Films you've watched recently.

[Tangled up in Blue]

Saw Platoon again yesterday.This remains my favourite Nam film I think.I know others will prefer more arty films by the likes of Coppola,Cimino,Kubrick ,Malick et al.But Platoon has the advantage of being directed and written by some one who actually served.It gives a "grunt's" eye view of the war, which the others just don't,IMO.

 

[united we stand]

Saw Platoon again yesterday.This remains my favourite Nam film I think.I know others will prefer more arty films by the likes of Coppola,Cimino,Kubrick ,Malick et al.But Platoon has the advantage of being directed and written by some one who actually served.It gives a "grunt's" eye view of the war, which the others just don't,IMO.

Off subject, (Vietnam book not film) but I know you like books as well, have you read Chickenhawk?

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Off subject, (Vietnam book not film) but I know you like books as well, have you read Chickenhawk?

No but the title sounds vaguely familiar.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Saw Brooklyn again last night.Not my choice but an excellent film nonetheless.

(Didn't know Colm Toibin while he was working in Barna, though an Irish mate was a colleague at the Dublin School,Did see him give a very strange keynote address at a teachers' conference here back in the day).

Think he's certainly found his vocation as a novelist though).


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[Tangled up in Blue]

Saw Karel Reisz's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning again yesterday.One of the great British films.

 

[BrettieAngell]

I haven't watched many films the last few weeks tbh but the other day I watched Being John Malkovich again and I've got Burn after Reading and Four Rooms lined up.

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

I haven't watched many films the last few weeks tbh but the other day I watched Being John Malkovich again and I've got Burn after Reading and Four Rooms lined up.

And was it any good in your opinion?

 

[Ricey]

I haven't watched many films the last few weeks tbh but the other day I watched Being John Malkovich again and I've got Burn after Reading and Four Rooms lined up.

Burn after Reading is one of the worst films I’ve ever watched. I wouldn’t bother!

 

[Floval Flyer]

Or Cape Fear watched it last week Niro is superb

Hard to comprehend that he (De Niro) is the same actor who ended up playing Dirty Grandpa

other acting masterclass De Niro classics are;

Taxi Driver
Mean Streets
Goodfellas
The Untouchables
Raging Bull

 

[Mad Cyril]

Hard to comprehend that he (De Niro) is the same actor who ended up playing Dirty Grandpa

other acting masterclass De Niro classics are;

Taxi Driver
Mean Streets
Goodfellas
The Untouchables
Raging Bull

The king of comedy.

 

[Leigh_Seasider]

Hard to comprehend that he (De Niro) is the same actor who ended up playing Dirty Grandpa

other acting masterclass De Niro classics are;

Taxi Driver
Mean Streets
Goodfellas
The Untouchables
Raging Bull

Raging Bull is one of my favourite films of all time. I'd add Heat, Casino and another less mentioned Scorsese, the King of Comedy - for anyone who hasn't seen that it's a great satire/social commentary that the acclaimed director himself is said to rate as De Niro's best acting performance.
Never mind Dirty Grandpa what about those Kia car adverts...does he really need the cash that much??

 

[MK Shrimper]

Brazil
Midnight Run
Jackie Brown

 

[Supershrimper]

Watched a very good film called I, Daniel Blake. Would recommend it to anyone

 

[Prawn]

Just watched The Blues Brothers, never get tired of watching that.

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

Hard to comprehend that he (De Niro) is the same actor who ended up playing Dirty Grandpa

other acting masterclass De Niro classics are;

Taxi Driver
Mean Streets
Goodfellas
The Untouchables
Raging Bull

He had a major secondary role in Sleepers which was on at the weekend, he is quality in the right role.
Sleepers is an okay watch, Brad Pitt stars and Kevin Bacon gets killed as the baddie.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

on a 60's kick atm.Saw The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner again last night.Superb.

 

[Napster]

He had a major secondary role in Sleepers which was on at the weekend, he is quality in the right role.
Sleepers is an okay watch, Brad Pitt stars and Kevin Bacon gets killed as the baddie.

The book's better but the author claims it was real but it wasnt.

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

The book's better but the author claims it was real but it wasnt.

It had a slight Shawshank Redemption feel to it imo, same producer?
Or maybe it was the spoken narrative way of adding to the pictorial story?

 

[Cultist of Sooty]

I watched I Kill Giants. It's good though, given that it deals with fear, delusion, and bereavement, it might have been a bit heavier than I wanted with the world the way it is right now. I might need to watch something fluffy where nothing sad happens.

 

[maninasuitcase]

We are doing film night on Saturday 8pm sharp.

Last Saturday it was First Man. A very decent film about Neil Armstrong starring Ryan Gosling. My only quibble was that a lot of it was shot on handheld cameras, and I am not a huge fan of that technique.

The previous Saturday we watched The Old Man and the Gun. Again, based on the exploits of a real person, the US bank robber Forest Tucker. This film stars Robert Redford in what he has said is his last ever acting role. It is quite a simple story, but it is well acted and told.

Next Saturday we watching the 80s film The Long Riders. Another film loosely based in real events, this time the James-Younger gang who robbed banks and trains in the Midwest after the end of the American Civil.

What I quite like about this film among other things is the clever casting which I understand was the idea of James Keach. You have James and Stacey Keach as the James brothers. David, Keith and Robert Carradine play the Youngers. Denis and Randy Quaid are the Millers, and Nicholas and Christopher Guest are the Ford brothers. A bit violent, it was given 18 certificate on its release.
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