this is the sci-fi film? judging from the trailer it looks like a mash-up of several predecessors such as solaris and 2001. so it's worth seeing?
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Originally posted by AKA*NYC View Postthis is the sci-fi film? judging from the trailer it looks like a mash-up of several predecessors such as solaris and 2001. so it's worth seeing?
Definitely worth the watch.
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Watched Il Divo (2008), am ambivalent towards the film, which I guess means it succeeded. Great cinematography throughout, the opening section was exhilarating in a way the first 30 seconds of the Stones' best or a Marty Scorsese in his prime are, but towards the end everything was reduced to an unknowable abstraction.
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Originally posted by AKA*NYC View Postthis is the sci-fi film? judging from the trailer it looks like a mash-up of several predecessors such as solaris and 2001. so it's worth seeing?
Also saw the ghost recently meh its not bad but nothing worth remembering.
In The loop is well worth a watch, fully enjoyed it
Gomorra was a bit disappointing, the trailer left me desperate to watch it but really afterwards it didn't live up to my expectations.
Le placard was quite a light hearted laugh
also re watched 21grams , loved it now when i never liked it before..
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I watched Summer Hours and 35 Shots of Rum over the weekend. I found them to be both very well constructed french films in the vein of Rohmer. I just wish Claire Denis would do more to push herself at this point in her career, but i certainly can't fault her for her turning out solid films.
i really enjoyed In the Loop as well. it's refreshing to see some good british comedy that doesn't involve the same rotating cast like the more popular sitcoms (green wing, black books, nathan barley, peep show, spaced, mighty boosh, darkplace, etc.)
gomorrah was a good movie, but there was nothing to draw me in personally so it's nothing i ever plan on seeing again. Although different subject matter, when you compare it against other movies like A Prophet it definitely falls short. Also, do the italians realize that foreigners think Italy is just a joke with Berlusconi in office? i guess it was the same for america when we had Bush.
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Originally posted by sam_tem View PostI watched Summer Hours and 35 Shots of Rum over the weekend. I found them to be both very well constructed french films in the vein of Rohmer. I just wish Claire Denis would do more to push herself at this point in her career, but i certainly can't fault her for her turning out solid films.
i really enjoyed In the Loop as well. it's refreshing to see some good british comedy that doesn't involve the same rotating cast like the more popular sitcoms (green wing, black books, nathan barley, peep show, spaced, mighty boosh, darkplace, etc.)
gomorrah was a good movie, but there was nothing to draw me in personally so it's nothing i ever plan on seeing again. Although different subject matter, when you compare it against other movies like A Prophet it definitely falls short. Also, do the italians realize that foreigners think Italy is just a joke with Berlusconi in office? i guess it was the same for america when we had Bush.
Berlusconi(shiver).
this might not be the thread to discuss this, and i guess it could be considered old news...but from my discussions with friends...it appears major parts of France are degrading (or "upgrading/aggrading" depending on where you stand) to something akin to NYC back in the 70s/80s...there being much cultural/economic turmoil taking place...and from the sound of it, Italy is following quickly behind it...helped along by Berlusconi(shiver)....i'm curious whether anyone has had similar notions and experiences....or maybe it hasn't reached the Champs-Élysées yet ;-)
something more relevant...adrien brody looks wicked.
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Originally posted by snafu View Postjust watched Moon, seriously struck me. Best film iv watched in a long time.
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Nevermind Moon. Forget 2001. Solaris was tainted by Clooney's ugly mug (and whoever agreed to the remake should be pilloried). The sci-fi flick with heady metaphysical underpinnings and ah, existential concerns, to watch is John Carpenter's Dark Star. The ultimate parody of every sci-fi's ambition to philosophical grandeur, which in turn makes it meta-philosophically and positively asinine than an arse's behind. Funniest shit ever. As my late and great grandpapi would say to me, after umpteenth reruns of random Monty Python episodes on the old VHS, "Fucken bitumen humour, lad, fucken bitumen".
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Originally posted by Fade to Black View PostWatched Il Divo (2008), am ambivalent towards the film, which I guess means it succeeded. Great cinematography throughout, the opening section was exhilarating in a way the first 30 seconds of the Stones' best or a Marty Scorsese in his prime are, but towards the end everything was reduced to an unknowable abstraction.
I enjoyed Il divo on every level. It's a metapolitical commentary but can also be seen as a straightforward, though character heavy plot movie.
The cinematography is great, tense and deliberate.
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Originally posted by sam_tem View PostI just wish Claire Denis would do more to push herself at this point in her career, but i certainly can't fault her for her turning out solid films.
Originally posted by Jorge Hache View PostSalo is far from being redemptive, it's a movie about cruelty and deshumanization, a hit in the face for the fascist bourgoise. A complex movie not for everyone. Jodorowsky is surreal, grotesque and funny.
this quote from pasolini regarding salo is particularly telling, yet merely skims the surface of what he was trying to achieve:
“Clearly, the motivation came from the fact that I detest the power in today’s world, which manipulates the body horribly, and rivals Himmler and Hitler in every way. It manipulates the body by transforming it into conscience, establishing new values that are alienating and false. Consumerist values that fulfill what Marx calls a genocide of vital and real earlier cultures. For example, it destroyed Rome. Romans no longer exist.”
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Originally posted by PasoliniClearly, the motivation came from the fact that I detest the power in today’s world, which manipulates the body horribly, and rivals Himmler and Hitler in every way. It manipulates the body by transforming it into conscience, establishing new values that are alienating and false. Consumerist values that fulfill what Marx calls a genocide of vital and real earlier cultures. For example, it destroyed Rome. Romans no longer exist.
Originally posted by FoucaultThe soul is the prison of the body.
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/\ But isn't Marx in this case spouting the same nonsense as Hitler? If Rome was destroyed by consumerism, which I assume in his view causes some kind of softness of spirit and laziness, isn't the opposite of this a kind of a militaristic society (Visigoths) that leads to a fascist state? Isn't that exactly what Mussolini and Hitler wanted, strength of spirit?
And I think one could pretty successfully argue that in many cases we NEED a strong centralized government to combat the very forces that make the society lose vitality? I can't think of a better example than the U.S. federal government that stands about the governments of the individual states. I can only shudder to think what would happen if the states were left alone to govern themselves.Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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Does anyone know if this film is available anywhere? torrent maybe or dvd? i see it has just now started screening but who knows. My favorite photographer.
He also had a movie of his own (not the fictional movie) that I can't seem to find anywhere.
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