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| Marj |
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Please Give sounds very intriguing, and what an impressive cast!
Gromit, I've had Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky in my "save" queue for months. I've also seen both Coco Chanel movies. The Audry Tattou film far surpasses the Lifetime movie but neither are what I'd call great films. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 4:26 pm |
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| Lovely And Amazing is lovely and amazing and features a stunning performance by Emily Mortimer. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sun May 02, 2010 3:06 am |
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| The Good, The Bad and The Weird, a Korean spaghetti western, is a blast. |
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| lshap |
| Posted: Sun May 02, 2010 7:23 am |
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Coupla' things:
1) Billy, I think, dissed Gran Torino, a film I loved. True, it was Clint doing Clint, but even if the extra pathos he brought to the role did nothing for you, how could you not be moved by one of film's iconic characters having one last kick at the can before he fades into the sunset? The scene where 78-year-old Clint glares down a pack of young gangsters was worth the ticket price alone.
2) Saw Kick-Ass last night. Holy shit - I was expecting Napolean Dynamite and got Kill Bill! That is a very, very good exchange rate, by the way. Based on the silly title and premise, this is a film I never would've seen had I not read the reviews here, so thanks to all who recommended it. |
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| lshap |
| Posted: Sun May 02, 2010 7:24 am |
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lshap wrote: so thanks to all who recommended it.
Except you, Marc. I never read anything you write. |
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| Earl |
| Posted: Sun May 02, 2010 10:55 pm |
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Joe Vitus wrote: My DSL package came today (I'm at work right now). First priority is to get a bio and electronic copy of a story off tomorrow for an anhology that is publishing me—Gay City, Vol. 3, on sale in June. I'm hoping to have a Kick Ass review in the next couple of days. I've been writing sentences in my head, if that means anything.
Earl should write one, too. I like his reviews.
Thanks. Been meaning to, but work seems to be picking up again (a good thing) so I'm busy with that.
I also saw No One Knows About Persian Cats today and found its energy and underdog pluck very touching. I want to write more about that one as well.
Congrats on the anthology. You didn't mention that the other night. |
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| knox |
| Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 8:58 am |
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No One Knows About Persian Cats --
Earl, you would think that this film....
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117979/
....would have corrected the situation.
Also, thanks for your reply to Barton's post in re Cache at the other forum, which took me back to some interesting water-cooler chats I had about that film at the time it first came out. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 10:23 am |
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Glad work's picking up. We're about to go on hiatus and I could only pick up one summer class. So I'll be living on water and saltines for the next three months.  |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 11:38 am |
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In that case, I'll send you a few. Oh, I can't. I don't have your new address.
PM me. OK? |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 12:07 am |
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Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer is better than what the reviews said. The story about a Tony Blair like P.M. and the tentacles of the C.I.A., is a bit over the top and yet it turns out to be a fine thriller.
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| Marc |
| Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 2:41 am |
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| The Ian Dury biopic Sex, Drugs And Rock And Roll is a tone deaf mess, manic and formless, witless, depressing and lacking in any insight to the man or his music. Dury is depicted as a charmless, self-centered, neurotic asshole. Unrelenting dreary. The film makers do not seem in the least bit interested in exploring what made Ian's music loved by millions. Avoid like a bad case of the clap. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 5:23 pm |
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The Losers was a pleasant way to while away a couple of hours while losing a couple of brain cells. A special ops team of five (each with a particular specialty, of course) has called a bombing raid a drug operation in Bolivia when they realize the site is full of kids to be used as mules. So the leader calls in an abort, but a mysterious individual identifying himself as "Max" refuses to. Our heroes rescue the kids by using lots of ammo, escape just ahead of the bombing raid (for once they don't outrun the fireball). put the kids on the helicopters meant to airlift them out, then...
Well, our heroes know enough to lay low when a beautiful woman picks up the leader in a hotel, they go up to his room, and promptly get into a martial arts fight which burns the hotel. This is this movie's version of a meet cute, and the woman offers the team to get back at Max. For some reason, the rest of the team is dubious about this offer coming from a woman they've never met who claims to know someone else they've never met, never heard of except in that one radio conversation, and have no idea of whose identity.
So of course, they all go for this, and there's lots of moving around the world, blowing things up, compromising databases, and trying to prevent Max from committing terrorism. (Max is an environmentalist. He specializes in destroying cities in an ecologically benign matter.)
The dubious beautiful femme is Zoë Saldana of Avatar and Star Trek (and one of the Pirates of the Caribbean), and she's easily the best thing in the movie. Zoë* is indeed beautiful, dangerous and lithe; she's a pretty decent actress. She's come a long way from being Britney Spears' sidekick in Crossroads.
*There are four possible ways to correctly spell Zoe Saldana's name; you can put on or leave the diaresis and put on or leave a tilde over the "n." She's used all four spellings in film credits. |
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| knox |
| Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 9:54 am |
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I wouldn't want anything called diaresis applied to my name. I thought those babies were called "umlauts."
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| Syd |
| Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 4:21 pm |
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knox wrote: I wouldn't want anything called diaresis applied to my name. I thought those babies were called "umlauts."
They're called diareses if they indicate the second vowel is pronounced separately from the first, as in Zoë and Chloë, Boötes. We tend to drop them in English words (coördinate) so we can laugh at people learning the language.
Umlauts are a kind of accent mark indicating a change in pronunciation of a vowel. In German, it means a back vowel (a, o or u) is pronounced toward the front of the mouth. |
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| lshap |
| Posted: Fri May 07, 2010 5:18 pm |
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| Zoe Saldana conjures up many things. Spelling isn't one of them. |
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