Our weekly Screengrab list is on Favorite Prison Movies, in the wake of President Obama's order closing Gitmo. I wrote about The Grand Illusion in part 1, plus other movies (including Bresson's A Man Escaped, Megan, because I know you just love the guy) in parts 4 and 5.
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Hayden - Jan 22, 2009 11:43:22 am PST #9611 of 10000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Tom Scola - Jan 22, 2009 11:54:34 am PST #9612 of 10000
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megan walker - Jan 22, 2009 3:12:56 pm PST #9613 of 10000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Bresson's A Man Escaped
La, la, la, I can't hear you.
All I can say is you show excellent taste with Renoir. Glad to see Out of Sight and Escape from Alcatraz made the cut. I have an unholy love for both of those. And Stalag 17, but that's a more obvious classic than the other two.
beekaytee - Jan 22, 2009 5:14:54 pm PST #9614 of 10000
Compassionately intolerant
This is what I hear about Shoot Em Up as well.
I had the 'throw sanity to the wind' response to both Crank and SEU. The first 5 minutes feel like you walked into a party where everyone is loaded but you...then, you just go with it.
It became, 'how much more fucked up can this get?' That much more? NO. WAY!
beekaytee - Jan 22, 2009 5:20:43 pm PST #9615 of 10000
Compassionately intolerant
I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm a little bummed that Staitham is in Crank 2.
I know. Madness.
But, the organizing principle of the first one...as I recall was that the insanity was in the service of his noble sacrifice.
Didn't his character clearly die at the end?
Not on a par with The Unbearable Lightness of Being, of course, but the death was integral to the resolution.
Perhaps I'm misremembering. And overthinking.
nevermind
§ ita § - Jan 22, 2009 5:23:28 pm PST #9616 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hayden - Jan 22, 2009 5:55:45 pm PST #9617 of 10000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Ha, Megan. The fact that I can tease you by mentioning Bresson is one of the reasons you are awesome. I wrote the Stalag 17 paragraph, too.
Theodosia - Jan 23, 2009 3:41:07 am PST #9618 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Is CRANK out on DVD yet? Because I'm going to have some long evenings to fill while I'm visiting Mom in the Old Ladies Penitentiary.
Laga - Jan 23, 2009 7:22:57 am PST #9619 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
yes, Crank is on DVD. It's a Hard R for just about everything you can get an R for in case you're worried about scandalizing old ladies.
Strega - Jan 24, 2009 2:20:31 am PST #9620 of 10000
Apparently the DVD comes with a "family-friendly" version. Which still has all the gratuitous sex & violence, but they say "freak" instead of "fuck." I might rent it just for that.
And Patton Oswalt recently weighed in: [link]
Do yourselves a favor, Academy voters. CRANK 2: HIGH VOLTAGE comes out April 19th. On April 20th, rescind all the voting categories. There should be one statue given out next year -- a 45-foot, sentient Oscar kill-bot, which Jason Statham will fight to the death at the next ceremony.