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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 28, 2018 22:44:27 GMT
Hmmm. I vaguely remember when How I Live Now came out, but apparently it didn't penetrate my consciousness enough for me to see it. Now, after viewing the trailer and having seen Saoirse Ronan in two other movies, I really really want to see it. As for Chronicle, all I could think while watching the trailer was " guy movie, guy movie ", but then the cop cars all floated up with their doors opening ~ oooooooo! ~ and then the boys go down that hole ........ NOW I'm intrigued!
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 1, 2018 23:59:54 GMT
Based on Kerouac's review above, I watched How I Live Now last night and give it a big thumbs up and also easily understand why a person would want to watch it more than once.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 3, 2018 5:05:32 GMT
Tonight I watched Phantom Thread. It won't be everyones cup of tea, but it is beautifully made and the acting is exquisite. I would say it's almost worth it for Lesley Manville alone, but Vicky Krieps is absolutely wonderful too. I wanted more, more, more of the '50s haute couture, which was glorious.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 3, 2018 6:56:16 GMT
It was not my cup of tea although I am always fascinated by the Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 3, 2018 16:49:32 GMT
I had to really think about how you got that out of it, then realized what you meant. That said, I did'nt take that particular element of the movie as being Munchausen-etc., but rather as an interesting power play involving the surprising complicity of one of the players/victims.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 24, 2018 14:42:21 GMT
On the "last movie you saw" thread, I recently wrote about Patser/Gangsta, a Flemish movie which quite impressed me starring Flemish actor Matteo Simoni. He plays a rather disgusting drug dealing bad boy in a housing project, but something just burned through the screen watching him. I wanted to see him in something else. He is a rather big rising star in Flanders and has been compared to Matthias Schoenaerts but has not broken out of Flanders yet. So I got hold of a DVD of the Flemish film Marina, a biopic about Belgian-Italian singing star Rocco Granata (whom I had never heard of), and I have to admit that he is a quite impressive actor. After seeing him as a skinhead drug dealer, it was quite a shock seeing him play "the new Dean Martin" with Brylcreem hair. Unfortunately, I had the Italian edition of the DVD, so I missed quite a bit of the dialogue. The movie is mostly in Calabrian dialect and Flemish with a few interludes of standard Italian. So most of it was subtitled in Italian, which helped me quite a bit, but then with no subtitles when they were speaking normal Italian, which is not as easy for me to hear as to read. As for the plot, it is quite simple. They are starving in Calabria, so the father goes scouting ahead to a wonderful new life in Belgium. Then he brings the family who is horrified by the terrible shanty town where the Italian immigrant miners are living. And the Flemish are quite racist against the Italians. Nevertheless, the kid grows up and falls in love with music even though he is supposed to become a miner like his father. (Mention is made of the father's narrow escape from death at the Bois du Cazier mine disaster, which killed 136 Italians and 95 Belgians -- this sort of thing always affects me because my mother grew up in the corresponding French mining region where the miners were all Italian or Polish, too.) Anyway, there is no suspense as to whether the love of music will triumph over a career in the mines. It is a very nice movie, and this trailer has English subtitles.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 24, 2018 15:43:12 GMT
It seems very sweet.
(That blue lace dress is immensely cool!)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2018 14:32:25 GMT
Ditto on the lace dress...
I watched the series Collateral last night and was immensely impressed.
Fine performances and excellent writing and direction.
The film location shots (London) were very reminiscent of some of the pics I've seen on here from both residents and visitors of that fair city.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 25, 2018 14:49:59 GMT
Had not heard of Collateral, but just looked it up. Based on your recommendation, Casimira, I am going to give it a try. Carey Mulligan should be worth watching.
I have been watching The Good Place, the kind of thing I'd usually avoid except that I kept reading good critical reviews of it. One of the reasons I would have avoided it would be Ted Danson, an actor I've never much cared for. He is perfect in this, though. Kristen Bell also gives it her all.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 1, 2018 4:54:04 GMT
I just finished watching -- finally watching -- Hugo and was completely delighted with it. What a movie and what a love letter to the movies. It's also sprinkled with all kinds of period references which are fun to catch, but no matter if you miss them. I did catch Scorcese, who directed Hugo, in the world's teensiest cameo. This is a magical movie. Do try to see it if you haven't already.
