What's everybody's favorite Magical Realism movies?
Fell Swoop
>Ralph Williams (ra...@thecoast.gvg.tek.com) wrote:
>: What's everybody's favorite Magical Realism movies. Magical Realism
>: describes a specific film genre that combines everyday life with
>: magical and/or uniquely conincidental events. Mine are:
>: Leaving Normal
>: Milagro Beanfield War
>: Field of Dreams
>: Like Water for Chocolate
>: Heavan Can Wait
>Joe Vs. The Volcano. One of my all-time favorites.
_One Hundred Years of Solitude._ I went in thinking "Burt Lancaster? Phoebe
Cates?" But I was amazed at how good they were.
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SCOTTHOL
: What's everybody's favorite Magical Realism movies. Magical Realism
: describes a specific film genre that combines everyday life with
: magical and/or uniquely conincidental events. Mine are:
: Leaving Normal
: Milagro Beanfield War
: Field of Dreams
: Like Water for Chocolate
: Heavan Can Wait
Joe Vs. The Volcano. One of my all-time favorites.
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Ralph Williams
describes a specific film genre that combines everyday life with
magical and/or uniquely conincidental events. Mine are:
Leaving Normal
Milagro Beanfield War
Field of Dreams
Like Water for Chocolate
Heavan Can Wait
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Ralph Williams
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Jim Borus
-> What's everybody's favorite Magical Realism movies. Magical Realism
-> describes a specific film genre that combines everyday life with
-> magical and/or uniquely conincidental events. Mine are:
->
-> Leaving Normal
-> Milagro Beanfield War
-> Field of Dreams
-> Like Water for Chocolate
-> Heavan Can Wait
How about _Peggy Sue Got Married_?
Christopher M. Palmer
>->
>-> What's everybody's favorite Magical Realism movies. Magical Realism
>-> describes a specific film genre that combines everyday life with
>-> magical and/or uniquely conincidental events. Mine are:
>->
>-> Leaving Normal
>-> Milagro Beanfield War
>-> Field of Dreams
>-> Like Water for Chocolate
>-> Heavan Can Wait
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David F. Hallett
> What's everybody's favorite Magical Realism movies. Magical Realism
>
> Milagro Beanfield War
> Field of Dreams
> Like Water for Chocolate
> Heavan Can Wait
Could it be that the whole existence of movies is a form of "magic
realism"? Movies are pictures (ostensibly of "reality") joined
together to tell stories that never actually happened. Isn't that, itself,
a kind of magic realism?
Cheers
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Peter Anthony Cowan
>-> What's everybody's favorite Magical Realism movies. Magical Realism
>-> describes a specific film genre that combines everyday life with
>-> magical and/or uniquely conincidental events. Mine are:
>->
Everybody's Fine.
Claus Schotten A
-> What's everybody's favorite Magical Realism movies. Magical Realism
-> describes a specific film genre that combines everyday life with
-> magical and/or uniquely conincidental events. Mine are:
->
-> Leaving Normal
-> Milagro Beanfield War
-> Field of Dreams
-> Like Water for Chocolate
-> Heavan Can Wait
Erendira
Ciao, Claus scho...@ert.rwth-aachen.de
Peter Bull
-> What's everybody's favorite Magical Realism movies. Magical
Realism
-> describes a specific film genre that combines everyday life
with
-> magical and/or uniquely conincidental events. Mine are:
->
-> Leaving Normal
-> Milagro Beanfield War
-> Field of Dreams
-> Like Water for Chocolate
-> Heavan Can Wait
I'd have to add IMHO:
A Matter of Life and Death (David Niven)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
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Peter Bull, UK.
Fell Swoop
>Fell Swoop (v...@teleport.com) wrote:
>: _One Hundred Years of Solitude._ I went in thinking "Burt Lancaster? Phoebe
>: Cates?" But I was amazed at how good they were.
>So that was Phoebe Cates under all those prosthetics? I thought it was,
>but I wasn't sure--videophile that I am, I had to watch the letterboxed
>version, which meant renting the Japanese import--and of course the
>cast listings were in Japanese.
Yeah, that was her. Did you catch the Robin Williams cameo?
Of course, there were some serious mistakes in the movie, and it was waaay too
short, even at almost three hours.
Is the Japanese import the director's cut?
John McCoy
: _One Hundred Years of Solitude._ I went in thinking "Burt Lancaster? Phoebe
So that was Phoebe Cates under all those prosthetics? I thought it was,
but I wasn't sure--videophile that I am, I had to watch the letterboxed
version, which meant renting the Japanese import--and of course the
cast listings were in Japanese.
--John
Yet Another Steve
Fell Swoop
>: Is the Japanese import the director's cut?
>Hmmm... I'm not sure, really, but it does have a 15-minute "Making of..."
>documentary narrated by John Landis.
This was another thing that really amazed me: I never expected Landis to do
another decent movie, period, and when I heard he was signed for _One Hundred
Years of Solitude_ I just about crapped. He pulled it off, though, didn't he?
Anybody who skipped this when it was out just because John Landis did it
really missed out.
John McCoy
: Did you catch the Robin Williams cameo?
Now it's funny you should mention this, because it was a casting
choice I had a lot of problems with (for those of you who haven't
seen the film, Williams played Prudencio Aguilar). I mean, Williams
was okay until he died, but then when he came back as a ghost, did
he really have to do all that nutty improvised comedy stuff (a la
_Good Morning, Vietnam_)? I mean, is it in his contract that he
gets to do it every damn film?
: Of course, there were some serious mistakes in the movie,
Like the credit music by Madonna?
: and it was waaay too short, even at almost three hours.
I understand that it was originally going to be a joint Thames Weekend/
WGBH production for international T.V. release and run almost 7 hours
as a serial, but that money was pulled at the last minute (I'm not sure
why--maybe someone can help me out). I *think* the first three episodes
were filmed and then were eventually edited into the first hour or
so of the theatrical release (hence, the spotty continuity of the
begining of the film--some musical numbers were cut, and you can
actually hear the final reverberations of the last chord of one of
these at the begining of the first scene with Dame Peggy Ashcroft).
: Is the Japanese import the director's cut?
Hmmm... I'm not sure, really, but it does have a 15-minute "Making of..."
documentary narrated by John Landis.
--John
Ed
10014...@CompuServe.COM "Peter Bull" writes:
> I'd have to add IMHO:
> A Matter of Life and Death (David Niven)
> Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Easy! You have to include...
It's a Wonderful Life.
Surely?!
Jammy.
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Christian Wasser
>What's everybody's favorite Magical Realism movies. Magical Realism
>describes a specific film genre that combines everyday life with
>magical and/or uniquely conincidental events. Mine are:
The Miracle at Milano (I think that's the english title; it was made by
Vittorio DeSica around 1958(?) )
Christian Wasser
M14...@urz-mail.urz.uni-heidelberg.de
Trish Rucker
>In article <3efqov$q...@voyager.cris.com> Sco...@voyager.cris.com (SCOTTHOL) writes:
>>Ralph Williams (ra...@thecoast.gvg.tek.com) wrote:
>>: What's everybody's favorite Magical Realism movies. Magical Realism
>>: describes a specific film genre that combines everyday life with
>>: magical and/or uniquely conincidental events. Mine are:
>>: Leaving Normal
>>: Milagro Beanfield War
>>: Field of Dreams
>>: Like Water for Chocolate
>>: Heavan Can Wait
Good films. I would add:
Local Hero
Erindera (based on a wonderful Marquez story)
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