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BS: Seen any good movies lately?

RangerSteve 10 Mar 08 - 02:02 PM
katlaughing 10 Mar 08 - 12:44 PM
Don Firth 09 Mar 08 - 09:12 PM
katlaughing 09 Mar 08 - 08:33 PM
Art Thieme 09 Mar 08 - 07:16 PM
Skivee 09 Mar 08 - 05:56 PM
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Don Firth 09 Mar 08 - 03:12 PM
freda underhill 08 Mar 08 - 09:03 AM
GUEST,JTT 08 Mar 08 - 06:14 AM
Amergin 08 Mar 08 - 05:18 AM
Slag 07 Mar 08 - 11:12 PM
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number 6 06 Mar 08 - 08:46 PM
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Liz the Squeak 26 Feb 08 - 07:41 AM
Jeanie 26 Feb 08 - 04:01 AM
McGrath of Harlow 25 Feb 08 - 01:34 PM
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bankley 25 Feb 08 - 11:51 AM
Q (Frank Staplin) 25 Feb 08 - 11:45 AM
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Bert 25 Feb 08 - 12:32 AM
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: RangerSteve
Date: 10 Mar 08 - 02:02 PM

The last few movies I saw weren't anything worth raving about. "Gone, Baby, Gone" was just okay, in my opinion.
"Darjeeling Express" (I think that was the name", was mildly entertaining, not the rousing comedy that some critics claimed it was.

I went back to renting British TV series. (Thank God for Netflix for having them). I'm alternating between "Ballykissangel" and "Upstairs, Downstairs". The first was new to me when I started watching it, the second was one that I had only seen occasionally when it was new and I'm re-acquainting myself with it.


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Mar 08 - 12:44 PM

And, I have found Magdalene Girls was based on composites of many women's stories, rather than those specific characters which were featured. Still, appalling in its truth of what really went on.


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Don Firth
Date: 09 Mar 08 - 09:12 PM

In my post above regarding the movie "Quigley Down Under," I may have inadvertently transgressed the bounds of political correctness in my use of the term "aborigine." Knowing very little about these people, I did a bit of googling and encountered the following:
The word "aboriginal," appearing in English since at least the 17th century and meaning "first or earliest known, indigenous," (Latin Aborigines, from ab: from, and origo: origin, beginning), has been used in Australia to describe its Indigenous peoples as early as 1789. It soon became capitalised and employed as the common name to refer to all Indigenous Australians. Strictly speaking, "Aborigine" is the noun and "Aboriginal" the adjectival form; however the latter is often also employed to stand as a noun. Note that the use of "Aborigine(s)" or "Aboriginal(s)" in this sense, i.e., as a noun, has acquired negative, even derogatory connotations among some sectors of the community, who regard it as insensitive, and even offensive. The more acceptable and correct expression is "Aboriginal Australians" or "Aboriginal people", though even this is sometimes regarded as an expression to be avoided because of its historical associations with colonialism. "Indigenous Australians" has found increasing acceptance, particularly since the 1980s.
No offense intended.

Terrific movie, though! In the story, the Indigenous Australians are among "the good guys" in a quiet, but very effective way.

Don Firth


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Mar 08 - 08:33 PM

Netflix DOES rule!

I just watched The Magdalene Sisters. Whew! That was a tough one to watch, knowing it was all true to life and reading what became of he girls. What a terrible and sad thing to have going on and the last laundry didn't close down until 1996. Shameful. (Now, I'll not say a word more...go look it up...it's worth it!)


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 09 Mar 08 - 07:16 PM

there are not new, but they're good I thought. Netflix rules!!!

