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Keeping it real, it was Sabrina Valentina (Transexual Superstars)! And I must admit, she is a very beautify t-girl! In my opinion, I thought that the fucking in this one was somewhat passive. I like to see a pounding take place in transgendered videos; I guess that I'm a little jaded, and have seen a few too many Shemale flicks? I would give it a 7 out of 10; lets face it the girl is sexy as Hell!
Can one buy a DVD of Satantango, Stavros? Will watching it make me a wiser person?
Taken seriously, Satantango asks demanding questions of both the audience and the directors (Tarr and his partner Hradnitzky). Tarr has said something like 'cinema is about reality', and if it takes eight minutes for a herd of cows to wander into a field then thats how long it takes -Antonioni used this tactic in L'Avventura so its not new -but some of Tarr's takes stretch the boundaries of endurance and one has to ask -how long can a take be? Also the film is structured like a tango -six steps forward, six steps back, twleve scenes in all, but not in simple order. The overall impact of the film is profound -my guess is that people who have hated it have ducked out of the complete experience, but it is a trial I am not denying that. I went to the premiere of Straub and Huillet's From the Cloud to the Resistance at the London Film Festival years ago-must be 1980 or 81-and there was one exceedingly long take of a man on a cart -someone in the audience even shouted cut! at one point. When a member of the audience asked an unforgettable question of Jean-Marie -'Why did you break all the rules of editing?' he, unforgettably, exploded: 'Whose rules??!! Whose rules???!!'. Satantango is a tough call, I do rub it but that's just me being provocative. The film is in a box set of 3 dvd's. Unfortunately perhaps, its not much of an advertisement for Hungary although I am sure outside Budapest its got something other than mud and rain.
There is also a Bela Tarr box with Werckmeister Harmonies, Damnation, and The Man from London. His latest film, The Turin Horse, can be read about on imdb.
This is a fair assessment of the film:
http://www.avclub.com/articles/satantango,41563/
Stavros... I got the whole thing overnight by free download but NO SOUND!!! and subtitles in Italian. So gonna have to buy it.
if you enjoy Hungarian culture then try to see the photographic exhibition which just opened at the Royal Academy - masterful (if familiar) work by the likes of Kertesz, Brassai, Moholy-Nagy, Capa and others less familiar (to me). A reminder of the mighty creativity of the magyars.
Thanks for the tip I wasn't aware of this exhibition. Its a pity that so many of Jancso's films are hard to get hold of, I used to go the Academy Cinema in Oxford St when I lived in London -it was set up by an Hungarian emigre, George Hoellering who used to bring in some of the best East European films of the day.
Jarhead last night -one of the more intelligent films about Americans at war, probably because its a true story, and also Sam Mendes directing. I like Jamie Foxx as an actor in many of the films he has been in -and the ones that bombed weren't his fault; and also Jake Gyllenhall although I didn't like either Donnie Darko or Brokeback Mountain. My only quibble about Jarhead is when they draw close to the burning wells and camp overnight -surely it would have been impossibly hot? The sudden appearance of the horse is an amazing moment.
I forgot Jarhead when I drew up my list of top ten war films. it was pretty good . Didn't realise it was Sam Mendes (His Richard III in London right now is stupendous)
Richard III has had some of the best reviews of a 'new play' in London I have read for years, so I am assuming everyone can't be wrong. I saw the 'transexual' Richard III at the Globe in the summer of -2003? Can't recall the precise year; even with uneven acting it was magical. Olivier's film is a travesty of another kind, a vehicle for that over-rated actor's limitless vanity and unworthy of Shakesepeare. I don't know but I think making the King gay is where the director of Richard III in The Goodbye Girl got the idea from which Richard Dreyfuss finds so hard to achieve. Particularly at the end where Richard at Bosworth field in his pantyhose raises the sword and swishes his legs like a ballerina -one of the most ridiculous things I have ever seen. Presumably Larry was thinking of Danny Kaye and a tryst and assumed the sword was a cock, and so on and so on.
Kiss the Girls -Ashley Judd is outstanding in this film, but oh dear, there is Brian Cox with another phoney southern drawl, I mean surely America has actors from North Carolina who could do it even if it isn't much of a part -? And why are the nastiests villains nearly always cops or senior officers in the CIA/FBI -is there some cryptic message about public confidence in law enforcement going on here?
Anybody here from Missouri or Arkansas? Especially the Ozarks? The last film I saw was "Winter's Bone" a brilliant but bleak picture of life among some very poor folk in the Ozarks. Boy - this is a part of the US that the modern world gave only bad stuff to. The picture is one of unremitting darkness and ignorance with the central character a young girl trying to take care of her family the only real moment of redmeption. Terrific though.
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CCq3uyIPAo
love Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
It was a terrific movie! I recently watched another movie situated in another part of the US that isn't often portrayed in popular film (Upstate NY) called Frozen River. Lead actress was also outstanding.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
what a depressing movie
April Bride (2009) - IMDb
"rise of a foot soldier" left me numb.that's what i call a gangster film
High Noon
Classic movie which has resonated since childhood. The look of cold disdain as Gary Cooper throws down his badge at the end left me with a lifelong loathing of Harry Morgan, even when he played the genial Col Potter in Mash.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jericho
Last night I watched a French/German/UK co-production of a 19th century story which combined elements of Dickens, Hardy, Zola and others, called Verborgenes Feuer. Beautifully acted and well-paced.
And it did have Sophie Marceau as the female lead, another of those beautiful and sexy French women who can act everyone else off the screen.
'Nuff said.
Watched fan boys and grown ups. Didn't think much of grown ups, Fan boys was ok if your a star wars fan.
