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Has anybody seen Max with John Cusack? It's not, and probably won't be, playing around here. But I read some good things about it, and I'm curious for some first-hand feedback.
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Thanks for reminding me, Bean and mg. Atanarjuat is also high on my list; it just hasn't arrived here yet.
Yes, Bowling for Columbine is a big deal in the US, too. We hosted a lecture/book signing for M. Moore last October, when his "Stupid White Men" had already been on the NY Times best-seller list for months. Great book, better even than the movie.
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Don't be fooled, AnnaS, it sure wasn't playing in a theatre here. (This is St. John's, after all!) We rented it. 'Tis the only way to get non-mainstream movies here.
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Thanks, Bean. It may take longer to arrive in a video store here, but we will be on the look-out.
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where were you when the US'ens saved you and yours from the huns?O Milo honey, yer missin' the point! I enjoyed the movie (if "enjoy" isn't too emotive a word for something I found compelling but not pleasing) because it made me think about things in a different way. It had never occurred to me that there's a culture of fear in the US, but Moore makes a pretty good argument for this. That's not to say that all US'ns are fearful people - far from it. I've always found that some of the very best Canucks I know are former US'ns, as a matter of fact - they tend to be brighter, bolder, more intelligent and more engaged than a lot of other Canucks. (But I hasten to add that I do also know a lot of bright, bold, intelligent and engaged/engaging native-born Canucks!) Moore did make some interesting points, though, about the slant of the news in the US and Canada - the US preferring to focus on doom-saying. It was quite a funny segue, actually: US news shows going on about killer bees, epidemics, threats of nuclear war kinds o' thing, and then Moore crosses the border into Canada and discovers what's on the news up here: shot of a tv in a bar with a news item on it about new speed bumps....  But I do realise that Moore would have been selective about the footage he chose to use, in order to shore up his argument. I do try to think while I'm watching things, y'know! It had never occurred to me how much the news and what it says and how it says it, could create a culture of fear. But then, perhaps it had never occurred to me because I haven't yet read Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Showbusiness. Have only read Postman's first chapter, in which he suggests that the medium, far more than being the message, DICTATES the message (eg, you can't have a philosophical discussion with smoke signals, you'd run out of wood and wet blankets too quickly). And I still say Bowling For Columbine is fascinating watching. And I still wonder how much US'ns have heard about it and how many of them have seen it. and my mother has a copy of Stupid White Men, which I have not read yet - do know she laughed and despaired while reading it herself, though....
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Two of the better movies i've seen in the past year were set and filmed in Australia. I'm not sure if these have been released overseas but if they are available may prove worthwhile.
Lantana - A thriller that won 11 Australian Film Industry awards in 2001
The Man Who Sued God. - Comedy starring the wickedly funny Billy Connelly.
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>we must allow milum his mythopoetic license--mustn't we?!
I assure you, I feel no such compulsion.
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>Thus spracht a bonafide ayleur.
Je glaube dass tu need no "t" - seulement "sprach", niet "spracht".
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