Everyone Must Own These DVDs

[mickey holmes]

The Japanese version of Kill Bill.

Uncut and in a boxset.

[kiteless]

on wong kar-wai: i just re-saw chungking express (in that awful q. tarantino edition as a part of the boxed set) after remembering how wonderful it was.

if you haven't got the individual dvd's, i can really recommend the Jean-Luc Godard DVD collection.

The Air DVD: Eating, sleeping, waiting, playing -- a french new wave classic. Posterity will study this to understand rock and roll and la Republique.

and last, nevertheless not least, Nigella Bites DVD with Nigella Lawson. soft porn at its very best.

[mickey holmes]

Nigella Lawson?

I'm intrigued....

[futuretalk]

she has nice jugs man...I wish she would cook for me.

[kiteless]

Yet another reason to wish you were Charles Saatchi

[isla maia]

Quote:

I forgot....

BARAKA!!!

--- Original message by RedFoxxworth on Nov 8, 2004 04:42 PM

i'll second that! beautiful, beautiful work!

i also like

- the red violin: cross over culture and travel from europe to china, following the plight of a special musical instrument and its mysterious colouring; violin pieces incredibly moving! i want to play violin like that bloke!

- farinelli: only because that singing voice is inhuman (it's actually computer manipulated, but awesome!) and sends chills down my spine;

- hero: the cinematography is breathtaking, even though for a chinese movie it had to use an aussie eye for cinematographic compositions ... superb colour and contrasts.

- lord of the rings: yeah, but hey ... what can i say but i love the whole collection! so inspiring and it's great that it broke hollywood "formula" and gave us quality work and not the usual blood, gore, violence, good triumph over evil ... and er ... come to think of it, it did have blood and gore and formula! BUT I LOVE IT ANYWAY!

baby, we're all beautiful!

--isla maia

[dickhead]

Christopher Doyle is more Chinese than Australian......

I hate everything and everyone.

[isla maia]

Quote:

Christopher Doyle is more Chinese than Australian......

--- Original message by dickhead on Dec 22, 2004 04:35 AM

was it christopher doyle! wow. i was told it was another aussie, not him! okay, so i have the chinese dvd version so the name's all in chinese and i didn't realise it was him. i know christopher, he's really cool! and yes, very into the hong kong chinese scene and very respected.

baby, we're all beautiful!

--isla maia

[kremedla]

christopher doyle though is natively australian has said that he is more 'asian' now than australian since he has spent the better part of his life in taiwan, hk etc...so i find it odd that someone would think that hero was shot with more an australian eye...interesting though.

the mind's eye glitters with thoughts and ideas for the masses/

i take classes/ to appease the classless/ perhaps its/

counter-revolutionary or counter intelligence/

to understand the situation or take command of the circumstance/

never mind what i say what's done is done/

and when i look down and grin and say it's been fun/

understand that #1 means no #2's i'm the best/

and i will choose to act out in front if you all to put you to the test/

[Guest]

Quote:

christopher doyle though is natively australian has said that he is more 'asian' now than australian since he has spent the better part of his life in taiwan, hk etc...so i find it odd that someone would think that hero was shot with more an australian eye...interesting though.

--- Original message by kremedla on Dec 22, 2004 06:15 AM

yes, as i've said, i know christopher - i've moved among the hong kong movie makers and know quite a few of them as friends.

my reason for saying that the cinematography was great because of an aussie eye (and not a chinese one) is simply because for years and years, the focus of hong kong made movies were often on action, not artistic expression and i stress "artistic" in terms of colour, texture, quality. these are often what young film-makers in europe (and not only film-makers, graphic students, those in fashion, in the creative industries generally), and internationally outside of the u.s. are taught to develop. the development and perfection of an "eye" - one that allows you to weigh and provide symmetry - the beauty of form from balanced proportion ... and you either have it or you don't.

canadian, australian and new zealand film-makers, unlike american film-makers, don't have to bow down to the pressure of producing a movie according to a commercial formula, so most could afford to be "artists", and express themselves given the ability to raise the money to turn their art into something the public could view eventually and hopefully appreciate.

hong kong never had a proper film school, and everyone had to learn from starting jobs in advertising agencies working on commercial campaigns, and following a "director" who oftentimes was a foreigner and they were considered the best then as they charged astronomically for their work. those who tried to learn on the job, eventually picked up what they felt was the trick of the trade, and yes, some learnt finally to develop an eye.

