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Post by Kimby on Jul 1, 2018 4:48:32 GMT
Is that because English is not his first language? Or is it deliberate weirdness?
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 1, 2018 4:59:57 GMT
The weirdness is deliberate. There are in fact quite a few directors who refuse the idea of realism, which they find trite... or something. Sometimes it works brilliantly and sometimes not.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 2, 2018 14:24:24 GMT
Saw another unusual film last night, the thought-provoking THE SQUARE, which follows the director of a Swedish contemporary art museum through some trying situations. There are some of our favorite American actors: Elizabeth Moss and Dominic West, speaking English since they play English-speakers, the rest is Swedish with subtitles. The Monkey Man scene(s), acted by Terry Notary (Kong, Planet of the Apes) are worth the price of admission. Lots of uncomfortable moments in this excellent film, which tests our notions of and commitment to humanity. Also exposes the sometimes-pretentious world of contemporary art . www.imdb.com/title/tt4995790/
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Post by Kimby on Jul 2, 2018 14:26:56 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 2, 2018 14:29:30 GMT
The Square won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival a couple of years ago. I appreciated its quality but I can't say that I enjoyed it as entertainment because it was too disturbing too many times. Of course, that was the whole point. I thought that one of the most interesting scenes was when the protagonist was worried about whether his spent condom might be misused although he never actually said it.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 3, 2018 20:56:56 GMT
Watched FACES PLACES (Visages Villages) last night. Interesting documentary in which a 33-yr old male photo muralist teams up with an 88-yr old female film director on a project that has them photographing local people and pasting their images to buildings, water towers, trains and shipping containers. The two form a very sweet friendship, and some of their projects are quite evocative, though ephemeral.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jul 7, 2018 21:16:10 GMT
We've been subjected to hours of football on tv so I got us a few DVDs....we've seen:- The Darkest Hour...Gary Oldman was excellent altho parts of the film were a bit twee... Murder on the Orient Express...meh Three Bilboards...highly recommend this gritty, moving film Death of Stalin...brilliant, funny, brutal. I've borrowed 'The Greatest Showman' with some trepidation...not a huge fan of Hugh Jackman...but it has to be better than football or tennis
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 8, 2018 21:28:20 GMT
Currently watching Rolling Stones live from a 2013 Hyde Park concert. Remarkably good.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 12, 2018 3:41:13 GMT
We watched "Spy", a funny and well-crafted sendup of James Bond crossed with Homeland. Starring Melissa McCarthy, and a well-cast ensemble. We liked it in the same way we liked Team America: World Police. Both films poke fun in enjoyable ways. (Somehow i posted this in Random Memories.)
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jul 12, 2018 18:12:03 GMT
last night (whilst the footie was on) we watched The Greatest Showman I can see why so many of my young (25 - 40yrs) female friends like it...it is very jolly. I didn't HATE it (Really, really hated Mama Mia) and thought that it was very slick...but imo there areonly two 'moder'n musical films worth watching... The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Moulin Rouge...altho tbh they both have 'I'll go and make a cuppa' moments Can't beat the big Hollywood musicals from the 40s and 50s.... especially the ones with Fred, Gene, Bing and Frank in
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 12, 2018 21:43:43 GMT
Really, really hated Mama Mia Not nearly enough really, reallys in that sentence. Barf-o-rama.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 12, 2018 22:48:43 GMT
There’s a sequel out now! Supposed to be “even better”!
(Music is catchy, though.)
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 24, 2018 4:58:54 GMT
I finally saw Young Adam which I had missed when it was released. Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, Peter Mullan and Emily Mortimer. Non stop sex. The plot was pretty creepy.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 24, 2018 7:19:09 GMT
Night before last I finally watched a famous movie I'd never seen: Babe. What can I say? I adored it! In fact, I liked it so much that I watched the sequel last night, my excuse being my punky physical state. The charm quotient isn't as high in the second one, but the singing mice alone make it worthwhile.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 24, 2018 12:29:22 GMT
Yeah, that was cute. I just had Babe between two slices of whole wheat bread for lunch.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 24, 2018 16:00:18 GMT
Betcha you wouldn't have if you'd just watched the movie. That said, I'm getting ready to enjoy a certain meat despite the moo-vie.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jul 24, 2018 16:46:20 GMT
Never seen Babe..is it based on Charlotte's Web ? Read that to the boys when they were little.
