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Re: Overlooked Films--Great films (most of) the world missed
« Reply #315 on: February 09, 2017, 10:56:06 PM »
fia,

your post really makes me want to read the book now. i love the reference to the head shaking. the things you have to do to get back to reality, or to escape it and free yourself. how sad the notion of nathan having to do the gesture for so long that he finds it easy to do.

you WERE dead.

i know.


i agree, the supernatural element is nice here. i like to think they are both together in spirit now. i'm not so creeped out by scary stories or ghost stories. i just don't like gore.  :">

in the past, i've done a few "supernatural" bbm slash stories... one is called i love you, goodbye. it's sorta like the ending of dream boy, as dead jack is able to visit ennis one last time.



oh wow, how unfortunate about the IMDB message boards. why on earth would they put an end to it?? sigh... hopefully the messages that are already there remain in place.


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Re: Overlooked Films--Great films (most of) the world missed
« Reply #316 on: February 10, 2017, 07:04:08 AM »
your post really makes me want to read the book now.

I got my copy from ABEBooks, $3.78, including shipping. The book was hardcover, absolutely new.

https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=grimsley&bi=h&sortby=17&tn=dream+boy

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Re: Overlooked Films--Great films (most of) the world missed
« Reply #317 on: February 10, 2017, 03:50:39 PM »
^^^ wow, such a deal. i'll look for it. maybe the book will validate some of the concepts/ideas i dreamed up when analyzing the movie.

i still think burke and roy and randy where... curiously healthy. :)

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Re: Overlooked Films--Great films (most of) the world missed
« Reply #318 on: February 13, 2017, 06:31:25 AM »
look what i found in a review about dream boy... an excerpt:

The chief attribute to Dream Boy, however, is Max Roeg in the role of Roy. Max is the 25-year old, British-born son of actress Theresa Russell of Black Widow and Spider-Man 3 fame (whom he resembles closely) and director Nicolas Roeg, and Dream Boy marks his feature film debut. Max gives a sensitive yet strong, assured performance, which is all the more impressive for his authentic-sounding Southern accent. Anyone tempted to think British actors can easily master Southern US accents needs to listen to the London cast recording of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Whistle Down the Wind, and learn first-hand how nearly impossible it can be! Roeg, Bender and Dream Boy will more than likely haunt you.

https://moviedearest.blogspot.com/2010/04/reverends-reviews-easter-threesome.html


so, max roeg is the son of theresa russell! well whaddya know... plus, he's a british actor doing an american accent playing a closted gay guy... sound familiar?

i still thing stephan was the more interesting actor, tho.

also, roy's mom was played by rickie lee jones! :D 

so many surprises in this movie.








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Re: Overlooked Films--Great films (most of) the world missed
« Reply #319 on: February 13, 2017, 07:14:52 AM »
so, max roeg is the son of theresa russell [and Nicholas Roeg]!

Another British acting/movie/theater dynasty!

The Redgraves are the most famous, or well known, I guess. I was interested to learn just recently that the actor playing the palace pastry chef in the series Victoria on Masterpiece also has a very famous actor father: Ben Kingsley!

Sorry if this was OT. ...

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Re: Overlooked Films--Great films (most of) the world missed
« Reply #320 on: February 13, 2017, 07:28:24 AM »
look what i found in a review about dream boy

 Roeg, Bender and Dream Boy will more than likely haunt you.

Oh boy, will I say Amen to that!

Reluctantly, I note that was a 2010 review. Those young, fresh faces were simply beautiful.
I wish they could last forever, but ones and zeros will have to do.

   ~~~fia
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Re: Overlooked Films--Great films (most of) the world missed
« Reply #321 on: February 13, 2017, 10:19:21 AM »
Oh boy, will I say Amen to that!

Reluctantly, I note that was a 2010 review. Those young, fresh faces were simply beautiful.
I wish they could last forever, but ones and zeros will have to do.

   ~~~fia

That's the beautiful thing about a movie. They will be fresh and beautiful forever.  :)

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Re: Overlooked Films--Great films (most of) the world missed
« Reply #322 on: February 13, 2017, 04:09:22 PM »

^^^

i agree.. youth and beauty locked in a capsule of time. i think of heath.

Another British acting/movie/theater dynasty!

The Redgraves are the most famous, or well known, I guess. I was interested to learn just recently that the actor playing the palace pastry chef in the series Victoria on Masterpiece also has a very famous actor father: Ben Kingsley!

Sorry if this was OT. ...

i love that ben kingsley has a son... he's such an intense actor.

oh, he has more than one:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/9991850/Sir-Ben-Kingsley-my-Hollywood-actress-mother-was-jealous-of-my-success.html

talk about an acting dynasty.. his has some drama to it as well, it seems.

i wonder which son you saw playing the palace pastry chef... edmund or ferdinand?

i'd post a pic here of the two of them but i think it has a © symbol on it.






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Re: Overlooked Films--Great films (most of) the world missed
« Reply #323 on: February 13, 2017, 04:26:09 PM »
i wonder which son you saw playing the palace pastry chef... edmund or ferdinand?

It's Ferdinand as the palace pastry chef in Victoria. I double checked at IMDb.

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Re: Overlooked Films--Great films (most of) the world missed
« Reply #324 on: February 13, 2017, 05:15:58 PM »
ok, he's the one on the left, i think.


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« Reply #325 on: February 13, 2017, 07:11:41 PM »
It's Ferdinand as the palace pastry chef in Victoria. I double checked at IMDb.

ok, he's the one on the left, i think.

Difficult to tell. In Victoria he has facial hair, as he does in his pic at IMDb. But I think you're probably correct.

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Re: Overlooked Films--Great films (most of) the world missed
« Reply #326 on: February 17, 2017, 02:59:40 AM »
seeing the kingsley brothers reminds me of a movie that featured two dark and swarthy brothers... from wikipedia:



Good Morning, Babylon

(Italian: Good morning Babilonia) is an Italian film directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani in 1987. It was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.

The film follows the story of two Italian brothers who emigrate to America and find work as set designers for D.W. Griffith's silent film epic Intolerance (1916).


trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWSgkY9J4bA


it shows you a bit of hollywood history, plus it's got a love story too. there's a line about shadowy mountains and snowflakes that's just too good. i highly recommend this film!

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Re: Overlooked Films--Great films (most of) the world missed
« Reply #327 on: February 17, 2017, 09:48:59 AM »
^^^

And now you can see those elephants, as an homage to Intolerance, at the Hollywood & Highland Center!



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Re: Overlooked Films--Great films (most of) the world missed
« Reply #328 on: February 17, 2017, 12:14:49 PM »
yaaassss! there they are! did you see the movie? i found it fascinating, a peek inside the set designers of yesteryear.


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Re: Overlooked Films--Great films (most of) the world missed
« Reply #329 on: February 18, 2017, 09:30:19 AM »

Yes, I saw it at the Beverly Center in 1986!