littlecharmer1959
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| Name | Emily B. |
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| Gender | Female |
| I'm From | UK |
| Member For | 169 days |
| Last Login | Fri. Jul 25 |
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| Age | 18 |
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| Movie: | A Taste Of Honey, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Billy Liar, The Leather Boys, This Sporting Life, The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner, Look Back In Anger, Kes, East of Eden, Educating Rita, The Pumpkin Eater, The Children's Hour, The Innocents, Amelie, Smashing Time, Bonnie And Clyde, The 400 Blows, Jules Et Jim, Shoot The Pianist, Lolita (Kubrick version), Blow Up. |
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| Actor: | See list. |
| Director: | British New Wave directors, French New Wave (especially Truffaut), Powell and Pressburger, Ingmar Bergman, surpisingly the directors of my favourite movies (see list) |
| Quote: | "Is the cinema more important than life?" - Francois Truffaut |
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I love British Cinema, World Cinema, Classics, Independent Cinema, basically anything but Modern Hollywood.
Please don't add me if you haven't rated any movies, afterall the reason I am here is to talk about film and related subjects. Please try not to send me widgets, I will only delete them. (Emily's The Name) Of His Latest Flame. If you have 5 seconds to spare then I"ll tell you the story of my life. 16, clumsy and shy, I went to London and I, I booked myself in at the YWCA, I said "I like it here can I stay, I like it here can I stay, and do you have a vacancy for a backscrubber?". I live for the written word, and people come second or possibly third. It took a charming man from Manchester to really, really open my eyes. Irish blood, English heart this Im made of. But, you're Dorian Gray, and I'm Sybil Vane. Music and film, my two main loves. You may have noticed from the quotes that I'm a huge The Smiths/Morrissey fan. |
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Manhattan
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Woody Allen is a genius. I had never seen a Woody Allen film before this and I'm so glad I decided to buy it. It's shot in glorious black and white which makes the New York skyline look even more beautiful than it already is.
Brilliant humour, brilliant images, brilliant film.
Killer's Kiss
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The first half especially didn't really excite me, but it's faults are forgiveable as it's only Kubrick's second film. When watching it's interesting to compare to Kubrick's other works and see how he developed as a director. The best part has to be the fight scene in the room full of mannequins.
Ashes and Diamonds
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The final part of Andrzej Wajda's War Trilogy. Some say this is the best of the three but I prefer the previous film Kanal.
Paths of Glory
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War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing.
An early masterpiece by Kubrick with an incredibly moving ending.
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A Taste of Honey
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A fine piece of British social realism. Rita Tushingham puts in a brilliant performance.
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Billy Liar (1963)
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One of my favourites. Has some great comic moments as well as being one of the best known of the "kitchen sink dramas". The story revolves around Billy who does nothing but daydream and let his imagination run wild. Its through his wild imagination that Billy has managed to find himself engaged to not one but 3 girlfriends. It may seem that Billy is uncaring towards his family and 3 girlfriends but it becomes clear that Billy?s wild imagination and habit of lying is his way of escaping the humdrum life of 1960s Northern England. Also a great performance by Julie Christie in her first major film role.
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Persona
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Wow! This film is one of the best films I've ever seen. Liv Ullman and Bibi Andersson are fantastic.
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Jules and Jim
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Fantastic. My favourite of Truffaut's films and Jeanne Moreau's finest role.
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Drawing Restraint 9
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Hi Emily! Can also recommend Zelig, Annie Hall and Hannah and Her Sisters, all directed by Woody Allen!
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The Dark Knight
by RobertI won't go on and on about "how dark it was" or "what a great take on The Joker, Ledger gave".
Both statements are true, but I would expect nothing less from Mr. Nolan or Mr. Ledger for that matter. Especially where this franchise is concerned.
I can't say that it was any better then I expected (I expected it to be really good). And I can't say that I felt that there were ANY Academy Award performances involved, though Ledger certainly had the potential for it (and SO much more).
