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Favorite movies are Lawrence of Arabia, Mulholland Drive, White Dawn and Titanic.
Reviews
The Making of '...And God Spoke' (1993)
You guys are too hard to please...this is a funny, albeit ,dumb movie
Look, this is NOT Spinal Tap. If you want to see ST, rent it and enjoy yourself. ST is a great movie. And God Spoke is not trying to be a great movie but it succeeds as a very funny hour and a half of entertainment. If you like America's Funniest Home videos and you laugh when the baby hits the daddy in the b***s with the bat or the mother falls off the skateboard into a vat of goose fat or whatever...you'll love this movie. What are you looking for anyway? How much is a good belly laugh worth? A movie doesn't have to work on the level of It's A Mad, Mad, Mad World or Spinal Tap (or whatever your favorite comedy might be) to be entertaining. I recommend this movie without hesitation or apology. Soupy Sales was my hero as a kid and glad to say he still has the "chops" to deliver the goods. Wait 'till you see him in the credits! I laugh every time I even think of it. Just try to sit through a sermon in church now without thinking of bits in this movie!
Totally Exposed (1991)
Kelli's first big project?
Just a curiosity, but check out Kelli Konop's ("Sue" in this film) more recent career in movie production. This film (Totally Exposed) seems to have been her big start in the business. She is listed as producer on many other more mainstream projects on the database. Good for her! She seems to be doing better than Tina Bockrath at any rate.
As far as this movie goes...the pace is incredibly slow, the acting is abysmal and the glimpses of nudity are too brief to be as entertaining as a movie of this genre should be. The shower scene, in particular, is paced so slowly as to miss whatever prurient value to be obtained by watching a pretty girl bathing. It is the fantasy that we should be seeing, not the hygiene.
My one-liner for this film is "Rinse and don't repeat."
Vengo (2000)
Flaminco will never die!
This movie is visually stunning; each shot is framed like a still made by a master photographer. It is among the most beautifully filmed works I've ever seen.
The wonderful music is spontaneous and part of the fabric of life (and death) of the story. This is not a "musical" like Hair or Chicago or Sound of Music. I don't mean to demean Vengo when I say it's use of music is more like that in Forrest Gump or Almost Famous where music sets the mood or anchors us in a time and place as the story flows. If you like "world music" or flaminco, you will love this movie. If you didn't when you started watching, you will by the end.
I figured out most of the story even though I don't speak much Spanish. I wonder why if my TV can put Spanish language closed-caption subtitles under English moves, why I can't get English language captions in Spanish movies...wish someone would make an English language version of this wonderful film!
Loved it. 9 out of 10 stars
Copkiller (l'assassino dei poliziotti) (1983)
where can I get the soundtrack!
One of the best things about this movie, besides Harvey Keitel's performance, is a song....Tchaikovsky's Breakdown....it is repeated several time as a foreshadowing device in the plot. It is a really great song and I have been searching for it for years. If anyone knows where to find it, please email me!
Thanks!