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Old 09-21-2011, 04:05 PM   #4476
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Old 09-22-2011, 10:48 AM   #4477
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Blue Velvet (1986)

Lost Highway (1997)

eXistenZ (1999)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

In one siting what a fucking head trip!
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Old 10-05-2011, 10:34 PM   #4478
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Old 10-15-2011, 01:33 PM   #4480
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Cinema Paradiso (Italy, 1989, Director Giuseppe Tornatore)

`A famous filmmaker returns to the Sicilian village where he grew up. He reminisces about the projectionist at the local cinema, his best friend as a child, who taught him to love cinema…`

`Hands up who's seen Cinema Paradiso on the big screen? You may have heard of it, a cheery Italian art film about the friendship between a gruff projectionist and a cute young boy, set in a dusty, WWII Sicilian village. And that it's meant to be quite good. For a foreign film, like. Well, here's a second chance to bathe in the graceful, moving simplicity of one of cinema's great love songs to cinema.

Tornatore hit upon something miraculous when he wrote this tale of romance, between a young man and the movies, and friendship, between a wise, wry projectionist Alfredo (Philippe Noiret) and the cheeky urchin Salvatore (Salvatore Cascio) who wiles his way into the booth. Peppered with moments from film greats - the lyrical syntax of this love affair - the film grows up with Salvatore, slipping from moment to cherishable moment.

Not a false note is struck among the sunkissed Sicilian locations, gentle, humorous performances, and tinkling soundtrack. Assembled with a wide-eyed, childlike wonder, Tornatore taps themes of bonding, nostalgia, community, history and the power of film to transport man into a world of dreams.

Transcending boundaries of arthouse and subtitle, Cinema Paradiso wraps you in a tender embrace and refuses to let go. And if you haven't blubbed by the time a fortysomething Salvatore plays Alfredo's long-hidden gift, then you're most likely dead. Don't sniff at its foreignness - this is food for the weary soul.`

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This film is a love letter to cinema and friendship, and is one of my all time favourite films, a very beautifully made film, the lush cinematography, the Ennio Morricone soundtrack, and Tornatore`s virtuoso directing.

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An all time classic, essential viewing !!!.
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Old 10-21-2011, 05:40 PM   #4481
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St. John's has Canada's last remaining Women's Film Festival, apparently, and I went today to see Miss Representation.

I thought it was just going to be an overview of how women are portrayed in the media, but it went much further than that. It talked a lot about how women have little representation in government (apparently the US is 90th in the world when it comes to gender representation in the government. Women also do not have much control over the creation of media, I can't remember the percentage but it's something like only 3% of the influential roles in telecommunications and entertainment are controlled by women, so 97% of the media we consume comes from a male perspective. It also talked a lot about capitalism using marketing and media to perpetuate the oppression of women, so its pretty timely.
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Old 10-23-2011, 09:07 PM   #4482
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Paranormal Activity 3.

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Old 10-25-2011, 04:24 AM   #4483
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Recently I saw this movie too..
and i really like it
it is a good one..
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Old 10-25-2011, 05:02 AM   #4484
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The Others.

I have to write about it for a class on traditional ghost stories.

I had forgotten about Nicole Kidman's acting.
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Old 10-25-2011, 10:07 AM   #4485
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Mum and her boyfriend watched The Others last night. I walked into the room and immediately walked out. I too forgot about her 'acting'...

I watched Red State. I thought it was alright. Haha
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Old 10-25-2011, 10:52 AM   #4486
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Killing Us Softly 4 and Unforgiven. Its weird when movie nights at the crisis centre mix with movie nights with my sister.
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Old 10-25-2011, 02:14 PM   #4487
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Green Lantern. I've never read that particular comic, so I enjoyed the movie for what it was.
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Old 11-01-2011, 05:14 PM   #4488
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Dracula (1931, US, Directed by Tod Browning)

`There have been many Draculas. But the one against which all others are measured is Bela Lugosi. Tod Browning's 1931 film is stagey and creaky, but it also has wonderful, unforgettable moments. Lugosi's performance is, on one level, high camp. Yet when he says "I am Dracula," by God he means it. When we're talking about the blood-sucking undead, he simply is the man. Stoker's novel, published in 1897, has proved as irresistible for dramatisation as his vampire's magnetic power over his victims. Stoker himself (business manager of London's Lyceum Theatre) turned it into a play which was never produced. Then in 1921 a Hungarian silent film, Drakula's Death (now lost), used a different plot entirely but borrowed the name. F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu is the eeriest version of all and bequeathed Max Schreck's repulsive, ratlike vampire to our collective nightmares.

In 1924 in London, Hamilton Deane wrote an authorised stage version of the book which pared down both plot and characters. It was critically derided but was nevertheless a hit. And it's to this version that we owe the image of the vampire as a suave man-about-town decked in immaculate evening dress. When it reached Broadway in 1927, re-written by John Balderston, it provided the big break for Hungarian emigre Bela Blasko. Bela's exotic accent and sinister charisma regularly had women fainting in the aisles. Universal's plans for a faithful adaptation of Stoker's novel were abandoned in favour of the simplified play when the Great Depression left them strapped for cash. They were also strapped for a star. It was intended as a vehicle for Lon Chaney by his favourite director, Browning, whose flair for the macabre had been amply demonstrated in the Chaney-starring London After Midnight (1927). Sadly, Chaney died of cancer in 1930. Enter Lugosi.

