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Frank beat me to both Bitter Moon (which I love a lot, but could probably not watch now--it suited my mood at the time) and Lair of the White Worm.
I've been meaning to rewatch ever since THE INSIDE came (and went - sniff ). Peter Coyote is pretty good at bringing the creeeeeeeepy, yet magnetic.
I haven't watched "Bitter Moon" in ages, but it left an impression. I can't recall any other film that was so virulently anti-romance. Coyote was brilliant in it, and Emmanuelle whazherface, Polanski's young wife, was perfectly cast, for all her vapidity.
I suppose most LJ people probably have seen this already, but Daniel Radcliffe's nude publicity photos for "Equus" hit the press couple of days ago. [link]
(It's obviously not work-safe, although the camera doesn't quite pan down to the naughty bits)
I must be getting middle-aged, because on the first look, I felt like shouting "My eyes! My eyes!" and throwing a blanket and a bottle of tanning lotion at his head.
it's not like Republican side had squeaky clean hands, you know?
Well, and not to get into a big ole political discourse in the movies thread, but, not only was the Republican side unbelieveably disorganized and caucus-y and harebrained, it was in the latter period basically run from Moscow. So to delve into the modes and methods of the Republican side would make things quite a bit messier.
(Although, some of the homegrown Republican rhetoric, whoa nelly. When your chief propagandist is known as La Pasionaria, and not by her real name, you know you've got some serious mythmaking going on!)
The background of the aftermath of the civil war was coopted to provide parallels to the fantastic realm and to illustrate the greater theme of the story, but the reverse isn't necessarily true.
Right. Like, I don't think the Republicans were actually winning any territory in 1944. In fact, by then, the last remains of the Republican organization was busy smuggling Jewish refugees across the French border (for all its Inquisition rhetoric, Jews were remarkably safe in Spain, during the war).
I'm sick of HG in romantic comedies too. Surely he could do something else with his acting skillz? *Has* he done anything else?
he was in American Dreamz, but if you're looking for something GOOD to see him in, don't see that. it's truly one of the most awful movies i've ever seen.
Oh, maybe I should take it off my list.
I like HG in About A Boy and the Bridget Jones movies. He plays a good cad, doesn't he?
Oh, yeah...that same niche as Domenic West. "I'm a bastard, and I know it, but you love it anyway, right?" Except HG is less alcoholic-with-a-heart-of-gold.
So to delve into the modes and methods of the Republican side would make things quite a bit messier.
Right. The political aspect of the film was grossly oversimplified to say the least, and the characters were pretty much all archetypes, there to serve the theme of the fable (brilliantly, I may add.) Most of the moral ambiguity, I felt, lied with the fantastic elements.
It's interesting, because I feel like a lot of fantasy films/literature serve as allegories for real-life political/social/moral conflicts, whereas in Pan's Labyrinth, it was flipped the other way around.
Huh. That's a really interesting way to look at it, Vonnie. I didn't think of that.
That's what I love about this movie. I don't even know if del Toro made it this complex on purpose, but it just is.