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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Mar 25, 2021 14:15:52 GMT
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Mar 25, 2021 17:24:21 GMT
Minari (2020) ![](https://img.reelgood.com/content/movie/da7426c0-5b48-461c-9d70-a4146d08f8ec/poster-780.jpg) A quietly beautiful story of a family moving to Arkansas to start up a farm. Such a sweet movie, although learning the fate of the baby boy chickens traumatized me right at the start.
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Mar 25, 2021 17:34:39 GMT
The Passionate Friends, a David Lean film. I just finished watching it on TCM. I have looked for it on DVD (region 1) for years and have never found it.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Mar 25, 2021 22:10:47 GMT
The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996). ![](https://images.static-bluray.com/reviews/5928_5.jpg) ![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WrcUT2En2d4/maxresdefault.jpg)
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Post by kijii on Mar 26, 2021 3:11:19 GMT
Minari (2020) ![](https://img.reelgood.com/content/movie/da7426c0-5b48-461c-9d70-a4146d08f8ec/poster-780.jpg) A quietly beautiful story of a family moving to Arkansas to start up a farm. Such a sweet movie, although learning the fate of the baby boy chickens traumatized me right at the start. Lebowskidoo--- Is this streaming or did you see it in the theater? I surely want to see this movie.
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 26, 2021 6:00:58 GMT
THE BELLE STARR STORY 1968 -- This one is high up in my favorites of the spaghetti western. Elsa Martinelli and is very good in the lead role--not only exceptionally easy on the eyes, but has a lot of gravity and doesn't just seem like a (very) pretty face (with freckles). And the men are not sidelined--they are charming and ruthless and you never get the feeling that they are being manipulated to present some kind of "message." It doesn't feel disconnected from character developments and therefore one doesn't get a desire to roll your eyes, but then if you did that you would miss some Martinelli close ups. The innovation in this film is the tracking shots of running horses--I don't know that if had seen that before--very smooth camera moves with the riding scenes and some of the interiors. There is a memorable torture scene with a Pinkerton man--I guess Klaus Kinski wasn't available--seems like a role for him.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Mar 26, 2021 15:51:09 GMT
Minari (2020) ![](https://img.reelgood.com/content/movie/da7426c0-5b48-461c-9d70-a4146d08f8ec/poster-780.jpg) A quietly beautiful story of a family moving to Arkansas to start up a farm. Such a sweet movie, although learning the fate of the baby boy chickens traumatized me right at the start. Lebowskidoo--- Is this streaming or did you see it in the theater? I surely want to see this movie. Watched it on Google Play, but is also available to rent through YouTube and Amazon Prime.
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Post by teleadm on Mar 26, 2021 17:55:09 GMT
![](https://haphazardstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Raquel-Welch-Fathom.png) Raquel Welsh in Fathom 1967. Light-hearted spy movie typical of the sixties, American sky diver recruited by Hong Kong Secret agents to find some H-Bomb device to save the world.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Mar 27, 2021 4:34:11 GMT
Red Joan (2018). ![](https://media1.giphy.com/media/pj8JlKOThAGyZBfxnq/giphy.gif) ![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ECLb1JOWsAEBR-U.jpg)
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Post by kijii on Mar 27, 2021 4:54:18 GMT
The Father (2020) / Florian Zeller
As I sought out Oscar-nominated movies for this year, I was finally able to find and stream this one on On Demand today. This nominee for a Best Picture Oscar relates a changing relationship between a man (Anthony Hopkins) and his adult daughter (Olivia Colman) as they experience Alzheimer's Disease from two points of view. The film is simple, but oh so deep...
What makes this film so unique is that we experience the journey through Hopkin's point of view. As with most of Anthony Hopkins' films, he portrays this role with genius and care, and I can see no other actor (this year) that can equal him...at least so far.. --Give that man another Oscar!!!
