...because I have to stay in one this weekend and I want it to feel dramatic, as opposed to mildly depressing. It's going to be a Bukowski kind of dive as well, as I have hardly any money and it'll be in a shite part of North London renowned for murders and violence.
Thanks! x
Identity?
The Shining!
obvs
I was going to add: Don't bother mentioning The Shining.
And don't bother with Lost In Translation?
Even if you haven't seen it, don't bother with it...
Psycho!
Dunston checks in
<3
Best movie set in a hotel EVER!
Okay
No Barton Fink
No Psycho
No Vacancy
No The Shining
I want things like Jarmusch's Mystery Train, so I can imagine the bell boy is like Little Richard in his spare time
Identity?
who is that by?
It's a film
by... umm... I don't know. It has John Cusack and Ray Liotta and Amanda Peet in it though, and it's set in a dingy little motel during a storm.
will I find it in the local arthouse videoshop?
Ray Liotta is pretty straight-to-video these days.
I've no idea
I think it was on Sky Indie once, so maybe!
its not even
an arthouse flik
batman
: )
Which one?
you've just
recommended yourself films?
Clue
maybe not.
or maybe yes!
(is it a hotel though?)
Buy a DS
and get Hotel Dusk.
http://www.hoteldusk.com/
looks really great!
but I don't have a DS. Maybe I should get one. Didn't know you had this kind of stuff on it - love nothing more than a good mystery (in film or book form)
..
http://www.batmanshill.com.au/
:)
wish I was staying there, instead.
I do prefer the darker aesthetic of the old Batman, though.
Fear & Loathing In Las Vagas
i in alot of hotel rooms
this maybe...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Year_at_Marienbad
nice!
I've never seen this, and think this weekend may be the appropriate time to rent it.
This one looks promising........
http://tinyurl.com/5mu5jn
the lesbian section is mistitled
and they really should give you volume control on the site so it doesn't break out into dirty talk, just as one's flatmate walks past
other than that, thanks
Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It
by Geoff Dyer is pretty good.. its kind of like a travle book/journal/storys about places and people he goes to... so that has some hotel bits in it.
I keep meaning to read Geoff Dyer
danny dyer
that would be a great book
I find him oddly fascinating.
He's just a freak. I don't understand how he hasn't drowned in his own dribble
..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrzodJCaI-U&feature=related
I really like his stuff
thats the favourite one I have read by him... I have only read Paris Trance and some of but beautiful a book aout jazz though. Ilove his style of writing.
Falty Towers on DVD?
that wold get you thru it
^ win
FTW!
Falty Towers Win!
I second Last year in Marienbad-watched it yesterday and it's one of the most gorgeously hypnotic fi
Consequences of love-haven't seen it but it's supposed to be a really stylish thriller
Casablanca
The Witches
Hmm...it's hard to think of hotel set films as opposed to films set mostly in particular buildings, if this makes any sense.
*films I've ever seen
Zabriskie Point
I don't think Zabriskie Point has
any hotel scenes in does it?
I hope you're not referring to something else....
but maybe you are.....
I might
indeed be thinking of the wrong film
Hrabal's
I Served the King of England
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The Big Sleep
Both the book and the film are worthwhile, and large parts of the action goes down in hotel rooms.
After Dark is a novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami
Mari crosses ways with a fighting champion, now working as a manager in a love hotel (whom Takahashi knows and referred to Mari), a Chinese prostitute who has been beaten and stripped of everything in this same love hotel, and a sadistic computer expert. The story takes place in a world between reality and dream, and was used to cement Murakami's reputation as the master of the surreal
I was going to recommend Dance Dance Dance
by the same author.
Me too!
Murakami
seems to love writing stories set in hotels. Dance Dance Dance is the obvious one I think, because it's all about wasting time as a guest; doing the things you wouldn't usually do, like seeing three films in a day.
hey
that sounds perfect!
x
I think..
that's the one that's a sequel (to A Wild Sheep Chase, I think); but a sequel in the sense that the plots have virtually no relationship to one another at all. You could happily read them in the wrong order..
Ali Smith - Hotel World
<3 Ali Smith...
watch the short that was
screened alongside the darjeeling limited when it went out, its called hotel chevalier i think
2046?
I sort of remember a lot of that being in a hotel.
Hotel Rwanda
that stephen king one 1408
was cool, pretty creepy
my hotel year
a short story in Life After God by douglas coupland, probably closer to mildly depressing rather than dramatic though
Blame it on the Bellboy.
4 rooms
rubbish though
yeh
absolute turgid nonce-sense
HOME ALONE 2 LOST IN NEW YORK
a bit anyway