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The Ice Pirates

Watch this one again
By quint in An inordinate number of peppers
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"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. " [More]

Eolomea

talky, slow
By quint in An inordinate number of peppers
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"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. " [More]

Faust

Way inside the stage
By quint in An inordinate number of peppers
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"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 o ... " [More]

Faust

Eisenstein's first film
By quint in An inordinate number of peppers
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Berlin Alexanderplatz

hard on the heart
By quint in An inordinate number of peppers
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"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 ... " [More]

Mr. Arkadin

Arkadian on Google Video
By quint in An inordinate number of peppers
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Faust

Public domain
By quint in An inordinate number of peppers
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"There are so many great public domain videos on Google video. " [More]

Re:Where to watch free movies
By quint in Free Movies
"Just saw this one: Lycos Cinema. Interesting setup. Lots of classics. " [More]

Heimat

German after all
By quint in An inordinate number of peppers
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"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 ... " [More]

Heimat

So far so great
By quint in An inordinate number of peppers
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"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. " [More]

Gremlins

Re:Expanding Horizons; The Wide ...
By quint in The Film Library
"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. " [More]

The Core

Frickin' giant geode
By quint in An inordinate number of peppers
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"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. " [More]