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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 16, 2020 22:18:30 GMT
Watching an international press review tonight, the most horrifying thing they showed was an Italian newspaper with TEN PAGES of obituaries.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 16, 2020 23:04:32 GMT
I heard Bergamo had FIFTEEN pages of obits...
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Post by rikita on Mar 21, 2020 14:01:15 GMT
not sure if this movie had been posted about in the movie thread when it was new, i watched it on tv the other day:
"The Day I was not Born" (in German: "Das Lied in mir", which means "The song inside me", because it starts with a young woman at the Buenos Aires airport hearing a song and knowing the lyrics, even though she doesn't speak Spanish and doesn't remember ever hearing the song before) - it was a relatively quiet movie, which I liked ...
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Post by rikita on Mar 21, 2020 14:15:59 GMT
also, discovered this youtube channel: www.youtube.com/user/THECINEPUB/featured, featuring a lot of Romanian movies ... watched a few so far (some i had seen before, when i studied romanian, some i didn't ... among the movies i watched was "Moartea Domnului Lazarescu" (The Death of Mr. Lazarescu), a movie described as a black comedy, but really it isn't very funny. It looks almost like one of these documentaries without commentary, and takes place on a single night: Mr. Lazarescu is in pain since the morning, and after a few futile attempts, an ambulance comes and the health worker takes him from hospital to hospital, where they do the same procedures but always point out he is drunk, and that they don't have space for him due to a big accident that just happened, while Mr. Lazarescu's state rapidly deteriorates ...
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 21, 2020 16:00:33 GMT
Thanks for bringing both of those films to our attention.
For at least the next two months (and maybe even six months… or more), many films and videos are being made available free of charge to those of us who are confined.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 21, 2020 21:39:09 GMT
I am hoping that we will be offered similar. Many of the 'live' shows like Graham Norton and soaps/dramas have cancelled filming for now. The terrestrial channels may just show repeats but I'm hoping for some good films. Netflix are reducing their bandwidth in europe or something...
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 22, 2020 2:50:47 GMT
The Day I Was Not Born looks wonderful, although I sort of object to how much the trailer seems to give away. Hard pass on the second one, which seems frustrating and grim, although I love your casual reference to "when I studied Romanian". How many languages do you speak, Rikita? I of course am too fine a person to suggest that anyone should do anything the least bit morally dubious, but p*r*te viewing is a fine, fine thing.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 23, 2020 18:57:10 GMT
Television viewing increased 37% in France during the first week of confinement. Normally, the television channels would be overjoyed, but advertising revenue has plummeted during the same period. Commercials for many things (automobiles for example -- a top advertiser) are totally meaningless when people cannot go out, just like all of the products that are sold in stores that are closed.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 23, 2020 21:34:31 GMT
Th commercials on American TV are unchanged for the virus, depicting activities we can no longer do and people clustered too closely and in too great numbers.
If they can’t afford new ads, maybe they could overlay a disclaimer: don’t try this at home...
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Post by Kimby on Mar 23, 2020 21:37:16 GMT
We are getting desperate for movies, with the library closed, so watched Saturday Night Cinema on PBS (no commercials, with cuss words bleeped out). This week it was Legally Blonde with a young Reese Witherspoon. Light entertainment to make us forget the woes of the world for a couple hours....
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 23, 2020 21:49:58 GMT
Since the bottom dropped out of the DVD market in France, I continue to buy some and order others from Amazon. 2 to 5 euros is acceptable to me as a price.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 23, 2020 21:54:37 GMT
Since the bottom dropped out of the DVD market in France, I continue to buy some This right after you got on your high horse about the benighted and deprived of us who watch movies on the small screen because we don't live in one of the movie capitals of the world? In my continuing quest for lunchtime viewing -- anything @20 minutes long -- I discovered Heading Out which, joy of joys, has both Sue Perkins and Nicola Walker in it. It's completely silly and enjoyable.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 23, 2020 22:00:48 GMT
I generally buy movies that were never released in France. At the moment I'm waiting for an Australian movie from Amazon, but the postal service is extremely disrupted.
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Post by rikita on Mar 24, 2020 21:56:15 GMT
right now while i write this watching the first harry potter movie. in german, as the tv channel it is on only has it in german. tomorrow i might watch one of those silly reality shows, just to see what that specific one is like.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 11, 2020 19:56:34 GMT
For the first anniversary of the fire at Notre Dame, there is a documentary showing everything that has been done since April 15, 2019. It will apparently be broadcast in at least 50 countries around the world or else can be seen online. It is already available to me on cable, and I can confirm that it is very impressive.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 11, 2020 20:30:11 GMT
Looking forward to seeing that.
