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Post by Maolsheachlann on Dec 22, 2020 14:08:41 GMT
Amen to that. It's sad that even such a gentle and sentimental film had to include premarital sex in such a matter-of-fact way. It's not so bad when Phil is a jerk, but wouldn't it have been wonderful if part of his moral journey was choosing NOT to sleep with Rita before they got married? It's been a LONG time since I saw this wonderful film, but I have a vague memory that may interest. As I recall, Phil is not in his pyjamas when he awakes and it was debated on the set whether he should be or not. Some female in the crew advocated the non-pyjamas route as it would suggest they hadn't had sex but merely fallen asleep together. And the director went with this. I hesitate to say this though as my recollection of both the film's ending and this anecdote are vague. I wonder how it matches up with the ending that others of you will know far better than me! Actually, Rita DOES say: "Why weren't you like this last night? You just fell asleep". So I guess they didn't. I'm wondering why I always assumed they did, or they would soon. I just watched it again and Phil IS in his pyjamas and there's some suggestive dialogue at the end. So I guess they did. Also, I'm a bit depressed at my own lack of retention, I've watched that movie innumerable times and I had to check those details!
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Post by Tomas on Jan 19, 2021 21:14:00 GMT
Does anyone here know of any Spanish films? I have forced myself through some of the works by Almodovar since he has been the ONLY name always mentioned. Fag and "trans" themes appears to be part and parcel of absolutely everything he does. It gets very difficult to take in, despite all else in terms of the craft. Luis Bunuel would be a bit too museal for what I may be interested to find, so I wonder if anyone knows about any more recent Spaniard. (I´d also be interested in Italian film makers but there at least I know there are more than one living, and for my part there are also many classics still unseen by the major legend directors.)
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Post by Séamus on Jan 19, 2021 23:01:04 GMT
Does anyone here know of any Spanish films? I have forced myself through some of the works by Almodovar since he has been the ONLY name always mentioned. Fag and "trans" themes appears to be part and parcel of absolutely everything he does. It gets very difficult to take in, despite all else in terms of the craft. Luis Bunuel would be a bit too museal for what I may be interested to find, so I wonder if anyone knows about any more recent Spaniard. (I´d also be interested in Italian film makers but there at least I know there are more than one living, and for my part there are also many classics still unseen by the major legend directors.) Pan's Labyrinth is probably the most remembered example but it's surely not a typical movie in any sense.
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Post by Tomas on Jan 20, 2021 10:59:09 GMT
Does anyone here know of any Spanish films? I have forced myself through some of the works by Almodovar since he has been the ONLY name always mentioned. Fag and "trans" themes appears to be part and parcel of absolutely everything he does. It gets very difficult to take in, despite all else in terms of the craft. Luis Bunuel would be a bit too museal for what I may be interested to find, so I wonder if anyone knows about any more recent Spaniard. (I´d also be interested in Italian film makers but there at least I know there are more than one living, and for my part there are also many classics still unseen by the major legend directors.) Pan's Labyrinth is probably the most remembered example but it's surely not a typical movie in any sense. I have that one, but it´s made by a Mexican!
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Post by cato on Jan 20, 2021 13:08:52 GMT
Does anyone here know of any Spanish films? I have forced myself through some of the works by Almodovar since he has been the ONLY name always mentioned. Fag and "trans" themes appears to be part and parcel of absolutely everything he does. It gets very difficult to take in, despite all else in terms of the craft. Luis Bunuel would be a bit too museal for what I may be interested to find, so I wonder if anyone knows about any more recent Spaniard. (I´d also be interested in Italian film makers but there at least I know there are more than one living, and for my part there are also many classics still unseen by the major legend directors.) Pan's Labyrinth is probably the most remembered example but it's surely not a typical movie in any sense. It's an incredibly spooky creepy film. I thought the Spanish Francoist security forces were depicted as figures from a horror movie. Have always put off rewatching this movie.....
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Post by cato on Jan 20, 2021 13:14:01 GMT
Apologies if anyone has previously mentioned Citizen Kane. I only watched it a few days ago and it really is an iconic American movie of wealth, media and power.
I kept thinking of the current US president now in his final hours of office when watching this. Kane is hero , man of the people and monster. Beautifully filmed and released in 1941 this is a gem.
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Jan 20, 2021 15:53:52 GMT
Apologies if anyone has previously mentioned Citizen Kane. I only watched it a few days ago and it really is an iconic American movie of wealth, media and power. I kept thinking of the current US president now in his final hours of office when watching this. Kane is hero , man of the people and monster. Beautifully filmed and released in 1941 this is a gem. Cato, the same analogy has often occurred to me. Kane at one point says that he is above all an American. I think the same is true of Trump, and I think this is the key to understanding him. It's a great and gripping movie.
