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offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2003-02-05 14:36 [#00542395]
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any fans of his films here?
i just saw black cat, white cat and it was hilarious
i saw six of his films and i love them all
he always gets excelent actors, music is wonderful and his
style of film making is one of a kind
so, how well is he known in other parts of the world?


 

offline herbwest from Seattle (United States) on 2003-02-05 15:10 [#00542435]
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pitbull!!!!!!!!


 

offline herbwest from Seattle (United States) on 2003-02-05 15:10 [#00542438]
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terrier!!!!!!!!!!!



 

offline nacmat on 2003-02-05 15:29 [#00542452]
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I love black cat white cat, underground ...........and what
others?

black cat white cat is still on theatres here


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2003-02-05 17:13 [#00542590]
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these are the ones i have seen

-black cat, white cat
-underground
-arizona dream
-time of the gypsies
-when father was away on business
-do you remember dolly bell



 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2008-04-30 17:06 [#02200003]
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just seen time of the gypsies and black cat white cat in
mother language (with english subs) they're between of the
best movies i ever seen!


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2008-04-30 17:38 [#02200051]
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im not so sure i still like kusturica all that much : )


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2008-04-30 17:42 [#02200054]
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Goddamn, you indie cinema hipster - everyone else likes
things you used to like. :-(


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2008-04-30 17:43 [#02200056]
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why? there are a lot of gypsies in milan and everybody think
they are cunts, now i make larger smiles to the children
playing accordion in the metro =) ah, i forgot to tell you
that at the end i haven't been to ae's live at turin, i got
myself too stoned while driving and didn't found the place.
i've driven five hours all across that fucking city but i
didn't found it, i just stopped for a becks and made 250 km
back home, one of the worst nights of my life XD


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2008-04-30 17:48 [#02200066]
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couldn't you just ask someone for direction?

i don't have experience with gypsies myself..i don't mind
them. i just don't like hyped stuff for some reason, and
kusturica's got an attitude problem.

mouse, maybe it's just a phase : )


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2008-04-30 17:53 [#02200072]
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i didn't know he's got some problem, now you're goin too
much into something i don't dare to check. i just know that
those moovies don't left me down =)

have you ever been to turin? couldn't find an italian
neither paying for it. only maroccains and that kind of
stuff ;) one dude from romania said he did already seen me
and asked if i was rumenian, that was the best moment of the
trip!


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2008-04-30 17:56 [#02200076]
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yeah, i spent about 5 days there couple of years ago..i
didn't have problems finding anything i must say..plenty of
italians as well, though everytime i visit italia i see more
africans..


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2008-04-30 18:06 [#02200082]
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plenty of italians.. maybe, but not by feet at that time of
the day. the place was on the other side of the river and i
just couldn't get the right path to move around it.. most
probably i was too stoned.

no worries though, for the next years italy's gonna back to
mussolini's decennio and send those bastards right in their
country.


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2008-04-30 18:11 [#02200086]
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hehe

btw, did you see moretti's 'il caimano'? that one was fun!


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2008-04-30 18:17 [#02200095]
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i didn't see it, gonna check it out next =) "caos calmo" his
last one is not bad but not worth watching imho, it came out
with alot of hype for a sex scene totally out of context
that riuned a nice movie, moretti acting in a hardcore
fucking is just not credible XD


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2008-04-30 18:20 [#02200098]
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haha, yeah quite unimaginable actually

it's a weird trened this pointless explicit sex scenes
thing..i don't get it nor like it. unless it makes sense in
the context. dunno


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2008-04-30 18:30 [#02200106]
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the one in time of the gypsies when they rape the girl in
the roulotte is a sex scene in the right contest, methinks
kusturica wants to show what happens before to these girls
on the streets of italy.

the one is caos calmo absolutely isn't, it is a soft movie
with drama enough to make you think something but when it
came that scene i thought that there has to be sex in that
movie to be sold enough.


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2008-04-30 18:40 [#02200115]
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kusturica is never explicit though..he can't afford it..he
doesn't make independant movies anymore : )

yeah, lots of films seem to use sex scenes for propaganda.

i can't imagine nanni in hardcore sex scene at all


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2008-04-30 18:54 [#02200137]
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i didn't know that, thats why i liked time of the gypsies
that much! it seems to be dated '88.

considering the amount of sex alussions we get everyday just
taking a walk on the street i don't think you're too
conventional, ppl should be watching less and do more in my
opinion. stress and wanks, that is all about.


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2008-04-30 18:59 [#02200142]
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me included of course


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2008-04-30 19:01 [#02200146]
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i like sex scenes with feelings involved..not the animal
like sex. and it seems it's this one that is the most
popular atm. i just find it really odd...it's there to shock
foremost. i don't see the passion, but maybe that's just bad
acting. oh well


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2008-04-30 19:14 [#02200160]
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mmm.. i didn't consider that but yes, actually there is a
scene is a us movie where a professor that liked... mmm.. to
catalog bugs if i rember well marry a student of him then
starts a project aim to cosider sex as a free pratice
between everyone, couples included, in a proibitionism age..
i'm not sure what i'm saying btw, for me the most exciting
scene and the only one i remember (with a creepy one where a
teen fucks a 70+) was one in which you can't see the the two
fucking, but just the eyes of the woman truly in love with
him. for the record he wasn't her husband, but a random guy
taking part of the experiment.


