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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion
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05/02/06 04:55 PM
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Funny Games  Michael Haneke 1997 Austria (1st time; DVD) A bourgeois family is held hostage and tortured at their holiday home by two young males with no motive. It is telling that by the end of this film, we are immune, even bored with, the disturbing violence depicted onscreen; the torturers are constantly aware of their role in the film, making direct reference to audience expectations and what they should be doing. At the end of the day, it's the director pulling all the strings, and we are completely helpless, puppets in his hand.Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen / Even Dwarfs Started Small  Werner Herzog 1968 West Germany (1st time; DVD) A colony of dwarfs rebels against its leader. A humorous, original film with powerful images and a descent into chaos which makes it seem like it may have been best suited to a short. One of Herzog's most absorbing films, and a clear inspiration for Korine's Gummo.
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion
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05/03/06 04:14 AM
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The Jazz Singer #90 on the AFI Top 100 List *** The first talking movie and I enjoyed it. I liked how most of the movie was silent but the songs were talking. I'm so happy because now I am FINALLY done with the AFI list! SPOILER I did have one question however. Why did Jack paint himself black when he went on stage? END OF SPOILER
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion
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05/03/06 07:16 PM
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Why wouldnt it be one of the best ever?? It is their opinion.. .all lists are someone's opinion... what is on the AFI's list may not necessarily be on mine...
If someone wants to label it one of the best ever... then for him it is....
Finance is a gun, Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion
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05/04/06 10:55 AM
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Originally posted by Irishman12: United 93 **** It might be a bit much to see in a theater (I thought I was ready but towards the end I thought twice about it). Well, some say that if you find a film unbearable to watch it is too touchy, or too soon to be released. I think that if it moves you, then the timing couldn't have been better. I'd hate to think people would watch it a century from now and be totally despondent, wouldn't you?
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion
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05/05/06 06:04 AM
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Originally posted by MistaMista Tom Hagen: Yeah, shit happens though. Time heals all wounds. Eventually, when a time comes where no one is left alive who had any sort of emotional connection to 9/11, the topic will no longer induce sadness in people and it will probably become the butt of a few jokes, just another event in American history. it's up to us never to let this happen. Just as in the case of the Shoah, we are obliged to keep the memory alive in the future generation and so on. If we fail to do that, we are going to be objectively accomplices of the terrorists.
I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth (Blanche/A streetcar named desire)
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion
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05/05/06 06:47 AM
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Fata Morgana / Mirage  Werner Herzog 1969 West Germany (1st time; DVD) A series of images filmed in and around the Sahara; narration tells the story of a planet's creation. The opening shots, of planes landing in the desert, each one becoming more and more blurred as the heat of the day increases, is telling as to how abstract, visually arresting this "science-fiction" film really is. As it goes on, the music and images interact profoundly; Herzog pays little attention to narrative cohesion, and instead tries to articulate deep emotions via new visual contexts.Herz aus Glas / Heart of Glass  Werner Herzog 1976 West Germany (1st time; DVD) When a glass factory loses a worker, and with him the secret of ruby glass, a pre-industrialist village falls apart, watched by a foreseer of events. A strained, slow, absorbing piece for which most of the cast was hypnotized. It is an absurd, beautiful film full of memorable moments, such as when Herzog momentarily casts aside plot to document the glass factory workers at work, or when a drunkard dances with the corpse of his best friend, whom he inadvertantly killed the night before. The final moments are up there with Herzog's finest closures.
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