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May 30, 2008 18:11:38 GMT -5
Post by spurs2000 on May 30, 2008 18:11:38 GMT -5
Anyone seen "The Diving Bell And The Butterfly [2007] "
This is the amazon review. Not seen film as not released yet but book is fantastic.
The seemingly claustrophobic story of a man imprisoned in his paralysed body becomes a dazzling and expansive movie about love, imagination, and the will to live. After a stroke, Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric, Kings and Queen) can only move his left eye--and through that eye he learns to communicate, one letter at a time. With the help of his speech therapist (Marie-Josee Croze, Munich) and a stenographer (Anne Consigny, Anna M.), Bauby writes the stunning memoir The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. But such a plot summary makes the movie sound like lofty, self-important medicine--far from it. Director Julian Schnabel (Basquiat, Before Night Falls), working from an elegant screenplay by Ronald Harwood (The Pianist) and with an outstanding cast (which also includes Frantic's Emmanuelle Seigner as Bauby's neglected wife), has created a movie as engrossing and hypnotic as a thriller, a movie that wrestles with mortality yet has stubborn streaks of dark humour and eroticism, that portrays a man who overcomes unimaginable obstacles but refuses to paint him as a saint. Schnabel was once dismissed as a pompous and overblown painter, but he's crafted an intimate visual poem, a humble sonata about life at its most fragile. --Bret Fetzer
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May 31, 2008 8:50:57 GMT -5
Post by irishclaire on May 31, 2008 8:50:57 GMT -5
I haven't seen it but it's supposed to be amazing. Did well at the Oscars too
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May 31, 2008 19:25:35 GMT -5
Post by spurs2000 on May 31, 2008 19:25:35 GMT -5
Its available June 9th in uk
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Jun 1, 2008 18:17:31 GMT -5
Post by irishclaire on Jun 1, 2008 18:17:31 GMT -5
i know this is entirely off-topic, but i watched 'walk the line' again last weekend. that film is amazing. love like that MUST exist!!
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Jun 2, 2008 0:21:27 GMT -5
Post by Ouch on Jun 2, 2008 0:21:27 GMT -5
...like falling into a burning ring of fire?
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Jun 2, 2008 13:06:16 GMT -5
Post by laurasweetou on Jun 2, 2008 13:06:16 GMT -5
i know this is entirely off-topic, but i watched 'walk the line' again last weekend. that film is amazing. love like that MUST exist!! I promise it does Claire!
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Jun 4, 2008 23:40:18 GMT -5
Post by Ray T on Jun 4, 2008 23:40:18 GMT -5
I am sure i could love someone like that if they would only return it in kind.. oh did i mention i grew up not to far from where Johnny and June Carter Cash did (so i have some of the same values...) you
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Jun 7, 2008 2:49:26 GMT -5
Post by Triassic on Jun 7, 2008 2:49:26 GMT -5
i thought of this awhile back; wouldnt it be great if rob zombie made a tender, romantic comedy? i mean if he suddenly went nuts or something and made just a normal, straightfordward movie...same thing wtarantino; he should make an dramatic coming of age story. his fans would be waiting, waiting, for the sudden bloodbath-but nope, just heartwarming family drama...
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Jun 7, 2008 3:32:56 GMT -5
Post by irishclaire on Jun 7, 2008 3:32:56 GMT -5
That may confuse Tarantino fans...we're a simple bunch!
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Jun 7, 2008 22:28:24 GMT -5
Post by Ouch on Jun 7, 2008 22:28:24 GMT -5
It's entirely possible (a warm and touching Tarantino film); though it would be about five minutes (and that would be EPIC!) due to all of the cuts he would have to make...and it really couldn't give you the whole experience of being a nice-guy film, because you just know that the cuts are where the carnage is hidden.
For a course I had taken a few years back - I took an assignment in which to gauge the average amount of time between obvious gratuitous violence in scenes... ...the number wasn't very high...
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Jun 8, 2008 3:37:56 GMT -5
Post by 11 on Jun 8, 2008 3:37:56 GMT -5
Inside I'm Dancing (Rory O'Shea was here) 2004 Waterdance 1992
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Jun 8, 2008 6:14:11 GMT -5
Post by Triassic on Jun 8, 2008 6:14:11 GMT -5
heh heh...NO. i mean suppose tarantino just suddenly did a 180 and started making other kinds of movies. i mean there ARE other genres than taut, quirky bloody dramas.
i find tarantino interesting because his movies are all SO 'watchable'-all of them that he's been associated with in any way. he really hasn't made a dud yet. and that is rare for any director.
by watchable, i mean you don't want to miss a second of his movies. in most films there are slack times where nothing much is happening and you can get popcorn or whatever. not tarantino; it's like he's distilled the essence of watchability and gives the audience just that.
BUT...i think he's mostly surface. for one thing his films mostly reference other films(like film is really all he knows of or is interested in), so they're not very deep. they're not grounded in anything real, true experience...so they're really kind of cartoons. which is ok. but it's limited...
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Jun 8, 2008 8:53:54 GMT -5
Post by irishclaire on Jun 8, 2008 8:53:54 GMT -5
I agree with Triassic. In Tarantino films, there's no 'dead time'. You're never sitting there thinking "ooook...when does the film start?". I like his films, they're always entertaining. He wrote the original screenplay for Natural Born Killers, which was directed by Oliver Stone. However, Tarantino was so disgusted by what Stone did to his script that he has publically disowned the film. I would love to see how Tarantino handled it, as I HATED Stone's version!!!
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Jun 8, 2008 9:17:50 GMT -5
Post by Ciao Bella on Jun 8, 2008 9:17:50 GMT -5
Anyone seen "The Diving Bell And The Butterfly [2007] " This is the amazon review. Not seen film as not released yet but book is fantastic. The seemingly claustrophobic story of a man imprisoned in his paralysed body becomes a dazzling and expansive movie about love, imagination, and the will to live. After a stroke, Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric, Kings and Queen) can only move his left eye--and through that eye he learns to communicate, one letter at a time. With the help of his speech therapist (Marie-Josee Croze, Munich) and a stenographer (Anne Consigny, Anna M.), Bauby writes the stunning memoir The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. But such a plot summary makes the movie sound like lofty, self-important medicine--far from it. Director Julian Schnabel (Basquiat, Before Night Falls), working from an elegant screenplay by Ronald Harwood (The Pianist) and with an outstanding cast (which also includes Frantic's Emmanuelle Seigner as Bauby's neglected wife), has created a movie as engrossing and hypnotic as a thriller, a movie that wrestles with mortality yet has stubborn streaks of dark humour and eroticism, that portrays a man who overcomes unimaginable obstacles but refuses to paint him as a saint. Schnabel was once dismissed as a pompous and overblown painter, but he's crafted an intimate visual poem, a humble sonata about life at its most fragile. --Bret Fetzer Was this by any chance a story of a man with MS? I vaguely remember watching it on TV a few years back... ...apologies, didn't see your note on the release date - duh
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Jun 8, 2008 9:59:27 GMT -5
Post by Ciao Bella on Jun 8, 2008 9:59:27 GMT -5
I'm sure I posted something about french films a couple of weeks back...did they disappear??? Or did I have a ditzy moment and not actually post it???
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