Films I like
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The Living Force
caballero reyes said:
There is also The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
Computer scientist Hannon Fuller has discovered something extremely important. He's about to tell the discovery to his colleague, Douglas Hall, but knowing someone is after him, the old man leaves a letter in his computer generated parallel world that's just like the 30's with seemingly real people with real emotions. Fuller is murdered in our real world the same night, and his colleague is suspected. Douglas discovers a bloody shirt in his bathroom and he cannot recall what he was doing the night Fuller was murdered. He logs into the system in order to find the letter, but has to confront the unexpected. The truth is harsher than he could ever imagine...
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caballero reyes said:
Very good movie indeed!
From Wikipedia:
Warning: SPOILER
I think that some of these can be seen as great analogies to our current reality at some point. Very interesting.
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The Running Man, directed by Paul Michael Glaser (USA) 1987
From Wikipedia:
Warning: SPOILER
Although this movie is pretty violent, I think it still contains a lot of valuable analogies. It really shows how the state can control the masses via mass-medias and television shows. Thay can lie all they want, people remain asleep, never question anything, blindly beleive all the ICS says and just basically "enjoy the show" without questionning it. They also accept that police state convincing themselves that it's for 'their protection' and that it is totoally normal.
I haven't read the book on which this movie is based but my guess is that it's even better and contain even more information.
Peace.
From Wikipedia:
Warning: SPOILER
Although this movie is pretty violent, I think it still contains a lot of valuable analogies. It really shows how the state can control the masses via mass-medias and television shows. Thay can lie all they want, people remain asleep, never question anything, blindly beleive all the ICS says and just basically "enjoy the show" without questionning it. They also accept that police state convincing themselves that it's for 'their protection' and that it is totoally normal.
I haven't read the book on which this movie is based but my guess is that it's even better and contain even more information.
Peace.
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" THE SPANISH PRISONER " Dir. David Mamet (USA) 1997.
Writer-director David Mamet crafted this unusual, Hitchcockian thriller in which no one is who they appear to be. Campbell Scott is Joe Ross, who has just created a "process" that stands to make his company and his boss, Klein (Ben Gazzara), millions of dollars. At a clandestine meeting in the Caribbean, Ross discusses the details of the process with company executives. There, purely by chance, or so he believes, he meets the wealthy, enigmatic Jimmy Dell (Steve Martin), and the two strike up an unusual friendship. Dell informs Ross that he's naïve to believe that his company will fairly compensate him for his valuable work. Upon returning home, Ross becomes paranoid that Dell is right, and he takes steps to protect his invention, becoming unsure if he can trust Klein or even his own love-struck assistant (Rebecca Pidgeon). When Ross discovers that Dell has lied to him about his identity, he contacts the FBI -- he then finds himself set up as a murder suspect who learns, almost too late, to trust no one. The title of the film refers not to any of the characters but to a classic con artist's scam. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPF-5KNmqq4
Writer-director David Mamet crafted this unusual, Hitchcockian thriller in which no one is who they appear to be. Campbell Scott is Joe Ross, who has just created a "process" that stands to make his company and his boss, Klein (Ben Gazzara), millions of dollars. At a clandestine meeting in the Caribbean, Ross discusses the details of the process with company executives. There, purely by chance, or so he believes, he meets the wealthy, enigmatic Jimmy Dell (Steve Martin), and the two strike up an unusual friendship. Dell informs Ross that he's naïve to believe that his company will fairly compensate him for his valuable work. Upon returning home, Ross becomes paranoid that Dell is right, and he takes steps to protect his invention, becoming unsure if he can trust Klein or even his own love-struck assistant (Rebecca Pidgeon). When Ross discovers that Dell has lied to him about his identity, he contacts the FBI -- he then finds himself set up as a murder suspect who learns, almost too late, to trust no one. The title of the film refers not to any of the characters but to a classic con artist's scam. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPF-5KNmqq4
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"UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES" (THAILAND) 2010 Dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
Cannes Review:
The story begins with the image of an ox, the first of many animal references that deepen its mythological dimensions. Over the course of the nearly two-hour excursion, the ghost of a man shows up reincarnated as an ape, and a catfish apparently performs cunnilingus on a woman in the jungle. Those moments provide the strangest diversions, but "Uncle Boonmee" replicates that weirdness with a melding of poetic and comic forces, yielding an experience defined by sheer ingenuity.
