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| yambu |
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Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage drew me in more than any of his others. Neither I nor anyone close to me were having marital problems at the time, and yet that film prompted some major reassessments for me and my marriage.
Another one I liked a lot was the two-parter about Swedes emigrating here in the 19th Century. Or at least I liked the first one. Can't recall the name. |
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| Shane |
| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 12:31 pm |
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| Rod I agree complety with your nicely written assesment of Raiders. This movie never seems to pale when I watch it again and agian over the years. |
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| merlot |
| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 4:09 pm |
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Billy - I loved Tully . I think you will, too.
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 5:37 pm |
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| Yambu, I think it was called The Immigrants. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 5:55 pm |
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marantzo wrote: Yambu, I think it was called The Immigrants.
Close. It was The Emigrants. |
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| Rod |
| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 6:32 pm |
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| Oh man, last night I watched Alien Vs. Predator. My expecations were not high, especially after Paul W.S. Anderson's last two films, the boring Soldier and abominable Resident Evil; fortunately, he also made the entertainingly incoherent Event Horizon, and this was chiefly on that side of the ledger. AVP has the usual faults of these modern trash films - dialogue so uninspired it could be being read from a driver's ed manual; an excessively cold-blooded quality when it came to knocking off its supporting cast - but it provided a pretty decent monster fight in its last third; the Alien/Predator fight scenes were far more entertaining than anything going on with the humans and the breathless finale provided some thrills. Nowhere near as bad as it might have been. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 6:32 pm |
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| I like my spelling better. I was going to put a (sp?) after it but figured, Billy needs the work. |
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| Rod |
| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 6:45 pm |
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| After AVP I watched a film that couldn't be much different, David S. Ward's adaptation of John Steinbeck's Cannery Row, and like that book, it's a little gem. Actually it's based on two books, also Sweet Thursday from which the film's main romantic plot seems to stem, and I haven't read that, but it's well-interwoven with the body of the main story. Though Ward tries a little too hard in his directorial debut to make it all seem light and breezy and magic-realist - Steinbeck's saltier settings are more indelible - but it beautifully captures the wistfully romantic and comic flavour of Steinbeck's tales. Delicious performances from Nick Nolte and Debra Winger, whose dancing scene is worth the price of rental, and M. Emmett Walsh as the great bum Mac, who plays brilliant boogie-woogie piano, actually performed by Dr. John. It's lovingly shot by Sven Nykvist |
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A long time ago, but somehow in the future...It is a period of civil war and renegade paragraphs floating through space. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 6:46 pm |
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yambu wrote: Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage drew me in more than any of his others. Neither I nor anyone close to me were having marital problems at the time, and yet that film prompted some major reassessments for me and my marriage.
Another one I liked a lot was the two-parter about Swedes emigrating here in the 19th Century. Or at least I liked the first one. Can't recall the name.
The Emigrants was directed by Jan Troell. Why didn't Billy catch that? |
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| censored-03 |
| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 6:50 pm |
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Quote: Another one I liked a lot was the two-parter about Swedes emigrating here in the 19th Century. Or at least I liked the first one. Can't recall the name. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 6:51 pm |
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Rod I feel similarly about Alien vs Predator, though I found the underground search etc. impossible to follow location-wise and the acting was horrid, especially the female lead.
In honour of Cannery Row/Sweet Thursday I suggest that the next time your at the pub, order a beer milkshake. |
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| censored-03 |
| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 6:51 pm |
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| marantzo's on the caper ! |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 6:54 pm |
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Quote: marantzo's on the caper !
What does that mean? |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 7:12 pm |
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| The difference between "immigrants" and "emigrants" is not just spelling. Immigrants move into a country. Emigrants move out. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 7:22 pm |
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| No kidding Billy. I guess it makes a difference if you know if the film title is referring to the land they left or the land that they went to. |
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