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 Nice to see you posting again.
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#467
08-20-2010, 12:43 AM
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 Does anyone know the name of that movie with Bai Ling where she serves this chick a bowl of dumplings and it turns out that they are aborted fetuses (the woman still came back for more!!!)
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08-20-2010, 03:47 AM
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But lookit you with the awesome Asian cinema! That movie is called Dumplings, directed by the badass Fruit Chan. Everyone knows cannibalism helps you keep your girlish figure. Did you see it as part of Three Extremes, or the expanded solo version?
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08-21-2010, 07:25 PM
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I seem to have had a thing for Alan Rickman movies this week, as I seem to have watched nothing but him. Hmm...I wonder why. Couldn't possibly the luscious, silken voice or the commanding presence. I must say that I'm stumped
Blow Dry Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince Snow Cake (Not many films touch me deeply but this film never fails to leave me without the need for a tissue) Galaxy Quest Truly Madly Deeply
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08-21-2010, 08:39 PM
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 )There was another movie that I watched about this kid who inherited (??) like 10,000 bucks, and he friggin announced it to this whole crowd at a train station (he didn't mean to) that he was carrying it. So these two thieves were escorting him on the train and throughout the whole ride all the thieves tried to still the money.... I just love how I never remember the names of these movies. Another favorite = My Sassy Girl 
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09-12-2010, 11:39 PM
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A few months ago I watched Let The Right One In and thought it
was pretty good except the English overdubs. So I can't wait to see the remake Let Me In. I hope it's as good as the original. Anyone else going to see it? I think it opens soon, maybe October.
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09-13-2010, 12:59 PM
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Ginger Snaps - Adolescent but it's one of my favourite, Indie chique movies. I think most women could relate to the themes covered in this movie, or at least the symbolism lol (Don't recall ever barking at the moon during my monthly lol).
Into The Wild - When I saw this movie I seriously considered fleeing into the woods. It is in fact still somewhat of a dream of mine, to live in the woods away from society and surround myself with the beauty of nature and life simplified. The Science Of Sleep - WTF? Waste of £3. My head actually hurts from the amount of scratching involved. Maybe it's alot more simple than I could comprehend, because all I understood it as was an overblown egotrip of a movie that thought itself better than it was.
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09-13-2010, 01:13 PM
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American Beauty-Wooowwwww. What a great movie! I can't believe I had never seen it. So...who shot him? That part confused me.
Almost Famous-Underwhelmed me. Kate Hudson was the only thing keeping me entertained. Still good movie though. I Can Do Bad All By Myself-I could have done without the singing every ten minutes, I could have done without the predictable cliche plot, I could have done with out seeing a flop Medea joke every ten minutes. I could have done without this movie. And Teraji Henson is one of my favorite actresses.
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09-13-2010, 03:41 PM
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It is a good movie (I'll always love Spacey and Benning's performances) but after repeated viewings, it kind of lost its luster for me.
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10-01-2010, 06:45 PM
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Clerks II
Twilight (Since 'someone' mentioned our relationship can somewhat be seen in this movie franchise...So I'll watch the whole saga to see if she's right...But the question remains - Am I Edward or am I Jacob?) Cannonball Run Inu Yasha (Season 1 Episodes 1-5)
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10-01-2010, 06:48 PM
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This list shames me in some ways lol :
* Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs (STEVE!) * Naked * Shock * My Girl (One of my all time favourites) * Unconditional Love (My favourite along with 28 Days)
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10-01-2010, 08:24 PM
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Since I've been on a bit of a "permanent vacation" lately, I have had lots of time to catch up on watching movies/documentaries...
