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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Neil D Date: 06 Sep 09 - 01:52 AM "In Bruges" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: heric Date: 05 Sep 09 - 02:00 PM No, I saw Repulsion, Roman Polanski 1965. I was hoping Catherine Deneueve would commit suicide before I did, and that was on "fast play." It was like watching dried paint crack. Oh, yes: I saw The Class, written, produced by, and starring a French French teacher in France, based on his real life story, as a psuedo-documentary. No action, almost entirely inside the classroom, quite compelling all the way through and lingers on. And Sugar, Everyman's tale of inspiration, striving, and The Results, told by a Dominican Republic baseball player who makes the minor leagues. Which is much like The Wrestler, best I've seen in a long while. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 05 Sep 09 - 01:31 PM Looked at "Flying Down to Rio" (1933) last night. Nostalgia plus! One of the first musicals with great choreography. A weird number features showgirls doing their thing on the wings of those tincan planes of the time, the planes flying in formation. A feature was a spectacular dance sequence based on the "Carioca." Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers were in supporting roles to Dolores del Rio and Gene Raymond, a break-in for them and sort of a swansong for Raymond and del Rio (she couldn't lose her Latin accent). Great fun! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: wysiwyg Date: 05 Sep 09 - 10:51 AM Another GREAT short-- easy to see why it won at Cannes, AND-- it has something for everybody! Too bad YouTube had to split it into two parts to "fit." DEBT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsSgneVVeGo (part 1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhDdnR60WQM (part 2) ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: freda underhill Date: 04 Sep 09 - 10:28 AM and another love story, but this time not a French comedy,and from a long way away samson and delilah |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: freda underhill Date: 04 Sep 09 - 10:25 AM Romuald et Juliette |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: wysiwyg Date: 03 Sep 09 - 04:16 PM Whaddayagonnado when you've seen ALL the Tom and Jerry's? (Five times?) Shorts seen on IFC-- some are pretty weird (squeam alert): THIS IS ME http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrcMDsmc_Dc SPIDER http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koeLu6OYnwg&feature=PlayList&p=3E86CF38E7F0A7CC&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=66 THE FIGHTING CHOLITAS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFXSsoyLpLg TYGER http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LsMoUtBlDk WRONG Pretty sick, can;t find it at YouTube WE HAVE DECIDED NOT TO DIE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHslQ3JVJ7U With aquatics! MILAN (posted earlier, here's the video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcGRtKFIjWY ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Little Hawk Date: 31 Aug 09 - 10:44 PM Me too. ;-) Of course, one person's political correctness may not match another's...which is to say, different people may have different sacred cows. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: robomatic Date: 31 Aug 09 - 10:39 PM I liked the books of "The Golden Compass" The movie was okay but apparently roused some animosity on the part of the Narnia set. I'm not aware of a projected sequel, and Lyra's gettin' on... Meanwhile, NPR had a spot on "District 9" Apparently pretty popular in the States, but South Africans not as pro-. One interesting tidbit was that in the real South Africa there was a "District 6" and you can guess for whom that was reserved. I tend to give movies points for guts even if they are less than PC. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: michaelr Date: 31 Aug 09 - 09:51 PM "Julie and Julia" is delightful. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Joe_F Date: 31 Aug 09 - 08:46 PM I just re-viewed _The Male Animal_. It wasn't as funny as the play, but it was still funny. A mixture of farce, satire, and propaganda -- cf. _The Great Dictator_ & _Revenge of the Nerds_. The satire is on machismo, which will always fetch me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Little Hawk Date: 31 Aug 09 - 04:07 PM I liked the movie "The Golden Compass" too. Then I went and read the book. Very good. Then I read the 2nd book in the trilogy. Not so good at all...I actively disliked it by the end. I have never bothered to read the 3rd book, having lost my taste for the story by the end of the 2nd one. The author of those books has a particularly negative emotional hangup that dominates his story line, and it's not one I have much natural sympathy for. