What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

Paladin1950 said:
Paul Newman played a gay man? Man, that really went right over my head. Never suspected it for a second.
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I was jesting re Newman's Brick and homosexuality. I haven't read the novel. In the movie they fudged on the issue, and I'm sure that 99% of the audience never considered that Brick's dilemma was due to homosexuality. After all, he was married to Maggie (Taylor). Brick was a drunk, and his reason for not having intimate relations with her was because he was told by his deceased friend that he and Maggie had sex, although they hadn't. He also blamed himself for his friend's death.

It was a tawdry but well done film. And although the screenwriters surely enjoyed hinting at homosexuality --as many had done before them-- the public was not ready to hear about its existence.

In the end of the picture Brick and Maggie reconcile, and the implication is that they will be making a baby.
 

"The Long Ki ss Goodnight" 1996
with Gena Dais and Samuel L. Jackson.
Channel surfing..and when there's 'nothing else on'..???
 
A Face in the Crowd (1957), staring Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa, Walter Matthau, and Lee Remick, and I think I spotted Burl Ives in one scene. And directed by the great Elia Kazan!

Great movie about the "cult of personality."
 
Feelslikefar said:
Split Second - 1953

I admit I'm a Film Noir junky and trying to get around to as many as I can.
Daunting task; so many and so little time.

The movie itself was OK, decent acting and writing for the time.
Went ahead and downloaded it, added it to my collection.

On a side note: Wife and son not really into Film Noir, so not sure why I collect them.
I do go back and watch full or parts of my movies in the collection.

Ah, the search goes on...
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Since you and ChiroDoc are fans of the 'Film Noir' maybe you - and of course other members of this forum - could like this one. It's not exactly this genre, but a crime movie in black and white.

It's about a peddlar, "who has found the body of a little girl in the woods ... The villagers think the peddler was the murderer ... who, after a long hard interrogation, gets a confession. That night the peddler hangs himself in his cell. (Wikipedia).

But they are wrong. The Zurich police senior detective Matthäi (German actor Heinz Rühmann) is not convinced. The German actor Gert Fröbe plays the murderer. "Gert Fröbe's performance in this film prompted Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli to cast Fröbe as Auric Goldfinger in the James Bond film Goldfinger (1964)." (imdb.com).

It's a pivotal movie in German/Swiss film history. It's in German but you get English subtitles.

It Happened in Broad Daylight - Wikipedia

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051588/trivia/?ref_=tt_dyk_trv

"Es geschah am hellichten Tag" (It Happened in Broad Daylight), Switzerland, Germany 1958.

 
The Face of Anonymous (Feature Version)
2021 | 1h 27m

When Toronto novelist Ian Thornton gives a copy of his book to a mysterious panhandler, they forge an unusual connection. The man turns out to be legendary Anonymous hacktivist, Commander X, on the run from the FBI. Christopher Mark Doyon, aka Commander X, is one of the most iconic, divisive, and outspoken figures in the history of the international hacktivist network. Now living in exile in Mexico, he's ready to tell his own remarkable story. Feature version. Viewer discretion is advised.
https://www.tvo.org/video/documentaries/the-face-of-anonymous-feature-version

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13073848/
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The Music Of Chance. (1993)
Mandy Potinkin as Nashe
James Spader as Pozzi
M. Emmet Walsh
Joel Grey
Charles Durning

"Whilst traveling across America living off the money from a large inheritance, ex-fireman Nashe has a chance meeting with Pozzi, a professional gambler and card shark. Nashe agrees to fund the penniless Pozzi in a game of poker against two eccentric millionaires, Flower and Stone, in an attempt to regain some of his spent fortune. His gamble has unforeseen and bizarre consequences for both himself and Pozzi."

My impression...
Well acted but weird story that keeps you watching but has an unsatisfying ending unless I missed something. It's based on a book and IMDB says it remains true to.
 
Pepper said:
Not that there's anything wrong with it.............
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They lived together for several years- but the stories of all the women going in and out of their Malibu house makes me think they were just having a good time. They were life long friends. Jennifer- Grant’s Daughter-asked him why he didn’t just say what was going on. She said he smiled and replied that it was more fun letting people wonder. From all I’ve read- Cary was a dog and loved women- lots of them.
 
We’ve had bad weather here so I have stayed in and watched 2 great movies on Kanopy ( the library channel) I watched “ Farewell My Concubine” yesterday. It was excellent but very long at 3 hours.
Today I watched “Tokyo Story”… another excellent movie I’ve seen more than once.
 
MaidMarian said:
We’ve had bad weather here so I have stayed in and watched 2 great movies on Kanopy ( the library channel) I watched “ Farewell My Concubine” yesterday. It was excellent but very long at 3 hours.
Today I watched “Tokyo Story”… another excellent movie I’ve seen more than once.
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I use Kanopy, too! You can find some good movies and documentaries on it sometimes.
 
