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What Wine Are You All Cracking Open for the Oscars?
- Thread starter Chris Coad
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originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
originally posted by VLM:
SnoozeInstead of watching the Oscars, which I haven't done in years (I usually don't have a rooting interest, last year was an exception) I watched Vicky, Christina, Barcelona.
I mean, it was OK. A nice little film, but hardly wonderful and Penelope Cruz was fine I guess. But outstanding?
Critter shiraz worthy for sure.
I thought that movie's greatest failing was that Javier Bardem's character was so wan. Enough to make everyone else's actions seem mechanical and unconvincing.
I think it was supposed to be unconvincing, at least that is my generous meta-reading of it. I think Woody was having fun with the sophomoric, northeastern liberal arts school girl fantasies.
It was pretty dated though. What, with the obvious financial executive and the houses in Greenwich?
Cole Kendall
Cole Kendall
It was pretty dated though. What, with the obvious financial executive and the houses in Greenwich?
Yeah, all the hip financial guys are now in Austin.
originally posted by Scott Kraft:
Film is in free FAIL.
Yes it is.
And won't we need something to go watch during this depression?
Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
I haven't seen Doubt yet, so I'm waiting to write this year off entirely.
I've seen it. She was amazing; him, less so. The boy's mother, of course, has the most stunning things to say; but the actress was good enough.
Scott Kraft
Scott Kraft
originally posted by Bwood:
originally posted by Scott Kraft:
Film is in free FAIL.
Yes it is.
And won't we need something to go watch during this depression?
Movies from the last one?
Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
Good thinking.
Eden Mylunsch
Eden Mylunsch
originally posted by Scott Kraft:
Film is in free FAIL.
What, you prefer video?
-Eden (waiting for when bluetooth can be used to inject story memes directly through the cranial cortex, bypassing my eyeballs entirely)(but then, that'd be kind of like dreaming, huh?)
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
I haven't seen Doubt yet, so I'm waiting to write this year off entirely.
I've seen it. She was amazing; him, less so. The boy's mother, of course, has the most stunning things to say; but the actress was good enough.
So I take it that you don't concur with the NYT's assessment that Meryl Streep was OTT in this film? Some day, I may get to see films made for adults [edit: as opposed to 'adult films,' which is what I originally wrote] again, but in the mean time I have to rely on vicarious enjoyment.
Mark Lipton
Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
I believe to avoid slippage the word "grownups" is better. Plus, it's more fun.
originally posted by Bwood:
originally posted by Scott Kraft:
Film is in free FAIL.
Yes it is.
And won't we need something to go watch during this depression?
Yeah, but I, Claudius has just been remastered and re-issued.
Then there is The Wire.
And other stuff.
The long form is more to my taste anyway.
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
I haven't seen Doubt yet, so I'm waiting to write this year off entirely.
I've seen it. She was amazing; him, less so. The boy's mother, of course, has the most stunning things to say; but the actress was good enough.
Really. I find PS-H to be an incredibly fine actor and I've loved everything I've seen of him.
Meryl Streep is great. I think folks are just sick of her.
This film had a 1 week run here in Durham and I missed it. Fuck.
originally posted by VLM:
Yeah, but I, Claudius has just been remastered and re-issued.
I just bought it.
Then there is The Wire.
One of the advantages of growing older is that you forget more quickly. I am looking forward to restarting The Wire with a clean slate soon.
The long form is more to my taste anyway.
Same here.
Steve Guattery
Steve Guattery
originally posted by VLM:
...I, Claudius has just been remastered and re-issued.
Then there is The Wire.
I've been a fan of "I, Claudius" since I first saw it on PBS. It's great, over-the-top performances and all. Sin Phillips as Livia still makes my skin crawl.
Still haven't seen "The Wire". I think it's in the library here, so I'll have to take a look next summer.
originally posted by Steve Guattery:
originally posted by VLM:
...I, Claudius has just been remastered and re-issued.
Then there is The Wire.
I've been a fan of "I, Claudius" since I first saw it on PBS. It's great, over-the-top performances and all. Sin Phillips as Livia still makes my skin crawl.
Still haven't seen "The Wire". I think it's in the library here, so I'll have to take a look next summer.
I would call the performances "stagey" rather than over the top. This si essentially a play on the screen.
IMO, The Wire is the best narrative fiction ever put to film.
Frank Deis
Frank Deis
originally posted by Chris Coad:
Wooooo! Hugh Jackman, drunk and naked and singing!
You know, if an "ackman" is a man crush, then someone here has a HUGE ackman.
I Claudius was a great series and a tempting purchase.
I have a colleague who is teaching Roman history and she was lamenting that the recent series "ROME" managed to touch on so many realistic and useable points, but with all the sex and language it is hard to find five minutes one can use in class. Of course that is less of a problem with Claudius.
New Brunswick, NJ really does serve as "off off off" Broadway sometimes. People try out their ideas at the George Street Playhouse. And a year or 2 ago I saw the original play version of "Doubt" there. Very effective and people liked it. I haven't seen the movie yet but I understand it has had some significant changes. Of course doing it with star actors is a pretty significant change as well.
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Scott Kraft
Scott Kraft
originally posted by Eden Mylunsch:
originally posted by Scott Kraft:
Film is in free FAIL.
What, you prefer video?
-Eden (waiting for when bluetooth can be used to inject story memes directly through the cranial cortex, bypassing my eyeballs entirely)(but then, that'd be kind of like dreaming, huh?)
I do actually.
Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
Like, VCR tapes?
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Like, VCR tapes?
Nah, he lives the iLife.
Steve Guattery
Steve Guattery
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by Steve Guattery:
I've been a fan of "I, Claudius" since I first saw it on PBS. It's great, over-the-top performances and all...
I would call the performances "stagey" rather than over the top. This si essentially a play on the screen.
I'll grant you stagey, though I still think John Hurt was over the top, not that it doesn't work in that part. I also recall that Brian Blessed as Augustus is always playing to the back balcony. I think the staginess is more a result of using a lot of stage actors than the adaptation of the books.