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Inlander:
--- Quote from: 5thWheel ---The best thing I have seen in ages is Riget ("The Kingdom"), mini-series by Lars von Trier
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Yes! I remember seeing it in the cinema years ago (long before the Dogme manifesto). Brilliant. There was a recent dodgy American re-make written by Stephen King (it was a T.V. series, as Von Trier's was originally). Also, there was a sequel T.V. series by Von Trier, but I never saw it.
5thWheel:
I'm not sure that sequel is available outside Sweden etc (we couldn't get it in the uk but we were on holiday in Sweden so we got it while over there, got all girlishly gigglesome when the hot swedish bloke selling us it subsonically rumbled at us that he thought it was cool :) ). The sequel is probably worth having if you liked the 1st series, but it isn't IMO quite as good and it does not provide any resolution (typical Trier :/ ).
A 3rd part is highly unlikely since I think Helmer & Mrs Drusse are IRL dead.
The Stephen King remake went from bad to plain unwatchable IMO.
Inlander:
The sequel was screened on T.V. here (god bless S.B.S.!), but I never got around to seeing it - I missed the first few episodes and after that it was just impossible to get into it.
Tinjessla:
Ooh, have any of the Beat Takeshi fans here seen Kikujirô?
On the subject of asian cinema, i have three films to reccommend: Gozu, Oldboy and The Happiness of the Katsukaris.
Gozu is just....too crazy for me to describe. No really, i don't know where to start with that one. The basic premise is that of a Yakuza member being ordered to kill a fellow Yakuza member as he's gone stark raving mad. Things go a little awry and well..you just have to see it.
Oldboy is a Korean film which pretty much centres on one guys thist for revenge. I thought it was going to end up being a very typical gangster film but the twists are ingenius. Ingenius i tells yer!
The Happiness of the Katsukaris is kinda old now, but it's just so wonderfully insane. Imagine a very skewed version of The Sound of Music and you're half way there.
There's a lot more i'd talk about (i sure do loves me some Asian cinema) but i'd be blabbering on for days.
thew:
--- Quote from: thew ---My favorite is Kikujiro.
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--- Quote from: Tinjessla ---Ooh, have any of the Beat Takeshi fans here seen Kikujirô?
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:)
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