Films you've watched recently.

[southendkid]

Great news

All Quiet on the Western Front has won the Oscar for best international feature film (+ 3 others) at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles.

The top film does not appeal to me.

It wasn't my favourite film of the year (that would be Banshees of Inisherin) but I still had a good time with EEAAO.

 

[Napster]

I've yet to see it but from from what I've read the performance from Brendan Fraser is Oscar worthy alone.

and that's why he won.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Great news

All Quiet on the Western Front has won the Oscar for best international feature film (+ 3 others) at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles.

The top film does not appeal to me.

I'll be going to see the film which won in the best male Oscar category on Wed. (booked my ticket before the ceremony).

 

[Mad Cyril]

I'll be going to see the film which won in the best male Oscar category on Wed. (booked my ticket before the ceremony).

I was into Brendon Fraser films before he got commercial.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

I was into Brendon Fraser films before he got commercial.

Never heard of him before The Whale .

 

[Napster]

I was into Brendon Fraser films before he got commercial.

Encino Man is superb.

 

[BALDY]

Southendkid "It wasn't my favourite film of the year (that would be Banshees of Inisherin) but I still had a good"

"Banshees" was a super film.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Great news

All Quiet on the Western Front has won the Oscar for best international feature film (+ 3 others) at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles.

The top film does not appeal to me.

I'm sure it's a better film than The Quiet Girl but I'd prefer to see it at the cinema.

 

[BALDY]

Tangled...A few London cinemas are showing "All Quiet" now and hopefully it will be shown for longer + showings in other countries.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Tangled...A few London cinemas are showing "All Quiet" now and hopefully it will be shown for longer + showings in other countries.

Not planning to be in London again until the end of April.I can assure you that it hasn't (so far) had a Spanish (or French) cinema release.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Not planning to be in London again until the end of April.

Thanks for the heads up.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Thanks for the heads up.

I'll be over for our last home game -against the Stones.Already got tickets!

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Saw The Whale earier.No question that it's a difficult film but I thought the charcater portrayed by BF came out of it a lot better than his teenage daugher or alcholic ex-wife.

Glsad I'm not morbidly obese.

 

[ESG]

Lock Down with Ann Hatherway. Started off ok but went down hill fast and too long

 

[Mad Cyril]

Lock Down with Ann Hatherway. Started off ok but went down hill fast and too long

Ski Sunday has gone the same way fro me.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just seen a trailer for the Sam Mendes film The Empire of Light (which opens here in late March).Looks good.

 

[BALDY]

Just seen a trailer for the Sam Mendes film The Empire of Light (which opens here in late March).Looks good.

I enjoyed it.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Finally watched the Elvis film over the weekend, wow, what a performance from Austin Butler, and what an incredibly sad story it all was. You kind of forget that Elvis was only 42 when he died, I still remember it so clearly.

Good to see Tom Hanks in a role where you don't have any empathy for him as well, Parker was vile!

 

[RHB]

Finally watched the Elvis film over the weekend, wow, what a performance from Austin Butler, and what an incredibly sad story it all was. You kind of forget that Elvis was only 42 when he died, I still remember it so clearly.

Good to see Tom Hanks in a role where you don't have any empathy for him as well, Parker was vile!

The very last frames of the film were the ones that really got to us, when Elvis (the real one) was sat at a piano singing and playing and being helped to do it looking in an appalling condition.

 

[united we stand]

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

It’s

"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.

its certainly not a feel good film. I totally understand why it’s not recommended, as “the man in the street “ may think that some of the main themes happened ( German children being 100% unaware of any anti Jewish behaviour, let alone concentration camps and wider implications that the average German had no idea at all on what was going on).

But if you know the subject material, which clearly you do then you can watch it as a “fictional “story and enjoy it.