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| mo_flixx |
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I watched Roeg's DON'T LOOK NOW last night - my first viewing since it came out. God, what an amazing movie - and what location shooting in Venice. Certainly one of the best ever done in that city.
I wasn't quite up for listening to Roeg's commentary but am curious if anyone has. Any feedback for me? I'm sure I'll rent it again one of these days just to hear the commentary. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 10:02 pm |
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| I enjoyed Ingmar Bergman's Cries and Whispers (1972) as if I was seeing it for the first time. It is haunting. Difficulties in connecting as well as the intense pain of being forlorn are driven home with sparse dialogue. Cinematography, mostly of interiors, by Sven Nykvist is excellent. |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 12:01 am |
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Quote: I can suspend my disbelief a lot. I'm one of the all-time great suspenders. I'm in the Suspender Hall of Fame with Larry King and Gordon Gekko. But I can't suspend it that much.
Earl -- You can with Larry King? Your better than I thought! |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 6:06 pm |
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Gee, Gary maybe I confuse Thanksgiving and Christmas in my mind.........well, it'll join alot of other confused entities there.
Mo..........Marc's the one who loves Don't Look Now. Yes, the scenes of Venice are amazing.........but I find the film too creepy to like. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 7:10 pm |
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Befade wrote:
Mo..........Marc's the one who loves Don't Look Now. Yes, the scenes of Venice are amazing.........but I find the film too creepy to like.
It is definitely creepy. It was much less confusing on second viewing. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 12:16 am |
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| I'm afraid I couldn't give The Family Stone much of a try. When Sarah Jessica Parker walked out of that charade game, so did I. An uptight woman trying to make her way into her lover's family has my sympathy, but needs to be of sterner stuff to keep it. Why didn't everyone say, "What the hell's with HER?", and ignore her for the rest of the movie? |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 12:38 am |
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| Currently watching The Big Parade, which I've had for years and somehow never watched. I didn't know how funny the early part of the movie was. (I know that will change soon.) The attempts at crossing the language barrier are amusing and not silly as often happens in movies. Well, okay, a little silly, but perfectly appropriate for the movie. I've never seen Renée Adorée before and she's really beautiful and charming. It's too bad she died so young. She and John Gilbert are very good together and give a heart to the movie. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 8:04 am |
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| Syd, I list The Big Parade high up in my all time greats. I have to take it out again and watch it. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 8:39 am |
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| I must have been 7 or 8 when they showed us a documentary on the history of film at the Y. They showed the scene of the departure with the woman chasing the truck and utimately on her knees caressing her lover's shoe. I was dumbstruck by the power of that scene. Probably the biggest emotional jolt I'd ever had at a movie up to that point. I commited the name of the movie to memory and resolved to see it somehow. This was in the forties so there was no way to do this at the time. Decades later with the development of the video age I finally got to see it. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 1:08 pm |
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| That whole sequence is extremely powerful, with the two lovers trying desperately to locate each other amid the "big parade" marching to the front. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 1:44 pm |
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| Person to Person (Edward R. Murrow) is fascinating. Two interviews from the 50's........Jack Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy. Jack showed NO charisma then.......intelligence and knowledge of issues, yes. Jackie didn't seem comfortable. On the other hand Bobby and Ethel were right at home being interviewed with the 5 kids.......some who were squallling and crying. He came across as the more likeable brother. Andy Griffith said he had to quit his job as a teacher because he liked to smoke too much. And it was very clear that in those days "a women's place was in the home". |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 2:11 pm |
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Betsy -- you rock. Happy New Year, babe.
I have V for Vendetta and the latest PotC for home toodles and I just can't get into either one. So predictable and flashy. I also have The Memory of A Killer, want to see it just don't feel like crying anymore. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 2:47 pm |
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I'm with Betsy on Don't Look Now. The on-location photography of Venice is nice (though not on a par with Summertime starring Katharine Hepburn), but the story is unnecessarily grim, going beyond scary into downright unpleasant.
I always thought the flick got undeserved points for the sorta-graphic love scene. Ooooh! How naughty! |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 8:04 pm |
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| Both Pauline Kael and Bosley Crowther were semi-critical of Ingmar Bergaman's Wild strawberries in 1957, but on second viewing it does have its pleasures. An old physician's journey by car from Stockholm to Lund where he was to be conferred an honorary degree, takes him down memory lane, both in dreams and reveries, with the backdrop of Bergman's persistent themes over the next three decades of lonesomeness, difficulty connecting and embitterments. There is an intermingling of somber Gothic scenes of the old German cinema with frolicsome episodes reminiscent of Smiles of a Summer Night. The DVD has an hour long interview with the 80 year old Bergman which is worth the price of the ticket. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 8:07 pm |
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| Wild Strawberries was wonderful, and Crowther was a clueless critic. |
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