I Feel Myself at the movies!

dble07 · 25-07-06 01:07:10

....Dangerous Liaisons .... based on a Frech novel written in the 18th Century

Cate · 25-07-06 10:02:09

I just got The 400 Blows in the mail. The criterion collection edition too. It's a shame I don't have time to watch it tonight.

nibbler · 25-07-06 10:08:22

I saw a wonderful WW-II based movie called "An office with a rose" (I think that was the title). It was probably a european movie.. but i cant seem to find any other information about it now on IMDB or anywhere else on the internet..

nibbler · 25-07-06 10:09:29

ok.. I found some info about that movie..:

http://www.gerila.com/video/vhs/4258.htm

Siobhan · 05-09-06 23:04:38

I just got back from seeing Little Miss Sunshine which, while not FULL of sunshine in the first half, was nonetheless full of laughs -- those bitter yet full-on laughs that come from someone recognizing the utter horror and depravity that is sometimes attendant to being part of a family unit.

Steve Carroll does an amazing job -- esp after the VERY sunshiny performance in 40 year old virgin - this role is meanwhile a very dramatic one -- he is stuck with his awful family after having tried to off himself.

There's a funny David Lodge (for those of you who like novels that are send-ups of academia) element to the thing in that his tragedy involves that he is the MOST revered Proust scholar in the US but the #2 Proust scholar in the US has not only stolen the affections of the sexiest Proust grad student but has also garnered a MacArthur genious award.

I would have slit my wrists as well. . . .

Anyway, Toni Collette is her usual wonderful self and there are other pleasures to the movie -- I think the crusty heroin addict grandfather is Alan Arkin or some other great actor.

Siobhan · 08-09-06 03:55:27

And the best movie kiss this year between two women goes to . . .

the movie I saw today: Imagine Me and You
(released elsewhere in 2005) between Piper Perabo and Lena Headley (sp).

very very sweet sexy kiss. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkiM0pI8Nqc

Adagio · 08-09-06 04:01:27

very sweet indeed thanks for the youtube link.

nihpuad · 08-09-06 06:02:31

As Adagio says, Siobhan, thanks for the youtube hookup... but it cuts off just as things seem set to get even more interesting. You say you saw the actual movie? Does this scene progress, or do they do the zoom-in-on-the-nightstand-and-fade-to-black thing?

Siobhan · 08-09-06 06:20:09

Well, let's just say that the movie is definitely worth seeing, but in the DVD extras, one of the actresses says she "felt cheated" that they didn't have time to take the sex further in the movie than they did.

distantadmirer · 08-09-06 06:49:32

Sign her up.

nihpuad · 08-09-06 07:47:23

Siobhan wrote:

...one of the actresses says she "felt cheated" that they didn't have time to take the sex further in the movie than they did.

Well, nothing was stopping her from rehearsing those scenes, even if nobody planned to shoot them!

distantadmirer · 09-09-06 05:42:15

Back in the good old days when movie theatres were palaces with mezzanines and balconies, lovers would go way up and back to "make out", aka fuck, suck, feel, and do whatever else they wanted to with out being abashed by people in the row behind. If a woman's thighs were way up in the air doing some mysterious dance, there was no one there behind to hiss "down in front", probably because they were also so busy with themselves and what ever mysterious dance they were embarked upon. In one of these old grand ladies of a theater with massive flowing curtains anything could happen.

Young boys and girls (kids in sneakers) would sneak up to these ethereal heights above the mezzanine to spy on the "big kids", maybe even their own older brothers and sisters. The lovers hearing the giggling of the young, redoubled their efforts. After all, culture must be transmitted from the older to the younger. Ushers would come up with flashlites, chase the kidsaway and hold them up for soda and candy and popcorn.

Ok, in the modern cineplex you can chose between 10 movies in 10 small "theaters". But where can you make out!

