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| Earl |
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Befade wrote: I saw a film I loved...........a completely overlooked film called YES. If you think Joan Allen does a good job, see it. If you thought Paradise Now had something to say, see YES. It's an unusual movie in that all the dialogue is in verse......that takes a while to get used to........it seems Shakespearean. Another strange component is the role of cleaning ladies........one in particular..........who give scientific overviews of what happens between people and their shedded cells. If you can get beyond those two discomforts the reward is huge.
YES was so moving to me I'm having a hard time writing about it. Basically, it's a love story between an Irish/American woman scientist (Allen) and a surgeon from Beirut (Simon Abkarian) who is working in London as a chef. It's about the tension between the cultures, countries, religions.........and how the U.S. is viewed by the Lebanese surgeon/chef. Besides the London location, it was shot in Beirut and Cuba.
Has anyone here seen it or even heard of it? It's my most recommended film of the year.
Why, YES, I have heard of it.
I rented it sometime earlier this year, I think. It's been a while since viewing it, but my reaction was similar to yours. It took a few minutes to get used to the dialogue being spoken in iambic pentameter, I agree, but it felt natural after that. If I remember correctly, the character played by Joan Allen was raised in the States, but one of her parents was Irish, which explained her being technically Irish without an Irish accent. Did I get that right?
The "Making of" extra on the DVD also had a moving segment. They were in production on the day that the United States invaded Iraq and the director talked about why she felt it was vital for the Western and Arab cultures to be talking to each other. |
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| Earl |
| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 7:35 pm |
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March of the Penguins
Finally saw this DVD after meaning to see it and not seeing it almost all year long. I understand all the hype now. It was a fascinating look at creatures for whom daily life is a relentless struggle against forces that seem to exist for the sole purpose of killing them. I laughed. I cried. I learned. Can't ask for much more from a movie than that.
A few minutes ago I did a search to see what some others here said about the film because it was released so long ago. I loved this post by Tim so much that I'm copying it here just to see it again. It was on the Current Film thread Page-1104 on 30May2006:
Mr. Brownstone wrote: Summer's also when I catch up on my home viewing, and I thought of renting March of the Penguins, but the first time I see a little baby penguin cry or a penguin get eaten by some asshole walrus or something I will lose my shit, release wracking sobs like a baby, and have to go beat up some poor motherfucker at the local sports bar to make the pain go away. |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 8:02 pm |
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I'm do some catch up as well, Earl. Thankfully I'm not that far behind.
This week, I saw Akeelah and the Bee and Cache. AatB is so genuinely sweet, that I found myself forgiving it its faults and flaws. Heck, I've even forgotten what they were.
Cache on the other hand is anything but sweet. I was drawn to it because I love a good mystery, and much like Birth I liked the adult way in which the mystery and the problems it spawned were handled. That many questions are left unanswered, especially the ending really didn't bother me much to my surprise. What did was the pomposity of the director.
I know the film has been discussed before, but I can't use the search feature so, I haven't read the discussion. Nonetheless, I'll save everyone another one by saying, I really recommend this film but I also recommend not watching the director's interview. It will make you want to through the DVD through a window!
Of course now everyone who hasn't seen it ... will. |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 9:29 pm |
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| Glad you liked March of the Penguins. Earl. That was one of my favorite movies that year. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 10:32 pm |
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Befade wrote: For the love of zombies, check out White Zombie.
I saw a film I loved...........a completely overlooked film called YES. If you think Joan Allen does a good job, see it. If you thought Paradise Now had something to say, see YES. It's an unusual movie in that all the dialogue is in verse......that takes a while to get used to........it seems Shakespearean. Another strange component is the role of cleaning ladies........one in particular..........who give scientific overviews of what happens between people and their shedded cells. If you can get beyond those two discomforts the reward is huge.
YES was so moving to me I'm having a hard time writing about it. Basically, it's a love story between an Irish/American woman scientist (Allen) and a surgeon from Beirut (Simon Abkarian) who is working in London as a chef. It's about the tension between the cultures, countries, religions.........and how the U.S. is viewed by the Lebanese surgeon/chef. Besides the London location, it was shot in Beirut and Cuba.
Has anyone here seen it or even heard of it? It's my most recommended film of the year.
Its a wonderful, if every so often patently ludicrious, movie (what's a gothic castle doing on Haiti?), but it has great atmosphere and was one of the first sound movies to consciously re-create the mood of the silents. Very much worth a look. I've seen it several times. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 11:47 pm |
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gromit wrote: Thanks, I'll do a search and find it.
I didn't remember hearing anything about it, but probably just forgot.
The Dvd cover sure stands out.
How do you do a search for stuff on these forums? I need to know! |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 11:55 pm |
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Earl wrote: Befade wrote: I saw a film I loved...........a completely overlooked film called YES. If you think Joan Allen does a good job, see it. If you thought Paradise Now had something to say, see YES. It's an unusual movie in that all the dialogue is in verse......that takes a while to get used to........it seems Shakespearean. Another strange component is the role of cleaning ladies........one in particular..........who give scientific overviews of what happens between people and their shedded cells. If you can get beyond those two discomforts the reward is huge.
