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Post by urbino on Jun 25, 2024 20:29:28 GMT -5
I watched Fritz Lang’s Siegfried tonight, a favorite I hadn’t seen in some time. I don’t enjoy the phony dragon so much, but there is a building dread that picks up in the Brunhild scene, around the 50 minute mark on the video linked herein. Inns of Court in a Dunhill pot accompanied. I’m trying to muster the fortitude to watch Kriemhild’s Revenge, but that might have to wait for a damp night this fall. I need to listen to the opera, again. Been a while.
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Post by NJDan on Jun 25, 2024 20:39:13 GMT -5
Wagner’s Ring is a bit different from Lang’s movies, but both are amazing. I remember seeing the scene of Siegfried’s death from this film on PBS back when I was a youngster in the early 70’s, and it stuck with me. A rarity to view back then, now freely available on YouTube. Things to be thankful for!
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Post by toshtego on Jun 26, 2024 10:48:48 GMT -5
Started a British film, "The Sound Barrier", 1951. David Lean wrote and Directed. Great cast of notable English actors. Nigel Patrick, Ralph Richardson, A young Denholm Elliot among others. It is a story of jet engine development for aircraft. Also starring several early Brit jet planes. That is fun to watch. They made beautiful airplanes.
Available on the BFI (British Film Institute), a sub channel of Prime Video.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 26, 2024 11:01:19 GMT -5
Wagner’s Ring is a bit different from Lang’s movies, but both are amazing. I remember seeing the scene of Siegfried’s death from this film on PBS back when I was a youngster in the early 70’s, and it stuck with me. A rarity to view back then, now freely available on YouTube. Things to be thankful for! My favorite part is when the helicopters start firing the napalm.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 26, 2024 14:16:04 GMT -5
Honestly, I have never listened to the entire ring cycle music. I like parts, but I find it tiring. I didn't know there was a movie of it, but I think it would have the same problem. I understand that the whole thing is 9 hours.
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Post by NJDan on Jun 27, 2024 19:45:15 GMT -5
Honestly, I have never listened to the entire ring cycle music. I like parts, but I find it tiring. I didn't know there was a movie of it, but I think it would have the same problem. I understand that the whole thing is 9 hours. Me neither. The Lang films hew closer to the old epic Poems. It’s a window into a strange world, where heroes are murdered for the sake of loyalty, and kingdoms fall to the same.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 27, 2024 21:32:10 GMT -5
We saw The Flying Dutchman at the Houston Grand Opera years ago. Took my 85 year old mom. It exhausted my wife and I. Not sure what Mom thought about it. She was of course nice about it. I prefer Italian opera. Wagner is too much in large doses.
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Post by toshtego on Jun 28, 2024 11:08:51 GMT -5
We saw The Flying Dutchman at the Houston Grand Opera years ago. Took my 85 year old mom. It exhausted my wife and I. Not sure what Mom thought about it. She was of course nice about it. I prefer Italian opera. Wagner is too much in large doses. You are not the only one.
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Post by toshtego on Jun 29, 2024 10:24:08 GMT -5
Watched the Korda brothers great movie "The Four Feathers", 1939, for the umpteenth time. Such a great movie. IF you have not seen it, you really must watch.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 29, 2024 10:37:33 GMT -5
Watched the Korda brothers great movie "The Four Feathers", 1939, for the umpteenth time. Such a great movie. IF you have not seen it, you really must watch. Iove that movie. Where did you find it? 1939 is always going to be the greatest year ever for movies.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 29, 2024 14:45:40 GMT -5
The Grapes of Wrath, 1940. Great to get pissed off on a Saturday.
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Post by relight on Jun 29, 2024 19:49:51 GMT -5
Fixin to watch Fancy Dance.
Lily Gladstone has been on a heater of good movies.
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Post by toshtego on Jun 30, 2024 1:37:17 GMT -5
Watched the Korda brothers great movie "The Four Feathers", 1939, for the umpteenth time. Such a great movie. IF you have not seen it, you really must watch. Iove that movie. Where did you find it? 1939 is always going to be the greatest year ever for movies. Amazon Prime.
