(7960,1572,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1201296900,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Best Trilogy Ever!','Star Wars has been sitting in my top ten for my entire life so its nearly impossible for anything I see now to take its place. The Dollars trilogy would probably be the next best thing, but I\'ve only seen Fistful and For a Few Dollars More once, whereas I\'ve seen TGTBATU about 12 times.','03acec3b4f70cb7a813dd5b0dfb238da',0,'','0cnfo8At',1,0,'',0,0,0),(7961,1572,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1201296900,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Best Trilogy Ever!','Star Wars has been sitting in my top ten for my entire life so its nearly impossible for anything I see now to take its place. The Dollars trilogy would probably be the next best thing, but I\'ve only seen Fistful and For a Few Dollars More once, whereas I\'ve seen TGTBATU about 12 times.','03acec3b4f70cb7a813dd5b0dfb238da',0,'','lmvjgaXC',1,0,'',0,0,0),(7962,1572,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1201327140,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Best Trilogy Ever!','The Glauber Rocha trilogy','1ed054498ca7cc1373c132aba21d5529',0,'','mNwBdkr7',1,0,'',0,0,0),(7963,1572,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1201327140,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Best Trilogy Ever!','The Glauber Rocha trilogy','1ed054498ca7cc1373c132aba21d5529',0,'','DXMsClLz',1,0,'',0,0,0),(7964,1572,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1201409700,1,0,1,1,1,1,'A','Re: The Best Trilogy Ever!','Oh no, I see that I\'ve really forgotten too many important ones. Maybe next time I should ask all of you for possible contenders before I post such a poll. \r\n\r\nI\'m thinking about buying all available Glauber Rocha films on DVD for my birthday, btw. We\'ll see.','614b5d6366f54ee803977cba04118d42',0,'','9M6LUHrp',1,0,'',0,0,0),(7965,1572,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1201409700,1,0,1,1,1,1,'A','Re: The Best Trilogy Ever!','Oh no, I see that I\'ve really forgotten too many important ones. Maybe next time I should ask all of you for possible contenders before I post such a poll. \r\n\r\nI\'m thinking about buying all available Glauber Rocha films on DVD for my birthday, btw. We\'ll see.','614b5d6366f54ee803977cba04118d42',0,'','He8Wf6x3',1,0,'',0,0,0),(7966,1572,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1201415340,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Best Trilogy Ever!','I have all of Glauber Rocha\'s available US DVD\'s, which is to say I have zero, because that\'s all there is here. Damn shame but I was referred to one place that may have some, but finances being what they are I\'ll have to postpone it for now.','e966718072ab8aaf28b2ecb28328dbee',0,'','ErvPRAql',1,0,'',0,0,0),(7967,1572,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1201415340,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Best Trilogy Ever!','I have all of Glauber Rocha\'s available US DVD\'s, which is to say I have zero, because that\'s all there is here. Damn shame but I was referred to one place that may have some, but finances being what they are I\'ll have to postpone it for now.','e966718072ab8aaf28b2ecb28328dbee',0,'','DMGErTlL',1,0,'',0,0,0),(7968,1572,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1201424040,1,0,1,1,1,1,'A','Re: The Best Trilogy Ever!','I am lucky, because I can get four of his films with German subtitles from a Swiss company.','0f21a60105b77ce899f79e002210f337',0,'','eM0vBpSK',1,0,'',0,0,0),(7969,1572,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1201424040,1,0,1,1,1,1,'A','Re: The Best Trilogy Ever!','I am lucky, because I can get four of his films with German subtitles from a Swiss company.','0f21a60105b77ce899f79e002210f337',0,'','AXSDTC0H',1,0,'',0,0,0),(7970,1572,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1201432920,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Best Trilogy Ever!','I believe you\'re referring to the Rocha DVDs available at Trigon-Film. A couple of them are out; Black God is apparently scheduled for March.','29d8f2f93d38820ca664bb61db5e7b54',0,'','zFVcMPpw',1,0,'',0,0,0),(7971,1572,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1201432920,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Best Trilogy Ever!','I believe you\'re referring to the Rocha DVDs available at Trigon-Film. A couple of them are out; Black God is apparently scheduled for March.','29d8f2f93d38820ca664bb61db5e7b54',0,'','9ymQUnbi',1,0,'',0,0,0),(7972,1572,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1201498800,1,0,1,1,1,1,'A','Re: The Best Trilogy Ever!','Mmm, March. \r\nYes, I\'m talking about Trigon. I will always be grateful for the opportunity they offer to watch World Cinema. They have also released some titles by Fernando Solanas.','9e6cd7aeec81a424da621d4516c3cf70',0,'','4ja3Ly2z',1,0,'',0,0,0),(7973,1572,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1201498800,1,0,1,1,1,1,'A','Re: The Best Trilogy Ever!','Mmm, March. \r\nYes, I\'m talking about Trigon. I will always be grateful for the opportunity they offer to watch World Cinema. They have also released some titles by Fernando Solanas.','9e6cd7aeec81a424da621d4516c3cf70',0,'','d9zkvT8Y',1,0,'',0,0,0),(7974,1572,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1201508880,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: The Best Trilogy Ever!','Although I am gonna vote for something else, \r\nI just thought it may be good to credit this trilogy too (and get people to recall too ...) \r\ni.e., Jerzy Hoffman (Pan Wolodyjowski (1969), Potop (1974), Ogniem i mieczem (1999)) \r\n\r\nPS: I will write more abt my votes ... hee hee','36c93a4025e3841ea36d9469e1943658',0,'','i8d4mFj1',1,0,'',0,0,0),(7975,1572,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1201508880,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: The Best Trilogy Ever!','Although I am gonna vote for something else, \r\nI just thought it may be good to credit this trilogy too (and get people to recall too ...) \r\ni.e., Jerzy Hoffman (Pan Wolodyjowski (1969), Potop (1974), Ogniem i mieczem (1999)) \r\n\r\nPS: I will write more abt my votes ... hee hee','36c93a4025e3841ea36d9469e1943658',0,'','jENCfg80',1,0,'',0,0,0),(7976,1572,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1201863300,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: The Best Trilogy Ever!','wanted to vote ... but the vote link leads to error \r\n\r\nMy vote goes to \r\n-- Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Peter Jackson / 2001 - 2003) \r\nReasons: \r\n- ALL 3 are consistently good ... in terms of quality and standard ... \r\n- Both critics and mainstream audience can appreciate the film \r\n\r\nSome comments about the rest \r\n\r\n- Three Colors Trilogy (Krzysztof Kieslowski / 1993 - 1994) \r\nComments: Great, but really cater to artsy audience \r\n\r\n- Star Wars Trilogy [original] (George Lucas / 1977 - 1983) \r\nComments: Kind of too long ago (i was only btw 8 to 12); \r\nOn rewatching, the effects have been kind of \"overtaken\" by recent technology; \r\nAs for the story, it remains \"classic\" but not as \"gripping\" in terms of pacing (maybe becos we know the story too well now) \r\n\r\n- Godfather Trilogy (Francis Ford Coppola / 1972 - 1990) \r\nComments: The 3rd is quite a disaster \r\n\r\n- Infernal Affairs Trilogy (Wai-keung Lau, Siu Fai Mak / 2002 - 2003) \r\nComments: The 1st was great, the 2nd was okay, the 3rd was kind of messy ... \r\n\r\n- Back to the Future Trilogy (Robert Zemeckis / 1985 - 1990) \r\nComments: Too mainstream \r\n\r\n- Matrix \r\nComments: The 1st was great, the 2nd and 3rd was kind of draggy, surviving only on effects \r\n\r\nGonna catch up on the rest of the trilogy ...','dfbbf922955977a6149f81e5852f47fe',0,'','GeoTBEs0',1,0,'',0,0,0),(7977,1572,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1201863300,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: The Best Trilogy Ever!','wanted to vote ... but the vote link leads to error \r\n\r\nMy vote goes to \r\n-- Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Peter Jackson / 2001 - 2003) \r\nReasons: \r\n- ALL 3 are consistently good ... in terms of quality and standard ... \r\n- Both critics and mainstream audience can appreciate the film \r\n\r\nSome comments about the rest \r\n\r\n- Three Colors Trilogy (Krzysztof Kieslowski / 1993 - 1994) \r\nComments: Great, but really cater to artsy audience \r\n\r\n- Star Wars Trilogy [original] (George Lucas / 1977 - 1983) \r\nComments: Kind of too long ago (i was only btw 8 to 12); \r\nOn rewatching, the effects have been kind of \"overtaken\" by recent technology; \r\nAs for the story, it remains \"classic\" but not as \"gripping\" in terms of pacing (maybe becos we know the story too well now) \r\n\r\n- Godfather Trilogy (Francis Ford Coppola / 1972 - 1990) \r\nComments: The 3rd is quite a disaster \r\n\r\n- Infernal Affairs Trilogy (Wai-keung Lau, Siu Fai Mak / 2002 - 2003) \r\nComments: The 1st was great, the 2nd was okay, the 3rd was kind of messy ... \r\n\r\n- Back to the Future Trilogy (Robert Zemeckis / 1985 - 1990) \r\nComments: Too mainstream \r\n\r\n- Matrix \r\nComments: The 1st was great, the 2nd and 3rd was kind of draggy, surviving only on effects \r\n\r\nGonna catch up on the rest of the trilogy ...','dfbbf922955977a6149f81e5852f47fe',0,'','pXJMwrHS',1,0,'',0,0,0),(7978,1572,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1201957920,1,0,1,1,1,1,'A','Re: The Best Trilogy Ever!','Should work now. I tried it myself, and voted for Back to the Future .','97bbd5e607133748ea4bf694c1843e6f',0,'','wiWKCXYg',1,0,'',0,0,0),(7979,1572,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1201957920,1,0,1,1,1,1,'A','Re: The Best Trilogy Ever!','Should work now. I tried it myself, and voted for Back to the Future .','97bbd5e607133748ea4bf694c1843e6f',0,'','2dz91gkr',1,0,'',0,0,0),(7980,1572,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1202120880,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: The Best Trilogy Ever!','\r\n\r\nsee page 1. \r\ni have merged another similar thread from past posts.','c4714653b445c9bb21a5a9ce18c478e7',0,'','NAMTic6G',1,0,'',0,0,0),(7981,1572,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1202120880,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: The Best Trilogy Ever!','\r\n\r\nsee page 1. \r\ni have merged another similar thread from past posts.','c4714653b445c9bb21a5a9ce18c478e7',0,'','B09wQ3Vf',1,0,'',0,0,0),(7982,1572,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1203843600,1,0,1,1,1,1,'R6dw6C','Re: The Best Trilogy Ever!','Since \"The Mother of Tears\" was utter crap, I had to look out for another prime trilogy. My favourite of those listed is probably Leone\'s Dollar Trilogy, although I\'d have chosen Antonioni\'s \"Vitti-Trilogy\" if it would be listed. Don\'t worry, A, there are just too many to get them all together, not even the most \"important\" ones. \r\n\r\n@ hengcs: \r\n\r\nI\'m a bit confused about your comments - \"Back to the Future\" is too mainstream but \"Lord of the Rings\" not?!','40bc0026d5a47e905d558245557b7128',0,'','NirCMztp',1,0,'',0,0,0),(7983,1572,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1203843600,1,0,1,1,1,1,'R6dw6C','Re: The Best Trilogy Ever!','Since \"The Mother of Tears\" was utter crap, I had to look out for another prime trilogy. My favourite of those listed is probably Leone\'s Dollar Trilogy, although I\'d have chosen Antonioni\'s \"Vitti-Trilogy\" if it would be listed. Don\'t worry, A, there are just too many to get them all together, not even the most \"important\" ones. \r\n\r\n@ hengcs: \r\n\r\nI\'m a bit confused about your comments - \"Back to the Future\" is too mainstream but \"Lord of the Rings\" not?!','40bc0026d5a47e905d558245557b7128',0,'','RjV5hUN2',1,0,'',0,0,0),(7984,1573,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1205871900,1,0,1,1,1,1,'A','Your 25 favorite German films','Since we had a little controversy surrounding the \"100 most significant German films\" list, how about making our own? \r\n\r\nI thought that 100 was probably too big a number for most of us, so I limited it down to 25. I think this way we can all endorse aour favorite masterpieces in an easier way. \r\n\r\nGerman here means all films produced on what was considered \"German\" soil throughout film history, including the GDR or the Third Reich. Hope this statement is clear enough. \r\n\r\nI\'ll try and list mine in order of preference (though it\'s really tough). \r\n\r\n1. Marseille (Angela Schanelec / 2004) \r\n2. Bungalow (Ulrich Köhler / 2002) \r\n3. Klassenverhältnisse \"Class Relations\" (Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet / 1984) \r\n4. Verrückt bleiben, verliebt bleiben (Elfi Mikesch / 1997) \r\n5. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders / 1984) \r\n6. Heaven (Tom Tykwer / 2002) \r\n7. Zwischen zwei Kriegen \"Between two Wars\" (Harun Farocki / 1977) \r\n8. Unter der Milchstraße \"Under the Milky Way\" (Mathias X. Oberg / 1995) \r\n9. Der Felsen \"A Map of the Heart\" (Dominik Graf / 2001) \r\n10. Sophiiiie! (Michael Hofmann / 2002) \r\n11. Rosa Luxemburg (Margarethe von Trotta / 1986) \r\n12. Die Bergkatze \"The Wildcat\" (Ernst Lubitsch / 1921) \r\n13. Vampyr - Der Traum des Allan Grey \"Vampyr\" (Carl Theodor Dreyer / 1931) \r\n14. L\'amour, l\'argent, l\'amour \"Love, Money, Love\" (Philip Gröning / 2000) \r\n15. Der Aufenthalt \"The Turning Point\" (Frank Beyer / 1983) \r\n16. M (Fritz Lang / 1931) \r\n17. Verfehlung (Heiner Carow / 1991) \r\n18. Othon (Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet / 1969) \r\n19. Metropolis (Fritz Lang / 1927) \r\n20. Händler der vier Jahreszeiten \"The Merchant of Four Seasons\" (R.W. Fassbinder / 1972) \r\n21. Frau fährt, Mann schläft (Rudolf Thome / 2004) \r\n22. Pünktchen und Anton \"Punktchen and Anton\" (Thomas Engel / 1953) \r\n23. Goff in der Wüste \"Goff in the Desert\" (Heinz Emigholz / 2003) \r\n24. Identity Kills (Sören Voigt / 2003) \r\n25. Gegen die Wand \"Head-On\" (Fatih Akin / 2004) \r\n\r\nBoy, this was much more difficult than I thought it would be. Maybe I should have settled for a Top 50... \r\nLet\'s see what you got. We can still expand our lists later on.','9189658fbdf9775991fc914bb09418ae',0,'','hX5W8qt2',1,0,'',0,0,0),(7985,1573,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1205887140,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Your 25 favorite German films','1. Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) \r\n2. M (1931) \r\n3. Aguirre the Wrath of God (1972) \r\n4. False Movement (1975) \r\n5. Hitler, A Film From Germany/Our Hitler (1977) \r\n6. Not Reconciled (1965) \r\n7. Wings of Desire (1987) \r\n8. Variety (1925) \r\n9. Metropolis (1927) \r\n10. The Great Ecstasy of the Sculptor Steiner (1977) \r\n11. Kings of the Road (1976) \r\n12. Olympia (1938) \r\n13. The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (1972) \r\n14. Cobra Verde (1987) \r\n15. Die Nibelungen (1924) \r\n16. Faust (1926) \r\n17. Westfront 1918 (1930) \r\n18. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1932) \r\n19. Das Boot (1981) \r\n20. Pandora\'s Box (1928) \r\n21. Nosferatu (1922) \r\n22. The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) \r\n23. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919) \r\n24. Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927) \r\n25. The Tin Drum (1979) \r\n\r\nVery clearly I need to see some contemporary German films.','f9e8ab9de71398b8cd1442c6af37e53a',0,'','GdUjnF6b',1,0,'',0,0,0),(7986,1573,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1206145500,1,0,1,1,1,1,'R6dw6C','Re: Your 25 favorite German films','Thanks for realising my idea, A. It would\'ve probably lasted a few more months for me to pull myself together... \r\n\r\nI really insisted on this thread because of that \"The 100 most significant German Films\" and though there isn\'t one really bad film on your list, wpqx (expect of the awful, bluffy \"Wings of Desire\"), it confirms that internationally, most people totally depend on which films are mentioned in the pursuant literature and, of course, which are available on DVD. In other words, it\'s very difficult to get an authentic idea of German cinema. If compared to other european countries - one can easily get an idea of what Italian, British or French Cinema covered (thanks to television and DVD) but countries like Germany, Spain or Scandinavia... \r\n\r\nI\'ll be back tomorrow...','e6c02db98eb966c8a9a655ddde43b4a3',0,'','LdrUtef9',1,0,'',0,0,0),(7987,1573,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1206150480,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Your 25 favorite German films','Well obviously availability has a great deal to do with it. The few contemporary German films I get a chance to see are usually internationally safe fare like Downfall. I\'m just a little embarrassed that the newest film on my list is from 1987. That said I did like Run Lola Run a lot and might even amend the list, but I feel odd calling that the best German film of the last twenty years.','7cb933a39cbdd8d4ada05dd4fe97318f',0,'','sa7vKSoG',1,0,'',0,0,0),(7988,1573,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1206312480,1,0,1,1,1,1,'R6dw6C','Re: Your 25 favorite German films','I\'ll comment more extensively (in general and also on my own list) when I\'m back, meanwhile, here\'s my list (I\'ll fix the formatting later): \r\n\r\n\r\nHamlet (Sven Gade, Heinz Schall, 1921) \r\nDie freudlose Gasse  The Joyless Street (Georg Wilhem Pabst, 1925) \r\nM - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder  M - A City Is Looking For A Murderer (Fritz Lang, 1931) \r\nZu neuen Ufern  To New Shores (Detlef Sierck [= Douglas Sirk], 1937) \r\nLiebe \'47  Love \'47 (Wolfgang Liebeneiner, 1948) \r\nDer Verlorene  The Lost One (Peter Lorre, 1951) \r\nDas fliegende Klassenzimmer  The Flying Classroom (Kurt Hoffmann, 1954) \r\nMonpti (Helmut Käutner, 1957) \r\nDie toten Augen von London  The Dark Eyes of London (Alfred Vohrer, 1961) \r\nDer Schatz im Silbersee  The Treasure of Silver Lake (Harald Reinl, 1962) \r\nDie endlose Nacht  The Endless Night (Will Tremper, 1963) \r\nDie Tote von Beverly Hills  The Dead Woman of Beverly Hills (Michael Pfleghar, 1964) \r\nAbschied  Farewell (Egon Günther, 1968) \r\nSieben Tage Frist  Seven Days of Grace (Alfred Vohrer, 1969) \r\nGötter der Pest  Gods of the Plague (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1970) \r\nRote Sonne  Red Sun (Rudolf Thome, 1970) \r\nDeadlock (Roland Klick, 1970) \r\nIch liebe dich, ich töte dich  I Love You, I Kill You (Uwe Brandner, 1971) \r\nFaustrecht der Freiheit  Fist Right of Freedom (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974) \r\nDas Ende des Regenbogens  The End of the Rainbow (Uwe Frießner, 1979) \r\nAlpha City (Eckhart Schmidt, 1985) \r\nSchramm (Jörg Buttgereit, 1993) \r\nDie tödliche Maria  Deadly Maria (Tom Tykwer, 1993) \r\nRequiem (Hans-Christian Schmid, 2006) \r\nAuf der anderen Seite  The Edge of Heaven (Fatih Akin, 2007) \r\n\r\nI would\'ve loved to expand it to 30 or 35 films but I wasn\'t sure if that\'s okay, so I tried to limit it to 25. \r\nAs usual, I didn\'t order the films by my personal appreciation but by the years they were produced. \r\nFurthermore, though this is a very personal list, I tried to include at least two films from every decade, that\'s why the two latest efforts are in (they also are personal favourites nevertheless).','4880c28648ab6892af586b597739798a',0,'','rUAwobEH',1,0,'',0,0,0),(7989,1573,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1206416820,1,0,1,1,1,1,'R6dw6C','Re: Your 25 favorite German films','@ wpqx: \r\n\r\nIf you desire to see more contemporary German films (and not German mainstream as \"The Downfall\" or \"The Perfume\"), the more interesting and worthwhile German films of the last few years mostly are available with English subtitles here; that reminds me one more time that I have to finish that index of English friendly German DVDs. \"Run Lola Run\" is a fine film but definitely not the best German film of the last 20 years. Hope you\'ll get a chance to see Tykwer\'s \"Deadly Maria\" and \"Winterschläfer\" in the Future. \r\n\r\nThe main unpleasant thing about the availability of German films in the US (of all international countries, Japan, France and Greece (!) probably offer the most diverse assortment) is that they almost only release our classics and popular films. Many of the films on my list (like \"The Endless Night\" or \"Seven Days of Grace\" [which was promoted in the US as a horror film at its time - absurd, as it is a reserved boarding school drama with some crime elements. You could probably count Germany\'s horror films on two hands, the genre isn\'t very popular here]) will probably never appear on DVD in the US (and aren\'t available on VHS, too). So, I\'m not surprised that your list consists of renowned classics (\"Not Reconciled\" is an exception, though. It\'s an invisible film. How did you get to see it?). \r\n\r\n@ All: \r\n\r\nJust wanted to add that the inclusion of \"The Dark Eyes of London\" and \"The Treasure of Silver Lake\" is a bit special. Both films are warm childhood / youth memories (not only for me but for millions of Germans) and belong to the small number of features which I\'ve seen over and over again over the years, probably, I\'ve seen both around 10, 15 times or so. Though my point of view is different nowadays (much of the erstwhile magic has gone), I still love and adore the Karl May and Edgar Wallace-Films very much (the Wallace films first evoked my fascination for cinema), even though I know that they\'re extremely naive and kitschy. So, I simply had to include one film of each series in my list. Beside that, they\'re already a part of our cultural history and are shown on TV over and over again. Every German knows Winnetou and Old Shatterhand, as well as Joachim Fuchsberger in the repeating role of the young and charming Scotland Yard Inspector (opposed by villains like Gert Fröbe, Klaus Kinski and Albert Lieven). \r\n\r\nA told me that it\'s all right to expand the lists. \r\n\r\nOh, and if you want to know more about one of those films, ask me! (I believe A has more luck because he already reviewed many of his favourites ).','276f69decf21509a5ea6fdab380a8152',0,'','9AcCJskS',1,0,'',0,0,0),(7990,1573,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1206421200,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Your 25 favorite German films','I got a DVD-R of Not Reconciled which looked to be transfered directly from a film print. Not the best quality but beggars can\'t be choosers when dealing with Straub and Hulliet.','273d3931307a3b41f8708a2e77496e5b',0,'','zTWMFeb2',1,0,'',0,0,0),(7991,1574,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1207146600,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Top 50 Brazillian Films','Apparently the Brazilian magazine Manchete put together this list in 1998, which explains the omission of some good contemporary films and the rather bizarre placement of a few 90\'s films. Ganga Bruta tops the list, and I must admit I\'m in appallingly bad shape with about 45 of these films. However for those who found the Mexican list helpful I imagine this would offer ample suggestions for exploring Brazilian cinema. \r\n\r\n\r\n1. Ganga Bruta (Rough Gangue) by Humberto Mauro (1933)\r\n\r\n2. Vidas Secas (Barren Lives) by Nélson Pereira dos Santos (1963)\r\n\r\n3. O Pagador de Promessas (The Promise Keeper) by Anselmo Duarte (1962)\r\n\r\n4. Amei um Bicheiro (I Loved a Numbers Game Runner) by Jorge Ileli (1953)\r\n\r\n5. Assalto ao Trem Pagador (The Pay-Train Robbery) by Roberto Farias (1962)\r\n\r\n6. Central do Brasil (Central Station) by Walter Salles Jr. (1998)\r\n\r\n7. Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol (God and the Devil on the Land of the Sun) by Gláuber Rocha (1963)\r\n\r\n8. Todas as Mulheres do Mundo (All the Women in the World) by Domingos Oliveira (1966)\r\n\r\n9. O Cangaceiro (The Bandit) by Lima Barreto (1953)\r\n\r\n10. A Ostra e o Vento (The Oyster and the Wind) by Walter Lima Júnior (1997)\r\n\r\n11. Limite (Limit) by Mário Peixoto (1931)\r\n\r\n12. Rio 40 Graus (Rio 104 degrees F) by Nélson Pereira dos Santos (1955)\r\n\r\n13. Os Cafajestes (The Scoundrels) by Ruy Guerra (1962)\r\n\r\n14. A Hora e a Vez de Augusto Matraga (The Hour and the Turn of Augusto Matraga) by Roberto Santos (1966)\r\n\r\n15. O Bandido da Luz Vermelha (The Red Light Bandit) by Rogério Sganzerla (1962)\r\n\r\n16. Macunaíma (Macunaíma) by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade (1969)\r\n\r\n17. Pixote, a Lei do Mais Fraco (Pixote, the Law of the Weakest) by Hector Babenco (1980)\r\n\r\n18. Noite Vazia (Empty Night) by Walter Hugo Khouri (1964)\r\n\r\n19. São Paulo S. A. (São Paulo Inc.) by Luiz Sérgio Person (1966)\r\n\r\n20. A Intrusa (The IntruderLady) by Carlos Hugo Christensen (1980)\r\n\r\n21. O Baile Perfumado (The Fragrant Ball) by Paulo Caldas and L. Ferreira (1997)\r\n\r\n22. Favela dos Meus Amores (Shantytown of My Loves) by Humberto Mauro (1936)\r\n\r\n23. Simão o Caolho (Simão the Cross-Eyed) by Alberto Cavalcanti (1952)\r\n\r\n24. Os Fuzis (The Rifles) by Ruy Guerra (1963)\r\n\r\n25. Menino de Engenho (Sugar Mill Boy) by Walter Lima Jr. (1965)\r\n\r\n26. Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos (Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Bruno Barreto (1976)\r\n\r\n27. Inocência (Innocence) by Walter Lima Júnior (1982)\r\n\r\n28. Memórias do Cárcere (Memories of Jail) by Nélson Pereira dos Santos (1984)\r\n\r\n29. Moleque Tião (Street Kid Tião) by José Carlos Burle (1942)\r\n\r\n30. O Padre e a Moça ( The Priest and the Maiden) by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade (1965)\r\n\r\n31. Viver de Morrer (To Live From Dying) by Jorge Ileli (1970)\r\n\r\n32. Chuvas de Verão (Summer Rains) by Carlos Diegues (1996)\r\n\r\n33. Lira do Delírio (Delirium Lyre) by Walter Lima Júnior (1977)\r\n\r\n34. Bye Bye Brasil (Bye Bye, Brazil) by Carlos Diegues (1977)\r\n\r\n35. Gaijin (Foreigner) by Tizuka Yamasaki (1980)\r\n\r\n36. Eles Não Usam Black Tie (They Don\'t Wear Black Tie) by Leon Hirszman (1981)\r\n\r\n37. A Marvada Carne (Mean Flesh) by André Klotzel (1985)\r\n\r\n38. A Hora da Estrela (The Hour of the Star) by Suzana Amaral (1985)\r\n\r\n39. Fragmentos da Vida (Life\'s Fragments) by José Medina (1929)\r\n\r\n40. Tesouro Perdido (Lost Treasure) by Humberto Mauro (1926)\r\n\r\n41. Barro Humano (Human Clay) by Adhemar Gonzaga (1928)\r\n\r\n42. Alô Alô Carnaval (Hi, Hi, Carnaval) by Adhemar Gonzaga (1936)\r\n\r\n43. Carnaval no Fogo (Carnaval in the Fire) by Watson Macedo (1950)\r\n\r\n44. Tico-Tico no Fubá (Tico-Tico Bird in the Corn Flour) by Adolfo Celi (1951)\r\n\r\n45. O Canto da Saudade (The Longing Corner) by Humberto Mauro (1952)\r\n\r\n46. Agulha no Palheiro (Needle in the Haystack) by Alex Vianny (1953)\r\n\r\n47. Absolutamente Certo! (Absolutely Right) by Anselmo Duarte (1957)\r\n\r\n48. Mulheres e Milhões (Women and Millions) by Jorge Ileli (1961)\r\n\r\n49. O Grande Momento (The Great Moment) by Roberto Santos (1958)\r\n\r\n50. Carlota Joaquina, a Princesa do Brasil (Carlota Joaquina, the Princess of Brazil) by Carla Camurati (1996)','ec6c09cce0f39aae69d57962785f713f',0,'','xk4rtVhv',1,0,'',0,0,0),(7992,1574,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1207211280,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Top 50 Brazillian Films','This is nice, but I expected Rocha to be better represented.','6bfb090eb9390bf3e19057a7b33019ba',0,'','Fsj1XV29',1,0,'',0,0,0),(7993,1574,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1207213380,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Top 50 Brazillian Films','The source I found it from said the same, which makes me curious to the perception of his work domestically.','8c64a82d23d3adbc1767bcd71a13b40a',0,'','qlxHLUV9',1,0,'',0,0,0),(7994,1574,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1207365300,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Top 50 Brazillian Films','I wonder how many of these films are actually available on DVD, anywhere. I do however have a pretty good idea when it comes to the Rochas, dos Santos\', de Andrades and a few newer ones. Need to explore further.','5e9501a96c4d30e0bf942c620f305e2c',0,'','hjV17Tvb',1,0,'',0,0,0),(7995,1575,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1208078760,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Film Comment\'s Top 150 Unreleased Foreign Language Films of the Nineties','\r\n\r\n___________________________________ \r\n\r\n*Unreleased in the U.S. till mid-1997, when the list was compiled by the magazine. Many of these films are now available stateside, though many still aren\'t. (Needless to say, I don\'t agree with all of the rankings and selections.) \r\n___________________________________ \r\n\r\nPART ONE \r\n\r\n1. NOUVELLE VAGUE \r\nJean-Luc Godard, Switzerland/France 90 439 points \r\n\r\n2. LES AMANTS DU PONT NEUF \r\nLeos Carax, France 91 433 \r\n\r\n3. AND LIFE GOES ON \r\nAbbas Kiarostami, Iran 92 425 \r\n\r\n4. COLD WATER \r\nOlivier Assayas, France 94 386 \r\n\r\n5. DRIFTING CLOUDS \r\nAki Kaurismaki, Finland 96 385 \r\n\r\n6. BEYOND THE CLOUDS \r\nMichelangelo Antonioni, Italy/France/Germany 95 341 \r\n\r\n7. CLOSE-UP \r\nAbbas Kiarostami, Iran 90 337 \r\n\r\n8. THE PUPPET MASTER \r\nHou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan 93 327 \r\n\r\n9. QUINCE TREE SUN/DREAM OF LIGHT \r\nVictor Erice, Spain, 92 322 \r\n\r\n10. THE VALLEY OF ABRAHAM \r\nManuel de Oliveira, Portugal 93 306 \r\n\r\n11. GOODBYE SOUTH, GOODBYE \r\nHou Hsiao-hsien, Japan/Taiwan 96 255 \r\n\r\n12. BULLET IN THE HEAD \r\nJohn Woo, Hong Kong 90 253 \r\n\r\n13. THE SUSPENDED STEP OF THE STORK \r\nTheo Angelopoulos, Greece 91 236 \r\n\r\n14. A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY \r\nEdward Yang, Taiwan 91 226 \r\n\r\n15. ASHES OF TIME \r\nWong Kar-wai, Hong Kong 94 204 \r\n\r\n16. A SUMMER\'S TALE \r\nEric Rohmer, France 96 196 \r\n\r\n17. DAYS OF BEING WILD \r\nWong Kar-wai, Hong Kong 91 187 \r\n\r\n18. VOICES OF THE MOON \r\nFederico Fellini, Italy 90 184 \r\n\r\n19. ACTRESS \r\nStanley Kwan, Hong Kong 91 175 \r\n\r\n20. MADADAYO \r\nAkira Kurosawa, Japan, 93 174 \r\n\r\n21. LE GARÇU \r\nMaurice Pialat, France 95 171 \r\n\r\n22. FALLEN ANGELS \r\nWong Kar-wai, Hong Kong 96 167 \r\n\r\n23. PETITS ARRANGEMENTS AVEC LES MORTS \r\nPascale Ferran, France 94 153 \r\n\r\n24. SMOKING/NO SMOKING \r\nAlain Resnais, France 94 146 \r\n\r\n25. A MOMENT OF INNOCENCE \r\nMohsen Makhmalbaf, Iran 96 145 \r\n\r\n26. SALAAM CINEMA \r\nMohsen Makhmalbaf, Iran 95 145 \r\n\r\n27. D\'EST \r\nChantal Akerman, France/Belgium/Portugal 93 141 \r\n\r\n28. LISBON STORY \r\nWim Wenders, Germany 94 138 \r\n\r\n29. WHISPERING PAGES \r\nAlexandr Sokurov, Russia/Germany 135 \r\n\r\n30. THE TROUBLES WE\'VE SEEN \r\nMarcel Ophuls, France 94 133 \r\n\r\n31. BOILING POINT \r\nTakeshi Kitano, Japan 90 129 \r\n\r\n32. GOOD MEN, GOOD WOMEN \r\nHou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan 95 126 \r\n\r\n33. ON THE BEAT \r\nNing Ying, China 95 126 \r\n\r\n34. THE WOMAN OF THE PORT \r\nArturo Ripstein, Mexico 91 125 \r\n\r\n35. JEANNE LA PUCELLE \r\nJacques Rivette, France 94 122 \r\n\r\n36. A NEW LIFE \r\nOlivier Assayas, France 93 115 \r\n\r\n37. PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG GIRL AT THE END OF THE 1960s \r\nChantal Akerman, France 94 109 \r\n\r\n38. REBELS OF THE NEON GOD \r\nTsai Ming-liang, Taiwan 93 105 \r\n\r\n39. FRESH BAIT \r\nBertrand Tavernier, France 94 104 \r\n\r\n40. I DON\'T KISS \r\nAndré Téchiné, France 92 104 \r\n\r\n41. AUTUMN MOON \r\nClara Law, Hong Kong/Japan 92 97 \r\n\r\n42. DARK SIDE OF THE HEART \r\nEliseo Subiela, Argentina 92 97 \r\n\r\n43. PRETTY VILLAGE, PRETTY FLAMES \r\nSrdjan Dragojevic, Serbia 96 93 \r\n\r\n44. MAHJONG \r\nEdward Yang, Taiwan 96 90 \r\n\r\n45. GOD\'S COMEDY \r\nJoao César Monteiro, Portugal 95 88 \r\n\r\n46. DEATH OF A NEOPOLITAN MATHEMATICIAN \r\nMario Martone, Italy 92 85 \r\n\r\n47. THE BRANCHES OF THE TREE \r\nSatyajit Ray, India 90 83 \r\n\r\n48. NO, OR THE VAIN GLORY OF COMMAND \r\nManuel de Oliveira, Portugal 90 83 \r\n\r\n49. A CONFUCIAN CONFUSION \r\nEdward Yang, Taiwan 95 80 \r\n\r\n50. QUEEN OF THE NIGHT \r\nArturo Ripstein, Mexico 94 79','6c68e13ce7e8cee12d1f5e2a4b355144',0,'','skuE5hiD',1,0,'',0,0,0),(7996,1575,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1208130480,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Film Comment\'s Top 150 Unreleased Foreign Language Films of the Nineties','PART TWO \r\n\r\n51. SWEET EMMA, DEAR BOBE \r\nIstvan Szabo, Hungary 92 76 \r\n\r\n52. HOMEWORK \r\nAbbas Kiarostami, Iran 90 75 \r\n\r\n53. REGARDE LES HOMMES TOMBER \r\nJacques Audiard, France 94 73 \r\n\r\n54. THE MAN WHO LOST HIS SHADOW \r\nAlain Tanner, Switzerland 91 72 \r\n\r\n55. MALINA \r\nWerner Schroeter, Germany 91 70 \r\n\r\n56. AT FULL GALLOP \r\nKrzysztof Zanussi, Poland 96 69 \r\n\r\n57. POSTMAN \r\nHe Jian-Jun, China 95 69 \r\n\r\n58. THE TREE, THE MAYOR, AND THE MEDIATHEQUE \r\nEric Rohmer, France 93 67 \r\n\r\n59. FATE \r\nFred Keleman, Germany 94 66 \r\n\r\n60. GORILLA BATHES AT NOON \r\nDusan Makevejev, Germany 92 66 \r\n\r\n61. NOBODY WILL SPEAK OF US WHEN WE\'RE DEAD \r\nAgustin Diaz Yanes, Spain 95 62 \r\n\r\n62. THE OUTPOST \r\nPeter Gothar, Hungary/Romania 94 62 \r\n\r\n63. LE JEUNE WERTHER \r\nJacques Doillon, France 93 59 \r\n\r\n64. US GO HOME \r\nClaire Denis, France 95 59 \r\n\r\n65. J\'ENTENDS PLUS LA GUITARRE \r\nPhilippe Garrel, France 90 57 \r\n\r\n66. GENESIS \r\nErmanno Olmi, Italy 94 56 \r\n\r\n67. LE PARFUM D\'YVONNE \r\nPatrice Leconte, France 94 56 \r\n\r\n68. PARIS S\'EVEILLE \r\nOlivier Assayas, France 91 56 \r\n\r\n69. PALMS \r\nArtur Arkstakisian, Moldova/Russia 94 53 \r\n\r\n70. SCREAM OF STONE \r\nWerner Herzog, Germany 92 53 \r\n\r\n71. LESSONS OF DARKNESS \r\nWerner Herzog, Germany 92 50 \r\n\r\n72. SOPYONJE \r\nIm Kwon-Taek, South Korea 93 50 \r\n\r\n73. SALE COMME UN ANGE \r\nCatherine Breillat, France 92 48 \r\n\r\n74. UN DEUX TROIS SOLEIL \r\nBertrand Blier, France 93 48 \r\n\r\n75. THE SATAN \r\nViktor Aristov, USSR 90 47 \r\n\r\n76. IN THE HEAT OF THE SUN \r\nJiang Wen, China 94 46 \r\n\r\n77. THE HOUSE OF SMILES \r\nMarco Ferreri, Italy 91 46 \r\n\r\n78. DAY OF THE BEAST \r\nAlex de la Iglesia, Spain 95 44 \r\n\r\n79. PIGS \r\nWladyslaw Pasikowski, Poland 92 43 \r\n\r\n80. SCHTONK \r\nHelmut Dietl, Germany 91 43 \r\n\r\n81. 71 FRAGMENTS OF A CHRONOLOGY OF CHANCE \r\nMichael Haneke, Austria 94 42 \r\n\r\n82. TRAVOLTA AND ME \r\nPatricia Mazuy, France 93 42 \r\n\r\n83. THE VOYAGE OF CAPTAIN FRACASS \r\nEttore Scola, Italy 90 42 \r\n\r\n84. WILD HORSES \r\nMarcelo Piñeyro, Argentina 95 41 \r\n\r\n85. STONE \r\nAlexandr Sokurov, Russia 92 40 \r\n\r\n86. AU PETIT MARGUERY \r\nLaurent Benegui, France 95 39 \r\n\r\n87. CITIZEN LANGLOIS \r\nEdgardo Cozarinsky, France 95 39 \r\n\r\n88. RED ROSE, WHITE ROSE \r\nStanley Kwan, Hong Kong 95 39 \r\n\r\n89. VACAS \r\nJulio Medem, Spain 92 39 \r\n\r\n90. LIBERATORS TAKE LIBERTIES \r\nHelke Sander, Germany 92 38 \r\n\r\n91. THE LONG SILENCE \r\nMargarethe von Trotta, Italy 93 38 \r\n\r\n92. A PLACE IN THE WORLD \r\nAdolfo Aristarain, Argentina 92 38 \r\n\r\n93. SPOTTED DOG RUNNING ALONG THE SEASHORE \r\nKaren Gevorkian, USSR 90 38 \r\n\r\n94. STEP ACROSS THE BORDER \r\nNicolas Humbert & Werner Penzel, Switzerland/Germany 90 37 \r\n\r\n95. BETRAYAL \r\nRada Mihaileanu, France 94 36 \r\n\r\n96. THE DEATHMAKER \r\nRomnald Karmakar, Germany 95 36 \r\n\r\n97. FAMINE \'33 \r\nOles Yanchuk, Ukraine 92 36 \r\n\r\n98. I WANTED TO SEE ANGELS \r\nSergei Bodrov, Russia 93 36 \r\n\r\n99. THE ACTOR \r\nMohsen Makhmalbaf, Iran 93 35','fd472da6eb4c0600cda4620faadf169d',0,'','vwrfl2JZ',1,0,'',0,0,0),(7997,1575,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1208233200,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Film Comment\'s Top 150 Unreleased Foreign Language Films of the Nineties','\r\n\r\nPART THREE \r\n\r\n100. ANTIGONE \r\nStraub/Huillet, Germany 92 34 \r\n\r\nLA GUERRE SANS NOM \r\nBertrand Tavernier, France 92 34 \r\n\r\nIP5: THE ISLAND OF PACHYDERMS \r\nJean Jacques Beinix, France 92 34 \r\n\r\nLIFE ACCORDING TO AGFA \r\nAssi Dayan, Israel 92 34 \r\n\r\n104. GONIN \r\nTakeshi Ishii, Japan 95 33 \r\n\r\n105. KRISTIN LAVRANSDATTER \r\nLiv Ullman, Norway 95 32 \r\n\r\nMIDDLE OF THE MOMENT \r\nNicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel, \r\nSwitzerland 95 32 \r\n\r\n107. DEADLY MARIA \r\nTom Tykwer, Germany 95 31 \r\n\r\nJOHNNY 100 PESOS \r\nGustavo Graef Marino, Chile 93 31 \r\n\r\nMANNEKEN PIS \r\nFrank Van Passel, Belgium 94 31 \r\n\r\n110. LE FILS PREFERE \r\nNicole Garcia, France 94 30 \r\n\r\nDOWN THE DRAIN \r\nShinobu Yaguchi, Japan 93 30 \r\n\r\nQUIET DAYS IN AUGUST \r\nPantelis Voulgaris, Greece 91 30 \r\n\r\n113. AND ALL THINGS FAIR \r\nBo Widerberg, Sweden 95 29 \r\n\r\nL\'ANGE NOIR \r\nJean-Claude Brisseau, France 94 29 \r\n\r\nDIEU SAIT QUOI \r\nJean-Daniel Pollet, France 93 29 \r\n\r\n116. CARDIOGRAM \r\nDarezhan Omirbaev, Kazakhstan 95 28 \r\n\r\nEARTH/TIERRA \r\nJulio Medem, Spain 96 28 \r\n\r\n118. AMELIA LOPES O\'NEILL \r\nValeria Sarmiento, Chile/Spain/France 90 27 \r\n\r\nNARGESS \r\nRakhshan Bani-Etemad, Iran 92 27 \r\n\r\nTHE RED SQUIRREL \r\nJulio Medem, Spain 94 27 \r\n\r\nSIXTEEN OH SIXTY \r\nVinicius Mainardi, Brazil 95 27 \r\n\r\n122. AN INDEPENDENT LIFE \r\nVitali Kanevski, Russia/France 92 26 \r\n\r\nTHE RIDE \r\nJan Sverak, Czech Republic 94 26 \r\n\r\nLE ZEBRA \r\nJean Poiret, France 92 26 \r\n\r\n125. ANGEL OF FIRE \r\nDana Rotberg, Mexico 91 25 \r\n\r\nBLUSH \r\nLi Shaohong, China 94 25 \r\n\r\nTO HEAR THE BIRDS SINGING \r\nJorge Sanjinandeacutes, Bolivia 95 25 \r\n\r\n128. LA CABALE DES OURSINS \r\nLuc Moullet, France 91 24 \r\n\r\nMADAGASCAR \r\nFernando Perez, Cuba 94 24 \r\n\r\nTHE SECOND TIME \r\nMimmo Calopresti, Italy 95 24 \r\n\r\n131. LOTHRINGEN \r\nStraub/Huillet, Germany 94 23 \r\n\r\nTHE NORTHERNERS \r\nAlex Van Warmerdam, Netherlands 93 23 \r\n\r\nTHE SECRET OF THE OLD WOODS \r\nErmano Olmi, Italy 93 23 \r\n\r\nTHE SON OF GASCOGNE \r\nPascal Aubier, France 95 23 \r\n\r\n135. THE DAYS \r\nWang Xiaoshuai, China 93 21 \r\n\r\nDIEN BIEN PHU \r\nPierre Schoendorfer, France 91 21 \r\n\r\nMARKS \r\nYoichi Sai, Japan 96 21 \r\n\r\nNOBODY LOVES ME \r\nMarion Vernoux, France 94 21 \r\n\r\nONCE UPON A TIME CINEMA \r\nMohsen Makhmalbaf, Iran 91 21 \r\n\r\nSHADOW OF A DOUBT \r\nAline Issermann, France 93 21 \r\n\r\nTRAVELLERS \r\nBahram Beizai, Iran 92 21 \r\n\r\n142. THE BLUE VEILED \r\nRakhshan Bani-Etemad, Iran 95 20 \r\n\r\nFADO, MAJOR AND MINOR \r\nRaul Ruiz, France 95 20 \r\n\r\nGOLDEN BALLS \r\nBigas Luna, Spain 93 20 \r\n\r\nKING OF MASKS \r\nWu Tianming, Hong Kong/China 96 20 \r\n\r\nLANDSCAPE OF MEMORY \r\nJosé Aranjo, Brazil 96 20 \r\n\r\nROSALYNE AND THE LIONS \r\nJean-Jaques Beineix, France 90 20 \r\n\r\nSINGAPORE SLING \r\nNikos Nikolaidis, Greece 90 20 \r\n\r\nTHE SPOUSE \r\nMehdi Fakhimzadeh, Iran 94 20 \r\n\r\nTANGO \r\nPatrice Leconte, France 93 20 \r\n\r\nTROP DE BONHEUR \r\nCedric Kahn, France 94 20\r\n\r\nunder 20 points in alphabetical order:\r\n\r\nA LA VIE, A LA MORT \r\nRobert Guediguian, France 95 \r\n\r\nACCION MUTANTE \r\nAlex de la Iglesia, Spain 93 \r\n\r\nACCUMULATOR 1 \r\nJan Sverak, Czech Republic 94 \r\n\r\nALEX \r\nTeresa Villaverde, Portugal 90 \r\n\r\nAND THE MOON DANCES \r\nGarin Nugroho, Indonesia 95 \r\n\r\nANIMAL LOVE \r\nUlrich Seidl, Austria 95 \r\n\r\nANNA KARAMAZOVA \r\nRustam Khamdamov, USSR 91 \r\n\r\nL\'ANNEE JULIETTE \r\nPhilippe Le Guay, France 95 \r\n\r\nL\'ANNONCÉ FAITE À MARIE \r\nAlain Cuny, France 92 \r\n\r\nANTONIO\'S GIRLFRIEND \r\nManuel Poirier, France 92 \r\n\r\nAPPLE TREES/APFELBAUME \r\nHelma Sanders-Brahms, Germany 92 \r\n\r\nAUX PETITS BONHEURS \r\nMichel Deville, France 93 \r\n\r\nAVETIK \r\nDon Askarian, Armenia/Germany 92 \r\n\r\nTHE BILINGUAL LOVER \r\nVincente Aranda, Spain 93 \r\n\r\nBLUE NOTE \r\nAndrzej Zulawski, France/Poland/Germany 91 \r\n\r\nBOATMAN \r\nGianfranco Rosi, India 94 \r\n\r\nCRADLE SONG/CANCIONE DE CUNA \r\nJos Luis Garci, Spain 94 \r\n\r\nCAUGHT IN THE ACT \r\nRaymond Depardon, France 95 \r\n\r\nCELLULOIDE \r\nCarlo Lizzani, Italy 96 \r\n\r\nCHILD MURDERS \r\nIldiko Szabo, Hungary 93 \r\n\r\nLE CONFESSIONEL \r\nRobert Le Page, Canada 95 \r\n\r\nTHE CONJUGAL BED \r\nMircea Daneliuc, Romania 93 \r\n\r\nTHE CORRIDOR \r\nSarunas Bartas, Lithuania 95 \r\n\r\nA DANCE IN THE NIGHT \r\nAleko Tsabadze, Georgia 92 \r\n\r\nDARK AT NOON \r\nRaul Ruiz, Portugal 91 \r\n\r\nDARKNESS IN TALLINN \r\nIlkka Jarvilaturi, Finland/USA/Sweden/Estonia 93 \r\n\r\nDARTAGNAN\'S DAUGHTER \r\nBertrand Tavernier, France 94 \r\n\r\nTHE DELEGATION \r\nAlexander Galin, Italy 96 \r\n\r\nDON\'T FORGET YOU\'RE GOING TO DIE \r\nXavier Beauvois, France 95 \r\n\r\nDON\'T DIE WITHOUT TELLING ME WHERE YOU\'RE GOING \r\nEliseo Subiela, Argentina 94 \r\n\r\nDR. M \r\nClaude Chabrol, France 90 \r\n\r\nDRUMROLL \r\nSergei Ovcharov, Russia 93 \r\n\r\nDUST OF ANGELS \r\nHsu Hsia Ming, Taiwan 94 \r\n\r\nDUST OF LIFE \r\nRachid Bouchareb, France-Algeria 94 \r\n\r\nTHE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL \r\nJan Sverak, Czechoslovakia 92 \r\n\r\nELEPHANT SONG \r\nGo Riju, Japan 94 \r\n\r\nTHE ENCHANTMENT \r\nShunichi Nagasaki, Japan 90 \r\n\r\nLES EQUILIBRISTES \r\nNico Papatakis, France 91 \r\n\r\nTHE EYE OF VICHY \r\nClaude Chabrol, France 94 \r\n\r\nFLY HIGH, RUN FAR \r\nIm Kwon-taek, South Korea 91 \r\n\r\nFORGET ME \r\nNoemie Lvosky, France 95 \r\n\r\nFOURBI \r\nAlain Tanner, Switzerland 96 \r\n\r\nTHE GARDEN \r\nMartin Sulik, Slovak Republic 95 \r\n\r\nTHE GOLDEN GATE \r\nJurgen Reble, Germany 92 \r\n\r\nGUILT AND REMEMBRANCE \r\nEgon Humer, Austria 92 \r\n\r\nHAMOON \r\nPariush Mehrjni, Iran 90 \r\n\r\nHAPPY BIRTHDAY TURKE \r\nDoris Dorrie, Germany 91 \r\n\r\nHARAMUYA \r\nDrissa Touré, Burkino Faso/France 95 \r\n\r\nHEY YOU WILD GEESE \r\nLydia Bobrova, Russia 91 \r\n\r\nHOMEWORK \r\nJaime Hermosillo, Mexico 90 \r\n\r\nI HIRED A CONTRACT KILLER \r\nAki Kaurismaki, Finland 90 \r\n\r\nTHE INHERITANCE \r\nVera Chytilova, Czechoslovakia 93 \r\n\r\nTHE DIARY OF LADY M. \r\nAlain Tanner, Switzerland/Belgium 93 \r\n\r\nTHE JOURNEY aka THE VOYAGE \r\nFernando Solanas, Argentina 91 \r\n\r\nJUMP INTO THE VOID \r\nDaniel Calparsoro, Spain 95 \r\n\r\nKIKUCHI \r\nKenchi Iwamoto, Japan 90 \r\n\r\nLABYRINTH \r\nJaromil Jives, Germany 92 \r\n\r\nLANGER GANG aka PASSAGES \r\nYilmaz Arslan, Germany 92 \r\n\r\nTHE LAST DAYS OF IMMANUEL KANT \r\nPhilippe Collin, France 92 \r\n\r\nLATINO BAR \r\nPaul Leduc, Mexico 1991 \r\n\r\nLEA \r\nIvan Fila, Germany 96 \r\n\r\nLIBERA ME \r\nAlain Cavalier, France 93 \r\n\r\nTHE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE HOLLYWOOD KID \r\nJung Ji-Young, South Korea 94 \r\n\r\nA LIGHT SENSITIVE STORY \r\nPal Erdoss, Hungary 93 \r\n\r\nLOVE IN THE TIME OF HYSTERIA \r\nAlfonso Cuaron, Mexico 92 \r\n\r\nLOVE \r\nValeri Todorovsky, USSR 92 \r\n\r\nLA MADRE MUERTA/THE DEAD MOTHER \r\nJuanma Bajo Ulloa, Spain 93 \r\n\r\nTHE MAN WHO READS MUSIC FROM THE PLATES \r\nJan Jakub Kolski, Poland/France 95 \r\n\r\nMAN OF THE STORY \r\nAdoor Gopalakrishnan, India 96 \r\n\r\nMARIE\'S SONG: I WAS I KNOW NOT WHERE \r\nNiko Brucher, Germany 94 \r\n\r\nMEN OF THE PORT \r\nAlain Tanner, Switzerland 95 \r\n\r\nMETAL and MELANCOLIA \r\nHeddy Honigmann, Netherlands 94 \r\n\r\nTHE MOST TERRIBLE TIME IN MY LIFE \r\nKaizo Hayashi, Japan 94 \r\n\r\nMY MOTHER\'S COURAGE \r\nMichael Verhoeven, Germany 96 \r\n\r\nNIGHT OF THE FILMMAKERS \r\nEdgar Reitz, Germany 95 \r\n\r\nNO LIFE KING \r\nJun Ichikawa, Japan 90 \r\n\r\nNUIT D\'ÉTÉ EN VILLE \r\nMichel Deville, France 90 \r\n\r\nONCE MORE \r\nPaul Vecchiali, France 90 \r\n\r\nONO \r\nSerghei Ovtcharov, USSR 90 \r\n\r\nPARI \r\nDaryush Mehrjui, Iran 95 \r\n\r\nPARPAILLON \r\nLuc Moullet, France 92 \r\n\r\nTHE PATRIOTS \r\nEric Rochant, France 94 \r\n\r\nPEACEFUL AIR OF THE WEST \r\nSilvio Soldini, Italy 90 \r\n\r\nPUSHER \r\nNikolas Winding Refin, Denmark 96 \r\n\r\nTHE ROAD TO EDEN \r\nRobert Peso, Austria 95 \r\n\r\nRED DAWN/ROJO AMANACER \r\nJorge Fons, Mexico 90 \r\n\r\nSARA \r\nDariush Mehrjui, Iran 93 \r\n\r\nSATURDAY, SUNDAY, MONDAY \r\nLina Wertmueller, Italy 90 \r\n\r\nSEVILLANAS \r\nCarlos Saura, Spain 92 \r\n\r\nTHE SEXUAL LIFE OF THE BELGIANS \r\nJan Bucquoy, Belgium 93 \r\n\r\nSHADOW ON THE SNOW \r\nAttila Janisch, Hungary 91 \r\n\r\nTHE SILENCE OF NETO \r\nLuis Argueta, Guatemala 94 \r\n\r\nSIX DAYS, SIX NIGHTS \r\nDiane Kurys, France 94 \r\n\r\nTHE SMILE \r\nClaude Miller, France 95 \r\n\r\nTHE SNAIL\'S STRATEGY \r\nSergio Cabrera, Colombia 94 \r\n\r\nSONS \r\nZhang Yuan, China 95 \r\n\r\nTHE SQUARE CIRCLE \r\nAmol Palekar, India 96 \r\n\r\nSTELLA POLARIS \r\nKnut Erik Jensen, Norway 93 \r\n\r\nSTING OF DEATH \r\nKohei Oguri, Japan 90 \r\n\r\nA SUMMER IN LA GOULETTE \r\nFerid Boughedir, Tunisia/France/Belgium 96 \r\n\r\nTHE TIT AND THE MOON \r\nBigas Luna, Spain \r\n\r\nTO THE STARRY ISLE \r\nPark Kwang-Su, South Korea 94 \r\n\r\nTO YOU, FROM ME \r\nJang Sun-woo, South Korea 94 \r\n\r\nTRAUM, WAS SONST, EIN?, \r\nHans Jurgen Syberberg, Germany 94 \r\n\r\nTSAHAL \r\nClaude Lanzmann, Israel 94 \r\n\r\nTWILIGHT \r\nGyorgy Fehér, Hungary 90 \r\n\r\nVASKA EASOFF \r\nPéter Gothar, Hungary 96 \r\n\r\nVIRGINA \r\nSrdjun Karovic, Yugoslavia 91 \r\n\r\nVIVA CASTRO! \r\nBoris Frumin, Russia 93 \r\n\r\nWHEN THE STARS MEET THE SEA \r\nRaymond Rajaonarivelo, France/Madagascar 96 \r\n\r\nWILD TARGET \r\nPierre Salvatore, France 93 \r\n\r\nWIZARD OF DARKNESS \r\nShinako Sato, Japan 95 \r\n\r\nTHE WOMEN ON THE ROOF \r\nCarl-Gustav Nykvist, Sweden 90 \r\n\r\nWORK ON THE GRASS \r\nTetsuo Shinoharu, Japan 94 \r\n\r\nTHE WORLD OF JAQUES DEMY \r\nAgnes Varda, France 95 \r\n\r\nTHE WRITTEN FACE \r\nDaniel Schmid, Japan/Switzerland 95 \r\n\r\nYOUCEF, OR THE LEGEND OF THE SEVENTH SLEEPER \r\nMohamed Chouikh, Algeria 93','8f1c0d7ca35d3e6b9f74318ca67cfdc8',0,'','LebGnRMl',1,0,'',0,0,0),(7998,1575,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1208246160,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Film Comment\'s Top 150 Unreleased Foreign Language Films of the Nineties','Surprised to see Bullet in the Head above A Brighter Summer Day, I was remarkably impressed with Woo\'s film but in terms of historical importance Yang\'s film seems to have received much more international praise. It still angers me even after his death that no one has been \"brave\" enough to release Yang\'s work stateside. I\'m told his films aren\'t even considered commercially viable in Taiwan, which is a shame because he\'s still a director I\'m largely relying on reputation for.','cd147d9edf4525eeefa561fce47cbe62',0,'','H04iATNp',1,0,'',0,0,0),(7999,1575,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1208308740,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Film Comment\'s Top 150 Unreleased Foreign Language Films of the Nineties','It\'s safe to say that some of the films finished higher because more contributors had seen them. But, overall, I\'d say the Top 50 is relatively strong. Yes, it\'s certainly a shame when it comes to Yang and the availability of his films. A Brighter Summer Day isn\'t merely being neglected here. I believe Histoire(s) didn\'t make the cut because it\'s video, and Sátántangó was part of Cinema Parallel\'s slate.','d724e6c1978b25d741bba1e4a2cc9577',0,'','PdBZYeA2',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8000,1575,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1208312640,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Film Comment\'s Top 150 Unreleased Foreign Language Films of the Nineties','It\'s a unique ranking and is somewhat frustrating because a great many of those films still are OOP.','cc7b9427828591384838e174ecb04090',0,'','WEv9SgcN',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8001,1575,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1208314620,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Film Comment\'s Top 150 Unreleased Foreign Language Films of the Nineties','For the most part, we already know which of these films are available, but perhaps we could make a list of them in the future. \r\n\r\nBtw, Facets may finally release Sátántangó in July.','a9bf2aacbc2b29633673db5a73374484',0,'','bv6mRZ3L',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8002,1575,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1208324940,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Film Comment\'s Top 150 Unreleased Foreign Language Films of the Nineties','God they still haven\'t released it? I stopped caring a long time ago.','4b6e9c1702fa29a3c98eb951c50b7a7d',0,'','rjHKiSm6',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8003,1575,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1208331660,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Film Comment\'s Top 150 Unreleased Foreign Language Films of the Nineties','One of the extra features is said to be Tarr\'s television effort Macbeth!','91bc3a302e2540013b0c51a889b9f0fc',0,'','H94xlNsa',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8004,1575,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1208340900,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Film Comment\'s Top 150 Unreleased Foreign Language Films of the Nineties','If that is the case, then I might be interested. Not like my DVD is flawless, I just wonder how often I\'m going to watch a 7 1/2 hour film.','d8c829bf49f851c856797d4d1d3f4c97',0,'','R2wulhkp',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8005,1575,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1208577780,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Film Comment\'s Top 150 Unreleased Foreign Language Films of the Nineties','Facets: \r\n\r\n\"4-DVD set. Fully Restored, Director-Approved Edition. Letterboxed. Includes Macbeth (1982, 64 mins.), Tarr\'s rarely seen interpretation of Shakespeare\'s tragedy famously captured in two shots; Journey on the Plain (1995, 34 mins.), in which actor-composer Mihaly Vig revisits the Satantango locations; Prologue (2004, 5 mins.), the director\'s stunning contribution to the omnibus Visions of Europe; About the Restoration (5 mins.); and a Facets Cine-Notes booklet with essays by prominent film critics. Available on 07/22/2008.\"','e677dc974555e9ce035d64efce0698cd',0,'','K8VMleR3',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8006,1575,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1208579220,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Film Comment\'s Top 150 Unreleased Foreign Language Films of the Nineties','Well lets hope it actually does get released. Macbeth is probably worth it. Any news on Man From London getting distributed here?','8cd10cad7d038b7fa087e3a45408d25c',0,'','GYPx9r3l',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8007,1575,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1208581980,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Film Comment\'s Top 150 Unreleased Foreign Language Films of the Nineties','Nope, nothing yet. Will keep everyone up-to-date.','8979305565b8250122adc96036243afd',0,'','9N1od4lV',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8008,1576,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1208468580,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','The Guardian 10 Defining Films of the Decade','Stumbled upon this list today, not so much the best films just the top ten that seem the most important or relevant in the long haul. The list is chronological btw. \r\n\r\n1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) \r\n2. City of God (2002) \r\n3. Lost in Translation (2003) \r\n4. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) \r\n5. Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) \r\n6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) \r\n7. Brokeback Mountain (2005) \r\n8. Caché (2005) \r\n9. Borat (2006) \r\n10. There Will Be Blood (2008)','12422e7cf348e402960bd9698eb66b32',0,'','sJmRtWcq',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8009,1576,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1208983020,1,0,1,1,1,1,'jcdavies','Re: The Guardian 10 Defining Films of the Decade','Well, Fahrenheit 9/11 didn\'t seem to have much impact on the US election. And of course Crouching Tiger was very indebted to Touch of Zen, so perhaps that should be included in the list?','620c1dbb558d498c7c48bbf139ff62e7',0,'','pRawv3k9',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8010,1576,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1209004560,1,0,1,1,1,1,'justindeimen','Re: The Guardian 10 Defining Films of the Decade','What a strange timing for this list. It\'s not even the end of the decade yet. And including \"There Will Be Blood\" doesn\'t make much sense to me as it\'s impact can only be apparent with the benefit of time, a couple of years at the least. \r\n\r\nAnd personally, would have swapped \"Fahrenheit 9/11\" with \"Bowling for Columbine\".','80c898672a708a3b9e7bb0633b10fe42',0,'','W6zbD0je',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8011,1576,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1209017460,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Guardian 10 Defining Films of the Decade','Fahrenheit made a much bigger impact though and made about 5 times as much at the box office, which would make it worthy in terms of making documentaries commercial films rather than impacting a presidential race, if that was the criteria used. I\'ve noticed that there seems to be a No Country or TWBB split. Most people seem to passionately love one and are either indifferent or outright dislike the other.','bc06a7e03853d987f02e0eb8cf234a51',0,'','1drP3AVH',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8012,1576,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1209039600,1,0,1,1,1,1,'justindeimen','Re: The Guardian 10 Defining Films of the Decade','Yes, \"Fahrenheit 9/11\" was successful. But that\'s why I think \"Bowling for Columbine\" should be included in its place because there\'s a case to be made that Fahrenheit\'s success can be attributed to Moore\'s previous documentary, by laying the groundwork, if you will.','0c6091a06f07f88745e48b3df3ab16fc',0,'','4pHgNjL1',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8013,1576,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1209162660,1,0,1,1,1,1,'jcdavies','Re: The Guardian 10 Defining Films of the Decade','It was a pity in Fahrenheit 9/11 Moore went off on a tangent in the last 1/3, about working classes in the US armed forces, and he would have done better to keep a lower profile as his smart alec manner is counter-productive; the issues of what happened or more pertinently didn\'t happen on 9/11 deserved to remain the focus of attention','699e80f5112dbbafc9a9fdf2fa14fda4',0,'','uRLjekYb',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8014,1577,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1208469060,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Top 50 Films of the Last 5 Decades','The top 50\r\n\r\nPhilip French\'s pick of the top 50 films from the past five decades \r\n\r\nSunday April 13, 2008 \r\nThe Observer \r\n\r\n1960s \r\n\r\nPsycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) \r\nThe Master pushes the envelope. \r\n\r\nLa Dolce vita (Federico Fellini, 1960) \r\nFantastic satire succeeds neo-realism. \r\n\r\nL\'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni. 1960) \r\nCan the cinema achieve the subtlety of a novel by James or Fitzgerald? \r\n\r\nWinter Light (Ingmar Bergman, 1962) \r\nThe central film of a trilogy on 20th-century faith and doubt. \r\n\r\nJules et Jim (François Truffaut, 1962) \r\nThe French New Wave becomes a tidal movement. \r\n\r\nLawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962) \r\nThe epic reaches epic heights. \r\n\r\n\r\nThe Servant (Joseph Losey, 1963) \r\n\r\nThe American exile Losey, the emerging playwright Pinter and the ambivalent actor Bogarde interrogate the new Britain. \r\n\r\nBonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967) \r\nThe Zeitgeist as gangster film. \r\n\r\n2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) \r\nA quantum leap for science fiction by the most revolutionary figure to settle here since Karl Marx. \r\n\r\nThe Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969) \r\nA great western, an allegory about Vietnam, it raised the ante on screen violence like no other film. \r\n\r\n1970s \r\n\r\nFive Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson, 1970) \r\nJack Nicholson in a great road movie. \r\n\r\nPerformance (Nicolas Roeg, Donald Cammell, 1970) \r\nMorally ambiguous film about changing Britain. \r\n\r\nSolaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972) \r\nComplex response to 2001: A Space Odyssey. \r\n\r\nO Lucky Man! (Lindsay Anderson, 1973) \r\nThe begetter of the British New Wave indicts a decadent Britain. \r\n\r\nPicnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975) \r\nAustralian cinema establishes itself on the world scene. \r\n\r\nAlice in the Cities (Wim Wenders, 1974) \r\nRaw harbinger of new German cinema. \r\n\r\nJaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975) \r\nA shark, a shock and a new way of launching films changed the filmgoing experience forever. \r\n\r\nAnnie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977) \r\nThe disciple of Bob Hope and Ingmar Bergman invents the relationship movie. \r\n\r\nApocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) \r\nThe most overwhelming film to emerge from Vietnam. \r\n\r\nThe Tin Drum (Volker Schlöndorff, 1979) \r\nAdept adaptation of magic-realist novel. \r\n\r\n1980s \r\n\r\nRaging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980) \r\nThe peak of Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro\'s partnership. \r\n\r\nAngel (Neil Jordan, 1982) \r\nAstonishing debut thriller, its background the Northern Ireland troubles. \r\n\r\nGandhi (Richard Attenborough, 1982) \r\nBen Kingsley is indelible in a film that realised a dream of one of British cinema\'s greatest figures. \r\n\r\nRan (Akira Kurosawa, 1985) \r\nLear in Japan, an old master\'s last masterpiece. \r\n\r\nMy Beautiful Laundrette (Stephen Frears, 1985) \r\nOne of the best Thatcher\'s Britain movies. \r\n\r\nBlue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986) \r\nAfter The Elephant Man, and the overblown science fiction film Dune, Lynch amazed us with this surreal masterpiece. \r\n\r\nThe Mission (Roland Joffé, 1986) \r\nThoughtful British epic and Palme d\'Or winner with an unforgettable Ennio Morricone score. \r\n\r\nHope and Glory (John Boorman, 1987) \r\nOne of the greatest British directors revisits his World War Two childhood. \r\n\r\nAu revoir les enfants (Louis Malle, 1987) \r\nMalle finally confronts his childhood experiences in Nazi-occupied France. \r\n\r\nWhere is My Friend\'s House? (Abbas Kiarostami, 1987) \r\nThe Iranian cinema arrives in challenging and uncompromising form. \r\n\r\n1990s \r\n\r\nThe Player (Robert Altman, 1992) \r\nOne of the best Hollywood-on-Hollywood movies. \r\n\r\nThe Long Day Closes (Terence Davies, 1992) \r\nA delicate memoir of working-class life by one of our subtlest film-makers. \r\n\r\nFarewell My Concubine (Chen Kaige, 1993) \r\nThe new Chinese cinema at its most exquisite. \r\n\r\nThe Remains of the Day (James Ivory, 1993) \r\nThe Merchant-Ivory-Jhabvala team at their most searching. \r\n\r\nPulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994) \r\nA landmark in popular, personal post-modernist cinema. \r\n\r\nThe Bandit Queen (Shekhar Kapoor, 1994) \r\nPeckinpah meets Satyajit Ray in the best Indian film of the decade. \r\n\r\nLand and Freedom (Ken Loach, 1995) \r\nThe Spanish Civil War finds its perfect director. \r\n\r\nSecrets & Lies (Mike Leigh, 1996) \r\nOne of the finest portraits of family life. \r\n\r\nHeat (Michael Mann, 1995) \r\nA great stylist comes into his own. \r\n\r\nAll About My Mother (Pedro Almodóvar, 1999) \r\nThe last masterpiece of the century. \r\n\r\n2000s \r\n\r\nMemento (Christopher Nolan, 2000) \r\nThe first major talent to emerge this century. \r\n\r\nHidden (Michael Haneke, 2005) \r\nA film that jangled nerves and provoked discussion everywhere. \r\n\r\nBrokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005) \r\nA crucial contribution to the renewal of the western that began with Dances With Wolves. \r\n\r\nThe Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006) \r\nThe most important German film since reunification. \r\n\r\nFlags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood, 2006) \r\nA stunning diptych about World War Two from the Hollywood veteran. \r\n\r\nBamako (Abderrahmane Sissako, 2006) \r\nThe cleverest and most sophisticated film yet to come out of Africa. \r\n\r\nNo Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2007) \r\nThe poised fraternal ironists excel themselves. \r\n\r\nThere Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007) \r\nTragic epic with a towering performance from Daniel Day-Lewis. \r\n\r\nRatatouille (Brad Bird/Jan Pinkava, 2007) \r\nA 20-year sierra of fine feature-length cartoons reaches its Mont Blanc.','99cc76338d46148e431d96c5f121fe4b',0,'','eF2uDHYU',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8015,1577,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1208485140,1,0,1,1,1,1,'justindeimen','Re: Top 50 Films of the Last 5 Decades','Really? Nothing between 2001-2004? I can think of a Lynch film and even a South Korean crimer that could have fit in there.','430ffbdc515d7b067a005b2a320dd27a',0,'','1Coyl5xf',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8016,1577,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1208487540,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Top 50 Films of the Last 5 Decades','My thoughts exactly with Mulholland Drive, or even Eternal Sunshine, but this isn\'t my list. I\'ve been a fan of Phillip French\'s writing for awhile so I found it interesting and there are a few surprises. Of course this list was made for a UK publication so I\'m not surprised by some \"homegrown\" films. Would anyone be willing to join me in an endeavor to make our own list(s)?','9c688d1f801cc971616bb230bb5eebc8',0,'','DWlh9NnR',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8017,1577,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1208984340,1,0,1,1,1,1,'jcdavies','Re: Top 50 Films of the Last 5 Decades','Philip French is a very knowledgeable unpretentious critic. \r\n\r\nMy alternatives: \r\n\r\nAndrei Rublev \r\n2001: A Space Odyssey \r\nThe Colour of Pomegranates \r\nL\'Avventura \r\n8 1/2 \r\nPierrot le Fou \r\nPersona \r\nMy Night with Maud \r\nDr Strangelove \r\nLawrence of Arabia \r\n\r\nMirror \r\nAlice in the Cities \r\nCeline and Julie go Boating \r\nTale of Tales \r\nSpirit of the Beehive \r\nStalker \r\nKings of the Road \r\nApocalypse Now \r\nClaire\'s Knee \r\nManhattan \r\n\r\nThe Green Ray \r\nParis Texas \r\nRaging Bull \r\nStreet of Crocodiles \r\nBrazil \r\nOnce upon a Time in America \r\nBlue Velvet \r\nRed Sorghum \r\nNight of the Shooting Stars \r\n\r\nMaborosi \r\nAbraham Valley \r\nEternity and a Day \r\nThe Double Life of Veronique \r\nUlysses\' Gaze \r\nRosetta \r\nChungking Express \r\nFlatworld \r\nClose Up \r\nThe Sheltering Sky \r\n\r\nMulholland Dr \r\nCrouching Tiger Hidden Dragon \r\nWerckmeister Harmonies \r\nInnocence \r\nThe Piano Tuner of Earthquakes \r\nSilent Light \r\nThe Return \r\nThe New World \r\nThe Wayward Cloud \r\nDogville \r\n\r\nimo there are as many good films as ever, from a range of countries, but less truly great masterpieces in recent year.','d663928b481c620ad751866869491589',0,'','7Vn09Uyr',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8018,1577,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1208988480,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Top 50 Films of the Last 5 Decades','I\'m unfamiliar with Flatworld, care to offer a few details about it?','32df9cb5e5fd4ea0c349be7c38a3ceb2',0,'','sjUfruWA',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8019,1577,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1208994060,1,0,1,1,1,1,'jcdavies','Re: Top 50 Films of the Last 5 Decades','Ah ha, i came across it at youtube- it\'s a British animated film, only about 30 mins, from 1997. Just good fun, playing on previous animation conventions, and the main characters are...flat.','74d6d0503d166894bc22f5e7345dc093',0,'','SchnsYPB',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8020,1577,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1209024180,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Top 50 Films of the Last 5 Decades','La Dolce Vita \r\nPsycho \r\nLawrence of Arabia \r\nThe Manchurian Candidate \r\nThe Exterminating Angel \r\n8 ½ \r\nFistful of Dollars/For a Few Dollars More/The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly \r\nAu Hasard Balthazar \r\nWeekend \r\n2001 A Space Odyssey \r\nTeorema \r\n\r\nHusbands \r\nThe Conformist \r\nA Clockwork Orange \r\nJohnny Got His Gun \r\nThe Godfather/Godfather II \r\nThe Mother and the #%%%* \r\nMonty Python and the Holy Grail \r\nChinatown \r\nRocky \r\nStar Wars \r\nAnnie Hall \r\nQuadrophenia \r\nApocalypse Now \r\nAll that Jazz \r\n\r\nOrdinary People \r\nRaging Bull \r\nBerlin Alexanderplatz \r\nAirplane \r\nThe Shining \r\nSans Soleil \r\nBlue Velvet \r\nPredator \r\nLandscape in the Mist \r\nMajor League \r\n\r\nGoodfellas \r\nMalcolm X \r\nSchindler\'s List \r\n71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance \r\nPulp Fiction \r\nTo Live \r\nNatural Born Killers \r\nBefore Sunrise \r\nLA Confidential \r\nFight Club \r\nMagnolia \r\n\r\nMulholland Drive \r\nCity of God \r\nThe Incredibles \r\nEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind \r\n\r\nI know I cheated on a few selections (as I always do) and there are a few films I definitely need to revisit which is why I left certain films off. These are all candidates for my overall 100, and about 40 of these are definite locks. Overall most decades were fairly balanced with the obvious exclusion of the 2000\'s partially because the decade is still in progress and I feel apprehensive about rating the films of today against the already established classics because all too often I\'ve found a newer film to fall a little when I get a chance to view it again.','387c34b36029625fa3dde36b4980fbc5',0,'','xnR4UFs3',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8021,1577,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1212128760,1,0,1,1,1,1,'A','Re: Top 50 Films of the Last 5 Decades','I\'m a bit in a list-mood, so here are my selections: \r\n\r\n1960s \r\n\r\nLa Jetée \"The Pier\" (Chris Marker / France / 1962) \r\nLe Mépris \"Contempt\" (Jean-Luc Godard / France / 1963) \r\nSuna no onna \"Woman in the Dunes\" (Hiroshi Teshigahara / Japan / 1964)\r\nDeus E o Diabo na Terra do Sol \"Black God, White Devil\" (Glauber Rocha / Brazil / 1964) \r\nAndrei Rublyov \"Andrei Rublev\" (Andrei Tarkovski / Soviet Union / 1966) \r\nBonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn / USA / 1967) \r\nCsillagosok, katonak \"The Red and The White\" (Miklos Jancso / Hungary, Soviet Union / 1967) \r\n2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick / USA, UK / 1968) \r\nGoto, l\'île d\'amour \"Goto, Island of Love\" (Walerian Borowczyck / France / 1968) \r\nSayat Nova \"The Color of Pomgranates\" (Sergej Paradjanov / Soviet Union / 1968) \r\n\r\n1970s \r\n\r\nIko shashvi mgalobeli \"Lived Once a Song-Thrush\" (Otar Iosseliani / Soviet Union / 1970) \r\nTokyo senso sengo hiwa \"The Man Who Left His Will on Film\" (Nagisa Oshima / Japan / 1970) \r\nZabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni / USA / 1970) \r\nLa maman et la putain \"The Mother and the %%%$$\" (Jean Eustache / France / 1973) \r\nMes petites amoureuses (Jean Eustache / France / 1974) \r\nBarry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick / UK / 1975) \r\nDzieje grzechu \"Story of a Sin\" (Walerian Borowczyk / Poland / 1975) \r\nÖrökbefogadás \"Adoption\" (Márta Mészáros / Hungary / 1975) \r\n1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci / Italy, France, West Germany / 1976) \r\nSuspiria (Dario Argento / Italy / 1977) \r\n\r\n1980s \r\n\r\nPossession (Andrzej Zulawski / France, West Germany / 1981) \r\nMoonlighting (Jerzy Skolimowski / UK / 1982) \r\nSans soleil \"Sunless\" (Chris Marker / France / 1982) \r\nKlassenverhältnisse \"Class Relations\" (Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub / West Germany, France / 1984) \r\nLa pirate \"The Pirate\" (Jacques Doillon / France / 1984) \r\nTenshi no tamago \"Angel\'s Egg\" (Mamoru Oshii / Japan / 1985) \r\nRan (Akira Kurosawa / Japan, France / 1985) \r\nOffret \"The Sacrifice\" (Andrei Tarkovsky / Sweden, UK, France / 1986) \r\nHotaru no haka \"Grave of the Fireflies\" (Isao Takahata / Japan / 1988) \r\nMajo no takkyûbin \"Kiki\'s Delivery Service\" (Hayao Miyazaki / Japan / 1989) \r\n\r\n1990s \r\n\r\nNema-ye Nazdik \"Close Up\" (Abbas Kiarostami / Iran / 1990) \r\nTrys dienos \"Three Days\" (Sharunas Bartas / Soviet Union / 1991) \r\nGroundhog Day (Harold Ramis / USA / 1993) \r\nTikhiye stranitsy \"Whispering Pages\" (Alexander Sokurov / Russia, Germany / 1993) \r\nHaonan haonu \"Good Men, Good Women\" (Hsiao-hsien Hou / Taiwan, Japan / 1995) \r\nHeat (Michael Mann / USA / 1995) \r\nMoe no Suzaku \"Suzaku\" (Naomi Kawase / Japan / 1996) \r\nThe Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick / USA, Canada / 1998) \r\nWandâfuru raifu \"After Life\" (Hirokazu Koreeda / Japan / 1998) \r\nPola X (Les Carax / France, Switzerland, Germany, Japan / 1999) \r\n\r\n2000s \r\n\r\nEureka (Shinji Aoyama / Japan / 2000) \r\nZhantai \"Platform\" (Zhang Ke Jia / China, Hong Kong, Japan, France / 2000) \r\nBungalow (Ulrich Köhler / Germany / 2002) \r\nKôfuku no kane \"Blessing Bell\" (Sabu / Japan / 2002) \r\nThe Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo / USA, Japan, France / 2003) \r\nMarseille (Angela Schanelec / Germany / 2004) \r\nSud pralad \"Tropical Malady\" (Apichatpong Weerasethakul / Thailand, France, Germany, Italy / 2004) \r\nAu-delà de la haine \"Beyond Hatred\" (Olivier Meyrou / France / 2005) \r\nBatalla en el cielo \"Battle in Heaven\" (Carlos Reygadas / Mexico, Belgium France, Germany / 2005) \r\ncouldn\'t decide for a no.10 - too many contenders...','f8a81885a5a9890bfffb2072119ba934',0,'','XMBKhU2z',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8022,1578,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1211783460,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Ankara Cinema Association\'s 10 Best Turkish Films','\r\nThe Ten Best Turkish Films were determined by a poll by the prestigious Ankara Cinema Association, starting with the 1964 production, Dry Summer by Metin Erksan, and leading up to Nuri Bilge Ceylan\'s award-winning 2003 release, Distant. \r\n\r\nDry Summer (Susuz yaz/1964) - Metin Erksan \r\n\r\nHope (Umut/1970) - Yilmaz Guney \r\n\r\nThe Bride (Gelin/1973) - Omer Lutfi Akad \r\n\r\nThe Girl with the Red Scarf (Selvi boylum, al yazmalim/1977) - Atif Yilmaz \r\n\r\nThe Herd (Sürü/1979) - Zeki Okten \r\n\r\nThe Road (Yol/1982) - Serif Goren \r\n\r\nMotherland Hotel (Anayurt Oteli/1986) - Omer Kavur \r\n\r\nMr. Muhsin (Muhsin Bey/1987) - Yavuz Turgul \r\n\r\nInnocence (Masumiyet/1997) - Zeki Demirkubuz \r\n\r\nDistant (Uzak/2003) - Nuri Bilge Ceylan','f1156bf3723f651c504f958e8a368b39',0,'','rwMfYSFe',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8023,1578,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1213138800,1,0,1,1,1,1,'jcdavies','Re: Ankara Cinema Association\'s 10 Best Turkish Films','Thanks for that- very interesting. Most i\'ve not seen, but if memory serves, The Girl with the Red Scarf is in the top 50 imdb drama films now, so should be worth a look (if available).','7f833e0437d833c7d1d968930622ee78',0,'','P1gXrbQL',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8024,1578,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1213154640,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Ankara Cinema Association\'s 10 Best Turkish Films','imdb rankings are useless but this list is worth noting.','3658293f0af4bc2001ce53140dc07547',0,'','b2kSnjJd',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8025,1579,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1212816060,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Moving Image Source','Found this new website that apparently was organized by Dennis Lim for critical writing, research resources, and general film things. It\'s fairly new so there isn\'t a tremendous amount of content on it yet. \r\n\r\nhttp://www.movingimagesource.us/','b533c2b90e88b231d7830e4a9bd54857',0,'','nr2vFWzJ',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8026,1580,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1214728320,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Paul Schrader\'s Film Canon (2006)','\r\nGold \r\n\r\n1. The Rules of the Game (1939, Jean Renoir) \r\n\r\n2. Tokyo Story (1953, Yasujiro Ozu) \r\n\r\n3. City Lights (1931, Charles Chaplin) \r\n\r\n4. Pickpocket (1959, Robert Bresson) \r\n\r\n5. Metropolis (1927, Fritz Lang) \r\n\r\n6. Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles) \r\n\r\n7. Orphée (1950, Jean Cocteau) \r\n\r\n8. Masculin-Feminin (1966, Jean-Luc Godard) \r\n\r\n9. Persona (1966, Ingmar Bergman) \r\n\r\n10. Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock) \r\n\r\n11. Sunrise (1927, F.W. Murnau) \r\n\r\n12. The Searchers (1956, John Ford) \r\n\r\n13. The Lady Eve (1941, Preston Sturges) \r\n\r\n14. The Conformist (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci) \r\n\r\n15. 8 ½ (1963, Federico Fellini) \r\n\r\n16. The Godfather (1972, Francis Ford Coppola) \r\n\r\n17. In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong Kar-wai) \r\n\r\n18. The Third Man (1949, Carol Reed) \r\n\r\n19. Performance (1970, Donald Cammell/Nicholas Roeg) \r\n\r\n20. La Notte (1961, Michelangelo Antonioni) \r\n\r\nSilver \r\n\r\n21. Mother and Son (1997, Alexander Sokurov) \r\n22. The Leopard (1963, Luchino Visconti) \r\n23. The Dead (1987, John Huston) \r\n24. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick) \r\n25. Last Year at Marienbad (1961, Alain Resnais) \r\n26. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928, Carl Theodor Dreyer) \r\n27. Jules and Jim (1961, Francois Truffaut) \r\n28. The Wild Bunch (1969, Sam Peckinpah) \r\n29. All That Jazz (1979, Bob Fosse) \r\n30. The Life of Oharu (1952, Kenji Mizoguchi) \r\n31. High and Low (1963, Akira Kurosawa) \r\n32. Sweet Smell of Success (1957, Alexander Mackendrick) \r\n33. That Obscure Object of Desire (1977, Luis Bunuel) \r\n34. An American in Paris (1951, Vincente Minnelli) \r\n35. The Battle of Algiers (1966, Gillo Pontecorvo) \r\n36. Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese) \r\n37. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974, Rainer Werner Fassbinder) \r\n38. Blue Velvet (1986, David Lynch) \r\n39. Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989, Woody Allen) \r\n40. The Big Lebowski (1998, Joel Coen) \r\n\r\nBronze \r\n\r\n41. The Red Shoes (1948, Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger) \r\n42. Singin\' in the Rain (1952, Stanley Donen) \r\n43. Chinatown (1974, Roman Polanski) \r\n44. The Crowd (1928, King Vidor) \r\n45. Sunset Boulevard (1950, Billy Wilder) \r\n46. Talk to Her (2002, Pedro Almodovar) \r\n47. Shanghai Express (1932, Josef von Sternberg) \r\n48. Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948, Max Ophuls) \r\n49. Once Upon a Time in the West (1969, Sergio Leone) \r\n50. Salvatore Giuliano (1962, Francesco Rosi) \r\n51. Nostalghia (1983, Andrei Tarkovsky) \r\n52. Seven Men from Now (1956, Budd Boetticher) \r\n53. Claire\'s Knee (1970, Eric Rohmer) \r\n54. Earth (1930, Alexander Dovzhenko) \r\n55. Gun Crazy (1949, Joseph H. Lewis) \r\n56. Out of the Past (1947, Jacques Tourneur) \r\n57. Children of Paradise (1945, Marcel Carne) \r\n58. The Naked Spur (1953, Anthony Mann) \r\n59. A Place in the Sun (1951, George Stevens) \r\n60. The General (1927, Buster Keaton)','df5a0fecb06d60a30a1fcb8d04ec4d0d',0,'','RzoTcFfi',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8027,1580,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1214734560,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Paul Schrader\'s Film Canon (2006)','Interesting ranking and 60 seems a very arbitrary number, Taxi Driver is the only film I object to and that\'s for obvious reasons not relating to the film\'s quality.','a1240e9f0f8484f31beffd0229b79839',0,'','49QjZqdh',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8028,1580,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1215068760,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Paul Schrader\'s Film Canon (2006)','Arbitrary, indeed. And so was Mr. Schrader\'s decision to exclude documentary and avant-garde films, and ultimately limit his selection to one film per director -- somewhat self-defeating, especially in the latter case since he\'d so brilliantly set forth his criterions for the films in the accompanying piece (lamentably not available online in its entirety at this point). \r\n\r\nYour objection is understandable, but I think enough time had passed for him to reflect back without any major biases (something like this can\'t really be proven one way or the other). In any case, he hasn\'t officially worked with Scorsese since 1999\'s Bringing Out the Dead.','6bec587637be8d62725b4ac0f10155cd',0,'','UbrsMch0',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8029,1580,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1215105900,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Paul Schrader\'s Film Canon (2006)','Still if he was picking one film per director there are plenty better Scorsese films than Taxi Driver imo','e91f941a5150266b16b5e0f75e760bea',0,'','9uyXErxM',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8030,1580,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1215135000,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Paul Schrader\'s Film Canon (2006)','I\'m surprised to hear that. While I think highly of a number of Scorsese films, to me Taxi Driver and Raging Bull belong in a different class altogether.','339781b0b69d18e2d1b9bde30f16be65',0,'','Ez9Gdwov',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8031,1580,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1215137160,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Paul Schrader\'s Film Canon (2006)','Taxi Driver would probably be about 4th or 5th on my list, although I\'ve been meaning to revisit Last Temptation of Christ lately.','2b7f436ce55e57ab1d011a2a5c71bcee',0,'','2ZkYidFv',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8032,1580,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1215151380,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Paul Schrader\'s Film Canon (2006)','Written for the screen by Schrader, of course. A good, thought-provoking effort. \r\n\r\nA minority view for sure but I must say that I\'ve been fairly disappointed by the three features Scorsese has made so far this decade -- though they happen to be some of his most critically and commercially successful films to date (heck, one even garnered him that much-coveted Academy Award).','3763962297d20be22fc9a918cef7a58c',0,'','N9UCwj3r',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8033,1580,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1217203260,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Paul Schrader\'s Film Canon (2006)','The hype surrounding Gangs of New York and Aviator were two films that people really wanted to be good enough to garner an Oscar, which would have been completely unnecessary if Scorsese would have won thirty years ago when he was first nominated. The little I\'ve rewatched of Gangs and Aviator show films that are in my opinion near misses. However the more I\'ve gotten to see of the Departed the more that film clearly stands out and is about as compulsively re-watchable as Goodfellas. Of course the argument for some is that Scorsese is repeating himself but I don\'t think this is the case at all. \r\n\r\nBack to Schrader\'s list, the Boetticher film is the only one I haven\'t seen but we\'ve discussed elsewhere my ignorance regarding his work.','838da4238f9f77d8b569ecc0c3f4c9df',0,'','17RQrK53',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8034,1580,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1222357920,1,0,1,1,1,1,'jcdavies','Re: Paul Schrader\'s Film Canon (2006)','Seven Men from Now is certainly worth seeing, i especially liked the first half, but i don\'t thing it quite belongs among an elite of 60. \r\n\r\nScorsese seems to be living off his earlier reputation- only 2 very good films in 28 years, and some stinkers- Kundun, Bringing out the Day and the execrable Gangs of New York. Like most winners, Departed was way short of Oscar worthy, a competent crowd-pleaser remake, its duel identity issues not original- so now Scorsese joins the ranks of the not so great- none of the very greatest directors have won best director oscar. Taxi Driver may be a seminal film, and of course there may be quite a bit to admire and debate, but Schrader\'s right wing thinking wins out- cathartic redemption through vigilante violence? No thanks. That sort of phoney Catholic spirituality i can do without. Scorsese has played on the sensitive/violent contrast often enough but in the end all too often he likes to wallow in bloodshed, and play to teenage masturbation fantasies. The life has gone from his fiction films. He\'s still a grown up with his documentaries, and should bring that depth of knowledge and thoughtfulness to his regular features.','96daa910ab1f7af9d8fa14862ea7c53f',0,'','dvk79gZP',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8035,1580,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1222389960,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Paul Schrader\'s Film Canon (2006)','I actually loved Bringing Out the Dead and Gangs of New York, although I can see people\'s problems with the latter. The Departed was certainly entertaining and has grown on me since getting a chance to see it a few more times via cable and on DVD. However Scorsese ranks extremely high on my director list so I\'m prone to defend much of his work because I genuinely love it.','571b4c8b9f273de6dc76a1ea68212a49',0,'','5iBSDGjH',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8036,1580,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1222391400,1,0,1,1,1,1,'jcdavies','Re: Paul Schrader\'s Film Canon (2006)','I\'m tough on him, and especially his later stuff, cos i think he hasn\'t often enough done his ability + sensitivity justice. Raging Bull is a film whose intensity he + De Niro have never really matched since. It delved with real feeling into a troubled soul and a violent world, without pandering to the public taste for violence i think. Whereas i have reservations about the integrity of Schindler\'s List and Michael Haneke\'s Funny Games that maybe exploit what they seem to condemn','9f56414df1bdbb32200fba041d1a9baa',0,'','ajwQ7FRe',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8037,1580,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1222396620,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Paul Schrader\'s Film Canon (2006)','I can see that, but I\'m never sure if Haneke is condemning violence or just showing it. With great ability comes a greater scrutiny naturally. We\'ve seen good Woody Allen so we know that when a film doesn\'t live up to that promise it makes it seem much worse. There definitely are passages in Raging Bull were the violence seemed to be romanticized particularly in the final Sugar Ray fight. \r\n\r\nI\'ve thought about making my own list of this kind, but it\'s really hard to be that selective and if you read the text of Schrader\'s piece he basically lamented the near impossibility of establishing an effective criteria.','c38a5405b3ef36dcffb9bcb697a757a2',0,'','NBuD5VQ2',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8038,1581,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1215211920,1,0,1,1,1,1,'Sara','Good war films featuring children','Having just seen Ivan\'s Childhood (Tarkovsky), The Two of Us, and Goodnight Mr. Tom , I feel inspired to ask if we can make a list of other war films that feature children. \r\n\r\nThere are many. \r\n\r\nOf course Come and See. (Russian) \r\nAu Revoir, Les Enfants (French) \r\nEmpire of the Sun \r\nForbidden Games (1952) \r\n\r\nI have not elaborated on any of these except I want to say that The Two of Us features that wonderful old man who played in Renoir\'s Boudu Saved from Drowning. Both this film (The Two of Us) and Goodnight Mr. Tom give a heartwarming picture of a young boy in the war given to the care of an older man. \r\n\r\nThere are so many films about children in war time. Any war. Any child. Please let\'s make a good list and amplify it. \r\n\r\nSara','903b6295a12a6f58ee28b51839c9f719',0,'','SpbKdhAD',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8039,1581,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1215287580,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Good war films featuring children','It\'s been a few years but wasn\'t there some youngin\'s in Lacombe Lucien? I\'m drawing a surprising blank here despite the fact that there are like a billion of them.','cc61d01f8416f0fb2b3f5dc3b02e9756',0,'','iTWojXvG',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8040,1581,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1215329760,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Good war films featuring children','Let\'s see: Rossellini\'s Germany Year Zero, Ozu\'s Record of a Tenement Gentleman, Stevens\' The Diary of Anne Frank, Schlöndorff\'s The Tin Drum, Holland\'s Europa Europa... \r\n\r\nThere\'s certainly no lack of them.','a2b89c43b41af6e751f1a36c023da929',0,'','Qco2GpuA',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8041,1581,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1215329880,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Good war films featuring children','I would like to remove Diary of Anne Frank from the record that movie was utter garbage and I would never recommend it to anyone.','4d85b3d8bfc5ac7fce7296a1e4c04f26',0,'','KBrVoFH0',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8042,1581,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1215356580,1,0,1,1,1,1,'Sara','Re: Good war films featuring children','I thought of two more: \r\n\r\nHope and Glory \r\nLife is Beautiful \r\n\r\nSara','da9b3ebb9ee5164e40b2a45b650e8683',0,'','j35yXC7N',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8043,1581,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1215400740,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Good war films featuring children','One more: Kinoshita\'s Twenty-Four Eyes -- being released by Criterion on August 19. I think you\'ll like it, Sara.','f03bdce10ce129b3b3682c3590b70959',0,'','pMaEqsuA',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8044,1581,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1215440520,1,0,1,1,1,1,'Sara','Re: Good war films featuring children','\r\n\r\nI was unaware of this film. I just looked it up on Criterion\'s release schedule and read about it. It looks like something I\'d like to see.\r\n\r\nThanks,\r\n\r\nSara','ed06aac01d2eb60a65c41fb99c98c0c0',0,'','LXAYekMi',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8045,1581,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1215469860,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Good war films featuring children','The best Japanese film I\'ve seen about the war and children is probably Grave of the Fireflies, but even I\'m guilty of forgetting animated films.','89a24aa60511b6562db74de925e7c482',0,'','V5LMUgHW',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8046,1581,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1215474720,1,0,1,1,1,1,'Sara','Re: Good war films featuring children','Yes! You are right. Thanks for reminding us of this beautiful, poignant animated film. A real gem. \r\n\r\nSara','f7a2bc33581a8cdbbfac50a64de48981',0,'','0u9UiQjk',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8047,1581,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1215669660,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Good war films featuring children','Sara wrote: \r\n\r\nI was unaware of this film. I just looked it up on Criterion\'s release schedule and read about it. It looks like something I\'d like to see.\r\n\r\nThanks,\r\n\r\nSara\r\n\r\nGreat. And please feel free to add any comments to this thread I started a few months ago on Ms. Takamine, perhaps the classic film actress I admire the most.','1b90a9f06565bcce1e5caa8e741fd1a7',0,'','xcw8SXFH',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8048,1582,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1222216140,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Top Ten Musicals','Well it\'s been a long time since I\'ve made any \"silly\" lists such as this, but now things are changing. Lately it seems I\'ve been asked to give recommendations and pointing people towards what to see. A knowledgeable source I am, but with each recommendation I wonder whether my opinion or my recommendations might either convert a potential cinephile into a fanatic or make someone run in horror at the strange and scary world of \"art house\" cinema. I dug out my DVD of Singin\' in the Rain which was purchased several years ago at a store that went out of business a couple years ago (which shows how quickly I watch DVD\'s I buy). Obviously this would get my vote as the best of all musicals but where to go after that? \r\n\r\nNow I\'ve always hated trying to define genres and find it even more baffling to describe hybrid genres, or sub-genres. Rick Altman has described three distinct types of musicals that every musical can embrace one or more categories. There\'s the fairy tale musical epitomized in the early Lubitsch musicals and perhaps most famous in Fred and Ginger films as well as numerous Disney features. The show musical which is perhaps the easiest to define although it can get tricky because of the distinction of whether the music originates from a show or stage setting or whether characters who might be \"puttin\' on a show\" still sing in public in expertly choreographed numbers. The Bandwagon is a key example of this kind particularly the station sequence and the stroll through the park. Last we have the folk musical as first defined in Hallelujah but evident in films like Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Oklahoma, Fiddler on the Roof, and films that generally deal with a rural setting. The Wizard of Oz is a perfect hybrid taking it\'s first half right from the folk tradition of films like The Green Pastures and then going into prime fairy tale land of Oz. \r\n\r\nNow I realize I\'ve listed nothing but American films and I haven\'t openly decided to eliminate them from contention. Documentaries will be exempt from this list which includes concert films. So what\'s my top ten, and more importantly what\'s yours? \r\n\r\nMy criteria: \r\n\r\nAnimated films DO count \r\nI chose to pick films that are musicals because the music is significant to the story and adds to the picture, not simply a film that has a musical number (Duck Soup, Monty Python and the Holy Grail). So this is certainly a personal bias but with only ten to pick I had to be picky. \r\nAlthough I didn\'t exclude having more than one film per director that\'s just how my list ended up. \r\nRock and roll films (Quadrophenia, Pink Floyd the Wall) I chose not to count. The Wall I also excluded because it\'s closer to an opera than musical, and Altman defined musicals as having non-musical breaks (such is the problem with Umbrellas of Cherbourg as well). \r\nNow you don\'t have to employ my criteria, but that\'s just how I handled things. \r\n\r\n1. Singin\' in the Rain (1952) - Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly \r\n2. All that Jazz (1979) - Bob Fosse \r\n3. Top Hat (1935) - Mark Sandrich \r\n4. 42nd Street (1933) - Lloyd Bacon \r\n5. Moulin Rouge (2001) - Baz Luhrmann \r\n6. Help! (1965) - Richard Lester \r\n7. Love Me Tonight (1932) - Rouben Mamloulian \r\n8. Dumbo (1941) - Disney and Co. \r\n9. South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut (1999) - Trey Parker \r\n10. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) - Michael Curtiz \r\n\r\nMany more I would have liked to count.','f419e75fd1ef260cda5bc14c3e25508b',0,'','17NxYtL3',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8049,1583,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1227510660,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','International Critics/Audience versus Local Critics/Audience ...','I saw posts in imdb that I thought it is worthwhile mentioning here ... \r\nclick \r\nhttp://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000034/reply/120980340 \r\n\r\ne.g., An interesting post by ANGEL_GLEZ 3 days ago (Thu Nov 20 2008 11:17:07) \r\n\r\nPLEASE PARDON me for cutting and pasting here (for easy reference) \r\n\r\nThis was what ANGEL_GLEZ posted \r\n----------------------------------------------------------------------- \r\n\r\nSure, there is no an Universal Canon. But it is always curious to know the greatest films according to local critics of each country: \r\n\r\nGreece: O Drakos instead of Angelopoulos \r\nCanada: Mon Oncle Antoine instead of Cronenberg \r\nChina: Spring in a Small Town instead of Zhang Yimou \r\nCzechoslovakia: Marketa Lazarova instead of Forman \r\nHong Kong: A Better Tomorrow instead of Wong Kar Wai \r\nIndia: Sholay instead of Ray \r\nRussia: My Friend Ivan Lapshin instead of Eisenstein \r\nSpain: El Verdugo instead of Buñuel \r\nSweden: Raven\'s End instead of Bergman \r\nYugoslavia: Who\'s That Singing Over There instead of Kusturica \r\n\r\n--------------------------------------------------------------------- \r\n\r\nThis kind of sparks the questions \r\n(i) Does local differ vastly in taste from international critics/audience? \r\n(ii) Are critics sometimes too \"aloof\" from the masses? \r\n(iii) Should directors make films for the people (i.e., box office hits) or should they make it to win awards (esp. international awards)? \r\n\r\n-- I recall a Swedish friend telling me they are not crazy over Bergman \r\n-- I know of many Chinese from Taiwan/HongKong/China/Singapore/etc saying they do not necessarily understand or appreciate Tsai Ming Liang (too slow or even at times too cryptic for comfort), etc \r\n-- and also, the recent break in box office for France (Welcome to the Sticks, i.e., Bienvenue chez les Ch\'tis) \r\n-- and also, the recent break in box office for Taiwan (Cape No.7) \r\netc','0466b77c185eff28ccce3a906ad784d2',0,'','XzWRM98p',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8050,1583,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1227933540,1,0,1,1,1,1,'tzarine','Re: International Critics/Audience versus Local Critics/Audience ...','I can see the appeal of both A Better Tomorrow & WKW. \r\n\r\nTsai Ming Liang is just tedious. \r\n\r\nZhang Yi Mou makes what my HK friend calls \"Chinese movies for gweilos.\"','b3eb75c197b3f8d6337f845269c935f4',0,'','USdfphj5',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8051,1583,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1227933540,1,0,1,1,1,1,'tzarine','Re: International Critics/Audience versus Local Critics/Audience ...','I can see the appeal of both A Better Tomorrow & WKW. \r\n\r\nTsai Ming Liang is just tedious. \r\n\r\nZhang Yi Mou makes what my HK friend calls \"Chinese movies for gweilos.\"','b3eb75c197b3f8d6337f845269c935f4',0,'','vWXQayAK',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8052,1583,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1228068060,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: International Critics/Audience versus Local Critics/Audience ...','ha ha ha','b8f69661050a66250e359a8aa5a9b8c9',0,'','Z70rvoRc',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8053,1583,7,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1228068060,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: International Critics/Audience versus Local Critics/Audience ...','ha ha ha','b8f69661050a66250e359a8aa5a9b8c9',0,'','mZ3ER7Nf',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8054,1584,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1170541800,1,1,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Asian Film Awards 2007; 2008','Asian Film Awards 2007\r\n\r\nNOMINATIONS:\r\n\r\nBEST FILM \r\n\r\n1. Curse of the Golden Flower Hong Kong / Chinese mainland \r\n2. Exiled Hong Kong \r\n3. The Host South Korea \r\n4. Love and Honor Japan \r\n5. Opera Jawa Indonesia / Austria \r\n6. Still Life Chinese mainland \r\n\r\nBEST DIRECTOR \r\n\r\n1. HONG Sang-soo Woman on the Beach South Korea \r\n2. JIA Zhangke Still Life Chinese mainland \r\n3. Jafar PANAHI Offside Iran \r\n4. Johnnie TO Exiled Hong Kong \r\n5. TSAI Ming-liang I Don\'t Want to Sleep Alone Taiwan / France / Austria \r\n6. Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL Syndromes and a Century Thailand / Austria / France \r\n\r\nBEST ACTOR \r\n\r\n1. CHANG Chen The Go Master Chinese mainland \r\n2. JUNG Ji-hoon (RAIN) I\'m a Cyborg, but That\'s OK South Korea \r\n3. Shahrukh KHAN DON India \r\n4. Andy LAU A Battle of Wits Japan / Hong Kong / Chinese mainland / South Korea \r\n5. SONG Kang-ho The Host South Korea \r\n6. WATANABE Ken Memories of Tomorrow Japan \r\n\r\nBEST ACTRESS \r\n\r\n1. GONG Li Curse of the Golden Flower Hong Kong / Chinese mainland \r\n2. KIM Hye-soo Tazza: The High Rollers South Korea \r\n3. LIM Soo-jung I\'m a Cyborg, but That\'s OK South Korea \r\n4. MIYAZAWA Rie Hana Japan \r\n5. NAKATANI Miki Memories of Matsuko Japan \r\n6. ZHANG Ziyi The Banquet Hong Kong / Chinese mainland \r\n\r\nBEST SCREENWRITER \r\n\r\n1. Mani HAGHIGHI Men at Work Iran \r\n2. HONG Sang-soo Woman on the Beach South Korea \r\n3. OISHI Tetsuya, KANEKO Shusuke DEATH NOTE the Last name Japan \r\n4. SOHN Jae-gon My Scary Girl South Korea \r\n5. Prabda YOON Invisible Waves Thailand / The Netherlands / South Korea / Hong Kong \r\n6. ZHANG Cheng, YUE Xiaojun, NING Hao, Crazy Stone Hong Kong / Chinese mainland \r\n\r\nBEST CINEMATOGRAPHER \r\n\r\n1. KIM Hyung-goo The Host South Korea \r\n2. Andrew LAU, LAI Yiu-fai Confession of Pain Hong Kong \r\n3. LIAO Pen-jung I Don\'t Want to Sleep Alone Taiwan / France / Austria \r\n4. Sayombhu MUKDEEPROM Syndromes and a Century Thailand / Austria / France \r\n5. WANG Yu The Go Master Chinese mainland \r\n\r\nBEST PRODUCTION DESIGNER \r\n\r\n1. CHO Keun-hyun Forbidden Quest South Korea \r\n2. KUWAJIMA Towako Memories of Matsuko Japan \r\n3. Patrick TAM, Cyrus HO After This Our Exile Hong Kong \r\n4. WADA Emi The Go Master Chinese mainland \r\n5. Tim YIP The Banquet Hong Kong / Chinese mainland \r\n\r\nBEST COMPOSER \r\n\r\n1. JEONG Yong-jin Woman on the Beach South Korea \r\n2. Peter KAM Isabella Hong Kong \r\n3. LIM Giong Still Life Chinese mainland \r\n4. Rahayu SUPANGGAH Opera Jawa Indonesia / Austria \r\n5. TERASHIMA Tamiya Tales from Earthsea Japan \r\n\r\nBEST EDITOR \r\n\r\n1. Lee CHATAMETIKOOL Syndromes and a Century Thailand / Austria / France \r\n2. KIM Sun-min The Host South Korea \r\n3. Angie LAM Dog Bite Dog Japan / Hong Kong \r\n4. PARK Gok-ji, JEONG Jin-hee A Dirty Carnival South Korea \r\n5. Patrick TAM After This Our Exile Hong Kong \r\n\r\nBEST VISUAL EFFECTS \r\n\r\n1. Angela BARSON, CHUNG Chi-hang Curse of the Golden Flower Hong Kong / Chinese mainland \r\n2. Digital Tetra Inc. The Restless South Korea \r\n3. OHYA Tetsuo The Sinking of Japan Japan \r\n4. The Orphanage The Host South Korea \r\n5. YANAGAWASE Masahide Memories of Matsuko Japan','4bd65e69eae873195662640eeeb961f3',0,'','i4ncWJAs',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8055,1584,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1170592440,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: Asian Film Awards 2007; 2008','Hi\r\nI think you are refering to this launch by Hong Kong International Film Festival ...\r\nclick\r\nhkiff.org.hk/eng/events/afa.html\r\nhkiff.org.hk/eng/events/afa_3.html\r\n\r\nGiven that it is the FIRST ...\r\nmany are waiting to see how it turns out ... (esp over the years) ...','0ce8169dc173ad90af1b8ab20059c07e',0,'','op2qYaBE',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8056,1584,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1170910560,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: Asian Film Awards 2007; 2008','Latest news\r\n\r\nSTILL LIFE has been disqualified\r\nI NOT STUPID 2 (Singapore), #6 in the original nominees, replaces it.\r\n\r\nAccording to the award regulations, all the competing films must be screened on 35mm prints during their theatrical releases in HK. STILL LIFE was screened on 16mm prints.\r\n;(','af74f13115db6c94a166b10b252c6d80',0,'','3AmCNfX5',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8057,1584,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1171021200,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Asian Film Awards 2007; 2008','I guess this one isn\'t turning out very well. ):','61d1749212422128c68436c4756da567',0,'','SNqmTtu8',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8058,1584,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1175361720,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: Asian Film Awards 2007; 2008','Still Life is BACK in competition\r\n\r\nThe winners are\r\nwww.hkiff.org.hk/afa/eng/...uction.htm\r\nwww.hkiff.org.hk/afa/imag...0.3.07.doc\r\n\r\nAsian Film Awards 2007\r\n\r\nBest Film - The Host (South Korea)\r\nBest Director - JIA Zhangke (Still Life - Chinese mainland)\r\nBest Actor - SONG Kang-ho (The Host - South Korea)\r\nBest Actress - NAKATAI Miki (Memories of Matsuko - Japan)\r\nBest Screenwriter - Mani HAGHIGHI (Men at Work - Iran)\r\nBest Cinematographer - KIM Hyung-goo (The Host - South Korea)\r\nBest Poduction Designer - Tim YIP (The Banquet - Chinese mainland / Hong Kong)\r\nBest Composer - Rahayu SUPANGGAH (Opera Jawa - Idonesia / Austria)\r\nBest Editor - Lee CHATAMETIKOOL (Syndromes and a Century - Thailand / Austria / France)\r\nBest Visual Effects - The Orphanage (The Host - South Korea) \r\nAsian Box-Office Star - Andy LAU','02909be44b2af005feca6e4ff2c4e724',0,'','2qLJdR6N',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8059,1584,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1175594940,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Asian Film Awards 2007; 2008','No offense to I Not Stupid 2, but I\'m glad Still Life won out. \r\n\r\nThanks for the info.','c2ac198e14f5aa3e699a6de54dd11daa',0,'','aTGCStFs',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8060,1584,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1176701340,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: Asian Film Awards 2007; 2008','Sorry, \r\nmy mistake ...\r\nthe disqualification of \"Still Life\" is for the HK Film Awards (Best Asian Film category) ...\r\n\r\nThe confusion came becos both are held after the HK Int\'l Film Festival ... \r\nand for a category that is so similar, i.e., Asian Best Film ... \r\n\r\nI apologize for the mistake ...\r\n;(','10f6b9ff548d52023f768eda9c88a210',0,'','DKUQjpPc',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8061,1584,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1200900420,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: Asian Film Awards 2007; 2008','Asian Film Awards 2008\r\n\r\nThis award is only in its second year.\r\nHow recognize is it ... time will tell ...\r\n\r\nThe official list\r\nclick\r\nwww.asianfilmawards.org/e...tions.html\r\n\r\nBest Film \r\n1 Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame Iran \r\n2 I Just Didn\'t Do It I Just Didn\'t Do It Japan \r\n3 Lust, Caution Lust, Caution Taiwan/ Chinese Mainland, The / USA \r\n4 Secret Sunshine Secret Sunshine South Korea \r\n5 Sun Also Rises, The Sun Also Rises, The Chinese Mainland, The/ Hong Kong \r\n6 Warlords, The Warlords, The Chinese Mainland, The/ Hong Kong \r\n\r\nBest Director \r\n1 Peter CHAN Warlords, The Chinese Mainland, The/ Hong Kong \r\n2 JIANG Wen Sun Also Rises, The Chinese Mainland, The/ Hong Kong \r\n3 Ang LEE Lust, Caution Taiwan/ Chinese Mainland, The / USA \r\n4 LEE Chang-Dong Secret Sunshine South Korea \r\n5 SUO Masayuki I Just Didn\'t Do It Japan \r\n6 ZHANG Lu Desert Dream South Korea/ France \r\n\r\nBest Actor \r\n1 Jack KAO God Man Dog Taiwan \r\n2 KASE Ryo I Just Didn\'t Do It Japan \r\n3 Tony LEUNG Lust, Caution Taiwan/ Chinese Mainland, The / USA \r\n4 Jet LI Warlords, The Chinese Mainland, The/ Hong Kong \r\n5 Joe ODAGIRI Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad Japan \r\n6 SONG Kang-ho Secret Sunshine South Korea \r\n\r\nBest Actress \r\n1 Joan CHEN Home Song Stories, The Singapore/Australia \r\n2 JEON Do-Yeon Secret Sunshine South Korea \r\n3 KIKI Kirin Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad Japan \r\n4 KIM Yunjin Seven Days South Korea \r\n5 Deepika PADUKONE Om Shanti Om India \r\n6 TANG Wei Lust, Caution Taiwan/ Chinese Mainland, The / USA \r\n\r\nBest Supporting Actor \r\n1 CHUN Ho-jin Skeletons in the Closet South Korea \r\n2 KOBAYASHI Kaoru Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad Japan \r\n3 Mario MAURER Love of Siam Thailand \r\n4 SUN Honglei Mongol Mongolia/ Kazakhstan/ Germany/ Russia \r\n5 TSUTSUMI Shin\'ichi Always: Sunset on Third Street 2 Japan \r\n\r\nBest Supporting Actress \r\n1 Joan CHEN Sun Also Rises, The Chinese Mainland, The/ Hong Kong \r\n2 KONG Hyo-jin Happiness South Korea \r\n3 KIM Hye-soo Skeletons in the Closet South Korea \r\n4 Apinya SAKUJAROENSUK Ploy Thailand \r\n5 YAKUSHIMARU Hiroko Always: Sunset on Third Street 2 Japan \r\n\r\nBest Screenwriter \r\n1 AU Kin Yee / WAI Ka-Fai Mad Detective, The Hong Kong \r\n2 IM Sang-soo Old Garden, The South Korea \r\n3 PENG Tao Little Moth Chinese Mainland, The \r\n4 James SCHAMUS/ WANG Hui-Ling Lust, Caution Taiwan/ Chinese Mainland, The / USA \r\n5 SUO Masayuki I just Didn\'t Do it Japan \r\n\r\nBest Cinematographer \r\n1 Hooman BEHMANESH Those Three Iran \r\n2 Chankit CHAMNIVIKAIPONG Ploy Thailand \r\n3 LIAO Pen-jung Help Me Eros Taiwan \r\n4 Shanker RAMAN Frozen India \r\n5 Arthur WONG Warlords, The Chinese Mainland, The/ Hong Kong \r\n\r\nBest Production Designer \r\n1 CAO Jiuping / ZHANG Jian Qun Sun Also Rises, The Chinese Mainland, The/ Hong Kong \r\n2 KIM Yu-Jeong/ LEE Min-Bok Epitaph (Gidam) South Korea \r\n3 IWAKI Namiko Sakuran Japan \r\n4 Pisut PARIWATTANAKIT/ Thanakorn PONGSUWAN Opaptika Thailand \r\n5 TSAI Ming-liang Help Me Eros Taiwan \r\n\r\nBest Composer \r\n1 the August band/ Flure/ Witwisit HIRUNWONGKUL/ Chukiate SAKVEERAKUL/ Passakorn WIROONSUP Love of Siam Thailand \r\n2 Vishal DADLANI/ Shekhar RAVJIANI/ Pyarelal Ramprasad SHARMA Om Shanti Om India \r\n3 Alexandre DESPLAT Lust, Caution Taiwan/ Chinese Mainland, The / USA \r\n4 Xiao He Mid-Afternoon Barks Chinese Mainland, The \r\n5 SHIINA Ringo Sakuran Japan \r\n\r\nBest Editor \r\n1 Charliebebs GOHETIA Slingshot Philippines, The \r\n2 HIRASAWA Shogo Maiko haaaan!!! Japan \r\n3 LEE Eun-soo Old Garden, The South Korea \r\n4 Wenders LI Warlords, The Chinese Mainland, The \r\n5 David RICHARDSON Eye In the Sky Hong Kong \r\n\r\nBest Visual Effects \r\n1 HYUNG Rae Shim D-War South Korea \r\n2 Thomas DUVAL Sun Also Rises, The Chinese Mainland, The/ Hong Kong \r\n3 NG Yuen Fai Warlords, The Chinese Mainland, The/ Hong Kong \r\n4 SESHITA Hiroyuki Dainipponjin Japan \r\n5 YAMAZAKI Takashi Always: Sunset on Third Street 2 Japan','b3b1443a71da675e8e504fef740a5d49',0,'','WGowjh4Q',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8062,1584,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1200903060,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Asian Film Awards 2007; 2008','Very pleased regarding the nominations for Secret Sunshine.','3fd59d9bd0addf7c61d8f2484ba301eb',0,'','Vi1CMLen',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8063,1584,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1202057880,1,0,1,1,1,1,'A','Re: Asian Film Awards 2007; 2008','They seem to have very interesting selections for the first two installments. Any knews on how the festival was received internationally. Is it expected to establish itself? Certainly seems to nominate more \"difficult\" films than most usual awards events. I always like to see that happening. \r\n\r\nPS: \r\nI\'m looking forward to watching \"Buddha collapsed out of Shame\" at the Berlinale!','af60a71519ab1324a4eb5ac2d89a0c1c',0,'','bVdy7m4z',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8064,1584,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1205826840,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: Asian Film Awards 2007; 2008','\r\nAsian Film Awards 2008 \r\n\r\nBest Film \r\nSecret Sunshine Secret Sunshine South Korea \r\n\r\nBest Director \r\nLEE Chang-Dong Secret Sunshine South Korea \r\n\r\nBest Actor \r\nTony LEUNG Lust, Caution Taiwan/ Chinese Mainland, The / USA \r\n\r\nBest Actress \r\nJEON Do-Yeon Secret Sunshine South Korea \r\n\r\nBest Supporting Actor \r\nSUN Honglei Mongol Mongolia/ Kazakhstan/ Germany/ Russia \r\n\r\nBest Supporting Actress \r\nJoan CHEN Sun Also Rises, The Chinese Mainland, The/ Hong Kong \r\n\r\nBest Screenwriter \r\nAU Kin Yee / WAI Ka-Fai Mad Detective, The Hong Kong \r\n\r\nBest Cinematographer \r\nLIAO Pen-jung Help Me Eros Taiwan \r\n\r\nBest Production Designer \r\nCAO Jiuping / ZHANG Jian Qun Sun Also Rises, The Chinese Mainland, The/ Hong Kong \r\n\r\nBest Composer \r\nVishal DADLANI/ Shekhar RAVJIANI/ Pyarelal Ramprasad SHARMA Om Shanti Om India \r\n\r\nBest Editor \r\nDavid RICHARDSON Eye In the Sky Hong Kong \r\n\r\nBest Visual Effects \r\nNG Yuen Fai Warlords, The Chinese Mainland, The/ Hong Kong','c47b3cecc28e2cd644f29cfe548bd940',0,'','hEuC8ynv',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8065,1584,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1205831820,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Asian Film Awards 2007; 2008','Have I ever told you how much I love awards and...','a893e21a0b863d35d3e093a3e40fe479',0,'','PpSfjJm9',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8066,1584,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1237876020,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: Asian Film Awards 2007; 2008','Asian Film Awards 2009 \r\n\r\nThe nominees are ... \r\n\r\n\r\nBest Film \r\nForever Enthralled, China \r\nThe Good, the Bad, the Weird, South Korea \r\nPonyo on the Cliff, Japan \r\nThe Rainbow Troops, Indonesia \r\nRed Cliff, China \r\nTokyo Sonata, The Netherlands / Japan / Hong Kong\r\n\r\nBest Director \r\nFENG Xiao-gang, If You Are the One, China \r\nKIM Jee-woon, The Good, the Bad, the Weird, South Korea \r\nKOREEDA Hirokazu, Still Walking, Japan \r\nBrillante MENDOZA, Service, The Philippines \r\nMIYAZAKI Hayao / Frank MARSHALL, Ponyo on the Cliff, Japan \r\nJohn WOO, Red Cliff, China\r\n\r\nBest Actor \r\nGE You, If You Are the One, China \r\nHA Jung-woo, The Chaser, South Korea \r\nAkshay KUMAR, Singh is Kinng, India \r\nMATSUYAMA Kenichi, Detroit Metal City, Japan \r\nMOTOKI Masahiro, Departures, Japan \r\nSONG Kang-ho, The Good, the Bad, the Weird, South Korea\r\n\r\nBest Actress \r\nFUKATSU Eri, The Magic Hour, Japan \r\nJIANG Wenli, And the Spring Comes, China \r\nDeepika PADUKONE, Chandni Chowk To China, India \r\nYOSHINAGA Sayuri, Kabei - Our Mother, Japan \r\nZHAO Wei, Painted Skin, China / Hong Kong \r\nZHOU Xun, The Equation of Love and Death, China\r\n\r\nBest Supporting Actor \r\nNick CHEUNG, Beast Stalker, Hong Kong \r\nJUNG Woo-sung, The Good, the Bad, the Weird, South Korea \r\nLEE Byung-hun, The Good, the Bad, the Weird, South Korea \r\nTSUTSUMI Shinichi, Suspect X, Japan \r\nWANG Xueqi, Forever Enthralled, China\r\n\r\nBest Supporting Actress \r\nAOI Yu, Sex Is No Laughing Matter, Japan \r\nJaclyn JOSE, Service, The Philippines \r\nKIKI Kirin, Still Walking, Japan \r\nKIM Ji-yeong, Forever the Moment, South Korea \r\nGina PARENO, Service, The Philippines\r\n\r\nBest Newcomer \r\nMATSUDA Shota, Boys Over Flowers: the Movie, Japan \r\nSandrine PINNA, Miao Miao, Taiwan / Hong Kong \r\nSO Ji-sub, Rough Cut, South Korea \r\nXU Jiao, CJ7, Hong Kong \r\nJeeJa YANIN, Chocolate, Thailand \r\nYU Shaoqun, Forever Enthralled, China\r\n\r\nBest Screenwriter \r\nNA Hong-jin, The Chaser, South Korea \r\nLI Qiang, And the Spring Comes, China \r\nTom LIN / Henry TSAI, Winds of September, Taiwan / Hong Kong \r\nKUROSAWA Kiyoshi / Max MANNIX / TANAKA Sachiko, Tokyo Sonata, The Netherlands / Japan / Hong Kong \r\nMITANI Koki, The Magic Hour, Japan\r\n\r\nBest Cinematographer \r\nATO Shoichi, Paco and the Magical Book, Japan \r\nCHENG Siu-keung (HKSC), Sparrow, Hong Kong \r\nLEE Mo-gae, The Good, the Bad, the Weird, South Korea \r\nJola DYLEWSKA, Tulpan, Germany / Kazakhstan / Poland / Russia / Switzerland \r\nWANG Yu / Nelson Lik-wai YU, 24 City, China\r\n\r\nBest Editor \r\nCHAN Ki-hop, Beast Stalker, Hong Kong \r\nWilliam Suk-ping CHANG, Miao Miao, Taiwan / Hong Kong \r\nDarya DANILOVA, Native Dancer, Kazakhstan / Russia / France / Germany \r\nWaluyo ICHWANDIARDONO, The Rainbow Troops, Indonesia \r\nKIM Sun-min, The Chaser, South Korea\r\n\r\nBest Composer \r\nDalpalan / JANG Young-gyu, The Good, the Bad, the Weird, South Korea \r\nHANNO Yoshihiro / LIM Giong, 24 City, China \r\nHISAISHI Joe, Ponyo on the Cliff, Japan \r\nHenry Wan-man LAI, Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon, China / Hong Kong / South Korea \r\nAllah Rakha RAHMAN, Jodhaa Akbar, India\r\n\r\nBest Production Designer \r\nNitin Chandrakant DESAI, Jodhaa Akbar, India \r\nKUWAJIMA Towako, Paco and the Magical Book, Japan \r\nDaniel Yan-kong LEE, Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon, China / Hong Kong / South Korea \r\nBill LUI, Painted Skin, China / Hong Kong \r\nTANEDA Yohei, The Magic Hour, Japan\r\n\r\nBest Visual Effects \r\nCraig HAYES, Red Cliff, China \r\nKIM Wook, The Good, the Bad, the Weird, South Korea \r\nYANAGAWASE Masahide, Paco and the Magical Book, Japan\r\n\r\nAsian Film Award for Outstanding Contribution to Asian Cinema: Tsui Hark, Nansun Shi, Film Workshop Co. Ltd.\r\n\r\nThe Nielsen Box Office Award: Priyanka Chopra\r\n\r\nEdward Yang New Talent Award: Wei Te-sheng','980ae20e6ce4deaa94ba8afdb5d5eea3',0,'','SKcr9yaT',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8067,1584,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1237876500,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: Asian Film Awards 2007; 2008','Asian Film Awards 2009 \r\n\r\nThe winners are ... \r\n\r\n\r\nBest Film \r\nTokyo Sonata, The Netherlands / Japan / Hong Kong\r\n\r\nBest Director \r\nKOREEDA Hirokazu, Still Walking, Japan \r\n\r\nBest Actor \r\nMOTOKI Masahiro, Departures, Japan \r\n\r\nBest Actress \r\nZHOU Xun, The Equation of Love and Death, China\r\n\r\nBest Supporting Actor \r\nJUNG Woo-sung, The Good, the Bad, the Weird, South Korea \r\n\r\nBest Supporting Actress \r\nGina PARENO, Service, The Philippines\r\n\r\nBest Newcomer \r\nYU Shaoqun, Forever Enthralled, China\r\n\r\nBest Screenwriter \r\nKUROSAWA Kiyoshi / Max MANNIX / TANAKA Sachiko, Tokyo Sonata, The Netherlands / Japan / Hong Kong \r\n\r\nBest Cinematographer \r\nJola DYLEWSKA, Tulpan, Germany / Kazakhstan / Poland / Russia / Switzerland \r\n\r\nBest Editor \r\nKIM Sun-min, The Chaser, South Korea\r\n\r\nBest Composer \r\nHISAISHI Joe, Ponyo on the Cliff, Japan \r\n\r\nBest Production Designer \r\nDaniel Yan-kong LEE, Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon, China / Hong Kong / South Korea \r\n\r\nBest Visual Effects \r\nCraig HAYES, Red Cliff, China \r\n\r\nAsian Film Award for Outstanding Contribution to Asian Cinema: Tsui Hark, Nansun Shi, Film Workshop Co. Ltd.\r\n\r\nThe Nielsen Box Office Award: Priyanka Chopra\r\n\r\nEdward Yang New Talent Award: Wei Te-sheng','6147474364bba503acbcec29642880b4',0,'','cFfPpWi2',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8068,1584,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1237876800,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: Asian Film Awards 2007; 2008','I hope to catch Tokyo Sonata soon. \r\n\r\nUnfortunately, Departures (Okuribito) did not even make it to 1 of the 6 nominees for Best Film ... \r\nwondering why ... sigh ... \r\n\r\nPS: this award is only in its 3rd year ... \r\nclick \r\nhttp://www.asianfilmawards.org/2009/eng/nominations.php \r\n\r\nI am glad that MOTOKI Masahiro, Departures (Okuribito) won the Best Actor though. \r\n\r\nrgds','e183877d1d9eee0a7a112afc7fa2598a',0,'','6TiKn94C',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8069,1585,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1199519760,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Japan Academy Award 2007; 2008','Results will be known on 15 Feb 2008 \r\n\r\nThe nominees \r\n\r\nBest Picture \r\nAlways: Zoku Sanchome no Yuhi \r\nKisaragi \r\nSoredemo Boku wa Yattenai \r\nTokyo Tower ~Okan to Boku to, Tokidoki, Oton~ \r\nBizan \r\n\r\nBest Animation \r\nEvangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone \r\nSummer Days with Coo \r\nTekkon Kinkreet \r\nPiano no Mori \r\nDetective Conan: Jolly Roger in the Deep Azure \r\n\r\nBest Director \r\nIsshin Inudo (Bizan) \r\nYuichi Sato (Kisaragi) \r\nMasayuki Suo (Soredemo Boku wa Yattenai) \r\nJoji Matsuoka (Tokyo Tower ~Okan to Boku to, Tokidoki, Oton~) \r\nTakashi Yamazaki (Always: Zoku Sanchome no Yuhi) \r\n\r\nBest Screenplay \r\nKankuro Kudo (Maiko Haaaan!!!) \r\nRyota Kosawa (Kisaragi) \r\nMasayuki Suo (Soredemo Boku wa Yattenai) \r\nSuzuki Matsuo (Tokyo Tower ~Okan to Boku to, Tokidoki, Oton~) \r\nTakashi Yamazaki / Ryota Kosawa (Always: Zoku Sanchome no Yuhi) \r\n\r\nBest Actor \r\nSadao Abe (Maiko Haaaan!!!) \r\nJoe Odagiri (Tokyo Tower ~Okan to Boku to, Tokidoki, Oton~) \r\nRyo Kase (Soredemo Boku wa Yattenai) \r\nKoji Yakusho (Zou no Senaka) \r\nHidetaka Yoshioka (Always: Zoku Sanchome no Yuhi) \r\n\r\nBest Actress \r\nKirin Kiki (Tokyo Tower ~Okan to Boku to, Tokidoki, Oton~) \r\nShinobu Terajima (Ai no Rukeichi) \r\nMiki Nakatani (Jigyaku no Uta) \r\nYukie Nakama (Ooku) \r\nRie Miyazawa (The Invitation from Cinema Orion) \r\n\r\nBest Supporting Actor \r\nAkira Emoto (Yajikita Dochuu Teresuko) \r\nTeruyuki Kagawa (Kisaragi) \r\nKaoru Kobayashi (Tokyo Tower ~Okan to Boku to, Tokidoki, Oton~) \r\nShinichi Tsutsumi (Always: Zoku Sanchome no Yuhi) \r\nShinichi Tsutsumi (Maiko Haaaan!!!) \r\n\r\nBest Supporting Actress \r\nMaki Horikita (Always: Zoku Sanchome no Yuhi) \r\nTakako Matsu (Tokyo Tower ~Okan to Boku to, Tokidoki, Oton~) \r\nNobuko Miyamoto (Bizan) \r\nMasako Motai (Soredemo Boku wa Yattenai) \r\nHiroko Yakushimaru (Always: Zoku Sanchome no Yuhi) \r\n\r\nBest Music \r\nTadashi Ueda (Tokyo Tower ~Okan to Boku to, Tokidoki, Oton~) \r\nMichiru Oshima (Bizan) \r\nNaoki Sato (Always: Zoku Sanchome no Yuhi) \r\nRingo Shiina (Sakuran) \r\nYoshikazu Suo (Soredemo Boku wa Yattenai) \r\n\r\nBest Cinematography \r\nNorimichi Kasamatsu (Tokyo Tower ~Okan to Boku to, Tokidoki, Oton~) \r\nNaoki Kayano (Soredemo Boku wa Yattenai) \r\nDaisaku Kimura (Tsukigami) \r\nKozo Shibazaki (Always: Zoku Sanchome no Yuhi) \r\nTakahiro Tsutai (Bizan) \r\n\r\nBest Lighting \r\nKenichi Mizuno (Tokyo Tower ~Okan to Boku to, Tokidoki, Oton~) \r\nTatsuya Osada (Soredemo Boku wa Yattenai) \r\nTakashi Sugimoto (Tsukigami) \r\nKenichi Mizuno (Always: Zoku Sanchome no Yuhi) \r\nYoshitake Hikita (Bizan) \r\n\r\nBest Art Direction \r\nNamiko Iwaki (Sakuran) \r\nAnri Jojo (Always: Zoku Sanchome no Yuhi) \r\nMitsuo Harada (Tokyo Tower ~Okan to Boku to, Tokidoki, Oton~) \r\nKyoko Heya (Soredemo Boku wa Yattenai) \r\nTakashi Yoshida (Ooku) \r\n\r\nBest Sound \r\nShigeru Abe / Hiromichi Kori / Kiyoshi Yoneyama (Soredemo Boku wa Yattenai) \r\nKiyoshi Kakizawa (Tokyo Tower ~Okan to Boku to, Tokidoki, Oton~) \r\nJunichi Shima (Bizan) \r\nHitoshi Tsurumaki (Always: Zoku Sanchome no Yuhi) \r\nNobuhiko Matsukage (Tsukigami) \r\n\r\nBest Editing \r\nSoichi Ueno (Bizan) \r\nJunichi Kikuchi (Soredemo Boku wa Yattenai) \r\nSeigo Hirasawa (Maiko Haaaan!!!) \r\nShinichi Fujima (Tokyo Tower ~Okan to Boku to, Tokidoki, Oton~) \r\nRyuji Miyajima (Always: Zoku Sanchome no Yuhi) \r\n\r\nBest Newcomer \r\nEiji Wentz (Gegege no Kitaro) \r\nKento Hayashi (Battery) \r\nHaruma Miura (Koizora) \r\nYui Aragaki (Koizora) \r\nYayako Uchida (Tokyo Tower ~Okan to Boku to, Tokidoki, Oton~) \r\nKaho (Tennen Kokekko) \r\nKie Kitano (Kofuku na Shokutaku) \r\n\r\nBest Foreign Film \r\nLetters from Iwo Jima \r\nDreamgirls \r\nBabel \r\nHairspray \r\nThe Bourne Ultimatum','5d7c600d78cc6a63fd79a32a630a7ccf',0,'','8K6kiLJD',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8070,1585,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1199519880,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: Japan Academy Award 2007; 2008','It might be the year for Tokyo Tower even though Always 2 (the sequel) is still nominated for many awards ...\r\n\r\nI thought the foreign film category is slightly weak \r\nI only think Letters From Iwa Jima and Babel deserve to be on the list (there shld be other better contenders) ... \r\n\r\nI think it might go to Letters From Iwa Jima','6b2ce32eec05020d41020a87193b9a85',0,'','Km3vJEoZ',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8071,1585,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1203243840,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: Japan Academy Award 2007; 2008','Best Picture: Tokyo Tower \r\nBest Animated Picture: Tekkon Kinkreet \r\nBest Director: Joji Matsuoka (Tokyo Tower) \r\nBest Screenplay: Suzuki Matsuo (Tokyo Tower) \r\n\r\nBest Actor: Hidetaka Yoshioka (Always: Zoku Sanchome no Yuhi) \r\nBest Actress: Kirin Kiki (Tokyo Tower) \r\nBest Supporting Actor: Kaoru Kobayashi (Tokyo Tower) \r\nBest Supporting Actress: Masako Motai (Soredemo Boku wa Yattenai) \r\n\r\nBest Music: Michiru Oshima (Bizan) \r\nBest Cinematography: Takahiro Tsutai (Bizan) \r\nBest Lighting Direction: Yoshitake Hikita (Bizan) \r\nBest Art Direction: Kyoko Heya (Soredemo Boku wa Yattenai) \r\nBest Sound Recording: Hitoshi Tsurumaki (Always: Zoku Sanchome no Yuhi) \r\nBest Film Editing: Junichi Kikuchi (Soredemo Boku wa Yattenai) \r\n\r\nBest Foreign Language Film: Letters From Iwo Jima','41867de67886ef320106848f406a4b98',0,'','x1cl0K9N',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8072,1585,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1230371160,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: Japan Academy Award 2007; 2008','\r\nJapan Academy Award 2008 \r\n\r\nThe nominees are \r\n\r\nBest Picture \r\nOkuribito \r\nKaabee \r\nClimber\'s High \r\nThe Magic Hour \r\nYougisha x no Kenshin \r\n\r\nBest Animation \r\nDoraemon: Nobita and the Green Giant Legend 2008 \r\nGake no Ue no Ponyo \r\nThe Sky Crawlers \r\nDetective Conan: Full Score of Fear \r\nOne Piece: Episode of Chopper Plus \r\n\r\nBest Director \r\nYojiro Takita (Okuribito) \r\nTetsuya Nakashima (Paco and the Magical Picture Book) \r\nMasato Harada (Climber\'s High) \r\nKoki Mitani (The Magic Hour) \r\nYoji Yamada (Kaabee) \r\n\r\nBest Screenplay \r\nKenji Uchida (After School) \r\nMasato Kato / Izuru Narushima / Masato Harada (Climber\'s High) \r\nKundo Koyama (Okuribito) \r\nKoki Mitani (The Magic Hour) \r\nYoji Yamada / Emiko Hiramatsu (Kaabee) \r\n\r\nBest Actor \r\nKoichi Sato (The Magic Hour) \r\nShinichi Tsutsumi (Climber\'s High) \r\nKenichi Matsuyama (Detroit Metal City) \r\nMasahiro Motoki (Okuribito) \r\nKoji Yakusho (Paco and the Magical Picture Book) \r\n\r\nBest Actress \r\nTae Kimura (Gururi no Koto) \r\nYukie Nakama (Watashi wa Kai ni Naritai) \r\nRyoko Hirosue (Okuribito) \r\nSayuri Yoshinaga (Kaabee) \r\nSayuri Yoshinaga (Maboroshi no Yamataikoku) \r\n\r\nBest Supporting Actor \r\nTadanobu Asano (Kaabee) \r\nMasato Sakai (Climber\'s High) \r\nShinichi Tsutsumi (Yougisha x no Kenshin) \r\nYasufumi Terawaki (Aibou) \r\nTsutomu Yamazaki (Okuribito) \r\n\r\nBest Supporting Actress \r\nKirin Kiki (Aruitemo Aruitemo) \r\nRei Dan (Kaabee) \r\nYasuko Matsuyuki (Detroit Metal City) \r\nYasuko Matsuyuki (Yougisha x no Kenshin) \r\nKimiko Yo (Okuribito) \r\n\r\nBest Music \r\nKiyoko Ogino (The Magic Hour) \r\nGabriele Roberto (Paco and the Magical Picture Book) \r\nIsao Tomita (Kaabee) \r\nJoe Hisaishi (Okuribito) \r\nJoe Hisaishi (Gake no Ue no Ponyo) \r\n\r\nBest Cinematography \r\nShoichi Ato / Atsushi Ozawa (Paco and the Magical Picture Book) \r\nGen Kobayashi (Climber\'s High) \r\nMutsuo Naganuma (Kaabee) \r\nTakeshi Hamada (Okuribito) \r\nKosuke Matsushima (Watashi wa Kai ni Naritai) \r\n\r\nBest Lighting \r\nSusumu Takakura (Paco and the Magical Picture Book) \r\nNaoyuki Hori (Climber\'s High) \r\nTakeshi Nakasu (Kaabee) \r\nHitoshi Takaya (Okuribito) \r\nTaro Kimura (Watashi wa Kai ni Naritai) \r\n\r\nBest Art Direction \r\nFumio Ogawa (Okuribito) \r\nTowako Kuwajima (Paco and the Magical Picture Book) \r\nYohei Taneda (The Magic Hour) \r\nMitsuo Degawa (Kaabee) \r\nKatsuhiro Fukuzawa (Climber\'s High) \r\n\r\nBest Sound \r\nSatoshi Ozaki / Osamu Onodera (Okuribito) \r\nKazumi Kishida (Kaabee) \r\nTetsuo Segawa (The Magic Hour) \r\nShin Fukuda / Tadao Tasai (Paco and the Magical Picture Book) \r\nMasato Yano (Climber\'s High) \r\n\r\nBest Editing \r\nIwao Ishii (Kaabee) \r\nSoichi Ueno (The Magic Hour) \r\nAkimasa Kawashima (Okuribito) \r\nYoshiyuki Koike (Paco and the Magical Picture Book) \r\nHiroshi Sunaga / Yujin Harada (Climber\'s High) \r\n\r\nBest Foreign Film \r\nThe Bucket List \r\nThe Dark Knight \r\nNo Country For Old Men \r\nLust, Caution \r\nRed Cliff, Part I \r\n\r\nBest Newcomer \r\nTeppei Koike (Homeless Chugakusei) \r\nShota Matsuda (Ikigami) \r\nAyaka Wilson (Paco and the Magical Picture Book) \r\nAyane Nagabuchi (Sanbongi Nougyou Koukou, Bajutsubu) \r\nSaki Fukuda (Sakura no Sono) \r\nYuriko Yoshitaka (Hebi ni Piasu)','9ec657550c3f3c09fa691970f0f2c5e4',0,'','rTHlm19t',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8073,1585,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1235628600,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: Japan Academy Award 2007; 2008','This was announced before the Oscars \r\n\r\nBest film: Departures \r\n\r\nBest director: Yojiro Takita (Departures) \r\n\r\nBest actor: Motoki Masahiro (Departures) \r\n\r\nBest actress: Tae Kimura (All Around Us) \r\n\r\nBest supporting actress: Kimiko Yo (Departures) \r\n\r\nBest supporting actor: Tsutomu Yamazaki (Departures) \r\n\r\nBest screenplay: Kundo Koyama (Departures) \r\n\r\nBest animated film: Ponyo On The Cliff By The Sea \r\n\r\nBest foreign film: The Dark Knight \r\n\r\nBest music: Ponyo On The Cliff By The Sea \r\n\r\nBest cinematography: Departures \r\n\r\nBest lighting: Departures \r\n\r\nBest art direction: Paco And The Magical Picture Book \r\n\r\nBest sound: Departures \r\n\r\nBest editing: Departures \r\n\r\nSpecial award from the chairman: Kon Ichikawa, Ken Ogata \r\n\r\nTopical award (actor): Kenichi Matsuyama \r\n\r\nTopical award (film): Suspect X','2cedba536cc675f4aba6fafa2d951c5d',0,'','lXHrBTEq',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8074,1586,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1189047780,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','European Film Awards 2007','Wow ...\r\n\r\nit is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year!\r\n\r\nNominees - 3 Nov\r\nWinners - 1 Dec\r\n\r\nEUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2007\r\nThe Selection\r\n\r\nIn alphabetical order\r\n\r\n4 LUNI, 3 SAPTAMINI SI 2 ZILE (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days), Romania\r\ndirected by Cristian Mungiu\r\nproduced by Mobra Film SRL\r\n\r\nALATRISTE, Spain\r\ndirected by Agustin Daz Yanes\r\nproduced by Estudios Picasso (Telecinco Cinema)/Origen PC/Universal\r\n\r\nALEXANDRA, Russia/France\r\ndirected by Alexander Sokurov\r\nproduced by Proline-film Studio/Rezo Films\r\n\r\nAUF DER ANDEREN SEITE (The Edge of Heaven), Germany/Turkey\r\ndirected by Fatih Akin\r\nproduced by Corazn International GmbH & Co KG/Anka Film/Dorje Film/NDR\r\n\r\nBELLE TOUJOURS, Portugal/France\r\ndirected by Manoel de Oliveira\r\nproduced by Filbox Produes/Les Films dIci\r\n\r\nBIKUR HATIZMORET (The Band\'s Visit), Israel/France\r\ndirected by Eran Kolirin\r\nproduced by July August Productions/Sophie Dulac Productions\r\n\r\nBRN (Children), Iceland\r\ndirected by Ragnar Bragason\r\nproduced by Vesturport/Klikk Production/Kggull Filmworks/Artbox\r\n\r\nDAGEN ZONDER LIEF (With Friends Like These), Belgium\r\ndirected by Felix van Groeningen\r\nproduced by Menuet\r\n\r\nDU LEVANDE (You, the Living), Sweden/Germany/France/Denmark/Norway\r\ndirected by Roy Andersson\r\nproduced by Roy Andersson Filmproduktion AB/Thermidor\r\nFilmproduktion/Parisienne de Production/Posthus Teatret/4 \r\n\r\nEDUART, Greece/Germany\r\ndirected by Angeliki Antoniou\r\nproduced by CL Productions/Jost Hering Filme/Hellenic Broadcasting\r\nCorporation/Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH/Nova/Le Spot/Greek Film Centre/ODEON S.A/Angeliki Antoniou \r\n\r\nFARVL FALKENBERG (Falkenberg Farewell), Sweden/Denmark\r\ndirected by Jesper Ganslandt\r\nproduced by Memfis Film/Sveriges Television (SVT)/Film i Vst/Zentropa\r\nEntertainments24\r\n\r\nDAS FRULEIN (Fraulein), Switzerland/Germany\r\ndirected by Andrea Staka\r\nproduced by Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion/Quinte Film/ZDF Das kleine\r\nFernsehspiel/SF 1\r\n\r\nIMPORT EXPORT, Austria\r\ndirected by Ulrich Seidl\r\nproduced by Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion GmbH\r\n\r\nIN MEMORIA DI ME (In Memory of Myself), Italy\r\ndirected by Saverio Costanzo\r\nproduced by Offside SRL/Medusa Film\r\n\r\nIRINA PALM, Belgium/Germany/Luxemburg/UK/France\r\ndirected by Sam Garbarski\r\nproduced by Entre Chien et Loup/Pallas Film/Samsa Film/Ipso Facto\r\nFilms/Liaison Cinmatographique\r\n\r\nIZGNANIE (The Banishment), Russia\r\ndirected by Andrey Zvyagintsev\r\nproduced by Ren Film\r\n\r\nKLOPKA (The Trap), Serbia/Germany/Hungary\r\ndirected by Srdan Golubovic\r\nproduced by Bas Celik Film & Production House/Mediopolis\r\n\r\nKUNSTEN AT GRDE I KOR (The Art of Crying), Denmark/Norway\r\ndirected by Peter Schoenau Fog\r\nproduced by Final Cut Productions APS/Motlys AS\r\n\r\nLADRONES (Thieves), Spain\r\ndirected by Jaime Marques\r\nproduced by Pentagrama Films/Telecinco Cinema/Maestranza Films\r\n\r\nLADY CHATTERLEY, France\r\ndirected by Pascale Ferran\r\nproduced by Maia Films/Saga Films/Zephyr Films\r\n\r\nTHE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND, UK\r\ndirected by Kevin Macdonald\r\nproduced by DNA Films\r\n\r\nMIEHEN TY (Mans Job), Finland\r\ndirected by Aleksi Salmenper\r\nproduced by Blind Spot Pictures\r\n\r\nMIO FRATELLO FIGLIO UNICO (My Brother Is An Only Child), Italy\r\ndirected by Daniele Luchetti\r\nproduced by Cattleya/Babe Films\r\n\r\nLA MME (La Vie en Rose), France/Czech Republic/UK\r\ndirected by Olivier Dahan\r\nproduced by Lgende/ TF1 International/TF1 Films Production/Okko\r\nProduction s.r.o./Songbird Pictures Ltd\r\n\r\nMRIN (Jar City), Iceland/Germany/Denmark\r\ndirected by Baltasar Kormakur\r\nproduced by Blueeyes Productions/Bavaria Entertainment/Nordisk Film\r\n\r\nNINCS KEGYELEM (Without Mercy), Hungary\r\ndirected by Elemr Raglyi\r\nproduced by Tivoli-Filmproductions Ltd./Objektiv Film Studio Ltd.\r\n\r\nLA NOCHE DE LOS GIRASOLES (The Night of the Sunflowers),\r\nSpain/Portugal/France\r\ndirected by Jorge Snchez-Cabezudo\r\nproduced by Alta Produccin S.L./Fado Filmes/Stopline Filmes/The\r\nFilm/Arte France Cinma\r\n\r\nOBARNATA ELHA (Christmas Tree Upside Down), Bulgaria/Germany\r\ndirected by Ivan Cherkelov & Vassil Zhivkov\r\nproduced by Klas Film/Filmkombinat/Bulgarian National TV\r\n\r\nOBER (Waiter), The Netherlands/Belgium\r\ndirected by Alex van Warmerdam\r\nproduced by Graniet Film/La Parti Production/VARA\r\n\r\nOBSLUHOVAL JSEM ANGLICKHO KRLE \r\n(I Served the King of England), Czech Republic/Slovak Republic\r\ndirected by Ji&#345; Menzel\r\nproduced by AQS, a.s./Bioscop, a.s./CME Media Services, s.r.o./Barrandov\r\nStudio, a.s./Universal Production Partners, a.s./Magic Box Slovakia, s.r.o.\r\n\r\nONCE, Ireland\r\ndirected by John Carney\r\nproduced by Samson Films\r\n\r\nDAS PARFUM DIE GESCHICHTE EINES MRDERS \r\n(Perfume: The Story of a Murderer), Germany/France/Spain\r\ndirected by Tom Tykwer\r\nproduced by Constantin Film Produktion GmbH/Film & Entertainment VIP\r\nMedienfonds 4B GmbH & Co. KG/Nouvelles Editions de Films S.A./Castelao\r\nProductions S.A.\r\n\r\nPERSEPOLIS, France\r\ndirected by Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud\r\nproduced by 2.4.7. Films/France 3 Cinma/Diaphana Distribution/The\r\nKennedy/Marshall Company/Franche Connection Animations\r\n\r\nPLAC ZBAWICIELA (Saviors Square), Poland\r\ndirected by Joanna Kos-Krauze & Krzysztof Krauze\r\nproduced by Zebra Film Studio/TVP SA Film Agency/Canal+ Polska/PISF\r\n\r\nTHE QUEEN, UK/France/Italy\r\ndirected by Stephen Frears\r\nproduced by Granada/Path Renn/BIM Distribuzione\r\n\r\nREPRISE (Reprise), Norway/Sweden\r\ndirected by Joachim Trier\r\nproduced by Spillefilmkompaniet 4 1/2 /Filmlance Int. AB\r\n\r\nLA SCONOSCIUTA(The Unknown), Italy/France\r\ndirected by Giuseppe Tornatore\r\nproduced by Medusa Film S.p.A./Manigolda Film\r\n\r\nTHIS IS ENGLAND, UK\r\ndirected by Shane Meadows\r\nproduced by Warp Films\r\n\r\nVIER MINUTEN (Four Minutes), Germany\r\ndirected by Chris Kraus\r\nproduced by Kordes & Kordes Film GmbH/SWR/BR/arte/Journal Film Klaus\r\nVolkenborn KG\r\n\r\nVRATN LAHVE (Empties), Czech Republic/UK/Denmark\r\ndirected by Jan Sv&#283;rk\r\nproduced by Biograf Jan Sv&#283;rk, s.r.o./Portobello Pictures/Phoenix Film\r\nInvestment\r\n\r\nYUMURTA (Egg),Turkey/Greece\r\ndirected by Semih Kaplanoglu\r\nproduced by Kaplan Film Production/Inkas Film Production\r\n\r\nZWARTBOEK (Black Book), The Netherlands/Germany/Belgium/UK\r\ndirected by Paul Verhoeven\r\nproduced by Fu Works/Egoli Tossell Film/Clockwork Pictures/Hotel\r\nFilms/Hector\r\n\r\nBerlin, September 4, 2007','0358b1a6f569c0a4e9da3d2948858c11',0,'','BCr9lXP4',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8075,1586,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1194209940,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: European Film Awards 2007','www.europeanfilmacademy.o...82007.html\r\n\r\nEUROPEAN FILM 2007\r\n4 LUNI, 3 SAPTAMINI SI 2 ZILE (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days), Romania\r\ndirected by Cristian Mungiu\r\nproduced by Mobra Film SRL\r\n\r\nAUF DER ANDEREN SEITE (The Edge of Heaven), Germany/Turkey\r\ndirected by Fatih Akin\r\nproduced by Corazn International GmbH & Co KG/Anka Film/Dorje Film/NDR\r\n\r\nTHE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND, UK\r\ndirected by Kevin Macdonald\r\nproduced by DNA Films\r\n\r\nLA MME (La Vie en Rose), France/Czech Republic/UK\r\ndirected by Olivier Dahan\r\nproduced by Lgende/ TF1 International/TF1 Films Production/Okko\r\nProduction s.r.o./Songbird Pictures Ltd\r\n\r\nPERSEPOLIS, France\r\ndirected by Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud\r\nproduced by 2.4.7. Films/France 3 Cinma/Diaphana Distribution/The\r\nKennedy/Marshall Company/Franche Connection Animations\r\n\r\nTHE QUEEN, UK/France/Italy\r\ndirected by Stephen Frears\r\nproduced by Granada/Path Renn/BIM Distribuzione \r\n\r\nEUROPEAN DIRECTOR 2007\r\nFatih Akin for AUF DER ANDEREN SEITE (The Edge of Heaven) \r\nRoy Andersson for DU LEVANDE (You, the Living) \r\nStephen Frears for THE QUEEN\r\nKevin Macdonald for THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND\r\nCristian Mungiu for 4 LUNI, 3 SAPTAMINI SI 2 ZILE (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) \r\nGiuseppe Tornatore for LA SCONOSCIUTA (The Unknown) \r\n\r\nEUROPEAN ACTRESS 2007\r\nMarion Cotillard in LA MME (La Vie en Rose) \r\nMarianne Faithful in IRINA PALM \r\nCarice van Houten in ZWARTBOEK (Black Book) \r\nAnamaria Marinca in 4 LUNI, 3 SAPTAMINI SI 2 ZILE (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) \r\nHelen Mirren in THE QUEEN\r\nKsenia Rappoport in LA SCONOSCIUTA (The Unknown) \r\n\r\nEUROPEAN ACTOR 2007\r\nSasson Gabai in BIKUR HATIZMORET (The Bands Visit) \r\nElio Germano in MIO FRATELLO FIGLIO UNICO (My Brother is an Only Child) \r\nJames McAvoy in THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND\r\nMiki Manojlovic in IRINA PALM \r\nMichel Piccoli in BELLE TOUJOURS \r\nBen Whishaw in DAS PARFUM DIE GESCHICHTE EINES MRDERS (Perfume: The Story of a Murderer) \r\n\r\nEUROPEAN SCREENWRITER 2007\r\nFatih Akin for AUF DER ANDEREN SEITE (The Edge of Heaven) \r\nEran Kolirin for BIKUR HATIZMORET (The Bands Visit) \r\nPeter Morgan for THE QUEEN \r\nCristian Mungiu for 4 LUNI, 3 SAPTAMINI SI 2 ZILE (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) \r\n\r\nEUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER 2007\r\nAnthony Dod Mantle for THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND \r\nFrank Griebe for DAS PARFUM DIE GESCHICHTE EINES MRDERS (Perfume: The Story of a Murderer) \r\nMikhail Krichman for IZGNANIE (Banishment) \r\nFabio Zamarion for LA SCONOSCIUTA (The Unknown) \r\n\r\nEUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY PRIX DEXCELLENCE 2007\r\nUli Hanisch for Production Design DAS PARFUM DIE GESCHICHTE EINES MRDERS (Perfume: The Story of a Murderer) \r\nAnnette Focks, Jrg Hhne, Robin Pohle & Andreas Ruft for Sound VIER MINUTEN (Four Minutes) \r\nDidier Lavergne for Make up LA MME (La Vie en Rose) \r\nFrancesca Sartori for Costume ALATRISTE \r\nLucia Zucchetti for Editing THE QUEEN\r\n\r\nEUROPEAN COMPOSER 2007\r\nAlexandre Desplat for THE QUEEN \r\nAlex Heffes for THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND \r\nDejan Pejovic for GUCHA \r\nTom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek & Reinhold Heil for DAS PARFUM DIE GESCHICHTE EINES MRDERS (Perfume: The Story of a Murderer) \r\n\r\nIn addition to the awards listed above, the following will be announced and presented during the Awards Ceremony: \r\n\r\nEUROPEAN DISCOVERY 2007\r\nEUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY SHORT FILM 2007 - Prix UIP\r\nEUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD\r\nEUROPEAN ACHIEVEMENT IN WORLD CINEMA 2007 - Prix Screen International\r\nEUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY CRITICS AWARD 2007 - Prix Fipresci\r\nEUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY DOCUMENTARY 2007 - Prix Arte\r\nTHE PEOPLE\'S CHOICE AWARD 2007 for Best European Film','e711742abab409529987923975c5d002',0,'','rwVUxG2k',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8076,1586,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1194212460,1,0,1,1,1,1,'justindeimen','Re: European Film Awards 2007','Sasson Gabai was indeed the most captivating aspect in The Band\'s Visit, an above average film in other respects, to be fair.','72fa6ac46761fede35b3f5b096b90e84',0,'','CFi2TbH4',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8077,1586,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1194235320,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: European Film Awards 2007','Hi \r\ndid you watch it overseas?\r\ni am keen on the film too ...','7821ab9492c0d09a411f52af06ae8f7f',0,'','GFmQ14pr',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8078,1586,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1197183780,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: European Film Awards 2007','The results\r\nclick\r\nwww.europeanfilmacademy.o...nners.html\r\n\r\nEUROPEAN FILM 2007\r\n4 LUNI, 3 SAPTAMINI SI 2 ZILE (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days), Romania directed by Cristian Mungiu produced by Mobra Film SRL\r\n\r\nEUROPEAN DIRECTOR 2007\r\nCristian Mungiu for 4 LUNI, 3 SAPTAMINI SI 2 ZILE (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days)\r\n\r\nEUROPEAN ACTRESS 2007\r\nHelen Mirren in THE QUEEN\r\n\r\nEUROPEAN ACTOR 2007\r\nSasson Gabai in BIKUR HATIZMORET (The Bands Visit) \r\n\r\nEUROPEAN SCREENWRITER 2007\r\nFatih Akin for AUF DER ANDEREN SEITE (The Edge of Heaven) \r\n\r\nEUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER 2007\r\nFrank Griebe for DAS PARFUM DIE GESCHICHTE EINES MRDERS (Perfume: The Story of a Murderer) \r\n\r\nEUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY PRIX DEXCELLENCE 2007\r\nUli Hanisch for Production Design DAS PARFUM DIE GESCHICHTE EINES MRDERS (Perfume: The Story of a Murderer) \r\n\r\nEUROPEAN COMPOSER 2007\r\nAlexandre Desplat for THE QUEEN \r\n\r\nEUROPEAN DISCOVERY 2007\r\nBIKUR HATIZMORET (The Bands Visit) by Eran Kolirin, Israel\r\n\r\nEUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY SHORT FILM 2007 - Prix UIP\r\nALUMBRAMIENTO by Eduardo Chapero-Jackson, Spain\r\n\r\nEUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD\r\nJean-Luc Godard\r\n\r\nEUROPEAN ACHIEVEMENT IN WORLD CINEMA 2007 - Prix Screen International\r\nMichael Ballhaus\r\n\r\nEUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY CRITICS AWARD 2007 - Prix Fipresci\r\nCOEURS by Alain Resnais\r\n\r\nEUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY DOCUMENTARY 2007 - Prix Arte\r\nLE PAPIER NE PEUT PAS ENVELOPPER LA BRAISE (Paper cannot Wrap up Embers) by Rithy Panh, France\r\n\r\nTHE PEOPLE\'S CHOICE AWARD 2007 for Best European Film\r\nLA SCONOSCIUTA by Giuseppe Tornatore','3d26c1ecbb34cce6217a28349fbe647a',0,'','to1peDkm',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8079,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1101886080,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','The Last Film Seen','Simple enough topic, post about whatever the most recent film you watched. \r\n\r\nI\'ll start by saying I\'m watching To Each His Own (1946).','df172508df7128fdfad467ba73f21bfd',0,'','9MQo4bdj',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8080,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1101886740,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: The Last Film Seen','Kinsey (2004)','d2c2b3851f4025d6d284d8ceef844023',0,'','MjVTFk36',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8081,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1101888060,1,0,1,1,1,1,'FFJASON','Re: The Last Film Seen','Just saw Takeshi Kitano\'s Zatoichi (2003). Superb.','308627b8b2383ee6b41f5e7bff6aea9f',0,'','6Uy7qelD',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8082,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1101900360,1,0,1,1,1,1,'smurfrevolt','Re: The Last Film Seen','I just watched Fritz Lang\'s M in class. My students liked it. =D','187c39ee5a0a6feaa863d2e2fff6a625',0,'','JsVCH0MW',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8083,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1101915360,1,0,1,1,1,1,'Unregistered(d)','Re: The Last Film Seen','My Sassy Girl - totally hilarious! lol. and since am such a hopeless romantic, i enjoyed the movie a lot. \r\n\r\nCinema Paradiso - its good and i think it could be better.','6a587c49689432409be465f3b1ca3a69',0,'','XlysjCZd',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8084,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1101927540,1,0,1,1,1,1,'mikevan9','Re: The Last Film Seen','smurfrevolt,\r\n\r\nWhat class do you teach? I\'d be interested in what your students [i]said[/i] about M. That\'s one of my favorite movies, and I find it pretty damn cool that they\'d be into a 1930 German film.','beedaa8a2821f4eba8b2299cf80dbf0a',0,'','z2mMqk6F',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8085,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1101951960,1,0,1,1,1,1,'Unregistered(d)','Re: The Last Film Seen','Sleepaway Camp 2\r\nWhat a Difference a Gay Makes!','0f848873bdd19e2770bff8b81bcce9c3',0,'','X9VfER3L',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8086,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1101954960,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down (1990)\r\n\r\nI liked it, but I say that about every Almodovar film. Trying to get myself psyched up even more for Bad Education, which is coming out here in Chicago the last week of December.','7566d9d1e3ed702a21b3294342aa74ce',0,'','tkqMv75E',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8087,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1101961500,1,0,1,1,1,1,'A','Re: The Last Film Seen','Rote Sonne aka Red Sun by Rudolf Thome (West Germany / 1970)\r\nA film about 4 women living together who kill every lover they have after 5 days. When an ex-boyfriend of one of the girls arrives, things get complicated.