Fucking Amal Twenty Years Ago

Discuss Lukas Moodysson's first feature film Fucking Åmål (Show me Love).

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Re: Fucking Amal Twenty Years Ago

Postby fish » Tue Mar 27, 2018 4:22 am

fish wrote:...I haven't found anything about a dvd...

Still looking.
Still not finding. *:|*

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Re: Fucking Amal Twenty Years Ago

Postby Ian » Tue Mar 27, 2018 10:03 am

But she's hoping to be with one, Elin, hint hint. :wink:
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Re: Fucking Amal Twenty Years Ago

Postby M83 » Tue Mar 27, 2018 12:00 pm

Twenty Years. That makes me feel old :D
Perfect time to release that remastered print on Blu Ray/DVD they did a few months ago, throw in plenty of extras (Making off, new interviews and deleted footage) and a commentary (in English would be nice) with Moodysson, Dahlstorm and Liljeberg. Had a rewatch of the film after not watching the film in 5 years, and aside from some dodgy Europop and 90's fashion and guy's haircuts it's aged pretty well, the whole cast and script are the stand outs and the last 15 minutes still melts the heart, still feel the film is at it's strongest up to the moment of the kiss in the car. Sadly that it's been neglected so much by the film company, a crappy DVD release over here in mainland Europe. I've been waiting for years for a special edition DVD or Blu Ray but as the years go by I can't see them doing that. Expect another thrown together release. The film deserves a top release.
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Re: Fucking Amal Twenty Years Ago

Postby Santi » Tue Mar 27, 2018 4:16 pm

Something strange is happening. 8)
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Re: Fucking Amal Twenty Years Ago

Postby fish » Wed Mar 28, 2018 3:08 am

M83 wrote:...The film deserves a top release.

And we're (im)patiently waiting. :Y *:)*


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Re: Fucking Amal Twenty Years Ago

Postby Ian » Wed Mar 28, 2018 9:54 am

We can only hope. It is staggering that such a successful, popular and iconic film has been treated so shabbily in terms of home video. Is this normal for Swedish movies? :?
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Re: Fucking Amal Twenty Years Ago

Postby fish » Sat Mar 31, 2018 12:07 am

Ian wrote:We can only hope...

I wonder if there are others waiting with us. :?

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Re: Fucking Amal Twenty Years Ago

Postby Santi » Sat Mar 31, 2018 1:05 am

of course
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Re: Fucking Amal Twenty Years Ago

Postby Santi » Wed Sep 19, 2018 1:03 am

Do you think it would have been very strong to have organized a fan encounter this year around the world?
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Re: Fucking Amal Twenty Years Ago

Postby fish » Wed Sep 19, 2018 5:27 am

It would be nice to imagine such a fan encounter, but realistically I don't think it would ever come to fruition.
On a global scale there are too few fans with too great a distance between them.

Maybe something like the Åmål get together at the moment is the right sort of event.
Transpose it to Trollhätten and there might be even more chance of success.

We'll have to see what Eldsjäl says about the Åmål event. *:)*
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Re: Fucking Amal Twenty Years Ago

Postby Ian » Wed Sep 19, 2018 10:33 am

I'm not even sure how that would have been done, and I doubt many would have been able to afford it as well. :?
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Re: Fucking Amal Twenty Years Ago

Postby Santi » Wed Sep 19, 2018 1:40 pm

fish wrote:Maybe something like the Åmål get together at the moment is the right sort of event.
Transpose it to Trollhätten and there might be even more chance of success.


Yes, event of Åmål is a bit of this.
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Re: Fucking Amal Twenty Years Ago

Postby M83 » Fri Oct 05, 2018 7:32 pm

fish wrote:
M83 wrote:...The film deserves a top release.

And we're (im)patiently waiting. :Y *:)*


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Hi fish :W Haven't been on here for months. hope you are doing well.

I would love a DVD/Blu Ray combo release, with extras as i said before. Fed up with the bare bone releases of Moodysson's films to be honest. The quality of picture on the Fucking Amal DVD that i got is awful.

Amazing to think I was watching this for the first time when I was 19 years of age, some 17 years ago. I remember it was a Saturday night and it was 2 in the morning. TV station in Ireland used to show Foreign films at crazy times but I always catch them cause you usually get some fantastic films and I always liked foreign films. I had just got in from a night of partying so I wasn't entirely sober, so cooked myself some noodles and decided to watch this Swedish film. I'm sure for other fan's here, when I first saw it blew me away. It reminded me of my youth (aside from Lesbians lol) just the parties in Friend's houses, snogging any girl who looked good, dancing to crappy dance music and bad fashion and haircuts lol. I always wrote down the name of film's I really liked so I wouldn't forget and could tape it if it was on again. My luck a year or so after that on BBC 3 they screened it, so I taped it and I had that tape until the Box set release of Moodysson films (Fucking Amal has yet to get a single DVD release here).
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Re: Fucking Amal Twenty Years Ago

Postby fish » Sat Oct 06, 2018 1:46 am

M83 wrote:...TV station in Ireland used to show Foreign films at crazy times but I always catch them cause you usually get some fantastic films and I always liked foreign films...

I was the same with "SBS" here in Australia, (where I first saw FÅ about 15 years ago), and "World Movies Channel" on pay TV.
Always had a browse through their week's programs so I could record anything that took my fancy. *:)*
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Re: Fucking Amal Twenty Years Ago

Postby Santi » Sat Oct 06, 2018 3:02 am

For me, there are always many things together that make the magic of a movie, and in FA one of them is the quality of before.

Removing just one thing wobbles all the magic we live.

This washing and rinsing of the dishwasher detracts from the magic and puts it in the place of another movie.

It would have been better to show everything that was not edited to highlight how that magic was achieved.
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