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. I think they're quite romantic films but conversely they're mostly anti-cinematic. They do have beautiful locations and long takes, but they don't really find a visually-interesting way to film conversations. Midnight is different in that we hear several other characters' thoughts on love and relationships, and a few of these are the most affecting in the film. As to the primary couple, they do have some interesting things to say, and their lives definitely seem to have evolved since we last met them, but ultimately, their arguments seem more generic than enlightening. I applaud the films for daring to try to be more literate and adult than most nowadays, but again I find the intentions only worth so much compared to the results. However, if you love these characters, I think you'll love reconnecting with them here. I halfway did.
this is fair enough, i guess, but i loved this movie. the characters are so great and so unbelievably lovable that i just enjoy seeing them do anything. in all of the films i was incredibly fascinated and hanging on every word, and it was pretty much 100% dialogue. the conversations are kind of generic, but that's kind of the point. the substance of the conversation isn't what matters, it's about their relationship, and what they say about the characters, and how incredibly realistic the dialogue is. it makes john cassavetes dialogue seem contrived. i've never seen any movie like it.



Women will be your undoing, Pépé


What exactly was the point of Joan Cusack's neck braced character in Sixteen Candles? And that whole scene with her drinking from the water fountain? She is a nameless character who gets this whole scene with her in a neck brace just trying to use the drinking fountain (see Youtube video above). It's funny as Hell, and I love it, but the point is?

I wonder if her character is supposed to be John Cusack's sister in the movie, since he's in it, too. It's never said, but I wonder if.
The point? Why, she was the "love interest" of Long Duck Dong!! His sexy, american girlfriend. Their lil tryst on the excercise machine and him telling her his name is a pretty good chuckle too

It doesn't and I haven't seen that one. It doesn't appear to be on Netflix instant either. Looks like Amazon's got the DVD for less than $5 so I might just blind buy it.
I've always been lucky enough to find it at my library and i really need to add it to the collection. It has a suspense/court room premise and rachel weisz(sp?) and gene hackman do damn fine jobs in it, so, if that sounds like something you'd enjoy . . .
and hell, if you get it and you don't like it, I'LL buy it off ya lol



The point? Why, she was the "love interest" of Long Duck Dong!! His sexy, american girlfriend. Their lil tryst on the excercise machine and him telling her his name is a pretty good chuckle too
No, she isn't. That's a completely different girl.



That is not Joan Cusack.

When they're dancing on the dance floor, you even see Joan Cusack dancing with someone else -- A GIRL, I believe, who looked like a lesbian to me -- and then the camera moves over to find Long Duck Dong dancing with this chick.

This girl is named Marlene, AKA Lumberjack.

Joan Cusack only appears four times in the movie -- on the bus with Anthony Michael Hall; dancing with some lesbian on the door floor; drinking water from a water fountain; and drinking beer at Jake Ryan's party and falling backwards.

She has no character name -- except "Geek Girl #1", even though there isn't a #2 (well, maybe the geeky lesbian) -- she is just someone they included for some odd reason so she could wear a neck brace and a bizarre shirt that had a woman's skirt that could raise up as a piece of cloth and reveal her panties as a design.
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Women will be your undoing, Pépé
HOLY CRAP, i remember it being her - my serious bad!

Hey, can i claim alzeimer's on this snafu? Or bad memory?. . . how about Old Fart Syndrome. It's VERY common and quite sad, really. Well it would be if i didn't look forward to it for most of my life



Your rational mind probably thought it was Joan Cusack because Joan Cusack's actual character is rather pointless except as someone to laugh at for being geeky, odd, in a neck brace, and in a strange sweatshirt.



Not sure I even watch movies anymore.

We're the Millers, I guess. Which I actually rather liked.
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Were The Millers


Kick Ass 2


The Big Wedding


Taken 2


Jack Reacher
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This week in movies:


The Grandmaster (2013) by Wong Kar-wai



Camille Claudel 1915 (2013) by Bruno Dumont



A Married Woman (1964) by Jean-Luc Godard
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Pain & Gain (2013) by Michael Bay



Un Amour D'enfant (2007) by Ben Diogaye Beye
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L'afrance (2001) by Alain Gomis



Fahrenheit 451 (1966) by François Truffaut



Film Socialisme (2010) by Jean-Luc Godard



In Praise of Love (2001) by Jean-Luc Godard
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The Garden of Words (2013) by Makoto Shinkai
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The Kings of Summer (2013) by Jordan Vogt-Roberts
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Stoker (2013) by Park Chan-wook



World War Z (2013) by Marc Forster
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Mud (2013) by Jeff Nichols



Behind the Candelabra (2013) by Steven Soderbergh
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This Is the End (2013) by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg
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Paradise: Hope (2013) by Ulrich Seidl



Gangster Rap is Shakespeare for the Future
I give them all
. I think they're quite romantic films but conversely they're mostly anti-cinematic.
This is not true plain and simple. While this could possibly be said about the first and clearly weakest film, the latter two are excellently directed films by an experienced and thoughtful, if not very innovative, director. Linklater's greatest strength, from Slacker onward, has always been making his rigidly formal way of shooting and writing, seem casual and conversational. Have you seen footage of what it's like shooting his films? It's chaos! Linklater's long takes are extraordinary because we're likely not to notice them unless we're looking for it. While I'm not going to defend Before Sunrise, which I didn't like, Before Sunset and Before Midnight are uniquely cinematic visions of a romance.

