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Post by Netsuke on Feb 5, 2023 10:47:21 GMT 2
Miss Granny is a 2014 film about an elderly lady who suddenly regains her youthful appearance. She changes her name and embarks on a quest for happiness - she sings and entertains. Her teenage grandson who has a band meets her. It’s good fun, funny and cheery. A real “feel good” movie.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 13, 2023 5:34:11 GMT 2
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Post by Baz Faz on Mar 19, 2023 17:45:55 GMT 2
I watched The Ipcress File. It really is a period piece, talking about these new imports from America - supermarkets. And everyone smokes.
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Post by slowcoach on Mar 20, 2023 12:27:42 GMT 2
It was rather a long time ago. The Righteous Brothers had just had an ennourous hit with You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin', Clapton was quitting The Yardbirds
FWIW Almost all the cast are dead, excepting the roles of Palmer, his friendly Police Inspector Pat, and the agent with the thick rimmed specs.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 20, 2023 18:21:02 GMT 2
madadayo kurosawa w ishoro honda a professor retires during ww2. madadayo means "not yet" life as his students celebrate his birthday a sweet ozu like flick about aging, life & joy
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Post by Baz Faz on Mar 21, 2023 0:53:30 GMT 2
Now I am watching Funeral in Berlin.
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Post by slowcoach on Mar 21, 2023 8:26:47 GMT 2
I re-watched the whole trilogy quite recently. "Billion Dollar Brain" is quite mad, not Ken Russel's finest work, but Françoise Dorléac is delightful. Sadly she died shortly after the completion of principle photography.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 23, 2023 21:23:13 GMT 2
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Post by Voy on Mar 26, 2023 15:25:57 GMT 2
I went to the movies for the first time in about 5 years - saw The Lost King - about finding RichardIII's bones... It was really good , IMHO, and makes the point , very strongly, that stealing the glory by the University was WRONG ! It's basically true, but the dramatization is... dramatic. The casting is wonderful - and the attention to detail wonderful ( at the funeral, when they finally place the bones in a casket and have a service in the cathedral - it's tiny but great, she wears a white rose on her lapel.)
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Post by tzarine on Apr 6, 2023 23:10:42 GMT 2
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Post by slowcoach on May 15, 2023 15:11:15 GMT 2
Cabiria (1913 1914) Riedizione 2021
Poor old thing is in a bad way. Some of the scenes are in a pitiful state including the critical ceremony of the sacrifice of the children in the Temple of Moloch. This above restoration has a sound track cobbled together from seemingly random choices of popular orchestral and piano pieces. There have been other restorations which may be better. All that said, it is lauded as the film that launched the epic genre and it shows. The spectacle is all there. If only one could see more of it.
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Post by slowcoach on May 16, 2023 9:30:14 GMT 2
Ingeborg Holm (1913)Wonderful film, a blast of social realism, from early Swedish cinema. The eponymous central character play by Hilda Borgström carries the film brilliantly. Directed by Victor Sjöström Filmed by Henrik Jaenzon Some 40+ years later, Sjöström played the Doctor in Wild Strawberries. This print is in reasonable condition except for the odd jump, and two damaged scenes. Unfortunately one of which is the final scene.
Upstaging. or (rather a very busy background) is a seemingly essential feature in many silent movies, and there is a wonderful example just over 1 hour in. This archived copy had no sound at all, but should have been accompanied by a new original score.
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Post by trentt on May 16, 2023 20:31:21 GMT 2
"Soft and Quiet" - a darkly disturbing film about a club of dangerous Karens who wreak "justice" on 2 hapless minority women who stumble into their path.
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Post by slowcoach on May 28, 2023 16:10:05 GMT 2
Jubilee (1977)It has taken a while but I think I have it, to my satisfaction at least. It is a feeling, a mood, an undercurrent. Which is the way things were. It isn't nice.
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Post by Netsuke on May 29, 2023 6:38:17 GMT 2
Mrs Harris Goes To Paris . London in the 1950’s, a widowed char lady sees a Dior dress which she falls in love with and dreams of going to Paris to buy a Dior gown.
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Post by tzarine on May 30, 2023 19:58:47 GMT 2
Jubilee (1977)It has taken a while but I think I have it, to my satisfaction at least. It is a feeling, a mood, an undercurrent. Which is the way things were. It isn't nice. have only seen clips but you're right, slow. captures a mood of an era
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Post by Scrubb on May 30, 2023 21:07:23 GMT 2
Mrs Harris Goes To Paris . London in the 1950’s, a widowed char lady sees a Dior dress which she falls in love with and dreams of going to Paris to buy a Dior gown. I read the book it was based on many years ago, and really liked it. When I saw the movie I thought it was pretty good except I HATED that they changed the ending so that the entire point of the story was gone!
