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She's more of a man than Jacko ever pretended to be.Quote:
Originally Posted by MacShreach
So true...Quote:
Originally Posted by Dino Velvet
But y'know, I have her nude book....fucken scary to see what she's done to herself, she was well tidy back then.
If you get the chance "The Legend of 1900" totally class film
Full film here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b3563BJREo
Revolver (Guy Ritchie 2005)
It would be an understatement to describe this film as pretentious rubbish, after all it does come with an association with Luc Besson, which should be a warning. References to The Usual Suspects merely expose further the weakness of this film which tries to fold in on itself to confuse the audience as to what is real or fake or who is ripping off whom. There is no real philosophy behind this. I worked out who the arch-manipulators were about half way through, the film is that lame. If anything, this is a film about the film industry, the egos involved, and the way money is moved around to create a product that only a few profit from, if at all. I just didn't care.
REVOLVER - Trailer - YouTube
This was fun. I wanted to see Keanu getting thrown across the room by Coppola though.Quote:
Originally Posted by EvaCassini
The Blood Is The Life - The Making of Dracula - YouTube
i saw dodgeball yesterday,it was on national television...never bored with this movie!!
Not a movie but a play....a disappointing visit to The Royal Court to see "The Low Road" by Dominic Cooke whose play "Clybourne Park" was so terrific. This American satire on free market capitalism had its heart in the right place but was, otherwise, simplistic, overlong, clumsy and chaotic. Where "Clybourne Park" was political but focused this via real believable people, "The Low Road" was just a crude cartoon.
Gosford Park.
Robert Altman. Almost always makes good movies. Gosford Park was a good one, Clare.
I've seen for a -I don't know- fifth or sixth time, Double Indemnity. Just great! I love that movie. And The Asphalt Jungle. Billy Wilder, John Huston...
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Ironman 3..........mixed feelings....sigh
"Mixed feelings"? Is that right, Eva? You know, I really didn't like "The Avengers". A big, boring movie. What you're saying convinces me to wait for Ironman 3 on tv...
well the thing is...to me, Avengers was great...but with all the hype about IM3 and the "Mandarin"....not to spoil anything, but lets just say that the adverts are very...very misleading...sadly....but all around, it was a great movie, great action, great story, and great funny bits...but thats it really.
saw IM3 last night. i thought it started out kind of slow but it picked up and was an entertaining action flick. no great shakes but i wasn't sorry i went.
Max Payne.
Gotta love a bit of gratuitous violence...Tho still haven't got a clue wot the film's about! :shrug
Saw a very dour and bleak film last night "Our Children" (French title "A Perdre la Raison") for which Emilie Dequenne won best actress award last year at Cannes. Unremittingly downbeat but brilliant. Has some of the most subtly disturbing sequences I've seen in a long time....) Not recommended for women who are pregnant or with young babies.
OUR CHILDREN Trailer - Peccadillo Pictures - YouTube
Iron Man 3.
Meh.
No country for old men
stays good!
I watched three British films this week: a filmed version on Alan Bennett's play The History Boys which was on tv - this play/film is a tedious rehash of Bennett's inverted snobbery and another desperate attempt to write about his own homosexuality, not even worth the licence fee. The second film, Terence Davies Distant Voices, Still Lives, is a brilliantly filmed but characteristically sour piece of self-reflection that to me was too episodic to be anything but of passing interest; the songs were particularly second-rate, if popular in their day.
The Devils (Ken Russell, 1971)
Undoubtedly Russell's finest achievement, with a vivid set by Derek Jarman, music by Peter Maxwell-Davies, and based on real events in Loudon in 1634 -for some reason I didn't see the film when it was released, probably because I detested The Music Lovers (1970); but I read Huxley's book and was fascinated by it.
What is not referred to once in the documetary made by Mark Kermode on the two-DVD set I have (linked below), is the recurrence of gender-bending/transgendered characters in Russell's films: The Devils opens with the King of France (Louis 13th) appearing on stage in a pageant in which he plays Venus rising from the sea, in full drag, with most of his courtiers cross-dressed -the scene establishes a sense of corruption at the highest level of the state -Cardinal Richelieu is in attendance-, and is thus a key part of the narrative in which the same forces of the state seek to impose a 'pure' Catholic faith on independent towns like Loudon supposedly taken over by satanic forces- where the Catholic priest, Urbain Grandier refuses to purge Protestants or remove the city walls which symbolise the town's independence. The consequent descent into devil-worship and debauchery -manufactured by the Catholic Church- became the pivot of the collapse of provincial independence and a demonstration of the powers of a state ruled from Paris.
