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Post by kerouac2 on May 24, 2020 16:38:06 GMT
We all have our quirks. And the rich and famous are often able to impose theirs.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 24, 2020 18:20:17 GMT
I must confess that another movie that I watched these past few days was Marley and Me. I didn't much like it on the big screen because I thought it was too much of a manipulative tearjerker, and also I thought that Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson had absolutely no chemistry as a couple. (Who could ever want to be with either of them romantically? As a friend, sure, but even so…)
This time, I still felt that they had no chemistry, but oh, that dog! I cried like a baby at the end.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 24, 2020 20:00:45 GMT
Just watching Queen in concert in Rio...Freddie is in fine form...ah those were the days....
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Post by bixaorellana on May 24, 2020 21:08:42 GMT
I know that I saw Reds way back when and liked it, but I recall absolutely nothing about the movie other than the name 'Warren Beatty.' Lotta talking. Lotta, lotta talking. The main thing that sticks with me about the movie (which I saw a million years ago on the big screen, when it was first released) was Jack Nicholson as Eugene O'Neill. If anyone doubts Nicholson's acting talent, check out a clip of him in Reds. He is astounding.
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Post by Kimby on May 24, 2020 22:08:47 GMT
I re-watched The Art of Racing in the Rain on the airplane on the way home from Florida (after sanitizing the seat back monitor, of course). I love that story, first as a book then film. Appealing lead actors, Milo Ventimiglio (This is Us), and Amanda Seyfried, and the narrator who voiced the dog was very good. He should be, it was Kevin Costner, who got top billing! www.imdb.com/title/tt1478839/
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Post by rikita on Jun 5, 2020 19:52:00 GMT
still watching lots of movies and tv shows - the annoying thing is though, that a lot of german tv stations only send the dubbed version. a few of them have both dubbed and original, but in most cases, i have no choice. it is a shame in the case of good movies - and in the case of bad movies, it makes them worse, because what little humour or self irony might be in there, is gone, too ...
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Post by onlyMark on Jun 5, 2020 20:29:56 GMT
You know how often on a TV you can change the language the film or programme is in, either the original (which is usually English) or the dubbed version? I always noticed in Germany the original hardly ever seemed available. My kids liked to watch the Disney Channel and loved it in Spain where you could usually change to the English version so they could hear 'their proper voices'.
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Post by rikita on Jun 6, 2020 0:22:32 GMT
yes, interestingly the swiss and austrian stations often have the original version available ... i suppose many germans are so used to dubbed versions, they don't mind, and those who do usually watch movies through other sources, these days ...
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 6, 2020 4:47:22 GMT
In France we have the option of different languages, too. My television is set by default to original version without subtitles since just about all of the foreign shows are in English, so when there is something Norwegian or Brazilian that I want to watch, I have to manually turn on the subtitles. However, I sometimes watch the dubbed version in such cases because French dubbing has improved ENORMOUSLY in the last 10 or 15 years, probably because foreign programming has become such a huge industry with so many channels. We used to have only 6 and then it went to 27 for broadcast free channels, and those of us with cable or satellite easily have more than 100.
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Post by whatagain on Jun 6, 2020 15:20:39 GMT
I realise we watch mainly french series. The last my wife watches is Tandem, but i dont like it. The french series usually have more humor and give more place for family life (lovers kids etc) then day US and are a lot less gore. US are usually less funny (lots of exceptions) and features either no scenes from 'real - normal life' or we cant identify at all. We dont like either all the series that should be chronologically watched because our lives cannot guarantee we can watch those in the right order either. I lkme slow UK series but my wife doesn't. Strangely we hardly get any german series to see yet these are numerous. So french series it us mostly for us. The best imo is 'meurtres a' with good actors and set in a beautiful city/town. French one. They should make one at least in Bruxelles...