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2008-04-30 19:16 [#02200166]
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^ a lot of typos up there


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2008-04-30 19:25 [#02200179]
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right. you make a film about sex, im fine with that. but to
build a film on a sex scene that's something i don't get.
first the start, blah blah, then the sex scene, and ends
with blah blah.

maybe i have a problem with it because it's so popular and i
hate popular : - )


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2008-04-30 19:42 [#02200195]
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but you like popular music ;)


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2008-04-30 19:46 [#02200198]
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yeah, i put it wrong. i like popular, just not hyped. hype i
can't take. with few exceptions..like aphex twin, because
he's fun!


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2008-04-30 19:54 [#02200210]
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haha.. watching aphex twin having sex sounds pretty
disgusting though!



 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2008-04-30 19:56 [#02200217]
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if kusturica directed it, it wouldn't be that bad maybe.


 

offline Sano on 2008-04-30 20:07 [#02200228]
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Black cat, White cat is good only if you see it once, his
other movies I wasn't even able to finish watching them.

Also real life gypsies... I like to stay the fuck away from
them at all costs.


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2008-04-30 20:23 [#02200240]
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where i live there are many gypsies cos the city has to give
them some money when they stops. this cos once a gypsies
queen married an italian queen that made that law, now i'm
explaining you with miserable words something i don't really
know but that's the main deal. i also try to stay away from
their caravans in the park down here but watching that movie
gave me different perspectives than just a question mark,
when i see a children smiling at me.

btw, the blonde girl in Black cat, White cat is just so
beautiful.


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2008-04-30 20:24 [#02200241]
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* italian king


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2008-04-30 20:27 [#02200245]
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* assorted mistakes


 

offline Sano on 2008-04-30 20:36 [#02200254]
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Yeah she was really cute, the midget wasn't too bad either
:D

A friend of mine who works in that region, I asked if he
ever went to Romania and he told me it was a very poor
country, he said to my surprise that it was not too far from
the Kusturica movies!
I'm sure that there are regions that are more developed
than others but because rural people have access to modern
items and commodities it creates that crazy contrast that we
see in Black Cat White Cat.


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2008-04-30 20:52 [#02200271]
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yup, when they spoke about the midget sister i thought she
was really ugly but the first time she appeared in the movie
i've had the same thought =D and i enjoyed that crazy
contrast with technology you talk about, too.

aren't kusturica's ones balkan gypsies? can't say that
people from romania is doing good around here though,
they're mainly desperate people imported by the local mafia
to do the dirtiest works =(


 

offline Sano on 2008-04-30 21:08 [#02200281]
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Yes there are two etnicies of gypsies the Balkan ones that
originated from Romania and the ones that came from
India/Pakistan, I get to see the two, I think both are seen
in Kusturica movies.

Yes the Balkans make an effort to integrate in society as
the Hindu gypsies live by their own set of rules and
costumes which clash totally by any modern society
standards.


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2008-04-30 21:34 [#02200306]
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thanks for the info =) i thought they probably mix
themselves with nomads from the middle east since some of
them have arab names and for the common lines they have in
music, especially talking about percussions.


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2008-04-30 21:40 [#02200307]
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i thought they all had the same origins..

but then again all people have same origin.


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2008-04-30 21:43 [#02200311]
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it appears they indeed are of the same origins


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2008-04-30 21:52 [#02200315]
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ah! i can finally see why darbuka is widely played on Egypt,
Turkey and Balkans as well. thank you Goran =)


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2008-05-05 16:18 [#02202570]
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yesterday i surprisingly stumbled upon "Life Is a
Miracle"(2004) on italian tv, stopped watching after half an
hour. you was right there's no comparison with the old ones
he made, even Vesna Trivalic was not that kind of a deal.


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2008-05-05 17:19 [#02202582]
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i haven't seen that one. you should see underground if
you haven't seen it yet. that one was nice.
but ofcourse there's plenty of other directors/films you
should check out before that : )


 

offline Sano on 2008-05-05 17:37 [#02202585]
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They may have had the same origins but they set apart over
the years, there are gypsy families that don't like each
other let alone gypsies from different regions, I have
neighbors that are gypsies, the ones that live in the wild
are much worse to socialize with, they even try to sell
their kids hence why you often see parents with black hair
and tanned skin but their sons are blond, there's lot of
messed up stuff that they consider their culture like
marring 13 year girls with guys over 25, I guess the
arranged marriages are part of the Indian background.

As for Underground it didn't grab me so I never finished
watching, definitely not as colorful as Black Cat White Cat.


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2008-05-05 19:53 [#02202644]
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a lot of shit happens in the civilized world too


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2008-05-06 03:29 [#02202689]
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yeah, they (as anyone else i imagine) definitelly have very
different life styles..some are 'socialised' some aren't.
it's exaplained rather well in that wikipedia article..

as for podzemlje..i think knowing the language makes quite a
bit difference. serbian language just works so well in
movies..i imagine better than any other language.
definitelly way better than english. it's not just
language..it's the culture, people, mentality..i love it : )



 

offline Falito from Balenciaga on 2008-05-06 05:09 [#02202690]
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(no post read)my words on Emir Kusturica.

awesome,human,funny and creative.
good relashionship betwen images,words and music.


 


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