My favourite movie is or all things film

[Nearly Sane]

Watched The Mauritanian over the weekend -well made film. The thing I found most shocking was how little I was shocked.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mauritanian

[Nearly Sane]

Was reminded of the film Mrs Parker and The Vicious Circle and I wondered if it was available to download on Amazon. It's available on DVD at 80 quid!!! What are the economics of that?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000BZN1OQ?ref_=imdbref_tt_wbr_amazon&tag=imdbtag_tt_wbr_amazon-21

[Nearly Sane]

40 years since the lovely piece of genius that is Gregory's Girl was released


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-56858767

[Aruntraveller]

Watched "Gods & Monsters" this evening. Thoroughly absorbing.

Ian McKellen's performance as James Whale is absolutely riveting.

[Aruntraveller]

Have just watched "Moon" directed by Duncan Jones (yes Bowie's son).

Starred the ever watchable Sam Rockwell in an intriguing film about the moral complexities of the practice of cloning, and other issues such as isolation and how well are humans suited to space exploration.

Excellent performance from the aforementioned Rockwell who carried the film almost single-handedly.

[ad_orientem]

Went to see the new Bond film yesterday. Have mixed feelings about it. I have enjoyed Daniel Craig's portrayal of Bond. No Time To Die starts off well, having all the things a Bond film should have, but I was left disappointed by the ending. It's a long film, almost three hours, but the end seems to drag on to what I thought was a bit of a soppy ending. Bond is meant to save the world and then get the girl. Here he does only the former (I won't say why for those who haven't seen the film).

[Nearly Sane]

Restless Natives on Talking Pictures at 9. Flawed, but fun, and a great soundtrack


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restless_Natives

[Anchorman]

Restless Natives on Talking Pictures at 9. Flawed, but fun, and a great soundtrack


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restless_Natives

   


Talking Pictures TV is one of the joys of TV today.
I watched 'The Quatermass experiment' for the first time in yonks last Friday, and enjoyed it immensly.

[Nearly Sane]

Watching Paul Newman in The Verdict. What a great film it is!

[The Accountant, OBE, KC]

Just watched an excellent, moving and inspiring film called 'The Swimmers' on Netflix. It's a true story about 2 Syrian Refugee sisters who used to swim for Syria when they were teens before the civil war bombing forced them to flee as refugees. Their father has taken an unaffordable loan to help the sisters pay people smugglers thousands to get them across the sea in an over-filled, sinking dinghy to Lesbos. From there it shows their arduous journey to Berlin.

The younger sister keeps up her training while stuck in a Berlin refugee centre, to try to achieve her dream of swimming in the Olympics. It really opens your eyes to what refugees are enduring to come to Europe and how brave they are. Great film - I really recommend watching it.

[splashscuba]

Arrival

[bluehillside Retd.]

NS,

Was reminded of the film Mrs Parker and The Vicious Circle and I wondered if it was available to download on Amazon. It's available on DVD at 80 quid!!! What are the economics of that?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000BZN1OQ?ref_=imdbref_tt_wbr_amazon&tag=imdbtag_tt_wbr_amazon-21

I don't know whether you ever found a cheaper copy NS, but it's here brand new on blu ray DVD for £19.99 (p&p inc) if you're interested:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/384899016818?hash=item599dc4e872:g:i50AAOSw3YNXYn~x&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAsNtXq%2F%2FpIM6OQ8nCUL9o60ZU9OUFfkOVsz99K0ax8AAQ3TW0DBCRXv828HWPjRwmQ494FOh%2BvQ4vKvuSvHMeqqpmfQEUxYfQxV9WvooFlND5RHz1csJOSEEvCAM8YPVOYsJMRlgDXxV516pkhJ3kpok76WQsMcUMuzAI21xaR6XXRZxtldjLIeBQrt7Squi5JDl%2BYL8A%2BUZ27JW19vJlkf%2FXBtzx8XU0pNYKEArmVemX%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR4iqifWgYQ

[Nearly Sane]

NS,

I don't know whether you ever found a cheaper copy NS, but it's here brand new on blu ray DVD for £19.99 (p&p inc) if you're interested:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/384899016818?hash=item599dc4e872:g:i50AAOSw3YNXYn~x&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAsNtXq%2F%2FpIM6OQ8nCUL9o60ZU9OUFfkOVsz99K0ax8AAQ3TW0DBCRXv828HWPjRwmQ494FOh%2BvQ4vKvuSvHMeqqpmfQEUxYfQxV9WvooFlND5RHz1csJOSEEvCAM8YPVOYsJMRlgDXxV516pkhJ3kpok76WQsMcUMuzAI21xaR6XXRZxtldjLIeBQrt7Squi5JDl%2BYL8A%2BUZ27JW19vJlkf%2FXBtzx8XU0pNYKEArmVemX%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR4iqifWgYQ

Thanks for thinking of me but still 20 quid for a hard copy which would mean I have to find something to play it on...

There was a book called The Long Tail about how more or less everything would be available but it missed an understanding of formats. So yep I can buy a paper version of it but I have that! No digital version.