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Post by london777 on Mar 17, 2020 19:15:54 GMT
Adams Aebler (Adam's Apples)(2005) written and directed by: Anders Thomas Jensen. A mild and mystical black comedy about Adam, a neo-Nazi thug, sentenced to community work in a country church, where a "magic" apple-tree grows in the pastor's garden. Mads Mikkelsen is great as the blindly devoted pastor who retains his faith (Job-like) whatever fate throws at him. High-spot is when a murder of crows descend to eat his precious apples. Probably the only movie to utilize so many trained crows. I assumed CGI, but apparently not. Also written and directed by Anders Thomas Jensen, Blinkende Lygter (Flickering Lights)(2000) is about four childhood friends who rob their dope-dealing employer and flee to Barcelona. They get as far as Funen, a thinly populated island off the Danish coast and hide out in a derelict farmhouse. As time goes by, they grow to love the place and use their stolen cash to convert it into a restaurant. Each is treated to a flashback showing how their various miserable childhoods has made them the sociopaths they now are. One of them lived with his bigoted step-father who had been trying to grow apples from a tree in the garden. After fourteen years he succeeds but his stepson eats or maims then, breaking the step-father's heart. Sorry, I could not find an "apple-tree" still, but I do recommend this movie which is like an Ealing rural comedy, with toppings of Tarantinoesque violence and a Coen Brothers script.
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Post by teleadm on Mar 17, 2020 19:29:11 GMT
I've seen both of them, and liked them both.
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Post by london777 on Mar 17, 2020 19:34:15 GMT
Thieves' Highway (1949). Director Jules Dassin was on a roll in the late 'forties. This fine film followed The Naked City and immediately preceded Night and the City and Rififi. Richard Conte plays a truck-driver who hopes to make a killing by being the first to deliver a truckload of new season apples to the market in San Francisco. Lee J Cobb, as a crooked produce wholesaler who was responsible for the death of Conte's father, makes life complicated.
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Post by london777 on Mar 17, 2020 20:02:49 GMT
Of course an apple crops up in every version of Snow-White. Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) dir: Rupert Sanders Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997) dir: Michael Cohn. Is that Gary Oldman as the witch? Blancanieves (2012) the highly-rated Spanish take on the story directed by Pablo Berger, in which Snow-White is a bullfighter(?) It is on my shopping list so I hope to soon find out what that is all about.
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Post by london777 on Mar 17, 2020 20:17:34 GMT
Maybe the earliest mention of an apple in world literature is in Genesis. In fact, too early, because modern scholars agree that apples were not known to the early Hebrews, so it was probably a pomegranate. Huston did not bother with such niceties. He stuck with the European version in The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966)
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Post by london777 on Mar 17, 2020 20:35:47 GMT
Equally famous to young boys is William Tell, but he is not well represented in films. The definitive version would have starred Errol Flynn: The Story of William Tell (dir: Jack Cardiff) (1953). It was Flynn's own production, an attempt to break free from studio control, and would have been the first independent movie shot in Cinemascope. But they ran out of money. Perhaps those Hollywood moguls did know a thing or two about completing movies, after all? I cannot find the apple shot. Maybe they never got round to filming it. But here is Flynn and his brat. You will have to imagine the rest. (Or find an image from the TV series starring Richard Greene, the UK's lame attempt to clone Errol Flynn).
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Post by london777 on Mar 17, 2020 20:56:37 GMT
Disney's animated Melody Time (1948) contains a 19-minute account of the life of Johnny Appleseed. He was an actual person. His real name was John Chapman. He became a living American legend for his skill in husbandry (specializing in apples), eccentricity and generosity. He was a devoted Swedenborgian and his faith forbade him (he believed) to graft varieties. Thus his apples were no good as eaters, only for cooking and making alcohol. It has been suggested this last was the main source of his popularity.
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Post by OldAussie on Mar 17, 2020 21:19:06 GMT
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 17, 2020 21:25:09 GMT
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Post by london777 on Mar 18, 2020 1:57:30 GMT
Jim Hawkins (Bobby Driscoll) hides in the apple barrel in Treasure Island (1950) dir: Byron Haskin.
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 18, 2020 2:03:24 GMT
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Apples
Mar 18, 2020 2:03:42 GMT
Post by london777 on Mar 18, 2020 2:03:42 GMT
Michael Fassbender plays Steve Jobs (2015) dir: Aaron Sorkin.
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Post by teleadm on Mar 18, 2020 18:18:08 GMT
The Cider House Rules 1999, where there is cider there is usually apples, but not always.
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 19, 2020 14:00:55 GMT
Linda Blair in Sweet Hostage
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Post by petrolino on Mar 20, 2020 19:49:23 GMT
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Post by hi224 on Mar 21, 2020 0:41:53 GMT
Adams Aebler (Adam's Apples)(2005) written and directed by: Anders Thomas Jensen. A mild and mystical black comedy about Adam, a neo-Nazi thug, sentenced to community work in a country church, where a "magic" apple-tree grows in the pastor's garden. Mads Mikkelsen is great as the blindly devoted pastor who retains his faith (Job-like) whatever fate throws at him. High-spot is when a murder of crows descend to eat his precious apples. Probably the only movie to utilize so many trained crows. I assumed CGI, but apparently not. Also written and directed by Anders Thomas Jensen, Blinkende Lygter (Flickering Lights)(2000) is about four childhood friends who rob their dope-dealing employer and flee to Barcelona. They get as far as Funen, a thinly populated island off the Danish coast and hide out in a derelict farmhouse. As time goes by, they grow to love the place and use their stolen cash to convert it into a restaurant. Each is treated to a flashback showing how their various miserable childhoods has made them the sociopaths they now are. One of them lived with his bigoted step-father who had been trying to grow apples from a tree in the garden. After fourteen years he succeeds but his stepson eats or maims then, breaking his heart. Sorry, I could not find an "apple-tree" still, but I do recommend this movie which is like an Ealing rural comedy, with toppings of Tarantinoesque sadistic violence and a Coen Brothers script. I love Adams Apple, but love Mads as well.
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Apples
Jun 11, 2020 4:16:08 GMT
Post by london777 on Jun 11, 2020 4:16:08 GMT
Zavet (2007) dir Emir Kusturica Grandfather tips a cartload of apples into Tsane's swimming pool. I have no idea why. Looks like a waste of good fruit to me. This is the first Kusturica film I have seen that I have not liked. Far too noisy and hectic.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jun 11, 2020 4:57:13 GMT
Äppelkriget , The Apple War (1971) Sweden. Dir Tage Danielsson,. This is a very funny film telling the at times surreal tale of a German businessman who plans to re-develop a quiet rural Swedish village. Dividing the community the large scale plans threaten prime agricultural land... Gösta Ekman & Hans Alfredson
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jun 11, 2020 5:07:41 GMT
Masahiro Shinoda's excellent pop-art crime drama Yūhi ni Akai Ore no Kao, Killers on Parade (1961) opens with....
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Post by mattgarth on Jun 11, 2020 5:23:32 GMT
LADY FOR A DAY (and POCKETFUL OF MIRACLES) -- 'Dave the Dude' won't proceed with his nefarious business dealings each day without receiving a lucky one from street peddler 'Apple Annie.'
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