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W wine+artMember
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Alphaville

I've mentioned before that I love this untypical Godard work. Everything is unique from turning the "City of Lights" into a nightmarish backdrop through creative cinematography to creating the voice of the Alpha 60 computer from the speech of a man who'd lost his vocal cords so speaks using the burping technique that many learn to do.

The actors are each special. Eddie Constantine, the pock-marked stoic actor, portrays secret agent Lemmie Caution who drives a Ford Galaxie from the Outlands. Enigmatic actress Anna Karina plays the woman he tries to save. Lemmie, (who narrates to film more successfully than Harrison Ford in Blade Runner) refers to her "pretty sphinx face." And finally a surprise to see Akim Tamiroff as the missing agent Caution is looking for.

The film is loaded with memorable scenes that stuck with me for years in between re-watches. One example is the martyrs who are executed while standing on a swimming pool's diving board reciting anti-government slogans. Then they are shot and fall in the water.

I give this film a 96 while giving the previously mentioned Blade Runner (a failed attempt to blend noir and science fiction that Alphaville succeeds at on a shoe string budget and no special effects) a 79.


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W wine+artMember
I read Night Train to Lisbon about three years ago and enjoyed it a great deal.

I started the book on a train heading to Vienna and our daughter was in Lisbon at the time lecturing, but digress. Smile

I heard today a movie of this book has been made and will open in Dallas next month/week. I hope it will be a good adaptation of a fine book.
A aphillaMember
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

A great little movie. I'm on a bit of a Roald Dahl run this week - saw 36 Hours a few days ago.

And I wonder if Ian Fleming could have foreseen the same actor playing his Goldfinger villain and Baron Bomburst.

And I remember watching this in college and all the guys simultaneously screaming when Benny Hill appears as the toymaker.

Great fun all around.
winetarelliwinetarelliMember
Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Plot holes the size of Wisconsin, if not the entire Great Lakes region. Nevertheless it is a very enjoyable ride with real actors, real nuance and character development, great production values, and real intrigue. 2 hours, 25 minutes zips by. Very much enjoyed despite its obvious shortcomings. I think this Jennifer Lawrence girl might be a decent actress. Wink B/B+

RED 2
Mindless, incomprehensible plot. Fun despite itself. C+

Get Shorty
For the 6th or 7th time. Wonderful film. Probably Sonnenfeld's best. Travolta looks younger in it than I remember. B+ / A-

Ok... and... so a few pages back tanglenet name-checked this film as if, "oh yeah, everyone has seen that..." and it was playing for free On Demand, so I figured, "how bad could it be? I mean it stars Michael Cain!" So...

Blame it on Rio
Wow. WOW. WOW. OHMYGOD! Pervy doesn't even... just... ew. EWW. Every scene, every word is SO ew. I mean the 17 year old (age at the time of hiring, dunno if she was 17 or 18 while filming; the character is definitely supposed to be 17 or 18, though -- probably 17) is really really hot. So, there is that. But wow. I mean HOLY CRAP. PERRRRVVYYYYY! Wow. Once I realized what I was in for I was able to sit back and enjoy it as a "so bad, so MIND BOGGLINGLY offensive, misogynistic, creepy and PERVY, it is incredibly funny, but for the wrong reasons" thing. But WOWOWOWOWOWOW. This might be the single dirtiest-old-man-thought-process mainstream movie I have ever seen. Ever. It was directed by the guy who directed Singin' in the Rain!!!! Wow. Pervy. Q- (But still worth checking out as an oddity if you have the right sense of humor.)
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T tanglenetMember
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Originally posted by winetarelli:

Ok... and... so a few pages back tanglenet name-checked this film as if, "oh yeah, everyone has seen that..." and it was playing for free On Demand, so I figured, "how bad could it be? I mean it stars Michael Cain!" So...

Blame it on Rio
Wow. WOW. WOW. OHMYGOD! Pervy doesn't even... just... ew. EWW. Every scene, every word is SO ew. I mean the 17 year old (age at the time of hiring, dunno if she was 17 or 18 while filming; the character is definitely supposed to be 17 or 18, though -- probably 17) is really really hot. So, there is that. But wow. I mean HOLY CRAP. PERRRRVVYYYYY! Wow. Once I realized what I was in for I was able to sit back and enjoy it as a "so bad, so MIND BOGGLINGLY offensive, misogynistic, creepy and PERVY, it is incredibly funny, but for the wrong reasons" thing. But WOWOWOWOWOWOW. This might be the single dirtiest-old-man-thought-process mainstream movie I have ever seen. Ever. It was directed by the guy who directed Singin' in the Rain!!!! Wow. Pervy. Q- (But still worth checking out as an oddity if you have the right sense of humor.)


Yup. That's my memory too. Didn't know about the director. Too bad.
winetarelliwinetarelliMember
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Originally posted by tanglenet:
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Originally posted by winetarelli:

Ok... and... so a few pages back tanglenet name-checked this film as if, "oh yeah, everyone has seen that..." and it was playing for free On Demand, so I figured, "how bad could it be? I mean it stars Michael Cain!" So...

Blame it on Rio
Wow. WOW. WOW. OHMYGOD! Pervy doesn't even... just... ew. EWW. Every scene, every word is SO ew. I mean the 17 year old (age at the time of hiring, dunno if she was 17 or 18 while filming; the character is definitely supposed to be 17 or 18, though -- probably 17) is really really hot. So, there is that. But wow. I mean HOLY CRAP. PERRRRVVYYYYY! Wow. Once I realized what I was in for I was able to sit back and enjoy it as a "so bad, so MIND BOGGLINGLY offensive, misogynistic, creepy and PERVY, it is incredibly funny, but for the wrong reasons" thing. But WOWOWOWOWOWOW. This might be the single dirtiest-old-man-thought-process mainstream movie I have ever seen. Ever. It was directed by the guy who directed Singin' in the Rain!!!! Wow. Pervy. Q- (But still worth checking out as an oddity if you have the right sense of humor.)


Yup. That's my memory too. Didn't know about the director. Too bad.

Seriously. What a way to go out...
J jcocktostenMember
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Originally posted by winetarelli:
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Originally posted by tanglenet:
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Originally posted by winetarelli:

Ok... and... so a few pages back tanglenet name-checked this film as if, "oh yeah, everyone has seen that..." and it was playing for free On Demand, so I figured, "how bad could it be? I mean it stars Michael Cain!" So...

Blame it on Rio
Wow. WOW. WOW. OHMYGOD! Pervy doesn't even... just... ew. EWW. Every scene, every word is SO ew. I mean the 17 year old (age at the time of hiring, dunno if she was 17 or 18 while filming; the character is definitely supposed to be 17 or 18, though -- probably 17) is really really hot. So, there is that. But wow. I mean HOLY CRAP. PERRRRVVYYYYY! Wow. Once I realized what I was in for I was able to sit back and enjoy it as a "so bad, so MIND BOGGLINGLY offensive, misogynistic, creepy and PERVY, it is incredibly funny, but for the wrong reasons" thing. But WOWOWOWOWOWOW. This might be the single dirtiest-old-man-thought-process mainstream movie I have ever seen. Ever. It was directed by the guy who directed Singin' in the Rain!!!! Wow. Pervy. Q- (But still worth checking out as an oddity if you have the right sense of humor.)


Yup. That's my memory too. Didn't know about the director. Too bad.

Seriously. What a way to go out...


This aired frequently in the early days of HBO and Showtime. I was a kid and enjoyed the nudity but even then knew it was creepy.
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