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Post by trentt on Aug 19, 2022 1:49:18 GMT 2
I liked Myrna Loy in "The Mask of Fu Manchu" (couldn't find a good clip). A dreadful one was Jennifer Jones in "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" ("we cannot marry for I am *gasp* - EURASIAN!!"
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Post by tzarine on Aug 19, 2022 2:30:50 GMT 2
I liked Myrna Loy in "The Mask of Fu Manchu" (couldn't find a good clip). A dreadful one was Jennifer Jones in "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" ("we cannot marry for I am *gasp* - EURASIAN!!" i know! i watched it bc jennifer was a "eurasian" lady doctor tzar just played this remake of rashomon starring william shatner & paul newman, who, plays a mexican! yes, waspy paul, as a mexican i present the outrage www.tcm.com/video/34099/outrage-the-original-trailer/
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Post by tzarine on Aug 25, 2022 21:03:20 GMT 2
wife of a spy starring the wonderful yu aoi who i loved as a teen in all about lili chouchou bout a westernized japanese couple and others who discover the crimes of unit 731 in manchuria & try to get the news & witnesses out like a hitchcock but darker, harrowing www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtrxaTEi0Zs
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Post by slowcoach on Aug 31, 2022 16:30:06 GMT 2
"Do the Right Thing"
A tough watch.
I may get back to this.
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Post by tzarine on Aug 31, 2022 22:02:51 GMT 2
"Do the Right Thing" A tough watch. I may get back to this. slow i found do the right thing one of the best films on race & a heat wave. gentrification. crash by paul haggis was a joke fantasy & the ending w the rapper ludacris throwing $$$$$ @ the chinese folks was too funny. thank you black man, savior cause it addresses real truths when it first came out in ny, people were fearing race riots such panic watching the seijin suzuki princess raccoon a trippy musical set in artifice in japanese, portguese & mandarin w odagiri joe & the lovely zhang ziyi
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Post by slowcoach on Sept 1, 2022 15:43:12 GMT 2
I know. I remembered from when you recommended it to me. ... slow spike lee's do the right thing is the one of best films i have seen on race. ... Somethings take a while to happen.
It is a very clever film. I guess it leans heavily on the genius loci to male it work, e.g. all set on one block, a Bed-Stuy teeshirt (I had to look that up) and local and topical Public Enemy's Fight the Power (which I didn't have to look up). In a way it is a bit like my happening to see a big event episode from a soap opera I don't watch and being moved.
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Post by tzarine on Sept 1, 2022 20:35:52 GMT 2
I know. I remembered from when you recommended it to me. ... slow spike lee's do the right thing is the one of best films i have seen on race. ... Somethings take a while to happen.
It is a very clever film. I guess it leans heavily on the genius loci to male it work, e.g. all set on one block, a Bed-Stuy teeshirt (I had to look that up) and local and topical Public Enemy's Fight the Power (which I didn't have to look up). In a way it is a bit like my happening to see a big event episode from a soap opera I don't watch and being moved. yes, slow lee does throw around a lot of nyc references also loved his do the right thing bout a woman & the 3 men she dates school daze a musical is a comical look @ black colleges, colorism , hazing & town & gown issues www.youtube.com/watch?v=snxtT7xr-nYjungle fever interracial romance spike jungle fever trailer
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Post by trentt on Sept 5, 2022 1:30:21 GMT 2
"Spoor" is an incredibly good film from Poland. It is deftly directed, gloriously photographed, and the acting is heartfelt. I hesitate to divulge too much with a description, but it takes place in a remote wooded valley in southern Poland. Various locals are murdered. A middle-aged schoolteacher and avid environmentalist has her theories, but authorities consider her a kook. Watch the rest. I sat through it without a break, a rarity; and I'm so glad my vision was good enough to watch 2 hours of subtitles. It's an excellent movie, though at times it's hard to watch.
"Who Invited Them?" - an entry in the home-invasion-horror genre, less disturbing than the ghastly "Funny Games" and way better than "Knock Knock" (with Keanu Reeves phoning it in). It's intriguing and worth watching.
By now you must know I love giallo! The latest I've watched is "The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh". Julie dumps her boyfriend Jean and ends their sadomasochistic relationship, then marries a diplomat to Austria (as one does). Against the backdrop of Vienna, plagued by a "sex-fiend homicidal pervert" who is slashing to ribbons young, beautiful women of easy virtue, the neglected bride launches an extramarital affair with the handsome Australian cousin of her friend Carol. Despite regular homicides, young women of easy virtue continue to romp around in paper dresses, take baths, walk home alone, and leave windows open and doors unlocked. Julie is stalked and suffers, regularly meets her lover to tell him "we mustn't be seen together", takes baths, leaves windows open and doors unlocked. A laughably implausible plot unfolds. The ethereal beauty of Edwige Fenech, who is constantly fainting at the worst possible moment, makes this a must-see if nothing else does.
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Post by Scrubb on Sept 5, 2022 5:24:03 GMT 2
Trentt - "Spoor" must be a film of the book "Drive your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead", which I read last month and really, really liked. I wonder why they changed the name? The original was so striking.
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Post by trentt on Sept 5, 2022 6:15:36 GMT 2
Trentt - "Spoor" must be a film of the book "Drive your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead", which I read last month and really, really liked. I wonder why they changed the name? The original was so striking. It is indeed based on that book. I don't understand the change in title, either. At first I figured it's because the original title is way longer than the attention span of text message addicts would permit. But then, how many outside of university biology departments would know what "spoor' is?
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Post by Scrubb on Sept 5, 2022 6:23:28 GMT 2
Maybe sci fi people know "spoor' as aliens sometimes have spoor. But this movie wouldn't be aimed at them, either.
