In the age of immediate gratification that never crossed my mind for some reason. My Tivo is so advanced on the TV I believe I can see the future.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
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In the age of immediate gratification that never crossed my mind for some reason. My Tivo is so advanced on the TV I believe I can see the future.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
Ninja Assassin.
Seen worse! :shrug
"After Porn Ends"..documentary from 2010.
Interesting just to see what happened to some of the folks you recognize from porn as they got older (such as Seka).
That's pretty much it.
pretty much the last three Batman movies were filmed very dark ...often making it difficult to discern the action sequences (lots of mumbling too)....on my old set I could barely make anything out. On my new set The Dark Knight Rises had plenty of "pop" though...I think it depends on how well you're TV does contrast.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
The Escapist.
An absorbing little film with a sneaky plot twist at the end.
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Before Christmas I saw two films worth mentioning, and one that has been a flop since its release...
The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan 1997)
The finest film from this erratic Canadian director, superior to all his other films, so I guess he had one great film to make -compared to the others which veer from the awful (Family Viewing, The Adjustor) to the mistaken (Ararat).
Sweet Hereafter Trailer - YouTube
The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)
As with Egoyan, this is Bertolucci's finest film, and stands up well as I saw it in the 1970s not long after its release and in the 1980s but not for a while before last week; in her time Dominique Sanda (who now lives in Argentina) was an awessome beauty (it hasn't lasted), but the films has layers of meaning (which can be unraveled through the dvd commentary) and is only marred, as are all Italian films, by the pointless hiring of non-Italian actors whose voices are dubbed. A visual great.
The Conformist (1970) - YouTube
Revolution (Hugh Hudson, 1985)
The director's cut makes no difference to this indifferent film about the American Revolution seen from 'below'. Although it succeeds in depicting the chaotic reality of revolutionary war, Al Pacino's character is lacking in credibility -he is a fur trader who claims he has no understanding of 'liberty', and in spite of the fact that he has been trading in the interior with first nations and bringing his goods to markets on the East Coast has no idea what the revolution is about. When he encounters first the Iroquois and then the Huron, with whom he forms a bond, there is no instant recognition or rapport even though he must have had relations with them in the past -the Huron he meets is anyway half-French. The accents may be realistic, the landscapes, filmed in and near King's Lynn in Norfolk, and Devon, are supposed to double for the state of New York. The extra on the dvd featuring a conversation between Pacino and Hudson is self-congratulatory for no other reason than -I assume- that Hudson has time on his hands- the film may have matterd to them but it just isnt good enough. The appearance of Ricky from Eastenders as the first version son of Pacino in his first film suggests this actor's career went sharply downhill thereafter. The film just isn't interesting, it says nothing substantial about 1776 and all that, and suffers from a poorly conceived script and the usual wooden acting from Donald Sutherland who nevertheless did at least make one good film (Don't Look Now) in spite of his weird cranky voice, not nearly as bad in this film as his Irish accent in The Eagle Has Landed.
Revolution (1985) - trailer - YouTube
Watched this movie last night, pretty good. Well wriitten, a twist, and moves along at a good pace.
The opening scene...
Beyond (2011) Movie Clips - YouTube
Wanting to watch this -- at some point.... Looks interesting.
BRONSON - Theatrical Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMJ1c3qxOWc
Get the DVD. It's real good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ben
Okay.... Looks quite interesting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dino Velvet