\r\nThe whole movie is an interesting metaphor on male/female relations nowadays (or the ones of the 1970s in west germany ), with much symbolism.\r\nInteresting, but I didn\'t \"get\" it all.\r\n*** / ****','f2109d8a28116b5c82003881036f1586',0,'','sGmBTSyF',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8088,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1101966540,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','Not a whole movie but the first part of Three Extremes - Box directed by Takashi Miike, it actually surprised me at how thought provoking it was which is rare for the majority of Miike\'s output. I\'ll watch the other parts when I can find some spare time.','338de03211b47d1686e530ba53fb0141',0,'','CB053Uim',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8089,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1101970080,1,0,1,1,1,1,'dahiver','Re: The Last Film Seen','My last film:\r\n\r\nSpring, summer, autumn, winter,... and spring\r\n\r\nVery good!\r\n*****','f3281eaa201e665ac0cbb4db06886609',0,'','DdQzCGS1',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8090,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1101994320,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','The sublime \"Historias Minimas\", always a good experience.','3bfe59afc240e9cbff3041d32dcee323',0,'','o9fV1RKY',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8091,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1102005900,1,0,1,1,1,1,'nate','Re: The Last Film Seen','Last movie I\'ve seen in theater is \"Santa-Santita\" from Unitel Pictures who also produced the movie \"Crying Ladies\" which is a finalist for the Oscar Foreign film category. \r\nIn dvd, I\'ve watched the \"Spider-man 2\" and \"A Tale of Two Sisters\" in vcd.\r\n\r\nBTW, have any of you watched \"A Tale of Two Sisters\"? really great movie, kinda slow pace and weird but it was worth it. Lots of memorable scenes that will be glued in your head even after a week. Thought it was one of the gory horror movie, but it turns out to be something more.','eaf797376f0a186d9ff39c3daad1cbc9',0,'','ehp4wM61',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8092,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1102060920,1,0,1,1,1,1,'Unregistered(d)','Re: The Last Film Seen','santa santita - its a philippine movie about faith and modern age prostitution..over - all its a good movie, but there are still some technical flaws in cinematography and screenplay...','77c6b2b625d77595b400cace8a835efb',0,'','sMKnZE79',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8093,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1102080600,1,0,1,1,1,1,'chard09','Re: The Last Film Seen','last night, i watched, not a foreign film, welles\' the magnificent ambersons.. superb.\r\n\r\nthe other days i spent my time viewing some kurosawa films from Quiapo: Ran, Ikiru and Yojimbo.\r\n\r\nAlso, from the Spanish film Festival here in UP, I enjoyed The City of No Limits and El Viaje de Carol. I missed Historias Minimas, though.','8210c3dade851f38ca563d52f88a086f',0,'','zJaE5HYx',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8094,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1102114140,1,0,1,1,1,1,'smurfrevolt','Re: The Last Film Seen','To all the ppl from the Phils! Kumusta ulit! Haven\'t been to quiapo lately, the storm and the raids...Damn Edu, as my friends always say...\r\n\r\nwhere did you find the Magnificent Ambersons? I\'ve been looking for it everywhere...\r\n\r\nanyway, for the guy who liked M, I teach Film Theory and Appreciation. My students were basically just relieved they weren\'t bored to tears with it. they were pleasantly surprised that old movies can have a fast pace just as modern films do... and now that Peer Gynt tune gives them the creeps...\r\n\r\nhmmm, you mentioned Santa-Santita--watched it too. I was expecting to be blown away, but I was really disappointed. Bad script, and the lead actress\' inexperience (although by our standards out here, it\'s passable, not bad). Maybe the script was because there were three people working on it...I don\'t know...But at least the I\'d have to give it to Unitel pictures for trying to be different. I liked Crying Ladies a lot, although I don\'t think it would win at the Oscars...I mean, it\'s good, but not good enough to compete with other countries yet. It\'s like, we have only started making \'films\' when other countries have been making them for years. We\'ve been left behind. Kind of sad...it will take a long time and a lot of hard work before we can catch up...\r\n\r\nHey...about Salo...and Sir...darn forgot his name...anyway, he was my teacher in college too. (We asked if we could watch Salo, but he said there are even more depraved and disturbing films than that one...) Well, watched a lot of other films in his Theory and Criticism class. He showed us George Lucas\' American Grafitti and then Johnny Guitar during the first few weeks...and then we have to read that thick Film Criticism book with articles by Andre Bazin et. al... Wow...i miss those days, and free movie screenings at the UP Film Center...','867d052406588f61a0c54d726ca451e1',0,'','glnTMzGt',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8095,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1102151280,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Breaking Away (1979)\r\n\r\nThis is part of my seemingly endless quest to watch every film nominated for a best picture Oscar. This particular picture is the last of the nominees I needed to see from 1979, so another year bites the dust.\r\n\r\nAs for the film, like many I\'ve been watching I wonder how this got a nomination, especially considering Woody Allen\'s Manhattan was unnominated in that category.','d7a70824dcd9c2e84273fbe372cf6950',0,'','s3APnwq2',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8096,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1102155420,1,0,1,1,1,1,'chard09','Re: The Last Film Seen','ei smurfrevolt, i\'m glad your students enjoyed M. Anyway, in the previous site you said you\'re a member of UP CAM in CFA. Now, you\'re a professor.. wow. i also study in UP right now, and who knows i\'ve been your student, or your student right now. of course, wou\'ll not give your real name here cause you might think i\'ll be teasing you when we meet in the university. What specific class do you teach? Is it also under College of Fine Arts. Anyway, I finished last sem my theory and criticism class, having loads of time with Bazin, Eisenstein and the never-ending psychoanalysis and post modernism.\r\n\r\nabout sir..i also forgot him.. hehe.. he\'s now in korea. i think as an exchange professor.. i remember him in our class.. hehe..\r\n\r\nabout fritz lang, perhaps i preferred more watching metropolis simply because i saw it in big screen. remember when the Goethe Institut sponsored screening of Murnau and Lang films at SM? Were you there? but anyway, i also liked M, especially Peter Lorre\'s eyes..hehe.. creepy.. i still haven\'t watched his four-hour Dr. Mabuse..\r\n\r\nregarding magnificent ambersons, abre los ojos. you\'ll surely see it in quiapo. the one i had, and i think the only one available, is the DVD copy with the cardboard casing.. \'the Bo-ying ones\'.. they are disastrous ones because they are very poor in English subtitles.. grabe.. imagine watching a more than two-hour film Ikiru with full of grammatical errors and erroneous translations (I reread the lines in donald richie\'s book..) about the film, ambersons will surely not disappoint you, esp if you admire much his debut and said-to-be, the greatest film of all time..\r\n\r\nso there..\r\n\r\npasensya na po..','14091efe961b1fb9180db3eb4032e802',0,'','BlfiUVY0',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8097,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1102163280,1,0,1,1,1,1,'kebao','Re: The Last Film Seen','Millenium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)\r\n\r\nHey, I also studied in Peyups. Long time ago. Never had any film classes, however.','eead71ebd94311a8b227b2fabf6919bd',0,'','HvPVibng',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8098,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1117746300,1,0,1,1,1,1,'ManicallyHip','Re: The Last Film Seen','Reconstruction (2004?) a Danish film by the director Christopher Boe -- crazy movie but excellent.','ca3c4eda1ba4c5ac3cc8dac248f91467',0,'','1QbRl7zh',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8099,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1117797900,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','A mixture of good and bad yesterday:\r\n\r\nPickpocket - Bresson, excellent.\r\nFighter in the Wind - Yun-ho Yang, overhyped, I\'ll write more in Korean Korner.\r\nA Bizarre Love Triangle - Mu-yeong Lee, pretty bad, I\'ll write more in Korean Korner. \r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','d6eaedbb398a5a60cdf8968464498c30',0,'','9J0pQ2Pn',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8100,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1117813380,1,0,1,1,1,1,'Sara','Re: The Last Film Seen','trevor, is Pickpocket on DVD yet? I\'ve always wanted to see it.\r\n\r\nSara','0dc84dba5e62e5dc74562215c457ea9e',0,'','CHzF258j',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8101,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1117820160,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','trevor, is Pickpocket on DVD yet? I\'ve always wanted to see it.\r\n\r\nIt has been released in the UK by Artificial Eye as a very good 2 disc set, I don\'t know if it\'s available in the US.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','00a9e5283de6ae4587ce4fb72a07dae8',0,'','Rbel9aPA',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8102,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1117911600,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','not available in the US yet. New Yorker however is releasing L\'Argent, or rather they were. I got an email saying that the release date has been changed, but don\'t know what to. Kinda pisses me off, and christ knows New Yorker\'s website is no help.\r\n\r\nAs for me, the last movie I saw was Crash. The Paul Haggis one, not Cronenberg\'s. Damn good movie, a little downbeat, but ultimately there was a redemptive quality to it that I liked. The acting was generally pretty good, although I thought the Sandra Bullock-Brendan Frasier sub plot was a little weak. And the movie even managed to get a laugh out loud from me in the theater, quite rare. Also liked the fact that the movie commented on racism without using a Southern White Redneck in a white hood. In all highly recommended.','44e34a6e0cc3356fcc9049805531a187',0,'','sBEzuV6S',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8103,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1118056140,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','Crying Out Love in the Center of the World - Sekai no chshin de, ai wo sakebu (2004)\r\n\r\nWow this bothers me, it\'s a tragic romance that goes on for over 2 hours, it didn\'t bore me, it actually brought a tear to my eye, I must be getting soft in my old age or the film was effective. \r\n\r\nPerhaps it was because the tragedy in this case was caused by leukemia or \"atom bomb disease\" as it\'s still known in Japan, either way this film has done very well in SE Asia.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','8792e55d4414c09fa56d221f9d18f7e6',0,'','VcuEpy3L',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8104,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1118277060,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','The Old Dark House (1932) - James Whale\r\n\r\nSomewhat overlooked and forgotten film from Whale during his golden age. This has a typical cast for him, with repeat performers like Karloff, Gloria Stuart, and Ernest Thiesger. The film itself is less comedic than his other films, but certainly has it\'s own charm. It is primarily atmospheric, and although some of it is extremely far fetched, it is overall an enjoyable early sound horror film.','a4f879e764733d8525919f83681c1d3d',0,'','y7fNYFv1',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8105,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1118324940,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','Springtime in a Small Town (2002)\r\n\r\nOne of those films where the more you see it the more you enjoy the subtleties of the performances. Very much a character driven movie, I wish I could see the original version though.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','66a828d53db55d3914a98674386f0e4c',0,'','zlm9a7eM',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8106,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1118359440,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)\r\n\r\nA little disappointing. Perhaps it was the lack of production values, or perhaps the unfunny comedy, but I just don\'t see the charm in Ealing films.','e1bae41ea583b4f27a59741705c3e8f3',0,'','iekEYcwB',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8107,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1118384160,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','F For Fake (1972) - Orson Welles\r\n\r\nA bit of a muddled mess, and unfortunately it suffers from a lack of unity, production values, resources, and ultimately a cohesive structure. Perhaps it can be rewarding, but on a first viewing it\'s too different to really appreciate fully, which may be why other people love it.','a9d9ba163555df4b65a3ff0d3946de18',0,'','MjvrKQ7P',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8108,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1118420580,1,0,1,1,1,1,'mikevan9','Re: The Last Film Seen','re: F for Fake. I tried to watch it the other night and couldn\'t get it through it for a lot of the reasons you suggested. I\'m a big Welles fan and and I wonder if people love F for Fake because we Orson nuts like to think there\'s some undiscovered Welles masterpiece out there.','a14c6cd7fa731ff9557e28df8fa2ffa9',0,'','kBQgseu3',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8109,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1118459700,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Epidemic (1987) - Lars Von Trier\r\n\r\nI sometimes woner with cinema am I after good movies, bad movies, or original movies? Von Trier has had some hits and misses, but his films have consistently been different and original. Epidemic doesn\'t even fit in with other Von Trier films that I\'ve seen, although I haven\'t seen many from this era. He shot it in grainy black and white film, and after about the five minute mark the only color was the title of the film superimposed in the upper left hand corner of the screen, where it stayed for the remainder of the film. \r\n\r\nThe film went all over the place, from a story of two screenwriters trying to formulate a story, to the film in which they were invisioning, to that ending which is a mystery in and of itself. I remember Lars being a hot topic of debate before the crash, so perhaps this\'ll get people going on the most controversial director working today.','fb19b1bc7c20fd2cb8387d23c9be98dc',0,'','kzaYVS2R',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8110,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1118464740,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Vive L\'Amour (1994) - Tsai Ming Liang\r\n\r\nWell my second Liang film gave me a better idea what to expect, and this film is very similar. Little dialogue, long shots, and no real plot to speak of. Perhaps the more movies of his I see, the better I\'ll like him, but I still wasn\'t overwhelmed by it. Got plenty more to watch though.','ecd59e26ddf926f063562dd702650974',0,'','wC76tNfv',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8111,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1118470380,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Get Shorty (1995) - Barry Sonnenfeld\r\n\r\nThe film is fun, and that\'s the best description I can give it. The film isn\'t great, just as the sequel was somewhat lackluster, but it\'s entertaining. There is an overemphasis on being cool, but well what do you expect?','5aaa73e141fac8b99eeb6a97f7f56c85',0,'','qyd9zZUH',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8112,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1118519640,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Paris, Texas (1983) - Wim Wenders\r\n\r\nWell I finally got to see this film, only took me several years. The film fits well into Wenders\' road movies series, but falls a little short of False Movement, which for one reason or another I find to be the most amazingly wonderful film in his catalogue. The picture is moving and effective, and shows that in any language, Wenders can still be effective. Harry Dean Stanton gave a remarkable performance, and in all I would rate this film very highly among the director\'s work.','5e6cffed96ea998086248934bb96531b',0,'','jJ9TZm05',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8113,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1118535900,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Bamboozled (2000) - Spike Lee\r\n\r\nOne of Lee\'s best, he reaches high (as usual) and this time he scores. But this perhaps more than his other films is a take it or leave it, no review favorable or unfavorable can adequately prepare you for it, just has to be seen by everyone.','a4c5574e3f87766ca2a3f361d01a3bf0',0,'','UwWunqxP',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8114,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1118563980,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Ace in the Hole (1951) - Billy Wilder\r\n\r\nOne of the great films right here, a true masterpiece from Wilder, worthy of comparison to any of his best work from the era. Douglas shines in what may be his best performance, but there are a lot of great roles. Just wish the film was more readily available.','966cfb0152473d66e8e9e844743a0db6',0,'','RXMw2EeS',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8115,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1119089700,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Howl\'s Moving Castle (2005) \r\n\r\nJust saw this, and enjoyed it, but a little too tired to offer any constructive criticism.','fd45f18e0d286e4a1c70d6abc077875e',0,'','Jk5UP9l2',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8116,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1119092100,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','wpqx, I\'m dying to know what you thought of Howl\'s Moving Castle, please try and write your comments later.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','cc5217dcb00a79c3c86515b7387204b3',0,'','ibsdLQlZ',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8117,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1119634200,1,0,1,1,1,1,'andre angel','Re: The Last Film Seen','Howl\'s Moving Castle was great! I loved it at first sight.\r\n\r\nI like to think that the last line of the Queen is just a joke. War is not so simple a thing, but I love the theme of the film, so let\'s just forget it.\r\n\r\nWhat I get as a messege from this movie is like this;\r\nTo dream a dream is not bad. If you have guts to escape from here, it\'s your own choice. So move yourself! Go there!\r\n\r\nMiyazaki\'s gentle attitudes to the weak people is also nice. The face of the castle tells us everything, and Sophie\'s encounter with Howl is her own invitation.','b5990b3069cf38de8e2dba7ca8b27d9a',0,'','ct0DZT75',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8118,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1119849060,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','The Five Obstructions (2003)\r\n\r\nWasn\'t particularly blown away by this. Interested to here someone\'s positive take on the film, and any reasons supporting it.','d9e25ce827aafb1d0dfd50562a9277f5',0,'','6t8dTnYv',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8119,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1120095660,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','HIGH TENSION\r\n\r\n[U.S. members] If you have been to the local multiplex in the recent past then its very likely that you\'ve come across a particular preview before the feature. Im referring to the one which looks kind of gray and you immediately sense that its for a horror film. Soon, various images of a scared and battered female flash on the screen; you also see someone running out into the street in front of a car and later indignantly carrying a log ringed with barbed wire. That preview belongs to this much-hyped French horror/thriller called High Tension (Haute Tension) which has just been released stateside. The film begins on the road with two young college students, Marie (Ccile de France), and Alex (Mawenn Le Besco), traveling to latters remote countryside house in order to study for exams. Soon after reaching their destination, the house is invaded by a mad trucker in filthy overalls. His murderous rampage begins with the brutal murder of Alexs father along with his dog. Marie cunningly avoids the killer in her room, but soon has to listen to the rape of her friend, and as she eventually tries to get to the phone downstairs, she unfortunately ends up witnessing the gruesome slashing of the girlfriend of Alexs father. Once the killer moves out (to get to Alexs younger brother whos run out), she tries to unlock the bound Alex but the man comes back to get her in order to take her along. Somehow, avoiding the killers eye, Marie ends up in the truck with her friend, not being sure whats next for them.\r\n\r\nSo, that was the set-up of this gory horror almost certain to please all the blood-thirsty zombies out there and you already know if you are one! Director Alexandre Aja certainly has an eye for staging repulsive mayhem (is that a good thing?) as Ive never quite seen such brutality on screen before. (The version released in the U.S. is supposedly cut but to most this will look like a \"director cut,\" not an \"edited\" one.) Whatever one might say about the film, it is technically accomplished. Aja wisely uses his widescreen compositions to rouse and unnerve the audience. The sound design is intricate, and while youre probably heard those squeaky hinges, barking dogs etc. theyve never been employed as well before (partly because of the nauseating images). Viewers who werent familiar with the film beforehand might feel something odd about the early conversation between the two friends -- its dubbed! Yup, thats right, and badly so I might add, but there are parts in the film that arent. (In order to accommodate this, films N. American distributor [Lions Gate Films] has converted Alexs family into Americans. If an individual is willing to do the political math then \"Freedom Fries\" might eventually come to mind, but in this case, I think the distributor deserves the benefit of the doubt.)\r\n\r\nIll be honest, the most \"tense\" moment for me was watching Ccile de France masturbate for a good couple of minutes before anything happened. But as she eventually races to save her friend in a souped-up car (American style), those moments were way behind me as she started to look a little mad herself. What did came to mind however was the stripped-down, no nonsense approach that American horror films of the 70s and 80s used to employ. (Aja has credited films like I Spit On Your Grave and most of Wes Craven 70s oeuvre as an influence.) In some ways, he seems to be throwing the gauntlet at the recent self-conscious horrors and spoofs while saying: Mock This! Im not quite sure why audiences worldwide enjoy films like this but what truly ruined the film for me was the final \"twist\" which came about 20-minutes before the end (thus more gore followed). The trick Aja and his screenwriters pull is cheap and misogynistic, but from the looks of things, theyve been successful in transporting the audience back in time, and in this case that\'s certainly not a good thing.','bf29de002b6efa9ef57ce0de0e8139ba',0,'','ioFTbd3J',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8120,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1120100700,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','High Tension (Haute Tension) was marketed a while ago in the UK as Switchblade Romance (for some strange reason), strange that it was given an anglicised name yet thankfully (for what it\'s worth) it wasn\'t dubbed at all, unlike sections of the US release.\r\n\r\nI\'d have to agree with arsaib4\'s review and found the plot fairly obvious, the death of the father was like something out of Monty Python and was ludicrously funny (in a bizarre way). It would obviously help your enjoyment of the film if you\'re a fan of the slasher genre, fortunately I\'m not but it did have fairly decent production values unlike some I\'ve seen. \r\n\r\nWhat\'s the point of High Tension ,Haute Tension, Switchblade Romance when these films are a dime a dozen, do we need a French slasher flick? the only answer you\'ll get from me is non.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','e3ad96b1b0baffa583e3d00b8740e649',0,'','QMUwYk8D',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8121,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1120161540,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: The Last Film Seen','Quote Trevor, \"Crying Out Love in the Center of the World - Sekai no chshin de, ai wo sakebu (2004)\r\n\r\nWow this bothers me, it\'s a tragic romance that goes on for over 2 hours, it didn\'t bore me, it actually brought a tear to my eye, I must be getting soft in my old age or the film was effective.\"\r\n\r\nHey,\r\n\r\nI am glad that you like the movie ...\r\nI posted my comments some time ago ...\r\nwww.filmwurld.com/forums/...t=sekai+no\r\n\r\nbut like MOST postings ... it has vaporized too ... \r\nAnyway, there is a TV version of this in 2004 too ...\r\nThe cast is different but it has rave reviews ...\r\n\r\nRecall my earlier comments in filmwurld \r\n(i.e., some \"stereotypes\" about Asian TV series ... hee hee)\r\nwww.filmwurld.com/forums/...asian+soap\r\n\r\nIn sum, I also like the movie ...','bd1cc4c5c2278f5d59628bc2ceb7d409',0,'','NrgxbouH',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8122,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1120161720,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: The Last Film Seen','Quote Trevor, \"Springtime in a Small Town (2002)\r\n\r\nOne of those films where the more you see it the more you enjoy the subtleties of the performances. Very much a character driven movie, I wish I could see the original version though.\r\n\r\nHey,\r\n\r\nIf you are okay with no subtitles or Chinese subtitles (because you already know the gist of the movie from the new version), the original version is available ...\r\n\r\nrgds\r\nHeng','24f8a0a6bb2217e86e5da5093ebb8ae8',0,'','oi5d6QRE',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8123,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1120861920,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: The Last Film Seen','Everything from 12/04/04 to 06/03/05 have been deleted by the virus. So, I have deleted them.\r\n\r\nWell, I am editing this thread to move the thread up ... else it will be lost in the last few pages ... and I will get some scolding from the members ... \r\n\r\n* naughty grin *','0424df912bb8fc74f5b4331d83eef0c7',0,'','1ZSgqBjV',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8124,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1120994280,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Let me bump it up.\r\n\r\nThe last movie I\'ve seen was Sling Blade. Billy Bob Thornton\'s one serious attempt at being an auteur. The critical success of this has surprised me as to why he wouldn\'t direct more films, but I honestly didn\'t feel like sitting though three hours of special features to look for an answer. The film itself was pretty damn good. Very subtle, and I loved that because whenever you\'re dealing with the mentally challenged there is always a tendecy to play for sympathy.','333872ce312f508d11c851c17c8c4e0b',0,'','tnXV4u3q',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8125,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1121015580,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','The Descent directed by Neil Marshall 2005.\r\n\r\nCan\'t say too much because it\'ll probably take a good couple of months before it\'s released in the US but the basic premise is a group of 6 women set off to explore some deep caves and things go horribly wrong.\r\n\r\nThe good thing is, it\'s a film that has several layers and therefore several interpretations, you can take it at it\'s most basic, a fairly decent horror flick or you can delve deeper which means re-interpreting some of the early scenes, enough said for now.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','89b58c85318532ded158612e109c782f',0,'','yYt9V0l4',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8126,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1121052420,1,0,1,1,1,1,'spy in the house of love','Re: The Last Film Seen','Last movies I\'ve seen:\r\n\r\n- Julien donkey boy (harmony Korine)\r\n- Pierrot Le Fou (Godard)\r\n- Made In USA (Godard)\r\n- Prnom Carmen (Godard)\r\n- Querelle (Fassbinder)\r\n\r\ni. Julien Donkey Boy was not an easy movie, but it had beautiful parts. Korine is growing on me.\r\n\r\nii. Pierrot Le Fou was out of the three Godard movies Ive seen this week my favorite. Delightful.\r\n\r\niii. Made In USA was not what i expected it to be, but so very classy and Godard and Anna Karina and the loveliness of every single detail. \r\n\r\niv. Prnom Carmen sounded strange, Im used to godard\'s early work so this, was, just different. the whole cinematography and music and everything. i liked it nevertheless, but not as much as all the other films Ive seen by him.\r\n\r\nv. Querelle. My introduction to Fassbinder. I have a strange fascination with sailors and i must say I loved it.\r\nThe colors were stunning, the music, Jeanne singing each man kills the thing he loves, the thoughts and feelings of solitude and experience. (Im quite curious about other people\'s thoughts on this film).','726edef3c0fc5aa08d5a131f88b03b45',0,'','yomwrSQZ',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8127,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1121209800,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Watched Le Notti Binache (1957) from Luchino Visconti.\r\n\r\nQuite a bit different from Bresson\'s film from the same source material, when I get the chance I\'d like to do a more thorough comparisson between the two. I certainly enjoyed the film, and even though I knew the ending, I couldn\'t help but be moved by it, first rate work from the Count.','6b4a428fef9885a7e6d5295808f5aaf1',0,'','q50TpfcJ',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8128,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1121330400,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997) - Werner Herzog\r\n\r\nOne of his non-fiction films this is a deceptively simple film from Herzog about a German immigrant who became a POW in Vietnam. The film focuses on the psychological impact it had upon him, and the title character even goes back to Vietnam with Herzog to retrace his occupation. Great filmmaking from Herzog, who doesn\'t seem to be afraid of ANYTHING when it comes to make a movie.','eebb2b21696c0c7e5ed52451e4aa4182',0,'','2ReWTyxz',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8129,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1121414220,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','In Old Arizona (1929) - Raoul Walsh & Irving Cummings\r\n\r\nWell can\'t say the expectations were very high for this film, so it didn\'t really disappoint. The film is more notorious for the backstory that cost Raoul Walsh his eye, as well as the role of Sgt. Mickey Dunn. In fact the film effectively ended Walsh\'s acting career, so much so that many filmgoers have no idea that he actually was a leading man. The role of Dunn wouldn\'t have been much different from Walsh\'s role in the earlier Sadie Thompson, that of a womanizing military man. Ironically in both films the female lead appeared to be the only salvagable female in the area.\r\n\r\nThat female is the awkward looking and bad acting Dorothy Burgess. Not surprising her acting career didn\'t amount to much afterwards. Her bad accent was enough to put me off on her performance. Plus perhaps I can owe it to a change in standards of beauty, but I couldn\'t see this woman as a tantalizing femme fatale, but as I mentioned before she\'s basically the only game in town. So if we look at the situation like that, think of how many girls you\'ve met who initially weren\'t that attractive, but as time went on became finer and finer just because there weren\'t any others around. Still that wouldn\'t explain the fact that the newcommers in town still fall for her, but they\'re military men, there standards are obviously lower.\r\n\r\nWarner Baxter won an Oscar for his work as the Cisco Kid, and Jesus Christ he didn\'t deserve it. Granted few of the other nominees are even known today, and honest enough I haven\'t seen any of them. Baxter\'s accent is so poor I couldn\'t tell if he was supposed to be Mexican, Italian, or Portugese. I also don\'t think either lead had enough charisma to effectively pull off this role, both leads were too old and too fat and too ugly to be believable. The Cisco Kid shouldn\'t be a middle aged man, but what do I know.\r\n\r\nSo the casting sucked, the acting sucked, the pacing sucked, and the structure sucked. What was good? The anti-feminist attitude. Old Hollywood films have an enormous potential to be politically incorrect, and this one certainly fits the bill. In addition to the ethnic stereotypes, there is also a decidedly anti-feminist sentiment. The female is a pure gold digger, and don\'t mind me giving anything away the criminal, who doubles as a hero, gets away, far cry from the \"sinners get punished\" filmmaking of the Hayes office. That alone made the film ineteresting. I know I\'ve given the picture way too much attention, considering it was a very forgettable film.','b586e690511d688acc0c9922d814d45e',0,'','AJbzDYPo',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8130,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1121572080,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Blackboards (2000) - Samira Makhmalbaf\r\n\r\nWell the first film from Samira that I\'ve seen, and I wasn\'t sure I really enjoyed it. Perhaps I\'m getting sick of every Iranian film being so intentionally depressing. Perhaps someone can offer a little more insight into what makes this film so special. I\'m yet to see The Apple, so I\'ll hold off making any generalizations on Samira Makhmalbaf until then.','47a867e6d398581181c7a7587f111df9',0,'','bZLtkHmz',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8131,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1121596980,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','If \"The Apple\" is your last hope, you might as well give up now, real story, actual people involved playing themselves, yes it does have a point to make but it\'s not likely to change your opinion.\r\n\r\nI\'d suggest watching \"Joy of Madness\" an unabashedly honest look at Samira at work by her sister Hana.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','891d12f7acd5c491f09daa44d2ea95a4',0,'','E7RcfqGC',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8132,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1121657580,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Forty Guns (1957) - Samuel Fuller\r\n\r\nThis looks to me a bit like Fuller\'s variation on Johnny Guitar, although this one is missing most of the excitement. Guns is shot well, but it gets to be a little too much of a meat sandwich, and a few too many characters. It lost me somewhat into it, so I just followed the technical aspects of it, which remained interesting.','06a6e21bb74d0984ff2240d16a7374ad',0,'','SVDRBP1x',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8133,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1122546120,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Ken Burns\' Civil War (1990)\r\n\r\nTook me long enough to watch this, in both senses of the term. It maintained my interest, and was very well done. Having just studied the Civil War, most of it was pretty familiar, including some of the anecdotes revealed. Look forward to seeing Burns\' other documentaries some day, but who knows when.','9ca8701cff18b041e240560ac0cd90a1',0,'','98ihZWJ5',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8134,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1122775560,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Well the Life Aquatic was the last film, although I began watching Errol Morris\' First Person which isn\'t a film.\r\n\r\nAs for Anderson\'s film it was enjoyable, and certainly fits in with his previous efforts, but I don\'t think it quite measures up to them.','442b2f31ad7a52f0a6bc48a7bae99760',0,'','fENxJv7D',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8135,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1122970440,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Watched Ulysses Gaze finally. Absolutely fantastic film, confused the hell out of me, but lots of Angelopoulus films do. Seemed to have the most in common with The Travelling Players. Very highly recommended.','bbb1526d66533222bd572dffe1b7d593',0,'','uvCN269Z',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8136,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1123009740,1,0,1,1,1,1,'A','Re: The Last Film Seen','Phu, glad you liked it.','2020e04e3fc2e7fdb464db1f2c1d52ba',0,'','LYZPWy4E',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8137,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1123178820,1,0,1,1,1,1,'kookook','Re: The Last Film Seen','However im slightly confused with the ending. What happened there? One minute shes in the car, then i think she has a flashback, then shes back in the cave and if i remember right her daughters there with a cake (what is it with that cake. they showed it a couple of times in the film) and then her daughter wasnt there as the camera panned out.\r\n\r\nWhat is the deal with the ending then? Anybody able to elaborate on this?\r\n*','53c0feeac4e6294d2cca007369b58e19',0,'','60eyLQ7j',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8138,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1123180740,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','If I didn\'t know better I\'d think you were talking about the end of Brit flick \"Descent.\"\r\n\r\nOr are you?\r\n\r\nIf you are then to understand the ending you would need to go right back to the start, as I said the film has several layers and several interpretations, as far as I\'m concerned the film switches mode when she wakes up in hospital after the accident, from then on you need to clarify fantasy from reality. \r\n\r\nCheers Trev','540819518b37ac0bfafad7a1e27c2399',0,'','c0SxHTnB',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8139,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1123442580,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','The World (2005)\r\n\r\nGot to see this film Friday. Unfortunately the week before Jonathan Rosenbaum was at the theater to lead a discussion afterwards, but I had to miss that showing. I did enjoy the film, but I believe there is a thread on the picture, so I\'ll save my comments for that.','642319e6e196364cf97b56bac88e5b1d',0,'','JclxgKMX',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8140,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1123453500,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Casanova (1976) - Federico Fellini\r\n\r\nWhat a mess, horrible dubbing, awful acting, and just plain nonsense.\r\n\r\nLuna (1979) - Bernardo Bertolucci\r\n\r\nThis film should have never been made, not really a saving grace about it, possibly Bertolucci\'s worst film, although I haven\'t seen them all.','9fb3f7dde000070c6c19604e078c0921',0,'','VuRlby0F',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8141,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1123564020,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Alfie (1966) - Lewis Gilbert\r\n\r\nInteresting British film that seems badly dated. I must say I liked it better the first time, when it was The Knack and Richard Lester was the director. Granted the films aren\'t really similar, but Lester had a wonderful quality of not taking himself seriously, which unfortunately Gilbert doesn\'t have. I believe this would function better as a straight comedy, but well then it wouldn\'t have gotten a best picture nomination, and I probably wouldn\'t have seen it. If you\'re a Michael Caine fan this is worth checking out in the days before everyone shamelessly kissed his ass.','d571068427254d2e40e6c4be68dbb535',0,'','tgC6eyFj',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8142,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1123706100,1,0,1,1,1,1,'kookook','Re: The Last Film Seen','The last movie I saw was The Ring 2. It was complete garbage. My band\'s rhythm guitarist and I went to see it. Everyone was talking so we didn\'t have a problem letting our \"punk rock\" influence shine out. We were screaming randomly, laughing when anyone died(the faces of those killed by Samara are the same as the guy on The Wall by Pink Floyd). I had a bottle in my pocket, a tobasco bottle guitar slide, and I was hitting random people with it saying \"I knight thy.\" Chase ran up to the front and kicked the screen. In the scene where the young possessed boy me and chase both yelled \"YAY! Penut butter and pills!\"\r\n\r\nTwas a great time, and we didn\'t get kicked out because every one else was carrying on. I heard four cellphones go off and distictivly heard a couple having sex. God I live in such a red neck town.','cabcc87aedc266dcc1426f6488eddc37',0,'','fVoxlJtk',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8143,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1123712160,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','kookook, where are you from, since you\'ve seen \"Descent\" I assume you\'re in the UK?\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','816ffc83fabfa44c33e3b155d9286b69',0,'','uLCopk91',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8144,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1123721220,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Well redneck would imply somewhere in the US\r\n\r\nI just saw Saraband, and already posted a thread of it.','ff2d712cd59d121b849d0c982019b62a',0,'','ZmkSML8G',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8145,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1123721760,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','Yes, the \"Redneck\" phrase is usually associated with the US and was why asked the question. \r\n\r\nStrange, perhaps kookook will deem to enlighten us.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','3d5b4c371b6479ae4fa67673e2d41c77',0,'','jzHfnReK',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8146,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1123826640,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2003) \r\n\r\nDecent film, but had that lul of a second film in a series. Hopefully the third is better, as I\'m told it is. Production values are still great, but John Williams score grew tiresome, and I think more could have been done with the film.','77d9a0042b781a3b2f98933a7665cd5a',0,'','dVRibeS4',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8147,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1123961880,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Law and Order (1969) - Frederick Wiseman\r\n\r\nAbsolutely fantastic filmmaking. Wiseman is a documentarian in the truest sense. He simply turns his camera on and makes a movie. There is no commentary, no interviews, no stock footage, no establishing shots. Simply one encounter after another.\r\n\r\nThis film takes a look at well Law and Order, focusing on the life of Missouri Police Officers, and the people they run into on the job. Some are violent, some are docile, and some are just plain silly. It\'s all great though, the way Cops should be.','b916a819a5e0a04d75d8dc3b83599e59',0,'','2U1ZKVQp',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8148,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1123968240,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Made in USA (1966) - Jean Luc Godard\r\n\r\nSome filmmakers are instantly and consistently entertaining, Godard is one of them. This was still during his adventerous sixties phase, so it bears many similarities to the films directly preceeding it. In fact it was shot simultaneously with Two or Three Things I Know About Her. This atakes Godard\'s love of America a little further, with a high amount of film references as always, including one of the main characters being named Widmark. The story is a conventional murder mystery, but when have you known Godard to shoot anything conventionally? He takes the tired and stale subject matter, and turns it into a fresh politically charged blend of avant-garde filmmaking. The man is a legend, and despite his most recent work, his reputation was well earned off of films like this.','5a3165cae2c98806422fd5466e6f1b1c',0,'','E38aF7tL',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8149,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1124059800,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Together (2000) - Lukas Moodysson\r\n\r\nCerrtainly enjoyable and entertaining. Gave me enough encouragement to hunt out more films from the director (Show Me Love has been on my to watch list for years), interested in opinions on some of his other films, always looking for further places to go from filmmakers.','dd023c1a12b06d67163b2901986055d5',0,'','pYernzoh',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8150,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1124394180,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','Caught Ondskan on it\'s last day in the multiplex then had to dash about 2 miles to the art-house cinema to catch The Consequence of Love, full reports to follow.\r\n\r\nBy the way, where is everyone. I seem to be the only person who has posted in the last day or 2?\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','beff81b507a6c62a8d15c69e2ed615a9',0,'','UoMTe5VJ',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8151,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1124410440,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','I\'ve been watching Simpson\'s and Sopranos, and although I normally will try to catch a movie Wednesday, I had to work (which was fine because I REALLY needed the money. I\'m watching 3 Extremes now though, so I\'ll get this party started.\r\n\r\nAnd if Arsaib has seen The Conformist in the theater, why hasn\'t he posted about it?','c9a9b41973dcf145338ad6c65b864cd9',0,'','oi47p5yG',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8152,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1124429280,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','I\'d love to but I don\'t know what i can possibly say that hasn\'t already been said. I\'ll say this: don\'t read this gibberish, just watch it!','bab632cd68341c751a311aa15671ff85',0,'','iGh2t3Ew',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8153,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1124557620,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','Take 3 parts Logan\'s Run, add 2 parts of The Matrix, toss in 3 large portions of in your face product placement, add a smattering of nearly every Sci Fi film from the last few years and some awful CGI, blend in some good actors, allow to stew till everything has disintegrated and voila!\r\n\r\nIt\'s one of those days when you suffer for your art, don\'t expect a review but I\'ve just seen The Island and it was bad!\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','71182c907374ff7c30978059ebc9f94d',0,'','3hw5nRCi',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8154,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1124610480,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Looked like it to me.\r\n\r\nI saw Last Days and Last Year at Marienbad this weekend. I plan on writing about both films, but I just got done filling out my FAFSA, so I don\'t feel like doing @#%$ right now.','4a031f320a6d59405a48036b30059da1',0,'','SeqAV8TK',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8155,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1124664720,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Watched Pixote (1981) which I plan on writing about, but right now I got a bit of writer\'s block.','d50e043c62f351f70cf7695be4956bff',0,'','AvVpGzbE',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8156,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1124853480,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','Harmonium in my memory - Korean drama 1998.\r\n\r\nStrings - Puppet epic 2004.\r\n\r\nReports to follow.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','b18baded6d83e357bfadeb75021b0332',0,'','YDuowgF9',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8157,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1125064680,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','Kings & Queen - Rois et Reine 2004 directed by Arnoud Desplechin. Definitely could have done with some editing, I took an instant dislike to Nora because she had got on with her life while dumping her son on her father. The more the story unfolded the more I disliked her so when she read the note from her father I almost cheered. You couldn\'t help but like Ismael, completely barmy but in a good way and I liked the father, especially regarding his last letter. \r\n\r\nMythological pictures appear throughout the film from the print that Nora picks for her father and may have a deeper meaning to the film but if so I\'m afraid it was lost on me.\r\n\r\nA fine film but it really could have done with a bit of chopping here and there.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','685d8f282a9ae38dfcd04add13f59dbf',0,'','ProKRJt9',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8158,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1125065940,1,0,1,1,1,1,'A','Re: The Last Film Seen','Just saw \"Wild Strawberries\" from Ingmar Bergman. His second film I`ve seen, and it didn`t get much better. Standard plot, clicheed plot, few subtleties. A man realizing the mistakes he has made at the end of his life. The ending was very good, but besides that, Bergman is far too formulaic. Besides the Sjoestroem and his daughter-in-law we have cut and dried characters, and the overall tone is too patronising by Bergman. It seems that he doesn`t trust his viewers, so that he has to show everything directly and explains way too much. Also the dream-sequences sometimes lacked imagination. Seems better in retrospect, than while actually watching it. it`s a fine idea, though.\r\n\r\npersonal rating: **1/4 / ****','0b90d7a7d65e018114a57a84ad1a8afc',0,'','GCae5vJi',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8159,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1125079560,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','A, Which was the other Bergman.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','5e7544712b8c6d36e91636abd5592469',0,'','3mquDcr8',1,0,'',0,0,0);
INSERT INTO `phpbb_posts` VALUES (8160,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1125079920,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Watched Motorcycle Diaries (2004)\r\n\r\nLiked the film quite a bit, but like most critics I believe this falls short of greatness, still quite a bit better than I would have expected. Wasn\'t a fan of the editing however would have preferred a much more observational approach, longer, more contemplative shots.\r\n\r\nIn theaters I saw March of the Penguins (2005)\r\n\r\nI\'m beginning to suspect Morgan Freeman to be this year\'s Jude Law the guy is in everything, and usually the narrator. This film was very short, but fantastic. I\'m amazed how well it\'s doing in theaters. When I first saw a preview for it I was interested, but couldn\'t expect anyone else would sit through a movie about the mating rituals of penguins (just like few people sat through Winged Migration. But even at 2:50 on a Thursday afternoon the show had tremendous attendance. Highly recommended film, and I applaud the crazy bastards who went out in this weather to film it.','aee38a9079d62b6ccd4777b4dc058a06',0,'','W0gCBTh8',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8161,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1125083460,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','Totally agree with your views on the Motorcycle Diaries, we won\'t get March of the Penguins till near enough Christmas but you\'ve piqued my interest.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','40bb75603634abafc25d2cb4eaa04064',0,'','PNwcXaSn',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8162,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1125118680,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Watched Ley Lines (1999) - Takashi Miike\r\n\r\nI\'m gonna try to expand upon this in the Japanese Journals thread.','d8474052775b007f96fd6b4530ff47f5',0,'','hPWJbqvL',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8163,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1125157680,1,0,1,1,1,1,'A','Re: The Last Film Seen','The other Bergman was \"Smiles of a Summer Night\". A nice comedy of manners, but didn`t do much for me. But as Imdb lists over 60 films under his direction, I`m optimistic there`s much to discover in the future. I mean the guy has such a tremendous reputation, that I`ll surely love some of his films...\r\nIf I go on another director I`ve seen only few films of, Carl Theodor Dreyer, there`s a similar situation. Saw Vampyr and Gertrud. The first i found mediocre, the second had phenomenal direction, but the film didn`t do much for me. But his \"Day of Wrath\" was imo great.\r\nAnyway, I don`t judge directors but individual films, and some of my favorite directors have made mediocre films.','d8c970ce3f64b4a27b1af2e4eb6dca10',0,'','VpXqr2T3',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8164,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1125175140,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Well Bergman is probably my #3 of all time, so keep trying, you haven\'t seen Personna or The Seventh Seal yet.\r\n\r\nI just watched Unknown Pleasures (2002). After my pleased reaction to The World, I was a little exicted to see this film. Instead I wound up just losing interest in the story and characters, and hardly noticed the film had ended. Probably a classic case of my short attention span watching movies at home, but this film just didn\'t hold my attention quite as well.','82eb243ce91dfff6ecfab1e69b213200',0,'','o4ktyeM1',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8165,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1125222060,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Grizzly Man (2005) - Werner Herzog\r\n\r\nThe mad genius strikes again, a damn good movie from Herzog. Been awhile since I\'ve said that, recommend this to anyone, except for people who hate animals. Herzog makes a compelling film full of all the beauty in flaws.','51ef512ade26296de1100bb501396ab7',0,'','J5AifMsN',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8166,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1125222720,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','LA Confidential (1997) - Curtis Hansen\r\n\r\nSince I\'ve seen this now 4 times, which makes it more than most films I\'ve seen I will probably make a proper right up of it. However it\'s nearly 2 am here, and I\'m just listing this so I remember I saw it again. I\'m sure there are some people who haven\'t seen it yet, but seriously you need to put an end to that right now.','78137e26da7a1d0b04be4cfbdaa5e317',0,'','YP97itym',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8167,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1125258180,1,0,1,1,1,1,'A','Re: The Last Film Seen','I think I`ve also seen this three times, and my opinion went from great to disappointed to surprised, and the fourth time I saw it, some two years ago, it was already a classic for me. Great performances throughout. Recommended.','4801f308c5916e337de3f608383e0270',0,'','vpntHfVo',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8168,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1125707340,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','Koreeda\'s Distance, reminiscent in obvious ways to Eureka. Full comments to follow soon.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','8e0a512420729eb5359d85d8e48a42da',0,'','6Z9W51tN',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8169,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1125723840,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','2046 \r\n\r\nYeah I think this one needs to be seen more than once, I\'ll add my comments to the appropriate thread. Glad I got to see it on the big screen though.','99b708633085de9d90690fc3d3e7c641',0,'','zh6XqEW0',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8170,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1125732540,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Close to Eden (1991) - Nikita Mikhalkov\r\n\r\nOnly the second film of Mikhalkov\'s I\'ve seen, and I can\'t say it\'s very similar. The story is basically a tale of modernization for peasant Mongolians, or rather one particular family. There are some funny moments in the film (usually provided by the Russian), and there are several moments were reality is thrown out the window. The best example comes from a strange sort of dream sequence where Ghengis Kahn is roaming the countryside, yet our peasant hero is still in modern times (or at least what was modern 15 years ago.) These sequences keep the film from being utter garbage, but the overall impression of the film is not a very great one. Perhaps with more understanding of it\'s director I\'ll see more of this, but for now I\'ll say it wasn\'t a complete waste of time.','07e530d9edab0de799925b5a8e1e46f6',0,'','5felgbEC',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8171,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1125861780,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Irreversible (2002)\r\n\r\nWell this is viewing #2, and I\'ll be honest, I wasn\'t really thrilled about seeing this a second time. Watching the film though, I wondered how much it is style over substance. From a technical standpoint this is an amazing movie. The backwards story is played out, but what makes the film truly interesting is the fact that all the scenes are done in one shot. This allows for some extremely complicated tracking shots, and some great effects, most notably the face smashing scene near the beginning.\r\n\r\nLong takes are always a preference of mine, so I had to say I was in admiration of the extended shots. The fact that the rape scene was done in one shot gave it a very disturbing realism. This is a film though that you can\'t warn people about properly. I said she wouldn\'t want to see it, and that she wouldn\'t like it, but well like telling a child they can\'t have something, it only makes them want it more. I\'ll admit there is a curiosity to the film, and that is what led most people to it. That and the fact that Monica Belluci was in it, and lord knows many a man has sat through movies just because of her presence.\r\n\r\nI won\'t run around hailing this as a masterpiece, but on a second viewing I believe the film is successful in it\'s objective. It shows rape as the graphic and horrible act that it is. It adequatly shows the realtionship and why both men Pierre and Marcus are willing to look for revenge. It also demonstrates amazing film technique and extraordinary composition. Most people have an aversion to \"gimmick\" movies, Russian Ark comes to mind, but if executed properly, it can be quite an amazing experience. I do believe this pulls itself off, and is one of the most facinating films of recent years. So I guess I have seen at least one somewhat contemporary French film.','76e0848975890ed7e0591e279c7027ba',0,'','3JgXzAKL',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8172,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1125877020,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Happiness (1998) - Todd Solondz\r\n\r\nWell I\'ve been encouraged to watch this film for months, and finally got a chance to see it. I\'ve heard very mixed things about it, so expectations were lowered. What I found was the film was a little slow, certainly uncomfortable at parts, but it did have it\'s humor. Some scenes I wondered if they were supposed to be funny, but I can\'t say I was an overt fan. Somehow I don\'t really like watching losers, get\'s depressing and I feel embarassed for them. Hoffman\'s level of dorkiness reached a peak here, which is saying a lot considering some of his other pathetic roles. Anyways I might have to talk to my friend who\'s seen it 40 times to see what\'s so damn great about it.','81b54a83aa3510674ed511e2728fd9d9',0,'','YzLpdrBV',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8173,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1125967680,1,0,1,1,1,1,'Ray','Re: The Last Film Seen','Takeshi Kitano\'s masterpiece, Hana-bi (1997). I had high expectations going in, and not only were they met, they were far exceeded. A wonderful, wonderful film. Very funny and very poignant. I cried at the end when Mr Nishi\'s wife thanked him. The score was perfect, too.','02ad5445bafd0606e18b190896e57baa',0,'','h1ZMuRNY',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8174,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1125975180,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Dolls (2004) - Takeshi Kitano\r\n\r\nStrange same director for both of our last films. This one was a pretty far cry from Fireworks. Enjoyable at parts, but I think it was flawed by it\'s slow deliberate pacing. Would have been better with a decapitation or two.','e32bd1775ee4b0b695d84f09693bbcb5',0,'','sqYHGBx4',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8175,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1125975360,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','btw Ray I strongly encourage you to write your review of Hanna-Bi for the Japanese Journal thread on Kitano. Kitano has been pretty neglected in there, and we could always use a new perspective. Saves me and Trevor from talking to ourselves.','de1a4ca67e17a6b6e24d12b9b9cd8a90',0,'','G0R6mErD',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8176,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1125982140,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Rebels of a Neon God (1992) - Tsia Ming-Liang\r\n\r\nWell my third Liang film, and the best I\'ve yet seen. Maybe I paid more attention to this film, or maybe his style is more familiar with me, but I neverthless enjoyed this one quite a bit. I felt the aimlessness of the characters. The shots didn\'t seem as long here as in Vive L\'Amour but they\'re still effective. Besides, who wouldn\'t love seeing some classic Street Fighter clips on arcade?','3cd03397b6f5c9b36be0e9a9f543de64',0,'','cSCzrbTx',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8177,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1126094520,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','Tsai Ming-Liang does take a little getting used to, Vive l\'amour was the first I saw and I found it fascinating and extremly sad. wpqx, I assume you haven\'t seen \"The Wayward Cloud yet?\r\n\r\nI\'m going to have to write a proper review for it, because it\'s very different yet similar and in need of a good breakdown.\r\n\r\nI know there are plenty of people who could write better reviews but I\'ll give it my best shot.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','9eb3c7e482323c8d7ae8e4a67aa69ffc',0,'','UlitRSjC',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8178,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1126327560,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Haven\'t seen the Wayword Cloud.\r\n\r\nBut today I watched Yeelen (1987) and The Constant Gardener (2005). Not to say I was in an African mood, but that\'s just what I ended up with. Yeelen was clearly the better of the two films, evoking a much more impassioned Africa, whereas The Constant Gardener fell prey to the racist ideology that the two main characters in any African film have to be white. I was just generally bored with the film and felt nothing for the exploited. Fiennes and Wiesz did great work however, but good acting can\'t always carry a movie.','a3bb7a0214e4627d006f1d65916e0506',0,'','0s7yLxcn',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8179,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1126348740,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','Le Fils - The Son 2002. \r\n\r\nFrom the Dardenne brothers, what a film! I know a few people have seen it and I had seen it myself a couple of years ago but I\'d forgotten how powerful it was. I\'ll write more about it later.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','3c0bd2b07b2e44c9df223e92786c052d',0,'','P4ueEDUV',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8180,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1126423560,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974)\r\n\r\nComments to come, watched this for the 30th time or so, @#%$ great @#%$.','565aafa2209de69ec1a0da3adfc95276',0,'','BzuD3cb0',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8181,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1126433880,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Girl, Interrupted (1999)\r\n\r\nWow talk about a movie I didn\'t want to watch a second time. I enjoyed the film the first time, unlike most people, and I feel a personal connection to all of the characters in the film, but there are some flaws. I really didn\'t like the scene near the end where crazy Lisa reads Susie\'s diary to all the inmates, seemed a pointless touch of final drama. Crazy people are always gravy for actors especially around Oscar season. I don\'t think Angelina Jolie deserved the Oscar, and certainly hasn\'t done anything since to prove she can act.\r\n\r\nWinona Ryder is obviously the more sympathetic character, because it\'s slanted towards her. Although she\'s several years older than the real character, she still has enough youthful looks to pull it off. The only scenes one might think she plays weak is when she\'s \"acting out\". I think this is a good touch, because she\'s not really crazy, she\'s merely immitating the crazy behavior of those around her. I would like to hear some more feedback about this movie, it does have it\'s charms, and I\'m quickly becomming the world\'s foremost authority on it.','d730bdfb3d39685e61bd9c0b9db544a7',0,'','hSU0yacw',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8182,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1126570260,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','Werner Herzog\'s Wild Blue Yonder, truly bizarre mix of fantasy and documentary.\r\n\r\nIf there\'s any interest I\'ll write some more comments about it.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','f3b020f48e0b2ac4f5e3367bcc82dbe5',0,'','mhTS07pH',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8183,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1126610700,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','Los Debutantes - 2003 Andrs Waissbluth, Chile\r\n\r\nAlways compared with one of the strands in \"Pulp Fiction\" and it\'s very obvious why, a story of love, lust and betrayal told from the perspectives of each of the principal characters. \r\n\r\nThe time line is all over the place so it\'s a case of working out where everything goes. Not outstanding but better than I expected.\r\n\r\nTacky marketing though, \"Tonight, the cream comes off.\" \r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','b7e0dd2a271aa3a2c2c5ef14a25d5813',0,'','J1473NgQ',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8184,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1126635360,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','Saw the Spongebob Squarepants movie, actually enjoyed it for its (almost) toilet humour. I\'ve tried watching the TV series but always thought it was horrible.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','2d021ed61a7d0d0066b6f04df1c8baa5',0,'','WrymkiQY',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8185,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1126643100,1,0,1,1,1,1,'Sara','Re: The Last Film Seen','I just watched L\'Argent by Robert Bresson. After seeing Diary of a Country Priest, A Man Escaped, and Au Hasard Balthasar, I have to admit L\'Argent was a let down.