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| bartist |
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billyweeds wrote: knox wrote: They did a remake of The Lady Vanishes?? It took me 33 years to learn this?? Is this any good? Elliot Gould inclines me to go ahead and rent this.
Supposed to be awful.
I saw 15 minutes of this on a UHF station - Gould was, as always, a pro, but Cybil seemed to be phoning it in. I switched over to a rerun of Cold Case.
Wish me luck, I just rented Tinker. So many people have told me the plot defies comprehension that now I'm curious. |
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| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 9:31 am |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 5:55 pm |
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Watched half of TTSS last evening. Hard to pinpoint the problem exactly, but it's more than just confusing. I mean, it's clear enough there's a mole in MI-6 and it's up to Smiley to figure it out, and they shot some guy in Hungary (or did they?) in order to guard the secret. But maybe some lady they loaded onto a boat to Odessa knows something about it. But the problem is more a kind of distance from the characters, as if I'm watching it inside a hazmat suit and everything is coming through muted and blurry. I don't really care much about anybody and I want to get out of the suit and go fix waffles and watch a Jason Bourne movie.
Will report back, on the second half. If I can force myself to watch it. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 10:57 pm |
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| You may remember that I tried to watch TTSS no less than three times and couldn't get past the first 15 minutes. It's unutterably uninvolving. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 1:06 am |
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| Bill Cunningham New York is an excellent documentary on the work and world of the noted photographer. Fascinating work. Fascinating person. |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 3:08 am |
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| Thanks, Ghulam. That's definitely a movie for me. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 4:36 am |
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Ghulam wrote: Bill Cunningham New York is an excellent documentary on the work and world of the noted photographer. Fascinating work. Fascinating person.
I'd been wondering about that.
And considering I could pass it along to my niece studying photography in NYC.
Hope it's still around. |
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| Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 5:47 am |
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gromit wrote: Ghulam wrote: Bill Cunningham New York is an excellent documentary on the work and world of the noted photographer. Fascinating work. Fascinating person.
I'd been wondering about that.
And considering I could pass it along to my niece studying photography in NYC.
Hope it's still around.
It's streaming on Netflix and available as a DVD through them. Gonna stream it asap. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 12:35 pm |
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| "Away We Go" is a quirky and funny story of a couple who go on a trek around the country to figure out where to raise their impending baby. Maya Rudolph and John Krasinski make a great couple, and there's great support from Jeff Daniels, Catherine O'Hara, Maggie G., Chris Messina, and the actress who plays "Rose" on 2 1/2 Men. A scene involving a gift of a stroller might go in my pantheon of Great Indie Comedy moments. It's a 2009 film, don't know what too me so long to catch this. Make more films like this, Sam Mendes. And be nice to your ex. |
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Sam Mendes is directing some tv movies. Richard II and Henry IV pts I and II by some obscure 17th century playwright. First timer Thea Sharrock is doing Henry V. Tom Hiddleston is Prince Hal/Henry V in the last three. I think he can do it.
I watched Hugo again, and it stands up well to a second viewing. Indeed, although it's best on the big screen (and I wish the IMAX had opened before Hugo did, I liked being able to pause it and look at the details on the toy shop, the museum, the various shops in the train station, Isabelle taking Hugo's hand for a moment in the bookstore. Maximilian licking the joint on the Inspector's leg brace, the rather odd lines of statues... I still get tears when Jeanne sees herself on screen again. |
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| Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 1:49 am |
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| but at least you can fast-forward past the SaBaCo scenes ... |
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| Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 3:05 pm |
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Finally caught up to Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears. I must have bought the dvd about 8 years ago. Even once had a drunk in a bar tell me it was his favorite film.
It's likable enough. I enjoyed the first part, but was wondering why the actresses all looked far too old to be students (from the countryside trying to make it in Moscow). That's explained when the film jumps 20 years into the future. The second half was less interesting and more formulaic. A unexpected relationship is the main focus, and we get some chauvinistic male point of view, which is more or less accepted.
Won the 1980 Oscar for Best Foreign Flick. Must be on a pretty short list of Russian films to have won that. I mostly enjoyed catching a glimpse of Russian life circa 1979. And probably not so many Russian films of that era focused on a trio of women. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 7:12 pm |
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| The Polish movie The Mill and the Cross (2011) is set in Flanders, and is a cinema based on a painting, Pieter Bruegel's 1564 masterwork The Way to Calvary. The hillside, the windmill and the people come alive, their 16th century lives and ways are recreated, and Jesus carrying the cross and Mary shedding tears all become part of Bruegel's Flanders. Each frame is like an old Flemish painting. Charlotte Rampling is excellent as Virgin Mary. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 12:45 am |
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The painting:
http://www.artbible.info/art/large/266.html
One of those weirdly overcrowded canvases.
The red coats belong to Spanish soldiers, then romping in the lowlands. |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 2:43 am |
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