Little Boy Blue
The Butterfly Effect
Chelsea Walls
King Arthur
Wild Things
Monsters Ball
Long Voyage Home
Bullet
Life On The Mississippi

Art


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Skivee
Date: 09 Mar 08 - 05:56 PM

Because nobody else bit Don's bait:
A vampire, a werewolf, and a ghost walk into a bar.
The bartender says, "(To the vampire and werewolf) We don't much care fer yer kind around here; you have ta go. But we do serve spirits"

I Am Legend was a better film than I expected. Better by far than the old Chuck Heston version. I really liked Will Smith's acting.
The "abandoned NYC CGI was pretty spiffy. Using the USS Intrepid's SR-71 as a golf tee was a hoot.(Not giving that away, it was in the TV commercials)
On the other hand, I just saw an alternate ending to it that was so much better than the one they used, I wanted to thump whoever made the choice with a stick.


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Thompson
Date: 09 Mar 08 - 04:52 PM

Anything with Daniel Auteuil is fabulous. La Vie est un Enfer - strange but great. La Reine Margot - ditto: a film about the St Bartholemew's Day Massacre of Protestants in France, "Good King Henry" (Henri de Navarre) and the Medicis.


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Don Firth
Date: 09 Mar 08 - 03:12 PM

Yeah! Just saw a good one a couple of evenings ago that we got on our NetFlix subscription.

"Quigley Down Under."

It takes place in the late eighteen-hundreds in Australia. Matthew Quigley (Tom Selleck) is an American cowboy hired to come to Australia because he is a crack shot with a long-range rifle. Sniper type. The man who hires him is Elliott Marston (Alan Rickman), who owns a ranch (station?), and Quigley is under the impression that he's being hired to kill varmints that are plaguing Marston's livestock. Marston has a different idea of what constitutes "varmints," and when Marston tells Quigley what he wants him to do, Quigley picks him up and throws him bodily out his own front door. Their relatationship kinda goes downhill from there. . . .

Very early on, when Quigley gets off the boat in Western Australia, he runs into Crazy Cora (Laura San Giacomo), also an American. Crazy Cora is cuter than a bucketful of koalas, but she's as loopy as a loon. Later in the movie, you learn about the tragedy that made her that way.

It's one hell of an adventure story. A lot of the elements of a good Western, but an unusual and awe inspiring setting, a gripping plot, interesting characters, the haunting presence (whether you see them or not) of the aborigines, and sometimes some pretty snappy dialogue,
[Quigley has been beaten and left for dead in the Australian desert]

Crazy Cora: Don't worry, on a new job it's quite common for things not to go well at first.

or

[Both Quigley and Crazy Cora are on horseback, riding across some pretty grim terrain. Cora's wearing a new blue dress Quigley bought her when he was in town. Cora is carrying a naked aborigine baby that she found lost.]

Crazy Cora: I don't want you to go.
Matthew Quigley: You sure look pretty in that new blue dress.
Crazy Cora: If you go after Marston, he'll kill you.
Matthew Quigley: Kid, next time she talks like that, pee all over the dress.
Heck of a movie! Check it out.

Don Firth


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: freda underhill
Date: 08 Mar 08 - 09:03 AM

Romuald et Juliette, starring Daniel Auteuil and .. I don't know her name, but she is wonderful. this is a great movie - very funny and full of social insight and irony. i loved it!


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 08 Mar 08 - 06:14 AM

Oh yes, Triplets of Belleville/ Rendezvous a Belleville/ Belleville Rendezvous (some clips on YouTube under the last title). Brilliant, but weird, sad and kind of disturbing. But one of the great dogs of film, and the old ladies are wonderful.

One of the most disturbing films I've ever seen: Grave of the Fireflies - a Japanese animation about two children who starve to death during and after World War II, based on its author's own childhood.

Sold as a double bill with this, My Neighbor Totoro, a charming animation about two little girls and their father, who move to the country to be near their hospitalised mother, and the magical creatures the girls encounter there. A film I used to put on for any visiting kids when I had a telly.

I also used to put on (for older kids - it's a bit scary) The Time Bandits, a Terry Gilliam film about a boy and a band of bandit dwarves travelling through time pursued by a besuited God. Satan does a nice turn as a game-show host. All kinds of stars, including Sean Connery as Theseus and John Cleese playing Robin Hood in a killing imitation of Prince Philip ("Eh, thenk you, the poor will be *so* grateful. (Who were those *dreadful* people?)" he drawls.)

