Portrait of a Lady
Posby
I'm posting this here because the clothing as AMAZING!!!
We just saw The Portrait of a Lady yesterday. Jane Campion is a Goddess!
I got so caught up in WATCHING the film, that I didn't pay as close
attention to the story as I should have. The colors and clothing and the
sets full of lots of THINGS... All these lovely costumes and objects that
I wanted so much to touch.... *sigh*
It didn't catch me up in the story as much as The Piano or Angel at My
Table, but I was drowning in the images.
-Posbina
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Stained
thes...@aol.com wrote:
>
> Has anyone seen "Sweetie"? That's next on my list, and the box says it's
> about something like life, love, and the insatiable need for black
> nailpolish. I am *so* there.
> (yes, I know what it's *really* about, but I still can't help liking that
> blurb--)
Very...odd film. It's not really Goth, so be forewarned, and parts of it
are very disturbing. But it is incredibly well done, and very funny
(although more in a peculiar sense as opposed to a "ha ha" sense).
Sheryl
(who hasn't see it in a couple of years, and just might need to watch it
again)
thes...@aol.com
In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.97012...@shelob.aracnet.com>,
Posby <po...@shelob.aracnet.com> writes:
> I'm posting this here because the clothing as AMAZING!!!
>We just saw The Portrait of a Lady yesterday. Jane Campion is a Goddess!
>I got so caught up in WATCHING the film, that I didn't pay as close
>attention to the story as I should have. The colors and clothing and the
>sets full of lots of THINGS... All these lovely costumes and objects
that
>I wanted so much to touch.... *sigh*
> It didn't catch me up in the story as much as The Piano or Angel at My
>Table, but I was drowning in the images.
Heee... I have been meaning to post on this all week! I saw it Sunday
afternoon... and sat there with myself debating whether Isabel would have
made a good goth (I think yes). It's wonderful. The story isn't all that
interesting at times, and there are a few directorial missteps, pure and
simple, but overall it's a keeper.
Jane is sort of the anti-JamesIvory: though Merchant-Ivory have done
several of my favorite films, they tend to be a bit mannered and glossy.
Jane's films breathe and run. I've seen -The Piano- somewhere around 10
times....
Has anyone seen "Sweetie"? That's next on my list, and the box says it's
about something like life, love, and the insatiable need for black
nailpolish. I am *so* there.
(yes, I know what it's *really* about, but I still can't help liking that
blurb--)
frogs and fishes from Thessaly
doing longish paper on Jane Campion for film class
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Persephone
In article <32EA53...@interlog.com>, sta...@interlog.com wrote:
> Very...odd film.
Speaking of odd films... I got free tickets to a film called
"The Cement Garden" and so I took 2 of my friends and we
went and saw it (this was about 3 years ago)... anyway
for those of you who haven't seen it... well it's... disturbing
in a very interesting way... it effect you...
afterwards one of my friends (some one who never tried
smoking or *any* drugs including drinking) decided to start
smoking... and my other friend decided to drop out of college...
It was just very intense.. and since they had been giving away
free passes... there was an odd mix of people there... we were
the only ones that clapped and such... some people got up and
left. <hee>
Anyway has anyone seen this film?
Persephone.
It's about a family of kids who's mum dies and they decide
(it was from a long illness) to just keep on going and they
bury her in the basement... and there is some incest stuff
that goes on between the brother and sister... it's very very
intense.......
goth...@aol.com
one word.....
BARAKA.
ahhh...
...}|{
Posby
I rented Sweetie about 5 years ago and my watching of it was disrupted
by housemates at the time. The type of people to gather in the livingroom
while you are watching something and proceed to talk loudly the whole
time. I've not seen it since, and we keep passing it at the video store
and not renting it. It is definately next on the list. Somewhere I have a
few of her short films on tape from when they were showing them on Starz
(along with the letterbox version of The Piano)
Watching the Piano right now would be a really good thing.
off to search for that tape...
-Posbina (somehow in a really awful mood, wishing for the husband to be
home from work sooner than he will...)
katydid
>In article <32EA53...@interlog.com>, sta...@interlog.com wrote:
>
>> Very...odd film.