The Cove - A shocking but tragic documentary about the dolphin industry in Japan and one man's crusade to end it. Definitely worth checking out! The Lovely Bones - Definitely one of the most overhyped movies in recent memory. I think the movie was absurd and implausible on every level; there are some elements of the plot that are just impossible to overcome. The one saving grace is Stanley Tucci. I love him. He is in practically every movie these days, good or bad, and he can make a bad movie into a not-so-bad movie. A Town Called Panic - An over-the-top, fun claymation movie from France involving the antics of a cowboy, an indian and a horse that live together. It's so absurd that you can't help but laugh at it. Einaym Pkuhot (Eyes Wide Open) - Perhaps one of the best movies I have seen in years. It's about a married orthodox Jewish man taking over his late father's butcher shop in the most orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem, where he falls in love with his new (male) apprentice. You can kind of liken it to the Israeli Brokeback Mountain, but it is much subtler and more tenuous as it unfolds within the dark cloaks of the secretive orthodox Jewish world. There is little dialogue (in Hebrew), so much of the story is conveyed through expression and body language. Perhaps that's why I find it all so haunting... Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City - Okay, this is technically a mini-series that was broadcast on PBS in 1993, but if you haven't seen it or heard of it, you MUST watch it!!! You have no excuse not to watch it since you can watch the entire six hours online here for free: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106148/...Full%20Episode I hadn't watched this in 15 years, but once I started watching it again, I got sucked right back in- through all six hours in one sitting. This is simply the best thing ever made for the small screen. Ever. Armistead Maupin's Further Tales of the City - As the name implies, it is the sequel mini-series to More Tales of the City, which was the sequel to Tales of the City. I watched More Tales... on Showtime eons ago but never got around to watching this one. All I can say is... meh. I still really liked it because I believe anything starring Laura Linney is worthwhile. But it really lacks the cohesiveness, quirkiness and chemistry of the original Tales. It's a shame that they didn't get around to making more mini-series from the Tales of the City books immediately; now all of the original actors are way too old to play their characters today. Kinsey - I really liked this! Whatever Works - I believe this is Woody Allen's most recent movie which starred Larry David instead of Woody Allen, even though he basically played Woody's character. It's amazing that after all these years and after all these movies, Woody can take the same basic premise and make it hilarious and relevant over and over again. One of the funniest Woody Allen movies in years. Black Dynamite - It's a modern take on 1970s Blacksploitation movies... and it didn't involve any of the Wayans brothers surprisingly! Okay, Tommy Davidson makes an appearance... Anyway, I really liked it... it masterfully plays the balancing act of paying homage yet poking fun at the genre. It's absurd and over-the-top... but they're just sincere enough to prevent the whole thing from being a one-dimensional parody. Vegetarian - A bizarre movie from Korea about a woman who has a nightmare and suddenly only eats vegetables. Hmmm... okay... But then for some reason she also develops a sexual fetish for flowers and her brother-in-law is oh so willing to help feed into this fetish. It's not for everyone... but it is definitely one of the stranger movies I've seen. Metropia - A bizarre animated science fiction movie set in 2024 Europe where, after the great financial collapse, the continent has been unified physically via a single underground train network called "The Metro." It's a dark and brooding movie with some strange plot twists. I liked it, but I also found it rather dull in places. The number one thing that irked me was that all of the characters spoke English with American accents... including the main character who is supposed to be living in Sweden! Last edited by HejiraNYC; 10-02-2010 at 02:50 AM..
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10-01-2010, 09:49 PM
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Watch On The Rhine, 1943 Best Actor Academy Award winner Paul Lukas, with Bette Davis and Lucile Watson. Really excellent, takes it's own sweet time, so it's not fast-moving, but it's an engrossing story about the fight against Nazi Germany and an excellent study of several different European cultures with an old-money English-American mother (Watson) chewing the scenery in an appealing way.
Adam's Rib, 1951, Tracy and Hepburn and Judy Holiday, in a great movie, witty and ahead of its time with an Oscar-nominated Screenplay by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin. I wonder if Hepburn's characters name 'Amanda Bonner' was a slightly dirty joke that got past censors, along with Tom Bonner's comment gifting her with a new hat- "A great hat" she says, - he replies: "for the great head". The movie was directed by George Cukor who was responsible for some of the best movie classics ever made, way back when. There's a not-so-closeted gay but supposedly straight but not (!) character infatuated with Amanda, and Spencer Tracy gets in a few digs at his effete manner. Cukor was openly gay in the 30s and likely enjoyed getting over on the Hays Office, and the film is really funny, still, and holds up. It occurs to me that the title, 'Adam's Rib' might have been considered an audience grabber because of the previous year's smash 'All About Eve' -- Bette Davis' big comeback- So, the following year there was an 'Adam' movie which gave Hepburn a big hit that she was in need of, at the time. Maybe an "Adam" movie following "Eve" was just a co-incidence, maybe not. 1940's movies are always my favorites. Though 'Eve' was in '50 and 'Adam's' in '51, they still have a residual touch of the 40's style of filmmaking that was soon gone as the decade progressed. Besides the superior character studies that vintage films offer, with amazing dialogue and performance-driven stories (versus mili-second camera cuts with zillions of senses-numbing action special effects, as seen in the past 20 years)-- if you ever need ideas about how to furnish rooms and have a classic and classy looking home, there's nothing as good to absorb as the Warner Brothers and MGM films of the 30s and 40s. The sets in themselves are fascinating to observe and learn from. There are great tables, lots of mirrors, -angularly shaped, amazing furniture, chaises, art deco and Asian touches, grand staircases, small accent pieces, gorgeous lamps not unlike the 'blue lamp' favored by one certain Ledge subject- there's so much artistry in the sets, and so much to take in all of the old classics. If I can't sleep tonight, it will be 'Double Indemnity' from 1944, perhaps. I haven't noticed many other 'classic film' lovers in this thread- but should anyone ever need recommendations, I own more than 100 films from the 1930s and 1940s. Perhaps more than that, with all the box sets. 'Baby Doll' from 1932 w Stanwyck- wow. Excellent, and not really dated. The TCM website message boards also have a wealth of informed viewers who can tell you just about anything you'd want to know about the truly great years of Hollywood filmmaking. I think most everyone here, though, would rather not go back some 70 years in what they choose to watch, but you really would be surprised at how excellent many of the movies are if you haven't watched many. Last edited by Nikolaj; 10-02-2010 at 12:50 AM..