Weerasethakul's titular character is a middle-aged man living in the forest and dying from an illness. One evening, during a visit from his nephew, Boonmee also gets met by the ghost of his long-dead wife and missing son, that aforementioned monkey man. They discuss the sense of displacement that death brings them, marrying the strange tone to seriously lyrical observations of mortality. But Weerasethakul doesn't take the scene any more seriously than we do: Another living person joins the table and takes in the eclectic group, concluding, "I feel like I'm the strange one here."
The magic of "Uncle Boonmee" is that it makes all viewers feel like the strange ones. Like Weerasethakul's other movies, the imagery contains lushness even though the context never moves far beyond impenetrably difficult rationalizations. But just as Weerasethakul's "Syndromes and a Century" used its full two hours to reach a sense of full-bodied purpose -- time was its greatest asset -- "Uncle Boonmee" lights up with marvelous imagery and invention from its very first scene. Weerasethakul deals with folklore, memory and death in a wonderfully playful manner that's moderately accessible and cryptic at the same time. Guided by forces as otherworldly as his plot, the filmmaker turns narrative confusion into his greatest conceit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqlD_VnsM-k&feature=related
Cannes Review:
The story begins with the image of an ox, the first of many animal references that deepen its mythological dimensions. Over the course of the nearly two-hour excursion, the ghost of a man shows up reincarnated as an ape, and a catfish apparently performs cunnilingus on a woman in the jungle. Those moments provide the strangest diversions, but "Uncle Boonmee" replicates that weirdness with a melding of poetic and comic forces, yielding an experience defined by sheer ingenuity.
Weerasethakul's titular character is a middle-aged man living in the forest and dying from an illness. One evening, during a visit from his nephew, Boonmee also gets met by the ghost of his long-dead wife and missing son, that aforementioned monkey man. They discuss the sense of displacement that death brings them, marrying the strange tone to seriously lyrical observations of mortality. But Weerasethakul doesn't take the scene any more seriously than we do: Another living person joins the table and takes in the eclectic group, concluding, "I feel like I'm the strange one here."
The magic of "Uncle Boonmee" is that it makes all viewers feel like the strange ones. Like Weerasethakul's other movies, the imagery contains lushness even though the context never moves far beyond impenetrably difficult rationalizations. But just as Weerasethakul's "Syndromes and a Century" used its full two hours to reach a sense of full-bodied purpose -- time was its greatest asset -- "Uncle Boonmee" lights up with marvelous imagery and invention from its very first scene. Weerasethakul deals with folklore, memory and death in a wonderfully playful manner that's moderately accessible and cryptic at the same time. Guided by forces as otherworldly as his plot, the filmmaker turns narrative confusion into his greatest conceit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqlD_VnsM-k&feature=related
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JACOB'S LADDER Dir. Adrian Lyne (USA) 199O
Jacob Singer is a U.S. soldier deployed in the Mekong Delta during the Vietnam War. The story begins in 1971 with helicopters seen flying overhead, carrying supplies in what can be inferred as preparation for an anticipated Viet Cong offensive. Without any warning, Jacob's unit comes under heavy fire. The soldiers try to take cover, but begin to exhibit strange behavior for no apparent reason. Jacob attempts to escape the unexplained insanity, only to be stabbed with a bayonet by an unseen attacker.
As the hallucinations become increasingly bizarre, Paul, one of his old Army friends, contacts Jacob to tell him about his hallucinations and is later killed when his car explodes. At the funeral, his surviving platoon-mates confess to Jacob they too have been seeing horrible hallucinations. Jacob is then approached by a man named Michael Newman, who claims to have been a chemist working with the Army's chemical warfare division in Saigon, where he worked on creating a drug that would increase aggression. The drug was code named "The Ladder" because it took people straight to their most primal urges. The drug was first tested on monkeys and then on a group of enemy POWs, with gruesome results. Later, small doses of "The Ladder" were secretly given to Jacob's battalion via their C-rations. Instead of targeting the enemy, however, the men in Jacob's unit attacked each other indiscriminately. This revelation insinuates that Jacob was stabbed by one of his fellow soldiers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0kW6xuxtPU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRZ2eCWJJX8
Jacob Singer is a U.S. soldier deployed in the Mekong Delta during the Vietnam War. The story begins in 1971 with helicopters seen flying overhead, carrying supplies in what can be inferred as preparation for an anticipated Viet Cong offensive. Without any warning, Jacob's unit comes under heavy fire. The soldiers try to take cover, but begin to exhibit strange behavior for no apparent reason. Jacob attempts to escape the unexplained insanity, only to be stabbed with a bayonet by an unseen attacker.