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Stringsinger Date: 31 Aug 09 - 04:01 PM Hi Kat, I have seen many movies and the ones that I like stick out like shiny diamonds. Midnight Cowboy was written by a great guy and a wonderful writer named Waldo Salt. He collaborated with Earl Robinson on a musical about the building of the subway system in New York called "Sand Hog". Too bad what happened to Voigt. Waldo was a mentor of mine in folk music although he probably didn't know it. Wild Strawberries and Seventh Seal remain for me. I love Bergman. Some acting tour de forces: Viva Villa with Wallace Beery. I have tastes with which many would disagree. I adored "The Golden Compass" and "The Road to Wellville". Most Hollywood movies (which I've seen on TCM) are poorly written, stiffly acted and always leave a bad taste in my mouth when they are done. I don't like Traffaut. Hitchcock for me is a complete waste of time. Alain Renais' Hiroshima Mon Amor was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. You can't show those pictures in a story-line without being horrified. It made the story irrelevant. Olivier's Hamlet wasn't bad. Citizen Kane is always worth seeing once. The Battle of Algiers is an important lesson for US foreign policy. I loved "The King of Hearts" with Alan Bates. Well, there's "City Lights" and "Modern Times" and I love anything with Laurel and Hardy in it. "Grapes of Wrath". "Wizard of Oz". (For me, Cabaret worked better as a film than it did onstage. "Westside Story"..terrible...just the opposite if you saw the stage production). There are some interesting movies (not that I would call great) such as "Salt of the Earth". "The God's Must Be Crazy". Seen any good movies I have to confess being pulled into Scorcese's "Taxi Driver" and "Mean Streets" but I can't honestly say I liked 'em. BTW, Woody Allen's movies are cloying like a bad taffy. (My opinion, of course). Frank |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Little Hawk Date: 31 Aug 09 - 11:53 AM I saw "District 9" last night. It's very good. Best sci-fi film I've seen in a long time, and it's got some very keen social satire in it about some of the worst aspects of contemporary human civilization. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: wysiwyg Date: 31 Aug 09 - 09:46 AM On IFC, two-violence/war/genocide movies; summaries adapted from IMDb: MILAN (2007), a short about NATO bombings in Yugoslavia. Set in Serbia during the 1999 NATO bombing, the movie follows one boy as he plays hide-and-seek with his older brother. During the game, he finds a soldier, a survivor of an F117 plane crash. THE GREY ZONE, about the Sonderkommados at Nazi death camps. The locations are extremely reflective of recently-documentaried photos of camp settings. Like seeing BW stills of death come to life and then, death again. During the Jewish Holocaust of the Second World War, as part of the genocidal "Final Solution", several death camps are established in occupied Poland to recieve, process, and exterminate the Jews of Europe..... The true story of Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, a Hungarian Jew chosen by Josef Mengele to be the head pathologist at Auschwitz. Nyiszli was one of Auschwitz's Sonderkommandos - Special Squads of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of helping to exterminate fellow Jews in exchange for a few more months of life. Together, the Sonderkommandos struggled to organize the only armed revolt that would ever take place at Auschwitz. Both excuciating but manageable in short doses. IMDB has more info on both. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: robomatic Date: 30 Aug 09 - 07:25 PM LH, I totally agree. I was a volunteer DJ when ID came out, and I spent about ten minutes on air bitching about what a piece of uh 'work' it was. Someone called in to the station to say I'd pretty much put the plot on the air and spoiled it for him. My reaction: what plot? All that and a free advertisement to Macintosh computers which apparently have alien code in their OS (now evicted in the new streamlined version of "Snow Leopard") |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Little Hawk Date: 30 Aug 09 - 04:59 PM "Cloverfield" was interesting, and quite original. I wouldn't rate it a great movie...but not bad. "Independence Day" was one of the 4 or 5 worst movies I've ever seen in my life. Another on that list was the American version of "Godzilla" by the same director. He seems to specialize in making incredibly bad movies with lots of spectacular special effects. