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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2016 18:00:24 GMT
I am very much looking forward to Apnée.
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Post by rikita on Nov 3, 2016 12:29:49 GMT
i watched sausage party recently. it was very silly and there was a lot of swearing.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2016 6:51:41 GMT
After the first teaser trailer (reply #322), the full trailer of Beauty and the Beast has apparently become the fastest viewed movie trailer in YouTube history, with almost 23 million views in just one week.
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Post by bjd on Nov 22, 2016 7:00:03 GMT
I could identify almost everything in that trailer having read the Disney version of several fairy tales repeatedly to my granddaughters in September. They absolutely love them.
I guess they didn't make the Beast too scary looking so that people would take their small kids to the movie and buy the DVD. Not to mention all the associated merchandise.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 22, 2016 16:54:01 GMT
I'm a big fan of the Jean Cocteau La Belle et la Bête, but need to give the Disney version a look.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2016 17:26:33 GMT
I think that Emma Watson is an extremely appealing young actress, and I find it amazing that she apparently escaped the awkward phase of transition from childhood (Harry Potter) to young adulthood, and yes, she did manage to earn a degree from Brown University even though I find her alternate career qualifications questionable. Naturally, the fact the she was born in Paris is a plus.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 14, 2016 20:40:32 GMT
Speaking of Emma, I'm on the edge of my seat until this movie is released:
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Post by rikita on Dec 14, 2016 23:39:39 GMT
what career qualifications do you find questionable?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2016 5:13:49 GMT
A "certification to teach meditation" is about as fraudulent as it gets.
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Post by rikita on Dec 15, 2016 8:24:12 GMT
why?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2016 13:54:24 GMT
Because it is a bunch of bullshit. It's like saying you're a licensed hypnotist.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2016 14:26:18 GMT
While the movie is sure to be spectacular, the locals have been sighing in dismay about the trailers for Dunkirk. The evacuation took place in beautiful sunny weather and calm seas; otherwise there is absolutely no way they ever could have evacuated 350,000 soldiers in a week. But the trailer shows choppy water and grey skies most of the time so that everybody can feel more miserable.
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Post by rikita on Dec 15, 2016 14:28:10 GMT
you mean that meditation is bullshit, or that there is no way to teach it or learn how to teach it?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2016 14:35:26 GMT
Either you know how to meditate or you don't. (Of course I also feel that anybody who feels the need to meditate is probably incapable of doing so, only pretending. The word meditation is super ambiguous anyway.
And people pay to do this!
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Post by rikita on Dec 15, 2016 21:42:37 GMT
well i don't know much about meditation but mr. r. meditated a lot for a while (coming from yoga which he did for many years, and he took classes, his teacher was buddhist), and in his opinion meditation can be taught and learned, even though the meditation itself of course has to be done by the person who is doing it, someone who is experienced can guide that person, help them with a structured approach, call to their attention when they are doing that pretending you mention, etc. - he says most meditation teachers he knows come from a religious background and usually don't take money, so he finds courses that give you a certificate to teach for money questionable, too, though he knows those exist, but usually those that teach meditation do so from the background of having a lot of experience in it ... he says in the beginning it is a very strenuous effort to achieve the necessary mental discipline ...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2016 11:09:35 GMT
It's back for its 15th anniversary!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2017 18:56:29 GMT
When I first moved to France, just about all movies were more or less "snow white." There has been an interesting change over the years, and at the moment movies with French black actors are topping the box office. At other times, the same thing has happened concerning actors and actresses of North African origin. One thing that is different from the United States is that French directors have never made a movie directed at an ethnic audience. The main reason is perhaps because the ethnic audience is insufficent to get enough box office, but I tend to think that it is simply a different concept of cinema. Since we see movies from everywhere in the world in France (including 50% American movies), there is probably a greater acceptance of stories that don't necessarily concern our own ethnic or cultural group. All of the trailers are available on YouTube. Il a déjà tes yeux is about a black couple given a white baby to adopt through the luck of the draw. L'Ascension is based on a true story about a man from the rough suburbs who climbs Mount Everest with absolutely no training to impress the girl he loves. (Although in real life the guy was of Algerian origin.) Demain tour commence is about a single father raising his daughter until the mother shows up 9 years later to claim her child. Meanwhile, Omar Sy remains the most popular person in France.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2017 17:06:02 GMT
While the movie is sure to be spectacular, the locals have been sighing in dismay about the trailers for Dunkirk. The evacuation took place in beautiful sunny weather and calm seas; otherwise there is absolutely no way they ever could have evacuated 350,000 soldiers in a week. But the trailer shows choppy water and grey skies most of the time so that everybody can feel more miserable. Perhaps that was all the weather provided during the shooting scedule. I saw one or two sunny shots! I appreciate any WWII film that isn't told from the American perspective.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2017 16:37:55 GMT
Okay, there are 7 Oscar nominations for Best Picture: Arrival, Fences, Hacksaw Ridge, Hell or High Water, Hidden Figures, La La Land, Lion, Manchester by the Sea and Moonlight.
