What DVD have you just watched?

Off topic but sometimes i like to watch Carentan. Takes me back in time.

Keep meaning to buy this on DVD but never got around to it.

It goes at about 17$ on Amazon and 14£ on tesco.

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(sorry Ewemon could not resist )

Having just received my favourite film - "Spirited Away" - on BluRay, I also ordered this superb animation by Studio Ghibli :-

Highly recommended!

Toy Story 3 and Toy Story That Time Forgot on Sky + , great fun.

WADJDA is a movie of firsts. This first feature film shot entirely in Saudi Arabia is the story of a young girl living in a suburb of Riyadh determined to raise enough money to buy a bike in a society that sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl's virtue. Even more impressive, WADJDA is the first feature film made by a female Saudi filmmaker. In a country where cinemas are banned and women cannot drive or vote, writer- director Haifaa Al Mansour has broken many barriers with her new film.

My quest to see every (surviving - around a dozen are lost, sadly) film by the great Michael Powell continues with The Small Back Room. This wartime drama, squeezed in between the great Technicolor epics The Red Shoes and Gone to Earth was a return to the more intimately-scaled, B&W films Powell and his partner Emeric Pressberger made in their pre-Colonel Blimp era.

Made in 1949 and set in 1943, it stars P&P favourites David Farrar and Kathleen Byron, the former as a tormented bomb disposal expert named Sammy Rice, the latter as his co-dependent girlfriend Susan.

Rice seems in greater danger from his destructive self-pity and the Machiavellian manoeuvring of his superiors and the overweening ambition of his colleagues. Just as he looks to have (excuse the pun) completely blown his life, he is called on to do a particularly tricky job and redeems himself.

This is is suppose a minor P&P work but it till blows most other film=makers' efforts out of the water. Apart from one brief scene, Powell's devastating visual imagination with its accompanying dreamlike quality is pared back, but the film has much to recommend it - some of the framing and composition is beautiful, Powell's trademark sense of place, as well as his energy, and the innovative use of sound and music are all present and correct, and Christopher Challis' cinematography is remarkable. The climactic bomb disposal scene is brilliantly shot and utterly thrilling.

Can't recommend it highly enough - it's available on an excellent Criteron Collection DVD, with a host of superb extras.

Inception one of the best psychological thriller movie i have ever watched.

Really good concert DVD. The dude has no shortage of material from wich to choose.

Desolation of Smaug via Netflix. OK but this franchise is wearing a bit thin, I'd say pedestrian, but that's what the story is about a long walk in 3 parts preceded by another even more stretched walk in 3 parts.

We'll watch 5 Armies sometimes to finish off the story.

Later tonight after Downton Abbey i will be watching these.

A Scandinavian thriller. The plot is a little far fetched but the film is quite entertaining.

Hi Haim,

Hope you all are enjoying the holidays.

Have you seen these two

 yet?

Saga is back in 2015 for a new series. 

...Which was remarkably good fun!

Watched this for the first time last night. Yes, I've let all the hype pass me by.  Anyway, I found it entertained in a light-hearted way.  I particularly enjoyed Alan Rackman's performance, having watched him on Xmas Eve in Die Hard (a movie I've watched many times).  Will I watch the rest of the HP trilogy? Probably not, as these things tend to peak with the first one.     

Good music in it too!

First 2 episodes of :-

Disc One (the first series) of this box set, which was a Christmas pressie. I haven't seen any of them for years:

Superman Man of Steel (Sky+) and the final disc of Dune, might have to watch the film next.

Very disappointing compared to the book. They left out so much and totally messed up the ending. 

Stu, Series 2 of The Bridge (broadcast at the beginning of the year on BBC4) was the best thing on telly in 2014 IMO. Looks stunning on Blu-ray.

Kevin,

I know.

Saga is back for series 3 next year.2015