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| tigglewink01 |
Date: Friday, 22-Jun-18, 3:04 PM | Message # 901 |
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Thanks for the very good read I enjoyed it cannot wait to see it I know I always say that. |
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| DS_Pallas |
Date: Monday, 02-Jul-18, 10:54 AM | Message # 902 |
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The Breath DVD release is due for July 28th in Australia. Apparently, only for the Australian zone, for now:
Note: All our DVDs are new Australian region 4 DVDs made for Australian DVD players.
https://www.dvdland.com.au/products/Breath-%282018%29.html |
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| tigglewink01 |
Date: Monday, 02-Jul-18, 5:45 PM | Message # 903 |
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Sucks! its not fare hee! Hee! thanks for the moan. How are you doing DSP well I hope. Why are we always the last to have anything our wonderful Simon does its not fare to us Britts. |
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| Tina |
Date: Tuesday, 03-Jul-18, 8:15 AM | Message # 904 |
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I have a codefree player. If I find a copy from somebody who sells to Germany I might give it a try  . |
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| DS_Pallas |
Date: Friday, 06-Jul-18, 1:45 PM | Message # 905 |
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Breath will be available in Europe via download platforms like Itunes, at the beginning of September 2018.
No official release date for now. Stay tuned! |
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| tigglewink01 |
Date: Friday, 06-Jul-18, 2:21 PM | Message # 906 |
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I'll wait for your message. |
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| DS_Pallas |
Date: Monday, 16-Jul-18, 1:47 PM | Message # 907 |
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From Cinema Paradiso (UK dvd rental website):
https://www.cinemaparadiso.co.uk/rentals/breath-228291.html
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| Deedee |
Date: Monday, 16-Jul-18, 9:45 PM | Message # 908 |
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Wow that’s a might big wave!! Thanks DSP. |
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| tigglewink01 |
Date: Tuesday, 17-Jul-18, 0:21 AM | Message # 909 |
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That's a whopper thanks for the pic DSP |
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| bee |
Date: Tuesday, 17-Jul-18, 5:23 AM | Message # 910 |
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Great shot, thanks DSP. |
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| DS_Pallas |
Date: Thursday, 19-Jul-18, 7:55 PM | Message # 911 |
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Breath at the New Zealand International Film Festival 2018.
Breath 2017
Directed by Simon Baker
Coming of age in 1970s Western Australia is poignantly evoked in Simon Baker’s visually poetic adaptation of Tim Winton’s novel about a young man’s obsession with surfing and the allure of living dangerously.
https://www.nziff.co.nz/2018/auckland/breath/ |
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| tigglewink01 |
Date: Thursday, 19-Jul-18, 11:29 PM | Message # 912 |
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Thanks DSP the last picture always got me but it shows up Simon age in his face. Nice though thanks again for the link. |
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| DS_Pallas |
Date: Monday, 23-Jul-18, 8:09 PM | Message # 913 |
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At Darren's World of Entertainment - a movie, DVD and game review blog
https://darrens-world-of-entertainment.blogspot.com/2018....ew.html
Monday, 23 July 2018
Breath: NZIFF Review
A typical coming-of-age tale told in a slightly atypical fashion, former The Mentalist actor Simon Baker steps
behind (and in front of) the camera for this adaptation of Tim Winton's book.
Centring on two kids, Pikelet and Loonie (Samson Coulter, sensitive and thoughtful and Ben Spence, instinctive and
amusing) growing up in Western Australia in the 70s, Baker's Sando serves as mentor to the duo, helping them take
in the waves.
But Sando keeps pushing them to go further, despite the condemnation of his other half Eva (Elizabeth Debicki, in
waif and distant form) - however, Pikelet's reticence tests the boundaries of friendship with Loonie and his mentorship
with Sando, as well as his own family unit.
Breath is an intriguing piece, simultaneously feeling distant in some of its narrative parts and yet frighteningly cohesive
in others, and after reflection.
Perhaps consisting of one too many slow mo surfing or at water shots, Breath can be forgiven its indulgence in the
waves of the ocean, thanks to some truly impressive water shots by cinematographer Rick Rifici. Pulsing waves are shot
from below the surface, each one bubbling by and each showing the tumult in the relationships; the symbolism is not lost.
Elsewhere, some narrative threads feel a little unexplored; a potential school girlfriend for Pikelet is more dalliance and
distraction and family tensions are hinted at rather than endorsed further.
