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Post by tzarine on Mar 4, 2018 4:34:56 GMT 2
la strada rathr grim but giuletta masina is brilliant as gelsomina
i actually like nights of cabiria more
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Post by sophie on Mar 4, 2018 5:49:56 GMT 2
I am not much of a movie watcher.. and now that gardening season has started, it will be yet one more year I haven’t watched any TV movies.. or on Netflix or prime.. but I made the effort to see The Post (recommended) and The Shape of Water (highly recommended)
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Post by slowcoach on Mar 4, 2018 11:20:03 GMT 2
Enjoyed La Strada,
Grim, perhaps in the manner of a faerie story, some might call it Life, hard, funny in parts, doesn't end well.
Last night, I watched Hopper's "Colors", which is a bit like watching blood dry. Plot is predictable but that is built into the subject matter (LA Gangs).
Awhile back, last year, I rewatched Antonioni's, once much lauded, "Blowup". It is deeply misogynistic, but those were the days, when folks were blatant.
Being a sucker for punishment, considering rewatching "A Boy and his Dog".
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Post by slowcoach on Mar 4, 2018 11:27:36 GMT 2
I find that I have a copy of Kurosawa's "Ran" (Chaos). Not sure when I will have the energy/concentration; may rewatch it in segments, or not.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 5, 2018 3:09:08 GMT 2
slow,
true about la strada as a faerie story
ran is worth the watch. i love rashomon, though
watching the olivier oberon wuthering heights. excellent even if they butchered the novel. like the timothy dalton anna calder-marshall version.
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Post by wikki on Mar 11, 2018 16:58:26 GMT 2
I watched The Shape of Water a while ago. I have to say I really liked the movie.
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Post by trentt on Mar 12, 2018 15:12:45 GMT 2
Recently watched movies I thought were quite good include "The Lobster", "A Perfect Day", and "In Bruges". Despite all the positive hype, I did not like "Gerald's Game" or "Alien Covenant". "The Cloverfield Paradox" was okay. Avoid "Scent" at all costs ... it is a celluloid abomination.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 12, 2018 17:41:22 GMT 2
shape of water is a metaphor for hollwood: woman involved w slimy creature
woman in the dunes - a bizarre existentialist tale, beautifully shot strange film
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Post by tzarine on Mar 15, 2018 18:00:49 GMT 2
woman in the dunes
strange existential parable from japan
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Post by pepecura on Mar 23, 2018 10:12:06 GMT 2
Dirty Grandpa,
...if you want to see Robert De Niro masturbating, and teasing his grandson by putting his cock on to his face during his sleep.
I think I had fun watching.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 31, 2018 7:21:16 GMT 2
scarlett empress bc i love marlene & von sternberg's fantasies are just weird
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Post by tzarine on Apr 7, 2018 20:56:11 GMT 2
return to glennascual short very effective little ghost story featuring orson welles
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Post by tzarine on Apr 9, 2018 1:18:40 GMT 2
escape from alcatraz eastwood & mcgoohan based on the real life story
tzar's rec
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Post by tzarine on Apr 22, 2018 3:24:09 GMT 2
of all the gin joints in the world here's looking @ you, kid casablanca wow. the sophistication, the humour bogie, bergman, henried, veidt, raines
hadn't seen it in years
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Post by slowcoach on Apr 22, 2018 9:44:21 GMT 2
Plus Greenstreet and Lorre
I have neither any idea why Casablanca is so good, nor how many times I wave watched it.
Watched "Dead End" (first to feature the "Dead End Kids") a film from back when Bogart played bad guys
Perhaps the best performance is given by the set which is ridiculously good, simply too good.
Anyway, not the world's greatest film, a contrived but interesting social commentary on early stage of "Bum Clearance" in New York (sorry Tsarine).
Interesting to see portrayed the different relationship that the rich and the poor have to law enforcement, and how the rich expect protection when they park their backsides where they don't belong.
I watched the better remembered "Angles with Dirty Faces" years ago.
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Post by Baz Faz on Apr 22, 2018 12:45:10 GMT 2
Re Casablanca.
Long ago I read somewhere that the cast improvised some of the dialogue. Also they thought the film wouldn't be a great success.
I can't say how true that is.
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Post by tzarine on Apr 22, 2018 19:41:52 GMT 2
conrad veidt's history is interesting an anti-nazi, he refused to denounce his jewish wife en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Veidtslow spike lee's do the right thing is the one of best films i have seen on race. that crash by haggis was a total joke my students kept reccing
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Post by slowcoach on Aug 9, 2018 11:56:47 GMT 2
tzarine
I have found both Piccadilly and Do the Right Thing on the web and added them to the list.
Watched Blazing Saddles, Oh My, so incorrect, so many stereotypes, but in places, so funny. Could it be made now? I doubt it.
Targets is a remarkable film, topical then (1968) and sadly still so; as long as vantage points, gatherings of people, guns, adequate ammunition and malign intent coincide.
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Post by tzarine on Aug 9, 2018 18:58:35 GMT 2
slow
it is fascinating to watch the un pc films that would never be made now!
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Post by slowcoach on Aug 10, 2018 12:04:07 GMT 2
Perhaps I will watch "A Boy and his Dog" just for the shock of its misogyny.
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Post by slowcoach on Aug 10, 2018 12:13:23 GMT 2
Recent finds
I have videos of:
The Trial, The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty, Le Samouraï, Yojimbo, Bad Day at Black Rock, Most of Buñuel's european films including La Voie Lactée which is a personal favourite, La Grande Bouffe.
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Post by tzarine on Aug 10, 2018 19:38:13 GMT 2
loved le samourai
delon - the coolest homme
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 10, 2018 22:02:31 GMT 2
I loved Under the Silver Lake this week. And Mary Shelley was not bad.
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Post by trentt on Aug 15, 2018 2:16:27 GMT 2
"Blazing Saddles" is almost shocking nowadays, as is "A Boy and His Dog".
But I still piss my pants watching Madeline Kahn doing the best Marlene Dietrich ever, singing "Tired of Love".
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Post by tzarine on Aug 16, 2018 2:29:32 GMT 2
love belle de jour oh cathy deneuve!
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Post by trentt on Aug 16, 2018 4:12:45 GMT 2
Speaking of Deneuve, have you ever seen "8 femmes"? It's superb, with a dream cast that includes Isabelle Huppert, Ludivine Sagnier, and Fanny Ardant.
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Post by Scrubb on Aug 16, 2018 4:19:24 GMT 2
trentt, have you seen "9 Queens", an ARgentinian film? There's a poster on the Stew (an 80 year old guy who's a fan of ballet, classical music, and old movies) who regularly recommends it as one of his all time favourites. I think he watches in the original Spanish - likely you could too, though I'm sure there are dubbed English versions.
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Post by trentt on Aug 16, 2018 13:24:45 GMT 2
Scrubb - nope, never heard of it. I'll do some digging to see if it's on Netflix or Prime.
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Post by tzarine on Aug 31, 2018 3:05:39 GMT 2
loved anton walbrook in the original gaslight the studio tried to destroy copies of this when they remade it w charles boyer & ingrid bergman
nobody knows hirokazu koreeda's look @ a family of abandoned children & the older brother who tries to keep the family together
amazing & based on a true story
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Post by slowcoach on Aug 31, 2018 9:08:58 GMT 2
Big Fan of Anton Walbrook. (e.g. The Red Shoes, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
Now I am confused. I am sure I have only ever seen, or heard of, the original. I think it must have been shown in the 60s or 70s, is that likely?
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