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| Joe Vitus |
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| He's really good in it. I can't understand why Forster created the character though: a person whose bloodlessness is related to his love of books. Drives me crazy. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2014 8:55 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: The General is one of the finest movies ever made.
Also agree with whiskey about DDL, who I find really overrated. He was great in My Left Foot, but There Will Be Blood and Gangs of New York were (IMO) simply awful. In Lincoln he was excellent. (So was Sally Field IMO.) |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2014 2:45 pm |
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Diary of a Country Priest is about a young cleric whose first assignment is to a rural village. The people there look at his slight, delicate features and poor health, and decide not to like him. Only one person attends his daily Mass.
This is an ordinary man, with normal faculties but no experience, who doesn't belong alone where he is. He's living in poverty. He's so depressed, he can't even pray when he needs to. It is tempting to look at him as a Christ allegory, but it only fits sometimes. His facial expression, one of expectant bad news, doesn't change for the whole movie.
The landscape is as unforgiving as the villagers. It reminded me of La Strada. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2014 3:17 pm |
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yambu wrote: Diary of a Country Priest is about a young cleric whose first assignment is to a rural village. The people there look at his slight, delicate features and poor health, and decide not to like him. Only one person attends his daily Mass.
This is an ordinary man, with normal faculties but no experience, who doesn't belong alone where he is. He's living in poverty. He's so depressed, he can't even pray when he needs to. It is tempting to look at him as a Christ allegory, but it only fits sometimes. His facial expression, one of expectant bad news, doesn't change for the whole movie.
The landscape is as unforgiving as the villagers. It reminded me of La Strada.
Bresson referred to his actors as models and had a reputation for shootng multiple.takes on order to drive oit any semblan e of "acting". Which may be why he cast ametuers in most of his post Diary work. And why Laydu had so few expressions. I found it a beautifjl and haunting look at loneliness and isolation. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2014 7:12 am |
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| Watched Headhunters for a thrilling third time. See this baby--an amazing amalgam of Hitchcock and the Coen brothers that will leave you in awe. It's Norwegian and apparently is going to undergo one of those invariably disastrous American remakes. Do not wait for the remake. See. It. Now. Streaming on Netflix. (I guess this leaves Joe out.) |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2014 3:13 pm |
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| Jo Nesbo is the author of the book Headhunters. It's a good read as are all of his books. He's from Oslo. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2014 7:00 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: Watched Headhunters for a thrilling third time. See this baby--an amazing amalgam of Hitchcock and the Coen brothers that will leave you in awe. It's Norwegian and apparently is going to undergo one of those invariably disastrous remakes...
Have recently become Nesbo fan. We are subscr. to netflix this weekend and Headhunters will be our 1st streaming. thanks for heads up, bw.
?just watched....excellent, and agree it's Coenesque. Can't type well wnough on this tablet to say much but "what he said." GoT fans will enjky Nikolaj Waldau as villain. You may wish to wash your hair, post-virwing] |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2014 10:59 pm |
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I Vitelloni. Early, famous Fellini, his second solo directing effort. I enjoyed the tale of these five aimless young men who never seem to escape their home town (with one exception), even if I did wish Sandra would find an iron skillet and knock some sense into Fausto. The movie is beautifully filmed and would repay the zoom feature on your DVD player.
The movie influenced a lot of gang-of-friends movies, most famously American Graffiti but even more Breaking Away (as Rod pointed out, naming the cat Fellini was a big clue). I did have trouble keeping track of which one was Riccardo, and was relieved at one point when he grew a moustache.
Franco Fabrizi looks like some teen idol of the late 50s, but I can't quite pick who. It might even be Elvis, but more likely one of his imitators. |
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| Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 8:22 pm |
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| Fabian? Will add I vitelloni to queue. Catching up also w/2013 film recommended here - Frances ha, Short Term 12, Out of the Furnace, and The Conjuring. Drooling, bigtime. |
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| Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 8:56 pm |
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| I Vitelloni, Frances Ha, and Short Term 12, are excellent movies. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 9:44 pm |
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By all means check out Thanks for Sharing and Drinking Buddies too.
I found The Conjuring to be very oversold, but you may disagree. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 9:47 pm |
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By all means check out Thanks for Sharing and Drinking Buddies.
The Conjuring is not currently available on Netflix. IMO missing it is no great loss. |
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Thanks, we added TfS to queue while browsing, and son has never seen Zodiac, so there may be Ruffalomania night soon.
Out of the Furnace was a solid brother story, replete with Rust Belt misery,
darkness and violence. Its pretty much Bale, C. Affleck, and Harrelson doing their respective types. No big stretches here, acting-wise. Some good supps from Zoe Saldana and Forrest Whittaker. Subtitles may be helpful, everyone rasps, mumbles, or growls their lines as if marinated in booze, cigaret smoke, and coke furnace smoke. |
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billyweeds wrote: Out of the Furnace (2013) is a powerful revenge story/family drama with amazing performances by Christian Bale and Woody Harrelson. Casey Affleck, also excellent, plays Bale's brother, back from Iraq and in psychic torture, who gets into bare-knuckle fighting to make money. Harrelson is as black a villain as has ever darkened a silver screen, and he's the redneck promoter of these fights. To tell any more would constitute a spoiler, but let it be said that the story is poignant, suspenseful, and satisfying. THe supporting cast is aces--Willem Dafoe, Forest Whitaker, Zoe Saldana, Sam Shepard. Definitely one to see.
I sort of wanted the end to go a little differently, but respected the film in terms of being true to Bale's character, and ultimately showing how the brothers are alike.] |
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| Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 10:57 am |
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bartist wrote: billyweeds wrote: Out of the Furnace (2013) is a powerful revenge story/family drama with amazing performances by Christian Bale and Woody Harrelson. Casey Affleck, also excellent, plays Bale's brother, back from Iraq and in psychic torture, who gets into bare-knuckle fighting to make money. Harrelson is as black a villain as has ever darkened a silver screen, and he's the redneck promoter of these fights. To tell any more would constitute a spoiler, but let it be said that the story is poignant, suspenseful, and satisfying. THe supporting cast is aces--Willem Dafoe, Forest Whitaker, Zoe Saldana, Sam Shepard. Definitely one to see.
I sort of wanted the end to go a little differently, but respected the film in terms of being true to Bale's character, and ultimately showing how the brothers are alike.]
Still waiting for your take on Headhunters, whose director Morten Tyldum is going English language as director of the new Benedict Cumberbatch-Keira Knightley film The Imitation Game.. Tyldum's work on Headhunters already marked him as a major player. I said so long ago. You can look it up.  |
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