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Marrakech: Guillermo del Toro Talks "Political" 'Pinocchio,' Confirms 'Terrifed' Remake
“It's not a 'Pinocchio' for all the family,” said the Oscar winner of moving the tale to 1930s Italy.
Guillermo del Toro said his upcoming Pinocchioproject for Netflix will be a political parable, and not the kid-friendly fare of the competing Disney remake.
“It's not a Pinocchio for all the family,” he said of his story, set in 1930s Italy. So is it a political film? “Of course. Pinocchio during the rise of Mussolini, do the math. A puppet during the rise of fascism, yes, it is,” said the filmmaker.
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Also coming on tonight 12/30 at 2 AM are two very good Ingmar Bergman films-
Winter Light
and the Silence. (Been a while since I've seen this one).
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Das Klinget so schone.....
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3 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
I'd have to pick Waltzes from Vienna.
Or Elstree Calling.
I know you're joking but I genuinely enjoy Waltzes from Vienna.
North by Northwest is probably my favorite Hitchcock though.
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8 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
Several lesser-known names have passed away in the last month, and I thought I'd mention a few of them:
Geoff Murphy (1938-2018) - New Zealand director who came to attention with his 1983 film Utu, which has become a cult favorite. This led to Murphy directing a handful of American films, such as Young Guns 2, Freejack, and Under Siege 2: Dark Territory. He then moved to second unit direction, a position he held on all three of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films.
Philip Bosco (1930-2018) - Character actor of stage and screen who won a Tony for 1989's Lend Me a Tenor. He amassed nearly 100 film and television credits over a 50+ year career.
Tim Rossovich (1946-2018) Former pro football player who segued into supporting roles in film and television, appearing in numerous action films throughout the 1980s.
Michael Seymour (1932-2018) British production designer who won a BAFTA for his work on 1979's Alien.
Bill Siegel (1962-2018) - Documentary filmmaker of The Trials of Muhammad Ali and the Oscar-nominated The Weather Underground.
Steve Daskewisz aka Steve Dash (1944-2018) - Stuntman and actor remembered for playing Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th, Part 2.
Jorge Grau (1930-2018) - Spanish artist who dabbled in film directing, including the 1974 cult-fave horror movie Let Sleeping Corpses Lie aka The Living Dead At Manchester Morgue.
Herb Ellis (1921-2018) - Character actor who appeared in such films as The Killing, Pete Kelly's Blues, The Fortune Cookie, and Hang 'Em High, among many others.
Frank Adonis (1935-2018) - Character actor often cast as mobsters, including in Goodfellas, Raging Bull, Casino, and True Romance.
Robert Kerman (1947-2018) - Adult-film actor best known for co-starring in the grindhouse horror classics Cannibal Holocaust and Cannibal Ferox.
Ringo Lam (1955-2018) - Hong Kong director best known for his 1987 film City on Fire, which served as the inspiration for Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs.
Robert Kerman was also in the wonderful classic Debbie Does Dallas too.
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On 12/27/2018 at 8:12 PM, LawrenceA said:
So who's seen Roma, and what did you think of it?
I just finished it, and was highly disappointed. The subject matter was mundane and banal to the extreme, and the amateur performers gave amateurish performances.
This is a semi-autobiographical look at writer-producer-director Alfonso Cuaron's childhood in the upper class Roma neighborhood of Mexico City circa 1970/71. The film focuses largely on the family's housekeeper and nanny as she goes about her daily working life, later dealing with an unexpected pregnancy.
It's a vanity project for Cuaron, who never passes up an opportunity to stage an ostentatious camera set-up, be it panning or tracking or even more panning. The busy images and sound effect tracks are overstuffed with detail that occasionally offers an interesting composition but often seems pretentious and unnecessary. Sometimes less is more.
This is an art film first and foremost, and the narrative is certainly a secondary consideration to the imagery, resulting in an emotional distance between subject and audience that doesn't seem intentional. I think the Cuaron of Y Tu Mama Tambien, stripped of pretension and full of emotional truth, would have served the material much better than this overly staged exercise in self-indulgent navel gazing.
