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Post by Tilly Star on Feb 25, 2016 12:08:31 GMT 2
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Post by tzarine on Mar 6, 2016 10:53:35 GMT 2
tilly
t hids is auditioning for bond & sophie & the other female character were paper cut outs but everything else is totally watchable
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Post by wikki on Mar 8, 2016 14:28:43 GMT 2
I watched Mahana last week. It's a New Zealand movie. I hope it will come into movie theater outside if New Zealand. It's written by the same guy who wrote Whale rider. On my list to watch is the Hateful 8.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 25, 2016 3:04:14 GMT 2
summer of 42
sweet coming of age flick set in cape cod starring jennifer oneill w a lovely performance by the lead boy tzar got all nostalgic
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Post by tzarine on Jun 12, 2016 1:07:36 GMT 2
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Post by tzarine on Feb 28, 2017 6:25:22 GMT 2
after the storm hirokzau kore eda's about a man who published a novel in his youth but has fallen & is determined to get his son back one weekend he's stuck @ his mother's w his ex & son funny, touching
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Post by tzarine on Mar 2, 2017 19:13:55 GMT 2
diva the adventures of jules et cynthia - postman et singer there' the corrupt police superintendent, the taiwanese counterfeiters, priest, the zen detective et alba great score, chase scenes in paris metro witty my summer movie for about 20 years
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Post by slowcoach on Mar 4, 2017 15:38:26 GMT 2
summer of 42 sweet coming of age flick set in cape cod starring jennifer oneill w a lovely performance by the lead boy tzar got all nostalgic Lord, I saw that first time round at my local cinema not long before it closed (early 1970s). Their last picture was a reshowing of "Paint Your Wagon", I went to the last matinee which I think was the very last show, it was almost a private viewing and that was that, sad but inevitable.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 4, 2017 16:43:05 GMT 2
there were some great flicks from the 70s another fav is chinatown dunaway as a haunted woman nicholson before he became a caricature
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Post by tzarine on Apr 2, 2017 21:36:10 GMT 2
hour of the wolf bergman's look @ a missing artist as described by his wife, the wonderful liv ullman dark & strange without the humor of fellini or bunuel
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Post by tzarine on Apr 5, 2017 3:04:39 GMT 2
a bout de souffle godard et belmondo et seberg
tzarevich is enjoying this one
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Post by tzarine on Jun 5, 2017 18:41:10 GMT 2
wikki
loved whale rider!
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Post by wikki on Jun 7, 2017 21:13:53 GMT 2
Did you manage to see Mahana? Diffrent to whale rider but still very good.
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Post by tzarine on Jun 9, 2017 3:27:57 GMT 2
no will put on the massive list of to sees
seiji - fish on land
a student on a bike trip, the owner of a cafe & the manager beautifully shot evocative moving flick
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Post by tzarine on Jun 15, 2017 4:08:00 GMT 2
a brighter summer day by the brilliant late edward yang
a coming of age tale set in post war taiwan against the backdrop of anti communism & the influx of american pop culture
i have only seen the 3 hour version the full 4 we will watch soon
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Post by tiltedflipcurves on Jun 15, 2017 20:38:14 GMT 2
Child of God (2013) -- 200 proof Southern Gothic (based on a Cormac McCarthy story, directed by James Franco)
Fish Story
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Post by sophie on Jun 16, 2017 2:15:06 GMT 2
Deadpool. It was on, I was not into reading that evening and I started watching it. Some very witty moments along with all the typical mayhem and murder one would get in this sort of movie. Not sure if I would actually recommend it, but it was entertaining for a brain dead kind of evening.
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Post by tzarine on Jun 16, 2017 6:50:34 GMT 2
the year of living dangerously rollicking tale of politics in indonesia early peter weir
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Post by wikki on Jun 18, 2017 20:18:47 GMT 2
Hunt for the wilderpeople. It's a funny movie with a serious base. Another kiwi movie.
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Post by slowcoach on Jun 21, 2017 11:32:19 GMT 2
I am meant to be decluttering and I am going through my video collection, VHS if you remember that.
Videos are a bit less friendly than books as you can never be quite sure as to what is really on them, or even that they are fit for purpose. Most are indexed but there is no over all register of what I have. Going through them is turning up some wonderful old films, not exactly blockbusters but I don't bust blocks. These are a few that come back to mind.
The Conversation (on a tape with) The Colour of Pomegranates, Badlands The Goalkeepers Fear of the Penalty THX 1138 The Philadelphia Story The Trial (1962) Touch of Evil Viridiana La Cabina (A Spanish made for TV short) The Cars That Ate Paris Napolean Brighton Rock Le Salaire de la Peur Kanal Sunset Boulevard
My problem is that I so quickly forget. Were I to look again through the small fraction I have so far examined I could come up with a completely different list.
Edited to add:
I think I should also have:
Los Olvidados Razorback The Leopard Leo the Last The Swimmer
which would be good if true.
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Post by tzarine on Jun 26, 2017 16:10:59 GMT 2
slow
thanks for the reminder of los olvidas
yes yes yes to touch of evil could welles transform himself anymore?
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Post by slowcoach on Jul 1, 2017 13:21:46 GMT 2
Touch of Evil is to be recommended, he somehow manages to get an effective performance out of Charles Heston (not my favourite actor). Even ignoring the film buff trivia, opening crane shot, and prefiguring Psycho, watching it is time not wasted. The cameo by Marlene that steal the show.
Found "The Swimmer" which I watched along with "Go Tell the Spartans" which I guess is also not well known.
Also found, "Yojimbo" and the Rosselini trilogy "Rome, Open City", "Paisà", "Germany, Year Zero",
Found "Intervista" still looking for "La Strada" and "Amarcord" and his more famous titles.
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Post by slowcoach on Jul 3, 2017 14:45:34 GMT 2
Just found and watched a decent copy of one of my favourite films and which I consider to be one of a handful of really great films. A dark noir set in mid-fifties New York starring two New Yorkers, taking misanthropy and misogyny to depths unplumbed, it is desperately unpleasant.
Unless it has had a recent revival it may be a mostly unknown box office flop, except I suspect in New York which dominates the action throughout. Brilliantly written with sharply funny lines that don't make you laugh, "Sweet Smell of Success" is a hammer blow in B&W.
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Post by tzarine on Oct 18, 2017 2:35:38 GMT 2
love sweet smell of success lancaster is so nasty
also love amarcord
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Post by tiltedflipcurves on Oct 18, 2017 11:54:56 GMT 2
Watched Wild at Heart last night, saw it when released but not since. Not perfect, but great.
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Post by tzarine on Oct 18, 2017 19:19:21 GMT 2
la mala educacion
a boy abused by a priest a cross dressing actress
great fun by almodovar gael garcia bernal is amazing as ignacio/zahara
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Post by tzarine on Nov 20, 2017 3:21:12 GMT 2
Loving Vincent
visually stunning
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Post by slowcoach on Nov 20, 2017 11:13:11 GMT 2
Watched Ken Burn's "Brooklyn Bridge" (not a feature but an 1981 AA nominated documentary).
Concentrates on how it got built but the Star is the Bridge.
Design decisions are made, in this case, double doubling up, (four cables not two, and suspension as well as cable stay rigging), and it had "modernity" (in the same sense that Eiffel's tower did but his statue didn't).
I cannot think of any extant 19th Century UK construction that has it; too busy with Mock Gothic.
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Post by rikita on Nov 21, 2017 15:12:04 GMT 2
recently watched "Suicide Club" (the german movie, there seems to be a japanese one by the same title, too), on mr. r's recommendation, hadn't been sure i'd like it, but it was kind of entertaining. about five people who don't know each other but set a meeting on the roof of a house, to jump down at sunrise, but then something gets in the way and they end up having to wait on the roof until the sun is down and all the people down there are gone, so they can jump.
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Post by Netsuke on Nov 21, 2017 23:14:48 GMT 2
Saw the new Murder On The Orient Express - amazing, sweeping scenes of the landscape, beautiful colour, the glitz and class of old time luxury rain travel, a touch of humour and oh that moustachio! Superb! Being an Agatha Addict I loved it.
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