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]]>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:05:39 GMTThe DocumentarySun, 02 Apr 2006 00:58:55 GMT49453Group Spout Group:Sound on Sight - Podcasts, movie reviews, interviews, news and more. http://www.spout.com/groups/Sound_on_Sight/529/default.aspx Group Name: Sound on Sight - Podcasts, movie reviews, interviews, news and more.
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]]>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:42:29 GMTMovie PollsTue, 25 Nov 2008 16:54:38 GMT660414Group Spout Group:Zombie Obsession - Zombie Lovers, Unite! http://www.spout.com/groups/Zombie_Obsession/329/default.aspx Group Name: Zombie Obsession - Zombie Lovers, Unite!
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]]>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:33:02 GMTMovie MarathonsWed, 22 Jul 2009 01:35:58 GMT15022Group Spout Group:Movies we do not want to see - Try to convince us to see these movies! http://www.spout.com/groups/Movies_we_do_not_want_to_see/70/default.aspx Group Name: Movies we do not want to see - Try to convince us to see these movies!
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]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:31:56 GMTMovies we do not want to seeWed, 22 Mar 2006 14:27:50 GMT203190Group Spout Post: Watch this one again http://www.spout.com/blogs/quint/archive/2008/11/18/37423.aspx Post By: quint
Post To: An inordinate number of peppers
Post Date: 11/18/2008 10:07:37 PM
Body: Saw this through The Netflix Watch Instantly thing and was blown away. This is well worth watching again. The lo-fi effects are ingenious. The acting is a hoot. I love nearly everything about this. The story is great: Ice pirates. Time warps. Sword play. Awesome.
]]>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:07:37 GMTquintAn inordinate number of peppers11/18/2008 10:07:37 PMSaw this through The Netflix Watch Instantly thing and was blown away. This is well worth watching again. The lo-fi effects are ingenious. The acting is a hoot. I love nearly everything about this. The story is great: Ice pirates. Time warps. Sword play. Awesome. Spout Post: talky, slow http://www.spout.com/blogs/quint/archive/2008/10/6/35956.aspx Post By: quint
Post To: An inordinate number of peppers
Post Date: 10/6/2008 10:14:40 PM
Body: This movie was so talky, that entire portions of the plot happened without being acted out. They just talked about it for a really long time. It felt a bit like Peckinpah in space, only without the violence. Smart, but hardly worth the dullness.
]]>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:14:40 GMTquintAn inordinate number of peppers10/6/2008 10:14:40 PMThis movie was so talky, that entire portions of the plot happened without being acted out. They just talked about it for a really long time. It felt a bit like Peckinpah in space, only without the violence. Smart, but hardly worth the dullness. Spout Post: Way inside the stage http://www.spout.com/blogs/quint/archive/2008/9/24/35516.aspx Post By: quint
Post To: An inordinate number of peppers
Post Date: 9/24/2008 8:55:15 PM
Body: I'm a fan of Svankmajer, although he can be pretty freaky. What I love about this film in particular is how deeply the metaphor of the stage is exploited. Puppets, people, the city, the set. A man is handing out flyers to the people coming out of the subway. The flyer is a map to a particular address. There is nothing more on it. One hapless character goes there and discovers the accouterment of an alchemist. He puts this on, as well as a fake beard and stage makeup. Tada, Faust. He is on the puppet stage. He takes of the clothing and cuts through the scenery and walks out through the back door out to the city. Yet he is still on the stage. In fact the story has become the inescapable element. The character can not free himself from the character. This is quite fascinating especially given the pervasiveness of the story of Faust, the classic "Be careful what you wish for" scenario. The Faust story belongs to no one author and Svankmajer draws freely from Goethe, Marlowe and some others, including the Opera by Gounod (which is playing here in Grand Rapids in May 2009.) The movie is not based on any one Faust, but all of them and then some. A myth to be retold and re-imagined but always recognizable. How it ends hardly matters. Goethe lets Faust get to heaven. Svankmajer, well, you'll have to see for yourself. A good Svankmajer. A good Faust. My favorite Faust movie is still Faust (1926).
