| Author |
Message |
|
| Ghulam |
 Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 7:33 am |
 |
|
Joined: 20 May 2004
Posts: 4742
Location: Upstate NY
|
| Saw The Story of the Weeping Camel (2003), which is set in Mongolia's Gobi desert. We spend an hour and half with a family of herdsmen, raising sheep and camels. The story centers around a mother camel, who after a prolonged and painful birthing, refuses to accept or to nurse the baby camel, and the attempts of the family to remedy this situation. In the process we get to know this family, how they solve problems, how they raise their young, how attached they are to their animals and how content they are in this remote and isolated corner of the world. The movie has a documentary kind of realism. It is a fascinating movie. |
|
|
| Back to top |
 
|
| Trish |
| Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 7:36 am |
|
|
Joined: 21 May 2004
Posts: 2438
Location: Massachusetts
|
censored-03 wrote: Quote: Nick Nolte's personal life has become so much of a joke that it's easy to forget just how good of an actor he is Some interesting "dirt" as my wife calls it.
Turns out Nick Nolte went to a guys night out dinner the week of his famous "hair" arrest photo. The dinner held at the notorious Chateau Marmont had an interesting guest list:
Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Mickey Rourke
Johnny Depp
Marilyn Manson
Benicio DelToro
Nick Nolte
As Manson has said "it was like the Last Supper of all the Hollywood crazy people." A fly on that wall might have some funny shit to tell.
whoa - I'd love to have been a fly on that wall |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
| Trish |
| Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 7:39 am |
|
|
|
Joined: 21 May 2004
Posts: 2438
Location: Massachusetts
|
Ghulam wrote: Saw The Story of the Weeping Camel (2003), which is set in Mongolia's Gobi desert. We spend an hour and half with a family of herdsmen, raising sheep and camels. The story centers around a mother camel, who after a prolonged and painful birthing, refuses to accept or to nurse the baby camel, and the attempts of the family to remedy this situation. In the process we get to know this family, how they solve problems, how they raise their young, how attached they are to their animals and how content they are in this remote and isolated corner of the world. The movie has a documentary kind of realism. It is a fascinating movie.
Ooh it was a nice story wasn't it - really enjoyed the film too - kept wondering however, how they got the camels to pose so adorablely in the closing credits |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
| Ghulam |
| Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 8:10 am |
|
|
|
Joined: 20 May 2004
Posts: 4742
Location: Upstate NY
|
"wondering however, how they got the camels to pose so adorablely in the closing credits"
Trish, I too thought it must have taken them a lot of footage to shoot those few moments. |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 9:34 am |
|
|
Joined: 21 May 2004
Posts: 5911
Location: Beyond the Blue Horizon
|
| If you ever see The Big Animal, you will think of camels as very large dogs. |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 10:03 am |
|
|
|
Joined: 30 May 2004
Posts: 12533
|
Trish wrote: Kate wrote: I watched Thirteen with Holly Hunter and Evan Rachel Wood yesterday. This is an absolutely harrowing tale of a young 13 year old "good" girl getting mixed up with and influenced by a very "bad" girl. The performances were intense and convincing. It is a cringe worthy experience especially for a mother of a 11 year old girl. At times it went too far over the top, but then again, I knew girls back in high school who were headed down that deadly path and it was really sad- hell I was one of them to a lesser degree. It is terrifying what a young kid will do to fit in; how far they go depends alot on the parental involvement and the mother here was clueless really. Not for lack of love, but she was a product of her own troubles.
Wood was outstanding and is a gifted young actress. I hope we see more of her soon.
I believe she's starring in an upcoming film with Edward Norton called "Down in the Valley"
Evan Rachel Wood can be seen now as one of Joan Allen's daughters in "The Upside of Anger." |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 10:05 am |
|
|
|
Joined: 30 May 2004
Posts: 12533
|
TARANTINO QUESTION:
Does anyone know which episode of SIN CITY he "guest" directed? |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
| Marc |
| Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 10:14 am |
|
|
Joined: 19 May 2004
Posts: 8424
|
Quote: Does anyone know which episode of SIN CITY he "guest" directed?