Olivia Colman is also a nominee for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
Another thing that impressed me about this film was the care and detail of its direction. To me, this is a director's masterpiece as Zeller takes us through Hopkin's "reality" of changing time and space (location). It is like one of my recurring dreams that I call my "stranger in a strange land dream" where I am always trying to adapt to my surrounding without having a clue what the proper response should be. Florian Zeller was not nominated in this category but, rather, for his adapted screenplay from his play.
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ab/The_Father_2020_poster.jpg/1200px-The_Father_2020_poster.jpg)
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 27, 2021 5:12:40 GMT
BROTHER ORCHID 1940 Edward G Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Southern, Ralph Bellamy, Tom Tyler -This was a good watch. Humorous (I especially liked the silent acting paranoia about sitting in the chair in his henchman's room) and some touching sentimental moments that didn't come across as forced. It could have easily gone schmaltzy but they skillfully avoided it. How is it that some comedies from decades later can date so badly yet this one from 1940 still works today? Isn't interesting how Bogart went from serial bad guy to a good guy. How many thug roles did he play before the Maltese Falcon? The thing with Golden age movies that are well put together is the experience is kind of enrapturing--you become totally immersed in it-I wonder if black and white actually helps in that somehow.
I wonder if the flower that he picks earlier in the film (at his homecoming) came from the monastery?
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Post by Rufus-T on Mar 27, 2021 18:23:08 GMT
Sound of Metal: Not perfect, but I like it. I love the performance of the leader for the deaf community, Paul Raci. Glad he got the Oscar nomination.
The new Rebecca movie from last year. Can't compare with the Hitchcock version, but it was a very beautiful looking version though. Lily James was very good playing the Joan Fontaine role. Armie Hammer was a bit lack luster playing the Laurence Olivier role. I like Kristin Scott Thomas's portrayal of Mrs. Danvers. Worth watching if you let it stand on its own.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Mar 28, 2021 3:57:47 GMT
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 28, 2021 6:34:23 GMT
ONE MORE TRAIN TO ROB 1971 -- So I was watching a McCloud and noticed after the first episode or 2, Diane Muldaur disappears. Where did she go? Then I put this on right after and there she was. Maybe she was making this judging from the time frame. This was pretty good comedy western--George Peppard's smirking indifference works better here than it did in Cannon For Cordoba. John Vernon has an amusing if somewhat familiar-feeling role as a corrupt Irishman.
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Post by louise on Mar 28, 2021 14:05:48 GMT
Who was That Lady? (1960). Tony Curtis is a chemistry professor, his wife (Janet Leigh) catches him kissing one of his students, and his writer friend Dean Martin decides they should pretend to be F.B.I agents and tell his wife the girl was a spy. Then a real F.B.I. Agent (James Whitmore) turns up and it all gets very complicated. Very silly but very funny.
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Post by Rufus-T on Mar 28, 2021 16:08:41 GMT
Pieces of Woman - Very Intense first 30 min. The story went downhill from there. Great performances though from Vanessa Kirby & Ellen Burstyn. Even Shia LaBeouf was very good.
