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Posted on 04/18/2016 9:08:09 AM PDT by EveningStar
Laguna Beach's LSD culture in the 1960s, a cranky widower befriended by his chatty neighbors and a man who's dealing with the fallout from his reality show days are all stories that will be told at the Newport Beach Film Festival this year.
At this, the 17th annual festival, there are more than 400 features, short films and documentaries from 50 different countries. It's a chance to see things that likely won't appear elsewhere, especially in the United States. The festival starts this Thursday and runs until the following Thursday.
"The largest misconception about any film festival is that these are events for people in the film industry," said Gregg Schwenk, the festival's executive director. "The festival is for our community. It's for everyone to enjoy an afternoon or an evening at the movies and seeing something really special and unique."
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Ok, this isn’t movies, but I got the Sci-Fi series “12 Monkeys” the other day-—like it a lot, but the formula for this stuff, whether, science fiction, crime, adventure . . . it’s all the same.
The hero is a scruffy looking guy who looks like he never shaves or takes a bath; a chick who knows her way around a Glock or a BAR; a female boss; and a black doctor/scientist/professor.
You never can have a white male boss, or a white male doctor—unless he’s the crazed villain who wants to give AIDs to the world. Every 120-pound girl is fully adept at karate and every known form of martial arts, while 240 pound men are utterly incapable of subduing her (or hitting her with a machine gun at close range).
Have I missed anything?
A real big bummer for the locals:
The Lido Theater is apparently closed for ever.
Yeah, I knew about the Bruce Willis movie.
Probably all movies about gay cowboys eating pudding.
Was that the movie where Brad Pitt was a terrorist?...............
I’m cynical and curmudgeonly, so you need to take that into account when I express my opinions.
I kind of liked the TV series but quit watching it after a few episodes because I didn’t want to keep up with it.
The film was OK, but for me it was almost ruined by the performance of Brad Pitt. Pitt has always wanted to show that he’s not just a pretty face, but that he can actually act. He does this by overacting outrageously (I thought he was quite good in Moneyball, though).
On the other hand, I think La Jetée is great.
Terry Gilliam?.............................B^)
See post 10. I tried to forget Brad Pitt’s performance.
I actually thought he did pretty good in it. Remember he was playing the mentally disturbed son of a Senator, who had joined up with some extremely radical environmental group like ELF.........................
I found that in a series like this, which jumps back and forth across time, when you can watch them all in a row—binge watch-—it is easier to follow. But I’m just amazed at the identical makeup of so many casts.
I’ve also seen some series’ that feature a Muslim woman as the smartest person in the room.
Well, one of them. He was also a terrorist in “The Devil’s Own” and “Fight Club”.
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