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Live Free, Die Hard. Saw it in the theater and again on Netflix. Just give in and escape
How did you like it? Are you seeing Helvetica all over the place now?Lady Day said:Helvetica, a darling little documentary on that typeface and modern design.
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I saw this movie and thought it was dreadfully depressing. Not my cup of tea. [huh]Patrick Murtha said:If ever a movie was calculated to make one (well, me) feel good about having withdrawn from the romantic and sexual arena, that movie would be Closer. And a mighty impressive film it is, too, possibly the best film that Mike Nichols has ever directed. The generally embittered (and, I believe, quite realistic) tone about relationships is one which Closer shares with Bad Timing, Short Cuts, Nichols's own Carnal Knowledge, all versions of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, many Bergman films, all Fassbinder films, and (in somewhat disguised form) most Woody Allen films. Closer, adapted by Patrick Marber from his own acclaimed play, is particularly savage and formally rigorous. Although other people are visible in many scenes, and one or two of them get a line to speak, essentially the movie plays out as a series of getting together and/or breaking apart scenes between four individuals in various permutations, played brilliantly by Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts, and Clive Owen. (Owen and Portman had more acclaim because their roles are showier, but Law and Roberts are equally good; I don't think Roberts has ever been better.) We never get to see how these four are with other people or during relationships; we can only base our reaction to them on the limited slices of behavior we do see. Of course that is true in a sense of all drama, but Marber doesn't pretend to give you more than he does.
Rather than give more away, I'll just urge you to see this film, if you haven't. It's a very fine movie.
Jovan said:I saw this movie and thought it was dreadfully depressing. Not my cup of tea. [huh]
Spiffy said:I'm about 20 minutes into The Lives of Others, and can't decide to keep going or give up and send it back to netflix. Anyone know if it's worth it?
And again, and again, and again...AmateisGal said:We just got Direct TV this weekend, and of COURSE, I had to watch Turner Classic Movies!
Yesterday I watched The Big Sleep with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. I think I need to watch it again, though, to really figure out what happened.
Shadow of a Doubt.zaika said:yesterday i was kind of distracted, but watched a great hitchcock film whose title i don't remember. but i do remember the year. 1942. lol. maybe someone knows the title? it's the one about the uncle who is the merry widow murderer, and he's really close to his niece. she eventually realizes he's the murderer and when he catches on he tries to kill her, too...
anyone have the title?