The Good Life

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I thought this one was pretty cool and figured a few of you on here might dig it.
I hadn't heard much about it but it did quite well at a few festivals.

You can read my review here: http://dvdholocaust.com/review.php?id=389

Thank you SO much for this recommendation. Watched it last night on Netflix Instant on your word... And it was fantastic.

Starts off INCREDIBLY strong, definitely nodding to Lynch (I said to my boyfriend, "This is like Lynch Light... with humor). Part 2 was a little slow (but just could have used some editing), but the end was perfect.

If you're looking for an indie flick with a touch of the existential absurdity (that is honestly not pretentious at all), DEFINITELY watch this one.

4/5.

Hey - glad you liked it!

More people should check this one out...really well done little flick.

I recommend the recently IFC-distributed Home Movie (2008) Another fantastic handycam horror, a pastiche of shot-on-video "home movies" that weave an eerie story modeled on the notion that "the less you show the better."

Absolutely chilling. It falls apart a bit in the end (though the last shot is haunting), but fantastic nonetheless.

Agreed- Chrono, myself & Despare are all fans of this film.

49th Parallel (1941)

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My review for the film is in the Last Seen Movie thread. Probably a lot of you are pretty familiar with the work of Powell & Pressburger- here is one of their more underrated films. For those of you who have never seen a P&P film, why not start with this one?

I saw this recently. Very cool film. The scenes in the Hutterite community are powerful. The extras in the scene where the Nazi makes his speech to the farmers were played by actual German expatriots. Amazing melding of reality and reel-ity.

Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)

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It's been awhile since I last watched this one in full, but I just watched the last 20 minutes or so on Turner Classic Movies and was immediately refreshed on just how incredible this film is.

Anyone that considers themselves a fan of gangster flicks - if you haven't seen this already, do so immediately. Cagney gives one of his very best performances, and Bogart shows us his sleazy side in an atypical role.

A truly classic crime drama, deftly directed by Michael Curtiz, who manages to create some great tension throughout. One of the more overlooked classics that more people really should see. The ending alone is one of the most powerful scenes of the 1930's.

Always looked at that one but never picked it up. Have to give it a spin when I'm on a classic movie buzz.

Trzecia czesc nocy (The Third Part of the Night) (1971)

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It starts out with a recitation from the book of Revelation. The end-times. Set in Poland during WWII, for its characters, these are the end-times. After a young Polish man loses his wife, mother, and son to German soldiers, he joins an underground rebellion group. Through this, he happens to meet a woman that looks exactly like his wife, and a strange, (as much as I hate this word, it's appropriate here->) Kafkaesque journey through life in war-torn Poland unravels onscreen. Writer/director Andrzej Zulawski (Possession, 1981) bases key points on the story of his father, and tells his story with a subversive, gritty touch, and it plays out like a fevered dream, shifting through reality, flashbacks, and visions.

Excellent, politically-charged, apocalyptic cinema.