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| Joe Vitus |
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| Watching Winter Light was odd for me because I saw a dubbed version, and I recognized the voices from the dubbed soft-core porno I used to watch on cable as a teenager. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:02 am |
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ehle64 wrote: It's been several years since I've seen Fanny & Alexander....Seared images......
I don't recall it being so long, but I know I would not watch a shorter version. Netflix offers the "theatrical version" only, whatever that is. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:17 am |
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| It's the 188 min shortened version (not that that's so short). |
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| bart |
| Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:23 pm |
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"Syriana" -- well, it didn't seem hard to follow, and I didn't follow Lorne's advice to stoke up on caffeine. I think some viewers might have had confusion because they expected neater tying up of loose ends, perhaps? I was a LeCarre fan when I was in high school, maybe that helped.
For me, the film is the definitive statement on modern geopolitics. One line stood out, when the prince (the smart one) says, roughly "5% percent of the world's population has 50% percent of the world's military might -- that is a sure sign of a weakening and failing society."
What is remarkable is what the film can reveal without descending into partisanship or propaganda. It simply shows us people on all sides, each believing he is the good guy who is doing the right thing. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 1:00 pm |
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I just got hold of a brand new book of film reviews from The Village Voice......FILM GUIDE, 50 years of movies from classics to hits.
There's alot of Hitchcock and Lynch reviewed. Plus El Topo and some Todd Haynes. I'm not an avid reader of reviews....but I like this because it refreshes my memory of films I really liked and mentions ones I've wanted to see. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 9:06 pm |
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Befade wrote: I just got hold of a brand new book of film reviews from The Village Voice......FILM GUIDE, 50 years of movies from classics to hits.
There's alot of Hitchcock and Lynch reviewed. Plus El Topo and some Todd Haynes. I'm not an avid reader of reviews....but I like this because it refreshes my memory of films I really liked and mentions ones I've wanted to see.
Just curious - how many of the reviews are by Andrew Sarris? I always liked him...couldn't stand Pauline (sorry, Joe). |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 1:39 pm |
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| Andrew Sarris......Lots and lots. Some movies are reviewed by more than one critic. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 4:20 pm |
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mo_flixx wrote: Just curious - how many of the reviews are by Andrew Sarris? I always liked him...couldn't stand Pauline (sorry, Joe).
It's one of those big divides among cinephiles. I really haven't read enough of Sarris to dislike him, but nothing I read ever hooked me, either. I think a lot of people here must be Sarris fans, because his concept of the auteur theory (which is a little different from what most people think it is) fits in with the appreciation of directors like Sirk and Hitchcock I read here.
But if I'm sure of my opinion, I'm no fan of bland uniformity. I like to hear other points of view. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 8:46 pm |
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| While clicking through the channels I came across a movie that my brother had a small part in. Have any of you seen The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick? It's a decent film and has a couple of actors who went on to bigger things. Aside from seeing a good example of winter in Manitoba you can also see my brother. He plays Rabbi Kaminsky. His replacement Rabbi, after his untimely demise is played by Saul Rubinek. Anyway, if you do watch it let me know what you think. It was a 1988 movie. |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 11:30 am |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 1:06 pm |
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lady wakasa wrote: There's another marantz??? 
Yeah, William (Bill), you can check him out on IMDB. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 6:56 pm |
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| I gave thirty minutes of my life to Falling Down. It puzzles me how the likes of Mike Douglas and Robert Duvall could fall for such an amateurish script, with at least two (maybe more) comic book racial stereotypes. Black comedy my ass. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:00 pm |
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| Yambu, I thought it was dreck also, and had mentioned that fact often in the old NYTFF, but the movie had overwhelming support amongst the members. I think you are the first one to agree with me about the movie. It was a long wait, but worth it. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:46 pm |
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| Avoid Running, too. That movie was the reason I avoided Michael Douglas movies for fifteen years, excluding Romancing the Stone and Jewel of the Nile. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 12:09 am |
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| Syd, you should try Wall St. One-dimensional acting, befitting a one-dimensional character; but Oh! What a character is Gordon Gecko. "Tell me something I don't know, sport." That's one I'll watch anytime. I know enough to go make a sandwich when the love interest is on, though. |
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