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Post by nic on Sept 7, 2009 5:02:54 GMT
If memory serves, and it should, Tim Burton's Alice is not simply a re-telling; it's a re-visiting. Alice is all-growed-up and wanders back into Wonderland. For what purpose though, I couldn't tell you. Though, I'm still hoping to get this version of Alice
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Post by Kimby on Sept 22, 2009 20:50:58 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 22, 2009 22:17:50 GMT
Hmmmmmm. Charlie Kaufman, huh?
Okay, I have to ask a suspicious question:
Did you like The Orchid Thief?
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Post by Kimby on Sept 24, 2009 20:48:38 GMT
I saw it, (Adaptations was the film's title, right?) but can't remember a lot about it. I do remember liking Being John Malkovich, though...
So bixa, did you NOT like Synecdoche, New York?
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 24, 2009 23:32:14 GMT
No, I haven't seen it. Because of your recommendation, I eagerly clicked on the link and was dismayed to see Charlie Kaufman as writer & director. I can think of few movies I dislike as much as The Orchid Thief.
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Post by lola on Oct 29, 2009 22:21:55 GMT
I got my husband to watch Best in Show a few years ago, and created a Christopher Guest monster. I was willing to watch Waiting for Guffman the first 3 times to be a good sport, but finally had to draw the line. I could handle Best in Show again by now, I suppose.
He also was enchanted by A Little Princess, the Alfonso Cuarón version, when our girls were little, and we watched it quite a few times over the years.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2009 22:55:53 GMT
No, I haven't seen it. Because of your recommendation, I eagerly clicked on the link and was dismayed to see Charlie Kaufman as writer & director. I can think of few movies I dislike as much as The Orchid Thief. ditto. for a movie I so looked forward to too. how was THAT allowed to happen?
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Post by existentialcrisis on Nov 3, 2009 12:27:37 GMT
Hedwig and the Angry Inch Trainspotting Ninja Turtles
lol
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Post by existentialcrisis on Nov 3, 2009 12:28:13 GMT
Oh - and The Seventh Seal
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2009 21:50:53 GMT
I discovered once again that I am glued to Goodbye Lenin every time it is on TV.
In any case, the French media are devoting the entire week to November 9th, 1989 with non stop documentaries and films.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2009 21:46:15 GMT
Another film that glues me to the screen: Women in Love
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 27, 2009 16:18:04 GMT
Oooo ~~ good one! I haven't seen that movie in ages, but now want to view it again. The acting is brilliant, and it has one of the best opening sequences of all time. *goes off whistling "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles".
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2015 20:33:32 GMT
We moved to California in 1967. In 1968, The Graduate was the current sensation to see, so my parents and I went all the way to Santa Barbara to see it because it was not available in Oxnard or Ventura. It just seemed so incredibly modern compared to other movies and it had the added attraction of the university scenes being filmed at USC (pretending to be an Ivy League university), where my brother was in his first year. We were not at all used to seeing movies where we actually could recognise the filming locations, so that made it even more special. And then there was the soundtrack by Simon & Garfunkel. And of course the ending was one of the first totally transgressive endings of the era. Since my mother had broken all of the rules by getting a divorce, marrying the man she really loved, and taking us all to California, it was the perfect validation of what she had done.
So all of these years later, I am still transfixed by that movie, which was on TV again tonight.
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Post by htmb on May 3, 2015 20:36:35 GMT
I watched it again not too long ago. It's certainly a classic for people of a certain generation.
Funny how Mrs. Robinson doesn't look as old as she did when I first saw the film.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2015 20:38:33 GMT
She was positively ancient and creepy in 1968. I guess our parents saw her completely differently.
