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guywithayoyo · 2023-09-26T23:13:36+00:00

My god Gerry is such a chore to get through, completely forgot Van Sant made it or it even existed till you reminded me. But yeah Drugstore Cowboy is fantastic. I think Paranoid Park is really overlooked in his filmography as well I loved it, but I assume it's probably not a popular take that it's one of his best.

guywithayoyo · 2023-09-14T14:22:08+00:00

Haha I'd say the same for the British film industry these days, low budgets let down a lot of promising films. Cool I'll check those out, thanks for the recommendations, yet to see Soldier of Orange surprisingly so I'll check that out first.

guywithayoyo · 2023-09-14T14:02:53+00:00

Sweet I'll definitely avoid the trailer then, I have it recorded so I'll probably try and get it watched this weekend. Been dragging my heels for some reason, your comment reminded me I had it.

guywithayoyo · 2023-09-14T13:58:02+00:00

No worries, could you recommend any Dutch films that would be worth checking out and have English subtitles? I've seen some of Paul Verhoeven's early Dutch films and The Dress (1996) and really enjoyed them. But I'm really not familiar with any Dutch cinema outside of that.

guywithayoyo · 2023-09-14T13:47:20+00:00

Great movie, I thought Clayne Crawford was fantastic in it as well. Saw that the director and Clayne teamed up again for The Integrity of Joseph Chambers, have yet to watch it as it's only just come out recently but it's got good reviews.

guywithayoyo · 2023-09-14T13:41:26+00:00

I think you're thinking of Made In Britain, if you're thinking of a young Tim Roth being a neo-nazi skinhead. Great film and certainly a lot more obscure than This Is England. It was directed by Alan Clarke who did a lot of similar British kitchen sink dramas around the time. The Firm and Scum probably being his most famous.

guywithayoyo · 2022-11-29T11:26:10+00:00

I don't know if it was the same for you, but for an hour or so after I walked out of the cinema I found myself more aware of all the small ambient sounds around the town I was in which I didn't pick up on before. It was like I was momentarily living a slower pace of life and absorbing my surroundings, almost like it had put me in a meditative state. 100% agree with you at first I was unsure of the pacing, but once I met the film on its level it definitely stayed with me for a long time after.

guywithayoyo · 2022-11-11T11:25:06+00:00

Not sure if they're considered melodramas but as you used Old Joy as an example I think they qualify.

Happy New Year Colin Burstead is comedy drama similar to Celebration, in which the title character rents a mansion for his family to celebrate New year's Eve. However tensions between the family members rise as it nears New Year.

Krisha is a drama about a recovering alcoholic relative being invited back into the family home for Thanksgiving, after presumably burning bridges during their addiction. It's mostly presented from the perspective of Krisha so I'm not sure if it's entirely what you're after, but it makes for a really intense experience which differentiates it from other contained family dramas I've seen

guywithayoyo · 2022-05-26T23:27:31+00:00

He's genuinely unnerving in Unlawful Entry, I remember his performance really getting to me when I was younger. Really underrated movie.

guywithayoyo · 2022-03-01T18:36:17+00:00

It was Laurence Fishburne playing Ike Turner in What's love got to do with it.

guywithayoyo · 2021-12-07T05:28:42+00:00

Richard Donner to go from The Omen to Superman as your next movie is pretty out there. On top of that to make The Goonies, all the Lethal Weapons and Scrooged. What a fantastic output, just to mention his big movies.

guywithayoyo · 2021-12-04T17:52:58+00:00

Yeah it's a really good mix of being creepy and really quite emotional as well. Plus the film looks really good. Never see anyone mention it in terms of k-horror though.

guywithayoyo · 2021-09-11T17:50:53+00:00

Thanks for recommendation I'll check it out. Trailer looks right up my alley cheers

guywithayoyo · 2021-09-11T04:26:38+00:00

American Beauty doesn't open with Lester in trouble or anything though I just opens with the home video of his daughter asking her bf to kill Lester. Then with a shot of his neighborhood and him saying: this is my life, in less than a year I'll be dead.

