I only just saw your comment here cagecrazy, I have never seen that film but I love watching kids films! , when do we ever need to stop enjoying being a child and giving a free reign to the imagination! i also love children's books!
I need some kind of mind remedy or antidote for Requiem For A Dream...just watched it for the first time.... i am all turned inside out and messy maybe i will read a bit of NArnia!
'Stone' sounds like it has a great cast Lady True! well. I am sensitive to things so other people may have a different experience of the movie...it is not like a horror or anything like that. Incredibly clever cinematography, the plot line and the storytelling method ever intensify as iit flickers towards it's headspining conclusion...I do love when the filmmakers use the camera itself as the artform, like a brush makin different strokes. This is why this story is so powerful and why it kind of transcends the thinking mind...it goes straight into your vein....pardon teh pun. you'll get it when you watch the movie! I can't tell if this is a good film or not i think is...but i am too overwhelmed and in a slightly altered atate to tell. actually, wow, it is a awesome film. how very clever,works on many levels.
He absolutely did to make good on a bet he had made with his friend Erroll Morris, that if he finished his film 'Gates of Heaven' he would eat his shoes! Erroll finished it and so Herzog ate his shoe and saved the other one for if the film got major distribution! He is a very patient documentary maker, letting his subjects present themselves, although not afraid of a little manipulation to reach an 'ecstatic truth'. 'Grizzly Man' and 'Fata Morgana' are both remarkable, but I really enjoyed 'God's Angry Man' too!
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Besides Drive Angry, , we saw a movie called Unstoppable the oher night with Denzel Washington, and it was really edge of your seat exciting, I liked it!
A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.
I just seen Unknown & i highly recommend it oh Liam Neeson looks so hot in a leather jacket
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Hi kelsey! you have been busy! You didn't like The Girl With The dragon Tattoo? I was going to get it, and The Girl Who Played With Fire / Kicked The Hornets nest...but maybe they will go on the maybe list!
I should write them all down as i watch them...recently The Fly ..the other day were we talking about that here? something triggered it, forgot how gory it was but as amazing as i remember, The Purple Rose Of CAiro (Woody Allen film), Eat Pray Love, Love and Other Drugs (totally adored tthis film), Get Him To The greek (at last..was kinda disappointed), Where The Wild Things Are, The Lovely Bones...more but i can't remember!
The Fly is pretty tame as far as horror goes I think, but there are just parts that make me squeamish...especailly when bits start to fall off!
there are some pretty weird films in Cronenberg's body of work.....anyone seen naked Lunch?! the novel was also a read that left me reeling for a long time.
I remember being so repulsed by the Fly, but that was so long ago, I wonder if i would feel the same now. My daughter saw the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and the other and told me i prob would find them too much, so i skipped them, loved the books though.
We finally saw Hereafter recently, i really loved it.
Lol, yes it so is that Sprocket! and I love that! gooily is a word I would probably ascribe to the decomposition of things later on in the film. Truly it is hardly anywhere near a serious gore fest whatsover I am jusst a wimp when it comes to certain things...whcih is why I had to repeatdly turn away when watching Sweeney Todd for the first time the other night, love everything by Tim Burton but becasue of the red squrity stuff I really had to hide my face so much!
Oh and has anyone seen The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus?
I finally have, although this film would have been a must see on the big screen it is such a visual trip, absolutely staggering....I found it utterly magical....yet was unable to shift the deep pathos within (and rightly so) that this was Heath Ledger's last movie, so the movie was for me experienced through that lens of reality.
But, the fiilm really is a deeply special piece of cinema, and although the plot seems to become quite trite for me in the second half the whole journey was rich with an almost psychedelic mythical depth that one cannot usually reinvent except through the experience of dreams or other states.
this exposition on the limitless imagination was a luxurious and iindulgent feast for imagination junkies like me.....lol,I would not believe anyone who told me that Terry Gilliam had not experienced the world of psychedelia and /or other dimensions !