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| marantzo |
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Marj wrote: I thought Nixon was great. Guess I'm alone in that.
I guess you never saw my comment. I didn't think it was great, but I thought it was very good, with outstanding performances all around, especially Hopkins and Allen. |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 10:52 am |
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Remember the pregnant teenage hooker cyborg movie? Well, it seems the director, Nam Ki-woong, did another one (unfortunately not listed on imdb), described as follows:
Quote: He did a film called Never Belongs to Me. Also has a cyber-hooker, and a mad scientist. Plus a guy that "has" to replace his penis by a gun because apparently it's the only way to get revenge from some bad guys. I'm sure you can imagine how he shoots it. It's a mix of spoof, silly comedy with goresexploitation and a bit surreal. Also shot in video, but it doesn't look that bad. It's from 2005, but I'm not sure if it ever was released on a theatre in Korea. I was shown at the PiFan and the SeNef last Summer.
Years' worth of jokes ensue. |
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| bart |
| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:43 pm |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:46 pm |
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| trish -- rent Cleo -- it's about Paris in the 60s via the lifestyle of a supermodel. completely brill. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 1:39 pm |
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| Shit, I should see it, there may be some people I know in it. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 1:42 pm |
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Quote: My Favorite Film of ALL Time.
That's interesting, Wade. I know you loved Le Temp de Quit (sp?) They have similar plots. I can't say I loved either of them.....but I did enjoy Cleo from 5 to 7 alot......It's in that neat group of films like Lost in Translation and Black Snake Moan that have two people (a man and a woman, strangers in a platonic relationship) who help each other through difficult times/show each other light at the end of the tunnel.
My favorite Ozon is The Swimming Pool and my favorite Vargas is The Vagabond. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 1:48 pm |
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| I didn't care for The Swimming Pool. I found it sort of hokey, or contrived, whatever. I enjoyed Cache. That was his, wasn't it? |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 2:01 pm |
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No, gary. Ozon did Swimming Pool (no The) and Haneke did Cache.
Le temps qui reste. 3rd favorite film of 2006. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 2:06 pm |
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| Can't keep these frogs straight. Now you'll tell me they aren't frogs, but wops or squareheads. I'm pretty sure they aren't limeys. |
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| tirebiter |
| Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:50 am |
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| My favorite French film is Emmanuelle 6: Nipples of Destiny. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 2:55 am |
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Got to watch the last two-thirds of Judgment at Nuremberg, a film which I still haven't seen from the beginning. This time, I came in at the very end of Montgomery Clift's performance, which is earlier than I've ever been.
Still, it's awfully good, with Spencer Tracy as the trial judge, Burt Lancaster as the conscience-stricken defendant (who is quite content to be sentenced to life imprisonment), Marlene Dietrich as a widow who befriend's Tracy, Judy Garland as a prosecution witness, and Werner Klemperer as a non-conscious stricken defendant. If you've only seen Klemperer as Colonel Klink, you need to see him here. This is the monster Klink would have been if he hadn't been a joke. Ice-cold, scary, and unfortunately plausible.
Maximilian Schell won the Oscar for this film, a decision which seems mysterious to me since there are so many other standout performances. He's fine, but why was he singled out? It's all set against the Berlin Crisis and the temptation to short-circuit justice in the name of expediency.
Interestingly, this film is not set in 1945-6, when the big guns of the Nazi regime were sentenced. This is the later Judges' Trial, when the judges who sentenced people to death for crimes that the Nazis created were tried themselves. In other words, it's not only a film about Nazi atrocities, but also about the perversion of justice in the name of chauvinism and expediency.
In the center of the film, we get actual footage from Nazi death camps. I'd seen a few stills from this, but I'd never seen the actual footage. I don't understand how anyone could see this and deny the Holocaust. Spielberg recreated some of this for Schindler's List, and it's amazing to see ithe real thing thirty-two years before. |
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| Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 3:18 am |
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I also saw most of Coffy, a blaxploitation film from the early seventies that apparently was the film that broke Pam Grier to the world. I thought it was rather silly, but it does have a catfight at a party which results in most of the women having their tops popped. It seems none of them were wearing bras. We get to see Pam Grier's breasts often, and sometimes see her naked, but through an aquarium. When she keeps her breasts covered she kills people who deserve it.
We also get to see Alan Arbus when he was not portraying the psychiatrist Sidney Freedman on M*A*S*H. This film reveals what a genuinely terrible actor he was.
Overall, not bad, but not up to the high standards of Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! |
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| Trish |
| Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 7:20 am |
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ehle64 wrote: trish -- rent Cleo -- it's about Paris in the 60s via the lifestyle of a supermodel. completely brill.
okay - I'll see if I can find it |
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| Rod |
| Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 9:04 am |
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Just finished watching Tom Jones for the first time in quite a while. For the most part it holds up as an energetic, funny, inventive film. The cast sure can't be beat, and the deer hunt is one of the best constructed sequences of the '60s.
One of those moments flicking channels and catching a bit of Nicholas and Alexandra; bugger me if isn't a really young Brian Cox playing Trotsky. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 11:38 am |
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Wonder if anyone would recommend:
Murphy's War (1971) w/ Peter O'Toole
Pulp (1972) w/ Michael Caine
The Chairman (1969) w/ Gregory Peck
All are around on Dvd and look potentially decent/watchable.
But I don't know any of these, and am always wary of crap 70's films.
Actually I'm inclined to go with The Chairman, despite it getting the lowest ranking on IMDb of the three. My interest is that the story involves traveling to Cultural Revolution China to deal with spy wares.
Any thoughts on any of those would be appreciated. |
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