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A bit of both, RL. I have access to distribution houses....
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maxpower, someone sent it to me. Never heard of it until I received it in the mail. If it hasn't, this movie really should be screened in the States.
The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009) - two ex-cons kidnap a rich girl for ransom. As the story moves along the plot twists & turns. Very good directing with only 3 characters and a safe-house.
Kingdom of Gladiators (2011) - an EPIC fail. There's no reason t go into detail
Sarah's Key (2010) - after moving into a new apartment in Paris a journalist retraces the steps of a Jew family who was taken away from that very same apartment +60 years previous during WW II. A wonderful and beautifully filmed movie. Kristin Scott Thomas plays the lead.
Red Riding: In The Year Of Our Lord 1974 (2009) - Part 1 of 3, but each is self-contained; a good crime drama starring a young journalist trying to uncover a serial killer among a labyrinth corruption. Set in England in the 70's. Well shot, filmed & edited. 7/10
Red Riding: In The Year Of Our Lord 1980 (2009) - part 2 of 3; continues with the search for the serial killer but follows an out-of-town lead detective who has to sort through the corrupt Yorkshire police dept. I felt part 2 to be a sloppy continuance with too many sub-plots that hinder the progress of the investigation. you begin to wonder what exactly is going on. Nothing is resolved, we've just fallen deeper into the rabbit hole. 5/10
Gone Baby Gone (2007) - two Boston private detectives search for a missing girl amid an ocean of lies, corruption, pedophiles and the underworld. One of the best movies of 2007
Brick (2005) - this movie I highly highly recommend!!!! It's a murder mystery set in a high school a la "Maltese Falcon" & "Chinatown." And I stand by that statement. You can thank me later...
Kill The irishman (2011) - based on the true story of Irish gangster/union leader, Danny Greene, in Cleveland during the 1970's. Typical gangster movie. The lead actor is great as are the other characters, the story flows well and the movie is well directed. Recommended 7/10
Green Lantern...meh.
Both great movies. Gone Baby Gone - who'd have thunk Ben Affleck would turn out to be such a talented director? He directed The Town which was excellent as well. Brick was very engaging. I liked Lukas Haas as the kingpin. I hadn't seen him in anything for a long while. Coffee and pie, oh my...Quote:
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Captain America...can't wait for The Avengers
Puss in Boots.
The Sandlot
"Boy with a bicycle" - french film about a boy whose father has dumped him. Small low key and very affecting.
apollo 18
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Just finished watching "30 Minutes or Less" at home. Pretty funny movie. But last movie I saw in theaters was "Paranormal Activity 3".
I cannot share your enthusiasm for this film, the script was poor, the acting was poor, in fact I was tempted to walk out when I saw it in the cinema on its release, it really is that bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobby Domino
Yesterday I watched The Panic in Needle Park (1971), Al Pacino's second film, and one with some cameos from Richard Bright (who followed Pacino into the Godfather films where he rarely talks), Raul Julia, and Paul Sorvino. The film has not dated too badly but I wonder if Sherman Square/Needle Park is as run down now as it was then; it is unusual for films about drug addicts to be as realistic as this is -Trainspotting, by comparison was never anything but a cartoon- in this film there is no music at all throughout the film, and it doesn't really have a climax, which may or may not be a strength in this. I wonder if Pacino still rates it.
Nope - Sherman Square is pretty upmarket and chic last time i was there
The Merchant of Venice, the film with Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons -most films of Shakespeare's plays are adaptations with heavy cuts, so purists need not complain, so I won't. This play stands or falls on the performance of Portia, one of Shakespeare's many great roles for women. Portia becomes the conduit through which the contrast between price and value is judged in moral terms, one should also say in legal terms, but it is a weakness of the play, if not the drama that Shylock does not know the penalty in Venice should a Jew shed the blood of a Christian -something one must assume confirms that WS never went to Italy. The costumes are as outstanding as the location, most of the acting is good, Pacino of course is exemplary in the rythmn, tone and emotional variation of his delivery; Lynn Collins, from Texas, is beautiful to look at but lacks depth although her trial speeches are done well. Joseph Fiennes, like his brother was born in a petrified forest, to describe his acting as wooden is an insult to trees. Jeremy Irons, as usual, is emotionally overwrought. And yet, as a film, I enjoyed it and will one day watch it for a 3rd time I am sure.
