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seen Spike Jonze’s Being John Malcovich for the first time yesterday (and I assume, I’m about the last one I know who saw it) …anyway, I was totally delighted. what a weird, amazing & cool movie
:aliensmile:Being John Malcovich is a great film, gotta watch that again some time!
I just came back from seeing Guy Maddin’s film, The Saddest Music In The World…definitely recommend it
Isabella Rossellini was perfect, looked amazing in that platinum wig & those glass, beer filled legs :aliensmile:
You can check out the trailer here Those shorts weren’t shown in the theatre, hopefullly they end up on the dvd.
Good review here, pretty much gives the whole storyline though
these international movies always come here with delay (it takes time to dub them, I guess
)but I recently watched a German movie which I really loved:
I just saw "Schultze Gets The Blues", a very German movie, but of Dogma or Kaurismäki quality (I’d say). It’s about a middle aged pensioner who has been living all of his life quite contently in a dreary mining area in East Germany, the former socialist part of Germany, where unemployment is very high these days.
Listening accidentally to just a few seconds of a Cajun Zydeco accordeon tune on the radio, changed his life forever. it made him leaving the tristesse of his previous life to explore Texas and the Louisiana swamps, without speaking any English word, actually
I don’t know why, but this movie made me cry (and I’m not sentimental, usually. and the movie also isn’t sentimental). The movie is slow and simple, but only on the surface. I don’t know if it will be shown internationally, but I can recommend it to anyone who has the chance to see it.
here’s what All Movie Guide says: Schultze Gets The Blues
Hey FC, it’s high on my ‘wish list’ of to-see movies, it got very good reviews over here in Holland, now waiting for it to show up in a moviehouse here in the neighbourhood……
I just watched sportscenter for my late nba playoff highlights since i have to go to work while the kids are still running up and down the floor but anyway there was not one but two Netherland football highlights, i think the game was PSV vs. Den Maag, but i could be mistaken, the goals shown were quite spectacular. Real football is fun.
Everything i talk trash on i seem to imbrace later on down the line, point this time being the Lakers, i’m in no way a fan, but i find myself pulling for them. It’s that damn Tim Duncan, he is so darn dull, but it’s so much more, they haven’t got words to discribe his void of fan apeel. He is the Pete Sampras of Basketball. The comedy of that being that i was the biggest Pete Sampras hater, talked all the trash, for the tim duncan issues of just being too good and too boring, but toward the end, when Pete wasn’t just better than everyone, i saw the human element in his methodical game and i became a rooter, so i’m sure i’ll dig duncan someday but today he is the enemy.
in truth i dislike most teams remaining. Probably like the Heat the most, for Rafer Alston, from street ball to the nba playoffs, great story, but team is probably out this round.
speaking of out
I just watched If I Should Fall From Grace With God / The Shane MacGowan Story. It is quite possibly the best documentary I’ve ever seen.
Its an enertaining movie even if the viewer isnt a fan of the Pogues music.I finally just watched Kill Bill vol. 1. Dollar theater maddness, no sleep no popcorn, lemonheads though. I’m not sure, sometimes things made me mad, but then you wonder if that was Quienten’s intent, you know being cheesy to represent the genre he wishes to protray. The Animation sequences still puzzle me, but i’ve promised myself not to pass judgement till i see vol. 2, however i didn’t run out and buy vol. 1 which shocked me, maybe it’s the cynic that takes me over when i am generally sad and confused with my world. Uma is cool as all get out though. Man is Tarrentino a pothead. All the marajauana refrerences, subtle in names and nick names and so on but you wonder if he is too deep in the wonderfull world of being green, sometimes that effects your work so much you don’t even see it, but who am i to talk…
interested to see who wins cannes. can’t wait to see MIchael Moore’s Farehiet 9/11. The men in suits our trying to keep it from us.
I just saw The Delicate Art of Parking, a mocumentary on the subculture of traffic police. It had it’s moments, kinda got lost a bit in the middle but overall a pretty silly but fun film. Nowhere near my fav mocumentary Fubar :aliensmile:
Hoping to see Kitchen Stories this evening. The scientific study of Norwegian bachelors from the 50’s kitchen habits, sounds silly enough for me
sounds like they’re neat & interesting movies
…what exactly is a mocumentary? never heard this expression before…
A mockumentary or mocumentary is a fiction film presented as a documentary film. They are usually comedic, often parodic in nature, and are often presented as historical documentaries with b-roll and talking heads discussing past events or as cinema verite pieces following people as they go through various events.
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ah, thanks a lot! "mockumentary" quite explains it
I’ve heard of the Norwegian bachelor film before, sounds amazing!yeah, that one has dark humour and wierd dialogue all the way!
not really sure how it would be for someone who doesn’t speak norwegian though, not sure if all the points would be understood. Hopefully Allison will give us an explanation of that:)
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