Too many comments to scan, apologies if someone else has said it, but this is mine
American/British actor in a film about Germans/French/whatever people in a period setting (particularly the War)? Don't bother learning the language of the nationality you're portrtaying, or simply speaking in your own accent and…

Mattay is right on the fucking money with the needless love story bullshit. Drives me fucking mad. It's closely related to the 'She's an uptight bitch/he's a disrespectful slob/naturally they're made for each other' bollocks. In real life, uptight bitches and disrespectful slobs work together all the time, and pretty…

Katyn isn't out here for a while, so i haven't seen it yet.

It IS pretty fucked up, but not in the way you're thinking.

I think movies in general should be slower. Tarantino's use of time is amazing, especially in Basterds. In decades to come, I honestly think that Tarantino's direction and the way he stretches downtime and dialogue scenes to snapping point will be the defining aspect he's remembered for, not his pop-culture obsession…

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I second Come and See as a war movie that successful in going out of it's way to de-glamourise the experience. Ken Loach also manages to make war look prerty drad, harsh and unspectacular in Land And Freedom.

Thanks for the links, Admiral. I too discovered Carax through Channel 4 (in fact I vividly remember watching Les Amants Du Pont Neuf bleary-eyed at some ridiculous graveyard hour like 1am on a Tuesday night or some such twattery). I was so immediately stricken by it, it never left my thoughts for years, and I ended…

I like the way this thread is thinking….Kerrigan and Carax are two of my favourite current directors, and Clean/Shaven and Les Amants Du Pont Neuf are unjustly neglected movies that consume the viewer totally and push the artform into new areas.

Oooh that's a good one, Bellucci!

It's just a description of the final shot. There IS a 'plot-twist' (if it can be described as such) which happens previous to it, and there are clues as to what might be about to happen placed throughout the movie, but as I said, it's a movie where one scene can't be taken in isolation, the final effect is cumulative,…

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Considering there are no chase scenes, no nudity and the action exclusively consists of the most humdrum, unshowy physical activity imaginable, I'd conclusively state that hilarity will most certainly NOT ensue, unless you find Yakkety Sax or william Tell inherently hilarious on their own.

Last Year In Marienbad, bro. She's the focal point of that as well. Check it oot.

DON'T watch it in fast forward. The time things take to happen is THE ENTIRE POINT OF THIS FILM. I saw it projected on 35mm at film school (at the time, 12 years ago, I'm not sure there was an available video version in London, but our tutor pointed out that one should get into the habit of seeing as many films…

I wonder if Andy Pants ever gets tired of being wrong about everything?

YOUR kids?

Jolly jolly good, Stefans.

Roddy McDowell teaching his class at gunpoint! How could I forget that? it's the best thing he did outside of an ape mask.

I loved Elephant. BOTH versions.