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Permalink Reply by Adjei The Sound Sculptor on -
Sulla Mia Pelle - It's an Italian film that I missed the first half hour of but what I did catch was very good, the film has a great bright but washed out type look to it
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Permalink Reply by Blue Flower on -
Smoking Aces. I liked it. Especially that scene just after Affleck got shot and the guy just went over to sit on him and chat. I thought that was cute.
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Permalink Reply by Rosenda on -
41st and Central: The Untold Story of the LA Black Panthers
http://41central.com/
It was SO good. I thought I knew it all from what my father, mother and sister told me when we were growing up, but this was a really good straight up truthful account of all sides of it and the people involved. That guy Kumasi is a TRIIIIP. He is so funny in his portrayal of some things and definitely at the same you knew he was not somebody you'd EVER mess with or show disrespect too. And I also tripped off of the last statement near the last part where they said that Huey Newton as main Black Panther spokesperson at the end cancelled the LA Black Panther Party's charter because the LA group was too aggressive. !! Mm hmm, tell it like it is!! I really enjoyed all the inverviews and footage. It was really something special and very emotional, in some good and some very heavy ways. I could see how rough it was for Ericka Huggins and Elaine Brown to relive the last week when John and Bunchy were killed. You know what else really stood out: the director Gregory Everett, his father was one of the LA BPP members, before the film thanked everyone important to him that helped him get the film done and how and when he got the idea to do this in the first place, and at one spot he said ' you know those brothers up in the hood you see every day? some of them gave me 3000 here and 5000 there, no questions asked, and didn't ask for anything in return." That touched me, cause I thought it's cause even those brothers doing business up in the streets, even they knew what an important story that was to tell and they respected him greatly for doing it and wanted to help him reach his dream.
"Sita Sings The Blues". THAT WAS SO GOOOOD!! LOVED IT!! Beautiful animation and sweet old fashioned blues pretty music, in the telling of an old Hindu religious/love tale. Nice!!
Story of Howling Wolf: yes I saw it a second time. I really enjoyed that, seeing him singing and hearing his great voice. And hearing about his whole life. Damn that man lived and enjoyed his craft of music to the very end literally before saying goodbye. I really liked what his daughters and his close friends/bandmates had to say about him. Really great.
And yes I saw some of Electric Purgatory a second time. What greatness.
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Permalink Reply by LesYpersound on -
BBC's 2006 Jane Eyre mini series... all 4 hours in one sitting.
O_o it was pretty good.
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Permalink Reply by Rosenda on
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IT WAS SOOOOO GOOD!!!! What a great story and that was probably the best dramatization I've ever seen (I know I saw 3 other BBC productions of it from the 70s and 80s too).
LesYpersound said:BBC's 2006 Jane Eyre mini series... all 4 hours in one sitting.
O_o it was pretty good.
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Permalink Reply by LesYpersound on
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Soldier's Girl
...some of the stuff is really roll-your-eyes stupid, but the subject matter more than makes up for it. It's basically about don't ask, don't tell and thefostering of homophobia in the military in the late 1990s. The "Soldier's Girl" is an ex-Navyman with gender identity disorder who is saving up money for her gender reassignment surgery while working at a drag club in Nashville. One evening a young man from Fort Campbell is dragged to this club as a "joke" by his homophobic/in-the-closet roommate and this guy falls for the pre-op but on hormones performer. The love story is believable and beautiful! They deal with a lot of the issues of a straight guy falling for a pre-op m2f trans woman with sensitivity and their love story seems as genuine as it's going to get on a made-for-tv movie. :]
Rosenda said:
Dude, have you seen that Sean Bean production of Clarissa yet? It had me hollering at the screen just like this new Jane Eyre mini series (I'm really annoying to be with when watching ridiculously high-drama stuff like soap operas or british dramatizations... jeez). And it's leagues better than Dangerous Liasons in any of its incarnations. :D Or I may just be misremembering how great it was, but I remember I brought it with me on a family vacation somewhere warm and we spent a whole afternoon watching the damn thing in the room. lmao.IT WAS SOOOOO GOOD!!!! What a great story and that was probably the best dramatization I've ever seen (I know I saw 3 other BBC productions of it from the 70s and 80s too).
