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Post by riverhorse on Mar 29, 2020 5:34:17 GMT -5
I've just watched a good film on Amazon called "Blow the Man Down". It's a dark, quirky film set in a Maine fishing village involving crimes and covering them up. One of the best things about the film is its many many strong female characters, including older women. It captures the web of small town intrigue really well.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on May 3, 2020 0:01:09 GMT -5
I’ve been watching random movies recorded on my set top box so I can free up some space. Last night I saw a 60s black and white film called Heavens Above, with Peter Sellers as a bumbling vicar with a socialist leaning who causes chaos in an English village among the aristocracy and business owners. Very funny. Today, Jupiter Ascending, a young adult sci-fi adventure. Somehow, I’m not all that keen on some of the computer generated tech and fighting, but quite a good story.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on May 3, 2020 2:29:10 GMT -5
Onward, the new animation from Pixar. A seriously lovely movie - a sweet adventure quest with mismatched brothers tale.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on May 16, 2020 5:50:04 GMT -5
Another sci-fi movie from my hard drive. This time the classic, John Carter. I’ve been aware of John Carter of Mars for years, but never read any of the books, so this gave me a chance to find out what he was about. Classic space opera!
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Post by sophie on Jun 25, 2020 10:32:53 GMT -5
Saw a documentary about Dr. Ruth the other evening. Excellent.
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Post by tzarine on Jun 25, 2020 12:04:43 GMT -5
summer wars anime about a 90 year old matriarch & the return of her clan, including the blacksheep & her granddaughter who's hired a boy to play her boyfriend as a computer virus takes over the world
caravaggio - derek jarman's take w the very young tilda swinton & sean bean as the model rannucio the wonderful nigel terry as the c.
diva - my summer watch for about 20 years. jules the postman & cynthia the singer, a counterfeit & a corrupt police chief
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Post by Liiisa on Jun 25, 2020 15:01:17 GMT -5
Oh! Caravaggio -- I love all those old Derek Jarman movies, that's where I got my crush on Tilda Swinton.
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Post by tzarine on Jun 25, 2020 19:08:02 GMT -5
she's great in edward2
also will watch orlando w the lads
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Post by Liiisa on Jun 25, 2020 19:13:35 GMT -5
Oh yes, it was Edward II that I saw first, and Orlando clinched it. That's my favorite book anyway.
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Post by tzarine on Jun 26, 2020 22:09:54 GMT -5
liisa
some jadis for ya:
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Oct 4, 2020 5:11:02 GMT -5
Last week at Flicks in the Sticks, Bourke’s monthly outdoor cinema, Emu Runner, a film made in the next town, Brewarrina, about a twelve year old coping with the sudden death of her mother, and how various people (including a government welfare officer), handled it. Very well done, if a bit fanciful. Today, at the “proper” cinema in Dubbo, The Secret Garden, about a British girl who lost her mother in 1947 India, based on one of my favourite children’s books. Colin Firth was wonderful as the curmudgeonly uncle. Funny how both films had similar themes. It wasn’t intentional.
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Post by tzarine on Oct 5, 2020 14:38:10 GMT -5
ozu's early summer the wonderful setsuko hara in post ww2 japan
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Post by tzarine on May 11, 2021 20:05:09 GMT -5
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Post by sodelicious on Jun 2, 2021 6:36:13 GMT -5
Does the film broach the Latasha Harlins incident?
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Jun 2, 2021 7:27:33 GMT -5
I'm taking my Mum to the movies tomorrow to see June Again.
First time in a cinema since sometime in 2019.
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Post by tzarine on Jun 2, 2021 12:29:22 GMT -5
Does the film broach the Latasha Harlins incident? yes there is a nod to the case so much better than the other race movies, like that insipid crash where ludracris saves the chinese do the right thing also gets the race issue
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Jun 13, 2021 7:18:51 GMT -5
Last night I went to see Cruella with a friend who needed some light entertainment. A good romp, with excellent costumes. It has been described as Disney does the Devil Wears Pravda.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Jun 21, 2021 7:27:16 GMT -5
Just watched The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir, which I’d recorded from SBS World Movies, after reading the book a few years ago. Lots of fun.
