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I need help - The Bee Keepers logo

2006-06-25T04:20:25Z

RUSHMORE.

So, the team of the school in this film is the Bee Keepers - right?
They have a logo...

Does anyone have an image of this logo that I can see????

I'd totally owe you one!

Dying to see Marie Antoinette by Sophia Coppola.

2006-05-31T18:36:24Z

ESPECIALLY after hearing it was booed and hissed at by the French critics in Cannes recently. I, though, have a feeling I am going to like it.

Anyone else looking forward to this film? AND can anyone explain why, after seeing its trailer/montage on rottentomatoes.com yesterday, I am so giddy and childlike with anticipation?

Kirsten Dunst running in a full powdered wig has got me all excited? Strange!

Check out my friend's video, it's hilarious

2006-03-17T02:50:14Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH_RbkD2Hf4&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fprofile%2Emyspace%2Ecom%2Findex%2Ecfm%3Ffuseaction%3Duser%2Eviewprofile%26friendid%3D60567850

Martha Colburn

2005-12-25T22:06:40Z

Anyone ever seen her work? I met her this past year and say about 10-12 of her films. She used to scratch and color found footage and put her own songs and soundtracks in them, but now she makes puppets and moves them frame by frame on super 8. Theres basicly no editing and they are really experimental and great. Check it out here if you want to see some clips of her films. http://www.marthacolburn.com/

Andy Warhol

2005-12-25T22:03:46Z

Has anyone seen Trash, or Chelsea Girls? Or any other Warhol fims. My professor and I were thinking of buysing chelsea girls from a dif country where it's still being sold.

film...?

2005-10-23T20:48:36Z

Hey,
I'm trying to remember the name of a film that I can't remember much about at all. It's about identicle twins and I think one or both of them was a surgeon and one dies towards the end! The actor who plays the twins could possibly be called Malcolm someone, or maybe the chatacter was but that could just be my memory being strange! I would really appreciate it if anyone knew what I was talking about...

film_forum @ 2005-09-21T23:04:00

2005-09-22T03:05:23Z

so i saw sleepers last weekend for the first time. it was kind of boring but i liked the parts where they molested the boys it was so creepy.

On the Outs

2005-08-22T04:52:20Z

Did anyone see this film?
if so, what did you think about it?
I was in nyc this summer but was not able to see it, I left before it came out.

film_forum @ 2005-08-15T17:20:00

2005-08-15T21:21:23Z

hey i just got netflix and if any of you want to add me onto your friends page my email that i used was jacobkirby@charter.net, so anybody that has netflix add me if u feel like it

film_forum @ 2005-08-03T21:55:00

2005-08-04T02:03:42Z

hey guys i got done with a film festival in northern michigan just recently and i wanted to recomend to you a few films u most definitally need to watch out for, listed in order from best to still great but not as good

1. broken flowers - its a beautiful and outstanding film best ive seen all year, im still trying to piece little pieces together.

2. enron: the smartest guys in the room - it is the most shocking and interesting documentary ive ever seen, i dont watch to many documentaries though.

3. Downfall - A movie on hitlers final days in his bunker get this it only mentions the jewish population once. i loved it so much great film making and also great realisim, i really should have tied this and enron, but unfortunatly since downfall was in german the subtitles were rendered near impossible buy a tall guy in front of me. I still read them just not comfortably.

4. The Edukators - its a german film about rebellion kindof fight the man stuff in the begining but dont get turned off by it, its completely different from the midpoint on completely redeamed itself.

sorry if my grammers horrible im very tired after a long weekend

help!

2005-06-23T03:17:15Z

I need some help!

my friend and i want to do a "scary movie night". only problem is, we're stumped on what to watch. we need some movies that will be available at blockbuster, but will scare the crap out of us. what are some of the scariest, goriest, creepiest movies you've seen?? anything is open, as long at it creeps the hell out of us!! thank you in advance! sorry for the cross-posting!!!

thanks for any help!!

amnesia films?

2005-06-13T23:18:03Z

i am looking for films using amnesia as a major plot device (e.g. the bourne identity). i am leaning toward thrillers, but am pretty much open to anything amnesia-related (even amnesia sub-plots). any suggestions (or comments about amnesia films at all)?

batman begins

2005-05-26T02:19:59Z

is anybody excited about the new batman movie i cant wait im so happy that theyve made the decisions they did with that movie i think its gonna be better than the new star wars. which is a good thing considering thats its main competition

Netflix

2005-05-18T20:33:12Z

yeah so I just got Netflix. Tell me movies I should see!...preferably stuff that like Hollywood Video/Blockbuster wouldn't have, but I'm down for anything

film_forum @ 2005-05-05T19:56:00

2005-05-06T00:03:10Z

I just finished watching Mr. Death in school a couple days ago. It's a Errol Morris film about Holocaust denier/"revisionist" Fred Leuchter. I love the way Morris films; I'd never heard of the film since it's from a little while ago but it's incredible. I'm sure that's partly due to how well it's shot but I think it also has to do with the fact that it was the first video I saw of Auschwitz and Majdanek [concentration camp] since I was in Poland, and I found it really powerful. Anyone else seen it?... maybe?

Waking Life

2005-05-05T13:33:19Z

Cross-posted to cinemastudies, cult_film_freak, film_forum and indiefilms. Apologies for any inconvenience.

I just saw Richard Linklater’s Waking Life<(a> last night and it is amazing. It cannot be called a typical film by any standards. It shares very little with his latest blockbusters such as School of Rock or </i>Before Sunrise</i> and Before Sunset. Instead, it can be considered a vignette movie or just an anecdotal one.

