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also, Tropic Thunder.
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Hey, that's not a real movie!Quote:
Originally Posted by EvonRose
also, Tropic Thunder.
Flipped. its a super cute movie about 2 kids who meet when they're like 7 and shows their relationship as it progresses.
Run, Lola Run! (Lola Rennt, in German). I have been aware of this film for years but only just got around to seeing it; it is brilliantly filmed in the more photogenic parts of Berlin, one of my favourite cities. The story itself is slight, but the film should be seen as a merger between cartoons and reality, where one can play with the impossible while the other presents us, every day, with choices that have consequences me might not know in advance. The acting throughout is excellent.
RUN LOLA RUN TRAILER - YouTube
Did you get to see The Turin Horse yet, Stavros?
The Turin Horse - opening scene - YouTube
But if you watch it backwards, it's about 2 friends who age in reverse and slowly grow apart.Quote:
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Alice in Wonderland directed by Jonathan Miller. A remarkable film made for the BBC in 1966.
Alice in Wonderland (1966) - YouTube
Man Bites Dog
Criterion Trailer 165: Man Bites Dog - YouTube
was bored last night so i fired up netflix and lost 4 hours of my life.
1....buried. 2 hrs of ryan reynolds in a box. what a depressing ending. what was the point of all that?
2....skyline. part independence day...part cloverfield...100% pointless. it takes shots directly from cloverfield and independence day...there is nothing new here.
do yourself a favor and don't watch either.
going to watch my wonderful warhammer 40k film - ultramarines tonight while webcamming :)
ULTRAMARINES Movie - Trailer2 - YouTube
For the Emperor !
No, not yet but I am hoping to get my copy along with the three boxes of Angelopoulos in time to watch them over the Easter weekend although I think Angelopoulos is the priority. For some reason I seem to be re-tracing the years -I haven't seen The Travelling Players complete now for 30 years or so, and recently watched Jansco's Red Psalm -again a film I hadn't seen since Goerge Hoellering put it on at the Academy in Oxford St along with all those other brilliant Eastern European films, as they seemed at the time -can't fault Jancso's style, but the content is a bit dated.Quote:
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You might like to know that Krasznahorkai's book Satantango, translated by George Szirtes is published next month; and that a phrase from the novel War and War seems to describe Tarr's films aptly: reality examined to the point of madness.
Satantango has been published in the US, here is a review:
http://www.full-stop.net/2012/03/14/...krasznahorkai/
An impressive article on Krasznahorkai that compares him to Beckett and Thomas Bernhard (whose work I detest) is here:
http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=2011-07-04#folio=071
And on top of that I bought a box of Bergman films I haven't seen in years (Shame, Passion of Anna, Serpent's Egg -have seen Hour of the Wolf recently, its also in the box).
I also watched The Transporter last night, and a one-hour film on Schubert in which Simon Russell Beale looks uncannily like the portraits of the composer Poor film in a way; Transporter is wildly entertaining nonsense.
Saw the Hunger Games with family.
Gonna watch Battle Royale tonight.
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so you are watching the same movie twice?Quote:
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i am all for the Luna Wolves :) Marie ... UM are ok legion they were probably the biggest in number .. but their primarch was/is a dick :) disbanding the legions in favour of chapters grrrrr
There is a sneak preview for Lockout tomorrow night in manhattan (and other cities too). I signed up but it is first come first serve. if i get in...i'll post a review. if i don't get there in time, i'll see american reunion and post a review of that.
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I was wondering how similar they were too. Don't know much about Hunger Games but I've seen Battle Royale a bunch of times. Kitano always rules.Quote:
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BATTLE ROYALE trailer -- Coming soon to blu-ray & dvd! - YouTube
"Goon"...sweet comedy.
Done quite well.
Special 50 year props for To Kill a Mockingbird. Easily one of the best book adaptations ever made. In the scene below Jem and Truman Capote were having a real life spat with Scout. They pushed her straight into a truck offscreen.
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i love battle royale !wtf s hunger games anyways?!
Can you believe this is the movie that Chiaki Kuriyama was discovered by quentin to play Gogo. ?
I actually have it in my collection.
On another note. My lastest movie was "Wrath of the titanss". Way better than the first one i think! :D
happy easter wekeend everyone!
a review of the last 3 movies i saw.
1. 21 Jump Street.....surprisingly funny and a good time. it plays out almost exactly like it should but watching johnny depp get shot in the throat was fun.
2. american reunion...wow...that sucked. the issue here is that it relied so heavily on referencing old gags and fulfilling character stereotypes
3. lockout...stay away. it is an awful movie. the effects were poor and story was not interesting.
I wanted to love this movie but it was essentially another crappy biopic along the lines of Ray and Walk The Line but without the music. Michelle Williams transcended the movie and was wonderful but the kid who was her romantic interest was a dullard whose mouth somehow made him look like a burn victim. Nothing about it was believable or engaging and ultimately I couldnt care less.
Hunger Games---very entertaining and capturing of the book's spirit.
"The Pirates. In an adventure with scientists." (released in the US as "The Pirates:Band of Misfits - the new animation from Aardman. Very disappointing. Misses the target widely and lacks any of the charm of their Wallace and Gromit films.
Interesting article here speculating on why the name changed for the US (so the Christian right in the south would not be out off by a film referencing scientists?)
http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/1302...the_world.html
Nader and Simin: A Separation.
