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| marantzo |
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Now now, children.
I will be renting, The Year My Parents Went On Vacation. A very good movie that I saw last year, and apparently no one else on here has. It takes place in Brazil so, though it is in Portuguese not Spanish, Marta still won't have to rely on the subtitles.
For some reason she nixed D Cup Latina Lipstick Lesbians. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 11:33 am |
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| weedybill, I saw a dvd which contained The Last Man in Brooklyn as an extra. It's on the Film Movement disc of How I Spent the End of the World, a Romanian film I've heard very good things about. Alas followed by alack, I didn't go through with the whole purchase transactional experience due to a lack of English subtitles on the main film. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 12:31 pm |
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marantzo wrote: Now now, children.
I will be renting, The Year My Parents Went On Vacation. A very good movie that I saw last year, and apparently no one else on here has. It takes place in Brazil so, though it is in Portuguese not Spanish, Marta still won't have to rely on the subtitles.
For some reason she nixed D Cup Latina Lipstick Lesbians.
I saw the film.
Today I saw a restoration on the big screen (poor quality however) of "The Boston Strangler" by Richard Fleischer. An interesting film that was one of the very first movies to use split screen (and in a different way than I thought). It is a combination of the '50's noir style and at the same time seems heavily influenced by "Psycho." TV footage, etc. help capture early '60's Boston very well. Tony Curtis doesn't appear until the last hour, so the first part of the film is the hunt for the strangler; the second tries to explain why he did it. Henry Fonda plays D.A. John Bottomly [who was in real life International Velvet's father]. The film features early appearances of James Brolin and Sally Kellerman. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 12:39 pm |
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gromit wrote: weedybill, I saw a dvd which contained The Last Man in Brooklyn as an extra. It's on the Film Movement disc of How I Spent the End of the World, a Romanian film I've heard very good things about. Alas followed by alack, I didn't go through with the whole purchase transactional experience due to a lack of English subtitles on the main film.
As you might suspect, I know about the DVD. What I have never heard is that there are no English subtitles. Are you absolutely sure? If it's true, one wonders what prompted that sales-killing tactic. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 12:41 pm |
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I'm thinking you didn't like it. because you made no comment. What did you think? |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 12:45 pm |
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| This avatar is me in the movie carrobin was talking about, The Last Man in Brooklyn. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 1:09 pm |
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marantzo wrote:
I'm thinking you didn't like it. because you made no comment. What did you think?
I liked it, but I saw it a really long time ago in Santa Fe. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 1:55 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: gromit wrote: weedybill, I saw a dvd which contained The Last Man in Brooklyn as an extra. It's on the Film Movement disc of How I Spent the End of the World, a Romanian film I've heard very good things about. Alas followed by alack, I didn't go through with the whole purchase transactional experience due to a lack of English subtitles on the main film.
As you might suspect, I know about the DVD. What I have never heard is that there are no English subtitles. Are you absolutely sure? If it's true, one wonders what prompted that sales-killing tactic.
As always, I'm just referring to what turns up in the dvd shops of Shanghai.
Just checked online and the original Film Movement release does indeed have English subs. (I had assumed that maybe it was a European release or something).
What turns up here doesn't always correspond 100% to the original release. For one thing, all dvd's here have Chinese subtitles. Sometimes they leave off some of the other subtitles, or the extras, etc.
Even though it was listed here without English subs, they might still be on the disc, but I didn't ask to preview it, as the store employees were happily watching some mountain climbing film. Sometimes when the English subs are burnt in, they aren't listed here, I suppose because they aren't on the subtitle menu.
I do want to see that Romanian film.
And it's hard to get enough of billyweeds death scenes.
Not exactly the most artistic of covers though. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 2:49 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: This avatar is me in the movie carrobin was talking about, The Last Man in Brooklyn.
It makes a really nice companion shot to the one of you as a cannibal.
