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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 19, 2017 7:34:39 GMT
Yaaay ~ finally watched Repo Man & now understand the abiding affection many people have for this movie. It's almost worth it for Emilio Estevez's laugh alone. www.rottentomatoes.com/m/repo_man/
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 11, 2017 20:55:47 GMT
I found myself watching Wyrmwood tonight, also known as Road of the Dead. God, I really hate zombie apocalypse movie, but at the same time I am addicted to any movie made in Australia (even that Mad Max crap). Why why why?
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Post by Kimby on Oct 11, 2017 21:53:07 GMT
Even Priscilla Queen of the Desert?
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Post by questa on Oct 11, 2017 23:03:59 GMT
Have any of you seen the Oz movie "Last cab to Darwin" I would like to know what others thought of it.
Also from a couple of years back, the Oz/Singapore series called "Serangoon Road" which Kerouac would love for the 1966 Singapore setting alone.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 12, 2017 4:49:34 GMT
Unfortunately, even with a hundred television channels, not everything makes it here and/or it is impossible to hunt through all of the channels to figure out what is playing.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Oct 13, 2017 16:11:42 GMT
Just started watching Mindhunter on Netflix. Promising so far....trailer might not be for the squeamish...
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 21, 2017 7:06:05 GMT
I found myself watching Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them on television last night. It is perhaps more enjoyable on a second viewing because there are no expectations to disappoint, but I still feel that they went much too far in the special effects department. Just because you can do whatever you want now doesn't mean that you have to. I found myself appreciating the performances much more since I didn't have to worry about the plot. Eddie Redmayne was probably a perfect choice especially if he ends up being a prisoner of these movies for the next ten years. He will age appropriately. I thought Ezra Miller was fantastic, but he is so creepy anyway that maybe he wasn't even acting. Ever since I saw him in We Need to Talk About Kevin, I will never be able to see him as normal. I was left with a mild desire to see the next one (at the end of 2018) which I know will turn into a real desire when the time comes, if only to see Johnny Depp and Jude Law starring in it.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 26, 2017 22:22:35 GMT
I was too disappointed by Fantastic Beasts the first time around to bother with a second time. To my astonishment and chagrin, I have become completely hooked on The Great British Bake-Off, to the point where I secretly want to binge until my eyes fall out. This is the fault of one of my sisters, who kept urging me to try it. The difference between my sister and me is that she actually bakes. The GBB-O was breathlessly reported on when I was in England, and I just thought it was some evidence of British eccentricity. In fact, it is a series that managed to tap into some part of the collective psyche so that even the most unlikely people are enthralled by it. I watched Victoria until this 2nd season ended. It's enjoyable, although can drag a little. Speaking of dragging, I'm reposting this from the series thread: I'm watching Alias Grace right now and am enthralled by it. Honestly, it started so slowly that I wanted to scream, but Sarah Gadon in the title role is so compelling that she carried me forward until I was hooked by the show. I read the book by Margaret Atwood years ago and was very pleased and curious to hear that it was to be a mini-series. It's written by a woman and directed by one and I feel that gives the work much of its strength. The one frustration is Edward Holcraft, in a big part as the "mind doctor" who examines Grace. Holcraft somehow reminds me of Matthias Schoenaerts if you took away Schoenaerts' talent and good looks, leaving nothing but Holcroft's bland face and wooden delivery.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2017 3:44:54 GMT
I was just about to post about Netflix premiering ALIAS GRACE when I saw your post Bixa. I am looking forward to watching it soon, soon, perhaps this weekend.
I am totally unfamiliar with either of the actors you mentioned which I am kind of glad of so I can view it with no preconceived opinions.
TBC
( I did love the book)
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 4, 2017 4:51:35 GMT
I've now watched all of it -- very satisfying. The person you will recognize is Anna Paquin, whom I've always found somewhat repellent. She is excellent in her role in Alias Grace.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2017 17:34:48 GMT
I haven't watched any of it yet but likely will tonight.
I don't mind Ana Pacquin at all and I have noted how certain actors unnerve people. Some of them I can agree with but others mentioned over time escape me as to the reasoning why. "Actors Who Can't Act" is one thing but certain idiosyncracies for lack of a better word I remain confused about. An interesting topic all it's own.