\r\n\r\nSara','3c2d581968cd38749275052437c11a62',0,'','RlAtM78x',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8186,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1126778580,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','More Herzog, Aguirre again, must be at least 6/7 times now and one of his documentaries, The White Diamond which was about a man designing a small air ship to float above the canopy of the rain forest. I don\'t know how he does it but Herzog always seems to draw the best out of the people he\'s filming, very deep and at times very bleak.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','22ddd48b6ff002c232ddf698fd5bf582',0,'','UcWyF4kd',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8187,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1127005680,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','The Man with a Movie Camera - 1929.\r\n\r\nClassic Russian film, very much a fore-runner of films like Koyaanisqatsi and Sans soleil. The only thing I wasn\'t too happy with was the new soundtrack by Michael Nyman, a touch too manic in my opinion.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','463ed82399b55cd63c8ac7bb8f357cc1',0,'','vNYzfBAP',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8188,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1127029740,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','If it\'s the soundtrack I\'m thinking of, it was damn good.\r\n\r\nI\'d like to see if you can write anything on the film, I find the picture impossible to write about. Seriously I can\'t get much past a paragraph.\r\n\r\nMy last film was The 40 Year Old Virgin, comments made in the appropriate thread.','6c1eb90b494704fa17d613378b0ae2b5',0,'','wCKRxVut',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8189,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1127040540,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','Re: The Man with a Movie Camera, I know there are several DVD releases with different scores /soundtracks, there are two from the BFI, one with two seperate scores by the \"Alloy Orchestra\" and a new score by Sheffield-based duo \"In The Nursery.\"\r\n\r\nThe other from the BFI is \"Michael Nyman\'s Man With a Movie Camera\", I will try and expanded on my comments on the film.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','e6745c4f4b293cdd1ff49762269b93d9',0,'','vnjg0lbG',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8190,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1127096160,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','To Live, Zhang Yimou and Gong Li again, an excellent film despite the fact that at times it\'s pretty damn miserable. Against all the pain and despair though, there is always an air of hope and positivity for the future.\r\n\r\nProbably my third favourite Zhang Yimou/Gong Li feature.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','ed27c13713d19e94df58a4c39ad45d62',0,'','vG3WYzx6',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8191,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1127097120,1,0,1,1,1,1,'Sara','Re: The Last Film Seen','Trev, I loved Man With a Movie Camera. While I can\'t remember much about the musical soundtrack (if there was one), I thought the editing of the film was outstanding and perhaps that is one thing it is noted for.\r\n\r\nSara','950be096fedfc58f4a6b3d425403ae45',0,'','z963mY7Z',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8192,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1127099580,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','Re: Man With a Movie Camera, the editing is outstanding, especially for the time it was made. It\'s an object lesson for film editors and without a doubt it\'s what mkes it stand out against other early similar films such as the Mitchell & Kenyon collection. The film uses every trick in the book and has been very cleverly filmed and unlike another recent Russian experimental film (no names mentioned) it doesn\'t bore you to death.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','1a50a989c370769278bdb6f9b8487d69',0,'','4bevFqiE',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8193,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1127212440,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','Appleseed - 2004. \r\n\r\nThe computor animated update/prequel to the original anime film. Comments to follow in the anime thread.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','57545641faddad0ae78909e19eb21429',0,'','deZlYcVL',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8194,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1127352540,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','I was hoping to write a review about the Russian film Nightwatch, I remember we used to have comments about it before the crash. Unfortunately it bored me so much and was less Russian (more Hollywood) than any other film I\'ve ever seen from that part of the world. It\'s sad to see regions that are noted for the originality and style of their films following this route.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','7825debf1d050be696f2e3b75572f483',0,'','EDPVszgG',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8195,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1127354160,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','I agree. Also, the fact that it\'s the most successful Russian film to date is even more disturbing.','5376b7a8333404639b1bb51801277907',0,'','emPqR8Qk',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8196,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1127511780,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','A Time to Live and a Time To Die (1985) - Hou Hsao-Hsien\r\n\r\nInteresting early, autobiographical film from Hou, which helped break the whole Taiwan new wave (not like I remember an old wave to break away from). A story of growing up, which seems to be a hot topic for breakthrough films, but told with that simple sincerity that only a Hou film can offer (well maybe Ozu can do it too).','fc0b91154bb6cb69473d2901310108e2',0,'','nkRbEMci',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8197,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1127552640,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Autumn Almanac (1984) - Bela Tarr\r\n\r\nWell who wants to see a bunch of miserable people try and make life more miserable for each other? If you answered yes, you have some issues you need to deal with and you should also check out this film. Perhaps because I was just thinking about the film, but this reminds me a little of the tormenting family in Zanussi\'s Family Life. Whereas in that film people existed for the sole purpose of making their family miserable, this group has some agenda, and of course it involves money.\r\n\r\nThe whole film is masked in darkness. Tarr tints nearly every image, and most of the picture is shrouded in blue. The takes are moderate, but certainly not the epic shots that earned Tarr his current reputation. The film is heavy on dialogue in parts, and comes off more as a chamber drama than anything else. You could see a film like this working on the stage, and therefore the actors give a theatrical performance to it. The words are spoken with some angst, and nearly everyone is prone to violence.\r\n\r\nI was hoping my first Tarr film would be characteristic, hence the reason I avoided the three films already on DVD, but alas I\'ll have to wait a little longer before I can make him out as a director. I can however assess this particular work as a film in and of itself. It\'s not the most spectacular of films, and certainly can wear your resistance down (as many gloomy films can), but there is something intriguing in the misery.','1a16cbc16f8d5363a9a75abbead05290',0,'','FqQ9z16p',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8198,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1127679480,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','Seijun Suzuki\'s Gates of Flesh, full comments to follow in Japanese Journals - General. Link - Gate of Flesh\r\n\r\nI\'m moving the whole index to page one so my comments will replace the page 2 index.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','ce2266aba4aaa15de8ed387482c9a001',0,'','4KtYWo6L',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8199,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1127887920,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: The Last Film Seen','Quote trevor826, \"I was hoping to write a review about the Russian film Nightwatch, I remember we used to have comments about it before the crash. Unfortunately it bored me so much and was less Russian (more Hollywood) than any other film I\'ve ever seen from that part of the world. It\'s sad to see regions that are noted for the originality and style of their films following this route.\r\n\r\nQuote arsaib4, \"I agree. Also, the fact that it\'s the most successful Russian film to date is even more disturbing.\"\r\n\r\n\r\ndon\'t hate me for it …','37d912cf32094920b76aa7cedd1dd531',0,'','fZBUeJnx',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8200,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1128045660,1,0,1,1,1,1,'A','Re: The Last Film Seen','Hana-bi (Takesi Kitano / Japan / 1997)\r\nSaw this again after 4 years, and while I wasn`t as impressed as the first time, still a masterpiece and my favorite film by Kitano. This was the film that opened up Japanese Cinema for me. \r\nGreat Musical score, btw.','9442504805ca394dae9f88c2479b0cf8',0,'','dQcqtFAE',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8201,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1128173400,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','Satoshi Kon\'s Millennium Actress, at last! Comments - Millennium Actress - 2001.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','67d754f46b686acbcee1d73b545461ad',0,'','8URigMcx',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8202,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1128283200,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','Romero\'s Land of the Dead, good ol\' zombie fun with much stronger and far less subtle political and social overtones than his previous chapters. It was a good laugh although some of Dennis Hoppers lines made me groan out loud.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','f3eed0d9209c4b39a7f353658b397410',0,'','C7PGEQac',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8203,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1128294720,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','Torremolinos 73, nice entertaining Spanish film comments to follow.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','fa37758056a4ee976f8878618fde7c5f',0,'','otsTjf9i',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8204,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1128645240,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','Dogme film Open Hearts and Marie et Julien, full comments to follow.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','09e6e77f52b8a8c307b33fa5e7a8d28a',0,'','jEvdFPRs',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8205,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1128719520,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','First of Tartan\'s 2005 Asia extreme tour, R Point. Will comment in Korean Korner but to me the most intriguing point was finding out that South Korean troops fought in the Vietnam war, I have no idea why, unless the US applied pressure as they have done with Iraq.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','44b4480932d6477be69f8378c8051fa4',0,'','KgM9o0Di',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8206,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1128795060,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','Last life in the Universe, the R1 dvd, I noticed something strange, Takashi Miike\'s voice has been dubbed. Why? I have absolutely no idea, his voice is much raspier and sardonic in the original release!\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','532f6183931969114c32f11922528bfe',0,'','cdXLwmo2',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8207,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1128806400,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','A History of Violence (2005) - comments posted in their appropriate place.','f6c5dc991222de15ac1775c4d5ca1d7c',0,'','0TEoHglB',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8208,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1128811560,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','The Hunt (1966) - Carlos Saura\r\n\r\nWell this film is usually cited as a landmark in Spanish cinema, and one that helped establish a national film culture in the wake of Franco. It also was the breakout film of Saura who became one of the central figures of Spanish film ever since. The film itself is disturbing in some of it\'s imagery. Watching the film you can see how certain elements of foreshadowing could clue us in on a Hollywood film, but you can\'t make the same generalizations here. There is an emminent danger throughout, and everyone is ripe for going crazy here. I was a little disgusted with some of the hunting scenes, because I may not be a vegetarian, but that doesn\'t mean I like to see rabits killed. I can\'t say this is Saura\'s best, not like I\'m an expert on the man, but it may be his most important, and it helped to open the door for a great many Spanish language films in future years. I just wish my print had been a little bit better. Full of subtitles cut off by the screen, and faint hard to read titles on top of it. Not to mention just a generally bad negative, but such is the roll of the dice one has to take with the lost world of VHS.','5813ad7026135ef5a4f9d3b35386a701',0,'','swYck7un',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8209,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1128999840,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','A Woman\'s Face (1938) - Gustav Molander\r\n\r\nWell if you\'re curious to see Ingrid Bergman before she came to Hollywood, here\'s where to look. One of her few remaining Swedish films, this one like Intermezzo was also remade in Hollywood, although this remake featured Joan Crawford. The story borrows a little from Louis Friedlander\'s The Raven philosophy that someone who\'s monstrously ugly can do monstrously ugly things. Once Bergman\'s face is fixed, we suddenly see her become a decent person. It\'s an old cliche I guess. The film is not exactly spectacular, but there is some significance to it.','93ec36ac08616f3e91bb42e835f1fb48',0,'','pqyR3ETM',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8210,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1129469220,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','Royston Tan\'s \"15\", very mixed feelings about this film, definitely needs commenting on.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','c9ba6cb8fa68110bb29aec93361aed52',0,'','AnJVBlyo',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8211,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1129504260,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Vengence is Mine (1979) Shohei Immamura\r\n\r\nI don\'t know what to make of Immamura\'s work, because I\'m still very ignorant of it. Yet this film is one that begins at the end, and works it\'s way back around. The simple gyst of the story is about an immoral killer. Not a serial killer, but one that kills without remorse. As the film progresses though, the killings seem to get less violent. Immamura isn\'t about topping himself I suppose. They start bloody, and by the end, we don\'t even see him kill. In all a fascinating film.','2ee1ec4883c08e21f77ffe4b3edda279',0,'','uhBNJzf9',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8212,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1129504860,1,0,1,1,1,1,'Sara','Re: The Last Film Seen','I know this is a popular thread. But the films that are mentioned are somewhat embedded there. How can we discuss them? Or review them? Or have a thread for each film?\r\nThere are now 7 pages of films on this thread and no topics for each film. So they are, in a sense, lost to some of us.\r\n\r\nJust my thoughts.\r\n\r\nSara','77d791ffea7333387b7c5200f5b6f23b',0,'','Tsb0WXdQ',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8213,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1129506600,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Generally if I feel a film warrants special attention, or I just find a lot to say about it, I\'ll make a separate thread, same goes for other users I believe.','9f4b54b020d02a06efd9580626820cc3',0,'','GkVN0jCe',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8214,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1129508820,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','Don\'t forget, there\'s always the index. If someone has posted a decent sized comment it get\'s listed in the index. At least that\'s how I\'ve understood it.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','b15cc7849c83b698d0e92d3bae3dfe9f',0,'','PAFEjmx6',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8215,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1129509120,1,0,1,1,1,1,'Sara','Re: The Last Film Seen','I did not realize it got listed in the index.\r\n\r\nThat\'s good.\r\n\r\nSara','1bcaa5e4b7cbe2933191405e43a0ffbb',0,'','m7RvjVWc',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8216,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1129528680,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: The Last Film Seen','Quote trevor, \"Royston Tan\'s \"15\", very mixed feelings about this film, definitely needs commenting on.\r\nCheers Trev.','d49af9dd5ebbd1c4ac707ed2af1d0a00',0,'','LkPwKUXz',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8217,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1129752060,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','History of Violence, not sure if I\'ll comment on this one. Ab-normal Beauty (last of the Tartan tour films), comments soon. Puni Puni Poemi - 2001.\r\n\r\nAzumi 2 Love or Death, comments soon along with the original Azumi and Ninja Scroll anime (may as well do them all together because of the similarities).\r\n\r\nBroken Flowers, I\'ll add comments later. \r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','826e8e05f258b0ac8ea40d85d4c2d0ac',0,'','eqHFJDyr',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8218,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1129925340,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Adoption (1975) - Marta Meszaros\r\n\r\nRather simple in it\'s construction. Adoption is an intamte chamber drama much in the vein of Autumn Sonata or even Saraband from Bergman. The story focuses on two principle females. An older widow, and a young girl from adopted parents. The two bond, and in the process each help to free each other of the obstacles in their way. Rather than the frequent use of deep focus photography, this film has a blurry visual style. The camera gets so close on occasion, that it\'s almost impossible for things to be in focus. As usual for films of the country and time, the pace is slow and contemplative.','d72dc2264f85248b4f1993b3e3e08971',0,'','NCVZ0d34',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8219,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1129966380,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','ROADS TO KOKTEBEL (2003)\r\n\r\nIts not surprising to learn that Roads to Koktebel, the debut feature of two young Russian filmmakers, Boris Khlebnikov and Alexei Popogrebsky, has played at numerous film festivals around the world since its premiere a couple of year ago, winning many awards during its run. While the film isnt remarkable in any way, its straight-forward, understated approach is quite appealing. But Im sure a few people have overstated their case after discovering some correlation between the bleak landscapes found in Roads to Koktebel and the ones omnipresent in the works of Tarkovsky and Sokurov.\r\n\r\nThe film deals with a father (Igor Csernyevics) and his precocious 11-year-old son (Gleb Puskepalis) trying to reach a town called Koktebel, which is in Crimea near the Black sea. We gradually discover that theyve started from Moscow on foot because of necessity, and need to see the boys aunt once they reach their destination. Along the way, they come across individuals usually found in movie road trips: a good-hearted station master, a duplicitous old man, a lonely nurse etc. But interestingly enough, the father, who initially came across as a responsible individual, slowly succumbs to booze (his possible problem before the trip started), and gets smitten with a woman, forcing the boy to make his own decisions. \r\n\r\nAlong with being a well-acted and beautifully shot effort, Roads to Koktebel is also expertly crafted and sustained tonally, something not usually seen in debut features. There isnt much dialogue; most of the action is interpreted from gestures and expressions. A couple of characters early on in the film couldve been employed more meaningfully, including a teenage girl, however, the filmmakers do spend as much time as possible with their protagonists, allowing us to grasp their developing relationship. The metaphysical contortions in the narrative are extraneous, but the film makes up for them during the final sequence which is fierce and brazenly alive.\r\n_________________________\r\n\r\n*ROADS TO KOKTEBEL was released on DVD in August by Film Movement.','70a5d792eb8be61f6764d4f2783479d8',0,'','7th6Wgyq',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8220,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1130020320,1,0,1,1,1,1,'SenileFelines','Re: The Last Film Seen','Just came back from seeing L\'Enfant. I\'d seen the trailers and I thought to myself before the movie started, how this movie could have gotten the Palm d\'Or. It doesn\'t look like anything special. Well, I was wrong. It was a pretty great movie. The direction by the Dardenne brothers are perfect for the flow and realism of the story. It\'s almost like a Dogme film. It\'s a great movie, but I still prefer Haneke\'s Cach to this. Both great movies though.','222089dd1271e40ccd1869ddb2e78107',0,'','YZP4p62i',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8221,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1130049480,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Stay (2005) - Marc Forster\r\n\r\nI will make a proper thread about it, but damn this movie takes some figuring out.','102d6b4e9393c13547e1c19c941d117d',0,'','9cNEW7Yw',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8222,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1130100300,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Distant Thunder (1973) - Satyajit Ray','21684437e7f8890ab3603a9014bad6cc',0,'','8tcwkNux',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8223,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1130101200,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','Good review wpqx but doesn\'t it belong on the \"Classics\" board?\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','54ebdecc60dfb2d23668e0fb6d592538',0,'','UlpDXAE1',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8224,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1130110440,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Thought about that, didn\'t know how much I\'d write, but hey I\'m a mod it can be moved.\r\n\r\nI just watch Kaneto Shindo\'s The Island (1961). Basically it\'s what Robert Flaherty would have done if he was Japanese. All about a family living in a meager island. The story is told with no dialogue at all, and barely any sound. It\'s a film of scenic beauty, but of course there is some drama to be had. The film is a study in the power of images and visual storytelling.','8924eccd2b0c6a4982e1952a4fcd54c6',0,'','KEjusLv6',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8225,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1130361540,1,0,1,1,1,1,'SenileFelines','Re: The Last Film Seen','I saw Woody Allen\'s Match Point today. I went into it not knowing anything about the movie. I hadn\'t even seen any trailers. All I knew was the cast and the director. I disliked Melinda and Melinda, so I wasn\'t expecting much for this one, but it turned out to be really good. Great work from Allen, and the cast. It was very different from his other works. The movie didn\'t start out too well, but it kept improving, and by the end it was great.','b0753b26adc4562a113606f31f0d76fe',0,'','BxH1cQhL',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8226,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1130426760,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: The Last Film Seen','\r\nQuote arsaib4,\"ROADS TO KOKTEBEL (2003) ...\"','7771aca3c9c6db0362dfa7c155c8b0c2',0,'','Bzm5LcXP',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8227,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1130426940,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: The Last Film Seen','Quote SenileFelines,\"Just came back from seeing L\'Enfant. I\'d seen the trailers and I thought to myself before the movie started, how this movie could have gotten the Palm d\'Or. It doesn\'t look like anything special. Well, I was wrong. It was a pretty great movie. The direction by the Dardenne brothers are perfect for the flow and realism of the story. It\'s almost like a Dogme film. It\'s a great movie, but I still prefer Haneke\'s Cach to this. Both great movies though.\"\r\n\r\nwow ... i want to watch these 2 films ... unfortunately, they are not screened here ...\r\n\r\ndo you care to write a review on these 2 films (on a new thread) because I guess there will be more to add in due time?','e86448a04219747150edf87042ac39ed',0,'','NDEoAPWd',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8228,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1130447280,1,0,1,1,1,1,'SenileFelines','Re: The Last Film Seen','I\'d love to be able to write reviews, but I just don\'t have the talent to do so. I can only write 1 or 2 sentences, and that wouldn\'t be worth starting a thread for.','6be3674b6557df2c0a4c0c65024a0ab4',0,'','kBPrquWM',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8229,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1130804400,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','Finding Nemo again!\r\n\r\nItalian film Private and Korean film Pisces, comments via links.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','0a30ff2515033487f661586d82dbc6d7',0,'','PVMEK3a0',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8230,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1130829240,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Come Back Little Sheba (1952) - Delbert Mann\r\n\r\nWow what were they thinking? How many times have you asked yourself that watching an Oscar favorite? Well it happens a lot with me, and this was the film that brought Shirley Booth (a somewhat known stage New York stage actress) her one and only Oscar for best actress. Booth is absolutely terrible here. Her character is irritating from the first few minutes and it doesn\'t let up. Someting is indeed disturbing about a wife referring to her husband as \"daddy\" and same goes for a husband calling his wife \"mommy\" I mean that\'s enough to make you shiver.\r\n\r\nBurt Lancaster is rarely ever bad, and I think he does just fine here, in a rather quiet performance. Booth on the other hand just gets melodramatic, so by the time she finally has a chance to do some \"acting\" we\'ve pretty much lost interest in the story. The plot is slow and almost completely uneventful. I thought my girlfriend occasionally asks questions that she shouldn\'t but Booth\'s character takes that to a new extreme. Which leads me to believe that she just might be retarded, but I haven\'t done enough research into the source material and I\'m not going to.\r\n\r\nThere are some young characters and they help to motivate the story slightly, but as supporting parts they just can\'t work. Booth\'s role was originally offered to Bette Davis, and perhaps she could have handled this better. It\'s a shame too, because well we all know what I think about 1952, but I really don\'t think the year was fantastic for actresses. If you\'re wondering just who I would have given the trophy to, I\'d vote for Maureen O\'Hara for The Quiet Man, now that was a strong female role.\r\n\r\nGrade D +','1b9c0a3d009e5b29a88ab8481e109120',0,'','cDbUviXP',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8231,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1131072000,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','Started off the day with the satisfyingly beautiful \"Ghost in the Shell 2 Innocence.\" Full comments to follow.\r\n\r\nEarly evening went downhill with the grim \"Brothers Grimm\", and as my mother used to say, \"If you can\'t think of anything nice to say, don\'t say anything\" so I\'ll say nothing!\r\n\r\nStill it\'s still fairly early, I\'m sure I can fit something else in, maybe \"Harvie Krumpet.\"\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','3f024ff1ed84397a58836f80ecd4eee8',0,'','l6r3qRCb',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8232,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1131079200,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','C\'mon, Trev, I\'m sure you found a way to disobey her on a few occasions. \r\n\r\nAnyway, I\'ll let you comment on my mild recommendation of THE BROTHERS GRIMM (2005)\r\n\r\nAs one of the final releases from the Miramax which belonged to the Weinsteins, The Brothers Grimm unfortunately has to bear the scars caused by them in an outwardly fashion: The film was not only delayed on a few occasions, but along the way, it had a new cinematographer and a lead actress, both personally chosen by the moguls. Director Terry Gilliam (Brazil [1985] / Twelve Monkeys [1995]) has certainly had his battles along the way with numerous studios, so perhaps this was nothing new -- at least this time he was able to finish the film unlike a few years back when his production of \"The Man Who Killed Don Quixote\" had to be shutdown (remember the excellent 2002 doc Lost in La Mancha?).\r\n\r\nThe Brothers Grimm is a solid, if a more commercially calculated, effort from Gilliam starring Heath Ledger and Matt Damon as the titular brothers who, in circa 1796, travel from town-to-town duping poor German peasants into believing that theyre what protects them from mystical and demonic creatures. A local general of the Napoleon army (Jonathan Pryce) becomes aware of their shenanigans, and as punishment sends them along with his maniacal Italian officer (Peter Stormare) to a village in order to solve the mystery of a few young girls whove been reported missing.\r\n\r\nIf that sounds a bit too grim, then fear not. For the most part, the film is a Monty Python-esque adventure -- meaning its inventive, extravagant, and silly, all at once. And, of course, what makes it stand out is Gilliams visual prowess, even though the look at times is less enchanting than disorienting. The screenplay by the ubiquitous Ehren Kruger features some clever folklore gags, but it spends too much time with the Grimms love interest (Lena Headey) and not enough with their ultimate enemy, an evil queen seeking eternal beauty (the ravishingly bewitching Monica Bellucci). Both Pryce and Stormare are seemingly aware of the fact that theyre in a Terry Gilliam film, and so they act accordingly; Ledger is fine with his Brando-esque mumbling (in some Australian/British accent), but he required more support from Damon, whos upstaged by his hairdo.','0c07024a29c4cefce9ed38a3b5a34f6f',0,'','thBa5HCo',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8233,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1131092100,1,0,1,1,1,1,'A','Re: The Last Film Seen','I also see no need for it, because of the index. And as I\'m too lazy to even write regular reviews, I almost never mention a film under last seen. That\'s why I post my viewing log hehe!','47954acdb579b754104f3b472710baa1',0,'','lWA0HipS',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8234,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1131103680,1,0,1,1,1,1,'A','Re: The Last Film Seen','Would love to read your comments on Inosensu, as it was the first film by Oshi that I didn\'t like much. And he\'s one of my Top Ten directors. Didn\'t find the visuals beautiful, thought the plot was lame, and there was nothing complicated or very philosophical about the film. Seemed to me a minor effort. A standard film noir love story, just done in anime. \r\nBut I\'ll certainly give it some further tries in the future, and maybe my expectations were waaay to high. Also I was so tired during the movie, that I literally only remember 5% of the film. But when I saw it, it seemed lame and mediocre.','88eaf09f8d6438dbb2a5ad14bab3ba99',0,'','oFtPsV7y',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8235,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1131104400,1,0,1,1,1,1,'A','Re: The Last Film Seen','Saw Salesman by the Maysles Brothers recently, and this sure is an american classic. I can\'t believe the people let themselves be filmed the way they behaved, but this is a sure reminder that society was ready for soapy \"talk-shows\" and \"reality-shows\" much earlier than the 90s.\r\nWe follow four salesman on their work selling bibles door to door, while the film builds up to a human tragedy. Life wasted, hopes crushed. This is one of the most revealing films about the late 60s in america I ever saw, and an indication of almost everything that went wrong with it. Why was there a student revolt, why did the youngsters rebel? The answer can be easily found in this film. The people have no money, no hopes, live like zombies more than anything else, and aren\'t able to express themselves, as constant role playing is going on. Their self-esteem is so low that they consume almost anything to try to build it up. This was a really lost generation. And the salesmen are all in the same boat. No difference between them and their clients, other than that they have a different role to play in society.\r\nIf you wondered wher David Mamet got his inspiration for his Pulitzer-prize winning play \"Glengarry Glen Ross\" in 1984 you won\'t have to lokk no further. The great 1992 film version could be regarded as a kind of remake, with Jack Lemmon taking the part of \"Salesman\"\'s protagonist. They not only look very similar, but Lemmon in what may be his best performance in his career almost mimicked Paul Brennans traits and gestures. \r\nThe film is a must see.','17607cb1d68cedf6e56e5f9d93bf0df6',0,'','uQq9NB01',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8236,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1131212580,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','Australian claymation short \"Harvie Krumpet\" comments to follow.\r\n\r\nI will comment re: Brothers Grimm and arsaib4\'s review.\r\n\r\nI will also write my comments on GITS 2 but want to see the first one again so I can compare and comment on both, I plan on watching it today.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','e2673c594e53a7665fde52d379b2bed8',0,'','LqvE85VK',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8237,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1131236400,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','Re \r\nmy previous comment arsaib4\'s review \r\n\r\nThe Brothers Grimm\r\n\r\nIn my opinion, after seeing an interview with an extremely sheepish Terry Gilliam and watching the film (luckily for free) I can only come to the conclusion that this was not the film Terry intended it to be. The guy is a visionary with a distinctive sense of humour and artistic style, while we may have had a little of the humour; we lost all the style. The Weinsteins had far too much say in what could and couldnt be done seriously compromising the end result and it shows, boy does it show!\r\n\r\nThe film was spun on the weakest of premisss, The Brothers Grimm hoodwinking villagers out of their coffers by playing up to their superstitious natures using elaborate trickery was fine but as soon as the main purpose of the film, the rescue of 10 young village girls and denouement of the tricksters behind the scam, was revealed everything fell to pieces. The stars (Matt Damon especially and Heath Ledger) seemed unsure of what they were supposed to be doing and looked quite bemused and puzzled throughout most of the film. The CGI effects that replaced Gilliam\'s unique designs and hacked together effects were nothing short of lousy, no style, no substance and just poor to at best average CGI (yawn). \r\n\r\nThe main bad guy Cavaldi (Peter Stormare) was irritating, so irritating I just kept wishing hed drop dead (just as bad as Jim Carey in Lemony Snickett), Lena Headey, what can I say? nothing really, Id love to have seen what Samantha Morton would have done with the role (as Terry Gilliams first choice). I said it before about Brotherhood of the Wolf and I have to say it again for The Brothers Grimm, not even the gorgeous Monica Bellucci could save it, it is an unmitigated disaster with a low entertainment factor. Maybe Terry Gilliam has become too self indulgent or maybe (as seems to be the case), he sold his project and his soul to the Weinsteins and is now paying the price for dancing with the devil.\r\n\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','cff0e9b1a3de2ab6e17f4ae51862fc58',0,'','0hFi1SH7',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8238,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1131298080,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','Sweet and fairly short, 75 mins Flemish film \"Pauline and Paulette, comments to follow.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','5f8eac868ac4a70b381211e83934353d',0,'','83vxT1o5',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8239,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1131319200,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','The Weeping Meadow (2004) - Theo Angelopoulus\r\n\r\nI\'ll get the full review up, but Jesus what a strange night it turned out to be.','53cf1efbc33224bf55e7098b861f3a1d',0,'','DGbvzoVX',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8240,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1131319560,1,0,1,1,1,1,'A','Re: The Last Film Seen','Wow, am very intrigued. Haven\'t seen Theo\'s latest.','940cc7f1a7ba869242ad506c26240e07',0,'','7tGq1CxA',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8241,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1131367920,1,0,1,1,1,1,'smurfrevolt','Re: The Last Film Seen','hi, trevor, the spongebob movie was actually horrible, compared to the TV series. I didn\'t laugh once while watching the film, unlike with the TV series. Maybe, I had too high expectations...but spongebob is better on TV.','6f24a727634008bc2420008deee784b8',0,'','j3Srys6V',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8242,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1131368160,1,0,1,1,1,1,'smurfrevolt','Re: The Last Film Seen','Me, You and Everyone We Know--I love the scene where Christine and the shoe salesman compares their \"relationship\" to the sidewalk. And I just love how real the dialogue is...Plus, those two kids, they\'re adorable, and the goldfish scene. \r\n\r\nHaven\'t posted here in months. I\'m trying to catch up!','3c683e996b397f451e030791c2c4ad24',0,'','ahkP7l6B',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8243,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1131379860,1,0,1,1,1,1,'smurfrevolt','Re: The Last Film Seen','I said in the Korean Korner, watched The Isle last Thursday, and will watch JSA this evening. =D','17e0b57b3074f55aa655e575ad149279',0,'','H27D0qjG',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8244,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1131570120,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','All on dvd, and all repeat viewings.\r\n\r\nStar Wars Episode Three Revenge of the Sith.\r\nThe Edukators.\r\nThe Descent.\r\n\r\nI know you\'re still waiting for The Descent to be released in the U.S. so it may be possible to discuss it at a future date.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','95c9f4eae83f9070b3304c5212013e8a',0,'','fLzDd4wM',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8245,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1131598740,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','Thanks for your comments, Trev.\r\n\r\nIn my opinion, after seeing an interview with an extremely sheepish Terry Gilliam and watching the film (luckily for free) I can only come to the conclusion that this was not the film Terry intended it to be. \r\n\r\nThere\'s little doubt that the Weinsteins interfered quite a bit. There were moments in the film when I thought that this is pure Gilliam, but perhaps there weren\'t enough of them.\r\n\r\nThe stars (Matt Damon especially and Heath Ledger) seemed unsure of what they were supposed to be doing and looked quite bemused and puzzled throughout most of the film. The CGI effects that replaced Gilliam\'s unique designs and hacked together effects were nothing short of lousy, no style, no substance and just poor to at best average CGI (yawn). \r\n\r\nMatt Damon\'s British accent (why were the Germans speaking in British accents?) disappeared about halfway through the film. I thought there were some clever set-pieces in the forest, and the final \"mirror\" showdown was interesting. The gingerbread man scene was certainly lousy, along with an earlier one in the barn.\r\n\r\nLena Headey, what can I say? nothing really, Id love to have seen what Samantha Morton would have done with the role (as Terry Gilliams first choice). I said it before about Brotherhood of the Wolf and I have to say it again for The Brothers Grimm, not even the gorgeous Monica Bellucci could save it\r\n\r\nHeadey was barely noticeable. Actually, I didn\'t even realize that it was her (the girl from Aberdeen) until I went to imdb. The film needed more of Monica Bellucci.','24ff7eecaf1578c32c3e2177a6f68e9e',0,'','7V0zqbsw',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8246,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1131630360,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','Thanks arsaib4, there were as you mentioned moments of pure Terry Gilliam, unfortunately they were too few and too far between which was a shame.\r\n\r\nAs far as the effects vs cgi, I gave up as soon as the child swallowing horse made a run for it, in fact horses seemed to present quite a few problems along with \"the gingerbread man scene\" and other bits and pieces. Loved the catapult though, one scene in particular that was pure Giliam/Monty Python.\r\n\r\nMonica Bellucci is a good actress and has a sense of humour (it also helps that she has that \"classic beauty\"), the film could\'ve done with a lot more in the way of \"Wicked Witch\" scenes.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','628b7949a95a80da030c8cd8e496dbaf',0,'','cQBArfZM',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8247,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1131695820,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','SHADOW KILL (2002)\r\n\r\nWho inherits the guilt in the case of death penalty? Thats the question posed and rather obliquely addressed by Shadow Kill (Nizhalkkuthu), the latest film from Indian New Cinema pioneer Adoor Gopalakrishnan. Set in colonial India in the early-1940s, the film examines the guilt-ridden life of a state-appointed hangman named Kaliyappan (Oduvil Unnikrishnan). While he works for the state of Travancore, hes assigned to live outside its boundaries since the officials arent comfortable with him being around people he might have to hang one day. So, Kaliyappan and his family -- a wife, a pubescent daughter, a Gandhian, freedom fighter son -- reside in a small rural village whose inhabitants ironically believe that the ash from his rope contains healing powers. The beautifully paced and consistently engrossing first half, which promises more than what the film ultimately ends up delivering, features Kaliyappan in a state of despair due to his belief that the last man he hanged was innocent, and hes taken to drinking to ease the pain. His son may not want to continue in his fathers footsteps, but he doesnt get a say when a sick Kaliyappan is called in to perform an execution and hes asked to accompany him. At this juncture, Gopalakrishnan veers to overlap his narrative threads that may or may not meet at the ends as Kaliyappans daughter and her sexuality become the focal point after a state official starts to tell a story about a young girl who was raped and murdered. The second halfs melodious images also undermine and distill some of the complexities the film established earlier on. However, Shadow Kill, which is possibly a minor work in the directors much celebrated oeuvre, still has resonance because Gopalakrishnan with his trademark subtlety points toward pertinent issues surrounding the death penalty.\r\n_________________________\r\n\r\n*The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2002.\r\n\r\n*SHADOW KILL was part of the GFI (Global Film Initiative): \"A New York-based, nonprofit foundation working with leading American cultural institutions to promote cross-cultural understanding through cinema. Each year, The Initiative acquires ten narrative films from the developing world that tour the country for one year.\" GFI\'s partner First Run Features recently established a Global Lens Series, allowing them to release the features on DVD. \r\n\r\n*A DVD is now available.','9ff64a768a470709be4ab1a936314480',0,'','jxXvUdzE',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8248,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1131835500,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','Police Beat, there was a Q&A with the main actor after the film but I didn\'t stay, mainly because they screened it in the wrong aspect ratio and that messed my eyes up.\r\n\r\nComments will follow asap.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','7b38d101ac74286262e9cf851e3e65f5',0,'','SeyCbKF8',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8249,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1132015500,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','Umoregi, The Buried Forest, I need to contemplate this one, beautiful cinematography, very artistic but where was anything else?\r\n\r\nGive me a day or two to brood on this one before I comment on it.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','f2453038814c0c304ec55b69674f87c0',0,'','HRb6WpiL',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8250,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1132346580,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','Japanese film \"Heavens Bookstore\", whimsical romantic drama that\'s appears to have taken an inventive leaf from Kore\'eda\'s \"After Life\".\r\n\r\nFull comments to follow in Japanese Journals - General.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','0a13464c6de7157955909f71c0426e11',0,'','yobrcxEA',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8251,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1132357380,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Reincarnation of Golden Lotus (1989) - Clara Law\r\n\r\nWell hard to believe there is a look and feel to such a remote genre, but this definitely feels and looks like a Hong Kong film from the late 80\'s. The music has that synthesized hybrid of Easternized Western music, the colors aren\'t sharp, and even the editing has a pace that makes it work on a John Woo level.\r\n\r\nThis was the first feature from Clara Law, and by most accounts it is her best work. The film certainly has promise. It begins with the dead Lotus about to be reincarnated, all she has to do is drink three cups of tea to erase her past, but she only drinks two, determined to go back and get revenge. She is warned that it will ruin her life, and well let\'s just say that\'s pretty obvious foreboding.\r\n\r\nThe story takes us to modern Chinese history, first in the sixties where Lotus is an orphaned child ballerina, and then her eventual exile, finall winding up in present (or at least present at the time the film was made) Hong Kong. There is certainly a contrast from the China of the beginning to the later Hong Kong. Everyone appears to be mindless slaves in China, and the ideology is shown as extreme, so not surprising the film wasn\'t produced there. According to the legend, Lotus was known as the \"slut of all time\" and her original story took place in the 10th Century. Law periodically cuts back and forth to reveal the life previously lived. \r\n\r\nIn all a pretty good film, things seem to get a little more hectic and confusing at the end, but over all I think it\'s a pretty compact film. It could have been longer to perhaps flesh out the different affairs carried out, but that might have made for a completely different film.\r\n\r\nGrade B+','8c9fd60c840d6f9cb34c5c69cf9b39b4',0,'','ywxqLECc',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8252,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1132501920,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: The Last Film Seen','\r\nwow ... this is such a long ago show that I have to rewatch to recall ... anyway, some comments by me include ...\r\n\r\n-- if you like Joey Wong, go watch her most popular film \"A Chinese Ghost Story\" (i.e., the first in the series, the rest are not as good)\r\n\r\n-- The character Lotus Pan was from a well known Chinese novel ... in it, she was very unfaithful to her husband ... so I think the movie (if I recall correctly) tried to have a different take of her ... in the reincarnation ...','71d7d8ae64229bce282eba69567df13e',0,'','onm1ueTY',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8253,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1132543620,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Sisters or the Balance of Happiness (1979) - Von Trotta\r\n\r\nCan\'t say this film overwhelmed me. Wasn\'t particularly moved or impressed with it, which may be a little cruel here. Just didn\'t really captivate me, which is a shame because this is the first film of Von Trotta\'s I\'ve seen.','d6bfdb31908db7177ca0b80c58a8e001',0,'','E6KcTVyD',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8254,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1132636260,1,0,1,1,1,1,'A','Re: The Last Film Seen','Don\'t worry, she isn\'t THAT great a director. If you want to see her at her best watch \"Rosa Luxemburg (1986)!','04b53c777b6bb0e09572ea4a80c988da',0,'','BtLgxnqj',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8255,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1132641120,1,0,1,1,1,1,'A','Re: The Last Film Seen','Saw Donnie Brasco (1997 / Mike Newell) today, and I must say this is one of the potentially best stories I\'ve ever encountered. Kinda the godfather trilogy via gangs of New York, with a little Scarface in, but everything on a very personal triangle Protagonist - Father figure - Wife.\r\nThe film didn\'t make much of its potential, but enough for the two hours. The chemistry between Depp and Pacino is phenomenal, they could almost be relatives as far as my impression goes, and the photography is also top-notch. Wonder why it didn\'t get any awards that year?\r\nRecommended.','93f008f315b2391f3053d9d01150bd8f',0,'','kC3H1SmY',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8256,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1132643340,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Still haven\'t caught that. I did however get to see Hou\'s Flowers of Shanghai (1998) , and I must say this film impressed me quite a lot. Watching the opening scene I wondered if this was just another modern film with a long opening tracking shot, or if this was setting the mood for the film. I found it was the latter, Hou didn\'t abandon this approach after the intro, he kept the film uniformed. The film is tightly structured as an Ozu film, and there are no noticeable in scene edits, which transforms a potentially boring and predictable story into a truly remarkable film. Of the four films I\'ve seen from him, this stands as the clear best, I will admit however that I saw City of Sadness without English subs, so that has a bit of a handicap.','4059cb676baa7e4b605b68127c663599',0,'','DaxtvQXJ',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8257,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1132656840,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','What I like about Donnie Brasco is that it\'s very understated (it\'s almost minimalist compared to a couple of Scorcese films). Can\'t say that the story is very unique but it\'s handled very well. Good point about the chemistry between the leads.\r\n\r\nFlowers of Shanghai is certainly one of Hou\'s best. It\'s good to know that you\'re finally discovering the Taiwanese master.','be2de4da9a28327abe5281bcdf1efa6e',0,'','FAKRTxqM',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8258,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1132735200,1,0,1,1,1,1,'A','Re: The Last Film Seen','more Hou hsiao-hsien is also on my to see list. Can\'t really talk about him.\r\nYes, the understated approach is what I liked best about Donnie Brasco. Thanks, somehow I couldn\'t come up with the main point.','d6f740ac7bb2d6d0ebddd96e6f8a90e4',0,'','aX9gYSED',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8259,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1132796100,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. So I now feel comfortable seeing the fourth installment. This one seemed to move the quickest out of all of them, but damn what a lousy looking werewolf.','187aee5b252ff035441c9960dcefaf8a',0,'','YtB1zJuA',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8260,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1132812180,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: The Last Film Seen','Quote trevor826, \"Werner Herzog\'s Wild Blue Yonder, truly bizarre mix of fantasy and documentary. If there\'s any interest I\'ll write some more comments about it.\"\r\n\r\nI am watching it next week.\r\nDo write about it in a NEW thread, so that I can follow up. Who knows, maybe A or arsaib4 or others might have watched it too ...','42bc33f30b96bf467982b7af5a930460',0,'','PwFke9XR',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8261,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1132851600,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','The excellent Onibaba 1964. Full comments to follow but I must once again mention the remarkable transfer from Eureka, truly magnificent.\r\n\r\nIll also try to put something together on \"Herzog\'s Wild Blue Yonder\"\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','74e7f1f3354dd172e5c43ce60cc2e80f',0,'','CXqcR2A5',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8262,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1132913640,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','I haven\'t yet seen Wild Blue Yonder (didn\'t even know that Herzog has already made another one). Looking forward to Trevor\'s comments. I did watch his Wheel of Time a couple of days ago. Will add my comments here.','9299b8a3a260a5ffc4f9fd59aa96586c',0,'','Tdujp0Gn',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8263,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1132914540,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','WHEEL OF TIME (2003)\r\n\r\nIn an interview with the BBC about Wheel of Time (Rad der Zeit), a fascinating, if slightly unfocused, documentary about the Buddhist Kalachakra initiation of 2002, German filmmaker Werner Herzog stated that \"I was not attracted to make a film about Buddhism. I was rather reluctant to step in because I have very little knowledge of Buddhist philosophy.\" On one hand, that works in the docs favor because Herzog isnt able to bog it down with unfamiliar theological musings, but on the other hand, since hes not in the \"inquisitory\" mode, at times he doesnt seem to have anything particular in mind at all. The title refers to the central metaphoric symbol in a sand mandala which attracts countless faithful to Bodh Gaya, India, the site where Buddha found enlightenment himself. After presenting a few festivities taking place before Dalai Lamas arrival, Herzog, not surprisingly, discovers and skillfully captures the harsh terrain surrounding the sacred Mount Kailash which has to be overcome by many pilgrims, some of whom pray every step of the way (we find out that it took one more than 3 years to reach the site). The filmmakers brief narration is adequate, but not particularly insightful; however, his studious images make up for his lacks. Wheel of Time ultimately moves to Graz, Austria, the first western country to host the Kalachakra event. There, Herzog interviews a Tibetan monk who was imprisoned by the Chinese authorities for 37 years. An important topic for sure, but again, it doesnt quite fit here just like many of the other pieces. Dalai Lama also speaks with the filmmaker and, as always, hes a pleasure to listen to.\r\n\r\n______________________\r\n\r\nThe film is now available on DVD from Wellspring.','7a231eed0b6f5bc87ece2702ff57cbca',0,'','XrALksin',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8264,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1133038920,1,0,1,1,1,1,'Snookeroo','Re: The Last Film Seen','\r\n\r\nHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.\r\n\r\nWell...you asked!','f8e3c8786a59c4c6f2e16ae64a2d7b1c',0,'','0yZWMPAH',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8265,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1133079420,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: The Last Film Seen','hi Snookeroo\r\n\r\nDid you like Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire?\r\n\r\nfree to follow up with any comments ...\r\n\r\nRgds','9f70c4194f11133bb0294d060978992b',0,'','Q35snJiY',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8266,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1133215860,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','Kundun yesterday and Thumbsucker today, notes to follow on Thumbsucker.\r\n\r\nComments for Wide Blue Yonder - LINK. It\'s only a pity that someone wiped my tape so the notes will be brief.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev','a6efcfe6d68c4a92e4483581676a48f5',0,'','sNuMPiea',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8267,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1133288400,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','Final Destination 2, well it was on TV and my youngest son wanted to see it. It blew its load in the first 20 minutes with a surprisingly good build up to a pile up of grand proportions, unfortunately it could never come close to topping that and both my son and I lost interest pretty quickly.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','ac064e5f992860328dd5b95a0bb5f402',0,'','uxfgPUja',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8268,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1133306280,1,0,1,1,1,1,'Unregistered(d)','Re: The Last Film Seen','Saw this movie on my local PBS station last sat...I turned it on after it started, about 30 min in..\r\nIt was called The Exterminating Angel. About a group of people trapped (somehow, I don\'t get why?)\r\nin a house.....\r\nHas anyone seen it, more importantly, how did they end up in this house, and why didn\'t they just LEAVE?','febd463bb25a7a359df3414cbc1c57c8',0,'','Anv2uTc6',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8269,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1133307240,1,0,1,1,1,1,'Unregistered(d)','Re: The Last Film Seen','Pickpocket is available on Netflix - US...\r\nSo i\'ve added to my list of 500.....','4e531176cd6f27e9f0b37fa03ff88ee9',0,'','TtszLHhr',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8270,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1133561520,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','The Suicide Manual, ultra low budget Japanese movie. I was hoping from the initial premise that this would be written up in Japanese Journals - General but no real surprise, it\'ll go in the horror section- LINK .\r\n\r\nWe appear to have a few Jean Rollin films showing on cable tv at the moment but from what I\'ve seen before, \"If you\'ve seen one, you\'ve seen em all\".\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','f1e522f1990590c4f52d637b0f16e19e',0,'','b5ungT7c',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8271,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1133577780,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','Memento Mori, notes to follow in Korean Korner - LINK.\r\n.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','68a6b78286cd36b5c9a3a3d0a4203799',0,'','ShaMHW5U',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8272,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1133736360,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','Made for TV film - Yasmin (2004), Kenneth Glenaan concerning the way muslims were treated before and after 9/11.\r\n\r\nComments to follow.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','0d3cbca2631400276f330efe18b76307',0,'','0Sbw8zqV',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8273,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1133864100,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','Latest T.O. trip for Naruse films also produced Mehta\'s Water. The film opens soon so more to follow. \r\n\r\nAlso: Kings and Queen, The White Diamond, Lila Says, Seven Swords.','8e341de8088cc19158b575987e9d91cc',0,'','g7yFAsJV',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8274,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1134073260,1,0,1,1,1,1,'A','Re: The Last Film Seen','Just saw the magnificent \"After Life\" by Hirokazu Koreeda. This was my third film by him (also saw Maboroshi and Nobody Knows), and he\'s just become my third favorite Japanese director, right after Mamoru Oshi and akira Kurosawa. The film sometimes reminded me of a sensibility resembling Hou Hsiao-hsien, which is one of the biggest compliments a film can get from me. \r\nPersonal favorite, comments to follow.\r\n\r\nWhat was it with Naruse again? Still haven\'t seen any of his films, btw.','74c2e03c585bf8707a5f02d02b555a7e',0,'','3VsoXTRz',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8275,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1134079680,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','A can you comment in the Japanese general thread, I\'d also like to add my comments as I \'ve just got hold of the region 1 dvd.\r\n\r\nAs for me, a couple of reviews to catch up on, Yasmin - see above, Battle in Heaven, Pandora\'s Box - 1929 and Where the Truth Lies, Egoyen which I\'ve just seen.\r\n\r\nI was discouraged from writing any comments simply because the site appeared to have gone into hibernation.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','bc7a9cf74f305cd1d5a5aee6e8e7ade2',0,'','HRAeoxt1',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8276,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1134091260,1,0,1,1,1,1,'A','Re: The Last Film Seen','You really are the site\'s most active member, posting way more than anybody else, so you have to be patient with us sometimes. Well, I guess it\'s hard sometimes, when there are mainly four to five people active though we have 109 registered members. \r\nBut still the new foreignfilms.com is in its infancy, and we can expect better for the future. Just how long it will take is another question','892b292d571e18531504712802b21599',0,'','gPlVGqEe',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8277,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1134104160,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Sorry I\'ve been out of the loop. I must admit I\'m a little discouraged at how little I missed in my absence. \r\n\r\nAnyways I finally got to see the Warriors today, and if I can have the time to get some full comments written, I\'ll put them in arsaib\'s Cult Classics thread. The film\'s comic book edge was interesting, and as flawed as the film was, it\'s still a lot more charming and entertaining than much more \"professionally\" done films. Every so often a bad cult film is better than the standard ultra-serious award film (ie a film made only to win awards). Case in point I\'d rather watch Rock and Roll High School than Kramer vs. Kramer, even though R and R is a piece of corny crap. The Warriors has that charm, and enough of it has been embedded in hip hop culture here in the US to make it appear almost essential viewing these days. I\'m off to see the Squid and the Whale in a few hours so another more contemporary film to get some info on. I\'ve heard pretty damn good things about it, and it is the only 4 star film in the Chicago Tribune I\'m yet to see.','dc1d1b717d10a7598622faaf3b3f1f06',0,'','fM8JzaPH',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8278,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1134106920,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: The Last Film Seen','wpqx, believe me you have been missed along with a few others, good to hear from you. \r\n\r\nJust watched a comedy from Uruguay, \"Whisky\" although you could only describe it as a comedy in the broadest sense of the word, the humour is almost imperceptible and the main subject matter concerns the mundanity of life. Very Aki Kaurismaki!