[m brown]

Delicatessen......
Once again, clowns!
What is the chef clown connection!

[BevReview Steve]

George Lucas... The man, the legend. I enjoy a couple of his "intergalactic space operas..."

[Isa]

Nicko,


I always wanted a bonsai. I never found one unfortunatly. What happenned to yours? We have a Japanese garden here with a big collection of bonsai and a tea house. Very pretty in the summer.


Back to the movie To Live was made in 1952 by Kurosawa. In Japanese it is called Ikiru. I hope you can find it, it really is a wonderful film.

I saw Dreams when it came out. I really enjoyed it. The last vignette didn't appeal to me though, too dreamy and experimental to my taste.

Black Rain, a film made in the 1989 or 1990 about the bombing of Hiroshima is worth seeing if you can find it. The problem with japanese cinema is that so few film are distributed here. You are lucky if you can see one a year. We do have a yearly festival that usually will show a few but not all are worth seeing.

Also the ballad of Nayorama is a must see again if you can find it.


Sisi

[cookM]

Originally posted by Sisi:

Back to the movie To Live was made in 1952 by Kurosawa. In Japanese it is called Ikiru. I hope you can find it, it really is a wonderful film.

That is a great movie. Loved it. And it stars that guy who's in a lot of Kurosawa's films. Have you guys seen the flick he did, but it was in Russian, surprisingly. The name escapes me. When I started watching it, I thought it was the wrong movie. Glad I stuck with it, though.

[Nicko]

Sisi,

It all started with the Seven Samurai, and after that it was Kagemusha, High and Low, etc. What did you think of of Dreams? I enjoyed the Van Gogh vignette very much with Martin Scoresee playing the part of Van Gogh. I too have been a long time fan of all thing Japanese, and I even had a Bonsai garden for a few years until I moved. I am not too familiar with other japanese directors though, any suggestions? I did see Farewell my Concubine, did you see that?

[Pete]

Wow! Someone else who actually knows Liquid Sky!! I also love "The Wall", any japanese anime, a great Hitchcock thriller, also Salvador Dali's movie Un Cien Andalou (sp?). I really love dark comdies such as Fargo and Trainspotting as well as twisted forgien films like "City of Lost Childern".

[m brown]

Let's not forget "WHO'S KILLING THE GREAT CHEFS OF EUROPE". Saw that when I was a kid and for some reason it stuck with me.

Une Chen Andelou (sp) is a great movie, Always fun on a first date.

[Isa]

Actually it is Un chien Andalou

[m brown]

Kurosawa has a new film out, anyone heard??

[shroomgirl]

Kurosawa died, how old is this new film? Is it a rerelease? Hasn't he been gone for a couple of years now?

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Has anyone read the book "Trainspotting"? It's even more twisted than the movie and it's all written it the Scottish dialect. By the time I was finished with it, I used an accent when I was talking to myself!

To mbrown, thanks for setting me straight on the correct title of "the Cook, the Thief" etc. No wonder I can't find it...I don't know where I came up with the butcher and the baker!

[cookM]

Originally posted by missyk1999:
thanks for setting me straight on the correct title of "the Cook, the Thief" etc. No wonder I can't find it...I don't know where I came up with the butcher and the baker!

Oh, I kept looking under "The cook, the garbage man, and the purse snatcher"!!

[Nick.Shu]

the cook, the thief, et al, great movie.
Tampopo - hehe, the prawn thingy kinda stuck with me.
The Matrix - cause it made me think, brain frying stuff.
The Crow - ive got kind of a deep attachment to that particular story.

[m brown]

shroom, could be a directors cut of something or an unreleased film......
The Penny Marshal Project? nooo, just kidding.

[shroomgirl]

Penny Marshall Project??????over my head.