LesYpersound said:BBC's 2006 Jane Eyre mini series... all 4 hours in one sitting.
O_o it was pretty good.
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Permalink Reply by Rosenda on
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Yes, we did. They moved the PAFF from the Magic Johnson Theatre complex over at Baldwin Plaza Mall to the Culver City Theatre on Washington. Which is a way smaller place and it was VERY crowded and packed and frankly not very organized.
My sister is gonna find out the REAL reason why they moved it from MJ Theatre to CC Theatre. My theory is it has to do with money, the cost of whoever has to pay MJ Theatre or CC Theatre to host the festival overall.
My sister thinks that more specifically it is possible that Magic Johnson was more deliberately involved in what happened at the theatre, or his right-hand people were, early on when the PAFF was first shown there every year, and that perhaps that he is not as involved or at all in that part of it anymore and that it's run or owned by an investment group, and no one in that group is really into dealing with the responsibility of hosting the PAFF there anymore. Which sucks but I'm glad it's still happening. Dude it was hotter than hell in the lobby and I bet CC Theatre was too cheap or someone was too cheap to pay for air condition in the lobby and hallways. It was on inside the actual theatre where we sat to watch 41st and Central tho.
jahluv said:Did you see it at the Pan African Film Festival?
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Permalink Reply by loungepunkisto on -
Neo Ned
. actually liked it
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Permalink Reply by kifaru on -
From Paris with Love. The Movie is kinda anti arab muslim terrorist which I wouldn't mind but the script is all over the place. Some of the plot devices make absolutely no sense.
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Permalink Reply by conspicuious green on -
Drag me to hell.
Finally got round to watching it.
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why do things allways end up in that womans mouth, maggots, flies, embalming fluid, cursed hankies? it was kind of odd like the script writer has "things he likes to see"
and the psyhic's assistant dancing like a puppet when the lamia enters his body, i felt embarssed as if i had made the film.... the list goes on.
couldn't stop laghing when she says " i had a cat" and her boyfriend corrects her saying "no, we have a cat" and she goes silent and stares off because she has just sacrificed it to try and save her soul.
ichi the killer has anyone seen it, watched it. i liked it odd film *sigh* Japanese films love 'em.
Has anyone notice nollywood movies getting.. whats the word i'm looking for???...
worse, if thats possible. love em because their bad, then they get worse. whats a gir to do.
plz no one watch North and South it's a serious/funny(not sure it was supposed to be) story about incest, and endurance on your part
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Permalink Reply by X-D-D-M*9 on
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= INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS --- aiight. Some interesting scenes but nothing that great or that bad. I'll say it: how come this film on WW II is doing the same thing in Spike's WW II film A MIRACLE AT ST. ANNA a year before with the majority or dialogue in the native language? Biting styles again, he'll never get credit. Cool for brushing up on you German & French but that's it. Dude playing Nazi Col. Landa was superb as was the Basterd assassin with the long knife.
= INFAMY --- Documentary on current groundbreakers in the graff art field. Features NM (Philly represent), Saber, Claw, Jasz, West, Daze, and others. Well paced covering the scenes styles from Philly to San Francisco. Great directing and editing from Doug Pray and locally based music.
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Permalink Reply by PolarVibez on -
Miracle of St. Anna was really good. It was really slept on though. I think it's easily in the top 5 of Spike Lee joints. I feel like he kinda challenged himself with that film to stunning results.
Daoud said:= INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS --- aiight. Some interesting scenes but nothing that great or that bad. I'll say it: how come this film on WW II is doing the same thing in Spike's WW II film A MIRACLE AT ST. ANNA a year before with the majority or dialogue in the native language? Biting styles again, he'll never get credit. Cool for brushing up on you German & French but that's it. Dude playing Nazi Col. Landa was superbly evil.
= INFAMY --- Documentary on current groundbreakers in the graff art field. Features NM (Philly represent), Saber, Claw, Jasz, West, Daze, and others. Well paced covering the scenes styles from Philly to San Francisco. Great directing and editing from Doug Pray and locally based music.
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