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| Befade |
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Quote: I'm way behind on Current Films.
Not to much I want to see.
Gromit.......if you don't see anything else, see Searching for Sugar Man. It's a doc about a musician who disappeared 40 years ago and became an icon in South Africa inspiring the people who were involved in getting rid of Apartiad. Refreshing. Inspiring. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 12:30 am |
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Argo is first class entertainment. Excellent crowd and street scenes in Iran. Spine tingling suspense, especially at Tehran airport.
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 5:55 am |
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Ghulam wrote: .
Argo is first class entertainment. Excellent crowd and street scenes in Iran. Spine tingling suspense, especially at Tehran airport.
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Airport suspense majorly provided by, as I noted above, the acting of Farshad Farahat in a beautifully layered performance as an intense airport security guard. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 8:41 am |
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billyweeds wrote: The other (besides Alan Arkin) amazing piece of acting in Argo is by Farshad Farahat as an incredibly intense and complicated airport guard. The character has no name, but you'll know him when you see him, and Farahat deserves notice. He's a terrific actor.
2nd that. And all other praise for "Argo." It's a mark of a good thriller when it's based on actual events you are familiar with, and know the outcome of, and yet you are on the edge of your seat anyway. As Ghulam says, the street scenes are terrific. And most everything else. There are SPOILERS SPOILERS a few liberties taken at the end of the film to ratchet up the suspense, but nothing too implausible.....except, I do have one question: when the Iranians figure out (from the children pasting together the shredder stuff) who the "Canadians" actually are, there is all this difficulty storming the terminal and getting out to the tarmac and up to the ATC center. Uh, wouldn't you just CALL the ATC tower right off the bat, and tell them to hold the Swissair flight?? |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 9:23 am |
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Befade wrote: Quote: I'm way behind on Current Films.
Not to much I want to see.
Gromit.......if you don't see anything else, see Searching for Sugar Man. It's a doc about a musician who disappeared 40 years ago and became an icon in South Africa inspiring the people who were involved in getting rid of Apartheid. Refreshing. Inspiring.
Sounds interesting, but it's a real crapshoot whether such a small film turns up here or not. Oh, it's Sony Pictures -- that ups the odds. But still it might or might not turn up. My guess is it will take 9 months or so before it arrives here.
I keep thinking of the Kris Kristofferson song Sugar Man, about a pimp who led his girlfriend astray. A pretty dramatic song about drug use/abuse. I'm partial to the Sam Baker Memphis soul version.
I'm unfamiliar with Rodriguez, but will look to d/l something. I see he released a song Sugar Man backed with a cover of Inner City Blues, Wonder if that's the KK Sugar Man song I know. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 9:02 pm |
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| I think all his songs were original. In the film he was compared to Bob Dylan......as superior to. He just never took off in the states. I like his music. Amazon has 2 cds...........I just ordered. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 2:52 am |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 4:42 am |
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| All of Rodriguez's songs are original. And they're good. The movie is better than good; very inspirational and eye-opening. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 5:41 am |
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You're right, those aren't covers.
I've listened to about Rodriguez 1970 Cold Facts album.
Not bad, but underwhelming.
I'll have to listen to them more, but the music and lyrics seem a little rudimentary to me, and borrowings seem a little too obvious.
One song, Like Janis, is very much influenced by Dylan, including a "mocking jester" and ironic tone.
This is Not A Song It's An Outburst also sounds almost exactly like a spoken word rhyming Dylan outtake.
There's a bit of Donovan (the next Dylan!) in some songs; Forget It partially rips off James Taylor. Etc.
Maybe his other album is better.
For something in a somewhat similar vein -- folk-rock-hippie social commentary -- try Eugene McDaniels' 1970 album Outlaw or the great Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse (1971). Yes, it's the later radical incarnation of Gene "Hundred Pounds of Clay" McDaniels.
Headless Heroes was said to have spooked Agnew.
Some early 70's Steppenwolf, such as America, is also similar, and I'd say better. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 6:33 am |
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I would generally agree with gromit about the Rodriguez oeuvre. Note that I called his songs "good," not "very good" or "great." They're derivative for sure.
This in no way takes away from the wonder of the film. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 11:12 am |
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| knox |
| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 11:31 am |
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I saw review of Poulet aux Prunes here that made it sound like the most depressing film since the dawn of time. But well done. And it's French, and the French know how to make despair interesting and stylish.
Asking if anyone here has seen 7 Psychos? On the fence here because it sounds so very grisly and brutal (as the title might lead you to expect) - one scene has a man with knives driven through his hands to pin him to a table and then set on fire. Man, I just don't know. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 11:45 am |
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| I feel a little sympathy for director McDonagh because his career debut was "In Bruges" - if all later black comedies he makes are going to be compared to it, then some disappointment will be inevitable. It doesn't sound like 7P's vaults the high bar set by IB, but that cast compels me to see it. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 11:50 am |
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Feeling similarly.
Have to say, though, that while on the big screen I though In Bruges was one of the best movies I'd seen in a long time, with a strong Graham Greene quality, seeing it again as a home viewing, I was disappointed. A great pleasure of that movie is the atmosphere, something I didn't think translated well to the small screen. Wish I'd caught it a second time on the big screen so I'd know for sure whether I thought the movie just didn't hold up on second viewing. I believe Earl saw it three times in first release. I know he'd already seen it once when he suggested we go to it. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 12:00 pm |
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Joe Vitus wrote: Feeling similarly.
Have to say, though, that while on the big screen I though In Bruges was one of the best movies I'd seen in a long time, with a strong Graham Greene quality, seeing it again as a home viewing, I was disappointed. A great pleasure of that movie is the atmosphere, something I didn't think translated well to the small screen. Wish I'd caught it a second time on the big screen so I'd know for sure whether I thought the movie just didn't hold up on second viewing. I believe Earl saw it three times in first release. I know he'd already seen it once when he suggested we go to it.
I had very much the same reaction to In Bruges on the small screen. It was good, but nowhere near the mind-bender it was in the theater. Some movies survive--All About Eve, Rear Window, Sideways, zillions more. Others actually improve--Zelig, The Thin Blue Line, etc., etc. But many don't. |
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