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  Filmed in Tibet and shot in 1986. This film in English is called "The Horse Thief" and Scorsese has stated on "Siskel & Ebert" that this is the best film of the 1990's. ................................................... And God told Moses, in time, all things become Fuzzy, therefore to multiple "the fuzz" is Man's greatest Mitzvah. |
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 Telling moment: when contemplating emigration, the sole valid choices are England and Canada. It's nearly impossible to convey the potency of this film. The scalding-hot lesbianism shown (more adventurously than Jean-Claude Brisseau) is a hydrogen-bomb critique of India's social diffidence.  His poor bereaved father lives on (latest picture: Mongol). ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// I declare war on all icons and finalities, on all histories that would chain me with my own falseness, my own pitiful fears. I know only moments, and lifetimes that are as moments, and forms that appear with infinite strength, then "melt into air." I am an architect, a constructor of worlds, a sensualist who worships the flesh, the melody, a silhouette against the darkening sky. --Lebbeus Woods |
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That's the best kind, too. |
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Encounter at Raven's Gate
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anyone mention
Plunkett & Maclean? A great deal of fun and adventure, Liv Tyler in period costume...I loved it and I kick myself often for not making my ex give me our copy. ______________________ "As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior orals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying." |
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+1, loved it. Dirty, messy, violent, funny, noisy... awesome.
________________________ "you are powerless against that to which you are oblivious" - Splitcoil |
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Yay for Krull (4 pages back)
________________________ "you are powerless against that to which you are oblivious" - Splitcoil |
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A Kevin Burns* doc strings Krull into the same sentence as Zardoz (as yet unmentioned here).
 Forgive me. And, overshadowed by a Star Wars movie and that Keanu "wire fu" one, it's 1999's:  * Of the three eminent "Burns" documentarians: Ken, Kevin and Ric. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// I declare war on all icons and finalities, on all histories that would chain me with my own falseness, my own pitiful fears. I know only moments, and lifetimes that are as moments, and forms that appear with infinite strength, then "melt into air." I am an architect, a constructor of worlds, a sensualist who worships the flesh, the melody, a silhouette against the darkening sky. --Lebbeus Woods |
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I posted that Sean pic a long time ago for some other reason. I can't remember why, I think I was trying to restore someone's sight.
I quite like Zardoz. |
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It's aggravatingly indelible. Zardoz the movie -- dark scifi, right?
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// I declare war on all icons and finalities, on all histories that would chain me with my own falseness, my own pitiful fears. I know only moments, and lifetimes that are as moments, and forms that appear with infinite strength, then "melt into air." I am an architect, a constructor of worlds, a sensualist who worships the flesh, the melody, a silhouette against the darkening sky. --Lebbeus Woods |
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dark scifi, soft core porn, whatever.
Empty barrels make the most noise. |
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Actually, I have trouble remembering anything about it, other than stuff I have been reminded of since (see above picture). Then again, same goes for Krull, which I vaguely remember enjoying when I was a teenager. |
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Sean Connery is in a kind of post-apocalyptic world where a big floating head encourages people to fight. He stumbles on a matriarchal society and gets trapped in a bubble while watching porn. He finds out some truths along the way. |
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Watched this again last night. Brilliant at times.
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Very important to underscore "at times".
Easily takes Most Novel Spaceship award. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// I declare war on all icons and finalities, on all histories that would chain me with my own falseness, my own pitiful fears. I know only moments, and lifetimes that are as moments, and forms that appear with infinite strength, then "melt into air." I am an architect, a constructor of worlds, a sensualist who worships the flesh, the melody, a silhouette against the darkening sky. --Lebbeus Woods |
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I like it, there is something profound going on there.
I think this is a movie that will be somehting of a classic in ten or twenty years. People just didn't get it. |
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I liked it, too. And Mansell, as always, shines brighter than Xibalba.
It's original and comprehensively imagined, nearly guaranteeing it an aedicula in the temple of film. My (minor) subjective aversion might be its sorrow. A truly black-dark picture. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// I declare war on all icons and finalities, on all histories that would chain me with my own falseness, my own pitiful fears. I know only moments, and lifetimes that are as moments, and forms that appear with infinite strength, then "melt into air." I am an architect, a constructor of worlds, a sensualist who worships the flesh, the melody, a silhouette against the darkening sky. --Lebbeus Woods |
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Oh, I don't know that it was dark, it implies Eternal Return at the end. That's not dark as such.
Not to get into Nietzsche vis a vis Kundera but... You made me look up that thar' aedicula. Interesting. |
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of matters of opinion, people have no choice but to argue.
sometimes, consensus is reached, for a briefest interval of time ~Alcohol's supposed to kill braincells. So how come there's more voices in my head the more I drink~ |
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"Cookers" gets my vote as a great overlooked film. Well acted and really creepy.
Also loved "Session 9" but I think that's already been mentioned. |
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