As the hallucinations become increasingly bizarre, Paul, one of his old Army friends, contacts Jacob to tell him about his hallucinations and is later killed when his car explodes. At the funeral, his surviving platoon-mates confess to Jacob they too have been seeing horrible hallucinations. Jacob is then approached by a man named Michael Newman, who claims to have been a chemist working with the Army's chemical warfare division in Saigon, where he worked on creating a drug that would increase aggression. The drug was code named "The Ladder" because it took people straight to their most primal urges. The drug was first tested on monkeys and then on a group of enemy POWs, with gruesome results. Later, small doses of "The Ladder" were secretly given to Jacob's battalion via their C-rations. Instead of targeting the enemy, however, the men in Jacob's unit attacked each other indiscriminately. This revelation insinuates that Jacob was stabbed by one of his fellow soldiers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0kW6xuxtPU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRZ2eCWJJX8
caballero reyes said:
This movie is based on one short story of Julio Cortazar, one extraordinary short story, Noche boca arriba. Don't forget to put "spoiler" before the explanation of some movies. :) Specially this one where there is a mystery, a quest from the primer character as for the spectator.
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I just saw "The Life of Pi" - about a smart young man from India who is shipwrecked.
I will say no more as I don't want to spoil it. It was very well done and well acted, based on the novel by the same name. I think it did the story justice, and seeing it on the screen really brought it to life.
I will say no more as I don't want to spoil it. It was very well done and well acted, based on the novel by the same name. I think it did the story justice, and seeing it on the screen really brought it to life.
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"DEAR FRANKIE" (UK) 2005 Dir. Shona Auerbach.
After having responded to her son's numerous letters in the guise of his father, a woman hires a stranger to pose as his dad when meeting him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQhQXKHPCmM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vJvSxNbGqg
After having responded to her son's numerous letters in the guise of his father, a woman hires a stranger to pose as his dad when meeting him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQhQXKHPCmM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vJvSxNbGqg
APOCALYPSE NOW directed by Francis Ford Coppola is a movie that has always haunted me ...
Same as the blooger from _http://visupview.blogspot.com.au/2011/01/daimonic-land.html, who gives a good introduction into the esoteric symbology that is shown throughout the movie.
The IMDB entry for the movie reads:
Same as the blooger from _http://visupview.blogspot.com.au/2011/01/daimonic-land.html, who gives a good introduction into the esoteric symbology that is shown throughout the movie.
The IMDB entry for the movie reads:
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"APOCALYPSE NOW" THE HEART OF DARKNESS.
From Wikipedia
Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film set during the Vietnam War, directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, and Martin Sheen. The film follows the central character, U.S. Army special operations officer Captain Benjamin L. Willard (Sheen), of MACV-SOG, on a mission to kill the renegade and presumed insane U.S. Army Special Forces Colonel Walter E. Kurtz (Brando).
The screenplay by John Milius and Coppola came from Milius's idea of adapting Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness into the Vietnam War era. It also draws from Michael Herr's Dispatches,[2] the film version of Conrad's Lord Jim[citation needed] (which shares the same character of Marlow with Heart of Darkness), and Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972).[3] The film drew attention for its lengthy and troubled production. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse documented Brando's showing up on the set overweight, Sheen's heart attack, and extreme weather destroying several expensive sets. The film's release was postponed several times while Coppola edited millions of feet of footage.
Apocalypse Now was met with widespread critical acclaim. Its cultural impact and its philosophical themes have been extensively discussed. Honored with the Palme d'Or at Cannes, and nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, the film was also deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" and selected for preservation by the National Film Registry in 2000.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=MX&hl=es-419&v=Tt0xxAMTp8M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsZhDlJ93Bc
From Wikipedia
Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film set during the Vietnam War, directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, and Martin Sheen. The film follows the central character, U.S. Army special operations officer Captain Benjamin L. Willard (Sheen), of MACV-SOG, on a mission to kill the renegade and presumed insane U.S. Army Special Forces Colonel Walter E. Kurtz (Brando).
The screenplay by John Milius and Coppola came from Milius's idea of adapting Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness into the Vietnam War era. It also draws from Michael Herr's Dispatches,[2] the film version of Conrad's Lord Jim[citation needed] (which shares the same character of Marlow with Heart of Darkness), and Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972).[3] The film drew attention for its lengthy and troubled production. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse documented Brando's showing up on the set overweight, Sheen's heart attack, and extreme weather destroying several expensive sets. The film's release was postponed several times while Coppola edited millions of feet of footage.
