Well, I saw another very good foreign film with a depressing ending. 
I might add this director to my fave films list soon- Claude Chabrol. I just wanna check out more of his stuff first. I've seen three of his movies now, although it's been so long since I saw The Swindle that I'd like to see it again (I seem to recall it being a very good thriller along the lines of House of Games). The other one I saw by him before was L'Enfer, a very dark, psychological movie, one of the most underrated foreign films I can think of.
The one I saw last night was Nada, and it has to be the dirtiest political movie evar. I dunno if I could say anyone in the movie was honorable. It deals with a political kidnapping in 1974 by members of a leftover-'60s radical group. Each of the members has varying degrees to which they believe in radical ideals. Of the two main-ish characters, one is just doing the job because he's old and bored, the other is a "true believer" but his motives are a bit cloudy and... let's call a spade a spade, the guy's a terrorist. Naturally, their opposites in the movie are the politicians and cops out to stop them... and they're dirty, deceptive, violent and underhanded enough to get jobs in the Dubya Administration.
After watching it, I turned on ESPN and saw Jimmy Valvano's speech from 1993. For (the majority of) you who don't know, Jimmy was dying of cancer at the time, and his speech was giving notice that he and ESPN were setting up a cancer foundation. He's late into his speech when he says, "Some guy is giving me a sign up there to get off... '30 seconds'... my body's wracked with tumors, he thinks that's gonna get me off the stage?" and then he says something uhh not nice in Italian. It's funny as hell, but then it's so sad, as Jimmy pleads his case for funding and says his famous pull-quote from the speech, "Don't give up; don't ever give up." Man, sad sad sad....
I doubt the movie I see tonight will be "funn" either, but at least it won't have a sad ending... that's cuz the blurbs I've seen say it starts sad! I've enjoyed a couple of Agnes Varda movies from the '60s lately (Le Bonheur, which was such a beautiful-looking movie, wow, and Chloe from 5 to 7), and this was a movie I'd seen around forever in video stores and recommended lists from the '80s, Vagabond. It starts out showing this young lady has frozen to death in a ditch while (I guess) wandering France, then backtracks to her final days (months?).
I might add this director to my fave films list soon- Claude Chabrol. I just wanna check out more of his stuff first. I've seen three of his movies now, although it's been so long since I saw The Swindle that I'd like to see it again (I seem to recall it being a very good thriller along the lines of House of Games). The other one I saw by him before was L'Enfer, a very dark, psychological movie, one of the most underrated foreign films I can think of.
The one I saw last night was Nada, and it has to be the dirtiest political movie evar. I dunno if I could say anyone in the movie was honorable. It deals with a political kidnapping in 1974 by members of a leftover-'60s radical group. Each of the members has varying degrees to which they believe in radical ideals. Of the two main-ish characters, one is just doing the job because he's old and bored, the other is a "true believer" but his motives are a bit cloudy and... let's call a spade a spade, the guy's a terrorist. Naturally, their opposites in the movie are the politicians and cops out to stop them... and they're dirty, deceptive, violent and underhanded enough to get jobs in the Dubya Administration.
After watching it, I turned on ESPN and saw Jimmy Valvano's speech from 1993. For (the majority of) you who don't know, Jimmy was dying of cancer at the time, and his speech was giving notice that he and ESPN were setting up a cancer foundation. He's late into his speech when he says, "Some guy is giving me a sign up there to get off... '30 seconds'... my body's wracked with tumors, he thinks that's gonna get me off the stage?" and then he says something uhh not nice in Italian. It's funny as hell, but then it's so sad, as Jimmy pleads his case for funding and says his famous pull-quote from the speech, "Don't give up; don't ever give up." Man, sad sad sad....
I doubt the movie I see tonight will be "funn" either, but at least it won't have a sad ending... that's cuz the blurbs I've seen say it starts sad! I've enjoyed a couple of Agnes Varda movies from the '60s lately (Le Bonheur, which was such a beautiful-looking movie, wow, and Chloe from 5 to 7), and this was a movie I'd seen around forever in video stores and recommended lists from the '80s, Vagabond. It starts out showing this young lady has frozen to death in a ditch while (I guess) wandering France, then backtracks to her final days (months?).
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and i just took Lex's quiz and did even worse. In fact, i did the worst. 10 points