ABCs at the Movies: The Doubles Round!

[southendmd]

Also starring Josh Hartnett
"in production"

IMDb:  Ex-Los Angeles cop turned private eye travels to Hong Kong in search of the missing son of a billionaire.

[Meryl]

Byung-hun Lee, who plays Su Dongpo in I Come with the Rain, plays Dae-jin in this 2002 South Korean mystery (translates as "Addicted").

[oilgun]

aka: Crazed Fruit

Like the preceding (South Korean) film this one is also from the far east (Japan) and both films have two brothers as an important element of the plot.



==COMMENT==
It's a wonderful film, btw.

[MaineWriter]

Crazed Fruit and The Last Temptation of Christ are both offerings from the Criterion Collection.

[Fran]

The Last Temptation of Christ  and Mean Streets  had the same director:  Martin Scorsese.

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aka: Downtown 81

This movie is about an artist evicted from his apartment and wandering the "mean streets" of New York.



From IMDb: The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, whose lives (and performances) we peek into. He finally manages to sell his painting to a wealthy female admirer, but he's paid by check. Low on cash, he spends the evening wandering from club to club, looking for a beautiful girl he had met earlier, so he'll have a place to spend the night. Downtown 81 not only captures one of the most interesting and lively artists of the twentieth century as he is poised for fame, but it is a slice of life from one of the most exciting periods in American culture, with the emergence of new wave music, new painting, hip hop and graffiti.

[MaineWriter]

New York Beat Movie featured Debbie Harry in the role of the Fairy Godmother. In Overnight Delivery, Debbie Harry is on the soundtrack, singing "One Way or Another."

[Fran]

Paul Rudd appears in both Overnight Delivery  and P.S.

[oilgun]

This film also features a talented art student 



==COMMENT==
Sorry about the delay folks.  I had computer issues which have now been resolved.  I also had some difficulties finding a "Q" film that related to P.S..  It was either this or Quest for Camelot with Gabriel Byrne and we already had a Camelot film so..

Anyway, it might be a good idea to implement a time limit (10-15 minutes?) on reserved letters in cases where someone unexpectedly cannot follow through on a post.  What do you think?

[Ellemeno]

Quatre nuits d'un rêveur (1971) and Rakushka (2004) are both based on stories written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.


Rakushka


Dostoyevsky


From Imdb: A husband whose young wife has committed suicide meets for the first and last time his Russian mother-in-law who has arrived to collect the coffin. A quiet war is declared between them. During the sleepless night, attempting to understand the motives of her sudden act, he recounts in the first person, both accuser and accused, their brief and impossible relationship. In "Rakushka'(the shell), the eighteen years old cellist, Zogia Petrova, an immigrant from Taskent seeks a future in Athens of today. Vassilis, the enigmatic middle-aged pawnbroker, is quickly enchanted when she visits him as a customer. He pursues her and finally she accepts marriage. Very soon their relationship develops a conflict. Vassilis from being her protector he moves to becoming her jailer. Their social, age and cultural gap, his possessiveness, her forced isolation will lead to rebellion, eventually to a state of silent sickness and finally to her fatal decision. With one movement, the "victim" renders the "hunter" harmless and escapes.