Shall we recommend a movie to watch?
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Marie5656
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If you are interested in true events, this is not really a movie, but a 20/20 eppisode. Almost 2 hours in length. It is about the tragic bonfire collapse at Texas A & M in the late 90s. It was a tradition there to have students design, and build a large bonfire. In this event, while building the pile, it collapsed. Some students were trapped in side. I ennjoyed how tactfully it was covered, including interviews with survivors, and families of victims.
Bretrick
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Man Of Aran 1934
Fictional documentary film about life on the Aran Islands off the western coast of Ireland.
It portrays characters living in premodern conditions, documenting their daily routines such as fishing off high cliffs, farming potatoes where there is little soil and hunting for huge basking sharks to get liver oil for lamps.
Fascinating Movie
Fictional documentary film about life on the Aran Islands off the western coast of Ireland.
It portrays characters living in premodern conditions, documenting their daily routines such as fishing off high cliffs, farming potatoes where there is little soil and hunting for huge basking sharks to get liver oil for lamps.
Fascinating Movie
Bretrick
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The Importance of Being Earnest is a 1952 British film adaptation of the 1895 play by Oscar Wilde.
The film is largely faithful to Wilde's text.
Edith Evans's outraged delivery of the line "A handbag?" has become legendary.
As actor Ian McKellan has written, it is a performance "so acclaimed and strongly remembered that it inhibits audiences and actors years later", providing a challenge for anyone else taking on the role of Lady Bracknell.
Watching movies of this genre engenders only positive feelings.
The film is largely faithful to Wilde's text.
Edith Evans's outraged delivery of the line "A handbag?" has become legendary.
As actor Ian McKellan has written, it is a performance "so acclaimed and strongly remembered that it inhibits audiences and actors years later", providing a challenge for anyone else taking on the role of Lady Bracknell.
Watching movies of this genre engenders only positive feelings.
The Importance of Being Earnest 1952
Being the Ricardos is a film available on Amazon Prime that detains a week in the lives of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in 1953 which focuses on the couple’s private and professional lives as they struggle to produce an episode of their grounds breaking CBS comedy. Nicole Kidman is amazing as Lucy, even performing with facial prosthetics to resemble her. Xavier Bardem looks nothing like Arnaz but conveys his personality well. The undercurrents of the infamous “Red Scare” of the 50’s and the troubled Ball/Arnaz relationship are front and center here; this film is definitely not a comedy about a classic comedy. Worthwhile viewing although not what I expected, and I could have done without the liberal use of the “F-bomb” throughout, and the gratuitous sex scenes between Ball and Arnaz. There are good, nuanced supporting portrayals of the William Frawley and Vivian Vance characters…
Bretrick
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How Green Was My Valley 1941
One of the really great classics.
Starring
Walter Pidgeon
Maureen O'Hara
Donald Crisp
Master Roddy Mcdowall
Won 5 Academy Awards.
The movie tells of the Morgans, a hard-working Welsh mining family living in the heart of the South Wales Valleys during the 19th century.
The story chronicles life in the South Wales coalfields, the loss of that way of life and its effects on the family.
Incredible insight into hard life of the miners and the Women folk who stood by their men.
In 1990, the movie was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry of the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
One of the really great classics.
Starring
Walter Pidgeon
Maureen O'Hara
Donald Crisp
Master Roddy Mcdowall
Won 5 Academy Awards.
The movie tells of the Morgans, a hard-working Welsh mining family living in the heart of the South Wales Valleys during the 19th century.
The story chronicles life in the South Wales coalfields, the loss of that way of life and its effects on the family.
Incredible insight into hard life of the miners and the Women folk who stood by their men.
In 1990, the movie was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry of the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Bretrick
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Alone in Berlin
Based on a true story
In 1940, German soldier Hans Quangel (Louis Hofmann) is killed in action during the French campaign.
His parents, Otto (Brendan Gleeson) and Anna (Dame Emma Thompson), are devastated by the loss and their bereavement is unmollified by the joyful hysteria at Germany's victory.
Deciding that Führer Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime are responsible for this tragedy and much more, Otto cannot stand by any longer.
As such, Otto begins to create handwritten cards denouncing the regime's abuses and lies, which he secretly deposits throughout Berlin while a disillusioned Anna insists on helping him.
As the subversive cards pile up over the years, Police Detective Escherich (Daniel Brühl) is tasked to track down the leafleteer while being pressured by his increasingly impatient S.S. superior for an arrest for this "treason", regardless of actual guilt.
As the stakes rise even as Nazi Germany's day of reckoning approaches, Otto and Anna are determined to spread the truth regardless of the odds, even as their opposition awaits the fatal mistake that could doom them.
Based on a true story
In 1940, German soldier Hans Quangel (Louis Hofmann) is killed in action during the French campaign.
His parents, Otto (Brendan Gleeson) and Anna (Dame Emma Thompson), are devastated by the loss and their bereavement is unmollified by the joyful hysteria at Germany's victory.
