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David
to wish impossible things
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Well done!
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| David wrote: | | I just watched Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanours again. I was wondering if I'd still like it the second time around, but was really impressed with it. The ending in particular is excellent. |
Great film.
Have you seen "Zelig" & "The Front" ? - the latter wasn't directed by Allen but both worth watching.
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David
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I've seen Zelig not one of my favourites, but certainly a clever concept. I put The Front on at the video store one day and half-watched it; looked interesting (and an unusual dramatic role from him too).
Some of my favourite Allen films (apart from Crimes and Misdemeanours) are:
Sleeper
Annie Hall
Manhattan
Stardust Memories
Deconstructing Harry
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
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Mugwump
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| David wrote: | I've seen Zelig not one of my favourites, but certainly a clever concept. I put The Front on at the video store one day and half-watched it; looked interesting (and an unusual dramatic role from him too).
Some of my favourite Allen films (apart from Crimes and Misdemeanours) are:
Sleeper
Annie Hall
Manhattan
Stardust Memories
Deconstructing Harry
Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
Yes, I think "Crimes and Misdemeanours" is his masterpiece. Love and Death is also a favourite (Keaton : "and now you're dead ! What's it like ?" Allen : "you know the chicken at Tresky's restaurant ? .... It's worse").
I also love the Purple Rose of Cairo, which is both funny and sad. Midnight in Paris was also really good. The Hemingway character still makes me laugh. Finally, that wonderful scene at the very start of Stardust Memories is one that Ms Mugwump and I still quote freely to one another when occasion demands. It's a classic.
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think positive
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| stui magpie wrote: | | think positive wrote: | | stui magpie wrote: | | King Monkey wrote: | The Shawshank Redemption.......... again.
Funny, I've probably seen it about a half dozen times, but have never actively sought it out. It's just one of those movies you can't take your eyes off when it happens to be on.
So, after a bit of channel surfing I just sat through it from 2.00-4.25am on Jan 1, with no intention of doing so. Lol.
Geez I must be getting old.  |
I've never actually seen it. |
Your kidding? That should be illegal, go get a copy or download it, you will love it, it's got everything, drama, intrigue, humour, not action but violence! And simply the best endings ever, it's just a brilliant movie, casting, scenery, everything. When it's on telly, you just can't flick past it! |
yeah, Nah, Maybe.
Is it as good as Cobra?  |
Not many movies don't come across as cornet a few years later, this is one, just like the fugitive it's still very watchable, give it a go, you will love it
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Morrigu 
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We are not big movie watchers but finally watched Hotel Rwanda the other night ( we didn't want to see it before we went - dunno why) Enjoyed is probably not the correct term but it captured very well the events and history of a sad time in what we found a beautiful country.
It wasn't till we visited that we realised that it was white Western Catholics looking to convert the locals who initially made the distinction between the Tutsi and Hutu and favoured the Hutu cause they were more amenable to being" converted" . Ah religion - AGAIN!
Anyway thought it was well done and well worth watching.
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David
to wish impossible things
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| Mugwump wrote: | | David wrote: | I've seen Zelig not one of my favourites, but certainly a clever concept. I put The Front on at the video store one day and half-watched it; looked interesting (and an unusual dramatic role from him too).
Some of my favourite Allen films (apart from Crimes and Misdemeanours) are:
Sleeper
Annie Hall
Manhattan
Stardust Memories
Deconstructing Harry
Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
Yes, I think "Crimes and Misdemeanours" is his masterpiece. Love and Death is also a favourite (Keaton : "and now you're dead ! What's it like ?" Allen : "you know the chicken at Tresky's restaurant ? .... It's worse").
I also love the Purple Rose of Cairo, which is both funny and sad. Midnight in Paris was also really good. The Hemingway character still makes me laugh. Finally, that wonderful scene at the very start of Stardust Memories is one that Ms Mugwump and I still quote freely to one another when occasion demands. It's a classic. |
Are you referring to "jazz heaven"? That is great.
Some writers and filmmakers don't do self-referential well, but I think Stardust Memories is my favourite of all his films. Seems like his most ambitious, too, in terms of its ideas and cinematography.
