Last Movie You Watched

[milk]

Revisited this after many years - a lovely film deserving of all the praise it received.

[aligreto]

Revisited this after many years - a lovely film deserving of all the praise it received.

Agreed, an absolutely wonderful film. I have it in this version....

[SimonNZ]

My Year With Helen

I was expecting this to be a year in the life of Helen Clark's work with the UN Development program. But instead its more about her run for Secretary General, from frontrunner to loss. Fascinating in its glimpse into the odd election process and idiotic veto process, but far too much emphasis on the campaigners wanting a woman seemingly above all other considerations, and too little of Clark's more objective and undeniable merits.

[Daverz]

The Ballad of Lefty Brown.  Entertaining and sturdy, nothing surprising.

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[Karl Henning]

John Wayne from his early 50s and nearly to his death made nearly three dozen films (the chart below of most of the 'late' movies - the ones in bold are those I own, mostly as BDs and a few as DVDs - I've seen most of the rest) - second pic of Wayne & Holden in Horse Soldiers, a fav of many from those listed.  There are a couple more in that chart that I will likely buy when a good BD is release - Dave

 

Cheers, Dave!  Last night I watched The Searchers (1956), and I do not mind admitting that I enjoyed it thoroughly—which is to say, too, far more than I might ever have expected to enjoy a "typical" John Wayne movie.  (Do you not own it, or is this just an accident of it falling earlier than your chart, above, indicates?)  I do not know that it will push me towards actual fandom, but I am looking forward to The Shootist.

(I also watched a few minutes of the blu ray edition of True Grit, just enough to affirm readily that it is a significant gain on the DVD.)

[SonicMan46]

Cheers, Dave!  Last night I watched The Searchers (1956), and I do not mind admitting that I enjoyed it thoroughly—which is to say, too, far more than I might ever have expected to enjoy a "typical" John Wayne movie.  (Do you not own it, or is this just an accident of it falling earlier than your chart, above, indicates?)  I do not know that it will push me towards actual fandom, but I am looking forward to The Shootist.

(I also watched a few minutes of the blu ray edition of True Grit, just enough to affirm readily that it is a significant gain on the DVD.)

Hi Karl - glad that you enjoyed The Searchers, one of Wayne's best - the list that I compiled were of his later films - I just reviewed my two film lists, i.e. DVD-Rs burned from TCM over the years & commercial DVD/BDs - attached are earlier Wayne films that I own (year & format indicated) from 1930 to 1957 (just over 2 dozen) - now in reviewing his MANY movies on IMDb, I have seen many of the others but do not own - an interesting period for him was the 1930s - love The Big Trail from 1930 - he then made a LOT of lesser films until his breakthrough role in Stagecoach - Dave

[Cato]

Hi Karl - glad that you enjoyed The Searchers, one of Wayne's best - the list that I compiled were of his later films - I just reviewed my two film lists, i.e. DVD-Rs burned from TCM over the years & commercial DVD/BDs - attached are earlier Wayne films that I own (year & format indicated) from 1930 to 1957 (just over 2 dozen) - now in reviewing his MANY movies on IMDb, I have seen many of the others but do not own - an interesting period for him was the 1930s - love The Big Trail from 1930 - he then made a LOT of lesser films until his breakthrough role in Stagecoach - Dave 

My choice for a Top Five: The Cowboys, because of Bruce Dern and for this scene, which some wag has dubbed...

https://www.youtube.com/v/rBBS_tC4eRE

[Draško]

It's one of those a-dinner-party-starts-to-unravel type of films. It has a really impressive cast led by Kristin Scott Thomas and Timothy Spall and it's shot beautifully in crisp black & white widescreen. Unfortunately the script only occasionally rings true, and it's much less witty than it thinks it is. Whole film is tonally at sea, maybe would have worked better as broad Feydeau-like farce. The way it is, is neither believable as a drama, nor sharp enough for a satire, nor funny enough for a comedy. Thankfully it's only 66 minutes long.   

[SonicMan46]

My choice for a Top Five: The Cowboys, because of Bruce Dern and for this scene, which some wag has dubbed...

