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Resurrecting the Movies thread...
Kd5000:
--- Quote from: shortfiction on August 16, 2008, 09:34:31 pm ---Anybody up for the newest Coen Brothers film, Burn After Reading? It comes out on Sep. 12 and looks to be a dark comedy featuring a CIA agent and some gym employees.
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Well it sure looks interesting. It looks like Brad Pitt has hair highlights and Frances McDormand is a blond. The trailer, which I saw yesterday, really doesn't give you any idea of what the movie is about. I like the trailer for Bottle Shock, "the story of the early days of California wine making featuring the now infamous, blind Paris wine tasting of 1976..."
Yesterday, I saw the new Woody Allen movie called Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Penelope Cruz was quite good, but the movie itself wasn't up to par, though it might make you want to take a vacation in Spain. :D
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Kd5000 on August 17, 2008, 12:49:27 pm --- though it might make you want to take a vacation in Spain. :D
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That in itself might be enough reason to see a movie! ;D
I saw Pineapple Express and Tropic Thunder with my sons (12 and 13). They loved both, but I wasn't as impressed. Both had mildly funny or interesting moments, but devolved into stupid violence and were ultimately, to me, disappointments. Still, in the first, I liked James Franco. Very fun and likable -- a whole new kind of character. In the second, I liked Robert Downey Jr. and especially -- get this! -- Tom Cruise!! As a matter of fact, one could argue that Tom Cruise was the best thing in that movie. Not something I'd ever expect to hear me say, except possibly regarding Magnolia, which I haven't seen.
horo04:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on August 16, 2008, 11:06:34 pm ---Finally, I saw this film as a double bill with Mannequin, starring Andrew McCarthy and Kim Cattrall. I enjoyed both films, but especially Lars. One line that struck me very much was the doctor's as she pretended to examine Lars' "girlfriend" (but really him) "Sometimes I get so lonely I forget what day of the week it is, or how to spell my name."
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You saw Mannequin? YARGHH!.....worst movie ever...I still have nightmares of Switcher and mannequins riding on motorbikes! :P
SFEnnisSF:
I saw Frozen River tonight. It was excellent!
http://www.sonyclassics.com/frozenriver/
I love the music in the trailer and in the movie:
Trailer:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7MnmB79yt0[/youtube]
oilgun:
Most of the movies I've watched lately have been older and rather mediocre so I haven't bothered to post about them here. One exception, however, is the 1976 French film THE BEST WAY TO WALK (La meilleure façon de marcher), the first film from director Claude Miller. I don't remember ever hearing about it before but since I'm a fan of Patrick Dewaere I rented it. What a wonderful surprise!
Summary:
In the summer of 1960, Marc and Philippe work as supervisors in a French summer camp for young boys. Their different methods of treating their young charges reflect their different personalities. Marc, an extrovert bully, leads his boys as if they were rookie soldiers, subjecting them to a gruelling schedule of sport and drill exercises. Philippe, by contrast, is a quieter, kinder man, who is more concerned with developing his boys’ artistic talents. The two men co-exist comfortably side-by-side until one day Marc sees Philippe dressed up as a woman in his room. From that day, Marc is determined to make Philippe’s life a misery. He humiliates Philippe in front of his fellow supervisors and then his girlfriend, Chantal. Finally, Philippe can take no more. His self-esteem in tatters, he is driven to take a drastic revenge against his tormenter…
Review Excerpt: The two characters in the film, Marc and Philippe, represent two diametrically opposed facets of masculinity – Marc the virile, physical lout, Philippe the well-mannered, studious type. The two kinds of male personas still exist, and have probably always existed, each fatally drawn towards the other in a kind of love/hate symbiosis, from which each derives some sort of perverse self-justification. The conflict between them, so masterfully captured in this film, is perhaps as ancient and as unforgiving as that which exists between men and women.
Synopsis and review both from: http://filmsdefrance.com/FDF_La_Meilleure_facon_de_marcher_rev.html
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