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Post by mikef6 on Mar 17, 2020 16:10:30 GMT
…and after binging on your 13th series from Netflix in two days or your box set of complete Marx Brothers or Fred and Ginger, that in this time of crisis you turned to artists – actors, directors, writers, etc. – to get you through it.
What are you watching at home during your isolation. I’m watching my usual film noir and B-crime films from the 1940s and 1950s (and at least one modern film) and writing them up for the Saturday weekly thread.
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 17, 2020 16:18:15 GMT
Watching Garth Game related films, such as pictures dealing with tomorrow's upcoming subject of ... (uh-oh, phone's ringing)
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Mar 17, 2020 17:37:33 GMT
right now while working from home I've been watching a lot of Hitchcock.
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 17, 2020 17:49:58 GMT
Might watch this: www.imdb.com/title/tt0042832/Panic in the Streets- A doctor and a policeman in New Orleans have only 48 hours to locate a killer infected with pneumonic plague. |
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 17, 2020 19:19:02 GMT
I'm watching a lot films by Tentin Quarantino.
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Post by teleadm on Mar 17, 2020 19:39:54 GMT
I think I'll do my usual mix of genre's since I usually change my mind all the time at the last minute.
By the way, I've seen Julia Ross though.
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Post by fangirl1975 on Mar 17, 2020 19:43:33 GMT
I'm watching a range from classic T.V. shows to B drive- in monster pictures.
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 17, 2020 19:44:28 GMT
to B drive- in monster pictures. Speaking of which, THE SLIME PEOPLE is one I had not heard of before this week!
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Post by marshamae on Mar 17, 2020 20:03:10 GMT
I’m pretty housebound anyway. Watching Irish themed films today.
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Post by divtal on Mar 17, 2020 20:25:33 GMT
In the Bay Area, we are in the first day of a serious shelter-in-place directive. It's a little weird, and I could use some laughs. ( Weird + Laughs = Monty Python.) I have the full collection of "Flying Circus," and movies. I'm not sure where my mood will lead me next. Mel Brooks may be a good call. If I want to feel elegant, I'll go to Audrey Hepburn movies. Or, if it gets down to my wanting to kill someone, I'll tap the early "Perry Mason," or Hitchcock. It's a journey.  |
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Post by bess1971s on Mar 17, 2020 22:21:50 GMT
I've been watching Hunters on Amazon but now I'm feeling the need for something comforting. Time to start scrolling.
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Mar 17, 2020 22:26:40 GMT
I've been watching Hunters on Amazon but now I'm feeling the need for something comforting. Time to start scrolling. We're on episode 8. How do you like it?
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Post by mortsahlfan on Mar 17, 2020 23:08:25 GMT
I've had trouble watching movies, mostly because I'm out of ideas - I've rated thousands.
I have all the time in the world, and I managed to watch a movie today, but I don't seem to have the patience. Without pausing, I'll check on the news, or other things.
I've only watched a couple of movies in the last few months. If I'm not into it within 20 minutes, I'm done. Lately, I'll put on a movie of an actor I like (since I've completed most of the directors). I saw one with Marcello Mastroianni today, "Everybody is Good" (1990), but I found it to be dull, stretched out at 2 hours. I've even signed on to criticker to match me up, and I've exhausted that, too.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Mar 17, 2020 23:29:19 GMT
It's been purely happenstance, but I've watched a collection of nautically themed films that have each involved some form of isolation. Pacific Liner (1939)  Chester Morris signs on as ship's doctor just as a cholera outbreak hits the engine room crew overseen by Victor McLaglen, and struggles to keep the disease below decks and away from passengers. Can't get much more topical. The Wreck Of the Mary Deare (1959)  Salvage boat captain Charlton Heston boards a damaged and apparently abandoned freighter and finds only first officer Gary Cooper aboard, acting very suspiciously. Part mystery, part adventure and part courtroom drama, this is the film Alfred Hitchcock agreed to make on a one-picture deal for MGM, but abandoned when he and writer Ernest Lehman couldn't lick the script. They came up with North By Northwest instead. The Enemy Below (1957)   Robert Mitchum and Curd Jürgens, as respective captains of a U.S. destroyer and a U-Boat, engage in a protracted, cat-and-mouse battle of wits and wills in the very best of the submarine films that became so popular in the second half of the '50s. Those have been among my late-night viewing after hubby hits the hay, and the rollicking The Crimson Pirate awaits me on the DVR. Our earlier viewing together has concentrated on great whodunits from English television, some of them revisits like Inspector Morse and Hetty Wainthrop, others new-to-us ones like Grantchester and Vera. Helps for keeping a stiff upper lip. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 17, 2020 23:45:12 GMT
Watched The Quiet Man (...yessss again  !)today and since it feels like we are living in an On The Beach reality, may dig that out and give it a whirl ! Gregory Peck is always a good excuse to watch a movie. |
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Post by Dirty Santa PaulsLaugh on Mar 18, 2020 0:37:50 GMT
I just re-activated my Netflix. Can anyone recommend some movies or TV shows?
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Post by Dirty Santa PaulsLaugh on Mar 18, 2020 0:40:58 GMT
It's been purely happenstance, but I've watched a collection of nautically themed films that have each involved some form of isolation. Pacific Liner (1939) Chester Morris signs on as ship's doctor just as a cholera outbreak hits the engine room crew overseen by Victor McLaglen, and struggles to keep the disease below decks and away from passengers. Can't get much more topical. The Wreck Of the Mary Deare (1959) Salvage boat captain Charlton Heston boards a damaged and apparently abandoned freighter and finds only first officer Gary Cooper aboard, acting very suspiciously. Part mystery, part adventure and part courtroom drama, this is the film Alfred Hitchcock agreed to make on a one-picture deal for MGM, but abandoned when he and writer Ernest Lehman couldn't lick the script. They came up with North By Northwest instead. The Enemy Below (1957) Robert Mitchum and Curd Jürgens, as respective captains of a U.S. destroyer and a U-Boat, engage in a protracted, cat-and-mouse battle of wits and wills in the very best of the submarine films that became so popular in the second half of the '50s. Those have been among my late-night viewing after hubby hits the hay, and the rollicking The Crimson Pirate awaits me on the DVR. Our earlier viewing together has concentrated on great whodunits from English television, some of them revisits like Inspector Morse and Hetty Wainthrop, others new-to-us ones like Grantchester and Vera. Helps for keeping a stiff upper lip. The Enemy Below is one of the first Hollywood films to rehabilitate the American gaze of the German military by showing that “not all of them” were evil Nazis.
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Post by marianne48 on Mar 18, 2020 1:14:24 GMT
I've been watching some silly Danny Kaye stuff--The Inspector General, The Court Jester, etc. I've got a DVD set of Fred Astaire TV specials from the 1950s--I may have to break into that this week.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 18, 2020 2:33:57 GMT
A good series to watch is Midsomer Murders. FREE on the Roku Channel and some episodes are on FREE YouTube.
Especially good are the early episodes with TOM Barnaby before he got rather unceremonylessly replaced by his cousin JOHN from Brighton.
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Post by Dramatic Look Gopher on Mar 18, 2020 3:41:52 GMT
Today during my isolation I've been binge-watching the TV show Kolchak: The Night Stalker. Gonna do more binge-watching tomorrow.
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!)today and since it feels like we are living in an On The Beach reality, may dig that out and give it a whirl ! Gregory Peck is always a good excuse to watch a movie.
