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Talking talkies
	Topic by: MHam Posted: May 20, 2005 - 8:48 AM PDT Last Reply: May 22, 2005 - 9:36 AM PDT

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MHam	post #1  on May 20, 2005 - 8:48 AM PDT   I really enjoy films in which the focus is on good conversation and talk. Films like "The Wife," "My Dinner with Andre," "The Designated Mourner," "Melvin Goes to Dinner." Can you think of other films of this genre you could recommend?
woozy	post #2  on May 20, 2005 - 11:57 AM PDT   > On May 20, 2005 - 8:48 AM PDT MHam wrote: > --------------------------------- > I really enjoy films in which the focus is on good conversation and talk. Films like "The Wife," "My Dinner with Andre," "The Designated Mourner," "Melvin Goes to Dinner." Can you think of other films of this genre you could recommend? > --------------------------------- I liked "13 Conversations about one thing"
hamano	post #3  on May 20, 2005 - 12:00 PM PDT   Would the obvious answer be Before Sunrise and Before Sunset?
hamano	post #4  on May 20, 2005 - 12:04 PM PDT   > On May 20, 2005 - 11:57 AM PDT woozy wrote: > --------------------------------- > I liked "13 Conversations about one thing" Hah! Obviously we've already broken into two factions, form vs. content, quality vs. quantity....
Eoliano	post #5  on May 20, 2005 - 12:11 PM PDT   If it's talk you want, how about sex, lies and videotape or a non-sop monologue?
hamano	post #6  on May 20, 2005 - 12:28 PM PDT   Any film by Errol Morris pretty much eschews narration in favor of interviews and titles... My favorites are The Thin Blue Line and Vernon, Florida.
Eoliano	post #7  on May 20, 2005 - 12:48 PM PDT   > Any film by Errol Morris pretty much eschews narration in favor of interviews and titles... My favorites are The Thin Blue Line and Vernon, Florida. My Errol Morris fave is The Fog of War.
woozy	post #8  on May 20, 2005 - 1:20 PM PDT   > Hah! Obviously we've already broken into two factions, form vs. content, quality vs. quantity.... > --------------------------------- ?joke? ?insult of taste? ???? ?care to explain as I don't understand?
Cinenaut	post #9  on May 20, 2005 - 2:25 PM PDT   Spalding Gray. Gray's Anatomy or Swimming to Cambodia or Monster in a Box. Actually, the only one I've seen is Swimming to Cambodia. Make a list, MHam! Make a list!
Cinenaut	post #10  on May 20, 2005 - 2:27 PM PDT   Whoopsie. I obviously missed Eoliano's stealth link.
underdog	post #11  on May 20, 2005 - 3:32 PM PDT   I would second the recs for Before/After Sunrise. Both are excellent, and with wonderful European scenery to boot! 13 Conversations is an interesting film, but I don't recall it being just people talking - isn't there some narrative drive to it, some "action" as it were? I feel like just about 2/3 of every movie from this country would qualify, too, ;-) but I don't necessarily mean that as an insult. Damn, too bad Mindwalk isn't out on DVD. And let's not forget this one, animated though it is: Waking Life. Oh, did anyone mentioned Jim Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes?
woozy	post #12  on May 20, 2005 - 3:54 PM PDT   > 13 Conversations is an interesting film, but I don't recall it being just people talking - isn't there some narrative drive to it, some "action" as it were? > It centered around communication and conversation but no, it wasn't "only talk"
ahogue	post #13  on May 22, 2005 - 9:36 AM PDT   > On May 20, 2005 - 12:48 PM PDT Eoliano wrote: > --------------------------------- > > Any film by Errol Morris pretty much eschews narration in favor of interviews and titles... My favorites are The Thin Blue Line and Vernon, Florida. > > My Errol Morris fave is The Fog of War. > > > --------------------------------- Those are all great, but for me it has to be Gates of Heaven