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| Syd |
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ehle64 wrote: Syd wrote: I had Capote as the best movie of 2005, which makes me wary of Infamous.
I'm sure I'll see if eventually. If I saw it now, I'd be thinking of Capote all the way through.
I notice they have a short tabloid journalist on Ugly Betty who seems to partly modeled on Capote. |
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| Trish |
| Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 6:32 pm |
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Watched Heading South - stars the wonderful Charlotte Rampling. It was interesting, a little shocking - I guess in that I wasn't aware that there is this traditton of older women who regularly head to Haiti in the summer to basically hook up (for sex) with very young black men (pid by gifts, food and cash)
Watched Notes on a Scandal (again - saw in theatre earlier in year) - Judi Dench really is a revelation, excellent, excellent |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 7:29 pm |
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Trish wrote: Watched Heading South - stars the wonderful Charlotte Rampling. It was interesting, a little shocking - I guess in that I wasn't aware that there is this traditton of older women who regularly head to Haiti in the summer to basically hook up (for sex) with very young black men (pid by gifts, food and cash).... |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 7:38 pm |
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and Ghana, Bali, Lombok...
Men have been doing it forever, why not women. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 8:17 pm |
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| Feminism has made it acceptable for women to act as piggish as men. Congratulations! |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 8:49 pm |
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| grace |
| Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 9:12 pm |
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| Trish |
| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 7:31 am |
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jeremy wrote: and Ghana, Bali, Lombok...
Men have been doing it forever, why not women.
jeremy, yambu
not well travelled am I  so it was a shock
There were many aspects of the film that were downright creepy especially when one of the women discusses her first meeting with one of the young men there (when he was 15!!) |
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| Trish |
| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 7:48 am |
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without even realizing it - both the films I watched this weekend had to do with older (or at least say over 35) women having affairs/sex with very young men/boys
is this a sign of middle age approaching? (or here?)
seriously - some of these boys were so so young looking - no way no way- they're babies  |
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| Rod |
| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:12 am |
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| Tonight I watched The Long Ships. I enjoyed it as I did not have anything even remotely resembling a thought during its running time. |
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| gromit |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 11:30 am |
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I really really like The Bitter Tea of General Yen. I even started a comparison of the opening sequence from that and Lost Horizon, although I never finished it.
I just wish they were showing Baby Face as well. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 11:54 am |
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It sounds as if they are:
Quote: The program opens with a double bill of early Stanwyck: Alfred E. Green’s “Baby Face” and Howard Bretherton and William Keighley’s “Ladies They Talk About,” both released in 1933, before Hollywood adopted the strict production code
I watched it on dvd recently and was impressed.
I've never seen General Yen though. |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 12:07 pm |
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gromit wrote: It sounds as if they are:
Quote: The program opens with a double bill of early Stanwyck: Alfred E. Green’s “Baby Face” and Howard Bretherton and William Keighley’s “Ladies They Talk About,” both released in 1933, before Hollywood adopted the strict production code
I watched it on dvd recently and was impressed.
I've never seen General Yen though.
And so they are. That's what happens when you scan quickly.
General Yen came out on VHS, but I don't think it ever made it to DVD. I originally saw it years ago at one of the museums on the Mall in DC, and eventually wrested a copy out of eBay. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 12:22 pm |
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Also, two new films being made about Buddy Bolden.
One is a one-hour silent film, which might end up being accompanied by a live performance of an original jazz score by Wynton Marsalis and an orchestra.
Hope the Bolden films are well done.
For those wondering who Buddy Bolden was, he was an early figure in jazz history, a somewhat murky predecessor to Louis Armstrong and influence on Jelly Roll Morton. Was committed to a mental hospital in 1907, and from there drifted into the realm of myth. |
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