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Post by questa on Nov 26, 2018 23:53:52 GMT
And didn't think that photos of bottoms = Art.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Nov 27, 2018 18:23:49 GMT
And didn't think that photos of bottoms = Art. My beloved has their first album 'Two Virgins' which has the couple standing naked on the cover, full frontal on the front (!) and from the rear on the back...the album itself consists of Yoko wailing....we don't play it much...if at all.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Dec 4, 2018 21:09:08 GMT
Just watched The Party on Netflix. Timothy Spall...excellent. Black and white, 70 minutes or so of dark humour.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 4, 2018 21:28:34 GMT
I am watching the extraordinary Rendez-vous en terre inconnue (Rendezvous in unknown territory), one of the most popular programmes in France. A celebrity is taken blindfolded with headphones to the airport and is only told where they are going after the plane has taken off. Usually, it is an actor or singer or comedian or somebody like that, but today it is Thomas Pesquet, France's most recent astronaut. He has seen the entire planet from above, but tonight he is discovering an isolated tribe in Colombia. One night, the village gathers for him to describe what it is like to be in space. Their interaction is incredible, especially when he shows them their region of the world from above. And their questions -- "How did you eat? Couldn't you grow anything?" "How did you wash?" "Can you see the presence of people from up there?"
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 4, 2018 21:36:43 GMT
That sounds fascinating & I imagine that episode is also quite touching.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 4, 2018 21:50:49 GMT
Usually, at the end, no matter who has been taken somewhere, they cry. And so do we.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 4, 2018 22:07:22 GMT
I love the idea of showing that no matter who you are & where you've been, the world is still full of surprises.
Last night, wanting entertainment that would not rattle my cage in any way, I watched the 1970 version of The Railway Children. It was enjoyable in mostly a low-key way. No one in the movie can be accused of being overly animated. I'm still trying to figure out the boy's remark about only seeing trains cut in half by the platform.
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Post by rikita on Dec 6, 2018 0:47:05 GMT
i think he might mean that the platform part on which you stand is higher up than the tracks, so you don't see the wheels, but only the part of the train starting at the doors upwards? since he says it is so tall ...
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 6, 2018 1:52:21 GMT
That's logical, except that not too much before that scene, the kids are riding & then disembarking from a train, clearly showing that the whole thing is visible.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 18, 2018 21:03:22 GMT
Television programmes are doing things they never did before. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but I was surprised to watch "France has got talent" tonight because there was nothing else on of interest, and tonight is the live final.
Among the finalists are Dakota and Nadia who have a dance routine about... domestic violence. This is their semi-final performance.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 18, 2018 21:22:55 GMT
Good grief! Not only is that powerful and immensely affecting, but a miraculous feat of very acrobatic dancing. The only people who are as fluidly flexible as the woman dancer are cartoon characters!
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 24, 2018 14:49:41 GMT
I am finding myself transfixed in front of Disney's Cinderella, not only because I have not seen it since I was a child, but because was the very first movie that I remember seeing when I was little. However, I suspect that my memory was augmented by the fact that I also had the Cinderella picture book and was obsessed by the mice pushing giant grapes around and also sewing Cinderella's dress in collaboration with the little blue birds. The scene where the stepmother and the stepsisters rip the beautiful dress to pieces is devastating. How did they allow children to watch this stuff?
And of course certain songs from back then are just as bad ear worms as Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious or Chim Chim Cher-ee.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 24, 2018 15:52:54 GMT
Whenever I can't immediately find my keys, I look around squeaking, "The key, Cinderelly, the key!"
Can't find a clip with the phrase, but this one is full of suspense and excitement ~
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 24, 2018 16:09:28 GMT
Yes, all of the scenes that I have just watched. Tomorrow the same station is showing Peter Pan followed by The Aristocats. I have actually never seen The Aristocats, so I might want to watch it.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 24, 2018 16:14:53 GMT
Never saw the Aristocats either. I distinctly remember seeing Peter Pan because of all the excitement when it came to the movie theater at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, where I lived when I was four and five. I'd had chicken pox and still had spots, but my mother swaddled me like a mummy so I could see the movie.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 24, 2018 16:56:59 GMT
My heart goes out to your mother. Thank god that the "small screen" is now able to present just about every desirable movie, old or new, when faced with such problems.
However, since even challenged parents still want to see movies on the big screen, quite a few multiplexes in Paris now propose certain screenings for "young parents" with soft lighting, lower volume and changing tables.
