Cassiopaean Sandbox > Movies & Trivia: Picks & Pans
Films I like
caballero reyes:
LORENZO´S OIL (1992) U.S.A. Dir.George Miller.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgu3slXcaMA
Jason (ocean59):
--- Quote from: caballero reyes on May 02, 2012, 07:15:53 AM ---WHITE OLEANDER (U.S.A.) 2002 Dir.Peter Kasminski.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An6T_66uHLI&feature=related
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--- Quote from: caballero reyes on May 04, 2012, 06:52:41 AM ---POWER TRIP (Rep. of Georgia/ U.S.A.) 2003 Dir.Paul Devlin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPGKgo7WkVQ
POWER TRIP--ROSE REVOLUTION.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9k2L7rzC0E&feature=related
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--- Quote from: caballero reyes on May 06, 2012, 08:33:27 AM --- LORENZO´S OIL (1992) U.S.A. Dir.George Miller.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgu3slXcaMA
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It may be helpful to post a description of the movies and links. We know that these are movies 'you like' - but that doesn't really tell us anything about the content of the films, or whether others would be interested in watching. Fwiw.
caballero reyes:
MOTHER AND SON (RUSSIA) 1997 Dir. Aleksander Sokurov.A very touching movie.
Mother and Son (Russian: Мать и сын, Mat i syn) is a 1997 Russian film directed by Aleksandr Sokurov, depicting the relationship between an old, dying mother and her young son. It was Sokurov's first internationally acclaimed feature film, and is the first part of a trilogy that has for its subject matter the study of the drama in human relationships. It is followed by Father and Son (2003), and by Two Brothers and a Sister, the final installment, which is in its preliminary filming stage.
The film opens on two human forms, which soon reveal themselves to be that of a young man and a frail, old woman. They recline in a silence penetrated only by whispers and indistinguishable noises. The young man is the son (Alexei Ananishnov) who is taking care of his exhausted, sick mother (Gudrun Geyer). Her illness is undefined and from time to time causes her great pain as she gasps for air. Her son combs her hair, feeds her, covers her with a coat, and takes her in his arms. She is totally dependent on him as he himself was once totally dependent on her. As the film progresses, the son carries his mother on a long journey, from her sick-bed to her death-bed. It is a circular motion, which travels a long walk through a dream-like landscape in the countryside, along winding dirt roads. At each of their brief stops on the journey is a moment of contemplation, caresses, and tender murmurs. These soft murmurs tell of the mother's love for her son when she was nurturing him and of the son's love for his mother as he opens for her the mysterious path to her death. They progress under the leaden and luminous ski of the Baltic, in totally isolated landscapes. From time to time, there is a far away train or a sail on the sea, emphasizing further their isolation from the rest of the world
They return to the house. The son tenderly lowers his mother into her bed, which now seems to resemble a coffin. Both know that the end is nearing, although he tries to reassure her to the contrary. He leaves her for a time and goes for a long, solitary walk. When he returns, his mother may have died.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q3MbTm9TCU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et1XK0sOUN8
caballero reyes:
ORLANDO (USA)1992 Dir.Sally Potter.
Session 10 December 1994
Q: (L) So, we all selected certain bodies before we incarnated that would be prime for this programming?
A: Are you ready to be hermaphrodites?
Q: (L) Is that what we are going to be?
A: Wait and see.
Young nobleman Orlando is commanded by Queen Elizabeth I to stay forever young. Miraculously, he does just that. The film follows him as he moves through several centuries of British history, experiencing a variety of lives and relationships along the way, and even changing sex. Written by Phythian
Orlando, a man of ideal nobility starts his search for love, poetry, a place in society and a meaning in life, in and around the court of historical England in the late 16th century. The blessing of eternal life from Queen Elizabeth I enables him a long and deep philosophical quest, accompanied by the features of "noble" English life with a good taste for irony. Both sides of the coin are shown when Orlando, partly fed up and disgusted with how men think and act, returns from his ambassadorship in the Far East as exactly the same person, let alone his sex. Orlando, a woman of ideal nobility continues her journey to realize the truth about life, love, and approaching one's own sex in the late 18th century England. For one who lived four hundred years and haven't aged a day, finding humanity's forgotten need for androgynity as the key to the happiness of her own as well as her daughter's. Sally Potter's adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Orlando not only tells the story on film with brilliant visual design, but also tries to extend the plot as Woolf would have, had she lived to the end of the twentieth century. Written by Adam Dobay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJlT5j9SEeY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MorOaD61KUI&feature=related
caballero reyes:
POSSIBLE WORLDS (CANADA- 2000) Dir.ROBERT LEPAGE.
A man moves across space and time to do the right thing for the woman he loves in this sci-fi-tinged fantasy thriller. George (Tom McCamus) is a man who possesses an unusual level of awareness -- he not only understands that people exist in parallel worlds at once, but also is able to experience several of his alternate lives at once, even remembering what happened on one plane of existence while functioning in another. This is as much of a curse as a blessing for George; his wife Joyce (Tilda Swinton) was murdered in one life, and he finds himself thrown from one life to another, in which he encounters Joyce's other lives while he searches for her killer. As we're introduced to George, he's been murdered and his brain has been removed from his body; Berkley (Sean McCann), a veteran police detective, is assigned to investigate the killing with his less experienced partner, Williams (Rick Miller). Berkley and Williams are eventually led to a laboratory run by an eccentric scientist who performs odd experiments on animal brains and studies the effects of sensory deprivation. Meanwhile, George still lives in another parallel world, where he meets Joyce again -- not once, but twice. Possible Worlds was based on the play by John Mighton, who also wrote the film's screenplay. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
Session 28 December 1994
A: Expand your mind.
Q: (V) I'm trying to. (L) By what means?
A: Less prejudice.
Q: (L) Bet you never thought you would be called prejudiced, did you? (V) Prejudice about what? I don't think they are talking about blacks and whites... (L) I know, but there are other kinds...
A: The universe is an infinite illusion.
QUOTE
A: Variable physicality is the key.
Q: (L) What makes the physicality variable?
A: Awareness of link between consciousness and matter.
Q: (L) What is the link between consciousness and matter?
A: Illusion.
Q: (L) What is the nature of the illusion?
(T) That there isn't any connection between consciousness and matter. It is only an illusion that there is. It is part of the third density...
A: No. Illusion is that there is not.
Q: (L) The illusion is that there is no link between consciousness and matter.
A: Yes.
Q: (T) The illusion is that there is not a link. In third density...
(L) I got it!
(T) Don't disappear on me now! [Laughter] The relationship is that consciousness is matter.
A: Close. What about vice versa?
Session 23 December 1994
Q: (L) How many lifetimes have DM and S__ had together?
A: 59.
Q: (L) Well, that's high. (D) Let me tell you something, the last time I killed her...
A: Twins.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3jk6WiP6Y4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cknb4pXBWJw&feature=relmfu
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