The story, such as there is one, is about a guy whose name we never learn arrives at an airport. He gets a ride with a stranger in a boat-car (a car shaped like a boat) and drives around with him and another guy until he is let off. He crosses the street, but stops in the middle of the street to pick up a piece of paper. Looking at it, it reads ‘Look to your right’, where a car coming. He is hit by the car (we presume) and then he wakes up. After this, the film is mostly a series of encounters between our main character and different people who talk about the nature of reality, philosophy and the possibility that life is but a dream within a dream. I take this last bit, which is stated explicitly in the film, to be a reference to Poe’s poem ‘A Dream Within a Dream’ though the conundrum is clearly as old as time itself.

The film itself is animated which should definitely not scare away any viewers as this is hardly Disney, neither in style nor content. It is animation drawn over actual filmed images (called ** if I’m not mistaken), but it creates a beautiful surreal look which suits the film perfectly. Most of the time, backgrounds are swaying back and forth, even the characters are animated unsteadily, giving everything a dream-effect, tying in with the thematics of the film.

As our unnamed protagonist moves from encounter to encounter, the style changes slightly and the beautiful thing is that the animated medium is used to full advantage, creating ‘unrealistc’ effects such as visualizing sounds and commenting on what the characters are saying. The film thus uses its own medium to play with the very questions that the characters pose. Can we know the difference between reality, dream, hallucination? What is the difference between these states? Can we be sure that we are not just sleeping and thus dreaming our own existence?

It is a film which needs to be seen more than once to be fully appreciated, as there are so many slippages between the different layers of reality, or perhaps they are simply diegetic levels we can never be sure, that only repeat viewings will provide full answers. The band which rehearses in the beginning clearly provide the soundtrack for the film and as such stand ‘outside’ the film’s diegesis, but when we encounter them within the narrative, we are caught in a strange loop between the music/soundtrack and the narrative. The film contains many such layers of reality like an onion (what Brian McHale would call Chinese-box worlds, for you academics out there), and although our protagonist is told to wake up at the end of the film (by a character played by Richard Linklater himself, no less), he clearly does not do so, for he drifts away once stepping outside his house.

Is he therefore dead and in the dreamworld which death might by, as suggested by one TV-clip, killed when the car (presumably) hits him, or was he even dreaming before? By not answering this question this is left hanging in the air, much like the protagonist.

This is without a doubt Linklater’s best movie and it makes me really excited to see his adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly

Bad Education

2005-05-04T21:32:16Z

a.k.a. La mala educación. So what did you all think about it?

Love Me if You Dare

2005-04-08T02:33:48Z

Last night, I watched Love Me if You Dare, the wonderful debut film from French director Yann Samuell. My not-boyfriend called it Amélie 2, but it's a bit more like Girl on the Bridge crossed with the collected works of Neil Labute. It's about two kids that grow up playing a game that becomes more depressing as it goes on. It has a lovely sense of whimsy over the emotionally ugly scenes. I loved it, and recommend everyone try and see it.

film_forum @ 2005-03-26T13:19:00

2005-03-26T21:19:31Z

Hi everyone!
I've been an indie actress/"professional extra" for, well, a long time.
But since I need enough money to pay rent, I'm also a reporter. And now I'm writing an article about the ways that indie movies are better than production company movies, and I was just wondering what anyone's top, say, 5 or 10 favorite indie movies were. Or, even better, if anyone had an opinion about the topic that I could quote them on.
Please, if you get a chance, email me at harvested.hearts@gmail.com or reply here?
Thanks!
-Jenna, Bucks County Courier Times

..cross-posted all over - sorry for the spammage!..

hey guys...

2005-03-26T20:19:39Z

i just joined this community, and i have a question..
i saw the movie "the virgin suicides" a while back, and i could have sworn that at the beginning it said "based on a true story.." i have done all sorts of research on it, but the only thing i can find, is that it happend in grosse point, michigan.. but that is meaningless if the story isnt true.. my question is, does anyone know if it really is a true story? or maybe a website that can lead me in the right direction?

film_forum @ 2005-03-16T15:01:00

2005-03-16T04:31:15Z

Hey guys!

Check out http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6375031566 for Fellini's 8 1/2. Criterion Collection. I've bid on it but don't want it! Help! It's a BARGAIN!

film_forum @ 2005-03-10T17:25:00

2005-03-10T23:45:46Z

I am putting together a film series for my college campus. The topic is the differences in representations of homosexuality between mainstream and indie films. I currently have Urbania, The Rules of Attraction, Edge of Seventeen, Strangers on a Train (don't give me that look, the subtext is overwhelming), Gods and Monsters, and Magnolia lined up.

What others would you recommend? I'm looking for a few upbeats (like The Broken Hearts Club, only not terrible), or possibly something in the Gregg Araki vein. I'm trying to avoid the "gay as serial killer" route, so no Elephant, Crusing, or Monster.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

grr

2005-02-25T15:57:44Z

Heya peeps.
Bit of an odd one, but if anybody can do this, it'll really help me out with my art project! :)
what materials (i.e. wood, metal, plastic etc) do you think of when you see:

*s
*i
*o
*l
*z
*u
*n
*m
*j

Thankyou! :)
xx

Requiem For A Dream

2005-02-17T09:42:46Z

Requiem For A Dream cheap on eBay for those interested:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=6369133325

Which would you pick?

2005-02-12T16:28:53Z

If you had to pick your favorite of the three, which would you pick: Oliver Stone, Francis Ford Coppola, or Martin Scorcese?