Welcome to our new blogsite Films Off The Beaten Path. The discussion of our first film, Kontroll, will begin on January 18th. Watch it so you can join us!!!!
December 30, 2007
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Looking good! I saw the movie a while ago, but I'm gonna watch it again this week.
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Happy New Year, Lee! Your new blog looks beautiful. What a wonderful way to start 2008! Can't wait to find a copy of Kontroll and see what it's all about. :) :) :)
Just saw Kontroll. What a great movie! Can't wait for the discussions to begin...
I just came accross your site. I too am a movie buff and was suprised to find I hadn't seen or heard of the 4 films you have listed. Glad to run into a fresh resource.
Hello Lee,
Wonderful to hear from you, and loved your blog. I too have loved movies
since childhood. I'm afraid, though, that living in northern WIsconsin for
years -- and the Upper Peninsula of MI before that -- I have little
opportunity to see much of real interest in the theater. TCM and Netflix
have been my salvation in recent years. Needless to say I haven't seen any
of the four films you plan to review, though I did read a glowing review
of Kontroll by Roger Ebert and a couple of Water, though one of these was
written by a woman of Indian descent who seemed more interested in
pointing out historical innacuracies and presenting an apolgia for
Hinduism than she was in the film itself. In any case I've put all of them
on my Netflix list and look forward to your comments on each.
I found many on your "favorites" list I know well, and love: Network --
how prescient was Paddy Chayefsky? -- the very hard to find Cruising,
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?, All That Jazz, Local Hero, What's Eating
Gilbert Grape, and more. I've never actually tried to compile a "list;" it
would take too long! I now have a couple thousand films in my collection
and generally watch at least one every day. As is the case with my 4000
album music collection, my tastes are definitely eclectic. I must admit,
though, that as I've gotten older I have found myself turning more
frequently to comedies, especially the great screwball comedies of the
thirties and early 40s, and probably for many of the same reasons these
films were so popular during the depression. Still, if you can't
appreciate the incredible Barbara Stanwyck in Lady Eve or Ball of Fire,
Veronica Lake in I Married a Witch and Sullivan's Travels, Katherine
Hepburn in Bringing up Baby, Irene Dunne in Theodora Goes Wild, The Awful
Truth or My Favorite Wife, William Powell & Myna Loy in The Thin Man
series, or Cary Grant in practically anthing, well you just don't own a
funny bone.
Last night we watched Ninotchka -- again -- and as always I found myself
wishing Garbo had made more comedies, actually more films period. Of
course I love anything by WC Fields, The Marx Brothers, or Mae West. I
also have developed over the last few years a real "thing" for silent
movies, and am slowly putting together small collections of Louise Brooks
and Clara Bow, as well as Chaplin, Keaton, Fatty Arbuckle etc. The first
time I saw Louise Brooks in Pandora's Box was a revelation, and her
writings in turn, led me to Clara Bow who turned out to be everything
Brooks had claimed and more. Despite her problems, on screen she was --
and is still -- electric. Like Cagney, but of course, much sexier.
I've also never grown out of my childhood love of musicals, especially
Gene Kelly -- I can't begin to count the number of times I've seen Singin'
in the Rain -- Fred & Ginger -- I read an Ebert column once in which he
repeated the old comment that Fred gave Ginger class, she gave him sex,
but very correctly pointed out Ginger never needed anyone to give her
class, she always had it. And, where dacning is concerned, as she once
noted herself, she did everything Fred did except backwards and in heels!
I'm also still a sucker for a good romance (no matter how manipulative)
Love Actually or Groundhog Day, cases in point.
None of this means I don't like "serious" films or modern films. I love
practically everything by Pedro Almodovar, especially Talk to Her and All
About My Mother. Also Ruy Guerra's films, especially Erendira with Claudia
Ohana based on Gabriel Garcia Marquez 100 Years of Solitude. I have -- and
love -- most of Kurosawa's movies as well as Fellini's and Hitchcock's. A
few more? Lindsay Anderson's If and O Lucky Man, Truffaut's The 400 Blows,
The Apartment, The Wizard of Oz, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Mr. Deeds
Goes to Town, Beat the Devil, Being There, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's
Nest, The Raging Bull, The Searchers, Chinatown, The Exterminating Angel,
Fargo, The Last Picture Show, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, The Night of the
Hunter, Shane, Some Like it Hot, This is Spinal Tap, My Fair Lady, West
Side Story, It's a Wonderful Life (yes I love Capra as well as Preston
Sturges), A Christmas Story, S.O.B (a wonderful and very funny Blake
Edwards movie that does for Hollywood what Network did for TV, and also
stars Bill Holden)-- and way way too many more. Sorry, didn't mean to go
on like that, but since you "just FRIGGIN LOVE MOVIES!!" I think you'll
understand. Anyway, like I said, I really look forward to your "blog"
reviews!
photos are fantastic looking for more. love site itself see you on the 16th for opening
Hi: is the new date to discuss/blog "KONTROLL" now on Friday, January, 18th?! I see the date seems to have been moved back...Thanks, Marc - P.S. - on the 18th, is the discussion open all-day, or is it limited, (or desired), that all comments be made somewhat interactive/live during a specific timeframe - such as 8-midnight or something? Please let me know the "right way" to do all this on the 18th!! Thanks, and I saw the movie and it was very coooooooooooooool.
Dear Marc, My posting on Kontroll will indeed arrive on this site by noon on the 18th (barring computer death which is always a possibility..!) The discussion is open all day!! Looking forward to having you join us! l.l.paris
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