"Band of Brothers" series on Netflix.
"The Pacific" series on Netflix.
Both excellent.
(Executive Producers: Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks.)
 
George1959 said:
Since you and ChiroDoc are fans of the 'Film Noir' maybe you - and of course other members of this forum - could like this one. It's not exactly this genre, but a crime movie in black and white.
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It Happened in Broad Daylight - Wikipedia
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I haven't seen it, George. It does sound like a good crime thriller, but --from its description-- not particularly a noir. Will put it on my list...
 
GoneFishin said:
The Face of Anonymous (Feature Version)
2021 | 1h 27m

When Toronto novelist Ian Thornton gives a copy of his book to a mysterious panhandler, they forge an unusual connection. The man turns out to be legendary Anonymous hacktivist, Commander X, on the run from the FBI. Christopher Mark Doyon, aka Commander X, is one of the most iconic, divisive, and outspoken figures in the history of the international hacktivist network. Now living in exile in Mexico, he's ready to tell his own remarkable story. Feature version. Viewer discretion is advised.
https://www.tvo.org/video/documentaries/the-face-of-anonymous-feature-version
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I love a good documentary. Sometimes they can be more appealing to me than a decent film. And subjects to my taste are not as common. This sounds like a good one. 'Preciate the tip.
 
To Be Destroyed (2024) on Kanopy
TO BE DESTROYED follows author Dave Eggers as he meets with students and teachers in the Rapid City, SD school district where his novel, The Circle, was pulled from shelves along with works by Alison Bechdel, Stephen Chbosky, Bernardine Evaristo, and Imbolo Mbue. Through footage of heated school board meetings, community rallies and interviews with locals, we learn how these books were designated "to be destroyed."

Meh, it wasn't anything I didn't already know about from reading the news.
 
Last night re-watched (free on Youtube) 2003 $7m budget science fiction movie Alien Hunter with James Spader (Stargate SG-1). A movie I recall liking the movie after my first viewing.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327409/

Quite recommended for realistic science fiction fans with excellent dialogue, attractive women, and a fine ending. Enjoyed Spader in Stargate too. The movie was poorly titled likely by studio marketing bean counters as there is no alien hunting but rather two alien escape pods with a deadly pathogen inadvertantly landed on Earth, one in Antarctica buried under ice ala (the Thing) and one in 1947 New Mexico.
 
Yesterday I finally finished Train To Busan an Asian film (I watched English version) that my oldest grandson recommended. I think it was well done for a zombie flick. The father is very cute and his daughter was adorable...good little actress too IMO. I wouldn't mind watching it again after a few years have passed.


I just started watching this on Tubi. So it's actually the last movie I watched.

 
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Target Earth (1954).


There should be a version on YouTube. I watched it on a "quad feature" DVD of 1950s era films I picked up really cheap when Rite-Aid went out of business here.

Interesting to see the many ways times have changed. Today no businessman would claim to be from Newark, Philadelphia, Detroit, LA, etc. due to "flight" following the mid-60s riots that chased so much out to the suburbs.
 
Fishermen's Friends on Netflix. Based on a real group of Cornish fishermen.
I loved it.

Fisherman's Friends is a 2019 British comedy-drama film directed by Chris Foggin from a screenplay by Nick Moorcroft, Meg Leonard and Piers Ashworth.

The film was inspired by a true story about Fisherman's Friends, a group of Cornish fishermen from Port Isaac who were signed by Universal Records and achieved a top 10 hit with their debut album of traditional sea shanties.[2]

The film stars Daniel Mays, James Purefoy, David Hayman, Dave Johns, Sam Swainsbury, Tuppence Middleton, Noel Clarke, Christian Brassington, Maggie Steed and Jade Anouka.

https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=e543...W4ncyBGcmllbmRzIGlzIGEgMjAxOSBCcml0aXNo&ntb=1
 
dilettante said:
Target Earth (1954).


There should be a version on YouTube. I watched it on a "quad feature" DVD of 1950s era films I picked up really cheap when Rite-Aid went out of business here.

Interesting to see the many ways times have changed. Today no businessman would claim to be from Newark, Philadelphia, Detroit, LA, etc. due to "flight" following the mid-60s riots that chased so much out to the suburbs.
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I used to own this one VHS. I saw it as a child at the old Webster Theater in Rochester, NY, around 1955 or so. I liked it better as an adult. Although it didn't have much in the way of special effects. It was an interesting character study of a group of people trying survive an invasion. The lead female character wakes up after attempted suicide with an overdose of something. Richard Denning was the star I recall.
 

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