Recommend a movie

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perkunos

Left overs from essential salo movie list:


Lang's "Die Nibelungen" is worth a look and available on tube:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/yNa74OevW_c

"Man with a Movie Camera" -peak soviet propaganda.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/z97Pa0ICpn8

Stara Basn is a pretty good polack wiking movie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/NSgFtfVJgq0

Two very charming movies which are not exactly salo material, but which are good anyway (Svankmajer reminded me, because these were made by a Czech guy, Karel Zeman who influenced him):
"Ukradena Vzducholod"
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/81O2NzmQxgI
"The Fabulous World of Jules Verne"
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/QqTBTRJfm_I

perkunos

Another favorite; if you get in the mood for Shakespeare, watch Nicol Williamson's 1969 Hamlet. Apparently panned by many; I thought he was mesmerizing. I strongly suspect the jews hated him for being an elemental Celtic god.

O'Zebedee

Went on a bit of a Bronson tear a few months back, finding Chato's Land , The Stone Killer and a few others (I've posted Violent City below) on torrents - none of which are brilliant by any stretch, but watchable. In the '70s, Bronson seemed to take pretty much anything. Like Lee Marvin, I think he was somewhat embarrassed to be seen caring about what he did for a living.

The remake of The Mechanic isn't anywhere near as good as the downbeat original, but it's not unwatchable either - Statham is nowhere near as good as Bronson, and the ending is unforgiveable.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/lK3WG6AMhd4

Fitz
Niccolo and Donkey
O'Zebedee suggested that I watch "The Seven Five" based on a recommendation from PseudoCop over at The Phora.

The Seven Five is a gripping documentary detailing the avalanche of corruption at the NYPD's 75th Precinct during the 1980s which covers the East New York area of Brooklyn. The epicenter of the story revolves around Mike Dowd, a psychopathic cop who was anything but a proper police officer. Shadowing the rise of cocaine and crack in NYC, police corruption became endemic in several precincts, with the 75th being the most notorious as so many officers were involved (some 25 I think ended up being arrested). Dowd began by illegally taking money from busts on drug dealers and then proceeded to robberies with the help of informants and ex-cops. The game changer was when he offered police services to a Dominican cocaine dealer who was moving tens of kilos of cocaine per week on behalf of the Colombians

Using the style of first-person interviews interspersed with surveillance footage and tapes, what the viewer ends up concluding is that the first rule of being an NYPD cop isn't 'to serve and protect' but rather to 'cover your own ass' and make sure that you protect your fellow officers no matter what you see because they are the ones that will protect you i.e. how Dowd defines what a 'good cop' is at the NYC hearings on police corruption that took place circa 1993.

Greed, union solidarity, and the sheer amount of money being passed through the ghettos with the cocaine/crack boom ended up concocting a satanic brew that not only harmed communities but resulted in the death of at least one police officer (it's quite obvious from the documentary that the police place a much higher value on the life of a Boy in Blue that than of civvies).
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O'Zebedee
A Gleaming Leprosy

Anti-recommendation: I almost never go to the theater, but my father wanted to see Hail, Caesar! so I went with him. It's just a collection of loosely related stories with no overarching plot to tie them together and the humor is too shallow and goofy at some points, like the submarine scene. I expected better from the kohanim .

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