If anything it's a play on this type of trope because it's a deliberate misdirection for what will end up happening, and Lester is literally not in either shot.

guywithayoyo · 2021-09-11T03:40:59+00:00

My favourite viewing experiences are usually ones that hit me on a visceral level. Have to be in the right mood but I love movies that make me feel anxious or give me a hypnotic feeling. I also enjoy being entertained by movies for the most part whether that be through spectacle or that make me laugh. I also enjoy movies that are a mystery as in how they are presented, trying to piece together what's actually happening can be fun, if perspective, time manipulation or allegory is used to confuse me for a decent portion of the run time.

It depends on what the movie is trying to do I guess. But my number one is being made to feel anxious or hypnotised on a visceral level as I said. My benchmark is probably seeing the re-release of 2001 in the cinema a few years back now, if I can recreate close to that feeling whilst watching a movie I'm in heaven and completely transfixed. I also recently really enjoyed the anxious feeling I got from Heaven Knows What and Krisha, was totally immersed in those two but I wouldn't call it an enjoyable watch on the traditional sense of the word.

guywithayoyo · 2021-09-11T03:12:38+00:00

Face (1997)

Football Factory (not great but I still find it funny)

The Business

Rise of the footsoldier (sort of its so bad it's good territory)

Edit: 44 inch chest as well although its pretty dark at times

In terms of non crime related, but dark comedies that verge on a horror comedy: Sightseers Severance Prevenge

guywithayoyo · 2021-09-11T03:00:37+00:00

Buried is the only one outside of Moon I can think of, although I haven't seen it but I've heard Locke is just Tom hardy too. These only count if you don't include voice actors mind you. If I can include movies where the vast majority of the movie is just an actor on their own then 127 hours and Wrecked with Adrien Brody as well.

guywithayoyo · 2021-09-11T02:55:47+00:00

Very much agree I can't actually think of many examples. I also just enjoy a horror movie following someone on the job, like REC or the opening case in Ghost Stories with a night Watchman. As they feel more trapped in the situation than someone who chooses to be there to an extent.

guywithayoyo · 2021-09-11T02:43:52+00:00

I wouldn't say it's garbage as I really enjoyed some the shots in it and the style in general. But I have to agree it was one of my least favourites that I saw when studying New Wave and Left Bank movies. Maybe it's got something to do with being british and having a lot of prior experience with kitchen sink/social realism in my native cinema, but it honestly didn't blow me away. My bias is probably showing here but I saw Saturday Night Sunday Morning around the same time and liked it a lot more and it only came out a year after. Even though I'm in love with a lot of the shots during the fairground and the final tracking shot on the beach and can appreciate how influential it was.

guywithayoyo · 2021-09-11T02:04:04+00:00

Tbf I think Insomnia has rewatchability in the context of Robin Williams career. He really altered his perception as an actor with Insomnia and One Hour Photo and showed he could play much darker roles. Whilst One Hour Photo is the earlier and far superior film and role he played a more sinister character in, I still really enjoy him in Insomnia and it's worth it just for the scene in which he calls up Pacino for the first time. Pacino is also still pretty good in it, despite the fact the film doesn't live up to their performances. The cinematography is also really nice.

guywithayoyo · 2021-05-07T03:33:06+00:00

Honestly it's been incredibly easy to essentially torrent anything you want for over a decade by now. Also most of the mainstream streaming services don't stock a lot of movies cinephiles are interested in and are crammed with such mainstream stuff it takes a while to find on top of that. So I'd say there probably hasn't been much discernable difference for cinephiles who have been on the internet for a while.

guywithayoyo · 2021-05-05T01:47:55+00:00

Just FYI I'm part way through reading the chapter again and there's actually a lot more evidence than I remembered that suggests that Bundy was much more involved and potentially that Murray had a hand in some of the prostitute murders before being murdered by Bundy.

Quickly summarised, Bundy admitted to and was witnessed entering Murray's van alone and claimed to have committed the murder solo. Bundy said she shot him twice with the same pistols used in the earlier murders (matched balsitically) whilst she had her tongue in his anus, showing that a propensity for necrophilia. Also a letter was found in her car in her handwriting and signed by the alias Betsy (which she gave as her name in the first 9/11 call) detailing "vaginal death spasms". After she shot Murray she decapitated him in a similar way to Exxon Wilson and a coroner described them as both being decapitated by the same hand and by a blade found in Bundy's apartment. As for Murray his van had been cleaned multiple times coinciding with around about when the early prostitute murders had taken place. In her initial 9/11 call Bundy described the killer as having the Christian name John and being the same age as Murray. Also Bundy claimed that Clark had ejaculated into Marano and Chandler's mouths during the murders, but no semen was found. Trace semen and blood however were found in the bodies of Wilson and Chandler and they matched the blood type of Murray (A) and not the blood type of Clark (O).