Apocalypse Now was met with widespread critical acclaim. Its cultural impact and its philosophical themes have been extensively discussed. Honored with the Palme d'Or at Cannes, and nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, the film was also deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" and selected for preservation by the National Film Registry in 2000.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=MX&hl=es-419&v=Tt0xxAMTp8M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsZhDlJ93Bc
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"WAG THE DOG" (USA) 1997 Dir. Barry Levinson.
Before elections, a spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to "fabricate" a war in order to cover-up a presidential sex scandal.
http://www.veoh.com/watch/v180838478zR9pXA9?h1=Wag+the+Dog
Before elections, a spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to "fabricate" a war in order to cover-up a presidential sex scandal.
http://www.veoh.com/watch/v180838478zR9pXA9?h1=Wag+the+Dog
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I <3 Huckabees
Bernard and Vivian Jaffe (Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin) are a married couple who run an existential detective agency where they sift through the lives of their clients in order to discover the source of their angst. The Jaffes' latest client is Albert Markovski (Jason Schwartzman), an environmental activist who has a very large rock and a great deal on his mind; their study of Albert's problems lead Bernard and Vivian to Brad Stand (Jude Law), a public relations executive with a chain of successful variety stores, Huckabees. While publicly allying himself with Albert's environmental initiatives, behind the scenes Brad is running roughshod over responsible land management with little care for the consequences. When Brad learns he's being watched by the Jaffes, he hopes to co-opt them by hiring them himself; however, the plan has unexpected consequences when their questioning leads Brad's girlfriend, well-scrubbed model Dawn (Naomi Watts), into reassessing her life and relationships. Meanwhile, Albert finds himself joining forces with Tommy (Mark Wahlberg), a firefighter and fellow environmentalist who has been having second thoughts about Bernard and Vivian's ideas and methods after a long-term investigation and has since fallen under the spell of nihilist poet and philosopher Caterine Vauban (Isabelle Huppert).
K-PAX
After a mugging incident at New York's Grand Central Station, Prot (Kevin Spacey), a man who claims to be an alien from the planet K-PAX, is turned over to a public mental hospital and the care of Dr. Mark Powell (Jeff Bridges). When medication fails to alter Prot's insistence that he is visiting from another world on a fact-finding mission, Powell gets more involved with his patient, who seems to have a calming effect on the other residents of his ward. At first convinced that Prot is a delusional who can be treated, Powell begins to wonder if his bizarre patient's story is true, particularly after the hospital's doctors find that Prot possesses the baffling ability to see ultraviolet light. As the date grows nearer when Prot claims he must leave Earth (a "class BA-III planet"), Powell becomes increasingly concerned that a psychiatric breakthrough must occur by then.
I'll post some more as I think of them. ;)
Bernard and Vivian Jaffe (Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin) are a married couple who run an existential detective agency where they sift through the lives of their clients in order to discover the source of their angst. The Jaffes' latest client is Albert Markovski (Jason Schwartzman), an environmental activist who has a very large rock and a great deal on his mind; their study of Albert's problems lead Bernard and Vivian to Brad Stand (Jude Law), a public relations executive with a chain of successful variety stores, Huckabees. While publicly allying himself with Albert's environmental initiatives, behind the scenes Brad is running roughshod over responsible land management with little care for the consequences. When Brad learns he's being watched by the Jaffes, he hopes to co-opt them by hiring them himself; however, the plan has unexpected consequences when their questioning leads Brad's girlfriend, well-scrubbed model Dawn (Naomi Watts), into reassessing her life and relationships. Meanwhile, Albert finds himself joining forces with Tommy (Mark Wahlberg), a firefighter and fellow environmentalist who has been having second thoughts about Bernard and Vivian's ideas and methods after a long-term investigation and has since fallen under the spell of nihilist poet and philosopher Caterine Vauban (Isabelle Huppert).
K-PAX
After a mugging incident at New York's Grand Central Station, Prot (Kevin Spacey), a man who claims to be an alien from the planet K-PAX, is turned over to a public mental hospital and the care of Dr. Mark Powell (Jeff Bridges). When medication fails to alter Prot's insistence that he is visiting from another world on a fact-finding mission, Powell gets more involved with his patient, who seems to have a calming effect on the other residents of his ward. At first convinced that Prot is a delusional who can be treated, Powell begins to wonder if his bizarre patient's story is true, particularly after the hospital's doctors find that Prot possesses the baffling ability to see ultraviolet light. As the date grows nearer when Prot claims he must leave Earth (a "class BA-III planet"), Powell becomes increasingly concerned that a psychiatric breakthrough must occur by then.
I'll post some more as I think of them. ;)