All Consuming : Tadeusz598

Posh porn (rated 3 stars)

nobody@allconsuming.net (Tadeusz598) — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 22:23:42 GMT

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Criterion Collection

by Philip Kaufman

Pretentious porno for the arthouse brigade.

Considerably overlong.

Sop of the highest order

nobody@allconsuming.net (Tadeusz598) — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 22:20:43 GMT

The Bridges of Madison County

Well made schlock.

Enjoy.

Proof of the adage: "concision is a virtue in art"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Tadeusz598) — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 22:17:49 GMT

JFK - Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)

by Oliver Stone

I love a good conspiracy theory as much as the next man…but does it really have to go on for soooo long?

The secret of a bore is to state everything.

Fag hag heaven

nobody@allconsuming.net (Tadeusz598) — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 22:15:52 GMT

All About My Mother

Mannered, unfunny and pretentious.

The melodramatic fag haggy women featured in Almodovar’s films (they are always haveing mental difficulties), and his films’ glossy surfaces make them popular among homosexuals.

Others needn’t bother.

"stunning photography, I was gripped from the very start"....

nobody@allconsuming.net (Tadeusz598) — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 22:11:02 GMT

Seven Samurai - Criterion Collection

by Akira Kurosawa

This is one of those “Great Films”, that you are supposed to watch if you want to be taken seriously by the eggheads.

The problem is that, although the battles are very grand etc the film is extremely tedious and SOLEMN.

But if you fancy an egghead and they ask you what you think of Kurasawa, the answer is, “stunning photogrpahy, I was gripped from the very start”.

A story about "Amores Perros"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Tadeusz598) — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 22:05:12 GMT

Amores Perros

by Alejandro González Iñárritu

Well made if unpleasant. There is something unlovable about the film, something acutely nasty.

It’s hard to say what the director wanted to get at. Something to do with “growing pains”, I think.

A story about "Lost in Translation"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Tadeusz598) — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 22:01:58 GMT

Lost in Translation

by Sofia Coppola

This is the only film with that pouting girl, Johansen, that I could sit through again.

I think she gets away with doing not much except pouting in this one because Bill Murray is so good at doing not much else except looking tired.

She didn't get away with it in that awful film about Vermeer because the English guy playing Vermeer hasn't got a very evocative facial expression.

A story about "The Silence of the Lambs (Widescreen Special Edition)"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Tadeusz598) — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:57:40 GMT

The Silence of the Lambs (Widescreen Special Edition)

by Jonathan Demme

One of the greatest horror films of all time: subtle, beauttiful, strange, brilliantly acted and filmed.

A story about "Ghost World"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Tadeusz598) — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:54:32 GMT

Ghost World

by Terry Zwigoff

This film is extremely dreary and self-important.