On 22/10/2016 at 07:19, A F said:

I didn't get a lot from Bronson. I don't love Chopper, but I can see its merits and it's certainly a better film. Tom Hardy is great though.

Can't argue with that. I struggle to think of a time when he has disappointed me in a role. 

I watched Van Diemen's Land last night, based on the story of a group of escaped convicts who resort to cannibalism to survive. Very brutal, but slow in parts and very much about the protagonist (Alexander Pearce) and whether he was a psychopath or a normal guy in an abnormal situation. Beautifully shot though and on some reflection I think it was pretty good. Can be found on Stan.

  On 23/10/2016 at 23:02, Luther said:

Can't argue with that. I struggle to think of a time when he has disappointed me in a role. 

I watched Van Diemen's Land last night, based on the story of a group of escaped convicts who resort to cannibalism to survive. Very brutal, but slow in parts and very much about the protagonist (Alexander Pearce) and whether he was a psychopath or a normal guy in an abnormal situation. Beautifully shot though and on some reflection I think it was pretty good. Can be found on Stan.

Yeah, VDL is great. One of my editors cut it. Lovely looking film. I'm developing a series set in Tassie at the moment, so that was definitely an influence at some point.

I'm a big fan of stop motion/claymation work... have a lot of Aardman Studios early work on DVD as well as Svankmajer's shorts and his takes on Faust and Alice in Wonderland, David Borthwick's extremely disturbing Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb and finally the Quay Brothers animations.  I have a number of the German Expressionist cinema works on DVD including Nosferatu, Cabinet of Dr Calligari (including the hand tinted colour version), The Golem, Waxworks etc.

  On 24/10/2016 at 00:05, A F said:

Yeah, VDL is great. One of my editors cut it. Lovely looking film. I'm developing a series set in Tassie at the moment, so that was definitely an influence at some point.

Awesome, small world. Is that a period piece too?

Hardtack has already mentioned this one but I watch "Hunt for the Wilderpeople" over the weekend.

An absolute pearler....

  On 24/10/2016 at 06:16, Luther said:

Awesome, small world. Is that a period piece too?

It's not, but I've got another series that is.

  On 24/10/2016 at 06:21, nutbean said:

Hardtack has already mentioned this one but I watch "Hunt for the Wilderpeople" over the weekend.

An absolute pearler....

Yeah, it's great, isn't it? And now he's directing the next Thor flick for Marvel.

  On 24/10/2016 at 06:31, A F said:

It's not, but I've got another series that is.

You'll have to give us a heads up if they are released! I pitched a film to a couple of industry peeps on Friday, set in Omeo in the gold rush era. Can't get enough of colonial history at the moment.

  On 24/10/2016 at 06:49, Luther said:

You'll have to give us a heads up if they are released! I pitched a film to a couple of industry peeps on Friday, set in Omeo in the gold rush era. Can't get enough of colonial history at the moment.

I prefer earlier, although the 1850s and 1860s is a fascinating time and place.

I shall. You let me know about yours too. Omeo's beautiful! My biggest concern at the moment is making a colonial TV series accessible. Even Jimmy McGovern couldn't get it right.

Our colonial history is bloody fascinating, but it's how you tell the story. I found Australian History dead boring in high school, but love reading about it myself.

Edited October 24, 20168 yr by A F

  On 24/10/2016 at 11:37, A F said:

I prefer earlier, although the 1850s and 1860s is a fascinating time and place.

I shall. You let me know about yours too. Omeo's beautiful! My biggest concern at the moment is making a colonial TV series accessible. Even Jimmy McGovern couldn't get it right.

Our colonial history is bloody fascinating, but it's how you tell the story. I found Australian History dead boring in high school, but love reading about it myself.

Will do mate. Very true about the accessibility, and though I pitched my idea as a film they went straight away to 'have you thought of it as a series?'. Something directed toward the streaming boom might have a little more of a chance. 

I have a book called 'Tell Em I Died Game', about the history of bushranging. Written in the 1960's I think and has a funny sort of tone, but I love it. Would highly recommend reading, if you can get your hands on a copy.

  On 24/10/2016 at 11:43, Luther said:

Will do mate. Very true about the accessibility, and though I pitched my idea as a film they went straight away to 'have you thought of it as a series?'. Something directed toward the streaming boom might have a little more of a chance. 

I have a book called 'Tell Em I Died Game', about the history of bushranging. Written in the 1960's I think and has a funny sort of tone, but I love it. Would highly recommend reading, if you can get your hands on a copy.

