Last Movie You Watched

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Dry Brett Kavanaugh

Two English Girls, Truffaut. Excellent cinema.




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I watched on Youtube the movie Beyond the Door (Ovidio G. Assonitis & Roberto Piazzoli, 1974). I didn't like the Italian-American style of filmmaking and the funk music felt out of place. Disappointing The Exorcist-copy. 2/5

Quote from: Karl Henning on November 28, 2024, 02:46:35 PMPlanes, Trains and Automobiles. Six bucks and my right nut says I may just watch this every Thanksgiving for the rest of my life.

Planes, Trains and Automobiles is so much fun! The Finnish name of this movie is "Vauhdilla Chicagoon" (To Chicago with speed), but I really like the witty German name "Ein Ticket für zwei" (One ticket for two).  :D
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Kalevala

Quote from: Kalevala on November 28, 2024, 04:10:15 PMCurrently watching Gosford Park which I haven't seen before.  Lots of big name actors, writers and directors in it.  :)

K
Quite enjoyed it.  Well done...a number of interesting twists and turns and interesting characters.

K

Cato

Yesterday a relative chose The Guns of Navarone for a Thanksgiving movie: well, why not?  :laugh:


Great movie as it gathers more and more steam: Gregory Peck in his mid 40's and David Niven in his early 50's as underground saboteurs in Nazi-occupied Greece: their mission is to blow up two massive artillery guns the size of locomotives wreaking havoc on Allied ships in the Mediterranean.

Great score by Dmitri Tiomkin!



A very young Richard Harris can be spotted at the beginning giving a "bloody" good speech!  ;)

"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)

Karl Henning

Quote from: Cato on November 29, 2024, 03:33:37 PMYesterday a relative chose The Guns of Navarone for a Thanksgiving movie: well, why not?  :laugh:


Great movie as it gathers more and more steam: Gregory Peck in his mid 40's and David Niven in his early 50's as underground saboteurs in Nazi-occupied Greece: their mission is to blow up two massive artillery guns the size of locomotives wreaking havoc on Allied ships in the Mediterranean.

Great score by Dmitri Tiomkin!



A very young Richard Harris can be spotted at the beginning giving a "bloody" good speech!  ;)


Oh, I should find that at the library!
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[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
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Karl Henning

A Christmas Carol. Patrick Stewart, Richard E. Grant, Joel Gray, Dominic West, & al.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

hopefullytrusting

Mission Impossible 3:


Possibly the best action sequence in the entire series (the bridge scene), and one of the sexiest scenes ever shot (the Lamborghini scene), and, maybe, the second biggest actor get (Philip Seymour Hoffman) making this, I think, the best film, overall, but not my favorite as I am still partial to the computers in Mission Impossible 1 and Henry Cavill, who is easily my favorite character in the entire series, in Mission Impossible 6.

AnotherSpin

A very unusual and extraordinary film, a grand art-house spectacle where one shouldn't look for a conventional story.


Christo

Yesterday night: Druk ('Drunk'; English title: Another Round), a Danish film from 2020, by Thomas Vinterberg & with a star role for Mads Mikkelsen. Not bad at all: but very confusingly "Dutch" in all cultural matters, hints & expression. Except for the language.
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Cato

Okay, this popped up and it is hysterical!

No, not the movie: the Pitch Meeting for it!

(i.e. Comedian Ryan George's satirical pitch meeting for this Lacey Chabert epic!)


"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)

Mandryka

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https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/blue-now/

Derek Jarman Blue, live now. Because it's World AIDS Day. I was hoping the audience would be a bit more glam - but no, just ordinary folk like me. I've found where I fit - the Blue crowd.

There's a piano, some sort of electric keyboard, and an enormous screen. Four chairs and a low stool.

Five minutes late, and there's no sign of it starting. I hate that. Grump.
Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen

Roasted Swan

Quote from: Kalevala on November 29, 2024, 03:06:25 PMQuite enjoyed it.  Well done...a number of interesting twists and turns and interesting characters.

K

Notable use of Ivor Novello's music too!!!

ritter

Quote from: Roasted Swan on December 01, 2024, 11:04:02 AMNotable use of Ivor Novello's music too!!!
"Please, don't encourage him!"  ;D
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hopefullytrusting

I'm growing ever more romantic and sentimental as I age (gracefully - tear up a bit during the Reno rescue):


Number Six

Quote from: Kalevala on November 28, 2024, 04:10:15 PMCurrently watching Gosford Park which I haven't seen before.  Lots of big name actors, writers and directors in it.  :)

K
I love love love it. 

Just saying. 

Number Six

Quote from: ritter on December 01, 2024, 01:15:57 PM"Please, don't encourage him!"  ;D
"Oh, but none of us will see listen to it, surely." 

brewski

Quote from: Kalevala on November 28, 2024, 04:10:15 PMCurrently watching Gosford Park which I haven't seen before.  Lots of big name actors, writers and directors in it.  :)

K

One of Robert Altman's best, which is saying something. Have only seen it once, but at the right time, will definitely give it another viewing to catch even more.

-Bruce
"I set down a beautiful chord on paper—and suddenly it rusts."
—Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998)

brewski

Kidnapped (2010, dir. Miguel Ángel Vivas). I promised my young nephew, an aspiring film director, that we would watch something together over the holidays. Well, he chose this, about a family who moves into a new home and is terrorized by three masked invaders. There's a lot to admire in the filmmaking, which is very stylish, and Vivas is clearly a director of considerable talent. But ultimately the horror is eclipsed by sheer gore and brutality — neither of which is really my thing. "Happy Holidays!"  ;D

-Bruce
"I set down a beautiful chord on paper—and suddenly it rusts."
—Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998)

Number Six

Quote from: Cato on December 01, 2024, 10:37:14 AMOkay, this popped up and it is hysterical!

No, not the movie: the Pitch Meeting for it!

(i.e. Comedian Ryan George's satirical pitch meeting for this Lacey Chabert epic!)




Just like with reactions, I usually don't watch a Pitch Meeting for something I have not seen. But I couldn't resist this one the other night, and it was indeed hilarious. Sometimes I do enjoy a Hallmark Xmas movie, and Lacey is always nice. But I think I shall give this one a pass.  :-[

Kalevala

Quote from: brewski on December 02, 2024, 05:37:18 PMOne of Robert Altman's best, which is saying something. Have only seen it once, but at the right time, will definitely give it another viewing to catch even more.

-Bruce
If you have Amazon Prime, it's free to watch there.  :)   A note for those who haven't seen it before:  If you liked the t.v. show Downton Abbey, I think that you will also enjoy this movie.

K