IT'S MOTHERFUCKING RED.

mk64 wrote:

its top 3 for me.  Howls Moving Castle  Pom Poko  Porco Rosso 

Pom poko, for real? Above Mononoke, Spirited, and all the rest?

Its really funny and I love the environmental message

Yeah this is worth restating. Obvs Ghibli has been going all save-the-planet since forever, but something about making that explicit in a modern setting while still maintaining a hefty dose of the magical and not coming off as a tedious afterschool special is kind of miraculous. It's my fave after Porco.

You will never see a more charming movie about what's essentially terrorism.

I liked Prophet. It wasn't as good as I was expecting after all the fuss I'd heard but I enjoyed it.

Didn't enjoy Citizen Ruth as much as his other films. I didn't actually laugh at Nebraska but I'm sure I was smiling all the way thru.

It is heartwarming but it's things like the two brothers constantly laughing at how long it took him to drive there and his dad's comments on mount Rushmore.

The performances were all good but in that ott miramax comedy way.

PS I fucking hate miramax. I've enjoyed plenty of miramax films but hated, hated, so much of their output.

Citizen Ruth is on American Netflix.

Really? Surely that's just some kind of pyramid scheme or some shit.

Didn't care for the main character at all?

I'd like to put forward Head-On (2004) as my choice. It's a German-Turkish film about two Turkish people living in Germany struggling with their sense of identity in a different culture, iMDB lists it as drama/romance.

I originally watched it at uni and this'd give me a reason to watch again, I remember one reviewer describing it as 'Romeo and Juliet on speed' or something like that. It's also notable for starring the actress that played Tyrion's lover in Game of Thrones in her first film role after being a real life prostitute.

IanHamlett wrote:

acemuzzy wrote:

Will it have things to discuss, or just one for people to watch in their own time?

It's been a while but I can't remember much to discuss. It's a fairly straightforward story of working up the ranks in a prison gang while not being hard enough to fuck everyone up and nobody liking his race.

Hmm. In that case, maybe time for a dramatic shift in vote.

New suggestion: Crimes & Misdemeanours. A non-Allen Allen.

TheDJR wrote:

I'd like to put forward Head-On (2004) as my choice. It's a German-Turkish film about two Turkish people living in Germany struggling with their sense of identity in a different culture, iMDB lists it as drama/romance. I originally watched it at uni and this'd give me a reason to watch again, I remember one reviewer describing it as 'Romeo and Juliet on speed' or something like that. It's also notable for starring the actress that played Tyrion's lover in Game of Thrones in her first film role after being a real life prostitute.

Unless I think of something specific in the next few weeks I'd like to second this choice.  I picked it up pre-owned in a Blockbuster bargain bin a few years ago, and have force-lent it to half a dozen people since.  Truly excellent, plus I've only seen it once.

I liked Citizen Ruth and laughed a fair amount. Scumbag tearing out his cellophaned window was a highlight. Slightly creepy as Eric's relationship with Burt Reynolds was, that whole speech about his mother was quite nice.

Subtitles are out?

I'll change my pick to The Expendables or something then.

Bollockoff wrote:

Scumbag tearing out his cellophaned window was a highlight.

Yes.

Shall we give the films we choose scores out of ten and keep a spreadsheet of them?