Hi Cato - watched The Cowboys a few months ago (DVR off the TCM channel) and enjoyed - had seen just once a while back - decided that I did not need to own.  Dave

[Cato]

It's one of those a-dinner-party-starts-to-unravel type of films. It has a really impressive cast led by Kristin Scott Thomas and Timothy Spall and it's shot beautifully in crisp black & white widescreen. Unfortunately the script only occasionally rings true, and it's much less witty than it thinks it is. Whole film is tonally at sea, maybe would have worked better as broad Feydeau-like farce. The way it is, is neither believable as a drama, nor sharp enough for a satire, nor funny enough for a comedy. Thankfully it's only 66 minutes long.

Try this movie with the same title!  Guaranteed to be better (with the exception of the scenes with Claudine Longet (whose appeal and fame escaped me 50 years ago), since it has Peter Sellers as a clueless Indian actor:

https://www.youtube.com/v/nHCE96REw28

Hi Cato - watched The Cowboys a few months ago (DVR off the TCM channel) and enjoyed - had seen just once a while back - decided that I did not need to own.  Dave

Hey Dave!  Check out the above, if you don't know it!  Assorted excerpts like the above abound on YouTube!

[André]

Try this movie with the same title!  Guaranteed to be better (with the exception of the scenes with Claudine Longet (whose appeal and fame escaped me 50 years ago), since it has Peter Sellers as a clueless Indian actor:

https://www.youtube.com/v/nHCE96REw28

Hey Dave!  Check out the above, if you don't know it!  Assorted excerpts like the above abound on YouTube!

I saw that at the theater when it came out, in a double billing with Salt and Pepper (Peter Lawford and Sammy Davis Jr.). In those days you had 2 movies for the price of admission ! Hilarious !

[Cato]

I saw that at the theater when it came out, in a double billing with Salt and Pepper (Peter Lawford and Sammy Davis Jr.). In those days you had 2 movies for the price of admission ! Hilarious !

Salt and Pepper!!!   Now there is an all-around midnight fave!   

I saw The Party at a drive-in with my parents!  My father was roaring, and even my mother was laughing (no mean trick!) !   0:)

[milk]

This was another rewatch for me. This little Hal Ashby gem scored a 61% on rotten tomatoes. 61%!!! WTF? This is an incisive and witty satire, a film that never stops moving. What I love about this is how it's sort of a merry-go-round of character motivation: everyone has mixed and confused jealousy at every moment; the actors are wonderful at portraying sharp turns of desire and pique. And who doesn't love Jack Warden? What a cast and what a small masterpiece.

[aligreto]

Joy....

[Karl Henning]

Last night, with (in the parlance of our times) "the fam," Strictly Ballroom, one of our traditional feel-good movies.  Listen to the rhythm ....

[Florestan]

Yesterday night on TV:



I just loved Brad Pitt's super-cool Southern accent and Christoph Waltz's excellent play, but overall it's a piece of nonsense.

[mc ukrneal]

Joy....

I was expecting to hate this movie, but I found it surprisingly interesting.

[Karl Henning]

Branagh on Dunkirk

http://www.youtube.com/v/uivjORoSW0k

[Jaakko Keskinen]

Hard to believe this was a John Huston film. I expected, based on the awards and nominations the movie got, at the very least a decent film, what I got was completely forgettable, boring and most of all, pointless piece of work. The movie may have had some thematic relevance but if it did, I missed it all. Not recommended.

[Draško]

Two films about two very different kings.

Stella Cadente is about king whom nobody wanted, Amadeo I of Spain, formerly and latterly Duke of Aosta. How noble ambition gets throttled and subsequent descent into hedonism and decadence. Slightly viscontian, with surrealist touches.

The Death of Louis XIV is about exactly what the title says. I was pretty mesmerized by it's mostly hieratic and ritualistic goings-on, but this is only recommended to those who can withstand the pacing of likes of Bela Tarr or Theo Angelopuolos, for most of general audience it'll be like watching paint dry, or in this case an old man die.
What I disliked was the use of Mozart as soundtrack, they should have gone with the right period: Gilles or Lully or Delalande would have worked perfectly.