Last Movie You Watched

[Drasko]

Some animated shorts:


http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Works-Yuri-Norstein-NTSC/dp/B000F3HP4G

https://www.youtube.com/v/smDlBmeeWck

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https://www.youtube.com/v/j1_JXiLTQUU

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https://www.youtube.com/v/G9uf25wHhs0

[SimonNZ]

Le Bonheur (Agnes Varda, dir. 1965)

[(poco) Sforzando]

Le Bonheur (Agnes Varda, dir. 1965)

How is that? I have it on a Criterion DVD but have not yet had the happiness.

[SimonNZ]

How is that? I have it on a Criterion DVD but have not yet had the happiness.

Excellent. Especially in confounding expectations or cliches in stories about infidelity. Beautiful sunny photography, and beautiful happy people only adding to a feeling of unease you can't quite put your finger on. And the final five minute sequence worthy of being another of the great film endings.

Recommened by ZauberdrachenNr.7 on another thread a while back, and seconded by king ubu.

[SimonNZ]

Two In The Wave

Chronicling the rise and friendship and mutual assistance of Truffault and Goddard as critics and filmmakers, their growing stylistic and political divergence and their ultimate falling out.

Recommended.

[André]

It would certainly enhance "Babette's Feast." But then, would the theater provide samples of her caille en sarcophage?

Well, when it comes to Smell-O-Vision, let's hope Pasolini's Salo escapes consideration 

[(poco) Sforzando]

Well, when it comes to Smell-O-Vision, let's hope Pasolini's Salo escapes consideration 

I read they actually used chocolate . . . .

[Karl Henning]

'Probably'?  As far as I recall, (the first,) the second and third are my favourites from the series.

Incidentally, I found the 4-movie bluray box at an attractive price point.

[North Star]

Incidentally, I found the 4-movie bluray box at an attractive price point.

I hope you'll enjoy it [Lethal Weapon], Karl.

[Karl Henning]

I did enjoy the first very well, and I look forward to looking in on the others!

[Karl Henning]

So – examples of movie commentaries which I found wasteful of time?

Planet of the Apes (1968), although this is borderline unfair, since there was no new commentary to the movie per se, but audio from various pre-existing interviews was added to this or that scene.  As a result, there are wide gaps, and the experience is neither fish nor fowl – the viewer cannot concentrate on viewing the movie, and the "commentary" is disjointed.

Hamlet (Branagh).  Face it:  the fact that the play is uncut, makes it unlikely that commentary throughout the long viewing will uniformly be value added.  (And I am one viewer who thinks the movie wears the duration well.)

Dead Poets Society. 

Probably more, but (a) I do not, as a rule, listen to the commentary unless I'm quite in the humor, and (b) it's been a while since I've found myself listening to the commentary, feeling that it was dead air.

[(poco) Sforzando]

So – examples of movie commentaries which I found wasteful of time?

Planet of the Apes (1968), although this is borderline unfair, since there was no new commentary to the movie per se, but audio from various pre-existing interviews was added to this or that scene.  As a result, there are wide gaps, and the experience is neither fish nor fowl – the viewer cannot concentrate on viewing the movie, and the "commentary" is disjointed.

Hamlet (Branagh).  Face it:  the fact that the play is uncut, makes it unlikely that commentary throughout the long viewing will uniformly be value added.  (And I am one viewer who thinks the movie wears the duration well.)

Dead Poets Society. 

Probably more, but (a) I do not, as a rule, listen to the commentary unless I'm quite in the humor, and (b) it's been a while since I've found myself listening to the commentary, feeling that it was dead air.

Roger Ebert provides an excellent commentary for "Citizen Kane."

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Roger Ebert provides an excellent commentary for "Citizen Kane."

I agree. I'd seen the movie X number of times already, but the commentary pointed out things I'd never known or noticed.

[Karl Henning]

Thanks!  I must check it out afresh from the BPL.

[drogulus]

      For those of your who back up your movies on your hard drives, worrisome news that you won't be able to soon is probably a false alarm. Slysoft is gone, for now, but not forgotten, and may not forget you in any case. I just did my first post-Slysoft software update. If you go to the site you get:

Due to recent regulatory requirements we have had to cease all activities relating to SlySoft Inc.
We wish to thank our loyal customers/clients for their patronage over the years.

     For now it's RedFox

     MakeMKV and DVDFab (my father used that, not me) are unharmed.

[James]

Roger Ebert provides an excellent commentary for "Citizen Kane."

That movie is so over-rated ..

[James]

Impressed by high school student David's (Tobey Maguire) devotion to a 1950s family TV show, a mysterious television repairman (Don Knotts) provides him with a means to escape into the black-and-white program with his sister, Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon). While David initially takes to the simplistic, corny world of the show, Jennifer sets about jolting the characters with doses of reality that unexpectedly bring a little color into their drab existence.

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[SonicMan46]

Some more BD acquisitions - I wanted to replace my DVD of Where Eagles Dare (1968), so a 'double-feature' was offered w/ Kelly's Heroes (1970) - the blu-ray ratings HERE are somewhat mediocre and intermittent video issues exist in both films, but acceptable, especially at the cheap price for the set ($10 Amazon Prime).

The Inn of Sixth Happiness (1958) w/ Ingrid Bergman, Kurt Jurgens, & Robert Donat - have this only on a poor quality DVD-R (from the TCM channel) - review HERE w/ 4/5 ratings for both video and audio.  Dave

 

[listener]

THE FASTEST SWORD   1968  HK.   Shaw Brothers film
relatively straightforward with an unexpected ending for this genre. No obvious undercranking, in fact a really nice slow motion sequence in the final reel.  The cover note is a good intro: Pan Lei both wrote and directed this Chinese version of The Gunfighter, Henry King's famous 1950 film about a persecuted fast-draw expert.  Naturally, there's o pistols, only blades as a great "swordfighter" learns humility after he is defeated by a master martial arts monk.  But his reputation always precedes him, leading to danger, destruction, cruelty, kidnapping and killing.  Pan Lei would also go on to a certain "new Wave" fame as the author of two of Jackie Chan's earliest starring rôles, New Fist of Fury and Spiritual Kung Fu.

[Karl Henning]

The Third Man, Studio Canal blu ray. This is beautiful to behold.

(The music for the main menu is awful, though.)