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Post by crapgame on Feb 2, 2020 10:34:13 GMT -5
This weekend has been filled with watching some outstanding movies from may genres. First was "Woman of The Dunes" , A very interesting movie from Japan about a biologist( or whatever a person is called who studies bugs) that goes to a beach in search of new bugs. He ends up being kidnapped and forced to live in a pit with a woman to dig sand and eventually falls in love with her.
5/5 stars .
Next was a silent movie about Saint Joan of Arc called " The Passion of Joan of Arc". The movie centers on trial of St Joan and the torment she endured.
Maria Falconetti , also known as Renee and a few other names, gives the performance of a lifetime as Saint Joan. The sound track was made for this movie and is incredibly haunting. This is considered of the 100 must see movies before you die and I could not agree more. I think it is in top 10.
This has to one of the best movies I have ever seen, period. 5/5 stars in every category.
Last was "The Glass Menagerie", a 1973 made for TV version of a Tennessee William's play. The movie stars Kate Hepburn, Sam Waterston, Michael Moriarty and Joanna Miles. The story is about a controlling mother ( Hepburn) who's husband ran out on the family, her two children (Waterston and Miles) and a friend of her son (Moriarty) that comes to dinner. The son wants to be writer but works in a warehouse to support the family and hates his job. The daughter is "crippled" and is very shy, so shy that she is unable to have a job or go to school. The mother is controlling and longs for the life of a "Southern Belle" and wants some kind of future for her timid daughter. Jim (Moriarty) is a man that Tom, the son, invites to dinner as a date for his sister and shows Laura,the sister, there is no need for her to be so insecure and shy. During the visit Jim and Laura kiss and Jim gets very upset after the kiss because he is engaged to a woman and leaves. He also tells Laura not to forget that there is no need for her to be so insecure. 5/5 stars all around.
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Post by zambini on Feb 2, 2020 10:41:36 GMT -5
Women of the Dunes is one of my all time favorites. It's harsh and bizarre .
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Post by crapgame on Feb 2, 2020 10:44:11 GMT -5
Women of the Dunes is one of my all time favorites. It's harsh and bizarre . I could not agree more, there is something about it that keeps you watching.
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Post by zambini on Feb 2, 2020 10:58:44 GMT -5
Women of the Dunes is one of my all time favorites. It's harsh and bizarre . I could not agree more, there is something about it that keeps you watching. I find that movies made in countries during periods of rapid modernization are so weird. As if they themselves have a hard time believing the non-moderns still exist and being shocked when they discover they do. In the US those types of films tended to be comedies (when they travel outside the country it doesn't count) like Modern Times, in Germany they tended to be Gothic thrillers like Nosferatu, in Africa straight horror movies like the Nigerian zombie boom and Japan whatever Women of the Dunes is.I'm sure there's theory about this out there but I'm yet to find it.
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Post by toshtego on Feb 2, 2020 13:31:37 GMT -5
I have seen all of the above and share your enthusiasm.
"Woman of the Dunes" was a huge art film hit around 1970 in San Francisco.
I enjoy all the Joan of Arc movies, from this one on. Great character. I hate to admit my favorite is Jean Seberg in "St. Joan" , the Otto Preminger film of the GB Shaw play. There is something about Jean Seberg which always intrigued me in all of he films including the big commercial ones.
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Post by jeffd on Jun 1, 2020 17:46:20 GMT -5
A great movie: The Lighthouse. The one made last year, not the earlier one.
It is a great and terrible story. The entire movie is three characters - One played by Robert Pattinson and one played by Willem Dafoe. The third character is the fog horn.
I loved loved loved it. But I am a fan of such movies. You may not be, and I get that. The movie is so much more than light entertainment. It is a brooding hulk of a movie, that will not be forgotten soon.
Relevant here is that it is an excellent pipe smoking movie. Small clay pipes.
I watched it twice, puffing along merrily on my collection of small clays.
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Post by Gandalf on Jun 1, 2020 18:10:07 GMT -5
I watched the new "Call of the Wild" recently. They ruined the movie and the story. It's like a Disney version. Too nicey-nice.
