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Post by Kimby on Aug 26, 2021 4:25:36 GMT
We watched A GHOST STORY this week, and got 15 minutes into it before realizing we’d already seen it. We watched it anyway, as the ghost is appealing in a sad winsome way. He looks like a Halloween costume, a sheet with eyeholes, but Casey Affleck manages to emote through the yards of fabric without a word of dialogue. I’m not sure I understood how all the different time periods relate, and the space time continuum seems a bit disrupted, but I liked it. Rooney Mara eats a whole pie in one long drawn out scene. I hope they got it in one take!
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 2, 2021 16:00:23 GMT
I watched Mapplethorpe the other day. I was not really attracted to the subject or his fate, but I was interested by the fact that Matt Smith (Doctor Who) was the star. Smith did a good job, but the movie was not great, nor was it terrible. The early story with Patti Smith was interesting, but it was only a minor part of his life.
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Post by htmb on Sept 23, 2021 18:29:32 GMT
In a generous effort to find something everyone would enjoy watching, my daughter put the film Cabaret with Nicole Kidman on the television last night.
I had forgotten how much I really detest that film.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 23, 2021 18:40:10 GMT
I didn't even know there was a version of Cabaret with Nicole Kidman. Can't get my head around it, but also can't get up the nerve to look up the trailer.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 23, 2021 18:53:38 GMT
Moulin Rouge was already bad enough.
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Post by htmb on Sept 23, 2021 19:59:43 GMT
Oh, my goodness. It was so bad, I called it by the wrong name. I actually meant Moulin Rouge.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 23, 2021 20:41:36 GMT
I called it by the wrong name. I actually meant Moulin Rouge. again. I was not traumatized by Moulin Rouge because I was careful not to ever see even one bit of it.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 23, 2021 22:00:12 GMT
I think I saw bits of that a long, long time ago on tv. After looking at the trailer, I'll try to find the whole movie. John Huston directed! It's cool how some of these scenes look exactly like Toulouse Latrec's paintings. "Grotesque ugliness" is pretty harsh & probably wouldn't be said in a trailer of today.
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Post by htmb on Sept 23, 2021 23:46:51 GMT
Houston’s version definitely looks a million times more interesting than the 2001 film we watched last night.
Did Zsa Zsa do her own singing?
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Post by Kimby on Oct 1, 2021 13:46:50 GMT
FIRST COW, an unusual title for a movie. Set in Oregon territory during the fur-trapping days, the town’s wealthy factotum brings in a cow to provide milk for his household. Two enterprising fellas figure out a way to start a bakery business that is a huge success, till the sh*t hits the fan. This film is slow paced and beautiful, and well worth watching. www.imdb.com/title/tt9231040/
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 1, 2021 14:13:59 GMT
Kelly Reichardt has a major following in France, so I was surprised that it hadn't been released here -- but I see that it is scheduled for 20 October in cinemas after doing a few film festivals. I will be sure to see it.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 1, 2021 15:35:11 GMT
First Cow sounds wonderful!
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Post by lugg on Oct 1, 2021 19:00:16 GMT
One of my cable channels was showing Yesterday by Danny Boyle this morning That has reminded me to seek it out on my channels . I agree First Cow sounds worth viewing
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Post by rikita on Oct 2, 2021 20:24:05 GMT
watching a lot of cinema therapy on youtube, lately ... and also occasionally a german comedy show called zdf magazin royale ..
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Post by lugg on Oct 4, 2021 18:38:49 GMT
I did seek out "Yesterday" and enjoyed it very much.
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Post by casimira on Oct 5, 2021 15:05:44 GMT
I watched the movie Clickbait (available on Netflix) in the last couple of days. I was initially put off by the title but, one of my good friends insisted I watch it. It's very well done. Complex and intense with excellent acting. Just when one thinks who the culprit is, it takes on a major curve and throws one off. The ending is a total surprise as the culprit ends up being someone you would least suspect.
