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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
The Miseducation Of Cameron Post
Chloe Grace Moretz plays a 90s teen who's sent to gay conversion camp. Here she meets some friends.
It's rather sweet considering how horribly damaging and destructive it is to subject someone to gay conversion 'therapy', though the adults responsible are not portrayed as monsters but as damaged people with mostly good intentions.
Above all though, it is a refreshingly truthful coming of age comedy drama about finding fellowship and friendship in adversity. I've not experienced much of what the characters gp through but their experiences resonated all the same - that pure enjoyment of just being with your friends is portrayed so perfectly by Desiree Akhavan and her cast. Must check out her other stuff.
Chloe Grace Moretz plays a 90s teen who's sent to gay conversion camp. Here she meets some friends.
It's rather sweet considering how horribly damaging and destructive it is to subject someone to gay conversion 'therapy', though the adults responsible are not portrayed as monsters but as damaged people with mostly good intentions.
Above all though, it is a refreshingly truthful coming of age comedy drama about finding fellowship and friendship in adversity. I've not experienced much of what the characters gp through but their experiences resonated all the same - that pure enjoyment of just being with your friends is portrayed so perfectly by Desiree Akhavan and her cast. Must check out her other stuff.
Dom Hemingway. Jesus fucking wept. There are probably worse films but I can't think of any right now that are THAT fucking dire. I genuinely thought that it was gonna be some kind of spoof, and there'd be a midway epiphany or SOMETHING to spin it right round, but no - it kept on, and on, and on, with unfunny, pretty despicable sexism, racism, homophobia, and glorification of gobbing off and violence. Wtaf?! Wouldn't wipe me arse on it.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Come on, have a bit of perspective, it's not even the worst Jude Law film
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
omg shopping
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Nice soundtrack from the Channel 4 ident bloke
Gotta admit, I know his name, but I couldn't think of any other films I've watched that he's been in. Does he always play fucking wankers then?Come on, have a bit of perspective, it's not even the worst Jude Law film
He was good in The Talented Mr Ripley and (imo) would've made a better Ripley than Matt Damon.
He was meant to be annoying IIRC...
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
His Gigolo Joe character in AI is OK. I rated him in GATTACA as well
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
He is meant to be rather irritating. It's one of the reasons we like Ripley (though none of the films have done him justice).
Law's nadir was surely Love, Honour & Obey
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
It would have been better if they swapped Damon with a potato
I did like Alain Delon in Plein Soleil though.
The Rider. Felt almost like a documentary...a rodeo rider has to quit the sport and consider his life after suffering a brain injury. It's very realistic...possibly due to the main characters playing parts that might be very close to their real lives. The horse training scenes are amazing, the rodeo scenes and attitudes of the other cowboys scary and quite believable. Hit a few very personal notes for me. A good watch.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Prospect.Sort of retro future sci fi film with he who plays Oberyn Martell, a great performance from Sophie Thatcher. Andre Royo, Bubs from the wire, is in it also. I've seen comparisons with Outland which I get, not for the story but the closeness of it, small scale frontier world story.
easily 9 /10
Contains a brilliant amount of impromptu surgery including an arm amputation.
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TheHoodedClaw
acknowledging ur soup leg
Just watched an episode of a US TV series I've kept up with - The Blacklist - which I quite like. The release group I usually dl from uploaded this episode without snipping the NBC network ads. Holy fucking shit - it is really quite a different viewing experience.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Gaslight
1940 British adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's play. The US adaptation is more famous, and the film company attempted to destroy all copies of this to bolster ticket sales, but luckily some prints survived.
The print I saw was horrible, but I 'enjoyed' the film all the same. It features a beastly (but rather dapper, in a smoking jacket) villain, played by a ridiculously-accented 'foreigner' Anton Walbrook, who deliberately torments his wife into thinking she's going mad, all as part of a scheme to steal some hidden jewellery from the house he is renting next door in Pimlico Square. Walbrook makes an excellent monster and his victim, played by Diana Wynyard, plays the tormented heroine very well, esp when the tables are turned.
Can't wait to see the remake, as it has Ingrid Bergman in.
