What movie should I see?

[Guest]

What about "the commitments" anyone mentioned that?How many of you Yanks know of it? An Alan Parker film about a Dublin soul band.
The big lebowski? -fabulous acting ,great soundtrack.Best Coen brothers film IMO.

[pacman]

The Commitments is a great movie. Thanks for mentioning it. Whatever happened to the 16 yo lead singer? He had a great voice.

I always remember the oldest guy in the band scored the girls. And he wasn't handsome or rich. You would never see that happen in a Hollywood movie.

Viva la difference!

[pacman]

(deepthroat @ Mar. 31 2010,22:13) That right there is a major indicator of the differences between our cultures, and in particular our educational systems. In the US, the ticket taker would've responded with a guttural utterance, or at best something along the lines of "Uh, yeah... it's pretty cool." Polysyllabic verbs like "entertaining" aren't part of the common man's vocabulary any more. Even expressions like "can't fail to...." aren't common parlance any longer.

And "The Sound of Music"? One of the 50 greatest films of all time. Surely that's not considered gay is it?

Perhaps I should come out of this closet afterall.

Don't worry, if the young fella selling the ticket had an audience I am sure his "cool" filter would have been switched on. He knew that me buying tickets was conditional on his answer. I thought he gave a good response.

As for The Sound of Music, it is virtually the perfect movie but admitting to having seen it was uncool (there's that word again) even as an 10 yo going with mum & dad. Particularly going with your folks.

I watched it on TV many years later & I could remember every scene & every song. Damn! Just when we think we are all grown up...      

[deepthroat]

Sorry for the digression, but I have to tell my "Sound of Music" story now...

When I was 10 (probably the summer of 1971) I had a friend spending the night at my house, I wanted us to go see a Hammer horror movie at the local theater. My mom decided she'd better check with Greg's mom (I didn't really understand it at the time, but Greg's family was actually fairly religious) and after the phone call was made, word came back from Mom that we really needed to pick a different film. Somehow the suggestion to go see "The Sound of Music" came up, as it was in re-release at the time. I said "Yuck!" but Greg assured me it had Nazi's and machine guns and was a cracking war movie, so off we went.

I think I was given a bit of false advertising, but it was a great film and I really enjoyed it, but even then I knew it wasn't cool to like it.

[Foggy]

I havent read this whole thread so apologise if its been said...but for me 'Blade Runner' is an all time favourite of mine..

[Foggy]

Oh and also 'What dreams may come' with Robin Willaims and Cuba Gooding Jr.... excellent stuff

[Naang Faa]

(pacman @ Apr. 01 2010,04:51) The Commitments is a great movie. Thanks for mentioning it. Whatever happened to the 16 yo lead singer? He had a great voice.

Andrew Strong, I saw him do a gig here in Liverpool about 3 years ago.
He tours the USA usually....The Commitments is a class movie.
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[PigDogg]

Was trying to remeber the name of a movie I saw 20 years.

Think it was made in Spain but not sure.

It's about a journalist who is doing a story about a dominatrix.

Halfway, throughout the movie he loses it and blurts out, "I want to be your toilet".

I've been googling around trying appropriate keywords but can't seem to find it. Any of you cinebuffs know?

[El_hefe]

Well it sounds like it could be an early Almodovar flick, he broke with a lot of the constraints of movies, also features a lot of transgendered characters/actors in real roles.


And as to the earlier posts, a friend of mine tells me that the novel "The Commitments", which preceded the movie by several years, is a terrific read in it's own right.....assuming anybody still reads novels anymore.

Which reminds me just now of another cool small movie: "Once", an extremely low budget "musical" shot on video in Ireland that ending up wining the Best Song Oscar a few years ago, I really liked this one. One (or two?) of the back up musicians in the studio scene was in The Commitments.

[Socrates999]

I'm surprised that nobody on this board has mentioned "Hedwig and the Angry Inch", about a semi-post-op (her operation was botched, leaving her with an "angry inch") from Berlin in a band that plays at Olive Garden type restaurants in the US. Some good music, touching sequences and general weirdness. Her male lover is actually played by a female in male drag. A must see for this community.

[PigDogg]

(El_hefe @ Apr. 02 2010,09:23) Well it sounds like it could be an early Almodovar flick, he broke with a lot of the constraints of movies, also features a lot of transgendered characters/actors in real roles.

That was my thought but I read a description of all his early films and none fit the bill. So it's a mystery.

[Chinaman]

(PigDogg @ Apr. 03 2010,20:41)

(El_hefe @ Apr. 02 2010,09:23) Well it sounds like it could be an early Almodovar flick, he broke with a lot of the constraints of movies, also features a lot of transgendered characters/actors in real roles.

That was my thought but I read a description of all his early films and none fit the bill.  So it's a mystery.    

I googled "movie, journalist, dominatrix, toilet" ... and this came up:

So I am trying to remember the name of this German film I saw a few years ago. It's about a dominatrix and it's one of the weirdest movies I've ever seen. I remember that there is a notable German actor in it, but I can't remember his name. At one point in the film, a journalist (I think) begs the dominatrix to use him as a toilet and she turns him down. I don't know how obscure this film is, but the German department at my college screened it as part of their film series. Somehow I got extra credit for watching it.

So I searched the German department website and I figured it out. It is Seduction: The Cruel Women. The German actor I was talking about is Udo Kier. If you want to see him as a gimp, this is the movie for you.

(http://www.chud.com/forum/showthread.php?t=94396&page=5, post #229)

check it out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seduction:_The_Cruel_Woman

funny thing - just this morning I watched another movie by this female director Monika Traut, about a lesbian relationship between a German artist and a girl from Taiwan - the film was called "Ghosted" - thought it was quite good, so will hunt this one down

mystery solved, PD :-)

Germans do make weird movies as well, but Almodovar was also my guess when u told me ...

[PigDogg]

the German department at my college screened it as part of their film series. Somehow I got extra credit for watching it.

Talk about grade inflation.  Back in the day when I had to trudge thru a mile of snow to get to class if I wanted extra credit I'd have to be the toilet.  

Good detective work Chinaman!      

[Chinaman]

The NY-Times review link:
http://www.nytimes.com/1989....anted=1

but can't find the film on any of the servers ...

your glorious college-days might not get revived ...

[El_hefe]

Back in my university days I was a projectionist for what was then called an "art house" theater, a species almost as extinct as the dodo now. I was screening a German film called "Alice in the Cities" I believe. The protagonist, a tramp charater, woke up outside in an urban lot, walked over a few steps, dropped trou & proceeded to pinch a loaf on screen. The camera stayed on him remorselessly (for the audience) & I admired that they definitely had to get this on the first take... sort of a "one take take one"....(sorry, couldn't resist that. )

I seem to recall it was by Wim Wenders who later went on to make one of my favorite films "Paris Texas", not to everyone tastes tho.