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| lady wakasa |
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Continued from Banche...
Nancy wrote: lady wakasa wrote: BTW, I got a copy of Yaji & Kita on Wednesday, and will be watching it probably tonight. %^}
Hope you like it. It's a very odd little film. It was filmed previously as a silent and as a comedy in the '50's. (Of course, now I have to track those down.) I enjoyed it. The actor who plays Kita was also the Emperor Meiji in The Last Samurai, in case he looks familiar. And remember, the fins of the elephant are quite tasty.
You know... I just checked, and Masterpieces of Silent Japanese Cinema, which will show up on my doorstep in April, has the following listed:
Yaji and Kita: Cat Fuss (1937) Yoshimura Misao
Yaji and Kita: Yasuda's Rescue (1927) Ikeda Yomiyasu
Ooooooooh...
If I can figure out how to send them to you (I don't have any way to record right now), I will. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 2:31 pm |
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OH. MY. GODDESSES AND GODS>
Half Nelson is amazing. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 2:47 pm |
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ehle64 wrote: OH. MY. GODDESSES AND GODS>
Half Nelson is amazing. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 7:53 pm |
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Lady,
I'd be interested to know whether you can detect a difference in sensibility between Chinese, Japanese and Korean cinema, say the way most here could between French, Italian and German film. I feel it, but perhpas I don't seen enough of each or haven't thought hard enough about it to be artculate the differences. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 8:10 pm |
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| I thought HALF NELSON was good. Shareeka Epps was amazing. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 9:48 pm |
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| I didn't think for a moment The Devil Wears Prada was giving me e real look at the NY fashion world, or at the dynamics of any American business, for that matter. But I delighted in Streep's archetypical bitch, a role I've been waiting for her to play ever since her Jill in Manhattan. Anne Hathaway is lovely to look at in all those fashion clothes. A pleasant surprise is Stanley Tucci as the talented assistant wedded to fashion. A superficial, weak story, but strong performances all around. And NY and Paris never looked better. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:50 am |
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jeremy wrote: Lady,
I'd be interested to know whether you can detect a difference in sensibility between Chinese, Japanese and Korean cinema, say the way most here could between French, Italian and German film. I feel it, but perhpas I don't seen enough of each or haven't thought hard enough about it to be artculate the differences.
There IS a difference. Try to see HOST from Korea. The differences will be quite obvious. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:56 am |
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yambu wrote: I didn't think for a moment The Devil Wears Prada was giving me e real look at the NY fashion world, or at the dynamics of any American business, for that matter. But I delighted in Streep's archetypical bitch, a role I've been waiting for her to play ever since her Jill in Manhattan. Anne Hathaway is lovely to look at in all those fashion clothes. A pleasant surprise is Stanley Tucci as the talented assistant wedded to fashion. A superficial, weak story, but strong performances all around. And NY and Paris never looked better.
To me, the real treat in PRADA were the clothes themselves. I'll be curious to see how they hold up in the years to come.
BTW the clothes in the films I referred to before (FUNNY FACE and BLOW UP) HAVE held up. Both movies are wonderful both for their views of the fashion industry and as period pieces.
IMO one film that has NOT held up is the '60's THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR. Dunaway's ultra chic clothes and makeup look sadly dated today. |
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| Trish |
| Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 7:56 am |
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I watched three crappy DVDs yesterday. Not that I'm that surprised (positive: I didn't pay for them Free Library loan)
My Super ex-girlfriend, The last Kiss and Running with Scizzors
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| Rod |
| Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 8:12 am |
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Superman Returns
It's the most sublime joke of Richard Donner's great film of the Superman story to play Supe as the most pleasantly square guy around in a world that's gone extremely unsquare, but also having him be not at all fazed by it. It is, in fact, a far more hip idea than giving Superman the requisite "issues" that have encumbered Batman to the point where it's hardly any fun to watch him. The first two Superman films are just about the gold standard in superhero movies, for scripting, dramatic structure, and exact casting. I mean, really, how can you top the pitch-perfect performances of Brando, Hackman, Reeve, Margot Kidder, Jackie Cooper, and Donner's loving yet knowing direction?
Simple, you can't. But I didn't hate this film like others seem to have; in fact I mildly enjoyed it, perhaps with a bit too much of a nostalgic kick. Instead of picking on the cast, as most seem to have done, I'd rather pick on Bryan Singer, who's always struck me as an over-rated talent. He stages action scenes well, and coats the thing with a sheen of icy beauty, but he treats things with decorous seriousness, and in the end the nuances of fun don't seem to be his thing. His X-Men films were watchable and yet fell apart for similar reasons, and the last third becomes oddly detached. It doesn't help that the plot develops badly; the Passion of the Clark scene, where kryptonite-infected Superman is sadistically beaten and tossed away by Lex Luthor's thugs, it perfect, but the rescue of him, his resurrection, his saving of the day lacks the thrill that the comparatively far more humble biffo Spidey had with the Green Goblin, and it sure as shit doesn' come close to the bit in Superman 2 where he crushes Zod's hand, which still sends a shiver up my spine as the purest moment wish-fulfillment bad-guy-beating.
Except for a neat-o Jimm Olsen, most of the characters seem to have been drained of color; Kate Bosworth is not bad in fact, but she misjudges her part totally, handing us a kind of workaday girl with ex-boyfriend problems whom Margot Kidder would have sent down the hall for a cup of coffee before returning to writing up the latest rape case, the kind of '70s style black humor that's gone missing. It occurred to me that Parker Posey would have made a far more natural successor to Kidder, but she's stuck in a completely throwaway shadow of Valerie Perrine's Miss Teschmacher, joined by Spacey's somewhat insipidly handled Luthor. And Frank Langella doesn't seem to be awake at all. Brandon Routh does acquit himself well, but scenes that would have been relished by Richard Donner and Richard Lester coming from Reeve barey distract Singer in using Routh.
So why did I enjoy it? Well there was just enough action, just enough gravity, just enough swing to the spots of campy in-joking (Langella's utterance of "Great Caesar's Ghost!" made me laugh in particular). And (be still my boyish heart) John Williams' theme music still soars. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 8:17 am |
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Trish, honestly. Running With Scissors is not as bad as everyone claims it to be.
Half Nelson is away from me for one day and I am still high. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 8:25 am |
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ehle64 wrote: Trish, honestly. Running With Scissors is not as bad as everyone claims it to be.
Half Nelson is away from me for one day and I am still high.
Trish, really, really honestly, Running With Scissors is every bit as bad as everyone claims it to be. For me, it's the worst movie of the year.
And Half Nelson is fantastic. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 9:27 am |
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| Rod |
| Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 9:54 am |
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Don't you roll your eyes at me young man!
Sorry, teachers used to tell me that all the time, it stuck. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 10:35 am |
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Rod wrote: Don't you roll your eyes at me young man!
Sorry, teachers used to tell me that all the time, it stuck.
Marty Feldman had the same troubles.
Imo, Benning and Brian Cox were very good in Running With X. In fact, I blanched the pair of them. I got interested at the outset, but finished up not caring much at all. The film never delivered much and sort of meandered around pointlessly. |
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