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NorthStar · 2014-02-22 12:21 am

Phenoholic Anonymus said:
Hi Northstar,

Our taste looks quite similar About 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.

Phenoholic Anonymus · 2014-02-22 12:38 am

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....

Phenoholic Anonymus · 2014-02-22 1:17 am

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.

NorthStar · 2014-02-22 1:19 am

Did you know that through Cinema history we can comprehend our world?

Phenoholic Anonymus · 2014-02-22 1:25 am

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

NorthStar · 2014-02-22 2:23 am

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.

fas42 · 2014-02-22 2:26 am

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,

...

NorthStar · 2014-02-22 2:29 am

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! :Olympic:

Phenoholic Anonymus · 2014-02-22 2:55 pm

@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.

NorthStar · 2014-02-23 12:15 am

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. :Olympic:

fas42 · 2014-02-23 1:38 am

Blue on Blu, eh ...

NorthStar · 2014-02-23 1:50 am

fas42 said:
Blue on Blu, eh ...

But that's true. ...Blu is a medium. :cd:

jackinnj · 2014-02-23 4:12 am

Hamlet -- the Olivier version -- on TCM.

Phenoholic Anonymus · 2014-02-23 10:41 pm

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Obscure, but hopefully good: Gladiators by Peter Watkins.
Gladiatorerna (1969) - IMDb

NorthStar · 2014-02-23 10:56 pm

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).

NorthStar · 2014-02-23 11:15 pm

Oh, and Congratulations Canada for the Gold in Men's Ice Hockey! :Olympic:

Phenoholic Anonymus · 2014-02-24 12:43 am

Gladiatorne was extremly dated and lame...

shizaudio · 2014-02-24 2:50 pm

NorthStar said:
Oh, and Congratulations Canada for the Gold in Men's Ice Hockey!

Oh, yes! Congratulations! In Ice Hockey yours were the best!
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 :spin:

in medals.

Phenoholic Anonymus · 2014-02-24 4:25 pm

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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....

NorthStar · 2014-02-24 11:57 pm

shizaudio said:
Nevertheless Russia is the first in medals.

That was a setup. :djinn:

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