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In Reply to: "Fluffy Bunnies in the Village of the Happy Idiots" posted by Bambi B on December 1, 2004 at 19:16:34:

I've been exploring whatever foreign films happen into my local library, or perhaps a forgotten classic or two. I rarely go to the cinema anymore, mainly because I have two small kids---most of the viewing is on DVD/video...
Let's see... The past couple of months I've watched
"La Strada"
"The Third Man"
"Battleship Potemkin"
"Bicycle Thief"
"A Day At The Races"
And the only recent films:
"Once Upon A Time In Mexico", which I hated.
"Gangs Of New York", which was OK.
"Whale Rider" was pretty good.
The last one I saw at the theater was "I, Robot" and it was awful. It was a highly sterile version of "Blade Runner" with no soul.

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Re: "Fluffy Bunnies in the Village of the Happy Idiots" - Bambi B 08:42:51 12/02/04 (0)
Mmm,
Your local library has above average taste and you chose several favourites of mine too. For years I regarded "The Third Man" as one of the best movies ever made, one of those magic collisions of all the right elements. Likewise "LaStrada". "Battlehip Potenkim" is also I think an astounding one, like "Third Man" amazing photography. Besides Murnau's "Nosferatu", and "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" "Potemkin" just amazes me in visual acuity, every little detail contributes to the overall effect.
I saw "Gangs" recently on the television machine. This one was a challenge for me as Dicaprio has the presence of a mud pie and his character is supposed to be having a Hamletian scale of inner conflicts. But Danial Day Lewis' character was simply charming. "The Butcher" was so intensely eccentric and yet rang true. Really violent movies bother me when the blood and guts is incidental, but in "Gangs" it is so extreme and relentless, the violence became abstract and a kind of game. The strange artificiality of the sets heightens this.
Some good ones!
Cheers,
Bambi B

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