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Loulou
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Just WHAT is it that GDepardieu has, what makes him so darn sexy? Gosh, I love a man who laffs during sex.
Ohayo (Good Morning) 1959
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My 2nd Ozu. Cute 50's story of gossip in a Japanese working community & 2 brothers who refuse to speak until their mom buys them a tv. Dated, but funny & sweet.
Meeting at Midnight (Black Magic)
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A midnite murder at a seance & both Birmingham & Charlie Chans daughter were present. The spirits were NOT happy lol.
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The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant (The Incredible Transplant)
by Kevinposted 12 hours ago -
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Wizard Of Gore
by Quinto"The End... or the beginning?" I love when they do that, and it also kept me laughing how everyone seems to be yelling their lines all the time. As for the film itself, very entertaining and I found the gore satisfying. A nice, bloody time.
So, if gore and, especially, b-movies are your thing, this one is very entertaining. I'm working on making a good drinking game out of it.
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A Thousand Clowns
by KevinYou know those little movies that you absolutely LOVE but hardly anyone else has ever heard of? Those movies that you watch and wonder why no one ever talks about them or praises them or includes them in their list of favorites? Do you know those movies? Well this is one of those movies.
Jason Robards is a middle-aged, unemployed bachelor who is raising his 12-year-old nephew (Barry Gordon) in the heart of New York City. When confronted by representatives from NY social services, Robards is faced with the choice of either conforming to "acceptable" standards (getting a job) or risk losing his nephew to the bureaucracy of the child welfare system.
I have an affinity for cerebral comedies and this is definitely one of the best I've ever seen. It stimulates the mind, tickles the funny bone and touches the heart.
*Thank you Audrey and Stella for bringing this wonderful, wonderful film to my attention!This film is so deeply entrenched in New York City it almost drips big-apple juice, but it still has a French New Wave feel about it. Oscar nominated for best picture, losing out to "The Sound of Music" - I had never even heard of it until a couple of my Flixster friends brought it to my attention, a favor for which I'm forever grateful!
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Dementia 13 (The Haunted and the Hunted)
by Stellafrancis ford coppola's first film, produced by roger corman; a kind of gothic homage to psycho. cheesy but fun! and u can watch it here: http://www.archive.org/details/Dementia_13
very, very low budget
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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 2 days ago -
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Penelope
by QuintoThe fairy-tale angle of the film is pretty cute and entertaining, though the romantic one is certainly uneven. Still, Christina Ricci looks very adorable. I just kept wanting to have eskimo make-out sessions with her. I also really liked the wardrobe and the production.
This isn't an intense, life-changing film - but to everybody who has ever been in love with Christina Ricci, this is the cutest she's ever looked.
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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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The Dark Knight
by Karinereally good.great performance by Heath ledger (performance of a lifetime).a lot of cool new gadjet...Harvey dent is an interesting character...
Hey, you should really see this!
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The Bank Job
by QuintoJason Statham steps back from his usual ass-kicking, car-chasing, explosions-surviving persona and lets a good, solid story deliver the thrills and suspense that keeps you glued to the screen.
To every Jason Statham hater, trust me, this is different.
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You can thank my friend Cindy (webalina) for this little gem. No really, you gotta send her a thank you msg. She'll totally freak! (lol)
http://www.flixster.com/user/webalinaposted 4 days ago -
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21
by QuintoEverything looks shiny and brand-new; the cast is dynamic and easy to look at, but the fun comes and goes way too fast and the story doesn't really grab you until the last half hour of it's two-hour running time. Also, the two asian supporting characters were more interesting than its leads and they didn't get enough screen time.
The trailers are more fun and have a better story than the final product.
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I recommend you see...Hey, you should really see this!
Blood, gore and crushed/decapitated heads.
What more do you need on a rainy day?posted 4 days ago -
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Okay all you Shirley Pimple fans, we have a poster!
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Heavy Metal in Baghdad
by JGreat documentary that captures the current state of the War on Iraq as it truly is. Does a great job at making us understand the whole picture by focusing on one frame. This isn't a film for metalheads (which I do happen to be), it's a film for human beings.
This is reality.
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The Fugitive Kind
by Veronique"thr fugitive kind" is another terrific piece scripted by tennesse williams, and it is adequately casted with marlon brando and ann magnani as williams' two archetyped characters in his plays: sexually dissatisfied female with great willpower vs luscious male with stormy sex antagonism. the harsher extreme exemplification would "streatcar named desire" as brando's stanley is the central object of desire, perhaps williams' personal inclination does contribute to his various creations of "homme fatale" which is men who are the seductors casting or catalyzing doom to women.
by this time, brando is the alluring drifter with snakeskin jacket and guitar by his side, a symbol of his uninhibited nature, an aloof poise which fascinates women with masochistic tendency. and two women become the prey under his charm: one lewd exhibitionist and one shrew with tangled past. somehow he's employed by the latter whom he also falls in love with. but the malice of the woman's invalid spouse brings forth catastrophe to everyone, nothing left but a snakeskin jacket remained from a fire disaster, another symbol of williams' poetric tragedy, and one fugitive kind seeks another to compensate.
brando's male beauty has not been in the prime blossom as he was in 1951 "streetcar named desire", by 1959, he starts to bare some rugged ripeness. anna magnani, who makes her fame in "the rose tattoo", is perfect casting choice as the elder woman whose vigor of life is mighty enough to lure brando without being perished into pieces by him.
"the fugitive kind" is one good example of the significance of the scriptor, and the movie's functionality all relies upon the pearly lines of tennesse williams and his metaphoric usage of lust and death which are frequent themes in his plays as well as the occasional dialogues of existential futility which are too lengthy to be mentioned here. "fugitive kind" requires your thorough attention to chew over the clever words of pessismistic wisdom, far from a mindless pleasure you could squander over.as one of the great rebel/method actors in the beat generation, brando showcases another charm due to sexual antagonism in "fugutive kind", also scripted by tennesse williams, and this time he meets his female counterpart, anna magnani whose individuality is sharp enough to emulate his. if you like great plays as you enjoy "streetcar name desire" as well as "rose tattoo"..."fugitive kind" is also a great choice for your food of thoughts.
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