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Du bei chuan wang (1972)
My all time favourite Kung Fu film ever..
This is my favourite Martial Arts film ever. Although some reviews feel the sequel superior I would disagree. This is mainly due to the fact the second film is a competition movie for most of its running time which I find less interesting than arrival schools set up.
The villains in this are brilliant from the devilish karate leader to the Thai Kickboxers and the sheer range of the martial arts they use keep the fights fresh. There is also some quite brutal bits with heads being bloodied and people dying in boiling oil.
There is the slightly off putting sight of a Chinese man dyed brown to play an Indian yoga master but we had Angelina Jolie pull the same trick a few years back so I won't hold it against them.
Overrall a rip-roaring slab of funked up differently abled mayhem. If you live somewhere you can get it on DVD do it if you don't dust off your VCR and get the video.
Wild at Heart (1990)
Like the country
I first saw this film when i was well under the 18 rating. But thanks to early facial hair, parents who knew nothing of David Lynch except the elephant man and Dune and very lax staff at the local video shop I got to see it. I loved it as soon as I saw the back of Bobby Ray Lemon's head with the brains trailing out. And of course Bobby Peru.
I've watched it many many times partially due to writing a long essay on it in media studies A level and in part due to really liking it. With hindsight it is not one of Lynch's best although it's not his worst either. Stubbornly weird but blessed with a hypnotic visual charm it really is very watchable.
Supporting turns by Harry Dean Stanton and Willem Dafoe are both great and the leads have us rooting for them. In fact the majority of the cast master the disassociated Lynch house style.
A hotchpotch of film references and atmosphere enhancing vignettes keep it ticking over between bouts of physical and/or psychological violence.
We learn cars are not our friends and that you should never question gang members' sexuality no matter how much leather they wear.
While a touch style over content it is very watchable if you like wilful oddity and menacing situations.
Street Trash (1987)
One of those films that splits opinion.
I don't get what all these people are saying about no story and bad dialogue. I agree one hundred percent some of the actors are atrocious (I am talking to you wizzy) but what about the cop, the old drunk who got married in his suit, Mr Duran(?), The yellow wearing hooker on the phone to her pimp. And who could forget the waiter who watches durran's women get led off to her death. Each and everyone a 100 carat performance. And the dialogue, when delivered by these stars is amazing. "I read like old.....". "My mother weeps, she weeps...". And the very real looking freaks and bums.
The story is clear cut to me. If robert altman had pumped this out with over lapping sound (and ok maybe did not have the melting and the decapitation and the penis rugby) people would say it is a tapestry-like evocation of a forgotten portion of our society or some such.
Wake up people. This film is the king of midnight movies. End.
Alphaville: Une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (1965)
I see what you mean but
I see what you mean about difficult to follow but i always thought it was mean to be an interpretation of the orpheus legend mixed up with all the film noir/orwell knock offs.
This movie puts me in a good mood for some reason everytime i watch it. Maybe it is cos its dumb or maybe cos its good i don't know. But by jimminy it works.
The flashing lights and stuff i think is a good visual analog for the anti-techno vibe.
I would agree with whichever one of you guys was saying that it paved the way for many of the classic sci fi movies that followed. The whole cyberpunk thing is there like 20 years early and maybe closer in spirit to P K Dick's books than Blade Runner and Total Recall. Well it is isn't it.