That sounds like LES DIABOLIQUES, Matt. Was it B&W and French?
JESSICA was more like a mash-up of a vampire movie, a ghost movie and REPULSION, all on a budget that looks about as much as the original NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD.
Well, lady, I must say-- You're my kinda stupid.
Mal ,'Heart Of Gold'
Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell
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Frankenbuddha - Dec 21, 2006 3:51:21 am PST #6534 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Nutty - Dec 21, 2006 5:36:15 am PST #6535 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
By this point most directors would have their hands full, but Mr. Zhang piles on the intrigue, adding a forbidden love affair, a vengeful first wife and two varieties of incest. His actors respond in kind, straining their facial muscles with silent-movie enthusiasm and doing everything but shooting flames from their eye sockets.
Teh awesome! (Review of The Curse of the Golden Flower, at NYT) There is also mention of Liberace and Jacqueline Susann as inspiration.
(Does China have telenovelas? If they don't, they really really should.)
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 21, 2006 5:46:26 am PST #6536 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
That sounds like LES DIABOLIQUES, Matt. Was it B&W and French?
No, color and I think it must have been in English though I don't recall any dialogue. (My dad wouldn't have been watching French films on broadcast TV in 1970s Arkansas.)
Jessica - Dec 21, 2006 5:49:14 am PST #6537 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Teh awesome!
It really, really, really is: Jessica "Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell" Nov 22, 2006 6:59:06 am PST
sumi - Dec 21, 2006 5:50:35 am PST #6538 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
There are trailers up for Juliet Landau's new movie.
Although, really - can anyone see Juliet Landau in a horror movie without thinking she's the one who is going to be terrorizing everyone?
DavidS - Dec 21, 2006 5:53:16 am PST #6539 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
(Does China have telenovelas? If they don't, they really really should.)
Taiwain does. Very long and involved and super soapy. But they're like long miniseries so characters can get killed off.
Tom Scola - Dec 21, 2006 6:03:29 am PST #6540 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Taiwain does.
Sometimes, with puppets!
sumi - Dec 21, 2006 6:17:29 am PST #6541 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
From the Zap2it review of "Curse of the Golden Flower":
As we watch, stunned, a bloody Jacobean tide of murder, adultery, incest and rebellion pours through the chambers of a glorious palace, into a courtyard covered with millions of golden cut chrysanthemums.
Kate P. - Dec 21, 2006 7:27:55 am PST #6542 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Robin Hood (the Disney version is the ur-text for Furries, incidentally)
Ack, David, why do you tell me these things? That's one of my favorite movies! I got no beef with Furries, but I really don't want to think about people sexualizing that movie.
...Oh! Suddenly I understand why some people get all upset about the mention of Winnie the Pooh slash.
DavidS - Dec 21, 2006 7:29:43 am PST #6543 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Ack, David, why do you tell me these things?
I don't want you to go to a cocktail party full of sexual deviants and talk about how much you love the Disney Robin Hood and have them snicker up their sleeves. It's for your own good.
Anyway, it is to furries what Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is to inflation fetishists. The childhood flick that caused their first tingle down below.