What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

I finally got to see the other movie that I've been waiting forever to see! It's called "Paulie". It's old, I think it came out in 1998 or 1999.

It's a good family movie. I totally enjoyed it!
 
I needed a break from one show I'm watching on Netflix and decided to start watching Ripley. It's not a movie but a mini series based on the books. I never read any of the books but I did like Incredible Mr. Ripley. It is shot on location in Italy in black and white and has the feel of a movie from the 60's. It can get a little pretentious with the cinematography but not enough to be distracting.

The plot does take it's time to build up the tension so if you enjoy a fast paced action thriller then you probably will not enjoy this show. The best description I can think of the show is it's an art house TV show.
 
"A Little Chaos" (2014).

Directed by Alan Rickman. With Kate Winslet, Matthias Schoenaerts and Alan Rickman.

Alan Rickman as the French king Louis Louis XIV., who orders his landscape architect André Le Nôtre (Matthias Schoenaerts) to construct the Gardens of Versailles. Le Nôtre engages Sabine de Barra (Kate Winslet) for part of the work. In the end both fall in love with each other.

The role of Sabine de Barra is entirely ficticious, since no woman was among the constructors of the Gardens of Versailles.

I liked the movie nevertheless. Unfortunately I only could watch the German version of the movie. The original voice of Alan Rickman is much deeper and thus I'd have preferred the original version.
I also like the score by cellist Peter Gregson very much.

It's a story of the success of a brave woman (Sabine de Barra) in a world dominated by men, of jealousy (Le Nôtre's wife) and a man (Le Nôtre) who founds a new love.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2639254/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

A Little Chaos - Wikipedia


 
Vanity Fair - wot a british classic ! but hard to find on the net - I watched it on one of our aussie film channels - napoleonic war period - doesn't seem to come up easy on U-tube - it's there but wrong versions?? - several have been made - even going back to the 1930's I think with american actors? [everything in it intrigue; royalty ;romances ;flings ;deaths etc etc]
 
Michael Caine "King of Thieves" - very very inner London - if you don't understand cockney slang difficult to follow - think it was black and white - at least I was thinkin in b/w! - bank robbing - not one of his best imo - they all got caught in the end
 
I generally like horror movies, but am more of a werewolf than a vampire lover; I think that vampires have been overdone, but if searching for a horror movie, I’ll entertain a vampire movie if nothing else grabs me (so to speak). 🙀

Anyways, I must confess that I’ve never heard of a Dampyr, which to me sounds like a wet vampire. It turns out that a Dampyr is the offspring of a “Lord of the Night” (head vampire) breeding with a mortal woman. They’re lethal to and can kill vampires, plus have some cool side powers, like accelerated healing. If they or their blood contacts a vampire, the vampire kinda burns and dissolves, which makes for a neat special effect.

Dampyr (on Netflix) takes place in some kind of post-apocalyptic world, and features a “Dampyr” who initially doesn’t even know that he is one, but is drawn into conflict with a “Lord of the Night” that happens to be his biological father! He gets “schooled” by an intriguing blond female vampire who hates her overlord, and wants set free of them, and there are romantic undercurrents with the “Dampyr.”

It’s worth a look if you like horror, and can stand another vampire film that takes things in a different direction… 🧛‍♂️

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Yesterday finished Zone of Interest
"In 1943, the commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife, Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house right next to the concentration and extermination camp he helped create."

It was not easier to watch in the daytime. A wee bit pretentious, but I imagine it is getting harder to do an authentic holocaust movie the further we get from it...........

Horrifying in its simplicity, its matter of factness. I did scream at the screen on occasion.
 
I usually prefer dramas, the older the better, but I've pretty much watched all of those Tubi has to offer so on impulse the other evening I watched Jack Black on YouTube in, "The School of Rock," and laughed all the way through it. He has such a warm connection with the child actors and they were all just precious. Then YouTube popped up a reunion show for me with all the kids in their 20's now and you can see they all love him. Fun film.
 
