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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Oct 8, 2021 21:24:06 GMT
so I watched this which was enjoyable, funny in places, centred around Elaine Stritch's performance of 'Ladies Who Lunch' - but the EXTRAS (which really they had room for, with the feature only running at 53 minutes!) were great. I didn't even realise it was Sondheim in the original film! he was in a recent interview and he looks like a different person, allowing of course for the fact that this is 50 years on. SO what can you tell me about Documentary Now!?
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Post by Sneelock on Oct 8, 2021 22:18:30 GMT
I think I'm picking "Willard" for movie night tonight. I'll probably be too busy to tell you how much I enjoyed it tomorrow so I'll tell you how much I enjoyed it when I was 14. Ernest Borgnine will make you believe a man can be eaten alive by rats - just in case there was any doubt in your mind.
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Post by Sneelock on Oct 11, 2021 18:05:29 GMT
I finally got around to David Crosby:Remember my Name. the rental price was 13 dollars for a LONG time. It finally came down to 3 so I pounced. I enjoyed it. it's pretty much a longer version of the trailer but there is a little bit of footage that was worth my 3 bucks all by itself. there's home movies of CSN bickering and some Laurel Canyon stuff. not much but real fly on the wall stuff. I watched it cause I was in the car and heard him telling John Fugelsang that he was cancelling his long postponed dates partly due to COVID and partly due to not feeling like he could cut it. he's an interesting guy. he says he's apologized to offended others but he really seems like the sort of guy who apologizes by saying "I apologize". you know what I mean? He certainly does respond to Cameron Crowe's questions and gives some of them a bit of thought. I think his head is as far out of his ass as it is ever going to come. He is as blunt about himself as he is of others. I think maybe Crowe gives DC a little more wiggle room than he deserves here and there. quitting a big deal supergroup to do personal music sounds like a happy ending but isn't shooting off his mouth a factor? would he be touring his personal songs if he hadn't shot off his mouth? to the same degree? it's a happy ending either way but I guess one thing is that it's good idea, when talking to old people, that you don't try to change their minds about anything. no surprises but quite good. I'd give it three out of four lip covering mustaches.
P.S. one of my favorite DC songs is featured at least twice. that would be "page 43" from the graham nash/david crosby album. his voice is in mighty good shape in the movie when he sings it.
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Post by Charlie O. on Oct 12, 2021 1:09:25 GMT
I think maybe Crowe gives DC a little more wiggle room than he deserves here and there. quitting a big deal supergroup to do personal music sounds like a happy ending but isn't shooting off his mouth a factor? would he be touring his personal songs if he hadn't shot off his mouth? to the same degree? After watching that clip of CSN failing to settle on one key - or even only three different keys, for that matter - to sing "Silent Night" in, I say: the ends justify the excuses.
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Post by DejaVoodoo on Oct 12, 2021 4:11:27 GMT
Watched “Annette” recently. Two and half hours I don’t get back! Looking forward to seeing the Bond movie!
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Post by loveless on Oct 20, 2021 1:54:35 GMT
I think maybe Crowe gives DC a little more wiggle room than he deserves here and there. quitting a big deal supergroup to do personal music sounds like a happy ending but isn't shooting off his mouth a factor? would he be touring his personal songs if he hadn't shot off his mouth? to the same degree? After watching that clip of CSN failing to settle on one key - or even only three different keys, for that matter - to sing "Silent Night" in, I say: the ends justify the excuses. Seeing Obama's face go in to full on "concern" during that performance...damn.
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Post by loveless on Oct 20, 2021 1:57:12 GMT
Presently...
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Post by Sneelock on Oct 20, 2021 15:58:18 GMT
I watched it just last Friday. Boy, it goes by quick when you're in the mood for it. I love "the Birds". Hitchcock is great with movie stars but the absolute confidence of making "The Birds" with his name over the title makes me think of this as one of his most personal films.
personal? The BIRDS? yeah! I mean it's a fever dream of a thing, isn't it?
when the screenwriter Ernest Lehman spoke of his time working with Hitchcock he described Hitchcock's method of working as describing shots he wanted to see in movies.
Well, the Birds is like an entire movie of distinctive shots. For years I would pepper my admiration for the film with qualifications but I don't think like that anymore. Any shortcomings you can point out I've come to defend as things that make it such a goddam singular one of a kind movie.
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Post by loveless on Oct 20, 2021 16:04:41 GMT
It is, BY FAR, our most frequently watched Hitch. There are SO many magical elements.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2021 20:41:36 GMT
Hard to be a god is currently on Amazon prime. Wow.
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Oct 26, 2021 20:44:40 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2021 20:46:34 GMT
Snot,blood and gore. It's fanfuckingdabadozie.
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Oct 27, 2021 6:04:46 GMT
Last Tango In Paris
I know about the controversy, it's terrible how they treated Maria Schneider, but I wanted to see this anyway, mainly because of Brando.
I dunno. There were good things at the start and good things at the end with the tango bar and the break-up and the final shocking scene. The middle was just a load of drawn-out mumbling in dark rooms. I really wish I could say something more than that, it sounds like a cheap shot, I know. But that's how it was for me. Directors really indulged Brando, didn't they? I don't see it as great acting. I found MS much more engaging on screen, she was fine.
I wasn't interested at ALL by the romance between Jeanne and the lad from Quatre Cents Coups. That was the day stuff compared with the night stuff she experienced with Brando, I suppose. Contrast.
Ho hum.
I might read the Kael review which apparently was a big deal at the time.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Oct 27, 2021 8:55:41 GMT
The opening monologue though between Brando and his dead wife is stellar.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Oct 27, 2021 9:30:13 GMT
Dune
I've not read the book but I grew up watching the Lynch version with the old man and despite its flaws I have always had a soft spot for the movie, mainly due to its weirdness, wildly creative set and costume design and the memorable soundtrack. Therefore I am familiar with the story and the world of Dune and I've been looking forward to this for sometime as I craved a proper big screen experience (I saw this in IMAX) and I have to say I really enjoyed it. It's quite different from the Lynch version both visually and tonally. It takes its story seriously and has none of the campiness and ripeness of the 84 version (which I like but I know some people are not keen on) and visually it's a far more solemn and austere take on the Dune world (I have slightly mixed feelings about that as I love the ott quality of Lynch's version and appreciate the wildness of what Jodorowsky proposed). It is still spectacular though and there is a immersive physicality to the special effects (lots of physical sets and real world locations too) that really impresses. I have to say special effects have definitely improved in the last few years and you can see it here. They also did a really good job of streamlining the story because there is a lot in the source material but they stripped it back and included most of the main stuff (no folding time and Guild Navigator's yet) in a way that I think even people who are not familiar with story could understand.
I know some people have criticised the "ending" but I felt it paused at a nice moment....Paul on the cusp with the promise of so much more to come.
It’s not short but at no point did I feel like it dragged and by the end I wanted part two immediately.
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