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Is This Goodbye, Charlie Brown?
| Title: | Is This Goodbye, Charlie Brown? |
| Year: | 1983 |
| Directors: | Phil Roman |
| Writers: | Charles M. Schulz (creator)
Charles M. Schulz (writt |
| Rating: | 7.5 | 67 votes |
| Languages: | English |
| Color: | Color |
| Country: | USA |
| Company: | Lee Mendelson/Bill Melendez Production |
| Genres: | Animation | Short |
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| 1) Linus has to break devastating news, his father has a new job and has to relocate his family. Charlie Brown and the gang make their goodbyes and prepare for Linus and Lucy’s departure. |
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| Comments: | |
| 1) Everyone knows and watches the same Peanuts specials; Charlie BrownChristmas, It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, and It’s the Easter Beagle,Charlie Brown. Most of the non-holiday specials have kind of disappearedinto the void- this being one of them.
One of the more emotional specials (in a field of surprisingly good ones;Why, Charlie Brown, Why? and What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown? are alsogood, over-looked ones), this is an adaptation of a run of the Peanuts comicstrip that appeared in the 60′s, concerning Linus and Lucy movingaway. Peanuts specials are best when confronting an adult situation with a child’sperspective- something that is lacking in most of the holiday specials; thisis a rare episode that deals with a child’s situation from a child’sperspective. While many adults experience the loss of friends when theymove away, rarely is it as traumatic (or as common) as in childhood.Charlie Brown has to learn to deal with the loss of his best friend (andonly friend that accepts Charlie Brown the way he is), Linus’ securityblanket doesn’t help with the anxiety of having to make new friends, andLucy realizes how much she loves what she’s leaving behind- what she’scomplained about her whole life. The show ends on an up note, of course; the original run of comic strips hadLinus and Lucy moving back, due to the protestations of fans… Satisfying for fans, and a situation almost any child can relateto. |
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Is There Sex After Death?
| Title: | Is There Sex After Death? |
| Year: | 1971 |
| Directors: | Alan Abel,
Jeanne Abel |
| Writers: | Jeanne Abel (written by) &
Alan Abel (writt |
| Rating: | 4.8 | 90 votes |
| Languages: | English |
| Color: | Color |
| Country: | USA |
| Genres: | Comedy |
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| 1) Driving through New York City in his Sexmobile, Dr. Harrison Rogers of the Bureau of Sexological Investigation, searches out luminary figures in the world of sex. |
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| Comments: | |
| 1) Basically a compilation of vignettes all satirizing Americas new foundsexual revolution. Not all that different from other similar ‘underground’films of that period and it should best be viewed as simply a relic of it’sera.
Some of the bits could be considered clever, but they fail to build anymomentum. This one joke premise loses steam halfway thru eventually makingthe constantly quirky insights by the constantly quirky characters tiresomeand redundant. The sex and nudity, while in abundance, also become a turnoff. The majority of the participants, especially those in the nudistcolony, are so old and out of shape you really wish they would have justleft their clothes on. Abel himself, as the host and interviewer, actually comes off best. Hisunblinking deadpan seriousness, even when in the middle of completeperversity, is right on target. It also features a funny interview withtransvestite Holly Woodlawn, some spontaneous on the street interviews, anda climatic ‘Sex Olympics’. In fact if you get this on video it might beworth it to just fast forward it to this point. 2) This is a very wacky and original comedy which in some ways was ahead of itstime. It is worth seeing this film even if just for the "sex Olympics"segments. 3) This film is a crazy quilt of tongue in cheek vignettes, all spoofing thesexualrevolution of the 70′s. It is great dirty satire featuring some of thebest improvisational comedians of the era, including Buck Henry and thehilarious Marshall Efron. Many of the movie‘s funniest sequences take place at the Bureau of Sexological Investigation where the head doctor, Alan Abel,instructshis patients on solving a variety of weirdly humorous maladies. There arealsoreal on the street interviews with Abel and an inspired group of people.Throwin a topless string quartet, a pornographic opera, life inside a nudistcamp, anda marvelous bit with an X-rated filmmaker, and you have a constant barrageoflaughs. The most comical scene is The International Sex Bowl sequence attheend, which remains a classic piece of comedy. Highlyrecommended. 4) I feel sorry for females that rented this film. All the naked ladieshere were gorgeous, all the naked men were middle-aged and/or fat.That's not fair really. The nudist colony scenes were laughable. Everybody was trying so hardNOT to look at the camera. And do nudists really play 'simon says' thatmuch? The sex hospital segments were a perfect example of black comedy.I liked seeing the people doing it on the bed and begging the scientist'Please, can we stop now?' As if. The fake porno shoot was hysterical. The 'director' taking it all tooseriously was a riot. And the sex doctor caressing the nudies next to him with that feathermade my wife jealous. Wish I had a feather like that. 5) Thirty Three years later, I am still chuckling. I didn’t really want to goto see an X rated film. This movie was a riot. I can still remember a lotofthe scenes but I have never seen it for rent or talked to anyone else thatviewed this hilarous film. |
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Is There a Doctor in the Mouse?
| Title: | Is There a Doctor in the Mouse? |
| Year: | 1964 |
| Directors: | Chuck Jones,
Maurice Noble (co-director) |
| Writers: | Michael Maltese (story) &
Chuck Jones (stor |
| Rating: | 5.7 | 78 votes |
| Languages: | English |
| Color: | Color |
| Country: | USA |
| Company: | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) |
| Genres: | Family | Animation | Short | Comedy |
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| Jerry creates a potion that makes him super-fast, which causes Tom nothing but trouble. | |
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| 1) This was the first of the several latter-day (mid 1960s) Tom And Jerryanimated shorts I watched in the past month, having seen about 20-30overall. Well, all I can say is: I am not impressed. I'll take theearlier stuff ('40s and '50s) any day.