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Post by trentt on Sept 5, 2022 20:12:50 GMT 2
Indeed, the alien abduction subplot is played with skillful subtlety.
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Post by slowcoach on Sept 6, 2022 14:31:27 GMT 2
To me, spoor means any number of things that could form a trail that can be tracked.
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Post by rikita on Sept 7, 2022 23:14:36 GMT 2
well, i haven't seen the movie or read the book or heard of either, but your discussion made me a bit curious. wikipedia says "The Polish-language title, Pokot, is a hunting term that refers to the count of wild animals killed. The English title Spoor refers to the traces and tracks left behind by the hunted game." - so, they changed the title of the movie from the book in polish, too, though to a different meaning ... the german title of the movie is "Die Spur", apparently, which is a very common word for "the trace, the trail, the clue, the hint" or similar ...
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Post by Scrubb on Sept 8, 2022 4:41:17 GMT 2
Interesting, Riki. I guess they just didn't like the long title, but I don't know why not.
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Post by slowcoach on Sept 14, 2022 11:08:29 GMT 2
After a three year break, almost to the day, I watched EurekaI thought then it was about greed, but now about self-serving. The characters are unsympathetic but fascinating- It is a quest film; everyone is out for something. In a way, perhaps deliberate, it is reminiscent of Excalibur. I am glad I waited.
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Post by tzarine on Sept 14, 2022 17:03:59 GMT 2
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Post by trentt on Sept 16, 2022 2:27:34 GMT 2
"The Innocents": During summertime school break in Norway, 4 outcast kids become friends and bond as they discover some strange hidden talents. Rivalries develop and take a malevolent turn. The slow pace of this film is perfect, building an anxiety that becomes almost unbearable as the quiet climax unfolds. It's an understated, unusual, and unnerving movie with some terrific acting by the children who play the four main characters.
I thought at first it'd be a remake of the brilliant 1960s flick with Deborah Kerr and Pamela Franklin (a superior adaptation of Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw"), but no. It's original, wonderfully un-Hollywood, and well worth a watch. It's so good that I predict a Hollywood rip-off with Scarlett Johannson, Zac Efron, Bradley Cooper, and Lady Gaga playing the children.
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Post by tzarine on Sept 16, 2022 8:56:28 GMT 2
"The Innocents": During summertime school break in Norway, 4 outcast kids become friends and bond as they discover some strange hidden talents. Rivalries develop and take a malevolent turn. The slow pace of this film is perfect, building an anxiety that becomes almost unbearable as the quiet climax unfolds. It's an understated, unusual, and unnerving movie with some terrific acting by the children who play the four main characters. I thought at first it'd be a remake of the brilliant 1960s flick with Deborah Kerr and Pamela Franklin (a superior adaptation of Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw"), but no. It's original, wonderfully un-Hollywood, and well worth a watch. It's so good that I predict a Hollywood rip-off with Scarlett Johannson, Zac Efron, Bradley Cooper, and Lady Gaga playing the children. the deborah kerr innocents scared the #$%^&*()_ outta me when i was little
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Post by trentt on Sept 16, 2022 20:37:09 GMT 2
Quite rightly, and you never know for sure ... is the estate haunted? Is it all the wild imaginings of a sexually repressed young woman? Are the children possessed?
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Post by tzarine on Sept 16, 2022 21:04:02 GMT 2
Quite rightly, and you never know for sure ... is the estate haunted? Is it all the wild imaginings of a sexually repressed young woman? Are the children possessed? haven't seen it in years, but i definitely thought the children were possessed by the late lovers *** saw this really fun animated petroushka from the 50s www.youtube.com/watch?v=43pyqpP3zJY
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Post by slowcoach on Sept 17, 2022 15:02:55 GMT 2
The title never stuck with me; I always remember it as that Turn of the Screw film.
I recall it having some tremendous eye acting; where you look into their eyes when they look at the horror, so you don't have to, and I for ine find that scary. It must also help with the budget.
BTB, did you watch a lot of X rated films when still little?
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Post by slowcoach on Sept 17, 2022 15:19:04 GMT 2
Not for the first time:
The Red Shoes
The vastness of the space during parts of the ballet sequence is astonishing, greater than that of A Matter of Life and Death. Both were the work of Jack Cardiff but I cannot remember the name of their production designer.
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Post by tzarine on Sept 17, 2022 17:28:42 GMT 2
The title never stuck with me; I always remember it as that Turn of the Screw film. I recall it having some tremendous eye acting; where you look into their eyes when they look at the horror, so you don't have to, and I for ine find that scary. It must also help with the budget. BTB, did you watch a lot of X rated films when still little? no but when my parents went out i watched a lot of hammer flicks love barbara steele! also in la there was a tv series called creature features that showed horror movies from all eras!
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Post by trentt on Sept 17, 2022 22:50:54 GMT 2
I recall in "The Innocents" the housekeeper telling the governess something to the effect of "They did things outdoors that should not be done during the light of day" and Deborah Kerr's eyes opening wide with a definite glint in them.
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Post by tzarine on Sept 22, 2022 23:55:44 GMT 2
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Post by tzarine on Sept 26, 2022 0:05:32 GMT 2
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Post by auntieannie on Oct 10, 2022 15:52:51 GMT 2
British comedy with Sally Hawkins and Mark Rylance: the phantom of the open. No need to be a fan of golf to watch it.
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Post by Baz Faz on Oct 10, 2022 18:11:02 GMT 2
The Ipress File is on BBC Iplayer. It seems from very long ago - they are shopping in one of those newfangled American things, a Supermarket.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 5, 2023 0:07:03 GMT 2
contempt godard w brigette bardot & jack palance & fritz lang a troubled production of the odyssey which is a metaphor for the relationships in the film jealousy, artistic conflicts
perfect for a chilly february
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