FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality

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Postby norton ash » Tue Jun 13, 2017 4:54 pm

Gore Vidal on Welles and The Big Brass Ring... and I read this piece in Vidal's 'United States - Essays 1952-1992' big fat book just a few nights ago... Weeeird.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1989/06/01/remembering-orson-welles/

Remembering Orson Welles Gore Vidal JUNE 1, 1989 ISSUE
Citizen Welles: A Biography of Orson Welles
by Frank Brady Scribner's, 655 pp., $24.95

The Big Brass Ring
a screenplay by Orson Welles, with Oja Kadar
Santa Teresa Press, 148 pp., $25.00
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Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality

Postby Cordelia » Tue Jun 13, 2017 7:06 pm

^^^Thanks for that link; I'd forgotten what enjoyable reading Gore Vidal's' essays can be.

The film version is kinda weird (and potentially triggering). The director made changes to location settings and political offices held; it would be interesting to read the screenplay.
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Postby Cordelia » Sat Jun 17, 2017 2:57 pm

^^^
:thumbsup Great film, great actor.

Another clip, ‘Chauncey Gardiner’ giving advice to the POTUS....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgGvd1UPZ88

Thinking of this excellent film about another quiet gardener.....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4iTjavIkbk
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Postby brekin » Thu Jun 22, 2017 10:18 pm

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Just what I needed, and I didn't even know I needed it.
This oscar nominated film from 1980 has a lot of layers to it.
Probably the most realized intellectual-big ideas-but-action movie-slow mind fuck with depth, charm and humor I've seen.

The Stunt Man trailer


The Stunt Man full online
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Postby PufPuf93 » Fri Jun 23, 2017 12:21 am

Amazon Prime recently released "Long Strange Trip" that is a 6-part documentary on the Grateful Dead.

Lots of music, historic video, and interviews. The large role of LSD. Quality production. Stuff I never knew.

I have only watched the first segment and highly recommend.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzJFPlLdISo

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Postby Cordelia » Sun Jun 25, 2017 11:17 am

While visiting Mont Saint-Michel, an American poet ex-pat and his friend, a failed presidential candidate, encounter a Norwegian physicist.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMZ9xwfmNvs

Full movie...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uec1CX-6A38
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Steiner: (James Coburn) I believe that God is a sadist, but probably doesn't even know it.



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Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality

Postby Cordelia » Thu Jun 29, 2017 10:05 am

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Postby Cordelia » Sun Jul 09, 2017 2:45 pm

Re-watching ‘Séraphine’, 2008 biopic about French artist Séraphine de Senli. Brilliantly played by Yolande Moreau (‘Amélie’s next door neighbor), and her relationship w/German art collector Wilhelm Uhde, spirituality, nature, 'insanity', religion, and much more.... Gorgeous, sensitive film, the one that should have been made about Vincent Van Gogh, instead of 'Lust for Life' or Robert Altman's 'Vincent and Theo'.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zn8sUIFlnw

The music by late composer Michael Galasso deserves its own link.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r2P0HrsgVg
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Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality

Postby semper occultus » Sun Jul 09, 2017 3:40 pm

[url=http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2/viewtopic.p
hp?p=570003#p570003]Nordic » 26 Jul 2015 02:46[/url] wrote:
Finally saw "Nightcrawler" and WOW. I can't get it out of my head. If there was ever a perfect neo-noir, this is it. It really captures the feel of LA in the wee, darkest hours of the night. The cinematography is perfect -- the city glitters with ominous potential, as do Gyllenhalls's eyes. This film would not have been possible without modern digital cameras and their high ISO's.

It's creepy as fuck on a spiritual level. It captures the desperation to exploit.

It gave me very weird dreams the night I saw it.


hey I can be even more "final" as I only just got round to seeing it - a rare case of cinema-regret for missing it as an amazing film to look at & Gylenhaal is really a terrifyingly creepy psycho - up there with De Niro as Travis Bickle - in 2017 he cyberstalks his female target rather than kerb-crawling them in a cab & re-cycles corporate-speak bullshit as cover for his exploitative manipulation of people.
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Postby brekin » Wed Jul 19, 2017 12:47 pm

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Postby semper occultus » Sat Aug 05, 2017 7:40 pm

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Starred Up

its a "prison drama" filmed entirely in a de-commisioned prison in Belfast but the acting, direction & script are so extraordinary that they just disolve away completely and leave you with the very uncomfortable feeling you are watching unmediated reality & almost in dread of what will happen next
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