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[oilcanbody]

I see nothing amusing about that.

[madupont]

barton,
"Where do you find this stuff, Gint?  (rhetorical question)  Cool photos."


  Take a good look at the casting credits on the last roll-by of roles.

With the exception of Rupert Everett as the Mock-Turtle, and perhaps another or two, all the characters/models  for this film are high power "Fashionistas", the main fashion-designers of that day. My first inkling was when the Cheshire Cat looked somehow familiar and it was Flemish designer Gaultier.

I got in trouble yesterday with harrie by sending her the Vogue report on the Oscars; but then discovered an even hairier after-Oscars party scene
a few hours later. Believe me, they are still guessing this morning as to the identity of the described blond who offered Chris Waltz ("married guy") a blatant indelicate suggestion of what she would do for him. He just giggled it off because he became super flirtatious earlier in the evening after his opening remarks to Penelope Cruz, and now realized he may have gone too far by not being quite used to L.A. as yet.

[harrie]

I got in trouble yesterday with harrie by sending her the Vogue report on the Oscars;

You didn't get in trouble -- I just didn't want you to waste a perfectly good link on me, a person with no sense of style whatsoever. Not that I'm proud of it, it's just a fact of life.

[harrie]

I don't remember seeing Lost Boys. 

It was very good for a teen-centric (but not as bad as that sounds) vampire story.  These are mean, rowdy 1980s vampires, not the pouty, filtered vampires of today.  Stars the Coreys, young Jason Patric and Keifer Sutherland, and for adults Dianne Weist, Edward Herrmann, and Barnard Hughes with one of the best movie last lines ever.  Not to mention Nanook and several stuffed (as in taxidermy, not fluffy and plush) critters. If Netflix rentals work out to something like $.79 each, it's definitely worth a look.

[MrUtley]

Annie Liebovitz takes her turn at Alice,



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMyNgLENO6I&feature=related

Great photos!  Love the first shot in black and white, and the sense of world-weariness over the whole, leading to the escape shot at the end.   

Had to laugh at the idea of Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee as hipsters.

 

Nothing like photos of people who look like they are bored and in need of their next heroin fix.

[madupont]

I got in trouble yesterday with harrie by sending her the Vogue report on the Oscars;

You didn't get in trouble -- I just didn't want you to waste a perfectly good link on me, a person with no sense of style whatsoever. Not that I'm proud of it, it's just a fact of life.

Well, the funny thing was that you described your reason as because you usually wear jeans, denim, levis, etc (for not looking at the dresses in a new light although you'd seen them before at the ceremony) and it didn't occur to me but that is what I usually wear at this time of year, in fact I have that on now with a sweat shirt, because I had to move a heavy flat of  perennials redeemed from the attack of the edging migrants and a huge pot of composition material(about 10 gallons filled with more that I saved from where the tree was taken down with no attempt avoid my circular border perennials.  

With the tree gone (before it damages anything) the heat bill immediately jumped, not quite double the average but approximately three-quarters of double the bill.  I'm moving, so I'm potting up these unearthed plants before the  rain on Friday.

Will remove the lilies of the valley after they blossom.   You know the drill.

[MrUtley]

Get in on the ground floor, movies and money:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ct-movie-exchange11-2010mar11,0,4725618.story

[harrie]

Get in on the ground floor, movies and money:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ct-movie-exchange11-2010mar11,0,4725618.story

If I had a trust fund, I could spend it in about five minutes with that thing.

[harrie]

And I just wanted to send good wishes to Burt Reynolds, star of some of my favorite cheesefests; he had a quadruple bypass last week, and is recovering at home.  I know it's not much, but it's all I cand do for the man who introduced me to Hooper, WW and the Dixie Dance Kings, and countless others - including at least two great flicks, Deliverance and The Longest Yard.

[madupont]

http://www.newsweek.com/id/234758?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+newsweek%2FTopNews+%28UPDATED+-+Newsweek+Top+Stories%29

Why Hollywood tells troubled stories about blacks....

Thought I would post this, as I haven't been able to come up with the exact word(since Sunday night) for what I think about the two films under discussion before, then, and after.  jbottle came close to my version but in his own inimitable style.

