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| billyweeds |
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bartist wrote: I was going to complain that S. American film should be more accessible, but went to Netflix and found it has The Colors of the Mountain both DVD and streaming. Wow. BTW...what the title of the short feature with Weeds?
You mean me? I've been in a lot of short films. But maybe you're referring to something else, like the series Weeds? |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 12:09 pm |
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The Last Man in Brooklyn
is on The Way I Spent The End of The World disc from Film Movement. A pretty good Romanian film.
Check if Netflix has The Wind Journeys.
That was a terrific machete and accordion Colombian film. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 12:10 pm |
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Yeah, you. Gromit's longer post mentions that The Color of the Mtns. comes with one of your shorts. I know you do shorts, and got a big kick out of Last Man in Brooklyn a while back. I can't remember the director's name (Benavenuto? smite me now, o spelling gods...), but I hope he is sticking with it.
Edit: whoops...yeah, that's the one! hey, it's free on Youtube! |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 12:26 pm |
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All Film Movement discs have a feature and short film.
My post above mentions which disc has the BillyWeeds short.
And these here interwebs can usually help you find stuff you're looking for:
www.imdb.com/name/nm0917253/
In Feb, Film Movement is releasing another Colombian film, Karen Cries On The Bus.
The Country breakdown of their catalog is interesting.
http://www.filmmovement.com/filmcatalog/index.asp?FINDBY=Country
I've never heard of the half dozen or so American films they have on offer. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 1:05 pm |
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| Aaah. Now I see what you're talking about. Hope you enjoy The Last Man in Brooklyn. I had a ball making it. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 2:13 pm |
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Quote: Check if Netflix has The Wind Journeys.
That was a terrific machete and accordion Colombian film.
Gromit, you might have missed it, but watched TWJ a couple of months ago. Picked it up at the terrific video store we have here. Liked it very much. It was nice being able to picture the area they were going through.
Besides being a very intriguing story, the landscapes are a feast and the portrayal of the natives and non-native Colombians in that part of the country is authentic. |
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| mitty |
| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 10:25 pm |
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marantzo wrote: I will be interested in your opinion of the movie, Mitty. I haven't re-watched it yet. I have seen it two or three times but that was a long time ago.
I don't know if I should use spoiler caution, but have just in case. 
I can imagine most everyone here has seen it, but.....
We just watched it, and we both enjoyed it, except for the ending. It seemed forced, and frankly they lost me when Edwards said he couldn't finish the contract because it was jinxed. Up till then, there was no indication he suffered from any sort of superstition. Even when he found out the contract was on a woman, the only reason he balked was 'cause he wanted double the money. I loved it when his reasoning came out regarding running around L.A. for several days.
Also, I thought the bit where the blond girl was summoned to his room was forced. I know she was supposed to be some sort of call girl, but it was just stretching it too much that she was the niece of a mucky muck in the D.A.'s office. And the music was great, definitely reminiscent of The Third Man. Scorsese's input in the special features wasn't all that special. /shrugs/ It was still nice seeing him. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2011 4:36 pm |
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| We're going to Tuscany in April, so we watched Under the Tuscan Sun. If you're going to Tuscany, then rent it. If not, don't. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2011 8:26 pm |
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yambu wrote: We're going to Tuscany in April, so we watched Under the Tuscan Sun. If you're going to Tuscany, then rent it. If not, don't.
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 12:41 am |
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| The Thai movie "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" won the top prize at Cannes last year. It is a slow pastoral showing a dying man, the spirit of his dead wife, and a princess conversing with a catfish. It is a mess. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 4:30 am |
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I thought Uncle Boonmee was amateur hour.
Barely watchable.
I re-watched Modern Times for the manyth time last night, and still found myself laughing at some of the scenes. Even minor things like the way the Tramp knocks over a ton of chairs as they escape from the restaurant. I also found myself catching little details which I hadn't noticed before. One of them just might show up in the Trivia forum in a minute. And a lot of things seemed like the seeds for lots of later films. One of the great films. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 7:15 am |
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| True, but not (IMO) as great as City Lights. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 8:06 am |
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Almost literally cannot believe I sat down last night and watched Death Wish and Death Wish II in one fell swoop. Never had seen either of these Charles Bronson epics before even though they've been around since 1974 and 1982 respectively. The first is watchable but makes the similarly NRA-friendly Dirty Harry seem like a French art film by comparison. The second DW is so ugly as to be well-nigh-unbearable, but it has a grim fascination. The strange thing is that movies like this have gotten gentler in the meantime, so that I could actually say with some pleasure, "They don't make 'em like that anymore." The language, the brutality, the almost obscene misogyny--weird and wow.
The most interesting single thing about these flicks is that one of the murderous creeps in the first film is played by Jeff Goldblum in his film debut, and in the second one of the m.c.'s is Laurence Fishburne III, who later became Larry and later still reverted to Laurence without the III. In any case, talk about inauspicious beginnings to brilliant careers. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 8:29 am |
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Interesting retrospect on the DW movies. I think Goldblum did a couple murderous creep outings before he moved up to better things.
Quote: Dale Denton: [talking about his girlfriend] I go visit her in high school and all the guys she goes to school with are, like, strong and handsome and really, like, funny and do good impressions of Jeff Goldblum and shit like that. And, like, I just feel like a fat, dumb fuckin' stinky-ass turd when I'm there.
Saul: What?
Dale Denton: It sucks for my ego.
Saul: Fuck Jeff Goldblum, man!
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 12:15 pm |
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| Speaking of silent movies (Billy did), I was watching some old Buster Keatons last night on TCM. "Sherlock Jr." still enthralls me, particularly the scene in which our hero escapes from the villains by diving through a window and falls to the ground wearing a dress. (He's put a carefully prepared paper suitcase in the window.) Of course the villains don't recognize him when they come running out. Improbable, but still original and funny. |
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