@ Oscar
I read the flick with Stallone is quite acceptable. So maybe, one day … It’s of course a good play, with a lot of cleverly conceived twists and turns. The play is very verbal, and in that sense typically French, I guess they have changed that a little (and they also seem to have turned the character into a gangster)
[size=10pt]SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE(2002)[/size]
I thought this was a really good story, well acted and beautiful cinematografy. It was a bit slow in the beginning, but as the film goes on it picks up the pace.
Damn fine film.7/10
I actually didn’t know Oscar was a remake – I’ll have to see the original.
I really enjoyed the Landis/Stallone Oscar when I saw it as a younger man – it’s an out-of-character film for him, and I remember it being successful because of the performances of Peter Riegert and Chazz Palmenteri, Martin Ferrero and Harry Shearer as a couple of confused tailors, and Marisa Tomei. I would pretty much watch any film that featured Marisa Tomei, even when she’s as bratty as she is in this one.
I caught the tail end of it on TV only a few years ago, and there’s a banker character who is the spitting image of former US Vice President Dick Cheney.
Yes, it’s true.
Also watched a Korean film myself last (I love Sympathy For Mr.Vengeance by the way, probably my favourite Park Chan-wook film) night.
Welcome To Dongmakgol - What can I say, what a fantastic film, a bit violent here and there but overall it’s just a really beautifully made film. During the Korean war three soldiers from the north and two from the south and an injured American soldier end up in a hidden village up in the mountains. The villagers are so peaceful they don’t even know what guns are or that there is a war one. The soldiers start off hostile to each other but end up friends. As this is from 2005 I’m surprised the director hasn’t made another film (mainly a director of commercials). Maybe he didn’t think he could better it. Highly recommended.
i’m watching Treasure Island in Outer Space or if you want L’isola del tesoro with Anthony Quinn
yep, and directed by no one else than Antonio Margheriti
i watched this TV show as a kid so i’m curious what will become of it now - but so far so good
Are you watching the four parter or condensed film?
i’m watching this version :
[url]- YouTube
it has nearly 6 hrs in total with a few short scenes in german
The Fat Man, 1951… disappointingly lackluster depiction of an armored-car robbery’s aftermath. J. Scott Smart reprises his radio-role as the rotund private-detective, based on Dash Hammett’s The Continental OP (operative). This film really needed Hammett, big time. Though it’s somewhat rescued by Rock Hudson, Julie London, and Emmett Kelly. The Continental OP stories are as enthralling as The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, and The Thin Man. It’s a mystery why Hollywood could never present 'em correctly.
I’ve been watching Woody Allen lately.
All you wanted to know about sex…
-Better than I remembered. I’m not big fan of episode films though since the quality often varies between the sequences and we have the same problem here. My favorite episode is the one in italian which should appeal to any fan of italian cinema.
Love & Death
-Possibly Allen’s funniest film, many scenes reminded me Marx brothers.
Zelig
-I know this one has it’s fans too but I think it’s one of the worst Allen films I’ve seen. I think the idea is good for a short film but it starts to repeat itself too much and is bit boring towards the end as a long feature.
I also watched the recent 2-part documentary about him. I liked the first part but the second one loses the focus and at times feels like one of those “making of” documentaries of dvd extras.
Love & Death
-Possibly Allen’s funniest film, many scenes reminded me Marx brothers.
Agreed. Allen pays tribute to all his comedy heroes in this one as well as spoofing some of his more dramatic ones.
A wonderful film which I never tire of watching. Diane Keaton is also superb in it.
Love & Death - not my favorite Allen, too deliberate in its references to Russian literature (Tolstoy, Dostoïevski, Checkov, etc.). Some good comedy though (rather Chaplinesque in some places) and Keaton is indeed wonderful in it.
Zelig - wonderfully done, but a one-trick pony. Should have been a short.
Les Hurdes (1933) by Luis Bunuel.
