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Good Movies / Re: Creepy houses in movies?
Last post by zombie no.one - Today at 02:44:01 PMnot a great film at all, but there is something really odd about the house in the 2006 remake of WHEN A STRANGER CALLS. gives me the hoop-las. (whatever they are)
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Humorous Captions / Re: Lake Rowsdower
Last post by LilCerberus - Today at 12:24:22 PMMakes me wonder if Gordon Lightfoot will hafta change just one word in The Wreck Of The Edmond Fitzgerald....
But then, I wondered the same thing about John Mellencamp's song, Little Pink Houses.....
But then, I wondered the same thing about John Mellencamp's song, Little Pink Houses.....
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Humorous Captions / Re: Lake Rowsdower
Last post by sprite75 - Today at 12:11:25 PMI see Google went to lick the boot today.
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Bad Movies / Re: 100 Movie titles that are ...
Last post by zombie no.one - Today at 11:32:36 AM33. JERRY MAGUIRE (1996)
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Bad Movies / Re: 100 Movie titles that are ...
Last post by LilCerberus - Today at 11:28:54 AM32) Zelig
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Good Movies / Re: Creepy houses in movies?
Last post by Trevor - Today at 10:59:08 AMQuote from: M.10rda on Today at 10:32:41 AMThe creepy (and oddly designed) house from LOST HIGHWAY that Bill Pullman lives in was apparently David Lynch's real home. If I was Mrs. Lynch (maybe Mary Sweeney at the time?) I'd be nervous about going to bed at night. Lynch also shot scenes for INLAND EMPIRE in his backyard. A real DIY kinda' guy.
You just made me go 😳 with that info. I didn't know that.
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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 10:41:22 AMQuote from: M.10rda on Today at 10:16:07 AMENTR'ACTE (1924):
Dadaists were the punks of the post-WW1 era and their heyday was the 1920s. Like Lear, Johnny Rotten, or George Costanza, they promoted a philosophy that Nothing meant anything or that everything meant Nothing. Although their two self-appointed spokesmen were a couple of snotty yet initially sincere young hipsters named Andre Breton and Tristan Tzara, an art movement that denied the inherent meaning of art or life naturally attracted all manner of artists of all ages, including photographer Man Ray (who literally objectified the body of his mistress/model Alice Prin), 3D artist Marcel Duchamps (who sold and displayed "readymades", which were just urinals and other junk that he found and signed), filmmaker Rene Clair, poet Francis Picabia, composers Georges Auric and Erik Satie, and eventually painter Rene Magritte and legendary lunatics Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali. They'd hold "salons" in French cafes and theaters - basically art shows with spoken word and music and theatre and films - all of it supposedly meaning Nothing. Of course, as Costanza eventually had to admit, Nothing is really Something! Thus the movement fractured and officially collapsed.
Anyway - ENTR'ACTE is one of the short films that Clair made for and premiered at a Dada salon. It's 22 minutes long and has no plot, but - it does have motifs, reoccurring characters, camera tricks, stunts, slapstick comedy, men in drag, frenetic editing like that in Marcel L'Herbier's L'INHUMAINE (or TETSUO THE IRON MAN), a first-person ride on a rollercoaster, and an ending that is quite similar to the end of Jodorowski's THE HOLY MOUNTAIN, only silent. Basically it's a lot like a wordless episode of "Monty Python's Flying Circus" and it's a lot more fun than UN CHIEN ANDALOU.
Auric, Duchamps, Ray, and Satie all appear, and it's incredible for any student of Dada or surrealism to see all these guys clowning around onscreen. Picabia also appears, memorably, and co-wrote ENTR'ACTE w/ Clair. Breton and Tzara are notably absent. They allegedly found "older" artists like Auric and Satie and Picabia (who was maybe in his 40s) to be incredibly uncool. Nevertheless Picabia looks like James Murphy or 80s Peter Gabriel in ENTR'ACTE and one Letterboxd reviewers calls him "punk as f**k", so Take That, hipsters.
Clair made the pretty awesome silent sci-fi adventure THE CRAZY RAY a couple years after this. Then he went to Hollywood and made mainstream studio films for 35 years. I'm sure some of his Dada cronies thought he was a huge cop-out, but it's hard to believe in Nothing! Nevertheless, ENTR'ACTE is an amazing one-of-a-kind document of an era. 5/5 And a (cannon) blast!
Pedantry: you're conflating the Dadaists (1916-1924, anti-art art) and the Surrealists (1924-1966+, art informed by the subconscious). There are several artists, like Duchamp and Man Ray, who belong to both movements. That said, to my shame, I haven't seen ENTR'ACTE, which is Dada made at the time Surrealism was just rising and starting to overtake it.
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Good Movies / Re: Creepy houses in movies?
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 10:32:41 AMThe creepy (and oddly designed) house from LOST HIGHWAY that Bill Pullman lives in was apparently David Lynch's real home. If I was Mrs. Lynch (maybe Mary Sweeney at the time?) I'd be nervous about going to bed at night. Lynch also shot scenes for INLAND EMPIRE in his backyard. A real DIY kinda' guy.
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Bad Movies / Re: 100 Movie titles that are ...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 10:27:33 AMQuote from: Dr. Whom on Today at 01:46:09 AMWould Excalibur count? It is a name, if not of a person.
Nah, the spirit of the list is people's names.
