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Jonny B's Profile
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| Display Name: | Jonny B |
| About me: | If I didn't like music so much I'd spend all my time reading or watching movies. |
| Reading Interests: | Stegner, Eliot (not *that* Eliot), Dillard, anything by Ian McEwan |
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 A town like Alice [videorecording] by Lee, Jack I loved this movie. You can’t take your eyes off Virginia MacKenna, whose subtle performance lights up the film. The story is similar to Paradise Road. I shed a tear at the end. posted May 20, 2013 at 7:09AM
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 Topsy-turvy [videorecording] by Leigh, Mike A lovely film, with generous excerpts from Mikado and some from Princess Ida and Ruddigore. Rehearsal details mostly believable and performances uniformly superb. Highly recommended for the theater buff and poetry lover. posted May 11, 2013 at 11:47AM
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 Carnage [videorecording]
I only lasted 30’ with this. It’s well acted, but watching these adults vie for control is too painful. posted May 11, 2013 at 11:43AM
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 Neotpravlennoe pis’mo [videorecording] = Letter never sent by Kalatozov, Mikhail Fire and ice, over-the-top 1959 Socialist realism/fantasy. Strains credulity, but visually stunning. posted Apr 15, 2013 at 1:52PM
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| Bord de mer [videorecording] = Seaside
"Bord de tears" is more like it. A critic has compared this to Chekhov, but I think it’s more like Eastenders, without the local color. posted Feb 19, 2013 at 1:05PM
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| Please give [videorecording]
A pleasant, not terribly consequential movie about people—some caring, some superficial—trying to feel OK. Rebecca Hall is delicate and lovely. posted Feb 11, 2013 at 10:40AM
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 Foreign correspondent [videorecording] by Hitchcock, Alfred I love this movie—one of Hitchcock’s best IMHO. There are many memorable characters, superbly played. The plot is thick, and gets denser as you go, and the final minutes are as stirring as anything in film. posted Feb 2, 2013 at 11:43AM
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 Yi Yi [videorecording] by Yang, Dechang My friend and I only lasted 90’ through this mildly interesting 3-hour saga of disfunctional Taiwan families. Why is this film in the Criterion Collection? The performances are strong, but the dialogue is hard for this English speaker to follow, and untangling the plot and characters just doesn’t seem worth the trouble. posted Feb 2, 2013 at 11:41AM
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| La Siciliana ribelle [videorecording]
Intense story of the Sicilian Mafia shakedown of the 1980s and 90s, a semi-factual narrative told through the eyes of a girl in the Family. Well done, involving. posted Jan 29, 2013 at 3:22PM
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| Sarah’s key [videorecording]
A powerful film connecting the French Occupation during WWII with the present day. This is a compelling story of a child’s grim experience (in an amazing performance) and its resonance through the years. Kristen Scott Thomas is as usual thoughtful and intense. Recommended. posted Jan 28, 2013 at 9:27AM
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