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Updates
- Charlie's French Cinema Nudity site is updated.
- Vejiita's new Spanish Cinema Nudity site is updated ... er ... created. It
is so new that he's still working on it and I haven't added it to our menu yet, but that doesn't matter for
now because it is all free at this point. The site is his own work for now,
but that may change over time, once he contacts Flauti and some of his other
colleagues in the Spanish Cinema world. The URL is, logically enough,
spanish-cinema.com.
If you would like to offer him feedback, help, or suggestions (or praise,
for that matter) write him at
vejiita@spanish-cinema.com.
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* Yellow asterisk: funny (maybe).
* White asterisk:
expanded format.
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Blue asterisk: not mine.
No asterisk: it probably
sucks.
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OTHER CRAP:
Catch the deluxe
version of Other Crap in real time, with all the bells and whistles,
here.
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Laure
1976
Revisited from yesterday -
Some more captures from the DVD special features.
Once again, Severin has done a wonderful job on restoring a lost film of merit
and adding great special features even though the film is three decades old.
Even Disney and Dreamworks could learn from these guys!. The film is not
available until June 12th for most people, but you can obtain it from Rare
Licensed DVDS now, thanks to special permission to ship ahead of release date.
Not only can you get it before everyone else, but the special offer
includes another DVD for free!
Again, we don't offer many outright "buy" recommendations, as you know, but
this DVD is a very special entertainment package.
Click on the picture below for details.
I Love Your Work
2003
I Love Your Work (2003) Was written, directed, produced Composed and edited
by Adam Goldberg, who has not tried directing before or since. It could be that
his $2.58K return on a $1.65 M budget discouraged him. or possibly he has just
returned to what he is good at.
Only because of a feature-length commentary with him and lead Giovanni
Ribisi, am I now fairly certain what the film is about. A paranoid actor
believes he is being stalked. When it turns out that he isn't, he decides to
stalk a fan. The film mixes first and third person POVs willy-nilly, and also
jumps back and forth in time, making the viewer question how much, if anything,
is supposedly going on.
The good news is that his wife, also a famous thespian, is played by Franka
Potente. She shows her breasts in two scenes, one in bed, and the other flashing
a reporter.
IMDb readers say 5.0. It drops to 4.0 in my age group. Evidently the unique
approach to the narrative was slightly more popular with younger viewers. I am
unable to comment intelligently on the performances, as I was too distracted by
the narrative style to notice.
This is a C-, but one for a very small crowd.
This one is also available from Rare Licensed DVDs
Scoop's note: I like Adam Goldberg. He seems
like a very bright guy, and his wired-too-tight personality can be very
effective onscreen in certain types of roles. (Love him as The Hebrew Hammer.)
Who knows, he may someday be a good director as well, but I did not like this
movie, with has more quirky, affected mannerisms than a Hugh Grant monologue. In
addition to the offbeat free-form approach to narrative, it's one of those films
where you don't actually know what happens at the end. Bah, humbug. I scored it
a C on its merits, but merit aside, I hated the sumbitch.
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The Kovak Box
There is already a review
here in the Movie House, so I'll just say that I have capped Lucía in
other movies and she always look very hot, hope she does more nudity in
the future.
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Notes and collages
Jolie Day 1 - Hackers
and Foxfire
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Angelina Jolie in Hackers |
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Angelina Jolie in Foxfire |
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Venus
This sweet and poignant comedy/drama from 2006 features outstanding
performances by Peter O'Toole as elderly actor Maurice and Jodie Whittaker
as rebellious early-twenties hellion Jessie.
Maurice's best friend Ian, another elderly actor, is in constant fear
of dying, and agrees to have his niece's daughter move in with him to take
care of him. Jessie is a hard-drinking, rude, and offensive jerk who
totally unnerves Ian, but Maurice finds her intriguing and befriends the
girl.
As the friendship between the two grows, it turns into something much
more: a plutonic love affair. Maurice teaches Jessie about life and art,
and Jessie helps Maurice vicariously regain his youth.
There's not much to criticize in this movie. It's extremely well done
and worth watching. I enjoyed it immensely.
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The Comedy Wire
Zhang Shuging of Shichuan, China, just celebrated his 100th birthday, and he
says the secret to a long life is bad habits. He said he's been smoking
every day and drinking liquor at every meal since he was in his 20s. His
grandson estimates that he's consumed 15 tons of liquor and over a ton of
tobacco in his lifetime. But he's in good health and has a huge appetite. A
typical meal for him is two chicken legs, a bowl of steamed pork fat and rice,
vegetables and fruit, which he wolfs down in 20 minutes.
* If he'd just cut out the fruit and vegetables, he could
live another 20 years.
Researchers at England's University of Warwick tested nearly 200,000 people and
found that sexual orientation affects performance in mental tasks, or to be
specific, women and gay men can't read maps. It was already known that
generally, men do better at spatial dexterity and women at verbal tests. But in
a test that involved mentally rotating objects, a skill used in reading maps,
heterosexual men did best. They were followed, in order, by bisexual men, gay
men, lesbians, bisexual women, and dead last: straight women. So the more
feminine you are, the worse you are at reading a map.
* No wonder wives are always wanting to stop and ask
directions!
* But the more macho you are, the more likely you are to refuse to look at a
map.
Cleveland has a new tourist attraction: Tuesday afternoon, an unnamed woman
reportedly caught her boyfriend in bed with another
woman. Neighbors say she took the mattress off the bed and threw it into the
street. She then propped it up on end outside their house and wrote
profanity-laden messages all over it, detailing her boyfriend's cheating. The
mattress exhibit stopped traffic as people got out of their cars to read it and
take pictures of it.
* They thought it was part of the Mick Jagger exhibit
from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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