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10-01-2010, 09:54 PM
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10-02-2010, 01:34 AM
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Hejira wrote: Eynam Pkutoh (Eyes Wide Open) - Perhaps one of the best movies I have seen in years. It's about a married orthodox Jewish man taking over his late father's butcher shop in the most orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem, where he falls in love with his new (male) apprentice. You can kind of liken it to the Israeli Brokeback Mountain, but it is much subtler and more tenuous as it unfolds within the dark cloaks of the secretive orthodox Jewish world. There is little dialogue (in Hebrew), so much of the story is conveyed through expression and body language. Perhaps that's why I find it all so haunting...
^^^ or 4 posts above, not just the small excerpt above, but all of it was great to read, Hejira. 'Eynam Pkutoh' especially sounds really worth investing the time in to watch. I still have not seen 'Brokeback Mountain' but this sounds like it could be more socially and culturally rewarding than 'BM' which I'd heard enough about from people I respected to know I wasn't going to feel uplifted by watching a negative depiction of what could have been a positive, life-affirming film. I was curious to see the peformances in it, which I'm sure are excellent but I knew the story's outcome, and didn't want to support the film's ulitmately negative premise, though I know the director is brilliant. 'Eyes Wide Open' (easier to type) seems like it will be more of something I'd enjoy, than another account of a gay guy destined for promiscuity and death or hiding behind a wife while really in love with a man. Hmm, guess I figured out why I haven't seen it! "More Tales" --as you wrote, really couldn't compare to the first 'Tales of The City'- the grandmother brothel owner was kind of too painfully homely to ever really let your eyes not hurt watching her, though her acting was fine, she was just too freaky. The second actor to play 'Bear' -in 'More Tales' - was likeable enough, I guess, but the actor in the first 'Tales' really seemed to be missed, by everyone I knew and in every review I read, at the time. What stands out now,besides how Laura Linney showed such ripe talent so long before she went mainstream and had the Oscar nominations, is how brave it was of Thomas Gibson to take on some of the male-on-male scenes he played as the bisexual married to a woman man. I respect his talent even more now, because there was no 'Harry Hamlin stigma' for him afterwards. He just has worked steadily ever since 'Tales,' refusing to believe or accept that portraying homosexual or bisexual or, really, maybe just a homo-erotic character should leave him unemployable for long stretches. He's remained a working actor ever since. Hamlin had a promising film career way, way back (I remember 'King of The Mountain' fondly, but vaguely) then along came 'Making Love' and there went his film career. Hamlin didn't even put up a fight, but surfaced nearly a decade later on 'LA Law' but didn't really fulfill the promise of what his career could have been. Gibson either has more talent or more balls and just wouldn't accept being dismissed. The talent may be it . I'm not a big 'CSI' watcher, at all, I think I have seen it twice-- but I caught an episode months ago and Thomas Gibson was Oscar-caliber, even, in his performance, and didn't get an Emmy nominaton. His character was tracking down a elderly male child molester, of boys, 2 of whom now were in their 40s, and rescuing a kidnapped child and dealing with the mass-murdering son of the rapist. Gibson was unbelievably good in really complex scenes with layers and layers of "reserve"- I guess it would be called. So much behind the eyes, and under the surface, as well as right there about to explode, but not exploding. He really has considerable range as an actor, and maybe an inner strength that wouldn't let him accept he'd be forever typecast after 'Tales'. It's like he wouldn't give in to it, as perhaps Hamlin and Michael Onktean did give in to it, accepting that they were labeled as the stars of 'that gay movie'- Gibson cruises a bathhouse wearing just a towel and has implied sex scenes with men in 'Tales', Now 50-ish, his acting seems stronger than ever. Harry Hamlin's on a reality show with that peculiar wife of his. Good job. I liked the 'Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman' references in 'Tales Of The City', too. To me, 'MHMH' is an example of television that is on the level of 'Tales'-- Youtube has a clip of Louise Lasser in what Norman Lear called 'the greatest performance ever given by an actress in the history of television'-- its a very long scene where 'Mary' has a nervous breakdown while on The David Susskind Show, and by the end of the clip, it does seem that Lasser took television acting to an entirely new level- she's brilliant. That very episode isn't even available on DVD, and there doesn't seem to be any followup dvd releases beyond the MHMH dvd that's been out for years . Suddenly feeling nostalgic for the 7os, between 'Tales Of The City' and 'MHMH.' Will track down the movie of the Israeli duo Hejira mentioned. It sounds promising, even if one of the guys is married. It happens. Last edited by Nikolaj; 10-02-2010 at 06:58 PM..
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