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re:cursive
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
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Off the top of my head, in no particular order...
Rabbit Proof Fence.
The Boys.
Happiness.
Rumble Fish.
Life is Beautiful.
Hotel Rwanda.
Terra trema: La Episodio del mare (The Earth Trembles).
Kids.
Trois couleurs: Bleu (Three Colours: Blue).
The Idiots.
The Killing Fields.
Most things Werner Herzog has made.
Bambi. |
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skinhead
Joined: 11 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 5:46 am Post subject: |
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The Boys.
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Wow. You just get better and better. We attended an intimate one-on-20 chaterview with John Maynard a few months back in the seedy Cinema. He showed us some of his private stash. Seen the piece called "Free Radicals" by Len Lye (1958)? Astounding. He simply scratched it into the 6 minutes of leader he was given and set it to a raucous Senagalese Djembe rhythm for a track. The dimensions were incredible. |
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i_teach_esl
Joined: 07 Sep 2006
Location: baebang, asan/cheonan
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| Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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| no one mentioned "life is beautiful." *tear drop* |
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deadman
Joined: 27 May 2006
Location: Suwon
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| Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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| i_teach_esl wrote: |
| no one mentioned "life is beautiful." *tear drop* |
They did, but moving right along...
Anyone seen God's Lonely Man? It caught my eye in a video store I used to live near, and I intended to check it out but was never in the right mood. |
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superhans
Joined: 11 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 10:39 pm Post subject: |
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| i find napoleon dynamite really depressing |
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cwemory
Joined: 14 Jan 2006
Location: Gunpo, Korea
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| Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 2:14 am Post subject: |
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most of Lars Von Trier's films are starkly depressing. Dancer in the Dark has already been mentioned, and its an excellent choice, easily the most depressing musical ever. But as far as most depressing, I would have to choose his Breaking the Waves. Everything in that film is sad: the setting, the church, the sex, the craziness.
Another depressing film of his is Manderlay, which ends with a group of recently freed slaves voting to re-instate their slavery. that's depressing. |
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cosmic charlie
Joined: 03 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 5:15 am Post subject: |
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My vote goes to Farenheit 911  |
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Son Deureo!
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 5:52 am Post subject: |
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| Some good choices. Cool Hand Luke and Roger and Me are also pretty big downers. |
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i_teach_esl
Joined: 07 Sep 2006
Location: baebang, asan/cheonan
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| Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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| deadman wrote: |
| They did, but moving right along... |
a$$. |
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deadman
Joined: 27 May 2006
Location: Suwon
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| Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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| i_teach_esl wrote: |
| deadman wrote: |
| They did, but moving right along... |
a$$. |
Touchy. |
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hogwonguy1979
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: the racoon den
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| Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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| captain kirk wrote: |
| There was another, English, movie about the aftermath of Nuclear War. It ends with scenes of people living harshly. Can't speak anymore, gutteral grunts. The difficulty and suffering beating people up so the consciousness is only pain, need....in cold nuclear winter no crops, no hope, cannibalism.... |
Think that movie was "Testament" I agree that ending was something, it was on PBS right after "The Day After" ran in the US in like 1983 |
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Green Tea
Joined: 04 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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Paradise Now
A film about life in Palestine...
It doesn't have a happy ending. Great movie, but you've been warned!
http://wip.warnerbros.com/paradisenow/
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SirFink
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
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manlyboy
Joined: 01 Aug 2004
Location: Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
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| Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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| The Elephant Man, Leaving Las Vegas, and Awakenings. |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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