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| marantzo |
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billyweeds wrote: No, don't get royalties. It's apparently part of a montage of Channing singing at various stops on a tour. The song, btw, Gary, is titled "Anyone Who's Anyone (Is Jewish)."
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 7:11 am |
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Fast Five has gotten my attention and will very soon get some of my cash. Sounds like an irresistible return to form for anyone (this means me) who loved the first Fast/Furious and loathed all the rest.
Meanwhile, I finally saw Restrepo and am happy to nominate it for the Blanche for documentary, except that I have no other nominees. Is this okay? Well, I'll go to the Blanche forum and do it. Fantastic footage and a moving, original take on the "you are there" genre, with the most sensitive, unexpectedly profound talking heads sequences I've yet seen. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 9:52 am |
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I thought the intrepidness of the filming and the name of the film were the best parts. I also was interested in how inconsequential/potentially pointless the whole endeavor we've just been immersed in probably was.
I wish they highlighted that a little more, maybe with use of maps, graphics on where most other troops were, and some other visuals on the length of time the post operated. But I think they didn't want to undercut the mission or the soldiers involved, though I still got that impression. The film pulled back a little to discuss the wider situation/war/occupation some, but not as much as I would have liked.
You should really make an effort to see Facing Ali and Last Train Home, both in my Top Ten for Twenty Ten. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 11:12 am |
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| Finally saw "Cyrus," the offbeat indie-com that Weed and others (Ghulam? Joe? someday I will master the "search function") praised. Insanely funny and also quite touching. One of the best comedies of 2010. |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 12:07 pm |
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gromit wrote: I was underwhelmed by most of the Hollywood offerings in 2010. I really liked Rabbit Hole and that's about it. Thought there were a number of good docs, animation and foreign films.
Social Network, King's Speech and Black Swan were disappointments. A pretty down year for H-wood in my O.
I haven't seen True Grit yet.
Of the above, I've seen Social Network and True Grit and really liked both. TSN was a bit over the top in some of the dialogue, but I liked the flow of the movie and even more so the score (written by Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor).
True Grit was better than the original. It had been about 8 years since the last time I caught the original John Wayne version on TV and comparing the bother, the Coen Brothers made a nice remake. Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon brought the film's feel and flow into the current day, while still keeping the old west old. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 5:48 pm |
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| Been watching Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, which is often funny, usually annoyingly "indy" and has a completely miscast Michael Cera as it's lead. I'm way sick of Cera's schtick, anyway, but Pilgrim is supposed to be a guy who's screwed over every chick he's dated but one, while Cera acts like his usual nebbishy, incapable of taking action, self. Doesn't work. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 6:11 pm |
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| Thought you'd all like to know Earl is feeling better. Talked to him today, and we're checking out a midnight showing tonight (Inglourious Basterds, which we've both seen before). |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 9:25 pm |
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| Yikes, posted this in the wrong forum. Have re-posted in Lobby. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 5:08 am |
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| Watched Scott Pilgrim a second time, on which it vastly improves, despite Michale Cera still being woefully miscast. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 9:02 am |
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I've been doing pretty well in my viewings lately, with the added bonus that a number of films have been linked together in theme.
It's Not Me, I Swear! (Canuckistan, 2008) is pretty charming and involving. Very well handled.
It reminded me of a host of films such as Running With Scissors, A Christmas Story and even the Coens' A Serious Man. In fact there is a touch of the Coens in the peripheral characters, especially the neighbors. There are even some bowling scenes complete with camera scootering down the lane behind the ball.
There were other influences as well -- including Harold & Maude -- but it all came together quite nicely. They really handled the tone well throughout. I especially liked the boy who plays 10 year old Leon. I'm kind of a sucker for films in which one character just totally plays by his/her own rules, and Leon certainly does as he pleases. The girl, Lea, unfortunately is a less gifted actor, but she certainly looked the part and tried hard.
Anyway, a nice film of a young boy getting in trouble and not conforming to society. I'd really rec 'flixing this if it is available, I think most here would really enjoy it. An overlooked film, as I'd never heard of it before. Wondering if Gary or Lorne know this film? |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 9:33 am |
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| It's Not Me, I Swear! Nope, I don't remember it. I might of heard of it at the time. The thing is that Canadian movies don't get much of any distribution across Canada unless they have good boxoffice numbers. In Winnipeg the less money makers would show at the Cinemateque which is downtown and only shows movies at night. For some reason I like to see movies during the day and rare;y go at night and only if they are showing in my neighbourhood. |
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| bartist |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 5:29 pm |
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Something Wild kind of bored me. It's oh so 80's and trying hard to be indie and unpredictable. The characters never seemed believable.
Weren't there a lot of films like this in the mid-80's: After Hours, Desperately Seeking Susan, etc. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 11:17 pm |
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| Indeed. Yup trying to keep up with Hip. But Ray Liotta is very good. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 12:59 am |
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Lixin Fan's documentary Last Train Home (2009) shows the plight of families in which the parents have to find work in cities, leaving the children to be raised in far away villages by their grandparents. 130 million such parents go home for the New Year's holidays in overcrowded trains. The movie focuses on one such family, and we get to know them up close like we did the Loud family. An extraordinary movie. Excellent cinematography by Lixin Fan, who was also the cinematographer and producer of that other excellent Chinese documentary Up the Yangtze (2007). Both of these films are Chinese-Canadian productions.
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