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Possibly the best movie poster I've ever seen.

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As if I didn't have reason enough to be excited for this movie. God damn.
 
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Error Macro

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Why the fuck did they ruin that nice illustration with that thing in the center?


Celluloid Dreams? More like Cellulite Dreams! lol am i rite?
 
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sefskillz said:
I can not grasp the love people have for Solondz work.
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I love how daring he is. I mean, what other filmmaker today would even endeavor to create a pedophilic character who the audience is supposed to feel sympathy toward?

Solondz takes risks. I think, whether you like him or not, you should at least appreciate him for this...especially in these times of focus groups and marketing.

In addition, I find a lot of his work incredibly funny. Dark as all hell but funny at the same time.
 
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And from what I hear, this movie sees him at his depraved best.

I think his movies are incredibly honest, even if they err on the humans-are-hopelessly-fucking-disgusting side. Really, his characters are some of the most real out there, whether they capitalize on one aspect of human life or not. There's just something remarkable about his movies to me.

And like the guy above, I also find them really funny.
 
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Minotauro said:
I love how daring he is. I mean, what other filmmaker today would even endeavor to create a pedophilic character who the audience is supposed to feel sympathy toward?
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Michael Cuesta?
 
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Director's Notes:

"It is possible that people will walk away from my movie talking about
it in terms of the "issues," and yet this is not an "issue" movie. I
have no interest in such a movie. The two sides of the "issue" are
irreconcilable, and I accept this irreconcilability. In any case, the
"issue" is really a bit of a MacGuffin, providing but a backdrop of a
story for a young girl suspended between one family that kills one way
and another that kills another way. Or between one family that offers
no choice, and another one for whom all choices have already been
made. Like a palindrome, the world turns in on itself, unchanged and
unchanging: it is all looking-glass. My movie, however, is,
ultimately, a love story, just as all my movies have been: stories of
unrequited love, forbidden love, self-love. For really there is no
story worth telling that is not a love story.
At the end of The Wizard of Oz Dorothy, the Scarecrow, Tin Man,
and Cowardly Lion learn that what they always thought they lacked they
always in fact had. They learn, in a sense, that they haven't changed
at all: that they were always smart or compassionate or brave, that
there's no place like home. They just didn't realize it. The smart
will always be smart, the compassionate compassionate, the brave
brave, and home home. Nothing ever changes.
But can we change? Optimists tend to believe in the possibility,
with the implication that things will change for the better. The idea
that we cannot change suggests that we cannot improve, and no one
wants to believe this, though some may take comfort in the corollary:
we cannot become worse. The question is in what way is change
possible? And in what way not? Are we in some sense "palindromic" by
nature, impervious to change, no matter how much, paradoxically, we
change? Some may find the idea that we never change a bleak and
deterministic way of thinking. And yet the inability to change is in
many ways freeing, freeing from, amonst other things, the imperative
to change. And to accept one's inability to change can be a form of
consolation: no one is immune; everyone must be who he is. There may
be a sense of doom, but there is also the possibility of grace. It's
all a bit of a conundrum. But art, however it may be defined-- if it
is, in fact, definable (and perhaps it is definable only insofar as it
is defined by what it is not)-- has no meaning if it is not
transformative. Of course, at the same time, it has yet to make anyone
a better person -- or a lesser one. If someone argues otherwise, then
it isn't art.
Aviva is portrayed by two women, four girls (13-14 years old),
one 12-year-old-boy, and one 6-year old girl. This is the first
feature film for all of the children involved."
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YEAH.
 
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Hey, cool, thanks.

I really liked Happiness, not that it was making many exceptional points, but for the fact that it cast its shadows and shapes in a remarkably pure way.

I didn't know about this film, but will now look forward to seeing it. What's a palindrome again?
 
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i saw hapiness a long time ago, sickening, yet it had its good points. i understand that we shouldnt turn away from our innate uglyness, but i can only take so much of it...so sometimes im a bit turned off by films that have a heavy handed way of portraying our darker sides. i respect their artistic merits but im turned off by the visuals nonetheless.
 
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Ollie Pooch

In a perfect world, we'd all be homersexual
'welcome to the dollhouse' is one of my favourite movies, second only to 'aliens' (dunno how that works out :p )

his films are brutally honest, i find WTTD to be hiariously (blackly) funny yet some friends of mine think its the most depressing movie they've ever seen. can't wait for this one :D
 
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Warm Machine

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Solondz is by far the worst of the personality directors out there. One note, one style, one interest.

John Waters, David Cronenberg, and David Lynch have their own thing too but at least they have some breadth.
 
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