Some movies for your Netflix list....
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So this is all stuff I've watched recently and all stuff that's older and I've seen before but if you are looking for a good film for a rainy day or you are laid up with a cold...here you go:
O Lucky Man! - This is a film I think a lot of people here may already have seen but if not I sort of feel like it should be required viewing for anybody that visits the Baerwald board. This is a comedy...ahh black comedy...with a little Monty Python, a little Stanley Kubrick, and a little of all sorts of things mixed in. It's the film Malcolm McDowell did after A Clockwork Orange and the influence of that film is present here. You get everything from coffee sales, to secret government stuff, to medical experiments, to evil wealthy industrialists, to religion, and philosophy. Oh yeah, and sex, violence, drugs, and rock n roll. Alan Price is featured with his band to break up the segments and give the film a rock 'n' roll feel. I did post a video of this in the soundtrack thread below. Basically this film skewers everybody and it's a lot of fun. I always thought that if you were going to make a film of Triage this would be one way to structure it with David as the Alan Price character. Really, if you've never seen this you are in for an interesting ride...and I didn't even mention the "honey"...
Under the Volcano - Before Nic Cage played a guy trying to drink himself to death in Las Vegas, the late great John Huston made a film about a guy drinking himself to death in Mexico. Yes, John Huston! Albert Finney plays the guy trying to do himself in and he may give the best drunk performance ever put on film. This is one of the last few films Huston made and it feels like one of his most personal. Not an uplifting film but it is a beautiful film with some amazing acting. Of course because it takes place in Mexico there is a bullfight in it too...hey, what else would you expect from Huston! Oh yeah and Jaqueline Bisset is in it...and damn she is just yummy! If there was a woman that could drive you to drink...come on guys...it's gotta be her!
The Hoax - This is of a more recent vintage and it's the true story of how Cliff Irving faked what was supposed to be an authorized biography of Howard Hughes. Gere was the perfect choice to play Irving and if you doubt this watch F for Fake the Orson Welles film that covers this topic and has the real Irving in it.
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'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
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So this is all stuff I've watched recently and all stuff that's older and I've seen before but if you are looking for a good film for a rainy day or you are laid up with a cold...here you go:
O Lucky Man! - This is a film I think a lot of people here may already have seen but if not I sort of feel like it should be required viewing for anybody that visits the Baerwald board. This is a comedy...ahh black comedy...with a little Monty Python, a little Stanley Kubrick, and a little of all sorts of things mixed in. It's the film Malcolm McDowell did after A Clockwork Orange and the influence of that film is present here. You get everything from coffee sales, to secret government stuff, to medical experiments, to evil wealthy industrialists, to religion, and philosophy. Oh yeah, and sex, violence, drugs, and rock n roll. Alan Price is featured with his band to break up the segments and give the film a rock 'n' roll feel. I did post a video of this in the soundtrack thread below. Basically this film skewers everybody and it's a lot of fun. I always thought that if you were going to make a film of Triage this would be one way to structure it with David as the Alan Price character. Really, if you've never seen this you are in for an interesting ride...and I didn't even mention the "honey"...
Under the Volcano - Before Nic Cage played a guy trying to drink himself to death in Las Vegas, the late great John Huston made a film about a guy drinking himself to death in Mexico. Yes, John Huston! Albert Finney plays the guy trying to do himself in and he may give the best drunk performance ever put on film. This is one of the last few films Huston made and it feels like one of his most personal. Not an uplifting film but it is a beautiful film with some amazing acting. Of course because it takes place in Mexico there is a bullfight in it too...hey, what else would you expect from Huston! Oh yeah and Jaqueline Bisset is in it...and damn she is just yummy! If there was a woman that could drive you to drink...come on guys...it's gotta be her!
The Hoax - This is of a more recent vintage and it's the true story of how Cliff Irving faked what was supposed to be an authorized biography of Howard Hughes. Gere was the perfect choice to play Irving and if you doubt this watch F for Fake the Orson Welles film that covers this topic and has the real Irving in it.
–--
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