]]>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:55:15 GMTquintAn inordinate number of peppers9/24/2008 8:55:15 PMI'm a fan of Svankmajer, although he can be pretty freaky. What I love about this film in particular is how deeply the metaphor of the stage is exploited. Puppets, people, the city, the set. A man is handing out flyers to the people coming out of the subway. The flyer is a map to a particular address. There is nothing more on it. One hapless character goes there and discovers the accouterment of an alchemist. He puts this on, as well as a fake beard and stage makeup. Tada, Faust. He is on the puppet stage. He takes of the clothing and cuts through the scenery and walks out through the back door out to the city. Yet he is still on the stage. In fact the story has become the inescapable element. The character can not free himself from the character. This is quite fascinating especially given the pervasiveness of the story of Faust, the classic "Be careful what you wish for" scenario. The Faust story belongs to no one author and Svankmajer draws freely from Goethe, Marlowe and some others, including the Opera by Gounod (which is playing here in Grand Rapids in May 2009.) The movie is not based on any one Faust, but all of them and then some. A myth to be retold and re-imagined but always recognizable. How it ends hardly matters. Goethe lets Faust get to heaven. Svankmajer, well, you'll have to see for yourself. A good Svankmajer. A good Faust. My favorite Faust movie is still Faust (1926). Spout Post: Way inside the stage http://www.spout.com/blogs/quint/archive/2008/9/24/35516.aspx Post By: quint
Post To: An inordinate number of peppers
Post Date: 9/24/2008 8:55:15 PM
Body: I'm a fan of Svankmajer, although he can be pretty freaky. What I love about this film in particular is how deeply the metaphor of the stage is exploited. Puppets, people, the city, the set. A man is handing out flyers to the people coming out of the subway. The flyer is a map to a particular address. There is nothing more on it. One hapless character goes there and discovers the accouterment of an alchemist. He puts this on, as well as a fake beard and stage makeup. Tada, Faust. He is on the puppet stage. He takes of the clothing and cuts through the scenery and walks out through the back door out to the city. Yet he is still on the stage. In fact the story has become the inescapable element. The character can not free himself from the character. This is quite fascinating especially given the pervasiveness of the story of Faust, the classic "Be careful what you wish for" scenario. The Faust story belongs to no one author and Svankmajer draws freely from Goethe, Marlowe and some others, including the Opera by Gounod (which is playing here in Grand Rapids in May 2009.) The movie is not based on any one Faust, but all of them and then some. A myth to be retold and re-imagined but always recognizable. How it ends hardly matters. Goethe lets Faust get to heaven. Svankmajer, well, you'll have to see for yourself. A good Svankmajer. A good Faust. My favorite Faust movie is still Faust (1926).