I've marked an old version on my cable TV system staring Charlton Heston. Plan to watch it soon.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 1, 2020 22:32:55 GMT -5
I looked up WOTD and it looks like it was made in Japan from a book about 2 Scottish women. The movie looks as strange as the novel sounds.
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Post by briarbuck on Jun 3, 2020 12:21:32 GMT -5
A great movie: The Lighthouse. The one made last year, not the earlier one. It is a great and terrible story. The entire movie is three characters - One played by Robert Pattinson and one played by Willem Dafoe. The third character is the fog horn. I loved loved loved it. But I am a fan of such movies. You may not be, and I get that. The movie is so much more than light entertainment. It is a brooding hulk of a movie, that will not be forgotten soon. Relevant here is that it is an excellent pipe smoking movie. Small clay pipes. I watched it twice, puffing along merrily on my collection of small clays. What part of it was a dream vs reality? Was the ending a nod to Prometheus? That movie made my head hurt.
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Post by jeffd on Jun 3, 2020 14:23:06 GMT -5
My thought is that the only dream sequences are the ones which end with the character waking up with a startle. The fantasy sequences, I think, are equally obvious.
I have read a review of the nod to Prometheus and it kind of fits, but i sure did not see it while watching the movie. I think that fighting the weather and the seagulls can be seen as a kind of pushing back against the gods.
I thought the movie was like a great Edgar Allen Poe story, especially in the depiction of drunkenness as a madness to be feared. And Goya's painting "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters".
The movie was great for many of the things not included: car crashes, explosions, super heroes and super powers, gratuitous sex, irrelevant and pointless relationships.
And yea, that fog horn could wear out a bottle of Advil.
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Post by briarbuck on Jun 3, 2020 14:27:26 GMT -5
I really need to watch it again. I enjoyed your description as a bully of a movie. This is a movie that will not be ignored for sure.
I assume that you liked Pi, There Shall be Blood, The Machinist, and Memento? Those movies seemed to have the same tenure.
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Post by jeffd on Jun 4, 2020 12:37:03 GMT -5
I saw There Shall be Blood and liked it. I read Pi and did not see the movie. (Mostly because I am a contrarian and everyone I knew was watching Pi so of course i missed it. I read the book before it became "a thing". This contrarian nonsense has not always served me well, and an impulsive abhorrence of things popular has steered me away from a lot of really good times.)
I think there are many sympathies in The Lighthouse with the stories Edgar Allen Poe. Where atrocities are committed with no more justification than "a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame".
The movie is a kind of a study of how easily the veneer of civilization can be lifted, and what is frightfully possible when we release what lies beneath. That is the residue of my over thinking anyway.
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Post by briarbuck on Jun 4, 2020 15:16:58 GMT -5
I like the cut of your jib sir. I think we could share a wee dram (or 3) a pipe and a conversation.
Momento was another that was all the rage for a short bit. Of the genre, I though that Bale was incredible in The Mechanic.
Watched Boondock Saints again the other night, speaking of the darker side.
Nebraska is another of the genre that I like very much. Need to go back and see that one again.
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Post by Gandalf on Jun 4, 2020 21:19:26 GMT -5
I watched the new "Call of the Wild" recently. They ruined the movie and the story. It's like a Disney version. Too nicey-nice. I've marked an old version on my cable TV system staring Charlton Heston. Plan to watch it soon. Well, that was disappointing. Started watching the Charlton Heston version of Call of the Wild and only made it through 10 or 15 minutes. Funny how 70's movies didn't seem so cheesy at the time.
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Post by jeffd on Jun 5, 2020 12:36:54 GMT -5
I like the cut of your jib sir. I think we could share a wee dram (or 3) a pipe and a conversation. Yes. Great movies, great whiskey, great tobacco, great coffee, great conversation, great friends. I have a preference for movies with few characters. Not exclusive or anything, but i am amazed at what can be done, what worlds can be created, with a handful of characters. Like line drawing caricatures, where six or seven lines completely capture the essence of someone. So try this movie. Loche. We see only one character, played by Tom Hardy, and the entire movie is only one scene, inside the car the one character is driving. A good pipe smoking movie in that you don't need to fixate on the screen, you can fiddle with your pipe and listen and entirely get the movie. Seriously, it is a wonderful movie, with the whole range of emotions one would expect from a movie with a lot more characters and scenes. Let me know if you get to see it what you think.
