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RE: Favourite films? - Tomsdouble - 30-12-2009 04:01 PM
JHyde
Yeah, good to know people appreciate his art but I tend to prefer his earlier, funnier films. Although Bullets over Broadway was really good, as was Sweet and Lowdown. Love and Death, however, is brilliant!
Silktie
I love black humour. Have you seen the little-known Irish film Intermission? Great performances by Colm Meaney and Colin Farrell. And speaking of black humour, I mentioned a film in a previous post but I don't think anyone's referred to it - Man Bites Dog. Blacker that black humour. So dark it's somehow not right....
Other good films:
A Room for Romeo Brass
In Bruges
Dog Soldiers
28 Days (and Weeks) Later
Ghost Dog
RE: Favourite films? - Silktie - 30-12-2009 04:16 PM
No I haven't, I'll try and find it over here. Forgot about In Bruges, that was brilliant!
I'll check out the others you mentioned too, haven't seen them.
RE: Favourite films? - Tomsdouble - 30-12-2009 04:29 PM
Be warned with Man Bites Dog; to say it's black humour doesn't come close...in fact I had to turn it off in the end, so dark was its humour. So maybe that's not a great plus for the film.
A Room for Romeo Brass is an early Shane Meadows film. Great performance from Paddy Considine. Both of them worked together on Dead Man's Shoes too, which is staggeringly good, but rather tragic.
Another wonderful performance from Considine can be seen in My Summer of Love, which I did not expect to enjoy. Another good British film is London to Brighton - look out for Jason Belling!
RE: Favourite films? - bertowud - 31-12-2009 01:17 AM
(30-12-2009 04:01 PM)Tomsdouble Wrote: Ghost Dog
Ghost Dog as in Ghost Dog: Way of the Warrior starring Forrest Whittaker? I thought I was the only person on the planet who liked that movie.
RE: Favourite films? - Adam Carter - 31-12-2009 05:15 AM
Road to Perdition
Inglorious Basterds
Hard-Boiled
The Breakfast Club
Jurassic Park
...to name a few.
RE: Favourite films? - kirmostar - 31-12-2009 07:49 AM
Loved Intermission - also with Cillian Murphy!
RE: Favourite films? - bertowud - 31-12-2009 11:05 AM
(31-12-2009 05:15 AM)Adam Carter Wrote: Road to Perdition
I didn't really like the movie that much. The graphic novel and the sequel novels are all very good though.
RE: Favourite films? - Tomsdouble - 31-12-2009 03:46 PM
Bertowud
Yeah Ghost Dog, really good film. So that's at least two of us have seen it!
Kirmostat
Intermission is great film! I was starting to think that I was the only person on here to catch it.
RE: Favourite films? - bertowud - 31-12-2009 04:52 PM
I've watched Ghost Dog a few times. I've even read the Haggakure because of it and most of Musashi's Five Rings. Still haven't gotten around to reading Rashomon yet.
It was also one of the things that let me to watch the Zatoichi movies, since they're an influence on the films.
RE: Favourite films? - bertowud - 06-01-2010 02:50 PM
Has anyone else seen the new Sherlock Holmes film directed by Guy Ritchie? Opinions?