Waltz with Bashir
It was shown in Hebrew with Danish subtitleI swear it was English when I watched the trailer in the official website. I caught very little parts of the movie and afterward my Swedish friend had to re-tell the whole story to me. And my frequent question to him was, 'in this scene, when he did this bla bla, what did he say...'
I love the animation though.
Let The Right One In with English subtitles. Seen it a couple of days ago. I liked it, it is a different take on a vampire flick. Wouldn't recommend it to people who watch horror movies for lots of gore, there's no rivers of blood even though there are a few severed limbs and what could be called 'disturbing scenes' but other than that it's pretty tame but it actually tells a story, not just made for shock value. Anybody else seen it?
Oh, and I'd say it's about 8.5/10
I have a plan: attack!
The Devil wears Prada. Great work by Meryl Streep,she is amazing somehow. I very much like Stanley Tucci's performance. I have this like/dislike over Anne Hathaway. She did a good job but something about her seems too,,,I don't know, perhaps she tries too hard. Can't fathom it , but something she does makes her character seem just a little not real. I would give it probably a seven of ten.
You know, I was disappointed in Big Fish although I loved Bonham Carter.
They Live bad? Obviously, you're not a golfer.Originally Posted by imthefoolonthehill
"And the worms, they will climb
The rugged ladder of your spine"
TAKEN, which was an awesome movie.... most movies the hero always ends up loses the gun during a fight and getting hurt but in this movie it is just to the point and he whoops some a## he has no mercy
definite 10
I know I'm wayyyy behind, but I saw 300 for the first time last night. I was AMAZING. It was so ascetically pleasing, and actually had plot.
9/10
Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg.
I loved it, but found it fatally flawed at the same time. It was a rather personal work, and the overall goal of the film was to dissect Maddin's hometown and childhood and the apocryphal local lore attached to it in order to awake himself from its sleep-inducing effects. In this regard it was successful. But I felt that Maddin was too loose with his directing (probably because he was having too much fun) and his ending seemed unnatural and forced, as if it was there only for the sake of having a conclusion (probably because of the above). Though, a plus was that he (subconsciously?) took inspiration from Joyce's Dubliners, especially the first and last stories.
How to find one's way out?. . . Out of the lap of the city, out of the lap described by the Forks, of the Red, the Assiniboine. The Forks, Assiniboine and the Red. The rivers that forced animals and hunters alike on the same pathways. The Forks, the lap. . . What if...? What if I film my way out of here?
This intro sounds just like the narrator at the beginning of Dubliners and the self-exile in the snow looks just the end of it, "The Dead." But I digress.
8/10
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"For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories." - Plato
"Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him."- Friedrich Nietzsche
All about Eve
I've been a little obsessed with Marilyn Monroe lately so I'm trying to watch everything she has ever been in. Although she plays only a small part in All about Eve, I was surprised by what a good movie it is. I love it when they get the casting perfect (can't stand it when they cast someone like Scarlett Johannson or Anne Hathaway in what are supposed to be likeable roles) and the casting was perfect here. Bette Davis has a very intelligent face and she must be very good because the viewer sympathises with her completely.
9/10
Dracula 2000 (For movie club)
I love it and there was a really great twist in it about who Dracula really is.
I am back............................
Don't be surprised, almost anything directed by Mankiewicz is great. Bette Davis was good but what about George Sanders? As for Monroe check out The Misfits, and Wilder's comedies, Some Like it Hot and The Seven Year Itch.
"And the worms, they will climb
The rugged ladder of your spine"
My personal favorite Marilyn Monroe movie is "Bus Stop."
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its' own reason for existing." ~ Albert Einstein
"Remember, no matter where you go, there you are." Buckaroo Bonzai "Some people say I done alright for a girl." Melanie Safka
Taken
It was excellent. A father "with certain skills" searches with a righteous fury for his missing daughter. 9/10
The Reader
What is right? What is moral? Can we love someone whom we believe is neither?
How do knowledge or ability affect our lives? How does love? These are a few questions the movie poses. Kate Winslet slips into her role as quietly and movingly as a softly uttered prayer. 9.5/10
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its' own reason for existing." ~ Albert Einstein
"Remember, no matter where you go, there you are." Buckaroo Bonzai "Some people say I done alright for a girl." Melanie Safka
I finally got around to watching Milk last night. Based upon a true story, it tells of Harvey Milk, the first openly-homosexual elected mayor in California in the 1970's. It stars Sean Penn, a fantastic actor in everything he acts in, and I had to watch it out of respect for the director, Portland's own, Gus van Sant.
Wonderfully screen-written, beautifully directed, amazingly acted - all around impressive.
Rating: solid 10/10.
Master & commander,
"10th" time.
'Like it.
9.9/10 (nobody's perfect ..)
Gaslight ~ Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard
Old black and white thriller film; rather reminescent of Hitchcock's early work. I discovered this particular film, while cruising around on Youtube. I love Anton Walbrook's acting in "The Red Shoes" by Powell and Pressburger, so I knew this had to be good. His accent is marvelous and his delivery very intense and always perfect; his charm impecable. I have been thoroughly impressed with any performance of his. It is sad he died so young, because he certainly was a film great and would have gone on to make many more movies; be even more well known, not just in the UK. He played such diabolical characters with a lot of nuance to his subtle performances. I just might spring now for another of his films.
This is about a husband who is slowly convincing his wife she is going mad; a real study in pyschological intrigue. I liked the way the gaslight was highlighted and played an integral part in this story. The set was simplistic, yet lavish in decorum and the wife's clothes were marvelous, making the film entertaining as well. The can-can dance scene was somewhat spectacular, but short. I though the film was very well done, for being such an obscure piece of early cinema. The closeups near the end of Anton's face are marvelous and frightening. Cool movie and glad I purchased the DVD. I kept being reminded of the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" - the concept was similar. I would give this a 9/10 for early film rating.
Last night I also watched on Youtube a play probably shown in the UK for BBC
The Lady's Not for Burning ~ Kenneth Branagh, Cherie Lunghi
A very interesting play, since it felt totally Shakespearan, but was written 1940's, by Christopher Fry. If you want to read more about it see the reviews on Amazon here:
http://www.amazon.com/Ladys-Not-Burn.../ref=wl_it_dp?
I didn't know at first if it was serious or a comedy. In this way, it was a lot like Shakespeare's darker comedies. I really liked it and will probably watch all 8 or 9 segments again soon, before they disappear from Youtube. I would love to own the play, but one seems to only be able to find it on used VHS and those start pretty pricey.
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"It's so mysterious, the land of tears."
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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