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serious crayons:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on January 01, 2011, 07:31:09 pm ---Rented the movie Amazing Grace which is the story of William Wilberforce a 18th-19th century English abolitionist who was instrumental on abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.
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I saw AG in the theater when it came out. As best I can remember, your review is pretty much the way I saw it, too.
delalluvia:
The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
6.5/10
Very much a good children's story. All about growing up, accepting oneself and assuming responsibility. Seamless special effects, the 3-D didn't really add to or detract from the story. Solid acting. The mouse is much less annoying this time around. Very slow paced though.
Meryl:
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OMG! What a wonderfully insane movie this is! Imagine THE RED SHOES via Polanski's REPULSION and Cronenberg's THE FLY, then add a dash of SHOWGIRLS and you have the best Holiday movie of 2010. Some people complain that the film is too over-the-top but I think it works beautifully. I mean, I was humming Tchaikovsky for the rest of the day, lol! Easily makes my top ten list.
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Great description, Gil! I saw this today and loved its craziness. It's an instant camp classic. To top it off, I was delighted to see a cameo by my alter ego John Epperson (Lypsinka) as the rehearsal pianist (a job he held for years at ABT). The climax is great, with the Tchaikovsky music blaring and her crazy mom (Barbara Hershey in Joan Crawford mode) in the audience.
An added fun thing: the exterior shots of the theater are the Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, where I work. I saw the film right across the street at the Lincoln Plaza Cinema. I'll never look at the fountain in the same way again. ;D
oilgun:
--- Quote from: Meryl on January 18, 2011, 01:17:19 am ---Great description, Gil! I saw this today and loved its craziness. It's an instant camp classic. To top it off, I was delighted to see a cameo by my alter ego John Epperson (Lypsinka) as the rehearsal pianist (a job he held for years at ABT). The climax is great, with the Tchaikovsky music blaring and her crazy mom (Barbara Hershey in Joan Crawford mode) in the audience.
An added fun thing: the exterior shots of the theater are the Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, where I work. I saw the film right across the street at the Lincoln Plaza Cinema. I'll never look at the fountain in the same way again. ;D
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Thanks! That's the movie I'll be rooting for come Oscar time. I know it won't win, the prize will go to the sentimental favourite of course, but at least it made the shortlist. A lot of people dislike it.
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In other movie news:
For those who have seen the film, this is a really interesting analysis of non-verbal behaviour in THE SOCIAL NETWORK.
I wish David Bordwell had done something similar for BbM.
THE SOCIAL NETWORK: Faces behind facebook
http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/?p=12186
Excerpt:
Watching eyes is tremendously important in our social lives. We need to monitor other people’s glances to see if they are looking at us. We need to track what else they might be looking at. We need to watch for signals sent by the eyes, particularly attitudes toward the situation we’re in. For example, we seldom look directly into each others’ eyes, as characters in movies do constantly; in real life, “mutual gaze” is intermittent and brief. But if two people stare intently at each other, we’re likely to assume keen attraction or rising aggression.
In an essay from Poetics of Cinema available on this site, I talk about mutual gaze in cinema and how it can be exploited for dramatic purposes. The same essay takes up the issue of blinking; we blink frequently, but film characters seldom do, and the actors usually make the blinks emotionally expressive (of fear, uncertainty, weakness, etc.).
The problem is that eyes, by themselves, tell us very little about what the person behind them is thinking or feeling. We can show this with a little experiment.
Do the eyes have it?
Meryl:
--- Quote from: oilgun on January 31, 2011, 08:48:47 pm ---Thanks! That's the movie I'll be rooting for come Oscar time. I know it won't win, the prize will go to the sentimental favourite of course, but at least it made the shortlist. A lot of people dislike it.
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Yes, it has engendered a lot of different reactions all right.
--- Quote ---In other movie news:
For those who have seen the film, this is a really interesting analysis of non-verbal behaviour in THE SOCIAL NETWORK.
I wish David Bordwell had done something similar for BbM.
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I certainly agree that the eyes say everything in BBM. My favorite example of this is the scene by the brook where Ennis asks Jack whether he ever wonders if people on the street suspect him. His eyes show fear, calculation, curiosity, a wish to seem nonchalant--all in a matter of a few lines. Brilliant.
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