1. Barbarella (1968)
2. PATRICK (1978)
3. Akira
4. Erin Brockovich
5. Harvey
6. Ted
7. Shane
8. PAUL (2011)
9. Barb Wire
10. KATRINA (1969)
11. Carrie
12. Patton (1970)
13. Shaft
14. SHIRLEY VALENTINE (1989)
15. Hamlet
16. Dracula
17. Barton Fink (1991)
18. HARRY BROWN (2009)
19. Willard
20. Dr. No
21. Frankenstein
22. Donnie Darko
23. EMANUELLE (1974)
24. Goldfinger
25. Bronson (2008)
26. Van Helsing
27. Mitchell (1975)
28. ARTHUR (1981)
29. Annie (1982)
30. MARTIN (1977)
and
31. Django (1966)
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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 10:16:07 AMENTR'ACTE (1924):
Dadaists were the punks of the post-WW1 era and their heyday was the 1920s. Like Lear, Johnny Rotten, or George Costanza, they promoted a philosophy that Nothing meant anything or that everything meant Nothing. Although their two self-appointed spokesmen were a couple of snotty yet initially sincere young hipsters named Andre Breton and Tristan Tzara, an art movement that denied the inherent meaning of art or life naturally attracted all manner of artists of all ages, including photographer Man Ray (who literally objectified the body of his mistress/model Alice Prin), 3D artist Marcel Duchamps (who sold and displayed "readymades", which were just urinals and other junk that he found and signed), filmmaker Rene Clair, poet Francis Picabia, composers Georges Auric and Erik Satie, and eventually painter Rene Magritte and legendary lunatics Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali. They'd hold "salons" in French cafes and theaters - basically art shows with spoken word and music and theatre and films - all of it supposedly meaning Nothing. Of course, as Costanza eventually had to admit, Nothing is really Something! Thus the movement fractured and officially collapsed.
Anyway - ENTR'ACTE is one of the short films that Clair made for and premiered at a Dada salon. It's 22 minutes long and has no plot, but - it does have motifs, reoccurring characters, camera tricks, stunts, slapstick comedy, men in drag, frenetic editing like that in Marcel L'Herbier's L'INHUMAINE (or TETSUO THE IRON MAN), a first-person ride on a rollercoaster, and an ending that is quite similar to the end of Jodorowski's THE HOLY MOUNTAIN, only silent. Basically it's a lot like a wordless episode of "Monty Python's Flying Circus" and it's a lot more fun than UN CHIEN ANDALOU.
Auric, Duchamps, Ray, and Satie all appear, and it's incredible for any student of Dada or surrealism to see all these guys clowning around onscreen. Picabia also appears, memorably, and co-wrote ENTR'ACTE w/ Clair. Breton and Tzara are notably absent. They allegedly found "older" artists like Auric and Satie and Picabia (who was maybe in his 40s) to be incredibly uncool. Nevertheless Picabia looks like James Murphy or 80s Peter Gabriel in ENTR'ACTE and one Letterboxd reviewers calls him "punk as f**k", so Take That, hipsters.
Clair made the pretty awesome silent sci-fi adventure THE CRAZY RAY a couple years after this. Then he went to Hollywood and made mainstream studio films for 35 years. I'm sure some of his Dada cronies thought he was a huge cop-out, but it's hard to believe in Nothing! Nevertheless, ENTR'ACTE is an amazing one-of-a-kind document of an era. 5/5 And a (cannon) blast!
Dadaists were the punks of the post-WW1 era and their heyday was the 1920s. Like Lear, Johnny Rotten, or George Costanza, they promoted a philosophy that Nothing meant anything or that everything meant Nothing. Although their two self-appointed spokesmen were a couple of snotty yet initially sincere young hipsters named Andre Breton and Tristan Tzara, an art movement that denied the inherent meaning of art or life naturally attracted all manner of artists of all ages, including photographer Man Ray (who literally objectified the body of his mistress/model Alice Prin), 3D artist Marcel Duchamps (who sold and displayed "readymades", which were just urinals and other junk that he found and signed), filmmaker Rene Clair, poet Francis Picabia, composers Georges Auric and Erik Satie, and eventually painter Rene Magritte and legendary lunatics Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali. They'd hold "salons" in French cafes and theaters - basically art shows with spoken word and music and theatre and films - all of it supposedly meaning Nothing. Of course, as Costanza eventually had to admit, Nothing is really Something! Thus the movement fractured and officially collapsed.
Anyway - ENTR'ACTE is one of the short films that Clair made for and premiered at a Dada salon. It's 22 minutes long and has no plot, but - it does have motifs, reoccurring characters, camera tricks, stunts, slapstick comedy, men in drag, frenetic editing like that in Marcel L'Herbier's L'INHUMAINE (or TETSUO THE IRON MAN), a first-person ride on a rollercoaster, and an ending that is quite similar to the end of Jodorowski's THE HOLY MOUNTAIN, only silent. Basically it's a lot like a wordless episode of "Monty Python's Flying Circus" and it's a lot more fun than UN CHIEN ANDALOU.
Auric, Duchamps, Ray, and Satie all appear, and it's incredible for any student of Dada or surrealism to see all these guys clowning around onscreen. Picabia also appears, memorably, and co-wrote ENTR'ACTE w/ Clair. Breton and Tzara are notably absent. They allegedly found "older" artists like Auric and Satie and Picabia (who was maybe in his 40s) to be incredibly uncool. Nevertheless Picabia looks like James Murphy or 80s Peter Gabriel in ENTR'ACTE and one Letterboxd reviewers calls him "punk as f**k", so Take That, hipsters.
Clair made the pretty awesome silent sci-fi adventure THE CRAZY RAY a couple years after this. Then he went to Hollywood and made mainstream studio films for 35 years. I'm sure some of his Dada cronies thought he was a huge cop-out, but it's hard to believe in Nothing! Nevertheless, ENTR'ACTE is an amazing one-of-a-kind document of an era. 5/5 And a (cannon) blast!