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Mugwump
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| David wrote: | | Mugwump wrote: | | David wrote: | I've seen Zelig not one of my favourites, but certainly a clever concept. I put The Front on at the video store one day and half-watched it; looked interesting (and an unusual dramatic role from him too).
Some of my favourite Allen films (apart from Crimes and Misdemeanours) are:
Sleeper
Annie Hall
Manhattan
Stardust Memories
Deconstructing Harry
Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
Yes, I think "Crimes and Misdemeanours" is his masterpiece. Love and Death is also a favourite (Keaton : "and now you're dead ! What's it like ?" Allen : "you know the chicken at Tresky's restaurant ? .... It's worse").
I also love the Purple Rose of Cairo, which is both funny and sad. Midnight in Paris was also really good. The Hemingway character still makes me laugh. Finally, that wonderful scene at the very start of Stardust Memories is one that Ms Mugwump and I still quote freely to one another when occasion demands. It's a classic. |
Are you referring to "jazz heaven"? That is great.
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Not sure if has anything to do with jazz heaven, but it's this one :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWD5NXPIRuo
Once you have watched it, you find no end of scenarios in life which can be summed up with "this is like being in the first scene of Stardust Memories"
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| Mugwump wrote: | | David wrote: | | Mugwump wrote: | | David wrote: | I've seen Zelig not one of my favourites, but certainly a clever concept. I put The Front on at the video store one day and half-watched it; looked interesting (and an unusual dramatic role from him too).
Some of my favourite Allen films (apart from Crimes and Misdemeanours) are:
Sleeper
Annie Hall
Manhattan
Stardust Memories
Deconstructing Harry
Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
Yes, I think "Crimes and Misdemeanours" is his masterpiece. Love and Death is also a favourite (Keaton : "and now you're dead ! What's it like ?" Allen : "you know the chicken at Tresky's restaurant ? .... It's worse").
I also love the Purple Rose of Cairo, which is both funny and sad. Midnight in Paris was also really good. The Hemingway character still makes me laugh. Finally, that wonderful scene at the very start of Stardust Memories is one that Ms Mugwump and I still quote freely to one another when occasion demands. It's a classic. |
Are you referring to "jazz heaven"? That is great.
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Not sure if has anything to do with jazz heaven, but it's this one :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWD5NXPIRuo
Once you have watched it, you find no end of scenarios in life which can be summed up with "this is like being in the first scene of Stardust Memories" |
Hmm, I watched it, I can honestly say, I've never lived it!
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Mugwump
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^ Ever walked through the business class section on your way to an economy seat for a flight from the UK to Australia ? I always think this scene sums up that feeling well.... and quite a few similar things.
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stui magpie 
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Jezza 
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Yep I'm looking forward to seeing Suicide Squad as well.
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The Prototype 
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I watched Obsessed with Laura, it stars Ali Larter, Beyonce and Ibris Elba.
Ali Larter is a temp at an office and she gets a bit interested in Ibris, who is married to Beyonce with a child, at a Christmas Party she tries to get him to sleep with her and he knocks her back. She keeps on there but wont let up he storms out of the party. Next time they're together in his car she's in her lingerie and he rejects her again.
She keeps obsessing over him and all that at the hotel and all, then attempts suicide and then makes up there was an affair, etc, then starts to stalk him and all that. His wife leaves him and all that, then the stuff happens when they get back together the girls obsession gets worse.
It wasn't a bad film, won't give much more away but I didn't think I'd like it, I got it for Laura for her birthday so we watched it and it was good.
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David
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^ It's amazing how many times films have returned to that trope. Maybe as a means of scaring married men into staying monogamous.
There's a great French film from the early 1970s called The Mother and the Whore which has a loosely similar premise but ends up deconstructing that narrative (of the pure, maternal, mostly sexless woman at home and the dangerous, sexually appealing, immoral 'homewrecker').
This probably needs to be seen in the context of the film it's one of the final scenes but it's worth seeing nonetheless just as an example of a great film monologue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO-WE-g-v8A
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