tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86331168801781272022012-01-30T13:12:28.873-05:00Come join us as we discuss our personal responses to unusual and interesting films. Watch, Read, ENJOY!Lee Parishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12235746747609357020noreply@blogger.comBlogger331100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8633116880178127202.post-28291051073883317932011-05-09T16:05:00.006-04:002011-05-09T18:11:51.989-04:00

I have so missed hanging out here and writing but I promise I have been watching watching and watching! I am thrilled to see from the Google Blogger stats report that thousands of you have kept on viewing while I have been away recouperating from illness. AWESOME!!! Keep on coming back, and please- I'd love for you to leave some of your film club discussion questions, opinions and feedback!.

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Note: This is a Guest posting by our much respected contributor 'OLDMAN'! No intention of writing a full on review of The Proposition here. Just hoping to kick off some discussion. First off, this is an excellent film, easily the best to come out of Australia in a long long time. Performances are uniformly excellent with special mention to be sure for Ray WInstone who plays Captain Stanley, and

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“Becket” is a historical film, made in a year that is almost historical itself: 1964. Thomas Becket, played by a young and handsome Richard Burton, is a drinking & wenching buddy of Henry II, played by a very thin Peter O’Toole. In an effort to control the Catholic Church (the only one there was) Henry makes Becket Archbishop of Canterbury. Becket finds God and fights to keep the church

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Setting aside the statistics, the shocking sadness, the sociological ins and outs. what just plain as heck fascinates me most is the magnetic relationship these girls have with their pimps. How these slime ball, scum of the earth, mud sucking men could hold so much power over these beautiful and potent little flowers, -just what is that? For me, all the questions and answers lie right here,

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"If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."Sir Isaac NewtonI liked the 2007 remake by Russian director/actor Nikita Mikhalkov (he plays the foreman of the jury) even better than the original film directed by Sidney Lumet starring Henry Fonda. But I am well aware that were it not for Reginald Rose's original CBS teleplay, his 1955 staging and the 1957 film '12 Angry Men

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Greetings all! Our computer got a big bad virus and most of my info is there so unfortunately I am forced to use a very old laptop to write this with no access to my files. I'll do the best I can to at least kick off our discussion. This posting is unedited and will have spelling errors etc. Please accept my aplogies and be assured that I will 'clean it up' over the next few days.'Keane' BMM on

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We are all ears here!Waiting eagerly for any little tidbits.Juicy or otherwise.RE any and all subject matter.

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"Avoid the Exhibition Grounds, the fortune teller warned me..."(duped Czech consumer)I think this song written for the ‘Czech Dream’ ad campaign sums it up well: “What is happiness like?What makes a dream full?How can anything be bright when the day is so dull?You see what you want.No need to idealize.Life lasts but a secondSo want truth, not lies.Try to see as a child.Many things will seem

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"He just doesn't blink, Allen, in any of his work. I think that is one of the things that pinpoints him, picks him out as an individual filmmaker. He's not interested in blinking."Quote from director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting)Welcome to our discussion of one of my favorite directors, Alan Clarke. We will be focussing on his films 'Made in Britain', 'The Firm/Elephant' and 'Scum.' Let the fun

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-" 'If I could do that I could do anything.' That's the POWER of birthing, and THAT is what we are taking away from women."-Giving birth, “This is what it could be if you trusted it. If you believed in this woman. If you believed in her body and her ability.”-“There really is no informed consent from these women..”-“People in our culture spend more time and effort researching to buy a car stereo

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"Feelings of pain, panic, fear, intense unfocused anxiety, devestation, hopelessness, betrayal, shame, guilt, abandonment, vulnerability and futility may follow an incest victim throughout life."I would like to alter this quote by exchanging the word incest with abuse (sexual, spiritual, physical, mental, emotional, verbal etc). As a survivor of abuse (in what forms, by whom, and the details of

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"Really? You can forget? Well,then that really IS heaven!" The first time I watched 'after life' was with my mother years ago and we both loved it. When I created this blog and was looking for my first film to post she and I thought of this one but could not remember the name of it. Last month I was lucky enough to stumble across it.I watched it again with my partner David about a week ago and

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"A picture of reality reinforced by gimmick."Dearest Dziga,Your creative endeavor has satisfied me to the brink. My cup runneth over.Sincerely, Lee Paris.Dearest Lee, Though I do not believe that was my absolute intention when making The Man With a Movie Camera, I am none the less pleased that you are experiencing such a reaction. I will pass your praise on to my brother Mikhail Kaufman who was

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"So much water so close to home, why did he have to go miles away to fish." Raymond Carver from his short story So Much Water So Close To HomeThe Australian film Jindabyne was adapted from Carver's story by director Ray Lawrence and written by Beatrix Christian. It stars Laura Linney and Gabriel Byrne and was filmed on location in New South Wales. I had watched it on my own many months back and

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First let me state that I am a Vera Farmiga fan. I've noticed her in many obscure films such as 'Quid Pro Quo', 'Joshua', and the 'Hard Easy' and she has always intrigued me. The downside is that her face is so mesmerizing (those eyes!!!) that I sometimes find myself distracted from the film itself. That said, I was not dissapointed with this movie. Though 'Never Forever' was certainly not a

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"What other girls? There are no other girls. They don't exist." Do they or don't they? Will they or won't they....One of the best things about doing this blog is that it forces me to watch the movies at least a second time. I say forces because prior to this I adamantly refused to watch films multiple times. My reasoning was two fold. One, there are so many films I want to to see and will never

