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SiliasRuby

#3240
February 18, 2006, 01:10:57 AM
The Bank Dick Criterion
Sullivan's Travels Criterion
Au hasard balthazar Criterion
Shoot the Piano Player Criterion
The Beatles know Jesus Christ has returned to Earth and is in Los Angeles.

When you are getting fucked by the big corporations remember to use a condom.

There was a FISH in the perkalater!!!

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last days of gerry the elephant

#3241
February 19, 2006, 11:13:05 PM
Quote from: modage on February 17, 2006, 11:18:30 PM


it's really a shame nobody saw this movie, because its really good.  after rewatching it about a year later i still think it's one of the 10 best films of 05.  and despite the preview the film really goes in some interesting directions that steer away from whatever cliche's you might imagine come with a premise like this.  i mean, its DANNY BOYLE.  jeez.

I will have to agree, and the score is too good!

SiliasRuby

#3242
February 20, 2006, 10:29:24 PM
Bad Timing Criterion
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005)
The Beatles know Jesus Christ has returned to Earth and is in Los Angeles.

When you are getting fucked by the big corporations remember to use a condom.

There was a FISH in the perkalater!!!

My Collection

MacGuffin

#3243
February 21, 2006, 09:12:02 PM Last Edit: February 21, 2006, 10:31:19 PM by MacGuffin
"Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art." - Andy Warhol


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Redlum

#3244
February 22, 2006, 06:47:42 AM
How are you finding the Midnight Cowboy SE, Mac? It's the film I've put off buying the longest and I'm getting conflicting reviews. While DVDfile say the new transfer and 5.1 mix are excellent, DVDbeaver are saying that the transfer is no worse or beter (for different reasons) than the original relase. And that it wasnt even a HD transfer. In fact their header for the review is "Disgrace of the year".
\"I wanted to make a film for kids, something that would present them with a kind of elementary morality. Because nowadays nobody bothers to tell those kids, \'Hey, this is right and this is wrong\'.\"
  -  George Lucas

Rudie Obias

#3245
February 22, 2006, 07:01:17 PM
i will post what i will be soon but i just need some opinions right now on which dvd is should buy.  i just got a bonus at borders in the form of a 50$ gift card plus i have a 30% off coupon.  i'm not sure which box set i should buy.  the wong kar-wai box set, the john cassevettes criterion box set or the sam peckinpah western box set?
\"a pair of eyes staring at you, projected on a large screen is what cinema is truly about.\" -volker schlöndorff

last days of gerry the elephant

#3246
February 22, 2006, 07:14:20 PM
I got stuck with the shitty Canadian cover release of Domino...

I Don't Believe in Beatles

#3247
February 22, 2006, 07:34:06 PM
Hahaha, what the hell is that quote at the bottom supposed to mean?
"A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later." --Stanley Kubrick

godardian

#3248
February 22, 2006, 07:46:47 PM
Quote from: Ginger on February 22, 2006, 07:34:06 PM
Hahaha, what the hell is that quote at the bottom supposed to mean?

To me, it means Peter Travers's downfall is his frequent and rather obvious gearing of his reviews toward the perceived Rolling Stone demographic. I actually think he's at least as tasteful and intelligent as Ebert, but he does the same thing Ebert does to undermine himself: he plays to what he thinks of as his crowd and riffs on his schtick instead of writing thoughtful reviews.
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grand theft sparrow

#3249
February 22, 2006, 08:09:24 PM
Quote from: godardian on February 22, 2006, 07:46:47 PM
Quote from: Ginger on February 22, 2006, 07:34:06 PM
Hahaha, what the hell is that quote at the bottom supposed to mean?

To me, it means Peter Travers's downfall is his frequent and rather obvious gearing of his reviews toward the perceived Rolling Stone demographic. I actually think he's at least as tasteful and intelligent as Ebert, but he does the same thing Ebert does to undermine himself: he plays to what he thinks of as his crowd and riffs on his schtick instead of writing thoughtful reviews.

Godardian, I can restore your faith in Peter Travers.  He's just a patsy (in this case anyway).

Quote from: Peter Travers' full review of Domino

**1/2

Domino Harvey, 35, the wild child of the late actor Laurence Harvey and a Vogue-model mother (played by Jacqueline Bisset), was found unconscious in the bathtub of her West Hollywood apartment. The cause of her death on June 27th was accidental drug overdose. Her life as a former Ford model turned shotgun-slinging bounty hunter is the subject of Domino, a frenetic mix of fact and fiction directed by the notoriously slick Tony Scott (Man on Fire), from a script by Donnie Darko's Richard Kelly.

With sexy British beanpole Keira Knightley in the title role, the movie is full of possibilities. Frustratingly, only a few of them are realized. Knightley plays hard against her wispy damsel image from Pirates of the Caribbean. She blows smoke and fires lipstick-lesbian advances at the FBI criminal psychologist (Lucy Liu) whose interview with Domino frames the film. Then we're off to flashbacks of Domino's Beverly Hills upbringing, the death of her father (she was only eight), her troubled life at boarding school, her rebellion against modeling and her introduction to bounty hunting through ex-con Ed Mosbey, played by Mickey Rourke in full nutso mode. As Domino watches her dad on TV, acting with Frank Sinatra in The Manchurian Candidate, Ed announces, "I knew Frank," with a secret smile that seems hilariously inappropriate.

Just like the movie. When Christopher Walken shows up as the producer of Domino's reality-TV show about bounty hunters and starts fulminating about fonts used in the ad campaign, the film's already tenuous relationship with reality runs off the rails. The fact that the show never existed is part of Kelly's expressed desire to turn Domino's life into "a punk-rock fever dream." Scott does his part with the same overcaffeinated camerawork -- a mix of film and digital video -- that made Man on Fire a chore. It's not that Scott can't stage action. Pulses will pound watching Domino bust in on bail jumpers. But as Kelly veers into increasingly obtuse flights of fancy and Scott fills the screen with colors that bleed and emulsify, you realize that what got lost was Domino. She deserved better.

PETER TRAVERS

(Posted: Oct, 6 2005)

The ad wizards at New Line are sneaky bastards.

ᾦɐļᵲʊʂ

#3250
February 25, 2006, 11:58:38 AM
"As a matter of fact I only work with the feeling of something magical, something seemingly significant. And to keep it magical I don't want to know the story involved, I just want the hypnotic effect of it somehow seeming significant without knowing why." - Len Lye

meatwad

#3251
February 26, 2006, 10:48:36 PM
Quote from: Walrus on February 25, 2006, 11:58:38 AM
the unbearable lightness of being

i just picked it up recently too

today i got

Alethia

#3252
February 27, 2006, 09:06:13 AM
Quote from: rudiecorexxx on February 22, 2006, 07:01:17 PM
i will post what i will be soon but i just need some opinions right now on which dvd is should buy.  i just got a bonus at borders in the form of a 50$ gift card plus i have a 30% off coupon.  i'm not sure which box set i should buy.  the wong kar-wai box set, the john cassevettes criterion box set or the sam peckinpah western box set?

go with the cassavetes, i'd say

squints

#3253
February 27, 2006, 12:03:20 PM

i'll trade this in some day for store credit when they get the criterion version back in stock.




"The myth by no means finds its adequate objectification in the spoken word. The structure of the scenes and the visible imagery reveal a deeper wisdom than the poet himself is able to put into words and concepts" – Friedrich Nietzsche

MacGuffin

#3254
February 28, 2006, 07:02:03 PM



And just to defy Bethie:

"Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art." - Andy Warhol


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