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Not strictly last night but - Brokeback Mountain, and Alice Doesn't Live here Anymore

I'd read Brokeback a couple of years ago, so was hoping not to be disappointed by the film. As it turns out, the film was excellent. Heath Ledger was really really good as Ennis - very impressed. The landscapes were fantastic - made my heart heavy with longing. Always dreamed about that kind of lifestyle - still do.

Alice was a lovely surprise. Was not expecting the warmth and comedy between her and her son (the son was brilliantly played:cool:), or the dialogue. Great film - shame we both fell asleep towards the end! I'm gonna finish it later I think
 
Strictly last night - Peep Show series 4, and both series of Spaced (again). It was a definite case of being knackered, full up, and stoned which led to this uber-couch-potatoeness
 
vertical ray of the sun -

vietnamese.
about three sisters and their love relationships.
beautifully shot.
would love to live in those houses.
 
I've been watching episodes from Series 2 of The Professionals while doing some ironing this afternoon.

A 1978 Rover police car drove past where I work in one shot. :)
 
lars and the real girl -

disappointing in that it wasn't as hard-hitting as the 2003 film 'love object.' and i don't believe in such a community where the church, ordinary men, family, doctor can accept a full grown man having a relationship with a sex doll...
 
Just finished episode 8 of the Prisoner. Am liking very much the gnomic, oblique dialogue. Also feel very at home with the ambiguity/mind games aspect. Really well designed too. :cool:
 
Fight Club with the commentary on - followed by switching the comentary off and going back to the ending/credits to get the full effect of the buildings falling down to the sound of The Pixies

was accidentally hilarious switching the dvd player off (after hitting mute when the menu came up) and suddenly getting a shot of Jesus' blooded face on Ch4 (forgot Passion of The Christ was on)
 
Finished off S4 of The Wire - I've run out of superlatives but I think this series is certainly the most emotionally affecting TV I've ever seen. It's so so sad. :(
 
Orang Utan said:
Finished off S4 of The Wire - I've run out of superlatives but I think this series is certainly the most emotionally affecting TV I've ever seen. It's so so sad. :(
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:( We've got the last two episodes to go...I shudder to think what's going to happen, really. From a slow start I actually think this is my favourite series - the kids are just so brilliant, they bring so much extra depth to the whole thing.
 
Chinatown.

Astonished and ashamed I never got round to this before. What a fantastic - and ultimately horrible - film
 
Orang Utan said:
I've wanted to watch that for years but keep putting it off, partly cos I know the twist
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Unlike with something like The Sixth Sense, Chintown's complex plot isn't that reliant on its plot twist. That revelation is not what it is ultimately about and it's just one aspect in a film that is more about the web of corruption modern Los Angeles is built on than about a family scandal. The film is often considered to be based on the greatest screenplay ever written and Chinatown has many more surprises in store than a plot twist. One of my favourite films and one I never get sick of watching despite the fact that I know what it's about.
 
Reno said:
Unlike with something like The Sixth Sense, Chintown's complex plot isn't that reliant on its plot twist. That revelation is not what it is ultimately about and it's just one aspect in a film that is more about the web of corruption modern Los Angeles is built on than about a family scandal. The film is often considered to be based on the greatest screenplay ever written and Chinatown has many more surprises in store than a plot twist. One of my favourite films and one I never get sick of watching despite the fact that I know what it's about.
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i know the second movie got made as Two Jakes, but the third didn't. Did it really end up partly getting included in Who Killed Roger Rabbit? :D
 
El Jefe said:
i know the second movie got made as Two Jakes, but the third didn't. Did it really end up partly getting included in Who Killed Roger Rabbit? :D
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Nicholson was still talking of making the third Jake Gittes film, Cloverleaf in a recent edition of Radio 4's The Film Programme. Roger Rabbit is an obvious homage to Chinatown. It was made before the disappointing The Two Jakes though, so I don't know if anything of Cloverleaf really made its way in there.

I just got the recent Special Edition of Chinatown and may watch it tonight on my DLP projector. :cool:
 
The Mist, the new Frank Darabont/Stephen King film. Not bad, old school monster movie with the usual bunch of King stereotypes (played by a stellar cast of character actors) barricaded in a small town supermarket as a strange fog rolls in, containing various nasty beasties. The DVD I got had both a colour and a B&W version and I watched the B&W one. The film stays very close to the Stephen King story (one of the best things he ever wrote) apart from a real downer of an ending.
 
Looking forward to that - The Mist is one of the most memorable King short stories. The best ever is Survivor Type, but I don't know how they'd film that.
 
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