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Pretty much everything John Carpenter has done.

Halloween, The Thing, Escape From New York, They Live...
All masterpieces.

His compositions are a huge inspiration for me.
You can always tell when it's a Carpenter piece.

Great, a film thread - I'll play!

Like mojomills, I'll go by directors. I'm an arthouse fan so I'll mention a couple of my faves:

Jean Pierre Jeunet - best known for Amelie (great Yann Tiersen soundtrack) but also other quirky and fun little gems like Delicatessen, Micmacs etc.

Wong Kar Wei - Chungking Express and In The Mood For Love are worth a mention. Chungking Express probably gets a higher profile than it would otherwise because it's known as one of Tarantino's favorites - good music too - it's got a great sound theme used for the first half.

Unfortunately, you'll (probably) have to endure subtitles to appreciate any of those...

For total weirdness and great music i've never seen anything like 'A funky forest'
.....here's a clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjtpa00mIoY&feature;=related.

And toiletrolltube,thanks for recommending 'Gummo' long ago,a very worthy film imo.

I won't say that they're my favorite films or that he's my favorite director - but I really like Oliver Stone's - JFK and Natural Born Killers - particularly the editing and the combination of film styles and sources. I like the collage aspect of it.

Similarly, I also really like Steve Martin's - Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid.

Toiletrolltube,
Thanks - good that you kicked off the thread with a documentary; definitely an overlooked genre. I've still got Senna on my 'to see' list. I'm not a great motor sport fan, but everyone raves about it regardless of sporting tastes. Maybe worth a look if you haven't seen it...

And one I have seen - A Separation - again it's a character-driven ensemble piece for the arthouse crowd. If that's your thing, go see it. It's Iranian, subtitled, and depicts a couple in marital turmoil. No, I didn't want to see it either! But it really sucks you in. It's a masterclass in how to structure a film and write a scene.

I'm also a big fan of Craig Baldwin's movies (no relation to other Baldwin brothers...):
Tribulation 99, Spectres of the Spectrum, Mock-Up on Mu... great movies.

Just watched Rosemary's Baby last night.
What a haunting movie.
The soundtrack chills me to the bone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQFwW8eAy4U

ughughughughughu...creepy.

Disney's "The Great Mouse Detective". I've always liked that movie. Full of adventure, suspense, and sadness.....Well, only one small sad part in it towards the end. The movie came out it the late 1980's and it had many famous actors in it like Vincent Price, Paul Dobson, and others. I still have the original VHS tape of that movie. Disney did re-release the same movie with changes to the movies tittle, like "The Adventures Of The Great Mouse Detective" and my version is called "Basil The Great Mouse Detective". But they did not make any changes to the movie itself, just the tittle, witch I think is a bit weird. I own all of Disney's VHS movies, and all of them still work just fine. Send me a Personal message to me if you want to know more, thanks.

I think it's time for me to watch "the butterfly effect" again. this thread suddenly reminded me

And perhaps "Donnie Darko". I just love that kind of movies!

District 9

Masterpiece

toiletrolltube wrote:
Watched yesterday - Dreams of a Life. Don't let the subject matter put you off. A very touching story.

Great choice! I'd advise people not to read too much about it before seeing it. [No spoilers here] It's about a woman, Joyce Vincent, who lay dead in her north London flat for almost three years before being discovered. You've probably read news articles about similar stories, evoking images of an isolated loner, possibly elderly, existing on the margins of society. Except in this case, none of the usual stereotypes seemed to apply - for a start she was just 38 years old - and was possibly even wrapping Christmas presents at the time of her death. The film sets out to answer the questions: Who was Joyce Vincent? And what happened to her? If anyone had written her story as fiction, it wouldn't be believed.

Speedenza wrote:

toiletrolltube wrote:
Watched yesterday - Dreams of a Life. Don't let the subject matter put you off. A very touching story.

Great choice! I'd advise people not to read too much about it before seeing it. [No spoilers here] It's about a woman, Joyce Vincent, who lay dead in her north London flat for almost three years before being discovered. You've probably read news articles about similar stories, evoking images of an isolated loner, possibly elderly, existing on the margins of society. Except in this case, none of the usual stereotypes seemed to apply - for a start she was just 38 years old - and was possibly even wrapping Christmas presents at the time of her death. The film sets out to answer the questions: Who was Joyce Vincent? And what happened to her? If anyone had written her story as fiction, it wouldn't be believed.

Sounds intriguing.

I'm going to watch this

Films i love? Shinya Tsukamoto's Tetsuo The Iron Man and Rauni Mollberg's The Unkown Soldier.

Movies I like to listen to:

"Mothman Prophecies" - Mothman telephone/tape recorder voices. I love this really spooky mechanical
repeating phrase "Great tragedy on the River Ohio..."

"Tron" (1982) - various vehicles in action, their movements and impacts. My favourite: sequence of sounds just before Flynn crashes hijacked recognizer. Recognizer has few impacts with various constructions - sounds designed for this sequence are beatiful.

"The Return" (2006, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0433442/) - voice and ambience effects in visions and retrospections.

"Fallen Art" (animation) - sounds of starting moving pictures projection machine.
Yes, I like this movie mostly because of its sound effects...

"Session 9" (2001, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0261983/) - spooky psychiatric sessions recordings found in abandoned asylum. Lonnie Farmer did great voice work.

"Valhalla Rising" (2009) - many atmospheric sound effects and interesting processing of some of dialogues.

Regards,

Trebblofang

Nice to see this thread going strong.

I was going to mention this one a while back. I haven't seen it, but it's obviously interesting to Freesounders - Berberian Sound Studio - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1833844/

Judging by the small showing on metacritic I think the release must have been quite limited. Interestingly Mark Kermode chose it as his joint best film of 2012 (along with A Royal Affair). Anyone seen it?

For those who don't know, Mark Kermode is a high profile British film critic - always happy to depart from the critical mainstream; provocative and thought provoking but occasionally tiresome. He's noted for his 'Kermodian rants'. For a classic rant see his review of Sex and the City 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHeQeHstrsc - which is probably vastly more entertaining than the actual film...

Actually i thought of "dead man" yesterday. I love the way Neil Young made a soundtrack for this film. Very dark and intuitive in some way. I'd recommend it to anybody

toiletrolltube wrote:

Kyster wrote:
Actually i thought of "dead man" yesterday. I love the way Neil Young made a soundtrack for this film. Very dark and intuitive in some way. I'd recommend it to anybody

Hey Kyster, I like Jarmusch films, but I haven't seen that one for some reason. Thanks.

You're in for a treat then

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_64Qv0jV_PY

toiletrolltube wrote:
Sweet Movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072235/

I haven't seen it - it looks like one of those "shock for the sake of it" flicks.

I'll give Kevin Smith a mention - a hero of mine especially because I admire the way he made his first film - he basically sold everything he owned and maxed out 5 credit cards to shoot a feature on 16mm (this was before digital) by roping in all of his friends, family and anyone else he could find. Even his mum was in it - how cool is that? After screening it at festivals he eventually sold it to Miramax. Apparently he's just started writing Clerks III.

My favourite is Chasing Amy - watched it again a few weeks back - yes, it's a bit crude and vulgar. But it's also honest and very funny.

There! I'm not just arthouse! [I would have done a smiley there but I have technical limitations...]

love love love the Prestige and Looper

I really like the movies by Geroge Lucuas and Steven Spielberg for example Star Wars, Indian Jones, War Horse and Red Tails. If you never seen them trust me they are a must see.