The film was censored before its release, the climactic 'the rape of Christ' by the Ursuline nuns in the church being considered too extreme at the time and since, although I believe there is a pirate copy with the scene restored. The film's weakness, common in Russell's oeuvre, is a lack of subtlety, it is full-on -and one reason why the film attracted such hostile publicity, at a time when Mrs Whitehouse in the UK (similar to Anita Bryant in the US) was campaigning for 'public morals' against 'filth, pornography' and so on.
Vanessa Redgrave is outstanding throughout in a brave and bravura exhibition of acting prowess.
THE DEVILS (Ken Russell) 1971 UK-Trailer - YouTube
The documentary is in six parts on youtube, part 1 is here:
Hell on Earth - The Desecration & Resurrection of "The Devils" (2004) 1/6 - YouTube
The execution of Grandier is discussed here:
http://www.executedtoday.com/2011/08...n-possessions/
Over here they keep teasing us about a proper Blu-ray for The Devils. I sit here patiently waiting for them to produce. Delay, delay, delay...
I went to see Iron Man 3 in 3D -I think I have said before that there is something about Robery Downey Jr that makes him compulsive viewing -an unconventional conventional hero if there is such a thing. The film is entertaining tosh with a delightful cameo from his eminence, Sir Ben Kingsley.
Probably said this before too: what is the point of 3D? I don't think it made that much difference in this film. In whichever dimension you see it, Ms Paltrow doesn't have appealing curves on her rear end.
Haven't seen the film yet, but I think I know what you mean about Downey Jr. He's got plenty of charisma - as do many top actors - but he can also act. He's not going to make me want to see his Holmes films...but he does give weight to a movie.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
One other thing he has over a lot of people - he comes across as very likeable. From what I've read, he is a very nice person in real life.
"Savages", by Oliver Stone.
Caricatural characters, silly storyline, big budget. I thought I would be at least entertain, but it was long and terribly boring.
Savages Trailer HD (Oliver Stone) - YouTube
I just watched Silver Linings Playbook and I was really impressed.
Thoroughly recommend it.
A 1983 film I never saw at the time, "The Year Of Living Dangerously" set in Sukarno's Indonesia during the Communist insurgency. A very young Mel Gibson and the remarkable linda Hunt starred. A interesting film - directed by Peter Weir.
Not the best Weir flick by a long shot but I agree, "interresting", Prospero. Subject should have brought much more interresting stuff.
"Picnic at Hanging Rock" is my favourite Weir film. Very haunting. Since then he has generally been a bit disappointing. But this was better than most
Totally agree, Prospero! It's one of the most unrecognised film I can think of. Botticelli's angels in a sublime setting. Just a breathtaking flick! Long and meditative film. I loved it. Weir showed how great he is there. Unfortunately, he was then recruted by Hollywood with "Witness" (am I drunk? it was him, wansn't it?). Well, like many others, the last of the kind being in my opinion great Christopher Nolan...
One of the best movies of the last decades.
Indeed "Witness" was Peter Weir. it was entertaining enough. His output since then has ben somewhat mixed. "The Truman Show" was very original but he also did the widely panned "Gallipoli" which i've not seen and "The Mosquito Coat' from the Paul Theroux novel - very disappointing - "Green Card,"" Master and Commander " and "Dead poets Society."
The Hangover 2 (only for the Yasmine Lee bit).
I was stoned and still didn't find it funny! :shrug
I saw Piranha in 3D and it was tons of fun. Great fishy effects and a really neat 3D nude underwater scene. This is the type of film where 3D works.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
The Great Gatsby is in 3D. I guess for 20 bucks you can now know what it feels like to get a dry martini thrown in your face. Thanks IMAX.
http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo...ideo_id=167287
I liked it too.... Found it interesting, compelling.Quote:
Originally Posted by danthepoetman
It was unspeakable and they still made a 3rd one...Quote:
Originally Posted by Jericho
Thanks, Ben! Yes, I can’t help defending this one, because it’s like few people have paid attention… Seems like just another thriller type of essay film, but it’s about identity, how we create it, how changing and moving it is, how we constantly retouch who and what we are by telling ourselves our own story. And so brilliantly made! Not easy to follow, but wow! it just leave you in awe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ben
Memento easily makes my top 20, I love the shifting viewpoints from the same character with the right stimulus applied. The scene where she re-enters the house after the fight is amazing.
Btw, The Great Gatsby for me, just like the book, a pretty movie with not a lot to hang on
"John Dies at the End"
I liked it...watch it.
Paul Giamatti has a small part in it.
John Dies at the End (2012) - IMDb