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Help me select the next movie for us to review!  Just reply with your suggestion here.  If we have enough agreement on one movie, we'll do that next; otherwise, I'll set up a poll to get the next movie going.

I'd like to select the next movie by 31 December 2011

I would like to discuss(or listen to a discussion) on Waking Life

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/waking-life/

.........."it is an American live-action rotoscoped film, directed by Richard Linklater. The entire film was shot using digital video and then a team of artists using computers drew stylized lines and colors over each frame. The film focuses on the nature of dreams and consciousness. The title, Waking Life, is a reference to the philosopher George Santayana’s maxim: Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.

Waking Life is about an unnamed young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. He initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions of issues such as reality, free will, the relationship of the subject with others, and the meaning of life.

Along the way the film touches on other topics including existentialism, situationist politics, posthumanity, the film theory of André Bazin, and lucid dreaming itself."

There Will Be Blood

Panic

Tucker, and Breaker Morant.

 Heippa,

My suggestions for review:

- The Naked Lunch

- Brazil

- Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas

- Passenger Side (suprisingly GOOD movie)

- Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Thats my 2 cents worth.

Peace & Understanding

Yo yo yo....ROCKY

I would like to second "Brazil". One of the best art films of the 1970's, and a great metaphor for the loss of the true self.

Brazil is excellent!

If not, I would like to suggest "The Road". It frightened me to the bone, I cannot work up the courage to watch it again. This is probably a deeper issue than the gory nature of the movie itself and I'd love to hear opinions on it.

Among the movies already suggested once, the following 3 are the ones I would like to hear about on a review show:

Waking Life
There Will Be Blood
Naked Lunch

 I almost forgot....

- The Beach

=D

Let's do Brazil, pushed out a week, on 21 January 2012.  We'll hold the call at 4pm EST.

I'm afraid I've an appointment that day. Hope you record it :)

There's some confusing information with versions.  The final director's cut should be 142 minutes (European Version).  Netflix shows the DVD to be 142 minutes, whereas the Blu-Ray is 132 minutes (American Version). Hmmm.

nathanm:

There's some confusing information with versions.  The final director's cut should be 142 minutes (European Version).  Netflix shows the DVD to be 142 minutes, whereas the Blu-Ray is 132 minutes (American Version). Hmmm.

Blu-Ray 132 minutes, hmmm, indeed. I saw Brazil when it first came out back when, and it was in the local Art Film theatre, located at the top of a long, long winding staircase in an old "historic" building, and as we exited, the crowd for the next showing was lined up in this several-floor spiral along the outside of the wide stairs and we had to spiral down and down after the mind-bending ending, and it was pretty well hallucinatory. As if the movie itself didn't do enough of a job on your day-to-day consciousness.