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Post by Voy on Aug 31, 2018 14:34:48 GMT 2
philistine here -- has anyone seen Crazy Rich Asians? it sounds pretty funny, and I thought I might break my "never-going-to-movies" and go see it.....
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Post by tzarine on Aug 31, 2018 18:02:19 GMT 2
rich singaporeans via hollywood - no thanks. too much like a branch of my fam give me a john woo, wong kar wai or edward yang or shunji iwai or hirokazu kore-eda or sion sono flick any day! like gemma chan a lot in humans. also michelle yeoh in her martial arts flicks himizu - allegedly church shooter dylan roof's fav film. he totally missed the point. 2 abused teens try to make sense of a mad world. partially shot in post tsunami fukushima www.imdb.com/title/tt1900893/
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Post by slowcoach on Sept 1, 2018 8:39:43 GMT 2
Watched "84 Charlie MoPic" (1989), an interesting Vietnam War combat film. I was not familiar with its "found footage" production style, so I didn't initially get some of plot points. It is s film about making a film, made using just the footage shot for the film within the film, the "found footage".
I quite liked it; I don't enjoy Vietnam War Films. At the very least, it neither romanticized, sentimentalized, nor glorified, at worst is was a bit on the bland side of bleak; not as good as "Go Tell the Spartans".
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Post by tzarine on Sept 1, 2018 18:53:48 GMT 2
slow i understand. they are mostly propaganda & very whitewashed. watched a lot of war films w my late dad a pearl harbor survivor told tzar & me to watch tora, tora, tora which he felt was the most honest telling. the human condition by kobayashi is one of the most devastating pieces of cinema i have ever seen. just amazing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Condition_(film_series)
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Post by tzarine on Sept 11, 2018 19:53:20 GMT 2
drunken angel kurosawa's post war tokyo actually shot in the ruins about a cynical doctor (takeshi shimura) & the gangster he treats - the great toshiro mifune
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Post by pepecura on Sept 27, 2018 18:04:44 GMT 2
Been a while since I last saw anything worth but I can suggest :Cosmos- A spacetime odyssey
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Post by tzarine on Oct 16, 2018 18:04:16 GMT 2
le rayon vert
rohmer's charming look @ young woman's summer
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Post by tzarine on Dec 1, 2018 1:27:51 GMT 2
aberdeen
a dying woman, charlotte rampling, asks her daughter lena headey, to collect her father, the always good stellan skarsgard, from norway for a reunion.
the father daughter roadtrip is troubled & touching
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Post by trentt on Dec 4, 2018 2:37:03 GMT 2
I recently rewatched "Shanghai Express" - Dietrich in top form. The lighting, direction, and dialogue are brilliant.
I just watched the remake of "Whisky Galore" - very dry (!), droll, amusing ... I hate to say "cute", but it is. Not in a My Little Pony way, but in a why that endears the characters to you and makes you chuckle.
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Post by tzarine on Dec 4, 2018 21:53:53 GMT 2
trentt
i loved shanghai express! dietrich & wong were great
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Post by trentt on Dec 5, 2018 4:00:25 GMT 2
It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.
ha ha ha!
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Post by tzarine on Dec 5, 2018 8:01:46 GMT 2
of course, shanghai & those gowns. dietrich looked great in a tux, too
saw anna may wong in piccadilly. she's amazingly sexy as shosho, the dishwasher turned dancer
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Post by tzarine on Jan 9, 2019 21:36:40 GMT 2
tzar wanted some bergman, so we watched the silence great acting a grim tale a woman, her young son & dying sister in a foreign land she has sex w a stranger, her son meets some small people acrobats & her sister drinks too much
ready for something really different, now
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Post by slowcoach on Jan 29, 2019 8:47:18 GMT 2
Solaris,
One of those films I never got I around to seeing. I think I would have enjoyed it more were I younger, but perhaps I would have simply been overly bewitched by Natalya Bondarchuk. Her performance is the best by some distance.
His film that I intended to watch was "Stalker" but I thought I had better watch Solaris first.
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Post by Netsuke on Jan 30, 2019 0:53:48 GMT 2
Thi Mai is a lovely film, thought provoking and heartfelt and funny. A feel-good movie yes but sometimes they're the best kind.
A woman along with her two friends who come along for support, travels to Viet Nam to bring home the baby her recently deceased daughter was adopting.
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Post by trentt on Jan 30, 2019 17:09:05 GMT 2
"A Face in the Crowd", a 1957 film starring Patricia Neal and Andy Griffith, with Anthony Franciosa, Walter Matthau, and Lee Remick.