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"This whole story, really, is about grownups. It's really not about this kid. She's just a little girl painting in her house."I agree with the reporter who wrote the above quote. This is sooooo not about the kid. I'll be taking a second look at the film tonight and will post more of my reactions in the next few days. Please begin the dialogue and share with us your own responses about this

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About ten minutes into the film lonely, bullied 12 year old Shaun, who has recently lost his dad in the Falklands War passes under a bridge where a skinhead gang headed by kind and friendly Woody is hanging out. It is at this moment that I find myself leaning forward; my heart begins to race and I sense a familiar but not often felt excitement. THIS is why I watch movies. THIS is what I search

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In honor of the summer vacation we are holding off on the next film discussion till September 6th. In the mean time I hope you will take the opportunity to catch up on the movies that you missed over the last six months since this blog began (see list on right). And please, continue to post your fabulous comments. The 'Lee Just Watched' list will still be updated bi-weekly. ENJOY!!

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"Donald Crowhurst sailed over the horizon and into oblivion..."Watching Donald Crowhurst's sad demise in ‘Deep Water’ brought to mind memories of the 1969 Sydney Pollack film “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?”. In both films (one fiction, one documentary) desperate people hope to solve their problems through the winning of a publicly viewed contest. Once on the treadmill they were unable to get off

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"I'm not a demon!I'm a Human Being!I'm a Human Being!...... "'Onibaba' ( Demon Old Woman ) was written and directed by Kaneto Shindo and released in Japan in 1964. Provocatively scored by Hikaru Hayashi and stunningly photographed by cinematographer Kiyomi Kuroda, 'Onibaba' is based on an old Buddhist folk tale. Set in 14th century rural Japan during a period of civil war involving peasants and

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"That's what this film is all about. Just keep trying to be good, and that way at least we won't be all bad." F. D., writer/director of 'The Lives of Others'What an achievement by Florian Maria Georg Christian Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck, son of Leo-Ferdinand Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck, former president of the German division of the Order of Malta. Can you believe that the six foot nine

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Though I realize one can’t really put this DOC in the category of OTBP (Off The Beaten Path) the information it revealed to me regarding just how many of the countless musical delights I have enjoyed in my life had the common thread of being generated from the hopes , dreams and genius of one man’s vision was astounding. I am not well versed in music history so I’ll simply leave it at that. As

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Truth be told I found some of the back round scoop on this film to be almost as interesting as the movie itself! 'Walk on Water' is based on a true story about a former Mossad (Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations in Israel) agent who returns home from an assignment to find his wife has hung herself and left a suicide note blaming him. During his next assignment he breaks down and

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......King......RichardLooKing for RichardSome Americans love Shakespeare. They love his language, wit and insight into human behavior. Others find his work intimidating and too difficult. Take Richard III. On the one hand it is a simple story: Richard lies, cheats and murders to become king; after gaining this power he self destructs and is killed. On the other hand it is a confusing mass of

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I watched 'Children of Heaven' when it first came out and the faces of Ali and Zahra have stayed with me ever since.What I loved most was seeing their expressions of grief and sadness transform into ones of pleasure and delight. How many times the two of them quietly stared into each others’ pained eyes, seeming to reassess each other, to dig deep into their long held closeness and trust and

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Such a simple film. So quiet, crisp and clear. Like the Norwegian winter snow that surrounds the story. I always appreciate when a movie, a photo, a piece of writing, or a brief encounter with a stranger strikes this particular cord within me: How much I will never know, how little of the world I will ever see, how few human’s I will meet and connect with, how many billions of quiet (and not so

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After the Armistice was signed in 1954 the two sides and the United Nations built in Panmumjom an 800 meter diameter Joint Security Area. The border between the Koreas is considered to be the most heavily guarded in the world. North and South Korea are still technically at war. May I begin with a few quotes from the actors themselves?Song Kang-Ho (plays Sgt Oh Kyeong-Pil) :“ This was not just a

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"A widow should be long suffering until death, self-restrained and chaste.A virtuous wife who remains chaste when her husband has died goes to heaven.A woman who is unfaithful to her husband is reborn in the womb of a jackal." The Laws of ManuChapter 5, verse 156-161Dharamshastras(Sacred Hindu Texts)Where to begin? Where, oh where...I found the setting mouthwatering. In spite of the abjectly

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"Although the events depicted in this film are fictional, they are based on actual behaviours that are happening between consenting adults...right now." Anybody still with me? Having just watched ‘Feed’ for the second time I have to ask myself: seriously, did anyone but my partner David and I actually make it past the first 15 minutes? During these first fifteen minutes of my second

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Anna - "He shouldn't have come."Jorgen - "No, but we can't control everything in the world..."I am feeling very emotional as I write this, having just watched ‘After The Wedding’ for the 3rd time. Each viewing I find more touching and gut wrenching than the last. As I come to know the characters and am able to watch each scene with the precognition of their futures at my disposal every detail

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“I can’t breathe.Air is getting old…I can’t breathe.Keep it in control...”These are the opening lyrics to the film Kontroll. (For those of you who know me, I’m sure you will find this strangely apropos!) A killer soundrack by NEO – btw if you can find any recordings by NEO let us know, we tried and can’t.This is the first feature film written and directed by Nimrod Antal. Antal grew up in LA but

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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!!!!

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