Last Movie You Watched

[hopefullytrusting]

We'll see how far I make it into this, I am very suspicious: Six Schizophrenic Brothers

[Karl Henning]

I was morally prepared to watch Parasite this evening, but I managed to order the wrong Parasite from the Library.  I put the disc in the tray, watched the trailer, but this one is like Son of the Blob from the 70s with Demi Moore.

[JBS]

Now, that is the kind of empiricism I can get behind.

For me, it was just all too big, perhaps it is because I am so small that I enjoy the small things. I did love Sheen in it though. Most of the war movies I like are obviously fake - I think my favorite war films are the ones that involve the calvary (Forty Thousand Horsemen, The Charge of the Light Brigade - 1968).

Did you ever see Copperhead?
A home front movie, not a battle front movie. Looking it up now I see it had the same director as Gettysburg and Gods and Generals, and that Peter Fonda had a supporting role--I don't even remember him being in the film--and that I thought better of it than the critics.

[hopefullytrusting]

Did you ever see Copperhead?
A home front movie, not a battle front movie. Looking it up now I see it had the same director as Gettysburg and Gods and Generals, and that Peter Fonda had a supporting role--I don't even remember him being in the film--and that I thought better of it than the critics.

I have not, but I'll put it on my list, as I did enjoy Gettysburg (I love the filming of a good charge), and lol at your fonda comment.

I do relate a bit differently to civil war movies as I am black, and I find that it impossible to separate that from my analysis of the film. For example, I suspect I overenjoy Glory because of the cast (I've not done any historical research on it, as the topic doesn't particularly interest me).

I also don't want to watch movies on real subjects - reality isn't that much fun - I go to the movies to escape, lol.

[Cato]

Been trying to make it through The Godfather 1 and 2:



And I have been failing. There are some of the best scenes ever filmed, but in-between the doldrums, and I honestly do not give the love for Brando at all - I find him to be ridiculous. Unironically, I think Family Guy had it right:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pnwE_Oy5WI

You might like this excerpt from Twin Peaks: The Return: Michael Cera is just hysterical as Wally Brando, a satire on early Brando from The Wild One.


Wally Brando: One of the Greatest 5 Minutes in Television


Recently we watched a movie in the theater called Sketch, about a grade-school girl (c. 9 years old) whose drawings of her inner demons - or her demonizations of the little bullies around her - come to life.

It may seem odd, but this movie, dealing with children but not necessarily for children (especially those under 12), reminded me of...the first movie with a completely electronic music score!





Recently for some reason the great score by John Williams for Brian De Palma's wild paranormal thriller from the late 1970's The Fury started playing in my head.

Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Charles Durning, and a host of young actors on their way up: look for Daryl Hannah, Dennis Frantz, Laura Innes, Jim Belushi and one of De Palma's favorites, William Finley.

[hopefullytrusting]

You might like this excerpt from Twin Peaks: The Return: Michael Cera is just hysterical as Wally Brando, a satire on early Brando from The Wild One.


Wally Brando: One of the Greatest 5 Minutes in Television

I am dying. I love Cera, and I love Twin Peaks, and that is an excellent Brando interpretation. It highlights, so well, those idiotic pauses that don't create dramatic effect, but only demonstrate that we are watching a narcissistic performance - one not worthy of remembering, but Cera's I'll remember, he gets it - Brando doesn't.

Cera is also a badass who stomped the hot ones challenge.

[JBS]

I have not, but I'll put it on my list, as I did enjoy Gettysburg (I love the filming of a good charge), and lol at your fonda comment.

I do relate a bit differently to civil war movies as I am black, and I find that it impossible to separate that from my analysis of the film. For example, I suspect I overenjoy Glory because of the cast (I've not done any historical research on it, as the topic doesn't particularly interest me).

I also don't want to watch movies on real subjects - reality isn't that much fun - I go to the movies to escape, lol.

The cast made Glory, imo.
To be clear, there's no military action in Copperhead. One character joins the Union Army and things happen to him offscreen. But the story itself is set in upstate New York, and the focus is on pro-war vs anti-war politics, with side dash of anti-Irish bigotry.

[Karl Henning]

My Dead Friend Zoe

This is very touching. 

[Number Six]

I am dying. I love Cera, and I love Twin Peaks, and that is an excellent Brando interpretation. It highlights, so well, those idiotic pauses that don't create dramatic effect, but only demonstrate that we are watching a narcissistic performance - one not worthy of remembering, but Cera's I'll remember, he gets it - Brando doesn't.

Cera is also a badass who stomped the hot ones challenge.

