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Didn't see it, but looking forward to it...

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Posted by TAFKA Steve on August 2, 1999 at 09:32:28

In Reply to: What's your opinion on "The Forbidden Games" ? posted by Victor Khomenko on August 2, 1999 at 06:43:05:

Natalie Portman signed her soul over to the Devil (George Lucas) to appear in Star Wars Episodes I-III as Queen Amidala who is mother to Luke and Leia Skywalker. She's the one wearing the weird Kabuki-style makeup and headdress in all the film ads. Oh well, I thought she was going to be the one to pick up roles where Winona Ryder dropped the ball.

Of Nabokov, I've only read Bend Sinister, which was very ominous and could apply to both the USSR and USA.

Other Jean Reno films to check out are La Femme Nikita (in which he plays, what else?, a hitman), The Visitors (a time-travel comedy with Reno as a medieval knight transported to the modern world), and The Big Blue (strange film that women tend to rent a lot to swoon at actor Jean Marc Barr; the French release was an hour longer than the US version). You've seen him in Ronin (BTW, the Chushingura/47 Ronin story is explained in the film, and I've got the Mizoguchi-version DVD to check out) and he was pretty forgettable in Mission: Impossible.

I haven't seen many films recently. The Blair Witch Project was wasted on me. I saw an early Kurosawa film called Sanshiro Sugata (The Judo Saga)and it wasn't one of his better efforts, reminiscent of Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy.

I saw a really vulgar comedy called Drop Dead Georgeous which had an inspired moment in which a small-town teenage beauty pageant contestant sings "My Guy" (Mary Wells version) in the talent portion of the competition...while dancing with a life-sized stuffed doll of the crucified Jesus. She wrapped his impaled hands around her waist, smiles, and sings and dances away. Even Pasolini might have been entertained by this sacrilege.

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