]]>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:55:15 GMTquintAn inordinate number of peppers9/24/2008 8:55:15 PMI'm a fan of Svankmajer, although he can be pretty freaky. What I love about this film in particular is how deeply the metaphor of the stage is exploited. Puppets, people, the city, the set. A man is handing out flyers to the people coming out of the subway. The flyer is a map to a particular address. There is nothing more on it. One hapless character goes there and discovers the accouterment of an alchemist. He puts this on, as well as a fake beard and stage makeup. Tada, Faust. He is on the puppet stage. He takes of the clothing and cuts through the scenery and walks out through the back door out to the city. Yet he is still on the stage. In fact the story has become the inescapable element. The character can not free himself from the character. This is quite fascinating especially given the pervasiveness of the story of Faust, the classic "Be careful what you wish for" scenario. The Faust story belongs to no one author and Svankmajer draws freely from Goethe, Marlowe and some others, including the Opera by Gounod (which is playing here in Grand Rapids in May 2009.) The movie is not based on any one Faust, but all of them and then some. A myth to be retold and re-imagined but always recognizable. How it ends hardly matters. Goethe lets Faust get to heaven. Svankmajer, well, you'll have to see for yourself. A good Svankmajer. A good Faust. My favorite Faust movie is still Faust (1926). Spout Post: Eisenstein's first film http://www.spout.com/blogs/quint/archive/2008/9/13/35104.aspxPost By: quint
Post To: An inordinate number of peppers
Post Date: 9/13/2008 1:55:46 AM
Body: Le journal Gloumov
]]>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 05:55:46 GMTquintAn inordinate number of peppers9/13/2008 1:55:46 AMLe journal Gloumov Spout Post: hard on the heart http://www.spout.com/blogs/quint/archive/2008/9/11/35038.aspx Post By: quint
Post To: An inordinate number of peppers
Post Date: 9/11/2008 5:04:31 PM
Body: This took me a while to process. It's long of course, has many technical challenges for the viewer, but I sort of knew the range of what to expect from Fassbinder and rode with it all just fine. Wow. This is an intense portrait of a strangely likable dupe. The acting is fantastic. Günter Lamprecht is amazing. There were technical complaints about the production, but I think Fassbinder got what he was after. I can't bring myself to say I loved it, although it affected me profoundly. The epilogue was mind blowing. The cascade of dream images succeeded in feeling appropriate and deeply revealing of the character's descent. Weird and disturbing, but true somehow. A modernist tragedy is bitterer than the classic sort. The one is a culmination of a life's unfortunate meaning, resolving destiny with death. Franz's destiny is surely spent, but in our day and age a life devoid of meaning is still lived. A pimp, a thief, a murderer, sure, but Franz is somehow a sympathetic character. I wanted him to find the happiness he seemed nearly capable of. Something is broken in him. The implication would seem to be some psychological disorder, perhaps a remnant from WWI. There are lots of avenues to rationalize him. I liked Franz. He creeped me out, but I liked him. And I liked Mieze too though she had some off things about her. They are both a little crazy in a way that makes them seem innocent of their lives. Unlike Reinhold who is irredeemable in my book. A bad man. Living in a bad time increases the pressure towards an inhuman decay of society. But that does not excuse bad behavior, it just makes it all the harder to live up to. Germany in the twenties feels a little post-apocalyptic and some of those classic scenarios play out. Franz is the perpetual optimist, believing in the basic humanity of others until experience can break him of it. It's hard on the heart to watch it happen.
]]>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:04:31 GMTquintAn inordinate number of peppers9/11/2008 5:04:31 PMThis took me a while to process. It's long of course, has many technical challenges for the viewer, but I sort of knew the range of what to expect from Fassbinder and rode with it all just fine. Wow. This is an intense portrait of a strangely likable dupe. The acting is fantastic. Günter Lamprecht is amazing. There were technical complaints about the production, but I think Fassbinder got what he was after. I can't bring myself to say I loved it, although it affected me profoundly. The epilogue was mind blowing. The cascade of dream images succeeded in feeling appropriate and deeply revealing of the character's descent. Weird and disturbing, but true somehow. A modernist tragedy is bitterer than the classic sort. The one is a culmination of a life's unfortunate meaning, resolving destiny with death. Franz's destiny is surely spent, but in our day and age a life devoid of meaning is still lived. A pimp, a thief, a murderer, sure, but Franz is somehow a sympathetic character. I wanted him to find the happiness he seemed nearly capable of. Something is broken in him. The implication would seem to be some psychological disorder, perhaps a remnant from WWI. There are lots of avenues to rationalize him. I liked Franz. He creeped me out, but I liked him. And I liked Mieze too though she had some off things about her. They are both a little crazy in a way that makes them seem innocent of their lives. Unlike Reinhold who is irredeemable in my book. A bad man. Living in a bad time increases the pressure towards an inhuman decay of society. But that does not excuse bad behavior, it just makes it all the harder to live up to. Germany in the twenties feels a little post-apocalyptic and some of those classic scenarios play out. Franz is the perpetual optimist, believing in the basic humanity of others until experience can break him of it. It's hard on the heart to watch it happen. Spout Post: Arkadian on Google Video http://www.spout.com/blogs/quint/archive/2008/6/23/31582.aspx Post By: quint
Post To: An inordinate number of peppers
Post Date: 6/23/2008 11:38:46 PM
]]>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:38:46 GMTquintAn inordinate number of peppers6/23/2008 11:38:46 PM Spout Post: Public domain http://www.spout.com/blogs/quint/archive/2008/5/20/29613.aspx Post By: quint
Post To: An inordinate number of peppers
Post Date: 5/20/2008 9:32:26 PM
Body: There are so many great public domain videos on Google video.