I have mentioned Ozark on here any number of times and am crushed that no one else seems to have watched it. It has brilliant casting, script, etc. and is really tight. Season 3 just ended, leaving me and others wrung out and wondering when we'll get to see season 4.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 11, 2020 22:19:57 GMT
I am regretting that our good sized collection of movies on DVDs lives in Florida, where we made them available to our renters.
With the library closed and streaming not possible on our slow internet connection, we have NOTHING to watch, so will likely break out the slide screen and start re-visiting some of our trips beginning in 1976 and running till we went to digital cameras. That should while away more than a few social-distancing evenings.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 12, 2020 4:56:23 GMT
Kimby, I think you talked about this someplace a good while back, but there is no way to pay for better service or to change your internet provider?
I just finished watching Unorthodox, which I semi-binged. Well, it's only four episodes, so it's not like I disappeared for days on end. It's incredibly well acted and even though the plot is awfully pat in places, it will hold your interest throughout.
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Post by lugg on Apr 12, 2020 11:09:10 GMT
Oh that looks good - thanks Bixa
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Post by rikita on Apr 12, 2020 13:08:23 GMT
looks interesting ...
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 12, 2020 14:27:01 GMT
I liked Captain Fantastic when I saw it on the big screen but I was still a bit disappointed because it didn't seem as fabulous as all of the reviews said it was. But now I just watched it again at home, and I find it nearly flawless. It was also interesting to see George Mackay in a younger role now that he has been the top star of 1917.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 14, 2020 3:57:55 GMT
Yeah, I liked it a bunch, Lugg. The friend who recommended it also recommended these two Israeli series: Srugim and Shtisel, which she says are really riveting.
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Post by casimira on Apr 14, 2020 13:03:53 GMT
Looking forward to seeing that. I have mentioned Ozark on here any number of times and am crushed that no one else seems to have watched it. It has brilliant casting, script, etc. and is really tight. Season 3 just ended, leaving me and others wrung out and wondering when we'll get to see season 4. I binged through the new season on the same day it was released. My favorite character Ruth, played by Julia Garner, is outstanding. I don't understand why she did not receive an Emmy for her role. And, of course, we both know that Laura Linney is a national treasure. Anyway, the writing is brilliant. Ruth: "Now quit fucking parking in the cripple spot what you got ain't a disability just poor judgement". I was devastated by the ending. Bipolar personalities make such great characters. The lengths and breadth one can go with writing for them is endless and so believable.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 14, 2020 19:04:46 GMT
Oh, you bingers! I have a friend with whom it is most satisfying to pick and parse tv episodes, particularly now when our contact is limited to the telephone. So, she was waiting for her daughter to finish watching Ozark, season three before she started because they share the same Netfix account. That worked for me, as I was anticipating the joy of wallowing in episode post-mortems, but no. She watched the whole damned season (10 episodes!) before I got to episode three. How and why do you all do that?!
Re: Ben ~ One thing I argued with aforesaid friend about was my lack of compassion for Ben, who irritated the doo-doo out of me as a character, although of course later I saw how essential he was to the story arc.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 14, 2020 20:23:45 GMT
I watched Harry Potter 1 on TV again tonight. It is so amazing to see Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint again at age 11 now that they are all age 30 or so.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 14, 2020 21:02:09 GMT
Rupert Grint comes from Hertford, the next town to me. With his money he bought a restaurant called Rigsbys. It was awful and long since closed.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 14, 2020 21:29:25 GMT
Polite reminder: There’s a TV Series thread where some of these helpful recommendations would be most welcome...
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 14, 2020 21:33:24 GMT
Well, I know you are not referring to the Harry Potter series of movies, so I suppose you are talking about that other stuff. I personally find it more and more difficult to determine which short mini-series should be considered a series in the old sense or instead "something else."
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Post by Kimby on Apr 14, 2020 21:36:50 GMT
Another reason to love PBS: Saturday Night Cinema: full-length classic movies shown without commercial breaks, and only a few cuss-words bleeped out.
Last week we saw A Man for All Seasons (Sir Thomas More vs. Henry VIII); this week will be Fail Safe (“an electrical malfunction mistakenly sends nuclear-armed American planes to attack Moscow”); and the following week will be The Natural, with Robert Redford (in his prime) as a baseball phenomenon.
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Post by casimira on Apr 15, 2020 19:43:35 GMT
Polite reminder: There’s a TV Series thread where some of these helpful recommendations would be most welcome... Kimby, when I post in here it is something that is not on TV but streaming series off of Netflix or Hulu. We do not have a television. The cost of cable TV here costs too much.
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