Last Movie You Watched

[drogulus]

The Battle Of The River Plate. OK but this 1956 film seemed rather stiff and dated compared to the 1977 A Bridge Too Far.

     It's a strange film. When I was a kid I was loving it until they showed the pocket battleship. They used a WWII vintage American heavy cruiser, like this one:

     

     I was horrified. I knew nothing like a German pocket battleship existed. Still, I was inconsolable. The Zeiss optical rangefinder gave Graf Spee the evil insect look common to German heavy warships.

     

     There, that's what it should have looked like.

[j winter]

Man of La Mancha.  Wonderful stuff... Peter O'Toole as Don Quixote is about as good a piece of casting as you're ever likely to find.   

[Karl Henning]

Man of La Mancha.  Wonderful stuff... Peter O'Toole as Don Quixote is about as good a piece of casting as you're ever likely to find.   

I remember watching that in the old Rivoli Theatre in Rutherford, NJ, back when.

[aligreto]

The Visit





This is a horror film with a slightly different take on things. Two children go to visit grandparents they have never seen. What ensues is rather interesting. The difference here is that it is seen from the point of view of the children making a home film of the event.

[Karl Henning]

A perennial favorite by us: Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn & Maurice Chevalier in Billy Wilder's Love in the Afternoon.

[SonicMan46]

My Cousin Vinny (1992) w/ Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei, Ralph Macchio, Mitchell Whitfield, & Fred Gwynne - watched last night and we were both laughing - this is a funny movie - short synopsis below - Tomei won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her portrayal as Pesci's fiancé - highly recommended!

How the West Was Won (1962) w/ nearly everyone still alive in Hollywood at the time! - one of the original Cinerama films beautifully restored (see second quote - more HERE) - 2 disc set w/ Digi-Book - other disc includes a 'SmileBox' presentation meant to simulate the curved screen of a cineramic presentation (we watched the flat-screen version - more in the link, if interested) - specials includes a 90+ minute documentary on the history of 'Cinerama' - also highly recommended.  Dave

Two carefree pals traveling through Alabama are mistakenly arrested and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. Vinny's never been in court - or in Alabama - and when he arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend to try his first case, it's a real shock - for him and the Deep South!

Regarding the transfer, Warner produced a video master to capture the essence of the film's original "Cinerama Roadshow" exhibition. This representation was achieved by combining the three Cinerama filmstrips into a single, seamless 2.89:1 image that only occasionally shows visible signs of separation between the three areas. How did Warner accomplish this? The original negatives were each scanned at 2k resolution and digitally assembled to make a single 6k image. "Digital software was created specifically for this restoration to resolve camera alignment and image linearity issues inherent in the original photography," according to Warner. The studio developed the "SmileBox" version using a rendering application that treated the 6k image as if it was projected into a 3D wraparound screen, and output at 1080p for Blu-ray.............

 

[Madiel]

My Cousin Vinny (1992) w/ Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei, Ralph Macchio, Mitchell Whitfield, & Fred Gwynne - watched last night and we were both laughing - this is a funny movie - short synopsis below - Tomei won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her portrayal as Pesci's fiancé - highly recommended!

Love that one.

[Karl Henning]

Notorious

[aligreto]

Captain Fantastic





This is quite a different take on the alternative style of living. It is excellently acted by every member of the family and it is definitely worth seeing.

[Karl Henning]

Captain Fantastic





This is quite a different take on the alternative style of living. It is excellently acted by every member of the family and it is definitely worth seeing.

Title makes me think of Do Not Adjust Your Set

[aligreto]

Title makes me think of Do Not Adjust Your Set

I had actually put off watching that film for a while because I thought that it was going to be another one of those blockbuster things. How wrong I was, thankfully.

[FelixSkodi]

Going to watch this tonight. Feels very ... appropriate.

[aligreto]

I Origins





This is the story of a scientist who meets a woman with a spiritual side to her and the questions and consequences that arise from that relationship over a time period. It is very well done and definitely worth a watch.

[aligreto]

A good one.

[71 dB]

I have been watching many movies on Blu-ray recently. Here's two of them which had quite an effect on me:

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I have been into 70's movies and this movie contains a lot of the vibe I like about the era. Camera is pretty still and cuts are slow. I love how in these older movies you can actually study the environment the actors are in. Oh, that kind of glassware on the shelf. Oh, the paint of the door is in bad shape. The lenses are often wide and objects far and close are sharp, in focus. Newer films often use handheld shaky camera with narrow lenses, only actors in focus and cuts every nanosecond! It's so fatiqueing and annoying. Older movies in general have superior camerawork and I think 90's is when camerawork really started to go downhill. Toys Are Not For Children is a weird exploitation film from 1972 by Stanley Brasloff who directed only two movies. I think this movie has good acting. Brasloff has theatre background and it shows: Camerawork is simple and functional allowing the actors to shine. I find this movie beautiful and ugly at the same time.

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In the early 2000's I saw Irreversible and it was something! Not only is the movie shocking, but Gaspar Noé's style is pretty eclectic. Enter the Void was one of my first Blu-rays nearly 10 years ago. Climax blew me away. A dance group has rehearsals and sangria party after that, but someone added LSD into the sangria and the group starts to go crazy when the LSD kicks in tranforming the happy party into a hell on Earth. Tons of "electronic dance music", great dancing and edgy madness! Gaspar Noé's style of directing (superlong takes, hovering camera) works brilliantly.

[Papy Oli]

A Quiet Place





This is the finest Horror film that I have seen in a long time. It is well paced and filled with tension. It made me jump a few times. It is quite different and comes well recommended.

Watched that one yesterday Fergus...on a laptop and heaphones... Said laptop nearly flew off my lap in a couple of occasions  A good'un overall.

[FelixSkodi]

A good one.

For sure, and given the US political climate, quite eerie.

[aligreto]

Watched that one yesterday Fergus...on a laptop and heaphones... Said laptop nearly flew off my lap in a couple of occasions  A good'un overall.

Glad that you liked it Olivier.

[greg]

I liked the ladies in this film. You really have to pay attention to details and events to understand what's going on. It's a very quiet film, too. It's 100% a slow burn, though IMO the payoff will have differing opinions... to me it was just more "so what?"

But that sort of stuff is less important to me than the vibe, which was pretty good, so I'd rate it as mildly good.

A Quiet Place





This is the finest Horror film that I have seen in a long time. It is well paced and filled with tension. It made me jump a few times. It is quite different and comes well recommended.

I might have to give this one a shot.

[Ratliff]

Man of La Mancha.  Wonderful stuff... Peter O'Toole as Don Quixote is about as good a piece of casting as you're ever likely to find. 

For me nothing matches the voice of Richard Kiley as it is heard in the broadway cast album.