Plus all the other Ghibli ones - Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, etc.

If you like St Trinian's, you'll love The Happiest Days of Your Life - due out soon on DVD. Alistair Sim and Margaret Rutherford as headmaster and headmistress of two minor public schools who find that the post-war Department of Education has accidentally housed their boys' and girls' schools together. Very, very funny, with a great performance by Joyce Grenfell as a delicately hearty gym mistress.

Baraka - not a plotty type of film but a meditation in utterly beautiful film about life and religion.

Wings of Desire - Wim Wenders' strange film about angels. Beautiful and brilliant.

Bubba Ho Tep - Elvis and JFK are together in an old people's home invaded by an evil mummy. Say no more. This film has everything.

That's enough for now. I could go on...


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Amergin
Date: 08 Mar 08 - 05:18 AM

I watched a fabulous documentary called The Devil Came On Horseback...it was about a marine captain who was in Darfur as an observer....and as soon as he got out of there almost....he released the photos he had taken....and it is about his efforts to get some one to take action....and the politicians all doing some posturing but doing nothing.


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Slag
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 11:12 PM

Fools Gold, very entertaining, well acted, unbelievable but so what!


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 03:51 PM

Just saw the documentary Deep Water, the story of solo sailor Donald Crowhurst in 1968. Not an ocean storm adventure film, so don't be mislead. If you go in completely ignorant of the story, as I did, it is mind-bending.


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: number 6
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 08:46 PM

Here's a trailer for a very powerful (but rather dark) documentary I saw just recently.


Searching for the Wrong Eyed Jesus

biLL


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: rich-joy
Date: 02 Mar 08 - 07:33 AM

"As It Is In Heaven" - from Sweden - and my partner is still raving about it!!


Cheers! R-J


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Mar 08 - 10:57 PM

We just watched a gem of a movie. It is called The Way Home, is from Korea and, in fact, won Korea's equivalent of an Oscar and outsold Lord of the Rings in Korea in 2002, when it came out. There's stuff about it at IMDB, but this review is a bit better, imo. A beautiful movie, esp. for grandmothers and grandchildren every where!


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: katlaughing
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 11:35 PM

McGrath, thanks for recommending "Still Crazy." I've just put it in my queue at Netflix. That song was really neat, esp. the poignancy which came through their performances.


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Alice
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 08:13 PM

Just watched Little Miss Sunshine on DVD.
Good film.


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: RangerSteve
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 06:35 PM

I just finished watching "The Assassination Of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford".   I strongly recommend it. Not your usual outlaw movie. No spectacular bank robberies, no chase scenes. It was more about Ford and his fate. Maybe the best historical movie I've seen in a long time. (I started to call it a Western, but it takes place mostly in Missouri. A Mid-western, maybe).

3:10 From Yuma was also good.


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: RangerSteve
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 10:09 PM

Sweeney Todd was a disappointment to me. I saw it on Broadway with Angela Lansbury years ago and loved it. The movie was too grim. The whole movie is done in shades of gray and dark blue with hardly a primary color for the entire time. I was angry after it was over.


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 07:41 AM

The Water Horse

I started a thread on it, but it could be merged in here if a J-Clone is watching?

I'm a big fan of the original St Trinians films and comic strip so I'm avoiding the new film. I do want to see 'Sweeney Todd' to see if it's like the song, but I may run out of time. I certainly ran out of money yesterday - over £10 for one adult and child, mid afternoon on a weekday... and that was without popcorn, drinks or sweeties. At this rate, it's cheaper to wait the extra 3 months for the DVD to be released.

LTS


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Jeanie
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 04:01 AM

Yes, McGrath - I'll second that film ! I never saw it in the cinema, either. It was on TV very late one Christmas about 5 years ago and I managed to tape it. Great film.

