Maybe a non Hollywood crime movies thread here would be cool. Britain has a ton of good ones too.

Chopper and Animal Kingdom are great.

Recently I've seen Dirty Harry, Highlander, Let Me In, Nobody Knows, 500 Days Of Summer, Paper Moon, Shampoo, The Next Three Days, The Omen, and the Good Thief.

All are very good though I wouldn't recommend Nobody Knows or 500 Days.

Animal Kingdom was my favorite film since TWBB or NCFOM loved it.

here are a few movies I've seen in the past week or so:

Eden Lake - at first I was mad at the ending of the movie, now I like it and understand the story the director/writer were trying to tell. It's a legitimately good horror/torture porn movie. 8/10

Beverly Hill Ninja - Chris Farley has made a lot of memorable movies, this isn't one of them.

The Brute - 1950s Luis Bunuel movie about a brute who intimidates poor people for his boss. He then develops several romantic relationships that don't work out. I was pleasantly surprised to see Katy Jurado in a leading role. It's a straightforward "early" Bunuel while he was working in Mexico. It lacks the style and substance of his earliest (lol), and later works, but it is a solid movie in and of itself. 7.5/10

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz - another Bunuel. This time it's about a man who thinks he's the greatest criminal in the world. He's able to get away with murder by just thinking about killing someone, and then they die. In actuality, it's mere coincidence. Bunuel in his usual form, tongue firmly in cheek, having a laugh at humanity. Terrific movie. 8.5/10

Illusion Travels by Streetcar - Bunuel again. This one was about a couple workers who steal a streetcar that was going to be decommissioned. That's about it. There were a few mildly interesting and amusing scenes towards the beginning, then it kind of derails into boringville. Love the title though. 4/10

Gran Casino - Bunuel movie starring Jorge Negrete. It starts out with a clever and hilarious prison break, gets boring for a while, then turns into a pretty decent noir about a woman working under a false name as a singer in order to find out what happened to her brother (an oil company owner whom she believes was murdered for his business), while Negrete plays the "wrong man."
6.5/10

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: A movie that often feels like a video game. I really liked the cast, and the movie had really good scenes, however 2 hours is way too long for this type of movie. There were easily 4-5 scenes that could have been deleted, and most likely more.

Anvil: The Story of Anvil

This was infinitely better than I expected. The frontman, Lips, is so likeable it's impossible not to be pulling for these guys.

I went into it assuming it was going to be Spinal Tap, and it was, in a way, except I could not dislike Lips or Reiner.

I would call this a must-see.

Spiderman 2- Just re watched this for the third time. I think it's officially my favorite super hero movie. It just seems to brilliantly blend well done action sequences with a real story. This is one of the few superhero movies where I actually cared for the characters. I think it's better than all the crappy superhero movies that have come out in the past few years. (Though I did like The Dark Knight, the rest of it is sorta terrible)

Yeah, this was really good. I love the ending. I even got a little choked up. Definitely a must-see for doc-lovers.

+1

i also think it's the best of em

couldn't even finish spiderman 2....thought it blew.

Not sure we watched the same movie and have not read anything similar to this in the many reviews I read last year. Which 4-5 scenes would you have cut?

I personally can not make it through any of the speedermein movies... as much as I have enjoyed Rami before, these just seem like weak movie making. specially when taken into context of how important the peter parker is in the realm of Comic stardom.

Have seen only The Brute and The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz, out of these which i both liked. If you are curious more about early Bunuel, I've seen Susana and A Woman Without Love and like them both a great deal as well; very simple, but effective.

saw this yesterday too, really great doc

Yeah that's understandable. I've sorta had similar reactions to most other movies in the genre. This movie just seemed to really work though IMO. I haven't seen another superhero movie where the characters have been given as much care as they were in Spidey 2.

Cape Fear (1962) - I didn't like the remake because it just seemed too cartoonish. This one works much better as a thriller imo. Mitchum is much more menacing, Peck and his family are much more sympathetic, and the acting is actually pretty good. This script is tighter and keeps up a pretty good pace. 8/10

Saw them both, liked them quite a bit. There are only a few Bunuel left that I haven't seen, but I fear I may never since I think some of them have become lost.

Duel in the Sun- Saw a couple of King Vidor dramas. This was the first and the most lavish one. It was a vehicle for Jennifer Jones, who was the wife of the David O. Selznick, the big producer who also wrote the screenplay for this movie. In addition it starred Gregory Peck, who for some reason I am not very receptive of (it was hard to sort of accept him as a sleazy wild gun) and Joseph Cotten who was really good as a good natured Peck's older brother. Jennifer Jones plays a half breed girl, who moves to a ranch her father's friend owns. Eventually a triangle between all three develops, but unfortunately the story was a tad too melodramatic and so was its resolution. Fortunately this movie was gorgeous, pleasant and went by very smoothly for its long running time. B++

Ruby Gentry - a pretty similar melodrama to the one above. Jennifer Jones, again plays a sort of outsider, but this time more of a tomboy. She falls in love with a cruel guy played by Charlton Heston, who doesn't seem to return her affections. This movie was much more brisk and compact and something seemed to be missing. B

