UKRM Film Club

I saw "The Station Agent" on the plane yesterday. I really, really
enjoyed it (and not just because I'm taller than the star, before
anyone says it). It was a film where not a lot happens - which is
what I like. A snapshot of a period in the lives of three people; how
what has gone before shapes what happens now and in the future - and
how, sometimes, it doesn't. It was real.

Recommended.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0340377/

 

Ben Blaney secured a place in history by writing:

Snot often I see a film that I think's worth recommending to a wider
audience these days, so much shit is there on the big screen. But last
night I did.

'Touching the void', true story of the most amazing, unbelievable recovery
from a disastrous mountain climb, narrated by the survivors. Can't
recommend it enough, the heroics almost come second to the decisions they
had to make and the psychological trauma this must have left them with for
the rest of their lives.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379557/

 

On the topic of recently watched films, I saw "Lost in Translation" a few
weeks ago. It's another film where not a lot happens.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335266/

It's been raved about and has a very good rating, but I found it really hard
to get through. Has anyone seen it who would care to cast a different
perspective on it? I can see what the director is trying to say, but I
don't think he had enough to make into a film.

 

Slider wrote:
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That was also on BA125 yesterday, and I'd have liked to have seen it.
I was too tired for two films, though, and couldn't resist a film
about a dwarf.

 

Or "Pighouse-Lorry Albatross" as I like to think of him.

 

I watched that on a plane a few weeks ago, and actually found it a lot
more enjoyable than I thought I would.

You'll probably hate it, there's a lot more talking than action.

 

It's a lot better if you watch it with a teaspoon down your neck.

 

How about watching Derek Jarman's last film, Blue,
with the sound off and a bottle of Bolly down your neck?

 

I'd prefer to rub myself with tin foil.

 

Try Ichi the Killer and see if you still like it

Actually its a very good film - if *somewhat* (understatement) violent.

 

I saw "Lost in Translation" a few

Has anyone seen it who would care to cast a different

Not so much a different perspex, more of the same. A very well made B
film, **** all content.

 

I didn't really like it. But then, I don't really like horror, or
mock-horror - or whatever the **** it's supposed to be.

 

^
ITYM "she" - Sophia Coppola, daughter of Francis.

Yes, I loved the film having seen a screener of it
a while back. It is a very slow film but I think
that's part of the point - it shows how dull their
time in Japan really is and when the good times
come they are really something to be enjoyed ...
which is kind of the point of the film in itself.

I'm quite a fan of Bill Murray - Ghostbusters, Stripes,
Groundhog Day, to name a few of my favs - and he
was very good at playing the "washed up actor" in
it, which I'm sure came quite easy.

 

Great film that.

I've got the "Shaun of the Dead" screener here which
I'll be popping in the player tonight - looks pretty
good from the clips and reviews I've seen so far.

 

He'd had plenty of practice in Rushmore and The Royal Tenebaums.
I'm more than looking forward to The Life Aquatic - there's
something special about Wes Anderson films.

 

Ben Blaney secured a place in history by writing:

Yeah. In the absence of any other recommendation, dwarves have much to
commend them. Bit overexposed in modern cinema though I feel.

 

They're so cool. They're like little kids but you can get them to
swear and stuff.

Really? Where else? Anything with dwarves in is going straight in my
Amazon basket.

 

"Time Bandits"

http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0081633/

 

Freaks (dir. Tod Browning) - the original and best.
24 quid at Amazon.

And if you want books as well, try
Maybe The Moon by Armistead Maupin.