"The Children's Hour" (1961).
Based on a play by Lillian Hellman from 1934.
"An angry student, Mary Tilford, runs away from the school and, to avoid being sent back, tells her grandmother that the two headmistresses, Karen and Martha, are having a lesbian affair. The accusation proceeds to destroy the women's careers, relationships, and lives." (from Wikipedia)

With Audrey Hepburn (Karen), Shirley MacLaine (Martha) and James Garner (Karen's fiancée Joe). Directed by William Wyler.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054743/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_6_nm_2_q_The%20Children's%20

The Children's Hour (film) - Wikipedia


This is only a part of the movie. The end is very sad. The lie of the girl is revealed, and Mrs. Tilford tells the judge, who will overturn the outcome of the lawsuit, publish the results in the newspaper, and a full financial settlement will be paid to the teachers. Karen tells Martha that they are still friends, and can work again.
But Karen and Martha come to this dialog in the end:

  • Martha: There's always been something wrong. Always, just as long as I can remember. But I never knew what it was until all this happened.
  • Karen: Stop it Martha! Stop this crazy talk!
  • Martha: You're afraid of hearing it, but I'm more afraid that you.
  • Karen: I won't listen to you!
  • Martha: No! You've got to know. I've got to tell you. I can't keep it to myself any longer. I'm guilty!
  • Karen: You're guilty of nothing!
  • Martha: I've been telling myself that since the night I heard the child say it. I lie in bed night after night praying that it isn't true. But I know about it now. It's there. I don't know how, I don't know why. But I did love you! I do love you! I resented your plans to marry. Maybe because I wanted you. Maybe I've wanted you all these years. I couldn't call it by name before, but maybe it's been there since I first knew you.
  • Karen: But it's not the truth, not a word of it is true! We've never thought of each other that way.
  • Martha: No, of course you didn't. But who's to say I didn't. I'd never felt that way about anybody before you. I've never loved a man. I never knew why before, maybe it's that.
  • Karen: You're tired and worn out.
  • Martha: It's funny. It's all mixed up. There's something in you, and you don't know anything about it because you don't know it's there. And then suddenly, one night a little girl gets bored and tells a lie, and there, for the first time, you see it. Then you say to yourself, did she see it? Did she sense it?
  • Karen: But you know it could have been any lie. She was looking for anything to...
  • Martha: But why this lie? She found the lie with the ounce of truth. Don't you see? I can't stand to have you touch me! I can't stand to have you look at me! Oh, it's all my fault. I have ruined your life and I have ruined my own. I swear I didn't know it! I didn't mean it! Oh, I feel so damn sick and dirty I can't stand it anymore!
(from the quotes section of imdb.com)

In the end it is revealed that for Martha (played by Shirley MacLaine) the relationship with Karen was more than friendship, it was in fact a lesbian love affair. Karen never didn't notice it as that. Martha feels guilty and hangs herself in her room. Karen attends Martha's funeral and walks away with her head held high as her former fiancée Joe, Mrs. Tilford, and several other townspeople watch her.

If you have access to this URL you can watch the whole movie.

The Children's Hour (la calumnia) 1961 vos
 
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All the Light You Can Not See - 2023 Series on Netflix

I have watched a lot of films about the French Resistance and enjoyed this one also.
Like the film based on Marcel Marceau role in the 2020 movie 'Resistance', many found flaws.

Yes, the book by Anthony Doerr is brilliant, but there are so many movies adapted from books that miss
the mark.

Doesn't mean they are bad movies, just how 'they' wanted to bring it to the screen.
 
Unfrosted. Jerry Seinfeld’s movie on Netflix. It’s has both good and bad reviews. Jerry is 70 and we seniors would recognize lots of the innuendos that youth wouldn’t. I loved it. I might even watch it again for the things I missed.
 
