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In Reply to: Soderbergh's "Bubble:" posted by tinear on April 11, 2006 at 05:49:31:
Soderbergh sits so low on my totem pole that it would take an enormous force to make me rent it.So what do you do when someone whose opinion you generally trust screams about a director you hate? I wish life was easy and I didn't have close to 70 films in queue, plus many more sitting on the floor, on the ready, plus that bag of what... twenty some DVD's that Patrick gave me and I forgot in his Porsche 4S, to be taken next time around? What do I do to all those Russian movies I bought a couple of weeks ago? There is that latest Dostoyevsky Idiot, that people rave about. There is Kira Muratova's Nastroischik I must see, and a bunch more.
Is there a room for Soderbergh in that? I wish there was, but it is so hard... life being so short and good films so many.
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"So what do you do when someone whose opinion you generally trust screams about a director you hate?"..... take a chance, you only go around once. (its not like he's suggesting the movie is best viewed when wearing leather pants.)
***(its not like he's suggesting the movie is best viewed when wearing leather pants.)I didn't think he would... usually you can trust his recommendations!
so strongly about this film that I'll mail to you a money order for $5 if you don't think it's an exceptional film.
No questions, arguments, rebuts.
$5 to your business address, in your name.
I'm that curious of your opinion.
Like I said, I lived with, worked around, dated, almost married folks just like these... I felt I knew them so the impact was direct, powerful.
As the director is BAD bad bad.....
No need to go that money route - I will try to take a look.I am slightly concerned about your use of what I see as a wrong argument... being true to life or reality is not necessary for a work of art to stand on its own feet, and often that truth, coupled with our emotional ettachments to the subjects, makes us overlook the deficiencies. But I will try to give it an objective spin, and my wife, who is not aware of this exchange, will be there too.
Maybe right after Otar Ioseliani...
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However, most films, when they depict poorer people, do a miserable job of showing what the lives are like. It doesn't help when an actor with the wrong speech pattern (or accent), exaggerated mannerisms, and inappropriate behavior tries to assume the role of a working class person. A similarly poor portrayal of a rich person would lead to raucous objection within the theater.
Anyhow, in this type of film, which is told in a documentary-like manner, the appearance of "truthfullness" is critical. One false note and the effort would collapse.
Did I mention that the homes shown are actual actors' residences? Hee heeeeeeee
It is true about an actor grossly not fitting the role, but that doesn't seem to happen in films we consider good - and there are many good examples, to the point of directors hiring local people to play major roles - usually that happens in movies about difficult lives of common people, of course, as I would not expect anyone to hire a Newport aristocrat to play Claus Vobn Bulow... althogh I must admit Jeremy Irons comes dangerously close!
you must see Barbet Shroeder's Our Lady of the Assassins: it's at least as good a film.
I've seen it twice and I look forward to seeing it again.
A middle-aged man returns to his hometown of Medellin after many years away and encounters a young person from a very different background.
Imagine a South American version of "Death in Venice" minus the self-consciousness.
Well, I didn't quite say I liked the Reversal... I thought it was just OK for a docu-drama, except of course I liked Irons there, but I added that Lady to the queue... heavens know all these discussions are not helping the queue situation much! We can realistically do about 12 Netflix films a month, that with no travel.
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