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well obviously not because i've managed it now! grr. The board hates me, that's what it is. I get the hint. *humphs* i was logged in honestly! I keep getting an authorisation thingy

Agitator - Takashi Miike does Once Upon A Time In American, only in Japan. If you get my drift.

Lost In La Mancha made me feel better about life. that's a great thing.

It also made me want to read Don Quixote. Until I saw the size of it and decided I'd better leave it until I have less work on...

Saw Closer last night and found it moderately enjoyable but ultimately utterly empty and pointless. All four leads, with the exception of Clive Owen, were just poor and a film like that about, essentially, a love quadrilateral, without fantastic chemistry between the four leads is always going to leave a bit to be desired.

If I see a better film this year that A Very Long Engagement I'll be delighted. It has Jeunet's quirkiness, but is tinged with the most enchanting melancholy. For two hours it sits in that preserve of great art - a present tinged with both nostalgia and apprehension (and, naturally, hope). Brilliant score, brilliant casting...such a fragile, sensitive and inspiring movie. It has 'hold on' written all over it.

Marvellous. All must see it. It's movies like this that make cinema such a wonderful experience at its best.

anyone [...] seen IRRVRSBLE? sorry if i missed a discussion we already had. i just saw it. i hated it at first, i watched it in about 3 sittings, i was fairly .. is "impressed" the word? - by the "end"start thing.

Saw Sideways yesteerday, was excellent with great acting and several laughs to be had. Also I found it quite touching, but some might just find the two main characters to be extremely unsympathetic, in which case they'll probably dislike the film too. But I liked it - Alexander Payne is now definitely one of the best directors around.

Saw A Very Long Engagement (again) with my girlfriend. Even better second time round, delightful little threads running shyly through it. Some magnificent cinematography.

Wonderful movie. Must see.

Heathers is very overlooked.

An obvious precursor to the likes of The Virgin Suicides, this whole sugar-sweet facade (there's a lot in the direction, not just the fact that it's marketed as a teen movie - it has the same lingering camera work and soft focus prevelent in Sofia Copolla's movies) belying a black, bitter essence.

Very dark, knowing humour as well.

And the bambi eyes of a young Winona Ryder . I wasn't expecting much, but i got it. A fine movie.

My turn to bang on about A Very Long Engagement...

Rather good, but missed out being truly great by undermining itself regularly by following a scene of great emotional impact and resonance with a dog farting.

Requiem for a Dream

I'm not even going to comment on it, apart from to be really petty and complain that it was too short, and they could have shown the 'descent' a bit better. But still...

The last twenty minutes of Requiem is the most harrowing sequence of film I have ever seen. I am dying to get hold of the soundtrack, the Kronos Orchestra score is amazing. It holds its price too much though. I really love it, I just struggle to watch it.

Ray is a gem of a movie. Every minute a joy, just a tasteful, well-acted and thoughtful movie. And let's face it, it could have been so, so much worse. Well worth watching, and Jamie Foxx is going to deserve his Oscar.

Too right. i also find most of 'bully' pretty harrowing... so god knows what my 14 year old sister thought of it when she was looking through my DVDs...

I've been watching films for the first time in 6+ months this weekend... Garden State was pretty class last night, somewhat life-affirming in a dark, chuckling kinda way. Whatever film was on after Match of the Day as well, what bollocks. Sadly I found that Meet The Parents failed to fulfil the first part of this thread's title, I don't see what everyone was raving about...