Cera is also superb in The Phoenician Scheme.

[Mister Sharpe]

I was morally prepared to watch Parasite this evening, but I managed to order the wrong Parasite from the Library.  I put the disc in the tray, watched the trailer, but this one is like Son of the Blob from the 70s with Demi Moore.

Karl, it's streamable on Kanopy, which your local library may have available.  Mine does, but I haven't seen it yet. 

[Mister Sharpe]

I've only seen Jean de Florette seven or eight times and still feel the need to do so. My long-suffering wife is weary of it, so any viewings hereafter are solo. (English Patient is another film she's "seen too many times," I haven't seen it enough!)   I also much enjoy Marcel Pagnol's own films from the '30s, those she'll watch. Director Claude Berri is masterful in this diptych and I look forward to many of his other films; unfortunately, his postmortem rep is filled with his family and friends' rancor and criminality, a sad end to his own personal movie.

   

[relm1]

I am dying. I love Cera, and I love Twin Peaks, and that is an excellent Brando interpretation. It highlights, so well, those idiotic pauses that don't create dramatic effect, but only demonstrate that we are watching a narcissistic performance - one not worthy of remembering, but Cera's I'll remember, he gets it - Brando doesn't.

Cera is also a badass who stomped the hot ones challenge.

I thought those pauses were because he had to be fed his lines.  That's what was going on in Apocalypse Now.  There are outtakes of him being told what to say just before saying it.

[Karl Henning]

Karl, it's streamable on Kanopy, which your local library may have available.  Mine does, but I haven't seen it yet. 

Thanks. Yes, the Library does have some similar streaming option for divers titles, I haven't dipped my technological toes there yet.

[Karl Henning]

We'll see how far I make it into this, I am very suspicious: Six Schizophrenic Brothers

The obligatory jest: so that makes 12 brothers all told?

[hopefullytrusting]

I thought those pauses were because he had to be fed his lines.  That's what was going on in Apocalypse Now.  There are outtakes of him being told what to say just before saying it.

Ah, the McKellen method!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVgbCZdDS-Q

I've heard that as well, but never sought to confirm it, as I didn't find him interesting enough. Now, Hopper - I loved Hopper, lol - and that behind the scenes is hilarious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufjrg1l0Z8I

[hopefullytrusting]

The obligatory jest: so that makes 12 brothers all told?

In actuality, 10 boys and 2 girls, and it was alright. I wouldn't watch it again, and I wouldn't recommend it. It felt  exploitative to a degree, and it definitely felt as if the research was done by someone who was not an expert on the condition. I also didn't find the story all that interesting, so that didn't help. It felt quite low brow in its presentation - like something you would imagine Barbara Walters passing off as investigative journalism on 20/20.

[Karl Henning]

TD: Before hitting the hay, I re-watched The Cheap Detective, always great fun. "I heard about the carioca!"

[Cato]

I've only seen Jean de Florette seven or eight times and still feel the need to do so. My long-suffering wife is weary of it, so any viewings hereafter are solo. (English Patient is another film she's "seen too many times," I haven't seen it enough!)   I also much enjoy Marcel Pagnol's own films from the '30s, those she'll watch. Director Claude Berri is masterful in this diptych and I look forward to many of his other films; unfortunately, his postmortem rep is filled with his family and friends' rancor and criminality, a sad end to his own personal movie.

   

The books should have qualified Marcel Pagnol for a Nobel Prize, which unfortunately is not the honor it used to be.

They reminded me of the plays of Sophocles.

And yes, the movies are most excellent and highly recommended!

[Mister Sharpe]

The books should have qualified Marcel Pagnol for a Nobel Prize, which unfortunately is not the honor it used to be.

They reminded me of the plays of Sophocles.

And yes, the movies are most excellent and highly recommended!

Could not agree more, Cato.  Pagnol was nominated for a Nobel, but did not win.  I've read many of his books and some of the plays en français. The background of Jean de Florette is nearly as compelling as the film itself! 1.) The Pagnol heirs did not willingly concede to allow filming - it took years of pressure.  2.) It was the most expensive film to be made in France up til then and 3.) Daniel Auteuil, who was third in line (!) to play Ugolin was considered too handsome for the role, until he showed up with his head shaved!  4.) Montand initially resisted being in the film; he did not want to play "someone old."  Maybe most interesting of all, one film critic saw similarities in the story to Faulkner...it is true that the French appreciated him before we did. 

[hopefullytrusting]

The most accurate, and best movie about college sports (some of the best character arcs, and one of the few perfect endings in cinema in terms of realism): The Program