What DVD have you just watched?
Posted by: u5227470736789439 on 27 November 2005
All the best from Fredrik
Again... the sub-titles are clear but need to be read very fast. (French with English sub-titles)
I admit i fell asleep while watching... but i was very tired, well fed, and red wine sub-title fatigued.
Later (Sunday evening) i rewatched and did enjoy it, a nice film but now i have the plot i need to rewatch it again soon to enjoy the picture.
Something i didn't have time [or patience] to watch the first time around on the telly...
This 8 part series set on 2 DVD's are a poor transfer quality on 3:4 aspect. So no high-def here : (
The slow moving story, set in the 70's is of an era before mobile phones, blackberries, lap-tops etc
Although they do have a mole, cute little furry thing?
(...only got to Part 4 so i haven't seen the mole yet)
I think this is a case of; if you know what's going on you'll probably like it a lot. But in the secretive world of spying it's not easy to know for sure what's going on, and i'm finding this just watching it, ( and falling asleep in the armchair doesn't help).
The poor image and soundtrack quality doesn't help either, unless it's supposed to add murkiness to the murky underworld of murky agents.... which it don't, it's just a poor picture quality, so soiled and earthy it's probably where the mole is hiding…
But heck, it's only £5.49 on Amazon so maybe worth the intrigue.
Hopefully someone else on the forum will buy it and let me what's going on? : )
Debs
Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy, and Smiley's People are two of my very favourite DVD sets. Slow, and concentrated viewing. Blink and you'll miss something, but the magesterial pace is something most young people would not easily enjoy!
Nor is the quality of these as they seem a fairly unadorned transfer of fairly low quality old fashioned TV ratio video stock that has not aged well ...
For me that does nothing to put me off and rather seems correct for the period, but for anyone wanting wham-bam action or a great picture and sound quality, then look elsewhere!
I love them though. Of al the DVDs I have they are the ones I am sure that I have and will continue to get most use out of.
ATB from George
'Treme' HBO series by David Simon and Eric Overmeyer, who conceinved and produced 'The Wire'.
Not about cops, but musicians, restaurateurs, DJs, lecturers, and the people trying rebuild their lives in a decimated city. Fantastic music, a brilliant cast. I saw someone on the Amazon reviews describe this 'as near to perfection as television can get.' I have to agree.
Highly recommended.
The film maker,Tim Hetherington, was killed in Libya last month.
Wonderful film - a fight of good against evil - I really like the hero of the film called simply V - there is a familiar look about that makes you know from the start he's good Guy.
I particular like the happy ending
All the best, Guy
Childish, silly, funny!
I've been wanting to see Tous Les Matins du Monde for a few years now, and at last i have, and not disappointed either...
Grief, heartbreak, separation, melancholy, all the expectations of life itself really, and to think this film is basically fiction... didn't stop me getting though a box of tissues.
For lovers of Viole music i highly recommend this fascinating and emotionally charged film... (and a box of tissues).
The 4 dvd set also has 3 other films for me to explore too, can't be bad with Gerard Depardieu in them.
A £9.99 bargain from Amazon : )
An alternative ‘atrocity version’ of how the west was won. (1970 film)
Spotted Wolf, a chief of the Cheyenne, looks marvellously fit! 
he wouldn’t need to ask me twice into his wigwam.
Debs
An alternative ‘atrocity version’ of how the west was won. (1970 film)
Spotted Wolf, a chief of the Cheyenne, looks marvellously fit!
he wouldn’t need to ask me twice into his wigwam.
Debs
Debs,
You are awful but i like you!
Chris
We both found it very dated, and although the characterisation was good, the plot didn't work, and the end seemed tacked on. Great cast though, and it was good in its time, but now other films, and TV series have covered the same territory with more realism, just better to remember it from when it was at the cinema.
Still we have Spike Lee's 2010 New Orleans documentary 'If the Creek don't rise ....' to watch, and if that is even half as good as 'When the Levees Broke' then we are in for some wonderful film making.
Territory
Le Colonel Chabert
Disc 4 of 4 dvd film set (Amazon bargain £9.93)
This must rank as one of the most poignant anti-war films I’ve ever seen, extremely classy but straightforward in expressing the senselessness and shocking reality of war converting healthy young men into corpses.
This film depicts the aftermath of the Battle of Eylau, 8th February 1807, French Empire loses amount to around 10.000 men.
