Air Bud
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(Originally posted on: 06-19-04 08:02:54 PM)
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Okay. I tried this last April in The Gallery and everyone seemed to love the idea, but when it came down to it, toward the end of April, no one had participated. After the thread lay dormant for a while, someone came up with the idea of posting a new thread in Inside Discussions, thus exposing it to a lot more people, considering that The Gallery isn't a very popular subforum.
So anyway, here's how this works.
Each month's thread will contain a few movies that you have the entire month to track down and watch somehow, whether it be renting, purchasing, or even downloading, if need be. After watching the movie, you will then give a review of the film, tell us what you thought, what you felt, what you think the overall purpose and intent of the director and writers were.
Basically, the whole intention of this "film festival" is to expose people to great movies and encourage open discussion of ideas regarding those movies.
At any time, you may suggest another movie for the upcoming months, but those that actually participate will have first dibs on the movies that will be used in the following months. So when the August 2004 thread is being created, the films that seem to have the most recommendation and reception will be chosen.
Each month, if this lasts, a new thread will be created and a few movies will be chosen from the suggestions of people who participate in the previous threads.
Now, with that said, let me announce the movies that will be featured in this month's thread.
(Also, I've included a "Link to Amazon" section for each movie on the off chance that someone might want to actually purchase one of these films on DVD through the INTL affiliates program.)
City of God (2002)
Link To Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000D9PNX/ref=ase_interestingno-20/002-1624227-2271252?v=glance&s=dvd
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317248/
IMDB Rating: 8.7/10 (13,112 votes) Rated #29 on the top250
Rotten Tomatoes: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/CityofGod-1119797/
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 93% Fresh
Directed by: Kátia Lund / Fernando Meirelles
Starring: Alexandre Rodrigues / Leandro Firmino / Phellipe Haagensen
Language: Portugese
MPAA Rating: R
Plot Summary: Cidade de Deus (City of God) is a housing project built in the 1960's that--in the early 80's--became one of the most dangerous places in Rio de Janeiro. The tale tells the stories of many characters whose lives sometimes intersect. However, all is seen through the eyes of a singular narrator: Busca-Pé, a poor black youth too frail and scared to become an outlaw but also to smart to be content with underpaid, menial jobs. He grows up in a very violent environment. The odds are all against him. But Busca-Pé soon discovers that he can see reality differently than others. His redemption is that he's been given an artist's point of view as a keen-eyed photographer. As Busca-Pé is not the real protagonist of the film--only the narrator--he is not the one who makes the decisions that will determine the sequence of events. Nevertheless, not only his life is attached to what happens in the story, but it is also through Busca-Pé's perspective of life that one can understand the complicated layers and humanity of a world, apparently condemned to endless violence.
Léon (The Professional) (1994)
Link to Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004YYDI/ref=ase_interestingno-20/002-1624227-2271252?v=glance&s=dvd
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110413/
IMDB Rating: 8.4/10 (40,761 votes) Rated #64 on the top250
Rotten Tomatoes: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/TheProfessional-1057884/
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 81% Fresh
Directed by: Luc Besson
Starring: Jean Reno / Gary Oldman / Natalie Portman
Language: English
MPAA Rating: R (Original theatrical) / Unrated (uncut)
Plot Summary: Mathilda, a twelve-year old New York girl, is living an undesirable life among her half-family. Her father stores drugs for two-faced cop Norman Stansfield. Only her little brother keeps Mathilda from breaking apart. One day, Stansfield and his team take cruel revenge on her father for stretching the drugs a little, thus killing the whole family. Only Mathilda, who was out shopping, survives by finding shelter in Léon's apartment in the moment of highest need. Soon, she finds out about the strange neighbour's unusual profession - killing - and desperately seeks his help in taking revenge for her little brother. Léon, who is completely unexperienced in fatherly tasks, and in friendships, does his best to keep Mathilda out of trouble - unsuccessfully. Now, the conflict between a killer, who slowly discovers his abilities to live, to feel, to love and a corrupt police officer, who does anything in his might to get rid of an eye witness, arises to unmeasurable proportions - all for the sake of a little twelve-year old girl, who has nearly nothing to lose.
The Pianist (2002)
Link to Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005JLT5/ref=ase_interestingno-20/002-1624227-2271252?v=glance&s=dvd
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0253474/
IMDB Rating: 8.5/10 (20,923 votes) Rated #37 on the top250
Rotten Tomatoes: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ThePianist-1116005/
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 96% Fresh
Directed by: Roman Polanski
Starring: Adrien Brody / Thomas Kretschmann / Frank Finlay
Language: English / German / Russian
MPAA Rating: R
Plot Summary: The true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman who, in the 1930s, was known as the most accomplished piano player in all of Poland, if not Europe. At the outbreak of the Second World War, however, Szpilman becomes subject to the anti-Jewish laws imposed by the conquering Germans. By the start of the 1940s, Szpilman has seen his world go from piano concert halls to the Jewish Ghetto of Warsaw and then must suffer the tragedy of his family deported to a death camp, while Szpilman is conscripted into a forced German Labor Compound. At last deciding to escape, Szpilman goes into hiding as a Jewish refugee where he is witness to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Warsaw City Revolt in 1945.
Lola Rennt (Run Lola Run) (1998)
Link to Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000021Y77/ref=ase_interestingno-20/002-1624227-2271252?v=glance&s=dvd
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0130827/
IMDB Rating: 8.2/10 (26,641 votes) Rated #109 on the top250
Rotten Tomatoes: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/RunLolaRun-1087932/
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 93% Fresh
Directed by: Tom Tykwer
Starring: Franka Potente / Moritz Bleibtreu / Herbert Knaup
Language: German
MPAA Rating: R
Plot Summary: The film explores the events that fate alone controls and displays the constant "what if's" that occur every moment and that can easily change the happenings of the next. The film follows the events between a woman, Lola, and her boyfriend, Mani, who she desperately tries to save from death by helping him obtain a huge amount of money he carelessly lost. It takes you on three different journeys with Lola, all controlled by fate, showing you what would happen in each, and all the "what if's" that provide the foundations for each outcome.
Okay, so there you have it. Watch, enjoy, and discuss.
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This reply was last edited on 06-19-04 10:24:59 PM by Air Bud.
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