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Post by crimsulent on Mar 13, 2009 15:39:48 GMT -5
Just the title alone would probably be enough to interest folks on this website. ;D Actually, the movie isn't about rebates or GPT offers. It's a more or less a love story. A guy loses his girlfriend and develops total insomnia. Can't sleep so he figures since he's up all the time he should get a job. He calls his job a Cash Back situation since he trades his time for cash back. Now, the thing is, it's an independent film and no stars that I've ever heard of before. And it's a really good little movie. As I mentioned, it's sort of a love story, but this is a movie that guys can actually not just sit through, they can actually enjoy it. Well, I did anyway! ;D There's some partial nudity, so if that's a hang up for you, you might want to skip this one. It's probably rated R, I don't really recall. Anyway, I give it three out of a possible four thumbs up.
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Post by audrey on Mar 15, 2009 19:53:03 GMT -5
Slouching toward Bethlehem?
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Post by crimsulent on Mar 15, 2009 23:01:38 GMT -5
Quoting from Wikipedia:
Slouching Towards Bethlehem is a 1968 collection of essays by Joan Didion and mainly describes her experiences in California during the 1960s. It takes its title from the poem "The Second Coming" by W.B. Yeats. The contents of this book are reprinted in Didion's We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction (2006).
The title essay describes Didion's impressions of the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco during the neighborhood's heyday as a countercultural center. In contrast to the more utopian image of the milieu promoted by counterculture sympathizers then and now, Didion offered a rather grim portrayal of the goings-on, including an encounter with a pre-school age child who was given LSD by her parents.
In her preface to the book Didion writes, "I went to San Francisco because I had not been able to work in some months, had been paralyzed by the conviction that writing was an irrelevant act, that the world as I had understood it no longer existed. If I was to work again at all, it would be necessary for me to come to terms with disorder."
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Post by havingfunnow on Mar 16, 2009 10:07:38 GMT -5
I knew I had seen Slouching Toward Bethlehem somewhere before, but I was too lazy to look it up. I have been to Haight-Ashbury and it is a tourist trap now, like the artist shops I saw in Woodstock, NY. Which reminds me, if the concert wasn't in Woodstock, why did they call it Woodstock It was held in Bethel, NY, so I had to drive another 40 miles to get there. Back to the topic... I like Indies, because they can surprise you. These films are the director's babies. Anyone heard of 'Slumdog Millionaire' ?
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Post by tara on Mar 16, 2009 20:04:41 GMT -5
Bethel is a nice little town and had the space. I've heard it was called Woodstock in hopes of attracting Bob Dylan who lived in Woodstock. Whether he lived in Woodstock NY or some other Woodstock is beyond me. That was WAY before my time, I wasn't even thought of let alone there to confirm.
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