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| carrobin |
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| Has anyone seen "For Colored Girls"? I copy edited the book back in the 70s and Shange signed it for me, and I loved the play, but I can't believe that a truly accurate film can be made of it. (I'm happy for Shange to be getting some money, though--poet/novelists seldom get rich.) |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2010 12:35 am |
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While I enjoyed Children of Invention, the short film Windowbreaker wasn't that good and wasn't much related. On the short film commentary, the director said that he gradated college and didn't want to go to grad school. So he decided to make a short film every 3 months and write a feature every 9 months. Said he did that for 3.5 years.
Windowbreaker was his 11th short film, cost $600 to make, and got him into a handful of film festivals, including Sundance, where it was noticed, and resulted in the op to make the feature Children of Invention. Right out of the Hemingway School of Plugging Away. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2010 7:35 am |
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Marc wrote: Betsy,
thanks for reminding me that this is the Current Film forum. I'd forgotten.
I've commented on Hereafter, The King's Speech, 127 Hours, and many others of late. I comment on more than Marc does, or at least as many. And yet Marc gets his panties in a twist because I sometimes dare to chat on the Squawks forum. WTF? |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2010 11:30 am |
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Weird Toenail Fungus? |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2010 11:37 am |
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carrobin wrote: Has anyone seen "For Colored Girls"? I copy edited the book back in the 70s and Shange signed it for me, and I loved the play, but I can't believe that a truly accurate film can be made of it. (I'm happy for Shange to be getting some money, though--poet/novelists seldom get rich.)
I haven't, but here's an intriguing (to me) and positive review from Salon.com
http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/film_salon/2010/11/04/defense_of_tyler_perry
P.S. I envy you your experience. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2010 11:58 am |
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Interesting review, but it doesn't encourage me to see the film--maybe when it's on DVD.
"For Colored Girls" was an easy book to copy edit--just correcting a few spellings and questioning a few commas (I didn't want to change something that she felt necessary, but sometimes you have to point out that the meaning doesn't come across the way the author intended). She requested me as her copy editor for two more books after that, but I've long since lost track of her. Glad to see her in the public eye again. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2010 12:13 pm |
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Syd wrote: The person I call most often on the cellphone is myself, to leave myself a reminder to do something. The something to do is often recharging the cellphone.
LMFAO. (and also at your "too late" quip) |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2010 12:34 pm |
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| Billy, I thought this was the Facebook/Cell Phone forum. Stop talking about current film! |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2010 7:26 pm |
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From the Bureau of Dyslexic Omissions and Positional Clarification:
Neglected from my Social Network remarks was how patrician-delicious, in every sense, I found Armie Hammer (aided by double Josh Pence) as the Winklevoss twins, that Rooney Mara's effortless turn as the key co-ed gave me a flicker of anticipation for the Dragon Tattoo remake -- just a flicker, it still seems a redundant and needless notion, but I digress -- and, de facto, I don't meant to belittle the film or, indeed, the phenomenon that is Facebook, both enormously appreciable and obviously ingenious achievements. The movie elicited my admiration and attention; my affection, not so much, It's all so subjective.
Relayed Deaction Department:
carrobin wrote: Has anyone seen "For Colored Girls"? I copy edited the book back in the 70s and Shange signed it for me, and I loved the play, but I can't believe that a truly accurate film can be made of it. (I'm happy for Shange to be getting some money, though--poet/novelists seldom get rich.) |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2010 7:50 pm |
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| Just wanted to add that I totally agree with the "liked-not-loved" attitude most people are showing toward The Social Network. I think it's an enormously accomplished film, and remarkably entertaining as well, with two great performances (Eisenberg's and Garfield's) and another really cool one (Timberlake's), but that it 1) is far from my definition of "a great film," and 2) more admirable than lovable. But sooo worth seeing. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2010 8:51 pm |
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| I tend to have this response to Fincher where, when I first see a movie of his I love it, but then I really don't want to see it again or when I do (as with Zodiac) I'm hugely disappointed. Two exceptions: Seven, which I hated from the start, and Fight Club, which has aged beautifully. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2010 11:55 pm |
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Carol.......glad to hear mention of Colored Girls. I want to see it along with a bunch of good and bad films as I head to LA this week. I've been filmless for a while.
I did see The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest and really liked it......especially since I had just read the book and remembered all the details. The director left the important stuff in......didn't add extras to confuse.....and the ensemble of actors was great. Noomi was wonderful! |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 5:26 pm |
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| Russell Crowe does a fine job, along with Elizabeth Banks as his imprisoned wife, in the new thriller, The Next Three Days. Crowe's perf is notable in the way that he shows us a sedentary man (teaches at a community college) who is not quite cut out for heroic action, slowly (and with some great stumbles) getting it together to attempt to rescue the woman in whose innocence he believes absolutely. Plenty of close shaves, each happening fairly plausibly and without the excess of deus ex machina that too often makes a narrative like this veer into the ridiculous. Crowe makes enough of his luck here, that I could accept the occasional smile from the gods. Seems like the kind of film that's fun to watch in a theater, clutching the armrests with white knuckles, and then see again when the DVD rolls out. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 5:27 pm |
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bart--That's nice to hear. I was wondering whether to check it out. Now I definitely will.
Seeing Fair Game tomorrow afternoon. Then off to Paree for Thanksgiving. It's a dirty job but... |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 5:50 pm |
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| Watch out for radiation. Lucky bastard. And take my semi-rave with the usual grain of salt. I'm a Crowe fan, and really enjoy the stretch from English teacher to near-Maximus, but what I wrote...may be partly the adrenals talking. |
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