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Good Bye Lenin [message #6028]

Fri, 19 August 2005 09:10

Wayne Parham
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Registered: January 2001

Illuminati (33rd Degree)

All the talk about political systems and what not in the Tower and Dungeon made me want to point out this film. It has both drama and humor, and even though it's subtitled, it's good enough you'll probably watch it more than once. A woman falls into a coma before the fall of the Berlin wall and wakes up afterward. She is a naive idealist, fully sold on the old Soviet system and the promises it brought. She lived her simple life, a good woman, but hopelessly naive. So when she wakes up, her son can't bear to tell her about the changes and sets up elaborate attempts to keep her in the dark, happily living in her old ways. It's heartwarming, interesting and an absolute riot.

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Re: Good Bye Lenin [message #6029 is a reply to message #6028]

Fri, 19 August 2005 10:45

Manualblock
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Registered: May 2009

Illuminati (13th Degree)

Now that is a good recommendation!

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Re: Good Bye Lenin [message #6030 is a reply to message #6029]

Sat, 20 August 2005 00:05

lon
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Registered: May 2009

Illuminati (2nd Degree)

.., and from a simpler time, I can recommend Billy Wilder's
"1-2-3". I still think about it as a masterwork of timing
in comedy. I first saw it when it was on back in the days
if Saturday Night At The Movies.

James Cagney, Horst Bucholtz, Pamela Tiffin in an across the
border escapade about Coca Cola Company setting up
shop in Russia. It could be remade today in China. But
a Wilder film _cannot_ be remade.

Also along the lines of the skewed political film there is
The Underground by Eumir Kusturica (I remember his name only
because it sounds like Costa Rica and he has made one of
my favorite films of all time called "Black Cat, White Cat."

The Underground

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Kusturica [message #6034 is a reply to message #6030]

Sun, 21 August 2005 04:29

Damir
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Registered: May 2009

Illuminati (2nd Degree)

Emir Kusturica is a interesting political story. He is from Bosnia, Moslim family, communist/YUGO background.
During the war(s) in former Yugoslavia, his public "work" (apart from his controversial but mostly good movies) was Yugo/Milosevic propaganda. War is over, Milosevic is in the prison, Yugoslavia is gone. And our "hero" declared himself Orthodox...maybe he will change his name now?

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Re: Kusturica [message #6036 is a reply to message #6034]

Sun, 21 August 2005 14:03

lon
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Registered: May 2009

Illuminati (2nd Degree)

Well, anyone that can portray a party with an opera diva
pulling a nail out of a 2x4 with her butt is aces with me.

Also on the recommended list with few reservations is
Trey Parker's "Team America." I took a chance on that one
and found myself sitting alone at 2AM laughing til
tears came to my eyes during one of the scenes in that
comedy.