I must now choose a third Pacino film...recommendations accepted, but not Scarface.
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Originally Posted by Stavros
Glengarry Glen Ross
Donnie Brasco
His performance as Roy Cohn in the miniseries "Angels in America" was also excellent.
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I thought Joseph Gordon-Levitt was stellar. He's done some excellent movies since....
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Originally Posted by Stavros
here are my choices:
Frankie and Johnny (1991) - with Michelle Pfeiffer
Dog Day Afternoon (1975) - would be my 1st choice for you, Stavros
I'm a big fan of Carlito's Way (1993) & Donnie Brasco (1997)
I keep falling asleep when watching Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
I can understand your position. I gave it very low expectations because of Ben & Casey Affleck so I was more impressed than satisfied. I do tip my hat to Ben Affleck's direction. He's only getting better...Quote:
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Panic in Needle Park has been on queue for a long time. I think I'll watch both today....
Last movie I watched was 'My Dinner with Andre'.
Glengarry Glen Ross is one of the top 10 movies EVER MADE.
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Yes, Mysterious Skin, (500) Days of Summer, Inception... I missed Hesher, and I want to see 50/50. He's a terrific actor. I wasn't slighting him by not mentioning him, I just hadn't seen Lukas Haas in anything in quite a while. Come to think of it, he was in Inception also.
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It is slower-paced, and much more of an ensemble piece, but I love Mamet's dialogue. Jack Lemmon is amazing, too.
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Should have won an Oscar for that role.
Mamet's pens some really terrific stuff - he wrote the script to 'The Verdict' with Paul Newman (won a few Oscars). Actually, I think he 'finalized' the script (as it had passed through several hands prior to him getting it). Still, Mamet leaves his indelible mark all over it.
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Absolutely. I cringe every time I watch him go on that sales call, then defeatedly call his wife in the rain afterwards.
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Since the movie was based on a play that he wrote and directed, it probably didn't stray too far.
I think you are talking about Glengarry Glen Ross. 'The Verdict' was a novel by Barry Reed first: Several drafts of the screenplay were made: Mamet penned one of the drafts that was chosen by Sidney Lumet as the version he was going to make.Quote:
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Yes, the sales call is cringe-wothy!
I like the scene were he's trying to convice the office manager (Kevin Spacey) to give him the leads for a cut off the top. Him arguing with Kevin in and out of the car in the rain...classic. That whole damn movie is great.
Yes, Glengarry. Sorry for the confusion, I wasn't sure which you were referring to. Mamet wrote the play, but I think I am wrong about him directing it.Quote:
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I agree on the Lukas Haas mention, I was simply adding J G-L to the mix.
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Yeah, you have to be prepared for a Mamet script, most of the time...
I re-watched "Habemus Papem" - italian film about a newly elected pope who has a crisis of confidence. Brilliant. Michel Piccoli will certainly pick u a best actor's award.
I am not a Mamet fan and don't like Glengarry enough to watch it again; maybe when I am older...Carlito's Way, de Palma doesn't do it for me either. Haven't seen the others except Dog Day Afternoon but haven't seen it for years so I might track that down if its in my local shops.
Thoughts on Angels in America... Yes I liked Pacino in that, the stand out role for me was Jeffrey Wright as Belize, one of the best I have seen in recent years. The problem is that Angel...like this is really two plays stuck together and one should be detached from the other...overall it is marred by its own 'epic' pretensions, as a social drama it is moving and powerful, Meryl Streep as a rabbi is superb.
I switched to Orson Welles for The Lady From Shanghai. I have never liked this film, and not just because Welles plays Michael O'Hara a gay irish dog, with an Irish accent that should carry a health warning. The gay sub-plot/text doesn't work; the lack of chemistry between Welles and Hayworth who divorced shortly after filming, doesn't work; the framing of characters in scenes shot through nets, inside lenses, etc all to underline how 'trapped' they are, doesn't work. The script is poor, and actually so is most of the acting -Welles is either a misguided genius whose films often failed because his methods sent the studios -and the unions- into a rage, or the simple truth is that he only had the one film (Citizen Kane) in him, and everything after that was destined to be an anti-climax. Maybe someone here likes it.