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Post by tzarine on Aug 1, 2021 11:39:06 GMT -5
derek jarman's blue utterly brilliant poignant read by nigel terry
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Post by tzarine on Aug 1, 2021 16:58:57 GMT -5
La Collectionneuse, Eric Rohmer, 1966 A pair of obnoxious, self-involved, arty young men are staying at a villa in the south of France and are disturbed by the presence of a young woman also staying there who doesn't seem interested in altering anything about herself to accommodate them. This is another one of those French films that are just a slice of existence, without a plot, really - you just watch the characters and wince as they make fools of themselves. The men are treated unsympathetically, the photography is gorgeous, and there are lots of fantastic old European cars. 5 stars i just saw this. a breezy summer flick & yes, i'd love one of those cars loved le rayon vert as well
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Post by tzarine on Aug 1, 2021 17:06:04 GMT -5
just saw the trailer for the new gaga gucci flick what a camp fest those horrid accents the plot is almost paparazzi - the gaga video a gucci wife hires guys to kill her gucci husband
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Post by lillielangtry on Aug 7, 2021 1:43:41 GMT -5
First time at the cinema since March 2020. Nomadland, the best Oscar winner. Frances McDormand was amazing, but so were all the people playing versions of themselves. If you like slow films based on characters without much plot, this is really excellent.
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Post by tucano on Aug 7, 2021 11:57:01 GMT -5
Went to see Summer of Soul this afternoon, loved it.
For those who don't know, it's a documentary/concert film of the Harlem Cultural Festival. Like Woodstock, it also took place in the summer of 1969, but was largely ignored by mainstream media despite a stellar lineup.
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Post by tucano on Sept 19, 2021 8:03:29 GMT -5
Watched The Graduate again the other day. Some of it hasn't aged well, but it's still a great film.
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Post by scicaro on Sept 19, 2021 9:59:09 GMT -5
Watched "Everyone's talking about Jamie" with mini2 yesterday. We definitely enjoyed it and it brought up some good topics for conversation.
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Post by scrubb on Sept 21, 2021 18:10:06 GMT -5
We saw Stillwater in a movie theater a couple weeks ago. Our friends chose it, but both my husband and I ended up finding ourselves immersed in it. Particularly the setting in Marseilles.
A very American blue collar guy in France, trying to help his daughter who is in prison for murdering her girlfriend. Matt Damon was very good, but the real stars, I thought, were the supporting characters.
The plot was most interesting in the ways it lead to showing different sides of Marseilles.
It started out feeling very Hollywood but that changed quickly, and I liked it quite a bit.
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Post by mei on Oct 12, 2021 8:56:23 GMT -5
we finally watched Nomadland yesterday. really enjoyed it.
we also watched The Karate Kid with son_of_mrmei last week. I don't think I've ever seen this classic movie myself and son_of_mrmei really enjoyed it as well, so it was fun to introduce him to another iconic film (we watched Back to the Future a while back too, which I think goes in the same category as must-see iconic films)
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Oct 12, 2021 19:28:28 GMT -5
Thank you for the reminder about Nomadland, Mei.
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Post by Webs on Oct 22, 2021 21:59:47 GMT -5
I just watched Dune (pt 1)
I read the books in college. I watched the 1984 film. I reread the books in my 20s. There was the series. I know I've re-read the first book at least once more.
This version of the movie is 2 and half hours long and I know nothing about the characters. A passing mention of their names but nothing about who they are. And then it ends, just as it's getting interesting.
And they haven't even started filming part2. Really? Every 2part movie in the past couple of decades has been shot simultaneously. So it can be done.
Stylisticly it suffers from that lighting issue that a lot of scifi movies suffer from nowadays. The shadows are too vast, the back lighting is fuzzy and sound is uneven.
If you have HBOmax, don't pay to see it in the theater.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Oct 23, 2021 6:20:51 GMT -5
Thank you for the review, Webs. I was fascinated by the books years ago, but I’m not sure I want to see a movie of them.
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