Tarantino directed the sequence in the car with Clive Owen and Benecio del Toro. |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
| Marilyn |
| Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 10:53 am |
|
|
Joined: 20 May 2004
Posts: 8210
Location: Skokie (not a bad movie, btw)
|
|
| Back to top |
|
| jeremy |
| Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 11:10 am |
|
|
Joined: 21 May 2004
Posts: 6794
Location: Derby, England and Hamilton, New Zealand (yes they are about 12,000 miles apart)
|
| Danny Aielllo awful miscasting aside, the critical drubbing Hudson Hawk was a little unfair. It confounded expectations and deserves to be reappraised. |
_________________
I am angry, I am ill, and I'm as ugly as sin.
My irritability keeps me alive and kicking.
I know the meaning of life, it doesn't help me a bit.
I know beauty and I know a good thing when I see it. |
|
| Back to top |
|
| Trish |
| Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 11:36 am |
|
|
|
Joined: 21 May 2004
Posts: 2438
Location: Massachusetts
|
mo_flixx wrote: TARANTINO QUESTION:
Does anyone know which episode of SIN CITY he "guest" directed?
The Big Fat Kill |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
| Trish |
| Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 11:37 am |
|
|
|
Joined: 21 May 2004
Posts: 2438
Location: Massachusetts
|
| correction - Marc was more correct it was the car sequence with Benecio and Clive that he directed |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
| Trish |
| Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 11:39 am |
|
|
|
Joined: 21 May 2004
Posts: 2438
Location: Massachusetts
|
lady wakasa wrote: If you ever see The Big Animal, you will think of camels as very large dogs.
really, do they get very attached to their owners - why the dog comparsion? |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
| Marilyn |
| Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 11:41 am |
|
|
|
Joined: 20 May 2004
Posts: 8210
Location: Skokie (not a bad movie, btw)
|
We caught up with a really nifty crime/comedy yesterday called Two Days in the Valley (1996). I didn't watch it all, but Shane taped it and I look forward to watching it in its entirety. Check out this terrific cast:
Danny Aiello .... Dosmo Pizzo
Greg Cruttwell .... Allan Hopper
Jeff Daniels .... Alvin Strayer
Teri Hatcher .... Becky Foxx
Glenne Headly .... Susan Parish
Peter Horton .... Roy Foxx
Marsha Mason .... Audrey Hopper
Paul Mazursky .... Teddy Peppers
James Spader .... Lee Woods
Eric Stoltz .... Wes Taylor
Charlize Theron .... Helga Svelgen
Keith Carradine .... Detective Creighton
Louise Fletcher .... Evelyn
Austin Pendleton .... Ralph Crupi
Kathleen Luong .... Midori
Spader looks like a real geek. Marsha Mason looks like she hasn't aged a day since 1972 (without plastic surgery, it seems). And Charlize had the most perfect body and bitchy manner of the day. She was already distinguishing herself as an actress. |
_________________
http://ferdyonfilms.com |
|
| Back to top |
|
| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 11:45 am |
|
|
|
Joined: 21 May 2004
Posts: 5911
Location: Beyond the Blue Horizon
|
Trish wrote: lady wakasa wrote: If you ever see The Big Animal, you will think of camels as very large dogs.
really, do they get very attached to their owners - why the dog comparsion?
Because the camel there acted just like... a very large dog. The main character would take it for a walk every morning (leash and all); it would stick its head in the window and eat off the plates at dinner; they built it a "camel house"; it played nice with the neighborhood kids... and the camel had big, pretty eyes and was spoiled rotten.
There's actually a lot going on in the movie - there's a whole political undertone (based on when the original idea was written - 1970s Poland) - but the camel itself was really a pet. (And cats don't act like that.) |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
