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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 4, 2019 20:59:43 GMT
Watched The Wife this evening. I quite enjoyed it but Jeff hated it and went off to play on his computer. Glen Close was marvellous as always...simmering, loyal, resigned but always the grown up, always in control.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 4, 2019 21:10:55 GMT
Since The Wife was never released on a large screen in France, I will not see it until it goes to the normal channels, same as Roma.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 5, 2019 17:35:35 GMT
Thanks for bringing that up again, Huckle! I remember wanting to see it the first time it was mentioned, but it had gone completely out of my head until your new post.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 5, 2019 22:18:33 GMT
"Turgid" made my day! You may know that bad Bixa uses p*rate sites to watch pretty much everything on her laptop.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 6, 2019 14:21:37 GMT
I watched part of Three Coins in the Fountain during the weekend. Rome was so peaceful and uncrowded, and you could stop your car absolutely anywhere, including right up against the fountain of Trevi for a coin toss. Also, the American secretary is told when she arrives that the salary is absolutely fabulous in her American office, so I guess that's why she lives in a huge apartment that seems to fill the whole floor.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 6, 2019 15:45:25 GMT
... the salary is absolutely fabulous in her American office, so I guess that's why she lives in a huge apartment that seems to fill the whole floor. 3 Coins was made in in 1954. My family moved to Madrid in 1956 and you should have seen where & how we lived -- and my dad was only a lieutenant at the time. I think US salaries were sumptuous compared to the economy in much of Europe in the early and mid-fifties.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 6, 2019 15:58:55 GMT
I didn't say that the film was not totally realistic.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 6, 2019 22:40:18 GMT
I was providing a general historical / sociological / economic comment for the benefit of all, based on personal experience.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 7, 2019 21:41:05 GMT
Watching the French movie LOL again tonight, I saw how totally cruel the French can be about British mores. It is about high school kids, and at one point there is the obligatory trip to Great Britain, staying with a British family. There is a scene where everybody has one slice of white bread on a plate and the motherly hostess spoons a few noodles on each slice of bread under the horrified eyes of the French kids. Then she motions to two jars in the middle of the table and asks them about which item they prefer to use as a garnish. "Cranberry jelly? Marmelade?" Even though I do not have a particularly high opinion of a lot of British cuisine, I am quite certain that this is a particularly outrageous and insulting joke about the food in England. But it is funny anyway.
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 7, 2019 22:25:34 GMT
Gawd....
Desperate.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 8, 2019 8:58:46 GMT
Every year we have hoards of European schoolchildren come to the city, usually at Easter or in early summer. They are rounded up of a morning and taken on coaches to places of interest. I used to have to walk past where they met up outside the university, on my way to work.
You can easily tell the difference between the pasty, untidy British kids and the exotic, well dressed, often beautiful French, Italian or Spanish visitors...they look so healthy. Also they can be quite intimidating...chattering together noisily until one walks past...stony silence as you walk by...then whispers...maybe sniggering. It's like Midwich....
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 8, 2019 14:47:37 GMT
They're probably afraid that you will speak to them and unmask the fact that they have not learned a word of English.
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Post by whatagain on Mar 8, 2019 17:30:56 GMT
We also watched the second half of LOL. Funny to see Sophie Marceau as the mother since her first role Was as a teenager.
Tonight we'll watch the ´enfoires' à show where rich singers and actors ask money from the poor to give food to even poorer guys.
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Post by casimira on Mar 12, 2019 15:52:30 GMT
Bixa: Couldn't resist the turgid. Amazon.co.uk says the English subtitles, region 2, are coming out April 1. No posts for a US version on Amazon.com. It is soooooooo spectacular. I'm so thrilled this is being mentioned again. I watched it again recently and was even more enthralled with it than I was the first time. Aside from the excellent writing, acting etc. it also gave me a new found fascination with that period of history between WWI and II of which I did not know much about. Talk about decadent...EISCH!
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Post by kerouac2 on May 5, 2019 19:26:40 GMT
I watched the (English language) Spanish movie The Impossible again this evening, and I continue to think that it is extremely underrated. It is one of the high points of Tom Holland's career, Spider-Man be damned (even though I like Spider-Man).
I think that it affects me even more because I took my parents on holiday in practically the same place as where the 2004 tsunami hit in the movie, and I transpose the events on myself (except that we would have all died). In addition, I knew a Canadian woman who went there every year and who was so thrilled to get the coastal bungalow of her dreams that year. She died.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 25, 2019 16:52:31 GMT
This afternoon, I watched Under the Silver Lake again, programmed because it was at the Cannes film festival a couple of years ago and this evening is when the Cannes winners for 2019 will be announced. There seems to be quite a bit of suspense for that because it was a good year.
