Fillums

[lethargic_man]

Let's talk about fillums. Let's start with Ascophyllum nodosum, or eggwrack.

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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comedies

[curious-reader.livejournal.com]

I forgot what I used to suggest. I suggested Switch which I found now on ebay in Austria in two languages.. It is not available in the UK. And another one is "Tootsie". This might be still available. It is both about a kind of transformation from a man into a woman. In Switch the man was punished for being a chauvinists by the devil. I don't know the actor or actress. He was suddenly a woman and had to deal with it.
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.