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Befade

Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 5:35 pm

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 3784 Location: AZ

I can't believe there have been that many good films out since 2000.

If not mentioned before add:

ELEGY
and 2 others I can't remember the names of......(altzheimer's)

one has Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett. the other Frank Langella (at least I remembered the actor's names.......

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ehle64

Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 6:16 pm

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 7149 Location: NYC; US&A

I'm ashamed. Just mortified.

billyweeds

Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 6:27 pm

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 20618 Location: New York City

Also Half Nelson.

Syd

Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 8:19 pm

Site Admin Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 12944 Location: Norman, Oklahoma

Marc wrote:

I see a Coen Brothers forum in our future.

That's one I could get into.

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marantzo

Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 8:41 pm

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I'd put The Wrestler on any list of mine. Nobody mentioned it.

lshap

Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 8:43 pm

Site Admin Joined: 12 May 2004 Posts: 4248 Location: Montreal

This "Best of the 00's" is a great thread that deserves its own forum, but certainly not Current Film.

Syd

Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 8:51 pm

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My best of the 00s would be topped by Minority Report, Whale Rider and Yi Yi.

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marantzo

Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 8:52 pm

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Speaking of current, the preview of the movie I couldn't remember the name of, which had me almost walking out of my first preview, was Accidental Marriage. Did that ever play in the states?

marantzo

Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 8:53 pm

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Minority Report was good. Whale Rider was wonderful. Didn't see Yi Yi.

Befade

Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 11:24 pm

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 3784 Location: AZ

Starting Out in the Evening
Notes on a Scandal

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gromit

Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 1:15 am

Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 9016 Location: Shanghai

Ghulam, nice call on Moolade.
Superb film.
Slipped my mind.

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marantzo

Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 6:40 pm

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Back to Current Films; I just got back from G I Joe. I'm guessing no one on here has seen it. As a movie of that genre, it's terrific. I had a great time. Two hours well spent. A host of interesting characters, Not Shakespearean but it has a nice story line for a number of them. Solid action from beginning to end, with a long action sequence in Paris that is spectacular and funny at the same time. If you are looking for some fun at the movies, you won't go wrong with this one. Though Joe might find some disturbing point of view of the director that turns him off. Laughing

Befade

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 1:06 am

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 3784 Location: AZ

G.I. Joe.........Gary.........What next? (I know you have limited access to films in your new locale........but... Shocked

(I'm kind of teasing incase you didn't know.)

I really liked Julie and Julia........I don't know if it's appeal reaches men.....but it was fun to watch the women cooking and the men appreciating it. Meryl Streep was delightful as Julia Child. Just delightful. Underlying all the foodie stuff.........the film showed an interesting contrast in the marriage styles of two different generations of women. Sadly the now gen. woman was irritable, stressed, and unskilled at responding to her husband. (Was that because she was a working woman who started cooking at 8:00 at night and Julia C. was a housewife looking for something to keep her busy?)

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inlareviewer

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:07 pm

Joined: 05 Jul 2004 Posts: 1949 Location: Lawrence, KS

Thank you, lshap, marantzo, and Befade, for returning this forum to Current Film discourse, tee-hee.

Befade wrote:

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I really liked Julie and Julia........I don't know if it's appeal reaches men.....but it was fun to watch the women cooking and the men appreciating it. Meryl Streep was delightful as Julia Child. Just delightful. Underlying all the foodie stuff.........the film showed an interesting contrast in the marriage styles of two different generations of women. Sadly the now gen. woman was irritable, stressed, and unskilled at responding to her husband. (Was that because she was a working woman who started cooking at 8:00 at night and Julia C. was a housewife looking for something to keep her busy?)

I think that's part of it. It certainly appealed to this man, and when there's finally time to get a formal review done, will be addressing that aspect, which I found not only deliberate, but representative of many pre-millennial wommyn of the mater's generation, and even more post-millennial wommyn of my acquaintance/colleague-hood -- the much-belabored scene of Julie and her snipey circle rang painfully accurate, in fact reminiscent of too many Critics Circle meetings and L.A. Times meet-and-greets and opening night parties at Center Theatre Group, but I digress -- and without the unprecedentedly edge-filled performance by La Belle Amy, the film would be half as interesting as I've now twice found it to be. My observation is that, Mrs. Gummer's untrammeled incandescence as the French Chef notwithstanding, the reason that so many peeps get irritated by irritable Julie and long for boisterous Julia is that, frankly, we've lost as much as we've gained in the march to modernity, yet it always somehow falls to wommyn to carve out their own identity. And the contrast between post-WWII, roseate Paree and post-9/11 grimy Queens creates the space where the equation can blend. If there is something I found especially calculated about it, it was that, while history suggests that Paul Child was every bit as supportive as Mr. Tucci (a Blanche supphose lock for me) depicts him, it's a bit of a stretch to find a modern guy with the devoted patience (and sheer lickable scrumptiousness) displayed by Chris Messina (admittedly an inla crush ever since Six Feet Under), and yet, even that worked for me, in an old-fashioned, Golden-Age-of-Hollywood way. Also, it's the sharpest film about Living in Bloggovia that I've yet to see. Nora Ephron will never be mistaken for Jane Campion or Lina Wertmuller or even Ida Lupino, but here she done good. It's easily my third favorite film thus far this year, not just for SASSY's Icon, but for its bipolar, sweet-and-sour charm and All. That. Food --certainly the best example of mouthwaterment since either Babette's Feast or Big Night -- after Up for joyous tearjerkery and The Hurt Locker for indelible relevance.

And number 4, vaulting and head-exploding over (500) Days of Summer is District 9, which I saw last night and am still trying to recover from, in a good way. In short, it fairly riveted and roused me, which, given my normal distaste for gore, testosterone-swagger and/or metallic ooze, is its own recommendation. There's more there than meets the eye, and what meets the eye is Something Else Again. Remarkable as sci-fi, noteworthy as social comment, and a watershed of budgetary resourcefulness. Can't say that it quite reached the allegorical/dystopian levels for me that, say, Children of Men did, but it perversely tickled me that my early disdain for the hero switched to empathy, or my initial revulsion at the aliens quickly turned to bloodthirsty rooting-them-on. The final shot isn't as profound as it thinks it is, but it's still pretty trenchant and haunting. Will never hear corn popping quite the same way again, and will try to say more once I can stop nervously eyeing the Furrbawl's food.

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Befade

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:26 pm

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 3784 Location: AZ

Inla..........I'm so glad to read your thoughts on Julie & Julia......and the relevance to modern women. Of course I now want to try some of the recipes (the cakes and the beef bourg.....) I don't know if any other men on the forum have seen it. The women I know who have seen it loved it.

I'll take your advice and see Hurt Locker and District 9. By the way I bet you're the only one here who has heard of Paper Heart......which I saw and enjoyed.

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