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starboardlight:

--- Quote from: ednbarby on April 21, 2006, 05:30:27 pm ---I haven't seen that Nipith, but it sounds wonderful.  Kind of along those lines, I would highly recommend The Iron Giant, based on a story by the poet laureate Ted Hughes.  Again a case of animated characters coming to life in such a way as you can't stop thinking about them long after the credits roll.  And a beautiful story about what Christ really taught - about loving all living things equally and unconditionally and without judgment.  Beautiful.

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Yes. I love Iron Giant. Beautiful film and I fell in love with the big lug. He came to life in ways that surprised me.

twistedude:
I've seen almost all of them. Would add:A  Soldier's Story, and--what's "wir zuzammen allien mit dir"? (we together alone with you)? Also: Grande Illusion.
MYSTERIOUS SKIN! (it's about two 8-year-olds who are molested by their little league coach, and who then veer off in wildly different directions because of this).

Especially liked: Rabbit Proof Fence, The Elephant Man, The Cryng Game, Gandhi,
The Accused

Flashframe777:
Della.  I thought you were talking about Jason Alexander all this time>  :-)))

rtprod:
Films coming to mind that destroyed me, hurt me, scared me, moved me or changed me:

Lilya 4-Ever  (child abandonment, poverty and white sexual slave trade in broken Eastern Europe)

Once Were Warriors (brutal domestic violence, family adrift and identity issues in Maori culture, New Zealand)

A Song for Martin (Danish Alzheimer's drama about a powerful late-life love story between two classical musicians, cruelly interrupted)

Day and Night (scorching 2004 Danish drama of seemingly successful man who chooses to end his life; spends last day driving around reconnecting with the haunted family and friends of his wasted life; yet unreleased on DVD in US)

Breaking the Waves (virgin to whore to martryr to saint -- Von Trier sacrifices Emily Watson in his most poetic, haunting movie)

Ladybird, Ladybird (British barmaid without opportunity loses child after child to welfare office; wrenching)

Antwone Fisher (child abused Navy recruit cries out for love, reconnects with family roots after finding inspiring mentor)

Bread and Roses (undocumented Mexican immigrants exploited in factory, Los Angeles, uprise with far-reaching results)

Intimacy (man and woman meet anonymously once a week for emotional and physical craving, end up over their heads; adulteress Kerry Fox's late scene to spurned hubby Timothy Spall, in a taxi, spellbinds)

Dirt (Nancy Savoca's Showtime-financed, unreleased indie masterpiece details the plight of a proud, undocumented Central American maid living in New York, supporting her family back home; tragedy strikes, lives change irrevocably, human strength ensues) 

Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession (In Vienna, Art Garfunkel and Theresa Russell engage in Nicolas Roeg's twisted shrink-patient power play that leads to obsession and worse)

Les Diables    http://www.ocean-films.com/lesdiables/  (one of the most powerful contemporary films I have seen, not available here, but if you have a region-free DVD player it is available on Region 2; the story of a brother and sister on the street, he's got severe emotional problems while she is severely autistic, in and out of youth homes and lost to the world)

Seek them out.  NOW. 

rtprod:

--- Quote ---And like i say, I don't like Mike Moore as a person. And I know he is a very manipulative film maker.
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Jumping into the fray on this piece that Sheyne and Del have stirred up. 

Where in the world does it say that a documentary filmmaker has to be objective?  All film is about manipulating and organizing ideas in a precise fashion to make your point---that goes for narrative or documentary film.  Michael Moore is a poweful provocateur, a brilliant satirist and I believe, a deeply feeling person.  I don't really care about any of those supposed fact-fudgings that the Right (read: wrong) claims he's done in F-9/11, the guy knows how to make a moving and thoughtful film and the majority of the facts speak for themselves.  And as far as the Oscar theatrics go, I'm all for it--when Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins and the whole crew can get up there and do the same, I really think Michael Moore, who represents the everyman more than any of them, should be afforded the same luxury--free speech.  Bowling for Columbine was a human and compassionate film, to me.  Ditto F-9/11.  The guys has balls and conviction, and a sense of what is right--at least what is right to me. 

I will follow him, and I'd vote for him too. 

rt

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