The next last film you see might be the film you saw before the last one: remakes are all the rage according to an article in today's Observer -can you believe a remake of Don't Look Now where the excuse is as follows:
"The original was very atmospheric, so we'll provide a little more of the narrative that audiences expect," producer Mark Gordon said.
I can't think of a director whose visual sense and editing style is so individual as Nicolas Roeg, and I can handle all sorts of 'narratives' Mr Gordon! A remake is an insult -not just to Roeg, but to me as well...
Link is here
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/...y-starts-a-row
That film scared the living shite out of me when I was kid, and thinking back, still gives me a bit of a shiver.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
Can't see a remake having the same effect!
I hated this movie...to me - one of the most disappointing endings in a movie of this nature.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jericho
..(not to mention, the whole thing plays like a bad television movie)
I hated this movie...to me - one of the most disappointing endings in a movie of this nature.
I saw it when it was first released and was also disappointed, but have now seen it five or six times and I wonder if you should try it again -the end you don't seem to like is visually present in the first shot in the film where Donald Sutherland is editing a slide of a Venetian church -I won't say precisely how as that would be a spoiler. Let's just says that primary colours are an important part of the film's narrative, as are the colours and contours of Venice out of season. Its also one of Du Maurier's ghost stories -it has more and more in it the more you see it, please give it another chance.
okay, I will...but seeing Donald Sutherland naked was the scariest part of the movie for me...eeecch.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
okay, I will...but seeing Donald Sutherland naked was the scariest part of the movie for me...eeecch.
Ok but it doesn't last that long...
Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut was on tv last night, I missed the first half hour but watched most of the rest, and its even worse than I thought. I have turned against most of Kubrick's films, not for their technical prowess but largely because Kubrick's depressing view of life is repeated throughout his oeuvre: however hard you try to change things, they always remain the same. There isn't much more to the core of his films, the rest, like David Lynch is wrapping paper. Now I find there is someone called Jeremy Bernstein whose labours of love include a shot-by-shot analysis of Eyes Wide Shut, I read through some of it and unfortunately it only confirmed for me how self-indulgent this film is; but I will let BM's make their own minds up. The Bernstein link is here:
http://www.jeffreyscottbernstein.com/kubrick/index.html
The praise accorded to Don't Look Now by Stavros is holly apprirate. This was a superbly well structured film - hahnting and clever. The notion of a remake is just plain idiotic. It is deeply depressing that the money guys who run the Hollywood film system these days cannot bring themselves to fund clever new writing, but instead sanction re-makes. Are there any remakes that are better than the original? Maybe - if you think of films that were originally made as silent films or as obscure B Movies. But this is like commissioning a sunday painter to re-do the Last Supper by Michelangelo.
Nicholas Roeg at his best was one of the finest british film directors of the past few years - starting with his work with Donald Cammell on Perfomance and then getting into his solo stride with Don't Look No, Walkabout, The man Who Fell to Earth and then Bad Timing. After this something happened and he lost the plot. Most of his latest films went straight to video without a cinematic release. Before he was a director he was a DOP - and worked on many film films including Fahrenheit 451
Anyone seen "Tree of Life' yet?
Before he was a director he was a DOP - and worked on many film films including Fahrenheit 451
He was second unit director for David Lean, working on Dr Zhivago, and as 2nd Unit director on Lawrence of Arabia, mostly the action scenes in the desert, much of which was shot in the Wadi Rum...
Bad Timing is a work of genius -I never tire of watching it; and yes, his films deteriorated thereafter, I have Eureka and have seen it 3 times now, but it doesn't work; there is a similar lack of focus in Insignificance, Track 29, and Castaway which is an uncomplicated film for a man who loves/loved complexity. Although I would have thought Roeg is the only director (in the English-speaking world) who could do justice to Joseph Conrad's elliptical prose, Roeg's Heart of Darkness is apparently a disaster, according to this review:
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Maybe he lost touch with his genius when Teresea Russell left him...
ps Tree of Life has not had good reviews..
No totally true - I've seen glowing reviews for Tree of Life... though all say it is flawed...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Recorded of TV the other week and watched at weekend.
Not a classic in my opinion, long, drawn out and pretty damm wierd.
Benjamin Button - gawd... when i saw it i wondered if it were ever going to end. Unremitting drivel and I'd have walked out, but was in a place where awe and respect for the industry is the prevailing tone and no escape was possible.
Yep, I wanted to say that but couldn't quite find such descriptive words as your Pros.
Basically SHITE ! (The movie not your words) lol.
but was in a place where awe and respect for the industry is the prevailing tone and no escape was possible.
Sounds like the NFT...
serpico,
i like that movie so much!
I see it couple of times and i love it more and more.I think this is best Al Pacino movie.
You think Serpico is better than either The Godfather I or II???
I loved Jason Solomons in the Observer trying to describe the 17-minute sequence which apparently pulls in as many facets of the universe as possible, when he admits defeat and simply says "Malick really goes off on one." :dancing:Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
No, but as an absolute believer in Malick's powers as a film-maker I know that I will. It's at the Arts in Cambridge next week.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
I watched Crank with Jason Statham on tv last night, one of the most stupid films ever, and hugely enjoyable...in fact I rather like Statham, the first Transporter was pretty good, as I have no interest in cars I just dont know why I like car chases in films -good ones, but not the Dukes of Hazzard....
I saw a bit or Rambo III on TV on Monday night. You've gotta say no question the Americans / Hollywood have made some great films over the years but this one was absolute drivel.
Ah, Jason Statham - the thinking man's Danny Dyer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
Discuss. :geek:
Gulp - I don't know who either of those chaps are. I watched that lesbian drama last night - all flashbacks and stuff. The blitz sequences were very powerful. Best evocation I've seen in a drama of the sheer horror of that.
Next week - the tree of life and oh yes, Harry potter part the last.... (well I've seen all the rest. I am a completist)