HDC recommends...

[fortunato]

Otoshiana (Pitfall) (1962)





"When a miner leaves his employers and treks out with his young son to become a migrant worker, he finds himself moving from one eerie landscape to another, intermittently followed (and photographed) by an enigmatic man in a clean white suit, and eventually coming face to face with his inescapable destiny. Hiroshi Teshigahara’s debut feature and first collaboration with novelist Kobo Abe, Pitfall is many things: a mysterious, unsettling ghost story, a portrait of human alienation, and a compellingly surreal critique of soulless industry, shot in elegant black and white."
-From Criterion.com

A completely unique and deceptively complex work about many, many things that shifts between many, many different styles and moods and (even) genres, all the time feeling completely natural and never forced.

A damn impressive debut film from Hiroshi Teshigahara.

Highly recommended.

[roshiq]

Originally Posted by fortunato

Otoshiana (Pitfall) (1962)

A completely unique and deceptively complex work about many, many things that shifts between many, many different styles and moods and (even) genres, all the time feeling completely natural and never forced.

A damn impressive debut film from Hiroshi Teshigahara.

Highly recommended.

Sounds really cool, surely I'll give it a watch as soon as its dvd hits the local store.

[The_Return]

Originally Posted by fortunato

Hm, I'm very interested now in checking out Knowing. It looked so silly and I haven't really heard much about it, but with a rec from you I'll definitely be queuing it.

I feel the same way...had no intention of watching it - looked like typical, big-budget, by-the-numbers Hollywood sci-fi trash - but with all the praise it's been getting around here I'm starting to get really intrigued. will look into very soon.

[_____V_____]

Originally Posted by fortunato

Hm, I'm very interested now in checking out Knowing. It looked so silly and I haven't really heard much about it, but with a rec from you I'll definitely be queuing it.

Originally Posted by The_Return

I feel the same way...had no intention of watching it - looked like typical, big-budget, by-the-numbers Hollywood sci-fi trash - but with all the praise it's been getting around here I'm starting to get really intrigued. will look into very soon.

Good. I am really looking forward to your thoughts and opinions on it, especially about the ending.

[urgeok2]

Originally Posted by _____V_____

Quite a few good ones in recent times...




All recommended.
Alky, Return & Fortunato...watch them asap. I want to know what others think of these, especially the latter two.

i thought Knowing had some holes but it was nice to see Cage sink his teeth into something he obviously cared about. also the crash effects were mind numbingly realistic.

Outlander was goofy fun. decent effects .. irresistable aliens vs vikings story line ..

the first viking killed by the creature was the canadian i photographed twice ...

[The_Return]

Originally Posted by _____V_____

Good. I am really looking forward to your thoughts and opinions on it, especially about the ending.

Just watched it, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I put up a mini-review over in Last Seen Movie.

As for the ending...the religious overtones were a bit heavyhanded for my liking, but otherwise I thought it was brilliant. Not what you'd typically see in this kind of movie at all.

[_____V_____]

I am really, really glad you liked it, A.

Yes the ending was on the religious-moralistic and spiritual side (as opposed to the scientific feel of the entire flick), and TBH that was one of the aspects which had me slightly worried about the mass appeal of Knowing.

(and seeing how it fared at the BO made me more apprehensive about people appreciating it even more)

But I am happy that you saw beyond it and related with the final climactic ending of the flick. Its slightly tough to see beyond all those questions posed by the ending, and you came through that. But still, it has become one of my favorite flicks of recent times. Thanks for giving it a shot on my rec. :)

[X¤MurderDoll¤X]

The Legend of 1900 (2003)



Possession (1981)



It's all gone Pete Tong

[fortunato]

Originally Posted by X¤MurderDoll¤X

[B]Possession (1981)

Possession is awesome. I just watched another one of his movies recently, called The Third Part of the Night. It was also pretty awesome.
Seconded, for sure.

Originally Posted by roshiq

Sounds really cool, surely I'll give it a watch as soon as its dvd hits the local store.

Oh yeah, I'd love to hear what you think about it.

[X¤MurderDoll¤X]

Originally Posted by fortunato

Possession is awesome. I just watched another one of his movies recently, called The Third Part of the Night. It was also pretty awesome.
Seconded, for sure.

:cool: I love andrzej zulawski.

possession is definitely my all-time favorite movie so I always try to get people I know to watch it and they never do. :(