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| Me too. I'd missed browsing through video shops until I started going there recently.. |
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The 90s rewatch continues. Watched Last Night, which I'd seen at MIFF in the late 90s. It's about the world having hours left before utter annihilation and how various people spend their last night. It still stands up.
Finally got around to watching the Itallian film Caro Diario from 1993. Really enjoyed it. I love it when the protagonist is a film geek like me and I get all their references. I'm not surprised that Nanni Moretti won Best Director at Cannes. |
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I liked Caro diario a lot too. Haven't seen much else by Moretti, but The Son's Room is an excellent film if you're not already familiar with it.
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| David wrote: | | I liked Caro diario a lot too. Haven't seen much else by Moretti, but The Son's Room is an excellent film if you're not already familiar with it. |
I'll check it out.
I watched Wong Kar Wai's Happy Together (1997) last night. It had some stuff in it I liked but I expected more. |
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The 4 Alien movies, plus the 2 prequel films, and the 4 Predator movies are done.
Alien 1 and 2 are great. 3 is just ok. 4 is dismal. The prequel films were fairly good I thought. Predator is good if u like that sort of thing. Part 2 is... not completely crap, and still watchable. Predators (the third one) I didnt mind. "The Predator" (the 4th film) was a dead set shocker.
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Gees David, did you start a new Id?
Alien vs predator is interesting!
The original alien is still good, as is predator but they both went down hill after that! Lot of sequels do, jaws 4 for example! The Meg is much better!
Die hard however, love them all!
If only they made another con air!
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| Man Bites Dog (1992) A mockumentry about a serial killer getting followed by a film crew as he goes about his business. Laced with dark humour and gratuitous violence. It's a real 90s throwback. I thought it was going to be fairly one dimensional. But the storyline was interesting enough and the killer was quite funny. |
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David
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| think positive wrote: | | Gees David, did you start a new Id? |
 I can assure you I’m not the only person in the world who likes arthouse and foreign language film. Maybe not many of them post on Nick’s, but we’re out there I promise. 
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| David wrote: | | think positive wrote: | | Gees David, did you start a new Id? |
I can assure you I’m not the only person in the world who likes arthouse and foreign language film. Maybe not many of them post on Nick’s, but we’re out there I promise. |
Absolutely.
I see the Academy Award nominations were announced today
BEST PICTURE
Nightmare Alley
Don't Look Up
Drive My Car
Belfast
Licorice Pizza
The Power of The Dog
West Side Story
King Richard
Coda
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
DRIVE MY CAR
Japan
FLEE
Denmark
THE HAND OF GOD
Italy
LUNANA: A YAK IN THE CLASSROOM
Bhutan
THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD
Norway
What jumps out at me is that Drive My Car was nominated in both categories, which tells me that the Best International Feature Film award is a forgone conclusion. Which is disappointing because I loved The Worst Person in the World. Although to be fair I haven't seen Drive My Car yet. But it would have to be pretty special to out do The Worst Person in The World for me.
And my favourite category for the Razzies
WORST PERFORMANCE by Bruce Willis in a 2021 movie
Bruce Willis, “American Siege”
Bruce Willis, “Apex”
Bruce Willis, “Cosmic Sin”
Bruce Willis, “Deadlock”
Bruce Willis, “Fortress”
Bruce Willis, “Midnight in the Switchgrass”
Bruce Willis, “Out of Death”
Bruce Willis, “Survive the Game”
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Brice has had some shockers lately, but still better than don’t look up!
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| He Died with a Falafel in His Hand (2001) d Richard Lowenstein. Re: watch on Stan. It stood up pretty well after all these years. It was also a hoot seeing Sophie Lee again. She was so of that time. What ever happened to her? |
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Metal Skin (1994) Geoffrey Wright's follow up to Romper Stomper. I remember it flopping at the time of its release and personally having mixed thoughts about it. But it was interesting revisiting it and viewing it as a time capsule of mid 90s Melbourne. It's also batshit crazy and the car chase at the end, around the Footscray docklands, between a Charger and a Nascar is pretty cool. The full movie is free to watch on You Tube
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David
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I see you’re also on an Australian film kick, 26. 
Woke up early this morning and finally caught up with Wake in Fright for the first time. I understand how groundbreaking it was, and I’m sure the satirical portrayal of the urban–rural divide hit the mark in its day, but it’s honestly a pretty unpleasant and (particularly in its savagely caricatured portrayal of people living in the outback) ultimately mean-spirited film.
One thing I can say for sure is I won’t be drinking beer again anytime soon!
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| ^ The amount of booze they were putting away was hilarious. I heard the "The Yabba" was based on Broken Hill. |
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We had to do wake in fright asa school book, hated that and the movie!
Romper stomper, the big springboard for Russell Crowe, bloody terrifying! Probably not now But-when I was younger it was!
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