Siobhan · 15-09-06 00:27:30

Did anyone here like The Story of O?
Confession: I've never understanding why it was so hot. I mean, I got off on smacking my girlfriend's ass with a hot wire coathanger TOO when she asked me to ([personal aside] s/m is not my natural bent, but i was totally nuts for her, and we all know that the bottom is reallythe one in control, so i now happily know my way around inflicting pain [/personal aside].

For those of you who liked the tale, or who -- like me -- didn't git it but loved all the secrecy about the author, here's a movie for you (and, as it's a documentary, it's not really an erotic film):

http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/videocata … cts_id=107

jolicrasseux · 22-09-06 19:20:45

Siobhan wrote:

Did anyone here like The Story of O?
Confession: I've never understanding why it was so hot. I mean, I got off on smacking my girlfriend's ass with a hot wire coathanger TOO when she asked me to ([personal aside] s/m is not my natural bent, but i was totally nuts for her, and we all know that the bottom is reallythe one in control, so i now happily know my way around inflicting pain [/personal aside].
For those of you who liked the tale, or who -- like me -- didn't git it but loved all the secrecy about the author, here's a movie for you (and, as it's a documentary, it's not really an erotic film):
http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/videocata … cts_id=107

But beyond its merits as a literary work.... In the end, the most instructive aspect of the book is that it demonstrates the demoniac nature of sexuality in any or all of us. This quiet, learned woman understood the power of sex. She knew that desire can ignite compulsions to commit sudden, arbitrary violence and induce a yearning for voluptuous, annihilating death.

Signed: Geraldine Bedell, The Observer, Sunday July 25, 2004.

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Siobhan · 22-09-06 21:18:09

I think I'd like to meet Geraldine. (speaking of meeting: joli??!)

oh ps: I just googled her and now i REALLY want to meet her!
http://www.architecturelink.org.uk/bookofmonth.html

Ann Cline's A Hut of One's Own (ref'd at the bottom of the page), is one of my favorite books. I know this is a movie thread, but. . . .

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pythonmonty · 04-10-06 23:41:08

i am here in los angeles, CA. (USA) and i just saw "shortbus," the new film by john cameron mitchell. he previously made "hedwig and the angry inch."

"shortbus" is a flawed but sincere and gorgeous tragi-comedy about several couples in new york who find fellowship in a sex club known as the 'shortbus.'

the film is extremely graphic and includes unsimulated sex. and despite some over-the-top sequences and sappy melodramatic devices, it is a triumph of performance and naturalism - and for once, real sex in a feature film doesn't feel forced or manipulative. sex is positive, redeeming, happy, curing, and flat-out erotic for the first time in a LONG time. gay, straight, and bi...it is all represented here, and wonderfully so.

hope you guys get a chance to see it soon. it's unrated, so it may be hard to find in the cinemas.

pythonmonty · 04-10-06 23:43:53

plus, i should add how refreshing it is to see people have sex who aren't movie-star or "model" quality. they all have imperfect bodies, and i was impressed that they allowed such a variety of male and female nudity. there was no bias. there is a lot of penis in this picture (and several uncut ones, to my surprise). very democratic in its sexual choices, i must say.

SHORTBUS!

Dynamo · 05-10-06 00:28:54

I'm not a great watcher of films, but I do know what I like. Its usually comedies like The Holy Grail and Life of Brian and Blazing Saddles, but I also like the Airplane/Naked Gun movie ilk. The Carry on films are among my favourites too since its lovely Brit sexual innuendo all the way through.

Bogies Casablanca and The African Queen are high on my list for old films, just as Jimmy Stewarts Its a Wonderful Life and Harvey are.

Jane fonda and the wonderful Lee Marvin in Cat Balou is a must watch film, especially for the way Lee rides the horse when he's drunk and also for his line after being told his eyes look awful where he replies "You wanna see em from my side".

I like the old fashioned type Hammer Horror films with Chris Lee and Peter Cushing and there's a brilliant Horror spoof starring Vinnie Price, Boris Karloff and Peter Lori called Comedy of Terrors that I adore.

I quite like a few John Wayne films like The Quiet Man and Flying Tigers, and older type war films are cool too like 633 Sqadron and The Cruel Sea.

