What Movie Are You Watching Or Watched Today?

[NewJerseyRich]

The Punk Rock Movie [ Don Letts ]
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-punk-rock-movie

Another great film.

Absolutely !

[NewJerseyRich]

got a chance to DVR Sid and Nancy last night. That'll be staying on the box for awhile.

Great film.

It was on the Ovation channel if you have Comcast it's Channel 155. Tonight their showing "Trainspotting" another great film.

Just checked, their repeating Trainspotting on Sat at 4pm right after Johnny Cash at Folsum and a Cash retrospective called Johnny Cash: Half Mile a Day

[RoddyRuddy]

got a chance to DVR Sid and Nancy last night. That'll be staying on the box for awhile.

Great film.

It was on the Ovation channel if you have Comcast it's Channel 155. Tonight their showing "Trainspotting" another great film.

Just checked, their repeating Trainspotting on Sat at 4pm right after Johnny Cash at Folsum and a Cash retrospective called Johnny Cash: Half Mile a Day

You dont get much better than Johnny Cash at Folsum.

[firehazard]

I look forward to the day that FaceBook dies in a fire.

Isn't that what happens at the end of the movie, then? Dammit, I won't bother to watch it in that case.

[Sportin' Life]

King of Kong:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMJZ-_bJKdI

A harrowing tale of competition and man's ability to succeed in the face of obstacles. And men-children ... 2 fully formed man-children; one cast as the protagonist the other the antagonist.

[RoddyRuddy]

The Shirt Factory Horn
Engaging and poignant documentary charting the work and legacy of Derry's shirt factories.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... tory_Horn/


Exodus
http://www.blinkbox.com/Free/Movie/35099/Exodus
Penny Woolcock's 2007 film is a stunning vision of a future Britain re-imagining the Bible book of Exodus in Margate, and exploring themes of identity, migration, terrorism and the search for a promised land.

[cagliostro]

King of Kong:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMJZ-_bJKdI

A harrowing tale of competition and man's ability to succeed in the face of obstacles. And men-children ... 2 fully formed man-children; one cast as the protagonist the other the antagonist.

Lordy, that movie was pathetic. But I enjoyed it quite a bit.

I saw the movie Kamikaze Girls. It was a Japanese chick flick, and I really enjoyed it. If only they made chick flicks like this in America...

[RoddyRuddy]

MYSTICS [2002 ]is a hilarious black Irish comedy,Ronnie Drew plays the part of Larry (voice)

[Heather]

Not a movie, but last weekend and last night watched Boys from the Blackstuff by Alan Bleasdale, which, I've never seen all the way through, despite the fact it has been out since I was in my early teens. Starring Bernard Hill, Michael Angelis, Alan Igbon, Tom Georgeson, Peter Kerrigan and a young Andrew Schofield aka Scully who plays a policeman in episode four, Yosser's Story. I still feel after watching this, Schofield is a much better theatre actor and is improving all the time.

Tonight, Brassed Off, starring Pete Postlethwaite. Again, I've never seen this movie all the way through before. We recorded it earlier in the week on the digibox, but unfortunately it cut off just before the end, just after they were doing the William Tell Overture, so I missed the famous speech by Postlethwaite - gutted. I'm now going to have to put it on my wishlist on Amazon.

[NewJerseyRich]

The Punk Rock Movie [ Don Letts ]
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-punk-rock-movie

RoddyRuddy - not sure of I should thank you or curse you. Since you introduced this website I'm watching every chance I get and late at night like some crackhead ! Currently catching up on seasons 1-4 of Penn & Tellers "Bullshit". I've been watching them on Showtime since season 5. Seriously cutting into my work time online.

[NewJerseyRich]

Saw "The RiTe" last night with Anthony Hopkins. Sir AH is great in the film, thought it's no "silence of the lambs". Colin O'Donoghue plays the young angsty preist, The film is certainly something you can wait for the DVD release to see.

Maybe I'm just bitter beacuse I wanted to see "The Fighter" and the Mrs didn't. Then while we were exiting the theater agreed, we probably should have went to see The Fighter. Arrrgh!!!!

