) - Hugh Grant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM6JsR5-0q4

| ‘Simple Rain’ (HD) - Hugh Grant
Trailer .www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaEUk3vFsss

The Welsh were Created by Mountains SCENE
Trailer….www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaEUk3vFsss

‘Ffynnon Garw’ (HD) - Hugh Grant
Trailer….www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhgSupMuLrs

But Who Measured the First Hill? SCENE
Trailer….www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDA85m3v2TA

Johnny Shellshocked Climbs the Mountain SCENE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiG720gsrOE

We've Broken the Back of It! SCENE
Trailers….www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAUabnHZ6OM

I found it complete but with small format:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTL1Bw0OM8I
 
The Commitments (1991)

Roger Ebert
Alan Parker’s “The Commitments” is a loud, rollicking, comic extravaganza about a rock band from the poorest precincts of North Dublin that decides to play soul music. The organizer of the band is the lean, ingenious Jimmy Rabbitte (Robert Arkins), whose suggestion is greeted with puzzlement by his friends. They like soul music, yes, but they don’t particularly identify with it. Rabbitte’s logic is persuasive: “The Irish are the blacks of Europe. Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland. North Dubliners are the blacks of Dublin.” The movie is based on a novel by Roddy Doyle, a North Dublin school teacher, but it is founded on charm. Parker introduces a Dickensian gallery of characters, throws them all into the pot, keeps them talking, and makes them sing a lot. The result is a movie that doesn’t lead anywhere in particular and may not have a profound message - other than that it’s hell at the top, however low the top may be. But the movie is filled with life and energy, and the music is honest. “The Commitments” is one of the few movies about a fictional band that’s able to convince us the band is real and actually plays together.

The Commitments trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3paf2TLrgsg

mustang sally trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5TQtREyhSM

Bring It On Home To Me. trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI9kGn1XP6Q

Treat her right trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noJDCWOvzFQ

The full movie.
Although the format and the image is not very good, it is worth seeing.

The Commitments (1991) Full Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrrdRRXyGQM

The Commitments Where Are They Now?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS1SM2rWwbc
 
THE ANGEL ON THE RIGHT SHOULDER (Fararishtay kifti rost ) 2002 Tajikistan (Coproductión Tajikistán-Italia-Francia-Suiza)
Director Jamshed Usmonov

SYNOPSIS:

After spending ten years in a Moscow prison, Hamro, a violent and intractable thug, decides to return to his home village in the village of Asht in Tajikistan, upon learning that Halima, his mother, is about to die and is Therefore, that asks him as his last wish to become a good man and remodel the house in which he lives. However, it is soon revealed that this is a ruse devised by the mayor of the town, so that Hamro can pay off his debts. The mother who decides to collaborate in the farce, pretends to be ill and exaggerates her ailments and for this, relies on the mayor himself, as well as a doctor and a nurse who lend themselves to comedy. They even carry out their funeral preparations. However, the affair is complicated when they give Hamro to the little Yatim, a son who fathered without knowing it. Meanwhile, the population is suspicious of the man who abandoned his small offspring and his mother to try his luck in Russia, most likely as a delinquent or drug dealer, and now he is beset by creditors and by Tarzan, the leader of a group Mafia The strange thing is that Hamro, a selfish, cruel and hedonistic man, on discovering deception, has little interest in solving the problems and situations that grow around him. Only a combination of luck and destiny could make the young man find his way in life and discover that the only and the best he has, is the unconditional love of his mother and son he never knew. Hamro is about to discover or reject the angel on his right

trailer https://vimeo.com/3269791

trailer en frances:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51oYwpy8a9c
 
A WOMAN IN BERLIN. Film is base on real live of a Woman during the Second War.The Russians took the city and they are thirsty for revenge,after many of the men saw how the German soldiers killed their families.The German women in order to avoid to be rape for the Russian soldiers,they choose to have sex with only one man and for that they must look for a military of high rank and thus to have his protection.
The movie also shows the human, tender and loyal side of a Russian General towards his beloved.

It is not only a historical film is also about how human beings survives in terrible situations.Really recommendable.

https://youtu.be/kKJqCYLoMq8
 
Best gay movies - the best in LGBT filmmaking

Directors, actors and writers vote for their favourite LGBT movies
By Cath Clarke, Dave Calhoun and Tom Huddleston
Posted: Tuesday November 24 2015

How did we choose the 50 best ever LGBT movies? We asked the experts. Our voters include actors, writers, directors, activists and performers whose work has touched on transgender, lesbian and gay themes. Explore their lists here and tell us what you think.

https://www.timeout.com/london/film/the-50-best-gay-movies-the-best-in-lgbt-film-making
 
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