What DVD have you just watched?

Posted by: u5227470736789439 on 27 November 2005

Just about to watch the secong half of 'The Odessa File.'

All the best from Fredrik
Posted on: 13 July 2011 by rackkit

This wasn't bad...

 

 

Posted on: 20 July 2011 by rackkit

But i preferred this from the same director...

 

Posted on: 22 July 2011 by JamieL_v2
Originally Posted by Haim Ronen:
Originally Posted by JamieL_v2:

 

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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:

 

Haim, I hope you both find and enjoy 'Providence'.

 

The film of 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' is excellent, it is very convincing of a dysfunctional marriage. I felt that beyond the script, the great performances, you could also see why they were divorced twice as the performances seemed so real.

 

I was very fortunate to see the play in the round at the Young Vic in London, being just a few feet from the performers. Billie Whitelaw and Patrick Stewart starred, just a few weeks before he went to the US to start filming the first series of Star Trek. Saskia Reeves played 'the mouse'. There was such a sexual tension between Stewart and Whitelaw that made the performance electric. Probably the finest performance I have ever seen at the theatre.

Posted on: 24 July 2011 by naim_nymph

 

Green Wing ~ Definitive Edition

 

This is the best ever soap opera by far, if only they scripted Eastenders, Emerdale Yarn, and Borethenation Street in this format then maybe i'd watch them too.

Only watched the 1st disc so far, will take me a while to find time for more, and been laughing so much i need time for my ribs to recover.

 

This 8 disc box-set has come way down to a bargain price, presently £15.93 from amazon.

 

That's a lot of laughs to the £.

 

Debs

Posted on: 25 July 2011 by tonym

I love Green Wing & we've got all the episodes on DVD. Much underrated. The HR lady's particularly funny IMO.

 

Interesting that you never actually see any patients!

Posted on: 28 July 2011 by Gale 401

My 6 year old son saw this classic with me and loved it.

Laughed his socks off.

Posted on: 28 July 2011 by George Fredrik

Dear Stu,

 

Good heads up on that.

 

Thanks from George

Posted on: 31 July 2011 by Haim Ronen

 

The French film HOME.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...&feature=related

Posted on: 01 August 2011 by rackkit

 

Forgot what a great film this till i dug it out to watch again. 

Posted on: 02 August 2011 by chimp

Just finished watching the original Ocean's eleven, really enjoyed it even if it is a bit cheesy, E O Eleven sung by Sammy Davis jnr was especially cringeworthy, my girlfriend was bored senseless, oh dear.

Posted on: 02 August 2011 by chimp

Also watching Flashforward, it's quite good but the english accents are terrible and you can easily pick holes in it, not that i am picky, oh no. Quite enjoying the mentalist (silly fun) and the Fringe (more silly fun).

Just recieved from love film a dvd called Punk in London, good as an insight to the late 70's scene but god the music was awful, funny that, I loved it as a kid

Posted on: 03 August 2011 by Blueknowz

Recommended

Posted on: 05 August 2011 by JamieL_v2

'City of God'

Well nearly ten years on this is just as good as the first time. Hard going in the depiction of the violence, especially when some of the gang memebrs are just children, but it captures things so well (as far a I can judge), and sad in that it is based on real events and characters.

 

Highly recommended, but be warned that some events depicted can be upsetting.

Posted on: 06 August 2011 by Blueknowz
Originally Posted by JamieL_v2:

 

'City of God'

Well nearly ten years on this is just as good as the first time. Hard going in the depiction of the violence, especially when some of the gang memebrs are just children, but it captures things so well (as far a I can judge), and sad in that it is based on real events and characters.

 

Highly recommended, but be warned that some events depicted can be upsetting.

You're not kidding some very harrowing scenes throughout!

Posted on: 09 August 2011 by Sniper
Originally Posted by George Fredrik:

Seabiscuit.

 

Gets me each time, but this time  - after half-way - I more or less blurred and just listened. That's the trouble with knowing a great filum.

 

ATB from George [Horse and human lover].

 

 


George,

 

I have just watched Seabiscuit for the third time (the remake not the original 1949 film) and found it totally captivating. Just finished watching a documentary which proves the film to be almost 100% accurate and I still find it hard to believe. Another great true comeback story from the same era is the film Cinderella Man although this one is about a boxer. Well worth a watch.

Posted on: 09 August 2011 by Gale 401

Haim,

Brilliant film.

It was on tv over here a few months ago.

Stu

Posted on: 09 August 2011 by Gale 401

Last night.

Posted on: 09 August 2011 by Gale 401

When ever i watch the above film?

I always think of Jamie

Stuck on those roof tops filming in the dead of night during that very cold  winter in Scotland

Stu

Posted on: 09 August 2011 by Haim Ronen
Originally Posted by Gale 401:

Haim,

Brilliant film.

It was on tv over here a few months ago.

Stu

Stu,

 

We enjoyed it though some parts of it brought the flick to the verge of being a horror film.

 

Haim

Posted on: 11 August 2011 by JamieL_v2
Thanks Stu
 
It was really hard being on a roof with ice forming around you, and feet going past numb. I haven't seen the film through, I tend not to watch things I have worked on, as I have already ready the script and seen quite a bit of peformed, admittedly in individual scenes out of order. I will try it soon though, it is a couple of years since I finished work on it.
 
Haim, thanks for your dicussions on film here, I have enjoyed them. Like may others I am either cutting back on the forum, or stopping, so the tab that has usually stayed open here will close and I will keep in contact with those I can through email and Facebook, etc.
 
Jamie
 
Originally Posted by Gale 401:

When ever i watch the above film?

I always think of Jamie

Stuck on those roof tops filming in the dead of night during that very cold  winter in Scotland

Stu

Posted on: 15 August 2011 by Haim Ronen

 

Powerful and very well acted.

Posted on: 19 August 2011 by Haim Ronen

Posted on: 21 August 2011 by Gale 401

I have loved this mans work since the early 70s.

Last night i started on this remastered box set.

Posted on: 21 August 2011 by Gale 401

While Testing some 7.5m and 10 m AV cables.

Posted on: 21 August 2011 by Blueknowz

 

The true story of child migrants to Australia, Harrowing & Heart warming 

Oranges and Sunshine tells the story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham who uncovered one of the most significant social scandals of recent times: the deportation of thousands of children from the United Kingdom to Australia. Almost single-handedly, against overwhelming odds and with little regard for her own well-being, Margaret reunited thousands of families, brought authorities to account and drew worldwide attention to an extraordinary miscarriage of justice. Children as young as four had been told that their parents were dead, and been sent to children's homes on the other side of the world. Many were subjected to appalling abuse. They were promised oranges and sunshine: they got hard labour and life in institutions.