>
>Speaking of odd films... I got free tickets to a film called
>"The Cement Garden" and so I took 2 of my friends and we
<snip>
> Anyway has anyone seen this film?
I didn't know that it was made into a movie. I always meant to read
the book after having read a review of it, but never got around to it.
But even the *review* stuck to me all this time (it's now years
later!).
katydid
Tracy Miller
In article <19970126234...@ladder01.news.aol.com> goth...@aol.com writes:
>From: goth...@aol.com
>Subject: movies ...}|{
>Date: 26 Jan 1997 23:45:40 GMT
>one word.....
> BARAKA.
>ahhh...
>...}|{
Grrr!!! faeri, don't be a tease! What's it about? Who's in it? Most
importanly, are there any pretty costumes?
Cairo
Who thinks Baraka means "happiness"
or something like that in Arabic.
Trevor 486
goth...@aol.com wrote thusly:
<one word.....BARAKA.
Funny you should mention this. I first got interested in this very film
thru the soundtrack (which includes ...*reading cd* DCD and the Monks of
the Dip Tse Chok Ling Monastery).
We also bought the video.
The weird thing is, I can't watch it. There's this part when the baby
chicks are going down a chute, destined for the trash I guess.
I watched it the first time and started *bawling* for no reason....
It is a beautiful movie, I highly recommend it anyway.
-Oviri
"The Sensitive"
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Sarah Anne Smith
Tracy Miller (tmi...@haas.berkeley.edu) wrote:
: Cairo
: Who thinks Baraka means "happiness"
: or something like that in Arabic.
It means "mojo" - spiritual power (and shaman as well, I think)
Cheers,
Pandora
--
"Love is a death sentence which causes me to be." -Julia Kristeva
goth...@aol.com
In article <tmiller.36...@haas.berkeley.edu>,
tmi...@haas.berkeley.edu (Tracy Miller) writes:
>>one word.....
>
>
>> BARAKA.
>
>
>>ahhh...
>>...}|{
>
>Grrr!!! faeri, don't be a tease! What's it about? Who's in it? Most
>importanly, are there any pretty costumes?
but i love to be!!!
okay.. its not scripted... its scenes of rituals around the world, footage
taken in auschwitz, time lapse, and other nifty things... heres a clue at
how good it is.
i saw the nightmare before christmas (one of my FAVES!!!) and it took
about 3 -4 viewings for me to make it a fave. my friend did a project on
it for film class, and after seeing a few clips, i had decided it was one
of my favourites...
>Cairo
>Who thinks Baraka means "happiness"
>or something like that in Arabic.
i cant remember what it means... oh! it means blessing!
...}|{
blessing....
katydid
On Wed, 29 Jan 1997 11:34:22 -0800, Stained <sta...@interlog.com>
wrote:
<snip>
>
>Sheryl
>(who finally went to see "Portrait of a Lady" last night. I just
>couldn't take it seriously. I kept expecting to see Nicole Kidman
>dancing on the hood of a car.)
>
Huh????
katydid
Stained
Persephone wrote:
> Speaking of odd films... I got free tickets to a film called
> "The Cement Garden" and so I took 2 of my friends and we
> went and saw it (this was about 3 years ago)... anyway
> for those of you who haven't seen it... well it's... disturbing
> in a very interesting way... it effect you...
I saw this when it first came out. Disturbing, very much so. One of the
most stark and ugly films I've seen in a long while, in fact. Depressing
as hell, if I remember correctly.
Stained
katydid wrote:
> >(who finally went to see "Portrait of a Lady" last night. I just
> >couldn't take it seriously. I kept expecting to see Nicole Kidman
> >dancing on the hood of a car.)
> Huh????
>
> katydid
I have this problem, where once I see someone in a particular film, I
have a really hard time accepting them in anything else. For instance,
no matter what film he is in, or what role he plays, Gary Oldman will
always be Sid, to me anyway. So watching PoaL, I kept picturing Nicole
Kidman in that last film she did, dancing in the headlights of the car.
It didn't help that she wasn't especially convincing in the role of
Isabelle, either.
Sheryl
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