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Post by slowcoach on Jun 23, 2023 12:20:45 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. To give ir every chance, I watched all of it, in two attempts, if you didn't, it gets marginally better, e.g. it focuses on their concert performances. I watched it all, so others don't have too.
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Post by Voy on Jun 23, 2023 13:58:44 GMT 2
True confessions - I didn't "watch" it all - just had it in the background in another window while I did other stuff... it let me mostly ignore the talk and just listen to the songs.......
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Post by trentt on Jun 24, 2023 2:05:10 GMT 2
A few days ago I watched "Pitch Perfect" for the first time. I wanted something shallow & silly & cute to take my mind off things. I like Anna Kendrick a lot & Rebel Wilson a little. It was kind of dumb but good performances elevated it. It was what the doctor ordered ... entertainment without serious drama.
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Post by Netsuke on Jun 24, 2023 4:47:13 GMT 2
True confessions - I didn't "watch" it all - just had it in the background in another window while I did other stuff... it let me mostly ignore the talk and just listen to the songs....... I’ve tried to do that but it doesn’t work. As soon as I open another window, I can’t hear the music from the first window.
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Post by tzarine on Jul 23, 2023 1:32:43 GMT 2
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Post by Voy on Jul 23, 2023 4:32:04 GMT 2
having just been to see Richard II in the theater, which has nothing to do with it, but reminds me to recommend once again ( I think ) the movie "The Lost King" - about RichardIII's bones being found a few years ago.
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Post by slowcoach on Jul 23, 2023 11:28:06 GMT 2
Following your earlier recommendation I started watching "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" and also "The Young Girls of Rochefort" plus "Donkey Skin",
So much to look forward to, when I am ready.
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Post by tzarine on Jul 23, 2023 19:44:20 GMT 2
Following your earlier recommendation I started watching "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" and also "The Young Girls of Rochefort" plus "Donkey Skin", So much to look forward to, when I am ready. love them both cathy deneuve is simply radiant!
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Post by slowcoach on Aug 2, 2023 13:26:34 GMT 2
The Blue Angel (1930 English Version) Technically good to excellent, but the storytelling is odd, uneven, disconnected, as if badly edited. Starts as a stiffly delivered comedy but lapses into mundane nastiness. The end is a good challenge in how to feel sympathy for the unsympathetic. Clearly, it is not the film I was expecting and neither of its undoubted stars rewarded my watching much. I guess I may be way out on a limb with this one.
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Post by tzarine on Aug 2, 2023 18:22:04 GMT 2
sakuran color saturated tale of a young girl sold into the yoshiwara brothels in edo who is determined to rise to the top as an oi ran one of those heartbreaking tales where a woman is stuck due to societal conditions www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgdNUUMiMP8
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Post by slowcoach on Aug 15, 2023 16:36:18 GMT 2
Mae West, Tony Curtis, George Hamilton, Walter Pidgeon, Timothy Dalton, Dom DeLuise, George Raft, Ringo Starr, Keith Moon, Alice Cooper:
What could possibly go wrong?
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Post by tzarine on Aug 16, 2023 0:10:07 GMT 2
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Post by Netsuke on Aug 17, 2023 3:57:09 GMT 2
I grew up hating westerns because my brother loved them and was always given tv preference over me and I hated it. Even today I still hate westerns!
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Post by Netsuke on Aug 17, 2023 4:05:31 GMT 2
Rewatching The Lincoln Lawyer with Matthew McConaughey. As it has been so long since first watching it, I have forgotten most of the story and what happens.
But OMG! This is the first English speaking “thing” I am watching for ages - all my television viewing is Korean dramas and after watching forty minutes of the Lincoln Lawyer, I had forgotten just how boringly bad American rubbish is and why I love Kdrama so much. They don’t show rabid sex pounces and undressing and skin and the rest of it. It isn’t thrilling, just boooring! So predictable!
After all that, it is a good film which I would recommend.
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Post by tzarine on Aug 17, 2023 5:09:12 GMT 2
I grew up hating westerns because my brother loved them and was always given tv preference over me and I hated it. Even today I still hate westerns! used to watch westerns w my dad love magnificent 7 also love the clint spaghetti westerns
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Post by slowcoach on Aug 17, 2023 11:48:39 GMT 2
Every now and again I wait for the midday train to arrive in Hadleyville. also Once a Pair of Blue Eyes in the West
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Post by tzarine on Aug 17, 2023 23:24:27 GMT 2
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Post by tzarine on Aug 20, 2023 7:11:20 GMT 2
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Post by tzarine on Aug 24, 2023 1:39:29 GMT 2
breakfast on pluto cillian murphy as a young man on a search for the mum who abandoned him brilliant w liam neeson, liam cunningham, brian ferry, ruth negga (who i really like) www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0xQT2N-EJg
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Post by trentt on Aug 24, 2023 2:04:36 GMT 2
"Calvaire" - yet another messed-up entry in the horror genre courtesy of the French. An itinerant entertainer en route to a Christmas gala is stranded near a remote wooded village when his van breaks down. He's lucky (?) enough to locate an inn nearby, so he can take shelter while his van is fixed. Thereafter, things get a bit bizarre, followed by pretty effed-up, evolving into full-fledged lunacy when the innkeeper mistakes him for the wife who ran off years earlier.
