... All that anger for very good reason. 'children' need to be brought up by 'parents'. That makes them weaker than 'parents'. As it is, women are weaker than...
... As far as I can see, this is just a cheap cinematic technique which is about the anonymity of the unknown victims. It's not really any kind of ethnical ...
... For the record, the original AUSTIN POWERS film had a funny gag regarding this, and I believe it was cut from the final film. (It was on the DVD, as I...
For the record, the original AUSTIN POWERS film had a funny gag regarding this, and I believe it was cut from the final film. (It was on the DVD, as I recall,...
JPC is right: hardly anyone today knows Heaven with a Gun (Lee H. Katzin, 1969). I think I saw this decades ago. If I have the right picture - it was an ...
... is about ... ethnical ... identify with ... blasted away ... Not really... they are not. They cheer because they identify with a big muscle man blasting...
... I think this is what I'm trying to say, really: these kind of cinematic representations are deliberately created in order to make the human deaths seem...
... deaths ... 'real' life. ... to our ... (That's ... that the ... There is no such thing as reality and representation in the individual's mind when he...
"There is no such thing as reality and representation in the individual's mind when he watches the movie. Really it is OTOH, the representation pretty much...
Well, somehow I don't think David Cronenberg is going to do a follow-up to his last year's masterpiece that will be called "A History of Non-violence." Which...
... An obituary published in Yahoo from either Reuters or AP was either badly researched or edited. It implied that "Pocketfull of Miracles" and "Four...
... Such rank stupidity! "The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse" cost (and lost) a bloody fortune. MGM thought it was going to be a surefire winner, biut oit was...
... I've seen barely a fraction of Glenn Ford's films, and obviously this obituary contained major omissions, but it seems worth noting that there's one title...
Have any of you engaged with the similarity between certain films produced by Selznick (for example) ? I was struck by the resemblances between Rebecca and...
The 40's were full of films about women and protraits. See also "Laura," "The Woman in the Window," and "Scarlet Street." Not sure about the point you're...
... included "Don't ... Teahouse ... (1963), ... this ... that ... a ... I don't think RS was dismissing the Minnelli (a fine film but I wouldn't put it...
... wrote: "The 40's were full of films about women and protraits. See also 'Laura,' 'The Woman in the Window,' and 'Scarlet Street.'" Women and portraits is...
... This was my former explanation for why audiences don't mind deaths in movies very much. The children-and-dogs concept is a challenge to this way of...
... produced by Selznick (for ... Portrait of Jenny... The most striking resemblance is that both title characters are an "absent presence" -- they are both...
... in ... this ... the "sophistication" ... can ... of ... Throw in ... in the ... child ... that ... Though he may be held in little regard on this board, I...
... Museum of Art. A day didn't go by when someone didn't ask to see the Portrait of Jennie! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? ...
All of this reminds me of a Dick Gregory routine from the late sixties where he suggested (modestly proposed) you *really* see wide spread opposition to the...
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Here in L.A. there are vacant lots FILLED with used SUVs going for next to nothing. ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired...
... While I don't think Hitler's vegetarianism came from a wish to avoid killing animals, he does seem to have been kind to animals and disgusted by the...
... Midge's self-portrait from VERTIGO that so upset Scottie was up for auction and on display at a Hollywood bookstore a couple of decades ago. -- - Joe...