It should be called Apocalypse according to Bunuel. An exaggerated depiction of poverty, where donkeys and people are eaten alive by honeybees, people don’t know what a fresh bread means, in spring, the poor eat unhealthy and filthy food, thus they have dysentery, and on account of mosquitoes they also die of malaria etc. A truly quirky stuff, but it’s a very well made piece of politicized cinema which is worth a look. 7/10
Union Station (1950).
2 suspicious characters board a train…a passenger sees that one of them has a gun tucked in his coat. She reports it to the police who find that a blind heiress has been kidnapped.
Decent old movie with William Holden. 3/5.
Brother (2000) with Takeshi Kitano as an actor and director.
Very violent Yakuza film.A boss of Yakuza leaves Japan behind when the things for him and his clan are getting worse.He finds his stepbrother in L.A. and tries to make a new gang with a leading role in the area.Unfortunately for him the end of his career starts now.Omar Epps including in the cast with melancholic soundtrack from Joe Hisaishi.That film is maybe the best from Kitano’s filmography.For me ‘‘Outrage’’ and ‘‘Sonatine’’ are the most delightful.
I will watch for fifth time the first one.
Harsh Times (2005) David Ayer
Not a bad film, good performances from the main actors, a satisfactory story, in the end a variation on the Taxi driver theme. it works like one of those post vietnam war movies, the war here is just another. Some scenes are great like the one in the coffee when they try to seel the gun
The main problem its the second part of the film drags a bit, also the main character works to much like a Travis Bickle, worst we realy never know the origin of its rage. In any case I like this one more than Training day for instance, the all thing here looked more real
In any case Bale gives a stellar performace, one of the modern actors with a most notorious Actor’s studio aproach, Fredie Rodriguez also a very good secondary.
The plot could be better I think, but good performances from main actors nevertheless
Vampyres - First time I’ve seen it uncut, not quite sure what was extra though, a bit saucier maybe? The Blue-Underground Blu has a nice transfer and is definitely worth picking up. Reminds me of Rollin when you see them running through the woods.
Joe - Loudmouthed racist patriotic factory (Peter Boyle) befriends a wealthy advertising executive father who killed his daughter’s heroin addict lover, even though they live a different existence find they have a few things in common, including wanting to rids the streets of junkies. Definitely worth a watch.
Enjoyed Joe, the ending was unexpected but I like that in a film.
[quote=“Yodlaf Peterson, post:9245, topic:1923”]Also watched a Korean film myself last (I love Sympathy For Mr.Vengeance by the way, probably my favourite Park Chan-wook film) night.
Welcome To Dongmakgol - What can I say, what a fantastic film, a bit violent here and there but overall it’s just a really beautifully made film. During the Korean war three soldiers from the north and two from the south and an injured American soldier end up in a hidden village up in the mountains. The villagers are so peaceful they don’t even know what guns are or that there is a war one. The soldiers start off hostile to each other but end up friends. As this is from 2005 I’m surprised the director hasn’t made another film (mainly a director of commercials). Maybe he didn’t think he could better it. Highly recommended.
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I found it interesting.I’ll check this.The actress must be the same in the Old Boy movie.A great film.
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A Jerry Lewis comedy that even seems to divide his loyal fans. Some think it’s one of his best, others think it’s too hectic for its own good. I’m more with those who love it, but it cannot be denied that some of the comedy feels overwrought.
Jerry plays a young doctor who cannot do his job properly (and therefore works as an orderly) because he suffers from a strange disease called “neurotic identification empathy”, which means he shows psychosomatic symptoms which mirror the problems of his patients. In the case of the very talkative Mrs. Fuzzibee this has disastrous consequences. Things get complicated when the girl of his dreams - he never dared to speak to her in high school - is brought in after a suicide attempt.
Some brilliant jokes and fine touches of Lewis’ typically anarchistic absurdities, but the romantic subplot works only in spots and there’s a bit too much noise and chaos. Presenting Jerry’s doctor as a split personality this is clearly a post-Nutty Professor movie, using the same formula of cruel and tender jokes (all characters are at the same time good-natured but embittered personalities, cruel to each other and to themselves). To me a good runner-up.
7/10
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