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**Faust** · 03-08-2008, 10:11 AM

Re: Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second: The cinema thread

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[quote user="Faust"]A.O.Scott called 10k B.C. "dunderheaded" I almost fell out of my chair [86] He is the best film critic ever (granted I don't know many).
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I'll probably have to sneak in before one of those showing to catch the purported new Batman trailer, a movie which I could not be more obsessed with.


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I am not a fan of superhero movies by any means, but this Batman looks mighty good

**kira** · 03-10-2008, 11:57 AM

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Happened upon Natural Born Killers last night. Forgot about how much I enjoy the visuals. The constant film screen in the background. Woody Harrelson is so great. So is Juliette Lewis. Great music pairing.

**Fuuma** · 03-10-2008, 12:22 PM

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There was a big snowstorm this weekend and I stayed inside Saturday and Sunday (and today?) and read/watched a bunch of movies:<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p>
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The wire season 5 eps 8-10 (the end)<o:p></o:p>
Clan of the white lotus<o:p></o:p>
Fallen angels<o:p></o:p>
Casino<o:p></o:p>
2046<o:p></o:p>
To live<o:p></o:p>
Gone baby gone<o:p></o:p>
Un secret<o:p></o:p>
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If you?re interested in one of those feel free to ask.<o:p></o:p>
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I also decided to watch a few recent ?mainstream? French films (this started with ?un secret?) and here?s what I already got, if you have any suggestions feel free to ad to the list:<o:p></o:p>
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Les témoins
Lady Chatterley
Les clefs de bagnole
Ne le dis à personne
Le scaphandre et la papillon
L?auberge espagnole
Les poupées russes
Astérix aux jeux olympiques
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Been trying to find torrents for those movies but no dice:<o:p></o:p>
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Les liens du sang
Le deuxième soufflé (remake)
L?avocat de la terreur
La question humaine
Scènes de crime
L?heure d?été

**matthewhk** · 03-10-2008, 12:28 PM

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Watched Julian Schnabel's Basquiat last night, movie had i'm sure what is a biased slant to it, but Wright and Bowie's performances were spot on and it was a nice, revealing insight into how Schnabel viewed his contemporaries.

**Faust** · 03-10-2008, 12:37 PM

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[quote user="kira"]Happened upon Natural Born Killers last night. Forgot about how much I enjoy the visuals. The constant film screen in the background. Woody Harrelson is so great. So is Juliette Lewis. Great music pairing.
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Awesome film. One of the few that left a real impression on me. Also made me discover Leonard Cohen [64]

**kira** · 03-10-2008, 01:59 PM

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Awesome film. One of the few that left a real impression on me. Also made me discover Leonard Cohen [64]

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Ahhh. Me too. Waiting for a Miracle- nice. love Everybody Knows too- Hard Harry played it on his underground radio station in Pump up the Volume, remember? Then, they played the Concrete Blonde version later towards the end of the film.

**Faust** · 03-10-2008, 03:06 PM

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Awesome film. One of the few that left a real impression on me. Also made me discover Leonard Cohen [64]

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Ahhh. Me too. Waiting for a Miracle- nice. love Everybody Knows too- Hard Harry played it on his underground radio station in Pump up the Volume, remember? Then, they played the Concrete Blonde version later towards the end of the film.

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Yep, and I kept wracking my head about who the singer is, and couldn't find out until I picked up the NBK soundtrack. [Y]

**Faust** · 03-10-2008, 05:39 PM

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I watched This is England yesterday. I thought it was pretty good overall, although not convincing at times. Good acting, too.

**Faust** · 03-13-2008, 06:54 PM

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Watched No Country for Old Men. Average. Disjointed and not believable at times. I've never been a big fan of Coen brothers, and this is no exception.

**ddohnggo** · 03-13-2008, 08:18 PM

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what do you mean by believable?

**Faust** · 03-13-2008, 11:02 PM

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[quote user="ddohnggo"]what do you mean by believable?
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Meaning that some actions weren't given causes, i.e. how did the maniac know where woody harrelson stayed - or how did woody harrelson find the main character in a Mexican hospital ("in three hours")? or how did the guy simply kept crossing the border back and forth, or how woody harrleson's character simply knew to look over the fence. what was tommy lee jones's role, except facile philosophizing? things like that.

**philip nod** · 03-14-2008, 12:24 AM

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a friend of mine said the same thing about Eastern Promises. continuity and coincidence in the movies is tough, but most of the time i let it go. i mean how believable is the oscar winner? 

anyway, another sick episode of lost, they're really starting to reveal it, this season has started off so much better than last...michael as the janitor, shit is too dope. i can't believe there are not more lost fans on here.

**Faust** · 03-14-2008, 12:25 AM

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i don't watch tv, pniddy, but i'd be with you if i did. yea, i can't say that it bothered me much - movies are movies, i tolerate an average movie much more than average books.

**kira** · 03-14-2008, 12:50 AM

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a friend of mine said the same thing about Eastern Promises. continuity and coincidence in the movies is tough, but most of the time i let it go. i mean how believable is the oscar winner? 

anyway, another sick episode of lost, they're really starting to reveal it, this season has started off so much better than last...michael as the janitor, shit is too dope. i can't believe there are not more lost fans on here. 

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[B] michael as the janitor, wtf? where did that come from? revealing things yes but bringing about more questions...i love this show.

**matthewhk** · 03-14-2008, 10:01 AM

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faust, i don't know if you will take my interpretation of No Country as somewhat pretentious, but I always thought the movie's central point was not to focus on the plot...but rather using the story to bring up implications about the random nature of human evil/violence and degradation of society as a whole. I think the movie is very relevant for today, which is why I liked it so much. I haven't really bothered much with the Coen's work either, I liked Fargo but none of the other works have really caught my eye enough to spark my interest in watching...


*movie spoiler alert*

i think one of my favorite things about the movie, other than the fact it didn't have any official closure, was how they didn't tell the story in a conventional "hollywood" way. I think this is most apparent with the Moss character dying offscreen, rather than showing some climactic showdown between him and Chigurh which might be more satisfying to an average movie goer. I think by doing so, it drives the film's message through so much better...

*end movie spoiler*

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