\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','5ce69d00c24844ecb09cc8eca1b0fdbc',0,'','80cKhLVk',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8279,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1207159020,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Macunaima (1969) - Joaquim Pedro de Andrade \r\n\r\nContinuing my trek through Brazil is this unique and positively absurd comedy from Andrade. The print of the film was incredibly clear and far better than nearly every Brazilian film I\'ve seen. This fits right into the over the top style of films like Xica and How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman. You know from the start when a man in drag playing a woman with his white face painted brown starts grunting and out drops a fully grown black man as a newborn infant that this film is not going to be too conventional. Our hero as he\'s constantly called by the narrator mysteriously winds up turning white in a magic fountain and suddenly is god\'s gift to women. Along the way he has a son who looks exactly like he did as a newborn baby, gets a family of giants to attempt to eat him, is invited to the strangest wedding party I\'ve ever seen and eventually returns to his roots. The whole time he remains lazy and horny which sometimes cancels the other out. Certainly worth hunting out and it is available as an all region DVD.','7044ac34061745348e5b138110c6e14b',0,'','Vjodrxt9',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8280,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1207170900,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','The Lion Has Seven Heads (1970) - Glauber Rocha \r\n\r\nI\'m beginning to wonder if I should\'ve just started a thread for Brazilian films. This well known but little seen Rocha film is remarkable from beginning to end. So much of the film seemed familiar right from the start yet it was like nothing I\'d ever seen. I wonder how heavy Godard influenced Rocha or vise versa. The film did have French and Italian funding and much of it was in French, including another bizarre Jean Pierre Leaud performance. There are direct camera addresses, long takes, iconoclastic imagery, and a naked white girl in a cage, what\'s not to love? Like all Rocha films I saw this in an extremely grainy version with impossible to read subtitles, but like the three previous Rocha films I\'ve seen it didn\'t distract me, in some ways it almost seemed to help the film.','deeb828f1ac6a9dedeecc199358d89e2',0,'','NXPyZ7fs',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8281,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1207171800,1,0,1,1,1,1,'justindeimen','Re: The Last Film Seen','Consciously or not, I just realised my still ongoing Hong Kong fest has taken a turn that\'s either spooky or serendipitous. I had started to commit myself to watching Leslie Cheung\'s early crime films, kung fu, comedies and now dramas like the WKWs and Rouge, from late March till today. I was just reminded when I was reading the newspaper that he did pass away on April 1.','dfa4c76783c0bd0d6f15476537eb2053',0,'','AklT8EBY',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8282,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1207173780,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Bullet in the Head (1990) - John Woo \r\n\r\nWhat a remarkably brilliant over the top follow up to The Killer. John Woo reportedly wanted to make this A Better Tomorrow III, but Tsui Hark took the franchise from him, but that probably works best for this film. A trio of friends are forced to leave Hong Kong and decide to make a quick buck exploiting the situation in Vietnam. What follows is almost a Hong Kong interpretation of Treasure of the Sierra Madre, at least that\'s what I gathered. The film is epic in scope spanning two countries, several years, and an awful lot of explosions. It\'s a credit to Woo how he can take us from light hearted friendly mischief to tragedy by film\'s end. Certainly enough to encourage me to dig deeper into genre film making. I also ran out of Brazilian films.','4947d140be1c4f96d798660c8e8f837c',0,'','NFveS7Hg',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8283,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1207209660,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','I think you should start a Brazilian thread, preferably in the Classics forum so Walter Salles and his mostly middlebrow fare can stay out of the picture. But really anywhere would be fine. I\'ve seen Macunaíma but how did you get to the Rocha film?','426930852fccb2ae3c4edc6cc5700815',0,'','40TWZVoM',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8284,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1207213140,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','A DVD-R of what looked like a seriously downgraded 16 or 35mm film print. I\'ll take any Rocha I can get anyway I can get it.','f4b7d3b6e8655bb8ddf79ea8c5d85769',0,'','B172FlZC',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8285,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1207258560,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Merry Go Round (1955) - Zoltan Fabri \r\n\r\nCertainly a product of its time and country this film was immensely popular in it\'s native Hungary and was considered a fore-runner for some of the monumental films of the new wave. Fabri had a second career as an actor and appeared in The Witness in 1968. Here however he fashions a somewhat simple tale of a young couple who seem to have everything going against their union. Their families are on opposing sides of the spectrum as the girl\'s family is very much resisting the move for collectivization, and the young man is one of its strongest advocates. With a few well placed camera angles and a bit of compromise our lovers do wind up with something of a happy ending. Fabri\'s films as a director are largely unavailable here and seems better known based on reputation rather than people actually seeing his films.','c7aba5bce1c9888fcbcc8fa890effde0',0,'','G2FNgxVm',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8286,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1207286760,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Touki Bouki (1973) \r\nAvanti! (1972) \r\n\r\nPretty far from each other, the Wilder film was excellent and Touki was a bit puzzling in its construction to me.','ecefb8c082a3a22018131402de80107c',0,'','zJFawpRN',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8287,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1207356540,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','Djibril Diop Mambéty\'s Hyenas isn\'t as experimental but I like it almost as much as Touki Bouki.','5704837f556696caf6f074759d0887ac',0,'','y8wQ3vzb',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8288,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1207360380,1,0,1,1,1,1,'justindeimen','Re: The Last Film Seen','Saw these Emir Kusturica films over the past week: \r\n\r\nArizona Dream \r\nBlack Cat, White Cat \r\nWhen Father Was Away on Business \r\nDo You Remember Dolly Bell? \r\nLife Is a Miracle \r\nUnderground \r\n\r\nUnfortunately couldn\'t find Time of the Gypsies, which is was the one I was most looking forward to.','7f82e39a6b04f104663dff2eeff0300f',0,'','qdhtRWeG',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8289,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1207361340,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Time of the Gypsies was released here on VHS, not sure if there was ever a DVD of it. Perhaps you should start a thread on Kusturica with all those films seen.','4a58add321bfa48669364ec47285da49',0,'','znTQ8mCy',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8290,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1207372020,1,0,1,1,1,1,'R6dw6C','Re: The Last Film Seen','Last film I watched (together with my parents at the cinema...) was \" Märzmelodie / Melodies of Spring \" (Martin Walz, 2008) and it\'s simply one of the best if not the best German \"RomComs\" I\'ve seen in years. Magnificent. A faithful hommage to the old Hollywood Romances of the 40ies and the 50ies, yet a very modern and very German (and extremely funny) film, often interrupted by musical inserts in which famour German Pop Classics are elegantly and surprisingly put into the mouths of the gorgeous cast (Actually, it\'s almost a Musical). Hope isn\'t dead yet, maybe, our Beyond-the-Arthouse-Cinema can renovate it\'s old creativity and charme sometime - maybe also without being old fashioned. But since this is also a real exception, this superior and lovely film can\'t be appreciated enough in a cinematic landscape which is full of ultra-dumb comedies and static desperation studies. (9/10)','d6d43feafe15a5f0be40d37177011be1',0,'','kuofR2K9',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8291,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1207444920,1,0,1,1,1,1,'justindeimen','Re: The Last Film Seen','The Stars Look Down - My favourite Carol Reed film so far, a rewatch of The Third Man might be necessary though considering it has been more than a decade and a Criterion has been out.','972b10d4f4d6f362e38796119a9663ba',0,'','4rtTBn9S',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8292,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1207455000,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','I still haven\'t seen The Stars Look Down, or many other Reed films, but quite a high endorsement coming from you.','3e92cb6cbed18475feed03a2459b4c23',0,'','0yVwxFHA',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8293,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1207523100,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','The Far Country (1955) - Anthony Mann \r\n\r\nWell my original review was lost in the flood somewhere. Excellent film and a great example of Mann and Stewart\'s brilliant collaborations.','2a835643eff48ec6a1920aa2351f0db3',0,'','s9ou2Yde',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8294,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1207616520,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) - Billy Wilder \r\n\r\nWell my hopes for late era Wilder were remarkably improved after watching Avanti!, but I can\'t say I had the same reaction to this film. The pacing seemed to be a little off and just too uncharacteristic. Now maybe I just don\'t care for Sherlock Holmes in general, but I would consider this something of a misfire. Of course it\'s gotten some legendary status due to the mutilation the film took upon a disastrous first screening, but I\'m not sure if it would have been any better.','49e64875bc7188361ef14a5e55d0a2d0',0,'','gnbwjYNE',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8295,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1207649700,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','Mes petites amoureuses (France/1974) - A \r\n\r\nCasshern (Japan/2004) - C+','519584b04903161bbb8affcd7c4078f4',0,'','apVBUAu9',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8296,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1207696440,1,0,1,1,1,1,'R6dw6C','Re: The Last Film Seen','Mes petites amoureuses (France/1974) - A \r\nI supposed so! Have you seen more by Eustache? \r\n\r\nLast Film I watched was \" La Violenza: Quinto potere \" (1972), a striking court drama with a marvellous Enrico Maria Salerno in the leading role as a Prosecutor (and, obviously, the only incorrupt member of the court) who tries to reveal the enormous political influences of the mafia within the process against a poor man who was blackmailed to murder a politician. Obviously a follow-up to Damiano Damiani\'s similar, successful films, this one hasn\'t got the same impact but it is very intense and interesting nevertheless (there are many authentic facts used) and, of course, it\'s carried by an excellent cast including Mario Adorf as a renowned investor (and Mafia Boss), Gastone Moschin as a corrup lawyer, Guido Leontini as the prosecuted Crook and Georges Wilson (and also a minimalistic score by Ennio Morricone).','dff4fb74ca31a987c8bc7f3140b42129',0,'','mYyHLJ5i',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8297,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1207709100,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','I watched an unsubtitled version of India Song last night, which made the film seem even more alienating than perhaps originally intended.','dadfb7538ce703747f2b01a9bc956270',0,'','c5RGPeQM',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8298,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1207718100,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','R6dw6C wrote: Mes petites amoureuses (France/1974) - A I supposed so! Have you seen more by Eustache? \r\n\r\nI had previously seen The Mother and the !$@+$ and I also just watched Une sale histoire, so that\'s three more than what most of his fans claim to have seen, at least those in this country. A couple more of his retros are on the horizon, so I\'m sure I\'ll catch the other works shortly. Have you watched Mes petites amoureuses? Simply an astonishing piece of cinema. \r\n\r\nSpeaking of Duras, wpqx, her undervalued Nathalie Granger is coming out soon in the U.S.','f9e4d373c38b9769961c360ba9fc318d',0,'','PnYXBtpC',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8299,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1207722600,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','Michael Clayton (U.S./2007) - B \r\n\r\nManufactured Landscapes (Canada/2006) - B- (A not uninteresting, if fairly lackluster companion piece to the work of Canadian artist and photographer Edward Burtynsky, who doesn\'t have anything profound to say about globalization, at least not in this documentary; his images should speak for themselves. The film also pales in comparison to such thematically similar works as Still Life, Chain, Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks and Workingman\'s Death, none of which have unfortunately received nearly as much publicity.)','0df705695fbcc70d562eb7b33428a7da',0,'','YgpVa9ue',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8300,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1207722720,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Terminator 2 (1991) \r\n\r\nGood times in this incredible sequel which brings back a ton of childhood memories. Considering we watched the first one a couple of weeks ago, it seemed fitting to follow it up here. This was the \"extended\" version which had some worthwhile additional scenes cut from the original theatrical release, and some that well should have stayed cut. Pound for pound this is still possibly the best action movie ever made and it\'s amazing how good many of the effects still look which makes me weep all the more at the over reliance on CGI.','176ac5d906a469739e4c3a4fd6c013b9',0,'','XA1vk2su',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8301,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1207778880,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','The Marquise of O (1976) - Eric Rohmer','f1eddd88c16e3f56333cdf3feb223c30',0,'','e5Ujy3w2',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8302,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1207862160,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Conversation Piece (1974) - Luchino Visconti \r\nSugar Cane Alley (1983) - Euzhan Palcy \r\n\r\nUnfortunately the Visconti was good old fashioned crappy VHS and was formatted to fit this screen. I do believe at the film was shot in English so the audio wasn\'t a particularly large problem. The Palcy film was excellent, and seems to fit into a characteristic that I\'ve been finding a lot of in French cinema, which is to observe but not pass judgment on situations. Watching Varda\'s Vagabond that was another film were we saw a character who was neither good nor bad and the film wasn\'t asking us to take a side, same goes for the unfaithful wife in India Song. Sugar Cane Alley may show some of the exploitation but it doesn\'t really attempt to preach, instead showing some of the joy that can be found in the very mundane.','9cd01577d8b8c6f6f197b2eeb7cdc44c',0,'','dzc7QYmP',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8303,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1207869240,1,0,1,1,1,1,'justindeimen','Re: The Last Film Seen','Sharkwater - The documentary that An Inconvenient Truth should have been. It\'s just a remarkable film - it\'s a tragedy, a personal odyssey, a thriller and a cautionary tale all wrapped in the enigma of human existence.','46917ac2e4886bd7fb878c90ca966b68',0,'','K3lPHvWc',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8304,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1207904220,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','Ryna (Romania-Swi/2005) - C (As predictable as a Bruckheimer production. Newcomer Doroteea Petre is good, but she\'s even better in the much superior The Way I Spent the End of the World.) \r\n\r\nDestiny (Turkey-Gre/2006) - A','5d120ad1d017d51dce2be94b7c5bf8e3',0,'','mThNd0ce',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8305,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1207942860,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Hour of the Star (1985) - Suzana Amaral \r\n\r\nOne of the few Brazilian films I\'ve seen that tends to focus on a female perspective, this avoids all political debate and social injustice to focus more on a personal story that seems horribly inconsequential. Macabea is in no way despicable but there isn\'t a whole hell of a lot to get us to endear towards her. She\'s ignorant of many things and just seems hopelessly clueless about everything. What\'s more difficult to understand is her poor treatment by nearly everyone else in the film. Her one guardian angel is her supervisor whose been told more than once to fire her by his boss. It\'s a tough film that isn\'t particularly abrasive, simply observant but no great arch and development. Simple a character observation who leaves us almost entirely as she came. The fresh perspective might have attributed to some of the film\'s festival success, but it lacks nearly all of the punch and tenacity that most imported Brazilian films seem to carry. \r\n\r\n*again I realize that perhaps a thread on Brazil would be in order, but this is far from Cinema Novo.','8f8e50f4f5b1fdfe8c8e22c92f7c8ece',0,'','tePU9QW0',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8306,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1207973880,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: The Last Film Seen','arsaib4 wrote: Destiny (Turkey-Gre/2006) - A \r\n\r\nsince arsaib4 seldom gives such a grade \r\ni am anticipating a review and the DVD \r\nhee hee','beadacca05b39da9e9ac018ef87f7a27',0,'','XmWfnZHE',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8307,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1207976220,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','Ha-ha, you noticed how prickly I am with grades. (It\'s a good thing I don\'t make lists on a regular basis, otherwise many would be unhappy. ) I recently attended a retro of Turkish auteur Zeki Demirkubuz, who turned out to be an equal of Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Destiny is his latest effort. Thanks for you interest. I\'ll write more about him and his films soon.','745fafe16865822928fd54ac1bc901a5',0,'','BnCm7Ztl',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8308,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1208383680,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','The Night Porter (1974) \r\n\r\nAlways tricky watching a film with a reputation that precedes like this does. Some great moments and particularly striking images, in a somewhat convoluted plot. It\'s very easy to see how people could be completely put off by the film, but it remains quite compelling. An interesting filming choice, employing lots of long takes and a wandering camera. I\'d say it\'s probably a good thing that zooms have almost completely disappeared from feature film making since the 70\'s but here they are still thrown about.','f985c25d484147473e32458f4850e166',0,'','C1rzLghm',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8309,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1208389020,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Grey Gardens (1975) \r\n\r\nFairly fascinating account of a somewhat loony family that somehow comes across as completely normal.','9a3ef3e5d22d000b5e8816ac12ef901c',0,'','fCnjwGYX',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8310,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1208400960,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','Surprised you didn\'t allude to Charlotte Rampling, or maybe you did...','ff3a010abc82eb0edc4d5f84535a48b7',0,'','yx3cvkmB',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8311,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1208412300,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','What can I say that hasn\'t already been written about thousands of times?','a33d5aebc178edf218d50785eba11c4c',0,'','SnF83U0q',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8312,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1208418360,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Slave of Love (1976) Mikhail Mikhaltov','4fdc6eb0fde80492776208a6af9562bd',0,'','L2cyG8QH',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8313,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1208421240,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','True.','65364203e430439161a97b3d245a0168',0,'','ALCSG8rR',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8314,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1208422320,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Not to make excuses but I have just not been able to come up with much to say about any recent film I\'ve watched, as evident by the scarcity of comments here.','2e91ea1019a3a5b2a5dee150491d3417',0,'','7STVFjxw',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8315,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1208501880,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','American Gigolo (1980) - Paul Schrader \r\n\r\nSurprisingly excellent film that took its time winning me over. The film is so overly misogynistic at the beginning that it almost puts you off until you realize that that\'s the character Gere is playing. Which makes it hard for us to really care when he starts asking for help, he is an incredibly selfish character that makes it hard to sympathize, and Gere plays him relatively cold. The direction is largely superb and even on crappy VHS I was still able to get a sense of the tonalities of the production design.','f5b4eebd08f5245a9596427fc0500bba',0,'','udWi98km',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8316,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1208512020,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','The World According to Garp (1982) - George Roy Hill \r\n\r\nThis film can\'t seem to figure out if it wants to be a comedy or a tragedy. There are moments of almost absurd surreal humor intercut with devastating setbacks. The pacing is fine for it and most of the characters are somewhat compelling and everyone seems to be particularly flawed, but I was put off by the near tug of war when just as you start feeling happy someone invariably seems to die.','c5d69674b415d2dcd6ea4b9301070436',0,'','XvgV9mCd',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8317,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1208512320,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','An undervalued Schrader sandwiched between two others: Hardcore and Cat People. I thought Gere was quite good here; he was able to channel the underlying emptiness in his life without resorting to mannerisms. \r\n\r\n\"The direction is largely superb and even on crappy VHS I was still able to get a sense of the tonalities of the production design.\" Well said.','9e2c1c98b818ca8f11afef1903a9b4cb',0,'','Pnbxe4fj',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8318,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1208514000,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','I know the film is available on DVD, I just couldn\'t get ahold of it and didn\'t feel like being too picky. I saw Schrader\'s Cat People probably 14 years ago, so I could do with a refresher on that even though I\'m not particularly wild about the story. From what I read Gere replaced John Travolta for the role, and I got a vague sense that he was challenging his inner \"Travolta\" while on screen.','4cba8d1c28b18338db0ea38246a26b44',0,'','ucLzC1XR',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8319,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1208546880,1,0,1,1,1,1,'justindeimen','Re: The Last Film Seen','Landscape in the Mist - The one true masterpiece that I feel I\'ve seen this year.','b6780beeb7a0a28806166c91027b03b2',0,'','ZBhu9FNi',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8320,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1208566740,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','wpqx wrote: I know the film is available on DVD, I just couldn\'t get ahold of it and didn\'t feel like being too picky. I saw Schrader\'s Cat People probably 14 years ago, so I could do with a refresher on that even though I\'m not particularly wild about the story. From what I read Gere replaced John Travolta for the role, and I got a vague sense that he was challenging his inner \"Travolta\" while on screen. \r\n\r\nIf my math is correct, you were about 10 at the time, so, yes, definitely. I don\'t think it\'s great either, just better than its reputation. \r\n\r\nI\'ve read the same thing regarding the cast, and I believe Travolta eventually turned it down because he wanted the final cut.','cbd48f78c129169b66df074ca71a5d7f',0,'','x7Y6zmnW',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8321,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1208570040,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','John Travolta has had a long history of making poor choices regarding the roles he accepts. I was indeed quite a youngin\' when I saw Cat People. I\'m eagerly awaiting the Criterion DVD of Mishima so more Schrader will certainly be on the horizon.','8511bbb134b0602e636814ca1a099316',0,'','XaEhilJP',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8322,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1208577180,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (U.S./2007) - C+ (\"Films can lose you early and this one did. The credit sequence was crap and there was just really bad CGI all over the place. I remember the days when Burton constructed great set pieces, and didn\'t have to have a computer simulate them. This is not the same man who repainted an entire sub-division in Edward Scissorhands. Some of the singing was adequate, but I\'ll blame Sondheim for the lack of quality as a musical, good lord the songs were rubbish\" (wpqx). Damn, it feels like I wrote it. This collaboration between Burton and Depp lacks what the others have in abundance: imagination.)','f2e9d5a2c6a3955703713893e44d38b3',0,'','MGDfrstV',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8323,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1208579100,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','That\'s funny reading that post at first I was thinking \"man that sounds like something I\'d write\", how true.','9e9ce123e2805583c1f80b6f21322b29',0,'','fNZ7qFA1',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8324,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1208652900,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','Trust me, I know the feeling... \r\n\r\nNenette and Boni (France/1996) - A- (3rd viewing) \r\n\r\nStrange Culture (U.S./2007) - B','f5ff27b814f3922bf8b90daff62532bc',0,'','3itFcMzb',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8325,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1209023520,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','The Terence Davies Trilogy (U.K./1984) - A- \r\n\r\nGone Baby Gone (U.S./2007) - C+','8756c8353ce741a6283dc7ce33f70883',0,'','XGTqpkPQ',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8326,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1209024300,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Terence Davies Trilogy, care to elaborate? His Long Day Closes is rapidly approaching my \"to rent\" list.','f24ceb4bf930a0400e4129168341bd61',0,'','rbuQAsC2',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8327,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1209100260,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','Sure. It combines three of his initial shorts -- Children, Madonna and Child, and Death and Transfiguration - he made between 1976 and 1983, and needfully so since they (almost painfully) bleed into one another. (The actual reason however had much to do with foreign distribution.) Like the remarkable Distant Voices, Still Lives (now available on DVD in the U.K.) and The Long Day Closes, which I think you should get a hold of as soon as possible, they\'re highly autobiographical works that are set in a working-class Liverpool district. The shorts chart his alter ego\'s physical, emotional, spirtitual struggles in the three stages of his life. Films like these have a tendency to be self-contained, but here Davies is alternately subtle and ferocious in expanding his fractured narrative and overbearing themes involving sickness, family, homosexuality, religion, death. The visuals are starkly black-and white, and Davies is comparatively less married to tableau vivants. As you can gather, this ain\'t feel good stuff. The two adaptations, The Neon Bible and The House of Mirth, are the only other films he\'s released so far. His latest, Of Time and the City, which I believe is a documentary, will play at Cannes next month.','201c7825de2d524da5bbd1394e5be685',0,'','LlrckRVb',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8328,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1209103020,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','What\'s the availability on the trilogy?','1839da5ce0cfc17a6d1e724f0c8911c1',0,'','L5z9Xukl',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8329,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1209105300,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','VHS only, at this point, both in the U.S. and the U.K. Looks like it\'s OOP here, though you can probably rent a copy from specialty stores.','ea79927c7d761a6cf54cb7b50fc62950',0,'','a1r2JMbd',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8330,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1209109680,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','That\'s all I need to know. I was impressed enough by Distant Voices, Still Lives to check out more from Davies. \r\n\r\nbtw Joe Crede is my %!***%@ hero I would go gay for that man.','ff8cdf573b0545769ba1b23143677b98',0,'','ZmB5ujFc',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8331,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1209110160,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','They just avoided a three-game sweep, so hold on to you +*%*.','70d12a5c18098f53e58cb87a9ccb5c53',0,'','tbY12h7S',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8332,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1209113220,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Me and Joe Crede go back several years and my passionate hatred of the Yankees goes back even further. Didn\'t mean to get off track, but god what a game.','75d63ca2a2cf620e8c816861712c1eef',0,'','f8vnp1G9',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8333,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1209114000,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','I just caught the end, but it was good.','26a34c5cfe72839da65f9078bfed52c2',0,'','GMhdY6cV',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8334,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1209348180,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','Death of a President (Poland/1978) - B+ \r\n\r\nPitfall (Japan/1962) - C+ \r\n\r\nThe Paper Will Be Blue\" style=\"FONT-STYLE: italic\" href=\"http://foreignfilms.yuku.com/reply/15142/t/Shining---Long-Dark-Night-Romanian-Cinema----2008-.html#reply-15142\" target=_blank>The Paper Will Be Blue \r\n\r\nGiants & Toys','694b7bdcb9e740c2db294784d3f1449b',0,'','dMY8Cxpk',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8335,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1209408420,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','I didn\'t get to catch everything, but last night I did sit through the marathon restoration of La Roue (1922) which definitely seemed like a new film to me. Gance went a little overboard and I\'m amazed to think that the film was originally 8 hours long, but there are some remarkable moments and his command of montage is incredible. I hope that with some of his work being restored perhaps Gance will get his proper place in film history.','5306054b4b6249fa892e1bc53ff19b8e',0,'','Cx8wH9py',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8336,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1209456000,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','\r\n\r\nCocteau once wrote that \"There is cinema before and after La Roue as there is painting before and after Picasso.\" I\'ve recorded the parts I didn\'t get to see. Burel, not surprisingly, served as one of the cinematographers, as was the case with J\'Accuse.','f0c3daee4b1b68296bb02cd91a1737e7',0,'','3fVU6Lcu',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8337,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1209462360,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','I missed the doc that was on before and was far too tired to stay up for the encore of J\'Accuse but since at least that is coming soon to DVD I\'ll wait a little longer. I\'ve only seen five Gance features but there is no doubt that with a few more he might become one of my all time favorites.','6310f9227fd07795469adc52d8a397c3',0,'','adKW5o9t',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8338,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1209464280,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','Which five have you seen? \r\n\r\nBesides Gance, I\'d also like to see more of Belgian-born French filmmaker Jacques Feyder.','12e6d52fc3e04b15bbcf24b581ad81aa',0,'','W30HBXKM',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8339,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1209493500,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Napoleon, Au Secours, Lucrezia Borgia, and La Folie du Docteur Tube','de873e94407c23ecc39b813468ad07f4',0,'','60SQDE34',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8340,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1209536760,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Douce (1943) - Claude Autant-Lara \r\n\r\nYay I got to see a French film made during WWII. I had dreadful spectators behind me but the film had moments of unexpected humor (I\'m not even sure if it was supposed to be), but quietly reaffirming a story that seems told a thousand times about good old fashioned class differences. Politically speaking the film can\'t possibly have pissed off too many Nazis so it isn\'t hard to see how the film was made during the occupation. Quite a few interesting and changing character dynamics and quite a haunting ending. Better or worse I certainly enjoyed this more than Devil in the Flesh, the only other Autant film I\'ve seen.','07ea86b467699def64a2e7f6b9aef0d7',0,'','hEefiqy1',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8341,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1209549900,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','I\'ve only seen Sylvia and the Phantom from Autant-Lara. His films are certainly hard to come by.','6d71a7ccccacfe2ce8a60fc993376cc1',0,'','wlcNQMUe',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8342,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1209553080,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Well every Tuesday they\'re showing films of the occupation and immediate postwar period (and by immediate they mean within five years apparently. This was the film I was most anticipating so therefore the one I made the greatest effort to see. \r\n\r\nSpeaking of progressing through generations of French filmmakers, at long last the films of Jean Eustache are going to be playing in Chicago from mid-May to the beginning of June. Not sure if I\'ll catch everything but Mes Petites Amoureuses is a film that I will have to be either dead or in jail to miss.','1960fb2450cc817dff7396e78c1993de',0,'','043kG7l2',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8343,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1209605760,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','That\'s the spirit! It\'d be nice to discuss it with someone who\'s also seen it recently. Looks like a couple of his fiction and documentary featurettes are also on the menu.','e6b9e9e0de5eb2570fde95a20b8c87f4',0,'','gXq3oUr5',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8344,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1209628500,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','From what I\'ve gathered there showing everything he\'s done, but I typically get rather excited for these screenings and miss 80% of them (cough Imamura).','04eac5f1ac8aa94f30cf75d7800f888d',0,'','Hsixf4Rb',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8345,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1209737040,1,0,1,1,1,1,'justindeimen','Re: The Last Film Seen','DVD round-up for April: \r\n\r\nArizona Dream (1993) (6) \r\nBlack Cat, White Cat (1998) (7) \r\nWhen Father Was Away on Business (1985) (8) \r\nDo You Remember Dolly Bell? (1981) (7) \r\nLife Is a Miracle (2004) (7) \r\nUnderground (1995) (9) \r\nMuay Thai Chaiya (Chaiya) (2007) (6) \r\nBullet in the Head (Die xue jie tou) (1990) (8) \r\nInvisible Waves (2006) (7) \r\nOnce a Thief (Zong heng si hai) (1991) (7) \r\nA Chinese Ghost Story (Sien nui yau wan) (1987) (7) \r\nA Chinese Ghost Story II (Sien nui yau wan II yan gaan do) (1990) (7) \r\nA Chinese Ghost Story III (Sien lui yau wan III: Do do do) (1991) (8) \r\nA Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation (Xiao Qian) (1997) (6) \r\nOnce Upon a Time in China (Wong Fei Hung) (1991) (8) \r\nOnce Upon a Time in China III (Wong Fei Hung II: Naam yi dong ji keung) (1992) (7) \r\nOnce Upon a Time in China and America (Wong Fei Hung: Chi sai wik hung see) (1997) (5) \r\nLast Hero in China (Wong Fei Hung: Chi tit gai dau neung gung) (1993) (7) \r\nFatal Contact (Hak kuen) (2006) (7) \r\nRunning Out of Time (Am zin) (1999) (7) \r\nCity on Fire (Lung fu fong wan) (1987) (7) \r\nTiger on Beat (Lo foo chut gang) (1988) (6) \r\nThunderbolt (Pik lik feng) (1995) (6) \r\nCJ7 (Cheung Gong 7 hou) (2008) (5) \r\nGlasses (Megane) (5) \r\nThe Story of Ricky (Lik wong) (1991) (6) \r\nDay of the Dead (2008) (3) \r\nKung Fu Dunk (Guan lan) (2008) (4) \r\nSharkwater (2006) (9) \r\nThe Ice Storm (1997) (8) \r\nSuicide Kings (1997) (6) \r\nWar Dance (2007) (5) \r\nThe Stars Look Down (1940) (8) \r\nFuse (Gori vatra) (2003) (7) \r\nThe Savages (2007) (7) \r\nSuspiria (1977) (9) \r\nInferno (1980) (6) \r\nMother of Tears: The Third Mother (Terza madre, La) (2007) (6) \r\nBoarding Gate (2007) (7) \r\nThe Stendhal Syndrome (Sindrome di Stendhal, La) (1996) (7) \r\nFrom Beyond (1986) (7) \r\nChildren of Paradise (Enfants du paradis, Les) (1945) (9) \r\nJimmy Carter Man from Plains (2007) (7) \r\nOnly Human (Seres queridos) (2004) (6) \r\nRunning on Karma (Daai chek liu) (2003) (6) \r\nLandscape in the Mist (Topio stin omichli) (1988) (9) \r\nThe Orphanage (Orfanato, El) (2007) (5) \r\nThe Trouble with Harry (1955) (8) \r\nSwimming Pool (2003) (7) \r\nPrison on Fire (Gaam yuk fung wan) (1987) (7) \r\nPrison on Fire II (Jian yu feng yun II: Tao fan) (1991) (6) \r\nThe Rules of the Game (Règle du jeu, La) (1939) (9) \r\nThe SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004) (8) \r\nPumpkin (2002) (8) \r\nThe Heroic Trio (7) \r\nThe Heroic Trio 2: Executioners (Xian dai hao xia zhuan) (1993) (5) \r\nWe\'re Going to Eat You (Di yu wu men) (1980) (7) \r\nLegend of the Dragon (Long de chuan ren) (1990) (6) \r\nExodus (Cheut ai kup gei) (2007) (7) \r\nHudson Hawk (1991) (7) \r\nCloverfield (2008) (7) \r\nThe Goddess of Mercy (Guan shi yin) (1967) (7) \r\nRich and Famous (Gong woo ching) (1987) (4) \r\nRich and Famous 2: Tragic Hero (Ying hung ho hon) (1987) (8) \r\nThe Devil Probably (Diable probablement, Le) (1977) (7) \r\nHeart of Glass (Herz aus Glas) (1976) (8) \r\nCobra Verde (1987) (6) \r\nSigns of Life (Lebenszeichen) (1968) (7) \r\nSpring Blossoms (Chun nuan hua kai) (1968) (6) \r\nPassage to Buddha (Hwaomkyung) (1993) (8) \r\nBad Luck (Zezowate szczescie) (1960) (8) \r\nThe Passion of Berenice (Pasión según Berenice, La) (1976) (7)','0838b80bdac3c01d7eaf691069d6d473',0,'','7NwXpCu3',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8346,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1209755700,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','May have asked this before, but do films ever get a 10? \r\n\r\nSeems you and I watched Bullet in the Head on about the same day.','4584c24710e1a7749ecfbef19ff87d3e',0,'','SsmKLUEi',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8347,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1209756900,1,0,1,1,1,1,'justindeimen','Re: The Last Film Seen','Not often. 10s I keep for films that make themselves become my favourite films. They aren\'t often universally well-loved but I just needed a rating that would delineate between a technically excellent film and one that I would want to bring onto a deserted island, so to speak. Anyway, like I mentioned before, my ratings need an overhaul. I\'m finding myself rounding up more often than not. I\'m thinking a rating on a scale of 20 might do the trick. \r\n\r\nRegarding Bullet in the Head, that may be true. I\'m still continuing my Hong Kong marathon of their more well-known populist films, still miles to go and even further to go to delve into some of the lesser known films. Hoping to find a couple more gems along the way.','6b5c78ef524a39107189e65ec9ec452a',0,'','fptqv4Qr',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8348,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1209759540,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Keep us posted on your Far East odyssey. Perhaps I\'m the most generous rater around (certainly seem to be on this site) but Landscape in the Mist would probably still be in my top ten foreign films of all time list so that\'s certainly worth that extra point by my estimate.','2e7835328320b3679dca489387f61b86',0,'','YKphoDau',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8349,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1209769080,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Heimat (1984) \r\n\r\nEpic is an understatement. Unlike most monumental epics I took my time with this one (not exactly by choice). Spread out over the course of around two weeks I sunk my teeth into several generations of a somewhat simple family in rural Germany. There is drama throughout but not of a catastrophic variety. These just seem like real people who do good, do bad, and sometimes do both within the same scene. There is lots to love but I was particularly sold on the series with the ninth episode Little Hermann, which seemed to be the most touching and interesting of all the episodes. It\'ll probably be a long time before I venture into Heimat 2, or the recently released 3, but I\'m glad I finally got to see this and can finally cross it off my list.','4946eb80b2e79bd1bd8b4d529a3588a3',0,'','6h0xJXDr',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8350,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1209785700,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','Heimat II is by far the longest, I believe. On the other hand, the third is only about 11 hours. :|','91eba1d8d657df6f3124861813fdf429',0,'','xPJ7E9XF',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8351,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1209977700,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Beethoven (1936) - Abel Gance \r\n\r\nNot sure if Sunday nights with Abel Gance is going to become a regular event, but at least two weeks in a row I\'ve spent with the legendary filmmaker. Gance\'s freewheeling technique used so well in the silent era was a little handicapped here. However he is able to orchestrate a great deal of sophisticated sound mixing to be used as a psychological tool to illustrate the title character\'s decreasing hearing. Only when Beethoven\'s life \"flashes before his eyes\" do we really get a reminder of the innovative montage editing Gance helped to establish. The transfer (despite being on DVD) is abysmal however and could have benefited from much touching up. This carried on a career long fascination with historically significant figures, following on the relative success (artistically anyways) of Napoleon and Lucretia Borgia.','099083b70a480219b133bfa7a275859c',0,'','jq31VhUd',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8352,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1210025520,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Gummo (1997) - Harmony Korine \r\n\r\nSo strange. I can\'t figure what to make of this film. There are moments of absurd surreal humor and disturbing imagery, and overall there doesn\'t seem to be any rhyme or reason. Just wallowing around in white trash splendor. Looks like a homemade film of a family you\'d never, ever want to meet.','af66fdcd0cb9827b20e3b7de92004480',0,'','VAYHDyxX',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8353,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1210066440,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Midnight Run (1988) - Martin Brest \r\n\r\nA classic film that would probably be sitting amongst my favorites had I seen it 100 times as a kid the same way I watched Brest\'s earlier Beverley Hills Cop. Funny watching some of the same character actors appear in each story without even making the mental connection. De Niro got a lot of publicity for making his first \"comedy\" and the film has much the same comedy/action combo that made the previous Eddie Murphy vehicle so enjoyable. A good dynamic between the main characters that makes most of the cliche turns you want. The one scene I would have completely avoided was Jack Walsh\'s return to his Chicago family. It seemed clumsy and was extremely predictable in a sappy unrewarding way.','23674a962109d5c8187868e24c482be9',0,'','1NrpnEoy',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8354,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1210163400,1,0,1,1,1,1,'justindeimen','Re: The Last Film Seen','Helas Pour Moi - For me, top tier Godard. Saw it on a large screen at one of the film schools here, and am grateful the print wasn\'t from DVD this time round.','fcb1e93e1cf6a664cf2e136fa40578fa',0,'','5c973xke',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8355,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1210190940,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','That film baffled me but I\'m not sure if a second viewing would add a bit of clarity. Last night I watched My Friend Ivan Lapshin last night in a rather crappy VHS with a somewhat distracting buzzing sound throughout. I haven\'t quite made up my mind about it.','ff68da31aa352d95108b5309d022cbb9',0,'','6vwnNAGB',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8356,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1210545900,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','Flight of the Red Balloon (France/2007) - A- (2nd viewing) \r\n\r\nFight Club (U.S./1999) - A- (2nd viewing)','1588b3aa46cb6b91447d4d983969d4d4',0,'','W6cqwL9P',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8357,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1210663380,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','RedBelt (U.S./2008) - B+ (One of the Mamet\'s best. It appears to be cut with its subject\'s discipline.) \r\n\r\nEn la cama (Chile-Ger/2005) - C (\"The idea that strangers can engage in sex for pleasure without guilt, anguish and veritable laundry lists of complaints remains out of bounds, which gives this Chilean-German co-production a curiously old-fashioned, decidedly unsexy vibe\" [Manohla Dargis, The New York Times]. Even Linklater couldn\'t have saved this two-hander.)','44ba5e5bb727f30a19d6a68e808013cb',0,'','lRMnYg9A',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8358,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1210719300,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','I\'ve heard some good things about the Mamet film. I suppose I never made a thread on Iron Man, and should get around to that.','e68e41f422f04523166658a7ecfe7039',0,'','mRftNBpP',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8359,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1210747380,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','RedBelt is a good, old-fashioned genre piece which delivers. Ejiofor\'s performance is certainly one of the reasons why it works. I think you\'ll like it. \r\n\r\nI want to see Iron Man largely because of Robert Downey Jr., who I\'ve always admired. Who knows, your write up just may motivate me to do one for Mamet\'s film.','2d07db2a3b771cf2d26d732f13edabc2',0,'','8CpRHPnv',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8360,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1210833480,1,0,1,1,1,1,'tzarine','Re: The Last Film Seen','Volver \r\ny \r\nMala Educacion \r\n\r\nAlmodovar is very enjoyable and Srta Cruz y Sr Bernal are always watchable.','eaf5a0cb657866047cb5d3b5f66d3910',0,'','E5bU7av4',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8361,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1210839420,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Welcome aboard and agreed with Almodovar.','05a81b391b71cff813ad3420db1307d5',0,'','9s6opXJb',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8362,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1210898040,1,0,1,1,1,1,'tzarine','Re: The Last Film Seen','thanks. \r\n\r\nI mean how many people can make child abuse funny. \r\n\r\nI loved seeing Carmen Maura and Srta Cruz is absolutely wasted in Yankee flicks.','62d76d51faf2469c44fc1fb8b58d457d',0,'','Yl85jXMH',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8363,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1210977480,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','El Sur (1983) - Victor Erice \r\n\r\nI should probably stop watching foreign movies without subtitles. The second film from Erice might not be as enjoyable as his first, but I found it much more subtle and haunting than his follow up. So the middle film is essentially in between in every way. I couldn\'t find a great deal written about the film, and the review I read from Senses of Cinema did little but just say it was wonderful without offering much reasoning behind the aesthetic judgment.','80c47d5be8d60b829382688a23424ed7',0,'','idamyJTr',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8364,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1211268420,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','Goodbye Dragon Inn (Taiwan/2003) - A+ (Fifth viewing) \r\n\r\nO\' Horton (Norway-Ger-Fra/2007) - C','3f347828efa0e15d3d261cd0c167d9dc',0,'','sW5r6lp0',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8365,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1211277840,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','An A+, I am astounded. \r\n\r\nI saw Red Belt, and if arsaib won\'t do a review, perhaps I will.','d3f52de64526a7200b861fcdf77d1ccd',0,'','MAhys2tF',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8366,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1211342280,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','Yep, \"A+\" is for special occasions only. \r\n\r\nI read your post on Redbelt. That\'s perfectly fine; I\'m glad you made one. Time permitting, I\'ll try to add to it. Meanwhile, I\'ll continue to write about films no one has ever heard of. ;)','000a898c4494d07ad8bc5dce72f323e1',0,'','PHXfoZDh',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8367,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1211355000,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Speaking of which I got a chance to see Mes Petites Amoureuses from Jean Eustache tonight. Not sure what I expected but it wasn\'t what I expected, if that makes any sense. Quire removed from his previous film which is probably what made the film dead in the water to most international audiences expecting more of the same. The film took its sweet time and seemed to linger on every detail. In all I was quite fascinated by it and expect it to grow in my mind as time passes much like The Mother and the *$%#@ did. \r\n\r\nOh and finally got around to A Fish Called Wanda quite amusing great cast, pleasing.','28225bd5f2d2fa3de62fef9902d68066',0,'','j4YVD1Xo',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8368,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1211360700,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991) - Leo Carax \r\n\r\nOnly took about a year but I finally finished watching this film and well follie seems the right word for it. Great moments but I can\'t really understand what the hell was going on. Carax certainly seems fond of strange and mismatching lovers. I think overall though the film doesn\'t seem particularly strong. Sort of like it wanted to be grand, but other than the Bastille Day sequence didn\'t really deliver on its promise.','69645a4c0aacf933d5326b79e87394fd',0,'','7YVeziKs',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8369,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1211365080,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','I think it\'s quite likely that the Eustache will grow on you. Hopefully, you\'ll find the time to expand on your comments. \r\n\r\nIf you haven\'t already, I guess you should now check out Carax\'s Pola X.','5cc9d3afbe9ba7ce9db3079af3ab752c',0,'','b0N1fuWE',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8370,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1211392920,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','I\'ve seen Pola X already','c414868bf47a1eda642f6c63f5d9126e',0,'','xR5DjqMB',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8371,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1211450400,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','What did you make of it?','ffe1367e055c0a6cb438dfce7b424d70',0,'','jfrmCkES',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8372,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1211454420,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','I\'m not sure I knew what to make of it. I haven\'t seen it for a couple years and lord knows where my comments about the film are at.','f2256a31bcacbe2b9c47cab600763a26',0,'','2GBA5y04',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8373,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1211533440,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','A River Runs Through It (1992) - Robert Redford \r\n\r\nNot gonna lie, I watched this because I was supposed to read the book for a class and didn\'t get it done. There\'s plenty to like about it, some great location photography and well this pretty much is what made Brad Pitt a star. Can\'t say I know anything about fly fishing or ever want to venture into Montana for any reason ever in my life, but I could still understand the fascination inherent in these characters.','492fb350329037d1649bef1c7561f9bf',0,'','CwUZlBeW',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8374,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1211781900,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','Usually it\'s not a good sign when I don\'t remember much about a film but in this case it\'s simply been too long. I believe it came out after Thelma & Louise though Pitt had a more prominent role here. I haven\'t seen Redford\'s last two films; I\'ve been told I\'m not missing much. \r\n\r\nA Matter of Dignity (Greece/1957) - B \r\n\r\nGamorra (Italy/2008) - A-','03e3de4f7993d273cf5918f50e24769c',0,'','BsTDqQ6A',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8375,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1211824020,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','I haven\'t heard particularly great things about Redford\'s films since Quiz Show. Just a cheap way to figure out what happens in the story without reading the book.','316cdd3becec507d935d97f7fdef8f5f',0,'','gal4eAfq',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8376,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1211847900,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','And an essential one also, I\'d say, and that\'s a choice we have to make on a daily basis. Right now I could either watch Street Kings or a film which played at Cannes, and as much as I want to see Keanu Reeves and Forest Whitaker in action, I\'d have to go with the latter even though it doesn\'t guarantee anything.','f8308738f3d036d25169de0405647765',0,'','cnSz0x2s',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8377,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1211854680,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Today I watched The Science of Sleep which I enjoyed quite a bit but honestly got a little lost, it was hard for me to figure out what was a dream and what wasn\'t, which I\'m sure is the intention but Stephane winds up coming off more as an unbalanced schizophrenic rather than romantic dreamer.','b1f6f8a4736cf9ac7c5dbc898808c70e',0,'','yHSA7Kev',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8378,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1211962260,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','July (Soviet Union/1988) - B \r\n\r\nIn Memory of a Day Gone By (Lithuania/1990) - B+','c7cbae0888c000247b0e2770208ec61c',0,'','jfzBpkmC',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8379,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1211990640,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','The Return of the Banished not sure what year or who directed it, but it was part of a Romanian film festival going on. Not what I was expecting. Some amazing color compositions that seemed to get more dramatic as the film progressed, but there was next to no plot in the film and it failed to connect on a metaphysical level like other better known Eastern European medieval films.','d1e7a8ca8a7ae7644dfb0a73db3a78a4',0,'','fsNv58LH',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8380,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1212030120,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','Malvina Ursianu/1979. More info here. I passed on this one but did watch Lucian Pintilie\'s debut, Sunday at Six, which I liked quite a bit.','7fe72c157768035b8e90636d41960356',0,'','PtEDzpV4',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8381,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1212077820,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','In a perfect world I\'d catch more in the series but probably won\'t.','ecc3a0cd932ec2d6006e99038fe438bb',0,'','kWniwTNo',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8382,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1212302940,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Watched Changing Times today.','a8b14ce2fcd5e6804a3dc0ee614dd540',0,'','5vU0e4Ri',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8383,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1212314340,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','I\'m assuming that you didn\'t think much of it.','bd6d30118e4875375226e58ac4d467b9',0,'','yHMEp7Xv',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8384,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1212364740,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','It was alright, can\'t say I was wild about the whole hand held style throughout the entire movie.','83b4fd2adc431253e0196bd4335ec4cc',0,'','6Y278Rvn',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8385,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1212374340,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','Téchiné has set a highly standard for himself in recent years, so I was somewhat disappointed; definitely not a bad film, though. Depardieu and Deneuve had some wonderful moments together. But I thought Téchiné tried to deal with far too many issues, some of whom he\'d already done justice to in his earlier films. He\'s rebounded rather quickly with The Witnesses, which I liked quite a bit.','8f20f760d691903db4fd9c5aaad9cd5c',0,'','82MNq5wc',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8386,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1212375600,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','I have a lot more to see from Techine admittedly. On a completely different note, I watched Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny today which was fairly amusing and very ridiculous.','75b387690001a1213f997a8736ea7618',0,'','vcQCmbJS',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8387,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1212624780,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','Elegy (Hungary/1965) - One of the most visually stunning avant-garde shorts I\'ve ever seen. Directed by Huszárik Zoltán, who only made a handful of films before committing suicide at the age of 50. \r\n\r\nYearning (Japan/1964) - The more Naruse I watch the more I believe that he was even superior than Ozu, whom I previously regarded as the best of all Japanese filmmakers. The final act of this film has to be one of the finest passages of Naruse\'s career.','f9ca10edd2725198311656e19bc8d6e6',0,'','4jmpF8Kk',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8388,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1212835560,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','To Live (1994) - Zhang Yimou \r\n\r\nIt has been almost 8 years since I last saw this film and there\'s a reason. This was arguably the saddest film I had ever watched in my life and although incredibly moving, is a bit tough to sit through. As I\'m more intently gearing up for a revision of my top 100 this was an essential film to revisit, after all how can I have a film in my top 20 that I\'ve only seen once and 8 years ago at that? The film was still quite moving, and I was amazed at how much I remembered from the film and the overwhelming message throughout. The picture although horribly tragic and depressing throughout contains some level of hope and affirms the will to live present in the human spirit. I can\'t honestly say the film will remain in my top 20 after a repeat viewing as it failed to captivate me in the same way it did several years ago. Still the most profound film Yimou has made and the one I\'d most likely regard as his best, however knowing what was going to happen made me almost hesitant to appreciate it this time. Unlike Ordinary People which showed me on a repeat viewing exactly why I had found the film so amazing the first time, To Live came up just slightly short. The cinematography was excellent and as a portrait of turbulent Chinese history it is incredible, but perhaps I had let myself praise the film too much. I hate it when this happens.','4f16d9a356568f4129c9594bfd325416',0,'','9zJRGS26',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8389,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1212918780,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Watched Sherrybaby (2006) earlier today and was a little let down. I just wasn\'t in the mood for dysfunctional family drama. It was difficult to watch and the longer it went on the more upsetting it got. Not to take away from Gyllenhaal\'s performance, just not what I was in the mood for.','374f97d87995498a95bad13b0a4c7277',0,'','jplEaN4W',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8390,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1213118940,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Night of the Hunter (1955) - Charles Laughton \r\n\r\nThis was part of my re-watch list as a film I didn\'t appreciate that I felt was worth another look. I was right in assuming I missed something the first time around, and I\'m not even sure what I missed. Something about the film just didn\'t click the first time around. I found Mitchum\'s performance grating and over the top, but that\'s almost the very reason to like the film. The main thing that this film has going for it above all else is Stanley Cortez\' cinematography. This in many ways fulfills the promise of The Magnificent Ambersons that Cortez really was one of the all time greats. It is very much in the same vein of expressionist lighting and deep space compositions, if you paused the film on any given image you\'d be looking at one of the best still frames in all of film. Laughton had an appreciation for silent film and apparently watched a lot of Griffith before making this picture. His odes to expressionism, Lillian Gish, and Griffith\'s narrative devices come up again and again. Interesting that one of our great American fables was again made by a foreign born man. Really remarkable and it\'s a damn shame Laughton was never able to follow it up with another movie.','9d84ea76be5bf965566be35631ad59c2',0,'','hfu7CwUx',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8391,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1213212240,1,0,1,1,1,1,'tzarine','Re: The Last Film Seen','I love Night of the Hunter. Scared the $*+* out of me when I was a child. Gish is perfect as the alternate mother/angel. Don\'t forget Shelly Winters. \r\n\r\nThe Goddess with the amazing Ruan Lingyu. \r\n\r\nA woman works as a Shanghai prostitute as she raises her son. Amazing visuals and absolutely no moral judgments. Stanley Kwan recreated some of the scenes with Maggie Cheung in Actress.','e64a7cab9096e7f7b6bdcdd39a6e8f40',0,'','PX9o6AkJ',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8392,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1213234860,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','I also revisited Color of Pomegranates yesterday but didn\'t really get to post on it. Still an amazing film but not sure if it quite captivated me the way it initially did.','f2922178c76497ae3236860da6d73da3',0,'','vmcHPLNl',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8393,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1213537200,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','The Happening (2008) \r\nThe Incredible Hulk (2008) \r\nMy Way Home (1964) \r\n\r\nI\'ll try and get more about the new releases tomorrow/later today technically, but I\'ll say Hulk was entertaining if not quite a great film. The Happening was disappointing and not even remotely interesting, by far Shayamalan\'s weakest film. \r\n\r\nThe Jancso was a treat although I wasn\'t sure if the DVD I saw was the correct aspect ratio, it just seemed to look a little distorted.','4e19cb274e625aed867dce53cbc49486',0,'','CU74tbVl',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8394,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1213587480,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','I believe the recently released Second Run DVD of My Way Home is 1.78:1, about the same as the French DVD I have. The film feels like a companion piece to Jancsó\'s other \'60\'s efforts such as The Round-Up, The Red and the White and Silence and Cry.','bd2e502847037417d3eff94dd8a626b9',0,'','FKB3L296',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8395,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1213632720,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Definitely agree, I watched Silence and Cry yesterday (which was 2.35:1) and very much in the same vein. Still of the four I would have to go for Red and the White as my favorite. \r\n\r\nI also have Red Psalm and would like to get to that as well possibly today or tomorrow.','ec9f78153caf0b4eb71a21db1f9c8afb',0,'','yGQ6UCdN',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8396,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1213664340,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','Silence and Cry is said to be Jancsó\'s last b&w \'scope film. Its mise-en-scène felt like a visual ballet. Red Psalm is in color and is 1.33:1 but is no less sublime (its a musical). I just got a hold of his second feature, Cantata, which supposedly reworks La Notte.','fdae1655235e89e077f7e13c4d3b71d5',0,'','lyoAfQ9x',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8397,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1213665600,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','I think Tarr much more closely resembles Jancso than Tarkovsky but surely each is their own artist. I\'d like to see Cantana and a few others for that matter, his style is perfectly suited to my taste in cinema.','bda3f364941bfb9476d6855b8242ea8a',0,'','AWJNxnGZ',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8398,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1213670340,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','I did watch Red Pslam and my goodness this might be Jancso\'s best film. Absolutely remarkable and that final shot is brilliant.','4d9fa0a00f5eff348ea3005fd1bd7c8f',0,'','nK9fYWyA',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8399,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1213680540,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','Indeed. It\'s hard for me to pick one but Red Psalm is certainly one of his best. It garnered Jancsó the Best Director award at Cannes (incidentally, Tarkovsky\'s Solaris, which was also part of the competition, won the Grand Jury prize). The Hungarian master is still alive and well and has continued making films but not much has been written about them. It\'s likely that they aren\'t as accomplished as his \'60s and \'70s work.','ddcfd5672cb4f4e0822e10e68d7830b9',0,'','tW673D2J',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8400,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1213717500,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Well Szabo\'s films haven\'t been all that great of recent years, wonder if the day will come for a complete retro.','4fe1ca3b202a5e5914165c9a07a6d2c4',0,'','teWfNdBP',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8401,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1213749840,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','Posthumously, perhaps, so he won\'t have to be there to present miramaxicals like Sunshine and Being Julia. But Szabó is much younger and much better known than Jancsó, though arguably, even at his best, he isn\'t nearly as great.','8f977a33904a18e00b43cae2b36f2c6b',0,'','b1QSdoVf',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8402,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1213804080,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Is miramaxicals an arsaib original, because I\'m stealing that term? \r\n\r\nSometime in the last 48 hours I also watched Maurice Pialat\'s Police which I thought was a DVD transfer, but wound up just being a dvd burn of the New Yorker VHS, oh well live and learn. Still a fascinating film, but perhaps my expectations are officially too high for every film I see from here on out.','6512c08f134e8d9b9ebea209fb382a20',0,'','2FrDBwmk',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8403,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1213859520,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','No, not an arsaib original; I think Michael Atkinson coined it while he was at the \'Voice. \r\n\r\nLamentably the extras-laden French 2-disc set of Police doesn\'t feature English subs. It is a fascinating film, and appears to be extremely well researched (in fact, the bar owner in the film ended up getting convicted in real-life). I think it\'s rightly considered as one of the finest policiers of the recent past. It was nice to see that Criterion took care of À nos amours. Perhaps it\'s too much to ask of them to now do one of Pialat\'s great early films like We Won\'t Grow Old Together or The Mouth Agape but Police and the Golden Palm winner Under the Sun of Satan shouldn\'t be out of the question.','5207017348e36e622335eda28d536172',0,'','H586A2BN',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8404,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1213890000,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','I\'ll take anything on DVD at this point.','418eb0d8be3503e23fd7aa38c21a0de8',0,'','CgAukp5Y',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8405,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1213995060,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','Same here. It\'s rather remarkable considering his oeuvre that Pialat isn\'t better known outside of France, where his stature rivals that of Bresson.','02484310422808a7bb0aa0ca5cb36009',0,'','UuZ5WDop',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8406,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1213999740,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','I\'m still trying to find a copy of Naked Childhood which is the top of my list of Pialat films to find. \r\n\r\nMy last two films have been Indian, Guru Dutt\'s Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959) last night and Ritwik Ghatak\'s Subarnarekha (1965). The Ghatak film was definitely the better of the two, although I was so tired it was hard to stay awake. Also have a copy of Ghatak\'s Pathetic Fallacy I need to watch so the Indian fest isn\'t over yet.','11e79594e737176ae7379154730635ea',0,'','rmAe5HKn',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8407,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1214209140,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','Good luck finding one with subs. Pialat\'s feature debut was released as part of Gaumont\'s second massive box set devoted to him. \r\n\r\nI have seen the Dutt film but not the Ghatak. I believe it\'s now available on (English subtitled) DVD.','4ee0ecc7e483e402c77c02526b782af0',0,'','2UsxyZ6k',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8408,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1214210040,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','\r\nJapanese Girls at the Harbor (Japan/1933) - A \r\n\r\nMr. Thank You (1936) - A \r\n\r\nMasseurs and the Woman (1938) - B- \r\n\r\nOrnamental Hairpin (1941) - A-','2ab0d27e4b7e9c8a0ff7fd911c06bf05',0,'','bUyk3uYq',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8409,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1214238000,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Is there a Hiroshi boxed set or cinema?','7a0969121c338ff1a7661c71c0b14f97',0,'','bU2RXv0g',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8410,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1214277060,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','Shochiku, for which, like Ozu, Shimizu made most of his films, finally released the first box set devoted to his work a couple of months ago. Those four films were part of it. Incidentally, the second set just came out today. Can\'t wait! Both Ozu and Mizoguchi thought very highly of Shimizu who reportedly made more than 160 films but only about 25% of them survive today.','ad6bebb6aeeffba0f9c20ff5a3f74d92',0,'','0xM3gKQP',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8411,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1214279520,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Are these R1 releases?','a19655de761ec1e8dcf4b5ebea14b3c3',0,'','y2Q6HnSh',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8412,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1214295060,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','No: R2/NTSC (Japan). Released by Shockiku\'s home video arm.','facc00875abd774a8eea7219271db8a8',0,'','lCNUMd7z',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8413,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1214322840,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Speaking of Japanese Cinema you might want to check out this site. Lots of hard to find films to order.','b020e2126f7998a67bb1405b94592170',0,'','LqBuxwYA',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8414,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1214361780,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','Have you ever ordered from them?','8cf3a0a08274602d7b668636eaeabf85',0,'','EvWP3kHb',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8415,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1214381400,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Not yet, but I was going to pick up The Ceremony and maybe a Mizoguchi or two and proceed from there.','719c4f3eaf562e56739e0ef67cb9085b',0,'','mxT1ztrw',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8416,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1214382660,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','Some of the films listed don\'t have subtitles. But that\'s not as big a problem for me compared to aspect-ratios, which aren\'t mentioned and usually aren\'t tended to when it comes to low-price DVD-Rs. Keep me updated.','80426710ad860d456eba857ddea971a0',0,'','YfaLUtPy',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8417,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1214383800,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','I\'d consider subtitles to be the more important feature, but I\'m sure if you email him you can get some information.','968b2fff5c10fb59a9054e767e351597',0,'','AcQq5ey7',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8418,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1214450760,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','True. \r\n\r\nA couple of suggestions re: Mizoguchi: Hold off on Women of the Night for now as it\'s reportedly in the works at Criterion, and pass up on the thoroughly mediocre Flame of My Love which I just watched last week.','ea146f4394ac64c94e607282ee901c02',0,'','cX26PfyG',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8419,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1214513340,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','I got a couple online that I haven\'t watched yet, but mainly looking for Miss Oyu right now which I know is available overseas on DVD I just haven\'t gotten it yet. \r\n\r\nLast night we got reacquainted with an old friend and watched Rambo. Unlike many other action movies of the 80\'s I really didn\'t grow up with Rambo and had no recollection of any of the original three movies. For reasons that don\'t need explaining we decided to start from the end last night and watch part 4. Not a bad choice the film required no knowledge of the original three and had next to no plot to speak of. However that said it was $@$%#$* amazing, just killing and cartoon violence of the type that hasn\'t been seen in American cinema in awhile. The film was barely a blip on the radar when it came out this year (actually had a lower opening weekend than Meet the Spartans) but the film delivers in unrealistic carnage and is more than enough to satisfy most general fans. Now I can\'t wait to revisit the original trilogy.','8739cd38569852b1b5151d4ee0f5b767',0,'','W6kF14Q9',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8420,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1214553420,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','Great Pialat news: L\'Enfance nue / Naked Childhood (2-disc set) is scheduled for September by Eureka/MoC.','1126e0a2552709bdc5ab02897566802c',0,'','yfwN1h6L',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8421,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1214598420,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Outstanding indeed, this is by far the Pialat film at the top of my wishlist. \r\n\r\nI haven\'t been keeping as great tabs on what I\'ve watched lately, but I got a chance to see a rather crappy quality bootleg of Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, which was excellent, Nouvelle Vague (1990) which although a DVD burn didn\'t seem like it was in the right aspect ratio because everything looked stretched, but you can never tell if that\'s just Godard being Godard, and another Godard with Comment Ca Va which didn\'t captivate me quite the same way as Numero Deux but was at least equal to Ict et Alleurs.','e3b367a44a9fc1cd3a870bdb1615da4c',0,'','My2xs5fm',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8422,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1214642940,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Tonight was the first of hopefully many Grindhouse Fridays. We got the ball rolling with the film Kung Fu Zombie (1982) which is exactly what was advertised, although periodically the zombie turned into a vampire, day and night seemed quite interchangeable, and any excuse for shirtless kung fu fighters to be drenched in water. The film\'s plot is almost impossible to decipher if you\'re looking to continuity. Lots and lots and even more jump cuts, fast forwards, trick photography and horrible makeup but something about it made the film fun. Through it all was a tongue in cheek sense of humor that made you feel that the filmmakers were also laughing at their product. I wonder if there was more planned for the film because there were several potential plot threads that seemed completely unrelated and underdeveloped. Still when watching *%%+ you can\'t expect greatness.','d598df3a65fca4efa0ee1df5879e1edb',0,'','DorgNm3J',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8423,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1214732220,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','Paranoid Park (U.S.