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Post by Rick Bartlett on Jul 20, 2022 9:33:22 GMT -5
I recently watched The Rolling Stones 4 part series, 'My Life As A Rolling Stone'. Each episode concentrates on each member and their journey with the group. The Charlie Watts episode is a bit emotional... This trailer does Not do the series justice, but it was a good watch.
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Post by jk on Aug 7, 2022 12:13:58 GMT -5
This interview by Graham Norton at home with Elton John is full of hilarious moments (and a few heartbreaking ones), as in this brief segment:
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Post by jk on Aug 15, 2022 16:23:44 GMT -5
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Post by jk on Oct 2, 2022 8:52:29 GMT -5
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Post by Mark on Dec 14, 2022 7:58:51 GMT -5
On TV I’ve recently finished watching the second season of Primal.
A superb and almost wordless (especially season one) animation about a caveman and his Dinosaur pal fighting for survival.
It’s from Genndy Tartakovsky and the art direction, animation, direction etc is incredible.
It’s deservedly won a bunch of Emmys, by turns stark, gorgeous, savage, heart breaking and heart warming. All the while being top tier pulp cliff hanger adventure too.
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Post by Mark on Dec 14, 2022 8:23:35 GMT -5
Last film I watched was The Suspect (1944) directed by Robert Siodmak
It stars the great Charles Laughton and Ella Raines. A good Film Noir about (as is par for the noir course) a character who finds himself in a bad situation and how he compromises himself to try and escape it. Shades of grey abound and it's well acted and directed. Certainly not a 'key' film in the movement or place to start with Film Noir but a good watch all the same.
The whole thing is on YouTube;
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Post by Mark on Dec 22, 2022 5:55:18 GMT -5
The Lost Weekend, directed by Billy Wilder - 1945
Had this on the ‘to watch’ pile for ages and so glad I finally got to it.
Great film about a struggling alcoholic and those who are trying to help him be free of his affliction.
Fantastic performance from Ray Milland in the lead role and the script really nails the despair and helplessness of addiction.
One of only three films ever to win the top prize at Cannes and the Oscars, not surprising as it still reads as very powerful and progressive today.
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Post by jk on Dec 22, 2022 8:12:24 GMT -5
The Lost Weekend, directed by Billy Wilder - 1945 Had this on the ‘to watch’ pile for ages and so glad I finally got to it. Great film about a struggling alcoholic and those who are trying to help him be free of his affliction. Fantastic performance from Ray Milland in the lead role and the script really nails the despair and helplessness of addiction. One of only three films ever to win the top prize at Cannes and the Oscars, not surprising as it still reads as very powerful and progressive today. Now that looks like a must-watch! I see it has a fantastic soundtrack by the great Miklós Rózsa, which includes a part for a theremin (heard in your promo). In the 1946 Academy Awards the soundtrack lost to that of Spellbound, another Rózsa score and another to feature the theremin!
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Post by jk on Jan 9, 2023 5:18:49 GMT -5
We watched La La Land on the telly the other day. It took a while for us to get to grips with it (or maybe it took a while for the film to get going) but once the love affair kicked in, it swiftly gathered momentum. I rather suspect it would make much better viewing in a cinema. My favourite music moment is John Legend's performance of "Start A Fire". Really digging that synth solo! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_La_Land
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Post by stuart on Feb 5, 2023 9:59:24 GMT -5
After Life was highly recommended to us by our daughter. Tear-jerking and gut-bustingly funny by turns (and sometimes simultaneously), it's an absolute must-watch. Great choice of music too… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Life_(TV_series) Literally the best show in the last 20 years.
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Post by jk on Feb 10, 2023 13:08:46 GMT -5
The other day we watched this crazy if decidedly down-to-earth Dutch film called De Marathon, based around that annual Rotterdam race:
(I ran the half-marathon once -- just over 13 miles -- and seem to have survived fairly intact, although opinions are divided.)