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: robomatic Date: 30 Aug 09 - 04:55 PM Saw "District 9" last night. Sort of social Science Fiction. Like most sci-fi of its ilk, it is not necessarily coherent as either (Science or Fiction) but I felt entertained, and there was a lot of action, and I found the effects pretty good. The set-up was interesting, that a large number of aliens (as in from another planet) arrive unannounced, need a place to stay, and accrue resentment from the locals, who ignore aliens their ways and their technologies at their peril. In theme, this one was reminiscent to "Alienation" which I can't recall in enough detail to be useful. All I think of in "Alienation" is 'Mandy Patinkin in a rubber suit'. Peter Jackson was behind the effort, the actors were by and large not 'names'. It was good not great, well acted, well filmed, and way better than such films as "Independence Day" and the Spielberg effort "War Of The Worlds". This is not high praise as those flicks sucked for story. As a movie with a story to tell, I much preferred "Cloverfield" which gave a genuine new spin to the Godzilla/ King Kong theme. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Amergin Date: 30 Aug 09 - 07:37 AM Secret Life of Bees with Dakota Fanning....god she is a fine young actress...Queen Latifah...and several others....great film. Yojimbo by the great Akira Kurosawa..... The Proposition....a very dark bloody Australian Western. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Little Hawk Date: 30 Aug 09 - 01:25 AM Ratatouille - Wonderful animated film about an utterly charming little French rat named Remi who dreams of becoming a great cook. This movie could not be better. It's a masterpiece. 10 out of 10. Der Untergang - German language film about Hitler's last days in the Berlin Bunker as seen through the eyes of his hired secretary/typist, a rather innocent young woman named Traudl Junge who answered the ad and got the job (in 1943?). She survived the war and lived to tell of those last terrible days in the FuehrerBunker. This movie is, I think, the finest film that's ever been made about Hitler's end and the various people around him at the time. It doesn't preach or take any position...it just shows what happened according to the historical record, what the various people said and did, and it's chilling. One lengthy scene from Der Untergang has been used again and again on Youtube to concoct various humorous "Hitler rants" about jazz music, Michael Jackson, etc... Never mind worrying about that. Just watch the original movie and see the scene in context. It's tremendously well acted and totally believable throughout. Das Boot - Another great German language film...this one about a German U-boat crew during WWII. The Kriegsmarine's U-boat service had the highest casualty rate in the German forces by the end of the war. This movie shows what they went through in a very realistic fashion. Ruthless People - Hilarious old comedy film with Danny DeVito, Judge Reinhold, and Bette Midler. Funny from beginning to end. The Big Country - Absolutely classic western adventure film with sterling performances by Gregory Peck, Burl Ives, Jean Simmons, Charlton Heston, Charles Bickford, Carrol Baker, and Chuck Connors. This one stands alone among westerns. It's unlike any other. Cat On a Hot Tin Roof - The young Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman at their best. Burl Ives in another great performance. Terrific movie. Suddenly Last Summer - One of Liz Taylor's best early films. A very interesting tale indeed. Now, several of those are old movies. Just thought I'd mention them, because they are among the best. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: GUEST,Janie Date: 30 Aug 09 - 01:19 AM Sum Yung Sun and I watched Stardust a few years back. It was a lot of fun! Watched a very intriguing movie Friday night, "Goodbye Solo." Low budget indie film with Souleymane Sy Savane and Red West. Directed by Ramin Bahrani. Filmed in Winston-Salem, NC. It won the Critic's Award at the Vienna Film Festival. Wonderful, spare acting, and sociologically and psychologically complex. Not a feel-good movie, but it is not a sad or disturbing movie either. Makes you think. