Looks like David Copperfield and Parasites will turn out to be our last cinema films for a while. We watched Uncut Gems on Netflix - quite a ride! But thorough recommendable for a different kind of film experience.
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Last night we watched Merchant-Ivory's 'A Room With A view' for the first time in years - a sort of thinking person's 'Downton Abbey'. An intelligent screenplay very acted by all concerned (especially Denholm Elliott) and visually stunning. The operatic extracts added powerfully to the impact of key scenes. Rented from Amazon Prime for the princely sum of 99p.Comment
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Anyone seen Love and Friendship? On tap for tonightComment
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Rocketman!!! I love You!!
Fell in love with this first go. just saw it again, what a heart bursting, gloom busting musically joyful heartbreaker of a goddamn wonderful film!
Great Music, great acting, great writing, great cinema!
Instantly became one of my all-time favourites, and not only in rockographies or musicals....
But last night.... God I really needed it - gave me a release from the Global & Personal Tension, dread and Gloom....
"Bopping" round the room high on Valpolicella....
And Like Bo-Rhap, it has one of the most perfectly conceived and executed endings of all time.....
I'm Still Standing! And let's hope at least some of us are in a few months' time....
The original Russell Mulcahy Classic.....
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Yep we love this film, a real witty homage to Jane Austen. I’ve always liked Whit Stillman since ‘Metropolitan‘ many years ago, so glad to see he hasn’t lost his sparkling touch.Originally posted by richardfinegold View PostComment
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Just started here, a recently purchased Blu-ray of West Side Story. Seems to be very well remastered in both visual and audio realms.
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Continuing our Jane Austen movie fest we saw Amazon Love and Friendship, based on her novella Lady Susan that I had read a few years ago. The novella is entirely in the form of letters from two of the principals to two other relatively minor characters. Kate Beckinsale is wonderful as the scheming women at the center of events. The entire tale is a bit snarky and my wife, who was expecting another story on the order of Sense and Sensibility/Emma/Pride and Prejudice etc. was disappointed, so be forewarned if you are unfamiliar with the tale. Next up: Persuasion.Comment
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After seeing the remarkable "Steve McQueen: The Man and Le Mans"...
(a feature length doc, not a BBC TV film, and a very movingly quiet, restrained reflection upon the man, his Motor Racing obsession and his all-too-short life...the professional, emotional and physical damage the film-making did to those involved.....absolutely not just for the racing fans...).....
It has to be time for me to see Le Mans '66......my midnight movie later....Comment
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I might have a watch of the 1936 “ Things to Come” which of course features a score by Arthur Bliss.
Both the original and a colourised version on Youtube. Can anybody recommend one over the other ?I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
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Oh the original, surely?? The b&w is a huge part of the film's atmosphere.Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
My copy of Ken Loach's "Sorry We Missed You" finally arrived on Friday. Really looking forward to watching this - I intend saving it up for when I've run out of "more important things to catch up on"!Comment
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Watched it in B and W last night. A strangely prescient film, with plenty of good stuff to keep the interest up, and of course, an excellent score.Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostI will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
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Le Mans '66.........
Great (if slightly fictionalised) story, loud (!!!) engines, visceral race sequences with subwoofer-shaking crashes (usually viewed from the car behind....yeah! HM Racing!).....
Touchingly tender, movingly downbeat close.... with one wonderful simple line, from a child, summing up the Miles/Shelby relationship (Bale/Damon - great onscreen chemistry, Damon as the Texan Shelby, all big shoulders and stetsons, channelling....could it be....JR Ewing?.... Bale magnetic as Ken Miles: test driving the GT40..."c'mon girl, giddy-up giddy-up!"
).... beyond their love-hate, the not-so-play-fights and throwing spanners, beyond all the Ford-Ferrari etc political ambition and boardroom manoeuvring....
So finally a tearjerker too.....my favourite kind of film was always: an epic with a heart...
Seen it twice, love it twice more..... but it reminded me I'm missing Grand Prix.... so....a few pangs for those old, beloved routines we all used to have...Last edited by jayne lee wilson; 13-04-20, 20:52.Comment
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We also had Jackie Stewart eulogising Sterling Moss as coming from an era when men really were men, etc etc blah blah.Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View PostLe Mans '66.........
Great (if slightly fictionalised) story, loud (!!!) engines, visceral race sequences with subwoofer-shaking crashes (usually viewed from the car behind....yeah! HM Racing!).....
Touchingly tender, movingly downbeat close.... with one wonderful simple line, from a child, summing up the Miles/Shelby relationship (Bale/Damon - great onscreen chemistry, Damon as the Texan Shelby, all big shoulders and stetsons, channelling....could it be....JR Ewing?.... Bale magnetic as Ken Miles: test driving the GT40..."c'mon girl, giddy-up giddy-up!").... beyond their love-hate, the not-so-play-fights and throwing spanners, beyond all the Ford-Ferrari etc political ambition and boardroom manoeuvring....
So finally a tearjerker too.....my favourite kind of film was always: an epic with a heart...
Seen it twice, love it twice more..... but it reminded me I'm missing Grand Prix.... so....a few pangs for those old, beloved routines we all have...
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After Moss's terrible crash in 1962 I wrote to him wishing him well.... I got a lovely, Racing-Green-Embossed reply.....I lost it somewhere in a house move, but I never forget it....Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostWe also had Jackie Stewart eulogising Sterling Moss as coming from an era when men really were men, etc etc blah blah.
....so women can be women now too.....
A year later she was back in the car still dreaming of and pursuing her F1 ambitions....
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The Gene Krupa Story.
Lots of good things in the 100 minutes,and seems to be an honest attempt at a rounded picture of his character.
Available on Youtube, certainly worth a watch for the jazz beginner.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
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