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| bartist |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 12:38 am |
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| Kabei: Our Mother is set in the Japan of 1940 when nationalist sentiments were high. A left wing scholar living with his wife and two daughters is arrested for "thought" crimes. The story, as written by his real life younger daughter, is about the devotion and sacrifice of her mother who took care of the two daughters during very hard times, visiting her husband in some rough prisons and putting up with rejection from many of her relatives. Sensitively directed and absorbing. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 10:39 am |
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| I haven't seen Smiles of A Summer Night but I'll be seeing it this afternoon. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 3:24 pm |
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| Hope you love it. It's a funny, beautiful movie. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 4:09 pm |
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Just finished watching it. Lots of fun. Debauchery I say, debauchery!  |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 7:05 pm |
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Quote: 12 Monkeys was better than The 5th Element.
In what way? (moving this discussion from tv) (and just curious...) |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 7:17 pm |
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| I liked them both but I found 12 Monkeys grittier and generally better in a sci-fi sense. I really have to see them both again. It's been a long time since I've seen them. Maybe I'll change my mind. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 1:59 am |
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bartist wrote: Quote: 12 Monkeys was better than The 5th Element.
In what way? (moving this discussion from tv) (and just curious...)
F it -- cut to the source and watch Chris Marker's La Jetee. Under 30 minutes and a stone-cold classic.
Interestingly, 12M's and 5th E are two prime examples I use of films which go off the rails in the final act. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 6:31 am |
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Watched Orson Welles' The Trial for the first time. Some inventive low-budget effects. Anthony Perkins is good as a paranoid accused, who just wants to be a good corporate cog. Odd, early in the film Perkins reminded me of a neo-Jimmy Stewart. I guess it's the lanky frame and the gee whiz indignation.
I liked Jeanne Moreau's role as the neighbor. Could have used her more. And Welles makes a hell of an entrance. The film reminded me of Carol Reed, kind of a blend of Odd Man Out and The Third Man (which of course had Welles in another fine late-arriving role .... Mr. Woo and all that ...).
I think I'll need to re-watch it at some point for a full evaluation. But it seems this was clearly an influence on Gilliam and Brasil. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 8:35 am |
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C.R.A.Z.Y.--yes, the periods are there on purpose and for a reason--is probably the best Canadian film I've ever seen. It deals with a Quebecois family with five sons, four straight, one gay, and guess who gets the focus. Actually, it's about the gay son's relationship with his father that forms the story arc, and a beautiful one it is.
This 2005 movie, which I heard about just by accident (it popped up on my Netflix queue), has won a plethora of festival awards and "Genie's"--I guess that's the Canadian Oscar--but has not been distributed in the States because of copyright problems with the music.
More I will not say--other than that the movie is hilarious and moving by turns and that you should see it without fail. One of the best films I've seen in a long, long time. In French, btw, but with great, very adept and colloquial subtitling. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 8:50 am |
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Perkins as Josef K. ? I am so there.
Yes, La Jetee is a masterpiece. Hard to believe a narrated slideshow could be so compelling. I wonder if many non-French viewers realize the title is clever pun. "Jetee" can mean a jetty or, in this case, embarkation point at an airport, and can also mean "something that was hurled" [i.e. hurled through time].
I would agree that 12 Monkeys, for all its serious flaws, is a better film than The 5th Element. When it works, it is a fascinating restatement and expansion of the core idea of La Jetee, and Willis is perfect. The future is dark and baroque, retro to the point of something from Steampunk literature or a Jules Verne nightmare fantasy. Future as regression, that's what Gilliam is good at. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 8:57 am |
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| I remember not liking The Trial at all, but maybe I should revisit it. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 9:26 am |
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| That's weird, the distribution problems that Canadian filmmakers run up against. I have a friend in Toronto who is always mentioning fine Canadian films that never make it south of the border. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:18 am |
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| Yes, Billy, the Genies are the Canadian Oscars. In 2007 Maddin's My Winnipeg beat out Cronenberg's Eastern Promises for the Genie for best picture. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:38 am |
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marantzo wrote: Yes, Billy, the Genies are the Canadian Oscars. In 2007 Maddin's My Winnipeg beat out Cronenberg's Eastern Promises for the Genie for best picture.
Gary--Have you seen C.R.A.Z.Y. or heard of it? |
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