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| Nancy |
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Ghulam wrote: Nancy, if man eats bear, the movie qualifies.
Well, of course. That's different. |
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| Melody |
| Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 2:46 pm |
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Two other excellent documentaries were released last year. Troop 1500 is about a Girl Scout troop in Austin whose moms are incarcerated. The girls travel to the prison each month for their meetings/ therapy sessions. A couple of moms are due for release soon, and the film follows those mom-daughter relationships. Heartbreaking and hopeful.
Troop 1500 will be shown on PBS' Independent Lens series on March 21. Too late for Blanches, but recommended viewing.
The other doc I recommend is The Future of Food, a harrowing look at genetically modified crops in North America. GM crops have been heralded because they eliminate the need for pesticides. That's because Monsanto and other multinational seed and pesticide corporations are engineering pesticides directly into the seed itself, permeating the entire plant, fruit, vegetable, with poison. You can scrub that apple or bell pepper with antibacterial soap all you want; the poison is now on the inside. This movie is the Silent Spring of our time. |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 2:47 pm |
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I haven't seen the Enron movie (although I'd very much like to), but I will point out that mark-to-market accounting wasn't cutting edge derivative stuff (the kind of thing that sometimes skirted the edge of legality / ethics) in the late 80s. The place I worked at used that methodology (and I had to do it a few times), although they were very conservative about their projections; they had to be for regulatory reasons. But for what it was used for, it was much more accurate than the alternative (GAAP analysis).
I don't doubt, however, that Enron did more than push the envelope.
Now I want to see this movie even more. |
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| Nancy |
| Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 2:56 pm |
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| I once worked on a convention whose chair would be right at home with this kind of accounting. If we got something for less than we had paid the year before, she considered the difference to be cash on hand. It was infuriating. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 5:15 pm |
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| For anyone who wants to see an inspiring doc about man befriending animals I'd recommend Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill and stay far away from Grizzly Man. |
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| McBain |
| Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 5:18 pm |
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| I did see Grizzly Man recently, Befade. Man, that guy had some issues. A strange mix of bipolar and narcissistic personality disorder. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 5:49 pm |
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| There's also The Aristocrats, which I haven't seen but is a doc many seem to like. |
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| McBain |
| Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 5:50 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: There's also The Aristocrats, which I haven't seen but is a doc many seem to like.
I saw The Aristocrats. It's mildly interesting, but there isn't enough substance or laughs for me to recommend it. |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 10:42 pm |
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| I have Enron movie in my queue. But I hope a lot of you have seen Murderball. Since I work for some of these guys I put off seeing it forever, but I must say I was really surprised and delightfully so. This is a terrific movie. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 10:51 pm |
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| The French movie Look at me (2004) received wide critical acclaim and was awarded the best screenplay prize at Cannes. It has been compared to the best of Woody Allen movies. It is psychologically very perceptive and the characters are very real. The central character is a famous novelist with fading talents, self-cetered and narcissistic, irritable with his young wife, uncaring of and at times cruel to his daughter, a singer, who is somewhat obese and unpretty and who craves her fathers attention. Her music teacher, the wife of an aspiring writer, is another key character in the movie, played by the director herself (Agnes Jaoui). The story deals with ambition, disappointments, betrayals, hurtfulness and the influence of celebs in society.This is one of the best movies I have seen in the past 12 months. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 11:00 pm |
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Ghulam wrote: The French movie Look at me (2004) received wide critical acclaim and was awarded the best screenplay prize at Cannes. It has been compared to the best of Woody Allen movies. It is psychologically very perceptive and the characters are very real. The central character is a famous novelist with fading talents, self-cetered and narcissistic, irritable with his young wife, uncaring of and at times cruel to his daughter, a singer, who is somewhat obese and unpretty and who craves her fathers attention. Her music teacher, the wife of an aspiring writer, is another key character in the movie, played by the director herself (Agnes Jaoui). The story deals with ambition, disappointments, betrayals, hurtfulness and the influence of celebs in society.This is one of the best movies I have seen in the past 12 months.
I've been trying to find this movie at MONDO VIDEO. I wonder if Marc has it. Part of the problem was that I forgot part of the title...so thanks for this post! |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 11:26 pm |
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Since I work for some of these guys...
Marj--Who are the guys you work for? I loved Murderball (saw it twice) and would love to know. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 12:20 am |
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Ghulam wrote: The French movie Look at me (2004) received wide critical acclaim and was awarded the best screenplay prize at Cannes....This is one of the best movies I have seen in the past 12 months. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 12:46 am |
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lady wakasa wrote: ....the footage where the hungry penguins rend the filmmakers limb from limb and consume them ended up on the cutting room floor. Quote: Oh - I thought I saw some of that in the closing credits... |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 12:58 am |
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Head-On
Head-On is a strange movie. It begins with a seven-person Turkish band playing a love song on the shores of the Bosporus. (They return now and then to separate scenes, and, if you're a Westerner, probably wake you up.) Then we switch to a scruffy-looking 40ish Turkish man (Cahit) picking up empty bottles at a club in Germany, and drinking beer when able. Then he goes to another bar, drinks some more, goes to another bar, drinks more, gets into a fight and, throroughly drunk, gets into his car, and speeds it into a building in an attempt to kill himself. So we know he's an unpleasant and self-destructive person.
Cahit survives and goes to a suicide counseling clinic. A beautiful 20ish Turkish girl spots him, Sibel, asks if he's Turkish, and will he marry her? She has slash marks on her wrists so they have something in common. Cahit's reluctant to marry a suicidal stranger, but when she shows him her determination to kill herself if he doesn't, he finally agrees. Sibel comes from an oppressive and traditional Turkish family, and wants her freedom, so is asking Cahit for a marriage of convenience. (I think the problem is that she cannot stay in Germany living on her own; she does not want to go to Istanbul, where her sister lives.) Sibel and Cahit are free to go their own ways but Spoiler cannot have sex, because, if they do, their marraige is consummated and cannot be annulled when Sibel is old enough to live on her own.End Spoiler
Sibel is vivacious, promiscuous, and doesn't understand Cahit, who lives in squalor, is surly, and throws her out of their apartment on their wedding night when she asks him what his wife's name was.
Sibel gets a hairdressing job with Cahit's mistress (Sibel doesn't realize the sexual connection), where she finds out that Cahit was deeply in love with his dead wife, and Cahit has basically stopped living after her death. However, Sibel is starting to bring him out of his funk when tragedy strikes and things get very complicated indeed. There is no simple solution.
I have mixed feelings about the movie, because, after all, we are talking about a pair of self-destructive people who are not necessarily good for each other. The movie does get better as it goes along. Sibel Kekilli, who plays Sibel, is in her first movie, and is a natural, which is fortunate in the early scenes when you don't really want to be around Cahit. Cahit becomes more bearable as the movie goes on. |
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