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 3:09 pm |
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gromit wrote:
And it's hard to get enough of billyweeds death scenes.
I've literally lost count of the number of death scenes I've played. There's one in the cannibal movie, one in The Last Man in Brooklyn, one in the upcoming film, one in a play I'm doing later this year, another in Kabukiman. There are several others and some more I've probably forgotten. The list is enormous. Thank goodness. Death scenes are fun to perform--and they mean I'm working!
Plus, as long as I can play dead, I'm still alive and kicking. That's kewl to the max. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 5:05 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: gromit wrote:
And it's hard to get enough of billyweeds death scenes.
I've literally lost count of the number of death scenes I've played. There's one in the cannibal movie, one in The Last Man in Brooklyn, one in the upcoming film, one in a play I'm doing later this year, another in Kabukiman. There are several others and some more I've probably forgotten. The list is enormous. Thank goodness. Death scenes are fun to perform--and they mean I'm working!
Plus, as long as I can play dead, I'm still alive and kicking. That's kewl to the max.
How old were you when you started to play death scenes? Or this something you've been doing for your entire career? |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 5:12 pm |
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| There's a character in The Fantasticks known as "The Man Who Dies." He's an actor who plays only death scenes. That hasn't been my fate. I've done many non-death-related roles as well. Of course, I haven't actually been "playing roles" for my whole career. I was a writer-performer for a couple of decades before I began pretending to be other people. But since that started (about 20 years ago) I have certainly done my share of croaking on stage and screen. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 12:31 am |
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| Tokyo Story is fine if you're in the mood for a slice of life film. It's main problem is that it is frequently listed as one of the top ten films of all time, and a film that delicate can't live up to that much hype. |
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| Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 6:53 am |
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saw THE LIFE AQUATIC...last night...
now what there is to "hate" about this insubstantial but equally inoffensive little swatch of eye candy baffles me. i enjoyed the sight gags (cutaway compartment views of zissou's ship and the yellow submarine nod). really the whole film was shot beautifully. i even liked the CGIs which ordinarily turn me off...
the now typical anderson ensemble cast was fine on the whole with bill murray shining tho, for some reason, owen wilson irritates the shit out of me. the sequence in the sub with the whole cast assembled (thankfully minus wilson) was inspired...
if DARJEELING LIMITED was CITY SLICKERS go tantric, then, i guess you could characterise LAwSZ as SEA HUNT goes psychedelic. i think anderson has spent enough storyline on the "journey is more important than the destination" concept and the parental abandonment leitmotif is now stale...
while the film is not necessarily a laugh a minute, there are enough amusing moments cemented by murray to hold it together... |
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| Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 10:52 am |
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Nancy wrote: Rented Happy-Go-Lucky from Netflix. It's not a good sign when you keep hoping someone will strangle the main character in a movie. Sally Hawkins plays Poppy, an extremely irritating young woman who goes through life trying to annoy the hell out of everyone around her. She's supposed to be cute, perky, and likeable, but she drove me up the wall. This movie reminded me of Me and You and Everyone We Know, a movie that I disliked intensely. I had been looking forward to this film, which I expected to really enjoy. Instead, it was two hours of cinematic torture, and was easily one of the worst films to come out last year. A big disappointment, and not recommended. (I didn't put a spoiler alert because I really didn't give away any spoilers, except that the film is dreadful.)
I got about an hour and fifteen minutes into it before I decided bed was more appealing. I'm going on the theory that it's Mike Leigh's revenge.
Leigh: "You want me to make a cheerful movie? Well, here's a cheerful movie."
Viewers: "AIEEE! Please Mike, torment us! Depress us! Just don't do that again!"
(Although Topsy-Turvy is relatively cheerful and I liked that.) The film does get good for a while about an hour in when she has to deal with a kid who is bullying the other kids. You can see how she'd be a good kindergarten teacher. But notice that the first time she sees it, she does nothing. |
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