#26 20-03-20 06:18:08

_redbird_

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Re: Questions questions

Ooh I have more!

SOFT DRINKS: Uludag Gazoz (lemon), Jarritos (mandarin is the best one), Portello, Coke, Kirk's Creamy Soda.

DANCE SCENES IN FILMS: Dance at the end of Centre Stage. The whole film is fairly average (I actually love it though) but the end scene is amazing and makes me nostalgic for Jamiroquai every time. Dirty Dancing - an obvious choice but it has to be on here. It gives me shivers every time, and it is obviously just an excuse for Swayze to flaunt his mad skillz. My Best Friend's Wedding - This isn't so much as a dance scene in the usual sense, but more a slow and sad dance between two friends, one of which has unreciprocated feelings for the other. It's extremely touching to see Julia Roberts try to wipe away her tears while Dermot Mulroney quietly sings The Way You Look Tonight. Oof.

Howland

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Re: Questions questions

omg she looks exactly like you!

I take it you mean the dancer in the video, not Bulle Ogier in Le Pont du Nord. (I do think that the right still from that film would show what I mean ...) I can totally imagine Red dancing that way, and at first it does look like her, but at the 2-minute mark or so we see that it isn't. (Neither is the tall guy in the middle Lebron James.) The ice cream eater does look like Viva though (although I don't get the meme exactly). As for Katniss, give her HB's glasses and I think we have a match.

I am delighted to hear that there is a soft drink called Uludag Gazoz. If someone were to say to me one day "Hey Howland, come look! There's Apichatpong Weerasethakul walking down the street drinking Uludag Gazoz!" I would know that they got me and would be quite charmed by that.

Also, Red, I wouldn't worry about not having seen any of those films I mentioned -- they mostly just show what an art-house cinema geek I am -- so unless that's what you're up for don't go renting Stalker or Taste of Cherry, let alone (to mention another Russian film) Hard to Be a God [yikes]. A Separation isn't too artsy though, try that one.

Last edited by Howland (20-03-20 23:45:27)

LeoBloom

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Re: Questions questions

MOVIES Too many to choose from. I’ve been impressed by some of the French Canadian stuff in recent years: The Barbarian Invasions was a fine black comedy and Incendies was just shattering
SERIES – there was an Australian one I saw recently: a female journalist investigating dirty goings-on in the government and ending up in jail. Seemed much better than the English and American stuff.
ACTORS Marcello Mastroianni, for making it all look so easy; Philip Seymour Hoffmann could make a silk purse out of any part a sow; Christopher Plummer in his old age (at 90 the most handsome man in the world)
UNDERRATED/UNDERUSED ACTORS – Stanley Tucci
DIRECTORS – at the moment I don’t think there are any whose name alone would make me want to see a film
FILM GENRES  none. Something good can be done with any genre by talented people
BANDS - pass
SOLO ARTISTS – do ballet dancers count? At the moment I’ve been bowled over by Stephen McRae and Francesca Heyward
COMPOSERS – Bach, Schubert and Wagner
SONGS – C’est extra (Léo Ferré); Dance me to the End of Time (Leonard Cohen); Tammurriata nera (performed by the Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare)
SOUNDTRACKS Nino Rota’s music for Fellini’s fims
MUSIC GENRES – German lieder, string quartets, opera
NOVELS – Madame Bovary
SHORT STORIES/NOVELLAS – Thomas Mann’s aren’t as well-known as they should be. Mario and the Magician, and Disorder and Early Sorrow are both unforgettable
AUTHORS  Montaigne and the anonymous authors of the Arabian Nights
ARTISTS One of the peaks for me are Donatello’s statues in the Bargello Museum in Florence. Must be forty years now since I saw them, bugger it,
GAMES  pass
CLOTHING – whatever I was wearing yesterday
FOOD – for the summer, take a slice of a baguette loaf cut open, and soak the inside in olive oil and basil; then place on top some strips of a firm greeny red tomato with a little salt. Absolutely unbeatable.
NON-FOOD BASED SMELLS – jasmine to remind me of the first time I fell in love
SOFT DRINKS - I don't do soft drinks
DANCE SCENES IN FILMS - I loved the way Slumdog Millionaire ended - the dance on the railway platform that just seemed to start up out of nothing and then melted away as they boarded the trains
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_redbird_

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Re: Questions questions

Ooh, excellent answers LeoBloom. You are correct, Christopher Plummer is a goddam fox. Also I was just thinking recently how I've never read Madame Bovary but really should.