Sukhov
-
Posts
9,392 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Posts posted by Sukhov
-
-
14 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
Gymkata is an amazing movie. One of the 10 best/worst of the 1980's, in my opinion.
- Rock'n'Roll Nightmare (1987)
- Night Train to Terror (1985)
- Black Devil Doll from Hell (1984)
- Runaway Nightmare (1982)
- Miami Connection (1987)
- Wizards of the Lost Kingdom (1985)
- Gymkata (1985)
- Splatter Farm (1987)
- Las Vegas Bloodbath (1989)
- Hell of the Living Dead (1980)
Gymkata is by all means very bad but I think Las Vegas Bloodbath is much, much worse (and also more boring).
-
2
-
1
-
Doctor Zhivago (protest against the Tsarists)
Next: soldiers return home
-
4 hours ago, EricJ said:
Now, this is what I've been saying since the beginning, folks:
THEY'RE NOT ****IN' "DISAPPEARING"!! They're still on disk, they're just not in your immediate in-reach remote-click environment of streaming! Or, like the days when nobody watched old movies on local TV stations at 2am, is that the same thing?You spent the last year literally singing the praises of a service that served them to you on a silver platter, and now you've got to go out to the garden and start picking those fresh titles yourselves--Sort of like the difference between people who know how to cook and go to farmers' markets, and people who praise Blue Apron boxes on their doorstep.
Well as I understand it, Filmstruck had a lot of rare movies from around the world that may be hard to find. Not everyone can find all of the films from that service.
-
1
-
-
Swordsman of Siena
-
Batman and Robin - This 1973 Turkish movie in black and white has almost nothing to do with the Batman and Robin comic story. Batman and Robin try to stop a gang of serial killers (?) and Batman even shoots them at point blank range in this one. They also visit a strip club in a scene only there to scintillate the viewer. This is an extremely low quality film and is only mildly amusing for its terrible quality. The film stock is even more noticeably degraded than Three Giant Men and this one is in b&w which makes it even worse. I would say this movie is up there in contest with the disgusting Nekromantik (1987) and the extremely unfunny Hitler is Kaput (2008) as the worst foreign language movie I've ever seen.
-
3
-
-
Three Giant Men -This is one of those public domain versions of American action films that were made in the 70s and 80s. "Sgt. America" and Santo come from the US and Mexico to Turkey to solve a gang problem. The gang is a gang of spidermen! (Spiderman is the evil guy here). Yeah, this one is really weird and has almost nothing to do with the Capt, America, Santo or Spiderman franchises other than the costumes. The sound was also really bad and the filmstock was really degraded. This one was pretty bad but equal to an American B movie. I give this a 2/10.
-
3
-
-
47 minutes ago, Ray Faiola said:
UTOPIA is the zenith. No contest IMHO.
My favorite will always be Road to Morocco. A near perfect comedy/ musical film. Utopia comes close though. I also like Road to Bali. "Hoot Mon" is probably my favorite number from their films.
-
1
-
-
Make Way For Tomorrow
-
1
-
-
From Philippe de Broca
Up to His Ears
-
2
-
-
A Slightly Pregnant Man - Comedic farce starring Mastroianni. His character experiences stomach pains and the doctor explains that he is the first pregnant male that resulted from man's modern lifestyle. Meh, this one wasn't particularly funny and the soundtrack was really grating. Demy is not one of my favorite directors. I don't like many of his films.
-
2
-
1
-
1
-
-
Touki Bouki - A couple want to get to Paris so they steal the money from a local tribe that was going to use the money to build a statue of DeGaulle. This movie is pretty funny and I liked it more than Black Girl. The two go separate ways but plan to meet up on the ship. Of course things do not go their way. I recommend this one.
-
4
-
-
The Holy Mountain - Another great film from Jodorowsky. He plays an enlightened monk who takes 9 corrupt, greedy, materialist people on a search for enlightenment. Like many of his films, this one has a lot of odd imagery and just bizarre content. The film even ends by breaking the fourth wall, showing the futility of it all! A good film for those interested in bizarre 70s cult films. Note: there is a lot of nudity and violence in this one.
-
2
-
1
-
-
Never on Sunday
-
On 11/3/2018 at 2:45 PM, LawrenceA said:
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Dir: Peter Weir, Australia - January 20
Good film but I wish they didn't schedule English language films for TCM Imports, or if they did they were at least Giallo or Spaghetti westerns or something. A film from Australia could be programmed any day really.