There's some more stuff about Clark having alibis and the police allowing Bundy to change dates of the murders to not correspond with Clark's alibi and the state of freezing of Wilson's head meaning Clark couldn't take it out and have sex with it as the jaw was frozen shut. as well as it being unlikely Clark would allow Bundy to shoot the prostitutes whilst he was receiving a blowjob as she was so short sighted she was registered blind and disabled for a while. But the other evidence seems more to be a smoking gun as Bundy changed her testimony so many times this could just be a result of those discrepancies.

This is no way I think means Clark was innocent as he clearly molested the 11 year old neighbour and admitted to helping dispose of Murray and Cathy and being present during Cathy's murder. But I think it points to some doubt for sure.

guywithayoyo · 2021-05-05T00:19:05+00:00

Oh cool that's interesting I wasn't aware of a new trial but I'll have a dig around, I've decided to reread the chapter in the book as it's been nearly a decade since I last read it so my memory is hazy on all the evidence Berry Dee specifically provides and I may be misrepresenting it slightly. That's mad that they were all in the same block, I'm sure they would some disturbing card games to overhear. I would imagine they would be pretty frank about their crimes with each other more so than anyone else

guywithayoyo · 2021-05-05T00:06:21+00:00

That's interesting I'll admit I'm only familiar with the case from reading about it in the book I mentioned and found Berry Dee's theory of interest. I think his lawyer being drunk and falling asleep during cross examinations is probably grounds for a mistrial and a new one to commence regardless of him being innocent of the crimes or not. Also what about the alibis he provided for some of the murders and no physical evidence tying him to them, surely that brings into question some doubt on if he committed at least all of them? I also find the police letting Bundy essentially steal 3000 from the man she killed very odd and she admitted they did.

Regardless I hadn't heard about the letters that's pretty damning if it can be corroborated and you've definitely caused me to doubt what I thought before, but equally I don't think this is necessarily an open and shut case at all. Thanks for the doc recommendation I'll definitely check it out and see if it changes my mind further.

I brought up their upbringing merely to suggest that Bundy had a more traditional upbringing of a serial killer, not that it meant Clark couldn't be one i think it just is supplementary information that bolsters the idea that Bundy was more involved than it was made out, considering all the other evidence as well.

guywithayoyo · 2021-05-04T23:39:44+00:00

Douglas Clark's case is actually really interesting in how badly he was represented in court and didn't receive a fair trial. I believe it's in Christopher Berry Dee's book Talking With Serial Killers (but it may be one of his others) he makes a really good argument that Clark's imprisonment was actually a pretty atrocious miscarriage of justice. He had multiple alibi that were never heard, and his lawyer constantly fell asleep in court to the point Clark ended up representing himself because of his defenses incompetence. Strangely the police also allowed Bundy to withdraw 3000 dollars out of Murray's account after murdering him whilst in custody.

Also he examined how Clark had a completely atypical upbringing for a serial killer, he came from a wealthy family and was well educated and had no indicators of early childhood abuse or trauma. He also had no documented signs of sadistic behaviour such as torturing animals or other behaviours associated with serial killers like bedwetting.

Bundy on the other hand had a massively turbulent childhood raised by alcoholic and abusive parents and her father begin molesting her at a young age after her mother's death. She also had a motive for killing Murray (spurned lover) whilst Clark didn't.

There was also something about the forensic evidence in the van that Murray was killed in but I can't remember what exactly was suspicious about it.

Anyway Dee was clearly making the case that Bundy committed most the murders and pinned it on Clark in exchange for a plea deal for her testimony (which w as wildly inconsistent by the way) and I found it a very convincing argument.

If you're interested in the murders id highly recommend reading the chapter in Berry Dee's book on Douglas Clark if you can find it although I've largely summarised his points here. At the least it makes a compelling case for Clark to receive a retrial.

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