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| Joe Vitus |
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Me too, actually. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 4:30 pm |
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| Inland Empire is the only Lynch film I consider a failure. But, I have only seen half of it. That's all I could take. |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 4:36 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: chillywilly wrote: I liked INLAND EMPIRE, but didn't love it. It lacked the polish and flow of Mulholland Dr. and seemed more scattered and less interesting. Bizarre, but creative would be how I would describe my two viewings of INLAND EMPIRE. were bizarre but creative? Does this mean you were doing drugs at the time?
Ha ha.. nope, but I wonder if I would have been doing something like pot or shrooms, if INLAND EMPIRE would have removed the bizarre description. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 5:13 pm |
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| Chilly doesn't need drugs. Those of us who read Mr. Popper's Penguins have seen some things, man. It renders chemicals and herbs unnecessary. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 8:27 pm |
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I was given that book for X-mas a few years ago.
I was pretty blown away by Inland Empire. Being @ the NYFF about 25 feet away from Lynch, Laura Dern and Justin Theroux probably helped the stimulus package of it all. Plus, I figured it out ----- I did! Just ask lady_w! |
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| RodneyWelch |
| Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 10:26 pm |
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| I loved Inland Empire. The great thing about Lynch is that he gets closer and closer to achieving a dream-like cinema. He manages to create a world with an inexplicable dream logic that defies rational explanation. In short, it feels like a real dream. I can't remember if I got it or not. With his movies, that often seems beside the point. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 12:27 am |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 12:35 am |
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The Bill Withers documentary he reviewed sounds like a pleasant film. I liked his music. I'm glad to hear he's had a happy life. Ebert forgot to mention Withers did the vocal on Grover Washington Jr.'s "Just the Two of Us," which is a very good song.
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 2:48 am |
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| Re-watched Singin' in the Rain tonight on TCM. I've never owned the movie on video or DVD, and I realized tonight why: I never want to get tired of it. Just catching it every year or so by chance keeps it special. What a glorious feeling! |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 8:38 am |
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Joe Vitus wrote: Re-watched Singin' in the Rain tonight on TCM. I've never owned the movie on video or DVD, and I realized tonight why: I never want to get tired of it. Just catching it every year or so by chance keeps it special. What a glorious feeling!
Take it from me. I own it, I've owned it for decades, and I never get tired of it. This is one movie you can watch endlessly. It's in my top five of all time and will never leave that spot. |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 5:29 pm |
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| I so agree with both of you! |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 10:29 am |
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We watched Funny People last night. I thoroughly enjoyed it and found myself laughing more than I expected to from a "serious" Apatow flick. The S-Man bailed after about an hour exclaiming, "you can go from A Single Man to this shit in one day?" (his utter dislike of Adam Sandler probably helped prompt this). Well, yeah, I mean, isn't that what us movie bufffs do? We watch films. Sometimes in the means of playing ketchup, sometimes in the means of selfish need, other times just because the Universe opens up and throws a film your way after you've read far too much for any one 24-hour period of time.
Anyway, I would strongly recommend this as a rental. The cameos alone are a whole lot of fun and Seth Rogen turned in one of his best (if not the best) performance of his young career. I have to admit to really liking the two "shits" the best, Eric Bana as Sandler's Lost-love-of-his-life's husband and Jason Schwartzman as a young Hollywood "star" of a Disney Channel like TV Series called -- Yo Teach! -- *LOL!*
It's freezing today, so I'll probably just stay in and read, go to the gym and a meeting later and then look up in the sky to see if anything falls out of the Universe's hands for me to watch. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 10:34 am |
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| Eric Bana was one of my Blanche nominations as Best Supporting Actor. A grievously underappreciated performance, notable for taking a coulda-been "shit" as Wade called him and revealing the many layers of his personality. I wound up liking his character as much as the so-called "likeable" people. Looooved the movie. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 11:51 am |
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| That's why I put it in quotes, billy. I remembered you liking this film. I, too, find it definitely worth a rental. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 12:00 pm |
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