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Post by tzarine on Aug 5, 2019 22:06:22 GMT 2
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Post by Netsuke on Aug 6, 2019 2:48:28 GMT 2
Watched again "Once We're Warriors". Excellent NZ film about a Mãori family living in a slum area and problems with unemployment, alcohol and domestic violence, mainly due to the father/husband, the patriarch who can't or won't rise past his own shortcomings.
Thought provoking, violent, redemption. "Cook the man some eggs" ~ Jake the Muss.
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Post by trentt on Aug 6, 2019 19:28:32 GMT 2
I watched ?Idiot's Delight", a 1939 film with Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Charles Coburn, Burgess Meredith, and Edward Arnold. On the surface it is a frothy quasi-romanctic farce, but underneath lies a strong anti-war message as another war begins in Europe. It is noteworthy for Gable's song-and-dance number ("Puttin' on the Ritz"), which is strange and rather delightful. I liked it!
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Post by tzarine on Aug 6, 2019 21:45:55 GMT 2
nets,
i found warriors a harrowing watch loved whale rider & the lead girl
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Post by Netsuke on Aug 8, 2019 2:07:44 GMT 2
Tzarine, it is a bit confronting when watching for the first time, I think it was the unexpectedness. I don't remember seeing Wave Rider, but I remember watching something with a very similar storyline, perhaps it might have been.
Once Were Warriors has a sexual called What Becomes of The Broken Hearted which I'd like to see. Have you seen it?
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Post by tzarine on Aug 8, 2019 6:40:26 GMT 2
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Post by tzarine on Aug 12, 2019 6:22:29 GMT 2
dark passage bogie & bacall the opening point of view. wow
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Post by trentt on Aug 12, 2019 17:36:02 GMT 2
dark passage bogie & bacall the opening point of view. wow GREAT film! The scene when he leaves to go solve the murder and her eyes fill with tears - NOT acting! I just watched "The Barefoot Contessa" (not Ina Garten's life story!) with Bogart, Ava Gardner, Edmund O'Brien, and Rossano Brazzi. It's another great one. Gardner had never danced on film before! She was captivating!
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Post by tzarine on Aug 12, 2019 17:40:57 GMT 2
trent
we also saw the robert mitchum/jane greer in the big steal double crosses in mexico love mitchum trying to recapture out of the past
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Post by tzarine on Aug 14, 2019 19:11:06 GMT 2
cleo de 5 a 7 agnes varda's nouvelle vauge look @ a woman waiting to see her doctor to find out if she may or may not have cancer w cameos by jl godard, anna karina & eddie constantine wow, the dorothee et antoine sections!
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Post by Netsuke on Aug 17, 2019 1:59:00 GMT 2
Ever have days where the only thing you want to watch is a soft, no loud voices or music, but a nice, evenly soft feel good film?
I loved watching (again) The Secret Garden. Lovely storyline, beautiful flowers and soppy story but oh how I enjoyed it.
Now to choose something equally perfect.
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Post by OnlyMark on Aug 17, 2019 8:10:17 GMT 2
Best Exotic Marigold Hotel?
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Post by tzarine on Aug 17, 2019 17:21:27 GMT 2
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Post by Netsuke on Aug 17, 2019 21:33:01 GMT 2
Good suggestion Mark, sadly it's no longer on Netflix.
One of the films on "My List" is "The Music of Silence", the story of Andrea Bocelli. I watched that, loved the music. His voice is beautiful, enjoyed the film.
Now to find something with less drama.
Tzarine, Diva isn't on Netflix. We have Netflix Australia. The American version has a much greater variety than we do!
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Post by tzarine on Aug 17, 2019 22:35:25 GMT 2
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Post by Netsuke on Aug 18, 2019 6:26:20 GMT 2
First They Killed My Father is a film I would recommend. It is based on the book of the same name by Loung Ung who was 5 years old when the Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia and reigned for four years, killing an estimated two million people.
A long film, plodding and harrowing in parts, it portrays life under the reign of terror, the camps, the child soldiers, the families destroyed.
I would watch it again.
