Films I like

[Goemon_]

There I think it is the same movie. VHS in sale, in Brazil again here : _http://produto.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-431355768-vhs-legendado-a-prisioneira-do-amor-vitorsvideo-_JM

and in England but unavailable : https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Bridge-Saskia-Reeves/dp/B000PGLVNO

But that means the VHS does exist and even on DVD : http://anthonyhiggins.narod.ru/EN/1990_en/bridge.html

 

[Deleted member 8431]

My favorite movie of all times is The Matrix Trilogy without any hesitation.

I've seen it countless times and the more I gain knowledge, the more 'messages' I can find in the movies.

Awesome stuff!

 

[loreta]

There I think it is the same movie. VHS in sale, in Brazil again here : _http://produto.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-431355768-vhs-legendado-a-prisioneira-do-amor-vitorsvideo-_JM

and in England but unavailable : https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Bridge-Saskia-Reeves/dp/B000PGLVNO

But that means the VHS does exist and even on DVD : http://anthonyhiggins.narod.ru/EN/1990_en/bridge.html

Goemon, thank you again for your help. One day, I am sure, I will find in a store of second hand the VHS of the music disc. For now I live to far away, in a country lost in the time. :P But when I return to civilization I will see. I will check at Amazon, now I have more information than the other day. My husband will be very surprised to see that this movie is a little known. We were sure that nobody, and when I say nobody it means nobody, knew this film. Ay, I am very happy. Thanks!

Edit: your first link does not work but the title, I think, is from another movie, very rare also: A Slave of Love by a very known Russian director, Mikhalkov. But this movie in particular, as The Bridge, is extremely rare also. A Slave of Love is also a very beautiful movie about a group of artists that made romantic movies during the Bolshevik civil war. A Slave of Love is the title of one of their movies. The story tells also the wake up of an actress that suddenly, when she meets a revolutionary, wants to help him. It is a very hard movie against fascism, totalitarianism. And the actress is the symbol, in this movie, of Liberty. The movie asks also the role of the artist when confronted with dictatorship. What is the position of the artist in this particular moment of the History? Does the artist have to take a side? What does an artist can do in front of the Beast?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Mikhalkov#Filmography

 

[caballero reyes]

" JAMES' JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM " (Israel) 2003. Dir. Ra' Anan Alexandrowicz.



Ra'anan Alexandrowicz's film, shot in unpretty video, is about the moral conflict between religious idealism and the crude materialism of the modern world. James (Siyabonga Melongisi Shibe), a devout young African Christian, is sent to Israel on a pilgrimage, but is taken for one of the many illegal migrants who come to that country looking for work. He winds up living in a cramped apartment with other immigrants, who are hired out for menial labor by a businessman named Shimi (Salim Daw). The contrast between James's guilelessness and the duplicity and corruption of Israeli society is a bit heavy-handed, as is the story of James's material rise and spiritual fall. But Mr. Shibe is a smart and subtle actor who draws you into his character's predicament, and at its best the film has the sad, generous glow of genuine humanism. — A. O. Scott


http://mubi.com/films/james-journey-to-jerusalem


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwJbxhaeLf4

 

[emmanuel]

Zatoichi (2003) - Takeshi Kitano. The blind masseur/swordsman comes to a town in control of warring gangs, and while bunking with a farming family, he meets two women with their own agenda.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F_zjwDPLPk

Blueberry (2004) - Jan Kounen. Alledged wayward adolescent Louisiana gentleman Michael 'Mike' Blueberry is dumped by his family with a Wild West uncle. The brute's only 'motivation' is a stick. After a nearly fatal encounter in the brothel with Wallace 'Wally' Sebastian Blount, Mike is left for dead in the desert. A Chiricuahua (Apache) medicine man's family finds, nurses and initiates him. After the shaman's death, Mike returns and becomes the town's honest 'deputy' marshal. Gold fever strikes, with staged Indian brutalities to allow rivaling fiends to invade their sacred mountains. Beautiful music and photography.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZWkejObSj0


