rec.arts.movies.past-films

David Oberman wrote:
> Pjk wrote:
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>>Are there any American, French, British, anywhere films that are as
>>visually entertaining as the three loosely related films; Crouching
>>Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hero, and House of Flying Daggers.
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>>For example any of the fight scenes in the first, but especially the
>>fight on the tops and limbs of the pine trees. The scene where the man
>>flips a pebble at one of the drums and the supposedly blind girl
>>twirls and swirls and hits the same drum with her long sleeve. The
>>fight between the two women amongst the colorful leaves.
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> Wassup. Jean Cocteau's "Le Sang d'un Poète" from 1930 features a
> statue that winks at you & a guy who crawls up a wall.
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> The same dude's "La Belle et la Bête" features a werewolf whose claws
> emit whorls of smoke.
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> Yo, check it out.
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> I felt a tap on my shoulder, but when
> I turned around, there was no one there.
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> -- St. Augustine
Try "The Draughtsman's Contract" (Britain -1982)
Peter Greenaway's mystery play. And the Green Man signifies
what.....?

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