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Post by desertrose on Jun 2, 2007 12:19:57 GMT 10
A really powerful film that is being shown on our cable channel this month is a new movie called, "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee." (I thought of you Dreamy).
I have watched it twice this week and it is an amazingly wonderful and yet heart-breaking film. The film is set primarily amongst the Lakota Sioux at the Pine Ridge Reservation and the atrocities that occurred before, during and after. It is not a fiction film. It is historically accurate and all taken from the great Native American historian's book by Dee Alexander Brown.
If you have not seen this film, you NEED to!
Also watched Babel. Although it was not what I expected, I did really love this film.
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Post by andi on Jun 7, 2007 1:40:08 GMT 10
I ordered Dear Frankie, Trainspotting and Green Street (Hooligans) on dvd to watch the english version finally. Going to start tonight.
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Post by dreamy on Jun 7, 2007 6:43:57 GMT 10
A really powerful film that is being shown on our cable channel this month is a new movie called, "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee." (I thought of you Dreamy). I have watched it twice this week and it is an amazingly wonderful and yet heart-breaking film. The film is set primarily amongst the Lakota Sioux at the Pine Ridge Reservation and the atrocities that occurred before, during and after. It is not a fiction film. It is historically accurate and all taken from the great Native American historian's book by Dee Alexander Brown. I would love to see this film, Rose and hope I will get a chance some day!If you have not seen this film, you NEED to! Also watched Babel. Although it was not what I expected, I did really love this film.
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Post by desertrose on Jun 7, 2007 14:37:45 GMT 10
Watched "Borat" this week. I didn't really have high expectations of this film, but honestly? Fred and I never laughed so hard in our lives! It was completely hysterical. I am not sure how the guy got away with the things he did! It is pretty silly and very funny.
Also watched "Babel." Excellent film!
Watched "Night at the Museum" I would say that kids would greatly enjoy this film. I enjoyed it too, don't get me wrong. But if you are looking for a film to entertain your kids, this would be one of them. Pretty funny and very educational!
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Post by Elly on Jun 7, 2007 17:27:14 GMT 10
Watched "Borat" this week. I didn't really have high expectations of this film, but honestly? Fred and I never laughed so hard in our lives! It was completely hysterical. I am not sure how the guy got away with the things he did! It is pretty silly and very funny. Like you didn't think would like this film might hire it and watch it as have heard it is very good ;D Might get 'Babel' as well, thanks Rosemary ;D
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Post by dreamy on Jul 21, 2007 21:25:55 GMT 10
I watched "Children of Men" and enjoyed it immensly. It's directed by Alfonso Cuaron who is a very gifted director! Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine are starring. It's a very very intensive movie and I would rate it 4.5 /5. Here's a brief review:
In the spellbinding Children of Men, his best film to date, Cuaron, 45, fills every frame with his passion and intellect. Here's a movie that grabs you hard, pops your eyes, provokes your mind and ultimately lifts your spirits. As director and co-writer, Cuaron takes on a 1992 novel by P.D. James set in 2027 in battle-battered England, the only country left to soldier on in the face of massive terrorism, immigrant invasion and global infertility (no child has been born since 2009). The death of Baby Diego, at eighteen the youngest living person, has caused a period of national mourning.
Hope is the first casualty among survivors, who include Theo (Clive Owen), a former activist playing out his days as a bureaucrat for the Ministry of Energy. Owen's powerfully implosive performance lets us see past the barriers Theo has erected around his emotions. Theo is a shell of a man until his former lover Julian (Julianne Moore) begs him to help the Fishes, underground rebels dedicated to aiding refugees, called fugees, who are regularly captured, tortured and kept in cages. Since he and Julian share the sorrow of having had a son who died, Theo agrees to slip a fugee named Kee (the remarkable newcomer Claire-Hope Ashitey) past the police to find safety with the utopian Human Project. But when Kee's secret is revealed -- she's eight months pregnant -- she and everyone who dares to side with her become targets for special-interest groups of conflicting and sometimes lethal motives.
Those motives can be maddeningly unclear at times. But a second viewing, which Children of Men richly rewards, deepens our understanding. Cuaron, invoking shattered landscapes from Beirut to Baghdad, is dedicated to locating shards of humanity among the ruins. That he does, not just in the person of Jasper (a hilarious and heartbreaking Michael Caine), a former political cartoonist now devoted to weed, rap music and sticking it to the system, but in the small details that measure what our planet has lost. Is it possible to capture the terrible absence of a world without children? Cuaron does it. His chief collaborator is director of photography Emmanuel Lubezki, a weaver of visual miracles. No movie in the last year is more redolent of sorrowful beauty and exhilarating action. You don't just watch the scene (shot with a hand-held camera) in which Theo, Kee and other passengers jammed in a car are attacked from all sides -- you live inside it, ducking each fresh, ferocious assault. The technique disappears to envelop you in the moment. That's Cuaron's magic, and it's exhilarating. I'm not usually one for political fables that include symbols such as a ship called Tomorrow. But Cuaron has a gift only the greatest filmmakers share: He makes you believe.
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Post by desertrose on Jul 29, 2007 12:25:46 GMT 10
Have been watching a lot of movies lately, but so much not sure I can remember them all.
Heard Queen Elizabeth sequel with Cate Blanchett is coming out in October. I can hardly wait as I own the first movie and it is pretty much my favorite movie of all time.
Ok, have a question. have you all seen the mini series of Elizabeth I ? I am wondering which films are more historically accurate.....Elizabeth, The Virgin Queen with Cate Blanchett or the HBO series of Queen Elizabeth with Helen Mirren
Watched "The Queen" with Helen Mirren. Really loved this movie!
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Post by dreamy on Jul 30, 2007 22:37:51 GMT 10
Last night I watched "Die Hard 4" and my high expectations were fully met. Wow! Bruce Willis at his best, the only difference to the other "Die Hard" movies I can see is that he has less hair. As usual Willis is at the wrong place at the wrong time. The action started when he entered the scene and never stops until the very end of the film. Things blowing up, bullets flying around all over the place, people flying off buildings, people being kicked out of windows, crazy car chases, and much more. You would think Willis is old and not up for a movie like this, but he did an amazing job. He was able to keep the "Die Hard feeling" alive, you know how he ends up all bloody and bruised, yet kicks the shit out of everybody; he succeeded. And as for Willis"significant" line in all Die Hards: "Yippie Kay Yay Motherf*cker" ... yep, all included...
I dont want to ruin the movie for anyone so I'm not telling anything about the story but you really should see it at the theatres. Simply to be able to ebjoy the action and the sound at its best....
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Post by mcnass on Aug 11, 2007 5:50:03 GMT 10
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Post by desertrose on Nov 10, 2007 17:26:30 GMT 10
Watched "Georgia Rule" the other night. I really loved this film!
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Post by Elly on Nov 15, 2007 20:03:13 GMT 10
Another one I've been meaning to get, watched 'Shallow Grave' and 'Troy' the other day enjoyed both.
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Post by dcanmore on Jan 3, 2008 1:44:06 GMT 10
Tonight I'm going to watch 'Sunshine' a Danny Boyle (Shallow Grave, Trainspotting) Sci-Fi movie in the vein of Solaris and 2001: A Space Odyssey, really looking forward to it. I also want to see The Bourne Ultimatum... I loved that first two. Shortly I'm going start a series of threads/posts looking at, in depth, Scottish movies, actors, and film makers, from the early beginnings to the modern day Also I am going to begin a thread that will take you through a tour of my home county Wigtownshire, then into South Ayrshire and over to Kirkcudbrightshire, again in some depth. I hope this will be of interest to everyone.... Richard
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