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most profound movie you've seen?
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About a heroin addict and his drug addicted friends and their day to day activities. Being about heroin you would think you would get some melodramatic depressing Hollywood woe is me story with people OD'ing all over the place and some kind of unrealistic morality lesson at the end, but it shows them having a good time for the most part which to me is about as real as it gets. You could easily extrapolate the concept to include other drugs or habits and why people get into whatever escapism they are into. Plus the dialogue is just awesome.
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Originally posted by Keith Richards View Postthe truman show, i havent seen that in a long time. i enjoyed groundhog day too. the tree of life, i need to watch it again. the cinematography is good though.
maybe i'll watch crimes and misdemeanors too... (if i could find it...)
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Originally posted by Biolink View Post
About a heroin addict and his drug addicted friends and their day to day activities. Being about heroin you would think you would get some melodramatic depressing Hollywood woe is me story with people OD'ing all over the place and some kind of unrealistic morality lesson at the end, but it shows them having a good time for the most part which to me is about as real as it gets. You could easily extrapolate the concept to include other drugs or habits and why people get into whatever escapism they are into. Plus the dialogue is just awesome.
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Originally posted by talip bin osman View Postdamn... green K for coming up with this... this is one of the few instances where the movie was better than the book IMHO... young kelly mcdonald was hot eh?
Young Kelly indeed.
Honestly had no idea that she went on to become something though before you told me. Ewan McGregor, Johnny Lee Miller, and McDonald beast actors at super young ages.
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Originally posted by NEETzsche View Postprobably something by kobayashi, resnais, or tarkovskiy.
tarr and kiarostami are pretty deep, too.
film festivals here in singapore show these, but DVDs are very difficult to find... my usual go to place is the criterion collection...
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Originally posted by talip bin osman View Posttree of life is a kind of movie that gets more powerful with repeated viewings...
maybe i'll watch crimes and misdemeanors too... (if i could find it...)
woody allen is a great director. i hope you find a copy of it.
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Originally posted by Keith Richards View Postand the director terrance mallick, all of his films are like that eh?
woody allen is a great director. i hope you find a copy of it.
he is slow and methodical... his visuals are as cinematic as anyone... actually, when i watched the thin red line, i was expecting it to mimic private ryan in terms of action but man, i was wrong... (these two were shown almost at the same time like over a decade ago...)
repeated viewings though and the thin red line becomes like a phoenix so to speak...
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Originally posted by talip bin osman View Postim not well schooled about russian cinema... where do you get your dose of russian films?
film festivals here in singapore show these, but DVDs are very difficult to find... my usual go to place is the criterion collection...
for some great russian cinema check out elem klimov's come and see, bondarchuk's war & peace, and kozintsev's shakespeare adaptations. more recently, aleksandr sokurov and andrey zvyagintsev are two russkies who have impressed me.Last edited by NEETzsche; 10-06-2012, 06:31 PM.
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