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Sep 12^th, 2010 at 11:29pm

It was my pick at the video shop tonight and, being into a complex storyline, I picked something in the foreign section by some Russian bloke who was influenced by Tolstoy... or, something... So we're talking art here.

It's about the journey of two young peasant Tirolean girls (shouldn't call them girls, really, they're 'old enough to butcher' as they say) in Nazi Austria who form a lesbian relationship and escape from a work camp in Poland in the hopes of returning to their village in Italy (I think... Or wherever Tirolians come from). The history of the Tirol is what attracted me to this movie. Apparently there's a north and a south Tirol.

Anyway the mrs has just hit the sack, so I might settle in to watch it... I'm going to have to keep the sound right down (which doesn't matter anyway... because its dubbed) as the mrs has an early start tomorrow and I don't want to wake her.

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aikmann4 Gold Member Offline Posts: 2093 canberra	Re: What are you watching Reply #1 - Sep 12^th, 2010 at 11:48pm Is your wife hot?
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Reply #2 - Sep 13^th, 2010 at 11:03am

aikmann4 wrote on Sep 12^th, 2010 at 11:48pm:

Is your wife hot?

Still... But starting to cool a bit around the edges... to about eating temperature.

Movie was crap... The intimate moments cut to some milk maid licking her lips staring out over an alpine valley... a metaphor for, I dunno.... Brokeback vulvae? Carpet licking(?)... Bloody artists.

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Reply #3 - Sep 13^th, 2010 at 12:35pm

Just that one word, lesbian, blinded you to the rest of the very clear warning on the package. Some people just can't be told, it seems: "two young peasant Tirolean girls ...in Nazi Austria who form a lesbian relationship and escape from a work camp in Poland in the hopes of returning to their village in Italy ..."
What were you thinking?!?

Yesterday I watched the 1995 re-make of Billy WIlder's Sabrina, directed by Sidney Pollack (1954 original with Bogart). The remake is with Harrison Ford and Julia Ormond. Excellent.

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Reply #4 - Sep 13^th, 2010 at 12:53pm

Soren wrote on Sep 13^th, 2010 at 12:35pm:

Just that one word, lesbian, blinded you to the rest of the very clear warning on the package. Some people just can't be told, it seems: "two young peasant Tirolean girls ...in Nazi Austria who form a lesbian relationship and escape from a work camp in Poland in the hopes of returning to their village in Italy ..."
What were you thinking?!?

I thought the Tirol thing might have been worth watching it for... Apparently there's a north and a south Tirol...

The lesbian scene would have added to the ambiguous Tirolean political issues of the day managed by Mussolini and Hitler... If the Russian direktor influenced by Tolstoy hadn't cut away to an abstract alpine vulvic metaphor.... or, something.

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aikmann4 Gold Member Offline Posts: 2093 canberra	Re: What are you watching Reply #5 - Sep 14^th, 2010 at 8:57pm Quote: Still... But starting to cool a bit around the edges... to about eating temperature. You make me laugh I'm watching a documentary on these badarse South American ants that make bridges out of themselves to cross rivers. Now THAT'S altruism.
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Soren Gold Member Offline Posts: 25654 Gender:	Re: What are you watching Reply #6 - Sep 14^th, 2010 at 9:44pm NorthOfNorth wrote on Sep 13^th, 2010 at 11:03am: ...to about eating temperature. ... but then they get hot. Go figure.
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Soren Gold Member Offline Posts: 25654 Gender:	Re: What are you watching Reply #7 - Sep 14^th, 2010 at 9:47pm Hmmm...
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aikmann4 Gold Member Offline Posts: 2093 canberra	Re: What are you watching Reply #8 - Sep 14^th, 2010 at 9:53pm That's nasty, bro. Nasty.
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Reply #9 - Sep 15^th, 2010 at 3:22am

Well I wouldn't mind watching the next Alien Movies (the Prequels) which have something to do with where the Aliens originally came from.

But I had to settle for "Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence".
I didn't mind though,
I've read the book "The Seed and the Sower"
by Sir Laurens Van der Post,
which the movie was based upon
and I don't mind watching David Bowie as possibly the only musician that can actually act alongside such established actors as Jack Thompson and Tom Conti. In fact, I still don't think there is anyone who could do as well as Bowie for that role of the 'near perfect' South African Boer in a War that was a world away.
A real good movie/book upon the 'Human Condition'.

...the song by Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Sylvan is absolutely a classic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nflu3gL-rvo

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Amadd Gold Member Offline Mo Posts: 6217	Re: What are you watching Reply #10 - Sep 15^th, 2010 at 7:43am ..Helian, you're a pisser Quote: and I don't mind watching David Bowie as possibly the only musician that can actually act alongside such established actors as Jack Thompson and Tom Conti. I thought that Frank Sinatra was a very good actor. From memory, "Von Ryan's express" was a very good movie.
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Reply #11 - Sep 15^th, 2010 at 11:35am

Ah yes Amadd,
Sinatra had his fair share of flicks to his name and he could indeed act.
Von Ryans Express is a really good film.
I think Bowie pips him though because of his ability to change his persona to meet the character - something that takes real good actors years to achieve, similar to Depp's method acting.

I liked Jagger's Ned Kelly, but I must take it with the mass view that he 'sucked'!

I think Elvis was a great Singer, but he was a lousy actor if ever there was one.

Madonna sucks (quite a lot I hear)

Harry Belafonte passed the test in my view.

...I'm sure there's others ?

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NorthOfNorth Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 17258 Gender:	Re: What are you watching Reply #12 - Sep 28^th, 2010 at 6:53am Amadd wrote on Sep 15^th, 2010 at 7:43am: ..Helian, you're a pisser I guess humour's better in the telling than the writing.
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pansy New Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 6	Re: What are you watching Reply #13 - Sep 30^th, 2010 at 3:06pm hello...how are you all....?
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meganq New Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 1	Re: What are you watching Reply #14 - Sep 30^th, 2010 at 5:38pm i am watching a movie...
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