Films you've watched recently.

[The Big Dady]

Have now finished that box set but found a real unexpected gem that I had never heard of. PRIVATE INFORMATION (1952》 is about local government corruption involving a council house estate built with dodgy materials, faulty drainage etc by cowboy builders and council officials getting backhanders. A tenant exposes this and a typhoid epidemic breaks out as a result. Very unusual for a British b film to explore such themes, all wrapped up in 65 minutes. All very middle class characters of course and some twee dialogue but still a minor masterpiece in my opinion.

Just watched that, were the sub standard houses built by Martin Dawn by any chance?

 

[blues exile]

Just watched that, were the sub standard houses built by Martin Dawn by any chance?

Funny how something from 70 years ago still resonates today and that nothing has changed.

 

[BALDY]

Blues Exile and Big Dady.........Have you seen this? (I love it)

 

[BALDY]

"Private Information" was very good (I loved the cut glass accents)

 

[blues exile]

Blues Exile and Big Dady.........Have you seen this? (I love it)

Yes, it's top class early kitchen sink drama. Ted Willis screenplay, director J Lee Thompson and a fine cast. Made in 1957 and pre dates the so called British 'new wave'. Obviously superior to most of the B films I've been watching lately!

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Quite frankly I'm not interested in seeing feelgood films about the holocaust like The Boy in Striped Pyjamas.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Quite frankly I'm not interested in seeing feelgood films about the holocaust like The Boy in Striped Pyjamas.

I refused to watch Allo Allo for similar reasons.

 

[pottster]

Quite frankly I'm not interested in seeing feelgood films about the holocaust like The Boy in Striped Pyjamas.

It's not a feelgood film by any stretch of the imagination

 

[BALDY]

Pottster........I totally agree with you.

 

[blues exile]

Pottster........I totally agree with you.

Maybe there is some confusion with the Italian film LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL which has a concentratioh camp setting and is definitely a feelgood (horrible expression) film

 

[BALDY]

I have seen this at the cinema...The Counterfeiters (German: Die Fälscher) is a 2007 Austrian-German drama film written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky. It fictionalizes Operation Bernhard, a secret plan by Nazi Germany during World War II to destabilize the United Kingdom by flooding its economy with forged Bank of England pound notes.

 

[Mad Cyril]

I have seen this at the cinema...The Counterfeiters (German: Die Fälscher) is a 2007 Austrian-German drama film written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky. It fictionalizes Operation Bernhard, a secret plan by Nazi Germany during World War II to destabilize the United Kingdom by flooding its economy with forged Bank of England pound notes.

I thought that was pretty good.

 

[BALDY]

Mad Cyril.......Yes it was.

 

[shrimper61]

The bombardment on Netflix tells of a RAF bombing raid on Gestapo head quarters in Copenhagen during WW2.

Unfortunately some of the fighter bombers accidentally hit a school full of children with the tragic loss of life off about 30-50 children.
Very good watchable film, very moving and told me something i didn't know about this bombing raid as its quite a well told story..

 

[pottster]

I have seen this at the cinema...The Counterfeiters (German: Die Fälscher) is a 2007 Austrian-German drama film written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky. It fictionalizes Operation Bernhard, a secret plan by Nazi Germany during World War II to destabilize the United Kingdom by flooding its economy with forged Bank of England pound notes.

That was a good film!

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

It's not a feelgood film by any stretch of the imagination

"The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and others cited it as a book/film that should be avoided entirely, and recommendations were made that true accounts, and works from Jewish authors should be prioritised."

That's good enough for me.

 

[pottster]

"The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and others cited it as a book/film that should be avoided entirely, and recommendations were made that true accounts, and works from Jewish authors should be prioritised."

That's good enough for me.

Not sure why really. What did they say about armageddon with Bruce Willis? That's a really good film.

 

[C'mon you Shrimpers]

"The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and others cited it as a book/film that should be avoided entirely, and recommendations were made that true accounts, and works from Jewish authors should be prioritised."

That's good enough for me.

Do you remember the TV series called All our Yesterdays. I seem to remember it being on at about 6.30 when I was about 10. Really graphic newsreel of the war and the liberation of the concentration camps. Probably should be rerun.

 

[Mad Cyril]

"The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and others cited it as a book/film that should be avoided entirely, and recommendations were made that true accounts, and works from Jewish authors should be prioritised."

About 10% of those killed at Auschwitz were not Jewish.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

About 10% of those killed at Auschwitz were not Jewish.

Yeah as someone who's visited the site (and I'm not Jewish btw) I'm aware of its history.