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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 15, 2020 19:47:05 GMT
My favorite character Ruth, played by Julia Garner, is outstanding. I don't understand why she did not receive an Emmy for her role.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 15, 2020 20:08:06 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. Casi, the operative word for the other thread is “series”, not TV. I watch DVDs, you stream, others may watch live broadcasts of series on cable or satellite. But if it’s several episodes or several seasons, it’s a series. And that was what I was wanting to learn about in the other thread. Maybe I can edit the heading to make that more clear.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 15, 2020 21:25:57 GMT
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Post by rikita on Apr 15, 2020 22:08:04 GMT
watched a lot of movies on TV lately (well on the computer), don't remember all of them ... some with agnes - like "inside out", which is an animated movie i really enjoy (and i hope we will still talk about it a bit the next days) - some without agnes - like a few days ago "wadjda" ...
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Post by Kimby on Apr 15, 2020 22:16:56 GMT
Our library is offering free access to Kanopy, a streaming service that features documentaries, independent films and less mainstream major films.
The good news is I’ve found multiple titles that have been “on our list” for a long time. The bad news is that with so many people using the internet, the movie stops playing and buffers endlessly when the signal gets weak (from overcrowding).
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Post by mickthecactus on May 1, 2020 12:34:50 GMT
They are rerunning The Golden Girls at lunchtime here. I don't know why but Dorothy remind me of Bixa for some reason....
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Post by Kimby on May 1, 2020 15:47:45 GMT
If “Dorothy” is played by Bea Arthur, who also played “Maude” (a spin-off from the Mary Tyler Moore show, I believe, then yes! You’ve got a doppelgänger, Bixa.
(Is she still alive, though?)
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Post by kerouac2 on May 1, 2020 15:55:35 GMT
Bea Arthur has left the building. (2009)
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Post by mickthecactus on May 1, 2020 17:53:17 GMT
Bixa is still alive Kimby.
Well, yesterday anyway.
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Post by whatagain on May 1, 2020 18:34:33 GMT
Yesterday we watched a movie (tfrench, with Laroque) about à couple becoming retired and trying not to spend their time being nannies for the family. Quite boring.
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Post by Kimby on May 1, 2020 19:45:51 GMT
Bixa is still alive Kimby. Well, yesterday anyway. Praise be!
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Post by kerouac2 on May 3, 2020 15:19:31 GMT
I watched My Brother Tom again today. I had (almost) forgotten what a shocking and compelling movie it is. It is also amazing what a daring actor Ben Whishaw was at age 21 compared to his dignified calm roles (James Bond movies...) as he pushes 40.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 17, 2020 15:14:01 GMT
I traumatised myself by watching the Franco-South African movie Zulu (2013) again. Nothing to do with the old Zulu movie with young Michael Caine. I would have to place it in the top five most intense and stressful movies that I have seen in the last 20 years. It stars Orlando Bloom and Forest Whitaker, both of whom do extremely convincing (to me) accents. They are policemen investigating a murder near Cape Town and of course what seems like a normal homicide turns into something unimaginably horrible, all wrapped in layers of post-apartheid, political collapse of the country, corruption, drugs and everything else you can imagine. It is in English, Afrikaans, Zulu and Xhosa. It was released in very few countries, probably because it was too extreme, but I find it completely fantastic for anybody with stamina.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 20, 2020 9:02:33 GMT
I watched Rocket Man again this morning (it was playing on one of my channels), and it confirmed my opinion that it is a superior movie to Bohemian Rhapsody.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 20, 2020 9:14:44 GMT
Not having seen Rocket Man yet, I can't say for sure, but it shouldn't be too hard for a movie to outstrip Bohemian Rhapsody. Also, the live Elton John was around to make sure the biopic on him didn't drift too far away from the truth.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 20, 2020 9:34:47 GMT
Rocket Man is a favourite movie if mine..I was a massive Elton fan as a 14 year old, had posters all over my bedroom wall (before I got into the more sophisticated Yes, Genesis and Pink Floyd etc). I was going to marry Elton when I grew up...er...
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Post by mickthecactus on May 20, 2020 9:45:22 GMT
Rocket Man is a favourite movie if mine..I was a massive Elton fan as a 14 year old, had posters all over my bedroom wall (before I got into the more sophisticated Yes, Genesis and Pink Floyd etc). I was going to marry Elton when I grew up...er... My daughter was going to marry George Michael.. Called her first son George Martin and second son Joseph Michael.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 20, 2020 16:00:58 GMT
Excellent. The first big stadium concert I ever went to was to see Elton. He was pretty amazing live. I was hugely impressed...I went with John Chandler...the best looking boy in school he was terrified of me and I ended up sitting on another school chum's shoulders (Nicholas) to wave at Elton.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 20, 2020 17:06:20 GMT
He and the chum were gay. We weren't always aware of such things in those days.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 20, 2020 17:41:48 GMT
Some of the game shows have started up again. The studio audience consists of 33% real people, 33% inflatable dolls and 33% live faces on video screens observing from home. I find this quite distressing. I don't want to live in a world that does this.