But it's herein that lies the rub for Breath. On reflection after the lights have gone up, these relationships are explored
in the way a teenager may approach them - distance helps evaluate what's transpired and why it's that way. Certainly,
the relationship between Eva and Sando appears an odd one, a couple of lost souls who've found each other and are
ebbing in and out like the flow of the ocean - there's much in Winton's prose that hints and there's much in Baker's
restrained direction that offers deeper connections when probed.
In the relationship between the sensitive Pikelet and the gregarious Loonie, Coulter and Spence gel well, each pushing
and pulling the tensions where necessary; feeling naturalistic in many ways, and evocative in others, this is a relationship
that needs no deeper dissection; it breathes on its own and works well because of it.
"I've never seen men do something so beautiful, so pointless and so elegant" intones Pikelet in his later years - but in
many ways, he could be hinting at the relationships that come from growing up; in caressing the tensions, and the
triumphs of youth and friendships, Breath inhales deeply on its intensity and strips away its own profundity in places.
Breath is at once a complex beast at times, and yet one that feels familiar and simple, elegiacally executed - in many
ways, it's one NZIFF film that demands further introspection and re-examination. |
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| DS_Pallas |
Date: Monday, 23-Jul-18, 8:24 PM | Message # 914 |
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Breath
By Nora Lee Mandel July 22, 2018
http://film-forward.com/dvdon-demand/breath
Breath is rapturously and beautifully filmed, centering on two teen boys’ friendship and their
learning to surf the Western Australia coast under the tutelage of an older mentor in the mid-1970s.
Based on his 2008 novel, Tim Winton narrates with some of the rueful perspective of memory from his novel. Pikelet
(Samson Coulter), the quiet son of staid older parents Mr. and Mrs. Pike (Richard Roxburgh and Rachael Blake), lives
on the outskirts of a small town—his dad’s idea of a good time together is fishing. Now that he’s allowed to ride his bike
after school, Pikelet strikes up a racing friendship with the reckless, towheaded Loonie (a scarily hyperactive Ben Spence),
son of the town’s violent pub owner.
They playfully challenge each other through creeks and faster down hills. Riding further and further into the woods one
morning, they come out to a beautiful beach and discover a group of surfers, and they keep getting up at dawn to gawk
at them. The friends earn money doing odd chores around town to buy Styrofoam boards, and they struggle to learn how
to surf until they can afford fiberglass boards. Their determination draws the bemused attention of the oldest, hippie-ish
looking Sando (debut director/co-writer Simon Baker), the most accomplished surfer on the beach. He starts giving the
two rides home in his truck, then a place to store their boards at his house. More and more, he becomes like their guru,
leading them to secluded beaches with bigger waves pounding craggy rocks.
With the story playing out along the ocean scenes—the stunning (under- and over water) cinematography is by Rick Rifici
—the feeling of limitless adult freedom contrasts with the typical teenage constraints of high school and social pressures,
including one involving Pikelet’s first girlfriend. Loonie drops out from vocational school altogether and takes Sando up
on every daring possibility out on the ocean. When the waves aren’t right, the boys hang out at Sando’s house, where
they find out he used to be a top professional surfer on the international circuit.
The audience isn’t the only one a bit uncomfortable about the mentor relationship between Sando and the 15-year-olds.
Always dashing their enthusiasm is his bitter American wife, Eva (Elizabeth Debicki), a former freestyle skier still recovering
from a bad injury that not only halted her athletic career but left her limping and in constant pain, despite many operations.
When Sando suddenly takes Loonie off to surf in Indonesia, Thailand, and wherever, Pikelet helps out Eva by chopping
wood and carrying groceries. She certainly resents that Sando can resume a life of spontaneous travel while basking in
the admiration of his young disciples, but is that enough of rationale for her and Pikelet’s relationship to go to the deep
end of Summer of ’42? At this point, male fantasy edges out the realism.
Winton’s book provides more awareness among the characters about how problematic their interactions are than the film
acknowledges. While Sando irresponsibly encourages Loonie’s wildness, and Eva is seen as a disruptive presence when
she waits at Pikelet’s school, the novel’s adult Pikelet looks back with more regret and cognizance of the inappropriateness
than comes across here. Unfortunately, this leaves a discomfort that almost overwhelms the convincing portrayal of
male adolescent bonhomie, the gorgeous scenery, and the fantastic surfing scenes. |
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| tigglewink01 |
Date: Monday, 23-Jul-18, 8:47 PM | Message # 915 |
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Wow thanks DSP for the link. I have not heard from you for a bit are you ok. I look forward to the next link. |
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