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"In episode #108, we posed a simple question: Which movie should be turned into a graphic novel? Your responses to the question became the fodder for a great conversation. Turning the typical page-to-screen progression on its head, we dig into the strengths and weaknesses of each medium. We discuss the possibility of seeing Mystery Train, Walkabout, The Man Who Fell To Earth, Zardoz, Hero, Die Hard, and Gangs of New York crammed into little action-packed drawings. We check in with Karina for a hindsight conversation about awards season. She poses the question: Who would win in a fight,
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"In episode #108, we posed a simple question: Which movie should be turned into a graphic novel? Your responses to the question became the fodder for a great conversation. Turning the typical page-to-screen progression on its head, we dig into the strengths and weaknesses of each medium. We discuss the possibility of seeing Mystery Train, Walkabout, The Man Who Fell To Earth, Zardoz, Hero, Die Hard, and Gangs of New York crammed into little action-packed drawings. We check in with Karina for a hindsight conversation about awards season. She poses the question: Who would win in a fight,
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"We are told from a title card that a walkabout is a ritual undergone by adolescent male Aborigines (the native people of Australia) on their path to adulthood. The teenager is given a certain distance to walk, where he must entirely live off the land, with no assistance from his tribe. That sounded like a great premise for a movie, but when the film opened I was surprised to find that the opening of the film follows two white kids as they go on a picnic in the desert. And like so many films with racial themes, Walkabout falls into a trap. It wants to be about the journey of an Aboriginal boy turning into a man, but Roeg apparently feels that an audience needs a white protagonist. We didn't and it dilutes the movie's power. The two white kids (no character is in the movie is named, so I'll have to be general) are British, traveling with their father (John Melion) by car across the Australian outback. They stop for a picnic for lunch, and the fath "
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"Mother of Mine is a film that focuses on the unseen impacts of war. Eero [Topi Majaniemi] is a Swedish child sent to live in Denmark after his father dies in the war and his mother gives up on life. He is taken in by a mother who isn't excited to have him and a father who wants nothing more than for Eero to be able to adapt and thrive. He takes Eero to school where they call him the "war child" which is all he knows about his identity anymore. It takes over his life. All he imagines are air raids.Every actor in this film is much more than capable. Personally I think the acting is the biggest strength of the entire film. Klaus Haro mixes the strength of the acting with the natural beauty and depth of the Finnish landscape.I am in the camp of people who believe the flash forwards take away from the film more than they add. I think the story would flow better and perhaps have more impact if it weren't for the disjointed feeling the flash forwards evoke.I thin ... "
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"Back in 2006 I was in Telluride, Colorado for the 33rd Annual Telluride Film Festival which gave their silver medals (for lifetime achievment essentially) to both Penelope Cruz and Rolf de Heer. Penelope's tribute had lines around the theatre and had people turned away. The one for Rolf was in a tiny venue (known as the Sheraton Opera House) that sat maybe 100 people. The show wasn't sold out and we were led into the event by watching clips from Rolf's other films Bad Boy Bubby and a few others. While they seemed very gritty and true, they also kind of turned me off of this man's work. Though I do appreciate that he wanted to take a look at the love life/sexual desires of the developmentally challenged. Long story longer, Ten Canoes was my favorite film of the fesitval, even going head-to-head with Pedro Almodovar's (my favorite living director) Volver. It is a fable about life, death and the constant desire to be older than you are ready to be. The story is told by a narr ... "
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"Ten Canoes is my favorite Spout Mavens screener if I have watched so far.I saw a little blurb about it from a Spout blog a month or two giving high praise to director Rolf de Heer as something like the most important director working right now. It was a shockingly definitive statement from what I recall. I think it was from Paul (Paul where have you been lately? I haven't seen a post from you in any of the groups for several months). Looking at his credits there were some movies that interested me a bit more than Ten Canoes though. Bad Boy Bubby looks potentially right up my alley actually. So I was hoping that I wouldn't be potentially be turned off to him by one movie when I may like some of his other ones.The only think I could think about when looking at the cover of this movie and hearing the description was the movie Walkabout. After watching Ten Canoes I read all of the other Spout Maven reviews, and I'm incredibly surprised that no one else has mentioned ... "
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One of my favorites
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"Walkabout If Dr. Emmett Brown slid his DeLorean into my driveway and said, “Grab your duffle bag Marty, we’re going back… to the future” I would first tell him my name is not Marty, and then I would grab Nicolas Roeg’s masterpiece Walkabout, pull down the passenger door, buckle up and prepare to be dazzled by the wonderment that the future holds. My vision of the future has the Internet as the main pipeline that feeds world information from all corners to all corners. Some cultures will get trampled and possibly even forgotten in the shuffle. Not only is Walkabout an incredible movie technically speaking but it also tells the story of maturity and warns against globalizing culture. &nbs "
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Gets Better The Older I Get
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"I first saw this story of culture clash at an early age. Back then I understood it as a tale of desert survival. As I get older, I realize more and more that it is a film about what gets lost in the drive towards modernization. While a lot of the "symbollism" is quite obvious and overblown, and the use of zoom is almost laughably dated, the film is on the whole so quiet and contemplative that it has survived its datedness to be one of my all time favorite films. It is one of the rare films that gets more interesting each time I rewatch it. "
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