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Post by toshtego on Jun 30, 2024 1:40:09 GMT -5
The Grapes of Wrath, 1940. Great to get pissed off on a Saturday. One of my favorites. First watched it as a young man and immediately identified with Tom Joad. Watched it again many years later and picked up on some of Pa Joad's lines which I used in life. Nowadays, I feel more like Grand Pa Joad. "I small spareribs. How come I ain't got any!?!" A movie which carried me through life.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 30, 2024 15:36:29 GMT -5
Watched Rio Grande with John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. Pretty good film, but the entire musical score, even during the Indian fights was variations on "I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen", which got old towards the end.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 30, 2024 15:38:02 GMT -5
Watching Goodbye My Lady, about a boy who finds a Basenji dog in the swamps of Mississippi. Walter Brennan and the kid from Shane.
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Post by relight on Jul 1, 2024 11:02:25 GMT -5
Finished up Season 3 of The Bear.
Great show.
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Post by toshtego on Jul 1, 2024 14:07:07 GMT -5
Watched Rio Grande with John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. Pretty good film, but the entire musical score, even during the Indian fights was variations on "I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen", which got old towards the end. Fun movie. Love Victor M. In this one. "...and here's the black hand that did the dirty deed!". I use that line sometimes.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jul 1, 2024 16:42:15 GMT -5
Watched Rio Grande with John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. Pretty good film, but the entire musical score, even during the Indian fights was variations on "I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen", which got old towards the end. Fun movie. Love Victor M. In this one. "...and here's the black hand that did the dirty deed!". I use that line sometimes. All he did was burn Maureen O'Hara'S house down.
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Post by urbino on Jul 1, 2024 18:00:34 GMT -5
Finished up Season 3 of The Bear. Great show. I've heard good things.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jul 1, 2024 18:09:58 GMT -5
Finished up Season 3 of The Bear. Great show. I've heard good things. We tried to watch it, but there was too much family arguing and strife. I think it's something that more Yankees would find acceptable.
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Post by relight on Jul 1, 2024 18:11:36 GMT -5
Finished up Season 3 of The Bear. Great show. I've heard good things. I think it's a great use of TV as a medium. Top notch writing, acting and production. But of course, as is alway the case with art, tastes vary.
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Post by urbino on Jul 1, 2024 18:11:46 GMT -5
We tried to watch it, but there was too much family arguing and strife. I think it's something that more Yankees would find acceptable. I don't know anything about it, except it's set in a restaurant. I've just heard people praise it -- especially an episode called "Forks" and one called "Napkins".
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Post by Ronv69 on Jul 1, 2024 18:14:25 GMT -5
We tried to watch it, but there was too much family arguing and strife. I think it's something that more Yankees would find acceptable. I don't know anything about it, except it's set in a restaurant. I've just heard people praise it -- especially an episode called "Forks" and one called "Napkins". If you have the service it's free so why not check it out. The critics love it, it just wasn't for us.
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Post by urbino on Jul 1, 2024 18:17:28 GMT -5
I don't know anything about it, except it's set in a restaurant. I've just heard people praise it -- especially an episode called "Forks" and one called "Napkins". If you have the service it's free so why not check it out. The critics love it, it just wasn't for us. I just don't ever watch tv -- or "tv". I rarely even watch a movie, anymore. Just kinda lost interest in all of it over the years. Other things I'd rather spend my time on, etc.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jul 1, 2024 19:52:46 GMT -5
If you have the service it's free so why not check it out. The critics love it, it just wasn't for us. I just don't ever watch tv -- or "tv". I rarely even watch a movie, anymore. Just kinda lost interest in all of it over the years. Other things I'd rather spend my time on, etc. I hear you. If my wife wasn't addicted I probably wouldn't watch it either.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Jul 2, 2024 7:32:41 GMT -5
Same here Ron, I’m a reader, wife not so much, it’s done gotten lies are facts and facts are lies.
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Post by toshtego on Jul 2, 2024 10:51:17 GMT -5
Watched the remake of "The Day the Earth Stood Still". While it was well done and interesting, I much prefer the original. It was nice to see John Cleese in the role of Professor Bernhard,
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Post by Ronv69 on Jul 4, 2024 22:41:18 GMT -5
Watched the Beekeeper last night. Crazy over the top more than John Wick but cheaper. Still fun though.
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Post by bigwoolie on Jul 5, 2024 13:18:31 GMT -5
I have watched only one movie in probably the last two years. I only watched that one because my wife really wanted to watch it with me on our anniversary. It was something called Peanut Butter Falcon.
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