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I am not sure how this film could have been improved. It is, considering the time when it was made, about perfect. Just an awesome film.

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The Wanderers (1979)

It's a mess like lots of coming of age flicks, but it's knocking on the door of greatness.  For some reason, doesn't have the resonance with me that Diner and American Graffiti have, but fuck if you haven't seen this you should.  Weird juxtapositions of tone and humor -- you can sense some of the humor that would come years later in Kaufman's "The Right Stuff.  Interesting history, and how the movie "The Warriors" hurt this one at the box office.

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Here Today - Billy Crystal, Tiffany Haddish. An old Jewish writer (Crystal) on an SNL type show meets a young black performer (Haddish) and they strike up a close friendship. I'm not a Haddish fan and I'm not sure if she stepped up her game to match Crystal or he brought out the best in her, but this was by far her best on screen performance. Very dusty, high allergy alert.

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District 9 and Elysium are on rotation on the Starz channels. Both directed by Neill Blomkamp. Haven’t seen his entire catalog although I understand it’s not all to be celebrated.


Also Sharlto Copley is a very convincing wuss/sympathetic alien convert in District 9 yet a fairly convincing bad guy in Elysium

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The Bridge on the River Kwai.  What an awesome movie.  It won best picture in the year I was born and is still a great one to watch.  One tidbit I wasn’t aware of was that the French novelist who wrote the book it was based on (who didn’t even speak English) was originally credited with the screenplay and awarded the Oscar.  The screenplay was actually written by two Americans living in the UK who were blacklisted.  They were subsequently awarded the Oscar posthumously.  Well deserved Oscars for Guinness and Hayakawa.  Also fuck you if you denigrate it because of its historical inaccuracies.

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Boiling Point was pretty good. It's an evening in a London restaurant following the head chef and staff over the course of one evening. What's really impressive is that it filmed as one take (at least I didn't see any place where the filming stopped) and its like a play done in 3D where the stage is moving with the camera.

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8 hours ago, Grimas said:

Boiling Point was pretty good. It's an evening in a London restaurant following the head chef and staff over the course of one evening. What's really impressive is that it filmed as one take (at least I didn't see any place where the filming stopped) and its like a play done in 3D where the stage is moving with the camera.

Reallly want to see this but it’s not in theaters locally. Blah. 

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On 12/19/2021 at 11:00 AM, tantric superman said:

The Wanderers (1979)

It's a mess like lots of coming of age flicks, but it's knocking on the door of greatness.  For some reason, doesn't have the resonance with me that Diner and American Graffiti have, but fuck if you haven't seen this you should.  Weird juxtapositions of tone and humor -- you can sense some of the humor that would come years later in Kaufman's "The Right Stuff.  Interesting history, and how the movie "The Warriors" hurt this one at the box office.

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Based on a novel, and I believe screenplay, by Richard Price, who is a frequent David Simon collaborator.

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Based on a novel, and I believe screenplay, by Richard Price, who is a frequent David Simon collaborator.

Yep.  In the DVD I got (from Netflix), there is a great bonus short film called Richard Price's Bronx or something like that.  It's just Richard Price driving around the Bronx and talking about the film and the settings and the people of the Bronx he knew.  As you can imagine, he's the kind of guy who would want to hang out with for a while, and it's a really fun bonus.  Certainly want to try to read a few of his novels now.

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