Under rated and forgotten films.

[Meade's Ball]

Bride of Chucky.

 

[strings]

Lola Rennt / Run Lola Run

 

[Nibble]

Bride of Chucky.

I used to have such a crush on that massive titted, husky voiced sexpot (Meg Tilly?, plays the pictured Ladyhuman). In fact every now and again when my mind recalls her sultry sluttiness I reach far back into my mind drawer for my dusty account book and pay a visit to the wank bank and make a cheeky Tilly withdrawel. Good girl.

 

[Meade's Ball]

I used to have such a crush on that massive titted, husky voiced sexpot (Meg Tilly?, plays the pictured Ladyhuman). In fact every now and again when my mind recalls her sultry sluttiness I reach far back into my mind drawer for my dusty account book and pay a visit to the wank bank and make a cheeky Tilly withdrawel. Good girl.

Is Bound in that drawer too. Along with her or one of the Tillys in Psycho 2 or 3?
I suppose she was always attractive in her boobalicious, but voice-of-a-7-year-old-filled-with-darkness way.

 

[Nibble]

Apologies, jennifer Tilly. Her eis my homage to her:

Now there is a real woman with curves in the right places as oppose to the aforementioned Meg Tilly (ex-actress) below. Yuck!

 

[Guy Fawkes]

and another film I cant remember the name of.... the stag party the dancer is killed and the whole film is all about covering it up..... we found out at the end that the bride is a psycho... great black comedy.

Very bad things??

 

[Harty]

Carry On Up the Khyber, the best carry on film ever.

 

[Trufflehound]

Am I the only person in Europe who fondly remembers John Landis's first movie, Schlock? It's not been on video in 30 years and as far as I know has never been on TV or available on Region 2 DVD.

An ultra-low budget mock horror pisstake with a neanderthal "Schlockthorpus" (John Landis in a monkey suit) stalking a small American town and causing mayhem. At college in the 80s we used to rent this from the video store every week and with a few beers inside you it's priceless - 'stupid funny' in the same vein as Police Squad/Naked Gun (which it predates).

The trailer:

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[fire&skill]

Malna (2000)

Great choice. Here's mine:

The Night of the Hunter (1955)

A tour de force from Mitchum and Charles Laughton's only Directorial outing methinks

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[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

Very bad things??

Thats the bunny!

Much older but one I love is Sullivans TRavels (I think) ... a Preston Sturges classic.

 

[Trufflehound]

Having been reminded by the soundtrack thread, I nominate:

Michael Winterbottom's Wonderland - think Mike Leigh-style kitchen sink drama told with visual poetry and the best movie score of the last 20 years.

And either of Terrence Malick's first two films: Badlands and Days of Heaven - each one a masterclass in how to do cinematography properly.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Nibble. I have brought Dan in real life today for 5 English pounds so it better be f***ing good. A review will follow in due course.

 

[Nibble]

You was robbed US. Mine cost £3. I hope you enjoy it chap.

 

[Wienergull]

David Mamet had a good run of films in the late '80s/early 90's starring Joe Mantegna and featuring a whole host of excellent character actors such as J T Walsh: House of Games, Things Change (a gentle Mafia comedy with a lovely performance from Don Ameche as an ageing shoeshine boy) and Homicide.

Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson is a noir classic rarely shown nowadays.

A favourite French film of mine is Tavernier's Clean Slate (Coup de Torchon) starring the incomparable Philippe Noiret, a young(ish) and wonderfully sluttish Isabelle Huppert and Stephane Audran. It is based on Jim Thompson's pulp thriller, with the action transposed from the deep South of the US to French colonial West Africa.

 

[Trufflehound]

David Mamet had a good run of films in the late '80s/early 90's starring Joe Mantegna and featuring a whole host of excellent character actors such as J T Walsh: House of Games, Things Change (a gentle Mafia comedy with a lovely performance from Don Ameche as an ageing shoeshine boy) and Homicide.

I'll second that list, and add The Spanish Prisoner to it.

I've always admired the way Mamet (who is also, lest we forget, one of America's top playwrights) can have actors repeat each other endlessly in conversation, but unlike Gregg Wallace repeating John Torode in Masterchef it sounds good instead of stupid.

"Did you kill my brother?"
"Are you asking, did I kill your brother?"
"Yes I'm asking you, did you kill my brother?"
"No I did not kill your brother."

etc

 

[Nibble]

Mamet is a great playwright, director and screenwriter. Lest us forget he wrote Glengarry Glennross, one of the finest plays/films made. Alec Baldwin's Always Be Closing speech is watchable again and again: "What's your name"? "f*** You. That's my name"!

He has written some great books too. True and False, a book about acting for actors and directors is, in my opinion one of the best books written about acting. Another, Bambi Vs Godzilla, about the Hollywood film machine is a revelation and a great read.

Even his more mainstream films such as The Edge with Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin are great. Yes, we like Mamet. We like him a lot.

 

[Trufflehound]

Mamet is a great playwright, director and screenwriter. Lest us forget he wrote Glengarry Glennross, one of the finest plays/films made. Alec Baldwin's Always Be Closing speech is watchable again and again: "What's your name"? "f*** You. That's my name"!

He has written some great books too. True and False, a book about acting for actors and directors is, in my opinion one of the best books written about acting. Another, Bambi Vs Godzilla, about the Hollywood film machine is a revelation and a great read.

Even his more mainstream films such as The Edge with Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin are great. Yes, we like Mamet. We like him a lot.

And he wrote the screenplay to The Untouchables, one of my absolute all-time favourites.



Oh, and I've just remembered State & Main, another Mamet classic, featuring one of my favourite exchanges (between Rebecca Pidgeon - Mrs Mamet - and Philip Symour Hoffman):

"Do you like kids?"
"I never saw the point."

 

[trancing]

legendary


+midnight run, with deniro... funny as hell

midnight run is brillant

 

[Nibble]

And he wrote the screenplay to The Untouchables, one of my absolute all-time favourites.

Ah, yes. Indeed he did. He has done a lot more than people realise. I believe he wrote a cracking TV series called The Unit as well, about soldiers in Iraq?

 

[Superphil]

The Man Who Fell To Earth