"Babylon" - yeah, I know I know ... a 3-hour saga designed as Oscar bait, but Margot Robbie is terrific as is Brad Pitt (not my #1 favorite actor) and Jean Smart. It reminded me of "Hail, Caesar", except tragic instead of funny.
"The Devil's Doorway" - in 1960, a pair of priests are sent to investigate the miracle of a Madonna statue weeping blood in the chapel of a Magdalene asylum in Ireland. This one reminds me a LOT of the superior "Borderlands", though 'tis fierce creepy in its own right.
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Post by tzarine on Aug 24, 2023 22:20:56 GMT 2
"Calvaire" - yet another messed-up entry in the horror genre courtesy of the French. An itinerant entertainer en route to a Christmas gala is stranded near a remote wooded village when his van breaks down. He's lucky (?) enough to locate an inn nearby, so he can take shelter while his van is fixed. Thereafter, things get a bit bizarre, followed by pretty effed-up, evolving into full-fledged lunacy when the innkeeper mistakes him for the wife who ran off years earlier. "Babylon" - yeah, I know I know ... a 3-hour sage designed as Oscar bait, but Margot Robbie is terrific as is Brad Pitt (not my #1 favorite actor) and Jean Smart. It reminded me of "Hail, Caesar", except tragic instead of funny. "The Devil's Doorway" - in 1960, a pair of priests are sent to investigate the miracle of a Madonna statue weeping blood in the chapel of a Magdalene asylum in Ireland. This one reminds me a LOT of the superior "Borderlands", though 'tis fierce creepy in its own right. the devils doorway sounds interesting looking forward to this take on the magdalene sisters www.google.com/search?q=the+woman+in+the+wall+trailers&oq=the+woman+in+the+wall+trailers&aqs=chrome..69i57.8597j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:a4b00ce9,vid:4JxAIKRCuF8 love love love ruth wilson esp as alice in luther
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Post by slowcoach on Sept 18, 2023 15:55:07 GMT 2
Cannes 1970 Best Director John Boorman for Leo the Last (MCMLXIX)
Rotten Tomatoes: Not one critic review, didn't so much as bother the Tomatometer
So my kind of film.
Wonderful cast including
Marcello Mastroianni Billie Whitelaw Vladek Sheybal
Described as weird, bizarre, surreal, demeaning, it is not so far from the ground truth in the 1960s. It is set and filmed in Notting Dale, London just before the streets were demolished to make way for the Lancaster West Estate including Grenfell Tower.
I've watched it twice ages apart, and I guess it gets better, more relevant, redolent. It is imbued with the stench of the times.
It gets my lonesome vote but I guess that's life.
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Post by tzarine on Sept 18, 2023 17:54:40 GMT 2
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Post by trentt on Sept 19, 2023 23:21:24 GMT 2
Someone has probably mentioned this one earlier, but I just watched "Everything Everywhere All at Once" and was blown away. Michelle Yeoh is fantastic as are all the actors (really), even those with small roles and tiny sub-sub-subplots. The actor who plays the husband, as well as the woman who plays the daughter, are also wonderful. I didn't even recognize Jamie Lee Curtis at first. I'm glad she got an Oscar for it. I laughed like a fool at some scenes, though it is also a violent action film, a poignant family drama, and a bizarre sci-fi film.
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Post by tzarine on Sept 19, 2023 23:32:57 GMT 2
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Post by sophie on Sept 20, 2023 0:20:41 GMT 2
Yes, I loved that movie!
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Post by tzarine on Sept 27, 2023 5:04:28 GMT 2
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Post by tzarine on Oct 23, 2023 8:46:27 GMT 2
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Post by Scrubb on Nov 18, 2023 7:16:29 GMT 2
Someone has probably mentioned this one earlier, but I just watched "Everything Everywhere All at Once" and was blown away. Michelle Yeoh is fantastic as are all the actors (really), even those with small roles and tiny sub-sub-subplots. The actor who plays the husband, as well as the woman who plays the daughter, are also wonderful. I didn't even recognize Jamie Lee Curtis at first. I'm glad she got an Oscar for it. I laughed like a fool at some scenes, though it is also a violent action film, a poignant family drama, and a bizarre sci-fi film. I really liked it too!
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Post by slowcoach on Dec 10, 2023 9:20:10 GMT 2
Normally I couldn't give tuppence for the late Ryan O'Neal's acting but he was "The Driver" in the eponymous film and he convinced me.
Being remembered for a film that was forgotten and dismissed before it had finished its run is my very small gift to his legacy.
Apparently it played well in Japan; perhaps they got it where others missed it.
Perhaps I am trying to sell a dead horse.
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