Le herrison (2009) - Mona Achache. Paloma is a serious and highly articulate but deeply bored 11-year-old who has decided to kill herself on her 12th birthday. Fascinated by art and philosophy, she questions and documents her life and immediate circle, drawing trenchant and often hilarious observations on the world around her. But as her appointment with death approaches, Paloma finally meets some kindred spirits in her building's grumpy janitor and an enigmatic, elegant neighbor, both of whom inspire Paloma to question her rather pessimistic outlook on life.
Hilarious movie. Asociation to " Amelie".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9YUqkbLAko

 

[emmanuel]

My favorite movie of all times is The Matrix Trilogy without any hesitation.

I've seen it countless times and the more I gain knowledge, the more 'messages' I can find in the movies.

Awesome stuff!

Agree, but only for the first movie. The other two movies are pulling too much. You can express everything valuable in 30-40 minutes. To much fighting.

 

[emmanuel]

Mine Favourite is Amélie.Amelie, an innocent and naive girl in Paris, with her own sense of justice, decides to help those around her and along the way, discovers love

One of my favorite movies. :D

 

[emmanuel]

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

Coffee and cigarettes. Great movie. I just like Jim Jarmusch.

 

[emmanuel]

I remember another one.

Le grand bleu (1988) - Luc Besson. Enzo and Jacques have known each other for a long time. Their friendship started in their childhood days in the Mediterranean. They were not real friends in these days, but there was something they both loved and used to do the whole day long: diving. One day Jacques' father, who was a diver too, died in the Mediterranean sea. After that incident Enzo and Jacques lost contact. After several years, Enzo and Jacques had grown up, Johanna, a young clerk in a security office, has to go to Peru. There she meets Jacques who works for a group of scientists. He dives for some minutes into ice-cold water and the scientists monitor his physical state that is more like a dolphin's than a human's. Johanna can not believe what she sees and gets very interested in Jacques but she's unable to get acquainted with him. Some weeks later, back in her office, she notices a championship for divers that is supposed to take place in Taormina, Italy. In order to see Jacques again she makes up a story so the firm sends her to Italy for business purposes. In Taormina there is also Enzo, the reigning diving world champion. He knows that only Jacques can challenge and probably beat him. This time Johanna and Jacques get closer, but Jacques, being more a dolphin than a man, can not really commit and his rivalry with Enzo pushes both men into dangerous territory...

The music of Eric Serra is fantastic!

 

[Goemon_]

There I think it is the same movie. VHS in sale, in Brazil again here : _http://produto.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-431355768-vhs-legendado-a-prisioneira-do-amor-vitorsvideo-_JM

and in England but unavailable : https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Bridge-Saskia-Reeves/dp/B000PGLVNO

But that means the VHS does exist and even on DVD : http://anthonyhiggins.narod.ru/EN/1990_en/bridge.html

Goemon, thank you again for your help. One day, I am sure, I will find in a store of second hand the VHS of the music disc. For now I live to far away, in a country lost in the time. :P But when I return to civilization I will see. I will check at Amazon, now I have more information than the other day. My husband will be very surprised to see that this movie is a little known. We were sure that nobody, and when I say nobody it means nobody, knew this film. Ay, I am very happy. Thanks!

Edit: your first link does not work but the title, I think, is from another movie, very rare also: A Slave of Love by a very known Russian director, Mikhalkov. But this movie in particular, as The Bridge, is extremely rare also. A Slave of Love is also a very beautiful movie about a group of artists that made romantic movies during the Bolshevik civil war. A Slave of Love is the title of one of their movies. The story tells also the wake up of an actress that suddenly, when she meets a revolutionary, wants to help him. It is a very hard movie against fascism, totalitarianism. And the actress is the symbol, in this movie, of Liberty. The movie asks also the role of the artist when confronted with dictatorship. What is the position of the artist in this particular moment of the History? Does the artist have to take a side? What does an artist can do in front of the Beast?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Mikhalkov#Filmography

I had desactived the first link by putting a "_" before : http://produto.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-431355768-vhs-legendado-a-prisioneira-do-amor-vitorsvideo-_JM

But it is the good film. And you can buy the VHS, also it is probably not in english. And they don't seem to send worldwild.

