Kristie
Novel turned into BBC miniseries
"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
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Post by Kristie on Oct 19, 2006 17:00:59 GMT -5
it's a few years old i think...i may give it another shot someday
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Post by Dominique on Oct 20, 2006 19:25:00 GMT -5
Suburban Mayhem premiere last night. It was pretty good. About this psychopath girl who gets her lovers to bump off her father. Kinda black humour. Similar to opposite of sex in that sort of style and character.
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lostgirl
First short story featured in regional newspaper
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Post by lostgirl on Oct 21, 2006 23:17:55 GMT -5
There have been some movies I stopped watching halfway through because I couldn't take it anymore. Dogville is one of them, I really didn't get into it. Dogville is rough but you must watch it through because the ending is shocking and puts the rest of the film in a different perspective. It's impossible to be indifferent to it at the end - you either love it or hate it. I can't decide which way I feel! I've been really lazy this weekend. So far I've watched Arsenic and Old Lace (so funny!), Beauty and the Beast (Disney) and Tristan and Isolde.
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neh
Collection of short stories published by an independent editor
"I live in two worlds; one is a world of books"
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Post by neh on Oct 21, 2006 23:40:52 GMT -5
I'll keep on saying it, but i was dissapointed by Tristain and Isolde primarily becasue they had the sheer stupidity to cast James as the romantic lead........ so so wrong in my mind...... the guy spends the entire film looking like he just needs to catch up on a month's worth of sleep, whereas there stands Sophia looking alive and passionate, and Rufus acting his heart out.. ugh!
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Post by bookaddict on Oct 22, 2006 8:21:38 GMT -5
ok So i watched Breakfast at Tiffany's again, and i'm still up in the air about it. Although I did clearly see the plot this time, I was annoyed by Holly. I guess it just wasen't my type of movie.
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Post by Dominique on Oct 22, 2006 8:46:22 GMT -5
Like I'm sure you've all heard me say before lol, I love the book. The movie isn't one of my favourites but I like it all the same. I think it's the sort of movie you have to be in the mood for though.
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Kristie
Novel turned into BBC miniseries
"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
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Post by Kristie on Oct 22, 2006 12:07:10 GMT -5
Now that I think about it more, Breakfast at Tiffany's kinda reminds me of Catcher in the Rye. Only because Holly seems to be sorta like Holden, but for some reason I love that movie and hate that book. They seem so similar to me but so different at the same time. Why is that?
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Isa
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Post by Isa on Oct 22, 2006 12:25:44 GMT -5
Could be your unconditional love for Audrey Hepburn
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Post by Dominique on Oct 23, 2006 1:53:31 GMT -5
lol I don't really think they're similar, especially since the book is told from another characters point of view. But I can see how someone else might, I'm probably biased due to my unconditional love of Truman Capote.
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Post by Dominique on Oct 23, 2006 7:17:35 GMT -5
I just saw Children of Men. I enjoyed it, it was shot very well I thought. I'm a big fan of dystopic stuff so it was right up my alley.
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Kristie
Novel turned into BBC miniseries
"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
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Post by Kristie on Oct 23, 2006 18:21:52 GMT -5
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zeldafitzgerald
Collection of short stories bought by Random House
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Post by zeldafitzgerald on Oct 24, 2006 9:25:08 GMT -5
Kristie- I saw that book too - it looks fantastic. I love the book and the movie of Breakfast at Tiffanys. I love Truman Capote. I found a very interesting article about BaT and I love this part: Capote later in life said that Holly Golightly was his favorite character. In an early version of the book her gave her the inappropriate name of Connie Gustafson, but later gave her the more symbolic name Holly Golightly: for she is a woman who makes a holiday of life, but treads through it lightly. Along with the book's publishing came what Capote called the Holly Golightly Sweepstakes, where half the women he knew and some he did not, claimed to be the inspiration for his character. One New York resisdent, named Bonnie Golightly, even tried to sue Capote for invasion of privacy and libel. But she was an overweight forty-year-old woman and lost the lawsuit without much effect. But in truth the person that Holly most resembles is her creator. She shares Capote's philosophies as well as his fears and anxieties, an example is Holly's panic attacks which she calls "the mean reds." www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/novel.htmlRapid subject change: the movie I last saw was The Science of Sleep. I'd been wanting to see it for a long time, and finally got to last friday. It was awesome. Very weird and fabulous. I can see it being a cult classic.
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Isa
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Post by Isa on Oct 29, 2006 19:17:32 GMT -5
I saw two today: this morning I went to the movie theatre to see "Conversaciones con mi mama" (Conversations with my mother). It's pretty rare that they show movies in Spanish around here so my teacher had recommended it for practice - but I hated it! The character of the mother was so like my mom, so self-centered, it took all I had not to leave halfway through the movie. So when I got back home I sat down to watch my "Lost in Translation" DVD to make up for it
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Paige
Collection of short stories bought by Random House
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Post by Paige on Oct 29, 2006 20:03:28 GMT -5
the prestige
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