Author Topic: ABCs at the Movies: The Doubles Round!  (Read 2533834 times)

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"S" is Shall We Dance? (1996)
« Reply #6220 on: November 08, 2010, 10:53:24 am »
Original Title: Shall We Dansu?


IMDB: Shohei Sugiyama has attained all that he has wanted in life. But he is still depressed and unhappy. One day, he gathers up the courage to sign up for dancing lessons. He hopes they will rid his depression and help him get his life back together.

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"T" is They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
« Reply #6221 on: November 08, 2010, 09:22:32 pm »

From Wikipedia:  They Shoot Horses, Don't They? is a 1969 American drama film directed by Sydney Pollack. The screenplay, by James Poe and Robert E. Thompson, is based on the 1935 novel by Horace McCoy. It focuses on a disparate group of characters desperate to win a Depression-era dance marathon and the opportunistic emcee who urges them on to victory.

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"U" is Les uns et les autres (1981)
« Reply #6222 on: November 09, 2010, 07:40:50 pm »

IMDb:  Through fabulous Music this movie tracks three generations of musicians and dancers from Russia, Germany, France and the USA, from before World War II through the war and the Holocaust, to the 1980s. Their lives become intertwined through the historical circumstances, and the culmination is the presence of several, including a former Nazi pianist and a French Jewish Holocaust survivor at an anti-famine concert

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"V" is Vinyl (1965)
« Reply #6223 on: November 09, 2010, 08:52:40 pm »

Warhol's strange interpretation of "A Clockwork Orange." Includes Gerard dancing to the Martha and the Vandellas classic "Nowhere to Run" and being tortured by professional sadists.

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"W" is Whale Rider (2002)
« Reply #6224 on: November 09, 2010, 09:39:49 pm »

From IMDb:  On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea's direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny.

Plot keywords include:  Dance | War Dance

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE7-_Z03Aw4[/youtube]

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Wildcard "X" is Morristown: A Ballerina Love Story (2010)
« Reply #6225 on: November 09, 2010, 10:24:35 pm »

IMDB: Dawn is a teenage dancer with dreams of becoming a professional ballerina. Unfortunately, Dawn's mother wants her to take a more conventional career path and attend college like the rest of her friends. However, Dawn's luck soon changes when a former ballet star, named Chris, turns up teaching in her local dance studio. Dawn secretly enlists the help of the dance pro to help prepare her for a dance career against her mother's wishes. Meanwhile, Chris discovers that his ex-girlfriend, Crystal, is also teaching at the school and engaged to the wealthiest man in town. While Chris is hoping to rekindle the flame of his lost love, Dawn focuses on getting better to achieve her goal of becoming a professional dancer.

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"Y" is Young Soul Rebels (1991)
« Reply #6226 on: November 09, 2010, 11:04:37 pm »

Wikipedia: The action centres on several themes firstly a homosexual murder investigation involving one of the central characters (Valentine Nonyela) and his relationship with his girlfriend (Sophie Okonedo).

The second narrative involves a gay punk (Jason Durr) and a soul boy (Mo Sesay) in a relationship, which is the source of the narrative conflict as they face double prejudice of racism and homophobia, in both West Indian and white British communities. Ultimately, The film is a love story that could be seen as an allegory for racial and class unity, as their love transcends class and race barriers.


IMDb Keyword:  Dancing

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Wildcard "Z" is Dancing at Lughnasa (1998)
« Reply #6227 on: November 09, 2010, 11:08:51 pm »

IMDb:  Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRm7gnx_uug[/youtube]

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Re: ABCs at the Movies: The "There's No Place Like Home" Round!
« Reply #6228 on: November 12, 2010, 12:10:07 am »
The "There's No Place Like Home" Round!



Please post an unplayed film that
can be associated with the word "home."
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"A" is Auto Focus (2002)
« Reply #6229 on: November 12, 2010, 12:15:36 am »

From IMDb:  The film follows the sexual exploits of Greg Kinnear as Bob Crane, the real-life star of Hogan's Heroes, who during and after the show became a full-blown sex addict, ruining two marriages and possibly sabotaging his career in the process. Willem Dafoe is John Carpenter, Crane's partner in crime who lacks Crane's charisma with women but is fed some scraps by Crane in return for his extensive knowledge of and access to video equipment. Crane's fetish is using the home video cameras to record his sexual trysts, which he reviews over and over again, looking for something that we can't see, and that he probably can't see either.

The film follows the sexual exploits of Greg Kinnear as Bob Crane, the real-life star of Hogan's Heroes, who during and after the show became a full-blown sex addict, ruining two marriages and possibly sabotaging his career in the process. Willem Dafoe is John Carpenter (no, I know what you're thinking, and he's not), Crane's partner in crime who lacks Crane's charisma with women but is fed some scraps by Crane in return for his extensive knowledge of and access to video equipment. Crane's fetish is using the home video cameras to record his sexual trysts, which he reviews over and over again, looking for something that we can't see, and that he probably can't see either.Kinnear and Dafoe's performances alone are worth the price of admission. This is the best, boldest, and most nuanced work that Kinnear has ever done. His performance is all subtlety and detail; he introduces Crane as a regular, aw-shucks family man, but as the movie progresses we gradually see the facade fall as his quiet desperation and insatiable sexual appetite begin to consume him. Not content to go over the top and yell at the top of his lungs to be effective, Kinnear instead puts on a fake smile and charms with a velvety voice while openly degrading and hitting on women. The effect is one of the most genuinely creepy performances ever committed to film. Dafoe is the perfect companion to Kinnear's subtle predator; Carpenter is a pathetic loser, easily angered and easily hurt. He gets angry, yells, and does all of the things that you've seen Dafoe do in his other portrayals of guys you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley, or a lighted one, for that matter. It's effective elsewhere, and it's effective here. Together, these men form a pair so utterly joyless and shallow that just seeing them on-screen together made my stomach churn. Their dialogue is only incidental, usually reminiscing on previous sexual escapades or planning new ones, but it's the little tics, gestures, Kinnear's untouchable confidence foiled by Dafoe's insecurity, Kinnear's hidden hunger foiled by Dafoe's overt desperation, that give these scenes their resounding power.