(6/10)
I saw it too. My thoughts of it are similar to my thoughts on Akerman's Jeanne Dielman. I understand the message behind the film but it's just so damn boring. Even a story as mundane as this could have been extremely moving but there is no emotion or feeling here. I did like the scene where the boyfriend learns she's pregnant at the theater and then bails on her. Probably the most emotional part of the film. If only more of the film was like that instead of characters staring off into space or odd attempts at comedy and sight gags that just fall flat. Despite my dislike of it, I expect this one to get a few awards though.
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From the foreign editions-
They Don't Wear Black Tie, Leon Hirszman, Brazilian edition
Pixote, Hector Babenco, Brazilian edition
Tree of Knowledge, Nils Malmros, Danish edition
Quest For Fire, Jean-Jacques Annaud, French edition
Love Wanders in the Night, Frieda Liappa, Greek edition
A Foolish Love, Giorgos Panousopoulos, Greek edition
To ergostasio, Tasos Psarras, Greek edition
Mephisto, Istvan Szabo, Hungarian edition
Een vlucht regenwulpen, Ate de Jong, Dutch edition
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My top FF films of 1981...
1. They Were Actors, Georgi Natanson, USSR
2. Das Boot, Wolfgang Petersen, West Germany
3. Cannibal Ferox, Umberto Lenzi, Italy
4. Man of Iron, Andrzej Wajda, Poland
5. Mephisto, Istvan Szabo, Hungary
6. To the Stars by Hard Ways, Richard Viktorov, Nikolay Viktorov, USSR
7. Quest For Fire, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Canada
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49 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Barry Lyndon
- Dog Day Afternoon
- Jaws
- Nashville
As I stated earlier, this was a very good year for Best Picture nominees, and any of the five deserved to win.
My personal choice would be Jaws too. I love that one.
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Palillo, Ron
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Broderick Crawford was in Seven Sinners with John Wayne
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5 minutes ago, Lost In Space said:
This is how threads get removed. Just saying.
Thread who? Never heard of 'im.
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Khabenskiy, Konstantin
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DeMoss, Darcy
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Eleanor Parker was in the Sound of Music with Julie Andrews
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I'm a big MacDonald fan but I don't think I've seen this one yet. Either way, I agree that calling it the "final" is really presumptuous . Though I'd guess that due to the operetta style repertoire of MacDonald that it won't get another version any time soon.
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Blumenfeld, Alan
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Che (Parts 1 and 2)
Next: Switzerland
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It's a bit obscure so I don't expect to see it but I think the Russian musical Carnival Night would make a good TCM Import for this time of year. It's set at New Year's.
Song: 5 minutes (till New Years!)
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Gay Parisienne from Desert Song
Next: Nelson Eddy song
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Amarcord
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I've mentioned it before but I prefer when they show the exploitation films and the gory ones with murders. I'd like to see more stuff from Tinto Brass and cannibal movies.
I don't care for the music movies or the comedies or the other movies like those.
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Horse, Michael
Das Klinget so schone.....
Your Favourite Foreign Language Films
in Your Favorites
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They Were Actors - The plot of the film is based on real events of the Great Patriotic War. The story is based on the life of the real actress Aleksandra Feregonna (played by Zinaida Kirienko).
"They didn't have to break into the cities,
Forcing river rifts.
When the general trouble came,
The actors died as soldiers ... ”
When the fascists occupied the Crimea, the actors of the Simferopol Drama Theater (headed by Feregonna) entered the Falcon underground group. The activities of the underground workers were diverse: they pasted leaflets with the information of the Soviet Information Bureau, made maps indicating the strategic objects of the enemy, supplied the partisans with medicines, etc.
But not all people fought against the Germans in the occupied territory equally dignified. Many did come into confrontation with the enemy, but there were also those who went into the service of the invaders and became a traitor. Among them are Kablukova, Solodchy, and Fricke.
On April 10, 1944, 3 days before the liberation of Simferopol, the underground workers died from the bullets of their enemies - they were shot on the outskirts of the city. And on April 14 they were buried with military honors.
After many years, the deserving punishment overtook the traitors - they were tried by a military tribunal. This film includes a beautiful rendition of "Lili Marleen" performed by Zinaida Kirienko to the Germans that is used to contrast with her underground activities. My favorite scene.