-Fra/2007) - A (3rd viewing) \r\n\r\nTilaï (Burkina Faso-Fra-U.K.-Ger-Swi/1990) - C+ \r\n\r\nStreet Kings (U.S./2008) - F','d5f79f29d18191ecea1fd51069390d91',0,'','w4xGYgVd',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8424,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1214734440,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Wow an F? Sounds terrible. I still am yet to see Paranoid Park, but hopefully that\'ll change soon. \r\n\r\nI watched Zombie Defense Army (2005) which as far as I can tell was my first Japanese zombie film. The film begins with an anti-American tirade about war attrocities and the current Iraq situation then we go to the low budget horror films favorite locale, the woods. A poorly animated UFO crash lands and releases a gas that sure as **@# causes the dead to come back to life. It just so happens that there\'s a random woman hung from a tree and someone who crossed a yakuza getting shot right before this mysterious green gas is unleashed. They become the first zombies then a bunch of random people start rising from piles of dead leaves. So quickly a blonde yakuza with a mullet, a very spoiled model/pop star, and a military patrol survive and band together to fight everyone. Nearly everyone dies, a four month old fetus jumps out of it\'s dead zombie mother and it is nearly impossible to definitively kill any of these zombies. The continuity is all over the place, many of the effects are horribly bad, and the story is laughable at best. As far as gory retarded entertainment this will deliver, but in terms of making its mark on the lexicon of zombie lore this film is far from a classic. There is a way of tying things together and despite some choppy moments everything does seem to eventually come together and even when you feel like certain characters or subplots were forgotten about, they come back around again.','40d6566a13d24a1f56b8300c1c0e734d',0,'','qU2VfcA4',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8425,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1214790360,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','I passed on Street Kings once and that should\'ve been it. It\'s been a while since I\'ve seen anything this offensive. Director David Ayer previously did a much better job writing wholly superior L.A.-set crime dramas such as Dark Blue and Training Day. \r\n\r\nWhile I haven\'t watched it myself yet, I\'ve heard some good things about Satô Sakichi\'s Tokyo Zombie (2005) -- though it doesn\'t quite seem like the kind you prefer. \r\n\r\nParanoid Park exudes poetry with every breath. I\'ve seen it twice since I first caught it at TIFF \'07 and it has gotten better on each occasion.','1c6e82a4fe4605c5b0b24250dbcd3901',0,'','qUPQs4gd',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8426,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1214797260,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','I\'m still curious to see it. Now in the newest installment of disappointing new films comes Guy Maddin\'s My Winnipeg which fails to captivate and comes across slow and amateurish. There are flashes of genius and a few laughs to be had but the film just lazily meanders and never really seems to wake from it\'s perpetual somnambulism. Much of the autobiographical story is fictional and I\'m not sure if Maddin assumed it would make for better cinema. Although I very much like Maddin\'s general style other than Saddest Music in the World none of his features have really done much for me. Admittedly I still have a few more to see.','ada597fb2deea73ecaee7d52c99f0f90',0,'','Jq3s4hMw',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8427,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1214901300,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','I\'m looking forward to watching Maddin\'s previous feature, Brand upon the Brain! , which, as you know, is coming out soon from Criterion Collection.','0fda5424aa1e359e498284be3d50d6e6',0,'','7ERD6ua9',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8428,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1214926860,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','I missed it in the theater so I too am looking forward to the Criterion release.','aa6ffca6022907d5cfcea222b2adc88b',0,'','mK1dUSkx',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8429,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1214974740,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','I just spent the better part of four hours watching Empire of Dreams the very long and comprehensive documentary on the original Star Wars trilogy. Like I expected a great deal would deal with the first (enough for its own feature length doc) and then less and less by the time they got around to Return of the Jedi, my own personal favorite. Still a great doc that might seem at time to be a little too heavy on the ass kissing and it\'s always comical to think of Lucas as an independent, but certainly more informative than any other doc I\'ve seen on the trilogy. The doc was part of the trilogy boxed set but when the original editions were released individually it was not included, luckily I found someone who had just the used bonus materials DVD to complete my own trilogy.','4f169348cdc033177d39f345b9bb4815',0,'','nXgFL5YH',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8430,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1215134820,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','First Blood (1982) \r\n\r\nAmazed to find the first Rambo movie so moving. Far from the cartoon violence that characterized the series and made it lose pretty much all credibility by part 3, this film has effectively one death and even that was because the guy fell out of a helicopter. The body count is incredibly low and there are some extremely engrossing sequences in this film. Stallone is at his best with a nearly wordless performance, and although parts of the movie might seem cliche that is because this is one of the most parodied action stories of all time and hard to remember that this was original at one point in time. In 1982 it seemed a very real problem with re-adjusting Vietnam vets coming home and this film definitely touched a nerve and can be seen as something of a flipside to Predator with the emphasis on the hunted. Outstanding picture and I can\'t wait to watch the next more over the top sequels.','257133998e12ef9feb740b474b922f79',0,'','8d1WZJwS',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8431,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1215136020,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','It\'s been ages since I\'ve seen First Blood but I still vividly remember a number of scenes from the film (Stallone nursing himself back to health is one; the helicopter shot you mentioned is another; the police brutality, etc.). I guess it\'s high time that I revisit this one.','fecca5da9a47bdca5e9527bc2945a708',0,'','7vSMVdRL',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8432,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1215137040,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','That Rambo collection boxed set has proven to be one my better purchases in recent years. The films are enjoyable on their own merits but if you want story, mood, and character then First Blood is probably the best in the series.','03c241984e722ab8c0b1d87cf6c65039',0,'','RCMthzlf',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8433,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1215143280,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','Any pertinent extra features?','3211f47c731fd65b9f6464b843139f8e',0,'','4pKPZ87w',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8434,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1215205200,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Stallone does a commentary on First Blood, and there are two deleted scenes including an alternate ending which certainly would have altered the franchise. The collection has a whole extra disc of Rambo related docs and featurettes, so it\'s well worth the $40 price tag.','3eb49f535015823ae761aa3027b39f33',0,'','AHl9aNFE',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8435,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1215205800,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','In the second official week of our Grindhouse nights we watched Blood Bath which was quite possibly the worst !#%!#*! movie I\'ve ever seen. Incredibly slow with atrociously bad acting and several pitiful attempts at humor. Never have 83 minutes gone by so slowly, we knew the film was going to be bad however when we saw it was rated PG. Cop outs on nudity and no actual blood to speak of for pretty much the entire film. So horribly bad in every single department. Apparently PJ Soles was in it, but I missed her completely and so did the two people I watched the movie with My one comfort is that I wasn\'t the one who spent money on the film, so bad, so very very bad.','5b6ad6429b73c1e2caa39a4cc0cf9455',0,'','bNUt8svV',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8436,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1215297300,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Rambo: First Blood 2 (1985) \r\n\r\nFirst Blood was a unique and dark character study about a programmed killing machine failing to re-adjust to civilian life. For the sequel, James Cameron and Sylvester Stallone wrote a script that seemed to go against everything that made the original so special. Apparently they were the smarter ones considering the film was an unstoppable monster at the box office making a then staggering $150,000,000 which was almost $100 million more than First Blood. The typical sequel mantra of bigger, better, and more explosions was certainly in effect here. Stallone ups his dialog and the body count is ridiculous. First Blood had one casualty, here Rambo uses everything from fishing wire to rocket launchers and helicopters to kill countless commies. The film has a strange anti-American and anti-Communist tone to it, and it was rumored to be a favorite with Ronald Reagan. The idea that veterans were still out of place at home is palpable here and the underlying theme as Rambo reminiscent of John Wayne is left to wander into the sunset unsure of his future. The film is still entertaining but all too often you wind up laughing at rather than with the film in its cartoon violence and silly simple minded villains.','8038c85a6d850a5f56252923adaad814',0,'','cLKwjaVC',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8437,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1215414480,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','Pialat\'s Police - 2-disc edition coming from Eureka/MoC on Sep 22. \r\n\r\n• New anamorphic transfer of the film in its original aspect ratio \r\n• New and improved English subtitle translations \r\n• 2003 video interview with director and Police co-screenwriter Catherine Breillat, conducted by former Cahiers du cinéma editor-in-chief, and current director of the Cinémathèque Française, Serge Toubiana \r\n• ZOOM SUR POLICE [ZOOM ONTO POLICE] (2002) - 34-minute documentary by Virginie Apiou about the production of the film \r\n• Vintage screen-tests featuring Maurice Pialat and C. Galmiche, the inspiration for the character of Lambert \r\n• Excerpt from a 1985 episode of Cinéma Cinémas shot during the course of the 17th day of production on Police \r\n• 23-minute video discussion with Yann Dedet, the editor of Police \r\n• The film\'s original trailer, along with trailers for other Maurice Pialat films to be released by The Masters of Cinema Series \r\n• 40-page booklet containing a new essay by filmmaker and critic Dan Sallitt, and newly translated interviews with Maurice Pialat','35b25066ba06547e8ed01415c6306a88',0,'','uyakZdiw',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8438,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1215468120,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','Forgetting Sarah Marshall (U.S./2008) - The latest from Judd Apatow\'s Fun Factory feels more instinctive and naturalistic than most of his other productions. Perhaps partly due to the fact that the film doesn\'t feature any major comedic stars, debutant director Nicholas Stoller is able to employ a low-key mise-en-scène which goes hand-in-hand with the improvisatory nature of the dialogue, consequently lending an aura of authenticity to the four fine lead performances (including one by longtime Apatow alum Jason Segel, who also wrote the screenplay) and making even the most awkward of moments in the film seem endearing. Those expecting another raunchy laugh riot in the vein of Superbad are likely to be a tad disappointed; but this film arguably has more heart than anything Apatow had done since the underrated television series Freaks and Geeks. Though not quite as impressive as, say, There\'s Something About Mary, this is a pretty good film. Apatow\'s upcoming Pineapple Express is directed by the talented David Gordon Green.','11cb2c9fb074d63e82b81e4acbbf34ba',0,'','Vie26XZL',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8439,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1215469740,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Police is a funny release considering I just watched it a couple weeks ago, serves me right. Is there some sort of Pialat boxed set, or are Naked Childhood and Police just separate releases?','1dea75e28b583c5a24e97553009bce46',0,'','S8ofT3pm',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8440,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1215499440,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','These two are separate releases -- both 2-disc editions. It\'s better this way otherwise some are forced to purchase films they\'ve seen and/or have (though sets usually end up being cost-efficient). More Pialat from Eureka/MoC is on the way. Based on this activity, I can also smell a Criterion on the horizon. Just wait and see how Pialat\'s value goes up all of a sudden. I love him as much as I love Ford, Naruse, Bresson, Fassbinder, Antonioni... and so on and so forth.','bc2686d0b4a29e41b42fa700015baa34',0,'','tlp6iRuh',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8441,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1215531360,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','I\'m still waiting to see more before I put him in that category, same goes for Naruse, I\'ve currently only seen four films from each.','2758518129f22f9718ad2fb0ce78ddf9',0,'','nwHKuiSR',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8442,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1215679740,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','Shotgun Stories (U.S./2007) - Michael Shannon should corner the market in playing these slightly unhinged Southern men. He\'s quietly emerged as one of the finest young actors in U.S. today, and he\'s at least as good if not better here as a lead than he was in Bug (and in some of the other bit parts he\'s done recently). As for the film, it\'s more resonant as a mood piece (co-producer David Gordon Green seems to have lent more than just his associate Adam Stone, who debuts here as a DP, to writer-director Jeff Nichols) than as a classic \"an-eye-for-an-eye\" revenge drama. Nevertheless, as auspicious debut to say the least.','df9b8f93004b4294d4f918d1c7389ae1',0,'','98rnYc5J',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8443,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1215733560,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','I missed it when it played at the Siskel Center, but I\'ll try and keep my eye out for it\'s eventual DVD release.','4af43d1e54a9e28a46352f475679fc2c',0,'','goYwdf5Z',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8444,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1215759480,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','Shotgun Stories just came out on DVD last week (July 1). Check it out; it\'d be nice to discuss a new American film which doesn\'t feature superheroes (though I am looking forward to watching Guillermo Del Toro\'s Hellboy II: The Golden Army). The primary attraction among the extras is the audio-commentary by the director.','77d3539586d325487bcae226d9119aae',0,'','HeTzclwu',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8445,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1215762600,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Speaking of superheroes watched Rambo III today which closes the door on Rambo films for me. Absolutely silly and ridiculous, but fun. This film has the worst pacing in the series and all around is probably the weakest Rambo film. Still blowing up helicopters never gets old. Interesting that the film is dedicated to the \"gallant people of Afghanistan\", odd how much the US seems to parallel the old Soviets. Stallone was juiced up big time but the beginning of the film was just too slow. \r\n\r\nAlso watched the UK film The Zombie Diaries which never quite made it to the US because it was made at almost the same time as Diary of the Dead, which had enough of a select audience. Here the shaky hand held cam got a little old and I was not wholly committed to the story.','d72c76e8c244e55964064b87943cc7b8',0,'','ihl681nf',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8446,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1215770340,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','You certainly love your zombie movies. I still need to see Diary of the Dead which must be out on DVD by now.','416605e44d822ab4dcdc00346c8c7cdd',0,'','wDcQSnau',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8447,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1215803280,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','It came out about a month ago, still no DVD release for Zombie Strippers. I have a whole group of friends who are passionate about zombie movies so I rarely if ever watch any alone.','d774d00a4fc164a32c40e3d08de2b4a3',0,'','prjFqWZH',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8448,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1215835500,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','That\'s nice. Must be the ideal situation.','33c6a0dda62c665b81b40ce43684d83b',0,'','JH6BdMay',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8449,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1215837420,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Not sure I could stomach too many by myself, although in the event of Zombie Diaries I missed most of the actual plot.','41803bd6078d8f9ae2eaec69efd38e09',0,'','U2yF0wxc',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8450,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1215858660,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','Who knows, that may have been a positive... \r\n\r\nChop Shop (U.S./2007) - Apparently all you need nowadays is an enterprising young kid and some handheld camerawork in the streets to be compared to Italian neorealist masters of the past. \r\n\r\nCasa de Lava (Portugal-Fra-Ger/1994) - The mysteriously elusive anomaly of Pedro Costa\'s oeuvre so far. Works better on a pure visual level (one of the highlights, a Costa specialty, is a long tracking shot of Inês Medeiros walking alongside walls that would make Francis Bacon proud) than on a narrative one (at least upon first viewing).','d373224e2759f4d6840a7c09e00ebf00',0,'','QlFUf25e',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8451,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1215894300,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Watched Wall E last night and it was entertaining, although I\'ve rarely felt as manipulated in a film. I mean this picture tried (and succeeded) in getting us to think a cockroach was cute and even made me think that Hello Dolly might not have been a terrible film. Still lazy people of the future being fatter than ten Tony Soprano\'s was excellent and Andrew Stanton seems like he\'s slowly working his way towards human characters (following Nemo). Definitely entertaining in it\'s own right not sure where it would rank in the overall Pixar library though.','3c7f273ee51de590851a3fab5293fbc8',0,'','gfPMeUsL',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8452,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1216009980,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Last night I got a chance to revisit Team America which was still hilarious and already a little dated although not much has changed since, still very much seems like a product of 2004. Unfortunately I had to suffer through 27 Dresses which seemed a little low on the chick flick radar. Not a great deal of thought seemed to go into the film and everything was far too simplistic and predictable. \r\n\r\nToday I watched A Foreign Affair (1948) from Billy Wilder and quite an interesting counterpart to One, Two, Three. Jean Arthur came out of semi-retirement for the film, and went right back into it afterwards and this film is one of the rare pictures that seems to capture a little of what I\'ve gathered as the real Jean Arthur. Somewhat awkward, insecure but willing to eventually take charge. Arthur is certainly one of my all time favorite actresses and she is definitely excellent here and no matter how alluring Marlene Dietrich might be projected as, never once do we seem to side with her. John Lund unfortunately seems a bit like a poor man\'s Melvyn Douglas but nearly any actor would seem weak next to those two. This is arguably the first Wilder film that really tried to make people laugh at things that aren\'t supposed to be funny, and not coincidentally it was his first critical failure.','2f7e5fe57f2ca7a7a25e577b47ac4f29',0,'','AbiWQPFU',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8453,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1216107420,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','WALL·E is definitely on my radar. I\'m gonna wait till the hype dies down a bit. Still, I hope it lives up to expectations, which didn\'t quite turn out to be the case with the much acclaimed Amerindie Chop Shop, though it\'s not a bad film by any means. \r\n\r\nTeam America had its moments, for sure, but I thought it tried to speak with both sides of its mouth, and ultimately ended up saying very little about anything. The strategy certainly appeared to involve both the extreme Right and the radical Left. \r\n\r\nHellboy II: The Golden Army (U.S.-Ger/2008) - C+ / average \r\n\r\nThe Strangers (U.S./2008) - D-','520a3402a553579d608ae0f45556ead9',0,'','GTnUZojk',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8454,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1216107840,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','You were a fan of the first Hellboy weren\'t you? And I\'ve avoided The Strangers, heard a lot of bad things about it. \r\n\r\nWALL-E was actually the first Pixar film I\'ve seen in a theater and kind of amazed it took this long.','2f49f24ceedc2ba1df7002680fb1b121',0,'','NUyheAWT',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8455,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1216108260,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','Yes, I was. It had the sort of zest and attitude one normally doesn\'t come across in superhero movies. The second installment has some of that but not enough to render it equivalent to its predecessor.','28746a23dc557b3ee3ee6f1eb74af06a',0,'','QwR6XnZf',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8456,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1216109760,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','I should add that I\'m also a fan of The X-Files, both the television show and the surprisingly successful initial feature which came about a decade ago. The second film is scheduled to be released on July 25.','6c05155d90c2e507b4694dc70a9bcaae',0,'','L0odiE7Z',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8457,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1216145760,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Can\'t say I\'m that excited about the new X Files film, I saw the first in theaters but this one seems a little too late for me to get that excited.','6d9d4618e0f766cc7722cfd994d1e115',0,'','fGbR8xaQ',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8458,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1216179900,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','The Promise (2005) - Chen Kaige \r\n\r\nWell since my expectations for this film were significantly lowered by many people (including several members of this site) I can\'t say I was disappointed. That said this film would rank next to Sweeney Todd as the film with the most pointless use of CGI, I mean really what was the point of all that? The film did get to be compelling for awhile and although a little too much flash and pageantry it could have worked on its own as a rather small film. The fight scenes suffered from a little too much floating about and boring \"look how cool we are\" effects. Kaige seemed much better with The Emperor and the Assassin which bears a few similarities to this but without all the computer animated nonsense. This does for better or worse seem to be the direction mainstream Chinese film is headed so let\'s just hang out until it goes away. That said the film may have worked better on the big screen, but I missed it and I\'ll just learn to live with that fact.','bf7634f8bf725b6afb6048a5d92376b3',0,'','RKzQMuqG',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8459,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1216193040,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','In the meantime, I\'d suggest hanging out with the Sixth Generation (which is much more than just Jia, Wang Xiaoshuai and Zhang Yuan), not to mention Tian Zhuangzhuang, which I\'ve been doing for a while now. \r\n\r\nI also can\'t say I\'m as excited about the new X-Files film as I was anticipating the earlier one. Still, I hope it turns out to be good.','fc05f5378f97784a9ed886b86147d2b7',0,'','FDCLWHZj',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8460,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1216223220,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Other than Jia I need to do some work on the 6th Generation. Unfortunately or fortunately depending on how you look at things most of the films on my to look for list are really old, so anything of the last decade I\'m really slow to get around to if I don\'t catch it in theaters.','d5618ee77f96a7e429f9bb742f54f31b',0,'','nEpkoePL',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8461,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1216273980,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: The Last Film Seen','I\'d hate to see you falling too far behind. But I was encouraged by your last month\'s log which included a couple of new foreign films. Hopefully this trend will continue.','85a2ca4a7248e80c9628ab751d1c68f4',0,'','imyfU3uF',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8462,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1216309140,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','So many movies so little time, the story of my life.','14711ac26a8ae24d0ff2259f160917b1',0,'','tKuMWbUy',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8463,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1216468680,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Went to see The Dark Knight because I couldn\'t bare to hear everyone tell me how great it was. Excellent film all around and hopefully I\'ll get a decent review up this weekend. Grindhouse night was spent watching The Holy Mountain (1973) which I hadn\'t seen in about 8 or 9 years and remembered very little about. Still probably the strangest movie I\'ve ever seen and the oddest thing about it is someone gave him money to make it. Although certainly in the midnight movie mold, this wasn\'t typical Grindhouse fare so I expect more regular trash for the next installment.','10347a80a3bb477137ae1746c7b4937f',0,'','zGu0dmQJ',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8464,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1216654680,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Being Two Isn\'t Easy (1962) - Kon Ichikawa \r\n\r\nJust a fun great film, loved it pretty much from start to finish and it\'s been a long time since I remember liking an Ichikawa film this much.','f7008e34cd97dc441d3b900e246172d1',0,'','yhq5RNCg',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8465,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1216784880,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','The State of Things (1983) - Wim Wenders \r\n\r\nMade shortly after Hammett, this was somewhat autobiographical of Wenders struggles finding financing here in the states. I was ready to buy the sci fi film at the beginning and wondered if this was just a strange new territory for Wenders but felt a little more secure when the rug was pulled out from under me and the \"only a film set\" turned out to be the real story. Like always regular filmmakers appear in small roles like Samuel Fuller and Roger Corman. The VHS of this film is probably as old as the movie itself so I can\'t vouch for the transfer but it was once again shot in black and white and like man other Wenders films could probably use a restoration.','724714161ef45ea79a2bbbd22f59460f',0,'','6z30i52y',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8466,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1217157240,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Talladega Nights (2006) \r\n\r\nWell it was starting on cable and I figured \"to hell with it\". Although the film started off in grand fashion and my sore throat was in agony from laughing so hard particularly when everyone was gathered together to say grace and Ricky Bobby had to insist on picturing his Jesus as a baby. I could care less about racing but the culture seemed somewhat well represented and I\'m not going to get all on the grand bandwagon, but I feel like I can see Step Brothers without much backup now.','0c48db243ab0c5d28d411abbb0ae7cf0',0,'','qfi2Eu1p',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8467,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1217368920,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: The Last Film Seen','Shaolin Soccer (2001) - Stephen Chow \r\n\r\nYes another example of why Miramax blows children as a distribution company. They dropped the ball on this and thankfully the fallout wasn\'t too great. Entertaining as films go and not without its ridiculous humor the picture certainly falls into the \"tries to hard\" mold and the final soccer match goes on just a few minutes too long. Can\'t say much of this is worth taking seriously but certainly a good time and hardly a waste.','cbd1c9f6854c521a42849385b61ea1cb',0,'','0mrAjZ36',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8468,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1221017760,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: The Last Film Seen','Some of the better films I have watched ... \r\n\r\n-- The Banishment (Russia) \r\n\r\n-- Boy A (UK) \r\n\r\n-- Wall E (US) ... \r\n\r\nwill give more comments when I have time','0d9eae94d44ea219f541c8d1195de6c2',0,'','ZP9JSWbz',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8469,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1221674280,1,0,1,1,1,1,'tzarine','Re: The Last Film Seen','Touch of Evil \r\n\r\nI can live with Charlton Heston as the Mexican Mike Vargas, but Orson Welles is hideously creepy. \r\n\r\nThe Life & Death of Colonel Blimp \r\nAnton Walbrook is awesome and Deborah Kerr plays 3 women. \r\n\r\nThe Great Yokai War \r\nMiike\'s children\'s film is utterly bizarre and also, touching about the bullied Tadashi who is chosen to be a Kirin rider and save Tokyo.','3d54cf2e998511025aa91639513f14a8',0,'','DkmKG7JV',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8470,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1222482900,1,0,1,1,1,1,'jcdavies','Re: The Last Film Seen','Well, i\'ve been enjoying the delights of the little known but fairly wonderful Alice Guy-Blaché, early female cinema pioneer, maker of hundreds of films; dramas, comedies and documents of life- romany dances, a footballing dog, images of Spain, amputation operation comedy, and so many others i\'m hoping to find...','b37d2b292090fc3d681fdead08953e06',0,'','uW4tEVHo',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8471,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1222693560,1,0,1,1,1,1,'Sara','Re: The Last Film Seen','tzarine, I, too, recently watched Touch of Evil. It\'s always been rated so highly. But I was really disappointed. \r\n\r\nSara','95ee34404f71858e665b6236aa78752a',0,'','xS6hjrZF',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8472,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1225080420,1,0,1,1,1,1,'A','Re: The Last Film Seen','@ John \r\n\r\nWow, what a coincidence! I also looked around on the net for some Alice Guy Blaché films at the end of September, when I rediscovered a book about her on my bookshelf. Where did you find her films (is there a DVD or a particularly resourceful website)? \r\n\r\n@ Sara \r\n\r\nOn Wednesday I talked with a friend, who considers Touch of Evil not only one of the greatest films ever made, but also as his No.1 favorite film of all time. I too was disappointed when I first saw the movie some 5 years ago on TV (I actually disliked the film). But subsequently, I started to think deifferently about it, and since I saw the opening sequence shot again by chance, a couple of weeks ago, on a great looking DVD, I\'m starting to think that this classic might finally become one of my favorites, when i see it again. Too bad it\'s one of the many mutilated Welles\' films, we will never be able to see in its intended version...','70bd45a63d4a3ac76c9d7f30f4e562c4',0,'','eQPVY4Aq',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8473,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1225085940,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: The Last Film Seen','Hi to all \r\n\r\nI had so much to say, but so littleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee time ... \r\n\r\nAmong the few that I would be keen to review or will be reviewing are the following \r\n\r\n-- Cape No.7 -- Taiwan submission to Oscar (broken ALL TIME Chinese films record in Taiwan) \r\n-- Painted Skin -- Hong Kong Submission to Oscar \r\n-- Crossing -- Korea submission to Oscar \r\n-- Welcome to the Sticks -- Broken ALL TIME record in France \r\n\r\n-- Tropa De Elite (Brazil) -- Berlin Golden Bear Winner \r\n-- Sita Sings The Blues (USA) -- Annecy Winner, also, Berlin Special Mention \r\n-- Idiots and Angels (USA) -- Annecy Special Distinction \r\n\r\n-- What on Earth Have I Done Wrong (Taiwan) -- Fipresci award for Golden Horse FF \r\n-- Blindness (Canada) -- Cannes Film Festival \r\n-- The Wave (Germany) \r\netc \r\n\r\nand of course whatever that is great from the 5 film festivals in Singapore ... * clap * \r\n\r\nNow ... I am just wondering \r\n\r\n-- Whether I should keep these as the \"present\" for the NEW SITE ... ha ha ha \r\n(maybe we will launch it on 1 Dec 2008 or 1 Jan 2009)?! \r\n\r\na NEW BEGINNING?! \r\n\r\nrgds \r\nhengcs','cc7b11ae7b017603773400b32cb15655',0,'','kgh1ncM2',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8474,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1228463400,1,0,1,1,1,1,'tzarine','Re: The Last Film Seen','All About Lili Chouchou. \r\n\r\nDepressing, but utterly gripping view of Japanese school life and the transformative value of art.','f446fd12627480b9a29a47884c12a472',0,'','YWr0wTXu',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8475,1587,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1228551000,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: The Last Film Seen','Hey, glad that you are back \r\n\r\nI have watched it too ... \r\n\r\nI think we used to have a thread on it too ... \r\nnow only left with a simple article \r\nhttp://foreignfilms.yuku....s-General.html#reply-3945 \r\n\r\nrgds','9df5a2b06488b01e331ee8ea70fec3c4',0,'','RmVnvXK3',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8476,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1169723580,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Oscar Nominated Films','At the request of A, I have started this thread, because believe me it\'ll get a lot worse before it gets any better. This is a spot to discuss films nominated for a best picture, actor, actress, or director Oscar, with a primary emphasis on the top prize (simply because far more films have been nominated for this than the others). So I\'ll start with one of the films nominated for the top prize. With each film I\'ll try and list what it was nominated for.','960847f69c810200a60c2b65bc1d75c1',0,'','laHF596P',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8477,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1169724120,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Smilin\' Through (1932) - Sidney Franklin \r\n\r\nOh lord sometimes I wonder why I bother. Franklin\'s film is not as hated as it probably deserves to be, it is a melodramatic love story that is so laughably over the top its rather difficult to watch. Now perhaps some of my disappointment comes from the misleading title. Based on a stage play, and a remake of a 1922 film of the same name, also directed by Franklin perhaps MGM didn\'t feel a need to give it a more accurate re-titling. With something like Smilin\' Through you\'d expect something of a musical, or at the very least something light hearted. Norma Shearer goes laughably over the top, crying and yelling and throwing herself around a much better restrained Frederic March. Leslie Howard is somewhat useless as the patriarchal figure, and his own love affair is dealt with all too quickly. Besides the makeup job on him is laughable at best. Take the man, make his hair gray, and that\'s it, not a wrinkle on his face. Still perhaps better than the aging job done on Gene Tierney in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. March is clearly the highlight of this film, particularly in his late scene returning from the war. The plot itself is so non-sensicle that even something that might have worked gets mutilated and butchered into crap.\r\n\r\n*Smilin\' Through was one of 10 films nominated for best picture in 1932/33. This would be the last year that the award season didn\'t coincide with the calendar year. It has only been released on VHS, and has long since gone out of print.','2571b148f2febc827d1e04dcec8e3edf',0,'','xb08RK6v',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8478,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1169728560,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Damn you, A. No one can help us now. \r\n\r\nwpqx: I\'m sure readers would love to know about the origins of your fascination with Academy Award nominated films.','f0c7b94b6af347c32dd3a94b5563fc28',0,'','UQDxM0qH',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8479,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1169769000,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Well let me try and explain this fascination.\r\n\r\nA long time ago I started to take recomendations for movies. Not so much from friends and family but from critics and people of some credibility. Well a quick list would be films that won the best picture Oscar. So I started watching these films and went through them fairly easily. Around this time I found a book from Danny Peary called Alternate Oscars. I had read his Cult Movies and Cult Movies 2, and these books were a great help to what I was checking out. Now after a few years of being into film, I started to run through lists, and was needing some more films to watch. Always being a fan of Peary\'s style, and appreciating the lay out of the book, I started to think. Long before I thought about the films that I would have given a best picture Oscar to, and this book started to let the parasite loose in my brain.\r\n\r\nSo I started watching films that Peary picked, and thought about my choices for picture, actor, actress, and director (a separate thread). Now around this time a separate germ started to take route. If I were going to offer my choices for best picture, I had to have a decent frame of reference. Even more specific how could I bitch about the Oscar\'s choices if I hadn\'t seen the films they nominated? For example, most people can look at 1952 and say \"High Noon is by far the best film nominated\". This is a fair assumption, but can you say this with complete conviction if you haven\'t seen The Greatest Show on Earth, Ivanhoe, Moulin Rouge, and The Quiet Man? In my opinion, no hence the reason I can say with little doubt that High Noon is the best of this bunch. That said I still wouldn\'t give it an Oscar nomination, but to bitch about the films nominated, I need to have seen them right?\r\n\r\nSo this to put it plainly is an attempt to see everything. I can not call myself an expert, and I can certainly not go to press with my own Alternate Oscar choices until my frame of reference is adequate. Hope that explains some of it, and I shall be patting myself on the back when I finish this extremely long process.','2f170f1488e66bd758a34dbfeaefc9a1',0,'','j5ktnlLc',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8480,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1169809560,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Immitation of Life (1934) - John M. Stahl\r\n\r\nWell for the first time in Oscar history one performer would appear in three nominated films for best picture. That performer was Claudette Colbert, who took home that year\'s best actress Oscar in It Happened One Night. Lets make it clear that of the three films nominated, It Happened One Night was the only one that actually deserved a nomination. This melodrama was remade in an infinitely better version by Douglas Sirk in 1959. Colbert\'s acting here is mediocre, and Delilah\'s Aunt Jemima routine is embarassing to watch. The way the film is laid out is almost too concise. Like this dramatic love triangle is playing out over mother-daughter drama and a death in the family. Its laid out too thick and in one too many layers.\r\n\r\n*Imitation of Life is available on DVD, as a double feature with Sirk\'s version. This was nominated for best picture, sound, and assistant director (a category that was soon removed).','13716bc799801860377935e8f273683d',0,'','HQSz6vta',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8481,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1169895120,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','\"For example, most people can look at 1952 and say \"High Noon is by far the best film nominated\". This is a fair assumption, but can you say this with complete conviction if you haven\'t seen The Greatest Show on Earth, Ivanhoe, Moulin Rouge, and The Quiet Man?\"\r\n\r\nExcellent point!\r\n\r\n\"...and I shall be patting myself on the back when I finish this extremely long process.\"\r\n\r\nDon\'t worry, we\'ll be doing that for you. Thanks for your post.','79b002f449115daeca6789a8f1b4bc9d',0,'','c1diSK8W',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8482,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1169951940,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Anthony Adverse (1936) - Mervyn LeRoy\r\n\r\nOh heavens not another one of these. Huge in scope and full of changing scenery and lots of things that remain unsaid, this extremely overblown film from Warner Bros. is far too characteristic of all too many films of its day. Buying into an attitude that\'s still somewhat in favor with Academy voters, which is to say a big budget must mean its a good film, because why else would they spend so much money on it. Frederic March, one of those actors you had to get in order to make your film credible gives another one of his performances, but not to a very great and exhilarating extent. He seems to be treading water here, and much of his period work has the same traits as previous prestige pictures he was involved in, most particularly Les Miserables. Olivia De Havilland makes a good turn for herself, despite a blatantly dubbed opera voice, but this is hardly a point of contention. Most of the remaining cast are irritating stereotypes and the \"bad\" people spend the entire time looking evil, which seriously beats things to a dull and bloody point. At 138 minutes this film is far too long for its own good, and with all the titles announcing narrative points, it just seems pointless. Sure it was based on a rather long book, but Christ almighty the time does not fly here. \r\n\r\n*Anthony Adverse was nominated for best picture in 1936.','0570fae7d76e1ae4ad315fc7a82edc5e',0,'','aJm0yALN',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8483,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1169966040,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Romeo and Juliet (1936) - George Cukor\r\n\r\nAnother spare no expense lavish MGM production perpetuating the decade long task of making Norma Shearer a respectable actress. George Cukor already in favor with his grade A job on the previous year\'s David Copperfield, was tapped yet again to bring another classic piece of literature to the world. His directorial skills may have been in demand, but Cukor the skilled technician was not yet fully developed. Some of the continuity (particularly the final swordfight) is laughably mismatched, and the film\'s inherent fault is how to have Leslie Howard (43) and Shearer (34) as the teenage lovers. The battles have a Hollywood tendency to be more spectacle than carry any remote weight. However with a story of this magnitude its hard to really do a bad job of it. I can\'t help even now to watch the film praying that Juliet wakes up before Romeo takes the poison or that all important letter reaches Romeo before taking off. In that regard this film differs greatly from the majority of Hollywood films produced before or after by fiercely denying the happy ending. John Barrymore, something of a Cukor regular at this point, does a fine job as the over the top Mercucio, a performance very much in the same vein as his turn in Twentieth Century.\r\n\r\n*Romeo and Juliet was nominated for best picture, best actress (Shearer), best art direction, and best supporting actor (Basil Rathbone)','dd33872be096693560087ca41ede6f1f',0,'','2BHZLAhs',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8484,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1170068820,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','All This and Heaven Too (1940) - Anatole Litvak\r\n\r\nMGM had Norma Shearer, and Warner Bros. had Bette Davis. Both actresses scored an Oscar early in their career, and found themselves as perennial nominees for the next decade. Davis appeared in a best picture nominee for the third straight year, in fact appearing in two in 1940. For this reason Litvak\'s picture gets buried under the reputation of William Wyler\'s The Letter. Both Wyler and Litvak\'s film also shared nominations in the cinematography category as well. However, the acting isn\'t bad. Both Davis and Charles Boyer hand in exemplary performances, but lord this film is long. At two and a half hours the picture just seems to suffer for it. Not to say that any of it is particularly slow or dragging, but the pace could be livelier. The loose plot is with Davis the governess of a group of regular child actors, who\'s father (Boyer) starts to fall in love with. Scandal ensues and the film becomes a melodramtic snore fest. I\'m starting to wonder if the Academy had a rule to nominate 3 period films for every contemporary picture. This was set in mid 19th Century France.\r\n\r\n*All This and Heaven Too was nominated for best picture, black and white cinematography, and best supporting actress (Barbara O\'Niel)','c0d2610f61f48eed3a0d7cfeb4a4b54b',0,'','flj4X9tn',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8485,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1170074340,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Blossoms in the Dust (1941) - Mervyn LeRoy\r\n\r\nWell in the early 40\'s Greer Garson became the prestige queen. An actress who very carefully chose her roles, and nearly every performance she gave garnered at least an Oscar nomination. Blossoms in the Dust was another film about a strong willed woman who doesn\'t seem to have a bad quality to her. LeRoy has to go to great lengths to make Garson human in this story, but thanks in part to Garson\'s performance it is conveyed. The model of caring and devotion does show signs that things aren\'t as wholesome as they may seem, and up until the end a level of doubt creeps up in her. The film was shot in glorious technicolor, part of which by the legendary Karl Freund, who earned one of the films four Oscar nominations. Unusual for a prestige picture of this kind to get the technicolor treatment, but I\'d say the color does wonders for Garson\'s beauty. It is nearly impossible to talk about this film without mentioning her, this is a vehicle for her talents, just Ray was for Jamie Foxx. Like Hackford\'s film this too was based on a real person, one who was still alive when the film premeired.\r\n\r\n*Blossoms in the Dust was nominated for best picture, actress (Garson), color cinematography, and color art direction. It won for best color art direction.','e26f48cf0caa1d0117814f21abe11f3e',0,'','v4UxgXFl',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8486,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1170128640,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','How the West Was Won (1963) - John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall \r\n\r\nJust as the Hollywood of the thirties believed that prestige was everything, in the 50\'s and 60\'s Hollywood came to regard big budgets as great films. 1963 continued the trend, with 3 of the films approaching or exceeding the three hour mark, and all but one of them a period picture. How the West Was Won was Hollywood\'s final send off for the genre that gave so much justification to techinicolor in its early days. It also continued the trend of The Longest Day and Around the World in 80 Days with an all star spectacle, a subgenre that would carry into the seventies as well. Produced in Cinerama the first thing anyone will notice is that the screen is divided into three sections much like Abel Gance\'s innovative widescreen process in Napoleon. This serves as distraction, because the contrast between the three sides doesn\'t always match up, and a blatantly obvious line separates them. Divided into 5 sections there is no clear \"Ford\'s section\" or \"Marshall\'s section\", but you\'re led to believe that to handle a project of this magnitude several hands were necessary. Even by cast you can\'t quite tell, considering Widmark worked with Ford and Hathaway, Stewart worked with all three, and on it goes. With a cast like this it is easy to suceed. Sometimes the film tries to accomplish too much, but what a raucous send off. The very next year, Sergio Leone would direct A Fistful of Dollars, which permantently altered the face of Westerns. Here however is one last grand salute. Despite the nearly three hour running time, there really isn\'t a moment in the film where it drags. Each story gets to its point and gets their fast, hard to think that a film of this size could leave you actually wanting more.\r\n\r\n*How the West Was Won was nominated for best picture, best sound, best original screenplay, best color costume design, best score, best color cinematography, and best color art direction.','0218358cee3b594d3ca465f0a3107ddc',0,'','eEgyX51W',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8487,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1170152820,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Sayonara (1957) - Joshua Logan \r\n\r\nAh dated cinema. Sayonara is the stale and boring tale of prejudice towards Japanese natives through military policy. Marlon Brando dons a somewhat unconvincing southern accent as the Air Force Major who undergoes the transition towards tolerant individual. The film\'s Japanese characters are played rather poorly, case in point the very Hispanic Ricardo Mantalban plays a Japanese actor. The film was an Oscar favorite garnering too many nominations and winning the supporting Oscars for the year. It borders on the meldoramatic, but thanks in part to Brando it maintains a certain level of self restraint.\r\n\r\n*Sayonara was nominated for best picture, best actor (Brando), Best Adapted Screenplay, best cinematography, best director, and best editing. It won for best sound, best supporting actor (Red Buttons), best supporting actress (Miyoshi Umeki), and best art direction.','4eed2db38b046f13f1db057002ed73d2',0,'','E6iB70W4',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8488,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1170222360,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Auntie Mame (1958) - Morton De Costa\r\n\r\nThere are some roles that come around for actors that are so damn good, you imagine everyone rampantly pursuing it. Rosallind Russell scored a career defining role in the stage produciton of Auntie Mame, and seemed a perfect choice for the film version. Even if her status as a movie star may have slipped a little over the years, she was still \"big\" enough to lead a film, and her personality was enough to carry this picture through. At times overly theatrical, the films inherent eccentricity make it worthwhile. The same people put off by Katherine Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby would most likely despise Russell here. Life is a banquet indeed. The film was nominated for six Oscars and took home none, so people obviously liked the film, but apparently not enough. Most of the films best moments seem to be taken from the stage, particularly the modifications in sets and costumes, but as predictable as it may be, the film is still rewarding. Ironically the films most horrifically annoying character Agnes Gooch was another performance singled out by the academy.\r\n\r\n*Auntie Mame was nominated for best actress (Russell), best art direction, best color cinematography, best editing, best picture, and best supporting actress (Peggy Cass)','c347785eadcc006225a7dc84941b24c2',0,'','g4DaT6Fk',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8489,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1170461460,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','The More the Merrier (1943) - George Stevens \r\n\r\nJean Arthur makes her second appearance in a George Stevens film with this delightful comedy that is very much a product of its time. During WWII there was a tremendous housing shortage in Washington DC, and therein lies the backdrop for this film. Arthur sublets her apartment to Mr. Dingle who in turn sublets his half of the apartment to Mr. Carter (Joel McCrea). Everything is set up for these two to get together. Carter\'s ambivalence towards other women, Milligan\'s (Arthur) engagement to a stuffy and ill fitted suitor. The irony of the story is when Arthur says that her fiance is 42, and everyone scoffs at how old he is, and far too old for her. However at the time of filming this picture Jean Arthur herself was 42 years old, hard to believe but true. Arthur landed her one and only Oscar nomination for best actress with this film, she lost to the undeserving Jennifer Jones in Song of Bernadette. Arthur goes all over the place here, hysterically sobbing, being ultra efficient, and desperately in love. Amazing to think of how fragile a personality she really had and the immense difficulty she had in performing. She only made two more films after this, but a fine culmination to all the great work she had done at Columbia since 1936.\r\n\r\n*The More the Merrier was nominated for best picture, best director, best original screenplay, and best actress.','ce35fc982d4821dd34a999d1a765fa08',0,'','7zK08Xn6',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8490,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1170476520,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Madame Curie (1943) - Mervyn LeRoy\r\n\r\nOnce more Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon are brought together for a lavish MGM production. Garson hot off the heels of her Oscar win for Mrs. Miniver delivered another of what would come to be her signature prestige roles. Not to detract from Garson, in fact quite the contrary she was never less than spectacular. Her role as Marie Curie earned her another Oscar nomination, and well deserved I\'d say. Now the film might not have the lush beauty of LeRoy and Garson\'s previous Blossoms in the Dust but that isn\'t to say its a worse film. In fact its very much the same picture, taking place in a similar time frame and also about a famous woman in history. Walter Pidgeon\'s character seems too \"let\'s just give up\" that it starts to wane as Garson\'s Marie is deified. Interesting on the DVD is a short called Romance of Radium directed by a then unknown Jacques Tournieur. Another curiosity in the \"history told by Hollywood\" cycle of films so popular with Academy voters at the time. One of Robert Walker\'s very first film roles, he plays Curie\'s initial assistant.\r\n\r\n*Madame Curie was nominated for best picture, best actor (Pidgeon), best actress (Garson), black and white art direction, black and white cinematography, best score, and best sound.','e777c9820c2cbd975be5a5d17addd299',0,'','1dh7ZG9V',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8491,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1170484980,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','The Rose Tattoo (1955) - Daniel Mann \r\n\r\nOh lord this is a tough one. Far from one of Tennessee Williams better works, this is melodramatic nonsense with lots of yelling. Few films I\'ve seen have used sound in a worse way. Much of the dialogue is either too quiet or making your ears bleed. Anna Magnani delivered an amazing performance however, but much of her work is hard to watch. Burt Lancaster is annoying and far too over the top here. Somehow Magnani avoids seeming over the top. Like all of his films, this too is set in the south in the swamp filled New Orleans. I\'d rather not sit through this again, but I won\'t argue with the Academy\'s choice regarding her Oscar, everything else though . . .\r\n\r\n*The Rose Tattoo was nominated for best picture, best black and white costume design, drama or comedy score, best editing, best supporting actress (Marisa Pavan). It won for best actress (Magnani), black and white art direction, and black and white cinematography.','e96b99d81c1c963ec20483540eb3f74a',0,'','ot4LRP0H',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8492,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1170745500,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Twelve O\'Clock High (1949) - Henry King \r\n\r\nThank heaven for this film. I was beginning to feel that this adventure would yield no treasures. Henry King, from the school of competent directors delivers what could easily be another forgetable war film. In fact watching it, I can\'t exactly say what makes the film any different from that year\'s other \"big\" war films Battleground and Sands of Iwo Jima. Twelve O\'clock was of the war subgenre of the air force. Peck delivers a strong performance as the commanding general Frank Savage, for which he picked up his fourth best actor nomination in the 40\'s. Dean Jagger plays the older lawyer by day Major who is prone to occasionally have a drink. Jagger scored his first and only nomination and win for supporting actor. Now Peck\'s character is likeable and no matter what disciplinary measures he takes, you know its for the good of his men. Perhaps it is this character that makes the film so exemplary. King was no stranger to Oscar nominees directing State Fair, In Old Chicago, Alexander\'s Ragtime Band, Song of Bernadette, and Wilson. This is arguably the best of that school.\r\n\r\n*Twelve O\'Clock High was nominated for best picture, best actor (Peck) and won for best sound and best supporting actor (Jagger).','b5c22d8ced35067ac05ba6ec35166fa1',0,'','tomDV3gR',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8493,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1170754140,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','The Country Girl (1954) - George Seaton\r\n\r\nWell the DVD I rented of the Robe will not load, so I moved on to 1954 and this film that helped me work through several categories. The Country Girl was the only film in 1954 to be nominated in all four major categories. Clifford Odets play has the same backstage cynicism so characteristic in his work. Although Grace Kelly won an Oscar for her role here, Bing Crosby is the truly revalatory performance. I\'ve never even seen Crosby \"act\", but man he\'s pretty damn good here. Kelly on the other hand has rightfully gone down in history as delivering an Oscar winning anomoly. Her role is none too impressive, and I think people gave her an Oscar just because she went through most of the film without makeup, as if that constituted award worthy. William Holden is competent as usual as the young director. The film itself however is little more than an acting showcase, which degenerates into lots of hysterics. Its a bit of a mess, and horrifically melodramatic. I was none too impressed with the picture, and feel it has not aged very well. The picture was remade in a universally bashed made for TV movie.\r\n\r\n*The Country Girl was nominated for best picture, best actor (Crosby), black and white art direction, black and white cinematography, and best director. It won for best screenplay and best actress (Kelly).','a38c3b69372c089965c4aaa9f66eb5cc',0,'','ozrwWmej',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8494,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1170757920,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Decision Before Dawn (1951) - Anatole Litvak\r\n\r\nMy second WWII film from Fox nominated for a best picture today, this one is nowhere near as good. Fox had a tendency to boast of their films realism in this time. Once again a film was made with the full cooperation of everyone, and was filmed on location. This is about German\'s captured and then used as spies by the US. Like all WWII films, particularly the ones from Fox, this is based on things that actually happened. Now this realism should add, but here it just detracts. A bunch of Germans talking about loyalty and their thoughts. I found it hard to care about this film, or even be remotely interested.\r\n\r\n*Decision Before Dawn was nominated for best picture and best editing.','ffa6e74ed7db26dc0e9ab9c844e0b057',0,'','oAFVrCT4',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8495,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1170904980,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Disraeli (1929) - Alfred E. Green \r\n\r\nThis is the film frequently blamed for the onslaught of biopics made throughout the thirties. George Arliss reprises his role from the stage and silent film to play Benjamin Disraeli, the imperialist British Prime Minister. Like Lon Chaney Jr. and the Wolf Man, this would be his signature role. It made Arliss the first actor to win an Oscar for a role he played on the stage. The picture was enormously successful at the time, and watching it today you have to wonder why. It is stale and boring. Lots of talk, and although Arliss is great, his supporting cast is boring and one dimensional. This is the equivalent of modern day actor showcases of flimsy plots cenetered around one performer. However in the primitive days of sound, there is no score to help things out, and the pace is slow. Even at 87 minutes, it seems painfully tedious. Time has not been good to this film, but Arliss\' performance shall remain immortal.\r\n\r\n*Disraeli was nominated for best picture and best screenplay, winning for best actor (Arliss).','d12c55702a271b0f31f4d910372f214d',0,'','zsRB9wet',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8496,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1170912660,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Trader Horn (1931) - W. S. Van Dyke\r\n\r\nAn epic adventure from a man who would soon come to dominate that genre in Hollywood. Hollywood got ambitious, and they took their project to the jungles of Africa, shooting on location. The result is that the film looks like a travelogue frequently more often than a film. Some great shots abound, and even the rear projection is handled remarkably well. The film itself was shot silent with audio added. Like many films of the time this has no orchestral score, but relies on the \"sounds of Africa\". As one would expect the film is remarkably imperialist, with Africans depicted as little more than animals, frequently silent, and even at the end referred to as \"monkeys\" by the title character. Lots of gratuitous nudity abounds and this film would have been impossible if made after 1934. Not to detract from any of this, but it has a very sensational nature. The picture is a little long, and some of the acting is weak, but the spectacle of it all will eventually carry it through.