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Post by Séamus on Jan 20, 2021 23:55:04 GMT
Pan's Labyrinth is probably the most remembered example but it's surely not a typical movie in any sense. I have that one, but it´s made by a Mexican! I can remember speculation some few years ago that Penélope Cruz would become the first actress since Loren to be awarded best actress Oscar by the Americans for a non-English-speaking part,this must have been before the Edith Piaf film, and that was obviously a Spanish film which had some significant following elsewhere also. To me, the name Penelope still conjures images of a blonde heiress escaping from hopelessly impractical assassins.
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Post by cato on Jan 21, 2021 1:11:04 GMT
I have that one, but it´s made by a Mexican! I can remember speculation some few years ago that Penélope Cruz would become the first actress since Loren to be awarded best actress Oscar by the Americans for a non-English-speaking part,this must have been before the Edith Piaf film, and that was obviously a Spanish film which had some significant following elsewhere also. To me, the name Penelope still conjures images of a blonde heiress escaping from hopelessly impractical assassins. The great Penelope Pitstop I presume? Truly fabulous cartoons.
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Post by Séamus on Jan 21, 2021 1:11:45 GMT
Pan's Labyrinth is probably the most remembered example but it's surely not a typical movie in any sense. It's an incredibly spooky creepy film. I thought the Spanish Francoist security forces were depicted as figures from a horror movie. Have always put off rewatching this movie..... The perception that Spain has, from all directions, towards Franco's legacy might be highly relevant today when hypothetically considering a second Trump term. Is a flawed conservative with some excellent values the best thing for moving the hearts of the population? Given what Franco was fighting against was some brutality necessary? How does that translate to today's politics?
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Post by cato on Jan 25, 2021 10:54:55 GMT
Apologies if anyone has previously mentioned Citizen Kane. I only watched it a few days ago and it really is an iconic American movie of wealth, media and power. I kept thinking of the current US president now in his final hours of office when watching this. Kane is hero , man of the people and monster. Beautifully filmed and released in 1941 this is a gem. Cato, the same analogy has often occurred to me. Kane at one point says that he is above all an American. I think the same is true of Trump, and I think this is the key to understanding him. It's a great and gripping movie. On the documentary the Trump Show on BBC2 last night it was reported Trump likes the movie Citizen Kane and has played it on Air Force One . He seems to identify with the main character in reality.
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Feb 2, 2021 20:48:52 GMT
I hope you are all watching my favourite movie of all time, Groundhog Day, today, groundhog day.
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Post by Tomas on Mar 9, 2021 6:23:55 GMT
Watched The Third Man recently, first time. Mixed impression. Not as great as Citizen Kane but it stays in memory, usually a good sign for a drama movie. The extra material were one about the filming and one biographical about Graham Greene. The latter made me interested to read him, however notorious for uneven bibliography or certain contents. The quote, not from his fiction, that will stay is that he said he was a firm believer in purgatory. It felt so right! In a similar way to the Oscar Wilde lines about being in the gutter looking up.
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Post by Tomas on Aug 20, 2021 19:46:13 GMT
After belated watching of The Hobbit 1-3 DVDs the casting of voices made me wonder: were most of the townsfolk and practically all of the dwarves endowed with Irish accents?? I may be all wrong here but to my ears it sounded like many, many were recruited from Ireland, so that the whole project would have had almost a majority of Irish actors on the set. (No traces of Nordic sounds at all, even if one had suspected some Finnish notes as it may have came distantly as an influence into the Elvish when first invented, Tolkien apparently enjoyed Finnish as love at first sight when he discovered it?) The awful orchs lingo had too much time in the movies perhaps, and for one not grown up with video games the action were also "stylish" enough. Entertaining on the whole, 7+ hours.
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Post by Tomas on Aug 20, 2021 20:20:20 GMT
After some recommendations (probably at this forum but I can´t recall when or where) I recently bought film critic Roger Ebert´s "The Great Movies". Loads of ca 5 pages articles, once written and printed for his weekly installment in the daily paper Chicago Sun-Times during the 1990s. It covers one hundred major classics, and has a more or less universal choice of them. So far I´ve only read about a dozen but it´s obvious from the start that he wrote very direct head on. Adding connoiseur detail when he felt like it, or better still striking some eagle-eye overview, it gets far from boring even though several movies are just as familiar as they get. For a compilation of reviews this would be a nice gift for almost everyone who simply enjoys a bit of film history in writing.
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