This morning, I did my best to catch up on Skam France/Belgium (same programme but different name depending on which country you watch it in). The original Skam is Norwegian, but remakes have been sold to the United States, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and France/Belgium so far with probably more on the way. It is an "honest" high school drama, not really opposed to the inspirational British Skins, but somewhat less extreme and therefore more realistic. And at the same time, it is not at all watered down as teenage programming conceived by adults so often is. Each series addresses a different subject -- cyber bullying, coming out, faith, bipolar problems -- nothing really earth shaking, but I am hooked on it because it very clearly is a showcase for the actors of the future, just like Skins was.
The original Norwegian version :
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Post by kerouac2 on May 25, 2019 19:51:27 GMT
None of the other 150 channels appealed to me tonight (can you imagine any of us ever saying such a thing 10 years ago?), so I decided to watch the Australian movie These Final Hours again, about the end of the world. It is as horribly depressing as ever. Something must be wrong with me.
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Post by Kimby on May 26, 2019 1:42:10 GMT
A couple nights ago there were live reenactments of two classic sitcoms from the 70’s. All In The Family (with Woody Harrelson as Archie Bunker and Marisa Tomei as dingbat Edith), and The Jeffersons, a spin-off from All in the Family about a successful black family living in an Eastside (NYC) high rise.
They should’ve just played reruns of the original versions! Those of us who watched AITF when it was new were not satisfied with an imitation, and those who weren’t familiar with the shows were probably not turned into fans.
And, though “the n word” was used on air in the original, the producers decided to bleep it out in the remake, with America’s increased sensitivity to being offended.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 26, 2019 8:12:41 GMT
You mean, the same way you bleeped it out in your post? I think the bleeping was a good idea, unlike the reenactments themselves -- don't get the point of that at all. Re: bleeping the offensive word ~ I've heard people use that word and when someone objects, they'll retort, "Well, they use it about themselves." Bad argument and good not to do anything to promote the idea that it's ever okay to use ethnic slurs. Still, it wouldn't have come up at all if there had been no WTF reenactment.
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Post by Kimby on May 26, 2019 14:51:28 GMT
If I were ever to get cable TV, it would be to watch endless reruns from the 1960’s and 1970’s sitcoms, and shows like Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In (very politically incorrect), The Smothers Brothers Hour, AND today’s comedians/night show hosts like John Oliver.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 26, 2019 15:06:38 GMT
I watched both series of Fleabag last week in preparation of the French remake called Mouche which is starting soon here.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 26, 2019 18:52:12 GMT
Well, from that clip it looks as though Mouche is a French remake of Fleabag. True or false? What did you think of Fleabag? I think I loved the 2nd season even more than the first. Phoebe Waller-Bridge is beyond brilliant and the cast was worthy of her & the script every step of the way. I so much enjoyed how Olivia Colman absolutely relished her appalling character and Sian Clifford turned Claire into a slow-burn treat. Did you love seeing "Moriarty" as the priest?
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Post by kerouac2 on May 26, 2019 19:02:22 GMT
Well, from that clip it looks as though Mouche is a French remake of Fleabag. True or false? That's exactly what I wrote. Same script, new actors. I will be looking for anything that they changed in the new version. I have difficulty imagining that religion would play as large a role in the French version. Olivia Colman and Andrew Scott are always a job to watch.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 26, 2019 19:07:05 GMT
You did! You wrote it quite clearly. I just had a little brain slippage. I imagine the French version could easily substitute something calling for honor/loyalty/similar instead of religion per se. "job to watch" ~ what does that mean?
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Post by kerouac2 on May 26, 2019 19:09:49 GMT
That was a typo. "Joy to watch."
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 2, 2019 6:07:21 GMT
I found myself watching the 1955 movie Summertime starring Katherine Hepburn and Rossano Brazzi. It's about an old maid (age 40) who takes her dream trip to Venice and obviously falls in love. Apparently, the National Catholic Legion of Decency hated the movie because it depicts adultery without severe punishment. The main thing I noticed was that Venice already looked overcrowded in 1955 (at least Piazza San Marco), and tourism to Venice doubled the year after the movie was released.
The beefsteak line was in the version that I saw. However, I was horribly shocked by a scene where there were fireworks (instead of a train going into a tunnel) at night and then there was an abandoned woman's shoe lying lewdly on a bedroom floor. I hope that no children were allowed to see this film.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 2, 2019 6:57:41 GMT
Perhaps the League was really objecting to the rather hysterical typecasting of the two leads.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 2, 2019 20:29:54 GMT
We watched Good Omens on Amazon Prime after much kerfuffing about with the TV and Jeff's computer...immashamed to say that we watched all 6 episodes...well it is one of my favourite books. I quite enjoyed it 😁
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Post by rikita on Jun 4, 2019 21:36:01 GMT
had a movie night last night, agnes got to chose the film - she chose "Bibi and Tina", the movie version of an audio play series that is very popular here ... i must admit i was kind of curious, but the movie was sillier even than i expected ...
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Post by Kimby on Jun 19, 2019 3:27:28 GMT
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