... of course, everything's improving now and with the hong kong and mainland chinese movies going international, some production are really outstanding. i make it a point to always buy the latest movies in hong kong and get feedback and recommendation from my friends there. the last one (some months ago) they recommended was ONG-BAK and they were telling me that this was awesome stuff, no wire and stuntman to take the beating. nothing hong kong can beat. it's incredible. whew. left me stunned.

anyway, i'm no film expert, i just love movies that are beautiful, have great stories, make me laugh, make me feel good, or keep me in suspense. i also love to monitor the development in cgi even if the storyline of the movie sucks. i can't take horror and violence too much and really will prefer to avoid them.

[isla maia]

Quote:

christopher doyle though is natively australian has said that he is more 'asian' now than australian since he has spent the better part of his life in taiwan, hk etc...so i find it odd that someone would think that hero was shot with more an australian eye...interesting though.

--- Original message by kremedla on Dec 22, 2004 06:15 AM

yes, as i've said, i know christopher - i've moved among the hong kong movie makers and know quite a few of them as friends.

my reason for saying that the cinematography was great because of an aussie eye (and not a chinese one) is simply because for years and years, the focus of hong kong made movies were often on action, not artistic expression and i stress "artistic" in terms of colour, texture, quality. these are often what young film-makers in europe (and not only film-makers, graphic students, those in fashion, in the creative industries generally), and internationally outside of the u.s. are taught to develop. the development and perfection of an "eye" - one that allows you to weigh and provide symmetry - the beauty of form from balanced proportion ... and you either have it or you don't.

canadian, australian and new zealand film-makers, unlike american film-makers, don't have to bow down to the pressure of producing a movie according to a commercial formula, so most could afford to be "artists", and express themselves given the ability to raise the money to turn their art into something the public could view eventually and hopefully appreciate.

hong kong never had a proper film school, and everyone had to learn from starting jobs in advertising agencies working on commercial campaigns, and following a "director" who oftentimes was a foreigner and they were considered the best then as they charged astronomically for their work. those who tried to learn on the job, eventually picked up what they felt was the trick of the trade, and yes, some learnt finally to develop an eye.

... of course, everything's improving now and with the hong kong and mainland chinese movies going international, some production are really outstanding. i make it a point to always buy the latest movies in hong kong and get feedback and recommendation from my friends there. the last one (some months ago) they recommended was ONG-BAK and they were telling me that this was awesome stuff, no wire and stuntman to take the beating. nothing hong kong can beat. it's incredible. whew. left me stunned.

anyway, i'm no film expert, i just love movies that are beautiful, have great stories, make me laugh, make me feel good, or keep me in suspense. i also love to monitor the development in cgi even if the storyline of the movie sucks. i can't take horror and violence too much and really will prefer to avoid them.

baby, we're all beautiful!

--isla maia

[dat1212]

Batman (1989)

Finding NEMO

Dial M for murder

kill bill vol. 1 and 2

American Pshyco

Boiler Room

Pulp fiction

Hurely Burely

BLAZING SADELS

Star Wars ( all of em)

Predator

Alien

Fight Club

Usal Suspectd

Seven

At least one of the 3

Nightmare on elm streets

Haloween

Friday the 13th

Edward Scisorhands

Nightmare Before Christmas

Interview with the Vampire

The Girl 3 video

Taxi Driver

Good Fellas

Casino

This is just a list of what I tend to see at friends houses etc. but all of these are nessacary to me a tleast

[dickhead]

Quote:

Quote:

christopher doyle though is natively australian has said that he is more 'asian' now than australian since he has spent the better part of his life in taiwan, hk etc...so i find it odd that someone would think that hero was shot with more an australian eye...interesting though.