\r\n\r\n*Trader Horn was nominated for best picture','792d13a0c20f360e6cbfea775c69984a',0,'','jBqru8Rd',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8497,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1170918660,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Five Star Final (1932) - Mervyn LeRoy\r\n\r\nOh sweet lord this film is fantastic. It can get melodramatic and for a long time you get a feeling this will be another badly dated overemphasized piece of clunky early sound cinema. However the more the film progresses the more fantastic it gets. When drama hits, it hits hard. LeRoy\'s direction is nothing short of brilliant, with the same penchant for off screen space and a quietly mobile camera that made Lewis Milestone\'s earlier Front Page so vital. Edward G. Robinson takes awhile to shine here, but once he is given the opportunity to let out some emotion he instantly has us on his side. He even makes us forget what a horrible act he has comitted. Unfortunately Five Star Final has never been released on VHS or DVD, so finding it is a supreme problem. However it is one of the most exciting of early pictures, even outperforming LeRoy and Robinson\'s now landmark Little Caesar. The connection can be made that the newspaper men aren\'t much different from gangsters, they\'re responsible for murders, they\'re motivated by money, and are amoral. Some characters in this film are stereotypes and used for a specific role in society rather than as a character, but with the concise nature of the plot, you can\'t slight the director for oversimplifying in a few instances. The film is also a point of curiosity for another supporting turn from Borris Karloff, before movie stardom hit him.\r\n\r\n*Five Star Final was nominated for best picture.','868b7c76336a45effd28c141cb88929e',0,'','CitWQXNe',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8498,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1170924540,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','A Farewell to Arms (1932) - Frank Borzage\r\n\r\nHemmingway\'s first big crack at Hollywood came when his then immensely popular novel was adapted by Paramount. Hot off the heels of a best actress Oscar, Helen Hayes gets top billing as Catherine Barkley the nurse-cum-love interest of Gary Cooper\'s Lt. Henry. The two are an interesting pair onscreen with the barely 5 foot Hayes looking up at the 6\'3\" Cooper. However they are great together, and Hayes was never more radiant. Borzage compacts much of the story, and in one brilliant montage covers nearly all the combat. Much of the weight is concentrated on the love scenes, and in these Cooper and particularly Hayes sparkle. Photography throughout is great courtesy of Charles Lang, and the film is a very well made production, certainly better than some of Borzage\'s work. I will admit to not having read the book, so I can\'t make any comparisons. The film was remade in typically overblown fashion by David O\'Selznick.\r\n\r\n*A Farwell to Arms was nominated for best picture, best art direction, best sound, and won for best cinematography.','75b387c6874ffb9550b8aba904fb769a',0,'','Je03tEDl',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8499,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1170930960,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Viva Villa! (1934) - Howard Hawks and Jack Conway\r\n\r\nA wildly \"loose\" biography of Villa, is a prime example of history via Hollywood. Wallace Beery plays Villa like a complete ignorant hick, which he may have been, but Beery is more of a dumb bully. There are times however when he truly excels in his role. Ben Hecht wrote the screenplay and this is a damn fine collection of dialogue. Although Hawks was replaced during filming, much of his footage survives, and I can be willing to guarantee Hawks shot the first \"wedding\" of Villa\'s, it is pure Hawks in every element. However as a film Viva Villa is more a collection of decent moments. There are good scenes, witty dialogue, and occasional moments of brilliance from Beery, but the film lacks a really compelling unity, and is all too often dumbed down history. Some of the crowd scenes recall Conway\'s work in A Tale of Two Cities, and much of the latter parts of the picture are overblown spectacle.\r\n\r\n*Viva Villa! was nominated for best picture, best adapted screenplay, best sound, and won for best assistant director (John Waters).','a8fdd54e841ba03622d3019796fa6fec',0,'','Bsk968u3',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8500,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1170998580,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) - Sidney Franklin\r\n\r\nMGM production chief Irving Thalberg seemed to love his wife. Throughout the decade he kept throwing her in films more and more melodramatic. This production is another pull out all the stops pictures. Charles Laughton is nearly cartoonish in his super villian oppresive near incestuous father, not leaving much room for a well developed character. In fact none of the characters really seem to be developed, instead they\'re all playing a type. Shearer as the sick poet turned love object, she doesn\'t seem to develop much. Sure the performance was enough to impress 1934 audiences to give her yet another Oscar nomination. Truly a family affair as usual, Norma\'s brother Douglas was the sound recordist. Frederic March once again is underutilized in an MGM production, with his character clearly supporting, and barely given any reign to convey emotions, other than silly infatuation. These are the type of films that make me sick to my stomach, stuffy, melodramatic horse @#%$ that seemed to cranked out by the dozen. I\'m starting to develop a contempt for everying emanating from MGM during this time period. Thank god the Academy wasn\'t as impressed with this, and rightfully rewarded Frank Capra\'s infinitely superior It Happened One Night.\r\n\r\n*The Barretts of Wimpole Street was nominated for best picture and best actress (Shearer).','706b1faec18504f27af3b10dda1e0a9d',0,'','tzC19qi6',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8501,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1171004700,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Naughty Marietta (1935) - W. S. Van Dyke \r\n\r\nWow, all 12 of \'em are now done, and by that I mean all the best picture nominees from 1935, the second and last year that 12 films were put in contention. Naughty Marietta was a historical marvel, the first pairing of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, a duo who would become the most popular singing couple in all of film. Sure today their films are largely forgotten as their operatic style of singing has fallen far out of favor, but in the mid-thirties these two were golden. Naughty Marietta is a decent film. MacDonald plays Marietta as a mixture of her own aristocratic beauty with Chevallier\'s rebellious charm, as if her character had learned something from their earlier romance. Sure it is another excuse for large pageantry, but what makes the film endearing, at least to audiences of the day is that the leads are from two separate worlds, but can find a common ground. They can only be together in America, and despite being royalty, MacDonald willingly throws away her title, prestige and all the luxury that comes with it. The songs are alright, with everything building up to the final duet, which is of course their symbolic sexual intercourse. I have heard good things about one of the duo\'s later musicals, but I\'ll stick to this one as a point of historical importance, and of course for my own research purposes.\r\n\r\n*Naughty Marietta was nominated for best picture. It won Douglas Shearer another one of many Oscars for Best Sound.','482fe2c3f82f4128d047859741aed491',0,'','pThLeWRy',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8502,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1171070280,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Three Smart Girls (1936) - Henry Koster \r\n\r\nA film very charming at times and hard on the ear drums. Deanna Durbin might have a voice, but lord it is high, and with three shrieking young ladies in the cast, blood will surely run from your ear drums. Now the plot is so easy to figure out, its a little shocking to the average man\'s intelligence. Girl\'s divorced father plans on remarrying, the girls want him back with their mother. Of course things are made horrifically easy because the new bride to be is an intolerable gold digger. Things are simple here, characters are good or bad, everyone falls in love, except for Durbin. Her character is meant to be innocent and young, and she doesn\'t even pretend to be interested in a man. In fact she doesn\'t even have a hidden crush here. Instead her love affair is with singing, and the picture makes several excuses to get her into song without necessarily being a musical. Now I found the chemistry between the sisters great, and liked some of the characters, but this is certainly light entertainment. Durbin was originally rejected by MGM as part of a double act with Judy Garland. She then went to Universal where this film is credited with saving the studio from bankruptcy, although who knows how much truth is in that. The film was followed by a sequel 3 years later called Three Smart Girls Grow Up, and Durbin\'s next film 100 Men and a Girl was nominated for a best picture Oscar the next year.\r\n\r\n*Three Smart Girls was nominated for best picture, best original story, and best sound.','73accabf50fdc1833559a1cc510e6d7a',0,'','boumnKLZ',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8503,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1171077420,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Hope and Glory (1987) - John Boorman\r\n\r\nAn affectionate and autobiographical look back at youth, with the unlikely backdrop of WWII. As the film progresses it generally keeps a light hearted tone, and certainly is such at its conclusion. Thus avoiding the usual pratfalls of tragedy in a war film. Told with much of Boorman\'s usual visual theatrics, this one however supresses them later in the film for a more conventional narrative. Perhaps this makes the film\'s later section suffer, but it also doesn\'t make it more of a visual gimmick as some of his earlier pictures may have been. The film is endearing, and I have preferred it to Spielberg\'s similar Empire of the Sun, but I still think I\'m burnt out on WWII films. Hope and Glory\'s greatest competition didn\'t come from Spielberg however, but from The Last Emperor, which won all 9 of its Oscar nominations.\r\n\r\n*Hope and Glory was nominated for best picture, best director, best art direction, best cinematography, and best original screenplay.','a8dcf9b9d11e7285372df2d8743e3ced',0,'','JF7iTBa8',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8504,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1171271340,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) - Franklin J. Schaffner\r\n\r\nOh god my eyes are bleeding. Let me begin this review by saying \"@#%$ this god damn horseshit, limp dick excuse for a movie\". Absolutely @#%$ awful on nearly all acounts, and just as I was beginning to defend Schaffner as a worthwhile director. Hard to begin where to complain on this one. The acting is attrocious by nearly everyone, particularly the children. The film itself should not have been made. The picture makes all Russians out to be either blood thirsty radicals or morally alloof old fogies who are completely out of touch with the world. There is no good side here, just every Russian, whether white or red is a worhtless piece of filth and the world would be a great place if all of them were dead. That is in a nutshell the message of the film, in addition to, how many horribly elaborate palaces and costumes can we use? This film is at least 2 decades out of date, and had it come out twenty years earlier I still would probably say it sucked. Even with the loosened production code and the freedom of modern filmmaking, the film is still weighed down immensely by old world garbage. Even when the film is trying to be \"provacative\" it is done on such a G-rated scale to affectively alienate everyone. Now there were some decent deep focus compositions here, and I was glad to see Tom Baker in a somewhat significant non-Dr. Who role, but his makeup was so bad that he was a scarcely convincing Rasputin. He was impressive enough to warrant a Golden Globe nomination for best supporting actor though. @#%$ Christ this film was even more out of touch than Mankiewicz over the top Cleopatra. Stay away from it on all acounts, and for a better film on a similar theme Klimov\'s Rasputin is a much better place to go. For what its worth, this film received a best picture nomination from the Academy, The Conformist on the other hand didn\'t get nominated.\r\n\r\n*This piece of @#%$ was nominated for best actress (Janet Suzman), best cinematography, best drama score, and best picture. It won for best art direction and best costume design.','4341efd0e565c611880f4f00ceabaddd',0,'','EXQsPGRM',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8505,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1171278000,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Now I\'ll have to check this one out.','0fa965e2b7e15697b53796f021155f44',0,'','175mG9Lf',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8506,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1171282080,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Love is a Many Splendored Thing (1955) - Henry King \r\n\r\nWell after the last feature, anything would seem great. Henry King like all other Fox directors was bound to make a Cinemascope spectacular. Now there are a few faults here. Jennifer Jones, who had previously played whites, Mexicans, and in this case a half Chinese Eurasian, is another case of Hollywood stretching reality to benefit a star. Luckily Jones doesn\'t spend the film making a bunch of \"Me so solly\" remarks and keeps the euro part of her upbringing in tact. Now the Chinese superstitions are somewhat silly and Hollywood drenched, even though the film was based upon the autobiography of a Eurasian woman. The exotic locales and vistas are exactly what Hollywood felt the world needed, and this becomes a period film in being set about 5 years before it was made. William Holden is once again adequate as the romantic lead (in one of two best picture nominees that year). Jennifer Jones has the more expressive role, and naturally audiences and critics were more moved by her work. By no means best picture material, but hardly an abomination.\r\n\r\n*Love is a Many Splendored Thing was nominated for best picture, best actress (Jones), best color art direction, best color cinematography, best sound. It won for best color costume design, best drama or comedy score, and best song.','229c60a88e148dbe15ef12c889fba7f9',0,'','GCDEjUMW',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8507,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1171351320,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','The Emigrants (1971) - Jan Troell\r\n\r\nSurprisingly the first Swedish film nominated for a best picture Oscar happened to not be directed by Ingmar Bergman, although he answered back with Cries and Whispers the next year. Instead it is the rather long and not that interesting film from Jan Troell, who also wrote, shot, and edited the film. I should take this time to point out that I saw the film the way American audiences saw it some 35 years ago. This is to say that it was cut significantly and dubbed. These two factors were damaging, but the film is quite long enough as it is, and I don\'t know if more footage would help. There still were some things about the film that made it interesting in contrast to most American pictures, but to be the first Swedish film to receive such an honor, it seems ill advised, and the picture has not aged particularly well.\r\n\r\n*The Emigrants was nominated for best picture, best actress (Ullmann), best foreign language film, best adapted screenplay, and best director.','1a7859dbec8e254757425b8de7ede1be',0,'','DAjgbro2',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8508,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1171362120,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Dodsworth (1936) - William Wyler\r\n\r\nOne of the universally acclaimed films of the 30\'s, and also considered the first really great work from William Wyler. Dodsworth is a remarkably mature film for its time, and hence the reason why perhaps it didn\'t do considerable business at theatres. However this could also explain how the film has managed to hold up so well, years later. Walter Huston plays Sam Dodsworth who just sold his auto factory and has an abundant amount of free time. Unfortunately his wife (Ruth Chatterton) doesn\'t seem to be too happy about getting this close to her husband, and proceeds to have one affair after another. Distraught Sam eventually finds a more suitable partner in Mary Astor, but the story isn\'t so easily solved. Great pretty much all around, and Huston is fantastic, much more subdued than viewers familiar with his Treasure of the Sierra Madre performance. Most of the supporting cast is great, and it features some incredibly big names at the time, including future Oscar winners David Niven and Paul Lukas. The film had a ridiculous amount of competition that year, which would explain its relative drought in the awards.\r\n\r\n*Dodsworth was nominated for best picture, best actor (Huston), best director, best screenplay, best sound, best supporting actress (Maria Ouspenskaya), it won for best art direction.','7de3ff9ebe7dad12751221a37b1071c0',0,'','8QYARJws',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8509,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1171369140,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Hold Back the Dawn (1941) - Mitchell Leisen\r\n\r\nNow I\'m not sure what the explanation is for this, but in this quest through best picture nominees it seems that the best of them, happen to be the ones never released on video or DVD. Such is the case with Mitchell Leisen\'s Hold Back the Dawn, written by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett. Contrary to their other screenplays of the time, including the Leisen directed Midnight, this film is not a comedy. Sure there is some of that great verbal wit, but the film is a romantic picture, and a nearly tragic one. Watching the film you are instantly warmed to Olivia de Havilland who was looking exceptionally radiant. I was always amazed at her being cast in roles relegating her to something of a plain Jane type when she was clearly one of the most beautiful actresses to ever work in Hollywood. We are instantly on her side, and instantly reluctant to root for Paulette Goddard. Goddard\'s type of trash is a perfect Wilder female, but this time she is hardly the center of attention, and our sympathies are clearly against her. Charles Boyer holds his tongue for much of the film, and delivers a surprisingly rich and emotional performance, all the while being completely low key. Towards the end I was completely hooked in this story, and eargerly awaiting its conclusion. Nothing short of a masterpiece, and one of the most unnecessarily forgotten Wilder screenplays. The long story short is Boyer is a European immigrant trying to get into the US, who winds up in Mexico. He convinces an American citizen (de Havilland) to marry him, but alas this marriage of convenience for him turns into something else. Some good old fashioned melodrama at parts, it is never less than wonderful.\r\n\r\n*Hold Back the Dawn was nominated for best picture, best actress (de Havilland), best black and white art direction, best black and white cinematography, best dramatic score, and best screenplay.','e819074398a47b04273006065cda5d6a',0,'','oCkXxF6K',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8510,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1171417980,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Roughly the next 6 posts should be highlighting best actor/actress winners and nominees as opposed to picture nominations.\r\nMin and Bill (1930) - George W. Hill\r\n\r\nWhen I first saw marie Dressler, I was convinced she was a man. I thought no female could be so hideously ugly. I was even more amazed to find that there was a time when she was the most popular star in Hollywood. Even more amazing was that her appearance in the first feature length comedy, gave her top billing over Charlie Chaplin. Finding Tillie\'s Punctured Romance one of the worst films ever made, I have never had a very high regard for Dressler. So I had a natural aversion to this particular picture, which won the ogre a best actress Oscar. Now this relatively short film is plagued with many of the flaws of early \"talkies\". Bad sound, akward camera placement, laughably attrocious rear projection, no score, and a thin plot. Wallace Beery plays his usual idiotic self and the role is somewhat fitting for Dressler\'s equally idiotic Min. In the films only funny line she says to him \"I know you\'re telling the truth, you\'re too dumb not to.\" Dressler isn\'t bad here really, and once the film abandons some of its poorly conceived comedy some genuine emotions do come out. Unfortunately the plot is so poorly executed that you can\'t be too overwhelmed when anything important happens. I\'m not saying that Dressler\'s Oscar is deserving, but its not a completly unjustified choice. \r\n\r\n*Min and Bill won best actress (Dressler)','6112ac8388194d80d0e930cea85ea567',0,'','iQPvpzG3',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8511,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1171423320,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Morning Glory (1933) - Lowell Sherman \r\n\r\nMy ears are bleeding again. Katherine Hepburn\'s voice I\'ve become accustomed to, Mary Duncan on the other hand makes me want to pull a Van Gogh on my ears. Jesus every word and delivery she has makes me search for a razor blade or at least the mute button. The film\'s premise is so simple and weak that without some extra flair it is bound to fail, and fail it does. Hepburn might be radiant, but she evolved into quite possibly the best cinematic actress we\'ve ever seen. So this early performance is stage bound, and showy, in the bad sense of the term. I\'m not entirely fond of Hepburn\'s earliest pictures, and felt she came into her element in comedy. Here her character is almost too naive to really win you over, you can\'t help wanting to slap some sense into her. Compared to the two actresses she was nominated against, I wouldn\'t say that the Academy voters made a grave error, but that doesn\'t justify the award. This was one of the best years for actresses, particularly in the types of roles they were able to play, whereas Hepburn\'s role is far too safe and sterile.\r\n\r\n*Morning Glory won best actress (Hepburn).','f8b895cf3d0ebd241bcb1f8405676aff',0,'','3VPemJf4',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8512,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1171427520,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Dangerous (1935) - Alfred E. Green\r\n\r\nOh good heavens its one of those. A melodramatic film about a stage actress, this for a time doesn\'t seem too far off from Morning Glory. However Alfred E. Green and particularly the developments in sound over two years were good enough to make this a better \"made\" picture. Not to say its particularly better, but the sound is more refined the music more subdued, and the acting a little more naturalistic. Davis has a few scenes where she gets to shine as an actress. Beginning the film as an acloholic, the only bit of mediocrity comes from her \"performance\" in the play. Not anything there to convince anyone that she\'s going to be the \"greatest American actress\". As it progresses however, the film gets more melodramatic, and concurrently worse. Franchot Tone, who was nominated for a best actor Oscar that year for Mutiny on the Bounty, delivers an uncharacteristically strong performance. Most people, even in 1935 viewed Davis\' Oscar as an apology for snubbing her the previous year. In all honesty though I think she\'s better here than in Of Human Bondage (I never bought the Cockney accent). Does that warrant an Oscar? Well I don\'t find any particular fault with the Academy\'s choice here, but would like to do a little more research before outright agreeing. But I will say she\'s actually quite amazing here, which leads me to believe the Academy wasn\'t quite off their rocker. I\'d hardly rate the film any better than average, but thanks to Davis and to a lesser extent Tone, this film has managed to hold up surprisingly well.\r\n\r\n*Dangerous won for best actress (Davis)','a238decfdd05d0f9419afb6bc7c87c54',0,'','UhDoVntK',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8513,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1171437660,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','None But the Lonely Heart (1944) - Clifford Odets\r\n\r\nI could thank the lucky stars for this film. Not because its a revalatory masterpiece, or Odets\' direction is sublime, but because of Cary Grant. More specifically this closes a hole that I have found nearly impossible to fill, that is a best actor worthy performance from 1944. \'44 was a horrifically weak year in cinema. Many films were really good, but next to none were great, Oscar worthy, and in the best actor race, I could scarcely even find someone worth giving a nomination to. Cary Grant only received two Oscar nominations in his career, and both were for uncharacteristic dramatic roles. None But the Lonely Heart is quite possibly his finest hour as an actor. Remarkably understated (compared to that year\'s Arsenic and Old Lace) but deeply emotional, he is never less than great as the wandering, charming, but intrinsically good Ernie Mott. His suffering mother is played by Ethyl Barrymore who has an amazing repoire with Grant, and won a well deserved supporting actress Oscar.\r\n\r\n*None But the Lonely Heart was nominated for best actor (Grant), best editing, best score - drama or comedy. It won for best supporting actress (Barrymore)','cb20225fc8c2d097fa8d3e4337c74e22',0,'','7WlVJw4D',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8514,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1171444500,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) - Michael Gordon\r\n\r\nOne of the better known filmed versions of the classic play this one got Jose Ferrer an Oscar as best actor. As great as the play, and Ferrer might be the film never really is cinematic. It feels very much like a staged play, and even Ferrer\'s performance seems theater bound. There are certainly some redeeming qualities, almost all of which are located in the script. However the good things about this film don\'t seem to owe much to the film itself, but more to its source material.\r\n\r\n*Cyrano de Bergerac won for best actor (Ferrer).','dd9bad759346b4024063a1468b5ca961',0,'','NuwYG0zP',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8515,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1171510020,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Cabaret (1972) - Bob Fosse \r\n\r\nLet me begin this by saying that this is not the first time I saw this film. However on a second viewing I found the music to be far less excrutiating. There was some attempt I believe to be \"shocking\" that makes the film more relevant than bold today, and Liza Minnelli\'s performance still holds up remarkably. At first her role is far to flighty and has that eccentric Oscar favorite type, but she really comes into it. I was also much more impressed this time by Michael York\'s contribution. A lot going on, and Fosse is a god. I\'ll try and get some more down about this but alas I have to go let people in a bar so they can get drunk for Valentine\'s Day.','5d735a27bf8d36e9f604384e0e198f08',0,'','Nu1d97hY',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8516,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1171601640,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','How many nominated films would you say aren\'t available on home video or have simply gone OOP?','76da072c0ac7b029cbe8e832199b9f77',0,'','hRlPD9p5',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8517,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1171603800,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','There are about 20 films nominated for best picture that are unavailable in any form. You just have to hope TCM plays them or an occasional theater screening. A few I believe may have come out on Laserdisc, but this is such an obsolete medium, that it hardly counts.','77d92c2e02502d08839cb8d9515dcb7f',0,'','4CSm7xoX',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8518,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1171769880,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Il Postino (1995) - Michael Radford\r\n\r\nThe 90\'s were the dominance of Miramax. Many films were promoted to the point of absurdity, and quite a few decent films were given enough publicity to garner serious award attention. Il Postino was the first foreign language film to be nominated for best picture in over two decades, and I would have been all too pleased if another film had broken the drought. There\'s nothing bad about the film, but there\'s nothing great. A similar wtf moment came in 2000 when Chocolat got a best picture nomination. Love and poetry and the awakening of a simple mind towards political activity is all fine and dandy, but this \"life lesson\" type of @#%$ is far too pasteurized to have any real impact. Still I\'d take this over Apollo 13 and Sense and Sensibility, so hardly the worst film to be nominated that year. However 1995 was a remarkably better year than the Academy would lead us to believe.\r\n\r\n*Il Postino was nominated for best picture, best director (Radford), best actor (Massimo Troisi), best adapted screenplay. It won for best dramatic score. Curious that neither this, The Emigrants, or Cries and Whispers received a best picture nomination without winning the foreign language Oscar.','4246b7e10268acf03b7541c54630a26f',0,'','ZfMUapxS',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8519,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1171936200,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Awakenings (1990) - Penny Marshall\r\n\r\nOh lord this film had all the makings of pasteurized fluff, and after watching it I have seen nothing to convince me otherwise. Thank god the film avoids the misconception of quirky mental patients that had been plauging films for decades. However give an actor a few nervous ticks and he gets an Oscar nomination. Penny Marshall has made a few decent films in her time, so it seems negligent that this would be the only one to earn a best picture nomination. Now I don\'t know what exactly to say I disliked about the film, but there isn\'t much I can say I did like. A two hour self righteous wank fest. Based on a true story my ass. Many people sitll comment on the role reversals of DeNiro and Williams, and perhaps the film would have been better if these two would have played with type.\r\n\r\n*Awakenings was nominated for best picture, best actor (DeNiro), and best adapted screenplay.','b88777c152985e7da162457ded8fa619',0,'','busqo6Y1',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8520,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1172027460,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','[b]The Love Parade (1929) - Ernst Lubitsch[/b]\r\n\r\nThe Love Parade was Ernst Lubitsch\'s first foray into sound, and few directors made the leap with more confidence and technical skill. Part of the reason was that Lubitsch was already filming operettas in the silent era, and the addition of sound merely completed the formula he was already working with. Not much has changed, there is still luxury, philandering, European charm, and frivolous morals. Perhaps none of this is better expressed than in the screen persona of Maurice Chevalier, who is given full upper class privileges first as a Count, and later as the Crown Prince of Sylvania. However in terms of class he is still considered the common man, and thus insubordinate to MacDonald\'s Queen. This sets up the formula that would be in place throughout Chevalier and MacDonald\'s musicals. This dualism has been set up from the beginning, and everything comes in twos throughout the film. Essentially this dualism is that Chevalier is our link, and MacDonald is the fairy tale. The common man vs. the royal aristocracy.\r\n   In the very beginning of the film several dualities are established. First off there are two people being sent back to Sylvania. One is Chevalier, but begging to go with is his servant Jacques (Lupino Lane), who can\'t wait to tell the \"One about the Frenchmen and the farmer\'s daughter\". Next comes the very context of settings. It begins in Paris, and he is being sent to the mystical land of Sylvania (called Transylvania by his servant). This dualism equates the hierarchy of the fairy tale musical travelogue. The country is to New York, what New York is to Paris, and what Paris is to a fairy tale kingdom, in this case Sylvania. This juxtaposition was perhaps first established here in film, and continues all the way through Kenneth Branagh\'s Love\'s Labours Lost (2000). Chevalier also has two asides to the camera, breaking the fourth wall, once at the beginning and again near the very end of the film. \"The Wedding March\" is played twice, once when it angers the Queen, and shortly thereafter at her own wedding.\r\n   What is ironic here is the seduction. Who exactly in this film is seducing who? MacDonald has no shortage of self confidence, telling her cabinet \"My legs are perfect\". Part of this is how she\'s presented to us. Chevalier has common Parisians and even a dog singing along with him. MacDonald has her royal maids, singing not in the common voice of Chevalier, but in the operatic one of MacDonald. This singing lends a style of civility and sophistication to MacDonald\'s royal elegance lacking in Chevalier\'s Parisian charm. She is first seen in the morning, whereas Chevalier is introduced to us at night. Within a minute of her being woken up, we see her undressed by her maids, and we get the first look at those \"perfect\" legs. She is being set up, not only as a royal figure, a civilized figure, but a sexual figure. We hear about Chevalier\'s exploits, but we see MacDonald exploited visually for us. \r\n   So when it comes to the two meeting MacDonald changes her approach. She is attracted to his very immoral nature. His exploits (which she reads, but we don\'t) give her privilege to information that we don\'t get. It is this material too shocking for the screen that wins her over. As a Queen, who doesnt find the idea of marriage tantalizing, she is interested in sex without love. Or in this case, sex now, love later. Chevaliers promiscuity ensures her that he can handle himself in the bedroom, and this is exactly what she is looking for. Now how about Chevalier? He is taken in by her beauty, and we know he is easy, but is that enough, certainly not for marriage. What she uses is her power. The idea is given to her by Chevalier, as he suggests his punishment be to never leave her side, again one of the mirrors repeated later. What she uses is power, a decidedly masculine quality. What\'s interesting is that in this first meeting, MacDonald is wearing a ring on her left hand ring finger. Definite foreshadowing for a single woman. What she does is effectively to assume his role to win him over. Not only does she wear a military uniform (much like his), but when they have their first duet, she sings in the talking manner that Chevalier uses, rather than singing in her own style. Moreover, when they start singing, she is the first to sing in essence making the first move. She is reducing herself to his level to win him over, but this sets up a later conflict. It is only when she completely caves into Chevalier that she presumably wins his eternal love. \r\n   Throughout the film characters in the film see more than us, as if Lubitsch is inviting us to a voyeuristic party, and closing the door in our face when we get there. The first thing we dont see is Chevaliers exploits in Paris. He is being kicked out, and we only catch the tail end of one of his affairs. We arent shown what he did there, and arent really even told. Next comes MacDonalds bathing sequence, where the characters in the scene see her completely naked, but we are only given teasing glimpses, denying us the same perspective of the characters. Lubitsch carefully frames her servants to cover everything we want to see. So now we are denied two things that establish our characters, Chevaliers immoral behavior and MacDonalds body, the two things that are most attractive to the opposite partner. So it makes sense that the third time we are denied seeing what characters see, it involves both characters now. Their courtship dinner, the one date between the two that leads directly to their marriage, we dont see. Instead we are told through three different camps, what is happening while they eat, and they are even speculating on the exact conversation. Lubitsch does throw us a bone immediately after. We dont see their dinner, or even hear their conversation, but Lubitsch delights us by letting us into the bedroom. \r\n   This bedroom scene sets up a few distinctions. For one, MacDonald is pressuring Chevalier. They ditch formalities. She demands that he court her as if she were another girl, presumably one of the Parisian women, that she has up to now envied for their carnal knowledge of Chevalier. He stops calling her Your majesty and she stops referring to him by title. Instead they assume the common role by being on a first name basis. Instead of Count and Queen, it is Alfred and Louise. In one of the sequences more comical bits, MacDonald asks Alfred What would you do?, and before acting a stunned Chevalier takes a drink. Even a man of such reputation and charm, needs a little liquid confidence, because we are led to believe that he truly has met his match in MacDonald. Even though she requests to be treated as another girl, he finds himself unable to perform on command. In this case, a swig of alcohol takes on the old metaphor of being medicine, or more specifically an aphrodisiac. Yet the break down of her to his level changes here. She has proven to be an adequate match, something special and not just another conquest for this rogue. He has also won her over, broken her long standing aversion to love. She was interested in sex before, but now she has warmed up to the idea of marriage, because she has fallen in love with him, as symbolized by the dinner we didnt see, and abandoning formality and calling him Alfred. So both partners are effectively hooked. They moved beyond attraction and are in love, and therefore in their second duet MacDonald no longer sings in Chevaliers style but her own, and the two use their contradictory singing styles to surprising harmonic effect.\r\n   Their wedding follows immediately after, and it seems virtually overnight that the unity and harmony of the previous scene has vanished. The two lovers are shown in opposition. They are naturally kept separate. Chevalier is in his ceremonial uniform, but MacDonald is once again undressed. We see her long veil, but before getting into it, she is stripped by her maids, paralleling the earlier bathing scene. She is radiant and thrilled about the days festivities. Chevalier waking up hung over from his alcoholic aphrodisiac the night before is not exactly comfortable. He is again associated with the common country man by brining folkish superstitions to the palace. He is confronted by a cross eyed man, which he believes is always bad luck. Also hard to explain is his superstition about whistling. More common in terms of superstition is the broken mirror that an unwitting Count Alfred picks up. During their respective entrances to the wedding the two are framed differently. Chevalier enters in a medium long shot, scene roughly from the knees up. MacDonald on the other hand enters from a very long shot, encompassing not only her entire body, but that of most of the people around her. She appears through this framing device as different removed from Chevalier and through him (being our common man link) shes removed from us. With a somewhat clumsy Arabian leader talking about the dangers of men and women switching roles, we are sided with Chevalier. \r\n   Our enticing MacDonald is now a remote Queen. She got her man, and now that she got him, she appears to resort back to her old way. Through marriage Count Alfred will become a Crown Prince, rather than King. She is not a lady shes a Queen. Our last chance to feel for MacDonald is during Chevaliers reluctance to accept the marriage vows. However his premonition is not without reason, and at first it seems to be a slightly comic delay, but theres something larger here that Lubitsch is telling us. Lubitsch is asking us, because we are now linked wholly to Chevalier by this point, whether we want to go through with this. This is not a fairy tale musical where the film ends with a marriage and everyone lives happily ever after. In MacDonald and Chevaliers later musical Love Me Tonight (1932), directed by Rouben Mamoulian, the films ends with three ladies saying There once was a Princess and Prince Charming. Who was not a Prince, but he was charming, and they lived happily ever after. This ending might have applied here, but Lubitsch is temporarily denying the fairy tale ending. This isnt a marriage solves everything, and it wont end the picture. Paying attention to the running time, the marriage effectively happens halfway through the film, thus breaking what we have come to assume as the typical ending. Its as if with Alfreds reluctance we are asked if we really want to see a fairy tale here. Knowing what we know about Lubitsch, both before and after this film, marriage is hardly a solution, but more a way to ask for more problems. In The Marriage Circle (1924), Lady Windermeres Fan (1925), and So This is Paris? (1926) Lubitsch made a reputation for himself by showing marital infidelity and domestic disputes as comical and very common. So therefore we cant assume that even in this clear fairy tale setting that happily ever after will apply following marriage, because as we learned marriage and love arent always synonyms.\r\n   So with Chevalier leaving our world and entering MacDonalds we are temporarily left without a leader. So we are given the one full number sung by neither MacDonald or Chevalier. Jacques sings to MacDonalds maid since they are the lower class here, and more specifically the common people. Their seduction recalls the earlier joke that once again we never get to hear, about the Frenchmen and the farmers daughter. These two win each other over by him admitting to being the Frenchmen, and she is the farmers daughter. They both are privileged to information that we dont have, just as they know and see more of MacDonald and Chevalier than we do. He is privilege to Chevaliers exploits, and she has seen MacDonalds naked body, thus knowing and seeing more than either of us. Their motto is Lets be common. During the number, the surprisingly limber Lane parallels Donald OConnors Make em Laugh number in Singin in the Rain (1952). The assumption is that being common is not only wonderful, but also violent. They hit each other, and seem to love it. Their seduction is accomplished through dance, not necessarily singing. So are we to assume that in this world singing is the mating game of the upper class, and dancing of the lower class? Dancing is much more physical, and thats what these common people use, and their happiness is volatile and real. Theyre happy living with these flaws, and we should be to. They break from the fairy tale mold, by being real. It is precisely the denial of the real and common that cause MacDonald and Chevalier marital strife.\r\n   MacDonald might know how to seduce him, but not to keep him. She assumes a mother role, and this is evident even in their titles. She is the Queen and he is the Crown Prince, titles usually reserved for a mother and her first born son. MacDonald goes further in her mother role. Once again she is Yes your majesty, and she goes so far as to plan his day for him. She even reminds him to take a nap, a clear sign of a mothering move. During this interaction, she is wearing his military uniform, and he is in pajamas and he is sleeping in her bed. The defeated and distant mother of privilege has one solution to nearly every disgruntled child. She assumes on a trip shell buy him some new uniforms and that will make him happy. Parenting 101, if your child is unhappy, buy them toys or in this case uniforms. Chevalier is far from accepting her motherly role. He is an independent man, and it is his being himself that won her over, now she has assumed his role. She has conquered her subject, and after getting the sexual fulfillment she wanted, she can now go back to being Queen, and keeps Chevalier as something of an over priced sex doll. She spends her days running affairs of state, to spend her nights with him. She doesnt love him as she says, she simply wants him physically. He is a rarity, hes the Queens mistress yet carries the title of being also her husband. MacDonald has confused sex with love, and is taking something of a masculine idea that she simply wants this man hanging around to sleep with whenever shes good and ready. \r\n   A significant gender reversal comes out here just as the Sultan had warned about earlier. Chevalier is a stay at home mom without any children to look after. He cant even have breakfast without the presence of the Queen. His budget, which would solve Sylvanias financial woes presumably is dismissed. Not only is the proposal rejected, but it isnt even read. The bureaucracy of this kingdom is keeping him from even being heard. It is after this rejection that the Crown Prince uses the one card he has left, he leaves her. Hes going back to Paris. Now this seems odd right here. The budget is the first time that real world concerns creep into this fairy tale, yet when Chevalier is planning on returning to Paris, not a single mention is made of what hes going to do there and what hell use for money. He isnt shown to have a legitimate job during the film, so what would he do? In this case we are wondering, but knowing something of the genres foundation, surely he cant really leave. So this mention of leaving allows Chevalier to use his strength. MacDonald used her looks and power to seduce him, in the process falling in love, or at least deep lust. He cuts her off, denies her the sex she has found so essential, and MacDonald begins to realize that she might actually love the man. He now has her emotions to manipulate. He proves hes still volatile and popular with the ladies, as evident when he shows up at the Opera, and the crowd starts cheering. The first people to clap are very deliberately women. So not only is he denying sex, but also demonstrating that other women are still interested in him in terms making her jealous. She tries a similar ploy on him. Using her emotions to get him to stay. Her loud and deliberate weeping goes unnoticed if not unheard by Chevalier. She is miscalculating here. If their mutual attraction worked in the beginning, it fails here. She is affected emotionally by him, so she thinks that by displaying over the top emotions hell feel for her. Luckily for us she thinks on her feet. She realizes that pleading for his heart wont work, she needs to submit. Like Ruth Chatterton in Female (1933), the powerful female can only find love by submitting to a dominant male and relinquishing her control. It is a sexist view, but it is at the end that equality is re-established. He is allowed diplomatic privilege and she demands he punish her, mirroring her initial punishment of him. She therefore sums it all up, when the two embrace she says My King, he has officially been raised to her level, the gender roles are back to normal, and only now can we justifiably believe that they live happily ever after.','164a9ed03f4edc6e402e56b4cbf1f04b',0,'','1yA7Wn9t',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8521,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1172308140,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','I\'m not sure why there are so many syntax errors. Where did you transfer your review from?','ca1235720d4389924c929963adf83aa6',0,'','yqE1ZpTW',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8522,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1172328480,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','From word, there seems to be a problem whenever I use a \'','82c844f483771d95c9aa12e5671b3f4f',0,'','iMS8jf6W',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8523,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1172373960,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','That\'s a helluva review, so I hope you go back and correct them.','417335c00958766a103aade6b3b5f0b8',0,'','D2XFkaQz',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8524,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1172376360,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Seemed to have fixed the problem, and the review is roughly 8 1/2 pages on Word.','9e26211bbbf411c068d8cce881b2e5d4',0,'','iESv6hy8',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8525,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1172382480,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','A Soldier\'s Story (1984) - Norman Jewison \r\n\r\nWell over the years, Nomran Jewison has assumed the role once reserved for Stanley Kramer as a director of liberal films that could still be watered down for mass consumption. The two went head to head in 1967 when Jewison\'s In the Heat of the Night defeated Kramer\'s Guess Who\'s Coming to Dinner for best picture. Most people would consider that a wise move at least in opposition to each other. Jewison\'s films however have been largely overwrought and only partially worthwhile. A Soldier\'s Story was the fourth film of Jewison\'s nominated for best picture, and probably his best. The film does not dwell on the overwrought racism of previous films, considering these things were slightly out of fashion in 1984, and Jewison was ever the popular entertainer before a social commentator. Instead its focus, as we generally see is on black racism towards blacks. The dead Sgt. at the beginning of the film might be harsh, and might seem an unnecessary antagonist, but you come to see his point, and it does seem valid. To him, the \"Yas\'m\" throw backs to the days of slavery were what he despised most. Not the racism directed at them, but the black man\'s willing acceptance and compliance. In the end justice is only partially done. The killer\'s are found out, and it certainly isn\'t who we thought initially, and you can\'\'t readily rejoice at their being brought to bear. A damn good film and featuring some \"before they were stars\" performances from numerous black actors including Denzel Washington, who would deliver one of his greatest performances under Jewison in 1999\'s The Hurricane.\r\n\r\n*A Soldier\'s Story was nominated for best picture, best adapted screenplay, and best supporting actor (Adolph Caesar)','f05e190dafa3cb1f524d4ecab87a279e',0,'','HZN6qyl5',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8526,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1173060300,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Julia (1977) - Fred Zinnemann\r\n\r\nHard to imagine its been nearly a week since I\'ve watched an Oscar nominated film. This one had a whopping 10 nominations and took home a few. The film itself is quite appalingly weak. Something about watching a period film from the 1930s that diverges into a story about nazi\'s and fascists that instantly makes me lose interest. I was essentially hoping for a story about writers, and instead found a story about resistance and underground zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.\r\n\r\nSorry but I\'m really tired of films like this. The acting was largely good, and Redgrave and Robards won Oscars for their work. This is also noted as being Meryl Streeps\' film debut, although her screen time is significantly limited.\r\n\r\n*Julia was nominated by best picture, best actress (Fonda), best cinematography, best costume design, best director, best editing, best original score, and best supporting actor (Maximillian Schell). It won best adapted screenplay, best supporting actress (Redgrave), and best supporting actor (Robards)','4ff83552a8f3df325e21aba620d4cfaf',0,'','hMJqdNH2',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8527,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1173086400,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','A couple of years ago, I held myself a \"Meryl Streep Festival\" (hey, one could certainly do worse), and Julia was one of the selections. I agree, it\'s not a great film. Streep\'s second effort, however, was a memorable one: The Deer Hunter. She deservedly received a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her role; her first among many, of course.','4c030dfa83e8f489e620feb18815010f',0,'','j3dsTwSf',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8528,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1173157680,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Agreed, quite a fan of The Deer Hunter.','5cf4851cc91fb899b5acd80e0c7e9eec',0,'','PRU6l4ve',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8529,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1173238020,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Heaven Can Wait (1978) - Warren Beatty and Buck Henry\r\n\r\nThe remake of Here Comes Mr. Jordan with another film\'s title. This one is somewhat egocentric Warren Beatty, expanding upon his self congratulatory work in Shampoo. The story is familiar, and aside from exchanging football for boxing, this one doesn\'t differ much from the original. Beatty and Henry\'s film is more comical I believe than the original, but with the same notions of tragedy. This was the last time Beatty and Christie co-starred as it was after their breakup. The film however embodies all of the old fashioned trademarks of classic escapist entertainment. Did it need to be made? Probably not, but is it still a worthwhile movie, sure.\r\n\r\n*Heaven Can Wait was nominated for best picture, best actor (Beatty), best adapted screenplay, best cinematography, best director, best original score, best supporting actor (Jack Warden), best supporting actress (Dyan Cannon). It won best art direction.','e08a940522b8b459029ebf9503bf6ab4',0,'','VwHWinGE',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8530,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1173238860,1,0,1,1,1,1,'justindeimen','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Goodness, wpqx. That\'s a magnificent effort on The Love Parade. One of the more comprehensive ones I\'ve read.','ec2aaaa50ae3da1650a10477367e0cdb',0,'','uyWeUdTk',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8531,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1173268620,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Thank you, I did it for a class I have on musicals, the paper is due tomorrow, so at least I don\'t think I should have to worry about my grade.','603614040b2203a39b7742652d6e567f',0,'','YKx1aUjP',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8532,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1173774180,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','The Prince of Tides (1991) - Barbara Streisand\r\n\r\nAlas the 90\'s are done. Barbara Streisand\'s film hasn\'t fared as well through time. Streisand the director has a few operatic moments here, particularly the dancing at the Rainbow. However there are things to admire here. Nick Nolte\'s performance is possibly the best of his career, and he was heavily favored to win the best actor Oscar that year. Perhaps not as impressive but surprising was George Carlin\'s brief appearance here as a gay man. Much of the supporting cast is good, but Nolte and Streisand don\'t exactly connect. The chemistry is forced and somewhat lacking. Respectively they\'re both good, but they don\'t work together. The film seems to peak about 100 minutes into it, yet continues with a somewhat sloppy romance that is resolved rather unclimatically. There were numerous better films that could have benefited from the Oscar nomination, but I won\'t go around saying the film was a complete waste.\r\n\r\n*The Prince of Tides was nominated for best actor (Notle), best picture, best adapted screenplay, best art direction, best cinematography, best original score, and best supporting actress (Kate Nelligan)','be816c67897dd66683255eb0cd6c5996',0,'','uqR68DLB',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8533,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1173784140,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) - George Stevens\r\n\r\nZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ\r\nOk now seriously, only Hollywood could make such a disgrace of this story. Turning it into a cliche ridden love story for Christ\'s sake. Trying to pay attention to the film, and watch what\'s happening you\'ll find yourself quickly falling asleep. It is incredibly slow, with several scenes (particularly the forced romance) almost unbearable to watch. I may also object to Anne Frank being played by a 21 year old model. Stevens seemed overly full of himself following the success of A Place in the Sun, Shane, and Giant. This is possibly the most self righteous and indulgant film of the bunch. Some first rate cinematography permeates the picture, and much of the film is in sharp contrast. The story is familiar, but it is played to ultimate Hollywood effect here. \r\n\r\n*The Diary of Anne Frank was nominated for best picture, best supporting actor (Ed Wynn), best drama or comedy score, best director, best black and white costume design. It won for best supporting actress (Shelly Winters), best black and white cinematography, and best black and white art direction.','a4279446f483d73fcffa68f5866ca1f5',0,'','nKCw0Zvg',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8534,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1173832920,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','The Towering Inferno (1974) - Irwin Allen & John Guillermin\r\n\r\nIt may seem odd to think of a big budget disaster film garnering 8 Oscar nominations, but how much different is this than Titanic? Allen\'s over ambitious granddaddy of disaster films contains a well stocked cast, and with only a very minimal of backstory pulnges right into the catastrophe. At least 120 of the 165 minutes of this story are devoted to the fire and burning, and people squabling about how to stop it, and how to evacuate everyone from the 135th floor. Fred Astaire got a surprise Oscar nomination for best supporting actor without doing much of anything, certainly not any acting. Sociologically this doesn\'t have the same undercurrent that Earthquake had, that film relishing in the joy of self destruction. Here, Paul Newman and Steve McQueen are superheroes out to save the world, although they don\'t wear capes. Some of the plot lines are forced and you wind up spending far too much time showing explosions to make us actually give a crap about who lives or dies. Calling it the high water mark of the disaster craze still doesn\'t make it a resounding success. As a curiosity though, I\'d say the best part about this film is watching OJ Simpson.\r\n\r\n*The Towering Inferno was nominated for best picture, best art direction, best editing, best original dramatic score, best sound, and best supporting actor (Astaire). It won for best original song and best cinematography.','2d2b632702621f930aade0b7009dde1f',0,'','5XaUMB0C',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8535,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1173918120,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Cat Ballou (1965) - Elliot Sliverstein\r\n\r\nA comedy/musical/western hybrid that won Lee Marvin as somewhat surprising Oscar. Jane Fonda in one of her first major American roles, plays the title character who goes from schoolmarm to outlaw relatively quick. Lee Marvin plays two roles here, and well that sort of thing impresses Academy voters, especially playing against type. The film is witty at times, and the Greek chorus supplied by Nat King Cole is a punctuating highlight. However Marvin\'s performance is rather secondary even if he\'s playing two roles. As a western this has fun playing against certain stereotypes, but ultimately complying with them. At least now I have every best actor winner covered from 27-67.\r\n\r\n*Cat Ballou was nominated for best adapted score, best adapted screenplay, best editing, and best song. It won for best actor (Marvin).','d103f689937b05b2ae7ee5fdd0e9f4cd',0,'','Js6F4mqM',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8536,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1173928080,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Page 3 in this thread is now causing a horizontal scroll bar. Are you having the same issue?','6a380e190dd2d2a2d22256cf1f07b967',0,'','VKdboCTW',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8537,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1173932280,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','hmmm ... \r\ni dont see a horizontal bar\r\ndid u try refreshing?\r\n\r\nPS: feel free to delete your post and my post after solving the problem (if any)','054347bdd2712261a9715e8b9c14f92d',0,'','2iZJLmtk',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8538,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1173939240,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Like I said, it\'s only apparent on the previous page and only during viewing, not replying.','c223f48941406a7453efdb8001e079c4',0,'','e2RuvMtL',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8539,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1173947700,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','I \"think\" i know why ... and i have edited the posting ... sorry wpqx\r\n\r\nit has to do with the many zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz in wpqx\'s posting ... since the forum treats it as 1 word, it has NO choice but to widen the window, it does NOT hyphenate it ...\r\n\r\n\r\nPS: actually, i did not see a scroll bar. this is becos my computer screen is bigger and my fonts are smaller (with higher resolution) ... however, after reading your post again, i realize that the forum rectangle is MUCH bigger than other pages ... i really think u could solve the problem by editing away the zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz\'s to fewer\r\n\r\nAlso, we can delete your posting and mine after a day or two','82ccbe603b0ac432e92c97da1d7eedf2',0,'','LQ5c8vZk',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8540,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1173991860,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Well next page, so problem temporarily solved. I know that was the \"problem\". Sorry I just had to really stress how god damn boring The Diary of Anne Frank was.','2ebf565a13237a864227928013ca4621',0,'','0iZxaLmh',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8541,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1175763540,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Kings Row (1942) - Sam Wood\r\n\r\nA melodrama of small town America that could serve as a precursor to Peyton Place and Twin Peaks. Everyone is slightly disturbed here, and some highly soap opera-esque things happen. The story is set around the turn of the century, and I wonder if it really mattered, but it does situate it in a unique and different time. Ronald Reagan, despite getting third billing is pretty much the main force behind the film and delivers what is pretty much unanimously considered his best performance. Ann Sheridan (who shot scenes for The Man Who Came to Dinner after getting off of work in the mornings from this film) delivers a key transitional role for her. The legendary James Wong Howe was the photographer here, and already the deep focus photography is readily employed.\r\n\r\n*Kings Row was nominated for best picture, best director, and best black and white cinematography.','d50315f17e134db7d2e394431f1a98cf',0,'','jL1VSMCG',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8542,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1175843820,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) - Sam Wood\r\n\r\nThis big budget adaptation of Hemmingway\'s immensely popular novel was generally well received by critics of the time. Watching it today its age shows a little. No one in the cast appears to be anything close to Spanish, most of the politics are ignored, and in typical Hollywood fashion the narrative focuses primarily on romance. Cooper is good, and even Bergman does a decent job despite her credibility as a Spanish peasant. The color helps the film in some ways, and most of the battle sequences are excellently done. In all though the film is lacking in the fire of what made Hemmingway\'s work great.\r\n\r\n*For Whom the Bell Tolls was nominated for best picture, best actor (Cooper), best actress (Bergman), best color art direction, best color cinematography, best editing, best drama or comedy score, best supporting actor (Akim Tamaroff), and won for best supporting actress (Katina Paxinou)','f401f8efb58c86403e87dd2e115d29df',0,'','V9W6f2aM',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8543,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1178928000,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','The Robe (1953) - Henry Koster \r\n\r\nWell if this film looks like large scale Technicolor pageantry, then looks are certainly not deceiving. A large scale big budget film made as little more than an advertisement for Cinemascope. Richard Burton\'s performance seems tired and dated by today\'s standards, and most of the film reaks of the \"Thank god they don\'t make these anymore\" odor of so many lost epics. Not to say that similar films don\'t still come out, but this picture is a good 40 minutes too long, and along with Quo Vadis it makes Roman history look so dreadfully stale. The film was rewarded with a best picture Oscar, which thankfully it lost to the much better remembered From Here to Eternity. The supporting cast isn\'t too bad, and Victor Mature delivers an uncharacteristically good performance. So much of this film echoes Spartacus, but in a vastly inferior way.\r\n\r\n*The Robe was nominated for best picture, best actor (Burton), and best color cinematography. It won for best color art direction, and best color costume design.','cfacf7687525317a40ecb54bc8e28bf3',0,'','ZjnCxXTV',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8544,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1181261520,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','King Solomon\'s Mines (1950) - Compton Bennett\r\n\r\nPerhaps Blood Diamond sent me over the edge, or perhaps I\'ve read one too many Spike Lee interviews, but god damn it I\'m getting sick of movies set in Africa where all the main characters are white. This film loosely follows the novel\'s plot, and instead sets it up as to what new natural wonder is going to terrorize Deborah Kerr and prompt a last minute rescue from Stewart Granger. I\'ve gotten more critical of this type of film over the last year, and I am not letting this one off the hook. Yet another tale of white Europeans in the jungle. There\'s always the seasoned white man who knows the country and the languages, who\'s always assisted by a native who is strangely subordinate and loyal. Of course this tracker is a perennial bachelor, and of course when the woman shows up he begins to change his ways. I will say Trader Horn altered this approach, but making the seasoned tracker\'s young assistant the second half of the love interest. Nonetheless, it looked more like a hunting video than a film of interest, with MGM\'s aesthetic of throwing more wild animals and literally showing spear chuckers. I always do love Deborah Kerr, but I had a hard time getting behind her character just because I\'ve seen it done too many times.\r\n\r\n*King Solomon\'s Mines won best color cinematography and best editing Oscars. It was also nominated for best picture.','5167eea03aeaf9365f28f4d0648b8daf',0,'','1PhwBs2V',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8545,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1181269560,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Right now I would\'ve suggested a few Jean Rouch films to balance things out, but it\'s a shame that none of his work is readily available in this country. Hopefully, that\'ll change soon. You can certainly do worse than Claire Denis\' Chocolat, even though it takes a little getting used to.','d0eb3de6165f298367643cb8fcc54e15',0,'','ZaHze5il',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8546,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1181279940,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','I saw the Miramax remake, so therefore was never too interested in the original. I plan on getting a few Rouch films, I\'m not sure what Facets has as they are very hit or miss when it comes to import dvd\'s. \r\n\r\nOn the plus side I have now finished the 1950s best picture nominees, however I still have some work from the 40s and 60s which I\'ll be working on soon.','71dfa853eb54d62c2d0b1f0dba331ca2',0,'','kicxVgYe',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8547,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1181292540,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Wake Island (1942) - John Farrow\r\n\r\nThis is shameless propoganda, and I almost expected a line at the end to say \"Buy war bonds in your theater\", which weren\'t exactly uncommon during WWII. Wake Island is of the school of films like Across the Pacific that were thrown together the second the US entered the war. This one tells of an early defeat, but a rather Alamo like stand by the USMC. Your standard batch of familiar faces but unfamiliar names appear and almost all of them would go on to appear in countless other WWII movies. Certain scenes work, but there is nothing revalatory about the film, and it is very cliched. I do admire some of the truth that seeps out in these original war films, simply because with history\'s habit of white washing you can get a different story. The film was tremendously popular, and helped set up the blueprint for many more of the same.\r\n\r\n*Wake Island was nominated for best picture, best director, best original screenplay, and best supporting actor (William Bendix)','fef0e8a7eb0c65fc075f3de95395d23f',0,'','HtunFih4',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8548,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1181293020,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Good lord, mon ami. I\'m not sure if the Binoche-Depp starrer was a remake or not but it was definitely NOT a remake of Denis\' Chocolat. I mentioned it since it\'s set in Cameroon and is directed by a foreigner (sort of).