RNL
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Post by RNL on Feb 14, 2006 22:38:42 GMT
Hey, I posted five of these things yesterday!
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Capo
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Post by Capo on Feb 14, 2006 22:44:09 GMT
Hey, I posted five of these things yesterday! Requested.
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RNL
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Post by RNL on Feb 14, 2006 22:44:58 GMT
Well maybe I respond better to threats, hmm?
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Post by Capo on Feb 14, 2006 22:45:43 GMT
Fine: All other February watches to be Proviewed by the end of February, or you're banned.
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Post by RNL on Feb 14, 2006 22:52:43 GMT
...better not watch any more films, I guess.
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Post by Vercetti on Feb 15, 2006 0:19:50 GMT
Wet Dog, since you know more about the program, how long do you think it'll take to download? It's been 2 hours since last night. I took a still of it. At the moment it's Waiting. i3.photobucket.com/albums/y81/lost_stigmatic/programstill.jpgIt was shrunk by Photobucket, so I don't know if you can read it.
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Post by RNL on Feb 15, 2006 1:40:53 GMT
It's hard to say. As I said, it works best if you're downloading more than one thing at a time, because you're still in rotation there, you have to wait for your turn to come around again, and how wuikly that happens depends on how many other people are downloading it from how many others. You'd be best off adding a few more films to the list and getting them all around the same time. Japón Japan Carlos Reygadas 2001, Mexico / Germany / Netherlands / Spain[/color] 1st viewing; DVD- Thematically A Taste of Cherry meets Woman in the Dunes. A painter journeys to a remote canyon to commit suicide, lodging with an elderly woman whose recently paroled nephew seeks to evict her from his property. The visuals, from the overexposed skylines to the shadowy interiors, from the insects and rodents scuttling in and out of otherwise inactive frames to the frank and incidental depictions of sex and death in nature, from the inscrutable close-ups to the five-minute panoramic dolly along the railroad, are astounding - all the squalid beauty of Gummo seen through the eyes of Tarkovsky. I can't wait to see Battle in Heaven now.[/size]
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Post by Vercetti on Feb 15, 2006 1:49:53 GMT
What do you mean add more? All I want is that one movie for now.
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Post by RNL on Feb 15, 2006 1:56:51 GMT
Well, in that case, don't. I just thought that, since the program is running and sapping your bandwidth anyway, you might as well be getting something out of it.
As it is, you're just being uploaded from.
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Post by Vercetti on Feb 15, 2006 1:59:40 GMT
If I block uploads will it run faster?
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Post by RNL on Feb 15, 2006 2:22:19 GMT
I don't know. I doubt it, because you'll still have to wait your turn.
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Post by jrod on Feb 15, 2006 7:53:39 GMT
The Fan (0) (1996/Scott)
DeNiro is good, but overall this movie is extremely poor. Although the ending is intense it is completely absurd and stupid. I considered giving it one star because of the first hour, but when the movie was supposed to pick up, it let down.
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Post by Capo on Feb 15, 2006 13:20:48 GMT
I missed the chance to see Battle in Heaven, Wet Dog, but I heard it was excellent. Your proview of Jápon confirms my interest in both that film and the director.
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Post by jake on Feb 15, 2006 14:53:19 GMT
I hated Jápon. I found to be an extremely uneasy hybrid of Kiarostami and Tarkovsky. Alternating between realistic close-ups with natural sound and lighting and wide-angle poetic shots (complete with Bach and rain, sound familiar?) was very disorientating and caused a strange mix of natural realism and supernatural Tarkovskyian images. It almost seemed as though he filmed two separate versions of the story and spliced them together. On top of that the basic storyline was a complete rip-off of Taste of Cherry. Even at the end he has the actors playing the villagers break character to remind us that this is just a film, just like the final scene of Taste of Cherry. Add to that the use of Bach’s Erbarme Dich (famously used in The Sacrifice) and you get an uncreative and unoriginal piece of work. I can’t believe it won so many prizes at festivals. Perhaps they never saw the aforementioned Tarkovsky and Kiarostami films.
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Post by RNL on Feb 15, 2006 16:16:25 GMT
I didn't find that any of it clashed. In fact, by virtue of the fact that those different types of images exist in the same film, it's original, maybe just an originality that you didn't like. Nothing is completely original. Half of The Sacrfice is nabbed from Bergman and most of the rest from Tarkovsky's previous films.
Have you ever seen a shot like the final one in Japón? Sweeping in circles, always referencng the position of the camera operator, exposing its own technicalities, while at the same time wrapping up every loose end of the 'story'? I haven't.
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Post by Driver on Feb 16, 2006 11:16:45 GMT
Saw (2004, James Wan) Two men awaken to find themselves trapped in a room with a dead man, and discover they're victims of a serial killer called 'Jigsaw'.I watched this for the first time yesterday, its very well made. Casting unknown actors was a good idea, it adds to the atmosphere beause you haven't seen them in anything else before, and their performances were all really good, as were the props. It was good to see originality in a new(ish) film at last.
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Post by Omar on Feb 16, 2006 20:42:27 GMT
I hope "Cache" is still playing in my city this weekend. I must see it now.
The plot description makes it sound like "Lost Highway", but I imagine it's nothing like it.
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Post by Capo on Feb 16, 2006 20:52:22 GMT
The plot description makes it sound like "Lost Highway", but I imagine it's nothing like it. No, it's much more austere; though it will leave just as many unanswered questions when it finishes. I'd love to hear your thoughts on it...
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