What film did you watch last night?

[EltonFrog]

The Man Who Knew Too Much.

A load of twaddle.

3/10

 

[PaulB]

I watched the great French film, 'And'. Although I think it was released over here as 'ET'.

 

[jefmcg]

I watched the great French film, 'And'. Although I think it was released over here as 'ET'.

Ah, like Il Postino?


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC8FxxvXYTY

 

[swee'pea99]

Paterson. Definitely an odd one, can't think of any comparable film. I enjoyed it very much.

 

[Haitch]

To coincide with Paterson, the local kino here had a Jarmusch retrospective and after watching about six of his earlier films I realised how layered and intricate and sophisticated Paterson actually is (by Jarmusch standards admittedly). I've seen it three times now and every one was a rich delight.

 

[Leaway2]

The graduate. Very funny.

 

[jefmcg]

The graduate. Very funny.

Fun fact: the age difference between the actors is less than 6 years.

 

[Drago]

Exit Wounds. Lots of improbable violence, Steven Segal bitch slapping bad dudes before he went on the Eric Pickles diet plan, and an interesting, if again improbable plot.

7/10. Quite decent if you like that sort of thing, and really deserves to have got closer to the status of Under Siege.

 

[Leaway2]

Fun fact: the age difference between the actors is less than 6 years.

Yes I read that on IMDB last night. The "younger" characters are all called only by their first name and the "older" only by Mr/Mrs name.

 

[accountantpete]

Star Wars Holiday Special

Unreleased when made through sheer embarrassment I was reminded that this is now available on Youtube.

If you thought Star Wars I, II and III were bad...


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3a5j8PgQxg

 

[swee'pea99]

The graduate. Very funny.

More than funny (not that it isn't) - it's a stunning piece of work. You could take a freeze-frame at pretty much any point and get a perfectly-composed still. The script is razor-sharp and the acting impeccable. The birthday sub-aqua is one of the most brilliant scenes ever filmed. Hoffman's Spider is up there with Steve McQueen's Mustang and James Bond's Aston Martin for all time greatest car in a movie. The term 'iconic' is much abused, but if ever a film deserved it...

 

[Profpointy]

An American in Paris, a real, strange, 1951 period piece. I hadn't seen it before, and was intrigued enough by this article about a forthcoming stage production to get a DVD (https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/mar/17/an-american-in-paris-gene-kelly-stage). The article begins with the rather startling statement that Leslie Caron, who was 17 when the film was made, was so undermined by wartime malnutrition that she could only work at the strenuous dance routines on alternate days. Putting the film into its immediate post-war context certainly makes sense of the clunky, relentlessly cheerful, dazzling artifice of the thing. The technicalities of it are fascinating too, as almost every scene was shot on studio stages and lots in America and not in Paris at all.

The music ain't bad either !

 

[Tin Pot]

Transcendence, Film4

Good.

Like most AI type films it becomes an analysis of what it means to be human, rather than exploring AI. It has inevitably a series of technical flaws and misunderstandings of technology but I like movies that give you space to think, and this does that.

In fact it has initiated a very interesting line thought on faith and Christianity I will be mulling over later.

Recommended for thinkers.

7/10.

 

[gbb]

Dead Lands, courtesy of Netflix.

Maori style Apocalypto.

Excellent, Maori language, subtitled but I never mind that anyway.

 

[swee'pea99]

Delicatessen - another of those 'it could only be French' movies. Truly weird, massively entertaining, and even, surprisingly, moving. They really are a very strange lot.

And Lost in Translation. Not weird at all, but definitely entertaining. And very moving. Scarlett Johanson is wonderful, and Bill Murray at his very best, which is very good indeed.

Both films I enjoyed a lot first time round, but possibly even more on second viewing...which says something, I think.