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| Befade |
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| Have a great time seeing it! Haven't you heard that blacks themselves are very aware of light and dark skinned and can favor the light skinned. |
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| Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2017 1:58 am |
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| I think I was influenced by thinking he wasn't particularly attractive. Something was off there. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2017 10:19 am |
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The 11 Most Underrated Movies of 2016
At least I've heard of most of these.
Only Krisha sounds good really.
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| Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2017 12:06 pm |
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| I definitely want to see Krisha. The only one I've actually seen is Christine. You could call that Mary Tyler Moore super heavy. Based on a real event it tells the story of a tv news reporter. It's well acted, painful to watch and pretty relevant in this age of fake news and disrespect for the media. |
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| Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2017 6:37 pm |
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I've seen six of them, and one and all they are terrific. Krisha and Don't Think Twice are two of my favorite films of a great year, and Doris, Christine, and Other People are also wonderful. See them and you will see some of the greatest acting by women of the decade. In those five films--respectively--Krisha Fairchilld, Gillian Jacobs, Sally Field, Rebecca Hall, and Molly Shannon would comprise a fully worthy roster of Oscar nominees. A Monster Calls doesn't have Oscar potential but it's highly imaginative and visually amazing. |
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| Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2017 7:09 am |
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| I see that Sing Street, Everybody Wants Some!, and Morris from America are all accessible on either Netflix or Amazon Prime, so you can bet I'll be checking them out ASAP. Ramin Setoodeh (the writer of that article) has excellent taste judging from the ones I've seen already. |
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| Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 1:52 am |
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Olivier Assayas' "CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA" is about the struggle of an aging actress (played by Juliette Binoche) who has to contend with a young and upcoming star (Chloe Grace Moretz) playing the same role she had herself played many years ago. Very reminiscent of "All About Eve" though not as good. Kristen Stewart is excellent. |
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| Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 6:05 am |
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Ghulam wrote: .
Olivier Assayas' "CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA" is about the struggle of an aging actress (played by Juliette Binoche) who has to contend with a young and upcoming star (Chloe Grace Moretz) playing the same role she had herself played many years ago. Very reminiscent of "All About Eve" though not as good. Kristen Stewart is excellent.
"Not as good" is right. And with all due respect to you and many critics, I find Kristen Stewart to be one of THE most overrated performers in film history. Her vaunted talent is lost on me, and the praise she continually gets is a total mystery. |
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| 'Not as good as All about Eve' leaves a lot of room for it being a good or even great movie. I don't know that it is of course, but hopefully it's better than Being Julia. |
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| Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 8:40 am |
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| Clouds of Sils Maria is a fairly good movie--much better than its weird title--but Kristen Stewart still leaves me colder than cold. |
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| Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 11:07 am |
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| Beautiful scenery however. |
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| Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 12:56 pm |
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Syd wrote: 'Not as good as All about Eve' leaves a lot of room for it being a good or even great movie. I don't know that it is of course, but hopefully it's better than Being Julia.
It is good but not great.
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| Don't throw things, but we really dug the new Beauty and the Beast. Just saying -- have been humming "Belle" and "Gaston" and "Be Our Guest" for days now. It doesn't supplant the original (impossible), but it doesn't feel like a money-grabbing Why? piece either, providing a persuasive (and technically jaw-dropping) alternative. La Belle Emma, Beastly Mr. Stevens, Almost Steals It Gaston Evans and Ye Gad LeFou Forever are particularly choice, but the whole thing is both dazzlingly escapist and contextually expressive, and we certainly could use its central message at present. Plus, the tweaks to the story give it more resonance/relevance, not least the decision to pull the anthropomorphic servants into the life-or-death stakes of the spell and the narrative resolution. Howard Ashman lives. There must be more than this provincial life. |
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| The Red Turtle is the story of a man shipwrecked on an island uninhabited except for crabs and the occasional turtle. His efforts to build a raft and get off the island are thwarted by an unseen animal. More would be telling. Although this is a joint collaboration between French, Belgian and Japanese animators, and distributed through Studio Ghibli, there's no need for subtitles because there's no dialogue and no Wilson. This is a lovely, quiet film, that was nominated for many awards, including an Oscar for Animated Feature (which I'd forgotten going in) and won a prize at the Cannes Film Festival. |
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| Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2017 8:04 pm |
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Relayed Deaction Dept.:
Syd wrote: 'Not as good as All about Eve' leaves a lot of room for it being a good or even great movie. I don't know that it is of course, but hopefully it's better than Being Julia.
This. Made. Me. Whoop. Exactly.. LOL |
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