I haven't seen Kyaanisqatsi. I'll keep it in mind when I'm looking for something at the library. These movies without dialogue to hold one's attention are unusual. The sound and images are all one has.
I haven't seen Kyaanisqatsi. I'll keep it in mind when I'm looking for something at the library. These movies without dialogue to hold one's attention are unusual. The sound and images are all one has.
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It speaks volumes that the title of this British film in the UK was The Last Page but needed sexing up for US audiences.
American actor George Brent plays a bookseller who is blackmailed by British sexpot Diana Dors, who is murdered by her partner in crime, and
the bookseller is accused of killing her. Another Hammer production it was quite well done and kept me watching to the finish. 7/10
Was there life before YouTube?
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
I watched Shirley Valentine the other night. Hadn't seen it in years. It still brought a smile to my face about the drudgery of wifehood, the loss of one's identity and the need to escape. But perhaps others might think I need to talk to a wall?
Before sunlight can shine through a window, the blinds must be raised - American Proverb
The Hanoi Hilton in military channel. Probably as meaningful as Oliver Stone's Platoon.
Yesterday was another rent 2 for $1 at the library.
One of the movies was typical Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained. Blood splattered every which way while stereotypical characters fed the audience with righteous rage.
Score 3/10
The other was a mature action film, The Cold Light of Day. Good and bad weren't so sharply drawn and the plot was more interesting.
Score 9/10
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The Apalachean Trail. Excellent documentary of the more than 2000 miles trail spanning 14 states. Available on Netflix.
I enjoyed Django. Forgive me, but aren't Tarantino's movies comedies? It seems to me that taking them seriously is a little like thinking Malvolio in Twelfth Night is a noble and sadly maligned character.Originally Posted by YesNo
I can sort of see Tarantino's movies as comedies the way Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus might be a comedy (although I think that was considered a tragedy because there weren't enough people left standing in the end, but I'm no Shakespeare scholar and can't remember Twelfth Night).
True, Tarantino's movies can't be taken seriously. They do feed on existing righteous rage in the audience. I think I enjoyed Kill Bill better than Django.
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This 1955 film has the theme of a small town bank robbery co-incidentally linked to a serious of sub-plots
concerning various inhabitants of the town. Richard Fleischer's direction misses a chance to meld the
themes together convincingly enough but overall the film is fairly good entertainment and gets 6/10.
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
I watched The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad with my nieces last week and really enjoyed it. 8/10
I don't think it counts as a movie but I watched the only episode made of 'Mockingbird Lane' by Bryan Fuller, I am a big fan of his shows. I kinda wish he had gotten a chance with this show, I liked it and think it could have been something more if it had the chance. Then again he might not have done Hannibal if he had gotten a chance to do the Munsters, and I do love Hannibal!
I hope death is joyful, and I hope I'll never return -Frida Khalo
If I seem insensitive to what you are going through, understand it's the way I am- Mr. Spock
Personally, I think that the unique and supreme delight lies in the certainty of doing 'evil'–and men and women know from birth that all pleasure lies in evil. - Baudelaire
I saw Polish Wedding: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Wedding
Score: 9/10
It might have been better titled "Shotgun Wedding", but there were no shotguns in the movie. Unlike Ebert (http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/polish-wedding-1998) I did not have problems with the film's believability.
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The Brotherhood of the Bell (1970). With Glenn Ford in the lead role as a high flying college professor who reaches the top by being a member of a secret society that controls business and academia for its own ends, this television production shows how 'conspiracy theorists' are discredited by the forces they seek to expose. When Ford is ordered to prevent a certain individual, who happens to be a close friend, from gaining promotion, it ends in the man's suicide: at which point Ford decides to renege on the Brotherhood and expose them. However, he soon finds that each of the top people he turns to are also members who spread the story that he is delusional.
As a result, his father suffers a stroke and dies, his wife leaves him and he finds himself isolated but another member of the academic community finds suspicious cracks in the facade of Ford's enemies and helps him expose the organisation.
Glenn Ford is very good, as are the supporting actors, but the story lacks a certain cohesion with too few people to represent what presumably was a nationwide organisation.
However, it's played straight without the usual car crashes and bloodletting that has marked the decline of the US cinema with the onset of incipient nihilism and it's worldwide exploitation. 8/10
Watching the film, one is reminded of this interesting item:
http://youtu.be/6K5M0xtxQVQ
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
Howl's Moving Castle. It wasn't as good as I expected it to be, but my nieces loved it. 7/10
Saw Despicable Me 2 with my daughters, 8 and 10. All three of us revelled in its (as opposed to it's) incipient nihilism.
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