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Films of the Year so Far?

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  • #52
    Hermione*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭Hermione*


    Wind that Shakes the Barley ... best film I've seen in at least twelve months. Finally saw it this week, after wanting to see it for about two months, and it was well worth the wait. Very powerful, very well done.


  • #53
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    The Proposition is superb.
    Good Night and Good Luck is incredible.
    Brokeback Mountain is amazing.


  • #54
    Earthhorse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,716 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    If you're still looking for a comedy pickarooney then I highly recommend Thank You For Smoking. It's easy to let it slip under your radar but don't. Check out the Film Reviews forum for other people's take on it too.


  • #55
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,758 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    basquille wrote:
    Know what you mean.. watched it last week and didn't think much of it but what i read of it online:
    Apparently.. we're never supposed to know who sent the tapes!

    And it's the viewer who takes the place of the voyeur and the individual sending the tapes... daft, i know but apparently, that's one theory behind it!

    I went through a lot of theories and then so,eone at work pointd out something which, now that she says it, I see immediately, but couldn't for th elife of me make out beforehand, so I don't know if it's the power of suggestion or... but
    half way through the final scene, in front of the school, the sons of Georges and Majid come down the steps together and stay talking for about a minute at the bottom left of the screen
    . Of course, it might mean nothing.

    No sign of Thank you for smoking being released in France, but I'll keep an eye out for it.


  • #56
    gandalf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    V for Vendetta (very apt given current affairs)
    Walk the Line

    Still have to see Wind that Shakes the Barley so I expect that to figure as well. Its actually been a sparse year for me to go to the cinema eventhou Dundrum is only 10 mins walk away !!


  • #57
    radiospan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,353 ✭✭✭radiospan


    Best I've seen so far this year are The Wind that Shakes the Barley and Thank You for Smoking.


  • #58
    tman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    A Bittersweet Life
    My favourite so far anyway


  • #59
    flangeman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 209 ✭✭flangeman


    Cachè (Hidden), dunno, I just didn't click with me, kinda scary that I really don't think it was any good, cflying in the face of many a good friend and reviewer around. Makes me feel a bit silly.

    One film that I was so impressed with and only went to kill time was 'District 13', feck me, they only used wire 5%(and less) in the movie, I was blown away, and THEN they totally upp'ed the ante halfway through with a fantastic reveiling scene, silly-French-jumpin movie.

    But the 'Wind that Shakes the Barely', I tell ya, it put the ****s up me, I found my head swimming in stuff I usually associated with knuckle draggers, but in all you could have set that in any country's birth across the world.


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