auckland film fest is starting very soon
 

what films should i see?

i've heard good things about a scanner darkly and brick, so i'll be seeing those, but i don't really know anything about the others. who's camus anyway? looks somewhat interesting too.

A Bittersweet Life
A Lion in the House
A Scanner Darkly
A Very Nice Honeymoon
Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story
After Many Moons
Alex
American Cannibal: The Road to Reality
American Hardcore
An Inconvenient Truth
Angry Monk: Reflections on Tibet
Animation for Kids
Animation Now! (2006)
Ans Westra: Private Journeys/Public Signposts
Avenge But One of My Two Eyes
Ballets Russes
Battle in Heaven
Beijing Bubbles: Punk and Rock in China's Capital
Beyond Hatred
Black Gold
Black Sun
break
Brick
Bubble
C.R.A.Z.Y.
China Blue
Chop Off
Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures
Close to Home
Dave Chappelle’s Block Party
Dead Letters
Departure & Return
Designing Dreams
Dormente
Drawing Restraint 9
Factotum
Fateless
Fearless
Friends With Money
From the Outskirts of Nothing to the Suburbs of the Void
Gentille
Goodbye
Graduate First
Hard Candy
Hawaikii
Heading South
His Big White Self
Homegrown: Love and Other Catastrophes
Homegrown: Works on Film
Homegrown: Works on Video
Host & Guest
How Much Do You Love Me?
I Am a Sex Addict
I for India
In Between Days
Into Great Silence
Iraq in Fragments
It's Only Talk
It's Winter
Jindabyne
John and Jane
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
Keane
Kirikou and the Sorceress
Kirikou and the Wild Beasts
KZ
Last Supper
Last Train to Freo
Le Garçu
L'Enfer
Less is More
Linda Linda Linda
Liviu's Dream
Lonesome Jim
Longing
Los Olvidados
loudQUIETloud: A Film about the Pixies
Loulou
Lunacy
Mary
Masters of Abstraction
Matthew Barney: No Restraint
Maxed Out
Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company
Men at Work
Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
Mind Game
Monster
Mouth Agape
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
Mutual Appreciation
My Dad Is 100 Years Old
Naked Childhood
Nature's Way
No More Heroes
Offside
OilCrash - A Crude Awakening
Once in a Lifetime
Our Daily Bread
Oxhide
Police
Police Beat
Princess
Pulse
Pusher III
Raging of the Elements: Programme I
Raging of the Elements: Programme II
Raining Cats and Frogs
Regular Lovers
Requiem
Return of the Poet
Rope
Saratan
ScaredSacred
Sheep Man
Sheer Legs
Shortbus
Sketches of Frank Gehry
Squeegee Bandit
Struggle No More
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
Tale of Cinema
Tear Up
Ten Canoes
Tertium Non Datur
Thank You For Smoking
The Archive Project
The Army of Shadows
The Aura
The Blood of My Brother
The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros
The Cave of the Yellow Dog
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
The Digital Space (2006)
The Forsaken Land
The Heart of the Game
The House of Sand
The Joy of Life
The King and the Mockingbird
The Last Resort
The Method
The New World
The Passenger
The Road to Guantánamo
The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang
The Science of Sleep
The Theme Song of the Young New Zealanders' Club
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
The Valet
The White Masai
The White Planet
The Wild Blue Yonder
The Wind
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
This Film is Not Yet Rated
Three Times
Time & Tide
To Our Loves
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
Twelve and Holding
Under Satan's Sun
United 93
Van Gogh
Wah-Wah
Water
Waves
Way of the Flounder
We the Living
We Won't Grow Old Together
Where My Caravan Has Rested
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Whole New Thing
Who's Camus Anyway?
Workingman's Death
Young Miss & Young Mister New Zealand
You're Gonna Miss Me

I've seen the following and thought they were great:

Dave Chappelle’s Block Party
Fateless
Monster
Rope (the 1948 Hitchcock Version, this probably isn't that though)
Thank You For Smoking
The New World
United 93

I haven't seen but have heard great things about the following from friends and reviews:

A Scanner Darkly
An Inconvenient Truth
Sketches of Frank Gehry
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
The Road to Guantánamo
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (this is supposed to be EXCELLENT)
Who Killed the Electric Car?

90% of those on the list I haven't heard of, but that of course it what festivals like these are about, brand new stuff, so you're pretty much hit and miss.

If that's the movie I'm thinking of I really liked it. It goes pretty unappreciated.

There are some great looking films playing in the next half a month-ish. I've noticed that a lot of them clash with my work shifts but hopefully I'll be able to see at least some of the ones I really want to.

I watched A Bittersweet Life recently and I thought it was fantastic, as is a lot of cinema coming out of Korea right now - brutal and subtle all at the same time

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance is a great movie too ... Oldboy is still my favourite of the trilogy but in and of itself, it's a nicely executed film. Fucking raincoats maaaan

Both are Korean revenge flicks

Factotum was totally average. I'm really liked the book so I'm fairly prejudiced in that respect

Princess is a bizzarre and brutal film ... but well worth watching imho

I really want to see the three Pusher films - have to wait till the Melbourne festival but have been reading great things about them

Ten Canoes and Jindabyne are aussie flicks that I haven't seen but read very good reviews about - albeit somewhat parochial reviews. Ten Canoes was done by Rolf de Heer who's done some other really great movies (Bad Boy Bubby, Tracker, Old Man Who Read Love Stories) so that's a bit of a drawcard ...

the movie i really wanted to see isn't on there :( fuck that

keane

well these win for having the best titles.