George1959 said:
"The Children's Hour" (1961).
Based on a play by Lillian Hellman from 1934.
"An angry student, Mary Tilford, runs away from the school and, to avoid being sent back, tells her grandmother that the two headmistresses, Karen and Martha, are having a lesbian affair. The accusation proceeds to destroy the women's careers, relationships, and lives." (from Wikipedia)

With Audrey Hepburn (Karen), Shirley MacLaine (Martha) and James Garner (Karen's fiancée Joe). Directed by William Wyler.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054743/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_6_nm_2_q_The%20Children's%20

The Children's Hour (film) - Wikipedia


This is only a part of the movie. The end is very sad. The lie of the girl is revealed, and Mrs. Tilford tells the judge, who will overturn the outcome of the lawsuit, publish the results in the newspaper, and a full financial settlement will be paid to the teachers. Karen tells Martha that they are still friends, and can work again.
But Karen and Martha come to this dialog in the end:

  • Martha: There's always been something wrong. Always, just as long as I can remember. But I never knew what it was until all this happened.
  • Karen: Stop it Martha! Stop this crazy talk!
  • Martha: You're afraid of hearing it, but I'm more afraid that you.
  • Karen: I won't listen to you!
  • Martha: No! You've got to know. I've got to tell you. I can't keep it to myself any longer. I'm guilty!
  • Karen: You're guilty of nothing!
  • Martha: I've been telling myself that since the night I heard the child say it. I lie in bed night after night praying that it isn't true. But I know about it now. It's there. I don't know how, I don't know why. But I did love you! I do love you! I resented your plans to marry. Maybe because I wanted you. Maybe I've wanted you all these years. I couldn't call it by name before, but maybe it's been there since I first knew you.
  • Karen: But it's not the truth, not a word of it is true! We've never thought of each other that way.
  • Martha: No, of course you didn't. But who's to say I didn't. I'd never felt that way about anybody before you. I've never loved a man. I never knew why before, maybe it's that.
  • Karen: You're tired and worn out.
  • Martha: It's funny. It's all mixed up. There's something in you, and you don't know anything about it because you don't know it's there. And then suddenly, one night a little girl gets bored and tells a lie, and there, for the first time, you see it. Then you say to yourself, did she see it? Did she sense it?
  • Karen: But you know it could have been any lie. She was looking for anything to...
  • Martha: But why this lie? She found the lie with the ounce of truth. Don't you see? I can't stand to have you touch me! I can't stand to have you look at me! Oh, it's all my fault. I have ruined your life and I have ruined my own. I swear I didn't know it! I didn't mean it! Oh, I feel so damn sick and dirty I can't stand it anymore!
(from the quotes section of imdb.com)

In the end it is revealed that for Martha (played by Shirley MacLaine) the relationship with Karen was more than friendship, it was in fact a lesbian love affair. Karen never didn't notice it as that. Martha feels guilty and hangs herself in her room. Karen attends Martha's funeral and walks away with her head held high as her former fiancée Joe, Mrs. Tilford, and several other townspeople watch her.

If you have access to this URL you can watch the whole movie.

The Children's Hour (la calumnia) 1961 vos
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sounds 'orrible!!!
 
To begin with, the six-astronaut crew of Europa One is dead, and you uncover their tragic yet significant story in found footage that makes its way back to Earth in the movie, Europa Report.

The small budget, indie movie is realistic and believable science fiction set in the near future when an international team of astronauts arrives at Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons scientists think might harbor life within a frozen sea. Lots of things go wrong, and one by one the crew perishes, but not before discovering an intelligent, tentacled bioluminescent creature that you are allowed to glimpse briefly.

There are no whiz-bang special effects, and the movie moves slowly at times, but it’s not a bad and believable low-key movie for the science fiction aficionado. I don’t regret seeing this Netflix film…

 
The County
The County tells the story of a middle-aged widow in rural Iceland who must stand on her own two feet.After Inga (Arndís Hrönn Egilsdóttir) loses her dairy farmer husband in an accident, she must find a way to become self-sufficient. She decides to start a new life on her own terms and rises up against corruption and injustice in her community.
 

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