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domino harvey wrote:It doesn't really fit anywhere else, but this is some CV!

MichaelB wrote:Is American Ginger a Julianne Moore vehicle?

domino harvey wrote:My favorite is Enchanged, directed by Tim Burton, as despite my best efforts I have no earthly idea what that's supposed to be. Runner up: Law & Order, directed by Mike. I've looked at this thing a good half dozen times since posting and there's still so much to enjoy!

domino harvey wrote:My favorite is Enchanged, directed by Tim Burton, as despite my best efforts I have no earthly idea what that's supposed to be.

MichaelB wrote:

domino harvey wrote:My favorite is Enchanged, directed by Tim Burton, as despite my best efforts I have no earthly idea what that's supposed to be.

I'm guessing Enchanted (2007): the chronology fits, even if the Tim Burton reference doesn't.

domino harvey wrote:My favorite is Enchanged, directed by Tim Burton, as despite my best efforts I have no earthly idea what that's supposed to be. Runner up: Law & Order, directed by Mike. I've looked at this thing a good half dozen times since posting and there's still so much to enjoy!

REALLY GOOD MOVIE. ANOTHER GREAT FOR TOMMY LEE JONES. THIS MOVIE WAS A DIFFERENT TYPE OF MOVIE FOR TOMMY. HE DOES NOT DO MANY MOVIES ANYMORE. HOWEVER HE DOES HAVE A NEW MOVIE COMING OUT IN THEATERS THIS MONTH. KIND OF A LOVE STORY/COMEDY. I WILL BE SURE TOO SEE IT. I HAD NEVER EVEN HEARD OF THIS MOVIE ELECTRIC MIST. IT WAS DIFFERENT FOR HIM, BUT AS LIKE ALL OF HIS MOVIES, I DON'T EVER RECALL A BAD MOVIE THAT HE HAS EVER DONE. HOWEVER, HE NEVER GETS AWARD MOVIES EVEN THOUGH HE HAS NEVER DONE A BAD MOVIE. I HOPE TOMMY YOU KEEP MAKING MOVIES BECAUSE I AM A FAN AND WILL ALWAYS WATCH YOUR MOVIES. YOU ARE ONE OF A KIND AND THANKS FOR ALL THE GREAT MOVIES YOU HAVE MADE

matrixschmatrix wrote:HOWEVER, HE NEVER GETS AWARD MOVIES EVEN THOUGH HE HAS NEVER DONE A BAD MOVIE.

"One reviewer compared it to James Joyce’s Ulysses. Now I know why I hated this movie Ulysses was a very bad and hard book and movie to follow. If that is what “8 1/2” was trying to duplicate, it picked a poor model. It was also a black and white Italian foreign movie with yellow subtitles. Whoever heard of that? If you’re going to have yellow subtitles, make the rest of the movie in color. I haven’t seen that much of Marcello Mastroianni probably because he looks like he only does Italian movies. Please dub movies when you can because I really don’t like to read my movies."

The Artful Eroticism of 'James Joyce's Women'; Care Bears Sequel Should Score With Kidvid Crowd

It's surprising that "James Joyce's Women" (MCA, $69.95), the videocassette of the film version of Fionnula Flanagan's play, hasn't been filed with the X-rated movies in video stores. One sequence is as steamy as anything you'll see in a porn movie.

Flanagan, who wrote the play and adapted it to the screen, is also the star. In the erotic episode, she portrays Molly Bloom, a character in Joyce's revolutionary novel, "Ulysses," that was labled obscene and banned from the United States for years.

With her husband asleep in bed next to her, Bloom--in various stages of undress--delivers a lusty monologue while in the throes of self-stimulation. Nothing is left to the imagination in this sequence, which critics have lauded extensively.

This is the only racy sequence in this episodic movie, in which Flanagan portrays three women who were important in Joyce's life as well as three of his fictional characters. Though obviously a serious, intelligent work, "James Joyce's Women," could easily be construed as obscene because of the Bloom monologue and banished to the X-rated sections.

So far that hasn't happened. According to MCA, no stores have refused to carry the cassette or put it with the adult videos.

Flanagan predicts that these problems won't surface. "This is art, not pornography," she insisted. "By no stretch of any one's imagination can this be classified with dirty movies. It would be a shame if people who wanted to rent it or buy it had to look for it in the porn departments. I can't believe that would ever happen."

KIDVID: "Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation," the sequel to "The Care Bears Movie," is out this week (RCA/Columbia, $79.95). Surprisingly, it's better than the original. It shows the origin of the unselfish Care Bear family from the Kingdom of Caring. This should be the most popular new kidvid rental until "Sleeping Beauty" debuts on Oct. 14.

McCrutchy wrote:I don't know what's funnier: Hunt's reaction, the bizarre association of the two films, or the fact that people would have actually paid $80 for The Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation.

Ishmael wrote:

McCrutchy wrote:I don't know what's funnier: Hunt's reaction, the bizarre association of the two films, or the fact that people would have actually paid $80 for The Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation.

Back in the days of videotape, people rarely bought movies when they were new. So studios priced everything in the $80-100 range because video stores had to buy popular movies for rental, and they had to pay whatever the studio wanted (though bigger rental chains, at least, got discounts on those prices). Anyway, after a year or so, most videotapes were repriced around $20 so people who wanted to own them could buy them at a decent price (and of course demand for rentals had died down considerably by that point anyway).