"The Lady from Shanghai" (1948) Mirror sequence - YouTube
"The Human Centipede 2"..lol...interesting in a David Lynch "Eraserhead" kind of way...but I can't really recommend it.
Red Riding: In The Year Of Our Lord 1983 (2009) - third part of the trilogy of a serial killer/pedophile crime drama. More confusing than Part Two and the resolution doesn't satisfy the closure needed for such a complex plot. 6/10
Insidious (2011) - horror movie about a haunted house. Terrible terrible terrible!!!! If you like that paranormal stuff, it might excite you but I'd rather bob for apples 1/10
Mildred Pierce (2011, 5-part HBO miniseries) - an updated chronological non-film-noir version of the original movie starring Kate Winslet as Mildred Pierce & Guy Pierce as Monti Beragon. Adding +3 1/2 more hours, the story invariably takes a more detailed approach to the original movie which as a result dilutes the more infamous & powerful scenes from the original Joan Crawford movie. All characters are expertly-played & cast. Kate Winslet is really astonishing. The set design and all-around production are nothing short of HBO's creative commitment. I've been told that the movie actually follows the novel faithfully which is why I may have made a mistake to comparing it to the 1945 Crawford movie.
Zoo (2007) - documentary about the the real 2005 death of a Washington State man who punctured his colon from having sex with a horse. The film badly and vaguely describes a group of men who would meet at a farm and have regular, and sometimes videotaped, intimate relations with horses. The doc is badly made and details of the story take an excruciatingly long time to surface. There are, however first hand audio accounts in the film. 3/10
The Human Centipede 2 (2011) - this time a psycho successfully puts together 12 people. not nearly as good or shocking as the first one.
immortals
and it was pretty mehhhh to be honest ..
mehhhhh ? is that approval or disapproval in Libbyspeak?
Immortals kicked ass.....Liberty go watch a chick flick
immortals was crap compared to 300 .. it was about on par with clash of the titans ...
I will explain what was wrong with it ..
(1) Titans - in myhtology the Titans (chronus) gave birth to the Olympan gods .. yet in this movie they were just like dumb ass zombies no bigger than a man or the olypmans
(2) the film lacked enough God fighting ..
(3) where was zeues thunderbolts? i mean shit your the god of thunder and you fight with chains lol
I can go on and on .. it just didnt do it for me ... it was what i call a DVD movie .. fighting scenes were good visually .. and the british guy as thesus was very hot and easy on the eye so that made it watchable lol
I dont watch chick flicks ... i like fantasy, zombie, scifi flicks it just anoys me that hollywood fuck up yet another great greek mythology ...
Prospero it means it was average ... not really cinema worthy imo , DVD or rental for sure ..
Liberty wrote:"not really cinema worthy imo , DVD or rental for sure .."
I see a whole load of films professionally and I think that probably 80 per cent are not worth seeing. I'll skip this one.
its just an average action fantasy flick. that has some very loose and i mean loose basis on greek mythology lol
its something that i would watch again if its on telly one evening .. or buy on dvd if its on a 2.99 special lol
American Gangster...again.
The full version of Fanny and Alexander. It was Bergman's last main feature film although I believe it was also edited for television. It may be a valedictory film for Bergman, touching on aspects of his own childhood with its references to a mixture of harsh religious observance contrasted with the magical world of the theatre. I think it also shows a lapse of Bergman's talent, being at times self-indulgent, and I was not convinced by the second marriage and thought the Clergyman should have been more concerned with religion than his personal morality -this second story doesnt work for me. The acting is superb, from the old faithfuls -Erland Josephson, Gunnar Bjornstrand, and Harriet Andersson- to those amazing Swedish beauties Bergman seemed to go for -soulful eyes, large sensuous lips- but Fanny does more or less nothing in the film, and the figure of Alexander is not really given any real depth. Beautiful to look at, wonderfully acted, but lacking unity. Bergman, nevertheless, was one of the finest directors of the 20th century.
Russian Vampire/Fantasy Film worth seeing.
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