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| billyweeds |
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bartist wrote: Thanks for Sharing is funny and warm, the naturalistic acting well suited to theme, but a part of me was asking, as Gwynie asks when she learns of Mark Ruffalo's sex addiction, "is that a real thing?" The film certainly makes a case, but it is still not entirely clear to me how a lot of the behavior differs from "young people being horny and having a crap-ton of casual sex." Maybe what I'm saying is that "obsession" might be more fitting than "addiction. "
The difference, I think, lies in the fact that some people (the sex addicts) use sex as a way to escape their feelings, the way some use booze or drugs or food.
Plus--just for instance--the Josh Gad character's actions on the subway or with a camera and his boss do not remotely equate with "a crap-ton of casual sex" no matter how you slice it. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2014 5:20 pm |
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Can't disagree with you Billy, even though I haven't seen the movie.
A Walk Among the Tombstones, was very good. And Neeson's (sp?) performance was spot-on. [/b] |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2014 9:58 pm |
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carrobin wrote: Just saw "Peeping Tom" on TCM. I had seen the start of it many years ago when I still had a black-and-white TV, early '70s I guess, and it was late at night so I wasn't really watching, and I wasn't impressed. When it came on this afternoon I figured I'd give it another shot, and it was worth it. For one thing, despite being a British thriller of a certain age, it was in color, and rather intense color at that. I still wouldn't put it very high on my list of favorite thrillers--too many Hitchcocks for that, anyway--but it was pretty enthralling all the way through.
It did bring to mind one of those questions I often ponder--why is it that, when approached by a threatening man in a movie, women always just stand there and scream instead of taking off like scalded rabbits? Men often do the same, though without the scream. Rather like those scenes in which someone is being pursued down a road by a car, and you wonder why they don't just get off the road. One of those eternal movie mysteries.
Gone Girl was nice and twisty and the ending was a bit sick, so I'm clearing my palate with Peeping Tom. Nothing twisted about that at all.  |
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| Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2014 10:31 pm |
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Peeping Tom is terrific.
Apparently kind of ruined Michael Powell's career. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2014 11:08 pm |
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marantzo wrote: Can't disagree with you Billy, even though I haven't seen the movie.
Walking Through the Tombstones, was very good. And Neeson's (sp?) performance was spot-on. [/b]
Neeson is spelled perfecly, but the title of the movie is A Walk Among the Tombstones. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2014 7:48 am |
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billyweeds wrote: marantzo wrote: Can't disagree with you Billy, even though I haven't seen the movie.
Walking Through the Tombstones, was very good. And Neeson's (sp?) performance was spot-on. [/b]
Neeson is spelled perfecly, but the title of the movie is A Walk Among the Tombstones.
I knew I didn't have the correct title of the movie, but was too lazy to look it up. Thanks for the correction. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2014 10:16 am |
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The palindrome allows one to recall the spelling....Liam Neeson has, ah, no seen mail.
while I'm here, have a q. about netflix - is the streaming service more limited than advertized, when you get it on a Roku box? We were typing in various popular and classic films, very few coming up in the library (e.g. NCfOM, TBL, GwtW, Chinatown, etc.) At some point, we realized something had to be wrong. I mean, they have Mr. Wong goes to Chinatown, some cheeseball Boris Karloff thing from the 30s, but not Chinatown? only one Coen film came up, Fargo. Truly baffling. |
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| Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2014 10:36 am |
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Barton Fink should come up, too. It's not the Roku. I have the streaming service to my computer, and the selection is somewhat limited, and doesn't include Chinatown, only two Coen brothers films, and Gone with the Wind isn't there either. On the other hand, the mail service is first-rate. That's where I got many of the Fritz Lang films.
I do a lot more streaming from Huluplus, which you should also be able to get for the Roku. They have most current tv shows, but what I really like is they have a deal with the Criterion collection. That's why I've been reviewing so many Ozu films. |
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| Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2014 10:50 am |
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Really, it all depends on what you're looking for. I have the streaming service only, and it's provided us with many, many rewarding hours watching a lot of independent films that went completely under the radar on first release (or semi-non-release in most cases). Hulu Plus has a lot of Criterion stuff but not the ones I want to see (I'm not an Asian film buff like Syd).
Drinking Buddies and Fat Kid Rules the World and Headhunters are just the tip of the under-the-radar iceberg that is Netflix streaming. |
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| Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2014 4:42 pm |
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Thanks, guys. I guess we'd need the mail service. Agree that the indie UTR choices are terrific. And nflix has noticed the Svensk/Norsk renaissance, which is good.
Tired, no Winona, anon I wonder it. (working on more palindromes to aid in actor name spelling)
At toil, yard elf fled Ray Liotta. |
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| Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2014 5:27 pm |
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Her is a Spike Jonze production, with Joaquin Phoenix as a man who falls in love with his work station computer. Sounds like a teen flick. They're gonna love it, along with everyone else. Once I got past the setup, I was a fellow-traveller with the couple as they dealt with rather mature relationship problems, but which always had this enormous catch to them.
It reminded me, sorta, of One Touch of Venus, which I haven't seen in fifty-five years. |
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| Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2014 7:33 pm |
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gromit wrote: Peeping Tom is terrific.
Apparently kind of ruined Michael Powell's career.
It's a study of the sacrifices one man made in the pursuit of art. |
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Léon Morin, Priest. Yet another Melville. This one takes place during the Italian and German occupations of a small city in southeastern France. The residents like the Italians better. But actually, the movie is about the friendship between a widow who happens to be a Communist (Emmanuele Riva) and a young and handsome Catholic priest (Jean-Paul Belmondo). She decides on a whim to go to confession and start off with, "Religion is the opium of the people," to which he half-agrees, and they start to have a long series of religious discussions as she reads books he recommends. Eventually, to her horror, she succumbs to Catholicism, much to his chagrin because he enjoyed his sparring partner. But there is also an underlying sexual tension, increased dramatically when one of her friends tries to seduce him, and she realizes that, hey, he is pretty hot and might have feelings for her.
Too talky to be a great film, but it looks great, and is one Melville film I would not accuse of being cold. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 6:01 pm |
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Diary of a Country Priest is one of my recent favorites. I'll get Leon Morin, Priest.
And while we're on the subject, this year's Polish film Ada, about a young novitiate from rural Poland, is achingly sad, until you realize this young teenager is at peace with herself.[/b] |
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