THE OFFICAL MOVIE VIEWING LOG, what have you seen lately ?

Lucky bastard! What did you come away with?

Uh, actually I'm not quite sure yet as to what the "Turkish box" contains + half of the tapes are still at his flat. The one Turkish ex-rental I got (well, paid for! I got the boots for free) is this one:

THE BOY WHO KNEW TOO MUCH aka Little Eyewitness



A quite enjoyable and violent film that stars the lovely Filiz Akin and that annoying kid Ilker Inanoglu.

Lucky bastard! What did you come away with?

My gawd! I discovered that one of the tapes containes UK's channel 4's English subtitled broadcast of Kara Murat: Fatihin Fermani (1973) aka Karamurat: The Sultan's Warrior. I've just watched it and it's just as good as Kara Murat seyh gaffar'a karsi (1976) which I raved about here:
http://enlejemordersertilbage.blogspot.com...karsi-1976.html

not a very good month for me, only went to the cinema occasionally

Whatever Works (2009) very nice little Woody Allen flick, doesn't take itself too seriously and is all the better for it
2012 (2009) incredible special effects... which are the only reason to watch this... well the idea is kinda fun too but of course it's all reduced to action set pieces and silly cliché.
The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) made for teenage girls but when there are vampires and werewolves I want to see it. The story is preposterous, the wolves are kinda cool though.
Ninja Assassin (2009) made for teenage boys but written by a todler it seems. It does earn points for being very bloody though.
Komt een Vrouw bij de Dokter (2009) a hit in Dutch cinema. very wellmade tearjerker about a woman dying from cancer and her cheating husband.
Night of the Creeps (1986) the only tape I watched, didn't impress me too much, maybe I should have seen it at the time / when I was young.

today I catched up though by watching a few cult items I recently got:

Nave de Los Monstruos, La (1960) The Ship of Monsters It's got very cool monsters, women in bathingsuits, singing and dancing... so fun all round. Ocasionally it does get a bit tedious though because it's all so old fashionedly slow and silly.
Goketsu Jiraiya (1921) I think I finally found the oldest ninja movie!! based on a popular folk tale, silent and only about 20 minutes long so it doesn't give much story to delve into. But when you see a guy turn into a giant toad during a big fight scene in a movie from 1921 than that's the only reason you'll need to watch this movie!! incredible stuff
Shinobi no Shu (1970) A Band of Ninja beautiful black and white cinematography and ninja in the original Japanese style are the two main things to enjoy in this movie, but the story get's a bit convoluted and leaves a few threads open ended
Ninja hicho fukuro no shiro (1963) Castle of Owls the same can be said for this one (although the cinematography is in color here) and there are even some of the same characters in this movie (so it helps if you know the stories these movies are based on already, which I don't). The destruction of the Iga ninja clan discussed in Shinobi no Shu is actually seen at the beginning of this movie. A lot of convolution here again with double crossings all over the place. I also couldn't keep good track of some of the characters (as in "wasn't that guy killed a few scenes ago?" and so on) but the drama and acting in this one has a lot more impact, the action set pieces are also really impressive (certainly considering the time the film was made) so I enjoyed this one immensly