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CLOUD ATLAS: Lana Wachowsky & Tom Tykwer & Andy Wachowsky: OCT 26
southendmd:
--- Quote from: Aloysius J. Gleek on October 29, 2012, 05:23:42 pm ---
Crazy Person JG saw it at the 12:01 Midnight Showing Thursday night/Friday morning at the 42nd Street AMC. I really liked it a lot. First 30-40 minutes, and I was interested, but I bit detached, but then--boom, I was there.
There WERE problems, a couple of issues I can't reveal at the moment for their spoilerish natures, BUT. I really, really enjoyed it. Three hours--go like nothing. TOTALLY absorbed. I cried. What else can I say? I'll be seeing it AGAIN, and that soon.
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Thanks, John. Sometimes I prefer friends' reviews over the professionals'. Especially obsessive friends! 8)
Front-Ranger:
Awesome to hear! :D
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Aloysius J. Gleek on October 27, 2012, 08:15:16 pm ---
Simply.
Amazing.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crHHycz7T_c[/youtube]
Published on Oct 24, 2012 by hrcmedia
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Wow, that's easily the best acceptance speech, and one of the best speeches period, I've ever heard.
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on October 30, 2012, 01:00:08 pm ---Wow, that's easily the best acceptance speech, and one of the best speeches period, I've ever heard.
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I agree.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/10/24/lana_wachowski_s_visibility_award_speech_cloud_atlas_director_on_coming.html
Lana Wachowski’s Moving Speech
About Being Transgender
By Katie Kilkenny
Posted Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012, at 2:15 PM ET
Director Lana Wachowski speaks at a panel discussion following the Cloud Atlas U.S.
premiere.
At the beginning of her acceptance speech for the Human Rights Campaign’s Visibility Award in San Francisco last Saturday, director Lana Wachowski professes that she has never given a speech—or at least, not since the eighth grade. Given the candid, humorous, and heartrending account of coming out as transgender that follows, you wouldn’t know it.
Wachowski, who helmed The Matrix and this fall’s Cloud Atlas as part of a directing duo once called “The Wachowski Brothers,” has always carefully guarded her privacy. Until recently, she had not made a public appearance for her films in years. “People have mistakenly assumed that this has something to do with my gender, “Wachowski says in the speech, “it does not.”
The speech provides a rare glimpse of Wachowski’s sharp wit and her experience rebuffing binary gender classification. You can watch the whole thing below. (There is also a transcript .)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crHHycz7T_c[/youtube]
Published on Oct 24, 2012 by hrcmedia
Shakesthecoffecan:
I walked out of the theater last night after seeing Cloud Atlas thinking about this thread. Had it not been for the numerous postings it may have not caught my attention, I was composing something to express my amazement at seeing this film, and it included much profanity for emphasis, as I felt empowered to do so.
This movie needs to be seen, all 2 3/4 hours of it, OMG, it is the righteous slap in the face to convention, the declaration of thought over fear, Ayn Rand can kiss my ass. She wishes she could tell a story this good.
This came at just the right time for me, I had been feeling down and trapped and alienated from family and friends locally over this presidential election and this story reminded me: All life is suffering, everything is a struggle and it is worth it. I left that theater feeling like I could, I could give my life for something, and not be afraid of it. Love is a force of nature, love goes on.
Go see this movie.
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