What Movie Are You Watching Or Watched Today?

[Frances]

Watching Johnny Cash shoot Kirk Douglas.
*Insert Michael Douglas joke.
I hate Michael Douglas and root for all his characters to be offed. Except in Behind the Candelabra. He didn't bug in that. Matt Da-mon did. Ugh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=47&v=TikGhNorj9s

[Mike from Boston]

Jurassic World

Can't complain about watching a movie in an air conditioned theater when it's 97 degrees outside! Found it fascinating that the movie features Geraldine Chaplin in a supporting role, which means between her father and her they have been in movies over a 100 years. Pretty Amazing. Her turn in "Chaplin" playing her own Grandmother was incredible.

[Low D]

Just watched:


The Death Of Stalin (2017)

Wherein the political machinations following the death of Stalin are turned into a British comedy (and includes a couple of American actors). Hilarious AND informative!

The Death of Stalin is a 2017 political satire comedy film written and directed by Armando Iannucci and co-written by David Schneider, Ian Martin and Peter Fellows. It stars Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Paddy Considine, Rupert Friend, Jason Isaacs, Michael Palin, Andrea Riseborough and Jeffrey Tambor. Based on the French graphic novel La mort de Staline, the film depicts the power struggle following the death of Soviet revolutionary and politician Joseph Stalin (Adrian McLoughlin) in 1953

[Wayne Kerr]

The Third Man.

[Low D]

Inspired by

The Queen was never fond of blasphemers!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFzRbaOjrS0

we watched The Blues Brothers (1980) last night. Has held up well, and in ensuring that people's legacies are secure, my 15 year old recognized James Brown, Ray Charles, LOVED Aretha Franklin, and is a new fan of Cab Calloway. And my spouse recalls her father had a friend back in the early 80s with hair & beard exactly like Steve Cropper.

[Mike from Boston]

Still a great movie. I was in Chicago last week at a Conference and pretty much figured out all I know about Chicago is from Al Capone, Ferris Bueller and the Blues Brothers.
However, while in my hotel room, I did catch a show with Ronnie Wood and his guest was Steve Cropper-same hair, just grey. (Not sure the Network, but Ronnie Wood is the host)

[Frances]

Saw The Nightmare Before Christmas in the theater today.

And... who the fuck wants to see Bradley Cooper imitating Kris Kristofferson in A Star is Born? It looks like that's what he's doing to me. Hate that guy.

[Frances]

8 seconds of Blue Velvet.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=snhiofL2Rh4

Can't really relate ; Hate beer.

[Frances]

Willard, maybe. I'm forwarding past the cat part. OMG.

[Frances]

[Frances]

El pelotón chiflado

[Frances]

Close Encounters of the Third Kind '77


Paris, Texas '84


Broadcast News '87


Sea of Love '89

[Frances]

Gonna see Vice tomorrow based solely on Sam Rockwell looking funny as hell portraying W. and because Steve Carell is in it too.

Just as long as Colin Farrell is nowhere near this. Sam Rockwell was in that horrible Seven blah blah blah movie with him. Walken and Rockwell are on a whole other level. Saw them together on Broadway. Amazing.


I always fall asleep during Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, but having stared at The Gong Show regularly as a kid, think Rockwell nailed it.

[Frances]

Uh, Sam Rockwell being nominated for his few lines in Vice is absurd and I love that guy.

Carell is good. Amy Adams is as annoying as always. She should play Doris Day who was also annoying AF.

Bale makes weird, gurgly sounds and you do believe him as Cheney.

The Madea guy as Colin Powell was great.

Worth matinee prices only.

[Low D]

Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World (2017)

This documentary brings to light the profound and overlooked influence of Indigenous people on popular music in North America. For every obvious one here, like Buffy Sainte Marie or Jesse Ed Davis, there is a surprising one, like Link Wray or Jazz Singer Mildred Bailey. And if the American Indian contribution to Mardis Gras tradition is obvious, it was fascinating to learn that the whole Delta blues style could arguably be thought of as traditional first nations singing, with the drum replaced with guitar (since owning a drum was illegal for both slaves & First Nations). No less a source than Howlin' Wolf, himself of Cherokee descent, has contributed to this argument, revealing that his mentor Charley Patton, one of the "founders" of the style, was as much Choctaw as he was Black. In the telling of this tale, the documentary explores how mixed race children "became" black, a colonial tool to remove Indian status from the population. It's this historical sociological content mixed with the ethnomusicology that takes this doc next level from a standard music documentary.


Also: Ozzy drummer Randy fuckin' Castillo, best metal drummer *ever*, yes!