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Libs
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Yay...I'm really excited to see the film now, G.
How did it compare to The Nightmare Before Christmas?
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| Sat Sep 17, 2005 11:59 pm |
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dolcevita
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Libs! I loved it with the exception of its brevity. But you need to understand. i'm a bit biased towards this. i've done papers in the past on the danse macabre, ars moriendi, and all the medieval religious/death iconography. I'm obsessed with it. So when i see something like this, I get incredibly excited. i might have even liked the aesthetics more than Nightmare, but Nightmare felt like a "full" movie. Bride cuts a bit short, and you're left feeling like you wanted a little more. That's whe only reason i marked it down, because i really loved looking at the movie, and loved Burton's quirky mix of very beautiful and suddenly crass images. Like this glowing bride cascading over snowy hills with her veils fluttering in the moonlight, and suddenly her eyeball pops out and this little maggot that lives in her mind starts talking to her. Its great as candid humour about death.
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Bradley Witherberry
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Hooray! dv likes Corpse Bride!
I didn't read your review yet, because I'm not going to be seeing it till next weekend, but I am reassured by your positive outlook.
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Snrub
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Only an A-? For shame...
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dolcevita
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Snrub wrote: Only an A-? For shame... I said it would have been an A if it had been a bit longer.  Snrub, you're going to go to it, love it, and leave wishing it had been longer too. I can tell. It was right up your alley!
But really guys. All I used to paint was skeletons and half rotting bodies, so some people might find the jawbone visable through the corpse bride's cheek a little less wonderful than I did. But I thought this was spectacular!
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dolcevita
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A History of Violence
http://www.worldofkj.com/reviews/Galia/HoV.php
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In History of Violence, he creates a parallel between the release of raw emotion and the release of ripping flesh. He equates the psychological with the very physical. No movie this year, including all that have previously been touted as uber-violent, compare to the realist elements of knives, guns, and fistfights in this film. Though the fights do not span the entire length of the drama, when they do come, the experience is like feeling your own nose punched off. The lack of comic flat or highly stylized landscapes ensures some truly cringe-worthy scenes. And blood is not the only form of violent release that bursts through the typical storyline...
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dolcevita
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Capote
http://www.worldofkj.com/reviews/Galia/Capote.php
Quote: “More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones,†Truman Capote pens himself at the close of his obsessive desire to catalogue intimately the story of a man and his partner on death row. Capote, which explores the famous author’s magnum opus, is director Bennett Miller’s second foray into helming a feature length film, and his first one that will most assuredly earn him recognition amongst broader audiences and critics. Like his painful book “In Cold Blood,†Capote is riveting because it delves not just into the scene of the crime, but into the community, and most importantly, Truman Capote’s response to it...
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Renton
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Great review! I'm looking forward to this, very intriguing! 
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dolcevita
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Good Night, and Good Luck
http://www.worldofkj.com/reviews/Galia/ ... odLuck.php
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The stylized, almost monotone delivery of everything from suicide to celebration in Good Night is blanketed under extreme stress and a vigorous message. While Murrow’s declaration to his industry in 1958 failed further separated his style and ideas from the mainstream, Clooney chooses to return to that time urgency and hope when Murrow was it his height. There is no parody or slighting of the media world as there is in so many other classic films, there is only the discussion to lead by example. Likewise Good Night, and Good Luck toes the line of its own responsibility. It delivery a contemplative and straightforward message through that when gazing back on the 50’s one is faced with a reflection of today.
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Libs
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Dolce, that like channeled my thoughts on that film exactly.
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dolcevita
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You've seen it too? What did you think!
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dolcevita
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Paradise Now
http://www.worldofkj.com/reviews/Galia/paradisenow.php
Quote: The most obvious problem with Abu-Assad’s Palestine is its sterility. It’s whitewashed dilapidated buildings that make the Italian neo-realists from the 50’s seem vulgar and dirty by comparison. While the sentiments of the two men as they debate with Suha are aggressive and derisive of Israel’s actions, the choice of language and topic, Abu-Assad’s need to expound on every emotion via obvious dialogue, and even the dense street life don’t relay the desperation of a space palpable enough to trigger such emotion, confusion, and decades of insurmountable conflict.
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dolcevita
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The Passenger
http://www.worldofkj.com/reviews/Galia/ThePassenger.php
Quote: All these time periods are seamlessly mended together to encourage active viewing. They are compelling and engaging against a backdrop of taught architecture and barren landscapes. Its mostly due to technique’s success in recruiting the viewer to “read†the film that one is left disappointed in Antonioni’s inability to be decisive about his characters and climax.
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dolcevita
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Shopgirl
http://www.worldofkj.com/reviews/Galia/Shopgirl.php
Quote: There is nothing particularly insightful or even surprising about Steve Martin’s novella-turned-screenplay about a young woman looking for love. In fact the movie’s storyline parallels a lot of international and historic studies of “strong†women who pretend to be searching for their place in the world when all they’re really searching for is a place in someone’s arms. In fairness to <i>Shopgirl</i>, at least Martin’ flatly delivered voiceover of young Mirabelle’s desires doesn’t cloak her need to settle down under any other guise. She stands there, in her tedious job at Saks Fifth Avenue in L.A., and goes to bed at night longing for someone else to find her special and whom she can find special in return...
