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Post by Kimby on May 25, 2021 0:47:31 GMT
The library listing for the newer version of W in L didn’t make it clear that it was a miniseries released in 2011. They apparently used the DVD release of 2013 as the date. Reading the fine print shows a length of 181 minutes, so around 3 episodes, maybe 4.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 25, 2021 0:50:40 GMT
Well, if you can't get the good version (1969 movie) & you're at the library anyway, check out the books The Rainbow (read first) & Women in Love.
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Post by Kimby on May 25, 2021 3:13:59 GMT
Hmm. We have a copy of Women in Love sitting on our bookshelf, unread...
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Post by kerouac2 on May 25, 2021 5:04:17 GMT
I saw the uncut version of The Devils when it opened in London. It had to be edited for release in many other countries, including the United States, particularly the extra crispy ending. If I recall correctly, it was rated X. Ken Russell seemed to start losing track when he made later movies like Mahler, Savage Messiah, Lisztomania or Valentino, but I suspect the producers were just keeping him on a short leash. "You need to make movies that people won't walk out of." But the main problem was that people had stopped walking in, probably out of fear. Tommy was godawful, but I'm pretty sure that it made money. It was the perfect example of how the director could mix brilliant scenes with miserably awful ones. But nobody will ever forget Ann-Margret crawling through the baked beans.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 25, 2021 15:34:03 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on May 25, 2021 16:01:38 GMT
We shouldn't complain about the bad singing in Mamma Mia. Compared to the singing of most of the cast in Tommy, it was high art.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 25, 2021 18:06:42 GMT
I loved the album Tommy but hated the film (even tho I had a huge crush on Oliver Reed... I know he was a 'terrible' actor but i lusted after him in my teens) We watched Signs again the other day...still love it even tho it's a bit cheesy
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Post by Kimby on Jun 13, 2021 4:16:02 GMT
HONEYLAND. Wow. www.imdb.com/video/vi332184601It’s a documentary, but not like any I’ve seen before. A user review: Humbling, Unforgettable "One half for me, one half for you." 3 years. 400+ hours of footage. My 2nd viewing. Yet I am still at a loss for words at how a film like this is even possible. It somehow manages to present a grounded narrative, a parable of rural life, and a kind environmental message, all quietly captured through observational lens and intimate scope. You will witness everything from a cow giving birth to the near-drowning of a child (which, while brief, is very difficult to watch). The editing and fly-on-the-wall filmmaking style is superb.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 13, 2021 5:32:59 GMT
Yes, that was a really excellent movie, and probably the best one I have ever seen from North Macedonia.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 14, 2021 4:07:08 GMT
Finally got to see The IRISHMAN, Martin Scorcese's retelling of the events leading up to the disappearance of Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa, splendidly played by Al Pacino.
The film is basically a 3-hour soliloquy by Robert DeNiro in the role of Frank Sheeran, a union mobster and hitman. Joe Peschi also has a major role as "Frank's" mentor and boss. Harvey Keitel and Ray Romano also have smaller but well-acted roles.
A technological process called "de-aging" was used to allow the actors to appear younger in scenes from 4 decades earlier, freeing them from hours in the makeup chair.
The film was based on a best-selling book by Frank Sheeran's attorney, and purports to be Frank's end-of-life confession. Googling Frank Sheeran, however, makes some of the acts recounted by DeNiro as Frank highly suspect.
Good film anyway.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 14, 2021 4:19:41 GMT
Another film we recently watched was BAR BAHAR (In Between").
It's set in Tel Aviv and follows a group of young people finding their way in a world that isn't their parent's world anymore, but isn't yet their own either.
Very well done.
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Post by lugg on Jun 20, 2021 11:52:50 GMT
I watched Together last night - its on BBC available through the I player. It is the story of a couple during Covid and their relationship. Sad, funny , heart rending and the two main actors , Sharon Horgan and James McAvoy are fantastic. Quite political too ; the UK government does not come out of it well. The whole thing was filmed in 10 days. An hour and a half well spent, not absolutely brilliant and I had had enough of the couple by the end.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 20, 2021 17:00:33 GMT
Seeing Sharon Horgan with a man other than Rob Delaney must have been like watching adultery. I had not heard of this drama, so looked it up. The Guardian comes pretty close to your assessment & is somewhat kinder than The Irish Times, although both acknowledge the worthiness of the show.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 21, 2021 4:41:26 GMT
Saturday Nite Cinema this week was BIRDCAGE, with Robin Williams, Nathan Lane and Gene Hackman in the leading roles. It’s an American remake of the French play La Cage aux Folles, and it’s laugh out loud funny.
Now we plan to check out the French version.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 21, 2021 4:55:07 GMT
The French version stars Michel Serrault and Ugo Tognazzi since it was a Franco-Italian coproduction.
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Post by lugg on Jun 21, 2021 19:11:27 GMT
Seeing Sharon Horgan with a man other than Rob Delaney must have been like watching adultery. [img oncontextmenu="secure_image(this); return false" src="::grin:: Last night we had to choose something that both my daughter and I would enjoy. We opted for the Pink documentary ( All I Know So Far) ; albeit I was just going along with daughter's choice. Although I do love some of her music I had no idea about Pink's athleticism and how it is incorporated into her performances. The reviews generally are not great, but I really enjoyed watching it. Now after seeing it, I certainly would love to see her perform one day. Yes there maybe many views about her parenting , but I am not going there ....other than to say , I do not think she is doing a bad job at all.
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Post by htmb on Jun 21, 2021 19:20:07 GMT
This is good to know since my daughter and I will also soon be looking for agreed upon shows to watch. (I’ve gotten very good at tuning out things I’m not interested in while appearing to be engaged, so it’s always nice when we agree on something that actually interests me).
