Hi Northstar,
Our taste looks quite similarAbout 7 Samourai, I don't know if you are familiar with the other Japanese samourai movies? I really like Harakiri:
This is a contemporary maker of Samourai / Arthouse movies. Very subtle, not about blood and swords, but about how Japan in these acient times functioned. Love and Honor is outstanding. Just as his Twilight Samourai.
I saw 'Harakiri' in a distant past. ...'Love and Honor' I don't recall.
Nice to see another Japanese's cinema art appreciator here, cheers!
Bob
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Last night I watched this ::
* It wasn't directed by a Master Japanese director, but by Robert Redford, an American, and the only actor in this flick, with his sailing boat and the vast ocean.
Have anyone of you ever been in a similar situation? ...I had.
🙂 Saw All is lost some days ago! Great movie. I am not a strictly "cinematheque" movie watcher. I enjoy Sharknado as much as Tarkovski 🙂 or any other cinephile stuff. I watch a Dwayne Johnson flick and then some Truffaut or Mellville. Noir is what i really like. Another fascination would be "golden age" of Hollywood. Recently i am watching a lot of the "why we fight" stuff. Walk in the sun. etc. Mildred Pierce is one of my Noir favorites. Really interesting period in American cinema. A lot of the screenwiters for the "why we fight" series get in a lot of trouble's for beeing "card carrying" communist....
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Time lapse for editing is gone. Anyway. Movies are dumbed down nowadays. In the golden age, 65% of the American public saw 1 movie a week. Humor and screenwriting in this period is so much more subtle.
Yes, i totaly agree! I try to understand the world by watching movies 🙂 Did you see 12 Oclock boy's? Or quite different 1940 noir movies? Noir? All was possible in that age. How different from nowadays
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Did you watch all the Charlie Chaplin's flicks? 🙂 ...Well, his main Classic ones; still a good bunch though (dozen or so),
and through them we can see our world quite clearly, a glimpse of a time period that extends from way before and up till today still.
...And not only in America.
and through them we can see our world quite clearly, a glimpse of a time period that extends from way before and up till today still.
...And not only in America.
I have fond memories of '40s movies with dialogue going at a crackling pace - can't remember any names, 🙂 - the scripts were razor sharp, and didn't stop for breathe ... current moviegoers would have to be on 5 minutes delay, 😉 ...
Yeah, let's talk about cinema and what we have been watching recently, including USA's defeat today to the Canadians, @ the Winter Olympics in Hockey! ...Sochi time.
...Both Men's and Women's Ice Hockey.
Go Canada Gold!
...Both Men's and Women's Ice Hockey.
Go Canada Gold!
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@fas42
The pace of the dialog was much faster in the 40-ies. And it was not a problem at all if not everybody in the audience got the joke.
I saw some Chaplin movies. But have to see the bulk of them still. Limelight is one of the favorites of the ones i saw.
The pace of the dialog was much faster in the 40-ies. And it was not a problem at all if not everybody in the audience got the joke.
I saw some Chaplin movies. But have to see the bulk of them still. Limelight is one of the favorites of the ones i saw.
In Paris, they're fast talkers. 🙂 ...Frank.
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* Last night ::
French, black&white, 2012, on Blu (Blu-ray). ...For adults only.
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=> By the way, Finland won the Bronze medal over USA in Men's Hockey @ Sochi.
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* Last night ::
French, black&white, 2012, on Blu (Blu-ray). ...For adults only.
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=> By the way, Finland won the Bronze medal over USA in Men's Hockey @ Sochi.
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Obscure, but hopefully good: Gladiators by Peter Watkins.
Gladiatorerna (1969) - IMDb
Last night ::
* Un film Francais avec Jean Reno. ...J'aime bien cet acteur, et le flick est "pas pire pantoute" (pas mal du tout).
Translation: A French flick with Jean Reno. ...I well like this actor, and the film is not bad at all (watchable).
* Un film Francais avec Jean Reno. ...J'aime bien cet acteur, et le flick est "pas pire pantoute" (pas mal du tout).
Translation: A French flick with Jean Reno. ...I well like this actor, and the film is not bad at all (watchable).
Oh, yes! Congratulations! In Ice Hockey yours were the best!Oh, and Congratulations Canada for the Gold in Men's Ice Hockey!
Seems like our NHL "stars" can play hockey overseas only, here we can see bla and bla and bla-bla-bla from them only.
Nevertheless Russia is the first
in medals.
Frozen very good, "There was a Crooked man", bad taste of a great director (Joseph L. Mankiewicz). trying to put something out that the kids of nowadays 70-ies may like....
Nevertheless Russia is the first
That was a setup.
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