The cinema thread

[mass]

i just watched maximum risk the other day, thinking it would be the much superior double impact, which i will be watching later on in the week.

[swami]

I thought The Edukators was a pretty bad movie. Also, the U.S. isn't really the sort of culture anymore where "student protests" would even accomplish anything anymore, is it? I'll try to find the article but it was a fairly accomplished political activist discussing "change" in the modern United States and how classic ideas of "protest" are essentially irrelevant outside of political grandstanding. .

The movie is not perfect and the perspective is extreme left single sided take of an idealistic youth & his radical politics
BUT movies like this and protests are important to stir and awaken the sleeping masses who let shit just go by cause it does not affect them immediately ...imho

Would love to see the article though..tks

[Faust]

I thought The Edukators was a pretty bad movie. Also, the U.S. isn't really the sort of culture anymore where "student protests" would even accomplish anything anymore, is it? I'll try to find the article but it was a fairly accomplished political activist discussing "change" in the modern United States and how classic ideas of "protest" are essentially irrelevant outside of political grandstanding.

I just watched The Wind That Shakes the Barley for the first time the other day, Fuuma.

Awesome film

[swami]

i just watched maximum risk the other day, thinking it would be the much superior double impact, which i will be watching later on in the week.

Double Impact
All I remember from 17 or was it 19 years ago...
The dream sequence where his girl is doing the nasty with his twin... Pure delight!

[Fuuma]

Rented three noirs (yay! large public library by my place):

-Lady in the lake
-On dangerous ground
-The thin man

The JCVD (maximum risk) might be interesting and there's Jean-Hugues Anglade in it (he,s great in 37,2/betty blue, mortel transfert, la reine margot and killing zoe). I'm also on an Asia Argento kick which is always visually pleasing.

The wind that shakes the barley is indeed great; there are a couple of scenes where you want to feel the grass and almost reach for your screen.

[mass]

Double Impact
All I remember from 17 or was it 19 years ago...
The dream sequence where his girl is doing the nasty with his twin... Pure delight!

actually i think that's the only scene i remember too...

[Nikov]

actually i think that's the only scene i remember too...

that and silk boxers

[BECOMING-INTENSE]

Millers's Crossing dir. Joel Coen(1990)

So take your flunky and dangle.

[D_S]

The Visitor wasnt that good... Station Agent is way better. La Fin Du Monde was great as always, though.

[mamaboy]

cried over kill bill 2

[sbw4224]

What should I go see in the movies this weekend? I am thinking to go see Let the Right One In.

I saw this last night and thought it was great. Did you end up seeing it?

[Faust]

No, never made it to the theater.

[destroyed]

A friend of mine teaches Morality in Horror Cinema or some such at one of my city's universities; he took his entire class to see "Let the Right One In". On the next day of class, before anyone showed up, he put "Oskar + Eli" inside a chalk heart on the blackboard.

[philip nod]

Milk is amazing

[kira]

Footloose