What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

This movie didn't feature exciting scenes but the scenery was so beautiful. This film was an intriguing, heart wrenching pleasure to watch. It didn't hurt that the lead actor, Mahershala Ali looks so much like my late Uncle Freddie. He also has a very impressive bio. I knew he won an Oscar, but didn't know he won two, as well as other prestigious film awards, including an Emmy and British Academy of Film & Other Arts.

From Wiki: Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2019,[2] and in 2020, The New York Times ranked him among the 25 greatest actors of the 21st century.[3] I remember him from the early days of his career when he was in the 2004 Sci Fi series The 4400. It does my heart good to read that he's been so successful and revered.

 

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Watched the first half of "Around the World in 80 Days" last night, and will watch the second half this evening. Its one of those many 3 hour shows from the '50s that still look awfully good today. It's hard to realize this was put out 67 years ago, and is still so entertaining!
 

A Guy Ritchie movie on Prime. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. An action/comedy. Based on a real story, it was a light, exaggerated spin on it.
 
I've been checking older movie DVDs from my library. Just watched "The Horse Whisperer" with Robert Redford - hadn't seen it since its release in the late 90s. Who knew that the girl in it, Scarlett Johansson, would grow up to be a superstar?

Very enjoyable.
 
"La Ronde" (France 1950).
This is one of the films I enjoy tremendously and can watch over and over again. I own a DVD of it. A merry-go-round of love after a novel by the Austrian author Arthur Schnitzler.

Scenes in the book and the movie:
  1. The Whore and the Soldier
  2. The Soldier and the Parlor Maid
  3. The Parlor Maid and the Young Gentleman
  4. The Young Gentleman and the Young Wife
  5. The Young Wife and Her Husband
  6. The Husband and the Little Miss
  7. The Little Miss and the Poet
  8. The Poet and the Actress
  9. The Actress and the Count
  10. The Count and the Whore
The performance of the play on 23 December 1920 in Berlin and 1 February 1921 in Vienna caused a lot of turmoil.

La Ronde (play) - Wikipedia

Wikipedia to the plot of the movie:
"The master of ceremonies opens the proceedings by telling the audience that they will see various episodes in the endless waltz of love. Prompted by the MC, a prostitute picks up a soldier, and they go to a private spot under a bridge. The soldier picks up a chambermaid at a dance hall, and they find an empty bench in the park.

The chambermaid willingly succumbs to the son of her employers while his parents are away. The young man starts an affair with the young wife of an older businessman. The wife has a discussion in bed with her husband. The husband takes a young woman to a private dining room in a fancy restaurant and gets her drunk.

The young woman spends time alone with a poet in his apartment. The poet has a heated discussion with an actresses in her dressing room after a performance of his play, in which she is starring, about where they will spend the night.

The actress is visited in her bedroom by a count who saw her perform. Although she invites him to visit her again that evening, instead he gets drunk and ends up in the bed of the prostitute, completing the circle."
La Ronde (1950 film) - Wikipedia

Unfortunately YT has only some short clippings, for example this one with English subtitles:

 
I saw Anatomy of a Fall most recently. I don't get all the hype. It was OK; I'm not sorry I watched it. But I found it slow and, overall, pointless. Maybe I missed something. All the trailers were raving about it.
 
I've watched Doris Day & Rock Hudson Pillow Talk a few times in my life. So there is a 20 minute video that presents the Cliff Notes summary showing key scenes that I could appreciate.
 
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I've watched Doris Day & Rock Hudson Pillow Talk a few times in my life. So there is a 20 minute video that presents the Cliff Notes summary showing key scenes that I could appreciate.
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Me too! I think it's the best comedy of the '50s, and one of Day's greatest movies. They tried to milk the story line too many times in later pictures, but this one was perfect. The scene where Day realizes Hudson's ruse in his cabin, and its aftermath, is hilarious! The picture really put Tony Randall on the map.
 

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