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Post by Leewah Brown on Jun 12, 2006 20:26:19 GMT -5
We had a holiday weekend here and the weather has been downright FREEZING... So, I spent my time mostly indoors watching the box. DVDs PJ Harvey - Please Leave QuietlyI have been waiting to watch this on my own to fully absorb and take it all in. I felt it ran exactly as Polly wanted it to "like a patchwork quilt". The little snippets throughout were interesting, if not a little disjointed. But most of my criticisms are really things that I would have liked due to personal preference. The interview at the end was lovely & thoughtful and insightful. It was a great way to cap off the live stuff. I could listen to Polly speak all day.. that gorgeous voice! And she's so funny, quite the character Miss Polly. Memoirs of a GeishaSo sad and tormenting. Still trying to work out if I enjoyed it as a piece of cinematic material and removing my emotions from it. The landscapes, colours and vibrancy of Japan was wonderfully depicted though. I loved Japan..... Walk The LineJohnny Cash, he was smashed ;D ! Loved, loved, loved this movie. It had all the elements of a tragic rock star story, but he was saved by the true love in his life. The singing by Phoenix was astounding, and little Reese - a captivating performace from someone who should never return to the Legally Blonde genre of film. Top stuff.
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Post by Leewah Brown on Jun 4, 2006 22:45:46 GMT -5
Saw the Da Vinci Code on Sunday. I liked it as a movie. It had to move pretty quickly and I'm sure they had to edit alot of scenes to keep it in the 2.5 hour band.
I had read the book and Mike hadn't - we both like it a lot so I guess thumbs up for this one.
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Post by Leewah Brown on May 29, 2006 21:27:14 GMT -5
I watched March of the Penguins..... so gorgeous & sad & thrilling & beautiful...... I'll be seeing that soon. cant wait. saw "Bad Santa" last night. fuckin hilarious! I loved John Ritters performance Bad Santa is bad taste, but it made me roll around on the floor in hysterics!
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Post by Leewah Brown on May 29, 2006 0:31:25 GMT -5
I watched March of the Penguins..... so gorgeous & sad & thrilling & beautiful...... I've got Memoirs of a Geisha to watch on DVD this week...
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Post by Leewah Brown on May 18, 2006 18:52:40 GMT -5
Oh Amelie!!! LOVE this movie . And Audrey Tautou stars in the Da Vinci Code with Tom Hanks so I'm super keen to see her in this. Her face is divine!
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Post by Leewah Brown on May 3, 2006 23:03:39 GMT -5
Napoleon Dynamite (for the third time) "You're like, so stuuuupid" ;D great fucking movie Well Duh!! ;D
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Post by Leewah Brown on May 2, 2006 18:13:44 GMT -5
Napoleon Dynamite (for the third time) "You're like, so stuuuupid" ;D
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Post by Leewah Brown on Apr 2, 2006 19:15:46 GMT -5
I watched a few DVDs over the weekend. The first was Mysterious Skin. Very intense movie: "The summer I was eight years old, five hours disappeared from my life. Five hours, lost, gone without a trace..." These are the words of Brian Lackey (Brady Corbet), a troubled 18 year-old, growing up in the stiflingly small town of Hutchinson, Kansas. Plagued by nightmares, Brian believes that he may have been the victim of an alien abduction. Local Neil McCormick (Joseph Gordon Levitt) however, is the ultimate beautiful outsider. With a loving but promiscuous mother (Elisabeth Shue), Neil is wise beyond his years and curious about his developing sexuality, having found what he perceived to be love from his Little League baseball coach (played by Hal Hartley veteran Bill Sage) at a very early age. Now, ten years later, Neil is a teenage hustler, nonchalant about the dangerous path his life is taking. Neil's pursuit of love leads him to New York City, while Brian's voyage of self discovery leads him to Neil - who helps him to unlock the dark secrets of their past. Based on the acclaimed novel by Scott Heim, "Mysterious Skin" explores the hearts and minds of two very different boys who come to find the key to their future happiness lies in the exorcism of their collective demons.Well worth watching if you are in the right frame of mind. Some of the scenes are disturbing but the acting is great and overall it is quite a powerful film. Next I saw Inside Deep ThroatRead more here: www.insidedeepthroatmovie.com/As far as documentaries are concerned it was not brilliant. 3/5 stars. ;D As far as porn from the 70s is concerned it's terrible! 1/5 stars ;D And lastly an Australian film called "Look Both Ways". This won a scoop of AFI awards and was very intelligently written. It tackles the concept of death and views all aspects of the effects of an accident or if someone has a terminal illness. It's not as dark as it sounds, I'm really not that morbid! NEXT: The Machinist
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Post by Leewah Brown on Mar 30, 2006 18:08:17 GMT -5
I LOVED Sin City!
