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Capetan Mihali

#1305
July 07, 2009, 02:58:02 PM
Great personal double feature on Sunday, Con Air (1997) with company, and then the long-awaited DVD release of Last Year at Marienbad (1961) when I got home.

Both make no sense in completely different ways, but are great in their own right.   :D
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grumbler

#1306
July 07, 2009, 03:43:38 PM
Quote from: Syt on July 01, 2009, 07:47:56 AM
The Last Wave (1977)
Richard Chamberlain defending an aborigine against mysterious murder charges and struggling with haunting dreams of a great flood.

7.7871 eerie aborigine tribesmen staring at your house during a rainy night out of 10.
I use this in one of my classes to show how maybe the Aborigine worldview isn't so easy to understand.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

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Habsburg

#1307
July 07, 2009, 04:07:04 PM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on July 07, 2009, 02:58:02 PM
and then the long-awaited DVD release of Last Year at Marienbad (1961) when I got home.

OMG.  I just touched myself.  :mmm:

Habsburg

#1308
July 07, 2009, 04:08:05 PM
Quote from: Judas Iscariot on July 07, 2009, 01:57:57 AM
Paris, je t'aime.   :frog: Not a bad collection of short films.  Definitely uneven, but that's to be expected with so many different directors and styles.  My favorite short was probably the American mail lady's post-trip recollections.

:mmm: :frog:

Sophie Scholl

#1309
July 07, 2009, 04:57:46 PM
Time to hose down Habsy, he's going to overheat! :lol:
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Syt

#1310
July 08, 2009, 05:14:44 AM
Quote from: grumbler on July 07, 2009, 03:43:38 PM
I use this in one of my classes to show how maybe the Aborigine worldview isn't so easy to understand.

Good point. The Dreamtime concept is very alien to Westerners.

When I saw the movie the first time on tv (I was maybe 8 or 9) I found the movie both highly scary and confusing.
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Scipio

#1311
July 08, 2009, 07:06:59 AM
The Horse's Mouth (1959), starring Alec Guinness.

What a weird, fun movie.
What I speak out of my mouth is the truth.  It burns like fire.
-Jose Canseco

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BuddhaRhubarb

#1312
July 08, 2009, 11:49:18 AM
The Insect Woman. 1963 Shohei Imamura. Back in tha day Imamura was a bit of a bad boy director... this was his comeback film after the awesomely titled "Pigs & Battleships" went way over budget (though did well theatrically) and the "system" chose to make him take a sabbatical - during which he wrote several scripts and a play - The script for this movie being one.

It's the most conventional (despite it's dated use of freeze frame etc) social history of Japan in the 20th C. that you will see from Imamura... he tends to stick to smaller scope stories.
There are flashes of his later brilliance, and overall this is a very enjoyable picture. It has a circular structure and reinforces the old japanese adage about the nail sticking out, being pounded back down.

8.476655 Pregnant Japanese girls driving tractors outta 10
:p

Eddie Teach

#1313
July 08, 2009, 04:23:01 PM
Quote from: Armyknife on July 08, 2009, 08:53:39 AM
Gran Torino - enjoyable, but for some reason I'd been under the impression it was going to be the concluding Dirty Harry film.  :blush:

:lol:

That was a good one, though a bit over-sentimental.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

jimmy olsen

#1314
July 08, 2009, 04:36:43 PM
Quote from: BuddhaRhubarb on July 08, 2009, 11:49:18 AM
The Insect Woman. 1963 Shohei Imamura. Back in tha day Imamura was a bit of a bad boy director... this was his comeback film after the awesomely titled "Pigs & Battleships" went way over budget (though did well theatrically) and the "system" chose to make him take a sabbatical - during which he wrote several scripts and a play - The script for this movie being one.

It's the most conventional (despite it's dated use of freeze frame etc) social history of Japan in the 20th C. that you will see from Imamura... he tends to stick to smaller scope stories.
There are flashes of his later brilliance, and overall this is a very enjoyable picture. It has a circular structure and reinforces the old japanese adage about the nail sticking out, being pounded back down.

8.476655 Pregnant Japanese girls driving tractors outta 10

I was expecting a review of a monster movie with a title like that. I am disappointed.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

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Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
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CountDeMoney

#1315
July 08, 2009, 05:57:48 PM
Quote from: BuddhaRhubarb on July 08, 2009, 11:49:18 AM
the awesomely titled "Pigs & Battleships"

Sounds like primo Neil whacking material.

Darth Wagtaros

#1316
July 08, 2009, 06:38:49 PM
Laura doesn't like to go to movies and I got rid of cable.  So the closest thing to a movie I've recently watched is an I Dream of Jeannie Marathon on Hulu.


It is still damned funny 40 years later. 
PDH!

jimmy olsen

#1317
July 08, 2009, 07:08:03 PM
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on July 08, 2009, 06:38:49 PM
Laura doesn't like to go to movies and I got rid of cable.  So the closest thing to a movie I've recently watched is an I Dream of Jeannie Marathon on Hulu.


It is still damned funny 40 years later.
Laura?
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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1 Karma Chameleon point

Eddie Teach

#1318
July 08, 2009, 07:08:52 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on July 08, 2009, 07:08:03 PM
Laura?

Laura Palmer. He dug up her corpse.  :D
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Darth Wagtaros

#1319
July 08, 2009, 07:09:13 PM
I hope you are watching Jeannie too Tim.  Poor Doc Bellows. :( A decent man who gets screwed over weekly. Or in this case every 24 minutes.
PDH!
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