Post by bigsleepj on Nov 9, 2012 17:33:54 GMT
Well, this is a standard and well defined forum thread of notable digital datasphere recurrence, and I hereby and utterly induct it into this new forum with a lugubrious example of authorial secretion of the lavender-periwinkle variety. May it thrive and grow like tropical forests.
• Taken 2
This movie was okay. The first one was better, as this one stretched its premise as far as it can go.
• Moonrise Kingdom
This was a rather delightful little movie that I enjoyed far more than I expected to (though I expected to enjoy it as well). I loved everything from the cinematography to the quirky characters and the use of Benjamin Britten's music. It manages to create a world of its own and everyone's performances was great Cast includes: Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton.
• The very unique low-budget 'fantasy' "Beasts of the Southern Wilds", which is the story of a young girl from a very poor island off the coast of New Orleans who believes she somehow 'broke' the universe when she hit her troubled, drunkard father, and now a herd of monsters have been let loose. This is a complex, intense drama told from the point-of-view of a very imaginative six-year old and will not please everyone expecting a conventional film, but I think it is a startling, original film.
• Die Wonderwerker', aka 'The Miracle Worker', a South African film about a highly fictionalized episode from the life of Eugene Marais, an Afrikaans language poet, naturalist, scientist and writer. The lives of a close-knit but dysfunctional family is interrupted by the approach of a man who asks for water but is clearly having a bout of malaria. They treat him after he worsens and helps him recover. He decides to stay a little while to do research but despite bonding with the family it clear that his presence is only causing the family to rupture further. It does not help that Marais is addicted to morphine, as he was in real life. This is, at times, an intense, intimate drama directed by Katinka Heyns, one of South Africa's best directors with great performances and a literate script by her husband (also an accomplished writer). Although heavily fictionalized the movie's depiction of Marais is accurate and accentuate both his curious, scientific mind and his very much pronounced human failings. If the movie has a fault is that it tries too hard to be 'arty' in its plotting (stylistically its rather solid), but overall very good.
• Searching for Sugarman, documentary. Sixto Rodriguez outsold, in South Africa and Australia, the Beatles, Bob Dylan and Elvis and still has an equally strong following today as he did back in the 70's, but is virtually unknown in the northern hemisphere, particularly in the United States. With no one knowing what happened to him two South African musicologists set out to find him. A more in-depth review can be found here.
• Taken 2
This movie was okay. The first one was better, as this one stretched its premise as far as it can go.
• Moonrise Kingdom
This was a rather delightful little movie that I enjoyed far more than I expected to (though I expected to enjoy it as well). I loved everything from the cinematography to the quirky characters and the use of Benjamin Britten's music. It manages to create a world of its own and everyone's performances was great Cast includes: Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton.
• The very unique low-budget 'fantasy' "Beasts of the Southern Wilds", which is the story of a young girl from a very poor island off the coast of New Orleans who believes she somehow 'broke' the universe when she hit her troubled, drunkard father, and now a herd of monsters have been let loose. This is a complex, intense drama told from the point-of-view of a very imaginative six-year old and will not please everyone expecting a conventional film, but I think it is a startling, original film.
• Die Wonderwerker', aka 'The Miracle Worker', a South African film about a highly fictionalized episode from the life of Eugene Marais, an Afrikaans language poet, naturalist, scientist and writer. The lives of a close-knit but dysfunctional family is interrupted by the approach of a man who asks for water but is clearly having a bout of malaria. They treat him after he worsens and helps him recover. He decides to stay a little while to do research but despite bonding with the family it clear that his presence is only causing the family to rupture further. It does not help that Marais is addicted to morphine, as he was in real life. This is, at times, an intense, intimate drama directed by Katinka Heyns, one of South Africa's best directors with great performances and a literate script by her husband (also an accomplished writer). Although heavily fictionalized the movie's depiction of Marais is accurate and accentuate both his curious, scientific mind and his very much pronounced human failings. If the movie has a fault is that it tries too hard to be 'arty' in its plotting (stylistically its rather solid), but overall very good.
• Searching for Sugarman, documentary. Sixto Rodriguez outsold, in South Africa and Australia, the Beatles, Bob Dylan and Elvis and still has an equally strong following today as he did back in the 70's, but is virtually unknown in the northern hemisphere, particularly in the United States. With no one knowing what happened to him two South African musicologists set out to find him. A more in-depth review can be found here.