What DVD have you just watched?

"Flyboys" again, on a Region 1 DVD. Some great aerial cgi.

It's on BBC 4 @ 21.00 Saturday Great film.

Hello Stu,

Yes, it's a good film, quite moving. I picked it up cheaply as part of a box-set including "Munich" and "Babel", both of which I am still to watch. Do a search.

Cheers,

Mark

A Prophet, hard hitting and thought provoking

A film I will watch again, no question

Last night I babysat my 2yr old granddaughter (mum, dad and grandma went to a choral society concert). Greatly enjoyed re-watching "It's a Bug's Life" with running commentary from the toddler, who insisted on a big cuddle when the grasshoppers first appeared. Made a change from "DDD Dog" (101 Dalmatians)

I bought the brand new BluRay edition of "Predator". We compared it with a recenet DTS encoded DVD and it absolutely trounces it. If you have a BDP and you like Arnie films, don't hesitate for a second!

The Road - I suppose 'depressing' will be most people's reaction but I mainly thought it was just a lousy film.

Mesrine - 2 discs and well worth watching. He doesn't emerge as much of a Robin Hood and any glamour is transitory.

Zulu on blu ray. A magnificent transfer of a film that's 45 years old and you'd never guess it. Crystal clear, clean as a new print, and marvellous, vibrant colours.
I hadn't seen it since I was a kid and was surprised at how low budget it obviously was. It's still a great action movie though.

I bought Zulu Dawn to go with it and that's at the other end of the scale. A horrific 4:3 letterbox transfer that's grainy, crackly and just a mess.

The book was not very good, but the film is worse! I will be sticking to Booker / Whitbread / Pulitzer winners and nominees for my reading in the future.

This is so much better:



The 'short' which inspired this full feature length animation is unbelievably good. It is included as a 'bonus' feature on the DVD.

pretty decent western

Two abortive attempts at movies this last week.

Managed about 30 minutes, but when the daughter of the historical translator (Monk?) turned out to also be a stunt driver who could outrun the police driving backwards in a tiny car through the streets of Paris, my partner and me agreed that there was no pint watching any more.

This got to 40 minutes before I bowed out, nicely shot, tricksy and lively visuals courtesy of ex promo director Jonathan Glazer. The performances were good, but I just am not interested in watching this kind of macho all swearing 'cockney geezer' stuff.

I am rapidly losing interest in Ray Winstone, he seems to have become an English copy of De Nero at his most masculine, and most tiresome showing off. It was interesting to see Ben Kinsley do that for a while, and again, I would rather not spend time with that character.

I can only hope that at some point Winstone does something like 'Falling in Love' or 'Awakenings' where De Nero stopped at that arm waving stuff and delivered measured and deep performances.


However we did watch this, again, and all the way through. Although about gangsters it has warmth, self doubt, richness, and yes a some violence, but frankly still a really lovely film.

"In Bruges" reminds me; we watched this the other night for the umpteenth time :-



The best comedy/horror film I've seen. Superb sarky dialogue, Brendan Gleeson excellent as an american cop.

Lewis, series 4, really like it

A couple of fairly early Peter Greenaway films/shorts. 'A Walk through H' (1978, Early Films of PG DVD), and 'Act of God, Some Lightning Experiences 1966-1980' (1980, Thames TV documentary, an old VHS recording).

Definitely not for everyone, or perhaps an acquired taste. For me just lovely film/documentary making, quirky, obsessive, strange, but with a very English heart, and none nastiness that came into his films a decade later.

His work from the late 70's up to and including 'Drowning by Numbers' in 1988 is some of my favourite cinematic work.

Some find the lack of a conventional narrative in his work very difficult, but I feel it explores what can be done with film in the same way that poetry explores what can be done with words. Not every film has to be in the form of a narrative novel adapted by filming actors, or a series of devices to push emotional buttons, and Greenaway's work from that period is certainly not that.

As I said, not for everyone, but fun for those who do like it.

coming to america...... ace film.................................soul glow

Excellent. Quality filmmaking.

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Excellent. Quality filmmaking.

The Blu Ray version popped through my letterbox not ten minutes ago! Looking forward to a good movie tonight.

I just watched North Face on BR, superb film, really quite moving

Not arty, very sentimental, and one of my favourite films. My partner thought it was OK, I think this is a boys film, it always moves me to tears, if only the ghosts of our sporting heroes had a place where we could see them play at their best again.

I always think it is a bit like someone accidentally made a Frank Capra ('It's A Wonderful Life') 40's film at the end of the 80's.

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Not arty, very sentimental, and one of my favourite films.

Yes.
Baseball, ghosts and writers.