[RoddyRuddy]

[quote="Heather"]Not a movie, but last weekend and last night watched Boys from the Blackstuff by Alan Bleasdale, which, I've never seen all the way through, despite the fact it has been out since I was in my early teens. Starring Bernard Hill, Michael Angelis, Alan Igbon, Tom Georgeson, Peter Kerrigan and a young Andrew Schofield aka Scully who plays a policeman in episode four, Yosser's Story. I still feel after watching this, Schofield is a much better theatre actor and is improving all the time.

Just dug out my copy of Boys from the Blackstuff dvd .Rewatched the play & tv stories all again. First watched it when I was still at school and just loved the humour of Yosser and Shake hands . "Iam desparte Dan ".Seeing it again as a adult and the reality of it really hits home.

[RoddyRuddy]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... Bomb_Alley

"Ben Anderson follows the US Marines who have patrolled the Sangin district of Afghanistan since the British withdrawal last year. Has progress been made"
".........For four years, thousands of British servicemen fought with the Taliban for the district of Sangin - the most violent part of Afghanistan. The fighting cost 106 British lives, including Staff-Sergeant Olaf Schmidt, who won the George Cross there.
Last year, the British withdrew - handing the area over to the US Marines. Ben Anderson, who was with the British forces in 2007, returns to see if the Americans are faring any better. His remarkable film follows Lima Company, a unit of the US Marines, as they dodge improvised bombs and struggle to reclaim the same territory the British previously occupied.
As the war enters its tenth year, with Sangin still far from secure, real questions remain as to what so many British men died there for......"

Watched this in total disbelief as to stupidity of the methods used and lack of price held on a human life[ both soilders & locals].Surely in this day and age there is a machine/ armoured vehicle that can be used to look for & clear these land mines/bombs. Is it right to bomb someones home and hand them a few notes ? O what a lovely war.

[philipchevron]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00yc4ff/Panorama_The_Battle_for_Bomb_Alley

"Ben Anderson follows the US Marines who have patrolled the Sangin district of Afghanistan since the British withdrawal last year. Has progress been made"
".........For four years, thousands of British servicemen fought with the Taliban for the district of Sangin - the most violent part of Afghanistan. The fighting cost 106 British lives, including Staff-Sergeant Olaf Schmidt, who won the George Cross there.
Last year, the British withdrew - handing the area over to the US Marines. Ben Anderson, who was with the British forces in 2007, returns to see if the Americans are faring any better. His remarkable film follows Lima Company, a unit of the US Marines, as they dodge improvised bombs and struggle to reclaim the same territory the British previously occupied.
As the war enters its tenth year, with Sangin still far from secure, real questions remain as to what so many British men died there for......"

Watched this in total disbelief as to stupidity of the methods used and lack of price held on a human life[ both soilders & locals].Surely in this day and age there is a machine/ armoured vehicle that can be used to look for & clear these land mines/bombs. Is it right to bomb someones home and hand them a few notes ? O what a lovely war.

You have to understand that it is not the military's priority to save civilian lives, but to protect, as well as possible, the lives of their buddies on the frontline. The loss of civilian life is a public relations problem, no more, no less. If this seems like the wrong end of the telescope, or a Lewis Carroll or Jonathan Swift cast-off, join the club.

[philipchevron]

Sweet Bird of Youth (Richard Brooks, 1961)

Though it is apparently an emasculated Hollywoodized version of the Tennessee Williams play - the movie substitutes an abortion for a hysterectomy following failed treatment for a STD, and the hero suffers a broken nose in place of the castration that takes place in the play - it is still a fairly edgy by the standards of the day, and it does manage to retain most of the 1959 Broadway cast (including Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Madeleine Sherwood and Rip Torn) which was by no means a given in 1961. Newman is terrific as the gigolo trying to catch a break in the movie business: Brad Pitt aside, I don't think I've ever seen a screen actor luxuriate quite so splendidly and naturally in his own sex appeal. That he does so without appearing vain or self-absorbed is what separates Newman from the other pretty boys of the time - the same could be said of Pitt: they're actors, not posters. Geraldine Page is wonderful too as the alcoholic movie star/meal ticket Newman attaches himself to. You only realise just how good she really is if you attempt to watch the 1989 remake by Nicholas Roeg - ten minutes of Liz Taylor's appalling, mannered performance was all I could take before adding that DVD to the charity shop stack.