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| Nancy |
| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 4:55 pm |
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| I like to watch silent movies while drying my hair. The noise of the dryer tends to drown out sound films. On the other hand, I can't watch silent or foreign films when I'm doing any kind of hand sewing or close-up work. I have to take off my glasses to see what I'm doing, so I can't read the subtitles. |
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| Nancy |
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| Wings is a great movie. I have to watch some of the aerial scenes over and over. Hell's Angels is also good -- the scene where the zeppelin has to lighten the load is unforgettable. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 5:18 pm |
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Nancy wrote: I like to watch silent movies while drying my hair. The noise of the dryer tends to drown out sound films. On the other hand, I can't watch silent or foreign films when I'm doing any kind of hand sewing or close-up work. I have to take off my glasses to see what I'm doing, so I can't read the subtitles.
On the other hand, I don't have surround sound for the DVD player, and have trouble with the dialogue on some DVDs so I like films with subtitles. Including British films with working-class accents. I would never have understood Naked without them. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 5:51 pm |
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Mike Leigh's films need subtitles. (I've often wished for a double feature of Mike Leigh and Spike Lee--culture clash!) The local English accents are often unintelligible even to an Anglophile like me.
By the way, I took a day off work today to deal with a couple of furniture deliveries, and watched the Ronald Colman "Tale of Two Cities." I'd seen other versions but never that one. And it's great. I'd always thought of Colman as the dapper Brit with the mustache, but as Sydney Carton he's dissolute, passionate, and ineffably romantic. If I'd seen that film when I was a teenager, I'd have had such a crush. |
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carrobin wrote: By the way, I took a day off work today to deal with a couple of furniture deliveries, and watched the Ronald Colman "Tale of Two Cities." I'd seen other versions but never that one. And it's great. I'd always thought of Colman as the dapper Brit with the mustache, but as Sydney Carton he's dissolute, passionate, and ineffably romantic. If I'd seen that film when I was a teenager, I'd have had such a crush.
I did see that film when I was a teenager, and would probably have had a crush on Colman if my heart hadn't already belonged to Yul Brynner. |
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| inlareviewer |
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Alan Bates, Butley, we feel them to be one.
carrobin wrote: Mike Leigh's films need subtitles. (I've often wished for a double feature of Mike Leigh and Spike Lee--culture clash!) The local English accents are often unintelligible even to an Anglophile like me.
By the way, I took a day off work today to deal with a couple of furniture deliveries, and watched the Ronald Colman "Tale of Two Cities." I'd seen other versions but never that one. And it's great. I'd always thought of Colman as the dapper Brit with the mustache, but as Sydney Carton he's dissolute, passionate, and ineffably romantic. If I'd seen that film when I was a teenager, I'd have had such a crush.
Re: Mike Leigh -- Had little trouble understanding Vera Drake or Topsy Turvy, though that last could be because I already had half the screenplay memorized by default.
On the topic of Current Film, Awards Daily's Sasha Smith makes a Giants/Patriots analogy, sorta kinda, to the Racso race:
http://www.awardsdaily.com/?p=1293
NYT Carpetbagger David Carr on what No Country means to him:
http://carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/06/bubble-wrapped-reviews/
Eric D. Snider on pirated Racso nominees:
http://www.cinematical.com/2008/02/06/big-surprise-almost-all-oscar-nominated-films-have-been-pirated/
Randy Quaid barred from Actor's Equity for life, fined over $81 thousand smackers:
http://news.aol.com/entertainment/story/_a/union-curtain-falls-on-actor-randy-quaid/20080207140609990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001 |
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| Re: Mike Leigh. I did have the problem with All or Nothing and sporadically during Vera Drake During Naked I could hardly understand a word Katrin Cartlidge was saying. |
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| When we had Mike Leigh at our film class, we'd just seen "Life Is Sweet" and some of the class members complained that they couldn't understand the dialogue. (It had taken me about half an hour to get used to, but I did, and I liked the movie.) Leigh got rather annoyed--that was the only time we ever had him as a guest, though we saw several of his films. |
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| Rod |
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| Never had any trouble with British regional accents. The advantage of having a Scots father. |
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Strike-Breaking News: Major studios and WGA are reportedly finishing up a proposed 3-year contract for submission to thousands of LA and NY writers on Saturday, the guild board on Sunday. If terms are approved, WGA could instruct striking writers to return to work on Monday. Eyes crossed, fingers crossed, crosses eyed and fingered.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-work8feb08,0,4339067.story |
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| I notice Meryl Streep is playing Julia Child in Julie and Julia, which is not casting that would have occured to me. I bet she can do the voice, though. I probably would have put Imelda Staunton in the part. Amy Adams is Julie Powell, the woman who set out to cook every recipe in The French Chef in her kitchen in one year. I think I'd better eat a full meal before I see that one. |
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 4:25 am |
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| SASSY love for Mrs. Gummer notwithstanding, would have tended more toward, oh, Patricia Routledge, or Margo Martindale, or Sophie Thompson. Or John C. Reilly, to say nothing of Dan Aykroyd, who still owns the role. "Save your liver!" However, always good to have more Merylity on the horizon. |
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Some talk about No Country for OM, for those interested:
Coen Brothers Crafts Q & A moderated by Spike Jonze.
Panel 1 - Cinematography
Panel 2 - Sound
Panel 3 - Production Design
Just took too long to load for me beyond the clips at the beginning, so I gave up. Didn't like the movie much, and less the more I've thought it over. |
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inlareviewer wrote: Strike-Breaking News: Major studios and WGA are reportedly finishing up a proposed 3-year contract for submission to thousands of LA and NY writers on Saturday, the guild board on Sunday. If terms are approved, WGA could instruct striking writers to return to work on Monday. Eyes crossed, fingers crossed, crosses eyed and fingered.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-work8feb08,0,4339067.story
So can we have the Vanity Fair Oscar party? |
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