Hi Robert, you are right this is a little different than your average Bogart movie. In fact it deals with an almost universal theme of otherwise normal men,...
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Robert Holz
mensch_uk
Nov 18, 2002 11:15 am
Yep some great directors had a story to tell and just had to tell it. Even if they had to use Humphrey and Gloria to do it. ... <HR> <html><body> <tt> Hi...
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Mike O'Brien
mob61uk
Nov 18, 2002 8:09 pm
This is generally regarded as a classic, and with some justification. This tale of the "outsider"; entering a mental institution, and causing mayhem within its...
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Mike O'Brien
mob61uk
Nov 19, 2002 6:14 pm
All countries have their skeletons. One of Australia's is the shameful Government policy that forms the background to this moving film. It is set in 1931, at...
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Mike O'Brien
mob61uk
Nov 20, 2002 12:15 pm
If you go to this film expecting something similar to Moodysson's "Together"; or "Show Me Love", you are in for quite a shock. This is much, much darker: a...
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Mike Ballard
swillsqueal
Nov 20, 2002 7:08 pm
Thanks for the review. I'll check it out. Any idea when it'll be available on dvd? Cheers, Mike B) ... ===== "Man first begins to philosophize when the...
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Mike O'Brien
mob61uk
Nov 21, 2002 1:58 pm
Hi Mike I can't find any scheduled release dates for the DVD. It only came out here in the UK a week or so ago, so the DVD will be at least another 6 months....
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Mike Ballard
swillsqueal
Nov 21, 2002 6:55 pm
From Film Comment, Nov.-Dec. issue: HE STANDS ALONE Oliver Stone is working on a trilogy of documentaries on political leaders who oppose Western hegemony: the...
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Gary Couzens
garycouzens
Nov 21, 2002 7:06 pm
It's released in Australia on 10 December and is available for pre-order at www.ezydvd.co.au (which is where I buy all my Australian DVDs) for A$32.95 (about...
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Mike O'Brien
mob61uk
Nov 23, 2002 12:17 am
I'm quite a fan of Blier's films, with their absurd, anarchic, darkly comic plots and fresh cinematic style. However, this is the first of his films in which...
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Mike O'Brien
mob61uk
Nov 23, 2002 6:48 pm
This is a lovely gentle and understated comedy drama. Pauline is a mentally handicapped 60 year old, who is cared for by her sister. She worships her other...
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Mike O'Brien
mob61uk
Nov 24, 2002 1:53 am
My only previous experience of a Miike film has been the disturbingly violent but brilliant "Audition";. I keep hearing very good things about this director,...
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Mike
filmfan99uk
Nov 24, 2002 11:23 pm
This is a quite extraordinary tale of Australian attempts at racial purity. Thus worried about the consequences (?) of European whites breeding with Aboriginal...
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Mike
filmfan99uk
Nov 28, 2002 7:29 pm
"Hello I would like to join your unlimited monthly pass scheme" I said. "Yes you will need a bank statement, two id's, pint of blood, direct debit" he said. ...
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Mike O'Brien
mob61uk
Nov 28, 2002 7:52 pm
What a strange concoction this film is. There is no doubting the seriousness of its subject matter - religious and political intrigue in 17th century France...
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Robert Holz
mensch_uk
Nov 29, 2002 8:32 am
Mike at the risk of sounding picky - A paranoid schizophrenic by definition suffers from hallucinations either psychological, visual or aural - but always in...
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Mike
filmfan99uk
Nov 29, 2002 2:02 pm
Hi Robert To be honest I was second hand quoting this, from the Donnies doctor in the film; I wasn't totally sure what it meant. Anyway the film is worth a...
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Mike O'Brien
mob61uk
Nov 29, 2002 5:39 pm
I have not seen any Kaurismaki films before, not even the famous "Leningrad Cowboys Go America". A few people have recommended him, though, and this is the...
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Mike
filmfan99uk
Nov 29, 2002 7:53 pm
So where was I ? Oh yes I turned up to the UGC Haymarket today to point out that the Unlimited Cinema card they issued to me yesterday on 28/11/02, had an...
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Mike O'Brien
mob61uk
Nov 30, 2002 1:14 am
This starts out as a story about an English loner (Ben Chaplin) who buys a Russian mail-order bride (Nicole Kidman). Later, some friends of the bride turn up...
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Mike O'Brien
mob61uk
Dec 1, 2002 8:54 am
I was very disappointed in this portrayal of real life serial murdered Succo. The film, especially at the beginning, lacked the subtlety that most of the...
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Mike O'Brien
mob61uk
Dec 1, 2002 9:19 am
I agree with what seems to have emerged as a pretty general consensus about this film: its better than the first one. This film is a bit darker, and is all...
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Mike O'Brien
mob61uk
Dec 1, 2002 9:35 am
Pretty much b-movie stuff by my book. Quite a crass script, with lots of "I'm now going to tell the audience what is happening" type dialogue, and paper thin...
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Mike O'Brien
mob61uk
Dec 1, 2002 9:25 pm
Very enjoyable. The characters are likeable and funny, and there are some great sight gags. The opening sequence of the squirrel and his nut is priceless....
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Mike O'Brien
mob61uk
Dec 2, 2002 9:49 pm
Well, I said I'd give this film a try on DVD (see below), and I have. I must admit that I was wrong. This film's tone is just right, and very funny. I loved...
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Mike O'Brien
mob61uk
Dec 3, 2002 8:40 pm
A little gem of a film. Mostly set in the confines of a small upmarket Italian restaurant in New York, this movie mixes the hectic high pressured downstairs ...
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Mike
filmfan99uk
Dec 3, 2002 9:39 pm
Strangely enougth this is directed by the same guy 'Phillip Noyce' who directed RABBIT PROOF FENCE. Anyway in this adaption of a 'Graham Greene' novel, we are...
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Mike
filmfan99uk
Dec 5, 2002 10:05 am
Hmmm looks like 'Bond' is up to his old tricks again. Even though it's getting harder and harder to find a piece of Cold War these days, up he pops in North...
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Umit Unal
asyadada
Dec 5, 2002 2:17 pm
My first feature film as director, 9, is being shown in London- Rio Cinema during 10th Turkish Film Festival. For information http://www.riocinema.co.uk For...
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Robert Holz
mensch_uk
Dec 5, 2002 5:24 pm
I liked this bond romp. It is interesting that the films are now heavily self referential. Not so much in Cinematic terms but in regards to the iconography -...
