Make a few suggestions for the movie and film buffs of the org!!

My picks are: 1. Sexy Beast....Ben Kingsley is fast becoming a brilliantly dark actor nowadays!
2. Chaos
3. City of God....although who HASN'T seen that one?
4. Irreversible....brutal, gory, bloody, and violent with a funky twist on it!
5. Dirty Pretty Things.....a very Human Story. Audrey Tatou is just wonderful!

City of God
Devdas
The Piano Teacher
Amores Perros
Three Colours Trilogy

i really didn't like Irreversible, i'm afraid. I found it uncomfortable for the sake of being uncomfortable. Like it was trying to shock without any genuine underlying purpose or message.

oh, and tons of Anime too, but i'm not sure if that's meant to be included.

Spirited Away at the top.

Wings of Desire
Fitzcarraldo
Delicatessen
Christianne F. (if just for the scene with Bowie performing "Station to Station")

"Blueberry" (first read Carlos Castaneda's "The Teachings of Don Juan" then watch this film...)
And the usuals I've posted before...

Neversin.

Amelie
A bout de souffle (Breathless)
La Haine (Hate)
Pierrot le fou (Pierrot Goes Wild)
Abres los ojos (Open Your Eyes...original "Vanilla Sky")
Habla con ella (Talk to Her)
Lola rennt (Run Lola Run)
Naked
Hero

The original version of Nikita!

Aki Kaurismäki's "A man without a past"
Pedro Almodóvars "Talk to her" and "All about my mother"
Mira Nair's "Monsoon Wedding"

These came to my mind..

Oh, Hero was great too
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The Man On The Train
Barbarian Invasions
Audition
Yi Yi
Osama
The Dinner Game

i hate to say it but i don't get what the big deal was with "city of god"...i just thought it was grimey and depressing and kinda mean. the cinematography and editing was really nice to look at, but maybe i missed something in the story that really did it for other people.

dellamorte dellamore

Y tu mama tambien (and your mother too) - great movie and very sexy too

Last Tango in Paris




It counts!!

Anxiety said:

You didn't feel how the story came together? It was the Photographers destiny and a ticket out of the City of God. It had a great "human" element of persistence and success from being focussed, no matter what your conditions are. Watch it again.

( And God Created Woman)





(The orginal Vanilla Sky)

Kayleigh said:

I saw Monsoon Wedding recently, great film.

I want to see Yimou Zhang's Hero, haven't seen it yet.

Hero
Lola Rennt (Run Lola Run)
City Of God
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Amelie
Delicatessen
Spirited Away
Akira
Ichi The Killer
Audition

DexMSR said:

Ben Kingsley has always been class

On of my fav. scenes in Sexy Beast was when Don (Kingsley) tries to use his cockney gangster 'charm' to persuade Gal to do one more job Foo'kin' hilarious!
And the plane/airport senario afterwards I was in stitches.

Sexy Beast and Dirty Pretty Things are two mint British films (esp. the latter, one of my favourites of '02 )

Das Boot
Betty Blue
Rashomon
Red Beard

TheFrog said:

i thought this one was a tad to long....i doubt i could sit thru it again.

TheFrog said:

and "Grave of the Fireflies"

If you like City of God, get Carandiru. Its excellent. And Cinema Paradiso is good too, if a little chin stroking

Some fims I really liked..

The Motorcycle Diaries
Magnolia
Eternal Sunshine (of the spotless mind)
The Big Blue

Amelie
Salo
The Canterbury Tales
Au Revoir, Les Enfents
Like Water for Chocolate
Jamon Jamon
Solaris (the original)
Vanishing (the original--VERY scary!)
Ringu (makes The Ring suck in comparison)
The Seventh Seal
Fanny & Alexander
Farewell, My Concubine
Romance
Cyrano De Bergerac (God, I love Depardieu)
City of God
Cries and Whispers (the saddest movie I've ever seen)
Wings of Desire
Faraway So Close
The Gospel According to St. Matthew

La Cité des enfants perdus (City of Lost Children) by the amazing Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro.

If u have a taste 4 something a little different, dark & exotic, then u could do no wrong than treat yourself 2 this gem of a film!

Movie Synopsis
This visually inventive French sci-fi/fantasy tale began winning a cult following practically from the moment it was released. Krank (Daniel Emilfork) is a foul, monstrous creature who lords over the inhabitants of a small island; Krank's emotional being is every bit as ugly as his physical personage, largely because he does not have the ability to dream. However, he has developed a machine that can drain the dreams of others from their heads, and he devotes himself to kidnapping children from a nearby harbor town so that he can steal their pleasant dreams. Denree (Joseph Lucien) is one of the children who has been spirited off to the island; Krank discovers that he's an even bigger problem than he imagined when his big brother One (Ron Perlman), a harpoon-wielding mountain of a man, sets out on a rescue mission. Once he arrives on Krank's island, One encounters a brain in a fish tank that has learned to talk, a group of clones who can't decide who is the original, a pair of Siamese twins, an octopus that guides a group of orphaned thieves, and a girl named Miette (Judith Vittet) who says she can guide One to Denree.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Member Review:
With its textured layers of cinematography, music, poetic themes and characters at once idiosyncratic and almost mythologically familiar, City of Lost Children is a masterpiece. It can be watched on many levels, from the merely amusing to the deeply philosophical, and is woven beautifully together. This was the first film to include heavy computer animation that didn't make the audience say, "ohh, look at the computer animation!" -- in other words, it was tasteful and subtle, adding to the texture of the film instead of dominating its flow (think Jurassic Park, Phantom Menace, etc). In addition, it makes use of a truly haunting soundtrack that again, adds to the texture beautifully. Those looking for explosions or sex should go elsewhere. But if you want a sophisticated, hilarious and memorable film, rent this.

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