- jeanie


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 01:34 PM

Jeanie mentioned the forthcoming movie The Bank Job, with a script by Clement & La Frenais, and that reminded me of a movie scripted by them a few years ago (1999) which I really loved, though I've never had a chance to see it on the big screen.

It's "Still Crazy" - sort of an Auf Wiedersehn Pet clone, but in the world of Rock music rather than the building trade. Anyone who's ever played in any kind of band or group at any level will recognise aspects of it. And it's got a cracker of a song that winds it all up, and sums it all up.

Here it is on YouTube- The Flame Still Burns


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 12:07 PM

The song that won the "Best Song" Oscar was the one played in the music store, shortly after the characters first meet, and the first time she has access to a piano.

The song used for the studio-recording scene, "When Your Mind's Made Up," is probably my favorite in the film, the one I would have nominated for the Oscar competition. It would certainly have been just as likely to win. Maybe it was held back from consideration because it's written in "difficult" 5/4 time. The director's DVD commentary points out that the other three actor/musicians sen in the studio are not actually heard on this song, that the song is actually being played by the Frames (Glen's regular band) plus Marketa. The young drummer who appears onscreen, in particular, was singled out for not being able to play well enough on this the song. I don't imagine many (or any) of the other songs were overdubbed in this manner; the low budget cannot have allowed for very much such manipulation.

There's another concurrent thread about "Once," by the way, initiated back when the film first came out and revived right now thanks to the Academy Award connection...


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: bankley
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 11:51 AM

yeah, one of the best lines of the night.... they must have had a lot of fun after the gala as well.....good for them...

I watched the film about 2 months ago and enjoyed it, esp. the studio and music store scenes...


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 11:45 AM

The DVD of "Once" has some excellent 'extras," including commentaries by Glen Hansard and others, and "Broken Hearted Hoover Fixer." We watched it while the Oscars was on; award programs are always bad.
Marion Cotillard, I was glad to see, got best actress for "La Vie en Rose." This is another I will watch again on DVD; She captured the essence of Edith Piaf quite well.

Both of these were on the first list I posted, there are many other good ones out there.
An old timer favorite I watched again recently was "Zulu." Sometime again soon I will put "Tampopo" on my VHS; perhaps the best parody film of all time.


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 10:09 AM

Hey bankley, I was watching the Oscars and so, of course, already know about Glen and Marketa's win.

Did you catch Jon Stewart's commentary, quoting their backstage banter (after calling Mar back to give her a turn at the the mic for her thank-yous, etc.)?

According to Jon, they were holding their respective statuettes ~ and discussing them ~ when this dialog occurred (I'm paraphrasing, but this is as close to direct quote as my menory allows):

She: "Let's make 'em kiss"

He: "But they're both guys!"

She: "Hey, it's Hollywood..."


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: bankley
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 07:50 AM

Hey Poppa G. you'll be pleased to know, as I am, that that low-budget ($100K) Irish film "Once" rec'd the Oscar for 'best song'
'Falling Slowly' by Glen Hanzard and Marketa Iglova.... close enough to folk for me..... piano, guitar and 2 voices...

I like Glen's old 'coustic Takamine, with more gouge holes than Willie's......


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Bert
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 12:32 AM

Everyone's Hero.


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 06:38 PM

Back in about 1960 I read "The Leopard" by Giuseppi di Lampedusa, a true classic.
I didn't see the movie of "The Leopard" with Burt Lancaster (1963), but recently I obtained the film(s) on DVD; newly redone transfers- a copy of the Visconti original with English subtitles, and a second disc with the American release, both complete. A third disc presents a documentary on the making of the film, and a summary of the profound sociological changes that took place during the period portrayed in the film.
The little Italian island of Lampedusa was a microcosm of the changes that took place in Europe in the late 19th c., with the eclipse of the patrician upper class and the development of the middle class, as seen by a man living through those times.

