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Rod
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 5:21 am Reply with quote
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Joe Vitus wrote:
I agree with you that Hammer is underrated, but The Wicker Man does fit in the classier tradition of Dead of Night than the (very enjoyable) cheap thrills and complete lack of atmosphere in such Hammer releases as Horror of Dracula, Dracula Has Risen From the Grave, Curse of Frankenstein, or Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde.


Thanks for being my Exhibit A so readily.

I refer to my piece on Terence FIsher's The Hound of the Baskervilles.

http://ferdyonfilms.com/2006/09/the-hound-of-the-baskervilles.php

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Syd
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That's odd. I was going through the list of Hammer films and the only one I remember seeing was She, which wasn't typical of their output. How did I manage that?

It's like the other day I was going through the list of Shaw Brothers produced films, and realized the only one I recognized was Blade Runner, on which Run Run Shaw was an associate producer. I was even more startled to discover that Sir Run Run Shaw is a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) and is 100 years old. Although, since Shaw Brothers films tend to have three alternate titles, I may have seen more without knowing it.

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Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 12:45 pm Reply with quote
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Syd wrote:
It's like the other day I was going through the list of Shaw Brothers produced films, and realized the only one I recognized was Blade Runner, on which Run Run Shaw was an associate producer.


No way! I did not know that.

If you've seen any 1960s / 70s mainstream Chinese films, you've probably seen a Shaw Bros film.

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Lars and the Real Girl is pretty well done and enjoyable. I think they did a nice job of showing the doll enough, but not too much. The film started off seeming a good deal like The Baxter, but then delves gently into issues of social pathologies and mental health. Ryan Gosling has a Martin Mull mustache and tries to remain socially invisible ... until he gets his mail-order girlfriend. I liked the way the brother has a certain reticence and passivity about him, like a functional version of Lars' asocial withdrawal.

It's a Hollywood film, so naturally the loser guy has a fine looking but slightly geeky girl just waiting for his attention. And of course Lars lives in a fictive town where everyone is infinitely supportive; a choice place to enact a fantasy/delusion. Turns out to have been filmed in Canada, where maybe niceness is its own raging pathology.

Okay it's late and I don't feel like writing more. But it's a solid film, though the ending is a bit saccharine.

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Joe Vitus
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 4:29 pm Reply with quote
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Rod,

I know I'm not going to convince you, but I think you read way too much into the Hammer oeure, and I think

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Fisher’s films are marked by a cool mixture of poetic realism and tightly built sequences


is simply wrong.

Nor do I see much of Heathcliff or James Bond in Lee's Dracula. Though he's certainly more Byronic than Bela Lugosi (I always wonder if Fisher and frequent screenwriter Jimmy Sanster were inspired by Polidori's "The Vampire" when doing their take on Dracula). He is virile, while Lugosi is effete. But I don't think he lacks the knowing, sarcastic tone (the hip quality) that is essential to Bond. And I don't think he broods or suffers from angst, which are the essential components of Heathcliff.

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lady wakasa
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I'd really like to go see the annual Rendez-Vous with French Cinema at Walter Reade this weekend, and check out

http://www.primalinea.com/pdn/index.html



but I forgot an obligation to my fine institute of undergraduate learning, and I have to have it tied up within a week. >%^<

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Yesterday my Colombiana and I went to a movie after having lunch. When we got there, there was only one movie out of the 1800 that they were showing, that hadn't started yet. Bonneville (close to my heart of course), I checked the write up and saw it starred Jessica Lange, Cathy Bates and Joan Alan, That was enough for me. After buying popcorn and walking to theatre number that was showing it, I remembered something. I heard a reviewer say, "How could three first class actresses like these be in a movie this bad?" Oh oh!

Well it wasn't that bad. Far, far from great, but quite watchable and a pleasant enough way to spent an hour and a half. My sweetheart enjoyed it also.

One thing that distracted me was Lange's face. It looked like she was in some kind of accident which did a job on her eyes, nose and mouth. Was she in a car crash or something?
Rod
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 7:03 pm Reply with quote
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Joe;

Not that I consider you worth answering, but I'll stoop for one point: Lee's Dracula is like Heathcliff and Bond because women want to fuck him rather than the pansy-assed gents about him.

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Marc
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Rod's been drinkin' again.
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Joe Vitus
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 7:34 pm Reply with quote
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Rod wrote:
Joe;

Not that I consider you worth answering, but I'll stoop for one point: Lee's Dracula is like Heathcliff and Bond because women want to fuck him rather than the pansy-assed gents about him.


Well, that's a pretty general way to be like specific characters, isn't it? I mean, I guess that makes him like Clark Gable and Clint Eastwood, too. Right?

What's with the antagonism in your response? I didn't attack you. I disagreed with your analysis, and explained why. Is there not room for that on a movie discussion site?

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Syd
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Mrs. Pettigrew Lives for a Day's getting good reviews. The previews looked like fun.

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Syd wrote:
Mrs. Pettigrew Lives for a Day's getting good reviews. The previews looked like fun.


Yes, I'm waiting to see that one.

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Syd
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:32 am Reply with quote
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Excuse me, that's MISS Pettigrew. Francis MacDormand is the title character, an ex-governess who finds herself a job as social secretary for a flamboyant actress (Amy Adams).

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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:59 am Reply with quote
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What about the Boleyn sluts? Haven't heard a thing about that one.
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I've seen a couple of lousy reviews for "The Other Boleyn Girl." The parody on Saturday Night Live was hilarious, though.
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