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| yambu |
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jeremy wrote: .....Not sure why I opted for dominatrice over the more usual dominatrix, possibly because I find the plural of dominatrix – dominatrixes – somewhat clumsy.
Dominatrix is the singular nominative of the third declension, feminine gender, meaning female ruler. Dominatrices is its plural. Almost always, the Latin declension forms rule the English ones, so in English it's dominatrix, dominatrices.
"Roma locuta est, causa finita est." |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2014 11:34 pm |
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| Thanks Yambu, I actually appreciate that. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2014 10:09 am |
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Carrie Anne Moss, in the Matrix, seemed to be riding that dominatrix bubble.
Dominatrium = enclosed, naturally-lit space in which you are abused and like it |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2014 4:32 pm |
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Some more......
Think of matrix, matrices; vortex, vortices; index, indices |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2014 4:19 pm |
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| Billy, you once listed Smile as one of your all time favs. Was that the one about death in Morroco, a medical program in China, or a beauty contest in Roseville, CA? |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2014 4:20 pm |
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| If it's the beauty contest, it's one of my favorites too. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2014 5:59 pm |
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carrobin wrote: If it's the beauty contest, it's one of my favorites too.
Bingo. It's directed by Michael Ritchie, stars Bruce Dern, Barbara Feldon, and Michael Kidd, and features Annette O'Toole, Melanie Griffith, and other young women as the contestants. In many ways it's the same sort of movie as Nashville (satirical but soulful rendition of multi-character dramedy) and came out the same year.
It's a simply great movie which has never gotten the respect it most decidedly deserves. And Dern and Kidd are absolutely spectacular--Dern as the Junior-Jaycee Sinclair Lewis Babbitt cliche bourgeois dude but with a deep melancholy in his marrow, Kidd as the hilariously cynical has-been choreographer hired to teach the contestants their routines. Can't resist quoting Kidd's rejoinder to a mother who asks if her daughter has a future in show business. His response: "Only if Florence Henderson dies." |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2014 10:06 pm |
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| After we had a screening of "Smile" for our film class, our guest--for the first and last time--was a publicist. He was interesting, but when he described the ad campaign his agency was planning, the class turned hostile (though I'm not sure he noticed). His bright idea was a tag line of "This is [name of character]--will she go all the way?" Presenting the beauty contestants as hot chicks who were bait for teenage boys didn't go down well. Fortunately, that ad campaign never saw the light of day, as far as I know. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 5:28 am |
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| Don Jon is a remarkably well made comedy-drama, the first feature directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who has always been a terrific actor but is now also ripped like crazy. What a bod this guy has developed! Anyway, the movie concerns a porn addict who is also a ladies' man but prefers internet, unattached sex to "the real thing." When he gets involved with ten-out-of-ten ScarJo, however, his porn thing gets complicated. And then there's Julianne Moore. And his parents, Tony Danza and Glenne Headley. The whole cast is sharp and the editing is crisp and professional. It's a very worthwhile film with a rather strong comment to make. See it. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 5:32 am |
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| Silent House is a one-take movie (or so it seems, though there are moments that could allow for splicing, if you get my point). Elizabeth Olsen is helping her dad Adam Trese with their old family house so that it can be sold. Her uncle is helping out. Then Olsen gets stuck inside the house with no lights and a stalker. It's scary but monotonous, and the climax is somewhat hard to comprehend. But I've seen worse. Many, many worse. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 2:28 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: Don Jon is a remarkably well made comedy-drama, the first feature directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who has always been a terrific actor but is now also ripped like crazy. What a bod this guy has developed! Anyway, the movie concerns a porn addict who is also a ladies' man but prefers internet, unattached sex to "the real thing." When he gets involved with ten-out-of-ten ScarJo, however, his porn thing gets complicated. And then there's Julianne Moore. And his parents, Tony Danza and Glenne Headley. The whole cast is sharp and the editing is crisp and professional. It's a very worthwhile film with a rather strong comment to make. See it.
Though he's always been in good shape. I'm ambivalent about Gordon-Levitt as an actor. As he got older, he really held his own on 3rd Rock, which is not easy surrounded by that level of talent. So he clearly has strengths. But I haven't cared for the movies of his I've seen. I don't think he has strong onscreen chemistry, and I think physically he's trapped by looking perpetually like a teenager. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 3:49 pm |
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Joe Vitus wrote: I haven't cared for the movies of his I've seen. I don't think he has strong onscreen chemistry, and I think physically he's trapped by looking perpetually like a teenager.
Some of his movies have been simply terrible, I agree. But check out Mysterious Skin, one of the strangest, most riveting movies I can remember. It introduced him to movies and he was instantly a superstar in my book. As for the "perpetual teenager" look, that's nowhere in evidence in Don Jon. In fact, amusingly, one critic took exception to the now-thirtyish actor playing a young stud in his 20s. Said he looked too old for the part. Ah, well. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 3:58 pm |
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| I haven't seen any of his movies (not even the one they filmed across the street from my apartment), but Gordon-Levitt was memorable on Saturday Night Live. He did the Donald O'Connor "Make 'Em Laugh" number, including running up the wall. He's funny, too. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 5:02 pm |
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| Billy, I didn't care for Mysterious Skin, other than little moments here or there. It may be, however, that the subject was too much for me. I found the final moments very moving. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2014 11:05 pm |
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Rabindranath Tagore is a documentary by Satyajit Ray that came out in the centennial of Tagore's birth. It gives an outline of the writer/artist's life, but, since Ray elected not to include excerpts of Tagore's poetry (since translations are inadequate), I didn't really get a feeling as to why he's considered to be a great writer. The most interesting thing to me is that he was the fourteenth and youngest member of an extremely talented bunch of siblings. I got the impression that the average sibling was a near genius. Sibling rivalry must have been really impressive.
Tagore was also a painter, and some of his works are shown, but, since it's a black-and-white film, I didn't really get any real appreciation of it.
Given the reputations of the director and the subject, I was disappointed. |
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