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| chillywilly |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 1:09 pm |
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chillywilly wrote: Adding Another Happy Day to my must see list.
THC is one of a large and absolutely superb cast including (are you ready?) Ellen Barkin, Ellen Burstyn, George Kennedy, Diana Scarwid, SNL veteran Siobhan Fallon, Kate Bosworth, Demi Moore, and the brilliant young Ezra Miller. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 1:10 pm |
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Your screenplay writers? Huh? |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 1:32 pm |
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| THC was one of the very few characters that I enjoyed in Easy A. Not a movie that I cared for. One of the overall things about it that were ridiculous was that the high school kids were not even close to present days high schoolers. Mid 50's or maybe even late 50's but mid 60's to the present,,.no way. |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 1:49 pm |
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billyweeds wrote:
Your screenplay writers? Huh?
Oopos. Typo city today out here.
I meant "A great write up at NPR on one of my favorite and recent screenplay writers Dustin Lance Black." |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 1:51 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: chillywilly wrote: Adding Another Happy Day to my must see list.
THC is one of a large and absolutely superb cast including (are you ready?) Ellen Barkin, Ellen Burstyn, George Kennedy, Diana Scarwid, SNL veteran Siobhan Fallon, Kate Bosworth, Demi Moore, and the brilliant young Ezra Miller.
Damn. That is some cast. I saw Ellen Barkin recently on the CBS Sunday Morning show. Good to hear she is active still. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 2:06 pm |
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chillywilly wrote: billyweeds wrote: chillywilly wrote: Adding Another Happy Day to my must see list.
THC is one of a large and absolutely superb cast including (are you ready?) Ellen Barkin, Ellen Burstyn, George Kennedy, Diana Scarwid, SNL veteran Siobhan Fallon, Kate Bosworth, Demi Moore, and the brilliant young Ezra Miller.
Damn. That is some cast. I saw Ellen Barkin recently on the CBS Sunday Morning show. Good to hear she is active still.
Not only active on screen, but...er...off as well, with the director of AHD, Sam Levinson, the son of Barry Levinson, who directed Barkin in Diner. Barkin is not just a cougar, however. She is definitely still a fox. |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 2:17 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: Not only active on screen, but...er...off as well, with the director of AHD, Sam Levinson, the son of Barry Levinson, who directed Barkin in Diner. Barkin is not just a cougar, however. She is definitely still a fox.
Ahh. that makes sense now. The CBS Sunday Morning segment on her mentioned Sam Levinson, soon after they discussed (in very limited form) her marriage to Ron Perelman. |
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| shannon |
| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 3:05 pm |
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| I'm in Billy's camp re: Hugo. I had no problem with the pacing, as he did - I thought it flew by - but at the end of it, my reaction was basically "so... that's it?" It felt like it was missing scenes or something, nothing ever really added up. Still, I enjoyed it and it's well worth seeing, but I don't get all the hoopla. Of the two 3D movies I've seen (the other being Avatar, for which I want my money back), this is the only one in which the 3D seems justified. I can't imagine it working half as well in 2D. (The funniest joke is that 3D close-up of Sascha Baron Cohen's head, for instance.) I may see it again, just because it was real cool and I doubt I'll ever have another chance to see it in 3D. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 4:44 pm |
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Quote: I would have preferred a documentary about film preservation to a soap opera about an elderly filmmaker who has lost his dreams. I think the former might have been more deeply felt.
If Hugo is a soap opera, I must start watching more daytime TV. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 5:40 pm |
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Saw The Iron Lady, featuring Meryl Streep's newly-awarded performance as Margaret Thatcher. The performance is impeccable, marvelous, detailed, entertaining, and everything else you might expect from Streep with an English accent and a famous "character." The problem--and yes, there is one--is that Streep's performance is all there is to the movie. It's directed by Phyliida Lloyd, who gives it about as much depth as she gave Mamma Mia! Event follows event with no particular rhythm, and every once in a while we get Streep and Jim Broadbent as her husband chit-chatting about this and that--the price of milk, Yul Brynner's bio--or dancing. She's vulnerable, you see--not quite "the iron lady," as if we didn't see that coming a mile away. The film is never boring but never galvanizing either, despite Streep's superb effort.
And I've seldom if ever been as annoyed by soundtrack music. It never lets up, sometimes all but drowning out the dialogue.
I still prefer Streep when she seems to be trying less hard--Postcards from the Edge, Defending Your Life, The River Wild. Inla, tell me I'm crazy. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:05 am |
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| I'm happy that no one depends on me for film reviews, because there are many kinds/genres of film I have no interest in. A list (CUE: Gilbert & Sullivan) would be boring, but I can tell you Films About Margaret Thatcher would be near the top. Generally, if it's a bio, I'd rather read one. Exception being musical biopics where you gets an earload of good music on a good theater sound system. Like Amadeus. Or a concert docu like Stop Making Sense. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:30 am |
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Although it is not at all my cup of tea, Melancholia is by far my favorite of all the Lars von Trier movies. The clan in Melacholia makes anything in Chekhov look like Father Knows Best, or at least All in the Family. Weird people doing weird things in a style that reminds me more of Ingmar Bergman or Michelangelo Antonioni than anything else von Trier has done previously. Kirsten Dunst is very good indeed, but she's more than matched by Charlotte Gainsbourg as her sister, and in her few moments on screen the great Charlotte Rampling creates a memorably unbearable matriarch. Also to be admired is Kiefer Sutherland for keeping his considerable charisma in check and performing straight-man duties successfully.
The music is Wagnerian, the mood operatically in tune with Wagner. The effect is large and impressive. I very much admire this film without coming close to "liking" it in any way. |
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| Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 12:08 pm |
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bartist wrote: I'm happy that no one depends on me for film reviews, because there are many kinds/genres of film I have no interest in. A list (CUE: Gilbert & Sullivan) would be boring, but I can tell you Films About Margaret Thatcher would be near the top. Generally, if it's a bio, I'd rather read one. Exception being musical biopics where you gets an earload of good music on a good theater sound system. Like Amadeus. Or a concert docu like Stop Making Sense. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 12:24 pm |
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| The only way I'd go to a Thatcher biographical film would be if Lady Gaga were playing her--or maybe Brian Bedford (he was an excellent Lady Bracknell). |
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