Last Movie You Watched

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I liked it so much that I read the novel!  Which I also recommend.

Nice!  Must admit that I am also tempted to read it.  A bit from Wiki:  "The novel has sold more than ten million copies worldwide.[1] It was rejected by at least 5 London publishing houses[2] before being accepted by Knopf Canada, which published it in September 2001. Martel won the Man Booker Prize the following year.[3][4][5] It was also chosen for CBC Radio's Canada Reads 2003, where it was championed by author Nancy Lee.[6]"

PD

[Karl Henning]

For only the second time, Mighty Aphrodite. I missed, the first time, that Peter Weller is in the cast. Keeping an eye out for him. 

[Karl Henning]

For only the second time, Mighty Aphrodite. I missed, the first time, that Peter Weller is in the cast. Keeping an eye out for him.

Now I see him, it's clear I knew him the first time, and just forgot that he was in the movie. 

[Karl Henning]

Now I see him, it's clear I knew him the first time, and just forgot that he was in the movie.

I forgot, too, that Jack Warden was Tiresias. 

[Karl Henning]

Now I see him, it's clear I knew him the first time, and just forgot that he was in the movie.

Part of me thinks, "A pity he's playing a heel," but mostly I think how he must have had fun playing the role: trying to lure Helena Bonham Carter away from her husband (Woody Allen)

[Karl Henning]

Also from Hitchcock's Light Entertainment Division: To Catch a Thief.

[Karl Henning]

Tonight, from Hitchcock's Light Entertainment Division: Dial M for Murder.

Also from Hitchcock's Light Entertainment Division: To Catch a Thief.

And, (coincidentally?) both with John Williams in supporting roles.

[Karl Henning]

Also from Hitchcock's Light Entertainment Division: To Catch a Thief.

One of the great curtain lines in Hitchcock: "Mother will love it up here!"

[Karl Henning]

Woody Allen's Zelig. I owe the Sarge thanks for reminding me how witty this is.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Woody Allen's Zelig. I owe the Sarge thanks for reminding me how witty this is.

Come on, mon ami....watch some more current movies too. 

Meant with love,

PD

[Brian]

Come on, mon ami....watch some more current movies too. 

Meant with love,

PD

Now he's gonna watch nothing but silent movies for the rest of the month 

[Cato]

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Woody Allen's Zelig. I owe the Sarge thanks for reminding me how witty this is.

Yiddish word from German Selig, "Blessed."    Another little joke!

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Now he's gonna watch nothing but silent movies for the rest of the month 

 

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I liked it so much that I read the novel!  Which I also recommend.

Alright, I either need to  check this out of my library or borrow it online.

PD

[DavidW]

Now he's gonna watch nothing but silent movies for the rest of the month 

You can do that and keep PD happy!

[Brian]

You can do that and keep PD happy!

That was a cute little movie but its Best Picture win annoyed me a little bit - and its Best Original Score win DEFINITELY made me angry since so much of the score was copied from Bernard Herrmann and not original at all!

Looking at the Best Picture contenders that year, it seems to have been a pretty poor year overall for movies. I haven't seen the critically beloved Tree of Life, and A Separation wasn't nominated, so I think I would have voted for...Moneyball?

[DavidW]

That was a cute little movie but its Best Picture win annoyed me a little bit - and its Best Original Score win DEFINITELY made me angry since so much of the score was copied from Bernard Herrmann and not original at all!

Looking at the Best Picture contenders that year, it seems to have been a pretty poor year overall for movies. I haven't seen the critically beloved Tree of Life, and A Separation wasn't nominated, so I think I would have voted for...Moneyball?

I stopped paying attention to Oscars long ago!  It seems like self-congratulatory and myopic nonsense from Hollywood.

[SonicMan46]

Romancing the Stone (1984) - WOW! Film is now 40 years old! Favorite of mine, in part because  my colleague and I spent a week in Colombia speaking at a radiology meeting in the 1980s - quotes below discuss cast and story - second quote - NONE of the filming was done in Colombia, mostly Mexico around Veracruz. Still a great adventure comedy for me.  Dave

Romancing the Stone is a 1984 action adventure romantic comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Diane Thomas and produced by Michael Douglas, who also stars in the film alongside Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito. The film follows a romance novelist who must venture beyond her New York City comfort zone to Colombia in order to save her sister from criminals who are holding her for ransom. (Source)

Filming locations included Veracruz, Mexico (Fort of San Juan de Ulúa), Huasca de Ocampo, Mexico, and Snow Canyon, Utah. The scene where Turner and Douglas get separated on opposite banks on a whitewater river was filmed on the Rio Antigua near the town of Jalcomulco, Veracruz (Source)

 

[Karl Henning]

Come on, mon ami....watch some more current movies too. 

Meant with love,

PD

Happy to take your suggestion under earnest advisement. I see that @Brian brought the hammer down. Please do not misread this as defiance ... TD: The Man Who Knew Too Much. 

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Happy to take your suggestion under earnest advisement. I see that @Brian brought the hammer down. Please do not misread this as defiance ... TD: The Man Who Knew Too Much.

It's all good.   

PD