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Post by cynthiagreen on Mar 18, 2020 8:11:46 GMT
I'm bingeing on offerings from Karen Black's wilderness years (i.e anything she made post 1982, DINOSAUR VALLEY GIRLS. AUNTIE LEE'S MEAT PIES, etc) on the basis that by contrast anything I watch subsequently will look good. I'm saving a revisit of KILLER FISH for the finale.  If I live long enough I may hold Woody Allen and Carroll Baker retrospectives . So glad I got RAINY DAY IN NEW YORK to cheer me up.  And two people mentioned watching ON THE BEACH to me this week already....  |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Mar 18, 2020 14:31:35 GMT
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. The humanization of Von Stolberg was essential to the film's dramatic balance. While U.S. audiences understood he was still the enemy, he and Murrell had to be presented on equal footing emotionally so both would be accessible to viewers, or the story construction simply wouldn't have worked as effectively. It's among the film's qualities that make it so satisfying. Although Dick Powell's directorial credits were few, this one's at the top of that heap.
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Post by bess1971s on Mar 19, 2020 17:38:04 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? I have to admit I almost stopped watching after the first episode but I kept on. I'm also up to episode 8.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 on Mar 19, 2020 18:12:03 GMT
I was just informed as I came to work today that It's my last day for a few weeks. I guess I need to think of something to binge on.
I did just start Narcos on Netflix, and already my Spanish has improved!
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Mar 19, 2020 18:29:43 GMT
We're on episode 8. How do you like it? I have to admit I almost stopped watching after the first episode but I kept on. I'm also up to episode 8. ha! That's how I felt after the first episode, too, but my husband convinced me to keep watching. I ran, some of the stuff is ridiculously false, but it's interesting enough to keep me watching.
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Mar 19, 2020 18:30:59 GMT
I was just informed as I came to work today that It's my last day for a few weeks. I guess I need to think of something to binge on. I did just start Narcos on Netflix, and already my Spanish has improved! I watched the first episode of Narcos, and that was enough. Too gratuitously violent and graphic. Did you like it?
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 on Mar 19, 2020 18:34:15 GMT
I was just informed as I came to work today that It's my last day for a few weeks. I guess I need to think of something to binge on. I did just start Narcos on Netflix, and already my Spanish has improved! I watched the first episode of Narcos, and that was enough. Too gratuitously violent and graphic. Did you like it? I watched half of the first season, yeah, I like violence...except that a dog was shot and a cat was hung up in the same episode!  I don't mind the people getting gunned down, but the pets was hard for me to take! 🐕💗🐱
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Mar 19, 2020 18:35:28 GMT
I watched the first episode of Narcos, and that was enough. Too gratuitously violent and graphic. Did you like it? I watched half of the first season, yeah, I like violence...except that a dog was shot and a cat was hung up in the same episode! I don't mind the people getting gunned down, but the pets was hard for me to take! 🐕💗🐱 Yeah, that's what I mean, and the also get carried away with the human violence.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 on Mar 19, 2020 18:37:59 GMT
I watched half of the first season, yeah, I like violence...except that a dog was shot and a cat was hung up in the same episode! I don't mind the people getting gunned down, but the pets was hard for me to take! 🐕💗🐱 Yeah, that's what I mean, and the also get carried away with the human violence. I was at least ready for the human violence, but not for the animal cruelty.
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Mar 19, 2020 19:19:04 GMT
There was once a thread on the old CFB about why do you buy DVD's etc etc, how many do you have etc?
Well, I have been stock-piling for 10 years towards my retirement, where if I'm fortunate to live that long, I'm just going to enjoy my passion for movies until my time to leave the mortal coil comes. I have over 3500 films in my library on various formats, plus a bunch of others recorded on DVT boxes, where each time I upgraded to a new box I stored the one I'm replacing because the hard drive has the pics still saved on there (these are all TV/Cable showings). I haven't checked for some time but there are four DVT boxes stored away with probably about another 200 films on them.
As it happens, with the virus events unfurling, I have started catching up with my library post haste - retirement or the apocalypse? either way I knew I was building a film library for a reason!
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Post by mikef6 on Mar 19, 2020 21:21:54 GMT
I never thought much about this line before but now, somehow, I find it incredibly moving.  |
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Mar 19, 2020 23:50:44 GMT
Currently still working.
Am I the only one who's never "looking" for something to watch? I always have a backlog of things I want to watch/re-watch.
Currently waiting for the weekend where I hope to watch a couple of "big name" recent-ish Korean films I've missed and my first (and maybe second) Albert Serra film.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 20, 2020 0:01:05 GMT
I spend a lot of time looking at the video store sized collection of movies trying to decide what to watch and then often opt instead for what is on Decades or the PBS Nature or Nova series.
TOO many to choose from .. some old favorites some never watched … decisions decisions !
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Post by teleadm on Mar 20, 2020 18:31:16 GMT
Read on news that during this pandemy that HD on YT and Amazon won't be HD anymore, but I think that during these circumstances we can accept a bit dizzier pictures for awhile, as more and more is relying on what they can find on the net.
It can't be worse than the slightly out of focus TV-series that some were in the 1970's that was taped on early videotape.
The reason is offcourse that the net will be heavily used, and digital microseconds are needed for more important matters, and not to be over-loaded/overcharrged when there are more vital matters.
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Mar 20, 2020 19:09:44 GMT
Read on news that during this pandemy that HD on YT and Amazon won't be HD anymore, but I think that during these circumstances we can accept a bit dizzier pictures for awhile, as more and more is relying on what they can find on the net. It can't be worse than the slightly out of focus TV-series that some were in the 1970's that was taped on early videotape. The reason is offcourse that the net will be heavily used, and digital microseconds are needed for more important matters, and not to be over-loaded/overcharrged when there are more vital matters. If people complain, they need a knock up side the head! I think streaming and internet are going to be affected heavily as we go forward.
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 20, 2020 19:15:37 GMT
I wonder if movie theaters will ever recover from this. More and more people will look to streaming.
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Mar 20, 2020 19:50:05 GMT
I wonder if movie theaters will ever recover from this. More and more people will look to streaming. They make a lot of their money on the concession stands, but yes, they will be affected.
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Post by spiderwort on May 11, 2020 14:11:18 GMT
I just re-activated my Netflix. Can anyone recommend some movies or TV shows? Paul, I just watched an excellent documentary on Netflix, A Secret Love (2020). It's the story of two women who fell in love in the 1940s when that was not okay, but happily lived together as a secret couple for six-five years before finally coming out to family and the world. I found it to be a beautiful and moving elegy on love, family, and aging. One of the women, Terry Donahue, was a pro baseball player on one of the teams that was the inspiration for A League of Their Own, though that is not the focus of the film. Anyway, you might appreciate it. Or maybe others will. There's so much humanity in it, something I think we could used a lot more of these days.
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Post by Doghouse6 on May 11, 2020 14:46:58 GMT
Speaking of social distancing, I happened to catch a few minutes of 1963's Cleopatra last week on TCM, just as Antony boards her impossibly opulent and expansive barge for the Feast Of Bacchus. Cleo gives him a welcome that's physically lavish but personally frosty, and as they seat themselves for dining and entertainment, they present a picture of "social distancing" that looks suddenly all too contemporary.  |
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 on May 11, 2020 14:52:24 GMT
Usually takes me weeks or longer to watch an entire series but with the added advantage of quarantine, I finished two complete series this week, Dirty John and Unbelievable, and I'm halfway through two others, Manhunt: Unabomer and Waco.
Movies this past week have been quite random, I need to set better movie goals for this week.
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