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Post by spaceneedle on Feb 4, 2010 6:28:09 GMT
K2, I happen to love "Fargo"- and as you can see from my avatar, another of their films But the reason I like Fargo so much is because of the characters of Margie and her husband... they are both such truly good people.
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Post by lola on Feb 4, 2010 15:25:29 GMT
And the accents are fun. I answered the darn...I'm cooperating here!
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Post by spindrift on Feb 4, 2010 21:11:47 GMT
Has anyone seen A Single Man ? I saw the trailer and liked the look of it....
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2010 21:19:54 GMT
Not out in France yet... it'll be here in a week or two.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2010 16:04:41 GMT
Today I saw the Israeli movie "Lebanon," about the war in 1982. It is more or less the memoirs of a former soldier who had to live through what is shown in the movie.
The entire film takes place inside a tank invading Lebanon. The soldiers inside don't know where they're going or what they're doing. All scenes of the outside are seen through the sights of the cannon.
It is all very claustrophobic and filthy, but is nevertheless an excellent film. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival.
Here is the Israeli trailer. There is absolutely no need to speak Hebrew to understand how powerful the film is.
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Post by spindrift on Feb 8, 2010 9:41:24 GMT
Yes it's very powerful. Such portrayed fear would overwhelm me so I can't go and see it. I often imagine how it is for these guys and feel great pity for them.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2010 19:32:15 GMT
Well, I went to see the infamous "I Love You, Phillip Morris" today, which I found too campy to enjoy, but the subject is indeed worthy of interest.
It is the true story of a policeman called Steven Russell with wife and child who decided to live the gay life he had always wanted after a car accident. But "being gay is expensive" so he becomes a con man and goes to prison, where he meets Phillip Morris and falls in love. There are tons of twists and turns, but as things now stand, Steven Russell was sentenced to life imprisonment (unprecedented for simple swindling) for humiliating the state of Texas and the governor George W. Bush.
The movie is having a heap of trouble being released in the United States even though it stars Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor.
Even though I didn't like the movie, I would still recommend it for documentary information.
Errr... the reason it is playing in France already is that they had to go to France to get the money to produce such a movie.
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Post by spindrift on Feb 12, 2010 21:18:05 GMT
I am sorry for Steven Russell.... interesting movie.
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Post by bjd on Feb 26, 2010 10:29:55 GMT
I finally saw the Coen Brothers' A Serious Man last night. I was a bit disappointed -- I had expected a bit more derision and fun. Being totally unreligious, I enjoyed the scenes with the rabbis.
But, the film kept getting darker and darker and first I thought it had to do with the atmosphere of the movie, then I began to wonder if I shouldn't get my eyes checked. Finally, at the end of the movie, the projectionist came out to tell us there had been a problem with the lights in the projector.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2010 12:09:18 GMT
Yes, I saw that last week. I was perplexed at the era when religion (any religion) had such an influence over ordinary life -- and probably half of the world or more is still living with just as much influence or more, except that it isn't a comedy.
Now I will go see "A Single Man" which is unlikely to be a comedy either.
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Post by lola on Feb 26, 2010 16:26:14 GMT
The Phillip Morris movie does look interesting.
So I guess GWB was on record saying he was a heck of a guy. Kinda cute how he trusts random people like that.
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Post by spindrift on Mar 21, 2010 9:40:52 GMT
I have been invited to see A Single Man this evening. Since Kerouac saw it yesterday I was hoping for a brief review.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2010 11:26:52 GMT
It's very stylish, and Colin Firth is excellent. However, it does seem to align just about every stereotype in existence regarding gay behaviour. The period décor is stunning, and it is also so strange to see things from the past, like students smoking in a university classroom.
Today I saw Werner Herzog's The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans and I do not ever want to have anything to do with the New Orleans police! Nicolas Cage is so over the top that it is time to start worrying about him in real life.
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Post by lola on Mar 22, 2010 3:27:42 GMT
I thought the time to start worrying was when he married Elvis' daughter. I did love him in Wild at Heart.
We saw Ghost Writer tonight. Tense and atmospheric, and it made some interesting political statements, interspersed with the fictional (or are they?) ones. Shot along the North Sea in Germany, mostly.
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Post by spindrift on Mar 22, 2010 10:20:14 GMT
Last night I finally got to see A Single Man. I found it exactly as Kerouac said in his brief review. It was rather drawn-out, I had guessed the ending at the beginning but not in the way it happened...and it was very unlikely.
