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[Solitary Wanderer]

Fun movie 

[sidoze]

A Bergman movie where all conversations take place face to face. Where people actually draw chairs to sit right across that other person and do nothing but talk and at least try to understand each other.
I think it was a deserving farewell film from him.

wonderful film. saw it on tele last year

[SonicMan46]

 

Fun movie 

SW - indeed!  Burned that to DVD from the TCM channel earilier in the year - one of my favorite scenes is the 'gigantic' stone crab (added above) being flipped into the 'hot' pond and boiled for dinner!      BTW - I love all sorts of crabs (think I posted some pics a while back in the food thread!) - 

[Solitary Wanderer]

Just started watching this series on dvd boxset.

Its certainly well done, and quite funny at times, but after three episodes I don't think its really my thing. [Although I'll watch them all] 

[Kullervo]

Haven't had a real belly-laugh in a long time. Hilarious, even if the end meanders a bit.

[bhodges]

Haven't had a really belly-laugh in a long time. Hilarious, even if the end meanders a bit.

Wonderful film (and I agree from what I recall about the ending). 

--Bruce

[Kullervo]

Wonderful film (and I agree from what I recall about the ending). 

--Bruce

Well the whole thing just seems to take a Buñuel turn in the last half-hour or so. I wonder, what could be the significance of that final scene. Very cryptic and not really something I expected from a comedy.

[Cato]

Fun movie 

Bernard Herrmann composed the music: an all-around fave!   

[sidoze]

Jancso, yes, he's definitely a great auteur.

[orbital]

Beautifully shot (except the DVD cover  )

[Kullervo]

Very funny

[SonicMan46]

Big fan of Maureen O'Hara, so last few nights:

Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) w/ Charles Laughton who is really the STAR - what makeup & what a performance!

Quiet Man, The (1952) w/ O'Hara & Wayne (and many others + John Ford, director) - filmed in Ireland - one of my favorite films! 

 

[longears]

And this one, Dave?

[orbital]

Come on, if you want to make a sex movie go ahead but this is ridiculous on so many levels.

[longears]

Come on, if you want to make a sex movie go ahead but this is ridiculous on so many levels.

Re. Ms Hunter:  How often did you ask yourself, "What was she thinking?"

[Shrunk]

Come on, if you want to make a sex movie go ahead but this is ridiculous on so many levels.

Still, it does supply the answer to the trivia question:  "Which author has had novels turned into movies by both Steven Spielberg and David Cronenberg?"

[orbital]

Re. Ms Hunter:  How often did you ask yourself, "What was she thinking?"

Probably "If only I could get my hands on a piano, I would not have to play in these awkward roles", but wait this movie is AFTER The Piano right ? 

Still, it does supply the answer to the trivia question:  "Which author has had novels turned into movies by both Steven Spielberg and David Cronenberg?"

I also have Naked Lunch at home, is that the same author as well?

There are those movies in my Netflix queue that I added when I first signed up, and they silently, slowly creeped up without being noticed  These two Cronenbergs are of that group 

[Shrunk]

I also have Naked Lunch at home, is that the same author as well?

No, that's by William S. Burroughs.

The answer to the question is J. G. Ballard who, in addition to Crash, also wrote the autobiographical Empire of the Sun, which Spielberg subsequently adapted.

(I must confess here that I have not seen either movie nor read either book.  Nonetheless,  I'm amused by the idea of a common link between two such different filmmakers).

[longears]

Empire of the Sun

Maybe his best.

[Shrunk]

Maybe his best.

Spielberg's or Ballard's?