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Post by DaveTheRake on Sept 9, 2004 19:22:22 GMT 2
An old one, but I have just finished watching reservoir dogs while on work (yes, while I'm working, it's just that I'm working again at the library and here I've got too much spare time) and it's fucking A! I haven't seen it yet, and I'm smashed . It's a pity that people have been interupting me while I was seen it, but anyway I'm astonished! This Tarantino is a fucking genious. While I was watching it I've thought that in a way he was to cinema as Faulkner's Sound and Fury could have been to literature; I mean, it's a very avantgard way of telling a story, with all these flashbacks and those dialogues. Kill me for what I'm going to say, but I think that an equivalent for Tarantino in literature (although I don't know why I'm comparing) would be mixture of Faulkner's temporarity and Hemingway's dialogues.
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Post by Scalawag on Sept 12, 2004 14:18:19 GMT 2
Last film I saw was a true masterpiece: No Man's Land. It's a film about the Servia-Bosnia Herzegovina war which is quite good because it criticizes not only the serbs and bosnians but also the UN Forces (UNPROFOR) and specially the damn journalists. THOSE VULTURES. To think that I almost became one.... oh yes, this one is great! but most bosnian films are... too bad you don't speak the language otherwise i'd recomend some great monty-python style '80s bosnian/yugoslav comedies... 'Hop, Skip and Jump' is also a good (short) movie made on the BiH war... also anything by Goran Bregovic
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Post by MaliceGarden on Sept 12, 2004 14:25:08 GMT 2
goran bregovic is also a director or an actor? didnt know that. i only thought he was a musician.
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Post by Sethlad on Sept 12, 2004 23:20:22 GMT 2
I think we have a confusion here....
The director is Emir Kusturica...
Goran Bregovic did the soundtrack for Underground. The Emir Kusturica joined the No Smoking Band and they made the soundtrack for Black Cat White Cat. Don't know of any films DIRECTED by Bregovic... he's just a major servian musician.
By the way, people get the impression that The No Somking Band is lead by Kusturica... but he's not even a major figure there. The main man of the band is a guy whose name I can't remeber. And, kusturica's son plays the drums, HE'S FUCKING BRILLIANT!!!!
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Post by MaliceGarden on Sept 12, 2004 23:34:14 GMT 2
i knew emir was a director, but, in deed i was intrigued when i saw some guy with "emir kusturica & the non smoking band" and thought that he was also a musician.
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Post by Scalawag on Sept 13, 2004 11:13:02 GMT 2
aye, that happens if you write not too sober but recently Kusturica nad Bregovic almost always work together, so they're an entitiy to me, hehe... plus the Underground soundtrack is almost a constant in my cd-player if you like balkan movies, do try Mancevski's Before the Rain and Dust (macedonian) ps: it's serbian, not servian! as slavs not slaves
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Post by Sethlad on Sept 13, 2004 11:36:53 GMT 2
i knew emir was a director, but, in deed i was intrigued when i saw some guy with "emir kusturica & the non smoking band" and thought that he was also a musician. He is a musician, he plays guitar in that band. I was just saying, most people think that he's the main carachter in the band, the main composer. He's nothing of the sort, he's just the guitar players.
