movies

[JL21]

Up next Sunset Blvd.

That's an amazing movie. It's a film-lover's film, if you know what I mean. And it has a dead monkey in the first 10 minutes.

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IMO, the film version of East of Eden is mediocre at best. The book is excellent.

[Richie Allen]

East of Eden is, by far, my favorite Dean film and possibly my favorite Kazan. I've got the book. I'll have to read it. I also love Streetcar. You're watching some great films lately. Sunset Boulevard is another incredible one.

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East of Eden is, by far, my favorite Dean film and possibly my favorite Kazan. I've got the book. I'll have to read it. I also love Streetcar. You're watching some great films lately. Sunset Boulevard is another incredible one.

Maybe my issue is that it didn't come close to capturing the nuances of the book, which I had read a couple of times before seeing the movie. Understandable since it's taking a 500+ page novel and trying to squeeze it into 2 hours.

[Richie Allen]

East of Eden is, by far, my favorite Dean film and possibly my favorite Kazan. I've got the book. I'll have to read it. I also love Streetcar. You're watching some great films lately. Sunset Boulevard is another incredible one.

Maybe my issue is that it didn't come close to capturing the nuances of the book, which I had read a couple of times before seeing the movie. Understandable since it's taking a 500+ page novel and trying to squeeze it into 2 hours.

Yeah, plus books almost always seem more rewarding.

[Jocephus]

you know what i liked about the movie? no reading.

[haltz]

Trailer for the new Tarantino film:

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Anyone seen the original?

[Richie Allen]

I live a few miles outside of a little podunk town of 6,100 people but for some reason we have the best library. I just picked up three movies that look interesting to me.

They finally got in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. I watched the first two of the Dollars Trilogy and enjoyed them a lot and from what I understand, this one's the best.

I also got a Robert Mitchem comedy, Holiday Affair. I'd never seen or heard of this film but it looks like it'll be fun. I love Mitchem. There was no one cooler.


Finally, and the reason I felt compelled to write in this thread, I got Elia Kazan's Boomerang. I have to admit, this is another that I had never heard of. Film Noir from '47 with Dana Andrews, Lee J Cobb and Jane Wyatt. I pretty much know already that I'm going to like this one.

[JL21]

I finally watched the film adaptation of Chuck Pahlaniuk's Choke last night. I enjoyed it a great deal.

Favorite line, or one of them:

A lot of people would say it's a bad idea, on your first day out of prison, to go right back to stalking the tranny hooker that knocked out five of your teeth. But that's how I roll.

The person saying this:

[JL21]

I wrapped up the three movies from Hiroshi Teshigahara that Criterion released last year. This one was The Face of Another. The synopsis:

A businessman facially scarred in a laboratory fire receives psychotherapy from a psychiatrist, and obtains an amazingly lifelike mask from the doctor. Soon after being fitted for the mask, he seduces his wife and succeeds. But his wife claims she was aware all along who he was and believed that both were just masquerading together as most couples usually do in different ways. Strangely enough, his personality seemingly begins to change after he puts on the mask as if the mask has influenced his personality. His new identity does not enable him to reintegrate into society after all. A subplot is inserted in fragments. A good-natured young woman, the right side of whose face is disfigured, has been hurt by others' inquisitive eyes and insults, and has been shunned by men. She asks her older brother, the only man who understands her pain and solitude, to make love to her, hiding from him the intent of killing herself after then.

Some pics from this one, which was visually stunning: