Last Movie You Watched

[relm1]

Saw two films the past week. 


First is the fantastic documentary, Endurance, about the Shackelton expedition and the search to find the wreck.  I like how they had both stories overlap somewhat retracing the original expedition.  The original footage was enhanced and sometimes used modern theatrical scenes with narration sometimes from the original survivors of the dramatic expedition.  Well worth seeing if you love daring, adventurous true stories of survival against great odds.  It's a truly inspiring story.


Blitz is a new film about the WW2 Nazi bombardment of England.  It was mostly told through the eyes of a nine year old mixed race boy trying to get back home to his mum, but this point of view allowed for episodes of hope and despair.  It's hard to imagine surviving through this and only then realizing the war was just getting started.  To my surprise, my mom who I was watching this with told me she remembers Nazi air bombing when she was just six years old and being forcefully dragged to the underground shelters by her terrified grandmother.  She said she still remembers running/being pushed down the flights of stairs then reaching the outside seeing the sky alight with fire raining both up and down (bombs falling, planes flying, search lights, and anti-aircraft weapons)!  She said it wasn't particularly terrifying because she didn't comprehend what was happening but recalled the fear and terror in the adults who understood.

[Number Six]

I need to watch Blitz now that it's on Apple TV+.

Saoirse-like-Inertia is always watchable.

[vandermolen]

Saw two films the past week. 


First is the fantastic documentary, Endurance, about the Shackelton expedition and the search to find the wreck.  I like how they had both stories overlap somewhat retracing the original expedition.  The original footage was enhanced and sometimes used modern theatrical scenes with narration sometimes from the original survivors of the dramatic expedition.  Well worth seeing if you love daring, adventurous true stories of survival against great odds.  It's a truly inspiring story.


Blitz is a new film about the WW2 Nazi bombardment of England.  It was mostly told through the eyes of a nine year old mixed race boy trying to get back home to his mum, but this point of view allowed for episodes of hope and despair.  It's hard to imagine surviving through this and only then realizing the war was just getting started.  To my surprise, my mom who I was watching this with told me she remembers Nazi air bombing when she was just six years old and being forcefully dragged to the underground shelters by her terrified grandmother.  She said she still remembers running/being pushed down the flights of stairs then reaching the outside seeing the sky alight with fire raining both up and down (bombs falling, planes flying, search lights, and anti-aircraft weapons)!  She said it wasn't particularly terrifying because she didn't comprehend what was happening but recalled the fear and terror in the adults who understood.

I'd like to see both of those films.
Here's the statue of Shackleton by Sargeant Jagger in London. I think it's a fine sculpture.

[vandermolen]

On TV - greatly enjoyed it:

[Number Six]

On TV - greatly enjoyed it:

Have you seen "I Know Where I'm Going" from them? It's not as epic and gorgeously colorful as a lot of their other films, such as The Red Shoes, but it's one of my all-time favorite movies.

Pretty much everything from P&P is worth watching, in my opinion.

[vandermolen]

Have you seen "I Know Where I'm Going" from them? It's not as epic and gorgeously colorful as a lot of their other films, such as The Red Shoes, but it's one of my all-time favorite movies.

Pretty much everything from P&P is worth watching, in my opinion.

No, but will look out for it. I like 'A Matter of Life and Death' very much.

[Karl Henning]

First is the fantastic documentary, Endurance, about the Shackelton expedition and the search to find the wreck.  I like how they had both stories overlap somewhat retracing the original expedition.  The original footage was enhanced and sometimes used modern theatrical scenes with narration sometimes from the original survivors of the dramatic expedition.  Well worth seeing if you love daring, adventurous true stories of survival against great odds.  It's a truly inspiring story.

Yes. I got drawn in by the mini-series[?] starring Ken Branagh as the explorer.

[AnotherSpin]

Saw two films the past week. 


First is the fantastic documentary, Endurance, about the Shackelton expedition and the search to find the wreck.  I like how they had both stories overlap somewhat retracing the original expedition.  The original footage was enhanced and sometimes used modern theatrical scenes with narration sometimes from the original survivors of the dramatic expedition.  Well worth seeing if you love daring, adventurous true stories of survival against great odds.  It's a truly inspiring story.


Blitz is a new film about the WW2 Nazi bombardment of England.  It was mostly told through the eyes of a nine year old mixed race boy trying to get back home to his mum, but this point of view allowed for episodes of hope and despair.  It's hard to imagine surviving through this and only then realizing the war was just getting started.  To my surprise, my mom who I was watching this with told me she remembers Nazi air bombing when she was just six years old and being forcefully dragged to the underground shelters by her terrified grandmother.  She said she still remembers running/being pushed down the flights of stairs then reaching the outside seeing the sky alight with fire raining both up and down (bombs falling, planes flying, search lights, and anti-aircraft weapons)!  She said it wasn't particularly terrifying because she didn't comprehend what was happening but recalled the fear and terror in the adults who understood.

The Blitz was horrific. It might be a good idea for more people in the West to watch this film. Perhaps it would help them better imagine what life in Ukraine is like today.

[hopefullytrusting]

Serenity - a fantastic space adventure:



Has one of the great space battles, and a true gut punch - even knowing about it - still a gut punch.

[hopefullytrusting]

Oh my god, it's Jason Bourne!

[Madiel]

Last night I watched "Jeffrey", which is a gay romcom from the AIDS era, based on a play. And it's VERY theatrical, and camp.

And by far the best thing in it is Patrick Stewart, who manages to have a certain gravitas even while being camp.

[hopefullytrusting]

The Warriors



Warriors?!
Come out and play!

[drogulus]

Pretty much everything from P&P is worth watching, in my opinion.

    P&P filmed one of the best sea battles ever, in spite of the heinous impersonation of a pocket battleship by an American heavy cruiser. Even as a child it offended the shit out of me.

[hopefullytrusting]

Sister Act 2 (I love that Rilke and this film are forever linked together in the academic literature.)



Super fun movie, with killer singing - I mean it has Lauryn Hill starring in it!

[Karl Henning]

Outland, again. This time around I particularly appreciated Jerry Goldsmith's cracking score.

[AnotherSpin]

Watched these two films. They seem somewhat similar

[SonicMan46]

The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017) - last 3-4 nights, we've been watching some Christmas movies - first one up has become a recent favorite - story of Dickens in the early 1840s writing A Christmas Carol - well done and imaginative - worth a watch if not seen.

Mirachle of 34th Street (1947) - have been watching this one for decades but not recently - a refreshing remembrance - the young Natalie Wood still astounds; Edmund Gwenn won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role - this is a holiday 'must see' IMHO - 

A Christmas Carol (1951) - our favorite film (of many real or animated) is with George C. Scott but Susan has never seen the version with Alistair Sim which is quite good and the favorite of many - she was indeed impressed (although George will be her choice next time) - able to stream from You Tube at no cost (probably because of my Google membership?).  Dave

[hopefullytrusting]

Easily the best Die Hard (and I love them all) - Samuel L. Jackson just makes everything he is in better.

[Karl Henning]

Uncle Buck, even better the second time. 

[SimonNZ]

Uncle Buck, even better the second time.

I was going to reply that that Burt Young film where he plays a deeply depressed trumpeter with lots of time-capsule run-down 1978 New York locations deserves to be much better known.

But now I see that's Uncle Joe Shannon.