112 minute running time … Vietnam War documentary from 1974 … it’s not super well done, but it does make guys like Westmoreland and Walt Rostow look very bad, maybe nearly as awful as they really were. A total debacle and most of the guys responsible for it never owned up to it. History repeats itself.
Are you really asking me this goddamn silly question?
Ali McGuirk singing ”Long Time” .. great voice, cool song, I dig it.
Start at 4:28:17 for this snippet:
99 minute running time … Lena Dunham is pretty interesting… she’s half-Jewish (mom’s side) so she’s smart and funny, but she doesn’t look like a Jew, she looks like a weak-chinned, flabby WASP. I really enjoyed this movie and understand why she got the opportunity to do “Girls” on HBO, which was also pretty brilliant. Dunham was born in 1986 so she’s Gen-Y and really understands her generation well and can write a clever script and frame good shots. This is a green-go, recommended!
Cyrus in the middle
Study the action in these charts… how would you have played them?
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98 minute running time … I think this is the only full-length movie that Larry David ever wrote and directed … it is funny, lots of classic Larry David humor, but seeing it after ten seasons of Curb Your Enthusiasm, which is much raunchier and much funnier, Sour Grapes was something of a let-down. I didn’t hate it, but I wouldn’t go out of my way to see it either.
It was my machine.
Hailu Mergia … I dig incorporating the tube sounds … takes me back to my time in London maybe? Drank many a pint at The Euston Flyer. Cool tune:
Sakidasumi … I can’t find any facts about her … maybe Australian? Anyway I dig this song:
94 minute running time but I went to fast forward after 11 minutes … this was comically bad, very French … Juliette Binoche is beautiful and still looks pretty amazing for age 57, but dressing like a 17-year-old at 57 doesn’t work … she plays a super neurotic successful artist (er, painter of giant squiggly lines) who has a string of really repugnant “boyfriends” .. the movie is a series of completely pointless and annoying conversations, very French in other words.
She has a ten-year-old daughter we see only once and for five seconds (lives with Dad). Would a mother of a little girl behave like this? Gérard Depardieu shows up at the end to play a fortune teller for fifteen excruciating minutes. “I see someone new coming into your life, someone with a giant crooked nose.” Oh god this was awful.
Gay men inexplicably love everything that Claire Denis makes (yes, this was a Farr recommendation), but you should steer clear of this one.
Sandra Hall gets it right: “Juliette Binoche talkfest takes dive into the absurd” … “There's something morbidly compelling about the spectacle of such self-indulgence being allowed to run amok.”
From Deborah Ross’s review: “… everyone talks in endless circles, tiresomely and pointlessly.” How many French movies has she seen? lol
I'd think, “He's a bastard”... and I'd come. [yes, many lines in the movie like this one!]
93 minute running time but I think I made it 15 minutes in before going to 8x fast forward … awful 1980s soundtrack, so bad it made me cringe … a day in the life of a “high class hooker” … talk talk talk, I just wasn’t interested. A movie made by women for women, no man could sit through this. I have no idea how this ended up in my queue. Give it a miss.
Let’s play a game….
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