]]>Wed, 21 May 2008 01:32:26 GMTquintAn inordinate number of peppers5/20/2008 9:32:26 PMThere are so many great public domain videos on Google video. Spout Post: Re:Where to watch free movies http://www.spout.com/groups/Free_Movies/Re_Where_to_watch_free_movies/137/27877/1/ShowPost.aspxPost By: quint
Post To: Free Movies
Post Date: 4/27/2008 1:30:57 PM
Body: Just saw this one: Lycos Cinema. Interesting setup. Lots of classics.
]]>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:30:57 GMTquintFree Movies4/27/2008 1:30:57 PMJust saw this one: Lycos Cinema. Interesting setup. Lots of classics. Spout Post: German after all http://www.spout.com/blogs/quint/archive/2008/2/18/25251.aspx Post By: quint
Post To: An inordinate number of peppers
Post Date: 2/18/2008 8:02:46 AM
Body: My father's side of my family is German. They came to America in the late 19th century, looking for work and opportunity in the furniture trade. My great great grandfather was a cabinet maker and an otherwise successful future was cut short by tragedy in 1929 when my great grandfather, an only child, was killed in a night club fire in Detroit just one month before the stock market crash. He left one son behind, my grandfather, and that narrow thread leads to me. I've spent a good deal of time at the library trying to reconnect with these roots. To understand the patterns of thought in my own mind. It's a romantic dream I suppose. The stories handed down to me feel more like legends than truths. Among them is the fact that an ancestor of mine was once the burgermeister of Baden-Baden. My grandfather was supposedly among the first to cross the bridge into Baden-Baden, liberating that town with the Third Army. He shot a Nazi officer and took a French police pistol off his body. This is now in my father's possession. A family treasure. Watching this series was the most powerful signifier of the characteristics I inherited down this path. It traces an extended German family in a small village in the Hunsbuck from the end of WWI to 1982. There were innumerable moments watching this series (Netflix has it) where I recognized myself in the choices characters made. This sort of cultural resonance was a real coming home for me. Maria, Paul, Anton, Hermann, Maria Goot, Glassich: these were like long lost family. When Anton goes to Baden-Baden to visit Paul to ask his advice about the sale of his optics company to a multi-national corporation, I was on the edge of my seat. That was my ancestral home. Finally, I got a taste of that German spa town. Baden-Baden. My Baden-Baden. I've always been a fan of German cinema. Fassbinder and Herzog have inspired me and confounded me. But here, with this monumental work by Edgar Reitz and the sequels, I have a true glimpse of what my family history might have been had we stayed in Germany all those years ago. My family's history could have easily been a branch of this tree, a narrow thread off in America that might have circled back around to attend a funeral if the timing were right, much like the Brazilians who attended Maria's funeral. This connection to what is German in me is a great service Reitz has done for the German people. I can't express enough how important this series has been to me. When Glassich scooted his chair closer to the speakers to hear over the racket of confused pub patrons the premiere of Hermann's avant-garde composition, (poor Glassich the town fool, his scabby hands hidden in his gloves), his eyes wide, his lips open, he alone hearing the beautiful sound of the nightingale amidst the electronic processing, he alone overwhelmed with the beauty, I wept as well. I felt like poor Glassich, hearing at last the strange and beautiful music of his homeland.
