Help Me Watch a Good Film

[dotinthesky]

I belong to Sofa Cinema, the British equivalent of Netflix.

My rental queue is running perilously low so I need suggestions for it. Seen any good horror films lately (or know of great classics?) Any films made you weep and fall in love with humanity again? Any action thrillers made you devour your nails? Would love to get some recommendations!

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[live-life-like.livejournal.com]

some favourites.....

Everything is illuminated
Little Miss Sunshine

aposto que já viu os dois!

[oatmeal-texas.livejournal.com]

You MUST see "The Baby".

[foucaultonacid.livejournal.com]

leeches

the misfits

CRAZY

[shewasminetoo.livejournal.com]

yesterday i watched 'breaking the waves' by lars von trier. it is very bleak but also very beautiful, a combination which has really gotten under my skin.

[etre-moral-etre-sincere.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

Ollie, have you seen that Spanish movie called Queens? It's quite good, we watched it the other day but I was too lazy to write about it. Also, we watched Before Night Falls yesterday, and we both desperately need someone to discuss that movie...

[olamina.livejournal.com]

I just saw...
Two Days In Paris (kinda dumb)
Control (depressing)
California Dreaming (sad but funny)
Iron Man (fun, but probably not on video yet)
Moment of Innocence (beautiful)

In the past few months I've seen and liked...
The TV Set (funny and underrated)
Michael Clayton (exciting and smart)
Lars & The Real Girl (uncomfortable)
Zodiac (long but interesting and frightening)
Shanghai Kiss (cute)

I also recommend anything by Chan Wook-Park

More to come...

[olamina.livejournal.com]

Other recommendations:
The Good Girl
Chuck & Buck
Happiness
No Man's Land
Late Marriage
Birth
In The Cut
Half Nelson
Lantana
The House of Yes
Anatomy of Hell
Jesus Camp
Seeing Other People

[littlelamb.livejournal.com]

i watched tv shows a lot on netflix because it took up a lot of my queue. can you get tv shows on that? i enjoyed deadwood on netflix when i had it.

[saint-narcissus.livejournal.com]

Imaginary Heroes (2004)
with Emile Hirsch, just saw this with a friend on netflix. not a classic but it made me cry a little, it made me smile a little... and Emile Hirsch, so dreamy...

[blu-bear.livejournal.com]

Persepolis, Jamon Jamon and Planet Terror were some good films I've seen recently.

99 Francs and particularly Le Chansons d'amour were two very good French films I saw in Germany at the cinema, but I think they're also out on DVD here in the UK.

[amanda-mary.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen any good horror films in ages, unfortunately. Oh, wait -- The Orphanage was pretty decent for a ghost flick. Nothing groundbreaking; but suitably chilling nonetheless.

The Color of Paradise is a great one in that "restore your faith in humanity" vein. Actually, anything by director Majid Majidi probably qualifies.

[desayuno-ingles.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, sorry. I've just been watching Battlestar Gacracktica for the past month or more.

[ex-louter.livejournal.com]

I honestly feel as though I'm the last to see any movies I've seen...so, I'm going to assume you've seen all of these but am naming them NEwayz.

Au Revoir Les Enfants
Little Children
Rocket Science (two hours of stuttering/brilliant acting)
L'Enfant
Them!
Lady in a Cage
The Beast of Hollow Mountain
Junebug
Hard Candy
The Dreamers (some people call it masturbatory and I can absolutely see it that way but it is visually stunning, really. I liked it anyway.)
Le souffle au cœur
Into the Wild (despite knowing what's going to happen, it's still really difficult to watch)
Shadow of a Doubt
Holiday (Cary Grant)
Every Girl Should Be Married (More Cary Grant)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Good Bye, Lenin!


this is kind of ridiculous, I've watched 100+ movies this year and some I really loved but can't remember.

[kevyn-kronycles.livejournal.com]

Check out "Bon Voyage"

My current list of "TO SEE" films:

[msanthropist.livejournal.com]

*Atonement
*Private Fears in Public Places
*Into Great Silence
*No End in Sight
*The 11th Hour
*Letters from Iwo Jima
*Flags of Our Fathers
*Year of the Dog
*In the Valley of Elah
*Darjeeling Unlimited
*Kite Runner
*Golden Compass
*I Am Legend

If you've seen any of the above and wish to comment/review - please! Particularly if you're comment is "...don't waste your time..." Happy viewing Ollie!

[annakey.livejournal.com]

If you haven't seen Dead Man's Shoes, go and watch it on Ch4 now, it's just started.

[sbeth76.livejournal.com]

Classic horror:
The Innocents (based on Henry James' The Turn of the Screw)
The Haunting (the original b&w white one based on the Shirley Jackson story)
New Classic horror:
Susperia or anything Dario Argente