I love the Lord Of The Rings trilogy, but then I guess I had too having read virtually all the stuff written by Tolkien including Unfinished Tales and The Silmarillion. All we need now is for Jackson to make the Hobbit and also for someone to do David Eddings books.

I have to admit that the subject of this thread isn't what I expected it to be. I was gonna say that I didn't feel myself at the movies, but I was once sat next to a lass who's boyfriend was feeling her. That was an interesting experience.

Cheers. Dynamo.

Dynamo · 05-10-06 01:35:54

pythonmonty wrote:

i am here in los angeles, CA. (USA) and i just saw "shortbus," the new film by john cameron mitchell.

Is he any relation the the guy who played Buck in The High Chaperal?

Cheers. Dynamo.

polarchill · 05-10-06 10:11:30

Siobhan wrote:

We all like to watch; that's clear
I could talk forever about movies, old classics, first runs, quirky independents.
When I've had an amazing film-going experience, I become a zealot, shouting from the mountaintops to everyone in range: you MUST see this film!
So what are you lot watching? What do you love?

Having come into this discussion quite late (being a bit of a late-night browser), I've read about five pages of lists from you guys, and I must say I've seen a lot of my ground already covered. Burlesque loves Hitchcock, Lynch, Shyamalan, and Cronenberg, not to mention the great THE QUIET EARTH. Bodyhead mentioned DARKSTAR (I love a lot of John Carpenter's films, although he's kind of burnt himself out in recent years), and Max brought up DONNIE DARKO. A couple of you mentioned ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (a classic; "Super Heroes" made it onto one of my Halloween party mix CDs this year), and there are quite a few LORD OF THE RINGS fans in the neighborhood (or should I say shire?) That's a LOT of my favorites covered already, right there. What's left . . . let's see . . .

One of my all-time favorites is a lesser-known film called THE NINTH CONFIGURATION. It was written and directed by the man who wrote THE EXORCIST, William Peter Blatty. It's not a horror film (before THE EXORCIST, Blatty had mostly written comedies, in fact), but an odd little suspense/comedy/drama concerning a group of mental patients. The patients may be faking their madness in order to dodge the Vietnam war; but then, the head psychiatrist at the facility may not be who HE appears to be, either . . . It's a weird little movie, dealing with madness, redemption, and how a man can justify faith in God (or in his fellow man, for that matter) in a world that often seems completely fucked up.

Other than that (lengthy) example, I'll just say that although I like a little bit of everything, I'm in particular a big genre fan. For a few years I've been on the staff of a website that reviews current and classic horror/cult DVD releases. I love the work, although it doesn't allow me to quit the day job (and that's an understatement). I love watching great movies, and I get a kick out of watching bad ones, as long as they're bad in the right way (i.e., genuine clueless incompetence ala Ed Wood Jr., as opposed to Hollywood's often-seen contempt for the audience).

Oh, and since Shyamalan was already brought up, I thought LADY IN THE WATER was a lot better than it got credit for. It got a sound thrashing from critics in the U.S., but I felt it was one of his most heartfelt and evocative works.

But I'm just a big softie.
--
Polarchill

Burlesque · 19-10-06 21:53:03

Strange. I was looking for this thread in order to post a little something, and find that I must have missed reading up on it, since I don't remember reading the fine posts from Dynamo and Polarchill. Like I told someone the other day, I enjoy having films suggested to me, and not least being reminded of films that I always thought I ought to see. "The Ninth Configuration" is such a film, so thanks, Polarchill, for reminding me of it.

Last night I saw "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead", which was recommended to me by no less a luminary than The Elf. It's a very unusual, funny and intelligent film by Tom Stoppard (based on his play) about Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two incidental characters in "Hamlet" who never really do get a clue about what is happening to them. Splendid film, starring Tim Roth and Gary Oldman, with an eye-opening support turn by Richard Dreyfuss.