A delicately observed film about the breakdown of a marriage which leads to unforeseen conseqeunces -a superbly written and acted film which uses the limitations imposed on film-making in Iran to good effect: there is a subtle use of glass/windows/spectacles/mirrors in the film; the insight into everyday aspects of life in Iran will be familiar to anyone who knows the Middle East, completely odd to others -such as a court-room in which people come and go, the 'judge' deals with more than one case at a time, etc. The daughter, played by the director's own daughter, crowns the climax with a moment of sudden emotional intensity that is quite overwhelming: family problems, it seems, are the same all over the world. Highly recommended.
A Separation trailer - in cinemas 1 July 2011 - YouTube
Jeanne La Pucelle I: Les Batailles
Jeanne La Pucelle II: Les Prisons
I have mixed feelings for Jacques Rivette -Celine et Julie vont en Bateau is one of my favourite films, L'Amour Fou a film I would gladly never ever see again; La Belle Noiseuse is an over-extended homage to the body of Emanuelle Beart and nothing much else, with the over-rated Michel Piccoli and the inexcusably dire Jane Birkin.
Jeanne d'Arc is one of the most fascinating figures in history, but instead of one 3 hour film Rivette insists on two in which cover Jeanne's growth within the ragged French forces trying to prevent an English takeover of France; the second part deals with the victory at and coronation of Charles VII at Rheims, but not the trials that took place when Jeanne was abducted by the English a year or so after that. The restrained style is reminiscent of Bresson -whose own film is for me the finest account of the trials but is disliked by many. Sandrine Bonnaire as Jeanne as superb, much of the support acting is too, and the battle scenes are at least original in not being a copy of the regulation battle scenes that can be found in every Hollywood film from The Lives of a Bengal Lancer to Jackson utterly putrid Lord of the Rings tripe.
But the film has no soul, a major failing in two films dedicated to a teenage girl whose soul was an inspiration that historians still cannot adequately explain.
The Candidate. It's interesting. And says a lot about the political system, its structure.
Robert Redford 『The Candidate』 - YouTube
Zombieland...Again
I saw Lockout last week and it was quite entertaining. Wasn't the best movie i've been but it was punch line after punch line and I was able to sneak in a few laughs
Goonland.
Goonland (1938) - YouTube
I agree, Ben. And what's most striking, in the 40 years since it was made, is how the cult of personality that it picks up on is now more than 50% of the focus in any election. The issues, and the policies to resolve them, frankly, can go to hell.Quote:
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BTW, Robert Redford is coming to the UK next week for the very first Sundance Festival London - hoping to get down there.
The Pledge
Damsels in Disttess - the first new film from Wilt Stillman in 20 years. He produced a brilliant triogy of films Metropolitan, Barcelona and the Last Days Of Disco and then vanished for reasons unclear. Perhaps the studios didn't like his offbeat films. With this new film you can begin to understand why. It is a very strange beast indeed. Set on a campus somewhere in middle America, with its central characters a group of odd young women. In a sense it is a comedy and yet a baffling one for it seems to inhabit a world that is only distantly connected to any contemporary reality. All of the girls are, in their own ways, fakes and the young men are each and everyone of them a douffous (or as the girls argue Duffi or douffouses). Oddly appealing but bizarre.
"The Guard"....loved it...well written, well acted....very funny.
Woody Allen's 'Midnight in Paris'. Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams could have been playing Woody and Diane Keating playing the same parts. I thought it was funny, offbeat, and in the usual Woody way gives you something to think about without actually trying too hard to make you think.
On the other hand.......I tried to watch Tree of Life. Made the first 15 minutes or so but got completely disgusted by the stereotypical 'art' film approach. The overbearing music. The woe-begone expressions of everyone. The 'deep' soliloquies. How many shots of blue skies and falling water and open meadows can one filmmaker have in a movie? And in how many movies do you get away with it? According to Terence Malick, as often as you can.
Two quite different directors, one whose work will not stand the test of time because of its superficial, inconsequential pretence that is about everyday reality, and Malick, whose films are crafted in a personal way that often seems to be indifferent to the viewing public -but whose films, to me, are visually stunning and profound. I think there are a lot of loose ends in his films, thats the way he films, but there aren't many Americans who make films like that. The Tree of Life is also quite a religious film so if you don't have an understanding of the way of nature and the way of grace a lot will pass you by. I guess its just not the kind of film you like.Quote:
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On a different level, this evening I watched Sidney Lumet's Because the Devil Knows You're Dead -excellent acting from Marisa Tomei, Ethan Hawke and Philip Seymour Hoffman -two guys decide to rob a small jewelery store and it goes wrong and everything spirals out of control. Great story, great acting but it just didn't have an emotional core, it was not overwhelming.
BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD Theatrical Trailer - YouTube
I thought before The Devil Knows You're Dead was a dreadful film - badly scripted and wholly ludicrous.
And I think you miss the point of Woody Allen - which is he has been and can be very funny.
Ok Devil is not a great film, but the script wasn't that bad, and the acting was good, although I dont know why Albert Finney gets so many roles playing Americans.
Woody Allen funny? On Planet Earth? Rich people in Paris, rich people in New York, rich people in Barcelona. I never knew rich people could be so funny. He can't even do satire. How many films has he set in New York City that have no black or gay characters -in New York City!! I tried and tried with this meretricious pasticheur, but in the end his films are one thing only: a waste of money.