Colonel Chabert is mistaken for one of the dead, and against all the odds he manages to survive and after a few years to return home but only to find his wife (believing she was widowed) has remarried and had two children.
Most of this film is of the strangeness of the legal case between Chabert and his (remarried) wife.
All very interesting, the near perfect choice music score accompanies the often sad and depressing tempo of the film. French with English subtitles.
Very Highly Recommended (imho)
Debs
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Musiques (from the film end credits)
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Trio avec piano in D op.70 no.1 ré majeur
Largo assai ed espressivo
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Trio "Les Quilles" K.498
transcrit pour violon, violoncelle et piano
Rondeau allegretto
Domenico Scarlatti
sonate K322
Franz Schubert
Sonate pour piano en la mineur D.959
Andante
Robert Schumann
Etudes symphoniques op.13, 9ème variation
Davidbundletanze op.6,variation Wie aus der Ferne
François Rauber
Marche Napoléoniene et Fanfares
Musique de la Garde Républicaine - Direction : Major Péaud
Interprètes
Regis Pasquier violon
Lluis caret violoncelle
Philippe cassard piano
Pierre Hantaï clavecin
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This received some poor reviews ,which I don't understand!
Had me on the edge of my seat & despite what some claim on Amazon,you will not figure out the twist in this film.
Directed by Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor
USA 2008
An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture. This astonishingly beautiful film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, and vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed. |
Well not on DVD, but from the Sky+ box, BBC broadcast, but will no doubt be released on DVD.
Great cast, nicely shot and performed, but with a script that is so irritating that after persevering through 5 1/2 episodes, mainly due to the excellent cast, we gave up, and hit fast forward, stopped occationally to see what was happening, realised we didn't care.
The script writer seemed to think he could be Harold Pinter with a great deal of analysis of every word spoken by each character, plus several mystery characters who seemed to have read the whole plot before hand and spoke cryptic half messages to the characters you were supposed to like.
I love Harold Pinter, especially the start of 'The Birthday Party', but the plot and dialogue is a stylized and self contained thing, not a badge to decorate a plot that may, but almost certainly does not, make any sense at all.
Avoid this, avoid it like the plague, and hope that such an excellent cast is not wasted in such tosh in future.
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Haim:
Only just saw your reply about Alain Resnais 'Wild Grass', many thanks I will try and see it.
If you have not already seen it, give his 1976 film 'Providence' a try. Sadly it falls between two different countries, or cultures film histories, and so seems to have been ignored by both cultures classic archival releases.
Resnais, a French director, and English writer (David Mercer), filmed in English with a truly wonderful cast, Sir John Gielgud, Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn, David Warner, David Warner and Elaine Stritch. Photographed by Sascha Vierney, who later worked with Peter Greenaway. Flitting between drunken nightmares and reality it is such a beautiful film, but as is the case with this, and his earlier 'L'année dernière à Marienbad' may well come in as many hated film lists as loved film lists.
If I had to pick one film above all others, for me it would be 'Providence', a hard choice. It greatly irks me that such a masterpiece is not available on DVD, let alone Blu-Ray, while endless mindless junk from the worst side of Hollywood fills the racks of DVD shops.
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Haim:
Only just saw your reply about Alain Resnais 'Wild Grass', many thanks I will try and see it.
If you have not already seen it, give his 1976 film 'Providence' a try. Sadly it falls between two different countries, or cultures film histories, and so seems to have been ignored by both cultures classic archival releases.
Resnais, a French director, and English writer (David Mercer), filmed in English with a truly wonderful cast, Sir John Gielgud, Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn, David Warner, David Warner and Elaine Stritch. Photographed by Sascha Vierney, who later worked with Peter Greenaway. Flitting between drunken nightmares and reality it is such a beautiful film, but as is the case with this, and his earlier 'L'année dernière à Marienbad' may well come in as many hated film lists as loved film lists.
If I had to pick one film above all others, for me it would be 'Providence', a hard choice. It greatly irks me that such a masterpiece is not available on DVD, let alone Blu-Ray, while endless mindless junk from the worst side of Hollywood fills the racks of DVD shops.
JamieL,
As you can see, I am deep into grasses, 'wild' first and now 'sweet'. Thanks for the in depth info about Providence. I will definitely try to get it.
After seeing a great production of the play by Steppenwolf Theatre:
I thought this was excellent!