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Post by kijii on Mar 29, 2021 4:28:50 GMT
Minari (2020) / Lee Isaac ChungWritten and directed by Lee Isaac Chung, this film is based on his own life. This presents the Korean-American version of the American Dream, with its hopes, stresses and the overcoming personal and family struggles. It has been nominated for six Oscars: Picture, Leading Actor (Steven Yeun), Director and Original screenplay (Lee Isaac Chung), Supporting Actress (Yuh-jung Youn), and Original Score (Emile Mosseri). Just when I thought I had seen all of the major Oscar contenders of the top 6 awards, this one came along and made me doubt my own some of my previous choices...Jacob (Steven Yeun) : They [the children] need to see me succeed at something for once.Monica (Yeri Han): For what? Isn't it more important for them to see us together? Jacob : You go ahead and do what you want. Even if I fail, I have to finish what I started.Soonja (Yuh-jung Youn) : Minari is truly the best. It grows anywhere, like weeds. So anyone can pick and eat it. Rich or poor, anyone can enjoy it and be healthy. Minari can be put in kimchi, put in stew, put in soup. It can be medicine if you are sick. Minari is wonderful, wonderful! What is minari--what does it mean? ....I guess it is a generic word for a plant that grows like a weed without any tending--An example from my own life is when we discovered (on our ranch) asparagus growing wild along the irrigation ditch. Picking it was all we had to do, just as picking wild berries in the mountains.![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/bKCpRjjTKcr3KAITmwjVMobbBYg.jpg) ![](https://shahid4u.onl/photos/shares/imdb/tt10633456.jpg)
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Post by kijii on Mar 29, 2021 4:55:32 GMT
News of the World (2020) / Paul Greengrass
Nominated for 4 technical Oscars: Sound, Production Design, Original Score, and Cinematography.
Captain Kidd (Tom Hanks): See all those words printed in a line one after the other? Put 'em all together and you have a story.
![](https://martincid.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/news_of_the_world-696988331-large.jpg)
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Post by jeffersoncody on Mar 29, 2021 13:30:39 GMT
Pieces of Woman - Very Intense first 30 min. The story went downhill from there. Great performances though from Vanessa Kirby & Ellen Burstyn. Even Shia LaBeouf was very good. I went in with low expectations, and was gripped from beginning to end. I thought it was excellent.
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Post by jeffersoncody on Mar 29, 2021 13:39:41 GMT
One Night in Miami... (2020) / Regina King
Though I don't consider this a great film, I can see why it could be very good as a stage play. This is somewhat stage bound. Though many of our favorite movies are also stage bound, they captivate us by the emotional connections between the actors. This one does not. I do appreciate Regina King's effort of bringing it to the screen: without film I would not have been able to see and experience the play. If I were to consider who should best deserve an Oscar here, I would nominate Kemp Powers for the stage play. (Powers was nominated for the screenplay from his stage play.)
The play brings four prominent black men--Malcolm X, Cassius Clay, Jim Brown, and Sam Cooke-- together in one Miami motel room near the zenith of the Civil Rights Movement. Kemp Powers presents them separately (where they were in their careers at the time) and then presents them together, both in the room and later in one-on-one conversations with each other. Each man comes from a different place in his life and has a different perspective on where he (and they) might fit into the movement: the struggle.
Malcolm X is the intellectual leader of the group, yet his place within the Nation of Islam is near its end. Cassius Clay is the great athlete who becomes Malcolm X's muse. Jim Brown is a great (and famous) football player about to leave football for Hollywood. Sam Cooke is a singing celebrity who attains POWER though his talent and business acumen of the music industry. Each man has something different to contribute to The Movement and we come to see this. This is a "meeting of minds" at a crucial time...
Malcolm X : What kind of message are you sending, though, by doing one show for white folks and a completely different show for black folks, Sam? Sam Cooke : [laughing in contempt] Ha. Malcolm X : No, listen to me, you're performing in places where the only black people not on stage are the ones serving the food. Sam Cooke : Don't you think I know that? I can't tell you how many times I wanted to reach out and punch somebody. Malcolm X : Then, then, then, then strike with the weapon that you have, man: your voice! Black people, we, we standing up! We, we speaking out! Sam Cooke : Umm hm. Malcolm X : Sam, you have possibly one of the most effective, beautiful outlets of us all. You're not using it to help the cause, brother Sam Cooke : The hell I'm not! I got the masters to my songs. I started a label, I'm producing tons of black artists. Don't you think my determining my own creative and business destiny is every bit as inspiring to people as you standing up on a podium trying to piss 'em off?
I loved ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI, found it exhilarating and thought provoking. Fantastic ensemble acting, with a standout turn by Leslie Odom - who has been Oscar nominated. Went in with low expectations and was blown away.
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