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Post by Kimby on Oct 10, 2021 3:19:34 GMT
Anthony Hopkins won a well-deserved Oscar for his performance in THE FATHER, the story of a man “losing his buttons” (as my mother-in-law would say) and the adult daughter (Olivia Colman) who is trying to take care of him while also trying to have a life of her own. The film is directed by Florian Zeller, who wrote the play with Anthony Hopkins in mind as the lead, and almost all the action occurs in one setting, though it morphs a bit from time to time. The genius of the movie is how it envelopes the viewer in the confusion experienced by the sufferer of dementia. A heartbreaking performance. www.imdb.com/title/tt10272386/
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Post by Kimby on Oct 11, 2021 3:30:43 GMT
This weekend’s Saturday Night Cinema on PBS featured SHINE, the 1996 film telling the true story of Australian child prodigy pianist David Helfgott, with three actors playing the lead at different stages of his life. Geoffrey Rush played the adult David, who had suffered a mental breakdown and emerged as a frenetic, quirky, bawdy, maddening but lovable virtuoso. Rush actually played piano in the film, or more accurately finger-synced to the real David’s playing. In real life David Helfgott is still performing concerts and recitals around the world, though his touring schedule has been disrupted by the pandemic. www.imdb.com/title/tt0117631/
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Post by Kimby on Oct 13, 2021 1:25:15 GMT
Last week’s PBS movie was HOOSIERS, starring Gene Hackman as a small town basketball coach in basketball crazy Indiana. It’s based on a true story about the small town team that won the 1954 Indiana State HS BB tournament. Also starring Barbara Hershey and Dennis Hopper. Good, though formulaic, feel-good sports movie. The 1940’s - 1950’s cars and trucks are worth the price of admission! www.imdb.com/title/tt0091217/
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Post by Kimby on Oct 31, 2021 19:02:36 GMT
Re-watched Apocalypse Now, one of the movies that has stuck with me the most vividly over the years.
The DVD we borrowed from the library was Apocalypse Now Redux which contains 49 minutes of additional footage edited into the film. Interesting to see, but the film editors made the right choice in leaving it out, especially the extra scenes with the Playboy bunnies.
Still a great film.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 31, 2021 19:12:54 GMT
But the extra scenes of the French colonists were interesting, even if they did not advance the plot.
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Post by Kimby on Nov 2, 2021 3:31:58 GMT
And some of the colonists were played by de Coppola’s family members.
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Post by Kimby on Dec 5, 2021 2:42:34 GMT
Watched THE LOST CITY OF Z tonite, the true story of an explorer of the Amazon jungle who made multiple years-long expeditions into the deepest regions of the Amazon basin, finding evidence of a lost civilization that predated our own. He never returned from his 8th expedition. Explorer Percy Fawcett may have been the inspiration for the Indiana Jones film character. www.imdb.com/title/tt1212428/Worth a watch.
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Post by Kimby on Dec 5, 2021 2:46:23 GMT
Last night we watched a Russian-made sci-fi film called (for no apparent reason) SPUTNIK. It borrowed heavily from the Alien films. The dubbing was pretty bad, but the subtitles were flashed too briefly on the screen. A movie I’m not sure needed to be made. www.imdb.com/title/tt11905962/
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Post by breeze on Dec 5, 2021 11:59:20 GMT
Orson Welles, Touch of evil. Really awkward dialogue, poor acting, ridiculous plot. I think Welles is overrated as a director. I usually follow up a movie by finding contemporary reviews and in 1959 (I think it was) the major reviewers liked it! Except for one. Reviewers are quick to polish an already bright reputation.
The Japanese movie Like father, like sun has the most adorably cute child actor. We didn't understand why things had to happen as they did. The parents obviously disagreed but the wife went along with the husband. Presumably due to Japanese culture, but I'm sure not all women in Japan are that deferential.
We have a long Netflix queue but most of them are duds that I keep dropping further down the queue as too violent or too depressing. I've wanted to add some of the movies kerouac has seen (the not-violent not-depressing ones) but Netflix doesn't get many of them.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 5, 2021 12:03:23 GMT
Like father, like son was an excellent movie with a theme of which people never tire since the new movie by Almodovar is about exactly the same subject.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 10, 2021 21:39:52 GMT
I just ordered Harold and Maude from Amazon UK after reading about its 50th anniversary. Only 2 euros for a "very good" used copy and 3 euros for postage. I loved that movie so much. It played at the cinema in Paris for more than 10 years non stop. It was also adapted into a play no fewer than 3 times in France with very prominent aging actresses (Madeleine Renaud, Danielle Darrieux, Line Renaud). As for poor Bud Cort, it was his only leading role.
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Post by whatagain on Dec 19, 2021 6:36:38 GMT
Fantastic movie. So full of life too.
We tried to watch 'Docteur' because Michel Blanc was the leading role. Une daube, as we say in french. Nothing. No fun, no humor, no scenario, no interesting cast. Nothing.
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 26, 2021 13:28:53 GMT
I love Gene Kelly but what do we have over Xmas? Singin’ in the Rain again. Whilst it us a brilliant film why can’t we see some of his other films? On the Town for example.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 26, 2021 15:16:16 GMT
One of the channels here was showing Les Girls yesterday.
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