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Post by Catman on Feb 23, 2022 12:10:16 GMT
Warning: This film will make you hungry for Korean food!
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Post by london777 on Feb 23, 2022 14:47:27 GMT
Perhaps you could kindly add the title of the movie in English for the sad, and doubtless very tiny, minority of our posters who do not speak Korean?
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Post by spiderwort on Feb 23, 2022 15:05:46 GMT
Ever seen the New Zealand films, Boy and Hunt for the Wilder People?
Haven't seen either, stryker, but I loved Taika Waititi's Jo Jo Rabbit, and I've been meaning to watch Hunt for the Wilder People on Netflix for a very long time. I'm so slow these days (!), but will get to it soon, I hope. And I'll keep an eye out for Boy, though the likelihood of my coming across it isn't promising. Waititi's a very talented guy.
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Post by spiderwort on Feb 23, 2022 15:25:01 GMT
Picnic (1955) Sunday in the Country (1974)
Haven't see Sunday in the Country, Ranger, but Picnic has been one of my favorites for decades. I love the works of its author, playwright William Inge. His Splendor in the Grass (1961), my all-time favorite film, is an exemplary exploration of small-town life in the 1920s. The same is true of his The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960). It's not as good as Splendor, but it's still very much worth seeing. So glad to see another Inge fan.
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Post by spiderwort on Feb 23, 2022 15:33:40 GMT
Warning: This film will make you hungry for Korean food!
I love your recommendations, Catman, though the likelihood of my ever being able to see them is not too good, regrettably. But you've reminded me of a recent American film that deserves a mention here:
A beautiful film about a Korean family that starts a farm in Arkansas in the 1980s. I loved it.
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Post by Catman on Feb 23, 2022 19:02:12 GMT
Perhaps you could kindly add the title of the movie in English for the sad, and doubtless very tiny, minority of our posters who do not speak Korean? Little Forest
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Post by Catman on Feb 23, 2022 20:30:17 GMT
Warning: This film will make you hungry for Korean food! I love your recommendations, Catman, though the likelihood of my ever being able to see them is not too good, regrettably. But you've reminded me of a recent American film that deserves a mention here: A beautiful film about a Korean family that starts a farm in Arkansas in the 1980s. I loved it.
Little Forest is currently available on Plex and Tubi if you have access to those streamers.
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Post by Rufus-T on Feb 24, 2022 0:31:16 GMT
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Post by Penn Guinn on Feb 24, 2022 0:45:08 GMT
Most of the sixteen Andy Hardy films
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Post by Rufus-T on Feb 24, 2022 0:53:00 GMT
Tess (1979)
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Post by mstreepsucks on Feb 24, 2022 2:06:42 GMT
red rocket
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Slacker
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Post by london777 on Feb 24, 2022 2:13:45 GMT
I do not remember a town featuring in Tess? But one Hardy story where the town is in the title, and is very important throughout, is: The Mayor of Casterbridge (TV movie, 2003) dir: David Thacker. Strongly recommended. Casterbridge is Hardy's alias for Dorchester, county town of Dorset, and much of the film was shot on location.
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Post by Rufus-T on Feb 24, 2022 17:29:31 GMT
I do not remember a town featuring in Tess? But one Hardy story where the town is in the title, and is very important throughout, is: The Mayor of Casterbridge (TV movie, 2003) dir: David Thacker. Strongly recommended. Casterbridge is Hardy's alias for Dorchester, county town of Dorset, and much of the film was shot on location. Yeah, probably somewhere between a village and town. Supposedly, I think, the place where Tess worked for the Stokes was a small town. Same when Tess was Alec's mistress near the end.
Regarding The Mayor of Casterbridge, Nastassja Kinski also starred in an adaptation of that book called The Claim in 2000. That definitely a small town.
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Post by teleadm on Feb 24, 2022 18:57:04 GMT
The Vanishing Virginian 1942 directed by Frank Borzage about District Attorney Robert Yancey (Frank Morgan) and his big family in Lynchburg, Virginia in the early 1900's. I guess Lynchburg was a small town back then. Lynchburg ca 1919.
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Post by onethreetwo on Feb 24, 2022 18:59:42 GMT
Safe Haven The Fog
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Post by spiderwort on Feb 24, 2022 21:02:10 GMT
Can't sing the praises of this film enough, Rufus, as you know. And for those who don't know, director Sian Heder set the story (and then shot it) in Gloucester, Ma., where she spent her childhood summers. She very much wanted it to be personal to her in that way. I think doing that added a lot to the story.
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Post by stryker on Feb 24, 2022 21:02:13 GMT
Ever seen the New Zealand films, Boy and Hunt for the Wilder People?
I finally watched HUNT FOR THE WILDER PEOPLE, stryker, and I liked it a lot, though not as much as I did JO-JO RABBIT, or WHALE RIDER. The cast was great, but I think it may have been just a wee bit too quirky for me right now. Not sure. Still, I'm glad I watched it. And, what a beautiful, beautiful landscape! If I were younger, I'd be saying New Zealand, here I come!
Btw, don't know if you know, but Taika Waititi, along with Seminole Indian filmmaker, Sterlin Hargo, has a hit series here in the states, RESERVATION DOGS. Haven't seen it, because I don't have its streaming service (FX on Hulu), but it's getting a lot of praise.
It features a native American cast, and they shoot it in the original "Indian Territory" in the U.S., now the state of Oklahoma. Kudos to them for their dedication to portraying indigenous peoples in the arts (however funny and quirky they choose to make them).
Yeah, I watched the first episode of RESERVATION DOGS, not my thing at all, so I bailed after that: life's too short. But it's well made, politically correct, slickly written, has a good few f-words and should appeal to young audiences and their sense of humor. The hip hop soundtrack is a pain in the ass and feels out of place - is rap music really that big on the reservation?
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Post by london777 on May 13, 2022 22:21:31 GMT
One movie where the mid-west small town is very much a main character (as the title suggests) and that I have never seen mentioned on this board despite its stellar cast is: The Walls of Jericho (1948) dir: John M Stahl.
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Post by spiderwort on Mar 19, 2023 0:50:49 GMT
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Post by stryker on Mar 19, 2023 5:11:00 GMT
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