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dolcevita
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Speaking Parts
http://www.worldofkj.com/reviews/Galia/ ... gParts.php
Quote: In a captivating exploration of form and reality, the “actors†in Etom Egoyan’s 1989 breakthrough <i>Speaking Parts</i> are victims of media, ambition, and their own imaginations. A true gem of a movie, <i>Speaking Parts</i> explores the personal struggles of individuals as they become entangled in a disturbing web of desire and memory. <i>Speaking Parts</i> grapples with new vision and new content. With little precedence in film history, the diamond suffers from rough edges and a challenging point of relation. Funded on pennies by today’s standards, Egoyan is brilliant in his probing of modernity.
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Bradley Witherberry
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dolcevita wrote: Speaking Partshttp://www.worldofkj.com/reviews/Galia/ ... gParts.phpQuote: In a captivating exploration of form and reality, the “actors†in Etom Egoyan’s 1989 breakthrough <i>Speaking Parts</i> are victims of media, ambition, and their own imaginations. A true gem of a movie, <i>Speaking Parts</i> explores the personal struggles of individuals as they become entangled in a disturbing web of desire and memory. <i>Speaking Parts</i> grapples with new vision and new content. With little precedence in film history, the diamond suffers from rough edges and a challenging point of relation. Funded on pennies by today’s standards, Egoyan is brilliant in his probing of modernity. I saw this when it first came out and loved it - I had high hopes for Egoyan, but was continuously underwhelmed by his output - at least up until Where the Truth Lies - that is a very well done film - maybe there's hope for the boy genius yet...
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dolcevita
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Witness for the Prosecution
http://www.worldofkj.com/reviews/Galia/ ... cution.php
Quote: Considered one of the most suspenseful courtroom dramas in film history, <i>Witness to the Prosecution</i> doesn’t quite match its reputation. Only the most underlying theme of shifting the trial from the defendant to the prosecution is interesting. The way in which the shift was executed, however, was predictable and unconvincing. We are left with a court case that nary transcends the plot point of guilty or not guilty.
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dolcevita wrote: Witness for the Prosecutionhttp://www.worldofkj.com/reviews/Galia/ ... cution.phpQuote: Considered one of the most suspenseful courtroom dramas in film history, <i>Witness to the Prosecution</i> doesn’t quite match its reputation. Only the most underlying theme of shifting the trial from the defendant to the prosecution is interesting. The way in which the shift was executed, however, was predictable and unconvincing. We are left with a court case that nary transcends the plot point of guilty or not guilty. This is your main comment that you want to put out of this movie???
As the court case takes probably less than 20 % of the movie, I think the essence of the movie are the scenes outside of the courtroom and the performances of Charles Laughton and others and than those are funneled into the courtroom scenes.
I just think your little quote above, weighing in only on the courtroom, is very disserving to this movie as a whole.
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dolcevita
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Yeah, its just an exert. In the article I do mention that all of Laughton's work is great. More than 20% of the movie takes place in the actual court, and the thing is *spoilers* such scenes as givng the latter over, etc are all about the court case anyways. But the case was a raw criminal case in the most basic sense. It didn't really tie to any bigger issues, and it really didn't lead me to be invested because of that. I like the courtroom dramas were bigger questions are at stake. If its going to be just about the man and his wife, they had better be really charismatic on screen, which they weren't. Only Laughton and Lanchester were. If it hadn't been for them, and the fact I was invested in the recovering lawyer, than I probably would have bumped it down even further.
Their case, and thew way information was introduced (otherwise known as random twists, which I can't stand) just didn't hold my interest.
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The Ice Harvest
http://www.worldofkj.com/reviews/Galia/IceHarvest.php
Quote: This holiday season get ready for the seedy underbelly of Kansas. No, The Ice Harvest is not Capote, even though it is similar in subject matter if not in quality or vision. Welcome to Wichita, where two guys can commit heinous acts in the name of a little money. A Wichita where the monotonous setting of mid-west after-hour hangouts overwhelm even the comedic slaps at Evangelical movements. Only, The Ice Harvest is not an exploration of crime and poverty, or alienated individuals against a vast landscapes, or the ambitions of a novelist struggling to create coherent musings about horrific murders in the heartland. It’s not even a comedy. In fact, Harold Ramis’s crime caper isn’t, really, about anything at all.
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dolcevita
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Walk the Line
http://www.worldofkj.com/reviews/Galia/WalkLine.php
Quote: While Cash fans may realize <i>Walk the Line</i> spans Cash’s early career under Sun Records, the studio nor even its logo were really noted. Record contracts, back-room politicking, production references, or Sun media savvy are dropped from his music career altogether. Audiences are granted an impromptu audition by Cash and his two friends, with a “you’re in.†That’s about the last we really see or hear of the studio system before Cash goes on tour and meets June. Had his quick navigation of the recording industry been addressed with less savvy and more kitsch, like, say, <i>Glitter</i>, most audiences would find his “discovered off the streets†flat, superficial, and not enticing storytelling. Which streets he was swept up from no one knows, as the location and set design don’t feel like Memphis, Arkansas, or even like parts of any town.
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| Sat Nov 19, 2005 2:41 am |
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A. G.
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You get some kind of award for honesty for that, considering you were looking forward to it all year. Good review. I also notice how you praised Robert Patrick, he seems to be getting some good notices by the press out of this, the movie will give his career a boost.
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Shack
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I agree on the honesty part, I must say I'm surprised.
Good review.
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jb007
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Very interesting review of Walk The Line, dolce.
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Ouch. Sorry you didn't like it much.
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