Movies

[justlikeyou]

Samadhi Movie part 2

[stardustpilgrim]

HOLY COW BATMAN! NCIS just blew this season to pieces. (OK, not a film).

[stardustpilgrim]

I saw Star Wars, The Rise of Skywalker Friday morning. Very good, in fact I'd say a perfect [Star Wars] film.

[zendancer]

We saw Fantastic Fungi two days ago, and it was an amazing documentary. It deals with some of the same issues as the book "How to Change Your Mind." It features Paul Stamets, the undisputed amateur fungi expert in the world. I had read abut the guy, but the movie tells many stories about him that I had never heard. Fungi were here long before animals and plants, and they are everywhere--their species vastly outnumber animals. Their mycelium (sp?) connect trees underground and do astonishing things, some of which are described in the book "The Hidden Life of Trees." The movie is well worth seeing and is highly educational.

[stardustpilgrim]

Yesterday I watched Green Book. I thought about seeing it in the theater, but never did. It's exceptional. Seeing this friendship evolve was very moving, seeing how two people can change.

I think I was lucky growing up in the south. Our neighbors two doors up were friends with a colored family, the Blacks was actually their name. So I had a model for colored people being just ordinary people. In Charlotte and Mecklenburg county schools were segregated, it was 9th grade until I went to school with African Americans, that was 1966. But when I was young my mother had a colored lady do her ironing. She lived about two miles away right beside the little league field. We were just barely average middle class, so that was a luxury.

So I was somewhat acquainted with that world of Green Book, the prejudice, the degrading. I'm glad things are mostly different these days...

[Reefs]

"The Song of Bernadette" (1943) - Excellent movie. A simple village girl messing with people's concepts about the world.

"Spellbound" (1945) - Hitchcóck classic. Psychoanalysts psychoanalyzing each other. What else could go wrong?!

You can find them on youtube.

[stardustpilgrim]

I haven't seen 1917 but I saw about a twelve minute short on the making of it. It was filmed as one long continuous shot. The two main characters are in virtually every scene, the camera doesn't leave them. Every inch of the territory they covered had to be meticulously planned, miles and miles. One key point was that during daylight hours filming, they always filmed while there were clouds in the sky, so on days clouds were absent, they had to wait for clouds. There are some continuous shots six minutes long. Looks like a must see film. Found it, not 12 minutes, 4 mins 24 seconds.

[stardustpilgrim]

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Jul 30, 2019 14:43:17 GMT -5 stardustpilgrim said:

Quentin Tarantino is an acquired habit. I didn't see his last three films. Once upon a Time...In Hollywood is advertised (blurb) as his masterpiece. I decided to take a chance on it after seeing previews. Just saw it. I was not disappointed. Leonardo DiCaprio is excellent, Brad Pitt is awesome (Leonardo is awesome in his own way). From previews you get that Leo is the actor, Brad is his stuntman, that's the difference is the awesomenesses). I can't say much about it, well, not much more than the previews (it takes place in 1969). I can't even say why I can't say anything (but don't go past the previews in finding anything out about the film, IOW, no spoilers allowed).

Two A awards so far...I predict more.

[stardustpilgrim]

Nov 2, 2019 10:36:54 GMT -5 zendancer said:

Saw "Parasite" yesterday, and loved the modern architecture and the cinematography. The story is fascinating, and toward the end an underlying existential theme became explicit. It has many unforeseen twists and turns, and nothing can be written about it to avoid spoliers.

Parasite was the big winner last night. Best Director, Best International film (new name, was Best Foreign language film), Best Picture and one other award.

[stardustpilgrim]

Concerning Parasite:

Nov 7, 2019 8:43:27 GMT -5 zendancer said:

Nov 5, 2019 19:38:52 GMT -5 stardustpilgrim said:

Saw it today, agree.

However, somewhat spoiler alert. Will say one thing. Writer/director is a somewhat Quentin Tarantino wan-na-be.

True. He takes class warfare rather literally. LOL. I read all of the movie reviews, but none of them seemed to pick up on why the young fellow was laughing in the hospital at everything the policeman asked him, nor did they follow up on what the guy's father had told him in the shelter, which seemed like a major point to me. The metaphor thing was rather explicit, but the other underlying stuff seemed equally interesting. JMO

[lolly]

'Enemy'

Deep.

[lolly]

'The Eyes of My Mother' is a dark and disturbing reflection on love, loss, loneliness and isolation.

[lolly]

"Under the Skin" is a unique alien invasion film that emphasizes down-to-Earth realism rather than special effects and technological fantasy. The movie explores sociopathy and the development of human empathy, kindness and cruelty, and lust and beauty - and its destruction

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Jun 15, 2020 4:27:59 GMT -5 lolly said:

"Under the Skin" is a unique alien invasion film that emphasizes down-to-Earth realism rather than special effects and technological fantasy. The movie explores sociopathy and the development of human empathy, kindness and cruelty, and lust and beauty - and its destruction

www.pluggedin.com/movie-reviews/under-the-skin/

"It’s the kind of project that hard-core film critics and jaded English Lit majors seem to love because they can assign nearly any meaning they want to what they’ve seen onscreen." ..

[stardustpilgrim]

I saw a most excellent film yesterday on cable. Never Look Away. It's a 2018 German film, which covers events from the '40's to the '70's. After WWII Kurt, a young painter, ends up in East Germany. I missed the first part, just finding it browsing. (I've checked up to Friday, to watch or tape to watch in full, but didn't see it listed again, which is unusual). Kurt is stifled in East Germany where he must paint only realism and toe the Communism line, so he and his young wife leave just before the wall is built and go into West Germany. Even coming in late I could not stop watching. Very rewarding. I started viewing just as Kurt had some type of epiphany, or even possibly a ND "experience", up in a tree.