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| mo_flixx |
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billyweeds wrote: I too forgot about Paris Je T'Aime and would also nominate it for Best Foreign Film.
I Know Who Killed Me is almost incredibly bad.
The contrariness of this site will never cease to amaze me. When I posted my positive comments about PARIS, JE T'AIME here last April, they met with a solidly unethusiastic response.
I haven't seen the CANNES compilation film (is it out on DVD?), but PARIS, JE T'AIME struck me as an instant classic of its kind. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 2:52 pm |
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mo_flixx wrote: billyweeds wrote: I too forgot about Paris Je T'Aime and would also nominate it for Best Foreign Film.
I Know Who Killed Me is almost incredibly bad.
The contrariness of this site will never cease to amaze me. When I posted my positive comments about PARIS, JE T'AIME here last April, they met with a solidly unethusiastic response.
I haven't seen the CANNES compilation film (is it out on DVD?), but PARIS, JE T'AIME struck me as an instant classic of its kind.
The problem is that it sometimes takes that long before the rest of us get a chance to see it. There were rumors that other cities may receive the same treatment. New York and Mexico City would be fun. You could argue London already got the treatment in Love, Actually. |
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| Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 2:59 pm |
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The reviews on IMDb mention a DVD of Chacun Son Cinema but don't mention it on Amazon.com. Maybe it's a regional thing. I'd like to see some of the compilations of Oscar-nominated shorts as well.
EDIT: Here's the Wikipedia page on Chacun Son Cinema. Apparently it is available, but only on Region 2 DVD.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Each_His_Own_Cinema |
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| Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 4:15 pm |
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Syd wrote: EDIT: Here's the Wikipedia page on Chacun Son Cinema. Apparently it is available, but only on Region 2 DVD.
It's probably in a boxed set with that DVD of Poltergay. |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 7:44 pm |
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| I looked up Chacun Son Cinema at amazon.fr when gromit mentioned it before, but my list of things I'd like to get is so long it's not funny. |
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| Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 8:05 pm |
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| Hmmm. They want EUR 17,49 for it. How much is that in real money? |
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| Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 8:18 pm |
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Eko Eko Azarak: Wizard of Darkness (1995) promises, on its DVD cover, "Satan worship, lesbian orgies, and buckets of blood."
Naturally, I couldn't resist.
In grand old grindhouse tradition, it couldn't deliver what it promised. For "lesbian orgy", read utterly superfluous make-out scene between satanist teacher and student (as we all know, all lesbians everywhere are satanists). For "buckets of blood", read...well, buckets of blood. Anyway, this is a J-horror film that's refreshingly not a rip-off of The Ring. Which could be because it was made before The Ring. Instead it's like The Devil Rides Out meets any slasher set in a high school. A cabal of devil worshippers is trying to resurrect Satan from a high school. I know my friends and I tried to do that several times in school. You think I'm kidding? Pretty young witch Misa (Kimika Yoshino) transfers in, and immediately becomes suspect for the weird shit going on because she's handy with a voodoo doll. She and twelve other students are trapped in the school one night and they are gradually all offered up for slaughter in the great Wake Satan experiment. The film is silly, badly acted, tacky, and short - just what a horror film should be. The most interesting touch is in setting up a potential cult heroine and then having her prove utterly useless in most of the film (her powers have been nullified by a curse). Three sequels followed, nonetheless! |
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| Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 12:18 am |
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Syd wrote: Hmmm. They want EUR 17,49 for it. How much is that in real money?
Over $26. Check to make sure that it has English subtitles, too. |
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| Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 1:28 am |
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I saw Paris, je t'aime (or whatever) @ the Paris.
Liked it, didn't love it. But think it needs to be seen |
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| Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 3:44 am |
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Rod wrote: Eko Eko Azarak: Wizard of Darkness (1995) promises, on its DVD cover, "Satan worship, lesbian orgies, and buckets of blood."
Naturally, I couldn't resist.