]]>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:02:46 GMTquintAn inordinate number of peppers2/18/2008 8:02:46 AMMy father's side of my family is German. They came to America in the late 19th century, looking for work and opportunity in the furniture trade. My great great grandfather was a cabinet maker and an otherwise successful future was cut short by tragedy in 1929 when my great grandfather, an only child, was killed in a night club fire in Detroit just one month before the stock market crash. He left one son behind, my grandfather, and that narrow thread leads to me. I've spent a good deal of time at the library trying to reconnect with these roots. To understand the patterns of thought in my own mind. It's a romantic dream I suppose. The stories handed down to me feel more like legends than truths. Among them is the fact that an ancestor of mine was once the burgermeister of Baden-Baden. My grandfather was supposedly among the first to cross the bridge into Baden-Baden, liberating that town with the Third Army. He shot a Nazi officer and took a French police pistol off his body. This is now in my father's possession. A family treasure. Watching this series was the most powerful signifier of the characteristics I inherited down this path. It traces an extended German family in a small village in the Hunsbuck from the end of WWI to 1982. There were innumerable moments watching this series (Netflix has it) where I recognized myself in the choices characters made. This sort of cultural resonance was a real coming home for me. Maria, Paul, Anton, Hermann, Maria Goot, Glassich: these were like long lost family. When Anton goes to Baden-Baden to visit Paul to ask his advice about the sale of his optics company to a multi-national corporation, I was on the edge of my seat. That was my ancestral home. Finally, I got a taste of that German spa town. Baden-Baden. My Baden-Baden. I've always been a fan of German cinema. Fassbinder and Herzog have inspired me and confounded me. But here, with this monumental work by Edgar Reitz and the sequels, I have a true glimpse of what my family history might have been had we stayed in Germany all those years ago. My family's history could have easily been a branch of this tree, a narrow thread off in America that might have circled back around to attend a funeral if the timing were right, much like the Brazilians who attended Maria's funeral. This connection to what is German in me is a great service Reitz has done for the German people. I can't express enough how important this series has been to me. When Glassich scooted his chair closer to the speakers to hear over the racket of confused pub patrons the premiere of Hermann's avant-garde composition, (poor Glassich the town fool, his scabby hands hidden in his gloves), his eyes wide, his lips open, he alone hearing the beautiful sound of the nightingale amidst the electronic processing, he alone overwhelmed with the beauty, I wept as well. I felt like poor Glassich, hearing at last the strange and beautiful music of his homeland. Spout Post: So far so great http://www.spout.com/blogs/quint/archive/2008/1/19/24057.aspx Post By: quint
Post To: An inordinate number of peppers
Post Date: 1/19/2008 3:34:05 AM
Body: So, I'm only two episodes into the series, but I feel compelled to wite about it already. I love Heimat. I am so glad that I have a lot of episodes ahead of me. The subtle characterisations, the dense and lovable characters, the people's history of a very traumatic time. Fascinating and important.
]]>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:34:05 GMTquintAn inordinate number of peppers1/19/2008 3:34:05 AMSo, I'm only two episodes into the series, but I feel compelled to wite about it already. I love Heimat. I am so glad that I have a lot of episodes ahead of me. The subtle characterisations, the dense and lovable characters, the people's history of a very traumatic time. Fascinating and important. Spout Post: Re:Expanding Horizons; The Wide World Of Licensed Novels http://www.spout.com/groups/The_Film_Library/Re_Expanding_Horizons_The_Wide_World_Of_Licensed/512/23983/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: quint
Post To: The Film Library
Post Date: 1/17/2008 11:50:56 AM
Body: When I was a kid, I was so geeked about Gremlins that I read the novelization. It was a desperate sort of nostaligia for the movie experience that provoked it. A novelization was the closest thing to being able to watch the movie whenever I wanted. I think technology has solved the need for instant nostalgia. If I like a movie or show, I can probably catch clips on Google video or YouTube to share with friends or tweak my memory. What this says about the future of memory is intriguing to me.