Edit : adding last sentence

 

[caballero reyes]

" A SLAVE OF LOVE " (RUSSIA) 1976 Dir. Nikita Mikhalkov

Thanks Goemon to remember this beautiful movie.


Nikita Mikhalkov examines the plight of the filmmaker operating in an uncertain political climate in his irony-laden seriocomedy Slave of Love. The time is 1918, at the height of the Bolshevik revolution. A small group of filmmakers are hurriedly trying to complete a silent melodrama while the world changes all around them. As production progresses, leading lady Elena Solovei metamorphoses from self-centered movie star to committed revolutionary. Normally described as "Chekhovian," director Mikhalkov borrows a few pages from Pirandello. With Slave of Love he gained his first serious international attention. ~ Hal Erickson.

FINAL SCENE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=mfBThP4ZN8U

music: Edward Artemiev.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8FfcnqsQCM


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVZxFz0Xshw&feature=related

 

[loreta]

" A SLAVE OF LOVE " (RUSSIA) 1976 Dir. Nikita Mikhalkov

Thanks Goemon to remember this beautiful movie.


Nikita Mikhalkov examines the plight of the filmmaker operating in an uncertain political climate in his irony-laden seriocomedy Slave of Love. The time is 1918, at the height of the Bolshevik revolution. A small group of filmmakers are hurriedly trying to complete a silent melodrama while the world changes all around them. As production progresses, leading lady Elena Solovei metamorphoses from self-centered movie star to committed revolutionary. Normally described as "Chekhovian," director Mikhalkov borrows a few pages from Pirandello. With Slave of Love he gained his first serious international attention. ~ Hal Erickson.

FINAL SCENE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=mfBThP4ZN8U

music: Edward Artemiev.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8FfcnqsQCM


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVZxFz0Xshw&feature=related

Thank you Caballeros Reyes... The music is really beautiful, as the movie.

But do not be confused! This movie is not romantic! It seems a love story, it is not. It is a very hard critic of the Bolshevist and of totalitarianism!

Thanks for the links!

 

[caballero reyes]

« Reply #110 on: September 15, 2012, 12:57:31 PM »
Quote from: JayMark on September 14, 2012, 05:53:45 PM
My favorite movie of all times is The Matrix Trilogy without any hesitation.

I've seen it countless times and the more I gain knowledge, the more 'messages' I can find in the movies.

Awesome stuff!


« Quote from Emmanuel September 15, 2012, 12:57:31 PM »

Agree, but only for the first movie. The other two movies are pulling too much. You can express everything valuable in 30-40 minutes. To much fighting.



Hi, Emmanuel. I Agree.

 

[Deleted member 8431]

My favorite movie of all times is The Matrix Trilogy without any hesitation.

I've seen it countless times and the more I gain knowledge, the more 'messages' I can find in the movies.

Awesome stuff!

Agree, but only for the first movie. The other two movies are pulling too much. You can express everything valuable in 30-40 minutes. To much fighting.

First one was definately an eye opener.

Unlike most people though, I also liked the others just as much (but diffrently). Not so much for the fighting but for the messages. Especially the second one.

 

[MK Scarlett]

My favorite movie of all times is The Matrix Trilogy without any hesitation.

I've seen it countless times and the more I gain knowledge, the more 'messages' I can find in the movies.

Awesome stuff!

Agree, but only for the first movie. The other two movies are pulling too much. You can express everything valuable in 30-40 minutes. To much fighting.

First one was definately an eye opener.

Unlike most people though, I also liked the others just as much (but diffrently). Not so much for the fighting but for the messages. Especially the second one.

Yes, form and content... ;)