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 21, 2021 20:35:41 GMT
Documentary on John McEnroe at the 1984 French Open. What a top tennis player. A match between him and Federer at their peaks would be something to watch.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 22, 2021 13:14:49 GMT
Saw THE CLIMB last night, a small independent film about two lifelong friends that is acted and directed by the two friends in real life. One of the friends, Mike, is selfish and self-destructive, the other, Kirk, is selfless, vulnerable and often destroyed by their friendship. Yet the friendship persists over decades. And over the objections of family and fiancees/spouses. It is filmed in chapters that are often shot in one long take. www.imdb.com/title/tt8637440/
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 22, 2021 14:09:37 GMT
That film did not completely win me over but these small independent films are almost always more interesting than typical Hollywood product.
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Post by whatagain on Jun 24, 2021 19:23:11 GMT
We wayched a typical french comedy. I think called the cruise. Great actors, script written on a metro ticket. Charlotte de Turkheim, Line Renaud (!), Armelle, a guy half well known, another one and some young ones. Pitch ? They all find themselves on a big cruise ship. No drama, good humour, totally unrealistic but ... you end up having laughed and there is a noce happy end. What more can you wish for nowadays?
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Post by rikita on Jul 8, 2021 21:33:16 GMT
watched a movie on netflix the other day that i just chose for the title (because it was "finding agnes") - it is from the philippines, though most of it takes place in morocco - what i found interesting though, even in the parts in the philippines the actors mix filipino and english all the time - made me wonder if that is normal in the filipines, or at least in some areas/for some people, to switch back and forth between languages like that ...
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 8, 2021 23:04:43 GMT
made me wonder if that is normal in the filipines, or at least in some areas/for some people, to switch back and forth between languages like that ... Rikita, where I lived in Texas on Mexican border, the population is mostly Hispanic. Many people have family on both sides of the border, and every Hispanic person I met spoke both Spanish and English. They mostly didn't do it when speaking to non-Hispanics, but the rest of the time they often spoke a mix of both languages. One day I overheard someone say, "I have a cigarette, pero falto un cerillo." That kind of thing was common.
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Post by onlyMark on Jul 9, 2021 4:59:50 GMT
For Filipino I presume we are meaning Tagalog. After living there I did hear the switching quite often.
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Post by rikita on Jul 10, 2021 23:56:53 GMT
i knew about switching among hispanics in the US (well not very much about it, but i knew it happened), but it still had surprised me about the philippines ... interesting to read about your experience with it, mark ... do people there learn both languages from early childhood?
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Post by onlyMark on Jul 11, 2021 6:05:39 GMT
There are some thing like between 100 - 200(?) languages in the Philippines. The major one, Tagalog, became the standard official language but standardised as there were variations and then called Filipino. At some stage in the past Spanish was the official language which changed more recently to English and then even more recently (no idea of the dates) Filipino was added to the English. So English and Filipino (aka Tagalog) are taught and very widely used. Some will also speak Spanish which I think is additionally taught in schools like we would learn French I suppose. I came across quite a few Spanish speakers - when we first adopted our kids they only spoke Spanish and we were living in Manila at this time - the local Kindergarten had a couple of Spanish speakers so that went down well.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 11, 2021 12:48:02 GMT
I think there are a huge number of countries that mix a lot of English (or French) into the local language. As for the Philippines, Spanish was another official language until 1987 (although there was an earlier ban in 1973 but the language was reinstated by presidential order the same year).
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Post by rikita on Jul 11, 2021 22:45:16 GMT
i did notice some spanish words in the movie, too - but just individual words, not whole sentences like with english, so i suppose they were just adopted into tagalog? (one i noticed often was "pero")
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Post by questa on Jul 12, 2021 0:14:59 GMT
Indonesia is a amalgamation of many areas, each speaking their own mother tongue first then Bahasa Indonesia from school age up. Many, like Bali, have different levels of language depending on the caste system of who is talking to whom. Some families are using only Bahasa Indo now rather than trying to teach the kids the niceties of the original Balinese. However the middle level of Balinese and B. Indonesia are for everyday use.
Add English to the mix and the remnants of Dutch colonies you come up with a very lively language. People talking to each other will switch from Balinese to English to B. Indo with no warning and as B. Indo has no use of "a" or "the" it can be a challenge to follow a conversation. The young people call it "Bahasa Campur". Campur = mixed up, like a fruit salad or many colours swirling together. They have started using the English words for things but spelt phonetically so "sper puts" is "Spare Parts" and "imigrasi" is "immigration". The young people have an abbreviated slang that I can't understand at all.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 22, 2021 16:56:45 GMT
One of my cable channels was showing Yesterday by Danny Boyle this morning, and I was very pleased to watch it again. For anybody who missed it in 2019, it is about a young English man who wakes up one morning and discovers that he is the only person in this new alternate universe who remembers the Beatles. Since he is a struggling musician, it doesn't take him long to start singing Beatles songs and become an instant worldwide success. He is not too comfortable with this, but success feels really good. One thing I liked about the movie is that, just like many of us, he remembers most of the hits by the Beatles, but struggles with the exact lyrics which sometimes evade him. On top of that, the people handling his career think that "Hey Jude" is a strange and inappropriate title, so they convince him to change it to "Hey Dude."
Obviously rom-coms and moral dilemmas always end up being predictable, so there are no big surprises as to how things will end (even though he never goes back to his original universe). I additionally very much liked the fact that the movie starred Himesh Patel, who would not be many casting directors' first choice for such a leading role, but that just makes it better.
The fact that Ed Sheeran plays himself in the movie is an added bonus, because when you become a star, it is inevitable that you interact with some other stars, and I was glad that they didn't just make somebody up.
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