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Post by Leewah Brown on Mar 29, 2006 18:10:46 GMT -5
I've just been watching 'Rabbit-Proof Fence', which was very good. Such a sad and tragic movie depicting a sad and tragic time in Australia. Very well produced and acted though.
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Post by Leewah Brown on Mar 14, 2006 17:59:08 GMT -5
Gallo's character comes across as such an annoying prick for most of the movie ;D. Yeaaaa... ;D But then the end is satisfying and lovely i thought. I loved Buffalo 66. Yes totally! I am glad I perservered with it to the end. I might watch it again actually.
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Post by Leewah Brown on Mar 13, 2006 20:00:38 GMT -5
Buffalo 66 with Vincent Gallo. Interesting film, Gallo's character comes across as such an annoying prick for most of the movie ;D.
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Post by Leewah Brown on Mar 7, 2006 0:08:28 GMT -5
Michael Moore, whilst not perfect, is still extremely thorough. Read this page: www.michaelmoore.com/words/wackoattacko/index.phpFor example, in reference to the Charlton Heston speech; * * * * * * The oddest of all the smears thrown at "Bowling for Columbine" is this one: "The film depicts NRA president Charlton Heston giving a speech near Columbine; he actually gave it a year later and 900 miles away. The speech he did give is edited to make conciliatory statements sound like rudeness." Um, yeah, that's right! I made it up! Heston never went there! He never said those things! Or.... The Truth: Heston took his NRA show to Denver and did and said exactly what we recounted. From the end of my narration setting up Heston's speech in Denver, with my words, "a big pro-gun rally," every word out of Charlton Heston's mouth was uttered right there in Denver, just 10 days after the Columbine tragedy. But don't take my word – read the transcript of his whole speech. Heston devotes the entire speech to challenging the Denver mayor and mocking the mayor's pleas that the NRA "don't come here." Far from deliberately editing the film to make Heston look worse, I chose to leave most of this out and not make Heston look as evil as he actually was. Recount from Bowling For Colombine: www.michaelmoore.com/words/wackoattacko/movie.php?mov=hestonTranscript of Heston's Speech www.michaelmoore.com/words/wackoattacko/heston.phpAs for the clip preceding the Denver speech, when Heston proclaims "from my cold dead hands," this appears as Heston is being introduced in narration. It is Heston's most well-recognized NRA image – hoisting the rifle overhead as he makes his proclamation, as he has done at virtually every political appearance on behalf of the NRA (before and since Columbine). I have merely re-broadcast an image supplied to us by a Denver TV station, an image which the NRA has itself crafted for the media, or, as one article put it, "the mantra of dedicated gun owners" which they "wear on T-shirts, stamp it on the outside of envelopes, e-mail it on the Internet and sometimes shout it over the phone.". Are they now embarrassed by this sick, repulsive image and the words that accompany it? Link: Mantra of NRA Article - www.michaelmoore.com/words/wackoattacko/latimes.php* * * * * * He does back up all of his facts very well and I don't believe purposely would mislead his audience. He would be ridiculed and his movies would have been torn to shreds by not only the media, but people in power, people who could have him charged with professing lies. Those pertinent questions are still yet to be answered by the Bush Administration though!
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Post by Leewah Brown on Feb 21, 2006 17:53:42 GMT -5
I really loved Mulholland Drive too. Mindfuck, yes! I've seen it twice but need to re-watch it. It's amazing what is hidden beneath the layers of this film, the symbology.... it's very well done .
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Post by Leewah Brown on Jan 31, 2006 18:50:10 GMT -5
I watched the Spanish Apartment on the weekend - great movie! It is set in Barcelona so it was great to see parts of this amazing city in film. Alamo - have you seen this?? It's great! The follow film to this is called Russian Dolls and I hope to see that at the cinema soon. Reason for Editting: How many times can I say great???
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