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Post by Netsuke on May 31, 2023 2:37:51 GMT 2
Mrs Harris Goes To Paris . London in the 1950’s, a widowed char lady sees a Dior dress which she falls in love with and dreams of going to Paris to buy a Dior gown. I read the book it was based on many years ago, and really liked it. When I saw the movie I thought it was pretty good except I HATED that they changed the ending so that the entire point of the story was gone! Scrubb, the film I saw was the 2022 version with Lesley Manville as Mrs Harris. The film you saw, what was the ending and how was it different?
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Post by Scrubb on Jun 1, 2023 0:10:06 GMT 2
I read the book it was based on many years ago, and really liked it. When I saw the movie I thought it was pretty good except I HATED that they changed the ending so that the entire point of the story was gone! Scrubb, the film I saw was the 2022 version with Lesley Manville as Mrs Harris. The film you saw, what was the ending and how was it different? That's the same version I saw. The change from the book, is that in the book, when the starlet gives her back her dress and it's damaged, that's it, she doesn't get a new dress. But instead of being upset, she realizes that her experience in Paris, the lives she changed, and all the friendships she made, was worth so much more than any dress that she's not really upset. She's content and happy. It bothered me that in the movie hey had to turn it into a completely fairy tale ending with her not only getting an even better dress, (and the added humiliation of the snobby women) but she also gets a man and everything is beyond perfect. There were some other changes too that I just accepted, but when the whole point of the book is removed, well, that's annoying.
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Post by Voy on Jun 1, 2023 13:45:33 GMT 2
Once again I'm SO glad I didn't go see a movie of a book I loved !
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Post by Scrubb on Jun 5, 2023 8:09:40 GMT 2
We saw "THe Master GArdener" this evening - it was very good.
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Post by Netsuke on Jun 8, 2023 9:59:11 GMT 2
“Ticket to Paradise” with George Clooney and Julia Roberts. A fun, light hearted romp of sand, sun and sex - American girl falls in love with Balinese boy in Bali, her parents are invited to the wedding. The parents don’t get on. At all. She just graduated as a lawyer, is expected back to take up law, her love is a seaweed farmer.
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Post by sophie on Jun 9, 2023 3:20:24 GMT 2
Enjoyed ‘Air’ on prime recently.. an interesting look at the Nike / Jordan deal.
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Post by slowcoach on Jun 19, 2023 14:42:38 GMT 2
There was a time when Simon & Garfunkel were better known on the English music scene than back home in America. In particular "Homeward Bound" was considered to have English roots. That much I remember well. Before disbanding they made a documentary: "Songs of America" (1969). It was disappeared almost without trace and I have waited all this time to watch it. Songs of AmericaIt is a personal tragedy that I didn't wait a lot, lot, longer.
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Post by Scrubb on Jun 20, 2023 6:14:06 GMT 2
There was a time when Simon & Garfunkel were better known on the English music scene than back home in America. In particular "Homeward Bound" was considered to have English roots. That much I remember well. Before disbanding they made a documentary: "Songs of America" (1969). It was disappeared almost without trace and I have waited all this time to watch it. Songs of AmericaIt is a personal tragedy that I didn't wait a lot, lot, longer. I take it that it did not live up to the anticipation?
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Post by slowcoach on Jun 20, 2023 9:26:53 GMT 2
There was a time when Simon & Garfunkel were better known on the English music scene than back home in America. In particular "Homeward Bound" was considered to have English roots. That much I remember well. Before disbanding they made a documentary: "Songs of America" (1969). It was disappeared almost without trace and I have waited all this time to watch it. Songs of AmericaIt is a personal tragedy that I didn't wait a lot, lot, longer. I take it that it did not live up to the anticipation?
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Post by Voy on Jun 20, 2023 15:08:38 GMT 2
I take it that it did not live up to the anticipation? Holy moly ... I clicked the link... sanctimonious tosh - 60s crap writ large ( and unfortunately audible between songs ) Even the sound quality wasn't good for the songs... ugh.
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Post by Voy on Jun 20, 2023 19:39:33 GMT 2
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Post by Voy on Jun 20, 2023 19:52:47 GMT 2
heh - I just googled Garfunkel - and that *&(^ above isn't even listed ... now we know why.
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Post by Voy on Jun 20, 2023 20:23:16 GMT 2
What a worm hole... googled Simon and it's not mentioned there either. that's it. I'm climbing out of this hole now !
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