Last Movie You Watched

[SonicMan46]

Well, Susan is refusing to watch films from my movie lists (i.e. DVD/BDs & DVD-Rs), so has been searching for her own lists - found the one below listed on the ARRP website - so we did an Amazon rental - may have to explore some more w/ the Poirot character?

Evil Under the Sun (1982) w/ Peter Ustinov, Maggie Smith, Diana Rigg, James Mason, et al.  Agatha Christie based film - short beginning synopsis below (link provides the 'spoilers', if not going to see the movie).  Wife enjoyed more than me - guess that I've never been a big fan (or possibly I should watch more?).  The scenery is beautiful, most shot on location in Majorca, Spain. Sadly, Diana Rigg (below at a young age) died yesterday at the age of 82 yrs - in the film in her mid-40s, she still looked great!  Dave

A hiker finds a dead woman on the North York Moors. The victim had been strangled and is identified as Alice Ruber. Belgian detective Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov) is asked to examine a diamond ring belonging to millionaire industrialist Sir Horace Blatt (Colin Blakely). Poirot declares it a fake and assured that Sir Horace would have had given a real diamond to his mistress and that Arlena Stuart Marshall (Diana Rigg) had returned the fake, Poirot agrees to meet Sir Horace at an exclusive Adriatic Sea island and confront her. The hotel is the former summer palace of the reigning King of Tyrania, now owned by Daphne Castle (Maggie Smith), who had received the palace "for services rendered". ((Source)

 

[Karl Henning]

Well, Susan is refusing to watch films from my movie lists (i.e. DVD/BDs & DVD-Rs), so has been searching for her own lists - found the one below listed on the ARRP website - so we did an Amazon rental - may have to explore some more w/ the Poirot character?

Evil Under the Sun (1982) w/ Peter Ustinov, Maggie Smith, Diana Rigg, James Mason, et al.  Agatha Christie based film - short beginning synopsis below (link provides the 'spoilers', if not going to see the movie).  Wife enjoyed more than me - guess that I've never been a big fan (or possibly I should watch more?).  The scenery is beautiful, most shot on location in Majorca, Spain. Sadly, Diana Rigg (below at a young age) died yesterday at the age of 82 yrs - in the film in her mid-40s, she still looked great!  Dave

 

The Avengers certainly kept her fit, Dave!

[George]

Good documentary about a great comedian.

[Karl Henning]

The King Vidor War and Peace

[aligreto]

Duplicity





Two espionage agents strike up a relationship, both professional and personal. This relationship is primarily based on mutual distrust.

[SimonNZ]

^ The rivalry between Tom Wilkinson and Paul Giomatti is wonderfully done in that.

As is the cream / lotion payoff gag.

[Madiel]

I only watched a small fragment of Monster Pies, a very low-budget Australian teen gay coming-of-age film, before I began to suspect I had better things to do with my time.

So I started reading a little about it online. Then I read a specific thing, and fast-forwarded towards later in the movie. At which point, I decided this was not just fairly badly made from a technical standpoint, but has a really bad script as well.

[SonicMan46]

Pat and Mike (1952) w/ Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Aldo Ray, and many 'sports cameos', including Babe Didrikson Zaharias - short synopsis below - famous scene below of Hepburn hitting a row of golf balls; she was an avid golfer and tennis player. Newly purchased BD to replace by old DVD-R burned from the TCM channel years ago.  Recommended.  Dave

Pat Pemberton (Katharine Hepburn) is a brilliant athlete who loses her confidence whenever her charming but overbearing fiancé Collier (William Ching) is around. Women's golf and tennis championships are within her reach; however, she gets flustered by his presence at the contests. He wants her to give up her goal and marry him, but Pat does not give up on herself that easily. She enlists the help of Mike Conovan (Spencer Tracy), a slightly shady sports promoter. Together they face mobsters, a jealous boxer (Aldo Ray), and a growing mutual attraction. (Source)

 

[SimonNZ]

Better than I remember it being from when it first vame out. Not great, certainly not essential, but not a waste of one's time.

[Karl Henning]

Love and Death

[TheGSMoeller]

Love and Death

It's so good. Even with its tremendous fields of wheat.

[Karl Henning]

It's so good. Even with its tremendous fields of wheat.

Better than the chicken at Tretsky's

[milk]

One of the finest films I've ever seen. Truly a masterpiece.

[TheGSMoeller]

One of the finest films I've ever seen. Truly a masterpiece.

100% agree. A perfect film.

[71 dB]

One of the finest films I've ever seen. Truly a masterpiece.

Never heard of this movie althou it seems to be 20 years old already. Criterion has released this in UK (B-region), but as always with Criterion, the price is high. 

[SonicMan46]

Woman of the Year (1942) w/ Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter, and others.  Short synopsis below; a Criterion BD production w/ a 2K restoration and uncompressed monaural sound, plus hours of special features!  We enjoyed this film more that their 1952 movie Pat and Mike; the stars were 10 years younger and looking great (as below), the script is better and even at times contemporary - not to be missed in this film is Tracy trying to explain baseball to Hepburn, and at the end Katie's attempt to make breakfast, still hilarious.  Highly recommended!  Dave

Woman of the Year is a 1942 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by George Stevens and starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. The film was written by Ring Lardner Jr., Michael Kanin, and John Lee Mahin, and produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. The plot is about the relationship between Tess Harding—an international affairs correspondent, chosen "Woman of the Year"—and Sam Craig—a sportswriter—who meet, marry, and encounter problems as a result of her unflinching commitment to her work. In 1999, this film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". (Source)

 

[Pohjolas Daughter]

The Big Lebowski by the Coen brothers

The Dude abides....

[Karl Henning]

Last night, on a thumb's-up/thumb's-down mission: Superman Returns (2006) Bryan Singer

Conclusion: Thumb's Down

Ultimately overwrought and diffuse, too little payoff for the time investment. The disc came in a package with the two Richard Donner movies.

[André]

100% agree. A perfect film.

Yes. Truly amazing. One of the most 'human' films I know.

[SurprisedByBeauty]

Woman of the Year (1942) w/ Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter, and others.  Short synopsis below; a Criterion BD production w/ a 2K restoration and uncompressed monaural sound, plus hours of special features!  We enjoyed this film more that their 1952 movie Pat and Mike; the stars were 10 years younger and looking great (as below), the script is better and even at times contemporary - not to be missed in this film is Tracy trying to explain baseball to Hepburn, and at the end Katie's attempt to make breakfast, still hilarious.  Highly recommended!  Dave

 

That's a fun flick that I watched not too long ago. Although I didn't watch it in the Criterion Edition, which is bound to have given me a considerably lesser product. Still, fun it was. I think this followed watching "Bringing up Baby".

Tonight: The Princess Bride; finished the movie with my stepdaughter after starting it on Friday when she and mother both fell asleep during it, after a long day. :-)