At the flicks

Swimming in a tidal wave of toffee. Wow. Almost better to imagine than fantacising about The Benecio. But somehow not entirely.

How about combining the two, Terry?

Multitasking, in this case, is an excellent idea.

CynB, just saw TSLOB and, yes, the book is much better. Tell me what you think of the casting after you read the book.

The New York Times loved Duplicity -- "best movie of its genre in a very long time" or some such. Now we can drool over Julia Roberts and Clive Owen guilt free. Interestingly, it got mediocre score from the public at imdb.com. Wonder what that means.

I NEVER feel guilty about drooling over CO.

The Lemon Tree, lovely little movie from Israel. Humanising the issues with no-one coming out a winner.

Terry - haven't got around to finding the book of TSLOB yet, but I will and I'll let you know.
Top over 70's hunk for me - Sean Connery, but I do like PO'T's eyes.
Saw 'Confessions of a Shopaholic' on Saturday with a few grandies, (I've got to stop taking them to the movies!) 6 out of 10. Not too bad for that genre of movies, entertaining enough but that's about it.
Thinking of going to 'Duplicity' this week. Need a drool.

Hey CynB, re the Grandies...just sit back and think of England!!!!!
The newspaper yesterday quoted Julia Roberts as saying the love scenes with CO were 'hideous'. Unappreciative girl!!!!!

Julia Roberts is often ironic. I'm willing to bet she was kidding.

maybe so Terry.....but pashing on with CO for a living????? a job worth having!!!!

Finally caught up with Bottle Shock....NOBODY flairs his nostrils to such effect as AR!!!!!!
Also saw Easy Virtue, fluffy little piece but watchable. I love Noel Coward. KST was magnificent, the role was perfect for her.

Saw Twilight yesterday. The novels may have been written for young adults but the love story is so intense and the characters so compelling, I dub it a great chick flick. The young actors produced more angst and sizzle than many of their older peers. And the cinematography is gorgeous. I usually get tired of the grey-blue light quickly but, as title suggests, it is perfectly appropriate here.

The Duchess: excellent depiction of the social strictures which made the aristocracy of England in that period slaves to the laws of convention and property. The slow spiritual death of a real woman as she comes to terms with her position as heir producer with no rights and no other merit to her husband -- the only person in London not in love with her -- is heartbreakingly conveyed by Keira Knightly. Ralph Feinnes is brilliant as her autocratic husband and finds the part of the man intelligent enough to know he is a horrible creation of his class, and that the woman to whom he is married did deserve some happiness, but incapable because of breeding to do anything about it.

Make that "incapable... of doing anything about it." If I'm going to wax, sentences should at least make some sense.

Hey Terry... if 'making sense' is going to become a part of this forum...I'm in BIG trouble!!!

I watched 'Crash' last night. Not sure how old the film is but it was very good. A sort of 'what comes around goes around' or retribution sort of thing. I enjoyed it a great deal either way. 8/10

I loved Crash. I think it won an award several years ago.

Saw Brideshead Revisited. The New York Times called it "tedious, confused, an banal" and said it took the novel's name in vain. They were being polite.

I'm referring to the 2008 movie of BR with Emma Thompson.

I loved Crash, too. It won three Oscars -- best pic, original screenplay, and editing -- and many other awards. Matt Dillon and Thandie Newlie were incredible in the crash scene.

Hiya yous loverly people

I loved Crash too...

about to watch My Brilliant Career as part of my course - any one seen it?

toodles xx

about a hundred years ago!!!!!Wasn't ST about 14????

I never realized Judy Davis is from Australia. She was a brilliant Judy Garland.

Judy Davis is not only from Australia...but from PERTH!!!!!! Our very own claim to fame (along with Heath Ledger). I saw her on stage doing a brilliant Piaf before she took off for OS...a looooooong time ago!!!!!

I didnt know Judy Davis was from Perth!

Yep, I remember reading that she went to school at Loreto, though, of course, she was at school a looong time before we went to school.

Long long long time before!

Don't know if you guys mentioned Starting Out in the Evening when it came out in 2007. I just saw it and highly recommend. Based on a novel by Brian Morton which is apparently top notch, the film focuses on the 4 main characters from the book. All are good, but Frank Langella is his most brilliant self as an aging author being intellectually and sexually courted by a young literary grad student.

Hey Terry, never heard of it. Googled it on IMDB and it sounds good.

It was good, Mary. Likewise Burn After Reading which I think you all liked. Not what I expected. A lot of plotting, but also very character driven. Loved the end: "So what have we learned from all this?" Oh, those Coen brothers.

Hey Terry, BAR was great....Q...was BP acting????

I loved BP's music moves, particularly on the treadmill.

What's BAR and Q?

Burn After Reading and Question...my typing is bad enough without writing everything!!!

I'm so SLOOOOW.

I loved BP's vacuity...I hope that was acting

I'm certain it was. He takes himself quite seriously, thank you very much.

well, GREAT acting then

I watched the Unbearable Likeness of Being (okay another old film). Daniel Day-Lewis was incredibly wooden in his performance. Binoche was wonderful, so charismatic as always. Overall the film was too long, and I was left thinking it could have been better if they cut out half of it. I didn't have a goody bag of liquorice either to chomp on...