September 18th Chile Independence day

[Nikka]

VIVA CHILE MIERDA!!!

[Nikka]

[Stavros]

And from Neruda, writing of Spain in civil war, the voice of humanity that Pinochet could not silence. Two versions, the original, and a moving version with images from the other civil war, in Syria.

[sukumvit boy]

VIVA Chile , Nikka !
New film looks good ,Stavros...

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...son-and-neruda

[Stavros]

Thanks for the tip sukumvit boy, but I don't usually watch bio-pics, they have little or no cinematic value, being vanity projects for the people involved, and could just as easily be made for tv.

[sukumvit boy]

Quite interesting ,your taste and discernment with regard to cinema . Never thought about it that way.

[Stavros]

Quite interesting ,your taste and discernment with regard to cinema . Never thought about it that way.

I am trying to think of the bio-pics I have seen, and with two exceptions it isn't good -I did enjoy the film of Edith Piaf, La vie en rose, but if you know her story it leaves a lot out of Piaf's life, but is notable for Marion Cotillard's performance. Lawrence of Arabia is about to show in a new print in London, and it is magnificent to look at but doesn't dig too deep into Lawrence's life and again leaves out so much of the history and politics it should not be taken seriously. The film of Irish Republican Michael Collins was a flop, as was Spike Lee's film about Malcom X though the latter was also factually incorrect and avoided some significant moments in the life and questions about the man, and sidestepped the reality of Elijah Mohammed's criminal business. Films about the cellist Jacqueline du Pre, Tony Palmer's insulting series on Wagner, attempts to film the life of Van Gogh and so on are all best left in the archive. The two exceptions are Yankee Doodle Dandy, the film Michael Curtiz made of the life of George M. Cohan in 1942 and possibly Cagney's best role, a film of stunning exuberance and joy that sells America as a land of hope and glory like no other I can think of, while at the other end, Citizen Kane remains one of the finest examples of film making, suggesting America has problems...but this post is probably not really supposed to be in this thread.

[sukumvit boy]

Yes , i just find that an interesting observation about bio pics .
I'll post in an old movies thread .
http://www.hungangels.com/vboard/sho...ghlight=movies

Don't want to step on Nikka's VIVA Chile thread .