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I'm not really a sci-fi fan but this is one of my all-time favourite films.
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#3632
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I fully agree - it's a masterpiece.
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#3633
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I can't see the scene in Duckling having any problems as the woman and the child are only fleetingly seen together. The BBFC will be looking for shots where the child and the adult are clearly in the same shot eg Private Lessons. |
#3634
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The scene in Get Out Your Handkerchiefs where the boy looks at the naked Carole Laure in bed was also cut at one time, though the cuts were later waived.
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I'm so into this (and Clarke's SF in general) that I published the definitive fanzine about it... see here. Have you seen 2010 yet? That's a different style of movie, admittedly, but still one of the very best SF sequels ever made... I always hoped they'd do a movie based on Clarke's novel 3001, but it didn't happen and now the author's dead.
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Dial: Help This is a weird film on many levels. It's structured and filmed like a Giallo but has an over-riding supernatural element to it. The story is concluded but not really explained. Charlotte Lewis swaps freely between acting ineptitude and moments of genuine dramatic achievement. She also looks like a rough hefty docker one minute then one of the most voluptuous and stunning women you have ever seen the next. It is an odd film. This oddness is compounded by the utter absurdity of the story - some kind of poltergeist force becomes obsessed with Lewis's character and stalks her from a deserted Lonely Hearts switchboard via the telecommunications system causing much death and mayhem. Really. But here's the truly odd thing: Ruggero Deodato pulls this off so intensely and straight-facedly that it actually drags you in! What should end up a complete turkey works...somehow! You find youself buying animated telephone handsets and Pit And The Pendulum-esque ceiling fans and a payphone capable of murdering a rapist by shooting coins from its coin return slot despite the ridiculousness of the propositions before your eyes! Somehow, some way, I liked this film. It drags occasionally and is so very, very 80s to look at (Giorgio Armani telephone handset, anyone?) but is enjoyable and pretty much unique! Recommended if you are not in a hyper-critical mood and fancy something...odd! Last edited by Gojirosan; 8th February 2010 at 05:40 PM. |
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Frontier(s) NAZIS! CANNIBALS! CAR CRASH! CHICKS WITH GUNS! EXPLOSION! BLOOD! DEFORMITY!!! For a film containing all the above, Frontier(s) is quite a sombre and mediocre film. One can't help but wonder just at what, exactly, the writer/director was trying to get. It fails in making a political point by being too exploitative, it's a bit too political to work as exploitation. It takes far too long to get going and is possibly too dreary to work as a downbeat horror exercise. It's all a bit lost. There are moments of real power therein - particularly from the lead actress (Karina Testa, who is superb) - and some scenes really do grab you, but as a whole lot tries to do too much (feeling overlong as a result) and tries to use a succesion of onscreen atrocity rather than narrative to motor along. Not a total disaster, but quite the disappointment in light of other recent French offerings. Rats - Night Of Terror Surprisingly well shot for a Mattei flick, this is, nonetheless, absolute crap. I bought it expecting a "so bad it's funny" experience, and although there are moments of that, it was largely just a very bad film. A bunch of post-apocalytic biker types (who consist of a bunch of extremely camp men and some women resembling a third rate Hot Gossip tribute dance troupe) stop at an abandoned set of buildings to scavenge for food and shelter. Many white rats badly dyed black and grey (many are still visibly wet from the process) are thrown at and onto them to create the illusion of attack. Mayhem ensues. The characters are such a loathsome bunch that you want the rats to keep coming, I defy anyone but the most clinical murophobe not to be on the side of the rodents. There is very little imagination to the plot and the set pieces are so clumsy as to defy belief. Then, just as you are about to snatch the disk out from the machine in a complete rage at having wasted money on this mess, the end comes along... ...it damn near saves the film! I had an inkling all along that they would try to end it how they do, but even so when it happens you find yourself laughing, your mood lifts and you suddenly feel less harshly towards the production! NB: there are many genuine rat corpses used within the film, and real rats are repeatedly struck, thrown and in one case set on fire, making several scenes quite distressing to see. A stupid and bad film, but ultimately oddly likeable in a pitiable way. Last edited by Gojirosan; 8th February 2010 at 08:16 PM. |
#3639
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You have to LOVE Lewis' bath scene! |
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Did you spot Arthur C. Clarke and (an illustrated) Stanley Kubrick? |
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