-
1
-
-
The Seventh Bullet - This Soviet western was filmed entirely in the Uzbek republic and stars only Uzbek actors. The dialogue is primarily in Russian but there is some Uzbek and Arabic dialogue too. In the days during the Russian Civil War, Maksumov is a Red Army commander whose troops betray him and leave for a Basmachi lord, Khairulla (who is also financed by the British who were financing fundamentalist rebels in Central Asia at the time) while he was away in Tashkent. The title comes from Maksumov's oath to kill Khairulla with his seventh bullet that he keeps tucked in the band of his hat. Maksumov tries to track him down and convince his troops to return to him. Also the woman Aigul is infatuated with him and follows him along the way. This film has a lot of shoot outs and cool action scenes. Maksumov is freed from prison in an action scene with lots of shooting and stunts. One major theme of this film is that of the backwards Muslims vs. the progressive, forward thinking Soviets (portrayed through the character Maksumov). When asked to make a deal with the Basmachi lord he responds "You would not betray your religion so do not ask me to betray mine." In another scene, maksumov tries to remind his men why they were fighting Khairulla in the first place because he tortured and killed many of their family members and performed barbaric acts like honor killings. The cinematography of this film was very good and reminded me of the shots of Monument Valley in John Ford films. The soundtrack was also very nice and the actress who played Aigul was very pretty. This is a very well shot film and I recommend it to anyone interested in Red Westerns. Not as great as White Sun of the Desert but it is a very good film in its own right. This film is probably one of my favorite Central Asian films of the few that I have seen. I give it a 7/10.
-
3
-
-
9 minutes ago, mr6666 said:
You mean you don't like Garbage Pail Kids?
-
1
-
-
55 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
The juxtaposition of someone with the screen name "Gershwin fan" and the avatar of Stan Laurel, also having Cannibal Holocaust among their top ten favorite movies, is simply amazing. I wholeheartedly approve.
I think it is the ultimate film of the exploitation genre and has a very good social message that unfortunately is overshadowed by its notorious content. "I wonder who the real cannibals are." Some other runners up to my top 10 would be: Beau Hunks (1931), the Star (2002), Goldfinger (1964) and North by Northwest (1959).
-
1
-
-
1.) Modern Times (1936)
2.) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
3.) McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
4.) The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012)/ Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006)
5.) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
6.) Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
7.) The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
8.) Halloween (1978)
9.) Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)
10.) Stalker (1979)
-
23 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
That was the one I was thinking of, but I looked it up on IMDb, and it only lists English as the movie's spoken language, so I guess I won't be listing it after all.
But I do like it a lot, and recommend it to fans of outer-fringe horror.
I've also seen that one. This is what Wikipedia says on it.
>Though it is a Mexican Spanish language film, it was originally filmed in English, as evidenced by the fact that the lip movements match the dubbed English dialogue
"It's a Spanish language film that was filmed in English language."
???? I have no idea what they mean. If it was filmed in English they should just say it's English language.
-
World on a Wire - This sci-fi film was made by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Fred Stiller runs a virtual reality world for a very powerful company. He soon comes upon problems with it that lead to his whole world unraveling. It turns out that his own world is also a virtual reality and that someone else is relaying information to the outside! The creator of his virtual reality isn't very happy about him finding out and tries to prevent him from doing anything. This is a very good sci-fi film that covers the popular topic of what is real and how do we know what we see is real? This film shares a lot in common with the Matrix movie series as they cover similar themes. A very good film from early Rainer Werner Fassbender.
-
3
-
-
Society of the Spectacle - This is a documentary by situationist Guy Debord. It is based heavily on his book of the same name. "Spectacle" in this branch of philosophy means mass media and how it is used to reinforce the capitalist system and lie and contradict itself. Debord uses clips from news footage and Hollywood films (as well as world films) to explain how alienation, commodification, and internal contradiction work in society. He uses clips from films like the Shanghai Gesture, They Died with Their Boots On,Chapayev, Battleship Potemkin, Johnny Guitar, Triumph of the Will, Ernst Thalmann, For Whom the Bell Tolls and more. Clips are also included of the Moon Landing, Stalin's funeral and Nixon meeting Mao. One scene includes a Cuban anchor fixing a camera upon Fidel Castro to demonstrate the mass media's use of marketing to get a specific image across. Quotes from left wing philosophers on alienation, commodification, etc. are used between scenes and to set the topic of the next scene and its relevance to the "spectacle." The people who create the spectacle ultimately become the slaves to it. This is a very good documentary that sums up Debord's ideas and I recommend it to anyone interested in them.
-
4
-
-
6 hours ago, Fedya said:
My box guide claims The Ascent is on at 4:00 AM, not October.
My TV says October.
-
I think 1973 is my best year for foreign films so far. So many great films from this year.
-
1
-
-
Tonight, 11/4 at 2 AM - Alexander Nevsky
Great epic film from Russia with a beautiful score by Sergei Prokofiev (I hope it's the remastered version of the score).
and afterwards at 4 AM - October: 10 Days That Shook the World
This one is a premiere.
-
3
-
*A to Z of Movies*
in Games and Trivia
Posted
Killer Klowns from Outer Space