But I can say that as sequels go...this is an exceptional one.My thoughts (for what they're worth)
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The Good Earth
by Veronique"the good earth" is the earliest massive hollywood productions for oriental epic in exclusion of fu manchu series. it has great ambition to interpret the national spirit of china, its farming business under a bunch of stagy performances from caucasion yellow-face. and the issue has no relevance of its chinese authenticness but how old america views china.
it is a story about wang lung the farmer(paul muni), who marries a slavegirl in the big house named o-lan. and together they strive for their rocky future with mettle with their conventional chinese virtues. they've been thru harvest prosperity, drought, famine and the revolution of republic china as well as wang's illict affair with courtesan lotus.
mostly it depicts the condescending perspect of man's derogatory viewpoint on women which is actually true in ancient china, and women are merely usable products who help men to plow the rice fields and bring them extensions. without that, a woman could be considered worthless, and the dichotomy of benevolent saint and malevolent siren reflects on the two major female characters: o-lan, the slavegirl turning to the farmer's wife; lotus, the insidious temptress who drains men's wealth. eventually the conclusion would be good woman is like earth which provides everything with endless flourishments.
the earliest chinese star then anna may wong was keen to obtain the role of virtuous o-lan to alter her dreary image of malicious sirens in a bunch of negative orient-themed movies where she has to die "a thousand times" in the end. but the studio refuses to grant her that becuz of the racial segregation principle then: a caucasion male cannot make love or pair licitly with a oriental female on screen (so asian women are neither mistresses or villainy on screen), even as roles of yellow face. even the temptress lotus goes down to another actress with approved ethnicity despite the role lotus is literarily inspired by the oriental femme fatale image in wong's early silent pictures.
the point of making "the good earth" itself is a campy articce, so why bother to use a real chinese or not since the story won't present the real china anyway? as for anna may wong, she is thorough america-nourished american except her ethnicity, and she doesn't even conform to the corny chinese virtues of obediency or dependency on man anyway, further more she has never been with a chinese man for all her life at all. so in exclusion of her chinese outlook, there's not really any that much of traditional chineseness in her. so it won't be really a shame or a pity for her abscence as o-lan in this piece, but she would probably make an adequate lotus.
the title song for "the good earth" would be "the jasmine song" which has nothing to do with farming but a common folk song praising the beauty of jasmine flower in spite of its melodius smoothness. and in the scene of new infant birth, it's accompanied with the song celebrating the feng-yang drum which is my father's regional folk song in old china. so it would be highly phony to deem "the good earth" as a chinese epic, and even pearl s. buck who writes the original novel might have some bias for china. but it does bare some worthwhile process of collecting crops from the rice fields which i have never paid attention before. and the photography has its contived oriental aesthetism under the helm of four directors, including victor fleming from "gone with the wind".
so allow me to put it this way, the pleasure of "good earth" would be the brass flatulency of vintage caucasion hollywood's eccentric perception on "the inscrutable orient". ABSOLUTE CAMP!for me, watching "good earth" might be like watching charlie chen, sometimes you just have a deviant curiosity to watch how others perceive chinese as if you were an outsider without relevance. perhaps this outsider spirit is totally against zen which is to view things from the inward toward the outward, but i'm doing the opposite as an escapic fun.
in a nutshell, worth watching for its apparent FAKENESS. a A CAMP.posted 1 day ago -
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1900 (Novecento)
by JacBertolucci's "1900", a 5-hour epic is definetely one of the most ambitious cinematic untertakings I have yet had oppurtunity to experience and results, although mixed, brings a unique character study, a story of a friendship torn between Right and Left.
A lot can be said about events, or rather character development here, but the important thing is to acknowledge that the first part could've be easily cut down to from 2.5 hours to 1.5 since it's clearly over-long, having not enough substance to sustain the interest. Yet the second part brings true drama to the table, fully compensating this careful introduction into the relationship of the two main characters.
Technically, it is wonderful. Storaro with his rich, colorful cinematography is at his best here, direction, rythm is flawless and acting is also captivating, even though italian dubbing can be annoying sometimes. Donald Sutherland goes over himself here and therefore joins my private list of The Most Ruthless Villians in Cinema History as a terrible, vicious, Fascist Attila.
This is cinema they simply don't make anymore and "1900", despite having some troubles with the selection of the material, still is a powerful filmmaking neverthless, the one one won't easily forget.
A must-see for everyone fascinated with Italian cinema.While many of you have been praising "The Dark Knight", which I'm sure will live up to its hype, I decided to catch your attention with this underrated epic, something from sort of a different dimension, yet also deserving your time.
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***1/2. I like it more than "28 Weeks Later"
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