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| grace |
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| I'm thinking the castle in Haiti was in White Zombie. Maybe? |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 12:44 pm |
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Befade wrote: 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?
White Zombie takes place in Haiti, not Cuba. |
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| daffy |
| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 1:40 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: Thanks, gromit. Gosh, daffy, are you ever slow!!!
I feel so inadequate!
Did you find what you were looking for? |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:44 pm |
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| I caught "Inside Man" just now. Good flick, except for Jodie Foster, whom I normally like, playing Smug the Bitch. Had I been on the set, Id've decked her. I'm surprised at Spike. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:56 pm |
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| Welcome back yambu. I never liked the smug, limited talent Foster and her performance in Inside Man just bolstered my opinion of her lack of talent. I'm not a Spike Lee fan either. I liked the movie well enough, with serious reservations. |
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| shannon |
| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:37 pm |
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I don't get the derision for Jodie Foster. You're upset that she played "Smug the Bitch"? I think that was the character. How else was she to play it? And yeah, I guess that subplot was a little unnecessary and distracting in relation to what the film was ostensibly about, the heist and all, but within it lies the real thematic crux of the film, which everyone seems to ignore, and which basically boils down to "These are the dicks you have to suck in order to be rich and powerful in America." Her character is essential and I think her performace quite good.
The Inside Man is still one of my favorite films of the year and I suspect it still will be even after I've seen more films (besides The Proposition--rent it, immediately) which are worthy of this distinction. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:27 am |
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The Proposition. Is that Haylie Duff's new flick?
I loved Inside Man, too. Foster was working those legs, and getting to a really special place an actor can reach with her performance to have such a love/hate reaction from the audience. And then there's the opening credits with the Dil Se. . . song. . .
I really don't know where to post this, so I'll post it here. There were sofa's there after all. I saw an instillation art exhibit of Kiarostami's at this new hotel here in Louisville, KY. The 21c. Their whole lobby is an art gallery. In front of the reception desk, projected on the floor, is a DVD of Kiarostami's called "The Dreamers". It's 1h39m of a hetero couple lying on the bed and shot with a view from the ceiling. At one point the woman lifts up out of a sleep and smokes a cigarette. Really cool stuff. Definitely worth a visit if you ever go to the Derby or are just passing through.
http://www.21cmuseumhotel.com/OverviewSite/
We tried to watch Guys & Balls last night, but it's so hard to find the time to watch a whole movie on time-limited family trips. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 1:21 am |
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>....And then there's the opening credits with the Dil Se. . . song. . . >
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Thank you for that, Ehle. Chaiyya, Chaiyya. I just ordered it from iTunes. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 2:14 am |
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Well, look-a-there.
The Yam-guy is back.
And he might be interested in this:
Maya Deren Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti, 1947, 121 mb (MPEG 4)
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http://www.ubu.com/
Just scroll almost halfway down.
On the left there is a section headed Recent Additions.
It's the 2nd entry.
Alot of other experimental films available there as well.
[Actually this post got me to finally poke around that site a tiny bit, and there is some fantastic shit there. I'm in the process of d/l-ing Agnes Varda's 46 minute Black Panthers - Huey! documentary. And another documentary on Borges. And the d/l speed is quite good. Check this site out!] |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:14 am |
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| Hard to explain why, but Jodie Foster in Inside Man was herself smug and bitchy--not just the character she played. There's a difference, and it's almost impossible to describe unless you agree. |
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| shannon |
| Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:50 am |
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Quote: The Proposition. Is that Haylie Duff's new flick?
LOL
But no. Ray Winstone, Guy Pearce, Emily Watson, John Hurt. It's an ugly, bloody, fever dream of a Western and it's wonderful. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:08 am |
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| Ah yeah. I do wanna see that. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:52 am |
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Quote: I loved Inside Man, too. Foster was working those legs, and getting to a really special place an actor can reach with her performance to have such a love/hate reaction from the audience. And then there's the opening credits with the Dil Se. . . song.
I certainly agree about the opening credits and even think the whole introductory section was very good. As to Foster and her performance, I didn't have any love/hate reaction to her or her character. I wasn't emotionally involved with her or her character at all. I just kept swaiting for some kind of justification for the reason her character was even in the movie. It never came. Some sort of political statement that Lee wanted to make, I guess. That's Lee's problem, he's not a mature film maker. His lack of subtlety has a habit of marring his work. |
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| shannon |
| Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 9:27 am |
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| Disagree. I think his lack of subtlety is what makes him brilliant. |
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| Trish |
| Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 9:58 am |
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billyweeds wrote: Hard to explain why, but Jodie Foster in Inside Man was herself smug and bitchy--not just the character she played. There's a difference, and it's almost impossible to describe unless you agree.
Do you know her personally Billy? - How do you know she was playing herself? |
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