If you want to hear a conversation with a bomb that thinks it’s a god.
If you’re going to watch this, I’d suggest also looking at Silent Running. The only really negative thing to be said about it is that Lucas stole certain characters from it for Star Wars.
Dark Star is brilliant - John Carpenter’s first film if memory serves. Really very funny, low-budget science fiction. Silent Running is the one with Bruce Dern, isn’t it? Garden pod things on a spaceship. If it’s the one I’m thinking of, it’s an excellent film.
A couple of others for the Bear. Steelyard Blues, a kind of follow-up to Klute in that it starred Donald Sutherland and Jane Fonda, but is an anarchic comedy which received crap reviews, flopped at the box office but is actually pretty damn good. Little Murders, a dark satire on American society starring Elliot Gould, Alan Arkin and others I don’t recall (though with a fab cameo by the aforementioned Donald Sutherland).
Finallly, and probably fairly well known (though I wouldn’t bet on it) the original Bedazzled, starring Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. A 1960s reworking of the Faust myth, with Cook as the devil, Moore as Faust and Eleanor Bron as the love interest. Knowing (if you watch it more than once you’ll spot little details that are just brilliant, such as Cook handing Moore a wooden spoon with a very long handle when they sharing a bowl of strawberries). Great cameos too from Barrie Humphries, Raquel Welch and others.
Blue Collar - 1970s film with Richard Pryor and Harvey Keitel, about workers in a Detroit car plant. Directed by Paul Schrader (who as Bletch will know did the screenplay for ‘Taxi Driver’, among many other credits). Theme music is by Captain Beefheart, a blues using a steam hammer as percussion. What’s not to like?
Good thread, Bear. If it goes well, we will add Auteur Film Director 2015 to your list of badges. We tried getting bletch with the Poet Laureate badge. No dice. Let’s see if Furball bites.
Hmm thinking that through he may need to watch The Railway Children first to get some context.
Hmmm Thinking that through makes it probably even more wrong.
A serious offer for consideration is Inescapable.
It’s a low budget Canadian movie about a former Syrian Intelligence Office who fled to the US having been accused of working for Mossad. While it got panned by the critics, it captured the feel and nature of that country (which I love so much) in the Assad era and pre-civil war.
But as it’s Bear just watch Barbarella in ultra slo-mo to see the designs for the Orgasmatron - allegedly
I was not aware of Cloud Atlas when it came out in 2012 but saw it on Sky Movies knowing nothing about it. Often the best way to view a film is with an open mind. Absolutely loved the film and have watched it again a number of times. Completely original with six (I think) linked stories from different times, past, present and future.
I see after all the bluster about films that you might not have heard of but should watch cos they’re good, and the threats that we’d be off Bear’s film reviewer list if we served up crap, there has been decidedly little feedback from the Bear-boy.
Now perhaps he is sitting under a tree somewhere, diligently working through our recommendations with a notebook and a tablet, but we just don’t know.
If you havent seen it already I would recommend Donnie Darko. It didnt do a lot of business when first released but has since become a cult movie. See it and you will know why it has a new lease of life.