These caricatures almost didn't even look like Tom and Jerry in spots.The artwork looked terrible. I would have guessed the opposite: thatthis was a primitive early edition, not something done late in thecareer of these animated favorites. Story-wise, Jerry takes some strange green potion that makes him into asuper-fast character, that goes around devouring all the food that Tomis ready to eat. It's done so fast, Tom doesn't have a clue what ishappening. After he videotapes Jerry and puts it in slow- motion, hesees who the culprit is. When he goes to attack the mouse, Jerry hastaken another potion which makes him a giant. That's it – that's the story. Not funny at all and poorly drawn. 2) Well, the one good thing I can say about this cartoon is that itprovided some very talented people (i.e., Chuck Jones and hisrecently-laid-off Warner animation crew) with some badly needed, fulltime jobs. This aside, they put the two characters in their mouths,chew 'em, then spit 'em out again so they're beyond recognition. Isuppose I could give some credit for Jones' team giving this one somesemblance of a story (albeit a very elementary one….and the gags wereall done twenty times better in this or that Roadrunner cartoon–itreminds me most of that second-rate one where Wile E. chases the birdthru all those pipes & ends up with a giant Roadrunner). And Jonesmakes Tom grimace just like the Grinch, and later on he has Tom bawlingjust like Marc Antony (I think I'm gonna plotz). But with all thoseinfluences, I don't feel I'm getting much of a Tom & Jerry cartoonhere. 3) I love this one. Jerry is making a potion which makes him move atlightning speed and eats all of Tom’s food before he can lay a tooth onit. Tom thinks of all the possibilities (a fly with a rocket pack, aghost . . .) and films whatever’s going on. He sets out a cake as baitand plays the film in slow motion, revealing the thief. Soon the potionwears off, and Jerry makes more, only this time, Jerry grows into anenormous size. The result is too funny! I recommend you watch this one.I love the way Tom laughs in this episode. Chuck Jones did a terrific job doing these episodes. They remind me ofHow the Grinch Stole Christmas. I wish it was on Cartoon Network moreoften. |
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Is That All There Is?
| Title: | Is That All There Is? |
| Year: | 1993 |
| Directors: | Lindsay Anderson |
| Writers: | Lindsay Anderson (written by) |
| Rating: | 7.3 | 38 votes |
| Languages: | English |
| Color: | Color |
| Country: | UK |
| Company: | BBC Scotland |
| Genres: | Comedy |
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| 1) This is great director Lindsay Anderson’s mock documentary on his own dailylife: a sort of "portrait of the artist". Of course we get to see the manhimself, but along the way he satirises all the cliches of this genre ofdocumentary – domestic disputes (appallingly enacted), parallel montage aspolitical statement, and those "personal moments" such as the director inhis bath surrounded by posters of his films and plays.There is naturally, despite his usual sharp-witted fun, a great chance tolearn more about him. Particularly poignant is to see him in his last filmdescribing the difficulties such a great director always had findingfundingfor his anarchic, surrealist visions. I’ve heard it was this constantstruggle that killed him at the realtively young age of 73. It’s a shamethat the profit motive remains more important than the chance for us tohaveseen more films from such a wonderful filmmaker. | |
Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin
| Title: | Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin |
| Year: | 1996 |
| Directors: | Sudhir Mishra |
| Writers: | Nikhil Advani (screenplay)
Imtiaz Hussain (dialogue) |
| Rating: | 8.2 | 45 votes |
| Languages: | Hindi |
| Color: | Color |
| Country: | India |
| Company: | PLUS Films |
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| 1) Ramanbhai is the criminal don of Bombay, and most criminal activities are linked indirectly to him. He has a rival in Vilas Pandey, who is furious with Ramanbhai, and wants to get a larger part of his share from the wealth generated by crime. Ramanbhai’s attempts to woo a woman, Pooja, are met with oppostion from Pooja’s boyfriend, Aditya, and this results in Aditya, Pooja, Malika, and Rajesh running for their lives, as they know Ramanbhai will leave no stone unturned in order to hunt Aditya down, and make him pay for daring to oppose the underworld king. |
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| 1) Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin, as the name goes, is a stark, realistic look atlifein urban Bombay. Life whizzes past you, fast and before you know it youarein the middle of murder, mayhem, violence and attempted suicide. The paceofthe movie is slick, the tale told refreshingly.The team of actors and actresses make a sincere attempt at portraying thesleaze, muck and grime that even the layman might get involved in by justbeing a part of the real Bombay. The Bombay of locals, of the underworld,ofslums, of overpopulation, of crime and of survival amidst all this thatconstantly bogs you down. Good triumphs over evil, even in this dark cityofterror, finally. | |