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Graham Watt Standard Userer	Okay, pansypants, it's back by unpopular demand. Don't expect ME to be doing any posting, though. I had four years of it. Haven't I earned my retirement? And, by the way, no bending of time will be tolerated. We don't want to all collapse into anti-matter. March 2006 means March 2006. So I refuse to read what anyone has to say about February 28th. Get going or I'll batter you.
posted 03-01-2006 05:26 AM PT (US)

Lou Goldberg Standard Userer	March hasn't been around to cover much ground. In February, in addition to a lot of film, I did all 51 episodes of the anime series Boys Over Flowers with its great score and highly interesting protagonist. Since Feb. 23, I've seen the following films & TV: Ronin Gai Love and Anarchy House M.D.: Pilot & 3 Stories Dragon Gate Inn (60s King Hu version) The New World (will someone please shoot James Horner) Mean Girls Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter King Kong (2005 version) Match Point Stratos 4: anime, first 5 episodes Ghost in the Shell-Stand Alone Complex: more anime, 5 more episodes (Yoko Kanno rules!) Capote Earthsea
posted 03-04-2006 02:02 AM PT (US)

Lou Goldberg Standard Userer	Just saw Eight Below. It's Disney. It's feel good. The score is all soaring strings and upbeat stuff. All the actors are beautiful looking. All the characters follow their best instincts and do the most noble thing. The almost-human dogs tug at yer heart strings. All the obstacles get surmounted. The thing ends with love, smiles, kisses all round. I should have rejected every frame of these lies but I went with it instead. I certainly wasn't moved to tears, but it did what a feel good movie is supposed to do--make you feel good. After seeing Capote and a lot of other downbeat stuff lately, it was a good change of pace to see something that makes humanity and the world we live in look good. I recommend it.
posted 03-05-2006 01:14 AM PT (US)

Graham Watt Standard Userer	I hit Bingo with a couple of recent things. First up was the umpteenth viewing of BEN-HUR, this time around on a good DVD with the Overture and Entr'acte music intact. This must be a good movie, because I've seen it so many times before, and every time I'm just hooked. I was still surprised at how literate it is. Great movie. I always lose a little bit of interest in the middle third (all the stuff with Jack Hawkins and, later, Hugh Griffith - just because it necessarily lacks the emotional resonance of the first and last third), but I shouldn't complain - this is a magnificent film. At the end it even makes me want to be a better person, and , what's more, it makes me want to believe in God. Now that's persuasive. Do I have to tell you that the Miklos Rozsa score is one of the best things ever written in the history of the universe?. Well, it is.
posted 03-25-2006 04:46 PM PT (US)

Graham Watt Standard Userer	Here's a curiosity, or perhaps more than that - LA VIDA SECRETA DE LAS PALABRAS. That's the one with Sarah Polley caring for Tim Robbins after an accident on an oil rig. Mmm, I can't say I really "enjoyed" this, but that's only because it's not easy to get into at first, which isn't in itself a bad thing. I was thinking "Are we meant to like these people?". Whatever, it all makes sense in the end, after you realize that it's all about the horrors of war. Not an easy film, not one which puts all its cards on the table at first (hence the feeling of disconnection for a good part of it), but one which is worth the trouble.
posted 03-25-2006 04:54 PM PT (US)

Graham Watt Standard Userer	I was extremely impressed with JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN (Dalton Trumbo, 1971). Timothy Bottoms is the soldier who gets blown up and hence has no legs nor arms nor face in this. While he tries to come to terms with his predicament, he recalls his brief life up to that point. We get to see his wooing of his girl, but all done kind of dreamily, certainly non-realistically, which contrasts sharply with the almost OUTER LIMITS black and white scenes of him in the hospital (the reality). Almost heartbreaking in its intensity, I'd say that this is one hell of a movie. Great score too by Jerry Fielding. You'll hear parts of it on the Bay Cities CD along with SCORPIO and A WAR OF CHILDREN. What a great composer Fielding was, and he's just right for JOHNNY. His very recognizable martial drums give way to moments of exquisite tenderness here.
posted 03-25-2006 05:18 PM PT (US)

Graham Watt Standard Userer	And to finish off the Bingo Five-star movie mayem, WILD STRAWBERRIES. Yes, the Bergman thing. I was scared of it before (it's serious, it's foreign), and it's absolutely great. I must watch more of this kind of supposedly serious cinema. My take on foreign weirdness - I put it off for months, thinking it will be boring, then I take the plunge and it is invariably great. WILD STRAWBERRIES really resonated with me. Listen up you crackerbarrels. Don't ever be put off by foreign names like Ingmar Bergman. If you weren't put off by Ingrid, well, what's in a letter or two? I'm just geting into all that stuff now, and I'm 44. As Benny Hill said, "Learning all the time." Let me leave you all with a question - what serious, supposedly boring, films are really good? I vote WILD STRAWBERRIES as Number One.
posted 03-25-2006 05:35 PM PT (US)

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