Before Sunset's main trick, is remaining as firmly grounded in the reality as it is the surreal. That first scene in the bookshop sets it up, with a terrifically cinematic moment when Jesse describes his new book. As we realize the clear metatextual allusions being made here, Linklater dissolves the boundaries between the first and second film in a simple, and certainly not flashy, manner. This feeling of cinematic elevation would be sustained if it weren't for the clear and focused break that follows. The rest of the film takes place in real time, or as close as anybody's ever gotten to it while also including cuts. The conversation continues and the moments of deja vu continue as some conversation refracts from the prior film. Everything is condensed, and everything is shown, because Linklater knows that it's all important. The film's ending boasts one of the most tantalizing and terrifying fades I can recall. Utterly crushing in its slow inevitability, this fade reminds us of the cinematic fantasy we're in, but also the realism of the life we've just witnessed, and will go on without us. Simplicity elevated to art is the film's mantra. Linklater uses techniques that we've seen in countless films, but in such intuitive ways that they feel new.

I've only seen Before Midnight once, so excuse me for rehashing some previous remarks. The film begins with a deceptively simple shot of two people walking, we instantly assume it's Jesse and Celine, the only two people we've seen before walking together, but the specifics of it confuse us (types of shoes). The following cut reveals Jesse's son, which both makes perfect sense, and catches us off guard. They talk at the airport until he has to leave, after which we get the extraordinary shot of condensed narrative. Jesse walks outside and moves right. We see Celine nonchalantly talking on the phone and leaning on a car. Already we know that they are together and have been for a long time, but the excellent shot comes as, to our delight, Jesse enters the car and the camera wraps around to show two girls asleep in the back seat. A simple and naturalistic camera movement suddenly reveals everything we need to know about the couple, for those who are new to the series, and faithful fans. I will rewatch this soon and have more to say on its cinematic merits, which are many, I just haven't written about it enough to properly recall at this point.
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Point Blank - BORING!




Vice Squad - Good old 80's sleaze! A movie that gets across the life on the streets and frank sexual themes with surprisingly little nudity. Strange choice given the subject matter but one to be commended in it's restraint.




Bright light. Bright light. Uh oh.
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (Renny Harlin, 1988)

The Wasp Woman (Roger Corman, 1959)

711 Ocean Drive (Joseph M. Newman, 1950)

The Gorgon (Terence Fisher, 1964)


The Devil Rides Out aka The Devil’s Bride (Terence Fisher, 1968)

All Eyes on Sharon Tate (No Director Listed, 1967)

Waking Up in Reno (Jordan Brady, 2002)

Manhattan Murder Mystery (Woody Allen, 1993)


The Last Days of Disco (Whit Stillman, 1998)
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Billy the Kid vs. Dracula (William Beaudine, 1966)

Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter (William Beaudine, 1966)

The Freshman (Andrew Bergman, 1990)


Engagement Party (William Thiele, 1956)

Mistress (Barry Primus, 1992)

Fly Away Home (Carroll Ballard, 1996)

Mr. Lucky (H.C. Potter, 1943)


Losing Isaiah (Stephen Gyllenhaal, 1995)

Mumford (Lawrence Kasdan, 1999)

Another Woman (Woody Allen, 1988)

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (John Huston, 1972)

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I like Manhattan Murder Mystery and it's never really mentioned among Allen's best work. Maybe that's enough to say that it is underrated or under seen.





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An American Werewolf In London (1981) -
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Nights of Cabiria (1957) -


Way of a Gaucho (1952) -


El (1953) -


Los Olvidados (1950) -


The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (1984) -



Sorry if I'm rude but I'm right
I don't care about the rest of films I've seen lately. Besides I ain't got time for them, but then again I have time to post this post.

My Name is Nobody




The only one other spaghetti I rated that high is The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and I mean even Django - an epitome of badassity in movies scored 'only'
, but just look at the intro scene:



It's just so feel good with that awesome music and laid back Terrence Hill character. And at the very end the movie made me cry even though there wasn't anything soppy or even sad about it. Or nothing like that in a common sense of the words. Not to mention the movie has a lot of comedy elements I normally hate, but loved in this one. Truly one of the best feel good films I've seen.
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Bright light. Bright light. Uh oh.
Glad you loved it. Here's what I said about it last time.
My Name is Nobody (Tonino Valerii, 1973)


Great spaghetti western with the "team" of old man Jack Beauregard (Henry Fonda) who just wants to quietly retire and sail to Europe and a young Nobody (Terence Hill) who looks up to him and wants him to become a hero worthy of the history books so others will have someone to positively influence them. The cinematography is beautiful and Ennio Morricone's score has many memorable themes as well as weird la-la backing vocals and a synthesized take on "Ride of the Valkyries" as well as a lift from what sounds like "My Way". The plot isn't especially important but the set-pieces are terrific. It does have ample comedy but I don't really think it's a spoof of the genre. It works itself up a few times to things resembling a Biblical saga and to a real feeling of warmth between the two lead characters.



Joan Cusack is one of the definite highlights of SIXTEEN CANDLES and she's not even a main character. Of course it goes without saying that Cusack has ALWAYS made the most out of every moment she has ever been given onscreen. The woman is comedy gold.