TV/Movies Megathread

[FunkMonk]

Yeah, this is a movie about Gary Oldman winning an Oscar. Don't expect much else.

He is great in it though.

I have Gary Oldman typecast as the corrupt cop from *Leon* (aka *The Professional*). I kept expecting him to burst out with something like "Admiral, bring me everyone out of Dunkirk" "What do you mean everyone?" "EVERYONE!!"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=na05sqxgasg

He does a great job at outrageous shouting in almost all his movies.   

[Sheilbh]

I mean he should have won an Oscar for Bram Stoker's Dracula.

But he can, on occasion - Tinker, Tailor - do subdued.

[celedhring]

I love his cameo in True Romance.

What I'm surprised is that he hasn't directed more films, since Nil by Mouth is actually pretty good.

[Sheilbh]

Yeah Nil by Mouth is excellent. I mean he wrote it as well. But I think it's very personal and close to his background so maybe just wanted to do that one film and is now happy coining it in Hollywood with enjoyable ham performances?

Total aside - but Kathy Burke is possibly my favourite actor/actress in the world.

[FunkMonk]

I mean he should have won an Oscar for Bram Stoker's Dracula.

But he can, on occasion - Tinker, Tailor - do subdued.

Oh God I forgot he was in that. He was brilliant.

[celedhring]

Knives Out - Pretty damn fun. Also I liked that the trailer hid a lot of the film's actual plot thread.

[mongers]

Any German watched this?

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/diehamburgerkrankheit
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079264/

Die Hamburger Krankheit /The Hamburg Syndrom/La maladie de Hambourg (Franco--German production with a Jean-Michel Jarre soundtrack).

Some interesting parallels with the current health crisis, though it is obviously not realistic, nor supposed to be. Surrealist parable?

Director is Peter Fleischmann, from the new German cinema of the 60's-80's, of Hunting Scenes from Bavaria fame. So it might be preachy, for all I know, but should be interesting.



PS: before you ask, Mongers, not watched yet. 

Sounds interesting.

Also. PS:

[Josephus]

Any German watched this?

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/diehamburgerkrankheit
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079264/

Die Hamburger? This a vegan propaganda film?

[Duque de Bragança]

Die Hamburger? This a vegan propaganda film?

This is a vegan propaganda film (Z-grade):
Faeryland
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5598792/

[Josephus]

Die Hamburger? This a vegan propaganda film?

This is a vegan propaganda film (Z-grade):
Faeryland
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5598792/

Doesn't look like anybody saw it, judging by the imdb info

[Duque de Bragança]

Die Hamburger? This a vegan propaganda film?

This is a vegan propaganda film (Z-grade):
Faeryland
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5598792/

Doesn't look like anybody saw it, judging by the imdb info

Rumored quality being most likely a cause.
Only got screenings at vegan festivals and, in France, a screening or two in Paris with the movie team.
I know I missed one because there was a much more interesting screening at the Cinémathèque.

[Syt]

Any German watched this?

Have not. I did watch Supermarkt on Mubi last night, though. A small tale from the grimy, seedy underbelly of Hamburg in the early 70s. Small time criminal drifting between a girl, a seedy pimp, and a journalist who tries to offer him a better life. Oddly, the entire movie appears dubbed over by the cast (though I read the main actor was dubbed by Marius Müller-Westernhagen who also sang the title song). The plot jumps were sometimes a bit abrupt.

Several German staple actors in the movie; most people here would recognize Theo, the sleazy pimp, as Feldmarschall Model from A Bridge Too Far.

[Duque de Bragança]

So that's a Reeperbahn-exploitation flick?

Post-sync was common back then cf. Die Welt am Draht. Italians only stopped in the '90s. 

[Syt]

Little Reeperbahn, mor railway stations, gay apartments, and abandoned buildings.

Link: https://letterboxd.com/film/supermarket-1974/

[Sheilbh]

Never been prouder of local boy done good John Boyega