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My June movie-watching (NOT a ten-best list) I
by Stephen_Murray | Jul 01 '06
the best (and hardest to take) was "City of God"

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Re: Danes=Yuck (Reply to this comment)
by Stephen_Murray, Stephen_Murray is an Advisor on Epinions in Movies
A wonderful, and wonderfully apt neologism: overemployed!

Wish I'd coined it, but, failing that, am pleased to have provided a stimulus for it.
Jul 02 '06
1:29 pm PDT

Re: As Tears Go By... (Reply to this comment)
by Stephen_Murray, Stephen_Murray is an Advisor on Epinions in Movies
has more of a plot, but some of the languor and the bursts of violence of later Wong movies. (I think I've now seen them all— though only the first half of "Ashes of Time.")

Even apart from having Stephen Chow in it, I expected a movie titled "King of Comedy" to be funny(/ier). (The earliest movie of Chow's that I have seen is "King of Beggars," which I find very funny, though not without considerable pathos, too.)
Jul 01 '06
5:17 pm PDT

As Tears Go By... (Reply to this comment)
by diseased
Hmmm...I thought I was the only one who knew about this early Wong Kar-Wai...it is so different from his later ones.

If you want to see something different from Stephen Chow...you would probably want to check out some of his earlier works...where he actually played (very) serious roles.
Jul 01 '06
4:45 pm PDT

Re: I had to laugh (Reply to this comment)
by Stephen_Murray, Stephen_Murray is an Advisor on Epinions in Movies
Tavernier's movie is high in my queue, since how people behaved during the Vichy regime seems more and more relevant to the land of the decreasingly free.

Jul 01 '06
4:39 pm PDT

I had to laugh (Reply to this comment)
by ifif1938
my notes are such a jumble and written in the dark while watching my movies that I never can read them..I don't know why I bother...:)

I saw a great movie today, Safe Conduct, but then you've probably seen and reviewed it already...if not then it's one you would really like about French film making during the war..based on a true story, and thanks to you I recogised some of the names mentioned...:)

Cheers
Barbara
Jul 01 '06
4:36 pm PDT