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« Reply #18 on: 08:25:32, 07-08-2008 » |
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Action movie is not the term I would use for The Ladykillers. The plot is Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale.
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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« Reply #19 on: 09:01:08, 07-08-2008 » |
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I quite agree that remake of The italian job, was absolutely deplorable! Also, moving onto Westerns, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly. For a Few Dollars More. I supoose they could recreate these films in different surroundings, etc, but for a remake they are not wanting of a remake, really, yes?
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« Reply #20 on: 09:45:21, 07-08-2008 » |
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Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes wins this thread.
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« Reply #21 on: 09:46:56, 07-08-2008 » |
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I haven't seen the original, but I'm told that Solaris is much better in the remake.
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« Reply #22 on: 10:22:19, 07-08-2008 » |
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That makes a change then hh!!! Usually remakes are a complete waste of time!!
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« Reply #23 on: 12:13:26, 07-08-2008 » |
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Now, I'm with Milly about both the Italian Job and Ladykillers. The former mildy irritates, but it's not such a bad action movie I guess. However, the latter really confuses me. How can the people who made Blood Simple, Fargo, No Country For Old Men make such an ill-conceived film? Michael Wood agreed with you, ahh: Joel and Ethan Coen often look like moviemakers in search of a movie; as if their perfect film were waiting for them out there and they had to do something while they were looking for it. What else could have driven them to their 2004 remake of the Ealing comedy The Ladykillers? Even if Tom Hanks is funnier in that film than our idea of Tom Hanks ought to allow, he’s not Alec Guinness. And what about Intolerable Cruelty (2003), with George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones, which doesn’t look like a Coen Brothers movie because it doesn’t look as if it was directed by anybody?
Still, they can’t be after a single perfect film, since their best work falls into such distinct modes: quirky film noir (Blood Simple, The Man Who Wasn’t There), offbeat comedy (Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski), mock epic (O Brother, Where Art Thou?). So maybe they are more like prospectors looking for movie gold: any gold, even if it hasn’t got their name written on it. [...] |
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« Reply #24 on: 14:15:51, 07-08-2008 » |
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I haven't seen the original, but I'm told that Solaris is much better in the remake.
I couldn't disagree more. Not that the remake is bad, it's certainly not. Yet Tarkovsky is far more adept at cinematic comtemplation both in his sense and use of time and spiritual proclivity. True it is a Russian/orthodox take on novel stemming from Jewish and Catholic roots, but I believe that orthodox art serves Lem's ideas about communication. Take some time (and it is some time!) to watch it HH. |
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« Reply #25 on: 14:53:59, 07-08-2008 » |
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I haven't seen the original, but I'm told that Solaris is much better in the remake.
The remake is a MUCH less original piece of film-making. I've never got on that well with Stanislaw Lem's writing, finding it a bit too much like reading a lecture about some bizarre concept or other (though a great deal of SF is like this of course), but Tarkovsky transmutes this into something much more psychologically complex and contemplative and disturbing and Tarkovskian. The remake is just a science-fiction movie I think. |
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« Reply #26 on: 15:16:23, 07-08-2008 » |
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# 5 Glad, aah, to find another admirer of Douglas Sirk (1897-1987) on these boards - and there is another in Holland, too! Indeed, Sirk was based at Universal International and remade several of the studio properties, making his budgeting easier and more attractive. "The Magnificent Obsession" (1935) (novel by Lloyd C Douglas) was a huge hit with Robert Taylor & Irene Dunne. Sirk did a technicolour remake in 1954 and the partnership of Rock Hudson & Jane Wyman began a series of hugely popular melodramatic weepies. "Imitation of Life" (1934) with Claudette Colbert, was also given de luxe treatment in a 1959 version, starring Lana Turner. Who can forget the end funeral sequence, in New Orleans, with the soaring voice of Mahalia Jackson on the soundtrack? Sirk also remade "When Tomorrow Comes" (1939) as "Interlude" (1957) with June Allyson.
My favourite remains the high melodrama of "Written On The Wind" (1956) with Rock Hudson & Lauren Bacall and Dorothy Malone, starting the film OTT and she managed to keep going from there! No easy feat. Sirk also had a flair for the cinemascope screen and he again used this format in "Tarnished Angels" (1957), again with Hudson. Sheer entertainment - all of 'em.
A DVD box set, 'Directed by Douglas Sirk', with seven of his films was released a year or two ago, although it was a bit pricey for my budget. However, earlier this year, I saw it advertised at £17 99 online and made a quick bid - a steal at the price.
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« Reply #27 on: 17:15:13, 07-08-2008 » |
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Take some time (and it is some time!) to watch it HH.
I'll have the time to watch it this September in Edinburgh as part of the Sonic Fusion Festival (more details elsewhere because it contains not just one but two hh premieres)! Strange how things come along like this. |
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« Reply #28 on: 18:47:35, 07-08-2008 » |
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I'll have the time to watch it this September in Edinburgh as part of the Sonic Fusion Festival (more details elsewhere because it contains not just one but two hh premieres)! Strange how things come along like this.
When details are available, then you can almost certainly count on another strange thing coming along.  R3ok meet-up in Auld Reekie, anyone? |
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« Reply #29 on: 20:03:39, 07-08-2008 » |
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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
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