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Resurrecting the Movies thread...
Lumière:
Hey KD, cheers. :)
Here is a piece from the documentary: The Celluloid Closet, referencing The Children's hour:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=429gotnYSt0[/youtube]
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: Kd5000 on January 13, 2008, 11:28:43 pm ---I saw THE ORPHANAGE today. Overall, the film had the feel of a 1960's ghost story. I'm thinking on the lines of THE HAUNTED as well as THE OTHERS. While a decent film THE ORPHANAGE wasn't as good as the two I mentioned above. There were a few rather large plot holes which took away from the film.
There has been some controversy about the film being in Spanish and not being advertised that way. The couple sitting behind me moaned and said "we have to read subtitles?" It's sad ppl can be so lazy.
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My daughter went and saw it on Saturday with a friend. She said it was very scary. Funny, she never even mentioned the subtitles, so obviously, they didn't bother her!
L
BelAir:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on January 14, 2008, 11:20:52 am ---My daughter went and saw it on Saturday with a friend. She said it was very scary. Funny, she never even mentioned the subtitles, so obviously, they didn't bother her!
L
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oh, I finally realized what movie you were talking about...
The advertisements I saw linked it with "Pan's Labyrinth"... so if a movie goer saw Pan's, then they should have been prepared (for the subtitles). But maybe lots of people are seeing The Orphanage that didn't see Pan's...
Lumière:
I finally got to see a movie I've wanted to see in quite a while.
It is an Indian movie called Sancharram (aka The Journey), written and directed by Ligy J. Pullappally.
Like Deepa Mehta's "Fire", The Journey mainly addresses the subject of lesbianism in Indian society.
At its centre are two young women who have been best mates since they were children. As they grow older, their relationship transitions from friendship to love (with great performances by the two leads). The complications surrounding their blossoming relationship go from bad to worse when they are found out and a marriage is hastily arranged.
I enjoyed the movie more than I thought I would in fact. It felt like watching a long and rather sensual poem ... loved the cinematography :)
Excerpt from an interview with the screenwriter/director [on her motivation for making the movie]:
Ligy J. Pullappally: On January 25, 2000, I received an email about a young woman at a university in the South Indian state of Kerala. She and her girlfriend had fled the school, presumably under the threat of expulsion as a result of the rumors of their love affair with each other. The women were recovered and sent back to their respective families. The next day, one of the young woman's body was found floating in the reservoir of a dam. It was a tragic loss of young life and potential, a suicide. It was, I would learn, an all too familiar circumstance in the South Indian state of Kerala.
I wanted to do something to draw attention to the alarmingly frequent incidents of gay suicide - to try to stem that tide; I knew that isolation was a factor in these incidents, so I considered creating a positive media representation of young gay people.
[courtesy of - http://www.desiclub.com/bollywood/bollywood_features/bolly_article.cfm?id=253]
Worth checking out. :)
oilgun:
The AMPAS shortlist for the Foreign Language Film Award shockingly excludes 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days and Persepolis
http://www.variety.com/blog/890000489/post/1600020160.html
I've heard of one and seen none of the following shortlisted films:
Austria, "The Counterfeiters," Stefan Ruzowitzky, director
Brazil, "The Year My Parents Went on Vacation," Cao Hamburger, director
Canada, "Days of Darkness," Denys Arcand, director
Israel, "Beaufort," Joseph Cedar, director
Italy, "The Unknown," Giuseppe Tornatore, director
Kazakhstan, "Mongol," Sergei Bodrov, director
Poland, "Katyn," Andrzej Wajda, director
Russia, "12," Nikita Mikhalkov, director
Serbia, "The Trap," Srdan Golubovic, director
Jeffrey Wells of Hollywood Elsewhere is also pissed off:
One of the biggest outrages in the history of the Academy's foreign film committee -- a scandal fed by deficient taste and myopic, mule-like obstinacy -- has just happened with the release of the nine-film short list that doesn't include Cristian Mungiu's widely hailed 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days. The people who pushed for this decision need to be identified and, with all charity and compassion, expelled from this group for life. What will it take? Torches and pitchforks at the corner of Wilshire and La Peer at 8 pm this evening?
More at: http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/archives/2008/01/4_months_doesnt.php
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