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| bartist |
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marantzo wrote: Sounds a little like The Black Rose, but it is a very long time since I've seen it and I don't remember any romance.
Was Mitzi Gaynor in that? |
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| Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 4:49 pm |
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| Just gotta throw in here that Mitzi Gaynor was only okay in South Pacific. One of the most unfortunate non-castings in movie history was the non-casting of Doris Day in the role she was born to play. |
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| Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 5:04 pm |
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marantzo wrote: Never saw South Pacific.
Lucky you. Great show, rotten flick. Color filters from hell, bland performances. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 5:10 pm |
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| My parents saw South Pacific on Broadway. I have the program somewhere. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 12:26 am |
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gromit wrote: The Fall has some great looking images. And they tout it as being all real cinematography -- that is, no CGI. But I found the story about how they found and arranged and shot these locations more engaging then the story in the film. So the commentary track is pretty interesting, even with lots of self-pats on the back.
I got an undamaged disk and finished it. I see why it garnered mixed reviews: Tarsem Singh is amazing with visual imagery, not so strong with storytelling, although showing how Roy's story looks in the mind of a 5-year old child allows for a lot of interesting double roles. I thought the acting was good for the most part, including Lee Pace as the injured stuntman, and Catinca Untaru as his young audience. She reminded me of the little girl in Ponette.
I'm not quite ready to watch it with commentary on, although I bet it's interesting. |
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billyweeds wrote: Just gotta throw in here that Mitzi Gaynor was only okay in South Pacific. One of the most unfortunate non-castings in movie history was the non-casting of Doris Day in the role she was born to play.
I replied to this in the other forum. |
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| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 12:58 am |
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marantzo wrote: Never saw South Pacific.
It's terrible as a movie, but acceptable as a "filming of the stage show." The songs are pretty much staged as they were originally, and the dialogue sticks fairly close to the stage script. Rosino Brazzi is probably the only performer who was ever convincingly sexy as Emile. Billy's right about the atrocious color filters, though. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 8:02 am |
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| Joe--You're right about Brazzi, except for his first name. which is Rossano. |
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| whiskeypriest |
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marantzo wrote: Never saw South Pacific. |
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| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 9:27 am |
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whiskeypriest wrote: marantzo wrote: Never saw South Pacific. Cool. What owould you have thought of it if you had?
ROTFLMAO. |
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| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 9:43 am |
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Quote: [in The Fall] Tarsem Singh is amazing with visual imagery, not so strong with storytelling, although showing how Roy's story looks in the mind of a 5-year old child allows for a lot of interesting double roles. I thought the acting was good for the most part, including Lee Pace as the injured stuntman, and Catinca Untaru as his young audience. She reminded me of the little girl in Ponette.
The description also makes me think of Terry Gilliam's "Tideland." I suspect The Fall is a better film. I have it on reserve at library, will see in a week or so. |
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| Finished watching "Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky," which I can recommend as a sleep aid, or perhaps a way to fill two hours when you are on too many meds to focus on a book. After a decent opening, where Stravinsky's premiere of Rite of Spring is booed and heckled (to the point of violence), the story stagnates, filling two hours of movie with one hour of story - Coco offers use of her villa for him to compose; Igor makes trips upstairs for cups of hot Coco, since wife is pale and consumptive; ennui sets in; Coco goes off and pesters her flower chemist and develops No. 5; Coco ends her Muse phase, tells Igor she's "disappointed," with Igor; they part ways. At the end, they each stare into space and, we presume, have fond memories. Adds to up a rather sedate PBS/A&E type movie and is hugely deficient in Stravinsky music, which was this viewer's main motivation to watch in the first place. |
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billyweeds wrote: Joe--You're right about Brazzi, except for his first name. which is Rossano.
I even googled to make sure! Guess I didn't google well enough... |
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marantzo wrote: Shannon, did you see The Cell?
Yeah, way back during its theatrical release. I liked it quite a bit, I remember.
Tarsem (I like how he goes by one name, like a pop star) also directed last summer's Immortals, which is by all accounts really, really bad. It looked really, really bad judging from the trailer. I didn't know it was him until wiki told me. |
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