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Oexmelin

#1125
June 19, 2009, 11:26:48 AM
Quote from: BuddhaRhubarb on June 19, 2009, 11:17:58 AM
I watched a loverly little Quebecois film last night : "It's not me I Swear".

Beautifully shot in rural PQ is this great paean to growing in the late 60's early 70's. A young boy's home is "broken" by separation, usual family strife. He does many "bad" things in reaction. most silly, some grave. Great child acting from kids who in a few years will become crappy teen actors.

wonderfully dark yet comic realistic portrayal of small town life. Except for everyone speaking french, it echoes my own childhood very closely.

Highly recommended.

9.456 Crucified Moose outta 10

It is actually the fictionalized story of Senator Jacques Hébert's family and his divorce. He had a daughter, Isabelle and a son, Bruno. Both became writers, and both, without knowing it, produced works on their childhood experience. Isabelle Hébert worked on the scenario of «Maman est chez le coiffeur» and Bruno Hébert wrote the novel «C'est pas moi je l'jure», which became the movie that you saw.

Rent the other one (Maman est chez le coiffeur) if you want to compare - it is actually interesting.


Que le grand cric me croque !

BuddhaRhubarb

#1126
June 19, 2009, 11:35:02 AM
I didn't realize that was Hébert's family portrayed. I will see if I can find that film. I don't think we have "Maman est chez le coiffeur".
:p

jimmy olsen

#1127
June 19, 2009, 08:57:59 PM
Quote from: BuddhaRhubarb on June 19, 2009, 11:17:58 AM


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DisturbedPervert

#1128
June 19, 2009, 09:55:11 PM
Watched Serenity and a few episodes of Firefly.  Never seen it before, not bad, but don't quite get all the hype I'd read about the series online.

Also the random Chinese phrases stuck in to English sound ridiculous, especially given the minuscule amount of Asians, all of whom are background extras so far.

Savonarola

#1129
June 19, 2009, 10:29:08 PM
Quote from: Norgy on June 13, 2009, 10:07:09 AM
You're Welcome Amrica. A Final Night with George W. Bush

I think I loathe Will Ferrell more than any other "actor" with the sole exception of Kevin Bacon.

No argument with Will Ferrell; but what don't you like about Kevin Bacon?
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Savonarola

#1130
June 19, 2009, 10:37:54 PM
The Life of Emille Zola (1937)

Surprisingly accurate portrayal of the life of Emille Zola; especially of his role in the Dreyfus affair.  What is more surprising is that there was ever a time that Zola was well enough known by American audiences that there could be a Hollywood film based on his life.

Topper (1937)

Cary Grant and Constance Bennnet play ghosts who haunt Roland Young in this movie version of a Broadway play.  The dialogue is wonderful; but the film still feels stage-bound.  Mrs. Topper is played by none other than Mrs. Florenz Ziegfeld; Billy Burke.  In this film she plays a frigid woman who spoils her husband's fun; something that it's difficult to believe she was in real life since she married Florenz Ziegfield and she remained married to him.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Eddie Teach

#1131
June 20, 2009, 05:41:04 AM
The Wild Child- Truffaut film about a feral child found in Napoleonic France. Kind of has a documentary feel to it. Quite interesting.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

CountDeMoney

#1132
June 20, 2009, 08:44:11 AM
Finally got around to Valkyrie.
The whole plan was doomed from the start.  The movie, too.

Tonitrus

#1133
June 20, 2009, 12:45:58 PM
http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/deadsnow/

Ah, foreign films with Hollywood-ized trailers.  Ein, Zwei, Die?  :rolleyes:

Syt

#1134
June 20, 2009, 12:51:40 PM
Zombie Nazis! :w00t: :mmm:

Obviously, the uniforms of the Wehrmacht were of superior craftsmanship to have lasted so long in the snow. :nerd:
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Admiral Yi

#1135
June 20, 2009, 04:26:52 PM
Snatch.  I enjoyed Lock Stock so my hopes were high.  To my disappointment it turned out that Guy Ritchie made the exact same movie twice.

The Larch

#1136
June 20, 2009, 04:33:59 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 20, 2009, 04:26:52 PM
Snatch.  I enjoyed Lock Stock so my hopes were high.  To my disappointment it turned out that Guy Ritchie made the exact same movie twice.

And it's still wonderful.  :P

Eddie Teach

#1137
June 20, 2009, 07:04:36 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 20, 2009, 04:26:52 PM
Snatch.  I enjoyed Lock Stock so my hopes were high.  To my disappointment it turned out that Guy Ritchie made the exact same movie twice.

More times than that.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Syt

#1138
June 21, 2009, 09:52:53 AM
Canadian Bacon is on MGM. :lol:

QuoteThe Canadians. They walk among us. William Shatner. Michael J. Fox. Monty Hall. Mike Meyers. Alex Trebek. All of them Canadians. All of them here.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

CountDeMoney

#1139
June 21, 2009, 09:53:28 AM
Quote from: Syt on June 21, 2009, 09:52:53 AM
Canadian Bacon is on MGM. :lol:

QuoteThe Canadians. They walk among us. William Shatner. Michael J. Fox. Monty Hall. Mike Meyers. Alex Trebek. All of them Canadians. All of them here.

From the Atlantic Ocean to the other one.
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