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Oh, I am such a ditz! :p It was ON my Netflix list already! I put it on there so long ago that I forgot it was on there! :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
Well, I "upped" it on my list to come after "The Assasination of Jesse James" and "There Will Be Blood". Those are my next two movies to come. So, I will be watching "North and South" after them. I will be sure to give my review. :)
I have to go buy the book now and read it. (if i watch it a third time my mam will have be committed!:p but its sooo tempting!)Quote:
Originally Posted by LadyWentworth
I'm with you (except I only watched part II yesterday). Then there was a show on today about Meyer Lansky, Lucky Luciano, et al, and their dealings in Cuba. I didn't realize how closely The Godfather Part II mirrored real events. It is a shame that Coppola had to besmirch the first two films with the almost unwatchable Part IIIQuote:
Originally Posted by Lady Raven
You've never read the book? Oh, I read the book years ago. Heaven only knows where I stashed it away to in this house! I am afraid that I will end up liking the film so much now that I will have to read the book, too. I just don't know where I have hidden it. :( It is somewhere in this house, though. That I know! :) It is a very good book, though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
Oh, you're so right about Part III! It was embarrassing, really. I watched to the end only out of morbid curiosity!Quote:
Originally Posted by djy78usa
I love that movie!!! Indeed a classic.Quote:
Originally Posted by Janine
Charlotte's Web with real people. It was very good and true to the story although there were a few scenes I didn't like.
Lantana sounds interesting, I would like to see it now... I think he was in another Australian film, wasn't he in Ned Kelly with Heath Ledger and Orlando Bloom?? As the Superintendent I believe... And then of course in Les Miserables with Liam Neeson who I love also... Though they butchered it to a degree by getting rid of so many characters and parts from the book... still, the acting was amazing...Quote:
Originally Posted by Janine
Oh, I love that movie... It has to be one of Sellers' best films... He is such a versatile, amazing actor... "The Party" is another good one... almost painful at times it is so ridiculous... and "Being there" is really good too... oh and one of his best but least known roles... the shop steward in "I'm Alright Jack" ... so good :thumbs_up
Duh, I didn't know "Ned Kelly" was set in Australia. I thought that was in Ireland. Wow, now when it surfaces again in my library's circulating collect I must watch that again. I liked it, if I recall correctly. Yes, Liam Neesom I like very much, too...but I hated that film "Love Actually" - just what was the point of that film? I have been sour on him, since then, but that is truly silly - he was only in the film. I loved him in many other films. He was great in the Scottish film, "Rob Roy", and I liked him in "Les Miserables" (one of my favorite novels; actually, I read the 5 book set) - but I agree, as you said - the movie was good, but certainly could have been better - they cut way too much out of the novel. Did you see Liam Neesom in "Ethan Frome"? He was excellent in that film. We discussed that book on here a number of months back, last year. I love the film set in Australia "The Piano". The acting is great and the setting dark and dismal and awesome at the same time.Quote:
Originally Posted by islandclimber
I think you would find "Lantana" a good film. I sometimes watch it again, when it comes back into my library. It can be bought cheaply on Amazon, but now it is customer rated, at nearly the maximum stars, so it might go up in price. I like the psychological aspects of it and the intricacy between the various characters and the married couples. It keeps you wondering. I really could not guess the ending at all.
To be honest with you, I have not seem many of his films; but years ago, of course, I did see a few, when they first came out. He was all the rage for awhile. Of course, the humor is so good that is still lives on and is just as funny, if not funnier....and sillier.Quote:
Oh, I love that movie... It has to be one of Sellers' best films... He is such a versatile, amazing actor... "The Party" is another good one... almost painful at times it is so ridiculous... and "Being there" is really good too... oh and one of his best but least known roles... the shop steward in "I'm Alright Jack" ... so good :thumbs_up
"Ethan Frome" is an amazing movie.. I really do like Liam Neeson... and "The Piano" is quite excellent as well... exactly as you put it.. There are quite a number of good movies out of Down Under... Quite enjoyable...
I will have to find "Lantana" now... :)
Yep Sellers will last forever!!!!
geez louise!!! way to rain on our Australia parade Antiquarian... :p :p
Just kidding.. That is good to know... Yep, Sellers was terrific... it's too bad he didn't actually win best actor for it, just the nomination... which I believe was his second...
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Originally Posted by LadyWentworth
Yes, I agree the BBC version shows more of the story, I just don't think the acting can be matched from the 1940 one... the characters were so well portrayed....
"Shine" has an amazing soundtrack... that movie started my Rachmaninov obsession!!!:D
sorry for making you want to watch "Quills" again... :p
I'm sure it is very very good! Especially seeing as i loved the BBC dramatisation of it so much!Quote:
Originally Posted by LadyWentworth
I was on the beach in New Zealand that is in the famous scene with well... the piano on the beach! Its called Kerekere beach. It think its not far from Titerangi and Avondale?Quote:
Originally Posted by Antiquarian
Anatomy of Hell by Catherine Breillat :sick:
I must look for that soundtrack to "Shine" now. I collect soundtracks. I love Rachmaninov and have, ever since I was a teenage girl....many moons ago.;)Quote:
Originally Posted by islandclimber
Antiquarian, come to think of it I did see the features on "The Piano" DVD and they said it was filmed in New Zealand. How amazing to be on that exact beach, Niamh. Was there a piano there? I am just kidding really!:lol: Niamh, how are you feeling now? Been thinking about you. I hope you are over that flu/cold.
Antiquarian, I adore Debussy! and I like Prokofiev extremely. Wow, we all have the same taste in classical composers! I once saw an excerpt of a the death scene from "Romeo and Juliet", live onstage in Philadelphia, with the Pennslyvania Ballet Company; it was the Prokofiev version. I adored it, so dramatic and the ballet was all done in black and white - totally graphic, contemporary and so wonderful, I will never forget it.
islandclimber, so you have seen "Ethan Frome" and liked it. Did you read the novel as well?