"Treeless Mountain" - a Korean film which is gentle and very moving.
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"Treeless Mountain" - a Korean film which is gentle and very moving.
I caught a flic at Dino's crib.......
HARDCORE reminded me alot of 8MMQuote:
Originally Posted by Tepres
Watched the Conan remake then Apollo 18, The Departed, Old School and Eurotrip last night.
watched the last king of scotland .. was very good indeed
onw of the best movies of all time
I was good in that, wasn't I?Quote:
Originally Posted by LibertyHarkness
i am hanging out for JOHN CARTER OF MARS
God I love that film. What kinda smut peddler/pimp calls himself Rataan? My favorite part was George C. Scott attempting to do an amateur sting operation disguised in a Hawaiian shirt with sunglasses and fake mustache. He even hipped up his lingo for the young people too. Make it a George C. Scott Double Bill and watch Exorcist III right after.Quote:
Originally Posted by buttslinger
Atlas Shrugged, Part 1. while it was pretty faithful to the novel, it wasn't all that good. will be interesting to see if Part 2 ever gets out.
The Academy Awards are on tonight and I haven't seen any of them.
For Porno films, I have to go with Taboo and Taboo II as my favorites. Kay Parker.
I'm still waiting for the movie to be made about the decline and fall of porn legend John Holmes. I read some articles, including the one he wrote, about his descent into the world of crack cocaine, I think it could be made into a fantastic film, but there are several versions of the truth, as seen in WONDERLAND. As a bio of John Holmes, BOOGIE NIGHTS sucked.
Here's (no joke) Velvet Picture's Poolside Ecstacy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKSvZqXI1vc
Are you serious? What is interesting about a man who was known for having a big dick and a drug habit that killed him? Was he a closet poet? And if Holmes qualifies, does that mean Ron Jeremy should also get his own biopic? Consider the various versions of Linda Lovelace that have been published and ask why bother?
The Oscars are a reward for success rather than merit, The Tree of Life was the best film of 2011, but is probably too serious to merit best picture. As is often the case, films that conform to safe stereotypes get the accolades -Rocky, Driving Miss Daisy etc so expect a relentless sequence of cliches like The Artist to do well.
From the link you posted:
Had he been born without the freakish appendage he carried between his legs, John Holmes probably would have never made a porn flick, or had sex with 14,000 women, or smoked a fortune’s worth of cocaine, or died friendless at the ripe young age of 43. His great big dick, the one secretly envied by all men who saw it, fantasized about by all women who dared, was in reality his worst enemy
Envy? What envy? More like pompous rubbish, and not connected to the thread on films. Best thing to do with this drivel is let it die.
This, too, is too funny:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dino Velvet
George C. Scott meets Big Dick Blaque in Hardcore - YouTube
Another good George C. Scott movie/film -- albeit a black comedy.
The Hospital (1971) - "Impotence" Monologue - YouTube
Thanks buddy. I hope you've seen the film too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ben
Yep, I have. A few years ago.... The film grimly sums up America -- ha ha! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Dino Velvet
And yet another good Mr. Scott film. He did quite a few good films. When they actually made good films -- ha ha! :)
PETULIA (1968) trailer - YouTube
And, of course, the classic: Dr. Strangelove.
Dr. Strangelove (1964) - War Room Scene - YouTube
WELL! Excuse the fuck out of me!!!!:Bowdown:Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
You are excused; I would prefer your opinion on the latest films you have seen. Honestly.Quote:
Originally Posted by buttslinger
Honestly, are you a pompous idiot, or are you BRITISH??!!!!
ha ha, Ok mate, you win.
I'm waiting for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy to come out on DVD. I thought on the whole this was a crappy year for movies.
'll admit to an occasional tendency to pomposity, and British, but idiot I think is unfair, there are times when I like winding people up; I should not always be taken seriously. Anyway if you have the choice, the BBC tv series Tinker Tailor, Soldier Spy with Alec Guinness (and the sequel series Smiley's People) is vastly superior to the film, which is rubbish. The tv series has the length needed to draw out the main characters and the sub-plots, whereas in the film although there are 4 assumed spooks of whom one is a traitor, only one of them has more than a few lines to speak. It is badly written, badly acted and in all a waste of time and money.
That's what my sister in law said-....slow, but my brother liked it. I like Gary Oldman and Alec Guiness? .......Yeah, he was George Smiley.