Lightning Strikes Twice - This drama by Vidor is sometimes described as a film noir. It stars someone named Ruth Roman, who was a leading lady 60 years ago. She plays an actress who goes to rest on vacation on a dude ranch, but stumbles upon an acquitted murderer and falls in love with him. It started out pretty strong, but as the suspense withered away, and you saw where the story was heading it quickly lost its mystique. Story became a little improbable and only a couple of people who could have been the villain. C++

Dragonwyck - This movie looked pretty promising to me. Some sort of Gothic tale directed by Joseph Mankiewicz, about a young Gene Tierney moving to some some sort of dark household, co-staring Vincent Price. Unfortunately this movie was pretty dull, boring and flat. There was no real mystery and everything just seemed to drag. C

The Doll - Very pleasant early silent movie by Lubitsch. You can see how German movies were done on pretty strict budget at the time and a lot of the sets and costumes did not look very elaborate. Still this doesn't seem to bother Lubitsch one bit, as he quickly proceeds to transport the viewer into his fantasy movie world. This movie is about a young man who is due to inherit a large fortune, provided he gets married. He tries to trick people and marry a doll instead of an actual woman. Unfortunately he himself gets tricked and marries a real life woman instead of a doll. The movie is fun, light and has a lot of fun with all the mistaken identities. The actress playing the doll, Ossi Oswalda, was a revelation and played her character with a sort of playfulness and spunk, that was not very characteristic for early movies. B+

La Rupture - Another pretty twisted movie by Chabrol. This is a sort of weird drama, which centers around a divorce proceeding, after a wealthy husband goes berserk and hurts his child. The husband's family try hard to discredit his wife, to prevent her from getting custody of the child and hire someone to dig up on some dirt on her. You sort of wonder where this whole thing is going to end up and only in the end can you see that complete madness is what this movie is all about. There are a couple of better movies by this director in the decade, but this one is solid. A--

Seppuku - This tragic samurai tale is directed by Masaki Kobayashi. It tells two parallel stories, one of them is told in a flashback. Both of them are about poor samurai coming to a wealthy clan's court, asking for a place to commit suicide. As the movies advances, you begin to see how these stories converge. It does a really good job contrasting the samurai code with simple human ethics and without holding too much back, shows which of these moral principles are hollow and which are humanly innate. Very solid movie, but I liked the directors The Samurai Rebellion better, very curious about his famous trilogy. A--

Two Weeks in Another Town -Another melodrama by Vincente Minnelli about a movie making business. It also starts Kirk Douglas, who plays a washed up actor summoned to Italy by his past friend and director Edward G. Robinson. Very pleasant and honest movie as you see Douglas struggle trying to get back into acting. Seemed to be missing something, but still very enjoyable. A--


Scenes From a Marriage - Saw a miniseries version of this in 3 days. This was a solid movie, but i do not think it had to be that long; or if it had to be that long, i do not see why it focused so much on these two people. I think Bergman doesn't really excel at creating strong multidimensional characters, and as the result when he tries to build upon them, there doesnt seem to be much development. There was just too little characters in this film and it seemed to improve when other characters were presented. Still this was very watchable and very interesting. B++

A Matter of Dignity - Pretty simple Greek drama of a girl in a seemingly rich family having to chose whether to marry for love or money. I was really impressed with directors style and camera work, but the story itself was just a bit too dramatic. B++

Wild River - A very relevant and very potent drama directed by Elia Kazan. It stars Montgomery Clift as a young TVA worker who has to convince an old woman to give up her land, so a dam could be build and the area flooded. It also stars Lee Remick as the woman's daughter who Clift takes an interest to and Remick was very impressive here. The story was very low-key and very good. Clift would like to get the woman to give up her land without using force and the woman just doesn't want to give up the land that is hers. Who is right? The film doesn't provide any easy answers, just dwells on some difficult questions. A-

hotdog, I'm jealous...I remember when I was a young guy watching movie after movie like that....now, I just don't have the time.

snabba cash (easy money; swedish with subtitle)
A three-tiered story centered around drugs and organized crime, and focused on a young man who becomes a runner for a coke dealer. (taken from imdb.com)

if you watch foreign movie like A prophet dont miss on this one (I liked it better than A prophet and the girl who... 2+3)


most subtle moment is when the mobster who got custody of his daughter goes shopping to the supermarket and he clearly does not know what a kid eats. so he follows another single dad with kid around the mart and buys the exact same things.

The Green Hornet - Much better than what people have said and what I expected, will probably watch it surfing through the channels.

It's definantly cartoonish but I don't mind it in this movie.

saw Fast Five tonight. It was quite entertaining.

I gotta hand it to hollywood, they really know how to crank out entertaining movies. They just throw in every cliche known to mankind: titties, asses, and ludicrous stunts and bam! instant entertainment. I'll just leave it at that because if I tried to make "sense" of any aspect of the movie my head may explode.

Summer Wars

Really awesome. Basically about a social network called Oz that is like facebook^2, that gets hacked deep by someone with extremely malicious intent.

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/i...nt/summerwars/

Woulda been sweet to see it on a big screen, and even cooler if the online scenes were in 3-d.

This isn't *exactly* a movie but Him+Her under the video section of this site (go to works) edits Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep having conversations with themselves, and its absolutely an incredible work. I urge you to check it out.

Link: www.candicebreitz.net