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Post by Gillianren on Jul 28, 2015 7:26:33 GMT -6
Smash His Camera, about paparazzo Ron Gilello. Practically the only thing on the Wikipedia page is a link to Noel Murray's review.
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Post by Gillianren on Aug 11, 2015 9:31:34 GMT -6
Finally saw Spellbound last night, with its dream sequence designed by Salvador Dali. Freudian and sexist but still interesting.
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Post by Gillianren on Aug 11, 2015 20:49:25 GMT -6
Ant-Man. I wish people would recognize when their kids aren't ready to see movies in the theatre!
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Post by ludditerobot on Aug 13, 2015 12:10:17 GMT -6
Not last night, but the night before I watched the baffling and semi-ludicrous Zardoz, which has Sean Connery's resplendent chest hair and cultishly iconic outfit going for it, and a whole lotta sexual assault going against it. Boorman's tripped-out meditations on sex, violence, death, and power are still pretty endlessly fascinating, though.
Last night, I started Cronenberg's Maps To The Stars but ended up falling asleep. I'll report back on that one, though I hope Julianne Moore doesn't have much more to say about young starlets who let producers pee up their butts, because yuck.
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Post by Gillianren on Aug 17, 2015 11:49:14 GMT -6
Watching Soylent Green.
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Post by Gillianren on Aug 18, 2015 18:11:44 GMT -6
Did Solo Con Tu Pareja and Sounder this morning, and we're watching Spirited Away.
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Post by Gillianren on Aug 19, 2015 10:15:23 GMT -6
Spirit of St. Louis.
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Post by Gillianren on Aug 20, 2015 9:25:45 GMT -6
Nightcrawler. What does it say about me that I got all excited when I saw Kent Shocknek, the reporter who was on the air on the local NBC station during the Whittier-Narrows earthquake?
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Post by Gillianren on Aug 28, 2015 15:57:56 GMT -6
Wow, do I want to punch most of the characters in The Squid and the Whale.
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Post by thenarrator on Aug 28, 2015 20:17:56 GMT -6
Wow, do I want to punch most of the characters in The Squid and the Whale. Oh, that's minor Baumbach. Kicking and Screaming is his undisputed masterpiece.
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Post by Gillianren on Sept 2, 2015 10:58:59 GMT -6
Yesterday, I watched El espĂritu de la colmena and The Spy Game without getting around to writing the reviews yet. Writing it here so I remember when I have the time later today to write.
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Post by Gillianren on Sept 8, 2015 22:50:10 GMT -6
Again, so I don't forget.
State of Play, which I thought at least played in an interesting way off the strange dislike people seem to have for Ben Affleck. Also, it deeply irritated me that the captions whenever someone wasn't speaking in English said, "chattering in foreign language." On the other hand, it pleased me that a black man was flirting with a white woman without anyone in the movie acting as though it was unusual.
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring is powerful and painful.
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Post by Gillianren on Sept 18, 2015 9:29:16 GMT -6
I started a kids' film called Spork before turning it off because it seems to have been written by people who never actually talked to junior high kids. The black girl was the most awful stereotype, too. She wanted to win a dance-off so she could get the money to visit her father in prison. Which could be a fine treatment for a drama, but this is clearly supposed to be a comedy. Our Ostensible Heroine is from stereotypical white trash. And the villain is honest-to-gods named "Betsy Byotch."
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Post by Gillianren on Jan 29, 2016 20:06:21 GMT -6
Watching Tabloid. She's . . . not a very intelligent person, I think, but I don't completely disagree with her about Mormonism.
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