Ill at ease with sound, Browning often deferred to cinematographer Karl Freund, whose credits included Fritz Lang's Metropolis(1927) (he would go on to direct The Mummy in 1932). Nevertheless, Browning achieved a pervasively creepy atmosphere with long periods of silence and stylised movement, massive, decayed staircases, dank dungeons, giant spider webs, squeaking bats, howling wolves, and Lugosi's tortured delivery ("Listen to them, children of the night. What music they make").

That it is Lugosi's presence that makes this film a classic is easy to demonstrate thanks to the early sound era practice of making different language versions of the same movie. Using the same script and sets, Universal produced a Spanish-speaking Dracula simultaneously, its cast and crew working through the night to make way for Browning's unit by day. In many ways it is technically superior, with more interesting, more fluid camera work. But its Dracula, Carlos Villarias, is as hokey as Lugosi but signally fails to create the deliriously tingling unease. Lugosi's unnaturalness is strangely perfect. He sported no fangs. He had no special effects make-up other than dark lipstick and light green greasepaint. Pencil spotlights were shone on his eyes to emphasise his hypnotic stare.

Later Draculas have always been determinedly un-Lugosi-like: tall, smooth Christopher Lee in Hammer's handsome cycle, Jack Palance's twisted victim figure, Frank Langella's rakish seducer, tortured Gary Oldman in Coppola's spectacle, Klaus Kinski sensationally disgusting in Herzog's remake of Nosferatu (1979). But from the Universal horror cycle through scores of derivative B-movies, parodies, remakes and spinoffs (including Sesame Street's numerate instructor The Count), it is the image of Lugosi that endures as the iconic vampire. So inseparable did he become from the role of Dracula that he ended up parodying the role in ever more degrading vehicles, the last and lowest being Ed Wood's notorious Plan 9 From Outer Space (1956).`

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Legosi is definatly the definative Dracula !!!.

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Old 11-01-2011, 08:33 PM   #4489
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'Lugosi', hun....

But yes, besides Max Shrek, Lugosi is my favourite Dracula. I like Christopher Lee, too, but my heart belongs to Bela.

Son of Frankenstein ~ One of the last movies I watched yesterday in between drinking and studying.
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Old 11-01-2011, 09:48 PM   #4490
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The Room. I think I might be completely desensitized now.
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Old 11-02-2011, 02:37 AM   #4491
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In Bruge. I didn't think it was possible for me to actually like Colin Farrel, but honestly, he was pretty good in this.
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Old 11-02-2011, 04:41 AM   #4492
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'Lugosi', hun....

But yes, besides Max Shrek, Lugosi is my favourite Dracula. I like Christopher Lee, too, but my heart belongs to Bela.

Son of Frankenstein ~ One of the last movies I watched yesterday in between drinking and studying.
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Wolfie, has anyone ever told you that you have excellent tastes in films !!!. *raises glass*

Yes, Max shrek was brilliant in Nosferatu (we studied these German expressionist films as a module in my film studies course aeons ago) I love that film !!!.

Can I please borrow your `Son Of Frankenstein` ?
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So does that mean y'all also watched 'Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari'? I enjoyed that one, as well. Looked like the precursor to Tim Burton.
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[quote=Grausamkeit;683896]So does that mean y'all also watched 'Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari'? I enjoyed that one, as well. Looked like the precursor to Tim Burton.[/QUOTE


Absolutley, that is visually a very influential film as we know it, and `The Cabinet Of DR. Caligari` is one of the best examples of German expressionism, along with Nosferatu (also directed by Francis Murnau) they demonstrated how film can be a painterly medium !!!.

We also looked at Metropolis and M which were directed by Fritz Lang (brilliant director). Speaking of Metropolis, did you like the 1984 edit by Giorgio Modorer who added an 80`s rock soundtrack to the film (including a song by Freddie Mercury, amongst others) ?

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Love Kills (Featuring Freddie Mercury) for Wolfie !!!.
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I have not yet watched Metropolis. This should be remedied soon.
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I have not yet watched Metropolis. This should be remedied soon.
Wolfie,

You will love Metropolis, and if you can track down that 1984 edit I mentioned above, you will love that too !!!.

Enjoy the music vid !!!.
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Old 11-23-2011, 09:23 PM   #4497
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Clue.

If you like Tim Curry, you'll really like this movie.
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If you like Tim Curry, you'll really like this movie.
I saw that movie when I was younger. It was funny.
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Trick R Treat...about a metal fan who's idol dies in a fire and starring Ozzy Osbourne and Gene Simmons...it was...bad :')
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Trick R Treat...about a metal fan who's idol dies in a fire and starring Ozzy Osbourne and Gene Simmons...it was...bad :')

I love Trick Or Treat, one of my favourite films and the soundtrack is awesome (by ex Motorhead guitarist `Fast` Eddie Clark`s band Fastway) !!!.

Ozzy Osbourne`s cameo as a tv evangelist campaigning against `Rock Pornography` is a stroke of genius, as there were at the time people like that character who did want to ban rock music or anything that threatened their narrow minded and myopic view of the world !!!.
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