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| Befade |
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| Head-On was a good flick. A lot of character development/changes. I would put Sibel Kekilli up there with the Best Actresses. Quite a range......compelling face. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 1:47 pm |
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| P.S. I saw Kevin Costner in Sizzle Beach. Unforgettable. |
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| McBain |
| Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 4:08 am |
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Several months ago I saw the movie "Layer Cake" and I loved, loved, loved it. I remember it getting mixed reactions and Brits saying it was just kind of "meh" but for some reason I just loved it as pulp crime fun. It was better than the two famous Guy Ritchie flicks, both of which I liked quite a lot. I can see that it wasn't perfectly made and had lots of crime movie sillyness, but I just had so much fun watching it. Its just one of those things. I think "Layer Cake" is the best movie of that type I've seen in a long long time and one of my favorite movie experiences in a long time.
And I loved Daniel Craig, and totally see why he was picked as Bond. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 6:13 am |
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Layer Cake did nothing for me.
Seemed to be just a re-tread on the Lock, Stock theme.
Characters and plot weren't memorable, imo.
I haven't seen Staircase, but did watch a documentary Murder on a Sunday Afternoon, which packed a punch. The moral of the film is basically don't have dark skin when walking anywhere near a crime scene.
A pretty powerful indictment/expose of the criminal justice system. |
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| Nancy |
| Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 1:39 pm |
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McBain,
I really liked Layer Cake too. (So did Syd's cat, for some reason. She actually watched it, which is unusual for a cat.) I think Craig should make a good Bond. Can't wait to see that. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 4:31 pm |
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Nice to see you enthuse McBain.
I too liked Layer Cake, but not much more than that. It was good pulpy fun, but didn't really get under the skin of the crime world.
It maybe because it is easier for me to identify with, but there is something about British gangster films that sets them apart from their American counterparts. I'm generalising, but American's sem to love their gangsters, they have style, they have made something of themselves, they are living the American dream. Certainly Copolla conflated the Corleones' story with the more noble one of the immigrant. Whereas British gangsters are usually hidebound by class and education. Their ill-gotten gains only serve to highlight their shortcomings. They are unable to drag themselves out of the mire. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 8:23 pm |
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| The French film Kings and Queen (2005) directed by Arnaud Desplechin is the story of Nora (Emmanuella Devos), a woman in her mid-thirties, a manager in a Paris arts store, and her three lovers. She goes to the country to visit her father, who is dying of cancer. In her emotinally charged state, she reminisces about her past relationships, her traumas, and her misdeeds. She goes to meet her ex-lover, who has been commited to a mental hospital, and whose past activities and present adventures are as much a focus of this film as the travails of Nora. The ex-lover is played by Mathieu Amarlic (Louis in Munich) and it is a delight to see what a wonderfu actor he is. The director of the mental hospital is played by Catherine Deneuve. Very absorbing and enjoyable movie. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 1:22 pm |
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| I saw Thief the other night. An old James Caan movie. Lots of fun, though it certainly isn't a comedy. Tuesday Weld is very good and very lovely. Wonder why she hasn't done more movies. |
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| bocce |
| Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 4:17 pm |
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marantzo wrote: I saw Thief the other night. An old James Caan movie. Lots of fun, though it certainly isn't a comedy. Tuesday Weld is very good and very lovely. Wonder why she hasn't done more movies.
ahhhh, THIEF, one of my all time favorite crimers...
despite its flaws (the major: wasting good celluloid trying to cash in on willie nelson's resurrgence), it's a fascinating look at "real" crime perpetrated by "real" criminals.
michael mann has an instictive (if not personally aquired) feel for the genre. his many forays into it are almost all classic: whether you find HEAT overly long, it still grips you. the TV series CRIME STORY was an underrated masterpiece.
i wasn't as impressed with weld as was marantz, but, hey, robert prosky's performance well made up for it as did a young jim belushi. james caan reprises his (still ongoing) tough guy role but with a touch of vulnerability. his attempt to "create" a family are heart rending in the overall context of the story.
THIEF is not as raw as THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE, but it works on the same level of approximate realism... |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 4:38 pm |
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marantzo wrote: I saw Thief the other night. An old James Caan movie. Lots of fun, though it certainly isn't a comedy. Tuesday Weld is very good and very lovely. Wonder why she hasn't done more movies.
She became Mrs. Pinchus Zuckerman (now the ex-Mrs Zuckerman).. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 5:53 pm |
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| The Japanese movie After Life (1998) is a very thought provoking treasure trove of metaphysical ideas. Several people who have just died are brought to a way-station where they are asked to relate the most meaningful memory from their life. The performances are excellent and the dialogue is incisive and brilliant. This is the third movie by the director Kore-eda that I have seen, after Maboroshi and Nobody Knows, and in my view he should be counted among the world's greatest living directors, a true disciple of Yosujiro Ozu. |
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| Nancy |
| Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 7:11 pm |
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Ghulam wrote: The Japanese movie After Life (1998) is a very thought provoking treasure trove of metaphysical ideas. Several people who have just died are brought to a way-station where they are asked to relate the most meaningful memory from their life.
Ghulam,
Is this the movie where they are supposed to edit footage of their past life into a video? If so, I remember seeing this reviewed awhile back and wanting to see it. I had forgotten what it was called. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 8:00 pm |
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| Nancy, yes a video is made of the most meaningful memory and shown to the person concerned before they are sent on to a place where they will have just one memory for eternity. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 10:39 pm |
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Had a pleasant time this afternoon watching most of Laurence Olivier's Henry V while entertaining the cat and preparing for work. Nancy was by retrieving Black Narcissus which I taped for her and she watched part of Henry V as well.
This is the one that starts off at the Globe Theatre, goes to the Boar's Head, and eventually makes its way to Agincourt, where it opens up into a battlefield. You have period costumes and makeup (although the women's parts are shocking played by--women). The reason they have to move to the Boar's head is because a cloudburst pours right into the theatre, the center being open to the sky. In addition to the players on the stage, you have a Elizabethan audience interacting with the actors, cheering Falstaff and Henry and booing the French.
The result is the liveliest version of a Shakespeare play that I've ever seen, startlingly intimate and a lot of fun. I like this much better than Olivier's Hamlet, but not quite as much as Branagh's Henry V, which is another kind of masterpiece. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 11:29 pm |
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This day is called the feast of Crispian:
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian:'
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.
And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.'
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day: then shall our names.
Familiar in his mouth as household words
Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day. |
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