Cinema Paradiso - The DT Movie Club

[Darkthoughts]

The basic premise being, we all agree (by way of recommendations and/or a vote) on a movie to watch within a two week time frame, then review and discuss in here.

Please use spoiler tags when posting reviews.

Anyone have a suggestion for our first movie?

[Heather19]

Excellent! I'm in

I'd like to suggest East of Eden (1955). I've been harassing feev to watch this film forever now, so I thought this would be a good opportunity Not to mention it's a wonderful film, and could lead to some good discussions.

[DoctorDodge]

I'd be down for that, but only if the next one is Withnail & I!

[alkanto]

YES! Any excuse to watch it again, really!

Though, I should let it be known that I will watch almost anything, if the group agrees....

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but I'll be a lot happier with the world if it was W&I

[fernandito]

East of Eden has my vote too

[Jean]

bears second Withnail. Of course.

[Darkthoughts]

I've never seen East Of Eden and I'm always up for a Withnail rewatch. Shall we say East of Eden first, as Heather more or less called dibs then Withnail?

[Jean]

bears agree

[fernandito]

Sounds good to meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[educatedlady]

I'd like to play along...as long as I can find the movies.

[fernandito]

Do you have Netflix ?

[Heather19]

Excellent! I'm so excited for you guys to watch it. And I'll be doing my rewatch sometime this weekend

[educatedlady]

Yes & no. My roommate has netflix but I can only access it when he is there.

[Darkthoughts]

Cool, I'll get hold of it too - probably be in the week for me

[alkanto]

so do we have an official time frame for this? As in, a specific date by which we have to watch the movie?

[fernandito]

I guess once we all agree on a movie, Lisa or whoever can set a time frame. Assuming that the film that is chosen is not available online or through instant watch, we'll have to add a buffer for the time it takes to arrive at our house.

Lisa ?

[Darkthoughts]

I was thinking two weeks for each film once a film's been decided on, so if we all try to get hold of it and have watched it by the 16th September?

[fernandito]

Two weeks sounds perfect.

Alright, so because I'm a sucker for formalities (and sorry for hi jacking the thread Lisa )


Our first film is : East of Eden (1955)

Discussion date : 9/16/11

[alkanto]

Fantastic

Adding it to the Netflix queue....now.

[Heather19]

[Darkthoughts]

Not at all Feev - feel free to do that all the time

[Still Servant]

This is such a great idea for a thread. I hope to participate as much as possible.

East of Eden is a great film. I watched it upon Heather's recommendation. I think Dean gets a lot of attention for Rebel Without A Cause, which is also a great film, but I think he does an even better job in East of Eden. Okay. I will stop there and save the rest for when we can all discuss it.

[Mattrick]

My choice for film watching is...The Conversation as film three. I know most you haven't seen it and it is EXCELLENT.

[Darkthoughts]

Aha! I saw a clip of that on a documentary a while ago and added it to my rental list, haven't been sent it yet though, so that'll be one to look forward to.

Cheers SS, glad you're onboard

[Darkthoughts]

Well, I have to admit that that was my first James Dean film ever But now I see what the hype is all about, he's very unique, I liked him a lot.

It was an interesting era to set the film in, not quite frontiersville but not quite modern, I was really in to that aspect of it. I felt

Spoiler:

really sorry for Gus, the German shoemaker, I imagine scenes like that must really have happened - well, still do I guess, as I'm sure most Muslims could tell you. I loved the mother's character, hiding away pining for her lost youth and regretting missing out on her sons do you think? She certainly didn't miss life as a wife, but she seemed to want to have a relationship with Cal at least.