The other film I saw last night was Ian McKellen's "Richard III". I have seen it a number of times before, but it just keeps getting better. If anyone likes Shakespeare and/or McKellen, this is as good as it gets. I don't normally like it when Shakespeare is updated (I would just get rude and unprintable if I were to expound on my feelings regarding "Romeo + Juliet"), but this version of "Richard III" takes place in the 1930's and draws clever parallels to Nazi Germany. It's the best Shakespeare film I've ever seen, and one of the best films of any type in my not particularly humble opinion.

Burlesque.

Journeyfan · 20-10-06 01:34:06

Burlesque wrote:

Last night I saw "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead", which was recommended to me by no less a luminary than The Elf. It's a very unusual, funny and intelligent film by Tom Stoppard (based on his play) about Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two incidental characters in "Hamlet" who never really do get a clue about what is happening to them. Splendid film, starring Tim Roth and Gary Oldman, with an eye-opening support turn by Richard Dreyfuss.
Burlesque.

"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" ... that really takes me back .... "A" Level English Lit. circa 1977!

"Hamlet" and "King Lear" were the set Shakespeare texts as part of the curriculum, and that particular year, we were lucky (and somewhat surprised) to find that our English tutor was to be a rather wonderful young lady fresh out of University/teacher training. (A female teacher, let alone a young female teacher, was an event in itself at an "all boys" school!)

Anyway, whilst studying "Hamlet", she "invited" the four or five of us boys to her flat on a couple of evenings .... along with a similar number of girls from the local "girls' high school" .... to undertake some "extra-curricular" study!

Unfortunately the "extra-curricular" activities only went as far as reading and analysing "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" and enjoying a couple of glasses of wine each! ("Naughty" teacher - encouraging 16/17 year olds to imbibe of the dreaded alcohol! )

It was however most enjoyable, especially given that "us lads" had, in the main, only attended an all boys school from age 8!

I did also thoroughly enjoy the play - in fact I remember at the time thinking it far better and certainly more enjoyable than Shakespeare (what sacrilege!)

Funnily enough, when we returned to school for the next term, said "naughty" lady English teacher had sadly "left for pastures new" .... which we soon found to mean that she had been "asked to leave" when it was discovered that she had been "acting inappropriately" with a boy in the year above me! .... the lucky sod!

Thanks Burlesque for the inadvertent reminder of a time long gone! ... BTW I have never seen the film version - I'll have to track it down on DVD.

JF

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Burlesque · 20-10-06 01:40:26

Wow. Who would have thought English Lit. could be that much fun? That's a great story, Journeyfan. The Rosencrantz & Guildenstern DVD is available through Amazon UK, though they get it from an American retailer. Speedy delivery, though.

Burlesque.

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The_Elfman · 20-10-06 02:04:38

Journeyfan wrote:

It was however most enjoyable, especially given that "us lads" had, in the main, only attended an all boys school from age 8!

That wouldn't have been Roundhay Grammar would it JF?

Elfman

Let’s Go Mets!!!

Journeyfan · 20-10-06 02:52:29

The_Elfman wrote:

Journeyfan wrote:
It was however most enjoyable, especially given that "us lads" had, in the main, only attended an all boys school from age 8!
That wouldn't have been Roundhay Grammar would it JF?

Elfman
http://img458.imageshack.us/img458/2441/nymof6.gif Let’s Go Mets!!!

No Elfman - far more up-market than Roundhay Grammar (supposedly) .... Leeds Grammar School no less and the girls I spoke of were from Leeds Girls' High School (and "us lads" thought them to be far too "stuck up" - I believe their fees were even more than LGS and that's saying something!!).

(I say "supposedly" because several of my mates from home, who all went to the local "Comp.", did equally well academically as I did and all I got from them over the years was mickey taking for going to a "snobby" school!).

BTW - the most "fun" we had at school were a couple of events (school discos and the like), where girls were "invited" from Notre Dame Roman Catholic Girls School - some of them were definitely "very good Catholic girls!"

Was Roundhay Grammar your school Elf?

JF

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