I have highlighted the movies that I have seen. The others have not yet been released in France. All of the ones I have seen are 'excellent' but the nominations for Arrival and Hell or High Water seem to me to be a bit laughable. Mel Gibson has too many enemies (probably deservedly) to win for Hacksaw Ridge, and in any case I am quite sure that it is not the 'best.' I fear that Fences and Hidden Figures may owe their nominations to political correctness because I don't think that either of them will punch me in the gut the way I like. As for La La Land, yes, it is quite nice and lovable, but basically it is an empty shell of a story. Manchester by the Sea greatly impressed me, but I think it is all due to Casey Affleck. He might take the Oscar, but not the movie as a whole. That leaves Lion and Moonlight. I'm pretty sure that Lion is a wonderful movie that will make me cry, but it is a 'foreign' story and let's not forget that most of the voters are old Jewish men. And so I think that Moonlight will win. Probably, like a lot of people I was afraid that it would be some sort of hard-to-watch and somewhat nasty "Gays in the Hood" story, but I found it to be remarkably sensitive and elegant, completely universal for anybody who has ever suffered from not fitting in, and with totally remarkable performances from everybody in the cast. So yes, a definite Oscar for Best Picture as far as I am concerned.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 2, 2017 6:34:17 GMT
Most interesting. I didn't care for Arrival at all, even though I expected to love it. Didn't make it all the way through La La Land because I just didn't care enough. Hidden Figures is a well-made movie with strong performances and an important story to tell. That said, it impressed me as a movie that should be shown in schools but, speaking as an adult, not a great movie. I think you are right about Manchester by the Sea. I am glad to see that Lucas Hedges was nominated for best supporting actor, as well. I'm very much looking forward to seeing Moonlight and also want to see Lion.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 22, 2017 21:55:29 GMT
Remember when movie trailers were about cowboys and Indians or happy dancing people in New York City nightclubs? Not anymore...
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 8, 2017 4:33:27 GMT
I want to see this when it's released in December ~
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 10, 2017 2:44:22 GMT
It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival today.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2017 15:05:51 GMT
I went to see Novitiate yesterday. It was excellent albeit a tad lengthy. It centers on life in a cloister just before Vatican II (circa 1964) shook things up in the Catholic church. Melissa Leo is superb in her role as Mother Superior.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 8, 2017 12:44:11 GMT
Oh Jeez, my local multiplex is opening at 7:30 a.m. on December 12th when the new Star Wars movie comes out...
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 8, 2017 16:30:58 GMT
You need to go over there the night before to show us pictures of people sleeping in quilts on lawn chairs and the like.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 28, 2017 14:09:37 GMT
Okay now after the special 7:30 business a few weeks ago, I noticed that the Ridley Scott movie without Kevin Spacey is playing at 8:45 at a cinema that normally never starts before 9:45. If this keeps up, the cinema will finally have feature times that correspond to my own hours! Frankly, I did not have a great urge to see it until I learned that that Italian kidnapper is played by Romain Duris.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2018 23:02:39 GMT
I saw The Darkest Hour today. I thought it was really well done as a docu-drama although, perhaps a tad too lengthy. Gary Oldman was riveting as Churchill and Kristen Scott Thomas who plays his wife was superb. (does she ever do anything bad?) Overall, well worth the viewing.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 13, 2018 14:38:13 GMT
I could have talked about this on "What is the last movie you saw?" but I want to say something a bit different other than just "I saw Si tu voyais son coeur yesterday." I am always intrigued by movies that most people just don't "get." (I am reminded of Melancholia and Donnie Darko in this category, but there are so many others.) Anyway this movie (English title: If you saw his heart) was quite poorly received by most critics this week. They found the plot uninteresting, the character motivations obscure and the total result rather ugly. And in the cinema, I would say that about 10% of the audience walked out before the end. Since the invention of the unlimited movie cards, people tend to do this more and more since they did not shell out any cash to see the movie.
Anyway, this is a French movie starring (Mexican) Gael Garcia Bernal and (Argentinian) Nahuel Pérez Biscayart as Franco-Spanish gypsies. Nahuel dies quite early in the movie although he appears in flashbacks throughout the story. Gael is his best friend who mourns him while trying to survive in a seedy hotel (the seediest hotel in France!). The hotel is full of weird and damaged denizens, and the reception manager is a nasty nutcase.
I was onboard immediately, but it seems that many people do not want to be plunged into this sort of situation. The rather violent gypsies have banned Gael from their camp -- they think that he is at least partially responsible for Nahuel's death, and on top of that Nahuel was a newlywed with a pregnant wife. Gael tries to provide money by engaging in nasty mafia style endeavours, but it is never enough.
It was a quite depressing movie, but I thought it was perfectly fine. But it is most definitely box office poison.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2018 15:17:30 GMT
This is precisely why I don't take critics seriously. That coupled with every Monday morning hearing what the top box office hits are, I rely on my own instincts and/or recommendations from like minded friends.
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