Everyone Says I Love You
Beautiful :clap:
This guy is just awesome :clap:
His perfection is scary :bow:
Elusive search of louu, mErEj - idhellAm eththanai thadavai-nu kEkkuravanga - pliss to skip
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Everyone Says I Love You
Beautiful :clap:
This guy is just awesome :clap:
His perfection is scary :bow:
Elusive search of louu, mErEj - idhellAm eththanai thadavai-nu kEkkuravanga - pliss to skip
Grouch, have you seen this film?
There is a Marx Bros. part in Paris with Hooray for Captain Spaulding sung in French !
All the invitees are wearing groucho moustaches and smoking cigars (including Goldie Hawn) and Woody exits the scene making a brief Groucho impression.
The ending shot of the movie is :lol:
Yeah, right after the party (I specially like Woody's makeover with the tache and cigar) comes one of the most beautiful ballet/duet ever shot in cinema. Wonderful direction by Woody. And Goldie Hawn flies so gracefully here. It's so magical. Perhaps that's the whole point of 'musical'.
And a nod to what Chris Rock says, that this guy (Woody) happens to be at center of some of the most romantic scenes ever captured on cinema is one of life's great ironies ! :lol:
Actually I didn't like many of the songs. I mean, I could the lyrics were fun and all that. But even if he has stripped away the frivolousness and made it a 'serious' funny film, it would have still worked quote well for me.
I didn't like the singing & dancing routine as much as the classical dance ballet near the banks (that also Paris, no?). All along it seems like something magical. But Woody closes it with policeman watching over (or not?). Like it all happens for real.
But when I think of it, the musical aspect of it doesn't matter to me at all..
Yes. The place where they had spent all night in the open once (when Woody claims to have decided he would one day live in Paris).Quote:
Originally Posted by kid-glove
The whole end-in-Paris had me laughing. It starts with Natasha Lyone's v-o about how winter is awesome in NY (she actually says that about the other seasons too earlier). And after some shots of snow in Central park etc. And then she goes "we are not a family that spends Christmas singing carols, we go to Paris and spend Christmas in the Ritz" :lol:
:sheepishgrin: yesQuote:
Originally Posted by kid_glove
The penultimate line was awesome:
I told skylar someone should write it up into a movie.
She said, better a musical, else nobody would believe it
:lol: :bow:
Right. And the film seemed a bit banal at first that I was surprised how the family (who were introduced) became interesting right after Tim Roth and Julia Roberts entry..
I did, PR. I thought the final was where Woody giving the finger to those who only recognise the Groucho mask and not the real talent. Title is a song from Horses Feather, not a great Marx Bros flick, but definitely awesome.
The Indian release of Woody’s next film, “ You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger “ is slated for December 17. Slumdog Millionaire star Freida Pinto plays the character of Dia, a mysterious woman at a window who becomes the object of a novelist’s (Josh Brolin) affections. The film has been shot in London and the casting includes Anthony Hopkins, Antonio Banderas, Naomi Watts & Anupam Kher.
A few months ago saw Kher’s interview in one of the channels where he interestingly narrated a few incidents that took place during the shoot.
What's up Tiger Lily :rotfl2:
Grouch, have you seen this one?
Horrible film..
Ah come on... a series of LOL moments
Hmmm...an Oriental :rotfl3:
It all felt flat to me.
In the ship....surveying the 'comfort women' one after another
Hi, hello there...how is it going.....mom! :rotfl2:
That's rather good. My memory of the film isn't really great, but I don't think such moments really worked for me when I watched it. Have to see it again.
It is a very Groucho-ish movie.
They enter the ship, there are a couple of sailors who are walking. They are in the frame for a mere second and the conversation goes
P1: So, what time's the mutiny :rotfl:
At one point he wants to have one of the villains talk long on phone and doesn't have enough lip-movement on the video, so he says
this conversation is so important I am going to use a ventriloquist :lol:
The minister who is looking for a country to open up in the world map :lol:
We have the whole population in crates :rotfl3:
And the death of the cobra with the shadow hands :lol:
Almost everything worked for me.
The girl who's with the sex-obsessed spy is viewing the harbour using binoculars and comments
Check out the smokestack on that ship :lol:
Pure comic brilliance
Annie Hall
I dont remember enjoying a movie so much in a revisit...by far the best experience in revisits.
:notworthy:
A Tall Dark Stranger - sumaar
Take the Money and Run
konjam thiNarittApla. But overall quite good.
Parts like, Dr.Epstein's Freudian explanation of the cello :rotfl:
Anything Else
:clap: Excellent. A filmmaker after my own heart I say.
It is the same film.
There's nothing out there
You can grow up and you can't avoid situations where you feel like a kid - not knowing what is ahead
How is will you go on with life and make decisions when there is no semblance of certainty
The Analyst who is like God, who never ever answers
Wierd, wierd situations
Pitch perfect movie
Jason Briggs in character and acting is a Woody. So it's like watching a younger and older Woody.
