After Christy's fine start I thought I would give you something in English, but, alas, without a mambo taxi and spiked gazpacho. Maybe the naked ladies will make up for the loss.
This cover art is a poor way to advertise the film. It looks like it is going to travel a well rutted road through hack B-moviedom. Instead it finds a beautifully strange wilderness. So here is our next movie, a moody exploration by Atom Egoyan.
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SH: I think the idea is that a movie is introduced at the same time that the previous one is discussed. In other words, it is time to discuss cl's pick and go about looking for a copy of driftwood's pick. And I think the idea is that we spend about two weeks per pick, i.e., we will have a new pick and begin discussing driftwood's pick about two weeks from now. And I think the convention is for the picker to make the first discussion comment, but I'm not sure we're planning to follow that convention.
I never use just two initials, since mine are BM. I didn't know what BM stood for until I was in high school and a friend had a large brown pickup truck with a personalized license plate that said "BIG BM."
Actually, now that I think about it, he wasn't really a friend. He was the first person who ever said to me, "Don't you know that everyone hates you?"
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Sara, welcome!!!
DW, I think I considered renting that back when I worked at Fine Arts Video in OP, but that darned cover made me self-conscious. Doesn't matter now. I'm a bolder renter in my 30s.
It's in my Netflix queue!
Yes, that cover probably does drive away some of the people who would like the film and attract many who won’t even watch it through. It does, however, have a higher count of naked ladies than I remembered.
As Ben suggests, why don’t we try and follow the convention of having whoever picked the film start the discussion with the first post? I’ll put something up in about two weeks.
DW, I like how you keep saying "naked ladies." I don't think I've ever heard you say such a phrase in person, which adds considerably to its charm. It makes me feel like we're all 12 and sneaking into a dirty movie together. Sweet.
Mia Kirschner is one of the naked ladies, I presume? Good grief, I've seen her naked like 8,000 times on the L-Word.
Actually, kc, she is not. She doesn’t quite undress even though she is doing a sort of a strip tease. It would be a lesser movie if she did. (Or at least I might make that argument in my post.)
So is the “L-Word” worth watching? I think that is a tedious title for anything, so I had my doubts that they could write a good script if they cannot write a good title. Can they?
No, sadly, I have to say the L-Word is not good, and I've seen them all, holding out hope that someone would make a smart series about gay women (like the British version of "Queer as Folk," say). It had a few good moments, but it's bogged down by their trying to cram in every conceivable lesbian issue/type under the sun. It really, really lacks focus. There are, however, scads of naked ladies; although, I find the sex on that show rather tedious (with a few memorable exceptions!). It would have been so much better if they just focused on making a smart drama about three or four (vs. six or eight) professional women and their lives, and then add the element that, oh yeah, they are all gay. It would have felt more real. The gay issues would have been there, they just wouldn't have felt so contrived. It would have been more natural, more compelling.
I bet your idea would make it easier to put some sizzle in the sex by first developing a few characters that pull you in emotionally.
Oh, I've only seen about a dozen L-Word episodes, or less, but I think they're such a likable group of characters.
Yeah, I agree, the characters are very likable. They deserve better writers, though.
Another foreign film? Hehehe.
Back in film school I saw "The Sweet Hereafter" and "Exotica" together. It was the Atomic age.
That last comment was dedicated to you, DW.
Why thanks, George. But don’t you know that the idea that Canada is an independent county is just a conceit on the part of a bunch of Americans who insist on speaking with a funny accent?
And I almost selected “The Sweet Hereafter”. I rewatched them both over the weekend before deciding. More on this later.
Oh, "The Sweet Hereafter" is awfully hard to watch. So gut-wrenching. Didn't realize that was the same guy.
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