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Hou's strikeouts (Reply to this comment)
by Stephen_Murray,  in Movies
The refusal to move the camera in "Puppetmaster" drove me bonkers: particularly, when someone falls through the back of the frame. Oddly, the influence of Ozu seems greater in Hou's more recent films than closer to the time the Japanese occupied Taiwan.
Scotland is not that far from NYC. My (Murray) ancestors from Ayrshire probably had a less comfortable voyage than you will. It's being stuck to the seat that most bothers me.
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May 15 '06
3:42 pm PDT
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Re: Re: Hou's on First? and more (Reply to this comment)
by trust12345
Yeah... I liked Puppet Master very much when I saw it; I'd like to catch it again some time. You were responding to someone else, but re: planes, I also am hopeless in sleeping very well at all. I love to travel, but planes just about kill me-- I feel I can never drink enough water to counter the dryness, the seats drive me bonkers, and of course 50% of people on flights are rude and entitled (e.g. cell phone noise pollution).
Well, next trip is to Scotland, and the goal makes up for the journey.
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May 15 '06
11:28 am PDT
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Re: Hou's on First? and more (Reply to this comment)
by Stephen_Murray, in Movies
Hou has struck out in his last 4-5 times at bat IMO. (I have a DVD of "City of Sadness" and some day will test whether I was wrong to like it and "The Boys of Feng-guei once upon a time).
Sometimes I wonder if there is any there there in Wong, but if I steel myself to expect next to no narrative, I can admire what I see (as in Malick films).
I only watched the reincarnation of "The Producers" because the flight from San Francisco to Frankfurt is long and it is very difficult for me to sleep on planes.
Although "Jarhead," like most of the best 2005 films, is too long, it received significantly better reviews elsewhere than those on Epinions, which have mostly come from those wanting the usual bang-bang war movie, whereas Swofford's experience was of being trained as a marksman and then not shooting and not shooting and not shooting.
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May 15 '06
10:22 am PDT
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Hou's on First? (Reply to this comment)
by trust12345
I couldn't get past the first 20 minutes of Millennium Mambo, but found Flowers of Shanghai ravishing (saw it on the big screen-- it helps)... As recently noted, Cafe Lumiere has put another dent in this spotty but at times brilliant director's spot on my pantheon. I'm glad to learn of your ambivalence to Wong Kar Wai... one I share. It begs belief, the adoration he receives for some of his drippy stuff (beautiful as it is).
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May 15 '06
12:20 am PDT
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Ben-Hur (Reply to this comment)
by weirdo_87
Although I like the 1959 version a bit more then you (I must confess, I haven't seen it for awhile), I liked the silent version much better. It does have dull parts, no doubt, but is spectacular, especially with the limits of filmmaking at the time.
Yours is the first positive review I've read of "Jarhead": Makes me interested in seeing it. And I wasn't exactly the biggest fan of the Mel Brook's "The Producers" (It had amusing parts, no doubt, and an amusing concept, but just seemed to mismash together), so I'll skip the remake.
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May 14 '06
11:31 pm PDT
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A new world (Reply to this comment)
by ifif1938
is on my list of must sees as is Elizabeth as soon as all my TV shows are finished with their season finales...it will then be a vast wasteland in TVland...:)
Thanks once again for a great write-up ..
Cheers
Barbara
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May 14 '06
12:23 pm PDT
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