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Er, no, rather, let's talk about films before I get completely sidetracked by seeeeeeaweed. Now I have a DVD player it's my intention to start catching up on all the films people have been recommending me for ages. Most of these aren't available at the library;![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
curious_reader recommends Easy Cinema as appropriate for someone who's likely to be an occasional DVD renter rather than a regular.
Which only leaves the question of what to watch. Various people (particularlyrysmiel) have recommended me films beforehand, but I've not noted them down in a central place like I do with my to-read list; if people want to make recommendations to me now, I can start such a list up.
For my first block of four DVDs, I was thinking of Yojimbo and Hidden Fortress, both of which I've been meaning to see for ages. I have a vague memory ofrysmiel recommending me The Prophecy, too, which leaves one film. I recall rysmiel going on a lot about Jesus of Montreal, but I'm not sure how meaningful it would be to me, with only slight knowledge of the events of the NT...
Er, no, rather, let's talk about films before I get completely sidetracked by seeeeeeaweed. Now I have a DVD player it's my intention to start catching up on all the films people have been recommending me for ages. Most of these aren't available at the library;
curious_reader recommends Easy Cinema as appropriate for someone who's likely to be an occasional DVD renter rather than a regular.Which only leaves the question of what to watch. Various people (particularly
rysmiel) have recommended me films beforehand, but I've not noted them down in a central place like I do with my to-read list; if people want to make recommendations to me now, I can start such a list up.For my first block of four DVDs, I was thinking of Yojimbo and Hidden Fortress, both of which I've been meaning to see for ages. I have a vague memory of
rysmiel recommending me The Prophecy, too, which leaves one film. I recall rysmiel going on a lot about Jesus of Montreal, but I'm not sure how meaningful it would be to me, with only slight knowledge of the events of the NT...
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12 Angry Men
Date: 2006-09-11 10:30 pm (UTC)It's that famous one about a jury - made in 1950s and really really compelling.
Re: 12 Angry Men
Date: 2006-09-12 06:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-12 11:44 am (UTC)Apart from DVDs, you really should read the Gospels. They are short; ISTR the whole set is shorter than Genesis, but even if that fact is not quite accurate they're not at all on the scale of the longer OT books. They won't infect you with nasty apikorsus cooties, I promise. Fair enough, you don't care about visual art or older literature very much, but even twentieth century literature and film is improved if you do have reasonable grasp of at least the plot of the Gospels. Not the whole NT; you can learn quite a lot about the origins of Christianity from Acts, and you should possibly read Revelation because it makes Ezekiel look sane and also makes Good Omens a million times funnier. But definitely spend a couple of evenings reading the Gospels.
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Date: 2006-09-12 11:59 am (UTC)and also makes Good Omens a million times funnier
The thing about reading in the wrong order is that you end up doing things like reading Wyrd Sisters and then laughing when you get introduced to Macbeth. (I do also recall boggling when I discovered the bit in Life of Brian where Brian falls off the top of a tower and gets swept up by a UFO is actually based on the NT...)
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Date: 2006-09-12 03:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-12 02:29 pm (UTC)The Prophecy - there's more than one film with that name, the one I have mentioned to you has Christopher Walken, Elias Koteas, Virginia Madsen, and Viggo Mortenson in - is an amusingly bad B-movie that I almost certainly mentioned to you in the context of being somewhat influential on AD. I like it a lot but I'm not claiming it as good, by any means.
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Date: 2006-09-12 02:59 pm (UTC)EasyCinema has a copy (http://dvd.easycinema.com/visitor/product_detail.html?product_id=14031), though with a DVD that reviewers describe as "appalling".
Montipython
Date: 2006-09-12 05:52 pm (UTC)Re: Montipython
Date: 2006-09-12 05:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-12 05:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-12 05:59 pm (UTC)other film
Date: 2006-09-12 09:13 pm (UTC)comedies
Date: 2006-09-13 01:30 pm (UTC)The man (played by Dustin Hoffman) in "Tootsie" simply dressed himself as woman. He needed a job as an actor/actress and could not get it as a man but as a woman. He played a very convincing woman. He gets in lots of trouble because the people around him fall in love with him, men and women, and lots of other crazy things happen. "Mrs Doubtfire" played by Robin Williams is also not bad. He needed to be woman to be a nanny for his own children after his divorce. Check it out on Easy cinema. They have better decriptions.