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Post by patricklondon on Nov 5, 2017 18:24:12 GMT
"Actors Who Can't Act" is one thing but certain idiosyncracies for lack of a better word I remain confused about. An interesting topic all it's own. Tactless and tasteless it may be, but the cry "She's in the attic!" comes to mind. My blog | My photos | My video clips My Librivox | "too literate to be spam"
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 5, 2017 18:52:09 GMT
-- I had to look up the reference, but yeah:
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2017 20:13:38 GMT
-- I had to look up the reference, but yeah: Well, embarrassingly, I googled "in the attic" and remain clueless. (perhaps I am "up there" too...)
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Post by Kimby on Nov 5, 2017 20:29:55 GMT
If these TV shows are series, there’s a thread for that now. ;-)
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Post by patricklondon on Nov 6, 2017 6:49:50 GMT
Well, embarrassingly, I googled "in the attic" and remain clueless. (perhaps I am "up there" too...) Legend has it that an actress better known from the gossip columns than for any success on stage or screen was in a tryout of a play based on Anne Frank's Diary, and was so bad that when the Gestapo officers arrived, that's what somebody in the audience shouted.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2017 14:27:14 GMT
Thanks Patrick. That's pretty funny. I asked my husband if he had ever heard it before and he had not.
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Post by breeze on Nov 19, 2017 0:02:35 GMT
Kerouac had mentioned The Brand New Testament some time ago, and we just watched it on Netflix. Quite a nice surprise. I think I picked it because I like Yolande Moreau, and she was as good in it as I expected. We had an idea of the plot, but it was so inventively developed that we were always off balance. It's one of the best movies we've seen lately and we were both very impressed with it, especially after seeing umpteen films by lazy writers and directors.
On the same DVD was the "making of" which with most movies is fairly boring, but this one was as creative as the film itself, and well worth watching once you'd seen the movie.
Netflix only has one other film by Jaco Van Dormael, Mr Nobody, which I'm not sure I want to see, plus a multi-director tribute to the inventors of movies.
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Post by patricklondon on Nov 19, 2017 8:15:31 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 27, 2017 17:40:19 GMT
Netflix only has one other film by Jaco Van Dormael, Mr Nobody, which I'm not sure I want to see, plus a multi-director tribute to the inventors of movies. Mr. Nobody is not for everybody, but it is a quite interesting movie even though it has probably only been picked up by Netflix because Jared Leto is the star. As Jaco Van Dormael's most expensive movie and filmed in English to boot, obviously it was a gigantic flop and destroyed his career (Van Dormael's, not Leto's).
Today on the plane back to Paris, I watched Les Demoisielles de Rochefort (The Young Girls of Rochefort). I have seen it in the past and it should be everything that I hate -- a musical, a syrupy plot, ridiculous dance numbers -- but weirdly enough I find it completely charming. Catherine Deneuve, George Chakiris and even Gene Kelly just slide through it with ease. And of course the fact that Catherine Deneuve's costar, her sister Françoise Dorleac, died in an accident just after filming it at age 25 makes it even more poignant. This time I watched it just to see Danielle Darrieux, one of the grandes dames of French cinema, who plays their mother and who died last month at age 100. Frankly, anybody who has never seen it should give it a try, if only just to see the city of Rochefort where everybody is dressed in pastel colours and ready to burst into song or a dance number the moment they encounter any of the characters.
All of the actors were dubbed by professional singers, but who cares?
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 6, 2017 21:30:36 GMT
I think I have now seen Réparer les vivants (Heal the Living) about six times, including once on the big screen and twice on the same flight on a seatback screen. I still can't get enough of it because I find it so perfect, from Tahar Rahim as the consulting organ donor nurse, Bouli Lanners as the main physician, Monia Chokri as the nurse for basic care and also Emmanuelle Seigner in perhaps her best role ever as the mother. And of course the immense Anne Dorval as the heart recipient and Alice Taglioni as her former lover. It may have been even more difficult for Alice Taglioni to appear in such a movie as she lost her movie star companion Jocelyn Quivrin (age 30) a few years ago in a similar traffic accident.
