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| marantzo |
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| Nancy, you have a doll club. I love it. |
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| Nancy |
| Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 8:16 pm |
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marantzo wrote: Nancy, you have a doll club. I love it.
Yup. I've been making cloth dolls and animals, mostly fantasy creatures (elves, mermaids, dragons, fairies and the like) for years. Used to do it for a booth at medieval and Renfairs. Haven't really had the time to do that for a couple of years. I still do some custom dolls and sewing when I have time.
Our club is called the Red Dirt Doll Artists, and we meet once a month. |
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| Nancy |
| Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 8:18 pm |
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| Well, Yambu, a copy of Red River is sitting in the player ready to be watched. Will try to get to it tomorrow. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 10:08 pm |
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Nancy wrote: ....Our club is called the Red Dirt Doll Artists, and we meet once a month. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 10:34 pm |
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Nancy wrote: Well, Yambu, a copy of Red River is sitting in the player ready to be watched. Will try to get to it tomorrow. |
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| Melody |
| Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 5:34 pm |
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Okay, Wednesday.
In the meantime, I saw The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada over the weekend and loved it, flaws and all. It's set in one of my favorite places in the world, the Chihuahuan desert of southwest Texas and northern Mexico. Breathtaking country, captured beautifully by DP Chris Menges.
The plot is deceptively simple: Ranch hand Pete (Tommy Lee Jones) takes his friend, Melquiades, to Mexico so he can be buried in his hometown. It's the way the story is told, in a sort of multiple round-about fashion that's become the trademark of screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga (Amores Perros, 21 Grams), that pulls you along on their reflective journey.
Some may dislike the slow (I'd call it deliberate) pacing, but it perfectly sets the tone, allowing the story to easily unfold in both real time and occasional flashbacks. Despite the fact neither Pete nor Border Patrol agent Mike (Barry Pepper) has much to say, and even though we get very little backstory on Mike and none whatsoever on Pete, by the movie's end we feel we know these guys intimately.
The script has a couple of minor flaws which I won't discuss with anyone who hasn't seen the film. Suffice to say they could have been easily remedied and I'm left wondering why they weren't. But I love the movie in spite of that and highly recommend it if you're in the mood for a ... I was going to say "modern western," but that's not quite right. Actually, I don't know if TTBoME is a western at all.
We've got gorgeous scenery. Check.
Cowboys and horses. Check.
A loose-moraled woman with a mouth full of sass and heart of gold. Check.
A wrong that's righted at the end of two hours. Check.
Does a western require both white hats and black hats? Those roles are somewhat ambiguous here (mostly thanks to Pepper).
Does a western require a conflicted good guy? Hmmmm. How about a conflicted bad guy? Hmmmm again.
Okay, I'll call it a modern western, but I'm open to persuasion. |
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| Nancy |
| Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 7:31 pm |
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| Thanks for the review, Melody. I've been wanting to see that one. |
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| Nancy |
| Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 7:31 pm |
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yambu wrote: Nancy wrote: ....Our club is called the Red Dirt Doll Artists, and we meet once a month. Red Dirt Doll Artists. That's great.
We tried out several names, and that was the popular choice. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:46 pm |
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| Yes, indeed Melly Mel. Thanks for the review. It sounds like a movie that I would really like. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:52 pm |
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| Same here, Mel. I would recommend you copy your post to Couch. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:17 pm |
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| More like Current? At least it's still playing in theaters here. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:13 pm |
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Quote: At least it's still playing in theaters here.
In Taos as well. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:41 pm |
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| It just left here a week ago. It's still showing at a theater in Oklahoma City. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:47 pm |
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| It was here in the Bay Area for about a week, in two houses. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 12:11 am |
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(pffft....is this thing on?)
Welcome, cowpokes and sodbusters, to our first discussion, that being Red River. We'll get to the ending by 'n by, but I'll start at the beginning, with Dimitri Tiomkin's score. The opening credits featured his song, "Settle Down". I always have trouble with choral lyrics. All I could hear every once in awhile, over the instruments, was "little dogies". But judging from the rest of the opus, I'm guessing it was pretty ordinary. I don't know just when Western scores got themselves locked in a vise. Maybe we can pin that down. Of course, he shattered that vise with his theme for High Noon. |
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