YES was so moving to me I'm having a hard time writing about it. Basically, it's a love story between an Irish/American woman scientist (Allen) and a surgeon from Beirut (Simon Abkarian) who is working in London as a chef. It's about the tension between the cultures, countries, religions.........and how the U.S. is viewed by the Lebanese surgeon/chef. Besides the London location, it was shot in Beirut and Cuba.
Has anyone here seen it or even heard of it? It's my most recommended film of the year.
Why, YES, I have heard of it.
I rented it sometime earlier this year, I think. It's been a while since viewing it, but my reaction was similar to yours. It took a few minutes to get used to the dialogue being spoken in iambic pentameter, I agree, but it felt natural after that. If I remember correctly, the character played by Joan Allen was raised in the States, but one of her parents was Irish, which explained her being technically Irish without an Irish accent. Did I get that right?
The "Making of" extra on the DVD also had a moving segment. They were in production on the day that the United States invaded Iraq and the director talked about why she felt it was vital for the Western and Arab cultures to be talking to each other.
I saw it in the theater (thought I posted about it, but maybe not). I really liked it - the iambic pentameter does work well. Thought it was really overlooked (and there was some discussion here about how disliked Sally Potter is in some quarters).
I have some credit with Amazon and Yes is on the list of things to get (unfortunately, the list is worth 4-5 times the credit). |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 3:52 am |
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billyweeds wrote:
How do you do a search for stuff on these forums? I need to know!
At the top of the screen, just below the 3rd Eye banner, nestled between FAQ and the Memberlist which gives Maranatz such angina, you'll find Search.
This is the beginning of your journey.
Click it.
Type search terms in the first blank box.
Below that, I usually click "Search for all terms."
Lastly, at the bottom left, it is much easier to decipher the results if you select: Display Results as POSTS.
I recommend that you search posts by author, type in gromit, and re-read (and take notes on) my thousand posts of light. |
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| daffy |
| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 4:10 am |
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billyweeds wrote: How do you do a search for stuff on these forums? I need to know!
billy -
Click on "search" at the top of the page.
Enter your query in the blank at the top.
This is very important: At lower left, where it says "Display results as:", select "posts". Otherwise your results will be displayed as sub-forums and you won't be able to go directly to the post(s) in question.
Now click on "search" at the bottom. A bunch of partial posts will be listed. If you see something that looks promising, click on the link next to "Subject" and you will be taken to the full post on its page with the term(s) you're searching for highlighted in orange.
Example: Enter "Godfather" at the top, select "posts" and click on "search". You'll get the 180 posts to date that have the word "Godfather" in them (actually, 181 since it'll include this one, too). At the top is one written by yours truly which no one has commented on yet *coughshuffleclearingofthroat*. Click on "Couch With a View" next to "Subject:" and you will be taken to my lonesome post with "Godfather" highlighted in orange. [If you had not selected "posts", the results would have been a list of all thirteen sub-forums that contain a post with the word "godfather" somewhere in them, but you'd have no clue where in the sub-forums the posts actually were.]
180 posts is a lot to plow through, but you can narrow the search in a few ways. If you know the name of the author of the post you can write it in the second blank from the top. If you put "daffy" in there below "godfather" you'll get every post I've ever written with the word "Godfather" in it, all six of them. Well, seven....
If you know the post is in one of the Television forums, you can use the drop-down menu next to "Forum" to select that and you'll only get the results from there.
If you know it was written in the last thirty days, you can use the drop-down menu next to "Search previous:" to get only the posts from the last month.
If you know it's a post that about The Godfather and Brando you won't want to read all the other posts that don't mention Brando (mine, for instance). Write "Godfather AND Brando" in the top blank (don't use the quotation marks). It's important that you capitalize the word "and". Now you get 17 matches. Click on any one of them and you'll get that post with the words "Godfather" and "Brando" highlighted in orange everytime they appear.
One last thing: the search systems on these bulletin boards aren't always perfect. If you don't get any results, try again. It might have missed it the first time.  And you may want to try with different terms; instead of "Bush AND usurper" you could try "Bush AND theft".
Hope this helps. |
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| daffy |
| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 4:15 am |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 7:18 am |
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No, good stuff daffy, alot more detailed than I got.
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This is very important: At lower left, where it says "Display results as:", select "posts". Otherwise your results will be displayed as sub-forums and you won't be able to go directly to the post(s) in question.
Lorne, is it possible without too much trouble to switch the default setting to Display results as POSTS?
The current default is confusing and unhelpful.
Also, can we get a spell-checker in here?
Other sites using this format have them, and my fat fingers type poorly. |
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| lshap |
| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:29 am |
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Gromit,
I fished around the fancy admin control box; there aren't any settings specifically for the search function. Sorry. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:45 am |
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I really enjoyed Thank You For Smoking.
Witty stuff, great cast (I especially enjoyed JK Simmons and Maria Bello in small roles), impressive pacing, and some of the best parody of California since Annie Hall.
Good stuff. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:32 am |
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| Thanks, gromit. Gosh, daffy, are you ever slow!!! |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:45 am |
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| Lady, Earl, and Joe Vitus...........I'm glad you've all seen YES.....and liked it. It totally wowed me. But Joe there was no Haiti. She went to Cuba.......and the beach scenes were filmed in the Dominican Republic. Castle? |
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