Movies

[pan]

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

[Cal]

.... That is seriously pissing on my battery ... biogas just became passe (with a thingy on top of the 'e') ...

 

 

[pan]

The accent aigu is accessible on my Mac by pressing "Option" & "e"

I know this becausé my wifé usés the accént aigu in hér namé évér sincé a Frénch téachér told hér to.

[BO]

always wondered where that thing-e´ was. Voila´ Now I can speak french. Wait...how come mine aren't lining up on top like Pan's?

[pan]

option-e then the letter you want the aigu over should do it á, é, í, ó, ú.

However, I have sometimes had it not align - don't really know why.

[pan]

Mid-August Lunch A totally delightful film about a middle-aged man taking care of his elderly mother and the "guests" of three other elderly women who a foisted upon them for the Mid-August holidays.

[pan]

Blame it on Fidel.  Wealthy parents  make their 9 year old girl adjust to their new life as activists within the 1970s movement in Paris.  Some really wonderful stuff.

[pan]

The Hedgehog is a 54 year-old reclusive superintendent of a luxury apartment building who is befriended by Paloma, an incredibly talented and sensitive 12 year old daughter of one of the five bourgeois families living in the building.  Paloma, has concluded that the destiny in life is to live like a goldfish in a fishbowl - and, determined to escape that fate has decided to create a video about life prior to taking her life on her 13th birthday.

Quite lovely and touching.

[pan]

It loses some of its focus but God Bless America about a man and a teenager that go on a killing spree of reality TV stars and other thoroughly annoying people has some great moments that I think BO would really enjoy.

[pan]

Meet the Fokkens - 69-year-old identical twins who have worked as prostitutes in Amsterdam's red light district for over 50 years.

[pan]

Imagining having to read a Stiller/DeNiro subtitled movie....

[pan]

The House I Live In

Every American should see this documentary about the holocaust on the poor known as the War on Drugs.

[pan]

A Band Called Death - very fucking cool.

Before Bad Brains, the Sex Pistols or even the Ramones, there was a band called Death.

Punk before punk existed, three teenage brothers in the early '70s formed a band in their spare bedroom, began playing a few local gigs and even pressed a single in the hopes of getting signed. But this was the era of Motown and emerging disco. Record companies found Death’s music— and band name—too intimidating, and the group were never given a fair shot, disbanding before they even completed one album. Equal parts electrifying rockumentary and epic family love story, A Band Called Death chronicles the incredible fairy-tale journey of what happened almost three decades later, when a dusty 1974 demo tape made its way out of the attic and found an audience several generations younger. Playing music impossibly ahead of its time, Death is now being credited as the first black punk band (hell...the first punk band!), and are finally receiving their long overdue recognition as true rock pioneers.