Deciding that Führer Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime are responsible for this tragedy and much more, Otto cannot stand by any longer.
As such, Otto begins to create handwritten cards denouncing the regime's abuses and lies, which he secretly deposits throughout Berlin while a disillusioned Anna insists on helping him.
As the subversive cards pile up over the years, Police Detective Escherich (Daniel Brühl) is tasked to track down the leafleteer while being pressured by his increasingly impatient S.S. superior for an arrest for this "treason", regardless of actual guilt.
As the stakes rise even as Nazi Germany's day of reckoning approaches, Otto and Anna are determined to spread the truth regardless of the odds, even as their opposition awaits the fatal mistake that could doom them.
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I am watching DMZ on HBO/MAX
I recommend you watch it.
I recommend you watch it.
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The winner of the 2022 Best Picture Award at the Academy Awards. It centers around the life of a deaf family whose youngest daughter is the only one that can hear. The father and son work on a fishing boat and need the assistance of the youngest daughter as an interpreter and to answer any calls while on the boat. The youngest daughter can also sing and has a passion for it and with the help of her choir teacher she works towards getting in Berklee College of Music. This makes it difficult for the family to work the business and for her to keep the schedule she needs to practice with the music teacher. That is as far as I am going into it. The story will make you laugh, cry, and anything in between. The story is close to my heart as I am deaf as many of you already know, but that doesn't take away from it being a fantastic movie and it should be seen.
It is currently streaming on Apple TV.
The winner of the 2022 Best Picture Award at the Academy Awards. It centers around the life of a deaf family whose youngest daughter is the only one that can hear. The father and son work on a fishing boat and need the assistance of the youngest daughter as an interpreter and to answer any calls while on the boat. The youngest daughter can also sing and has a passion for it and with the help of her choir teacher she works towards getting in Berklee College of Music. This makes it difficult for the family to work the business and for her to keep the schedule she needs to practice with the music teacher. That is as far as I am going into it. The story will make you laugh, cry, and anything in between. The story is close to my heart as I am deaf as many of you already know, but that doesn't take away from it being a fantastic movie and it should be seen.
It is currently streaming on Apple TV.
Timewise 60+
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Yep, I am a WWII buff read and watch all I can about the war. I recall seeing this movie and this is especially good as Lee Marvin was a U. S. Marine who actually served in the Pacific fighting Japanese. His acting was top notch, and his anger and frustration was real...
Murrmurr
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And Mifune served in the Japanese air force with the Aerial Photography unit because he was a professional photographer, and then the Japanese Self-Defense Forces, where he learned martial arts. Mifune and Marvin are among my favorite actors and they were both at their well-seasoned professional prime in this movie.
Timewise 60+
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The original 'How the West Was Won' a 1962 epic movie shot for in Cinamax (curved screen) but is now shown on TV or whatever just fine.
It is a movie about the great migration into the great west, they show the dangerous river crossings, traveling across the great plains, the expansion by the railroads, outlaws, Indians and even part of the civil war. The movie has a long list of great actors, e.g., Henry Fonda, Gregory Peck, Debbie Reynolds, John Wayne, Spencer Tracy, etc. etc. etc. Then to top it all off it as an absolutely great soundtrack.
If you have not seen it, You have to see it! If you have seen it but it has been a while, treat yourself and look it up....it will make you happy!
It is a movie about the great migration into the great west, they show the dangerous river crossings, traveling across the great plains, the expansion by the railroads, outlaws, Indians and even part of the civil war. The movie has a long list of great actors, e.g., Henry Fonda, Gregory Peck, Debbie Reynolds, John Wayne, Spencer Tracy, etc. etc. etc. Then to top it all off it as an absolutely great soundtrack.
If you have not seen it, You have to see it! If you have seen it but it has been a while, treat yourself and look it up....it will make you happy!
Bretrick
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All about Eve 1950
Aspiring actress Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter) maneuvers her way into the lives of Broadway star Margo Channing, (Bette Davis) playwright Lloyd Richards, (Hugh Marlowe) and director Bill Simpson.
This classic story of ambition and betrayal has become part of American folklore. Bette Davis claims to have based her character on the persona of film actress Tallulah Bankhead.
Davis' line "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night" is legendary, but all of the film's dialogue sparkles with equal brilliance.
Marilyn Monroe plays a small role.
I enjoyed this movie immensely.
Aspiring actress Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter) maneuvers her way into the lives of Broadway star Margo Channing, (Bette Davis) playwright Lloyd Richards, (Hugh Marlowe) and director Bill Simpson.
This classic story of ambition and betrayal has become part of American folklore. Bette Davis claims to have based her character on the persona of film actress Tallulah Bankhead.
Davis' line "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night" is legendary, but all of the film's dialogue sparkles with equal brilliance.
Marilyn Monroe plays a small role.
I enjoyed this movie immensely.
