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MOVIES: What are you watching?

winetarelliwinetarelliMember
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Originally posted by Parcival:
Enjoyed seeing Alicia Vikander in another film (post Ex Machina).


Haven't seen The Man From U.N.C.L.E., but I love Alicia. As far as my film knowledge goes, she seemingly came out of nowhere but she is just on fire right now. And deserving.

I'm not saying she is at the same level as Jessica Chastain, but it reminds me of her a few years ago in the sense that one minute no one knew who she is, and then all-of-the-sudden she is everywhere and -- again -- deservingly so.
The Old ManThe Old ManMember
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Originally posted by wineismylife:
The Interview

I can see why they sent it straight to streaming release.

It did not go straight to video due to quality, or lack of audience, issues. Sony, who had a major hack of their emails, bowed to hackers' threats, and timid theater chains, and made the decision not to show it in theaters.
wineismylifewineismylifeMember
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Originally posted by The Old Man:
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Originally posted by wineismylife:
The Interview

I can see why they sent it straight to streaming release.

It did not go straight to video due to quality, or lack of audience, issues. Sony, who had a major hack of their emails, bowed to hackers' threats, and timid theater chains, and made the decision not to show it in theaters.


I know the history Mr Old Knowitall. Technically it also released to theaters over the 4 day Christmas weekend. Whoopdedoo.
glennkglennkMember
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Originally posted by indybob:
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Originally posted by GlennK:
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Originally posted by indybob:
I'd have gone with Jodi Foster's Legs. Wink
yuck.


I forgot, you like the scrawny twig legs of a size 00 who lies on a divan, drinking diet coke all day. Razz
Not sure where you got that from. Just don't find foster attractive. Might be an age thing though as she is a bit older than me.
winetarelliwinetarelliMember
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Originally posted by GlennK:
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Originally posted by indybob:
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Originally posted by GlennK:
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Originally posted by indybob:
I'd have gone with Jodi Foster's Legs. Wink
yuck.


I forgot, you like the scrawny twig legs of a size 00 who lies on a divan, drinking diet coke all day. Razz
Not sure where you got that from. Just don't find foster attractive. Might be an age thing though as she is a bit older than me.

Agreed with GlennK. But it isn't just an age thing because Julianne Moore, who is three years older than Jodi Foster, I still find attractive. (Although, admittedly, that is an outlier. Generally around 10 years older than myself -- eg. Rachel Weisz, Jennifer Connelly -- is where the cutoff tends to be.)
winetarelliwinetarelliMember
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Originally posted by gigabit:
Star Wars - Episode VII dance

Wow. I thought I would see it eventually, but I might see it tonight if I can't sleep... Probably sold out, though... But this is nuts... I just checked my local multiplexes... Not only are they all running very late showings tonight but the two bigger ones are BOTH running 24hrsthrough the weekend with showings at least once/hr. One place is averaging a showing about every 15 minutes (12/21 screens must be devoted to it). Yes, you read that correctly. If I miss the 3:30am showing, I can catch the 4:20am showing or the 5:00am showing. After that they are firing about every 15 minutes. Also before 3:30am.

I've never seen anything like this, though SF was pretty intense for Harry Potter premieres.
steve8steve8Member
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Originally posted by wineismylife:
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Originally posted by The Old Man:
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Originally posted by wineismylife:
The Interview

I can see why they sent it straight to streaming release.

It did not go straight to video due to quality, or lack of audience, issues. Sony, who had a major hack of their emails, bowed to hackers' threats, and timid theater chains, and made the decision not to show it in theaters.


I know the history Mr Old Knowitall. Technically it also released to theaters over the 4 day Christmas weekend. Whoopdedoo.


Big Grin
The Old ManThe Old ManMember
Moana with Sound--1926 & 1980--90 pts.

The filmmaker Robert Flaherty is considered the father of the documentary. His best known film is Nanook of The North, a semi-documentary. None of Flaherty's films are true documentaries in the modern sense. They all contain staged scenes and often an attempt at a narrative or story. However they also have intimate looks at societies few Americans or Europeans of the time had ever seen. In Nanook it's the Inuit Eskimos and with Moana (Moh-AH-nah) it's the South Seas islanders of Samoa.

Moana, which is the name of the "lead male" in the film, came out in 1926 got good reviews and did OK at the box office. However, it did significantly less than Nanook of the North and was, after a short time in release, forgotten for decades. In 1978 one of Flaherty's daughters, Monica, went back to the island location of the film. She wanted people to hear the sounds of the island from the oceans to the songs of Moana's tribe to the sound of food being prepared and cooked. She and Richard Leacock, who would later become a famous documentarian himself, began recording the sounds in 1975. These were then loosely synced into the original film and then release, now with a soundtrack, in 1980. And then again forgotten. One problem was there were no good prints of the original film so what was released had a nice soundtrack with awful looking images on the screen.

In 2014 a newly digitally restored film was created by sourcing the best prints that could be found. Kino has just released a Blu-ray of it and it simply looks incredible. The humanity that Flaherty brought to observing this tribe 90 years ago is still fascinating.

Available on Netflix streaming (Note, there are two scenes of tribesmen and their animal prey that our modern day sensibilities might consider cruel.)
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winetarelliwinetarelliMember
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Originally posted by wine+art:
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Originally posted by patespo1:
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Originally posted by wine+art:
Wow, episode 7.

I have never viewed the first 6, so now add one more to my never viewed list.


Wish I could say the same about Woody Allen films..have had the misfortune of catching a few


There are some people that don't get his films, that is for sure.

Never understood how some people don't enjoy any of his films. But, OTOH, I'm an East Coast ivy-pinko Jew. So, there is that.
steve8steve8Member
The Rain People
Rumble Fish

Had never seen the first one before. Pretty good.

Saw Rumble Fish when released, but that was a long time ago. Cinematography is terrific, but story is a bit weak. Kind of like a Tom Waits extended video. Mickey Rourke is, as usual, weak and Dennis Hopper is still in Cambodia. And then there's the young Diane Lane sunshades
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