]]>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:50:56 GMTquintThe Film Library1/17/2008 11:50:56 AMWhen I was a kid, I was so geeked about Gremlins that I read the novelization. It was a desperate sort of nostaligia for the movie experience that provoked it. A novelization was the closest thing to being able to watch the movie whenever I wanted. I think technology has solved the need for instant nostalgia. If I like a movie or show, I can probably catch clips on Google video or YouTube to share with friends or tweak my memory. What this says about the future of memory is intriguing to me. Spout Post: Frickin' giant geode http://www.spout.com/blogs/quint/archive/2008/1/14/23890.aspx Post By: quint
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Post Date: 1/14/2008 10:19:14 PM
Body: I really liked watching this. I got a real kick out of the giant geode their laser rock zapper train fell into. I thought that the wireframe of a diamond the size of Cape Cod was very convincing. This film was cleverly constructed. It threw me back to the choice days of Ray Harryhausen's imaginative audacity. And it was dumb sometimes, which was awesome.
]]>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:19:14 GMTquintAn inordinate number of peppers1/14/2008 10:19:14 PMI really liked watching this. I got a real kick out of the giant geode their laser rock zapper train fell into. I thought that the wireframe of a diamond the size of Cape Cod was very convincing. This film was cleverly constructed. It threw me back to the choice days of Ray Harryhausen's imaginative audacity. And it was dumb sometimes, which was awesome. Spout Post: I know this movie sucks but... http://www.spout.com/blogs/quint/archive/2007/12/19/22950.aspx Post By: quint
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Post Date: 12/19/2007 7:51:59 AM
Body: Stripped of all it's dumb story line and viewed just for the underwater cave photography, this is a beautiful movie. The characters are weak, blah blah blah. But man, those are real caves (except for the chambers with the fire and the ice and the blah blah blah). It is unfortunate that the underwater photography has to be couched in such silly trappings. I would gladly watch endless hours of the explorations.That has everything to do with Wes Skiles who handled the underwater camera. His work here is completely amazing. If you want a good claustrophobic cave story, of course watch The Descent. It is a far better movie in nearly every way. But if you love caves, you have to check this out.
]]>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:51:59 GMTquintAn inordinate number of peppers12/19/2007 7:51:59 AMStripped of all it's dumb story line and viewed just for the underwater cave photography, this is a beautiful movie. The characters are weak, blah blah blah. But man, those are real caves (except for the chambers with the fire and the ice and the blah blah blah). It is unfortunate that the underwater photography has to be couched in such silly trappings. I would gladly watch endless hours of the explorations.That has everything to do with Wes Skiles who handled the underwater camera. His work here is completely amazing. If you want a good claustrophobic cave story, of course watch The Descent. It is a far better movie in nearly every way. But if you love caves, you have to check this out. Spout Post: Buggin http://www.spout.com/blogs/quint/archive/2007/12/3/22526.aspx Post By: quint
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Post Date: 12/3/2007 10:32:42 PM
Body: Like many people, I thought Bug was a horror movie, but I was pleasantly surprised that it wasn't. Instead, this is an intriguing psychological study of the illusions we'll endure for the promise of love. The movie that comes to mind is Richard Linklater's Tape. It is perhaps just the off-Broadway feel. Night of the Living Dead has a similar economy. Ashley Judd is excellent, but the movie's main flaw is with her character. There is not enough to convince me of her desperation. Sure, she is a white trash woman with a lot to regret, but her endurance is what I am most convinced of. Harry Connick, Jr. is more Tony Franciosa than ever. He is a wicked thug. Michael Shannon is a pleasant surprise.After the set up, the movie changes character significantly, but never quite outlives it's pretenses. Craziness kicks into high gear out of the blue. Harry Connick's character falls by the wayside. The climax has to come because all sympathy is blasted from the characters. Still, I enjoyed the ride.