Watched The Shape of Water....I think I liked it...a few bits were uncomfortably gory for me but on the whole it was ok. I liked the atmospheric cinematography...
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 24, 2018 17:02:29 GMT
I mentioned the most incredible event that happened when I saw it on the "last movie you saw" thread, but I don't think anybody read it. I was in the #1 cinema in Paris, but there was some strange leak. They had closed off the first 3 rows because there was a pool of water in front of the screen. As the movie progressed, the pool got bigger and bigger, so it really fit The Shape of Water perfectly with the scene of the cinema being flooded by the shenanigans upstairs. By the time the movie ended, the pool was completely reflecting the movie on the screen in a magical way. Even though it was not my favourite movie ever, I think it was my favourite movie experience ever.
Unfortunately, there was a mould odour in that cinema for at least a month.
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Post by whatagain on Jul 24, 2018 17:15:41 GMT
Not much small viewing for the moment. We tend to eat later and outdoor after some gardening and now in southern france tv is only for the kids. We eat at around 9 30 at earliest and spend time outside.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 25, 2018 15:48:17 GMT
I have been buying quite a few DVDs at the moment due to the summer sales. They are going for next to nothing as the concept of physical viewing items disappears. However, I still prefer them by far due to all of the extras and quite often the complete film repeated with commentary by the director, the star or both. I guess I am just a film geek. Anyway, the movie that I watched today was the Australian movie Jungle starring Daniel Radcliffe. It is the (true) story of an Israeli backpacker who became separated from his friends (?) in the jungles of Bolivia and survived alone for about three weeks until he was found. Radcliffe lost 15 kilos for the movie and he is already not the beefiest of actors. He has to face jaguars, eat bird foetuses out of the egg, pull worms out of a bulge in his forehead, all the while being attacked by fire ants and other nasty critters. I thought it was very well done, even though it was filmed in Australia rather than Bolivia. Oddly enough, this movie was not even released in cinemas in most of the world, so it can only been seen on a small screen.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 28, 2018 18:50:45 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 29, 2018 15:37:07 GMT
I just watched Manchester by the Sea again. In my book, it is one of the most perfectly depressing movies ever made. Also quite realistic because when you analyze the movie, there is absolutely no way that things could have worked out in the end.
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 4, 2018 19:00:38 GMT
Just watched an excellent programme on the pointless Vietnam war and the music it spawned.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 5, 2018 10:48:12 GMT
Although I had seen it at the cinema last year, I watched Ce qui nous lie on television this morning. The anglo title of the movie is Back to Burgundy. It was filmed over the course of a year by Cédric Klapisch and isn't a comedy like most of his other movies, but it is not lacking humour. It just shows the struggle of three adult siblings trying to hang on the family vineyards and wine making business. They are not always in agreement with each other, and then you have to worry about the weather, the owner of the adjacent plot and his pesticides, the seasonal workers... and the in-laws. I think I got a lot more out of the movie on a second viewing because I didn't need to worry about the plot this time around and could concentrate on all of the work that the people were doing, which is the real soul of the movie.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 11, 2018 20:08:46 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2018 1:24:38 GMT
Just watched an excellent programme on the pointless Vietnam war and the music it spawned. Might you give us a title Mick? I may well be interested in viewing this. I sought out and found a movie that both my husband and I had seen back in the early 1990's. Shoot The Moon with Albert Finney and Dianne Keaton. It was every bit as enjoyable as I had remembered it. There are so many poignant albeit, angst ridden scenes that I recalled and it proved once again, how well done this film is/was. Superb writing and acting. A brilliant pairing of both Finney and Keaton I must say.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 22, 2018 18:59:38 GMT
I laughed until I cried watching the various videos of The Sacred Riana's performances on America's Got Talent and Asia's Got Talent.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 22, 2018 19:27:09 GMT
You liked that?!
*walks away sadly, shaking head*
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Post by Kimby on Sept 16, 2018 19:53:55 GMT
Watched the BRIGSBY BEAR movie last night. Did not expect to like it, but really did. Not gonna post a spoiler, but let me say that the lead actor (who also co-wrote the screenplay) reminds me of a cross between Robin Williams’ “Mork” (Mork and Mindy) and Dana Carvey’s “Garth” (SNL’s Wayne’s World). And quite likeable. www.imdb.com/title/tt5805752/
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 18, 2018 17:36:26 GMT
Look out for Black Earth Rising.
Brilliant.
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