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| marantzo |
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To me the Nin's character was peripheral even though she was basically the narrator and the central person. My central character was Henry. He was the one who had a real story, unlike Nin who was a spoiled elite intellectual exploring ways to expand her life's philosophy. Or whatever.
I was very impressed with Ward's performance. He had Miller's voice and mannerisms down perfectly and he even looked like him.
Like I said, I really liked the movie. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 8:45 pm |
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| Oh yeah, Uma Thurman was also very good. I think that was the first time I saw her. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:23 am |
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| Uma Thurman, eho played June Miller, and portuguese actress Maria de Medeiros as Anais Nin, got to meet again on the set of Pulp Fiction. A fact that the playful Quentiin Tarantino would have been well aware of. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 5:13 am |
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| I thought Henry and June was hypnotic and magnificent when I saw it (more than once) on the big screen. But as a home viewing experience, without the overwhelming visuals a big screen can provide, allowing you to luxuriate in the world Philip Kaufman created, I found the story thin and unengaging. |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 12:36 pm |
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| I wish I had been so lucky to have seen it on the big screen, Joe. I bet you're right. But for some reason, I find I have to be in a certain frame of mind to enjoy, if that's the right word, it. Or maybe I've just seen it too often. Let's just say: while Henry and June used to be a favorite movie of mine it's lost some of its luster. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 7:25 pm |
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| You may be right that I just wasn't in the right mood when I watched it. I do think the movie does a better job of convincing me I've traveled back in time to the era it depicts than just about any other movie I can think of. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 1:47 pm |
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A very amusing review of The Fourth Kind, by Ebert, begins with
Quote: Boy, is the Nome, Alaska, Chamber of Commerce going to be pissed off when it sees "The Fourth Kind." You don't wanna go there. You can't drive there, that's for sure. The only ways in are by sea, air, dogsled or birth canal. Why the aliens chose this community of 9,261 to abduct so many people is a mystery. Also why owls stare into bedroom windows.
The review continues, gleefully picking apart what sounds like a candidate for any Greatest Cinema Turkeys list. A copy of the DVD has come into my possession. Can't wait.
Monday follow-up to above: This may be the worst film I've seen in the last couple years. There's an attempt to make this the Blair Witch movie for the saucer crowd, but the exquisitely bad acting, clumsily deployed mood music, and tedious repetition of what is obvious in the first ten minutes (combined with a kind of coyness in the writing, as if people living in the year 2000 might have to struggle to come up with the concept of an alien, and only allude cryptically to owls and visitors "that aren't from around here"), torpedo any hope of suspense or a good scare.
Also absent from the film is any real voice of sanity (like Mulder without Scully, perhaps), no one to step in for even a second and suggest that living in northern Alaska and drinking heavily might be sufficient explanation for murders, suicides, and disappearances. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 12:47 am |
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Sweetgrass chronicles six months of Montana sheepherding, from the spring shearing, moving the herd to summer pastures in the Absaroka-Beartooth mountains, tending the sheep in the mountains (which does not include gay sex), and the return in the fall. It was actually filmed over three years, 2001-3, and 2003 was the last year the shepherds were allowed to summer their sheep on these public lands, so it's sort of the end of an era.
There is no narration; indeed, for the first eighteen minutes, there are no words at all, just occasional signals from the shepherds to the sheep and the dogs. Later on, the shepherds do get to talk to each other, sing songs, swear at recalcitrant sheep who are absolutely determined to strew themselves across a cliff face, trying coax a ewe into feeding an orphaned lamb including the old wrap-the-orphan-in-the-dead-lambs-skin trick.
There are scenes that are really magnificent. This is beautiful landscape, and the camera makes the most of it. It's stirring to see a large herd of sheep being driven down the main street of a small Montana town, and through a forest on their way to the high pasture. And the return is pretty spectacular. At one point we have a distance shot of a pyramid-shaped mountain, and the camera gradually zooms in as we try to spot the sheep. And once you do spot them (it's like trying to spot Lawrence of Arabia coming out of the desert), you realize just how many sheep you're looking at--then you realize that one edge of the pyramid is sheep, too.
A lot of this--the herding, the shearing, feeding the sheep--is surprisingly absorbing, although there are times when the director is trying to increase your attention span. If you're having problems sleeping, the sheep have numbers on their back. And the film is really a joy to look at. |
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 1:29 am |
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I was wondering about that Syd, but I was too sheepish to ask.
I heard that the only misstep was Shaun the Sheep's cameo.
By sheer coincidence, I've been on a small documentary binge lately, so hope that turns up soon. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 9:54 am |
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"By sheer coincidence...."
Shame on ewe. |
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bartist wrote: "By sheer coincidence...."
Shame on ewe.
Ewe should lam outta here baa hook or crook. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 2:03 pm |
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| I'm too sheepish to contribute. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 3:00 pm |
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| Boy are these jokes baaaaaaaaaaaad..... |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 6:08 pm |
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| I'll dip a toe in here and sheepishly note that, while I am not prepared to comment on it in detail, The White Ribbon is astonishingly good. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 9:07 pm |
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| Yes, but did people flock to it? |
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