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ViolentDove:
New China Mieville book, The City & The City is really good. Different vibe to the Bas Lag novels, more of a existential murder mystery a la Paul Auster or something.
Aurjay:
I watched "let the right one in" when it was on Sundance ppv and still try to persuade my friends to give it a chance. By far one of the best vampire flicks ive ever seen and just completely different in every good way. ***spolier***
there was a topic thread on IMDB about the gender of the vampire. I've heard the book says its a boy thats been mutilated but the movie seems to make strong suggestions of it being a girl or even both. Either way still a great movie.
**edit** i lied i saw it on the internet not Sundance. There was a previous thread just about this movie.
http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,21799.msg748828.html#msg748828 had to go to that thread to refresh my memory :/
sean:
i nabbed a torrent of it to check it out when i was home two weekends ago. i was fairly unimpressed, it was kind of whatever. i think the rip i had though also had the shitty subtitles which really didn't help (the english was kind of whacked out). i feel that better subtitles wouldn't have improved the film significantly though.
edit: wait i just checked my copy and compared it to the link pilsner posted my subtitles were good. weird. maybe sweedish just translates oddly to english? i dunno doesn't change the fact i didn't care much for the film.
Ikrik:
Some great movies recently, some of them documentaries.
Right now I'm watching Control Room, which is about how Al Jazeera has portrayed the Iraqi war. It's incredibly powerful the way they interview this one American whose beliefs are completely questioned. It is really amazing, even if it's a little old and they talk about Bush and Rumsfeld a lot.
S21: The Killing Squad of the Khmer Rouge. Or something to that affect. It's these two survivors of this horrible prison camp who go back and look through stuff and one of them even talks to some of the guards there. He tries to get them to see themselves not as victims but as the instigators of some of the horrible things they did, the guards, predictably, keep saying they were also victims. It's another incredibly powerful documentary even if there is no conclusion.
Thirst is not a documentary but it is another absolutely incredible film from Chan-Wook Park, director of Oldboy. If you like any of his other films this is something you need to see right now. This and Let the Right One In are incredible vampire films.
Dimmukane:
--- Quote from: Ikrik on 05 Feb 2010, 20:41 ---Thirst is not a documentary but it is another absolutely incredible film from Chan-Wook Park, director of Oldboy. If you like any of his other films this is something you need to see right now.
--- End quote ---
Saw this, I concur. While I was a huge fan of his visual flair in the Vengeance trilogy and I'm Not A Robot But That's OK, he still makes this movie distinctly his own without the flashiness of his previous films.
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