WildMercurySound Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 went to see this last night: beautiful movie. gondry is a genius. Link to post Share on other sites
Analogman Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 I watched Clerks II yesterday - I thought it was a piece of crap. I still think the best Kevin Smith film is Clerks. Link to post Share on other sites
jimmyjimmy Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Another nod for Brick.The sound wasn't very good, and it's difficult to follow along with the dialog; (most of which really isn't essential to the story anyway, it just sets the tone). But It's a fun little flick. "Hey, was there a fight"??? Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 I saw Disappearances over the weekend at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge. Kris Kristofferson and Genevive (sp) Bujold are heads of a family in Prohibition-era Vermont, raising a strong-headed boy who may join his father in the bootlegging business. Mystical, odd, funny, violent - kinda reminded me of Dylan and The Band's basement tapes. Link to post Share on other sites
jahilia Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Much better than I expected - Ray Winstone was great as the Captain. I hope Nick Cave gives up on this Grinderman band and starts writing more screenplays. Link to post Share on other sites
paul137 Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 Much better than I expected - Ray Winstone was great as the Captain. I hope Nick Cave gives up on this Grinderman band and starts writing more screenplays.One of my favorite films of last year Link to post Share on other sites
Oil Can Boyd Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 I saw Disappearances over the weekend at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge. My wife and I met at the Brattle Theater (seeing Casablanca). Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 My wife and I met at the Brattle Theater (seeing Casablanca).That's awesome. I don't even want to get into how dreadful The Break-Up was. It's remarkable how an awful film can irk my sensibilities and make me obsessed with pointing out the millions of things that made me hate it. I watched it last night, and can't stop thinking about what a humorless, cynical, dull POS it was. Link to post Share on other sites
kathyp Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 I rented two DVDs today, Running With Scissors and Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man. Which should I watch first? (Assuming I'll probably get around to watching only one of them anyway.) I also saw (courtesy of HBO on demand) Spike Lee's When the Levees Broke. Really excellent documentary. Link to post Share on other sites
WildMercurySound Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 saw a screening of this on saturday. wonderful stuff. Queued up tonight: Link to post Share on other sites
Beltmann Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 It's no Talk to Her, but I enjoyed it. Link to post Share on other sites
bobbob1313 Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 I'll watch pretty much anything with Penelope Cruz in it. Link to post Share on other sites
jahilia Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 It's no Talk to Her, but I enjoyed it. Would you recommend it to a sometimes Almodovar fan? I loved Live Flesh, All About My Mother and Talk to Her, but nothing else I've seen by him. Link to post Share on other sites
Beltmann Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 Would you recommend it to a sometimes Almodovar fan? I loved Live Flesh, All About My Mother and Talk to Her, but nothing else I've seen by him.Definitely. It's pretty close in spirit to All About My Mother and Talk To Her. (I thought I was the only one who rates Live Flesh so highly!) Link to post Share on other sites
froggie Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 gonna sit back with this tonight... Link to post Share on other sites
bobbob1313 Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 Last week's episode of Scrubs... Oh man, I am so mad at Kim right now. Link to post Share on other sites
Fritz Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 Love it. Link to post Share on other sites
Beltmann Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 Live Action Short Film nominees in order of preference:The Saviour / Peter Templeman and Stuart ParkynBinta & the Great Idea / Javier Fesser & Luis Manso / SpainWest Bank Story / Ari Sandel / USAHelmer & Son / Soren Pilmark and Kim Magnusson / DenmarkEranos Pocos / Borja Cobeaga / Spain Animated Short Film nominees in order of preference:The Little Matchgirl / Roger Allers and Don Hahn / USAThe Danish Poet / Torill Kove / NorwayNo Time For Nuts / Chris Renaud and Michael Thurmier / USALifted / Gary Rydstrom / USAMaestro / Geza M. Toth / Hungary Overall, the animated roster was much stronger than the live-action; any one of the animated nominees is deserving of the prize. The Little Matchgirl had half the auditorium weeping--including my wife--and No Time For Nuts is absurd, surreal nonsense in the vein of Buster Keaton, especially the scene-shifting sequence in Sherlock, Jr. Lifted is great Pixar... but it also felt like typical Pixar. Among the live-action shorts, I preferred The Saviour by a wide margin. It concerns a door-to-door Mormon evangelist who is carrying on an affair with a married woman. What's remarkable about it, though, is how his action leads, in an unexpected way, to a kind of miracle that suggests his moral violation might have been a necessary part of a divine plan. The screening also included several other short-listed animation submissions. In order of preference:One Rat Short / Alex Weil / USAThe Wraith of Cobble Hill / Adam Parrish King / USAThe Passenger / Chris Jones / AustraliaA Gentleman's Duel / Francisco Ruiz Velasco and Scott McNally / USAGuide Dog / Bill Plympton / USA The first two had gripping visions of their setting--a research lab and Brooklyn, respectively--while the last two were insufferably obnoxious. I've never been a fan of Plympton's style or sense of humor, and this sequel to Guard Dog was more of the same. Link to post Share on other sites
cryptique Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 We watched The Departed last night. Really good, I thought, but I don't think it quite measured up to Infernal Affairs. Nicholson was superb -- my favorite role of his in several years -- and I was even impressed by DiCaprio, with whom I usually can't get past the fact that he still looks like he's twelve years old. One element where I feel it fell short of the original was in the relationship between the Sheen and DiCaprio characters -- it was much more of a mentor/father figure relationship in Infernal Affairs, which just didn't come through in this version. Consequently, the dynamic between those characters is lost in Scorsese's film, and that's unfortunate. I did like the idea of intermingling the police psychiatrist with both the Damon and DiCaprio characters, but they made that choice and then didn't really go far enough to justify it. There never seemed to be much risk there, so why bother? Even so, this had to be one of the best American remakes of a foreign film that I've seen. Link to post Share on other sites
jimmyjimmy Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 Never seen this before.What a great, great film. Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 We watched The Departed last night. One element where I feel it fell short of the original was in the relationship between the Sheen and DiCaprio characters -- it was much more of a mentor/father figure relationship in Infernal Affairs, which just didn't come through in this version.Same here, that was the only real disappointment of the film for me. Link to post Share on other sites
Hodie Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 It's an australian drama which is strangely uplifting given its story of fate and death and disaster. I liked it a lot. Justine Bateman's not Australian, is she? Link to post Share on other sites
froggie Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Justine Bateman's not Australian, is she? that was Mallory from Family Ties... if its the same girl, she aint australian i'm struggling through this - dont see what the fuss is and why everyone seems to love it. pretty slow and becomes predictable after a while. lucky i borrowed it off a friend and didnt buy it apparently its better than the american version even Link to post Share on other sites
Hodie Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Justine's australian accent in Look Both Ways sounded remarkably life-like to my american ears, which is why I asked. If you ever happen to see it showing on tv, listen and tell me if I'm crazy. I should also mention that she is utterly un-Mallory like in this film, both in appearance and demeanor. I had a hard time believing it was her. I'm so sorry you don't like The Office, because it has brought an enormous amount of mirth to my own life. HILARIOUS EDIT, ESPECIALLY IN LIGHT OF MY SECOND PARAGRAPH: The reason she doesn't look like Justine Bateman and has a great australian accent is because she's an australian actress named Justine Clark. Comcast has it wrong in their credits. HAHAHA! It's a great movie, regardless. Link to post Share on other sites
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