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Post by briarbuck on Jun 9, 2020 11:50:14 GMT -5
Loche it is! I will report back. Thanks
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Post by jeffd on Jun 9, 2020 13:18:52 GMT -5
Loche it is! I will report back. Thanks I am kind of jealous. You get to see this for the first time. I can never do that again. You will love it.
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Post by briarbuck on Jun 11, 2020 13:42:12 GMT -5
Loche it is! I will report back. Thanks I am kind of jealous. You get to see this for the first time. I can never do that again. You will love it. I can tell that this is going to take me down a rabbit hole. Just looked at the 10 T Hardy movies, and haven't seen half of them.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jul 25, 2020 14:06:05 GMT -5
"OH, darling, if you can paint I can walk". Such a stupid movie I don't know why I keep watching it! 🙄😕🤠
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Post by bigwoolie on Jul 25, 2020 16:25:16 GMT -5
I came in the house several years ago and my wife was watching a Matt Damon movie called "The Talented Mr Ripley". The more I stood there and watched it, the madder I got.
That movie summed up my least favorite type of movie. A movie about nothing but bad people doing bad things to bad people.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jul 25, 2020 17:51:40 GMT -5
I came in the house several years ago and my wife was watching a Matt Damon movie called "The Talented Mr Ripley". The more I stood there and watched it, the madder I got. That movie summed up my least favorite type of movie. A movie about nothing but bad people doing bad things to bad people. He did turn his life around at the end. But I agree with you completely. A movie needs a hero to set a good example, or a good love story.
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Post by toshtego on Jul 25, 2020 19:36:39 GMT -5
TCM recently had a kind of Ingmar Bergman festival. I recorded, "The Seventh Seal", "The Virgin Spring", "The Hour of the Wolf", "Persona". Yes, I am going to have to go through that stuff all over again as I did in the 1970s. Depressed the hell out of me then. I am sure now, I will be suicidal!!!!
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Post by Ronv69 on Jul 25, 2020 19:48:58 GMT -5
Movies should be either fun or inspirational. If you feel worse after watching one, then you f'd up. 😉😏🤠
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Post by toshtego on Jul 25, 2020 23:56:14 GMT -5
Movies should be either fun or inspirational. If you feel worse after watching one, then you f'd up. 😉😏🤠 I am not sure if I would call Bergman's movies "inspirational". Thought provoking, certainly. He made a couple of fun movies early on, "Smiles of a Summer Night" for one. "The Seventh Seal" is sort of fun in a campy way because is has been satirized so many times by Woody Allen, Monty Python, among others. It has its moments. How much fun can the audience have when one of the main characters is "Death"?
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Post by trailboss on Jul 26, 2020 0:11:27 GMT -5
Movies should be either fun or inspirational. If you feel worse after watching one, then you f'd up. 😉😏🤠 Kind of the way I felt about Bridges of Madison county.
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Post by pappyjoe on Jul 26, 2020 8:17:29 GMT -5
For mindless entertainment, I've watch two John Wayne movies yesterday. First was "The Fighting Seabees" in which John Wayne dies at the end. There is also a lot of pipe smoking in the movie. The second was El Dorado - one of my favorites - that also had James Caan, Robert Mitchum & Ed Asner in it. I have to admit that Michele Carey was a school boy crush after that movie.
Today I'm planning to watch "The Quiet Man" and "McClintock."
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Post by Ronv69 on Jul 26, 2020 10:59:15 GMT -5
We watched They Were Expendable yesterday. Best thing about it was JW was overshadowed by all of the actors.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Jul 26, 2020 11:35:17 GMT -5
Watched for a second time Wish You Well, adaption Of a book David Balducci wrote, read the book and story with Josh Lucas and Ellen Burnstin, about a coal company tryin to steal land in Virginia, great story, inspirational.
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