Last Movie You Watched

[Bogey]

Cool. For the nonce, I content myself with the BPL check-out  0:)

I would guess that they have a two disc version on their shelf.  If they do, grab that one.

[Karl Henning]

I would guess that they have a two disc version on their shelf.  If they do, grab that one.

Aye.  And I thought I remembered it having an Ebert commentary.  We shall plumb this mystery yet! 

[Bogey]

Aye.  And I thought I remembered it having an Ebert commentary.  We shall plumb this mystery yet! 

And here is the docu....maybe watch first since you have seen the film outright.

https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video;_ylt=A0LEVxlvbTRYJ6YABmxXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTE0MnY2MjN0BGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDQjE4NzlfMQRzZWMDcGl2cw--?p=ckane+hearst+american+experience&fr=mcafee&fr2=piv-web#id=1&vid=3c710a3daccd97adf4179e3f0046a009&action=view

[Karl Henning]

Thanks! . . . especially now that the Blu-Ray player doubles as a YouTube browser.

[drogulus]

Hi Drogulus - interesting idea, thanks - went to iTunes and indeed the film is available in SD or HD (720p & 1080p), as shown below - but sounds like a potential pain, plus I own only a CD/DVD burner, so would need to buy a BD device, such as the one below from Other World Computing (I'm on Apple equipment) - maybe I'll wait to see if a commercial BD is released - holding my fingers -   Dave

     If you have a BD player it might play files from a BD, once you get rid of the "impediments". I do this with all my discs, rip then play the files. I don't even play them when I buy them, I just rip them to MKVs, load them onto one of my portable drives and play them on my media player into my receiver and from there to the TV.

     As far as the impediments go, there are programs for that. I don't use iTunes so my setup uses other stuff.

     I left out that for "media player" the appropriate BD player will usually be best, one that streams well and has a play everything USB port. LG players do that, and so do LG TVs. With one of these players all of your disking, steaming and USB-ing goes right to your receiver or TV with no separate input switching.

[SonicMan46]

     If you have a BD player it might play files from a BD, once you get rid of the "impediments". I do this with all my discs, rip then play the files. I don't even play them when I buy them, I just rip them to MKVs, load them onto one of my portable drives and play them on my media player into my receiver and from there to the TV.

     As far as the impediments go, there are programs for that. I don't use iTunes so my setup uses other stuff.

     I left out that for "media player" the appropriate BD player will usually be best, one that streams well and has a play everything USB port. LG players do that, and so do LG TVs. With one of these players all of your disking, steaming and USB-ing goes right to your receiver or TV with no separate input switching.

Hi again Drogulus - thanks for your additional comments - my son is an IT guy in Indianapolis, and we just visited him last month - he always brings up movies via his NAS, and some are quite recent (so probably obtained illegally?  he won't admit to his source?) - I understand all that you are discussing above, but at my age, just not an option I want to get into - I own over 700 DVDs/BDs and cannot imagine wanting to spend the time at this stage in ripping all of these discs - if there are just a handful of BDs desired in the future, I'll await a commercial release.  OH - if I were just 30 years younger, my approach would be MUCH different!  Thanks again - Dave

[Bogey]

1952: The Big Sky from Howard Hawks and starring Kirk Douglas.  6 out of 10 here.

[SonicMan46]

1952: The Big Sky from Howard Hawks and starring Kirk Douglas.  6 out of 10 here.

Bill - I've got that on DVD-R (burned from the TCM channel) - remember enjoying - just checked my database for DVD-Rs, that film got 3*/4* on both Maltin's book and Videohounds, so not too far off your rating - I'd have to do a new watch.  Dave

[Bogey]

Bill - I've got that on DVD-R (burned from the TCM channel) - remember enjoying - just checked my database for DVD-Rs, that film got 3*/4* on both Maltin's book and Videohounds, so not too far off your rating - I'd have to do a new watch.  Dave

Unlike other Hawks' films, the relationships between the characters just did not seem to click in this one, Dave.

