추격자 (The Chaser)

Hands down the best action film I saw in 2008.

Eom Joong-ho is a former police officer turned pimp and his girls are disappearing. With the help of his slacker friend and employee Oh-jot, Joong-ho must match wits with a viscous killer and a corrupt and ineffective police force to find his missing girls. To say any more would give away too much of the films many plot twists.



The violence and gore of this film is visceral and raw; disturbingly realistic with a matching plot that is far more hardboiled than the self-proclaimed Oldboy. This is by no means a film for the squeamish. Regardless, instead of resorting to petty scare tactics, these scenes are masterfully directed to produce genuine tension that results in brilliant pacing. While the characters and plot are familiar enough for the genre: bad cop vs. worse villain, I never got the impression the film was lacking in originality. In fact the level of detail in the story and characters left me with a sense of fulfillment I find missing so many Hollywood action films that try to fill those gaps with shootouts, car chases and explosions. By the end of the movie I had come to understand and care for each and every one of the characters. Highly recommended.

Let the right one in - Låt den rätte komma in (2008)

This is a very creepy movie, but not in that cheap Hollywood spending billions to make a movie that is more gross than creepy, what I'm talking about is a sort of intimate creepiness.


There is no audible music, except when the characters themselves listen to the record player (or what have you). Excessive and increasingly disturbing sounds however, abound.

What makes this film so interesting is the in depth character development over the essentially minimalist Nordic backdrop.

In one sentence: its a story about a boy falling in love.

Not recommended for the faint of heart.

I Married a Strange Person?

Grant:   you ever see I Married a Strange Person?
                 bill plympton animation
                 interesting visuals, purposefully crude, very funny

 me:        nope

 
Grant:  it's about a man who gets zapped with satellite radiation and then his imagination                            becomes physical reality

Wiki:

I Married a Strange Person! is a musical, animated feature film by Bill Plympton. When Grant Boyer's satellite TV dish is hit by two birds in mid-coitus, just days before his own wedding, he gains a special secret power. His imagination is no longer something that just goes on in his head - whatever he imagines actually happens in real life. Sexual fantasies, daydreams, flashes of random weirdness, they all come true, brought into being by a strange nodule at the back of his neck, the base of his brain.

At first Grant's problems are domestic: his wife Keri is upset by the change that has come over him. During sex he fantasises about her as a nun, turns her breasts into balloon animals and imagines he's making love to three of her simultaneously, so she goes to live with her parents.

After an ill-fated television appearance, SmileCorp, the fourth-biggest US television network plots to steal Grant's nodule for their own benefit. Chaos and musical numbers abound when Keri returns to help save the day.

Check out Bill Plympton at:                               http://www.awn.com/plympton/

Intacto (España, 2001)

Intacto is a wonderful thriller from the Oscar Nominated Director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, nominated for a short film titled ‘Esposados’ in 1997. This is his first feature-length film, and a kick ass one at that.

It is a complex and gripping thriller which deals with the notion of luck... who has it, who doesn´t, and what kinds of games you might try out if your really feel "lucky." What is especially interesting about the film is how convincing the argument presented is, namely that the lucky are really sponges which absorb the luck of others (an interesting way of considering how someone´s good fortune is another´s worst possible scenario).

The actors in the film are superb, and entirely convincing in their roles. I would reccomend this to anyone who is interested in suspense and thrills.

Intacto - Trailer

(Vease una critica en Español en: http://canalcine.ozu.es/datos/peliculas/pelicula151101.html)

Basta Un Niente (Italia, 2006)

Directed by Ivan Polidoro, this film is a wonderfully lighthearted, well-articulated comedy about middle age, identity crisis, and figuring a way out of your slump.

It had been a while since I had seen a movie which left me with that warm glowing feeling in my chest that I usually only associate with being completely in love...

All the acting is superb, and the film is funny throughout. I wholly recommend this for anyone of any age who is interested in catching a glimpse of Italy's lighter side.

The Agronomist (2003)

A documentary film about Haiti, its social movements, and the head of the first Creole-language radio station.

Directed by Jonathan Demme, the film focuseson Jean Dominique, the Haitian civil rights leader and radio journalist who was gunned down by unknown assassins on April 3, 2000. Dominique founded Radio Haiti in the early 1960's and became know as the "voice of the people" for over four decades of that nation's turbulent, strife-torn history.

Why you should care: This is simply one of the best-made documentaries you will ever see. Jean Dominique collaborated with a plethora of Haitian artists to make this film, until his death--

Lets get to reccomending films people!