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| Syd |
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whiskeypriest wrote: lady wakasa wrote: Did anyone notice that Kon Ichikawa died last Wednesday?... I missed that. But I did see that Alain Robbe-Grillet died yesterday, in Caen, France. No, it was last year. No, he died in Paris. No, he never died at all.
I once suggested inaction figures of Last Year at Marienbad as a Cthulhumas present. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 5:38 pm |
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| Also joining the lists of the currently dead: Steve Gerber, creator of Howard the Duck. |
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| Nancy |
| Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:59 pm |
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Syd wrote: I once suggested inaction figures of Last Year at Marienbad as a Cthulhumas present.
I remember those quite fondly. |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:58 am |
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So, after about 3 years, Milestone's finally shipping Sessue Hayakawa's The Dragon Painter (1919).
The DVD also includes Thomas Ince's The Wrath of the Gods, a copy of the script for The Wrath of the Gods, the 1921 short Screen Snapshots , a copy of The Dragon Painter press kit, and the original novel by Mary McNeil Fenollosa in PDF format.
Milestone are the folks who brought us Killer of Sheep, I Am Cuba, Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?, and the Valentino-Swanson vehicle Beyond the Rocks (to name a few). They have won numerous awards for their restoration work - and Martin Scorsese likes 'em, too.
http://www.milestonefilms.com/movie.php/dragon/
It's not a Cthulhumas present (although it could be), but there are instructions on how to build your own volcano.
My work here is done... |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 11:35 am |
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Volver is a story of how having your husband murdered and your mother return from the dead can invigorate your life. Oddly, this movie reminded me of a Spanish equivalent of a Woody Allen movie. Irene, in particular, reminded me of a Jewish mother.
I enjoyed the movie. I actually liked the supporting actresses better than Penelope Cruz, but she's good, too. There were some elements early on that bothered me (Raimunda doesn't seem all that broken up by her husband's murder, for instance), but they were resolved toward the end and everything made sense.
I don't mind that this didn't get an Oscar nomination for foreign film, since the three of the nominees I saw. (The Lives of Others, Water and Pan's Labyrinth) were clearly better films, and I saw several other foreign films that were also better. This one's a good film; the competition was very stiff that year. |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 12:03 pm |
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Syd wrote: Volver is a story of how having your husband murdered and your mother return from the dead can invigorate your life.
That's kind of a spoiler, no? |
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| Rod |
| Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 8:11 pm |
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| Watching The Mark of Zorro with Tyrone Power last night. It's an odd duck for a classic swashbuckler, short, sharp, packed with droll humour, and with very little action. Its climactic swordfight between Power and Basil Rathbone takes place in a cramped office - and is still often voted, despite its lack of expanse, by many as the best duel in cinema, and they're right. Rathbone and Power really look like they know what they're doing and want to kill each-other. Power is at his best, and must have been going blind in those tight pants. Linda Darnell's as cute as always in a weak role. Hugely entertaining all the same. |
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| Marilyn |
| Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 9:46 pm |
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| Nancy |
| Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 12:58 am |
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Rod,
The Mark of Zorro is one of my favorites. (Note to self: need to watch it again.) I do wish that Tyrone Power had played Captain Blood also. He would have been so much better than Errol Flynn. |
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| Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 2:11 am |
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Nancy wrote: He would have been so much better than Errol Flynn.
Er, no... |
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| Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:44 am |
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In a triumphant move to at least see all the Blanche nominated fillums, if not that other, um, film society nods -- for I doubt I'll catch Mentatone and Nujo before Sunday -- saw Michael Clayton on DVD tonight after catching P.T. Anderson's Upton Sinclair deconstruction -- make that dissection -- at the cineplex this afternoon. Found Clayton quite glossy, sharply executed, absolutely kept me going through to the end, and ultimately told/showed me nothing I'd not heard/seen before. What sold it for me was the adroit reshuffling of corporate thriller/antihero-retrieves-his-soul tropes, its off-handedly showy narrative structure and, primarily, George, The Chanel of Heartthrobs, whose stellar, interior work went deeper than the film did (the final close-up alone gives Michael Clooney slightly less nil a chance of taking the Racso from Daniel Day-Plainview than Sweeney Depp, Tommy Lee Deerfield and Nicolai Mortensen have, a whisker's-breadth, at best). The principal Supphose contenders were quite fine, even if Wilkinson has about two more electrifying breakdown roles in him before he starts repeating himself. Formidable turn (simply must play Shakespeare's Scottish Thane, if he hasn't already), and Swilda Tinton, doing early-period Streep by way of a rabid lemur's nerve ending, is a tad underused and none the less wonderful for it -- her final move in long shot is spot-on. Am so often happier with Sydney Pollack the actor than Sydney Pollack the helmer, and so it went here, and it's always nice to see Michael O'Keefe on the screen. Almost didn't recognize Ken Howard, though. Mr. Gilroy makes a proficient directorial debut, writes a capable screenplay, albeit not without its near-telegraphed metaphors and parallels. Good movie; so-so cinema.
And the Funny Games trailer, as noted in Current, utterly creeps me out. |
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| bocce |
| Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 5:49 am |
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inlareviewer wrote: after catching P.T. Anderson's Sinclair Lewis deconstruction .
it's actually upton sinclair. wouldn't want you to make that mistake in real print... |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 5:53 am |
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| Of course it is, s'been a long day. |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 1:56 pm |
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Making up for the horror that was yesterday:
(1) I was emailing the Korea Society and asked about what Korean silents still exist (between WWII and the Korean War, there are very few). They're planning a classic film showing at MoMA late in the year, but they're now thinking about a pyonsa (= Korean benshi) showing as well. That would be incredibly kewl...
(2) Then a coworker mentioned that she'd never seen a silent film. BWAHAHAHAHAHA VIRGIN!!!!!! :rubs hands in glee: I could start with a Keaton film, I guess... |
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