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Post by tzarine on Aug 19, 2019 20:58:47 GMT 2
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Post by tzarine on Aug 21, 2019 0:36:11 GMT 2
persona liv ullman & bibi andersson fantastic acting a famous actress who has gone mute & the nurse who cares for her a dark journey
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Post by trentt on Aug 24, 2019 3:43:13 GMT 2
"Bad Times at the El Royale" with Jeff Bridges, Dakota Johnson, Jon Hamm, Chris Hemsworth, and the very impressive Cynthia Erivo. I enjoyed this film thoroughly. It reminds me in a way of "The Hateful Eight" in that the characters are presented in a certain way, and then those personas are torn apart as the plot unfolds to reveal their secrets, true identities, crimes, etc.
It takes place in a hotel on the Nevada-California state line in 1969. The soundtrack is excellent, the dialogue is intelligent, and the performances are terrific all around.
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Post by tzarine on Sept 10, 2019 16:18:09 GMT 2
3:10 to yuma never thought glenn ford could act wow the tension w felicia farr, so understated of course, van heflin is excellent classic western
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Post by tzarine on Sept 10, 2019 16:30:56 GMT 2
lifeboat hitch's survivors claustrophobic & the bitchy tallulah bankhead
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Post by trentt on Sept 10, 2019 18:06:58 GMT 2
But Tallulah solves the problem of catching the fish!
The Watch TCM app has a variety of 50s - 60s monster movies. I watched "The Giant Behemoth", a British film from the mid-50s. It was surprisingly good! I especially like the British creature features of that era because they try very hard to make the scenario scientifically plausible. They also forego the romantic subplots inserted in later films, where some female lab assistant, secretary, young and curvy widow with a young child or even - GASP - a female scientist (who nonetheless is about as resourceful as a gardenia in a tornado when it's time to face the monster) - is stalked and menaced by the Thing, and the male lead comes to her rescue and they fall in love surrounded by the corpses of those less fortunate than they.
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Post by slowcoach on Sept 10, 2019 22:30:16 GMT 2
Salvador
I have a love/hate relationship with this film. It upsets me yet I have to watch it from time to time.
Nicholas Roeg's "Eureka"
I have watched the first half twice but I fear the dreadful murder scene that follows. Simply brilliant, but I get harpooned by the phrase offered up by Frieda (Helena Kallianiotes):
"leftover life to kill".
The original is perhaps Caitlin Thomas' biograph on her life after Dylan drank himself to death.
Anyway it is a pointy poignant for me right now.
That is just one of several films I have stalled half way through. Others include "Fury" and "Belle de Jour".
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Post by Voy on Sept 13, 2019 16:11:36 GMT 2
going to see the new film about Molly Ivins tonight - will report back tomorrow . ( She was a classmate at Smith - and a bunch of us are going - I'm driving down to Portsmouth, NH to see it - leaving soon as we are getting together for supper first .)
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Post by trentt on Sept 20, 2019 2:13:02 GMT 2
"The Sweet Smell of Success", with Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Martin Milner. What an incredible script, and such a brutal story!
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Post by slowcoach on Sept 20, 2019 2:43:29 GMT 2
Also staring "New York" with amazing cinematography by James Wong Howe. I love that film.
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Post by tzarine on Sept 20, 2019 16:08:06 GMT 2
love flicks that show NY of different eras & wong, what a genius!
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Post by slowcoach on Sept 20, 2019 20:31:24 GMT 2
Last night I was watching this documentary (on video) all about cinematography and here is the man himself:
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Post by tzarine on Sept 21, 2019 17:14:32 GMT 2
slow i also love the work of jack cardiff
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Post by trentt on Sept 22, 2019 15:38:20 GMT 2
"The Big Clock" - Ray Milland as a journalist leading an investigation into the murder of his boss's girlfriend. The noose tightens as it's clear an innocent man is meant to take the fall - namely himself. Charles Laughton and real-life wife Elsa Lanchester also star, as does director John Farrow's wife Maureen O'Sullivan. Great suspense with comic relief from Lanchester as a kooky artist helping the investigators.
"Confidential Agent" - Charles Boyer is urbane and noble as a Spanish republican trying to make a coal purchase in 1937 England to aid his side's doomed cause. Lauren Bacall is the jaded, hard-drinking heiress who falls for him. While there is not much chemistry between Boyer and Bacall, Peter Lorre steals scenes as a sniveling, simpering, cowardly traitor and Katina Paxinou oozes menace as the greedy expatriate innkeeper. Never mind that the English heiress has an American accent, nor that the Spanish characters are played by actors from France, Greece, and Hungary. The plot is convoluted, but it's worth the price of admission to watch Lorre and Paxinou chew up the scenery.
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