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Post by spindrift on Mar 22, 2010 10:21:08 GMT
Has anyone seen My Name is Khan?This is the next film I want to see.
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Post by auntieannie on Mar 27, 2010 20:22:52 GMT
We went to the cinema this afternoon, to watch Alice in Wonderland in 3D. It was a nice enough two hours, but I wasn't totally blown over. Some bits were great and some not so much.
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Post by cigalechanta on Mar 27, 2010 20:55:16 GMT
I watched the September issue on netflix, a few good scenes in Paris.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2010 21:16:04 GMT
I'm planning on seeing Alice in Wonderland tomorrow morning. I frankly don't know what to expect.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 28, 2010 2:40:04 GMT
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Post by auntieannie on Mar 28, 2010 9:14:01 GMT
Funny glasses allowed me a stonking headache. I took advantage of earth hour to rest my eyes in the darkness for a while and went to bed at 10PM last night to get rid of the lingering headache.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2010 9:57:21 GMT
Well, I found Alice in Wonderland completely boring, definitely Tim Burton at his worst. And retrofitting a film that was shot in 2D to make it 3D just does not work. I feel that I completely wasted 2 hours.
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Post by auntieannie on Mar 28, 2010 9:58:36 GMT
My boyfriend's comment on the film - he is a film buff: Tim Burton and Disney don't go together.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2010 22:29:16 GMT
I saw Kick-Ass. I liked it.
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Post by bjd on Apr 26, 2010 6:44:41 GMT
I went to see Soul Kitchen. it's a Fatih Akin movie but is more of a comedy than his usual. And the main characters are Greek/Germans.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2010 6:58:14 GMT
I enjoyed it, even though he doesn't seem quite at ease with comedy.
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Post by bjd on May 11, 2010 7:05:20 GMT
I went to see The Men Who Stared at Goats last night. Okay, but not satirical enough. I saw it had been compared to MASH, but I recall MASH as much funnier. Maybe it was the 1970s, when there was a period of really good American movies?
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2010 17:27:16 GMT
Yesterday I went to see Farväl Falkenberg, a Swedish movie from 2006. It's not exactly what one would call a blockbuster, because I saw it was released in Sweden in Sept. 2006, Norway in April 2007, the Netherlands in Nov. 2007, Belgium in Sept. 2008 and France in May 2010.
Remarkable vision of teen angst during a Swedish summer. Yes, brains are blown onto the ferns before the end.
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Post by spindrift on Jun 12, 2010 15:53:34 GMT
I would rate Vincere as one of my top ten movies.
It runs for just over 2 hours and there's a lot to pack in during that time - from 1914 to 1945 to be precise.
Vincere is a powerful Italian drama charting the rise of Mussolini from his earliest days as a nobody to his heady heights as the Italian dictator who kept the company of kings (Victor Emmanuel). His life is portrayed through the eyes of his first wife, Ida Dalser, whom he is said to have married in 1914 and who bore him a son in 1915. As he became known he wished to leave his past behind and denied his lovely but stubborn first wife and child. Secret police sought to obliterate all records of her existence and when she exasperated officialdom by claiming to be Il Duce's wife she was locked up mental asylums for the rest of her life. The same tragic fate befell her son who died at the age of 27 having been subjected to coma-inducing drugs.
Little is known of Ida Dalser but I found some original photos of her and her son via Google. Her claims seem to be true because a record was found in a council office in Milan of a pension paid to her as the young Mussolini's wife whilst he was fighting at the front in WW 1.
If you see this film prepare to be stunned by the visual and choral effects.
'Vincere' translates as 'Win'
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Post by joanne28 on Jun 12, 2010 19:31:25 GMT
Haven't seen a movie since last Halloween and this week I saw two - Sex and the City 2 and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
SatC2 was what I expected - all fluff & no story. A few laughs here and there. But those women are aging fast. This was a "Girls' Movie Night" so the movies tend to be romantic comedies, as opposed to the ones I prefer. I like romantic comedies but I do expect to laugh in one. Some of the so-called rom-com I've barely smiled.
Then "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" - I had been trying to get to see it for nearly 2 months & was afraid I would miss it altogether. I saw it with my closest friend & we both agreed they had done an excellent job with it. Naturally, there had be considerable paring down but it was properly done. There were a couple of things I didn't agree with but overall an excellent movie.
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