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[pjme]

Excellent, beautifully shot film. To me it is definitely more than a "whodunit" or a thriller...with an unexpected  ending. Questions, questions...what does it take to be "a good person"?
Undoubtedly, some will find the last minutes "unbelievable", if not silly, possibly for some, quite shocking. 
Even so,  I found the film contemporary and gripping. 

[ando]

Visually an impressive time-capsule of early wall-era Berlin. Really impressive location work and incorporation of a place at a time into the screenplay. I know the shots and scenes that are meant to be East Berlin must also have been shot in the west, but the illusion is carried off convincingly.

Story-wise its not much more than a slightly above average take on the standard cold-war spy genre, but its a genre I like so thats fine.

Quite. 
For me the film is about what Berlin had become at that moment in the new order and much less about Palmer's field objectives, which are as misleading as the streets of Berlin. It's an espionage circus. Don't try to make sense of it and you'll enjoy Palmer's panoramic view. I initially saw it on Hoopla but just discovered a new upload on YouTube.

The story, of course, is based on the second of three Len Deighton's novels about an unnamed British agent. It got me interested in Deighton's other novels, particularly, Bomber, which is supposed to be a kind of stylistic-procedural tour de force.

[Kalevala]

Excellent, beautifully shot film. To me it is definitely more than a "whodunit" or a thriller...with an unexpected ending. Questions, questions...what does it take to be "a good person"?
Undoubtedly, some will find the last minutes "unbelievable", if not silly, possibly for some, quite shocking.
Even so,  I found the film contemporary and gripping.

I enjoyed it (watched it a couple of months, I want to say, ago?).  And yes, the ending was quite surprising, but also thought-provoking....and I don't want to say more for those who haven't seen it yet and might want to do so.

K

[krummholz]

I enjoyed it (watched it a couple of months, I want to say, ago?).  And yes, the ending was quite surprising, but also thought-provoking....and I don't want to say more for those who haven't seen it yet and might want to do so.

K

Planning on watching it tonight...

[Kalevala]

Will be re-watching the first part of the last episode of Mission Impossible with a friend soon (hope to see part two in the theatres in the near futre).

K

[SimonNZ]

Quite. 
For me the film is about what Berlin had become at that moment in the new order and much less about Palmer's field objectives, which are as misleading as the streets of Berlin. It's an espionage circus. Don't try to make sense of it and you'll enjoy Palmer's panoramic view. I initially saw it on Hoopla but just discovered a new upload on YouTube.

The story, of course, is based on the second of three Len Deighton's novels about an unnamed British agent. It got me interested in Deighton's other novels, particularly, Bomber, which is supposed to be a kind of stylistic-procedural tour de force.

Its kind of hard, for me at least, to think that the Berlin Wall was up for 28 years and has now been down for 36, so large does it still loom in the imagination.

More easy to forget that this sort of film used to be Michael Caine's bread and butter.

I have an impulse to start a viewing season of second-tier cold war thrillers set in or around East Berlin and the wall, but would probably find my interest would diminish as quickly as the quality.

[DavidW]

I watched the latest Captain America movie. It is kind of bad, I'll just let the pitch meeting do the review.

[Karl Henning]

Revisiting Dune, Part 1

[Cato]

I watched the latest Captain America movie. It is kind of bad, I'll just let the pitch meeting do the review.

Oh, Ryan George's Pitch Meetings are TIGHT!

Not to mention this gem...

"Beating up senior citizens is TIGHT!"  😇

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Revisited The Post and loved it. Good story, nice cinematography and lovely 70s fashion. Interaction between the politics in the nation and the politics in the news business.
@Karl Henning I have a feeling that you will like the movie.

[SonicMan46]

Planet Earth II & Blue Planet II w/ David Attenborough (1926-Present) - bought this set when I purchased a 4K HDTV, about 4 years ago - only our second watch and enjoying - Dave

 

[Iota]

Planet Earth II & Blue Planet II w/ David Attenborough (1926-Present) - bought this set when I purchased a 4K HDTV, about 4 years ago - only our second watch and enjoying - Dave

 

Marvellous!

[Karl Henning]

Planet Earth II & Blue Planet II w/ David Attenborough (1926-Present) - bought this set when I purchased a 4K HDTV, about 4 years ago - only our second watch and enjoying - Dave

 

Superb! My wallet doesn't want to know that there are sequels.

[SonicMan46]

Superb! My wallet doesn't want to know that there are sequels.

Hey Karl - well, I'm looking at the one below - just $22 (4 discs) on Amazon - having Susan first review for her interest - looks like a nice follow-up to my other set.  Dave

ADDENDUM: For subscribers of PBS - this show is available on their website - will try on my 4K HDTV but not sure what streaming resolution may be used - I'd suspect as least BD HD but would hope for 4K.

 

[Cato]

For $5.00 each, we received a medium-sized bottle of pop, a medium-sized box of popcorn, and a ticket for...




Certainly the stunts are amazing, although there are some holes in the plot, and the first act is probably too long.

But a fun movie for $5.00!  Oh, yes, small-town Ohio does have prices from yesteryear*, not just the atmosphere!  😇


* To be sure, in 1959, a ticket for Ben-Hur was $1.50, which was a good amount back then, but did not include pop and popcorn!

[Karl Henning]

For $5.00 each, we received a medium-sized bottle of pop, a medium-sized box of popcorn, and a ticket for...




Certainly the stunts are amazing, although there are some holes in the plot, and the first act is probably too long.

But a fun movie for $5.00!  Oh, yes, small-town Ohio does have prices from yesteryear, not just the atmosphere!  😇

Nice!

[Karl Henning]

Designing Dune and Dune FX featurettes for the David Lynch movie 

[DavidW]

I watched Mountainhead, which is a smart satire of how tech billionaires will or are misusing AI at the cost of human lives for making money. Watching this right after Saltburn demonstrates the spectrum of antisocial personality disorder. The character in Saltburn is a high-functioning sociopath, while these tech bros are psychopaths. Anyway, this film feels like it could be a theatrical production since it is all set in one location.

[Madiel]

The Thing About Harry



In which I confirmed that I am a complete sucker for a decently made gay rom-com.

[Kalevala]

I watched Mountainhead, which is a smart satire of how tech billionaires will or are misusing AI at the cost of human lives for making money. Watching this right after Saltburn demonstrates the spectrum of antisocial personality disorder. The character in Saltburn is a high-functioning sociopath, while these tech bros are psychopaths. Anyway, this film feels like it could be a theatrical production since it is all set in one location.

I remember hearing a story on NPR [may it live forever!] some months ago(?) about actors and AI.  One of the parts that I particularly remembered was how extras (at least for one movie) were told to perform various reactions/feelings to be photographed and, from what I understood, to be used at will by the studio.  Well, guess how that went over?

K