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| Joe Vitus |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 4:15 pm |
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I know (or at least knew) nothing about the plot/storyline of Carousel. The dvd is around, so I guess I'll have to pick it up now. Musicals have never been my thing, though I'm not adverse to watching them now and then.
I might be the only one here who saw Idlewild (2006), Andre Benjamin's Cotton-Club-The-Musical themed film, complete with a spiffy Busby Berkeley style finale. Weirdly anachronistic musical numbers for a film set during the Prohibition Era (alcohol prohibition that is, not our current drug prohibition era). At least they didn't go with rap numbers. Reasonably enjoyable film, despite the predictable story. Andre 3000 is a pretty good actor, if a little limited. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 4:36 pm |
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Gromit,
Never, never bother with the movie version of Carousel. It's the travesty of travesty among movie adapations. Essentially everything that makes the show a landmark in the American theater was removed, the cast sleepwalks through their roles, the director has no talent, and the whole thing is told in flashback (unlike the stage version), thus robbing the story of it's surprise when it slips into...another world. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 7:25 pm |
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Trish wrote: Just saw Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (Joan Plowright) - really a wonderfully tender film. About an elderly Scottish woman who takes up residence at the Claremont Hotel (in London) hoping to see more of her grandsom and take in the interesting cultural activities she expects this big city offers. Things do not live up to expectation - but by fate she meets and befriends a young man. I really enjoyed this film - one of my favs that came out in 2006. Plowright is great. See it
I wrote about this film loooong ago - probably spring 2006 at which time I was roundly trounced by a number of people, none of whom had seen the film. I liked the film too.
BTW, the kindly young man in the film is Keira Knightley's current honey.
STILL no comments. Guess no one else has seen it.
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| Syd |
| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 8:15 pm |
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Joe Vitus wrote: Gromit,
Never, never bother with the movie version of Carousel. It's the travesty of travesty among movie adapations. Essentially everything that makes the show a landmark in the American theater was removed, the cast sleepwalks through their roles, the director has no talent, and the whole thing is told in flashback (unlike the stage version), thus robbing the story of it's surprise when it slips into...another world.
That explains something. I've only seen Carousel on stage at Bowdoin College (with David Canary in the lead, no less) and liked it, but I've never seen the film version and now don't have to. |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 9:52 pm |
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Well, you could have seen it at my high school a few decades back, but you missed yer chance...
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I saw this, and my first thought was that there must be some way to become a film historian...
Quote: Soon to be released
Title: Japanese Anime Classic Collection
Product Format: Box set collection of 4 DVDs
Total number of titles: 55
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: Japanese, English, Chinese, Korean
Region code: All regions
DVD Format: NTSC
Production: Digital Meme
Copyright: Digital Meme
Price: ¥12,800 (estimated at current exchange rate to be approximately $110)
Scheduled release date: 30 April 2007
Japanese Anime Classic Collection is a digital collection of hard-to-find anime produced from 1928 through 1936. Entertaining, exciting, and startling, the collection will be treasured by enthusiasts, who will find it a valuable reference tool for retracing Japanese animation from its early roots to what is now universally known as anime. Presented chronologically, these anime have been painstakingly digitally reproduced for DVD viewing. Nothing has been altered or edited except for the integration of music in some titles.
$110? Well, I could always stop eating for a few weeks...
http://www.digital-meme.com/comingsoon.html |
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| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 9:54 pm |
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gromit,
I liked IDLEWILD. Its a far better musical than DREAMGIRLS. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 10:39 pm |
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| With the 'serioius' vote split between the Iwo Jima films, The Departed and Babel, could Dreamgirls be this years Chicago. I wonder what odds I'll get down the bookies. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 10:44 pm |
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jeremy wrote: With the 'serioius' vote split between the Iwo Jima films, The Departed and Babel, could Dreamgirls be this years Chicago. I wonder what odds I'll get down the bookies.
My money is on Babel and always has been. I would bet the farm on it, and would have for many months. It just has that award-winning vibe about it. But if Marty doesn't win Best Director anyway I will totally puke. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:07 pm |
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mo_flixx wrote: ....the kindly young man in the film [Palfrey at the Claremont] is Keira Knightley's current honey.... |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:11 pm |
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Billy,
The scenario you just descibed is probably what will happen. The acadamy voter will never vote for a movie as violent and bloody as The Departed. But they do like Scorsese and could very well vote for him. |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:36 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: But if Marty doesn't win Best Director anyway I will totally puke.
If that happens, you'll need to pass the barf bag over to me. |
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| Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 12:07 am |
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chillywilly wrote: billyweeds wrote: But if Marty doesn't win Best Director anyway I will totally puke.
If that happens, you'll need to pass the barf bag over to me.
And pass me the tissues. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 12:13 am |
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billyweeds wrote: My money is on Babel and always has been. I would bet the farm on it, and would have for many months. It just has that award-winning vibe about it. But if Marty doesn't win Best Director anyway I will totally puke.
I never once felt Oscar while experiencing Babel. All I know is that it was my favorite film of 2006 and would like to think the Academy felt the same way, but there will always be Crash. |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 12:51 am |
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| willybeeds, mon ami, I wouldn't bet the farm just yet. Judging by the wide split of opine that locals and Aclademites have evinced toward Babel, many to my face, I wouldn't be so sure that it's going to take the top prize in the event of a Departed/Dreamgirls split. AMPAS members and local press flaks have admitted to more than just Tom O'Neil and his merry band of LAT awards-watchers that, no matter what Sid Ganis said, yes, there was a resistance to Mountback Broketain, on the very grounds that your humble correspondent iterated last year -- The Straight White Geezers didn't see it as "their film," and many just didn't see it, period -- when he still gave a flying about that, um, film society. That, and the perceived PC-factor, the Ebert/Roeper/Oprah tubthump and the DVD push to SAG put the Pile of Haggis into the win. The credibility of the organization, dubious always, was dealt a mortal stroke, since any of the other films were more deserving of top honors than what won, and there's a great deal of sheepish guilt afoot in Aclademyville (deservedly). Babel is not remotely as hackneyed, faux-inventive and simplistic as Everyone In L.A. Is Isolated, Racist and Drives A Car, And Don Cheadle Will Tell You About It Incessantly was. But the multiple storyline technique is nominally comparable, and that in itself might make voters shy away from handing another many-character film the gold two years in a row. Moreover, Babel is extremely daunting and downbeat and difficult, perceived as artful and visionary by some, incoherent and pretentious by others, and as many AMPAS Babies hate it as love it. It's not impossible that it could win, but it's also entirely plausible that we may be looking at one of the other two moninees, whatever they are, taking the Golden Statue of The Naked Bald Guy With The Sword in the final run. The various Guilds, as ever, are the closest thing to a representative yardstick, whatever that means. |
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