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  1. Benny_

    Top 10 of 2007 time!

    Hi all, not posted here for a while. I watched a lot of movies lately so I got to thinking about a top 10 list for 2007. When I say 2007, I mean movies produced in 2007, rather than released in Australia in 2007. So a movie like Juno, for instance, would count as 2007, while a movie like Inland...
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    Re-cut movie trailers

    It seems that since those Shining and Se7en re-cut trailers posted sometime ago by icecream, there's been a lot more made. You can find most of them on youtube. My personal favourite is this one of Glengarry Glen Ross.
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    The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

    Anyone else a fan? I don't have Austar so I've had to make do watching the pages and pages of clips on youtube. Funniest political satire you can find on tv right now for me.
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    Marie-Antoinette

    New trailer's out, apparently only released in for French, with English subtitles. This is the first trailer that's actually included some of the dialogue. It looks like, from some of the last few shots shown, that this film will take us towards, or right to the end of her life after all.
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    Tideland

    The trailer for Terry Gilliam's latest offering is out. Fuck me if that's not the spookiest official movie site I've ever seen. I'd call it nightmarish, but the synopsis makes it out to be something more along the lines of 'magical' instead. Looks like it's a lot more interesting than The...
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    Youth Allowance

    Hi all :p I work for Phoenix TV News, a Hong Kong based satellite news network (like a Chinese CNN). I was wondering if there are any non-scholarship, non-Asian students on youth allowance who would like to take part in a brief interview. Outside scholarships, Uni students in China receive no...
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    The Squid and the Whale

    ...is finally out on Emule :p God I've waited for this a long time, can't wait to see it. Does anyone know when it will be released in Australian cinemas?
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    Eros

    I bought this at Chinatown sometime last year, being a huge Wong Kai Wai fan, and an admirer or Antonioni and Soderberg. I should've known that for $10, the DVD turned out to be Italian with traditional Chinese subtitles (not so good with the traditional Chinese). Recently I downloaded just the...
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    Oscar 2005 Thread

    The list of nominees is out. Discuss. List of nominees BY ASSOCIATED PRESS / January 31, 2006 Printer-friendly » E-mail this to a friend » List of the 78th annual Oscar nominations announced Tuesday in Beverly Hills, Calif., by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
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    Best Movie Quotes of 2005

    I'll get the ball rolling. From Me and You and Everyone We Know Robbie: Say, "You poop into my butt hole and I poop into your butt hole... back and forth... forever." ))<>(( Gold
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    Good Night, and Good Luck

    Who's seen it? If not, are you planning on seeing it?
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    The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe- a Christian agenda?

    I know there's another thread for LW&W, but this is somewhat different. Spoiler warning for anyone who somehow hasn't read the Chronicles of Narnia. Polly Tonybee of the Guardian has launched a stinging attack on the The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe's aggressive Christian themes. Very...
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    The Official Miscellaneous Late Night SBS Movie Thread

    Here's a thread for discussing all those weird and wonderful movies you happen to catch one late night or another on SBS. I'll get us started with this very odd Hungarian flick I saw tonight called 'Temptations' about this guy called Marci. Marci has a few family issues- he doesn't know the...
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    Walt Stillman

    Has anyone heard of this director? He's probably best known for his series "Homicide: Life On the Street, but he's also directed a loose trilogy of movies on American yuppies in the 1980s. I just learnt about him myself, and his movies sound pretty worthwhile. The three movies are...
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    Tony Takitani (Murakami adaptation)

    I've been waiting for this for the longest time.. a Haruki Murakami film adaptation.. It's not one of his novels, and it's not directed by Wong Kar Wai a Murakami adaptation would be if ever created, but Jun Ichikawa's translation to film is seamless, an very impressive achievement that I think...
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    Death of a Salesman

    Anyone read it? I'm not usually one for reading plays, but few stories of any medium affected me quite as profoundly as Death of a Salesman did. I'd really like to see it on stage sometime.
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    French New Wave

    People sometimes talk about Scorsese, Kubrick, Fellini or Bergman or even Werner here..but I've never heard Godard, Traffaut or Melville so much as get a mention. I figure it's about that changed. I just watched Jules and Jim, Breathless and Band of Outsiders, and I have to admit la nouvelle...
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    Why do Asians have an aversion to age?

    Is it just my Asian friends or do most Asians tend to share a disdain for any films older than 10 or so years? Whenever I suggest an 'older' movie when we watch a .. nevermind your classic section Casablanca or M, but even the relatively recent Goodfellas, or Top Gun, they'd scoff at my choice...
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    Rare foreign/Independant films.........

    .....................How does one get to see them if your local Video Ezy/Blockbuster doesn't have them in stock? Can anyone give me a hand here? I'm looking at you icecream :p
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    Rest in Peace Mrs Robinson

    http://www.smh.com.au/news/Film/Anne-Bancroft-dies/2005/06/08/1118123869913.html Anne Bancroft of The Graduate fame died on in New York of cancer. While I can't say I've seen many of her movies, I can say that I'll remember her fondly for her Mrs Robinson, surely one of the most iconic...
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