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Post by patricklondon on Apr 2, 2018 17:46:12 GMT
Someone sent round a link to the Danish version of one of those property shows where they take people round a range of places and invite them to guess how much it costs, which featured the development where I live. They all guessed well over the asking price (which strikes me as already over the top). I've never seen the place look so spick and span. My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by rikita on Apr 24, 2018 9:20:30 GMT
I just finished watching -- finally watching -- Hugo and was completely delighted with it. What a movie and what a love letter to the movies. It's also sprinkled with all kinds of period references which are fun to catch, but no matter if you miss them. I did catch Scorcese, who directed Hugo, in the world's teensiest cameo. This is a magical movie. Do try to see it if you haven't already. i watched it a while ago and i must admit, for me it was mixed, i liked parts very much, and others not as much - though a bit too long ago to say now which parts i liked and which i didn't, or what exactly bothered me about the parts i didn't like as much ...
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 28, 2018 17:23:09 GMT
I have been wanting to see the German movie Same Same but Different for ages and finally managed to do it. It is almost ten years old and was never released outside of Germany. It's about a young German guy travelling around Southeast Asia with a friend. He falls for a hooker, knows that it's a mistake but he can't help himself. Both he and she are incredibly sweet so you just keep hoping that things will work out when it is obvious that it is impossible.
He goes home, she keeps asking for money as they always do, for herself and sometimes for her mother. One day she announces that she is HIV positive. He makes a couple of more trips to Cambodia even though money is tight, tries to help her, gets upset, takes her to a doctor, gets medicine in Bangkok since no good medicine is available in Cambodia. He finally gets a job that lets him travel to Asia, but things are still very complicated. She is still a "working girl" even though she promised that she would stop.
The thing is, it's a true story. The young man finally moved to Cambodia and married her and they had a healthy child...
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Post by Kimby on Apr 28, 2018 18:02:59 GMT
Sounds good. (With all the spoilers in your review, I won’t have to go to the trouble to seek it out in Montana!)
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 28, 2018 18:05:14 GMT
ooh....I must watch How I Live Now...wonder if it's on Netflix...mind you I'm sure that I saw it in the bargain bucket at Asda recently! Talk about coincidence...Chronicle is on Film 4 this evening...
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 28, 2018 18:52:12 GMT
Sounds good. (With all the spoilers in your review, I won’t have to go to the trouble to seek it out in Montana!) There are no spoilers in this sort of movie except for the very end: happy or unhappy? The incredible value of such movies for me is just to see the country, and this particular movie really shows Cambodia as hwinpp presented it to us. Even better for me since I obtained the DVD is that is has tons of extras showing the crew dealing with all of the aspects of the country and interacting with the residents. It is almost more interesting than the movie itself.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 16, 2018 19:23:24 GMT
Those Marvel movies drain completely out of my brain the moment I have seen them. So I can get just as much pleasure from some of them when they appear on the small screen. Tonight I am totally captivated by Spiderman Homecoming because Tom Holland is absolutely sensational in it. One would normally think that it is because he plays a teenager so well, but the fact is -- he actually is a teenager. That makes it even better.
When he died in the latest Avengers movie, I was devastated.
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Post by Kimby on May 17, 2018 11:06:17 GMT
We liked Spider-Man Homecoming way more than we’d expected to. I’m not a big fan of comic books or action movies.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 20, 2018 20:15:25 GMT
Just started watching the second series of The Handmaid's Tale looks like it's going to be as harrowing as the first...compelling tho.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 20, 2018 21:14:23 GMT
It is, Cheery, it is! I usually leave several days between viewing episodes of that show. A friend of mine who is up in the States right now wrote me that she just binge-watched the whole first season. She is made of stronger stuff than I!
