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| inlareviewer |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2014 2:00 am |
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Fruitvale Station is a first for its young director. Very good performances and direction. True story, lovingly told, with some unnecessary sentimentalization added.
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2014 7:40 pm |
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| lshap |
| Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2014 9:31 pm |
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That is freekin' hilarious! |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2014 11:21 pm |
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| Anybody else notice shocking aging in the faces of Naomi Watts and Bill Murray? |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2014 9:17 am |
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"Naomi, Warsaw was raw," I moan.
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2014 12:51 pm |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2014 1:25 pm |
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| I saw Her, the movie. My opinion of it is not yet made solid, but it is shaping-up to be a dissenting one, or ambivalent at least. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2014 10:16 am |
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| Anyone seen "The Great Beauty," the oscar foreign film winner? |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2014 12:35 pm |
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bartist wrote: Anyone seen "The Great Beauty," the oscar foreign film winner?
Reviewed it several weeks ago. Will search and repost. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2014 12:37 pm |
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From February 5:
"Another vastly overrated film in a year full of them is The Great Beauty, the new Paolo Sorrentino sensation which is constantly (and deliberately) reminiscent of Fellini's 1960 La Dolce Vita, but not as memorable. The 65-year-old protagonist drifts through a series of arresting visual images in contemporary Rome, seeing gorgeous and grotesque stuff in almost equal measure, and if you thought LDV was plotless--well, it's a Russian novel when compared with this anecdotal number. People party, people couple, people die, old women wear gobs of makeup, and the sea is really, really blue. And that's it.
"Shoulda followed my own rule: if Manohla Dargis likes something THIS much, be very afraid."
For the record, this is one of the very few times my wife and I have strongly disagreed. She liked it a lot. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 8:28 am |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 12:54 pm |
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Thank you for reposting (and not telling me to go search for it, which I usually do, and thought I did, but apparently didn't, and now I'm abusing the parenthetical format). Well, I had trepidation owing to, yes, the postive review from Manohla. This kind of thing is usually a WFV with me. And so this will be.
Jeremy, I await the solidifying of your opinion. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 1:07 pm |
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bartist wrote: Thank you for reposting (and not telling me to go search for it, which I usually do, and thought I did, but apparently didn't, and now I'm abusing the parenthetical format). Well, I had trepidation owing to, yes, the postive review from Manohla. This kind of thing is usually a WFV with me. And so this will be.
Jeremy, I await the solidifying of your opinion.
The only problem with WFV with The Great Beauty is that the major virtue of the film is the way it looks. If you have a Blu-Ray and an HD this should be fine. Watching it on an iPhone 4 (or even a 5) won't cut the mustard. |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 4:39 pm |
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| Saw "Nymphomaniac Vol.I" last night. Must withhold final observations until have "Vol. II" under my, um, belt. Will just say that Lars here surpasses his own provocateur standards, indeed, anyone's provocateur standards, that it's far more of an artful intellectual/aesthetic/visceral entertainment than one might expect, and that the acting is sensational across the board, with Uma Thurman not to be believed in her late-inning harangue. Just saying. |
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