This time I filled at least 3 tissues with snot during the scene where the boy's throbbing heart is removed after Tahar Rahim delays the procedure for a few minutes to put earbuds in the boy's ears with his favourite music and to tell his dead brain that his parents, little sister and girlfriend are all thinking about him.
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Post by breeze on Dec 6, 2017 22:24:57 GMT
Tahar Rahim won me over in...I forget the name. My Netflix history tells me it's Samba.
So, kerouac, with trepidation I added Heal the Living to my Netflix list. I'll probably keep moving it to the bottom of the queue because if it was a 3-Kleenex movie for you, it'll be devastating for me.
Fluff keeps rising to the top of my Netflix queue.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2017 16:09:53 GMT
I've been bingeing on Season 3 of Broadchurch. I've been waiting for this awhile and it hasn't disappointed. It really makes me want to visit the Coast of UK.
In the meantime, today Netflix commences with Season 2 of The Crown of which Season 1 was devoured in no time.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 8, 2017 16:28:43 GMT
No medical drama of any kind for me ever.
I had to skip the 2nd season of Broadchurch after giving it a try, but avidly watched season 3. God, there is so much incredible acting in that series.
Meanwhile, I quiver with excitement waiting for The Crown tonight. Supposedly this season will encompass the Profumo scandal, episodes which Cristine Keeler won't be seeing, as she died four days ago.
For a weird sit-com, try Loudermilk.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2017 16:48:41 GMT
Yes, the acting in Broadchurch is superb!! And, the cinematography doesn't hurt either.
Ah, The Crown.... I was always intrigued by The Profumo Affair and devoured anything that made reference to it. The movie that was made about it, the name which escapes me now was riveting although, I don't know that I would refer to it as great cinema. It was the sleaze and other content of the oh "so high and mighty do fall" that drew me in.
I will scope out Loudermilk but, as you know, I'm not a big sitcomer.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2017 22:01:40 GMT
I just finished up the aforementioned Season 3 of Broadchurch. So well done. It seems that so very many of the series that I find to be the most riveting are British productions.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 8, 2017 22:26:33 GMT
Ooooo ~ I just realized that Netflix released all of season two of the Crown at the same time! *control. must have control*
Yesterday I watched the last episode of the last season of Great British Bake Off, for me the bingeiest thing I've ever been hooked on.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 9, 2017 3:34:57 GMT
Well, if the first episode of season two of The Crown is anything to go by, I won't have any trouble staying away from binge activity. I did feel last season that things dragged at times, but was okay with that. This episode, even as it covered soapish personal life and important political/historical events, somehow managed to be borderline boring. Also, I was distracted by the fact that Claire Foy has stupidly messed with her looks, becoming yet another woman whose lips proceed her into the room. Her "enhancement" is not all that grotesque compared to some, but gives her a bulldog look tragically at odds with her former prettiness. Also -- and I may have ranted about this elsewhere, but so what -- why can't period clothes stay true to the period? We're not trying to recreate the everyday fashion of the Myceans, only the 1950s, a period which many many many many viewers of the show actually lived through. The waist goes at the waistline. That's not so hard, is it? Another quibble -- the hairstyles have leaped forward at least seven years to the fluffier, flippier stage. Too bad there are no photographs of Queen Elizabeth from 1956 for them to copy. On the positive side, Claire Foy is such a good actress and really inhabits her role. Jeremy Northam's portrayal of Anthony Eden is extremely interesting and compelling, but everyone in the series is good, although I continue to find Matt Smith somewhat under-animated.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2017 13:48:01 GMT
I could not agree with you more Bixa. I found my mind wandering at times and had difficulty with staying focused. I made it though 2 and a half episodes. Princess Margaret is the only one livening it up. Hints of the Profumo affair are beginning to emerge.
Bingeable? Nah... I'll end up watching all of it I'm pretty sure but at a leisurely pace unless something really shakes it up.
(I didn't really find the clothes to be out of sync with the period. I'll have to pay closer attention).
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Post by Kimby on Dec 9, 2017 16:05:59 GMT
I’ll be copying some of these posts to the TV Series thread. Hope no one minds.
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