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Post by htmb on May 3, 2015 20:42:06 GMT
Funny. Riding in the back of a bus always reminds me of that movie.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2015 21:28:38 GMT
Anne Bancroft was Dustin Hoffman's senior by less than six years.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2016 17:14:46 GMT
Going back to my starting post in this thread, I watched Donnie Darko 3 times this week, director's cut this time.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2017 7:20:37 GMT
Last night I watched Apocalypse Now again and I find it constantly fascinating. This was the Apocalypse Now Redux edition, so it was even better. I am not as familiar with the added scenes so when they appear they are even more interesting, and I also found myself wondering how incredibly painful it must have been to decide to ditch those scenes in the editing for the original release.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 26, 2018 17:28:33 GMT
I've seen at least two of those.
Yes, DVDs are becoming cheaper because nobody wants them -- and that's why I am buying more and more. I have far too many and don't know where to pile them up anymore.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Dec 26, 2018 18:11:10 GMT
The Abyss Shaun of the Dead High Society 2010 The Hurt Locker Who's life is it anyway? To Kill a Mocking Bird
There are probably others, but I know that if any of the above are listed I HAVE to watch them...
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 26, 2018 18:18:02 GMT
That's an interesting and extremely varied list. I need to think about my current "can't get enough ofs" and make a new list.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 26, 2018 18:30:12 GMT
I just went through this whole thread again (really not all that difficult when there are only 3 pages) and there are a lot of interesting observations. And I'm sure that some of our opinions have shifted one way or the other, too.
I'll try to get back to this, listing movies that I found important enough to buy the DVD. And I have a lot of DVDs, but in the last two or three years many of them were bought at the store that regularly sells 5 for the price of 3, so they were not always top choices, just some items to get me up to the correct number.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Dec 26, 2018 18:37:51 GMT
I like going through DVDs at the local bargain store and picking out ones that I don't have much knowledge of...often just going by the actors. I've seen some absolute stinkers but equally I've picked up a few gems.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 26, 2018 18:59:22 GMT
Yes, I often buy DVDs just because one of the actors/actresses is somebody about whom I want to know more. I think I crawled up to the origins of Ben Whishaw's career not too long ago and some pretty amazing things from bygone days, also some of less interest. One of the good things about forgotten DVDs is that they often cost no more than 2 euros on Amazon UK and at least until Brexit, postage is still extremely reasonable.
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Post by mich64 on Dec 26, 2018 19:10:09 GMT
I just realized that this is the first Christmas in a very long time that I did not buy a DVD to put in my husbands Christmas stocking! I usually spot a bin in the stores but do not remember noticing one now that I think about it. Now I wonder if there were less available.
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Post by breeze on Dec 26, 2018 20:07:39 GMT
Huckle, Burnt by the sun was like a Russian novel brought to life for me. I was immediately caught up in it and felt the tension the whole way through the film. Not long after we saw it, I read in the Guardian about the director being such an autocrat and lost interest in seeing his movies. But now that you've brought him up, I'll see if his movies are on Netflix streaming, which we're about to sign up for.
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Post by whatagain on Dec 27, 2018 12:04:13 GMT
The films that come to mind are mostly comedies - rather old. La grande vadrouille on top La 7e compagnie (mostly the first 2) Lethal weapon (the 4) Harry Potter Zulu (with Michael Caine) A lot of war movies. Rambo - first blood not the sequels. Notting hill and pretty woman esp if my wife is around.
I dislike la mome actually probably because it shows the life of Piaf and at the end of the movie I liked her less than at the beginning.
Ah and bienvenue chez les ch'tis.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 27, 2018 17:20:45 GMT
My preference always goes to "movies that teach me something or show me something that I have never seen." Yet quite probably the movies that hit me that hardest (when I finally make a list) will be movies that do not fit those criteria.
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Post by questa on Dec 30, 2018 9:35:06 GMT
I made a little list and typed it here, so neatly. Favourite films were being listed after careful thought. Three days later I've returned here but I cannot find my listing. From page one to page four, so eagerly I've sought. Came the realisation - I'd forgotten to click "Post", but it's 41 degrees and I am rather overwrought.
Lawrence of Arabia....Directors Cut Zulu (Michael Caine) The Third Man Me and the Colonel Anything with Danny Kaye
The Castle.... 2 Australian films I could The Dish......watch often, funny and lovable.
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