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Post by sgev1977 on Feb 28, 2023 1:48:00 GMT
I watched Cunk on Earth. It was really funny. I felt bad for some of the specialists who didn’t understood what was happening or at least it seemed that was the case! It was slightly uncomfortable but loved the military expert in the late episodes who quickly got it and just run with it! It was all very silly!
I haven’t watched Blonde nor read the source material but I read another book by Joyce Carol Oates about very fictitious death of famous writers and there was this short story about a Emily Dickinson clone sold to a modern couple being victim of rape and all kind of abuse by the husband. I think she could have a very disturbing imagination!
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Post by roverpup on Feb 28, 2023 2:48:43 GMT
I've read her book "On Boxing". Wonderful examination of the subject. Literate, well thought out, and thorough. One of the best.
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Post by wallaby on Mar 3, 2023 0:49:00 GMT
Just finished watching the 2017 three-part adaptation of „Little Women“ with Maya Hawke as Jo. I bought the DVD last year and now wondered why it took me so long to finally watch it!
It‘s just …. sooooo good!
I‘ve seen two other film adaptations and for me this one is the best!
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Post by jbc12 on Apr 1, 2023 11:15:03 GMT
Not a movie but I didn't want to start a separate thread... I just started watching Call My Agent. I'm only a few episodes into the first series but it's good. Would recommend it if you're looking for something light.
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Post by mllemass on Apr 1, 2023 12:22:02 GMT
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Post by jbc12 on Apr 1, 2023 12:39:54 GMT
Oops! Sorry, I ran a search before posting but it didn't come up for me. Thanks for the link. Edit: You guys watched this in 2020! I'm far too late to this party!
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Post by mllemass on Apr 1, 2023 14:49:14 GMT
Oops! Sorry, I ran a search before posting but it didn't come up for me. Thanks for the link. Edit: You guys watched this in 2020! I'm far too late to this party! It’s never too late for the Call My Agent party! As I said, a friend of mine just discovered it, too, for some reason! Maybe Netflix has been promoting it again? The series ended, but maybe they’re bringing it back? My friend was surprised, too, that it wasn’t a new series when I told her I’d seen it.
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Post by sgev1977 on May 14, 2023 2:06:29 GMT
I just saw Ben Afleck’s Air. It’s pretty entertaining and funny. I genuinely laughed aloud with Matt Damon’s reactions to the Jordan’s agent scolding him while saying the most disturbing things. Affleck is a smart guy who frequently is taken for a fool just because he is pretty. He isn’t an auteur nor anything but he clearly knows how to do good accesible films. I have seen movies by more acclaimed people struggling with pace and here is a smart perfectly paced movie by an actor.
It’s placed in 1984 so I was thinking on Eric seeing the clothes and the cars. I think Affleck hairstyle and beard is slightly similar to BC’s in Eric set! Their faces are pretty different, tho. EDITED And BC has more hair!
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Post by sgev1977 on May 20, 2023 3:11:05 GMT
I just rewatched The Silence of the Lamb but this time thinking on the great Amy Taubin’s Criterion essay. I didn’t bought the Criterion edition, I bought Kino Lorber’s 4K version. I’m actually slightly bothered by Criterion, I tried to buy the new The Fisher King’s 4K and they send me a DVD in a box falsely saying it contained both a BluRay and a 4K BluRay! Sadly, because it’s international mail they couldn’t send me a new BluRay so I returned it and they gave me my money back…. and I bought The Silence of the Lamb with their competition instead! I was astonished by Jodie Forster performance. How subtle and depth she is! Hopkins is very theatrical and fascinating to watch but how Taubin wrote this is actually Forster movie and a wonderful feminist tale. So sad what they did with her character after this film. The BluRay included a few extras and surprisingly in the first documentary, Taubin appeared talking about the feminist elements of the film! Here is her essay, www.criterion.com/current/posts/5402-the-silence-of-the-lambs-a-hero-of-our-timeBy the way, the real Hannibal Lecter was from my city! Lo, I think I mentioned it before. My father actually frequently talked about him because he remembered the shocking case from when he was a kid but we didn’t knew it was Lecter until the author revealed it many years after the movie! He wasn’t a cannibal. Just a very smart, elegant and cultured doctor who happened to be a sadist killer, www.distractify.com/p/is-hannibal-lecter-real
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Post by queenzod on Aug 26, 2023 21:39:56 GMT
I finally bit the bullet and sat down to watch The Fabelmans. Yikes. Long, boring, inconsistent, disjointed, Spielberg painfully rehashing his parent’s divorce for the umpteenth time. While I adore some of his movies, when he gets into these “self-reflective,” ponderous examinations of important topics he really is in over his head. Yes, of course movies are wonderful and sometimes can be enriching, magical, and uplifting, but Scorsese did a better job portraying that in Hugo. Michelle Williams just seemed freaky. The best part was right at the end when he meets the great John Ford and gets some advice on making a movie interesting. Unfortunately, Spielberg himself failed to take that advice this go round. Too bad.
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