The song playing over the end credits, "My Companjera" by Gogol Bordello, expresses to perfection the rawness and hectic pace of the film:
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Post by jk on Jun 6, 2023 14:49:39 GMT -5
It’s fantastic how much footage there is on YouTube of Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, my favourite film of the moment. It's very tempting to line up all these videos and watch them in sequence -- I think it would give you most of the film! In fact I started on this yesterday by lining up a couple of dozen clips but gave it up as a pointless exercise -- there are two many overlaps for a start. And I believe my son has the film somewhere on DVD... Briefly (otherwise I'll be here all night), the following scene takes place in the lobby of a Paris cinema about to premier a film about a German war hero to an audience that contains the entire Nazi top. But the cinema is also about to be locked from the inside and then torched by one anti-Nazi suicide group and independently blown sky-high by another, specifically the two men in tuxes in this clip (they have timed explosives wrapped around their legs). Everyone you see (everyone) will die except the bloke in the white suit (Chief Basterd Aldo Raine, played by Brad Pitt), who is taken away for questioning, and his interrogator the charming but thoroughly evil Hans Landa of the SS (played by Christoph Waltz in a show-stealing, Oscar-winning role). The Basterds have miscalculated in thinking every German doesn't understand Italian -- in that respect they have met their match: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inglourious_Basterds
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Post by jk on Jun 11, 2023 12:57:18 GMT -5
Still with Inglourious Basterds, this is Tarantino's deftly chosen OST, a mix of Morricone and stuff from all over. There are diehard fans of the film on YouTube who can say exactly what was used where, even if it was only a snippet or was largely drowned out by dialogue. The film music left off the album is definitely worth checking out too (see the wiki): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inglourious_Basterds_(soundtrack)
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Post by jk on Jun 15, 2023 4:05:04 GMT -5
The film is full of violent moments (as you'd expect from a film about "killin' Nazis"). Perhaps the most overwhelming is the shootout in the cellar tavern. However it's the subtleties, particularly in the facial expressions, that define the buildup before all hell breaks loose. As commenter Nick Deiters says, "[At] 1:33 I always look at the [Gestapo] major's eyes... Realization, denial, frustration, fury, acceptance... one of my favorite moments of acting in any movie." It's the moment Major Hellstrom realizes that nobody there is going to get out alive:
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Post by jk on Jun 27, 2023 3:40:34 GMT -5
I've been watching clips and listening to music from Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, linked for me by a good friend who is utterly obsessed with this 2023 film. I like the music but the film itself (what I've seen of it) doesn't get to me -- a generational thing, perhaps?
"Hummingbird" by Metro Boomin ft. James Blake has a BW connection. The sample heard at the start is from the 1956 Patience and Prudence song "Tonight You Belong To Me", which was covered years later by American Spring:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man:_Across_the_Spider-Verse
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Post by jk on Jul 10, 2023 12:37:03 GMT -5
Last night we watched For a Few Dollars More (1965), the second in Sergio Leone's so-called "dollar trilogy". Sergio Leone, Ennio Morricone, Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef are a magical combination, to be sure. Add to them the wondrous voice of Edda Dell'Orso (the unsung heroine of the OSTs of One Upon a Time In the West and dozens of Italian films), who is best heard in this excerpt: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_a_Few_Dollars_More
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Post by jk on Jul 20, 2023 15:38:03 GMT -5
Now for two incredible choices of songs providing background music for Inglourious Basterds. That Tarantino fella sure could pick 'em! The ominous opening bars of Billy Preston's aptly titled "Slaughter" kicks off a brief introduction (voiceover by Morgan Freeman) to legendary Gestapo-killer Hugo Stiglitz... …and the last minute of Rare Earth's brilliant take on Ray Charles' "What'd I Say" plays as Donny and Omar head to their seats in the little Nazi-filled cinema, their legs wrapped with timed explosives that will shortly blow the place apart:
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Post by sneakypete77 on Jul 21, 2023 8:32:28 GMT -5
Nice one John; as we’ve dipped our toe into some murky waters here’s something I’ve been watching frequently since I got the Blu-ray last Christmas. A film that maybe defies categorisation, but that’s mostly down to the writer/director comedian Taika Waititi, who also appears in the movie as an idealised and deliciously hilarious Adolf Hitler, imaginary friend of the titular character (also my avatar). Jojo is a 10 year old boy steeped in the most ridiculous Nazi propaganda, from which most of the humour is derived. The movie is an anti-war satire, poking fun at the absurdities of Nazi ideology, and focusing on the redemption of Jojo, whose young life has been programmed up to that point, but who gradually learns to think for himself.
The stellar cast, which includes Sam Rockwell, Rebel Wilson, Scarlett Johansson and Stephen Merchant comes together to provide comedic moments that you would not expect in a film of this genre. But just when you’re recovering from one laugh and waiting for the next big one Waititi hits you with a scene that can have you in tears of a different kind, reminding you that as well as the abject stupidity of the Third Reich there was also unspeakable terror. The film has become famous among numerous reaction video users on You Tube for one scene in particular, which takes everyone by surprise and has left grown men weeping. The final couple of minutes also tug at the heart strings, but for all the right reasons.
The movie was nominated for six Academy Awards in 2020, including Best Picture, winning only one for Waititi’s adapted screenplay. It was savagely panned in some quarters on release, mainly by people who couldn’t even be bothered to go and watch it, but felt the premise of the movie was enough to condemn it outright. Kudos to those on the Oscars committee who recognised its qualities. The movie is presently enjoying a run on network TV in the UK on the Film4 channel, do try and catch it if you can:
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Post by jk on Jul 21, 2023 15:52:20 GMT -5
Nice one John; as we’ve dipped our toe into some murky waters here’s something I’ve been watching frequently since I got the Blu-ray last Christmas. A film that maybe defies categorisation, but that’s mostly down to the writer/director comedian Taika Waititi, who also appears in the movie as an idealised and deliciously hilarious Adolf Hitler, imaginary friend of the titular character (also my avatar). Jojo is a 10 year old boy steeped in the most ridiculous Nazi propaganda, from which most of the humour is derived. The movie is an anti-war satire, poking fun at the absurdities of Nazi ideology, and focusing on the redemption of Jojo, whose young life has been programmed up to that point, but who gradually learns to think for himself.