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: katlaughing Date: 30 Aug 09 - 12:22 AM Now I've got anew list, thanks to you folks! We just watched a charmer called "Stardust" which came out in 2007. Based on a story by Neil Gaiman. Definitely a good, fun/campy movie with small parts featuring Peter O'Toole, Robin Deniro and a not so small part with Michelle Pfeiffer. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Janie Date: 24 Aug 09 - 08:55 PM Recently watched "Mongol", a Russian or Mongolian film (not sure which) about the rise of Ghengis Khan. Was interesting and entertaining. Assuming the costumes and sets were well researched, I learned a wee bit of something about a culture and history I know absolutely nothing about. Not sure why it won an Academy Award for best Foreign Language film. It was, as I say, entertaining, but not remarkable. I don't how many times I've looked at "The King of Scotland" and put it back, undecided. Thanks for the recommendations, I'll definitely grab it. Just watched "The Soloist", and then read the book. Highly recommend both. Much more realistic portrayal of an individual with Schizophrenia than "A Beautiful Mind" (A movie loved, by the way, but highly romantisized and unrealistic portrayal of a person with the disorder.) Deals very honestly and accurately with a number of issues, including family, homelessness, and the need for a variety of approaches to offer respectful assistance, as well as the potential importance of relationship. Having worked in this field for a number of years, I thought Lopez, in the book, did a very good job of portraying how much one is challenged within one's self to maintain meaningful relationship, and also how ultimately rewarding it can be. I wasn't sure, however, how clear that would be to some one who has never had a family member or friend with severe and persistent mental illness. Ultimately, what I most applaud, is the respect Lopez understood that Nathaniel deserved, his struggle to offer that respect, and ultimately, his success in doing so. That is, in my view, the heart of the relationship that mutually benefitted them both. Don't just watch the movie. Read the book. But watch the movie first or you will be disappointed in the movie. (Ain't that nearly always the case?) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Leadfingers Date: 24 Aug 09 - 01:50 PM And THAT was 200 !! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Leadfingers Date: 24 Aug 09 - 01:49 PM Not been to the Cinema in nearly thirty years !! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: jacqui.c Date: 24 Aug 09 - 01:35 PM Seen it twice LH - I agree - great acting. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Little Hawk Date: 24 Aug 09 - 01:21 PM Say, here's another good one: "The Queen" - wonderful acting! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Little Hawk Date: 24 Aug 09 - 12:40 PM Oh yeah,....the last "Star Trek" was very good. And "The Last King of Scotland" was great. Thanks for the reminders. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: katlaughing Date: 24 Aug 09 - 11:31 AM I forgot to say I'd also recently watched The LAST (forgot that earlier)King of Scotland. Wow, esp. the performance by Forest Whitaker. Really enjoyed a sweet Irish film based on a story by Maeve Binchy called How About You. Also, a rather disturbing one called Vers le Sud/Heading South. Very thought-provoking. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Lighter Date: 24 Aug 09 - 09:43 AM I was about to ask whether the name of this thread was a joke. Then I remembered that "Revolutionary Road" really was first-class. Kate and Leonardo have come a long way from "Titanic." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: jacqui.c Date: 24 Aug 09 - 07:08 AM Knowing, with Nick Cage. Brilliant ending. I also caught up with the latest Star Trek movie on the transatlantic hop and thoroughly enjoyed it. I agree with Taken - superb movie, got my daughter and son in law hooked so they've kept the DVD to watch again. Took my granddaughter to see Ice Age 3 - that was great, lots of sub text for the adults, as had G-Force, which I saw with my grandson. Caught up with the latest Harry Potter, as an addict I found it well up to the mark. