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To: freelyhovering who wrote (132178)	5/8/2004 12:16:43 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

No- The Visitors was remade as "Just Visiting" and it sucked, big time, as a remake. But the original is hysterical. It's one of the few subtitled movies that I show my high school students, which they never complain about. Plus we learned a really cool word from it- Grimoire. I don't know if you saw The Sea is Watching- but it was a lovely movie (Japanese). Also from Japan, and completely different, The Eye, and Suicide Club. Suicide Clus is uneven- but is worth seeing because it is really brilliant in places. I loved The Cuckoo- set in WWII. I bought it, because it is simply a perfect little movie. I liked The Magdalene Sisters- but it's very depressing. Sisters reminded me of Rabbit Proof Fence- which is a great movie, but also depressing. I love Diva. I saw it when it first came out and was very impressed by it. It was directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix, who also did Moon in the Gutter and Betty Blue (which I liked a lot. Did you see Intacto, from Spain? Fantastic movie (imo). It's a wild variant on the Most Dangerous Game- sort of, with shades of unbreakable- but wild and original. One last recommendation- I really liked Lost in La Mancha, about Terry Gilliam's ill fated attempt to film Don Quixote. It's an amazing glimpse into the world of making movies- reminded me a lot of Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse- which was shot by Eleanor Coppola.