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Post by DaveTheRake on Oct 20, 2004 11:17:51 GMT 2
I went to the cinema when I was in Almeria, and watched Sharktale. Not a great picture in fact, but if you've got a younger brother/sister and you want to pretend being "the good elder", it's a nice ellection. The picture has nothing to see with Shrek, not in quality nor in imagination. I didn't find it too much funny, and the characters (even being a picture cartoon) were stupid. But it is also that I can't stand rap and hip-hop and all its posing, and the main character was a rapper fish Although it changes throughout the moovie, I found that this character was not a good example for children (and I use to hate being so "paternal" or "moralistic") but in some way I think that this character shows the children that no matter how much irresponsible guy you are; just if you are "cool" everything goes alright. The best character in the movie was the vegetarian shark, which I think is a kind of representation of a homosexual person in real life; he is afraid of his father rejecting him just by being "different" and later on he disguises himself as a dolphin (could it be a more "gay" fish in all the fucking ocean?). He is the best character, the one with real problems; the other fucking stupid rapper is just an irresponsible that wants to be rich but doesn't want to work or be responsible enough to get it. So, maybe due to the "cool" rapper tone of the moovie, or just because it was not a great idea, I didn't like the picture. But anyway, if you want to pass a relax evening and have nothing better to do, you may go and watch it. Bye
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Post by HerraHirwi on Oct 20, 2004 16:15:32 GMT 2
POPULÄÄRIMUSIIKKIA VITTULANJÄNKÄLTÄ/POPULÄRMUSIK FRÅN VITTULA/POPPIMYSIIKKIA VITTULASTA (=POP MUSIC FROM VITTULA) Directed by Reza Bagheri (Sweden/Finland) A great film, which tells the story of two young guys, Matti & Niila who live in Pajala village, North-Sweden (near the Finnish border), and who are of Finnish origin. In this film you can find black humour, rock'n'roll music, booze drinking, shamanistic fantasy visions and Finnish grim drama in same story! I liked the film much, but I think Mikael Niemi's novel (from which the movie is adapted) is better, and gives a wider picture. And as a linguistic I liked it much, because in the film there's introduced the Finnish dialect spoken in North-Sweden, so called "meänkieli" (Meä language).
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Post by Scalawag on Nov 4, 2004 14:37:55 GMT 2
TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE, absolutely my fave of the year!!! Go see it!!!
(Les triplettes de Belleville in original) ;D ;D ;D
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Post by TomS on Nov 4, 2004 18:53:03 GMT 2
TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE, absolutely my fave of the year!!! Go see it!!! (Les triplettes de Belleville in original) ;D ;D ;D Haha, Les Triplettes de Belleville is great! Everybody should see it, but I'm sure not everybody will like it. It's pretty strange.. I myself love it, and have it on dvd
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Post by Sethlad on Nov 5, 2004 14:10:49 GMT 2
Loved the movie (Les Triplettes) and loved the fact that the heroin was a portuguese immigrant old woman called Madame Souza. (though in Portugal we write Sousa with and "s").
There are a lot of portuguese immigrants in France, and it's about time they got some recognition!!! hehehehe
Love the parts when she bursts out singing É UMA CASA PORTUGUESA COM CERTEZA!!!!!! hehehehe (traditional portuguese song)
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Post by MaliceGarden on Nov 5, 2004 18:31:27 GMT 2
"souza" is the old way of writting it.
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Post by DaveTheRake on Nov 7, 2004 22:37:12 GMT 2
Last two films I went to were Forget About Me (I supposse this was the original name, in Spain it was Olvidate de mi; it's the last Jim Carrey's and Kate WInslet's film) and Woody Allen's Melinda and Melinda. I liked a lot both, but just in order... Forget About Me is a film I would not run the risk of recommnd, maybe you'll like it or maybe you'll hate it; I found it very very well done, interesting and peculiar. The story is something we all surely would had, in a certain way, liked to live; you know, all this that the breaking of a relationship carries on, and how we would love to erase all pur memories. And I think the moovie has a good rythm and it makes you easy to get involved in the film. But I've got to say that I went to watch it with three more people and they all abhorred it, so if you want to see it, for me it was very fresh and ok, but maybe you won't like it, it's a kinda extrange film. About the Allen's film, well, how could I describe it? it's excellent! One friend of mine who likes Allen a lot and who knows a lot about cinema says that from each five Allen's film, one is bad, three are good, and one is a master piece; well, he declared that this one was Allen's last masterpiece. It's quite amazing to see how this man with very little money creates such good films. The story is about a girl's way to suffer and live love and relationships; it's told in two different ways, one dramatic and one comedy; I preffered the comedy part 'cos I think is what Allen is more accustomed to do and I'm afraid he doesn't move very well on drama, but both sides of the dime create an amazing film, that you shouldn't fail to watch.
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Post by TomS on Nov 7, 2004 22:47:43 GMT 2
The original name of the Jim Carrey/Kate Winslet flick is Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind ;D
No, seriously! And I liked it alot btw! :-)
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