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Little Hawk Date: 24 Aug 09 - 12:04 AM I thought "Doubt" was very good. Not exactly enjoyable, mind you...but very good. (I'm not Catholic...so what do I know?) ;-) "Atonement" is an utterly superb film. 10 out of 10! "The Reader" is a superb and very moving film that really gives the viewer a great deal to think about...specially if they can honestly relate to the 2 main characters in the film and put themselves hypothetically in their place without any prejudgement. "What would I have done if it were me and this happened to me?" "What would many others have done if it were them?" That is the question the viewer must ask himself or herself...if inclined to look directly and unflinchingly at the very real possibility that something like this can happen to anyone, given certain circumstances. "Revolutionary Road" is quite good. It's also pretty damn harrowing to watch, so only watch it if you're ready for a heavy evening. "Taken" is a perfect action film. It's a bit unbelievable at times...but you can't fault it for engaging your attention 100%, and Liam Neeson makes the best secret agent of all time. Bond is mere oatmeal in comparison to Liam Neeson in "Taken". However...here's another vote for Daniel Craig as the best James Bond ever...in my opinion. I was prepared to be surprised at the first movie he portrayed Bond in, and I was. "Casino Royale" was wonderful. "Quantum of Solace" is only a so-so movie in comparison, but Craig is still excellent as James Bond in both films. You believe he's as tough as the part requires him to be. "Apaloosa" is a terrific recent western. "Juno" was very good. Best movie about a teenager that I've seen. I really liked "W". But then, I like EVERY movie made by Oliver Stone. The only character who seemed not to have been caught very effectively in it to me was Condoleeza Rice. Cheney and Dubya were played extremely convincingly. And lastly: I loved "Frost/Nixon" ...or is it "Nixon/Frost"??? Whatever. It's great. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: maire-aine Date: 23 Aug 09 - 11:38 PM Saw "Julie & Julia" this afternoon, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Warning: don't go hungry. Maryanne |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: katlaughing Date: 23 Aug 09 - 11:18 PM Watched a wonderful film called La veuve de Saint-Pierre/The Widow of Saint Pierre which was on a small French island off of Newfoundland. Juliette Binoche played the lead part. She is SO beautiful and did a superb job as did the two leading men: Daniel Auteuil as her husband the Captain and, Emir Kusturica as Neel, the man sentenced to die. Really well-done, imo and well worth watching a second time, even. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: katlaughing Date: 29 Apr 09 - 06:01 PM We tried Doubt and turned it off in disgust. It really just didn't work for me and Rog, who grew up in parochial school, etc. really had vile things to say about it. I was kind of shocked because I have always likes every role I've ever seen Meryl Streep in, until this one. This afternoon, I just tried to watch her in another, Dancing at Lughnasa (sp), and turned it off, too. Her Irish accent was weak and artificial, esp. compared to the other actors and the story seemed a bit unr/idealistic. Maybe I didn't watch it long enough, but I did not like her character nor the way she played her. It felt to me as though she'd been stereotyped with two very similar characters which, imo, just weren't right for her. I hope she gets into some more roles worthy of her abilities. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: GUEST,Jack The Sailor Date: 29 Mar 09 - 11:55 AM Seen any good movies lately? I just saw a bad one. "W" was disappointing. I learned nothing new. The acting was bland and the device of using Bush's malaprops from his speeches as dialog in private conversations was distracting. It tended to take my mind of what little narrative there was. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Neil D Date: 29 Mar 09 - 05:40 AM "Flawless" with Michael Caine and Demi Moore was very good. A heist movie but definitely a cut above the average genre piece. Caine is, as always, brilliant and Moore holds up her end well. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: GUEST Date: 28 Mar 09 - 12:18 PM The Secret of Roan Inish - a gentle low-budget film - a story around the legends of the selkies. The Long Riders - The story of Jesse James - music by Ry Cooder. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Dave the Gnome Date: 28 Mar 09 - 07:02 AM I got Neverwhere on DVD for Christmas and it is great - Lenny Henry had a lot to do with it if you didn't know. Anyhow - that was not what I got on to post about... Defiance - Fantastic film with something for everyone. I didn't think Daniel Craig would work as a Bellarussian Jew but he definitely pulls it off. And in disagreement with a poster above I think he makes a good Bond as well:-) Cheers DeG |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Amergin Date: 28 Mar 09 - 02:46 AM I saw a few good ones recently.... The Watchmen....which I found rather interesting the whole concept of an alternate universe where superheroes are known....and they are not necessarily good.... Juno....it was quite refreshing to watch a teen comedy that didn't include a quest for getting drunk and laid.....the sex had already happened before the movie began. Atonement....my god....what a fabulous film....lives destroyed because of the actions of one misguided jealous girl... neverwhere...a bbc miniseries by Neil Gaiman....very low budget but it works. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: katlaughing Date: 28 Mar 09 - 12:12 AM Thanks, fellahs! I just put Doubt, Electric Mist, and Rififi in my netflix queue. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: GUEST,BigDaddy Date: 27 Mar 09 - 11:06 PM Forgot to mention that was Levon Helm as the ghost of General John Bell Hood in "Electric Mist." Mea big culpa. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: GUEST,BigDaddy Date: 27 Mar 09 - 06:09 PM I'll second that vote for "Electric Mist." Too bad the studio had no faith in their film, and too bad they released it directly to video missing 15 minutes of director Bertrand Tavernier's original vision. Still good with some elements that I always appreciate: Cajun country, cypress trees, Spanish Moss, Buddy Guy, blues, Cajun music, Tommy Lee Jones, visitations from the ghost of General John Bell Hood, meditations on how the past resonates in the present. Reminds me too of the William Faulkner quote, "The past is not dead. It's not even past." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Victor in Mapperton Date: 27 Mar 09 - 03:12 PM Two excellent films I enjoyed recently are "Doubt" and "Electric Mist". |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Micca Date: 27 Mar 09 - 08:02 AM I recently saw (borrowed from the College Library where I work) "Rififi", which has one of the Most Copied scenes in all 1930/40s Film noir in it, But which I had never seen the whole movie until now!!! The "break in" scene, silent,with NO background music track, only the ambient sound is rightly a Classic and as fascinating and revolutionaary now as it was when first made!! I would highly reccommend this one. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: GUEST,BigDaddy Date: 27 Mar 09 - 08:01 AM Correcting myself. Horton Foote was not responsible for "Places in the Heart." Another Texan, Robert Benton, was the writer and director for that one. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Neil D Date: 26 Mar 09 - 10:07 PM Wesley, you're absolutely right. I just saw an update on Maddow. A Farelly Brothers production as well. Funny though, I was just thinking that if Jim Carey wanted to gain some weight, he could pull off the Curly role. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: GUEST,BigDaddy Date: 26 Mar 09 - 07:47 PM Sometimes I think too much. Any time I start making a list of "Best Films Ever," or "My all-time favorite films," I end up with different categories. For instance, Some of my favorite films I would not necessarily consider "best films," and frequently some of the so-called best just leave me cold. Often my favorites are "guilty pleasures," films that I like but wouldn't necessarily recommend them to anyone I know. Frequently close friends or relatives are crazy about a film or films that I don't care for or can't stand. One friend literally can't get enough of Woody Allen, and I can't stand to watch his stuff. I loved the book, "No Country For Old Men," and enjoyed the film almost as much. One all-time favorite would be "A River Runs Through It." Last time I started a list I wound up with the following divisions: Favorite Films of the 1930's, 1940's, etc., up to the present. Then I added separate lists for "Must See Horror," "Good Spooky Stuff," "Gangsters," "Spy Films," "Westerns (Old School)," "Westerns (Modern)," then I decided to give it a rest. Three favorites, all from the 1980's have writer Horton Foote in common; "Tender Mercies," Trip To Bountiful," and "Places in the Heart." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: wysiwyg Date: 26 Mar 09 - 02:45 PM Careful, He Might Hear You (1983) Directed by Carl Schultz. With Wendy Hughes, Robyn Nevin, Nicholas Gledhill. www.imdb.com |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Wesley S Date: 26 Mar 09 - 01:06 PM As to the Three Stooges movie. The rumor I heard was Benico Del Toro was to play Moe, Sean Penn to play Larry and Jim Carey to play Curley. |