I worry that I am watching his films at a faster rate than he is making them.
Wordiness
Film is a medium fraught with uncertainty and it is perfectly fine to overcommunicate. Just mask it so it doesn't hurt the viewer's ego :P
Jason Briggs has this psychoanalyst in Anything Else.
Hilarious guy. He does nothing. Says nothing. Has no answers. Only restrictions and impositions.
He listens to him long and hard. Does not ever give him an answer. Woody's character says nobody has answers, from time immemorials charlatans have pretended to have an answer, everyone tries to guide each other's lives, when obviously such a thing is absurd and impossible. He says it in so many words. But then that is impossible too. As, based on Woody's advice, Briggs tries to shake out of character with disastrous consequences and Woody himself gets into a situation.
The psychoanalyst deflects real life questions in favour of making sense of dreams. And there too he is always 'what does it suggest to you' mode. He threatens to discontinue analysis if Briggs decides to keep a gun in his apartment (which he says is an 'acting out').
In a moody, do it yourself movie it would probably have been expected of me to think of the psychoanalyst as a stand-in for 'God'. And if I had gotten that it would have elevated the movie. But it is more likely I will be plagued by uncertainty and not dare to make such a reading without some strong encouragement/suggeston etc. And an overdose of that has me sufficiently annoyed to shut shop.
Woody's character speaks derisively of the analyst: 'like he is God or something'. Which is pretty much unsubtly, bluntly telling us what the character was meant to be. That's such a "ah yeah !" moment. Elevates the whole sequence and movie so damn much.
Again I am sure if he had said it in a serious dialock: isn't your psychoanalyst so much like God...etc. I would felt 'ouch'...why did you have to say that.
So I guess explanation cleverly made to look 'in-passing', a reading sold through an 'anti-sell' are the kind of thing that works extremely well.
Briggs: I am going to have to terminate analysis
Analyst: ........
Briggs: What do you think about it?
Analyst: what do you think about it?
:rotfl:
This guy is just fantastic.
Midnight in Paris - Quite possibly the film of the year. Loved the way the entire thing was shown in an unassuming/undramatic manner. Set of interesting scenes put together superbly. I saw a lot of woody in owen. And Paris.. what a beety, first time I wanted to visit a place after having watched it in a movie.
hmmm, naan oruthan thaan innum pakkala pola.
Look forward to this, more than his films...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16B-L-5eHkU
Midnight in paris was disappointing :fatigue: No idea why its rated so high.. Allen could do much better.
Trouble with latter day movies is, we see Woody in this feller and that feller, sometimes even girl. Most outrageous was Celebrity, bleddy Kenneth Branagh was doing a Woody. Just because he's older and can't do young bugger rule, change the character man. Like Eastwood, I prefer watching films with Woody in it, illana, with exception of few cases, rejetted.
Louu'd vicky christina barcelona.Quote:
Originally Posted by groucho070
The problem for me in midnight in paris was i had no idea about the literary periyavas who lived in the past and the fantasy aspect was :meh: . It moved in snail's pace..Very unlike woody ( Atleast that i know)
^I had similar issues..cheat codes for folks like us :lol2:
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/06/hemingway-said-what-a-cultural-cheat-sheet-for-midnight-in-paris/240198/#slide1
MiP is the best movie I have seen this year
I have not seen any other film this year, but even if I did I am reasonably sure MiP would remain at the top of my list.
பிற பின்.
I'm not sure people like the film for these literary references. But it's wonderful to know, thanks for posting.Quote:
Originally Posted by wizzy
Yes but too many references it was like (hmmm yeah so what now? move on) and i generally hate fantasy sub plots..the film's pace is super slow.Fast forward panlam ah nu lam thonuchu :evil: Woody generally makes slick movies this one was a dragQuote:
Originally Posted by kid-glove
Thanks wizzy :)
MiP
30 minutes. Dozed off.
Never happened before for a WA film.
Usually I blame myself for this, nothing's changed. Will try again.
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Originally Posted by kid-glove
:lol:
kaapikeepi saaptu paarunga.
Fliyum is a slow starter.
:lol: I should have done the same to Husbands and Wives(ala Paarthale paravasam).
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Originally Posted by kid-glove
So, next time they should provide coffee at the movie theaters for his new films, like how they provide 3D glasses for 3D flicks.Quote:
Originally Posted by P_R
Midnight in Paris uh? I also slept :redjump: Midnight no? No wonder. I didn't know half of the guys who were apparently important people from the past and so I didn't have any other option.
Never knew he was a stand up comedian. A special on him going on in American masters. Saw some of his clips, impressive.
Stan-up comedian and an excellent published humourist/satirist. I guess this one must have been inspired by one of his short stories, where each time he and Hemingway would put on boxing gloves, and Ernest would break the author's nose :lol: These days I revisit his short stories than the films.