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Post by Kimby on Jun 29, 2018 19:12:24 GMT
We just saw a very strange movie called “The Killing of a Sacred Deer.” It has Nicole Kidman and Colin Ferrell as leads, but also has the feel of a B movie. The characters speak in Stepford-like dialog, and the “friendship” between the strange young man/boy and the cardiovascular surgeon - upon whose operating table the boy’s father died two years earlier - seems unlikely. And then things take a sinister turn, and devolve into a Sophie’s Choice situation for the surgeon. I guess I liked it. Still deciding. www.imdb.com/title/tt5715874/
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 29, 2018 21:07:07 GMT
It is indeed a strange movie.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 29, 2018 21:12:57 GMT
K2 is there ANY movie you haven’t seen?!
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 30, 2018 3:54:46 GMT
At the moment I have no intention of seeing Sicario. I did not see Loving Pablo either. I have drug cartel saturation. I also skip most movies with Tom Cruise.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 30, 2018 4:31:49 GMT
Watched COCO tonite. I had no idea what to expect, but had some notion it might be related to Chanel or the French. Was I ever wrong.
Coco is a fairly realistically animated Disney film with a plot that revolves around the Day of the Dead. It has a good story-line, and the lead character is a 12-year old boy who wants to be a musician like his great-grandfather who walked out on the family decades ago, to become famous. The family has spurned music in all its forms ever since, but our young hero wants more than anything to play music. His adventures take him into the underworld and back.
I liked it pretty much, but I do wonder if it would be regarded as disrespectful cultural appropriation by Latin Americans. Have you seen it, bixa? What did you think?
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 30, 2018 4:58:39 GMT
This is actually the second animated movie about the Mexican living dead. I saw the previous one but not Coco.
I suspect that Coco is a better movie.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 30, 2018 11:24:05 GMT
At the moment I have no intention of seeing Sicario. I did not see Loving Pablo either. I have drug cartel saturation. I also skip most movies with Tom Cruise. Then you REALLY don’t want to see this 2017 movie: www.imdb.com/title/tt3532216/In AMERICAN MADE Tom Cruise plays Barry Seal, an American pilot hired by the CIA during the Reagan administration to run guns into Central America in what became known as the Iran-Contra scandal. He seizes on the opportunity to fill the returning empty plane with - you guessed it: drugs! What’s not to like? 😄 (It actually was a pretty good movie, and fills in some gaps in my knowledge of these historical events.. BTW, Tom Cruise did his own flying for the film.)
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 30, 2018 12:16:34 GMT
I did see that one and liked it. But it is part of what gave me drug cartel and Tom Cruise saturation. What attracted me to the movie was to see that Caleb Landry Jones was in it (he plays the dumbfuck brother who needs to be killed). I have been sort of following his career since Heaven Knows What (drug addict movie), Get Out, The Florida Project, 3 Billboards, etc. His career has not blossomed yet, but I think that it will.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2018 1:01:01 GMT
We just saw a very strange movie called “The Killing of a Sacred Deer.” It has Nicole Kidman and Colin Ferrell as leads, but also has the feel of a B movie. The characters speak in Stepford-like dialog, and the “friendship” between the strange young man/boy and the cardiovascular surgeon - upon whose operating table the boy’s father died two years earlier - seems unlikely. And then things take a sinister turn, and devolve into a Sophie’s Choice situation for the surgeon. I guess I liked it. Still deciding. www.imdb.com/title/tt5715874/Strange indeed. Excellent analogy about the dialogue(actually, is it really even dialogue?) Kimby and the "Sophie's Choice" type situation. "I can't let you leave until you've tried my tart". (one of many of the one liners that left me wanting to laugh or well, I don't know what as some were just so absurd). It has a kind of David Lynch directed feel about it. I'm still "out" as to whether or not I liked it.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 1, 2018 3:54:59 GMT
That is the style of the director Yorgos Lanthimos. When he made The Lobster, the dialogue was just as weird, if not weirder.
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