What films were important, or even just important to you and your friends that seem to have been completely forgotten?
Films that never turn up on streaming channels, not even the depths of Amazon Prime, but even if they did, you'd probably not have though to look for them.
Films like:-
Man Bites Bog - Franco-Belgian crime Mockumentary following around a suave but pompous gangster, desperate to look cool in front of the film crew.
Benoit carries many of the same traits as David Brent would (much) later carry in the Office. Self-importance, lack of general self-awareness, a desperate need to be liked and enough self-knowledge to dimly comprehend his own inadequacy.
Only in this film, instead of running a paper business, he's a serial killer.
We watched this film a lot when we were students. It was funny, ridiculous, arch, horribly brutal but terribly knowing. And Foreign too, which made it classy.
Strange Days - A film directed by Kathryn Bigelow, part scripted by James Cameron and staring Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett and Juliette Lewis should not have crashed like it did.
Bleak, Blade-runner esque cyber-punk about being able to experience other peoples' memories and all the posible fuckery that entails really should have done better.
Best watched with a group of mates while nicely toasted.
Here We Go Round the Mullberry Bush - Standard late 60's coming of age film about a kid in suburban England trying to get a shag, only to find he wasn't really ready to deal with it. Would be completely forgettable but for a detour into weirdness where he ends up dating a very posh girl whose father is a totally unhinged Delholm Elliot. That and it absolutely captures the feeling of middling British feeder towns like the one I grew up in. Endless identikit houses, nothing to do between the ages of 12 and 17 except be an irritation to everybody etc. A gem of a film that coined the decidely of it's time but still funny expression "Crumpeteering."
Films that never turn up on streaming channels, not even the depths of Amazon Prime, but even if they did, you'd probably not have though to look for them.
Films like:-
Man Bites Bog - Franco-Belgian crime Mockumentary following around a suave but pompous gangster, desperate to look cool in front of the film crew.
Benoit carries many of the same traits as David Brent would (much) later carry in the Office. Self-importance, lack of general self-awareness, a desperate need to be liked and enough self-knowledge to dimly comprehend his own inadequacy.
Only in this film, instead of running a paper business, he's a serial killer.
We watched this film a lot when we were students. It was funny, ridiculous, arch, horribly brutal but terribly knowing. And Foreign too, which made it classy.
Strange Days - A film directed by Kathryn Bigelow, part scripted by James Cameron and staring Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett and Juliette Lewis should not have crashed like it did.
Bleak, Blade-runner esque cyber-punk about being able to experience other peoples' memories and all the posible fuckery that entails really should have done better.
Best watched with a group of mates while nicely toasted.
Here We Go Round the Mullberry Bush - Standard late 60's coming of age film about a kid in suburban England trying to get a shag, only to find he wasn't really ready to deal with it. Would be completely forgettable but for a detour into weirdness where he ends up dating a very posh girl whose father is a totally unhinged Delholm Elliot. That and it absolutely captures the feeling of middling British feeder towns like the one I grew up in. Endless identikit houses, nothing to do between the ages of 12 and 17 except be an irritation to everybody etc. A gem of a film that coined the decidely of it's time but still funny expression "Crumpeteering."
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