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 6, 2020 15:57:11 GMT
I'm sure they will get there, since the RTBF has been one of the co-producers since the very second film. They've already been to Martinique, Tahiti and Lac Léman as well as just about everywhere in France. However, they demand respectfully request a financial participation from each region concerned since every place is filmed to make you want to go there. Meurtres à...
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Post by patricklondon on Jun 6, 2020 17:51:58 GMT
I'm sure they will get there, since the RTBF has been one of the co-producers since the very second film. They've already been to Martinique, Tahiti and Lac Léman as well as just about everywhere in France. However, they demand respectfully request a financial participation from each region concerned since every place is filmed to make you want to go there. Sounds a bit like the German umbrella title Tatort (=Scene of Crime), for the federalised German first channel, where the different Land broadcasters take it turns to provide programmes set in their areas, each with different detective teams, so no-one has to engage in big-scale expenditure too often. There are a few series on the Channel 4 player in the UK, seemingly mostly from NDR, so I've seen series about cops from Hamburg and Kiel. My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 7, 2020 17:54:22 GMT
I’m not a great film watcher as I don’t have the concentration but yesterday evening I watched Ghandi from start to finish and this evening Guys and Dolls. Great films.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 7, 2020 19:51:35 GMT
I watched TWO movies on TV yesterday: Neil Simon’s “Barefoot in the Park” starring a young Robert Redford and Jane Fonda, and the Coen brothers’ “The Hudsucker Proxy” with Tim Robbins and Paul Newman.
Both were entertaining and worth the time. Both also represented simpler times, something that’s appealing in these days of pandemics and racial strife.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 7, 2020 20:24:04 GMT
I remember watching Barefoot in the Park years ago...I was mesmerised by the impossibly beautiful Jene Fonda and Robert Redford.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 8, 2020 2:48:10 GMT
Interesting that we're all going back, back, back for movies. I just finished watching Breaking Away. A friend recommended it, but I was under the impression it was a comedy. It starts out with some funny bits, but is also a well done story about guys in that awkward period between high school and when they feel their lives are really taking off. But the best part for me was the bike race, which had me on the edge of my seat. www.imdb.com/title/tt0078902/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 8, 2020 3:59:18 GMT
I seem to recall that Team Martini were bastards.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 8, 2020 4:41:52 GMT
Yes. Perfidious Italians.
It wasn't Team Martini, though. It was Team Cinazano. (I see your thinking, as Cinzano = vermouth.)
In the credits at the end of the movie, Cinzano is thanked profusely.
That wasn't the race I found so exciting in the movie. The exciting one was the Little 500 with the town vs gown twist.
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Post by casimira on Jun 10, 2020 13:46:26 GMT
Oh!!! I loved Breaking Away!!!
I had forgotten all about it but as soon as I saw your post Bixa, I knew the name rang a bell.
It really highlights what it's like growing up in a small town with clear cut class divisions.
Something that I experienced in the small town where I lived.
The character who takes on the persona of an Italian cyclist couldn't be more endearing.
(I read that it is based on a true story and shot on the same location).
Why it's described as a comedy I don't understand.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 14, 2020 15:17:04 GMT
I watched Jarhead again this afternoon. It is one of those movies bearing the indelible label "I dragged my mother to see that" -- meaning having seen movies that were totally inappropriate for her condition but which she would watch in total docility because she loved me.
I liked it on the big screen, but it struck me as being more important this time, 15 years later, since so many things have happened in the world and the United States has lost so much status in the world for the way it does things.
This viewer synopsis on IMdB seems pretty accurate to me:
This other comment is also pertinent.
Anyway, my opinion of the movie has improved over the years.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 14, 2020 16:03:20 GMT
We saw The Bridge. A documentary (oops wrong thread) about a year’s worth of suicides and attempts by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
In 2004, 9 people with digital cameras set up to watch the bridge, and film people who looked “suspicious”, i.e. ready to jump. Though they DID call the bridge authority about potential jumpers, many took the plunge before being saved.
BTW, that year 24 people killed themselves by jumping off the bridge. (San Francisco averages 100 suicides a year, so less than 1/4 of the total.)
