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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.46.92.225
Posted on Thursday, February 04, 2016 - 05:18 pm:   

Proto liked this film as I remember and I was lukewarm. Well, we watched it the other night and I've changed my opinion to LOVED it. It had great humour, the right amount of warmth, superb performances, was incredibly moving in places, and, Heck, I think it encapsulated the whole journey of life more than almost any film I've seen for a long time. Also, it's got blurry, and the flavour of it has become just enough anachronistic to make it even stranger and more poignant than it already was. One of the best horrors of its decade.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 213.233.150.76
Posted on Thursday, February 04, 2016 - 07:09 pm:   

I don't remember saying I liked it. Did I? I feel like an elderly colonel with an ear trumpet.

Was that with Ray Wise? I remember that one being very strange and opaque, but not without interest.

I've just watched Robert Bresson's PICKPOCKET. I think I'm beginning to understand what he's trying to do. Funny, but as much as it's not good to explain art, we sometimes need a framework, just a few clues as to the artist's intention, to serve as s key.
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Tony (Tony)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.181.137.214
Posted on Monday, February 08, 2016 - 11:32 pm:   

Yes, you liked it quite a bit! Regardless, it now has lots of merit.
Yes, I need a clue to what something is 'about', too, but can enjoy a good story with warm characters, failing that.
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Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey)
Username: Ramsey

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.4.7.240
Posted on Tuesday, February 09, 2016 - 04:01 pm:   

PICKPOCKET makes a fine double bill with PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET, we found.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 213.233.150.5
Posted on Wednesday, February 10, 2016 - 12:15 am:   

Thanks Ramsey, I've just ordered it.

Last night I watched LAURA for the first time. It's been a while since I've felt so engaged by a film, let alone one that's 70 years old. Next up is THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE on blu ray. I expect the format will revolutionize the depiction of facial stubble.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.185.26.119
Posted on Wednesday, February 10, 2016 - 12:46 am:   

Treasure is as fresh as a daisy.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 213.233.147.100
Posted on Wednesday, February 10, 2016 - 11:05 am:   

I saw it decades ago and all I can remember is the old prospector's dance.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 213.233.147.100
Posted on Wednesday, February 10, 2016 - 11:07 am:   

Rab C. Nesbitt's middle initial apparently comes from Frank C. Dobbs.
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Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey)
Username: Ramsey

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.4.7.240
Posted on Wednesday, February 10, 2016 - 01:06 pm:   

Ah, *Laura* - yes indeed! Just saw *Du Rififi chez les Hommes* on the fine Criterion Blu-ray. Very engrossing, but it does feel rather like a transposed American film, say *The Asphalt Jungle*.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 213.233.147.97
Posted on Wednesday, February 10, 2016 - 05:27 pm:   

Oh, I have RIFIFI too, but haven't watched it. Its opening featured a pretty unpleasant character for an old film, so I put it away until I was in the right mood for something THAT hard-bitten.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 213.233.148.29
Posted on Wednesday, February 10, 2016 - 11:58 pm:   

Like Tony with the Star Wars prequels, my opinion of PROMETHEUS may be, if not flipping over, at least turning on its side. The muddled mundane script is still there, but I see the good things more clearly now. Looking into the production design gives an idea of what they were trying to do: make ALIEN just a subset of the PROMETHEUS universe.

I could watch David walking around the empty ship for a full half hour. And with the introduction of the Engineers we lose a threatening alien, but gain so much more in a compelling parent-child relationship.
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 99.153.254.41
Posted on Thursday, February 11, 2016 - 07:06 am:   

Proto, I'm sure there's lurking around on the internet somewhere, the original screenplay for PROMETHEUS, which was much more blatantly an ALIEN prequel - I liked it somewhat better than the film. Overall, like 2010, though, both I felt too much removed the awe and mystery of the progenitor.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 66.249.81.158
Posted on Thursday, February 11, 2016 - 10:13 am:   

I love 2010 too! Watching 2001 again I was pretty surprised to see that the background screen used for all the front projection in the Dawn of Man sequence was clearly crumpled. I'm amazed Kubrick let that go. Last year I went to a talk by some of there's men who worked with him on Barry London. They had the famous ultra-low f-stop lens with them. I left with the impression that he was 51% scientist/49% artist. Not a bad thing to be.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
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Posted From: 66.249.81.158
Posted on Thursday, February 11, 2016 - 10:14 am:   

Barry London. My phone loves doing things like that.
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 99.153.254.41
Posted on Saturday, February 13, 2016 - 06:19 am:   

Barry Lyndon, yes, I should see that again. I didn't fully appreciate it that time I saw it, but gosh, that was so long ago I saw it, now that I think of it.... I do like Kubrick, his films feel vast and cavernous - space; the Overlook; Dr. Strangelove's war-room; Lyndon's dueling fields; etc. Though I do somewhat prefer the docudrama style, the buzz of natural life you get from Altman to the extreme staginess of Kubrick.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 66.249.81.162
Posted on Saturday, February 13, 2016 - 10:18 am:   

They really are opposites in so many ways, aren't they? Even Altman's external scenes feel claustrophobic to me. And their approach to actor improvisation. ..
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 5.81.149.253
Posted on Saturday, February 13, 2016 - 01:07 pm:   

And yet both, by all accounts, are as control freaky and focussed as each other.

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