Dirty Recommendations

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Originally Posted by Bargo

I saw The Proposition today. It's a gritty, brutal western set in the early colonial days of Australia, and I found it to be an amazingly powerful film. The performances by everyone, Guy Pearce and Ray Winstone in particular, are fantastic.. the visuals, oh my god, the visuals are spectacularly beautiful, showing off an arid, hellish side to outback Australia.

It's quite a violent film, but it's seldomly gratuitous and it never revels in it. The ending shook me up quite a bit. Highly recommended.

I loved this too. The last movie i saw in a cinema and way better than most of the shit out there. Bloody awful place to live hey! The actors and crew were operating in +50C temps and said it helped them get into the roles a heap better than before. Said that if it was 30C they would have complained etc, but 50C they were too hot to worry so acted all the better. I never knew Danny Huston before, he is fuckin great! What a good bad guy!

Ive seen some other goodies lately on the big screen;

Little FIsh - About a smack addict going clean against the odds. Great role by Hugo Weaving (Mr Anderson from Matrix etc, if you didnt know) and some excellent bit roles by oz faves.

What The Beep Is It All About? - quantum physics and stuff. If ever I wanted to pause a movie to digest it and discuss its guts, this is the one. Luckily its on DVD now so you can.

As for oldies to recommend that you mighten have heard of.

Slaughterhouse Five - The movie is really hard to find, but as i was 7 or 8 when i saw it on as a midday movie when home sick, it had me stunned with the whole out of chronological order thing going on. My first exposure to really different filmmaking and it left a big mark on me.

Tape - Simple little dialogue based movie shot in a motel room. Ethan Hawke and Uma and the guy from Dead Poets. Really engrossing and left me changed.

Only a thousand others to add but that will do for now. Im about to watch Kingdom Of Heaven and Batman Begins. Im crossing fingers they are alright in comparison.

Oh the movie about the 2 gay cowboys coming out soon, looks sublime. Anyone know more or seen it? S'got Jake Gullyenhall and, ummm...