What DVD have you just watched?

Currently half way though this 4 dvd set : )

It's a fantastic blend of soap opera, fine acting, authenticity, technicality, and even with the odd 50kg cheese bomb dropped occasionally it's very infectious viewing. I clearly remember watching most of these episodes 30 years ago sat on the sofa with my Mum, when it was shown on the beeb in the early afternoons.
It's available in 3.4 aspect 4 dvd set as shown above, or (the more expensive) widescreen 5 dvd set.
Originally shot in 16mm film, the mastering to dvd is excellent and clean with warm and drab effect, perfect for even more realism!

They couldn't make a series like this these days!

Euston Films Ltd (c) 1979
Network dvd (c) 2006
Running Time: 650minutes + extras

Highly Recommended!

Debs

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Just watched the first one of this box set - 5 more to go!

2nd one down - 4 to go!

Half way there now!

4th one watched, just moving on to the next.

Now 5 down, last one to go!

Box set finished, at last! Now for the latest release.................

Just ordered this!

From Sky Anytime , 2012, a rather long but unbelievably enjoyable piece of Sci-Fi hookem, end of the world, Mayan predictions, end of days, etc.
Good special effects, daft situations.

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Originally posted by GFFJ: [Posted Sun 27 November 2005 15:40]
Just about to watch the secong half of 'The Odessa File.'

All the best from Fredrik

Five years on, this is the oldest thread on the Naim forum. Glad I started it. It has never been bumped, and provides a fascinating range of preferences in the most uncontroversial way ...

May I say thanks for the many posts over five years. I was living in Hereford when I made the first post. And in those days had a rather nice Naim set. CDS2, 52, 200, SBLs [etc].

Even then I only played DVDs on the PC! Still do! Next is to watch "Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy" so as to see if I can spot the late Ingid Pitt ...

ATB from George

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May I say thanks for the many posts over five years.

Well George, thank you for starting the thread!

Since I've done my homework, I'm now able to participate in keeping the thread alive:



The Ghost Writer, by Roman Polanski (on blu-ray).

One of the very best movies I've seen this year, along with "In the electric mist" by Bertrand Tavernier.

Continuing the Polanski trend...

just catching up on his films i've not seen for ages, or in the case of "The Tenant" not seen at all. It's just great how Polanski's directorship captures the atmosphere, stimulating architecture, and all the characters fit the part so perfectly. Who needs an over complicated plot when you have all that.
Chinatown I watched last night, but Rosemary’s Baby [I’ve seen before] I’ll watch it later in the week when I’m feeling broody.

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...in those days had a rather nice Naim set. CDS2, 52, 200, SBLs [etc].

George, you really should have kept it all, one can't leave a set-up like that without pining! ; )

Debs

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The Ghost Writer, by Roman Polanski (on blu-ray).

One of the very best movies I've seen this year, along with "In the electric mist" by Bertrand Tavernier.

Not a bad film, but for reasons known only to the screenwriter and director they decided to completely change the ending from that in the book, considerably for the worse.

Why oh why must they do this?

Nicolas Cage on top form in this very black comedy about a New Orleans cop who happens to be a junkie. His increasingly surreal attempts to find enough evidence to convict a drug dealer of a massacre is quite gripping, and it's difficult to work out what's going to happen until the very satisfying ending.

Directed by Walter Herzog. Don't let your granny watch it.

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Originally posted by {OdS}:The Ghost Writer, by Roman Polanski (on blu-ray).
One of the very best movies I've seen this year, along with "In the electric mist" by Bertrand Tavernier.

Not a bad film, but for reasons known only to the screenwriter and director they decided to completely change the ending from that in the book, considerably for the worse.
Why oh why must they do this?

I haven't seen this film yet, but if the ending has been made into a darker, morbid outcome(?)
...that will be Polanski!

Debs

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Not a bad film, but for reasons known only to the screenwriter and director they decided to completely change the ending from that in the book, considerably for the worse.
Why oh why must they do this?

I haven't seen this film yet, but if the ending has been made into a darker, morbid outcome(?)
...that will be Polanski!

Well, I haven't read the book. I must confess though that I found the ending of the movie to be a bit on the "easy" side...! This being said, I think I need to watch more of Polanski's work

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...in those days had a rather nice Naim set. CDS2, 52, 200, SBLs [etc].

George, you really should have kept it all, one can't leave a set-up like that without pining!
Debs

Dear Debs,

I have only one Polanski film, and very sad it certainly is in a way, though the end of the film is hardly tragic - The Pianist.

As for the big old Naim set, well parting with it was something sad before the event. The CD player was a gift from my grandmother, given as she said, "with a warm hand," as she died six weeks later, and the 52 was financed with the sale of my five string bass, which I commissioned ... The 200 and SBLs did not carry such weight of emotion. Put it like this, selling the set over about sixth moths kept me housed in difficult circumstances, and I know which is more important, a rent properly paid or having a homeles top flight replay set. For once the idiotic term, "no brainer," really does apply!

But the reality is that unlike many I could listen to [and completely enjoy] music on the most basic arrangement [and I do have something very basic, but surprisingly good, and amazing considering the minuscule cost], so that before I ever would buy another great replay set now, I would want to own the house or flat that it went into. You will fully appreciate that ever owning my own flat is as likely as pigs flying!

My ideal set would be a MAC [probably one of the desk-top sort rather than a laptop] running iTunes. Great DAC, such as nDAC or Weiss, Nait [anything up to but not beyond XS] and Quad ESL 57s. I have a fine tuner, though would happily get a NAT 101, which has the significant advantage for me of not having a digital display, which I find hard to read in the same way I have to squint at a digital watch, but can easily read a traditional analogue watch face.

The last DVD I watched was parts one and two of Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy.

ATB from George

Sideways with a glass of cab merlot.

Chris

Wonderful. Superb entertainment, made by geniuses.

Superlative BluRay picture with eye-popping colours, great HD sound.

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Sideways with a glass of cab merlot.

Chris

"I'm not drinking no F%^$ing Merlot!"

Reach For the Sky.

I have had this film for years on DVD, and watch it very rarely, but it is worth watching occasionally.

ATB from George

George, thanks for bringing this up. Bader was a childhood hero, Reach for the Sky a favourite book and movie, Kenneth More a favourite actor, so, long overdue, I bought the DVD tonight. 3.99 well spent.

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Sideways with a glass of cab merlot.

Chris

"I'm not drinking no F%^$ing Merlot!"

You're right.
Cabernet is better....

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Sideways with a glass of cab merlot.

Chris

"I'm not drinking no F%^$ing Merlot!"

You're right.
Cabernet is better....

As long as it's not the stuff they sell in Tesco's!

Schindler's List.

Started on Saturday, continued on Sunday, and completed now.

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Do you sometimes feel you've wasted a couple of hours of your life needlessly? Watch this dross & you'll see what I mean.

Bought or rental?