]]>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:32:42 GMTquintAn inordinate number of peppers12/3/2007 10:32:42 PMLike many people, I thought Bug was a horror movie, but I was pleasantly surprised that it wasn't. Instead, this is an intriguing psychological study of the illusions we'll endure for the promise of love. The movie that comes to mind is Richard Linklater's Tape. It is perhaps just the off-Broadway feel. Night of the Living Dead has a similar economy. Ashley Judd is excellent, but the movie's main flaw is with her character. There is not enough to convince me of her desperation. Sure, she is a white trash woman with a lot to regret, but her endurance is what I am most convinced of. Harry Connick, Jr. is more Tony Franciosa than ever. He is a wicked thug. Michael Shannon is a pleasant surprise.After the set up, the movie changes character significantly, but never quite outlives it's pretenses. Craziness kicks into high gear out of the blue. Harry Connick's character falls by the wayside. The climax has to come because all sympathy is blasted from the characters. Still, I enjoyed the ride. Spout Post: Sodom and Gamorrah for children? http://www.spout.com/blogs/quint/archive/2007/11/29/22352.aspxPost By: quint
Post To: An inordinate number of peppers
Post Date: 11/29/2007 8:03:13 AM
Body: Krysar is a masterpiece of Czech stop-motion animation. It's a dark interpretation of the story of the Pied Piper of Hamlin done with an ingenious variety of carved wooden figures and rats, both live and artificial. The synopsis suggests that this is for children, but it includes the gang rape and murder of a maiden and various other brutalities. The techniques used to make this film are masterful. The villagers are busily exploiting one another. The rats are inspired by these actions. The rats are very much the dark forces inside the people. The pied piper is a sort of angelic force come down to purge the village of it's greed and decadence. When eliminating the rats only leads to a continuance of the same exploitive behavior, the pied piper purges the village of its human rats as well. Sodom and Gamorrah.If you appreciate the films of the Brothers Quay or Jan Svankmajer, then you should really check out Jiri Barta.I watched this on the DVD Labyrinths of Darkness which is a compilation of Jiri Barta's films.
]]>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:03:13 GMTquintAn inordinate number of peppers11/29/2007 8:03:13 AMKrysar is a masterpiece of Czech stop-motion animation. It's a dark interpretation of the story of the Pied Piper of Hamlin done with an ingenious variety of carved wooden figures and rats, both live and artificial. The synopsis suggests that this is for children, but it includes the gang rape and murder of a maiden and various other brutalities. The techniques used to make this film are masterful. The villagers are busily exploiting one another. The rats are inspired by these actions. The rats are very much the dark forces inside the people. The pied piper is a sort of angelic force come down to purge the village of it's greed and decadence. When eliminating the rats only leads to a continuance of the same exploitive behavior, the pied piper purges the village of its human rats as well. Sodom and Gamorrah.If you appreciate the films of the Brothers Quay or Jan Svankmajer, then you should really check out Jiri Barta.I watched this on the DVD Labyrinths of Darkness which is a compilation of Jiri Barta's films. Spout Post: Premieres exclusively on iTunes http://www.spout.com/blogs/quint/archive/2007/11/26/22184.aspx Post By: quint
Post To: An inordinate number of peppers
Post Date: 11/26/2007 10:47:16 AM
Body: Here's an interesting development: “Purple Violets” premieres exclusively on iTunes
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]]>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 04:00:00 GMTArgueta0Beginner (<10)Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:52:15 GMTMember Film:Funny Games http://www.spout.com/films/Funny_Games/288707/default.aspx Title: Funny Games
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Year: 1982
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Year: 1962
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Year: 1967
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Year: 1977
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Year: 1963
Director: James Landis
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Year: 1959
Director: Roy Del Ruth
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