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Post by tillystar on Jun 25, 2009 7:54:33 GMT
I finally watched The Reader last night.
I don't understand how so many reviews said despite its subject it was very unmoving. I found it very powerful and moving. It really grabbed me and I woke up wandering what had happened to the characters as if they were real people I know, always a sign of a good film or book when I do that!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2009 10:20:41 GMT
Somebody convinced me to go and see Brüno. I told him that I had seen Borat (which he had not) and that was plenty, but he managed to convince me with a few snippets and the fact that even though he had squirmed in discomfort many times during the movie, the final scene was so over the top that it was a must.
A few people walked out of the cinema, and I felt like it, too, except that's it's the sort of thing I almost never do, especially if somebody had told me there is something worth waiting for.
Well, I've got to admit that the final spectacle is pretty incredible and clearly more dangerous than anything he did in Borat, except that you can never be sure how much of it is acted and how much is spontaneous.
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Post by lola on Aug 19, 2009 22:56:27 GMT
From what I know of him, and must admit I watched only 5 min of Borat, Cohen strikes me as a jerk. Finding ignorant and bigoted Americans to ridicule is too much like shooting fish in barrel.
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Post by tigronette on Aug 26, 2009 11:38:34 GMT
Je te mangerai with Islid Le Besco and another girl whose name I forget
It was quite boring at the beginning but veered off into quite interesting territory towards the end
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Post by spindrift on Sept 2, 2009 11:10:16 GMT
On Thursday I hope to see Sin Nombre. Anyone seen it?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2009 18:44:40 GMT
Haven't seen it.
I went to see Un Prophète, the tremendous movie that won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival this year (and which most people thought should have received the Palme d'Or).
It shows the 6 years in prison of an ordinary Maghrebi teenager (age 19 when entering). You don't know what he was convicted of and whether or not he did it, but you see the details of his evolution over that period -- learning to read and write, becoming a servant of the Corsican mafia, being forced to cut the throat of perhaps the nicest person he encounters -- or be killed himself -- it is gritty and amazing stuff. And it is one of the very few French movies where nearly all of the characters are Arabs but whom are treated like the French people that they are.
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Post by tillystar on Sept 3, 2009 14:17:06 GMT
No but we are going to the cinema tonight and its one of the list we can't decide between - if you go to a matinee please let me know what its like! Its a toss up between that, The Time Travellers Wife and Broken Embraces so any feedback on any of these greatfully received!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2009 14:28:36 GMT
Broken Embraces did not dazzle me. Almodovar has done much better films.
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Post by spindrift on Sept 3, 2009 20:16:53 GMT
Tilly~ we didn't see Sin Nombre after all. It turned out there was only a matinee performance so we gave it a miss. Let me know what you saw. I read The Time Traveller's Wife....but found it very silly.
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Post by tillystar on Sept 4, 2009 8:44:55 GMT
I liked the Time Traveller's Wife but I agree it is very silly!
We decided on Sin Nombre , I could go on and on about it. It’s a “slum kid” movie side by side an immigrant journey movie. Overall I was left walking out of the cinema with the feeling that I was very lucky to have been born where I was.
I found it quite hard at the beginning – it isn’t easy to watch, especially at the start before you find yourself numbed to the brutality. It also seemed to portray the overwhelming sense of despair almost too well.
Despite that (or because of I guess) it was completely gripping and it was also beautifully shot and acted. I think it’s a brilliant, powerful film and I recommend.
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Post by spindrift on Sept 4, 2009 15:12:52 GMT
Thanks Tilly. No doubt I'll end up buying the DVD from Amazon. We only get one chance to see films because we live in the provinces.....
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2009 10:21:19 GMT
I saw Human Zoo this morning -- totally bizarre. I noticed that it has only been released in France, with a release in Russia scheduled for December. It's a French movie by a Danish director filmed mostly in Serbia, with the dialogue in English, Albanian, Serbo-Croatian and French. If you watch the trailer, keep in mind that the sweet little blue-eyed star is the director and that one of her favorite occupations is removing people's fingers (with her teeth, knife, meat cleaver... whatever is appropriate at the time). It is one of the few films to be forbidden to people under the age of 16 in France this year. vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=53924483 |
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Post by spindrift on Sept 6, 2009 12:59:15 GMT
Last night I saw 'The Time Traveller's Wife'. As I was with three friends I could not walk out of the cinema so I had to put up with the ordeal of watching it. After half an hour or so I became inured to the tedium and was able to smile by the end of it.
