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Post by Imaginary Forces on Apr 29, 2011 9:32:48 GMT
Continuing watching some of Williams recommendations I have recently watched Death Island and Who Can Kill A Child? Death Island was weak and didn't engage me at all, despite having goat sodomy within the first 5 minutes I didn't find it shocking or provocative, just cheap and tedious. Who Can Kill A Child? on the other hand was great. Like The Midwich Cuckoos adaptation, The Village of The Damned, meets Lord of the Flies. Entertaining and memorable. I will probably be buying this one. I could only find a copy without subtitles for the Spanish speaking parts and it was still engaging and exciting. Great stuff!
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Post by luke on May 23, 2011 3:19:19 GMT
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Post by Imaginary Forces on Jul 6, 2011 14:35:28 GMT
The Hours of The Day.
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Post by Imaginary Forces on Jul 12, 2011 15:02:05 GMT
Osama.
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Post by Joe Chip on Jan 8, 2012 23:45:21 GMT
While rewatching EYES WIDE SHUT for maybe the 20th time tonight - and believe me I've defended its worth against those Kubrick fans who dislike it time and again- I finally noticed that the obscure titles font "EYES WIDE SHUT TOM CRUISE NICOLE KIDMAN" is identical to the font on "WHITEHOUSE CRUISE".
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Post by Danhod on Jan 9, 2012 11:36:58 GMT
Cruise is based on Tom Cruise?
Ha! GWDs title was possibly from the film, maybe there are more movie references than we think in WH
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Post by ljp on Oct 16, 2013 20:15:07 GMT
Well no one's posted here in ages, so may I mention two old movies I saw recently? I don't know if William Bennett had mentioned either of them -- maybe the first one... Antonioni's the Red Desert, from the same guy who did the iconic the Blow Up a few years later and also the overrated dull-as-dogshit Zabriskie Point. This early psychological study is his real masterpiece though, involving a housewife having a series of breakdowns in the backdrop of industrial Italy. Excellent in its use of color and also a very understated but still harrowing electronic soundtrack. Antonioni claims he wasn't inspired by anyone's paintings but if DeChirico ever made a film it would look alot like this one! The second one was actually a Hollywood movie, although filmed in New England. I saw this first on TV as a child and I never quite forgot it. It's called Man on a Swing and you can stream it for cheap on Amazon. www.imdb.com/title/tt0071806/What's really creepy about this is it's based on a true story(!) This is about a purported psychic who calls a police chief about some info he knows about a gruesome murder of a young teacher. Only this psychic appears to be a bit mentally disturbed as well. Joel Gray does an excellent job as the psychic, looking otherwise harmless but acting unpredictable. Cliff Robertson's Lou Reed-ish police chief stares down at Gray as if he's momentarily hypnotized by him. Would be worth it to get the book this movie was based on although a bit rare and going for high prices right now: www.amazon.com/Volkswagen-floor-William-Arthur-Clark/dp/0060107944Oh yeah, check out the creepy electronic music piece they tacked onto the ending credits!
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Post by ljp on Oct 16, 2013 22:01:59 GMT
Looking back at William Bennett's blog, he did indeed mention the Red Desert -- probably why I put it on my Netflix list long ago...
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Post by bucks on Apr 2, 2014 17:50:13 GMT
La Notte is Antonioni's ultimate masterpiece. It's so powerful. Going through major relationship problems at the moment, and I know it would be overwhelming to watch it now.
I remember checking it out after watching an interview with Bergman, where he proclaimed that MA had made "at least two masterpieces" - the aforementioned La Notte and Blow-Up. I've always preferred Il deserto rosso over Blow-Up, though.
The last film I watched was Nymphomaniac. Just myself and two older couples sitting in the theatre. That's Norway for you, folks. I thought it was better than his last two lame efforts, but I'm still not convinced. I won't spoil anything but I have to say - there's no excuse good enough to include music by a certain Neue Deutsche Härte band.
I need to watch it a second time, though. For me, he'll probably never top Idioterne (The Idiots).
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