--- Original message by kremedla on Dec 22, 2004 06:15 AM

yes, as i've said, i know christopher - i've moved among the hong kong movie makers and know quite a few of them as friends.

my reason for saying that the cinematography was great because of an aussie eye (and not a chinese one) is simply because for years and years, the focus of hong kong made movies were often on action, not artistic expression and i stress "artistic" in terms of colour, texture, quality. these are often what young film-makers in europe (and not only film-makers, graphic students, those in fashion, in the creative industries generally), and internationally outside of the u.s. are taught to develop. the development and perfection of an "eye" - one that allows you to weigh and provide symmetry - the beauty of form from balanced proportion ... and you either have it or you don't.

canadian, australian and new zealand film-makers, unlike american film-makers, don't have to bow down to the pressure of producing a movie according to a commercial formula, so most could afford to be "artists", and express themselves given the ability to raise the money to turn their art into something the public could view eventually and hopefully appreciate.

hong kong never had a proper film school, and everyone had to learn from starting jobs in advertising agencies working on commercial campaigns, and following a "director" who oftentimes was a foreigner and they were considered the best then as they charged astronomically for their work. those who tried to learn on the job, eventually picked up what they felt was the trick of the trade, and yes, some learnt finally to develop an eye.

... of course, everything's improving now and with the hong kong and mainland chinese movies going international, some production are really outstanding. i make it a point to always buy the latest movies in hong kong and get feedback and recommendation from my friends there. the last one (some months ago) they recommended was ONG-BAK and they were telling me that this was awesome stuff, no wire and stuntman to take the beating. nothing hong kong can beat. it's incredible. whew. left me stunned.

anyway, i'm no film expert, i just love movies that are beautiful, have great stories, make me laugh, make me feel good, or keep me in suspense. i also love to monitor the development in cgi even if the storyline of the movie sucks. i can't take horror and violence too much and really will prefer to avoid them.

--- Original message by isla maia on Dec 22, 2004 06:47 AM

erm...ma'am. Zhang Yi Mou(the director for Hero) is not a Hong Konger...he's a mainlan Chinese from Beijing and is an arthouse director. You obviously haven't watched any of his classics yet. Hero is a commercial film and to date his worst movie is probably House of Flying Daggers.

Ong-Bak is a Thai movie.

I hate everything and everyone.

[isla maia]

i know the director isn't a hong konger, and jet li isn't a hong konger either. i've seen quite a bit of zhang yimou's movies especially during the early days when he often had his main star and lover then, gong li, in the main role ... "the story of qiu ju"; "ju dou"; "red sorghum" and yes, "raise the red lantern".

again, i'm no film expert nor critic, i just like good story lines, beautiful executions and interesting cgi. some parts of the movie can suck, but generally, if it's entertaining, then i'm entertained and it's on to the next dvd. that's the great thing about movies at home, you can watch like 5 in a sitting and you're going from one emotion to another with every one of them.

baby, we're all beautiful!

--isla maia

[isla maia]

Quote: Ong-Bak is a Thai movie.

yes, pretty "yeouuch!" too ... the thai actors are pretty formidable in that movie.

baby, we're all beautiful!

--isla maia

[kikofish]

nightmare before xmas

edward scissor hands

last life in the universe - best film ive seen this year

dithers

style wars- classic

dark water- scared the shit outta me

hero is dope, but please stop arguing about whether christopher doyle or whatever hes called is chinese or aussie, does it matter?

crouching tiger....

zatoichi, i cant belive no ones said this already

IRREVERSIBLE, everyone has to watch this film, if you can get past the rape scene, its pretty grim. but the films amazing.

kikofish yo!

spread love in the ghetto

[slyrobeson]

Kinji Fukusaku's: The Yakuza Papers - Battles Without Honor & Humanity

[cyberbot_g]

not in any order:

rivers and tides-andy goldsworthy

drunken master II

fist of legend

papllion

mean streets

goodfellas

notorious

punch drunk love

finding nemo

beetlejuice

closure

arrested development-season 1

intune and on time (live bonus of numark, c.chemist w/shadow MPCin)

"my attention spans galaxies. . ." saul williams

[leaaaah]

just like to add...

mallrats

casablanca

transformers the movie

mullholland drive

shaolin soccer

battle royale (the first one, the second one's crap)

karate kid 2

back to the future 2

donnie darko

AAAAAAAHHHHH.....lass uns kiffen

[superTrash]

yes |

Midnight Express [mm.. Turkish Prison Guards]

White Oleander [dysfunctional post American society on display]

Ghostworld [suburban gothic]

American Beauty [ ]

Hable con Ella [Pedro Almodovar at his best]

Saved [for anyone wanting to know what being raised in a southern baptist home is like, this is a fairly good description of the experience]

no |

anything starring and or produced by Mel Gibson [if I want to know how Christ died I'll read a Bible thank you]

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[Guest]

-lone wolf and cub (all six...fuck shogun assassin)