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Originally Posted by buttslinger
Jeez...did Patrick Stewart ever have hair?
Yes, I saw Stewart with hair when he played Ajax in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida for the Royal Shakespeare Company in London, I think it was 1968 or 1969. Helen Mirren was Cressida, and yes, she took her clothes even then. I think she has always felt confident about her body.
Unlike the film, the tv series had the time to develop the characters and also it succeeded in making the world of spooks seem believable. The gay character in the film is straight in the tv series; the opening act of treachery in Budapest in the film, is shot outside Prague in the tc series. I have been trying to think of spy films that really work, but I can't think of many. I don't count the Bond films as they are cinema's equivalent of the Big Mac and beyond my comprehension. The Bourne films are outstanding until Brian Cox and Albert Finney appear, The Parallax View is about conspiracy theory rather than spies, any more?
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Originally Posted by Stavros
There was a good miniseries on the American TNT network a few years ago called The Company. It dealt with the beginnings of the CIA following the end of WW II and the start of the Cold War. Starring Chris O'Donnell, Michael Keaton, Alfred Molina, Alessandro Nivola, Michael Gambon. Robert DeNiro directed, and starred along with Matt Damon, in a film called The Good Shepherd, which covers similar ground about the CIA being created out of the defunct OSS. Breach, starring Chris Cooper and Ryan Phillppe, is based on the true story of the takedown of Robert Hanssen, a CIA operative who had been selling state secrets to the Soviet Union for years before being caught.
"Wait Until Dark" w/ Audrey Hepburn. It was pretty dated but really good.
I just finished watching Moon, which was excellent.
the last movie ive watched is called " get me out of here"
i just saw "Drive"
fuck that was good, audio engineer was sick, no wonder he won an Oscar
Thanks for the tips, I haven't heard of those films, will investigate.Quote:
Originally Posted by maxpower
The Lady Eve (1941) starring Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, directed by Preston Sturges. A classic, fun, screwball comedy.
I need to see this film next. I would almost bet anything it was rated X, and that's because it contained homosexual subject matter.
It has to be the most obscure Elizabeth Taylor film ever. How could a film with her and Marlon Brando, both in their primes, remain so overlooked?
Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) - Theatrical Trailer - © Warner Bros. & Seven Arts Productions - YouTube
"American History X"
I read Carson McCullers story, and saw the film when it was released in the UK, but I don't recall it being impressive in any way; however I would like to see it again. Its available in box sets of Brando films (in the UK anyway) US probably as a single dvd.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nicole Dupre
Taylor made two now obscure films in 1968 with Joseph Losey, Boom! was an adaptation of Tennessee Williams play The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore; Secret Ceremony with Mia Farrow and Robert Mitchum was badly mauled by the producers before its release and got an even worse reception than Boom! Mia Farrow is the kiss of death in any film, but Taylor was by this time well into her hysterical diva era -and Losey was a crap director anyway. Nevertheless, attempts at serious film making which might be worth catching up on. Her most obscure film, Il giovane Toscanini was the film Zeffirelli made in 1988 about the conductor Toscanini in Brazil (C Thomas Howell plays the Italian maestro) -Taylor plays an ageing opera singer who married the Emperor of Brazil and lost her career, until Toscanini persuades her to make an inevitably triumphant return to the stage as Aida. I believe the film was so badly received on its release the producers withdrew it although I think its now available on dvd.
KISS ME DEADLY
Ralph Meeker stars as Mike Hammer, a streetwise private dick just one notch above the criminals he investigates.
Three Reasons: Kiss Me Deadly - The Criterion Collection - YouTube
The Champ (1979)
Another classic, as it were, is Robert Redford's The Candidate. I've been meaning to watch it at some point.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nicole Dupre
That's because it was a clunker lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nicole Dupre
Elizabeth Taylor was however involved in several film adaptations of Tennessee Williams' plays which dealt with homosexuality however obliquely given the moral climate of the times and the strictures of the Hayes Code. "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" with Paul Newman is the best known example, but it is "Suddenly Last Summer" with Montgomery Clift that sticks more vividly in my mind. Both well worth seeking out, Nicole.
I saw the British film "Submarine" on the Singapore - London leg of my homeward flight a couple of weeks ago and thought it was very good indeed. Based on a novel and deals with an adolescent boy's coming of age in a small Welsh seaside town. Funny and touching by turns. I'd recommend it very strongly.