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* Yellow asterisk: funny (maybe).
* White asterisk:
expanded format.
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Blue asterisk: not mine.
No asterisk: it probably
sucks.
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OTHER CRAP:
Catch the deluxe
version of Other Crap in real time, with all the bells and whistles,
here.
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Too Much Flesh
Too Much Flesh is a French film written and directed by and starring
Jean-Marc Barr. The cinematographer also shares writing and directing credits.
Lyle (Jean-Marc Barr) is 35, and has been married to his wife (Rosanna
Arquette) for years, but they have never consummated their marriage. The
marriage was arranged, and we gradually learn how this strange relationship
came about. An early girlfriend of his spread the rumor that his pecker was
way too big, and he believed her as a young man. This "killer cock" rumor gave
Arquette all the excuse she needed for staying true to her true love, who died
in an accident.
Then enter Barr's best friend, returning to the small Illinois town a
successful writer with a French girl (Elodie Bouchez) in tow. It comes as some
surprise when Barr starts banging Bouchez, but then we learn that her "fiance"
is gay. Barr is happy, as he now knows his pecker won't kill his wife, but she
still wants none of him. Barr and Bouchez make great use of their time, but
the good Christian town folk will not tolerate this overt sinning.
I believe the film is meant to show how close-minded and restrictive rural
Christian society can be, and to argue in favor of pleasure and happiness. I
found it rather slow and obvious, but then European pace is often much slower
than American film, and Bouchez and Barr sold the carnal relationship and the
idea that it was good clean fun. At least it is not the same old Hollywood
formula.
This is a C - a competent European art film made for a limited audience.
IMDb readers say 5.4.
This dual region (1 and 4) Mexican DVD is now available from Rare Licensed
DVDs with an English soundtrack and Spanish subtitles. Click on the pic
below for info.
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¿De Qué Lado Estás?
The movie takes place in Mexico, on August 1971, three years after the
Tlatelolco
massacre and some weeks after the
June 10th
killings, two famous incidents in which the Mexican government used
overwhelming force on student protestors.
A former German Spy from the Stasi, Bruno (Ulrich Noethem), arrives in Mexico City to escape his past, only to find an agent from the Mexican Government blackmailing him. If he doesn't
agree to spy for them, they will send him back to Germany. He is then
assigned as a teacher at the UNAM (Mexico's University from the State), where he meets a good-looking female student, Adela (Fabiola Campomanes), who is in one of the militant student groups that are against the Government. She gets him in, not knowing that the only way he can survive is bring them all down.
Scoop's note: This film was nominated for
three Ariels and is rated 7.8 at IMDB, which lists it under the title
"Francisca."
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Notes and collages
Carnal Knowledge, Part 7 of 8
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Where the Money Is
The face of screen legend Paul Newman has appeared in only two films this
millennium: one is the well-known Tom Hanks film Road to Perdition, which was
directed by Sam Mendes.
This is the other. It received average reviews (44% at IMDb), but bombed
miserably at the box office with an opening weekend of only $2.5 million,
despite being in 1500 theaters.
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The Comedy Wire
President Bush warned Congress that he was "The Decider," but now, he has a new
title. In a speech Wednesday to a construction industry trade group, But
explained his veto of a Democratic bill
that included an Iraq troop withdrawal timetable by saying, "The question is,
'Who ought to make that decision, the Congress or the commanders? As you know,
my position is clear - I'm the commander guy."
* He seems more to me like the "Commander Dude."
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered that by
stimulating the brain with harmless magnetic pulses from electrodes on the
scalp, they can produce the same type of "slow-wave" brain activity associated
with deep sleep. They say this could lead to the creation of an electronic cap
that cures insomnia and
lets people zap themselves into a quick "power nap" with the restorative
benefits of eight hours of sleep.
* You can already get the same effect by listening to 15
minutes of Enya music.
* Then we can sleep for 30 minutes and work 16 hours a day. I'm not going to
like the future.
The operators of a Thomas the Tank Engine ride in England need to hire someone
to play the Fat Controller, the roly-poly railroad boss famous to every child.
But government advertising authorities banned them from saying in the ads that
they are seeking a fat person because it would discriminate against thin
people.
* So the part of the Fat Controller will be played by
Victoria Beckham.
The official Vatican newspaper accused Italian comedian Andrea Rivera of
terrorism because he told jokes critical of the Pope, saying it is terrorism to
stoke "irrational rage against someone who always
speaks in the name of love."
* Except when he's speaking about comedians, whom he
hates because they're TERRORISTS!
Wednesday in the Philippines, at least 3,869 new moms joined together to set a
new world record for simultaneous breastfeeding.
* This also breaks the old record for "World's Biggest
Suckfest," formerly held by the Ice Capades.
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