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Post by onlyMark on May 20, 2020 18:37:26 GMT
It's the thin edge of the wedge. Soon it will be all inflatable dolls.
(Like the S. Korea football team, FC Seoul, who had thirty of them in the stands at the first match)
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Post by kerouac2 on May 23, 2020 17:56:30 GMT
Today I watched two movies. Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood is probably not designed to be watched at 7am, but that's what I did. After seeing it on the big screen, I was tempted several times to go and see it again, and it was only the length that dissuaded me, which was kind of ridiculous because I have found that when you have already seen a movie, even a long one, everything goes by much faster if you see it again because your mind already knows how to space the time.
Anyway I wanted to see it again not at all because it is the best movie ever (it is good, but not that good), but (as I mentioned before) the time period of the movie is the exact same time I lived in Los Angeles, and it is totally astounding how perfect it is visually. Watching it on video replay, I was able to stop it at certain points or go back to see things better. I'll probably get the DVD because I'm sure the bonus items will be sensational. That's the main reason I continue to buy DVDs -- the explanations, the deleted scenes, the interviews, etc.
This afternoon I watched the old French movie (1995) Les Apprentis (The Apprentices) about two young slackers living through the most incredible situations to avoid actually working and stuff like that (and of course the way they avoid working is much more tiring than if they actually did something for a living). It is still considered to be Pierre Salvadori's best movie as a director, even though he has made quite a few good movies in the last 20 years.
For that one I had the DVD, so I wallowed in the interviews and deleted scenes after watching it.
One of the best lines of the movie (and which appears in the trailer) is when a real estate agent shows up to rent out the apartment from which they are being evicted. She is horrified by the state of the flat and can't help starting to clean it up a bit. She picks up all of the dirty clothes lying around and asks them "What do you do with your dirty clothes?" "We wear them."
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Post by bixaorellana on May 23, 2020 18:05:51 GMT
Agree with everything you say about Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood. I've only seen it once so far, luckily on the big screen. I lived in Pacific Grove in that time period and indeed the whole look and tenor of the times is captured brilliantly. The friend I saw it with thought it had too much exposition, but I don't agree. The exposition was kind of the whole point in many ways, and super entertaining to boot.
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Post by casimira on May 24, 2020 12:44:51 GMT
Speaking of lengthy movies, I started to watch REDS last evening.
I have seen this movie at least a half of dozen times and it never fails to disappoint.
And, I always come away with learning something new each time I watch it.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 24, 2020 13:16:33 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.'
I just read the Wikipedia article about the movie, and it brought absolutely nothing back to me. So I probably need to see it again some day.
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Post by Kimby on May 24, 2020 14:00:31 GMT
Saturday night cinema on PBS: www.imdb.com/title/tt0062994/I did NOT realize that this was Barbra Streisand’s first role. She was fantastic, and won an acting Oscar for her portrayal of Fanny Brice. Omar Shariff was Omar Shariff, all sad eyes and charm. Several notable songs: Secondhand Rose, Don’t Rain on my Parade, and People (Who Need People). The final 1/2 hour is more drama and less comedy/singing. Barbra was clearly influenced by Groucho Marx (!) with her self-deprecating schtick. And Sarah Jessica Parker was clearly influenced by Barbara Streisand in her comedic persona.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 24, 2020 14:09:40 GMT
Oh, I had not at all forgotten that it was Barbra Streisand's first movie role. Like a few other stars, her charisma on stage was able to translate to the screen perfectly well. Not everybody was so lucky.
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Post by whatagain on May 24, 2020 14:24:42 GMT
We watched A good Year. With Russel Crowe Audrey Tautou (?) Etc. After 5 min of cliches about the finance i wanted to skip After half an hour of cliches about southern France i quit. I actually give respect for watching it in full. I just could not.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 24, 2020 14:53:59 GMT
Anglo-American movies about romantic France are always unbearable (for most Europeans).
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Post by Kimby on May 24, 2020 15:26:50 GMT
Wondering why the director of Funny Girl didn’t force Barbra Streisand to cut her fingernails? So distracting, and inconsistent with the role, IMO. More reminiscent of Nosferatu...
I googled it, and she STILL maintains her talons. The ONLY movie role she cut them for was Yentl, in which she played a girl masquerading as a boy in order to receive an education. She also cut the nails on one hand to play guitar in A Star is Born.
Otherwise her hands have been adorned with these hideously long claws. She claims she initially grew them to avoid being pushed by her mother into becoming a typist!
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