[listener]

a couple of mainland Chinese films to report, made about 50 years apart
THE BRIDGE 1949  B&W
transfer suffers from some vertical ghosting, production a bit primitive.
Problems getting material to repair a bridge during the war are solved by Collective thinking towards a Common Goal and subordinating Individual Aspirations.
Would inspire those of a similar mindset, maybe, and irritate the non-preconverted.   Mise-en-scene quite good considering the rather primitive production facilities at the time.
ONE FOOT OFF THE GROUND   2006
another backstage opera company, this time on a forced break.   Modern setting nice writing and production.  Enjoyable comedy-drama, scenes of cock-fighting may offend.

[listener]

I forgot to mention the subtitles for THE BRIDGE might be direct from the Mandarin syntax and don't always make sense

[SonicMan46]

Susan & I went out to a movie at our downtown independent theater:

Loving w/ Joel Edgerton as Richard Loving & Ruth Negga as Mildred Loving - short synopsis below (Source) - true story about interracial marriage in Virginia, involvement of the ACLU, and final judgment by the Supreme Court - we enjoyed - recommended.    Dave

With a perfect last name amid imperfect circumstances, Richard and Mildred Loving made history when their fight for the state of Virginia to recognize their interracial marriage made it all the way to the Supreme Court in 1967. Now, their love story is making headlines again, with a screen adaptation of their odyssey, simply titled Loving, generating early Oscar buzz after earning rave reviews at this year's film-festival circuit.

 

[SimonNZ]

Beyond The Black Rainbow (2010)

Very ambitious and disturbingly odd sci-fi film with numerous stylistic nods to 70s era classics like Dark Star and THX-1138 as well as Kubrick, and with a plethora of interesting moments and original ideas. But glacial pacing and ultimately less substance or depth than its artsiness promises.

[James]

Spring
2014 ‧ Romance/Horror ‧ 1h 50m

An aimless young man (Lou Taylor Pucci) takes an impromptu trip to Italy and becomes involved with an alluring genetics student (Nadia Hilker) who harbors a transformative secret.

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[Karl Henning]

I've started watching Edward Scissorhands (for the first time, at last), and finding it rather a mixed bag. There's so much which is charming, and overall it's shaping up as a success. But am I alone in finding it heavy-handed in the troweling on of the "It's the cookie-cutter 'normal suburbanites' who are the creepy ones" theme? Not only the script, but the look and the visual gags.

Love Alan Arkin here, of course. Wynona Ryder looks like she's pretty much going to continue to be ... herself again.

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[Ken B]

I've started watching Edward Scissorhands (for the first time, at last), and finding it rather a mixed bag. There's so much which is charming, and overall it's shaping up as a success. But am I alone in finding it heavy-handed in the troweling on of the "It's the cookie-cutter 'normal suburbanites' who are the creepy ones" theme? Not only the script, but the look and the visual gags.

Love Alan Arkin here, of course. Wynona Ryder looks like she's pretty much going to continue to be ... herself again.

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She steals every scene she's in. Nyuck, nyuck.

You are right about the trowel.

[Bogey]

I've started watching Edward Scissorhands (for the first time, at last), and finding it rather a mixed bag. There's so much which is charming, and overall it's shaping up as a success. But am I alone in finding it heavy-handed in the troweling on of the "It's the cookie-cutter 'normal suburbanites' who are the creepy ones" theme? Not only the script, but the look and the visual gags.

Love Alan Arkin here, of course. Wynona Ryder looks like she's pretty much going to continue to be ... herself again.

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Did not care for it.  But, I can only think of one Burton film that I did and that is Ed Wood.

[listener]

another lapse from good taste tonight with the Shaw Brothers 1983  THE SEEDING OF A GHOST
"...an erotic gore-fest starring Kao Fei who seeks vengeance against his wife's rapists and killers by soliciting the help of a demented magician.

[Karl Henning]

Did not care for it.  But, I can only think of one Burton film that I did and that is Ed Wood.

I still think rather fondly of the Michael Keaton Batman;  and I may like the remade Planet of the Apes better than many.  I "more or less liked" Nightmare Before Christmas, Frankenweenie, and even Dark Shadows (which had the anthologizing virtue of diagraming a show I was aware of while growing up, but never plugged into), and Beetlejuice, of course—but may not need ever to watch these again.  I believe it is impartial (and not "professional jealousy") when I say that one of the mild negatives for me over time is Elfman's signature style in the scoring (clearly talented he is).

[aligreto]

Last night: La séparation with Isabelle Huppert and Daniel Auteuil....