Last Movie You Watched

[André]

Michèle Morgan passed away

She was sublime in Allégret's Les orgueuilleux and René Clair's Les grandes manœuvres.

[Mister Sharpe]

The moment when Louis Jouvet exits the casino having lost it all and lights up a cigarette should be shown in all actors school.
Renoir "les bas fonds" is much better than than the original novel of Maxim Gorki and infinitely better than Kurosawa remake.

That is a very good idea. (Except, remember, psychologically, he can't light a cigarette when he loses...)

[Ken B]

Can't help you. That's one of Woody's I have little memory of. Maybe it made no impression?

Sarge

You've probably seen it twice then.

Naynotnay. It's slight but not so bad. If you can sit through The Shitning you can sit through anything!

TD Hugo
Second time; we saw in in the theatre. A lovely movie. A bit padded, somewhat self-important, but very charming and affecting. Lots of stray quickie jokes, like James Joyce, or the Hitchcock Lodger reference, the Rank gong, etc. 8/10

[SimonNZ]

Ken Loach double feature at a friend's place today:

In Two Minds (1967) and Family Life (1971)

The second film a feature-film remake of the first tele-play, some scenes near-identical, some expanded, some new clearly the result of Loach thinking hard for four years about a much loved subject and incorporating new research and making many details more articulate and explicit, in this study of the misdiagnosis of schizophrenia of a girl suffering only from repressed and repressive parenting and an equally repressive mental health system. Fascinating to see a glimmer of R.D.Laing's emerging theories appearing in one brief moment of hope and clarity in the latter film.

Strong stuff, as always, but both versions masterfully done (as always).

[Karl Henning]

Can't help you. That's one of Woody's I have little memory of. Maybe it made no impression?

Sarge

My response, also. Seen it only once decades ago, and while I don't remember a negative reaction I clearly didn't feel the desire to revisit it before it slipped almost completely from my memory.

You've probably seen it twice then.

Naynotnay. It's slight but not so bad. If you can sit through The Shitning you can sit through anything!

Thanks, all!  A year-ish ago I checked it out from the BPL, but it was a distressed DVD which refused to play . . . so I am wondering how much effort I should continue to exert.

(Not sit through it, merely, but enjoy it . . . so, perhaps . . . .)

Thread Duty:

Last night, all but the last half-hour of Terminator 2 with the 'office-party' commentary track.  I was, somehow, in the mood to watch this, and decided on a whim to give the commentary a try;  not the best commentary track, FWIW.

[drogulus]

     I have never seen a Lethal Weapon movie. They have nevertheless made a powerful impression on me of not wanting to see them even more.
     

[Karl Henning]

The two I have seen are good fun;  the non-viewing as yet of the others is nothing derisory 

[James]

McCabe & Mrs. Miller
1971 ‧ Drama film/Drama ‧ 2h 1m

This unorthodox dream western by Robert Altman may be the most radically beautiful film to come out of the New American Cinema. It stars Warren Beatty and Julie Christie as two newcomers to the raw Pacific Northwest mining town of Presbyterian Church, who join forces to provide the miners with a superior kind of whorehouse experience. The appearance of representatives of a powerful mining company with interests of its own, however, threatens to be the undoing of their plans. With its fascinating flawed characters, evocative cinematography by the great Vilmos Zsigmond, innovative overlapping dialogue, and haunting use of Leonard Cohen songs, McCabe & Mrs. Miller brilliantly deglamorized and revitalized the most American of genres.

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[Ken B]

The Cincinnati Kid

With Ann-Margaret and Tuesday Weld it should have been better. 

[Karl Henning]

Last night, for the heck of it, The Terminator.  It's decades since I saw it, and both times I had seen it before was on the big screen.  Watching it again last night, I realized just why my high school buddy (whose ambition has been to be a filmmaker) was so enthusiastic:  it is a marvelously assured bravura performance by a rookie director, on a budget.  There are, of course, several scenes where one "sees the budget" (and this experience is underscored by how smooth the raised production values are in Terminator 2) but my reaction last night was never "ooh, that looks cheap" but rather, "for what he had in the coffers, that looks amazing."  Partly for sentimental reasons, I will soon revisit Terminator 3, but (and maybe this is depriving myself) I have no interest in an any of the later movies.  I suppose I am "invested" in these first three movies as an artifact of the time, and not in Terminator:  The Franchise.

[Monsieur Croche]

It may be a bonafide masterpiece . . . .

Well, for a space-oater, anyway ;-)

[SonicMan46]

At our local independent theater, a new film likely to receive a number of Oscar nominations:

Manchester by the Sea (2016) w/ Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, & Kyle Chandler - short synopsis below; ratings: 8.5/10, IMDB; 97%, Rotten Tomatoes; 4/5*, Amazon w/ several 1-2* ratings - the film can be slow and often depressing - I'd probably do a 4* on Amazon, but not really interested in seeing the film again - recommended to those who like to watch the Oscars.    Dave

Lee Chandler is a brooding, irritable loner who works as a handyman for a Boston apartment block. One damp winter day he gets a call summoning him to his hometown, north of the city. His brother's heart has given out suddenly, and he's been named guardian to his 16-year-old nephew. As if losing his only sibling and doubts about raising a teenager weren't enough, his return to the past re-opens an unspeakable tragedy.

[Karl Henning]

Thunderball



Fun.  Been decades since last saw it.  First in what will be a Bond-a-thon - just the early Connery movies, though.

"Wait until you get to my teeth."

[Ken B]

Thunderball



Fun.  Been decades since last saw it.  First in what will be a Bond-a-thon - just the early Connery movies, though.

That's the one with Lucianna Paluzzi, for those who notice such things! Not the most memorable of the "Bond girls" but the first one I became aware of ...

The best of course was Diana Rigg. But amongst the Connerys ... Jill St John would be my pick.

[SimonNZ]

The best of course was Diana Rigg. But amongst the Connerys ... Jill St John would be my pick.

Daniela Bianchi and Eva Green for me.

[Drasko]

[listener]

A NIGHT AT THE OPERA - Marx Brothers
seen twice, with and without the Leonard Maltin commentary
comes with 2 shorts, How to Sleep with Robert Benchley and a musical 2-reeler Saturday Night at the Trocadero

[pjme]

Yesterday, with my godchild David(10) - we loved it.



P.

[Karl Henning]

A NIGHT AT THE OPERA - Marx Brothers
seen twice, with and without the Leonard Maltin commentary
comes with 2 shorts, How to Sleep with Robert Benchley and a musical 2-reeler Saturday Night at the Trocadero

It doesn't get any better than this!

[Jaakko Keskinen]

Thunderball



Fun.  Been decades since last saw it.  First in what will be a Bond-a-thon - just the early Connery movies, though.

I really recall liking this but the first memory that pops in my head when talking about this movie is always how ridiculously fast Largo's boat sails during the climax of the movie.