Yet after reading this story ala Newsweek, a couple of thoughts more on what underlies this manifestation.  One, because this view sells and those who greenlight films want them to sell and make money; and they know there is an audience ready made that prefers this  version rather than Guess Who is Coming to Dinner?, which had Kate Heburn on the bill with Sidney Poitier.

Two, by giving the audience what they want to believe, it reinforces the same negative attitude (like that of the Public Relations CEO* who lost his job in public relations for misunderstanding what was so funny about sending e-mail comparing the First Lady to a Chimpanzee. He was hired to cover publicity for an event in Tennessee until those hiring him realized they had the wrong guy to handle a PR job.

What could be wrong with a good old American values film with the requisite Mom's apple pie, when it comes to The Blind Side. Well, quite frankly because I live in a community where middle-American Christian couples go shopping with a black child in tow. I've watched it for 14 years and I don't know if there are dozens of them or hundreds of like-minded people with the requisite cute black child as a temporary guest; could it be that they are charitably producing a sequential run of Obama-like presidential successors from now to Kingdom Come? Somehow I doubt it.

(As for the horrifics of scenario in that other film, I've had experience with far worse scenarios that I find difficult to grasp when somebody informs you that something "happened" to people you have known.  It takes a life time to understand causation and effect by working back from the effect and seeing the accurate causation.)

*  http://www.bvblackspin.com/2010/03/10/ceo-loses-job-over-first-lady/?icid=main|htmlws-bv-n|dl5|link1|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bvblackspin.com%2F2010%2F03%2F10%2Fceo-loses-job-over-first-lady%2F

[whiskeypriest]

It's the Circle of Life!

http://www.awardscircuit.com/Predictions/bestpicture.html

Frankly, I'm surprised they didn't have this up on Monday.

[madupont]

Take a look at this cast, Whiskeypriest, why was this held back?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376136/


On the other hand, I recall having commented on: Howl

I think it did Sundance and was noted for "production values"
that made it have that authentic look.

Only problem, the subject matter is less any relationships than ostensibly about The Obscenity Trial over Howl; and I immediately noticed that here is where the authentic look was at odds with reality because I've had the photo-copy from the newspapers of the day reporting this trial which was extremely well attended since people were massively concerned about censorship of literature at that point in time (post-McCarthyism?). The film clips were at odds with the reality.

Consider "Howl" a follow-up test-case of what had been, The Tropic of Cancer(Henry Miller), and the earlier example: the works of Theodore Dreiser, such as --American Tragedy(as a filmed example just right for this forum), or, Sister Carrie (come to think of it, this became a film too!), but in terms of American censorship.

[barton]

Get in on the ground floor, movies and money:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ct-movie-exchange11-2010mar11,0,4725618.story

Jbottle, if you need someone to talk you off the ledge, give me a call.

[Gintaras]

Watched The Hurt Locker this evening.  First half was compelling but somehow this movie dragged on too long without really saying anything.  Of course, it was all told from the soldier's POV, with a nominal tip of the hat to Iraqis, mostly in the form of young "Beckham," who Sgt. Will had befriended.  Good piece of misdirection with Guy Pearce getting taken out early.  David Morse was virtually unrecognizable as Colonel Reed.  Fiennes also had a rather nondescript role.  Hard to figure out what to make of the scene, other than it brought Will and Sanborn together.  But, Bigelow seemed to lose control of the second half, as she tried draw a heart out of Will, but it seems war was the only force that gave him meaning.

Anyway, this won't be the last cinematic word on Iraq.  I see Matt Damon is coming out in Green Zone tomorrow.

[weezo]

I'm having a brain-f*rt

There are many more Iraqi war movies to come, and, after the war actually ends, we will get more truth ....

The gulf war is showing up in movies on tv.

Seems we struggled with reality during the Vietnam war, and didn't get heroics in Vietnam movies until the vets sprouted gray hairs. I've seen Band of Brother both as a daily segment, and as an all-day run. Band of Brothers was an excellent movie on the reality of WWII. Saving Private Ryan seemed more intended to reassure us that our children serving in Iraq would be as well taken care of a Private Ryan. Recently re-watched Patton ... where the  hero becomes the anti-hero. 

And now, to catch a furry white tail wagging from the window!