Sounds tempting to me. |
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| Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 8:43 am |
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Another film with mucho lesbians (this is a coincidence, I swear. Stop looking at me like that):
The Black Dahlia
A strange, occasionally brilliant, occasionally awful work that shows what happens when two off-kilter talents collide - in this case, Brian De Palma's elegant, operatic film style going mano e mano with James Ellroy's neurosis-fuelled, testosterone-drunk hyper-noir. Both men are certified perverts, both love stretching things to the limit, but they don't get along so well. De Palma's filmmaking in the first half is some of the most beautiful of his career. As with the novel, the proliferation of subplots and insanity becomes positively surreal; unlike with the book, De Palma can't hold it together with pure force of will, and it builds to superfluous resolutions. Fiona Shaw's Grand Guignol performance is something else. |
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| Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 10:22 am |
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For New Yorkers, a two-week retrospective of Milos Forman films begins Thursday at the Museum of Modern Art.
I've still never seen Loves of a Blonde or Fireman's Ball, two of the few Criterion dvd's which I've never found here.
I did like his first film, Black Peter, while Cuckoo's Nest is incredibly great.
Quote: He shot his first American movie on the streets of New York: “Taking Off” (1971), a comedy centered, like so many of his films, on the distance between parents and their children. Starring Buck Henry and Lynn Carlin as a suburban couple whose teenage daughter (Linnea Heacock) has disappeared into the wilds of the East Village, it remains one of the most closely and compassionately observed films of a tendentious decade and will receive a rare screening.
Although “Taking Off” (at MoMA on Friday and Feb. 20) was a critical success, it did not perform well at the box office. (It remains unavailable on home video because of complications involving music rights.)
Would love to see this.
Not out on dvd.
Has anyone seen Taking Off before? |
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| Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 10:38 am |
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| I've seen Taking Off. It's hilarious and quite wonderful. Especially the very final scene. One of the few hipster satires of the period that hasn't dated atrociously. Plus there's a really, really young Kathy Bates as a guitar strumming hippie chick. |
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gromit wrote: For New Yorkers, a two-week retrospective of Milos Forman films begins Thursday at the Museum of Modern Art.
I've still never seen Loves of a Blonde or Fireman's Ball, two of the few Criterion dvd's which I've never found here.
I did like his first film, Black Peter, while Cuckoo's Nest is incredibly great.
Quote: He shot his first American movie on the streets of New York: “Taking Off” (1971), a comedy centered, like so many of his films, on the distance between parents and their children. Starring Buck Henry and Lynn Carlin as a suburban couple whose teenage daughter (Linnea Heacock) has disappeared into the wilds of the East Village, it remains one of the most closely and compassionately observed films of a tendentious decade and will receive a rare screening.
Although “Taking Off” (at MoMA on Friday and Feb. 20) was a critical success, it did not perform well at the box office. (It remains unavailable on home video because of complications involving music rights.)
Would love to see this.
Not out on dvd.
Has anyone seen Taking Off before?
The director of 4 MOS., 3 WKS., and 2 DA. was on Fresh Air w/ Terry Gross on Fri. He professed a high admiration of the early Forman films.
He digressed into an interesting bit of trivia about the significance of Kent cigarettes in the movie. Kents were a status symbol in Romania in the '80's because they were ALL white and thus distinctive from any other brand. They denoted high status...and were ironically the cig. to offer to one's doctor! |
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| Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 11:13 am |
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Rod wrote: I've seen Taking Off. It's hilarious and quite wonderful. Especially the very final scene. One of the few hipster satires of the period that hasn't dated atrociously. Plus there's a really, really young Kathy Bates as a guitar strumming hippie chick.
I saw it when it first came out and wasn't quite as impressed, but the fact that I remember fondly it after all these years (especially that final scene) says something. I had not idea that was Kathy Bates. It's certainly a better movie than, say, Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, which came out a few years earlier. |
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