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- #121
- Posted: 05/17/2013 08:52
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| Applerill wrote: | Really? I've never seen it, but I thought the book was "just very good", and I was bored to tears during All The President's Men.
Are their any more auteur qualities in it? |
The imagery is incredibly powerful and poetic, definitely somewhat influenced by The Night Of The Hunter as some other film critics have noticed (more inventive though), but the way the film rises moral dilemmas, builds characters and leads to a final conclusion makes it far superior than Laughton's one. Sadly I haven't seen anything else by Mulligan so I cannot speak about a certain identity of direction-anyway, it really is a perfect film. That said, if the book did not excite you very much, I don't know if the movie will, but its cinematic values are more than apparent.
Oh, and Shawshank is definitely an auteur film if you watch everything else by Darabont. The way the movement of the camera indicates the "relationship" between the heroes and the restrictive space they are in, the themes of a close community and restrictive, tyrranic authority as well as the struggle of the individual in his efforts to be believed by others, all these elements and probably more are in every single feature film of his.
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Error Finn
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- #122
- Posted: 05/20/2013 16:50
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When the movie(culture) celebrated its 100th anniversary 12/28/1995, Finnish Broadcasting Company celebrated the topic by presenting classic films (overnight sensation) such as Citizen Kane, Ladri Di Biciclette, Freaks and Viva Zapata.I stayed up, I looked at all of them, and I recorded the VHS tape. How Stone Age! But I can´t longer manage to look at the Abel Gance´s silent movie Napoleon (1927).I haven´t seen it yet. Only parts of it. Has anyone seen it?
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lightmyway
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- #123
- Posted: 05/21/2013 06:44
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Never seen Casablanca, Citizen Kane, most old movies. I actually hadn't seen The Big Lebowski until just a couple days ago.
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- #124
- Posted: 05/21/2013 18:58
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| lightmyway wrote: | | Never seen Casablanca, Citizen Kane, most old movies. I actually hadn't seen The Big Lebowski until just a couple days ago. |
Seen Casablanca numerous times, Citizen Kane once, but never The Big Lebowski.
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- #125
- Posted: 05/21/2013 23:07
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| lightmyway wrote: | | Never seen Casablanca, Citizen Kane, most old movies. I actually hadn't seen The Big Lebowski until just a couple days ago. |
All three of these should be high on my priorities. In fact, I think The Big Lebowski might be on Instant Watch.
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MrFrogger
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- #126
- Posted: 05/21/2013 23:07
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| JMan wrote: | | All three of these should be high on my priorities. In fact, I think The Big Lebowski might be on Instant Watch. |
Any self proclaimed film buff should see Citizen Kane. Go now.
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Mercury
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Patman360
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- #128
- Posted: 05/21/2013 23:12
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| JMan wrote: | | All three of these should be high on my priorities. In fact, I think The Big Lebowski might be on Instant Watch. |
The Big Lebowski is great and I highly recommend it, not sure what you'll think though, quite a bit of swearing and stuff...
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Cymro2011
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- #129
- Posted: 05/21/2013 23:14
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| Patman360 wrote: | | The Big Lebowski is great and I highly recommend it, not sure what you'll think though, quite a bit of swearing and stuff... |
Don't tell him that.
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Patman360
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- #130
- Posted: 05/21/2013 23:19
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| Cymro2011 wrote: | | Don't tell him that. |
We all know there are ways of finding out about it anyway...
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