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Tina
Old Love
United Kingdom
678 Posts |
Posted - 12/01/2009 : 20:13:09
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"Slumdog Millionaire" - go and see it, its tremendus. |
Edited by - Tina on 12/01/2009 20:14:11 |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
9865 Posts |
Posted - 13/01/2009 : 02:11:23
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quote: Originally posted by Tina
"Slumdog Millionaire" - go and see it, its tremendus.
Review was very enticing, Tina!!
____________________________________________________________ Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. ---- William Saroyan |
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rocker
Old Love
USA
3606 Posts |
Posted - 20/01/2009 : 15:10:14
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saw "The Omen" on blu-ray..has to be one of the best supernatural/horror filsm ever...Peck's work makes it so believeable... |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
9865 Posts |
Posted - 20/01/2009 : 20:34:14
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quote: Originally posted by rocker
saw "The Omen" on blu-ray..has to be one of the best supernatural/horror filsm ever...Peck's work makes it so believeable...
So good, rocker. I won't go near the "remake" or remuddle!!!
____________________________________________________________ Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. ---- William Saroyan |
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John9
Old Love
United Kingdom
2154 Posts |
Posted - 22/01/2009 : 16:27:49
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quote: Originally posted by Tina
"Slumdog Millionaire" - go and see it, its tremendus.
I am glad that you recommended this one, Tina. I saw it this afternoon...on the day that it garnered ten oscar nominations! What a wonderfully imaginative piece of film making.
"it is written" |
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rocker
Old Love
USA
3606 Posts |
Posted - 27/01/2009 : 16:53:10
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just saw "The Duchess"..heh heh you'd think with all the money the Duke of Devonshire had (Ralph Fiennes) he'd be at the least a "little" happy..what a morose guy...and The "Duchess" got more than she bargained for!... |
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John9
Old Love
United Kingdom
2154 Posts |
Posted - 14/02/2009 : 20:41:34
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I saw Doubt this afternoon - a powerful and gripping drama set in a convent school in mid 60s New York. It starred Amy Adams and Philip Seymor Hoffman - but above all it confirmed for me that Meryl Streep is still the world's finest screen actress. And of course, she turns 60 this year. |
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rocker
Old Love
USA
3606 Posts |
Posted - 17/02/2009 : 14:31:25
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john..That was a great story and play, eh? Streep is good. Over the weekend, we managed to see another of her films, "Out of Africa". Her,Redford and Klaus Brandauer were some acting ensemble down there in Souh Africa. The film by Pollack was beautifully shot. Makes you kind of go and visit that land! |
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John9
Old Love
United Kingdom
2154 Posts |
Posted - 18/02/2009 : 15:33:33
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Hi Rocker - Out of Afica was also a great favourite of mine. Apparently, Sydney Pollack originally got Robert Redford to play his character with an English accent .... but then for some reason the idea was abandoned. I was saddened to hear of the director's death last May. We had some great films from him - Great Gatsby, Jeremiah Johnson, Three Days of the Condor and Tootsie. In Tootsie he has a small cameo appearance with that immortal line to Dustin Hoffman...... "I begged you to get therapy!" |
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rocker
Old Love
USA
3606 Posts |
Posted - 18/02/2009 : 18:33:39
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And maybe it's time to take a look again at "They Shoot Horses"???? Pretty timely if you ask me where all the talk now is about the Great Depression! The film shows the seamy side of capitalism. Well all I can say it's timely....... |
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John9
Old Love
United Kingdom
2154 Posts |
Posted - 20/03/2009 : 00:50:15
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I have today seen 'The Young Victoria' - a Martin Scorsese co- production that examines the unseemly power struggle at the very beginning of the great queen's reign - loved it! It was a very different role for Emily Blunt than the one we saw her in in 'The Devil Wears Prada'. I also really enjoyed 'Revolutionary Road' - Sam Mendes' extremely powerful but bleak study of the death of an ideal....and of a marriage. The two leads were outstanding. |
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rocker
Old Love
USA
3606 Posts |
Posted - 20/03/2009 : 13:17:04
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john...So I guess the fact that the story was about life over here at the time didn't deter you much right? I guess the Uk expereinced that stuff as well? The film does a give great insight into the mores and attitudes of that time here in the States. When I think back, I love 'Lennon Remembers' where he notes how it looked to him over here when they first came in the sixties. I laughed my a** off when he described it. This was an "alien" land to them and lots of what happened in the 60's was certainly affected by the decade before. |
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bob f.
Old Love
USA
1308 Posts |
Posted - 30/04/2009 : 23:10:28
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i saw , "earth", yesterday. it's an amazing nature film! much filmed from a hot-air balloon, in rain forest, Kalahari Desert, Alaska, Antartic, with animals....see it on THE BIG SCREEN!
...what the world needs now... |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
9865 Posts |
Posted - 01/05/2009 : 19:32:48
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quote: Originally posted by bob f.
i saw , "earth", yesterday. it's an amazing nature film! much filmed from a hot-air balloon, in rain forest, Kalahari Desert, Alaska, Antartic, with animals....see it on THE BIG SCREEN!
...what the world needs now...
You got a tree planted.
____________________________________________________________ Never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention. |
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rocker
Old Love
USA
3606 Posts |
Posted - 01/05/2009 : 20:35:29
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and we're all "Mr. Green-jeans" now!..back to the future!.. |
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