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In movies, the ’60s and ’70s were the heyday of adorable kooks (Goldie, Liza), mentally impaired cuddle bears like the hero of “Charly,” and saintly schizophrenic victims like Gena Rowlands in “A Woman Under the Influence.” Mental illness, in general, was viewed through a softer lens than the one we employ today, partly because of the whole who’s really sane in a crazy world? ideology of the time.

There is a very mild metallic look to the artwork

The_Grændmæster_of_the_Void wrote:What i dislike about Asian cinema & TV is their penchant for actresses remaining fully clothed through the entire movie. American and European cinema isn’t embarrassed to throw in a gratuitous nipple or bum-cleavage to persue their themes of love, betrayal, boobs, vulnerability and danger, and sex. They offer swooping, manipulative soundtracks and bleached pablum instead.

lzx wrote: Fri May 17, 2019 5:59 am

The_Grændmæster_of_the_Void wrote:What i dislike about Asian cinema & TV is their penchant for actresses remaining fully clothed through the entire movie. American and European cinema isn’t embarrassed to throw in a gratuitous nipple or bum-cleavage to persue their themes of love, betrayal, boobs, vulnerability and danger, and sex. They offer swooping, manipulative soundtracks and bleached pablum instead.

TraverseTown wrote:I did know a guy once who claimed to have mostly hated Japanese cinema but included In the Realm of the Senses among his most favorites :-k

lzx wrote: Fri May 17, 2019 5:59 am

The_Grændmæster_of_the_Void wrote:What i dislike about Asian cinema & TV is their penchant for actresses remaining fully clothed through the entire movie. American and European cinema isn’t embarrassed to throw in a gratuitous nipple or bum-cleavage to persue their themes of love, betrayal, boobs, vulnerability and danger, and sex. They offer swooping, manipulative soundtracks and bleached pablum instead.

Amazon customer wrote:Bewildering.

European movies continue to baffle me, this movie couldve been thrity minutes shorter (which it needed to be), but they decided to show her life for three weeks. They even showed her smoking for 20 seconds...not once, not twice, but THREE times, and that's just one example. The plot of the movie was pretty good, but I was longing for english words by the end.
One last note: I watched the movie to watch, not read the colsed captions.
D-

I watched the film for our high school social studies class. I liked the film well enough although it being in French was annoying as I needed to pay more attention than if I didn't have subtitles. The acting was pretty good for the era but it was a little concerning that some of the actors were actually in the war.

La battaglia di Algeri was a realist movie because it included the two languages that the Algerians were speaking. They eventually put the movie in black and white which remarkably set the mood of the movie. I enjoyed it even though the acting was quite poor.

It looks realistic but the point of view of Algerians has been represented, so it might not be entirely true.

Besides the obvious drawbacks of being old, black and white, and in a language I don't speak the movie was very good.

I think that the movie does not explain the conflict well, it was just showing, explosions, executions and crimes. We didn't see the president Charles de Gaule's referendum and when the Pieds-Noirs went back to France. I think France was right to ban the movie in the past, it is not contributing to education at all.

I watched The battle of Algiers because we were supposed to watch it for our Social studies class. This film was watched because our unit is about decolonization in Africa. Personally I did not really enjoy the film. Even though it taught me some things I did not like it because it was in French.

I did not enjoy it to much because the acting was terrible but then, it was created in 1966.

The movie itself is old and the voices can sometimes be boring.

The film is a tribute and love letter to star Bill Murray. In Broken Flowers, Murray is the epitome of cool: wearing bad-ass shades, carrying himself with subtle charm, and listening to a great mixtape on the road, Don is simply a cool and laidback dude. It's not hard to understand why Don became a" Don Juan" or why close friends like Winston think so highly of him. This is a great performance by Murray which is full of nuance and sophistication. Murray also manages to bring a quiet comedic sensibility to each scene.
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The framing of each scene is both exquisite and personal. Broken Flowers takes audiences on a journey which demands one's attention. Sometimes you see a film and you know right from the start that it's something special. Without a doubt, Broken Flowers is that rare kind of cinematic experience which never lets go.

Vegan alert:
-Steak and fish are ordered in a restaurant.
-There is a reference to cheese in a soup.

KJones77 wrote: Thu May 23, 2019 5:17 pm I was looking up reviews for Ralph Fiennes' The White Crow since it's at my local theater and stumbled on this gem from the "vegan alert" reviewer on Letterboxd:

Vegan alert:
-Steak and fish are ordered in a restaurant.
-There is a reference to cheese in a soup.

The horror!

domino harvey wrote: Thu May 23, 2019 5:35 pm That’s her schtick, but I found the fact that she rates almost every movie she sees three stars (with an occasional half star on either side of that) completely useless. When she started following me, I was impressed that she’d seen so many of the films I was watching and thought I’d be able to get insights from someone with similar viewing habits, but someone who likes almost everything they digest at the same level is useless as a comparison point of taste

colinr0380 wrote: Thu May 23, 2019 5:35 pm I did not realise that vegans were not even allowed to see images of meat or dairy products now! That's quite extreme!

vegan girl wrote: -A girl says “stupid cats”

Lemmy Caution wrote: Thu May 23, 2019 9:29 pm When I go to the supermarket, I try to avoid seeing the dismembered animal carcasses and the dead sea creatures. It genuinely depresses and distresses me.

As for films, I cannot watch animals being killed (I block out that part of the screen until it's over), while scenes in slaughterhouses/meat processing plants are very difficult. Also dislike a lot watching someone chew on some obvious part of a dead animal, such as a chicken leg.