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| billyweeds |
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| Bought The Quiet Man on DVD at a yard sale for a quick two bucks. Eager to revisit it and see if I like it any better than I have before. I've always found it a bit overrated, but I'm open for convincing. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 10:55 am |
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Syd wrote: The goddess Sita is the one who underwent the test of fire to prove her fidelity (and still wound up being exiled by Rama).
Rama's great, Rama's good,Rama does what Rama should
Rama's just, Rama's right,Rama is our guiding light
Perfect man, perfect son,Rama's loved by everyone
Always right, never wrong,we praise Rama in this song
Sing his love, sing his praise
Rama set his wife ablaze
Got her home, kicked her out
to allay his people's doubt
Rama's wise, Rama's just,
Rama does what Rama must
Duty first, Sita last,
Rama's reign is unsurpassed!
Rama's great, Rama's good,Rama does what Rama should
Rama's just, Rama's right,Rama is our guiding light
Perfect man, perfect son,Rama's loved by everyone
Always right, never wrong,we praise Rama in this song |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 3:25 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: Bought The Quiet Man on DVD at a yard sale for a quick two bucks. Eager to revisit it and see if I like it any better than I have before. I've always found it a bit overrated, but I'm open for convincing. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 4:40 pm |
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| They have YARDS in Manhattan? |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 5:03 pm |
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bartist wrote: They have YARDS in Manhattan?
The yard sale was in Woodstock, but, yeah, smart-ass, they do have yards in Manhattan. Ever hear of Central Park? It was immortalized in the musical Up in Central Park with the song "The Big Back Yard (of the City)." |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 5:26 pm |
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They have yards in Greenwich Village, well courts rather than front yards.
Quote: Now, Victor McLaglan I can forgive a lot. I love him.
Me too. He was a police sargeant in Winnipeg for a while, Well before I was born.. He travelled all over before becoming an actor. One of my dad's favourite actors. The Informer was also one of his favourite movies. According to IMDB he was an Englishman not Irish. I don't think many people, including me, knew that. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 5:58 pm |
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Watching Another Year. Having to take a break because Lesley Manville is breaking my heart. Amazing to watch her here and in All or Nothing both. Also have Ruth Sheen, Jim Broadbent and Imelda Staunton. Karin Fernandez has now apparently been added to Mike Leigh's stable. She also had a part in Happy-Go-Lucky.
EDIT: Although at least Manville's Mary isn't driving in this scene. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 11:45 pm |
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Finished Another Year, which I think is Mike Leigh's best film since Secrets and Lies and was one of the three best films of 2010. Lesley Manville is so good as a deteriorating, needy alcoholic friend she's painful to watch and deserves all her accolades. Jim Broadbent and Ruth Sheen are the happy married couple that she's been friends with for 20 years, but now she's starting to slip away. Imelda Staunton has a bit part as an insomniac patient and is good as always. We have a reunion here of a good part of the cast of Vera Drake.
There was some discussion here a while back on whether Manville should have been nominated for Supporting or Lead Actress. I'd say lead, since so much of the film is about her emotional trajectory; she has a number of long, big scenes where Sheen and Broadbent aren't even present. (And, of course there are many where she isn't, but, outside of the the first part of "Winter", they didn't have the same impact. Although one of the film's themes is the seasonal changes of the garden.) |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 2:00 am |
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I think Another Year is Mike Leigh's best. Aging gracefully at its best.
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 2:19 am |
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The Peruvian movie Madeinusa (2006) is directed by Claudia Llosa who also directed Milk of Sorrow (2009). Both movies are slow, overly focused on local customs of remote villages, with obscure symbolisms and unsatisfying.
Incidentally Claudia Llosa is the daughter of Nobel Prize winner writer Mario Vargas Llosa.
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 3:10 am |
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| I wonder what his Rastafarian son has grown up to be. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 4:27 am |
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| Another Year is the best movie of last year, and, yes, Leigh's best since Secrets and Lies. I am seriously up and down and in and out about Mike Leigh, but Another Year is indubitably a great film. And Lesley Manville gives a spectacular performance, which I agree should have been Best Actress of 2010. (Almost predictably, she wasn't nominated in any category.) |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 8:07 am |
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| Also with youse on Manville as BA v. BSA. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 7:39 pm |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJzuqZEbFHQ
There's a brief moment in this, between a banana and a bagel. Rather disturbing, makes me want to go to the kitchen and check on my food, see what it's up to. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 6:08 pm |
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OK Billy:
I saw Modern Romance last week. Did like it. Brooks' character was such a fucked up, hyper screw-up, neurotic that it was impossible to sympathize with his predicament. His girlfriend had to be pretty screwed up too to keep letting him have another shot. She would have had more sense if she actually shot him. The solid proof that Brooks' character was off his nut was when he made that date with a good looking, very nice, intelligent woman who seemed to like him and he cut off their relationship before they even had a chance to have a actual date.
Actually a dark comedy. The movie he was editing was hilariously bad even though the director thought it was his best. All the performances were good. Einstein as the sporting goods store salesman was delicious.
As much as I enjoyed this movie, I think Defending Your Life was a better movie. I think it depends on different tastes, who would like one better than the other. Close call. |
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