A fine historical film, and Burt Lancaster was a great and intelligent actor. A rich film, this is one I will periodically replay.


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 24 Feb 08 - 10:23 AM

Gordon Pinsent has been a well known actor in Canada for over forty years. I was disappointed that he was not nominated for Away From Her as he was by far the best actor in the film. I did like Julie Christie but the actress who played Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose was amazing and she should win the Oscar. I wonder why Sarah Polley, director of Away from her was not nominated as best director ?


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Don Firth
Date: 23 Feb 08 - 01:25 PM

Right, HiLo! Away From Her with Julie Christie and Gordon Pinsent is excellent.

I first encountered Gordon Pinsent on "The Red Green Show" where he plays Possum Lake water taxi captain Hap Shaughnessy, who is also the local tall-tale teller (Gold Medal for wrestled elephants in the Olympics Games, killed a charging rhino with a spoon, attained 70,000 feet when shot out of a cannon, etc.). Then, we saw him in a serious role and he turns out to be a superb actor. Barbara started requesting his movies on NetFlix, and that's how we saw Away From Her. We've also seen him in The Shipping News and Saint Ralph. No car chases and shoot-outs, just good stories, good acting,

Don Firth


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: deadfrett
Date: 23 Feb 08 - 09:05 AM

The French animated feature.. Triplets of Belleville.. great flick but hard to find.


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Stu
Date: 23 Feb 08 - 07:21 AM

No Country For Old Men

Must be the Coen brothers best film apart from The Big Lebowski. Excellent acting, minimal soundtrack and superb cinematography - I can't recommend this film enough. We went to see it at the pictures and it made me realise what a fantastic medium film is - don't wait for the DVD, get to the flicks and see it on the big screen.

Also, watched King of Comedy for the first time the other day - De Niro is the man!


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Jeanie
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 05:30 PM

I saw the new "St.Trinian's" film at Christmas and thoroughly enjoyed it.

The one I'm really looking forward to is coming out next week:

The Bank Job

Script by Clement & La Frenais and with David Suchet in the cast - it looks to be really good. Based on the true story of the "Walkie Talkie robbery" in London in 1971: Britain's biggest bank robbery, that was reported in the news for 4 days and then nothing more was heard of it because a 'D' notice was served on the press forbidding further publication at the time. The reason: "scandalous" photos of a member of the royal family held in the bank vaults - blackmail - Secret Service engineered the robbery so as to retrieve the photos - robbers were allowed to keep the money and were given new identities. Very interesting indeeeeeeed.

- jeanie


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Slag
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 04:28 PM

No.


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 02:31 PM

Kat a very nice little film I think you would like but which gets low ratings on netflix is Ten Canoes. See the special features afterwards to see what went into it.   (They almost crafted the film out of thin air after going into production.) Ignore the descriptive blurb they have it all wrong.


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 01:30 PM

Juno with Ellen Page, best fil I have seen in ages. Away From Her, Gordon Pinset is FABULOUs. I must say that I saw Shultz Gets The Blues...it is, without a dobt, the worst fil I have ver seen.


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 05:13 PM

I've seen a lot of good movies...but not any recent ones. Thank God for TCM and video in its various formats.


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Don Firth
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 02:48 PM

A vampire, a werewolf, and a ghost walk into a bar.

The bartender says, "                               "

Anybody?

Don Firth


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Grab
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 08:12 AM

Doh! Should have been "a vampire, a werewolf and a *ghost* sharing a house". Thanks Amergin. :-)

Graham.


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 04:33 PM

I recently rented "Genghis Blues" from Netflix and enjoyed it. Mention of that film reminds me of another excellent recent documentary out of San Francisco, "The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill."

I have not yet returned "Once" to Netflix; played/viewed it again last night and will probably do so at least once more before shipping it back. I'm more likely to re-watch concret DVDs than movies, and this partiular movie musical is really much more like a concert than a narrative.