-anything mifune

-anything kurosawa

-anything john hughes (up until 1989)

-lost in translation

-the virgin suicides

-bottle rocket

-rushmore

-the royal tenenbaums

-dark days

-it's a wonderful life

-harvey

-search for animal chin

-star wars trilogy

-the godfather trilogy

-the tin drum

-samurai (1-3)

-fast times at ridgemont high

...and honestly, just about everything criterion is worth owning

[krush021]

-lone wolf and cub (all six...fuck shogun assassin)

-anything kurosawa

-anything mifune

-samurai (1-3)

-anything john hughes (up until 1989)

-it's a wonderful life

-harvey

-dazed and confused

-fast times at ridgemont high

-lost in translation

-bottle rocket

-rushmore

-the royal tenenbaums

-the virgin suicides

-dark days

-the search for animal chin

-the wanderers

-the godfather trilogy

-the star wars trilogy

-the tin drum

...honestly, most anything criterion is worth owning

RHFIV

[vinc3]

yo, anyone seen this Korean movie OLD BOY? I picked up a bootleg copy while I was in China.

Shit is BANANAS! Basically, it's a revenge flick that totally fucks you up. Not for the feint of heart.

Check this out if you haven't seen it.

"you're not living unless you're wasting time on the internet."

[style_expert]

I enjoyed Lost in Translation so much, I wanted to go to Tokyo immediately! And I almost did. Its a kind of a movie where there's no interesting story but at the same time very interesting and special. I also liked the recent movie Maria Full of Grace, which I found very convincing and emotional.

expertof<u>style</u>

[Obsession]

Battle Royale, Japanese

Kill Bill

Lord of the Rings

Snatch

Zatoichi, Japanese

Shutter, Thai

Adrenaline Drive, Japanese

Love Me If You Dare, French

Bottle Rocket

Seven

Fight Club

Shall We Dance, Japanese

Guns and Talks, Korean

Catch Me If You Can

Ocean Twelve

Ocean Eleven

Amelie Poulian, French

Spirited Away, Japanese

Grave of the Fireflies, Japanese

He Loves Me He Loves Me Not, French

The Cool Guy, Korean

some are vcds though.

Youth is something that the young waste

[Bigmike]

1. SCARFACE

2. SCARFACE

3. SCARFACE

4. SCARFACE (why do I feel like the only heterosexual here)

5. taxidriver

6. Fade to Black (JayZ)

7. Oceans 11

8. Bad Boys 2

9. Entire Godfather series (yeah, even the third one)

10. Anything with Al Pacino, Will Smith, or Deniro in it.

Bigmike

[MONIKER]

cleanliness

Edited by MONIKER on Jul 12, 2005 at 04:37 PM

[uglymonkey]

My Suggestions......

Donnie Darko

Akira Kurosawa's Dreams and Seven Samurai (foreign- japanese)

Motorcycle Diaries/Diarios de motocicleta (foreign- spanish)

Life is Beautiful/La Vita è bella (foreign- italian)

Delicatessen and Ameile (or any other Jean Pierre Jeunet movie) (foreign- french)

North by Northwest and Vertigo

Run Lola Run/Lola Rennt (foreign- german)

Battle Royale (foreign- japanese)

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Blue Velvet

Spirited Away/Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (foreign- japanese)

Microcosmos

Rushmore

Fight Club

Casablanca

The Professional/Leon

To Kill a Mockingbird

Belle Epoque (foreign- spanish)

Roman Holiday

Trois Couleurs: Bleu (foreign- french, romanian, polish)

Trois Couleurs: Rouge (foreign- french, romanian, polish)

Trois Couleurs: Blanc (foreign- french, romanian, polish)

.....................................

f@%#ing hipsters...

[uglymonkey]

oh yeah...forgot The Outsiders, Raging Bull, and Taxi Driver

.....................................

f@%#ing hipsters...

[whosnervous]

1. The Funeral

2. The Shawshank Redemption

3. Little Odessa

4. King Of New York

5. The Terrorist

6. Audition

7. Hable Con Ella (Talk To Her)

8. Rounders

9. Manhattan

10. Fresh

11. 25th Hour

12. Glengarry Glenn Ross

13. Wall Street

14. Boiler Room

Bonito Perdido.

Edited by whosnervous on Mar 15, 2005 at 02:14 PM