Shall try and get my hands on it. I did a bunch of research a couple of years ago for a series and I've only just worked out how to make it. Now it's just got to be accessible. 

The series makes sense from a financial point of view, because you can reuse sets, props, costumes etc. That's my thinking as well, but I think like a producer because I am one.

Anyone watched S7 E1 of TWD yet??  Brutal stuff.

  On 24/10/2016 at 20:15, AzzKikA said:

Anyone watched S7 E1 of TWD yet??  Brutal stuff.

So brutal. I pulled a hammer out of someone's head once, that episode was harder to watch than that. 

  On 24/10/2016 at 06:32, A F said:

Yeah, it's great, isn't it? And now he's directing the next Thor flick for Marvel.

Hopefully he does better than Ang Lee did with The Hulk.

Anyone else watching Quarry? 

  On 25/10/2016 at 10:28, hardtack said:

Hopefully he does better than Ang Lee did with The Hulk.

Marvel is very meh, so I doubt he'll have much to work with. But it's a nice pay day.

  On 25/10/2016 at 08:57, Ethan Tremblay said:

So brutal. I pulled a hammer out of someone's head once, that episode was harder to watch than that. 

Sometimes it is really hard to tell if you are being serious or not Mr. Tremblay.

Did you watch talking dead also?  They really are invested into these characters, although I think half of them may have had many refreshing ales prior to going on stage.

  On 25/10/2016 at 21:10, AzzKikA said:

Sometimes it is really hard to tell if you are being serious or not Mr. Tremblay.

Did you watch talking dead also?  They really are invested into these characters, although I think half of them may have had many refreshing ales prior to going on stage.

I haven't watched it but I'm a big fan of the podcast the host of that show does. 

  On 25/10/2016 at 21:50, Ethan Tremblay said:

I haven't watched it but I'm a big fan of the podcast the host of that show does. 

It's good stuff, had Rick, Darryl, Abraham, Glenn, Maggie, Michonne, Rosita, Sasha on stage at once and they also had Robert Kirkman & Scott Gimple.

I have been lucky the last two weekends, there have been zero chick flicks on so I have been able to suggest alternatives, what with the weather being so lousy.  As a former pilot and a current chemical engineer I have been to see Deepwater Horizon and last week Sully so as my wife said are you satisfied now? Two hours of air crash re-enactments and analysis this week and major hazard disasters last week, boy I will be seeing some chick flick stuff sometime very soon. 

I'm currently waiting on a number of blurays I ordered from Amazon in the UK.  Firstly Lindsay Anderson's brilliant "If" and then four films from the Japanese director/actor/author/talk show host Kitano "Beat" Takeshi: "Hana-bi" (Fireworks), "Kikujiro's Summer", "Dolls" and "A Scene at the Sea".  If you haven't seen anything by "Beat" Takeshi, I would recommend you try to check some out.  Japan has turned out some superb directors and he is right up there with the best.  They may not be everyone's cup of green tea, but there's only one way to find out for yourself.

Edited October 28, 20168 yr by hardtack

Here's a more than decent western ... a 1946 version of the events surrounding the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.  All the main characters are involved ... Wyatt Earp (Henry Fonda),  Doc Holliday (Victor Mature) and a particularly detestable Walter Brennan (Old Man Clanton) star.  The film is of course set in Tombstone.  

The film is oddly named considering how dark & nasty the movie is for the majority of it's length ... 'My Darling Clementine' is certainly no musical comedy.  The movie can be viewed in full HD (click on settings)
 

Saw Cafe Society and it's okay. Kristen Stewart is amazing. She really is one of the best actresses of her generation, but the rest is pretty cliche Woody without the moments of inspiration.

  On 01/11/2016 at 12:30, A F said:

Saw Cafe Society and it's okay. Kristen Stewart is amazing. She really is one of the best actresses of her generation, but the rest is pretty cliche Woody without the moments of inspiration.

In some ways I prefer Woody's left of centre films like Zelig and Shadows and Fog.

  On 01/11/2016 at 12:32, hardtack said:

In some ways I prefer Woody's left of centre films like Zelig and Shadows and Fog.

I love most of his films prior to the mid 90s and since, he's been very hit and miss. But then he is making a film every year.

He also had his tv series this year too, which probably didn't help Cafe Society. The series has been panned unfortunately, but I'll still watch it at some point. Miley Cyrus is a very intriguing muse.

I probably prefer his multi-relationship films ultimately though (Husbands and Wives, Hannah and her Sisters), but that's a style of filmmaking I really gel with, ala the sprawling ensembles of Altman and his protégé PT Anderson.

Edited November 1, 20168 yr by A F