@winetarelli posted:Re-watching live action Beauty and the Beast. Easily the best adaptation from animation to live action Disney has done. Obviously, the animated version is mostly better, but on the other hand, the animated version doesn't have live-action Emma in it.
But of course the very best version is by Cocteau.
5 Flights Up - a waste of Morgan Freeman's and Diane Keaton's talents, in my opinion.
Dark Victory
1939 film with young(ish) versions of Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart and Ronald Reagan. Not bad.
Wine Country - meh....
We enjoyed "Elizabeth is Missing", a 90 minute or so 2019 British film on Masterpiece starring Glenda Jackson. A real tour de force by Jackson, playing a woman in her 80s with Alzheimer's trying to figure out what happened to her sister 70 or so years earlier. A murder mystery but more about Jackson's character and the others' reactions to her than anything else.
Oliver! One of my favorites of all time
"Swiss Army Man" with the wonderful Paul Dano as a castaway who is helped by Daniel Radcliffe, a man who violates the law of conservation of energy.
On Netflix until the 29th.
Just watched "Once Were Brothers", a short documentary from 2019 about The Band. Great stuff, especially for fans. Reminded me that I needed to watch again The Last Waltz. One of only two films I paid to watch twice at the theatre (the other was Ghandi, which I saw a few days before and again a few days after my first trip to India).
Cowboys and Aliens
6 Underground - Michael Bay at his most explosiony finest.
Painters Painting, a 1972 documentary, I never knew about, that features in depth interviews with almost every major painter from the New York Art Scene of 1940 to 1970. Also appearances by Clement Greenberg and other critics of the time. Fascinating, on Amazon.
The Next Three Days - an interesting movie about a devoted husband (Russell Crowe) attempting to break his wife (Elizabeth Banks) out of prison. A bit farfetched at times; especially the fact that Olivia Wilde, a single mother, is clearly interested in Russell Crowe and flashing her gorgeous eyes at him throughout the movie, but he'd rather risk life and limb to get his wife out of prison instead!
The Dig. I enjoyed it.
Shutter Island
@brucehayes posted:The Dig. I enjoyed it.
I dug it.
@The Old Man posted:I dug it.
Badda boom!
@brucehayes posted:Badda boom!
A nice Sunday afternoon kind of movie.
Vivarium -- A very low rated (5.8 on IMDB) cross between a Twilight Zone episode and Samuel Beckett. Starring Jesse Eisenberg and a gungho Imogen Poots (best known for 28 Days Later.) Clever and disturbing. On Prime.
LA Confidential - Hadn't watched that movie in many years. Enjoyable.
Palm Springs, starring Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti.. it's actually a light hearted watch tbh
Tenet
I don't plan on watching this 2 more times to figure out what it was all about, like some others have advised. But my main grievance with it is the same one I have with many movies these days. Someone needs to slap those sound editors who allow the music and background noise to drown out all the dialogue. I couldn't hear 90% of what was being said, so no, I don't understand wtf was going on.
Something tells me you're never going to see a Woody Allen movie again on TCM.
@mneeley490 posted:Tenet
I don't plan on watching this 2 more times to figure out what it was all about, like some others have advised. But my main grievance with it is the same one I have with many movies these days. Someone needs to slap those sound editors who allow the music and background noise to drown out all the dialogue. I couldn't hear 90% of what was being said, so no, I don't understand wtf was going on.
THANK YOU so much. I thought I was the only one who can't understand the dialogue for the sound effects and soaring background music. This may be the old man in me, but it seems that many actors don't speak their lines as much as whisper them.
Nomandland -- Well of course Frances McDormand kills it again in this almost non-movie movie. As some of you may know the "plot point" in most movies comes around the 20 minute mark. Here it never shows up as our "nomad" wanders the west in her van in which she lives. The movie just goes from episode to episode and McDormand, who's in every scene, makes it hard to stop watching.
On Hulu.
I Kill Giants. I like movies with quirky characters.
You can go on about "Silence of the Lambs" all you like but there's no question that Anthony Hopkins greatest performance is in "The Remains of the Day."
Cannibals > butlers.
Echo in the Canyon. I have mixed feelings. Was great to see so many rock stars, but depressing to see how some (Stephen Stills and Brian Wilson) have aged over the years. I think Jakob Dylan is a terrible interviewer who mostly sat there with a blank (bored) face, regardless of what the interviewee was saying.
Beasts of No Nation. Well done, gritty and powerful.
@brucehayes posted:Beasts of No Nation. Well done, gritty and powerful.
You do watch interesting movies. I don't know if I can handle this one.
Us + Them -- Roger Waters concert.
The Little Things
Formulaic suspense/gore, despite Denzel, Rami Malek and Jared Leto overemoting as much as they possibly could. There were some interesting twists in the final quarter of the movie.
The Dark Tower. Meh.
