The annual Film Festival where I live has been a treasure trove of great movies for the last couple of years I‘ve been able to go, especially Asian, horror and genre movies. There’s been a bunch of movies that I‘ve seen and wish I could watch again but can’t for the life of me find a way to find them again.
_Louder! Can't Hear What You're Singin' Wimp!_ is some of the most fun I've ever had in a theatre.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HewICIjsZbc
_Being Natural_ is one of the strangest but most delightful movies I've seen with the most unexpected ending of any movie I've ever seen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT83et78Q1o
_The Incredible Shrinking WKND_ blew my mind in a way I never expected a movie to do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg79bQ6O_uM
I could go on for hours about movies I've seen at this festival. It's happening digitally this year fortunately, but it's not the same as going in person. There's a special vibe at the festival I've never seen at other Film Festivals I've gone to.
Who else here is a regular Letterboxd user? This month I’ve been trying to watch a new movie every day and document it on my profile. Always looking for good discussion.
Alright, time to promote my monthly film series once again. It‘s the same deal as before, though of all the movies I’ve mentioned thus far, this one by far is the most up Select Button‘s alley; mubi.com ’s description is far better than anything I could come up with…
_"Take a trip on a chartered plane with a number of thrill-seekers (most of whom are anthropomorphic foods and animals). Found originally in a thrift shop on LaserDisc and ripped for online viewing, The Flying Luna Clipper is the only feature-length art piece/film created solely on the MSX2 system."_
... And here's a clip...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIzD74bk8Hw
I've written about The Flying Luna Clipper in great detail, and am even the individual who uploaded the entire film onto YouTube, but if you feel like watching the film online with some super cool folk (no joke, the crowd that Wonderville attracts are legit awesome, way cooler than your usual super cringe Twitch chat), then please join us tomorrow night!
Alright, it’s movie time, once again. And I know I say this often, but seriously, it's something kinda different, kinda legit amazing, IMHO. Late Bloomer (Osoi Hito) by Go Shibata is a milestone re: disabled representation in film, plus Japanese indie filmmaking as a whole…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAgokMPT-cU
Here’s what [Subway Cinema](https://twitter.com/subwaycinema) had say…
_“Every dude in a wheelchair has a breaking point, and when Sumida-san is pushed past his by the able-bodied jerks who patronize him every day, he pushes back — with a big, whopping knife. Aggressively experimental, with a wall-of-noise sound design by electronic art band World’s End Girlfriend, Late Bloomer demands that we see people in wheelchairs as human beings and we dismiss and dehumanize them at our peril. Even the director wound up tossing the first year and a half of footage he shot because he felt that his own personal prejudice against the handicapped rendered it all virtually useless.”_
Even though this movie is absolutely not for everyone, I nevertheless can’t help but recommend it for all to see. And as with last month’s Flying Luna Clipper, the director might be attendance?
It screens this Monday September 28, starting at 9:00PM EST...
A few years from now… Bacurau, a small village in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants (among them Sônia Braga) notice that their village has literally vanished from online maps and a UFO-shaped drone is seen flying overhead. There are forces that want to expel them from their homes, and soon, in a genre-bending twist, a band of armed mercenaries led by Udo Kier arrive in town picking off the inhabitants one by one. A fierce confrontation takes place when the townspeople turn the tables on the villainous outsiders, banding together by any means necessary to protect and maintain their remote community. The mercenaries just may have met their match in the fed-up, resourceful denizens of little Bacurau.
Wow that sounds intense! I love stuff like that. Will add to my list!
Did you ever seen the movie "Prospect?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F96wbQ698Z0
Bacurau is definitely on my list!! Didn‘t know about Prospect though, I’d check that out.
Also, I finally watched The Hidden Fortress last night and it's far and away my least favorite kurosawa movie! I haven't seen them all, especially the 40s stuff, but yeah. And action comedy with 50s humor is not really gonna do it for me.
@Jtwo#7029 Yes I did see Prospect a while back. I'll say this much: I will always have love for any interplanetary sci fi movie that was clearly filmed in a public park
I‘ve been watching a whole lot of stuff on Tubi because it really is the place to go for dumb things. It has most of the Bloodfists! Anyway, I have to recommend Class of 1999 because it is insane. What better way to follow up a “the youth is bad” movie like Class of 1984 than with a post-apocalypse terminator the warriors movie where the government’s only control is used to make gangs go to school. https://tubitv.com/movies/343309/class_of_1999
@exodus#7121 It does have commercials. I‘d might pay for ad-free if they did that. I suppose with ads isn’t really in the spirit of straight-to-VHS, but I‘d rather watch the ads than pay for most of these movies to be honest. I’ve got to figure out a way to easily watch it on a 4:3 CRT, though. If only the service existed when the PS3 was still getting apps, then I could just ride that thing into the grave like I do with the Netflix app to watch the Star Treks.
I just can‘t deal with commercials, and as far as I know they’re just artlessly slapped in there mid-sentence or whatever, so sadly this isn't the service for me! Amazon prime (which is obviously terrible because of amazon) has a bunch of trash also, so I just kinda use that for things like this.
@Syzygy#7155 I have at least one version of most consoles, an Extron upscaler, OSSC, and RGB2Comp, but I don‘t have anything to do downscaling. For my HD CRT I can use 480p HDMI from a PC, but it’s too much work to move the PC around. I assume my best bet would be to get a raspberry pi and a Pi2SCART, which would allow me to use it on SD and HD CRTs. I just haven‘t messed much with Pi stuff, so I don’t know how much work it would be.
I was reminded the other day that not a lot of people have seen the films of Kihachi Okamoto, who was kind of a low-key second-fiddle to Kurosawa in the international samurai movie market when it exploded in the late ‘60s. I actually like his samurai movies more than Kurosawa’s!
***SWORD OF DOOM*** is probably his masterpiece work, and my second-favorite samurai movie!
https://youtu.be/FGhpT8PGslA
***KILL!*** is Okamoto's ***SANJURO***, because it is quite literally based on the same book. But I think it's way funnier and meaner - this dude had a streak of black humor in him Kurosawa just cannot match.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdxxCijpINw
Here is a bonus non-Okamoto samurai film, because it is my *all-time favorite* and probably maybe one of my top 5 movies ever? Anyway it's ***HARAKIRI***, directed by Masaki Kobayashi and starring all-timer Tatsuya Nakadai. I think it has the single best swordfight of any of these movies, both because the choreography is intense and the stakes of what's happening are wild. This movie rules. It's so good.
