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| bartist |
 Posted: Sat May 08, 2010 10:35 am |
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Knox, you and I slept through the same English class, apparently. I was also unaware of the "diaresis" nomenclature and was stumbling through life calling them umlauts. This explains some of the funny looks I was getting. I think.
I guess its naive and uncoordinated of me to think I can get along without diaresis. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Sat May 08, 2010 10:41 am |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sat May 08, 2010 2:30 pm |
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whiskeypriest wrote: I had severe diaresis in Poland....
You shouldn't have eaten the umlauts. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Sat May 08, 2010 2:31 pm |
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Quote: Ebert likes The Secret in Their Eyes considerably more than I did.
I thought the film got off to a good start. Interesting humor between the 2 detectives.......and a creative way of finding and tracking a suspect. I didn't like the way the suspect's fate was resolved.......creepy. And probably at 2 hrs. and 7 min. the film was too long. But it was worth seeing and after Tetro (a much better film) I'm ready for anything Argentine. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Tue May 11, 2010 1:05 am |
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The Israeli movie Ajami was nominated for an Oscar this year. It is a tough movie to watch. The pain, fear, tension and losses that some Jewish and Arab families have to go through just in order to exist is nerve shattering. Superbly directed and edited.
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 12:05 am |
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Marco Bellocchio's Vincere is the story of Benito Mussolini and his first "wife" Ida, but it is mostly about Ida, played to perfection by Giovanna Mezzogiorno. Excellent dramatization.
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| gromit |
| Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 1:09 am |
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Ghulam wrote: Marco Bellocchio's Vincere is the story of Benito Mussolini and his first "wife" Ida, but it is mostly about Ida, played to perfection by Giovanna Mezzogiorno. Excellent dramatization.
Good to hear.
That's near the top of my to-view pile, but even the top of my pile is pretty large.
One NYTimes reviewer listed that as one of his top 5 favorite under-the-radar films (or whatever he called them).
Well, a quick search didn't turn up the 5-film mini-review article, but Dargis gives it a rave (I only skimmed the first paragraph, as I don't want to know too much since I own it an dplan to watch it soonish). |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 1:28 am |
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Has anybody here seen Mary & Max or Facing Ali yet. I thought these were two of the best films of 2009 and they are both very easy to get absorbed into. I'm pretty sure I've touted them on multiple occasions hereabouts.
I sent a copy of M&M to my sister, and now my target audience, my 16 year old niece, loves it. After first viewing, she simply said it was weird, but she apparently has watched it a few times since then and now is doing some school project on the film.
I'll give you some idea of the skewed humor:
Mary Daisy Dinkle, an 8 year old Australian, has been told that babies are found by fathers at the bottom of beer glasses (cue goofy animation of such a find).
She writes to Max Horowitz, her middle-aged New York randomly-selected pen-pal and asks him where babies come from. Unfortunately, he's overweight, neurotic, has Apserger's and is pretty thoroughly asexual. He relates that he was told by his father that babies come from eggs. Jewish babies come from eggs laid by a rabbi (cue suitably weird visualization of a rebbe sitting on an egg), Christian babies are laid and hatched by nuns (image), and atheists come from dirty lonely prostitutes (image).
Philip Seymour Hoffman is the voice of Max; Toni Collette = Mary; and Barry Humphries (of Dame Edna fame) is the linchpin as the narrator.
It has an 8.3 ranking on IMDb, and I just watched it for the third time last weekend. The narration and story details are so dense it really does take more than one viewing to reel it all in.
Jack this to the top of your Q's.
Watch it with someone with a warped sense of humor.
And don't forget about the gripping Facing Ali, my favorite doc of the past few years. |
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| Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 1:56 am |
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Quote: Watch it with someone with a warped sense of humor.
Uh-huh. That might be me. It's going onto my queue, ASAP. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 8:23 am |
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Quote: Mary Daisy Dinkle has been told that babies are found by father's at the bottom of beer glasses (cue goofy animation of such a find).
She writes to Max Horowitz, her middle-aged New York randomly-selected pen-pal and asks him where babies come from. Unfortunately, he's overweight, neurotic, has Apserger's and is pretty thoroughly asexual. He relates that he was told by his father that babies come from eggs. Jewish babies come from eggs laid by a rabbi (cue suitably weird visualization of a rebbe sitting on an egg), Christian babies are laid and hatched by nuns, and atheists come from dirty lonely prostitutes.
Now we're talkin', FUNNY! |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 9:17 pm |
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Well, knowing that Robin Hood will soon be kicking "The Ghost Writer" out of the theaters, I hied myself off to the movies tonight to catch up with that one. And I liked it a lot. But a couple of questions.
(1) Why did Eli Wallach's credit read "With the participation of Eli Wallach"? Was that his agent's compromise because the studio wouldn't give him a high-profile billing?
(2) Spoiler, re the last scene: What happened? It appears that the "ghost" was struck by that fast white car--and that the car, since it wasn't slowing down, hit him deliberately. But only Ruth knew he knew the truth--even he hadn't known the truth until just a short time before. So did Ruth call an urgent hit job on her CIA-connected cell phone? Or was it a drunk driver's accident? Or are we supposed to just be confused? |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 10:02 pm |
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Carrobin,
I think your first theory is the correct one. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 10:12 pm |
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| If that was the case, I'd have liked to have seen some indication that such a plan was in motion. A cell phone in hand, for example. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 10:17 pm |
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| I just checked IMDb to find out who played Ruth, who seemed so familiar but I couldn't place her. And the light dawned--"Dollhouse," of course. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 10:27 pm |
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carrobin wrote: I just checked IMDb to find out who played Ruth, who seemed so familiar but I couldn't place her. And the light dawned--"Dollhouse," of course.
She also plays Carey Mulligan's teacher in An Education, which you need to see. |
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