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Post by Kimby on Dec 24, 2018 17:03:06 GMT
The “crying rooms” in the back of theaters are long gone, but should be brought back.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 24, 2018 17:41:35 GMT
Re: Pinocchio ~ In 1959, when we disembarked in New York from a six-day ocean voyage from Spain, we were forced to wait around a few days until our car was offloaded. My mother was pregnant & had spent the previous six days throwing up. My little sister, not quite four, suffers badly from motion sickness and had also done her share of barfing. One of the ways we were kept occupied in NY was going to the movies, one of which was Pinocchio. A mini-movie is permanently engraved in my mind of my mother charging up the aisle in her 1950's pregnancy suit, carrying my sister -- who was hurling furiously -- under one arm. This incident was provoked by the pukey little darling watching this scene: (from 5:58 -- 8:46)
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 24, 2018 17:57:25 GMT
It's amazing how many reactions those movies provoked in us back then. It can't be the same now, can it? Modern children are exposed to so many incredible (fake) images that I am pretty sure they take it all in stride.
Right now Thor: Ragnarok is on, which would have had us shitting our pants 50 years ago. Ho hum.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 24, 2018 18:05:36 GMT
Ew, I had forgotten that Thor gets an eye poked out and walks around with a dripping black hole until some other Marvel movie (Guardians of the Galaxy 2?) where somebody gives him a new eye again.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 24, 2018 20:21:53 GMT
Oh god, now that I saw Mary Poppins Returns a couple of days ago, I am morally obligated to try to watch Mary Poppins, which is playing on one of the channels tonight. It just started, and I am already amazed at the youth of Dick Van Dyke after seeing the 93 year old version in the other movie (I should mention that he did not play the same role in the two movies.). As I brace myself for the "famous" songs, I can definitely attest that there are plenty of forgettable songs, too. "Votes for Suffragettes" will never make the top 10.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 24, 2018 20:46:25 GMT
I had completely forgotten that a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.
I think that special effects from back then are totally delightful.
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 24, 2018 21:01:09 GMT
I had completely forgotten that a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. I think that special effects from back then are totally delightful. I’ve just watched it too. Excellent!
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 24, 2018 21:09:46 GMT
Just watching one of the sequences with the dancing penguins showed how revolutionary it was back then to combine animation with live action. The effects are so primitive, but they were outstanding in the 1960's. It also makes me think that at the same time the Soviets and the Americans were sending men (yes, just men, not women) into space with equipment inferior to a modern day pocket calculator.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 24, 2018 22:23:49 GMT
I had completely forgotten that a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. I am stunned! It's a major earworm from the movie. Now it's going through my head, dammit.
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Post by rikita on Dec 24, 2018 23:42:47 GMT
i'd say some of those scenes are still pretty scary even for today's kids, especially for four to five year olds. pinocchio is rated 6+ on commonsensemedia ... we haven't watched that one with agnes yet, nor cinderella, the older disney ones we watched was aristocats (because it used to be mr. r's favourite) and djungle book, newer one was lilo and stitch, and then some pixar (minions, cars 1 and cars 2 - especially for the last she was definitely too young, and bolt - which i don't know if that is pixar or something else) - the thing is usually less the scary scenes though, but following the story lines, especially the newer ones (like cars 2) have very complex story lines for such young kids, i think ... the older ones focus more on drawn out scenes, with an easier story ... and sad scenes are hard for her, especially people leaving each other or arguing. like, bolt leaving the cat and the hamster and then thinking penny does not want him back, or mowgli leaving baghira and baloo to follow the girl into the village, or lilo being angry at stitch ... that had her cry a lot ... that's why i am hesitant about letting her see the lion king, even though she asks about that, not so much because of the scary parts but i think the father dying will be hard for her to watch.
as for me - disney didn't play a big role when i was a little kid (since i was living in the gdr). from my preteen and early teenage years i mainly remember the land before our time (okay, that came out before i was a pre-teen, but we watched it only a few years later on video), the lion king, aladdin (had our grandmother take us to the movies for that one) ...
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 25, 2018 0:50:34 GMT
There was a movie theater revival of Bambi when my son was little, so I took him and two little girls to see it. When Bambi's mother is killed in the movie, I realized that was probably every kid's worst fear. Also, all three of the kids were confused by Bambi's girlfriend -- they didn't completely understand it wasn't his mother somehow back again. Apparently this is a common confusion of small children seeing Bambi -- possibly unconscious wish fulfillment to somehow undo the traumatic death of the mother?
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Post by questa on Dec 25, 2018 6:49:08 GMT
possibly unconscious wish fulfillment to somehow undo the traumatic death of the mother? This is a situation not confined to cartoon animals. Often seen as one person in a relationship still expecting their spouse to replace a lost parent. Sticky situation...needs a good counsellor to help the couple if they want to stay together.
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 25, 2018 13:08:00 GMT
Just watching Guys and Dolls. Brilliant.
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 25, 2018 14:29:18 GMT
And it’s followed by An American in Paris! Heaven!
A film about K2!
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