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wow really? I thought Behind The Mask was really well done.
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Behind the Mask was surprisingly good.
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I would say that 1 out of 50 movies that TRY actually succeed at mixing horror and comedy -- Behind The Mask is a good horror movie, that has tons of like elbow-to-the-ribs of slasher fans. PLUS the idea of making it a documentary and then BAM turning it INTO a slasher movie (changing even teh LOOK of the film it's being shot on itself) was brilliant.
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I'll give it another go.
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![]() saturn returns. hmmmm |
What's that about, Nick?
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Director's Notes
One of the main purposes for me in making “Saturn Returns” was to investigate contemporary multi-culturalism in a central western city, and to use the relations between the people portrayed in the film in order to ask whether what we conceive of as “inter-cultural” only disguises what has already become one global social-class system. Is there only one culture, one system, or are there still multiple cultures?If this centralized system of multi-culturism exists, it would naturally assist maintaining a political economic status quo in the guise of multi-culturalism. However, other groups or individuals, that we would first imagine were only victims of this system, can use it too, as a tool. For example, immigrants trumpeting traditional values and reactionary ideals in order to better assimilate in their new environment or in order to free themselves from the rules of a system that does not seek their benefit. Berlin, as the main setting for this story, brings its own troubled history into the mix, both as the home-base of one of the greatest “culturally” motivated crimes in history, and as it was immediately afterwards controlled by two opposite economic and political systems that co-existed for almost half a century. These histories, un-functional shadows of value systems, are the broken tools befitting scattered peoples, who lost their self-proclaimed persona. These are the people that are portrayed in this film. |
The Player rules. I love Robert Altman. That opening 9 minute shot or whatever, in one take.. one of the greatest ever.
I've just been watching Duckman. |
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Just watched Encounters at the End of the World, by Werner Herzog.
Excellent, and an off the hook soundtrack. |
got that one coming on the netflix
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Daisies is the shit.
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![]() 8.5/10 Watched it high, and it was just mindblowing. |
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hey, a.p.a can you tell us what that movie is about?
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this week, I've watched:
Howl's Moving Castle Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind Apocalypse Now - REDUX Dig! I'm about to watch Ponyo, and I just purchased Firefly the complete series (blu-ray), Coyboy Beebop remix complete collection and Castle in the Sky. it's been (still is) a good week for movie watching. |
![]() pacific heights - 8/10 This movie is hilarious. The shooting scene! |
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thanks jon I'm going to watch that later, I've heard nothing but bad things about it but it's still Scorsese.
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