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JohnWesleyDowney Registered: Jan '04	Date Posted: 6/29 11:19pm Subject: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "The Color Purple" (1985) - Date Edited: 6/29 11:33pm (1 edits total) Edited By: JohnWesleyDowney
	Zaz posted: Next: "The Colour Purple" (1985) USA, 154 mins. Colour Director: Steven Spielberg Producers: Quincy Jones, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Steven Spielberg Screenplay: Menno Meyjes Photography: Allen Daviau Music: Quincy Jones Cast: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery, Ophrah Winfrey Spielberg on the trail of an Oscar. You are warned. Allen Daviau shot three films for Spielberg in the 80s, E.T., The Color Purple and Empire of the Sun. This is easily one of Spielberg's most beautiful films and Daviau's best. The cinematography is exquisite and poetic, and fits the material like a glove. Daviau is a huge fan and student of the great painters. (He also shot small portions of Close Encounters and Temple of Doom.) For me, the redeeming feature of the Color Purple is the way it looks. Colorful.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 7/1 3:37pm Subject: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "The Color Purple" (1985)
	Why just a small portion?
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JohnWesleyDowney Registered: Jan '04	Date Posted: 7/1 8:12pm Subject: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "The Color Purple" (1985) - Date Edited: 7/1 8:19pm (1 edits total) Edited By: JohnWesleyDowney
	Daviau shot the Gobi Desert scene for Close Encounters The Special Edition, long after the movie had first been released. That film's director of photography, Vilmos Szigmond, had long moved on to shooting other projects, such as The Deer Hunter and was not available. Daviau shot the scenes for Temple of Doom that were done in America. The film's British director of photography, the legendary Douglas Slocombe, shot almost all of the movie in Sri Lanka and London. For some reason Slocombe didn't come to America to shoot those few scenes, and Daviau was called in by Spielberg to help take up the slack.
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 7/2 3:31pm Subject: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "The Color Purple" (1985) - Date Edited: 7/2 3:33pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Rogue1-and-a-half
	That's really interesting, about TOD and Close Encounters. I didn't know that; I can't even, at the moment, really remember when they were in America in TOD. EDIT: Oh, you mean the scenes shot in America. Duh. Sorry. -----signature----- Don't be a fool, don't be blind Heart of mine If you can't do the time, don't do the crime Heart of mine
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 7/3 8:03pm Subject: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "The Color Purple" (1985)
	Next: "Manhunter" (1986) USA, 119 mins. Colour Director: Michael Mann Producers: Dino DeLaurentiis, Richard A. Roth Screenplay: Michael Mann, from the novel "Red Dragon" by Thomas Harris Photography: Dante Spinotti Music: Michel Rubini, Klaus Schulze Cast: William L. Petersen, Kim Greist, Joan Allen, Brian Cox, Dennis Farina, Stephen Lang The prequel to "The Silence of the Lambs"...with Brian Cox as Lecter.
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DarthBoba Registered: Jun '00	Date Posted: 7/4 12:20am Subject: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Manhunter" (1986)
	Red Dragon is better. That's right, I'm calling you out Rogue. -----signature----- Only a Prime can defeat Vader and his Emperor.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 7/4 3:58pm Subject: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Manhunter" (1986)
	I think he's on holidays...
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DarthBoba Registered: Jun '00	Date Posted: 7/4 4:43pm Subject: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Manhunter" (1986)
	He'll see it sooner or later. And yes, it somewhat rends the mind that Red Dragon is a great flick when it was directed by Brett Rattner, who somehow managed to jack up X-Men 3. -----signature----- Only a Prime can defeat Vader and his Emperor.
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Gonk Registered: Jul '98	Date Posted: 7/4 5:10pm Subject: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Manhunter" (1986)
	Say what you like, but "Manhunter"s Tiger scene was better. Plus I do think Peterson was better as Will Graham. Although pitting that Noonan fellow against Ray Finnes is like pitting a man armed with a stick against a tank. Finnes is among the best actors alive -- many would say he IS the best actor alive. How do you go up against that? -----signature----- What shall we do to fill the empty spaces Where waves of hunger gnaw? Shall we set out upon this sea of faces In search of more and more and more?
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DarthBoba Registered: Jun '00	Date Posted: 7/4 5:16pm Subject: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Manhunter" (1986)
	I agree that the fellow in Manhunter probably was a better Will Graham, but I don't really care about that because there's literally dozens if not hundreds of well-portrayed detectives in film-Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt in Seven, for starters. Well-portrayed and convincingly real serial killers are a different story; I can hardly think of any, besides Kevin Spacey in Seven and Ralph in Red Dragon, which is why I give RD the edge over Manhunter. Dolarhyde is the real focus of the original novel; Manhunter basically ignored that, and Red Dragon did not, and the result is a terrifying, horrific, and ultimately pitiable villain. As for Fiennes, mmm...possibly the best actor alive, I'd say. I mean, just the story from the set of Schindler's List where his appearance in his SS uniform was enough to convince a Holocaust survivor that he was the real thing and nearly break down out of fear is a fearsome testimony to his skills. -----signature----- Only a Prime can defeat Vader and his Emperor.
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Gonk Registered: Jul '98	Date Posted: 7/4 8:45pm Subject: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Manhunter" (1986)
	If you watch Schindler's List, Strange Days and Quiz Show in succession, that can give you a good impression of the man's range. -----signature----- What shall we do to fill the empty spaces Where waves of hunger gnaw? Shall we set out upon this sea of faces In search of more and more and more?
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DarthBoba Registered: Jun '00	Date Posted: 7/4 10:39pm Subject: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Manhunter" (1986)
	I tried to watch Strange Days; the rape sequence was abit much for me. Not that I thought Ralph did poorly, not yeah, that was abit intense. -----signature----- Only a Prime can defeat Vader and his Emperor.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 7/5 4:54pm Subject: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Manhunter" (1986)
	He was very poor in his first appearance in GOF as Voldemort, but I blame that more on the director, not him.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 7/6 7:02pm Subject: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Manhunter" (1986)
	Next: "Stand By Me" (1986) USA, 89 mins. Colour Director: Rob Reiner Producers: Bruce A. Evans, Raynold Gideon, Andrew Scheinman Screenplay: Bruce A. Evans, Raynold Gideon Photography: Thomas Del Ruth Music: Jack Nitschze Cast: Will Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Kiefer Sutherland, Richard Dreyfus Stephen King adapts well to the screen occasionally. I'm not sure this is one of the times.
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Gonk Registered: Jul '98	Date Posted: 7/6 7:37pm Subject: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Manhunter" (1986)
	It's a great movie. King's usually best when he's NOT doing Horror, and this isn't Horror. -----signature----- What shall we do to fill the empty spaces Where waves of hunger gnaw? Shall we set out upon this sea of faces In search of more and more and more?
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