Interview snippets with family members of the potential jumpers are interspersed with long lens shots of the soon-to-be deceased standing on the bridge, as tourists and others pass happily by. The bridge itself is a major character in the film, photographed in all her splendor and moods.
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Post by rikita on Jun 15, 2020 22:56:39 GMT
right now watching a documentary about the problems caused by the long break from school, and the long term consequences this might have ...
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 15, 2020 23:24:16 GMT
Well, I guess the movie I watched last night was a documentary too, then ~ Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette.
I saw it around the time it first came out & remembered enjoying it then. So, since I am currently going crazy with nothing to watch, decided to see it again. It's really a wonderful movie in its way and the casting is out of this world. When it was over I clicked on the wikipedia entry for Marie Antoinette and wound up thinking that the movie did a pretty good job of telescoping her life into two hours.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 16, 2020 13:52:02 GMT
Oh, I quite liked A Hidden Life after not having liked several T. Malick films before that one. I was quite worried about the length before seeing it, but I accepted it once the story was underway. Obviously, most long movies hold up much better on the big screen than on any of the small ones. This is causing me grievous concern for the vast number of movies now being released directly on Netflix and other platforms -- except that I will never see them for that reason.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 16, 2020 13:56:01 GMT
I watched Cold Mountain again today, mostly by accident. I liked it on the big screen, but I think I appreciated it more this time. Much of the story is quite intimate and lends itself to the small screen. Additionally, I think I have become more indulgent concerning the attempts at accents by Jude Law and Nicole Kidman.
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Post by rikita on Jun 20, 2020 16:53:06 GMT
right now watching the documentary "i am not your negro". before that, watched some movie, and before, a documentary about prague without tourists.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 23, 2020 3:10:15 GMT
With limited selection at the library, and inspired by a PBS Directors show about Alfred Hitchcock, we picked up 4 Hitchcock films curbside. We are watching them in chronological order. They are: Suspicion (1941) starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine (who won the best actress Oscar for her performance), Notorious (1946) with Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman, To Catch a Thief (1955) featuring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly and Vertigo (1958) with James Stewart and Kim Novak.
So far we have only seen Suspicion, which was okay. Interestingly, the film had a “happy” ending that was not in the book, and was forced upon Hitchcock by the studio, either because they didn’t want their leading man Cary Grant to be portraying someone who was irredeemably bad, or because the law at the time did not allow movie villains to “get away with” murder. The ending seemed abrupt to me, and I like Hitchcock’s planned ending much better.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 28, 2020 8:02:23 GMT
That was just released in France this week. I am planning to see it tomorrow. I'm taking today off after seeing movies for six days in a row.
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Post by casimira on Jul 1, 2020 23:13:30 GMT
I broke down today and watched The Goldfinch. My initial reluctance was the same thing I go through when I like a novel so much I think there's no way that they can pull off whatever my expectations are going to be of it.
I was pleasantly surprised and while I wouldn't say it was spectacular it was well done. The location shots in NYC in particular, were good. The acting was good. Nice to see a wholesome Nicole Kidman instead of her rail thin appearances. For those of you who enjoyed the novel by Donna Tart give it a go.
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Post by casimira on Jul 9, 2020 16:43:19 GMT
Netflix premiered it's newest release yesterday.
Stateless, an Australian production headed up by a brilliant cast of very talented actors and actresses. Cate Blanchett and Yvonne Strahovski (Serena in Handmaid's Tale) and a host of others depict (based on a true story) life in a 2017 era immigration center in Australia. Not to divulge too much here, and, I have only watched a few episodes because it was late and I fell asleep. Thus far, it is very suspenseful and intense, dark and harrowing. Largely set in the bleak desert of Australia. Strahovski's talents are remarkable as we already knew from Handmaid's Tale. Blanchett co-wrote and co-produced this mini-series and for now there are 6 episodes available for viewing. I will likely finish it off this evening.
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