An Arkansas radio station roving reporter (Patricia Neal) interviews a down-and-out drifter in a jail cell. The show proves popular and the man (Andy Griffith) quickly rises to radio - then TV - stardom. Drunk with power, he evolves into an evil megalomaniac, wielding his influence over the masses on his twisted whims, leaving a trail of ruined individuals in his wake.
It is surprisingly timely and relevant in today's sociopolitical climate in the USA. It's a powerful drama, all the more unnerving for seeing the wholesome "Andy Taylor" as an amoral, despicable, irredeemable character.
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Post by tzarine on Jan 31, 2019 3:12:28 GMT 2
love patricia neal
ohmygod, so true, trentt
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Post by tzarine on Feb 18, 2019 17:22:42 GMT 2
one for the romantics:
les parapluies de cherbourg cathy deneuve! guy!
ah, the esso station!
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Post by trentt on Feb 18, 2019 17:57:06 GMT 2
And for music fans, as all the dialogue is sung, including the Academy Award-nominated song "I Will Wait for You". It's a bittersweet story and Catherine was never lovelier.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 18, 2019 21:36:29 GMT 2
also for the romantics
brief encounter w the luminous celia johnson
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Post by trentt on Feb 18, 2019 21:56:59 GMT 2
I was later reminded of another superb movie with Catherine Deneuve in an ensemble cast, "Eight Women", where each character leads a song-and-sometimes-dance number. For me, it sparked long-time crushes on Ludivine Sagnier and Fanny Ardant.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 19, 2019 0:37:42 GMT 2
trentt
have never seen Indochine w cathy, but did go to the hanoi yogurt shop/cafe she frequented during production
love her in belle du jour
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Post by tzarine on Mar 11, 2019 17:17:43 GMT 2
shoplifters about a fam who adopts an abused girl
by the brilliant hirokazu koreeda
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Post by slowcoach on Mar 11, 2019 17:45:35 GMT 2
The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
Stunning!
Cast of inimitables: Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, and a personal favourite Marius Goring.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 11, 2019 20:37:31 GMT 2
love love love marius goring esp in a matter of life & death/stairway to heaven as conductor 71 - the guillotined aristo
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Post by Netsuke on Mar 12, 2019 1:44:54 GMT 2
I watched the ever popular, ever so suave Mister Cary Grant in To Catch A Thief. Love love love the accent ~ he's always so debonair n'est-ce pas?
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Post by trentt on Mar 12, 2019 3:05:24 GMT 2
Films NOT to watch:
"Winchester" - did you ever think Helen Mirren could possibly appear in a bad movie? No? You were wrong.
"Something Beneath" - the big name in this one is Kevin Sorbo. omg ... just DON'T.
"The Family Fang" - Nicole Kidman, Jason Bateman, Christopher Walken. Should've been great, but it was lackluster.
"Wildling" - Liv Tyler collects a paycheck.
I just watched a documentary about Cary Grant. It was pretty whitewashed with a lot of psychobabble about why he couldn't have long-term relationships with women. Anyhoo, I got to thinking about his Hitchcock films, and couldn't think of anyone who'd been in more of them. That led to a tangent about movies I watch over and over, never tiring of them, and if I had to pick just one Hitchcock for that list, it would be "Shadow of a Doubt" with Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Patricia Collinge (love her in this and more so in "The Little Foxes", which also starred Teresa Wright, coincidentally), and Hume Cronyn.
Sorry, I DO go on!
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Post by slowcoach on Mar 12, 2019 13:53:45 GMT 2
Trivially Hitchcock did.
Please do go on, going on.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 12, 2019 16:29:15 GMT 2
trentt
totally agree about shadow of a doubt. cotten & wright are excellent
bandwagon w the amazing cyd charisse & that skinny hoofer is funny tzarevich used to sing singin in the rain w his umbrella everytime it rained
some kitsch - vincent price & diana rigg in theatre of blood. a shakespearean actor gets revenge - overthetop fun
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Post by trentt on Mar 13, 2019 3:09:11 GMT 2
Oh yes, Hitchcock himself appeared in more Hitchcock films than anyone else - very true! I believe James Stewart ties Cary Grant for number of lead characters in Hitchcock films. I also enjoy his earlier stuff, pre-Hollywood, such as "The Farmer's Wife" (1928), "The Manxman", (1929) and "Rich and Strange" (1931).
I've thought more about films I watch and rewatch, and although there are far more than this, these are 10 films that would keep me from boredom if I were a castaway, had a TV or monitor, and the DVDs or a streaming device:
- Mulholland Drive - Office Space - Shadow of a Doubt - All About Eve - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? - Leave Her to Heaven - The Rocky Horror Picture Show - Bonjour Tristesse - Strictly Ballroom
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