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I've been a Jarmusch fan since a friend sat me down and made me watch Down By Law.
I love that movie. I think it's my favorite of his (that I've seen). It was so unexpectedly sweet at the end. Watching it made me forgive Roberto Benigni for much of his over-the-top schtick during the Life is Beautiful era.
It was so unexpectedly sweet at the end. Watching it made me forgive Roberto Benigni for much of his over-the-top schtick during the Life is Beautiful era.
Johnnny Stecchino and Life is Beautiful have wiped out any warm and fuzzy feelings I might have had for Benigni after Down by Law.
Robin, I pretty much had the same feeling about Broken Flowers as you. Not my favourite Jarmusch by any stretch, but much better than most films anyday.
I'm watching Step into Liquid for the first time. I think I like the Endless summer movies better, but damn, there is some amazing photography.
TCM will be airing Jacques Tourneur's "I Walked With A Zombie" next Monday, 9/5 at 7:35 AM (and repeated on 10/19 and 12/31). Brontë with zombies! I'd only watched it once and have been wanting to rewatch it for the longest time.
Didn't I hear some noise about a Val Lewton DVD set a while back? If not, why isn't there one?
ETA: Just made a run to the Amazon, and hey! That very set seems to be slated for release in Octorber. [link] Yay! I've never seen "The Body Snatcher". $42 isn't a bad price for 10 movies, 4 commentaries plus documentaries. Ooooh.
Also on the TCM front -- a Garbo film festival, every Tuesday night/Wednesday morning during September.
TiVo will be doing overtime duty just with the ones I haven't seen before.
Oooo. Curse of the Cat People!
Vonnie, there are more details about the set here: [link] It looks like there are actually 7 commentaries total. Again I say, ooooo.
I know why, too, Fred, because GG and I share a birthday.(9/18) We are unlikely birthday twins, I think, which is why I remember.
My mom gave me Goodbye, Lenin for my birthday. It's a lovely, funny, observant little movie about the fall of the Berlin Wall and how it affects an East German family. I recommend it highly.
For Buffistettes, I might add that the lead actor is HOTT.
TCM will be airing Jacques Tourneur's "I Walked With A Zombie" next Monday
My damn cable company has TCM on the set of channels outside of my price range.
I watched Human Resources this weekend, which was an extraordinary movie. A young man, the son of a working class French family, has come home for a summer internship at the factory where his father works. His job is to prepare the factory for the 35-hour workweek, but he quickly runs up against a strident union representative. Drawing on a case history from college, he comes up with a survey that he hopes will cut through the rhetoric to get to the best solution, but his plan backfires and he learns by accident that the factory management has decided to use his survey to get rid of some workers, his father included. All of this leads to a great, messy, complicated conflict between him, his father, and the factory. Mike Leigh wishes he had made this movie, but the truth is that Leigh doesn't have the deft touch to make class conflict into such a personal experience. Highly recommended.
Just made a run to the Amazon, and hey! That very set seems to be slated for release in Octorber. [link]
Ooooh, it's got the very rare Ghost Ship. (If you'll google on my name you'll find my prize winning Voodoo Adventure which alludes to that movie.)
I love those movies so much. So elegant and eerie.