Films you've seen lately

[Rjw]

Went the day well

Is on today at 1300 on 5Select.

Recommended!

[Dave2002]

I thought I'd see if there'd been anything worth watching which I might have missed in 2019.

There are a couple of films which I might get round to viewing - https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com...ovies-of-2019/

[Richard Tarleton]

Went the day well

Is on today at 1300 on 5Select.

Recommended!

What a great film. 1942 Ealing Studios, from a short story by Graham Greene, the basic plot idea turning up later in The Eagle Has Landed (book and film) - but this is much, much better.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

What a great film. 1942 Ealing Studios, from a short story by Graham Greene, the basic plot idea turning up later in The Eagle Has Landed (book and film) - but this is much, much better.

- score by Walton ... and Thora Hird as we never saw her again (except, perhaps, in A Kind of Loving ). (And an unusual take on the dangers of a fondness for chocolate!)

[johncorrigan]

Went to see Armando Iannucci's version of David Copperfield tonight. The casting was inspired and I don't just mean the performances of the likes of Patel and Swinton and Laurie and Capaldi - quite a stunning cast. I don't know much about Dickens but I felt I learned a lot about him in this film - others may disagree. Great entertainment.

[muzzer]

What a great film. 1942 Ealing Studios, from a short story by Graham Greene, the basic plot idea turning up later in The Eagle Has Landed (book and film) - but this is much, much better.

This has been on Talking Pictures TV recently I believe. I well remember this sort of film being on tv when I was growing up in the 70s. You don’t know who to trust etc. The war was made to feel eerily recent. But then, it was no further away in 1975 than 1990 is now.

[muzzer]

Last night I watched Bombshell. Since he is safely in the ground I can observe that Roger Ailes was a creep of demented proportions, both physical and moral. The film is icy and matter of fact in a quite chilling way.

[Belgrove]

The Lighthouse is like no other film I’ve seen. Two men do a term manning a remote and forlorn lighthouse, and drive each other mad. In truth, the senior of the two, played by Willem Dafoe is already bonkers, being an amalgam of Captains Ahab and Birdseye, speaking in pastiche dialogue culled from Melville and contemporaneous seafaring logs. His taciturn junior played by Robert Pattinson even accuses him of sounding like a parody following a particularly barnacle encrusted monologue, but in time he goes stir crazy and fantasises about mermaids while being stalked by a belligerent one-eyed seagull (I did say it’s was like nothing else...). Unusually it’s shot in an almost square aspect ratio, generating the claustrophobic and suffocating atmosphere, and in a high contrast black and white, like an expressionist nightmare. On top of this is an incessant sound-track comprising the roaring sea, squawking sea-birds and a baleful and deeply unsettling fog-horn. Like the two protagonists, I couldn’t wait to escape from this terrible place, but had to find out what happens. Of course it does not end happily, but boning up on the Prometheus myth might lend a clue as to what is going on, or maybe not. It’s ellipsis may ultimately signify nothing. The two performances are outstanding in their demented intensity, as is the design and cinematography. Despite 1917’s technical wizardry, the mysteries of this film will remain with me far longer. A distinctly salty contrast to the heritage whimsy of David Copperfield.

[gurnemanz]

Last night I watched Bombshell. Since he is safely in the ground I can observe that Roger Ailes was a creep of demented proportions, both physical and moral. The film is icy and matter of fact in a quite chilling way.

Worth seeing with good performances and milieu depiction but not that interesting cinematically

[gurnemanz]

Irishman. Long but riveting. Netflix also has an interesting on sofa making of discussion with Scorsese, de Niro, Pesci and Pacino.

[Stanfordian]

'1917' 2019 war film directed, co-written and produced by Sam Mendes

I'll give it 3.5 out of 5

[Serial_Apologist]

Irishman. Long but riveting. Netflix also has an interesting on sofa making of discussion with Scorsese, de Niro, Pesci and Pacino.

All three looking like homeless unfortunates, dragged in from off the street!

[jayne lee wilson]

'1917' 2019 war film directed, co-written and produced by Sam Mendes

I'll give it 3.5 out of 5

Most enjoyable watch here.....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000dt6w/life-cinematic-series-1-1-sam-mendes

Look out for later episodes with other directors....

[Maclintick]

Irishman. Long but riveting. Netflix also has an interesting on sofa making of discussion with Scorsese, de Niro, Pesci and Pacino.

Agreed. It's a beautifully-crafted summation of the archetypal Scorsese mafia flick, "Son of Goodfellas", replete with a pitch-perfect cinematic recreation of Kennedy-era America -- the cocktail of aspiration & corruption brilliantly captured. A Last-Hurrah for Pacino, De Niro, & Pesci, who are strangely silent (deferential ?) during the post-film interview segment, content to let Marty riff endlessly on-&-on with his directorial observations/obsessions...

[richardfinegold]

I enjoyed the Irishman, but my biggest issues was with DeNiro playing a man in his mid thirties. He was just to damn old to look the part