There is nobody not good in Chocolat: Depp, Binoche, Molina, Dench, Moss, Olin, Stormare, John Wood and Leslie Caron, plus it's a lovely screenplay and magical locations.
Well, personally, I kind of want to slay the dragon.
Angel ,'Not Fade Away'
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Beverly - Dec 31, 2008 7:28:02 am PST #9282 of 10000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Aims - Dec 31, 2008 7:37:30 am PST #9283 of 10000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I didn't even RECOGNIZE Moss.
I want to go live there.
Beverly - Dec 31, 2008 7:38:47 am PST #9284 of 10000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
No high-speed internet.
And no Depp.
Aims - Dec 31, 2008 7:41:47 am PST #9285 of 10000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
'S okay. One day, I want to live in a tiny little French village. Maybe not forever, but for some time, before that clever north wind comes and sweeps me out.
Juliebird - Dec 31, 2008 7:42:32 am PST #9286 of 10000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Saw Benjamin Button. What a lovely movie, and not precisely what I was expecting. A love story for life.
Beverly - Dec 31, 2008 7:42:57 am PST #9287 of 10000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Stormare seems to have taken on the Rutger Hauer mantle of large, indeterminately European, burly actor with a menacing onscreen presence and a goofball personality. Compare Big John Abruzzi (or Serge Muscat) to the "Veedub. Unpimp da auto" commercials silliness, to illustrate my contention.
DavidS - Dec 31, 2008 8:04:54 am PST #9288 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Sue!
I have Tivoed Play It As It Lays.
And I have committed it to VHS tape (watching most of it too).
Hit my profile addy with your mailing address and I will send it to you.
Here's my brief review: reminded me a lot of A Woman Under the Influence and Altman's 3 Women except Tuesday Weld isn't nearly as good as Gena Rowlands or Sissy Spacek. Also, Tony Perkins looked beautiful and unrecognizeable with longish, early 70s hipster hair. He was very good. There were a lot of striking images in it.
It also reminded me of the LA scenes in Annie Hall.
beekaytee - Dec 31, 2008 9:17:54 am PST #9289 of 10000
Compassionately intolerant
I have never seen Old Yeller, Red Ferns or Yearling...for all the reasons mentioned.
I have however, relied on Project X as my go-to flick when I need to blubber. God. It just rips me up and leaves me on the floor.
It came out while I was a professional peace activist (working on nuclear disarmament issues, no less) and absolutely KILLS me with the inhumanity.
Animals in peril = no go for bonny
Sue - Dec 31, 2008 9:22:29 am PST #9290 of 10000
hip deep in pie
David, you're my hero! Address insent.
Connie Neil - Dec 31, 2008 9:26:46 am PST #9291 of 10000
brillig
The toy battle in Toys makes me sob. You know that the soldiers in war movies aren't being killed, but it's OK to blow up a teddy bear. And, god, the one dancing toy circling aimlessly around the wreckage of its partner as the tinny music plays . . .
And I thought The Fisher King was brilliant.