Movies

[pan]

Thought it was time to create a thread dedicated to the cinema.

[BO]

Loved it. Only got 16% on Rotten Tomatoes which is why I probably why I missed it when the DVD came out. I'm finding that I disagree with the reviewers at least half the time now. Not surprising seeing as I can't stomach any American TV and hardly US mainstream movies anymore. It's all crap.

I dug Frank MIller's Sin City and this was even better. Didn't even mind Demi Moore. Although, it could have used a few sexy babes to spice things up a bit more. But alas, the sets and art direction were incredible. A ton of work obviously went into it.

Thanks for the rec. I thuroughly enjoyed the movie. I owe you one.

[waldopaper]

Here's a movie for ya... it's about an hour long:  is Here is Germany directed by Frank Capra circa 1945.

The parallels here are batshit crazy.  Peep the comments too. A few people actually notice this shit. 

[BO]

"The parallels here are batshit crazy." They sure are. 

[pan]

Watched about 12 minutes - can't stay with overt propaganda for too long unless it is done extremely well

Reminded me of some of the anti-Soviet filmstrips I saw in Junior High.  As I posted to the video comments, Germany was responsible for some of the major developments in Music, Theatre, Dance, Visual Art, Science, Psychology, Philosophy - far more breadth of impact than the US - yet, if one really looks at the current and history of military adventurism of the US, the US exceeds any German impact on that level

[BO]

Hitler finds out Americans are calling each other Nazis

[BO]

Space Nazis from the dark side of the moon? Yep. 

[Kate]

http://youtu.be/_hPdN2QBTeY - this is a little break for me - didn't know how to imprint the scene from this movie on Klimt with Malkovich - thanks for taking a moment if ye do.

 

Stonefruit and Pan,

thanks for your thoughts on Hedges article answering the Cancer of the black bloc - refreshing to read friendly discussions here on rbc

 

[BO]

Looks like an interesting movie. I'm gonna check it out.

[pan]

At the top of posting window there are a series of buttons.  The third one over has a picture of a bit of blue film.  Click on that.  A separate window will open.  Paste the embed code you have copied from youtube (to access that you need to click "Share" and then "Embed")

I really don't like Malkovich - he is effective in certain roles but, for the most part he creeps me out.  But I like Klimt's work.  Bio-pics about famous artists are hit or miss......I probably will check this one out and hope that the casting of Malkovich was appropriate.

[pan]

Frozen River 

Picked this independent movieup at the video store because I wanted to avoid the Grammys on tv.  I really enjoyed it - sometimes you get lucky

[BO]

Frozen River is one of my all time favorites. Check out Winter's Bone for another in the same vain...plus it has the incredibly sumptuous, Jennifer Lawrence.

[pan]

Mary and Max  wonderful claymation about two very flawed and lonely characters who become penpals and each other's only friends.

Trailer is here