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: GUEST,Neil D
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 03:58 PM

Do documentaries count? "GENGHIS BLUES" follows blind bluesman Paul Pena as he learns the esoteric art of Tuvan throat singing and then travels to the central Asian republic to compete against the masters of the genre. I'm a sucker for anything Mongolian (Tuva borders on Mongolia and shares much common history) and some of the throat singing is breathtaking.
   I think its kind of a shame that the Academy Awards has a foreign film category because this often precludes foreign language films from being nominated for the big awards. The two best movies I saw all of last year, "PAN'S LABYRINTH" and "OTHER PEOPLE'S LIVES" were nominated as foreign films, "OTHER PEOPLES LIVES" won, but both were better than any of the American films in the best picture category.


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Don Firth
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 03:32 PM

Yeah, Maggie, we have the Jane Eyre with Zelah Clarke and Timothy Dalton. I taped it off the air when "Masterpiece Theatre" ran it, but just recently bought the DVD version. I agree that the best version of Pride and Prejudice is the one with Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth, but some years back, "Masterpiece Theatre" showed a "P&P," running several weeks, with Elizabeth Garvie and David Rintoul, that was really excellent. The Colin Firth version is on the buy list, and I would also like to get the David Rintoul version (BBC production, 1985), but it looks like I'll have to settle for VHS because it doesn't seem to be available on DVD

Barbara and I just finished watching the entire Monarch of the Glen (BBC Scotland) series from NetFlix. Seven seasons, several episodes per season. We watched it over several months. It was basically a soap, but with a good premise, interesting and attractive characters. Wonderful cast of British and Scottish actors , (for openers, Richard Briars as the flakey Hector; and Susan Hampshire as Molly has a smile that could melt glaciers). But the real star of the show was the the setting.

Almost made me want to go out and poach a deer.

Hmm. How big a pan would you need if you were going to poach a deer?

Don Firth


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Amergin
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 12:59 PM

How does a house share a house with a werewolf and a vampire?


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: GUEST,Bert
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 12:59 PM

Ratatouille


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Grab
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 12:48 PM

Strange - I'm sure I posted on this yesterday.

"Little Miss Sunshine" is now on DVD.

Also just saw "First Blood" for the first time on late-night TV the other night. And wondered how a fairly good film about PTSD and small-town prejudice with a Rambo-inflicted bodycount of zero managed to turn into that Hollywood trash kill-em-all franchise. Ho hum.

I also caught that pilot of "Being Human" on BBC3 the same night - a vampire, a werewolf and a house sharing a house. If you didn't see this, find it now and then petition the BBC to make the series. The trailers presented it as a comedy - actually it's about as much a comedy as early "X Files", so there's some funny interplay between the characters on top of a very creepy scenario. Unlike "Blade" and the like, there's no CGI and no special effects - just great writing and acting. And for those who saw it, you'll probably agree that the few lines between the ghost and vampire characters about the nature of the afterlife or the werewolf talking about the taste of carotid arteries are worth any dozen Hollywood creature-features.

Graham.


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: katlaughing
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 10:59 AM

I would go to a movie theatre everyday if I could. But, our area is ltd. on what makes it here AND it is horribly expensive.

I love netflix for all of the reasons Don mentioned, plus for the huge numbers of movies to choose from. We love foreign films. Thanks to netflix we've been able to watch so many of them plus Brit shows which may not have run over here, yet. we would really miss it if we didn't subscribe for whatever reason.

Thanks to all of you, I have a few more to look up and add to my queue at netflix!

kat


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Becca72
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 10:51 AM

I really liked Sweeney Todd with Johnny Depp

I also liked The Perfect Stranger (which should be on DVD by now).
Beowulf and The Mist were both really good, too. I go to the movies frequently, as since starting my job last July I now have Mondays off and the 1st show on a Monday morning is the perfect time for a movie. Most of the time I have the theatre to myself.


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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: mack/misophist
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 10:38 AM

Another Jarmusch - Dead Man
Also Zorba the Greek - great but not what I had been led to expect


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