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Post by tigronette on Sept 9, 2009 7:33:01 GMT
I saw Ghosts...of the Civil Dead on Sunday and it really made it's mark
I'm still thinking about it now and sometimes I wish it would go away as the questions it raises aren't the most comfortable to deal with
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Post by tillystar on Sept 16, 2009 19:54:44 GMT
Last night I watched In the Loop. I have never heard so much bad language in one film  It was hilarious, I laughed so much I even had achey sides. I love this review. I keep thinking of it a week later and smiling  It has put me off though as I had been so ooking forward to the film for a long time but when Isaw the trailer soemthing baout it put me off. I couldn't find a ord for what was wrong. Know I know, it was the tedium, I think things are very bad if that comes across in a trailer... |
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Post by spindrift on Sept 17, 2009 16:43:35 GMT
Tilly! someone else I know was put off by the trailer. I didn't see the trailer before I saw the film!
However this week I saw a masterpiece of a movie. It is called Broken Embraces starring Penelope Cruz and directed by Pedro Almodovar.. Three days later and I'm still thinking about it. Unusually, I would see it again on the big screen just to take pleasure in watching it.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2009 17:03:57 GMT
And yet, I did not care for that movie, which I saw on the big screen. I felt that Almodovar was completely out of inspiration. (That doesn't mean it wasn't well acted.)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2009 21:16:22 GMT
I either get to see the 'guy orintated' movies, or the kids ones. As I'm usually with my sons when I go. The last one was 'Fast and furious' It was good fun. Oh, and then the Harry Potter one. www.imdb.com/title/tt1013752/ |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2009 4:30:26 GMT
On the return flight, I saw The Hedgehog, The Proposal and LOL. I think the individual screens are now reaching overkill, because there was a choice of something like 60 movies and it takes forever just to go through the categories and see what is available.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 18, 2009 5:41:47 GMT
Were any of them good, or at least worth watching?
Is The Hedgehog the movie made from the book, "The Elegance of the Hedgehog"?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2009 5:51:34 GMT
Yes, The Hedgehog is the movie made from the book. It wasn't bad, although the little girl was obviously one of those Dakota Fanning type precocious pseudo-adults. But then again, she was in the book as well.
LOL was a French teen comedy that would give a lot of American parents nightmares. You know how the American teen comedies are based on things like failing to get laid or getting caught with drugs? Absolutely not a problem in France apparently!
As for The Proposal, ugh.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 18, 2009 5:54:17 GMT
I thought The Proposal was a movie from @20 years ago, where some rich guy wants to buy one night of passion with Demi Moore from her husband Woody Harrelson. (strong chance I got details wrong)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2009 13:04:45 GMT
That was Indecent Proposal. The rich guy was Robert Redford, I think.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2009 14:01:32 GMT
That was Indecent Proposal. The rich guy was Robert Redford, I think. Dreadfully sacharin,proved to me that Robert Redford cannot act. It wasn't a matter of poor choice of roles,he simply cannot act,is always the same in every role I've seen. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2009 14:15:04 GMT
I have often liked Robert Redford as an actor, particularly in his younger years, but he was particularly dreadful in that movie. In later years, the main thing I can't stand is the big shock of yellow haystack hair sitting on top of the head full of wrinkles.
Since Demi Moore was mentioned, I feel that I should say that she is apparently developing the American adaptation of LOL for that country that only wants to see remakes of foreign movies rather than the original foreign movie.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 18, 2009 15:13:28 GMT
Well, in all fairness, the country that never gets to see foreign movies except for the major metropolitan areas. One can certainly find reviews of foreign movies online, but would be hard-pressed to find them at the local dvd outlet.
I've often wondered if it's a matter of distributorship & opting not to offer foreign films to US (& Canadian?) audiences. Certainly the two mega-plexes in this dinky Mexican city never offer anything other than what is being offered in Podunk, USA.
Totally agree about Robert Redford. I've never gotten over the fury I felt when he was cast as Denis Finch-Hatton. Sheesh. Demi Moore gives me the pip, too.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2009 16:38:44 GMT
I'm just thinking that in the remake of LOL, Demi Moore will play one of the mothers and she'll probably try to get Ashton Kutcher cast as one of the high school students.
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Post by auntieannie on Sept 20, 2009 8:54:45 GMT
I had never heard of LOL... is that it's original title, K?
Last week, I saw Julie and Julia and thoroughly enjoyed it. made me hungry. Meryl Streep as good as usual, totally nails Julia Child. Also playing emotions that are held tight so well!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2009 10:20:03 GMT
I don't think LOL has been released in non-francophone countries yet.
I went to see District 9 yesterday. Gripping. Seems pretty obvious that there will be a sequel.
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Post by imec on Sept 20, 2009 14:03:08 GMT
Would love to participate in this thread - but have still not been to the cinema since 1979.
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It was hilarious, I laughed so much I even had achey sides.
It has put me off though as I had been so ooking forward to the film for a long time but when Isaw the trailer soemthing baout it put me off. I couldn't find a ord for what was wrong. Know I know, it was the tedium, I think things are very bad if that comes across in a trailer...
