I think I'll go with one that I haven't seen yet so we're all discovering. Let's do The Cloud-Capped Star (Ritwit Ghatak, 1960). It's on Criterion Channel. I loved the other movie I've seen from him, so hopefully this one is good too!
Sorry for being a bad member. I need to play a little catch up since school is starting back up this week. I’m going to go with something I just watched for the first time last week. My pick is Amos Poe’s 1984 film Alphabet City, available on the Criterion Channel. Poe is mainly known for his No-wave movie The Blank Generation. If I have time, I’m going to check that and Subway Riders out as well.
Here's the full movie on youtube. I'll wait on my thoughts for other people to check it out, but this one has really stuck with me over the past week. I might cop the Fun City blu ray
My pick is The Battle of Algiers (1966). Ive been getting into Italian neorealism this year. "The director and his coscreenwriter, Franco Solinas, wanted to commemorate the popular uprising that had succeeded in ousting the French from Algeria in July 1962. That event triggered a seismic wave of anticolonial movements across the Third World, serving both as a millennial image of freedom and a more practical lesson in the violent means deemed necessary to win it. The Battle of Algiers would itself help to galvanize those struggles by uniting the revolutionary prerequisites of a cool head and a blazing heart. No other political movie of the past fifty years bears the same power to lift you from your seat with the incandescent fervor of its commitment. And none before or since has anchored that passion in so lucid a diagnosis of the fault lines separating exploiter and exploited."
I don’t suppose anybody fancies doing this again for a little bit? I feel sometimes I stick with “safe” films that I think I’ll like, and I enjoyed watching films that I wouldn’t have otherwise have chosen in this thread. Not sure if it needs much organisation, but happy to help with that if needed, or happy to help put the films picked on Google Drive or similar for any other member.
Yeah happy to run another round, ill post it in the entertainment forum but also a small round is fine by me
I’ll go last! I was looking at this to pick up some films to watch I wouldn’t think of, so me going first is not in the spirit of what I want from this ha. Please feel free to take the first pick yourself / pick someone else to kick us off!
I could be down although I am unsure if I can commit to a movie every week. I would definitely try though.
Oh ha, okay then. I’ll suggest “Ghosts... of the Civil Dead” directed by John Hillcoat. I don’t know much about it, but I like what I’ve seen from him, and it’s got a young Nick Cave in it. Ghosts... of the Civil Dead - Wikipedia I’m happy to share a link to the film if anybody has trouble tracking it down.
You can watch the film here, for those who don’t have access to torrent sites and the like; Видео Ghosts... of the Civil Dead (1988) Australia - VOSE | OK.RU
Ghosts... of the Civil Dead Lots of penises in this movie. A documentary aesthetic grimy dystopian prison film. It's raw to the bone using newsreel footage effectively, with just a horrible amount of malevolence and violence in the air. Even when nothing bad is happening, you can feel it's always about to. The corrupting influence of the prison is felt acutely here, everybody coming through the meat grinder worse off. It also acutely depicts the boredom and the repetition here, it's not some Mad Max wild party of violence dystopia, it's dull and grey, and the smashing of skulls is there just to break up the tedium Great little Nick Cave appearance here - just excellent rock star energy, playing an absolute nightmare.
Really bleak watch, but I loved all those exterior shots of the prison against the Australian outback looking like they exist on another planet also shoutouts Movie Madness in Portland for having this available to rent and it’s just on a burned DVD-R with the title written in sharpie