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Toker Villain

Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
Aug 22, 2011 - 01:59pm PT
August,
are you saying that in Heathers she stole the show?
chez

Social climber
chicago ill
Aug 22, 2011 - 02:01pm PT
the supertopo WOS movie, where steve and mimi kick the mahoo out of mark and richard for their neverending nonsense!
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Aug 22, 2011 - 02:08pm PT
It has been a while since I saw it but I want to mention Idi I Smotri.

If you want to see a different and extremely well made realistic warfilm. Go and see "Come and See" ("Idi I Smotri"), Elem Klimov 1985.

We are following a kid through the horrors of war and the kid being transformed physically and mentally through his experiences. The film is one of its kind, poetic, violent, surreal yet real, the white stork has taken to the ground following him home to his slaughtered family, a girl dancing, strong life, erotism and desperation in the same moves under the dark rainy sky where bombs have just fallen. The film is heartbraking in a realistic non-Hollywoomerican way. At times the camera is dwelling on faces and people where you can read the desperate change of emotion. Highly recommended.
Gal

Trad climber
a semi lucid consciousness
Aug 22, 2011 - 02:59pm PT
anyone see "half nelson"? It was pretty good.
Ihateplastic

Trad climber
It ain't El Cap, Oregon
Aug 22, 2011 - 03:04pm PT
Marlow... Thanks for that! I am not familiar with that film and have added it to the list to watch.
Ihateplastic

Trad climber
It ain't El Cap, Oregon
Aug 24, 2011 - 12:26am PT
Just came across this Portal based sic-fi short. Pretty impressive!

PORTAL: No Escape

ms55401

Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
Aug 24, 2011 - 12:28am PT
Excalibur

been looking forward to it for weeks


btw, I'm looking forward to Pixar's Brave, though I'm not really a Pixar kind of guy
David Knopp

Trad climber
CA
Aug 24, 2011 - 10:14am PT
Prince of the City-1982, dir., Sidney Lumet, starring Treat Wiliams
Toker Villain

Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
Aug 24, 2011 - 11:05am PT
Just finished Redford's latest, The Conspirator.

In one of the featurettes Redford said he didn't think that Americans knew the story behind the assassination, but I've read numerous books about it including Manhunt by Swanson, which was a best seller.

Still, it was a good film about allegiance and the foundation of civilian rights. Still, I was surprised that he did not use the last words of Mary Surrat (the first woman executed by the Federal government) despite having the accuracy of the umbrellas to keep the condemned from fainting in the extreme heat.

It should have also made clearer that her son was acquitted on the exact same evidence later due to remaining animosity.
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Aug 24, 2011 - 11:10am PT
Roy Andersson's "You, the Living"

Dreams, a tuba, a drum, song and an electric gitar bringing light into the bleak poetic world of solitude together. An absurd film, all jazz, brilliantly composed. Makes me think of Kaurismäki, Beckett and Kafka. But with orginality and a twist: Where there are dreams there is hope. They all go on, in spite of, after all, because of. Don Quijote on the wall and Lethe being the end station. The name of the film borrowed from Goethe: "Be pleased then, you the living, in your delightfully warmed bed, before Lethe’s ice-cold wave will lick your escaping foot".

Enjoy!
S.Leeper

Sport climber
Pflugerville, Texas
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 26, 2011 - 01:12am PT
Life During Wartime

pretty good so far
Captain...or Skully

climber
or some such
Aug 26, 2011 - 01:28am PT
AKA Tommy Chong on Hulu.
S.Leeper

Sport climber
Pflugerville, Texas
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 26, 2011 - 02:19am PT
crap, wrong movie. I meant winter in wartime
Mimi

climber
Aug 26, 2011 - 02:42am PT
Inception. Thought provoking movie. Very interesting.
Josh Nash

Social climber
riverbank ca
Aug 26, 2011 - 11:10am PT
exit through the gift shop

A great watch on netflix. With a little bit of money, some vision, and a lot of hype you too can create art.
Ihateplastic

Trad climber
It ain't El Cap, Oregon
Aug 26, 2011 - 03:27pm PT
On my way to the theatre to see Columbiana. Should be fantastic!
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Aug 26, 2011 - 03:47pm PT
Apocalypse Now: Gardenias and the Ohio river
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9oBiD7-kAM&feature=player_detailpage

In my view this scene contains some of the best acting ever seen on screen.

Here is parts of the history behind:
"Apocalypse Now was shot in the Phillipines (most notably the Pagsanjan River and Hidden Valley Springs) and the shoot has become legendary for its length and difficulty; filming took so long, critics eventually began referring to it as "Apocalypse When?". The film went far over budget and over schedule for several reasons. A typhoon destroyed many of the sets, which had to be rebuilt at great expense. The Philippine Air Force helicopters used for shooting Col. Kilgore's attack on a Vietnamese village were constantly being called back by President Ferdinand Marcos to serve in actual combat against anti-government rebels.

Martin Sheen suffered a near-fatal heart attack during production and was suffering from alcoholism during the shoot. Sheen later revealed that the opening scene was completely improvised, that he had been drinking all day, his 36th birthday, before it was shot, and that he broke the mirror by accident. When he started bleeding, Coppola wanted to stop filming, but Sheen insisted that he continue. Watching the scene back, Sheen, said it was good to see where he'd come from knowing that he was never going to go back there again. It took Sheen weeks to recover and return to the set, during which time the film was in danger of being shut down. Being similar in appearance and voice, Joe Estevez, Sheen's brother, stood in for Sheen in some of the long shots and would later record some of the film's narration.

Marlon Brando appeared on set massively overweight, despite his character's description as sick and emaciated. He refused to learn his lines and had not read the book Heart of Darkness as Coppola had requested. The majority of Brando's dialogue had to be improvised, despite the short time during which the actor was available.

Coppola famously said of the shoot: "We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little we went insane." The director faced bankruptcy and financial ruin if the film was not finished or shut down; his personal investment and the bizarre circumstances of the production created immense personal pressure. According to Eleanor Coppola's 1991 documentary, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse Coppola's marriage almost fell apart and the director suffered a nervous breakdown, including declaring to commit suicide three separate times through the making of the film."
Ihateplastic

Trad climber
It ain't El Cap, Oregon
Aug 27, 2011 - 01:27am PT
Columbiana was pretty good. Bathroom fight scene a bit too staged but the plot, acting, action, dialogue, and locations were all good.

I was surprised to see an action/shooting/killing/revenge pic like this try to stay within the PG13 rating... I understand it has a bigger audience and thus more rev source, but it just seems weird to see all the killing and have there be no blood and no swearing.
Heeresbergführer

Mountain climber
Washington, DC
Aug 27, 2011 - 12:28pm PT
The 1957 remake of "A Farewell to Arms" with Rock Hudson. World War I Italian Alpini (mountain troops) in the Dolomites.

Gal

Trad climber
a semi lucid consciousness
Aug 27, 2011 - 05:41pm PT
I just watched "the rainmaker" again, that is a pretty good movie!
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