1940 British adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's play. The US adaptation is more famous, and the film company attempted to destroy all copies of this to bolster ticket sales, but luckily some prints survived.
The print I saw was horrible, but I 'enjoyed' the film all the same. It features a beastly (but rather dapper, in a smoking jacket) villain, played by a ridiculously-accented 'foreigner' Anton Walbrook, who deliberately torments his wife into thinking she's going mad, all as part of a scheme to steal some hidden jewellery from the house he is renting next door in Pimlico Square. Walbrook makes an excellent monster and his victim, played by Diana Wynyard, plays the tormented heroine very well, esp when the tables are turned.
Can't wait to see the remake, as it has Ingrid Bergman in.
Reno
The In Kraut
In my ideal version it would be Walbrook tormenting Bergman. I think he makes the better villain, she makes the better victim. That was Walbrook‘s real accent, he was an Austrian actor who moved to the UK in the 30s because he was part Jewish and off screen quite unapologetically gay.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
aye, i read about him afterwards, at first I thought he was a Brit putting on a silly non-specific 'foreign' accent. What else is he good in? He's a fantastic villain
Reno
The In Kraut
He was in several Powell and Pressburger films, most notably The Red Shoes and Colonel Blimp, where he played an honourable German which was considered controversial in a movie made during WWII. Also a couple of Max Ophuls films and Queen of Spades is great too. One of my favourite actors.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
I saw this over Xmas last. The fact that the earlier versh was made in 1940 must surely have something to do with the German-ness of Walbrook's villain. What struck me watching the 1940 job, though, was the contrast in the portrayal of the maids - in the 1945 the maid as played by Angela Lansbury (yes, of Murder She Wrote fame) is a bit racy, but the 1940 versh has her (as played by Catherine Cordell) in full "bury me in a y-shaped coffin" mode. I mean for its time it was really close to the knuckle - an early sign of the loosening of sexual mores in wartime?
Reno
The In Kraut
If anything British films were more a little more daring when it comes to sexuality, the Hays Code in the US was strictly enforced, till it loosened in the late 50s. Landsbury is great in the remake, it was her first film role and she was only a teenager then. She always was a fantastic actress especially when playing shady dames (her character in The Manchurian Candidate is one of the great movie villains of all time), kind of a shame that she's best known for Murder She Wrote.
I think innuendo went over the US censors head, the stuff Mae West got away with even after censorship kicked in was because thy just didn't get it. On the whole I prefer the US version, it's a better made film, got lush production values and Bergman hits it out of the park. I saw the British version later and it feels a little clunky in comparison. Both film versions changed the villain to a foreigner, in the play by Patrick Hamilton he's a Brit. I'm not sure they cast Walbrook because of the war in the British version. He had become a star in the UK a couple of years before when he played Prince Albert in Victoria the Great which was a huge hit, so he was quite popular.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Huh, I'd never heard of this Victoria the Great. A landmark in British cinema history, I take it?
Reno
The In Kraut
A lot of films which were huge hits then are forgotten now and many films which are considered among the greatest ever made were flops and got poor reviews. The success of that one was down to national pride rather than artistic merit.
I thought National Velvet was her first film role but you're right, it was Gaslight. They were both made in 1944 though so I wasn't that far off.
The Hays Code stuff is interesting though. When I saw Miracle at Morgan's Creek a few years ago, for example, I was struck but how racy its basic premise was -- I've just checked and that was also made in 1944.
Reno
The In Kraut
Hinting at stuff was ok, but you couldn’t show anything. Then you’ve got a British film like Black Narcissus at the same time, where a bunch of nuns lose their shit over David Farrar flashing his bare legs.I thought National Velvet was her first film role but you're right, it was Gaslight. They were both made in 1944 though so I wasn't that far off.
The Hays Code stuff is interesting though. When I saw Miracle at Morgan's Creek a few years ago, for example, I was struck but how racy its basic premise was -- I've just checked and that was also made in 1944.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Or you have the ridiculous scene in I Was a Male War Bride, in which an exhausted Cary Grant falls asleep while sitting in a very odd position that allows him to keep his feet on the ground while the rest of him is lying on a bed (as per the requirements of the Hays code).
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