\r\n\r\nMore on Rouch later.','ac1cd5a5f9dd7171c259b5f465003089',0,'','myLuD9Y5',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8549,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1181293140,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','I was told it was a remake, in that case then it might actually be worth seeing.','af9c1305d221b6223e85809ca6736e3b',0,'','PnGp0WBw',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8550,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1181369220,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Denis\' film isn\'t the first to take place in the waning days of African colonialism, and for her the narrative arc could be considered traditional, but her understanding of race, culture, identity, politics, which shines through in the film\'s most affecting moments, is second to none. Do share your thoughts if you get the chance to watch Chocolat. It\'s available on a decent quality DVD from MGM.','b03e3ac14d3a9ddf97e2f04e454cee3b',0,'','UclmDuJH',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8551,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1181420760,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','I\'ve started a DVD thread on Rouch. Hope it helps. I\'ll add the info for the massive box set devoted to him at another time -- no subs, though. I regret not taping a couple of the films that were shown around the time this extraordinary cultural anthropologist died (due to a car accident in Niger on Feb 18th, 2004; he was 86). I have considered writing more about him but since I\'ve only seen 8 or 9 of the nearly 130 films he made (many of whom, as you could imagine, still require post-production work), it would be rather pretentious of me to do so. Here\'s a wonderful website devoted to him and his work.\r\n\r\nNote: New Yorker Video will soon release Paris vu par... (Six in Paris) on DVD. It\'s a collection of vignettes set in different sections of the city (I have a feeling that the new Paris, je t\'aime has something to do with this release). In any case, Rouch, Godard, Chabrol, Douchet, Rohmer and Pollet are the directors.','4036be8e1684ce10574f23575eb6f96d',0,'','A8aszBTr',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8552,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1181428200,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','I\'ve generally not been a fan of those anthology films.','54a527790b542560b94ad7416c1b40aa',0,'','adAn2S1e',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8553,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1181612820,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Dr. Dolittle (1967) - Richard Fleischer\r\n\r\nAh poo, these things went on too long. Another bloated craptacular over the top musical that makes you so glad that Hollywood went bankrupt. Rex Harrison is playing a figure not too different from his professor in My Fair Lady, and the songs here are god awfully bad. Too much farce just makes you cringe as everything was just overdone here. Oh well this crap passed for entertainment. It was later remade to better financial success with Eddie Murphy, and having not seen that I can\'t offer my opinion on whether or not it was an improvement, but I can\'t imagine it being hard to top.\r\n\r\n*Dr. Dolittle won for best song and best visual effects. It was nominated for best picture, best adapted score, best art direction, best cinematography, best editing, best sound, best original score, and best score. (how this had so many best score nominations is beyond me)','3c616e345f4dbacbc2b30385e16de59a',0,'','Mh8gGyBK',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8554,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1181684340,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) - Lewis Milestone\r\n\r\nWhenever a film gets remade you have to wonder why bother. Mutiny on the Bounty was an opportunity to use the rare Super 70mm film stock, and make a glorious technicolor extravaganza starring Marlon Brando fresh from his failure as a director. People look at the 60s as something of a dark period in Brando\'s career, and watching this film you can\'t change that opinion. Brando\'s Fletcher has none of the charisma of Gable\'s, and spends most of the movie just ambivalently walking around. You figure this is good for the first mate who watches Bligh wreak havoc on his crew too long, but even after the mutiny he\'s still weak as a character. Instead of grand adventure on the high seas, this is just a much longer version of a story we all know. Let\'s throw in a big storm sequence, and lets have Bligh be even more evil. The diplomatic sequences were cut or entirely done away with, making the little bit of substance gone. Much of the film is just fluff, and although technically well made fluff, it seems and insult to give this a best picture nomination at the exclusion of Days of Wine and Roses, The Manchurian Candidate, or The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.\r\n\r\n*Mutiny on the Bounty was nominated for best color art direction, best color cinematography, best editing, best original score, best song, best special effects, and best picture.','dc3f100fc820756bacc295a79a8dabd2',0,'','h8nfHo6m',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8555,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1181865000,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Wilson (1944) - Henry King\r\n\r\nAfter more than a decade of fluctuating nominees, the Academy finally decided to standardize all the major categories at 5 films. In this regard it may seem really odd the five films selected by the Academy in 1944 for best picture. Darryl Zanuck believed in his Wilson project very adamantly. He envisioned it as a patriotic rival to Gone with the Wind, and spared no expense during its production. Unfortunately though the film was a horrific flop and was rarely seen. The film was technically astounding, and therefore received a slew of Oscar nominations, and won five technical awards. The picture is a product of its time, and you can see the Hollywood version of a president\'s life. Lots is white washed and we are left with the idea that Wilson was a tireless champion against privalege who was without blemish in his entire life. In addition his daughters and second wife are a little too beautiful to believe, but that was standard practice. Shot in glorious Technicolor the film almost feels faulted for being too well produced. The abundance of production values and flash make the film seem a little hollow. We can certainly go on about what films \"should\" have been nominated in 1944 (I\'d say all but Double Indemnity were poor choices), but nominating big budgeted flops was something the Academy would continue to do for decades afterwards.\r\n\r\n*Wilson was nominated for best actor (Alexander Knox), best director (Henry King), best picture, best score, and best special effects. It won best color art direction, best color cinematography, best editing, best sound, and best original screenplay.','a3757041a67359a140c6d27490cfb465',0,'','Nd0vDBln',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8556,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1182480360,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Becky Sharp (1935) - Rouben Mamoulian\r\n\r\nSome would hunt out this film for being the frst feature to use three strip Technicolor. I on the other hand was intrigued by its leading lady, the great and under appreciated Miram Hopinks. Hopkins plays the title character, a charming social climber who has a tendency to rack up enormous debts for herself and all the men around her. Adapted from the novel Vanity Fair and a stage play of the same name, Hopkins is delightful in the role. She goes all out, and delivers what may be her best performance, certainly the most expressive. Her work got her an Oscar nomination, in the one and only year 6 nominees were selected. I have not read the novel but the film seems to stem from that classic school of Hollywood adaptations were 100 page passages are reduced to a two minute scene. Being on public domain, there aren\'t a lot of great prints running around, so the quality of color might not be as vibrant as originally intended. Still Hopkins makes this worthy to watch.\r\n\r\n*Becky Sharp was nominated for best actress.','7bfa560ff3816b3ce346c4d7d801d7bb',0,'','mK724xhV',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8557,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1182481080,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Are you surprised that this was the lone nomination Hopkins ever received? (She did get a Golden Globe nom for The Heiress, and appropriately so.)','adddb6fdefca3f688c6c93ae8b45ee05',0,'','aCpN17vQ',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8558,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1182481620,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','It does seem odd considering what a talent she was. I suppose she was underappreciated in her day as well. Oh well with the glory of hindsight you can easily recognize her for her work in Trouble in Paradise, These Three, Design for Living, or even Mamoulian\'s earlier Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.','c789948fe028f4eff7679c64f2c7669c',0,'','TQxJjoA3',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8559,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1184705040,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','The Razor\'s Edge (1946) - Edmund Goulding\r\n\r\n20th Century Fox\'s biggest star made his return to the screen following a WWII stint in the Marines with this highly prestigious adaptation of W. Somerset Maughm\'s The Razor\'s Edge. Herbert Marshall plays the author who also serves as the narrator. Gene Tierney, an actress who is freakishly good looking, plays his would be love interest who breaks off their engagement after he has no intention to make a financial go of himself. Power is of the lost generation of WWI veterans who are struggling to find meaning in this world. He wanders to Paris, and eventually to India where he finds enlightenment and clearly seems to have done better than his money minded friends. Tierney of course never stops loving him, despite her own husband and two kids. The drama sets itself up well when Sophie (Anne Baxter in an Oscar winning performance) reappears as a helplessly shattered drunk following the death of her own husband and child. The film has some strong moments, but Power\'s disillusionment seems to be handled too frivolously and some of the melodrama just seems to be laid on a bit thick. Fans of Laura might be curious to see Tierney and Clifton Webb teamed together yet again.\r\n\r\n*The Razor\'s Edge was nominated for best picture, best black and white art direction, best supporting actor (Clifton Webb). It won best supporting actress (Baxter).','1f4c4364aadd6467852b26eebc461708',0,'','vdpKzwVg',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8560,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1185262380,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Hello Dolly (1969) - Gene Kelly\r\n\r\nWell the heading needs to be \"I\'ve seen every best picture nominee from 1961 to the present\". That said lets discuss this particular film. What a horribly bad movie. So, so very long, such awfully bad acting, irritating beyond belief, and almost completely nonsensical. Streisand was supposed to be playing a middle aged match maker, which makes her \"romance\" with Walter Mathau hard to swallow, especially considering what a horribly awful man he is. However this type of @#%$ was still getting Oscars in 1969. The film\'s run time is long, and it feels long. A great deal of this could be shortened. Although I was impressed with Michael Crawford\'s dancing, his character was too unbelievable and just plain irritating. Of course homosexuals and old Jewish women will rejoice in Barbara, who this film was really designed for, but for the rest of us, hang some garlic and a cross on your front door.\r\n\r\n*Hello Dolly won best adapted score, best art direction, best score, and best sound. It was nominated for best cinematography, best costume design, best editing, and best picture.','eec6323dbe10d883547b99837122e479',0,'','pNit3Hhc',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8561,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1186200300,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','I just realized I\'ve seen a whole hell of a lot of Oscar nominated pictures, and still got plenty to go.\r\n\r\nHarry and Tonto (1974) - Paul Mazursky \r\n\r\nCritics frequently cite Harry and Tonto as the best screen role of Art Carney, and who can possibly find any film worth contesting that? Carney was still and always will be best known for his work on The Honeymooners and when it came time to make this film most people had forgotten he was still around. He does make the most of his role here, playing a man roughly two decades older than himself. This allows Carney to give his Harry a little vitality and he seems somewhat well contained for his age. However the idea that old people are neglected and subject to our guilt remains a dominant theme of the film. Road films were quite popular after Easy Rider, and the mystical journey out west takes on a different significance with the elderly. The film\'s light tone makes the picture easy to digest, but it isn\'t exactly a comedy. The supporting cast is good pretty much all around, but I do wish that Ellen Burstyn could have been in the film more, but part of that might have been because her scenes were shot in Chicago.\r\n\r\n*Harry and Tonto was nominated for best original screenplay. It won for best actor (Carney).','22b01d5bec8da864d1253f5a9f103326',0,'','ZB1iLVm2',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8562,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1187344260,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Music of the Heart (1999) - Wes Craven\r\n\r\nOh god Miramax what have you done? It seems like only yesterday that every fall Miramax was trying to spend enough money to convince us that whatever piece of crap overbudgeted prestige picture they were making was a brilliant and moving piece of art. One look at the box of Music of the Heart and the average man might recoil in horror. Ironic to be horrified by this title directed by an out of turn Wes Craven. However I had a weakness. That weakness wasn\'t Meryl Streep, I can resist a shitty movie of hers quite easily, but this is for research. Sure I\'ve seen a lot of best picture nominees, and best actor nominees, but when it comes to actresses I\'ve seen mainly just the winners. I\'m extremely bad with the 1990\'s and this coming out in 1999 I figured I had to pick it up. \r\n\r\nWell as for the film itself I had an instant flashback. I remembered those days in the mid-nineties when VH1 started their Save the Music campaign and lest I be mistaken Gloria Estefan was their spokesperson who also appears in this film. Those commercials were good enough, a feature length movies about how great music programs are to inner city kids is just tripe. This film is nauseating in its message that I was surprised at how many positive reviews of it were out there. Could it be the Miramax machine paid them off? Oh well hopefully this film will get buried in the \"oh god I\'m blind\" pile. If you want a plot description here it is, newly divorced woman needs a job, gets hired as an inner city substitute violin teacher and makes everyone\'s lives happier over a decade, but her program is cut because \"The Man\" doesn\'t like letting poor kids learn music, so a bunch of rich classical musicians put together a faggy concert to save the music. If anyone asked me for a three word review to put on a DVD box I\'d say this \"Gayer than AIDS\".\r\n\r\n*Music of the Heart was nominated for best actress (Streep) and best song.','0f64c104790a4c32e9dcac28f81494f2',0,'','FaHZ10UC',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8563,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1193792460,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','One Foot in Heaven (1941) - Irving Rapper\r\n\r\nSomething supremely magical about TCM, that is that you can find so many films otherwise unavailable from them. Approximately two days after getting cable I saw this on the horizon and was thrilled. The last remaining best picture nominee from 1941 I needed to see. The film is formulaic in almost all aspects, and falls into a limited subgenre of memoir type of films recalled by the children of whatever main character. The best known of these is I Remember Mama. This also fits into a run of religious films and although made before the US entered WWII it is still in that same mode of \"country first\" patriotism that Hollywood was cramming down everyone\'s throat at the time. Frederic March is likable but not spectacular as the preacher of the story but critics then as now know he had done better. There are charming moments in the film and the trip to see William S. Hart in The Silent Man is a definite highlight. Ironic too because the University of Chicago is showing a whole quarter long series of Hart films. \r\n\r\nOf course this film is largely just another one of many that I need to see for my own self satisfying mission. 1941 was no easy year to get accomplished, and this wasn\'t the only film of the 10 nominees that had never been released on home video, like Hold Back the Dawn though I found this film through TCM. Unlike that film though this was simply passable mild entertainment, far from the hidden gem Leisen\'s film turned out to be. Hard of course to recommend a film that\'s impossible to find, but there isn\'t a great deal in this picture that would captivate a modern audience. The film comments on something of the waning power of Christianity, which is so much more prophetic today.\r\n\r\n*One Foot in Heaven was nominated for best picture','0bbbbd40debe9d2c44fafcf50b21a206',0,'','nM8agcUp',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8564,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1199331960,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937) - Henry Koster\r\n\r\nLooking back there are a few oddities of Hollywood\'s classic era. Stars and pictures that were enormously successful that seem tiresome to say the least. Deanna Durbin is not without a few present day admirers but she was an enormous success that saved Universal from bankruptcy (or so the legend goes). Ironically she was actually denied a contract by MGM in favor of her then partner Judy Garland. Durbin began her career as an asexual little-miss-fix-it. She had no time for boys, and had a resounding energy that propelled her to set things right for those around her. One Hundred Men and a Girl amplifies her mission tremendously. Instead of reuniting her separated parents, here she is determined to give 100 out of work musicians their own orchestra. Durbin\'s voice here is used to get her foot in the door, a talent that she is humble about but happens to impress an awful lot of people. The then world famous Leopold Stakovsky makes an appearance as himself and the somewhat reluctant conductor of this orchestra. However where there\'s a Durbin there\'s a way. Due to audio problms of the time Durbin\'s very shrill and fast speaking voice may very well make your ears bleed. Not to say the girl couldn\'t sing, but listening to her talk a mile a minute will make anyone reach for some ear plugs. That said one of the film\'s five nominations was for sound. The picture is enjoyable in its own right but remains a mystery as to how it was as popular in its time as it was.\r\n\r\n*One Hundred Men and a Girl was nominated for best picture, best editing, best original story, and best sound. It won for best score.','f2b53c7a33ddb74f42124c7602710b0f',0,'','071HwNtp',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8565,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1199796180,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Pursuit of Happyness (2006) - Gabriele Muccino\r\n\r\nSeeing no thread on the film and considering the film isn\'t exactly a new release, I decided to just post here. Sentimental hogwash better known as an inspirational story is usually a sign of trouble. A predictable feel bad and then eventually feel good and it seems to undermine everyone type of movie. However with that preface I must say I was very pleasantly surprised with Pursuit of Happyness. It genuinely works for me, and part of this might be the fact that I\'m the brokest man on earth. I can relate in an all too painful way to Chris Gardner. Will Smith has been a tremendous acting talent and all too often makes films far beneath his talents. This film might seem like a bit of a showcase, but I welcome it, as though its about time. Unfortunately for Will, the hype surrounding Forrest Whitaker was deafening and he wound up being more of a \"glad to be nominated\" type. Watching both films in the same day, Smith\'s film is by far the better and his performance is much more endearing. \r\n\r\n*Pursuit of Happyness was nominated for best actor (Smith).','bb49ffbed35f099f8523cf95c39f2108',0,'','3PeoSw8X',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8566,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1199876280,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Muccino got this job on the strength of his two wildly popular mainstream Italian films, The Last Kiss (2001), which was recently remade, and Remember Me, My Love (2003). Both are available on DVD, in case you\'re interested in exploring him further. (I can\'t say I\'m a big fan of either of \'em, though I like the energy of the former, not to mention one of its stars, Giovanna Mezzogiorno.) Muccino is set to direct Smith again for the upcoming Seven Pounds. For the record, I initially passed on Happyness but I may check it out now.','2aecb385cfe441648dd4a25e013f0106',0,'','rfSdFBum',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8567,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1199877600,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Initially I thought the film would be predictable sentimentality, but perhaps due to my ridiculous watching of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, but due to my research it was a film I eventually had to watch. I\'m glad I kept some sort of open mind about the film, it was rewarding.','92c79ec77a8d007eb98db8ae2cbdeb57',0,'','o89NZrSt',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8568,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1200705300,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Before Night Falls (2000) - Julian Schnabel\r\n\r\nIt\'s amazing that the more films you see the more cliches you get to spot. Schnabel\'s sophomore effort is full of them. Somebody wakes up in a sweat, they must be sick, everyone loves the revolution but will soon be punished, there\'s black people so better play some tribal music and have them dance, etc. That said Schnabel makes a point to not exactly spell everything out here. Characters come and go and we have a lot to assume. It\'s obvious to us that Reinaldo is dying of AIDS, but that is never said in the film. Javier Bardem gives a great performance which well warranted his Oscar nomination (far more impressive than Russell Crowe\'s win in Gladiator). There were a few moments in the film where I had to just scratch my head. So a teacher tells the patriarch of Arenas\' family that Reinaldo has a poet\'s sensibility and the grandfather proceeds to get angry and cut down a tree then move the entire family to Holguin. Can anyone explain that to me? As a film it tends to be a little too long and too leisurely. Bardem did a fantastic job however.\r\n\r\n*Before Night Falls was nominated for best actor.','0274dd9b1e34dff1ebae2b7a64223014',0,'','SYERGWin',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8569,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1200916500,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','The Apostle (1997) - Robert Duvall\r\n\r\nWell after over six months I finished watching Duvall\'s directorial effort. The Apostle is a strange type of character film. Duvall\'s preacher is a sincere man of god but occasionally prone to some very earthbound urges. The film doesn\'t make him out to be a mockery and maintains a great deal of sincerity in faith and we never really feel like this preacher is a con-man (the way sooooo many of movie preachers are). Being a man of no faith whatsoever I can\'t say this converted me, but I can recognize the effort and there\'s something uplifting without being sentimental here. Duvall is great in his performance. His directing is without much embellishment so who knows how the film would have turned out in another person\'s hands. A well deserved Oscar nomination was given to Duvall for his performance. I found myself genuinely moved by Billy Bob Thornton\'s conversion and the film displays some sort of moral hope.\r\n\r\n*The Apostle was nominated for best actor (Duvall).','0e1996a5ac3432c4674bcf7f2dd38eda',0,'','BJsnegmH',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8570,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1200999780,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','You may have a point regarding Before Night Falls. Bardem, however, was certainly great (and let\'s not forget Depp\'s little cameo). This was painter/filmmaker Julian Schnabel\'s second biography of an artist (with Basquiat being the first). His third, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, premiered at Cannes last year and won him the Best Director award. It\'s currently in limited release in the U.S. I\'ve been told that French actor Mathieu Amalric is quite wonderful in it. The work of Cinematographer Janusz Kaminski (Munich) has also been praised.','b3005153222e3768993c59c9591e90ac',0,'','04A9R1Z6',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8571,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1201004220,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','I\'ve heard great things about Diving Bell and there is one theater in the city that\'s playing it.','d87b0cce17c174fd354f0e84ea3e3269',0,'','Bp6zRJUo',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8572,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1201008300,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Lady Sings the Blues (1972) - Sidney J. Furie \r\n\r\nIt\'s amazing how ahead of its time this picture was. Nearly every cliche of the musical biopic began here. Our story begins in prison then we go back to a time when our young heroine was innocent. She gets violated, goes to the city, washes steps and through the grace of god gets an audition to sing. This film wastes no time getting to the heart of the matter. With little exposition this film becomes about Billie\'s drug problem, and that\'s the tune it plays up until the end. The film is epic in length and nearly all of it has Diana Ross strung out. It\'s a relief to see her cleaned up and you want to reach in the TV and smack her across the face when she talks about using a little. Richard Pryor is excellent in his supporting turn as the Piano Man (who effectively got Holiday her start). Everything culminates in a nice resounding performance at Carnegie Hall (the highwater mark for any musician). What\'s funny is that the film hides the gruesome ending amidst applause. We are shown newspaper clippings of the sad end of Billie\'s life, leaving us to feel like she has reached a triumph. Diana Ross\' performance is good for the most part, perhaps not the revelation it was proclaimed to be. I admire the fact that as a singer she doesn\'t even attempt to imitate Holiday, instead singing the songs in her own style and not resorting to parody. \r\n\r\n*Lady Sings the Blues was nominated for best actress (Ross), best adaptation and original song score, best art direction, best costume design, best original screenplay','356fcbae7646c9b14162386b86958487',0,'','zMTmykHn',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8573,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1201384920,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Billy Elliot (2000) - Stephen Daldry \r\n\r\nIt\'s interesting how a well executed film no matter how cliche can win over audiences and even impress critics. Stephen Daldry made his film directing debut here, and I\'d say as a point of comparison its quite a bit better than The Hours. That film was far too self important, whereas this film never really seems to take itself that seriously. Jamie Bell actually won a best actor award from the British Academy, which handed a veritable boat load of awards on the film. Julie Walters along with Daldry got Oscar nominations for their work here as well. I could care less about ballet but the film is endearing in its own right. Most of the acting is great particularly Bell and Gary Lewis as his father. \r\n\r\n*Billy Elliot was nominated for best director, best supporting actress (Walters), and best original screenplay.','7da7d8dd2fde135349206589ba33ea13',0,'','PwXAfFG6',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8574,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1202339820,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Gorillas in the Mist (1988) - Michael Apted \r\n\r\nIt seems whites can\'t win in Africa. Either you have an Africa is a shithole and it needs the help of rich white Europeans mentality prevalent in the films of the 30\'s and modern day, or you get the 80\'s African film. Which briefly comments on the social issues yet bores you to tears with scenic photography and more whites learning to \"love this strange new country\". Gorillas in the Mist falls into the latter category. It briefly flirts with the shithole method and there is a civil war, but largely we\'re kept away from it to focus more on gorillas. There is an obligatory love story which seems painfully forced but helps break the monotony of hearing Weaver talk to herself. Of course Africans themselves are once again depicted as sexless aids to whites who are easily spooked and very superstitious. There wasn\'t much to hate in this film but god it was just boring. 130 minutes and not even that many gorillas. Sigourney Weaver was well cast and seems to do a good job in her role but the character itself leaves something to be desired. Her strong willed iron constitution gets melodramatic at times and I almost preferred the moments of weakness she was prone to. Michael Apted was certainly a gifted documentarian and this film doesn\'t feel like much more than an overly long national geographic special. \r\n\r\n*Gorillas in the Mist was nominated for best actress (Weaver), best adapted screenplay, best editing, best score, and best sound.','794aa48ae90398a10ab7d43eaf124659',0,'','uGlxWw4g',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8575,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1202377980,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Affliction (1998) - Paul Schrader \r\n\r\nA bit of a downer that\'s for sure. I realized sometime that I don\'t think I had ever seen a film Paul Schrader directed. This one with an Oscar nominated performance from Nick Nolte and an Oscar winning supporting turn from James Coburn wound up being the unintentional first. Certainly a bleak film it had the air of being something of a mystery but took a sharp and painful turn deep into the picture. At times the film was almost unbearable and somehow I feel a little disgusted with it. However there is something deeper there. I couldn\'t however buy into Coburn\'s character, he was just too much of an #@@+%$+ to ever be believable. He was too caricature to make me think this was a real person. Nolte does a fine job in a role that lets him run the gamut of emotions. Although both Willem Dafoe and Sissy Spacek were great they did seem to be somewhat under utilized. \r\n\r\n*Affliction was nominated for best actor (Nolte) and won for best supporting actor (Coburn)','0eaa6ee6c4776129480e98f0e175e3c0',0,'','qw0Ui8dK',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8576,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1202987700,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','wpqx wrote: Billy Elliot (2000) - Stephen Daldry Apart from the film, I actually caught the musical in UK. hee hee','d96831a47b2b57c74896ff41007957df',0,'','vmfC6dwa',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8577,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1206641520,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','49th Parallel/The Invaders (1941) - Michael Powell \r\n\r\nThe dynamic duo of Powell and Pressburger got off to a resounding start with this wartime film that would be very indicative of their early work. Both men were coming from their own worlds, Powell was steadily growing as one of Britain\'s best directors and Pressburger was known for his screenwriting. The two had previously worked together on The Spy in Black in 1939, but this was their triumphant start to a decade long run of classic film after classic film. Pressburger fled Nazi Germany where he worked as a screenwriter at UFA following Hitler\'s rise. This gave a first hand account of what supposedly real German citizens thought of Hitler. So this translated easily to a tale that constantly pits us against Germans. Rarely has a film shown a protagonist for its duration lose all of our sympathy. It is almost arbitrary to side with whoever is on screen the most, but here an all star parade of British stars get us to systematically despise these cruel would be conquerors. In one of the film\'s very deliberate moments the German\'s refuse to save shipwrecked Canadians and this is our first glimpse of them. Along the way they meet a French Canadian trapper, a community of German immigrants whose religion resembles Mormons, a reclusive artist, and an AWOL soldier. They all rebuff the attempts at conversion of these Germans and gradually thin out their ranks. It is hard to watch the film out of context. \r\n\r\n*The Invaders was nominated for best picture and best screenplay. It won for best original story.','b0c31e0207a7208e0962f701e40fb1e5',0,'','tU2Bu40i',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8578,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1207483020,1,0,1,1,1,1,'justindeimen','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Just realised the new Bette Davis collection is out. An inordinate amount of previously unreleased (to me, at least) Oscar winning/nominated films in that, especially one I have been meaning to watch in All This, and Heaven Too .','f0bb1191d9bdd06e63a396c92b420705',0,'','jEJhZKx4',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8579,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1207503900,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','All This and Heaven Too is alright, I haven\'t seen what\'s in the collection but there are certainly a few gems in her cannon, particularly Little Foxes.','1dd06327d93ca0a5612228fe24cc2d1e',0,'','nf51X3my',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8580,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1211573940,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','The Devil Wears Prada (2006) - David Frankel \r\n\r\nSometimes it seems as if any time Meryl Streep appears on screen she\'ll get an Oscar nomination. I believe this was her record 13th time up for an award and the recognition is not without merit. The story is ultra obvious at parts and I\'m not sure if the conclusion is really where I wanted it to go. Entertaining by most counts and full of a bunch of characters I can\'t remotely relate to. There is a desire to be iconographic here that occasionally pays off, the costume design pretty well warranted an Oscar nomination as well. Anne Hathaway got naturally swamped amidst Streep praise who although over the top still seems supporting to me. Not to say Hathaway delivered a better performance, or even a particularly good one for that matter. The supporting cast however holds their own but I feel like this film could have been so much more. \r\n\r\n*The Devil Wears Prada was nominated for best actress (Streep) and best costume design.','374e79526401ec5ac12ce61d6e7bbc28',0,'','ThHK59Xe',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8581,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1211622120,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','I can\'t recall at this point exactly why I watched this film but my reaction afterwards was fairly similar to yours. I also think that it could\'ve been much more cutting-edge (a few of the designers being discussed almost made it feel anachronistic). I agree that the supporting players (Stanley Tucci, Emily Blunt) did their best to keep the thing afloat as long as possible.','157e7f9f8f3e0caca5b7c7e2c303d227',0,'','Strl3Q7e',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8582,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1211687940,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','I\'ve been patiently waiting for something to really utilize Anne Hathaway\'s potential, perhaps Get Smart will?','fd78b6c7c9602893ba9150b43d7b5f80',0,'','mp0toaZb',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8583,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1211697240,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Based on the preview I saw before Redbelt, I highly doubt it. But she\'s certainly tried to break out of a certain mold by appearing in films like Havoc and Brokeback. I probably see more potential in her Prada co-star Emily Blunt.','15719bc606a803bf0d73ba4ad7d53d95',0,'','sF02M9uU',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8584,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1211698380,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Blunt was great I thought and it\'ll be interesting to see where she goes from there. I was a fan of her in Havoc and Brokeback and I just think she was slightly underutilized in Brokeback but certainly in the right direction.','844641181b6b4b97e0b356d14cc6060b',0,'','RK3bEFQT',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8585,1588,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1217321880,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Oscar Nominated Films','Murder on the Orient Express (1974) - Sidney Lumet \r\n\r\nWell about two days ago I noticed that my Lumet collection wasn\'t very impressive, in fact despite how much I\'ve enjoyed the few films I\'ve seen I\'ve never really explored the depths of his filmography. This film was an easy route to go, part Oscar research and fitting snugly between Lumet classics Serpico and Dog Day Afternoon. It certainly seems out of place with those two films and it can get easily distracting whenever you deal with an all star cast. However despite a few scenes where you might sense that everyone is trying to outdo one another this film avoids the \"look whose playing a security guard\" problem with most of the disaster films of this era. I\'ve never remotely cared for mystery stories and whenever you might ask \"who done it?\" my typical response is \"who cares?\" With that in mind Lumet\'s film is a good twist on that. Albert Finney is annoying however as the Belgian detective, but apparently this character is second only to Sherlock Holmes in British mystery and is the creation of Christie. Finney did impress several people with his ridiculous accent and handlebar mustache earned him an Oscar nomination. However then as now, accents, hunches, and old man makeup are enough to impress many people. Ingrid Bergman actually won for her simple minded Swedish missionary whose total screen time is probably less than 10 minutes. The cast can get distracting and the idea that the man killed really, really, really deserved it lends a unique perspective to this mystery tale. \r\n\r\n*Murder on the Orient Express was nominated for best actor (Finney), best adapted screenplay, best cinematography, best costume design, best original dramatic score, and won for best supporting actress (Bergman)','7b1a3297487ed324f1a7ed7f3f242d02',0,'','Ak2nMHG5',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8586,1589,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1138778100,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Innocence (2004 - France)','Innocence (2004)\r\n\r\nDirected by Lucile Hadzihalilovic\r\n\r\nStarring Marion Cotillard (Jeux d\'enfants), Hlne de Fougerolles (Va savoir), Zo Auclair\r\n\r\nWeird, surreal and somewhat disturbing, what you take from this film is very much down to your state of mind. The film starts with water which plays a major part in the film, bubbling water giving you the feeling that you are pressing forward through it, I dont know why but it made me think of being born. The camera then meanders through a forested area dotted with paths, very pretty and natural until the camera stops! A metal grating sits in the floor of the forest, there is something disturbing and unnatural about this, this man made object stuck in this supposed wilderness.\r\n\r\nThe camera is then under the grill, passing through old dark passages, through doors and empty rooms until it stops in front of a coffin and there it stays. Gradually five girls enter the room, all in white uniforms only differentiated by the colour of the ribbons in their hair, they open the coffin and a young girl slowly awakens as if from a long sleep looking slightly bemused. This is Iris and like her, this is the viewers introduction to this strange establishment.\r\n\r\nThe viewer is made to feel as lost, estranged and as puzzled as Iris does, given little snippets of information as if from her perspective you learn that this is in fact a school, a very exclusive boarding school with a maximum of 30 pupils from age 6 till they leave as 12 year olds. The girls are split into dorms, each with 6 children, the eldest acting as carer for the others, they are waited on by white haired old women who appear to spend most of their time living in the shadows. There are only 2 teachers, one who teaches dance while the other teaches science, specifically biology. \r\n\r\nIris soon learns about the rules, while at the school she will have no contact with anyone outside, neither can she leave, obedience is essential and drilled into the girls from day one. There are many scenes such as the girls constant repetitive movement and dance that seems pointless at the time, only later on will you realise that it all has purpose and meaning.\r\n\r\nAnother new arrivval latches on to Iris but is intent on escaping, again the symbolism of water comes into play as she makes her vain attempt. Iris becomes \"clingy\" to the eldest girl in her dorm Bianca who has a habit of disappearing every evening, Iris follows her and catches glimpses of things beyond her understanding, because you view things from her perspective, these sights are also left beyond your comprehension.\r\n\r\nFrom Iris, the story moves to Alice, another girl from the same dorm who is in her fourth year at the school, she has a chance of leaving but only if she can impress the Head Mistress on her once yearly visit. She and the other fourth year girls have to dance for the Head, who then takes the one that pleases her the most. Where does she take them? Thats left to the viewers imagination.\r\n\r\nFinally the perspective is again changed to Bianca, in her last year. Now the reasons for everything becomes clearer (or not!) where does Bianca go every evening and why? She is accompanied by the second oldest girl from her dorm who will shortly be starting her last year, Bianca is there to not only finish her 6 year education but to instruct and help her replacement to take her place.\r\n\r\nThis is the sort of film you could carry on writing about for a long time, it has and no doubt will continue to attract praise and condemnation in varying amounts. There are a multitude of reasons why you could find it disturbing, many have taken offence to seeing 6 and 7 year olds swimming topless? \r\n\r\nWhat I found disturbing was the whole reasoning for the school, the continuous references to obedience, not just in terms of the school but as a life skill. Six years of training and educating which appears to be nothing more than a form of brainwashing to create an object of perfection, obedient, subjugated and supplicating to the whims of their future partner. As this was adapted from a short story, I wonder if the author was aiming criticism at the types of private schools for girls that basically taught deportment, manners and very little else creating wives for the upper classes who new their place in society and within their family structure. That\'s probably the most straightforward interpretation though the whole film is open to many trains of thought and analysis.\r\n\r\nInnocence is a good title for the film, its what the girls are when they arrive at the school until the moment they leave, seperated from family, friends and especially boys. They develop during that time from caterpillars to graceful butterflies. Why do they arrive in coffins, why are they cut off from the people they love, what happens to those who attempt to leave, what is the real purpose of the school? all this is open to interpretation which makes for quite an enigmatic film.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.\r\n\r\nIf you like Innocence, I also recommend The Company of Wolves \r\n\r\nBBFC rated 15\r\n\r\nR2 Pal dvd available from Artificial Eye','aeb665fcc8e8ab8e6d0c6df3ca8c18f8',0,'','XzAU6TMy',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8587,1589,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1138797840,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: Innocence (2004 - France)','I should add that \"Innocence\" is full of symbolism (water is just one)and is very open to numerous forms of analysis. If you like the idea of a film that leaves more questions than answers and is likely to play on your mind, Innocence may be what you\'re looking for. \r\n\r\nMy comments have only scratched the surface and I look forward to hearing other opinions.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','618294a3220067d4d3e7ae415051ace7',0,'','u0KeBfw5',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8588,1589,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1138882380,1,0,1,1,1,1,'madhuban','Re: Innocence (2004 - France)','trev, your review was great! seems like it is a film i\'ll like very much. have to go hunting.\r\n\r\nM','8fa4e99f36634c49834ea4578d4c375e',0,'','tivR4Nnh',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8589,1589,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1138910100,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: Innocence (2004 - France)','I find it strange that most of the almost sickening comments I\'ve read regarding the way the children have been \"used\" are from the US and the UK. \r\n\r\nI personally find the whole \"Beauty Pageant\" scene in the US far more sickening and more likely to attract paedophiles than this film ever will. As for the UK, many preach the purity of Victorian values, all I can say is they should check up on their history because for children especially, they were far more troubled times.\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','39b921a3529e04ba03bd8c73ad76142a',0,'','itRS6CDe',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8590,1589,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1138936620,1,0,1,1,1,1,'Johndav','Re: Innocence (2004 - France)','The dvd film arrived today for my birthday! I hadn\'t expected as a present (to myself) not only the best film yet by a female director but (along with Maborosi + Pather Panchali) one of the very greatest debuts in the history of cinema, Citizen Kane most definitely included! So there have been disparaging and critical comments? Well, Innocence should immediately become an automatic staple of all film study courses (+ cultural study courses too for that matter). I\'ll leave my comments at that for the moment, as they may have surprised you.','ee4c4435274d15bb73038e6704cc14ee',0,'','52Wfch0g',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8591,1589,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1138939680,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: Innocence (2004 - France)','Not so much surprised, more like absolutely delighted. I hope you will build on those comments in time because you may have come away from the film with a completely different train of thought than I did. \r\n\r\nI held from reading any comments or reviews until I had watched Innocence and was more than a little surprised at some of the remarks from amateur and professional critics alike. To be fair, the most disparaging have come from the UK (at least from the ones I\'ve read) but I don\'t think its had a proper US release yet.\r\n\r\nI watched it twice in two days and I know I will watch it again soon, hopefully with at least one or two of my sons (if they can handle the pacing).\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.\r\n\r\nP.S Happy Birthday John.','8174a8bac7308d025f12360834241ea7',0,'','xc6fESlW',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8592,1589,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1138971180,1,0,1,1,1,1,'Johndav','Re: Innocence (2004 - France)','Thanks, Trev! \r\n\r\nI held this back from yesterday thinking my birthday had affected my judgment. Could a film about young girls at a strange boarding school really be a better feature debut than the mighty Kane? \r\n\r\nWell, waking up this morning to have a look at the dvd interview with Hadzihlilovic, i feel more confident in what i was going to say. Of course Kane is a \"greater\" film, a virtuoso, innovative display on a very grand subject that announces in its every frame a major new talent. Innocence is greater because of its modesty! Of course there are plenty of modest films- but to quote Churchill, with \"plenty to be modest about\". This is the work of someone with a clear mastery of cinema (composition, colour, camera movement, lighting, sound, editing, in fact her overall control of mise-en-scene is exceptional etc), but with the maturity not to need to make a brash demonstration. I was delighted she said so herself in interview - \"i didn\'t deliberately set out to create something extremely astonishing\"- and that her personality fitted perfectly the image i had of her. She respects her audience, avoids crass manipulation, and has an unusual visual imagination. She has quietly absorbed the influences (Argento, Bresson, Spirit of the Beehive- again i was pleased the names she mentioned were those i\'d expected) while making something very personal + intimate, mining psychological depths + effectively capturing a feeling of the childhood we\'ve lost, its natural wonderment, mystery, sensuality, constraints and expectations. \r\n\r\nI guess fans of Borowczyk, the Quay bros, Czech surrealism should be pleased but the film\'s lack of explicit narrative will not appeal to others. You may find visual reminders of Storaro\'s work on The Conformist (the train journey), and more obviously of Madchen in Uniform, though that has a strong anti-authoritarian message, while Innocence is more enigmatically troubling. It touches on a range of important psychological + social issues- it\'s gently challenging-, while offering plenty for the cinephile to enthuse over.','4269b17bbb5e3462a75d2cf692fde02a',0,'','CfXSjkV1',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8593,1589,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1138978980,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: Innocence (2004 - France)','I\'m just happy she left it all ambiguous, the one thing I was concerned about was that there would be a definitive explanation.\r\n\r\nDid you have the Artificial Eye dvd John?\r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','7acb515a1cabfe640597ed2f5b68fb7d',0,'','306ecrF4',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8594,1589,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1138991520,1,0,1,1,1,1,'Johndav','Re: Innocence (2004 - France)','Yeah that\'s the one. A very good blind buy too. Yeah the water at the beginning reminded of birth, well pre-birth even, but at the same time gave me a premonition of death, so covers the whole spectrum you could say. That sequence had something of the quality of a Brakhage or handpainted short about it, but already carrying greater depth of meaning. And by the end of the film there were hints in its architectural space of Antonioni, with Bergman\'s Cries + Whispers, The Shining, Mulholland Dr, Jacques Rivette in between. As i said, her sense of composition, use of deep space, the whole frame, is exceptional but not in a showy way. The camera is often static but when it moves it\'s impressive. I\'m worried about any critics who might get hot under the collar about exploitation or sensuality involving children. Childhood IS sensual. \r\n\r\nI too like its slow development + ambiguity, 20 minutes till we have an adult figure and we are mainly restricted to 2 classes + their teachers. The similarity with Suspiria is quite strong, with the malaise and the shadowy headteacher figure, but it doesn\'t lay it on thick like Argento. It\'s also very beautiful. And, even more impressive cos she didn\'t attend one herself, she catches the edgy prison-like claustrophobia of boarding school, the elitism, the urge to escape, alongside a pantheistic exploration of nature and freedom; the freedom of nature, the nature of freedom.','7748dc4640deec4603ed1abfa70ab45f',0,'','E8V5AjFJ',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8595,1589,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1140114120,1,0,1,1,1,1,'Unregistered(d)','Re: Innocence (2004 - France)','It seems to me that these children were in another orphan house before and then put into a coffin so that other orphans assume she died, so that nobody would ask for her return. LIke they do in this house as well. When the girl is gone they do as if she is dead. \r\nAlso is shown that the girl Iris in the beginning is not afraid, as if this is not even new for her, all these strange girls. She just blends in easily. She also had a good education behind her because she speaks French, probably she is chosen by the same woman who uses them for her ballet school. Chosen on quality, to be sweet and innocent. \r\nAlso in the beginning you can clearly see the coffin be brought to this place, and that in the star figure are holes to let the girl breath, compared to the other coffin of the girl who drowned who is really dead. \r\n\r\nAnd it could mean that that is where their real life begins and where it will end. \r\n\r\nBy the way It\'s not a girl who gets a needle in her arm, while seen by Iris. It\'s one of the older woman who are kept their for working. It just shows that they have contact with the outside world when someone needs medical attention. So if it is all kept a secret could remain in doubt there. \r\nWhat Iris also sees for the very first time is in the picture, that there is 5 houses. So 5 groups of girls. So while she came to this place in a coffin, 4 other girls did as well. \r\n\r\nSo 5 special girls are choosen from other orphanage\'s every year to go to this place and then trained here in ballet for 7 years to eventually be chosen to become a ballet star. From these fully trained girls after a 7 year training only one out of five will become a ballet star. The others will go to a new orphanage, while their old orphanage assumes them dead. \r\nThat they are taken away from the other orphanage in a coffin only shows you that that place could be even more mysterious. Those naive orphans learning about death in that way. \r\n\r\nThe movie is not only about innocence but for me it seems that it also is completely innocent. \r\nIt just shows how strict Ballet schools can be, for only girls. Until they are ready for contact with boys they are kept here, to focus completely on Ballet. \r\nThey come here at age 5 and go at the age of 12 fully ripe for ballet or a normal orphan life. \r\nThis place for girls is amazing, they got everything, a amazing playgroud, they are completely free. No parental guidance, they have a good time. The only reason that it could be that they want to go away, is because they feel they are locked inside these walls. A complete natural feeling. \r\n\r\nThe beauty about this movie is that its brought in such a misterious way that you might dwell in the depths of ignorance. What is needed to understand this movie is a completly innocent angle. \r\n\r\nLook at the viewer. Once so innocent themselves, being a child. Now look what they think of an innocent movie like this. \r\nLet a child watch it, and see the real truth about it. \r\n\r\nOur innocence over the years has become our ignorance.','59056b686141c9d76037efefc6d0530c',0,'','Gc8RPzqF',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8596,1589,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1140138900,1,0,1,1,1,1,'Johndav','Re: Innocence (2004 - France)','I\'d heard some critics were troubled by a sexual edge to the film, felt it exploited children. But i agree it\'s innocent of that charge.','d6886a8e9201a5509f5cc6bd64a622e5',0,'','cYg2itrv',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8597,1589,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1140144660,1,0,1,1,1,1,'trevor826','Re: Innocence (2004 - France)','Although I have my own opinions and interpretations which are certainly very different from the last review, I watched Innocence almost as if I were a new arrival like Iris. Through the eyes of a child I wanted to explore and understand this strange new world. \r\n\r\nInnocent actions in a world of innocence that could only be interpreted in any other way by the minds of adults. Bewitching, captivating and creepy. \r\n\r\nCheers Trev.','99115f846fc49260d06fda5fc626dd33',0,'','newbqRmY',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8598,1589,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1140913260,1,0,1,1,1,1,'A','Re: Innocence (2004 - France)','Sounds really mysterious. All the comments ant interpretations so far are intriguing. I\'ll try to see it in the future','6da60765385177a1333fc62ecbcafb85',0,'','2j3dxT4p',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8599,1589,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1197710940,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Innocence (2004 - France)','\r\n\r\nThis visually sublime and mysteriously poetic debut feature by Lucile Hadzihalilovic is now available on DVD in the U.S. (Home Vision). It received limited theatrical distribution back in 2005, when I initially watched it. Like Trevor and John, I also believe that it is one of the finest films French cinema has produced in recent years.','b407bc5b3bd1599ce7d37b85dd8c6676',0,'','jFYir9eD',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8600,1589,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1199279100,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Innocence (2004 - France)','I missed the theatrical release here (it played in one theater for one week), but I\'m glad I eventually got to see it on DVD. Watching the film on a widescreen TV was quite a joy, the eye for composition is remarkable here, but other than one or two instances I don\'t think there was any \"showing off\" the way Hadzihalilovic\'s parter Gaspar Noe is prone to. It\'s strange how our natural inclination affects how we interpret the film. I kept making the connection to a bordello and assumed these girls were getting some sort of preparation for prostitution, although not much of anything is in the film to substantiate that. Probably best on more than one viewing but a rather remarkable film overall.','6a8f35b824abe46d9a040245388cec72',0,'','PyJ6NFEG',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8601,1589,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1199607360,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Innocence (2004 - France)','I\'m glad to discover that you think highly of the film as well. Surprising that it took so long for it to appear on DVD (the AE disc has been available since Jan \'06), but perhaps Image Ent\'s takeover of HV had something to do with it. I\'m not amazed, however, that it came out now since numerous films featuring Marion Cotillard, who\'ll soon be seen on a few red-colored carpets, have hit the DVD shelves recently.','3363d0125b0e743c1ffaa7b2cc8d8c3e',0,'','QRoiBDAW',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8602,1589,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1199656920,1,0,1,1,1,1,'wpqx','Re: Innocence (2004 - France)','It just took Facets awhile to get the DVD, and there\'s always a lag when it comes to new releases (I\'m still waiting for one of their four copies of Eastern Promises to return). As sad as it may be in terms of what gets released and when it always has to do with money, and for the general public we are still very much a star system.','64dfd2b8e74250aefd788eb96b23163e',0,'','kFlSgVmQ',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8603,1589,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1200476280,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Innocence (2004 - France)','In a perfect world, of course, I\'d like to see Innocence being double-billed with Shyamalan\'s equally allegorical (and remarkable), The Village.','b2655576c70a1fc55a4d942157976291',0,'','v9CzQhd2',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8604,1590,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1113971220,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Shi Jie (The World) (2004) (China)','Well, this movie is directed by Jia Zhang Ke.\r\nIt garnered the ...\r\n-- Best Feature Film and Best Cinematography at the Sixth Las Palmas International Film Festival in Spain\r\n-- Grand Prix du Jury at the 11th Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema in France. \r\n\r\nIf you understand Chinese, the DVD is really cheap!\r\n\r\nus.yesasia.com/en/PrdDept...rsion-all/','f9a777cfb5b8dbfde4d75091ca109627',0,'','KwVQ3lN8',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8605,1590,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1120869240,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','Re: Shi Jie (The World) (2004) (China)','I have also watched it in San Francisco International Film Festival ... Unfortunately they have REMOVED the song (but the scene exists) ... This is puzzling ... I thought they should keep the song which is rather meaningful ... (even if they refuse to subtitle the song)\r\n\r\nthanks and acknowledgement to ent.sina.com.cn\r\nthe following is dedicated to those who like one of the Mongolian folk songs (I think) in the movie ...\r\n\r\nsee\r\nent.sina.com.cn/m/c/2005-...83179.html\r\n(you can ignore the Chinese fonts ...)\r\n\r\nThe lyrics (loosely translated by me) are:\r\n\r\nSong Title: The Night of Ulan Bator\r\n\r\nThe wind that sweeps through the wilderness \r\nPlease do not leave so soon ...\r\nI use my silence to tell you ...\r\nI am drunk ...\r\n\r\nThe clouds that sail to a distance ... \r\nPlease do not leave so soon ...\r\nI use my run to tell you\r\nI won\'t turn back ...\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\nThe night of Ulan Bator ...\r\nAll is so quiet ... all is so quiet ...\r\nEven the wind does not know of me ... it does not know\r\n\r\nThe night of Ulan Bator ...\r\nAll is so quiet ... all is so quiet ...\r\nEven the clouds do not know of me ... they do not know\r\n[End of Chorus]\r\n\r\nTo those who have wandered to a foreign land\r\nWhere are you?\r\nMy stomach begins to ache\r\nDo you know?\r\n\r\nThe birds that fly through the firy flames\r\nPlease do not leave\r\nDo you know that tonight, it has become crazy\r\nNot just for you ...\r\n\r\n(repeat Chorus 2x)','6867acc87e586f3cbe79c0fac4b43066',0,'','oZCGbeF2',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8606,1590,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1120871340,1,0,1,1,1,1,'A','Re: Shi Jie (The World) (2004) (China)','I wanted to see this film for a long time now, since \"Platform\" is one of the 20 or 30 best films of the new century imo, and the critics were mainly enthusiastic, but still no release date at sight here in Germany. \r\nHopefully I\'ll get to borrow the DVD somewhere in a videostore. Shouldn\'t be too difficult here in Berlin','3738f9a53d8b723f74c270fb93ddf59f',0,'','0fNRVXSw',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8607,1590,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1120984200,1,0,1,1,1,1,'arsaib4','Re: Shi Jie (The World) (2004) (China)','THE WORLD (China-Jpn-Fra / 2004)\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe bravura opening shot of the film features a young stage dancer walking around in an underground compound while consistently clamoring for a Band Aid, perhaps the most potent metaphor in a film virtually brimming from them. Directed by Jia Zhang-ke, one of the most talented young filmmakers in the world today, The World (Shijie) is set against the backdrop of the \"world\" itself. To be exact, the setting is Beijings gigantic World Park, which features 106 artificial models of global monuments, including that of the Eiffel Tower, the St. Peter\'s cathedral, the Twin Towers (still standing), the Egyptian pyramids, the Taj Mahal, etc. Various announcements and slogans assure the visitors that they are there to \"See the World in Beijing,\" with World Park more or less serving as a Band Aid. Meanwhile, they also attend fashion shows featuring musical numbers from various cultures, or they can sit inside a replica passenger jet so they can \"experience\" air travel.\r\n\r\nIn many ways, The World\'s setting is its protagonist, and Jia makes full use of it by juxtaposing the dreams and aspirations of his human characters against this monumentally fake \"world.\" The dancer we watched in the opening sequence is Tao (Zhao Tao, Jias favorite leading lady), a migrant from Shanxi province who, like many others, has come to the city for a better future. She\'s part of the troupe employed to put on these elaborate shows. Her philandering boyfriend, Taisheng (Chen Taisheng), also works at the park as a security guard. The tumultuous relationships shared by various employees basically serve as an insight into the rapidly modernizing Chinese society, which is caught between its communist past and the capitalist present now being imposed upon it. Tao loves Taisheng, but also loves her independence, while Taisheng isnt ready to make any commitments since he constantly eyes new opportunities. On the other hand, Taos good friend (and fellow dancer), Wei (Jing Jue), torments her boyfriend/co-worker by often turning off her cell phone only to blame the batteries later on while refusing to bulge the details of her adventures.\r\n\r\nAn essay could be written just on the title credits alone. After shuttling from the \"pyramids,\" Jia moves farther away from the Park, allowing it to remain visible in the background. The title then appears, but a homeless man carrying garbage is seen slowly walking across the bottom of the screen, which is followed by the appearance of the URL of the World Park. An ironic contradiction that is Chinese society has never been so vividly portrayed, but Jias wry self-critical aspects are also quite noticeable here as one can easily decipher that he is presenting this film as part of the urbanized and globalized culture. The World also happens to be his first officially approved and thus \"over-ground\" film, so it\'s remarkable that this effort happens to contain his most scathing critique yet.\r\n\r\nA sense of anxiety and depression is prevalent among various characters but Jia assumes Tao as our guide. Her environment is an illusion, along with her smile, her outfits, her associates, and the core values she used to believe in. Human contact has been replaced by \"SMS Text Messaging\" (which Jia satirizes with animations), thus feelings arent as important anymore. Tao works at the most expensive place in China but, along with her co-workers, she still lives in a dilapidated one-room shack, a reality for her and others. She eventually befriends an older Russian woman, Anna (Alla Chtcherbakova), who, along with many of her compatriots, has come to this rapidly modernizing country for better opportunities. However, due to languages barriers and a lack of skills, most of them end up selling their only valuable possession. \r\n\r\nThe World is the best example of DV filmmaking Ive ever seen so far. Aided by his good friend and DP Yu Lik-wai (a talented director in his own right), Jias compositions here have more immediacy to them. His camerawork has also never been so mobile, obviously representing the fast-paced lives of his urban characters, moving about but still trapped within the \"frame.\" Various platforms of the World Park are ardently lit and shot, which makes them at once both inviting and menacing. Whats surprising is that the Chinese film board is apparently very happy with Jias work here, which is certainly ironic but also quite troubling in and of itself. However, it\'s possible they realize that Jia is aiming at a lot more with this effort.\r\n\r\nJia has certainly gone global. His criticism on this occasion is also targeted at the powers of the world at large, and not just the Chinese authorities of the past and present. After all, arent the dreams and aspirations of his characters captured in a facsimile of environments belonging to someone else? But the stakes are also higher for his characters -- this is not Fenyang or any other remote province, its Beijing; they are not on the threshold of adulthood anymore, they are adults, yet things are more or less the same -- so its not surprising to see that Jia is also more emotional. The fractured narrative of The World mostly consists of vignettes of varying lengths, yet Jia has never before been able to extract such an amalgam of emotions: whether its from the scene between Tao and Anna when Tao realizes what her friend has become, or the situation which arises when Taishengs brother is injured in an industrial accident and gives him a crumpled paper with his last wishes. But for this viewer, nothing compares to Taos gaze late in the film as shes sitting morbidly while Taisheng continues to ask, \"Whats Wrong?\" Here Jia allows us to feel a wound so deep, which no Band Aid could possibly heal. \r\n\r\nGrade: A\r\n_______________________\r\n\r\n*THE WORLD premiered at the 2004 Venice Film Festival (in-competition)\r\n\r\n*Available in the U.S. on DVD from Zeitgeist Films.\r\n________________________\r\n[Edit]DVD info','3e641a668f0d645cf9f19650656ee4bb',0,'','L8vtHfDV',1,0,'',0,0,0),(8608,1591,3,1,0,'69.120.114.47',1114081380,1,0,1,1,1,1,'hengcs','La Meglio Giovent (The Best Of Youth) (2003) (Italy)','Oh yes, I have just watched the movie … \r\nboth parts at ONE GO … WOW!!! \r\nI highly recommend it …  ;) \r\n\r\nIn fact, I even lament that it is not the original 400 min, but 366 min … why? Why? Why? \r\n:(  Can someone please tell me those scenes that have been edited? \r\n\r\nAlthough both parts are compelling, I like Best of Youth 2 slightly better … maybe because Best of Youth 1 sets the tone … and by the time you reach Best of Youth 2, you will be captivated … so be patient … \r\n\r\nIt has everything … from the past (1966) to the present (2003) … from family to social … from sex to religion to politics … \r\n\r\nIt is about love and conflict, humanity and cruelty … \r\nIt is peppered with humor and tragedy, joy and tears … \r\nIt is depicted with so much subtlety and expansiveness … \r\n\r\nIn essence, it is an excellent piece of movie on characterization! \r\n;)\r\n\r\nPlease visit the official website ... \r\nwww.lamegliogioventu.com','9ac54ad9d8303e7ad6fe7cd319b652ac',0,'','Ne0GAHvJ',1,0,'',0,0,0),