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| tirebiter |
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| Charles Burns is the King of Creepiness. His graphic novel, Black Hole, has been optioned by David Fincher as a film. I can just imagine how utterly horrifying it will be-- mutating adolescents in the 70s. (Sounds like my teen years...) |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 3:14 pm |
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| Nancy |
| Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:44 pm |
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| The animal discussion reminded me of something I saw years ago in anthropology class. We were watching a film about bushmen who were hunting a giraffe. They speared the giraffe, which ran away. The bushmen spent several days chasing it and trying to kill it with their spears, without success. Finally, the giraffe just falls over dead. We were told that the film crew got fed up and shot it, so they could film the giraffe feast scene. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 12:08 am |
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Perhaps it was Hillary's red phone??
Just had an idea. Remember the Princesss Phone which was de rigeur for every '60's teen princess. Maybe it would be cute to do a spoof of the red phone commercial with a red Princess phone. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 12:27 am |
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This weekend's viewing included 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS, AND 2 DAYS. Definitely an amazing movie. The audience streamed out of the theater in almost total silence when it was over. It's a sobering experience. I want to see it again before I write about it.
MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY was delightful. Amy Adams and Frances McDormand are perfect in their respective roles. This is a light, romantic comedy which will take the viewer back to the days of pre-WWII London with lots of glamour, romance, and wonderful period music. The theater in Santa Fe was crowded and the audience loved the film. I wouldn't mind seeing it again.
BTW one of Amy Adams' suitors is a young Clive Owen look and sound-alike! |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 1:26 am |
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Quote: This weekend's viewing included 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS, AND 2 DAYS. Definitely an amazing movie. The audience streamed out of the theater in almost total silence when it was over.
Sounds like movie that might change someone's life. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 2:40 am |
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Marc wrote: Quote: This weekend's viewing included 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS, AND 2 DAYS. Definitely an amazing movie. The audience streamed out of the theater in almost total silence when it was over.
Sounds like movie that might change someone's life.
Well it won't change my life, but it might change the lives of some of the students at the College of Santa Fe where I saw the film.
It might sober up some of the JUNO enthusiasts, perhaps.
PERFECT DOUBLE BILL for promoting abstinence:
VERA DRAKE and 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS, AND 2 DAYS. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 3:12 am |
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| Perfect movies for showing how superficial Juno was. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 3:22 am |
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Anyone seen or heard anything about Love in the Time of Cholera?
Or Watching the Detectives?
A noir spoof, with Cillian Murphy as a geeky noir enthusiast who encounters a real femme fatale in Lucy Liu.
Filmed in Bayonne and Scotch Plains.
Along with Be Kind Rewind, is New Jersey making a come back as the film center of the world?!?
Both of these here on Dvd with little to no noise prior. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 7:57 am |
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gromit wrote: Anyone seen or heard anything about Love in the Time of Cholera?
Or Watching the Detectives?
A noir spoof, with Cillian Murphy as a geeky noir enthusiast who encounters a real femme fatale in Lucy Liu.
Filmed in Bayonne and Scotch Plains.
Along with Be Kind Rewind, is New Jersey making a come back as the film center of the world?!?
Both of these here on Dvd with little to no noise prior.
My sweetheart gave me the book a few days ago. Garcia Marquez is a compatriot of hers. Every review of the movie I have read says the same thing, the movie lacks all the drama of the book. Dull dull dull. So I was never tempted to see it. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 9:24 am |
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marantzo wrote: My sweetheart gave me the book a few days ago. Garcia Marquez is a compatriot of hers. Every review of the movie I have read says the same thing, the movie lacks all the drama of the book. Dull dull dull. So I was never tempted to see it. |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 9:43 am |
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yambu wrote: marantzo wrote: My sweetheart gave me the book a few days ago. Garcia Marquez is a compatriot of hers. Every review of the movie I have read says the same thing, the movie lacks all the drama of the book. Dull dull dull. So I was never tempted to see it. Marquez is a unique, brilliant, important writer, in a class with Salman Rushdie. He would be unscreenable.
I once saw a version of Eréndira some years back which worked pretty well. But that's a short story which was expanded a bit, a la Ang Lee (albeit not as much). |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 11:11 am |
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jeremy wrote: Perfect movies for showing how superficial Juno was.
VERA DRAKE and 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS, AND 2 DAYS - perfect films for a Planned Parenthood benefit. |
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| Nancy |
| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 11:22 am |
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mo_flixx wrote: MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY was delightful. Amy Adams and Frances McDormand are perfect in their respective roles. This is a light, romantic comedy which will take the viewer back to the days of pre-WWII London with lots of glamour, romance, and wonderful period music. The theater in Santa Fe was crowded and the audience loved the film. I wouldn't mind seeing it again.
I'm waiting to see this one, which is currently only playing in Oklahoma City. Sigh.
Quote: BTW one of Amy Adams' suitors is a young Clive Owen look and sound-alike!
If it's Lee Pace, he stars in the series Pushing Daisies, which has been renewed for next fall. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 11:36 am |
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| Two movies that changed my life were Psycho and Microcosmos. |
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