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Dec032012

Films within a Film - The Sequel

I finally watched Dennis Dortch’s dramatic feature “A Good Day to Be Black and Sexy” this weekend, after having difficulty streaming it online a few months ago. The movie holds no bounds (seriously, there were a few times when I started wondering if this movie was some kind of stylized porno) on expressing intricacies of sexuality and relationships, through six different stories that all take place in one day.

Aside from having a groovy soundtrack, 70s flair and one of the longest movie titles ever, “A Good Day to Be Black and Sexy” is the inspiration for the theme to this week’s Monday Movie Meme: Films within a Film - The Sequel: Shorts inside Features.

Share on your blog or in the comments section, movies featuring vignettes. These films are not about one particular story but rather, multiple stories within the same movie. Also, don’t forget to visit the blogs of fellow Monday Movie Meme participants. Here are my selections for this week’s Film within a Film - The Sequel: Shorts inside Features theme.

Personal Velocity
This dramatic piece directed by Rebecca Miller tells the stories of three women who are each at a crossroads in their lives. I rented this on DVD a while back and am not sure if I even remember whether I liked it or not. I don’t even recall enough to determine that even today -- I only remember the scene where one of the women (played by Parker Posey) excuses herself from a social setting so that she can go masturbate in the bathroom and the scene where a battered wife literally takes matters into her own hands while trying to make a better way for herself and her children.

Love Actually
Tina at Life is Good listed this romantic comedy for the first Film within a Film meme several weeks back; One of the ten stories in “Love Actually” involved two actors who develop a liking for each other while working as body doubles on a movie set. Although most of the stories are linked in some way, the fact that there are ten of them (my favorites are the story of a grieving single father finding happiness again; the one about the married advertising executive who gets in a compromising position with his flirtatious assistant; and the one about the beloved politician who falls for a loud, unrefined, foul-mouthed office worker) film makes it a good candidate for this week’s Sequel.....don’t ‘cha think?!

What movies have YOU watched that feature vignettes or several different stories within them?

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Hmmm....tough one! Lets see, how about:

-Vantage Point (2008)
-11:14 (2003)
-Pulp Fiction
-Delicatessen (1991)
-The Red Violin (1998) Have you seen this movie? If not, check it out!

Great topic!

December 3, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterHermanTurnip

New York Stories comes to mind.

December 8, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterKelly

Herman,
Funny...I never thought of Pulp Fiction to be a movie full of vignettes; been too long since I last watched it but yea, you picked a good one there! I heard of Vantage Point but I don't recall ever seeing it and nope, I haven't seen "The Red Violin." To tell you the truth, I have no idea what you're talking about. So...I will look it up at Blockbuster :)
I'm glad you enjoyed this week's topic.

Kelly,
What is "New York Stories?" I never heard of that movie but will definitely look it up now that you mentioned it; might be something that I'd want to check out. Thanks for participating in this week's meme.

December 8, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterNicole

One film like this that I rewatched immediately after watching it the first time--something I rarely do--is Thirteen Conversations about One Thing. Hope I got that title right. I loved this film.

December 10, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterArlee Bird

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