The stellar cast, which includes Sam Rockwell, Rebel Wilson, Scarlett Johansson and Stephen Merchant comes together to provide comedic moments that you would not expect in a film of this genre. But just when you’re recovering from one laugh and waiting for the next big one Waititi hits you with a scene that can have you in tears of a different kind, reminding you that as well as the abject stupidity of the Third Reich there was also unspeakable terror. The film has become famous among numerous reaction video users on You Tube for one scene in particular, which takes everyone by surprise and has left grown men weeping. The final couple of minutes also tug at the heart strings, but for all the right reasons.
The movie was nominated for six Academy Awards in 2020, including Best Picture, winning only one for Waititi’s adapted screenplay. It was savagely panned in some quarters on release, mainly by people who couldn’t even be bothered to go and watch it, but felt the premise of the movie was enough to condemn it outright. Kudos to those on the Oscars committee who recognised its qualities. The movie is presently enjoying a run on network TV in the UK on the Film4 channel, do try and catch it if you can: Thanks for the tip, Peter. We can't get Film4 over here but I'll keep an eye out for it on Picl, a Dutch online film theatre we subscribe to...
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Post by jk on Aug 1, 2023 15:17:53 GMT -5
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Post by E on Aug 2, 2023 6:00:42 GMT -5
It’s fantastic how much footage there is on YouTube of Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, my favourite film of the moment. It's very tempting to line up all these videos and watch them in sequence -- I think it would give you most of the film! In fact I started on this yesterday by lining up a couple of dozen clips but gave it up as a pointless exercise -- there are two many overlaps for a start. And I believe my son has the film somewhere on DVD... Briefly (otherwise I'll be here all night), the following scene takes place in the lobby of a Paris cinema about to premier a film about a German war hero to an audience that contains the entire Nazi top. But the cinema is also about to be locked from the inside and then torched by one anti-Nazi suicide group and independently blown sky-high by another, specifically the two men in tuxes in this clip (they have timed explosives wrapped around their legs). Everyone you see (everyone) will die except the bloke in the white suit (Chief Basterd Aldo Raine, played by Brad Pitt), who is taken away for questioning, and his interrogator the charming but thoroughly evil Hans Landa of the SS (played by Christoph Waltz in a show-stealing, Oscar-winning role). The Basterds have miscalculated in thinking every German doesn't understand Italian -- in that respect they have met their match: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inglourious_Basterds Hugely underrated film - one of my favourite by Tarantino; in fact, I think this is last one I really liked.
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Post by jk on Aug 2, 2023 10:32:57 GMT -5
It’s fantastic how much footage there is on YouTube of Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, my favourite film of the moment. It's very tempting to line up all these videos and watch them in sequence -- I think it would give you most of the film! In fact I started on this yesterday by lining up a couple of dozen clips but gave it up as a pointless exercise -- there are two many overlaps for a start. And I believe my son has the film somewhere on DVD... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inglourious_Basterds Hugely underrated film - one of my favourite by Tarantino; in fact, I think this is last one I really liked. I've only seen the one with John Travolta, much of Jackie and all of The Hateful Eight but IB trumps them all in my book. It's as if Tarantino is putting himself in Aldo Raine's place at the end: "I think this might just be my masterpiece!"
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Post by carllove on Aug 2, 2023 11:49:48 GMT -5
Oppenheimer was indeed wonderful! I have been obsessed with Oppenheimer documentaries since watching the movie. Like you, I plan on seeing it again. The husband and I watched Inglourious Basterds this weekend as well. I hadn't seen it in a few years. One of my favorite movies. Christoph Waltz deserved that Oscar. His character is one of my all time favorites. Also Raine getting his masterpiece via Landa is priceless. So many great moments in that movie.
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Post by jk on Aug 2, 2023 12:47:02 GMT -5
Oppenheimer was indeed wonderful! I have been obsessed with Oppenheimer documentaries since watching the movie. Like you, I plan on seeing it again. The husband and I watched Inglourious Basterds this weekend as well. I hadn't seen it in a few years. One of my favorite movies. Christoph Waltz deserved that Oscar. His character is one of my all time favorites. Also Raine getting his masterpiece via Landa is priceless. So many great moments in that movie. Hi CL. Agreed, Waltz is fantastic as Hans Landa. Many other characters fascinate me almost as much: Hugo Stiglitz, Dieter Hellstrom, Donny Donowitz... they can all vie with Landa in terms of sheer nastiness but lack his poetic side. I like the scene when Hicox, Wicki and Stiglitz are preparing for their meeting with Bridget von H in the tavern. The contrast between Archie Hicox "speaking the King's" and Donny's Boston drawl is hilarious! The film is one long string of great moments...
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Post by filledeplage on Aug 11, 2023 7:06:34 GMT -5
This came up on my feed. Self-explanatory. In their own words; how they evolved, who taught them music, mostly a parent or family member. How they scraped to buy an instrument. Un-polished, not glamorous, but I found profound and historic. Hope it is not geo-blocked. Good music education for a student because it is first person narrative. Unfiltered. How they landed in the USA. How they would search out a new chord they didn't know. How they taught each other. Good stuff. And there are references and footage of Brian in section 2. 👍
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