The film club.

[Pammy]

Here is a chance to share what film you last saw and discuss..

[cogito]

Here is a chance to share what film you last saw and discuss..

Cinema, TV, DVD or online... ?

[Pammy]

Cinema, TV, DVD or online... ?

All and Netflix..... I have just finished watchin "Hysteria"......I really enjoyed it....and laughed a lot.....anyone see it...

[silver spoon]

Pammy very apt you chose Hysteria..sorts of suits ya..hee..hee.

I've been watching a lot of great movies lately...The Book Thief...brilliant in my opinion...it makes you realise that we criticize the germans for their cruelty, but the ordinary german had to tow the line or die..they lived in fear where to show any sympathy to a former friend or neighbour would see you get the chop so to speak. A wonderful crafted film and terrific acting from Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson & the young girl who steals the show. Watched Rush last night on dvd a film by Ron Howard who always excels..it tells the story of the rivalry between James Hunt & Niki Lauda in the 70's, edge of the seat experience as you feel you are in the car. What a champion Niki was..badly burnt and almost died in a car crash, but was out racing again in 45 days..great determanation..or madness. Lots more to talk about if anyone else joins in.

[Korky]

I like a good picture but never go to the cinema nowadays because it is too expensive and the movies end up on TV soon enough. I am always pleased to discover a good story, half the time on TG4 when a foreign film is broadcast.

I could not believe what I was seeing recently when I watched La piel que habito (The Skin I Inhabit) directed by Pedro Almodóvar. It was bizarre, creepy, and shocking. The story was disorienting and this was reinforced by the switching from the present to the past and back again.

[Zurn]

I recently ordered "The wind that shakes that barley" and I have to watch it this or next weekend.
I recently ordered two "Dylan Moran" DVD´s. and a series with him "How do you want me".
But I am busy with "Fawlty Towers" at the moment.

I saw at last "Waking up Ned Devine".
Was a good movie.

I am looking to get "The General" with Brendan Gleeson for a good price.
And I have "Veronica Guerrin", "Bloody Sunday" and "Death at a funeral" on my wishlist.

[silver spoon]

Some great viewing nights ahead Zurn.

[Hagar]

I watched this the other night "The man from Earth". Very interesting concept a man who has lived for 14,000 years.

Not an action film, just set in a room with some very well educated people faced with the possibility that they are in the presence of a virtual immortal and what he can reveal about history as we know it.

[KatieMorag]

"The Book Thief" looks good Tony......must go to see that one.......last film I saw was "Philomena" and didn't rate it at all.......

[silver spoon]

Maria and mise just watched The Butler on dvd...brilliant film. One criticism was how long it took Cecil Gaines..the butler...to recognize his son's Louis..who was fighing and willing to die for the cause of civil rights for blacks. He had virtually disowned him, and only came to his senses in the Autumn of his life when he resigned from the Reagan administration, as he saw how Reagan refused to support sanctions against South Africa, who were doing what America had done to it's blacks till very recently. It was a great history lesson of how change only came through struggle..without it Barack Obama would not be President now..what are your opinions.?

[quinner]

the last time I went to the movies..........I missed watching Shirley Valentine, fell asleep when the lights went out....and was woken up when it finished...a member of this forum woke me up......

previous to that...the last time I watched a movie from start to finish (that means not just looking in while others had one on the telly)....was M.A.S,H......1971 Ithink......great movie....

[Korky]

... I've been watching a lot of great movies lately...The Book Thief...brilliant in my opinion...it makes you realise that we criticize the germans for their cruelty, but the ordinary german had to tow the line or die..they lived in fear where to show any sympathy to a former friend or neighbour would see you get the chop so to speak. A wonderful crafted film and terrific acting from Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson & the young girl who steals the show. ...

As I am interested in the history of growing up in the Third Reich and having just read Not I, the childhood biography of Joachim Fest, the German historian whose family suffered discrimination for not being Nazis, I went along to see The Book Thief and was disappointed because the amount of tragedy in the story deserved a better teatment. It is astonishing how many sentimental, sugary, coincidences and clichés littler this overlong film. Hiding a Jew in the basement. Please. Then the boy who admires a black American athlete! And the boy seems to care about no-one but the girl with whom he is in love-at-first-sight. Mercy! The ending too is corny. Does every European really want to live to an old age in a New York penthouse happily ever after? Give us a break.

Safely, they chose John Williams to write the score and had the nerve to submit the picture for an Academy Award in music. It didn't win.

I do not believe there was a burning of the books by Jewish and subversive authors in every little hamlet throughout Germany and Austria in 1933. These burnings were confined to large university town and were organized by the German Student Union. It could not have happened in tiny place where they were.

I could go on but I'll spare you.

[quinner]

As I am interested in the history of growing up in the Third Reich and having just read Not I, the childhood biography of Joachim Fest, the German historian whose family suffered discrimination for not being Nazis, I went along to see The Book Thief and was disappointed because the amount of tragedy in the story deserved a better teatment. It is astonishing how many sentimental, sugary, coincidences and clichés littler this overlong film. Hiding a Jew in the basement. Please. Then the boy who admires a black American athlete! And the boy seems to care about no-one but the girl with whom he is in love-at-first-sight. Mercy! The ending too is corny. Does every European really want to live to an old age in a New York penthouse happily ever after? Give us a break.

Safely, they chose John Williams to write the score and had the nerve to submit the picture for an Academy Award in music. It didn't win.

I do not believe there was a burning of the books by Jewish and subversive authors in every little hamlet throughout Germany and Austria in 1933. These burnings were confined to large university town and were organized by the German Student Union. It could not have happened in tiny place where they were.

I could go on but I'll spare you.

would people be that naïve........

most German people never experienced a bombing raid in ww2.......

''CHRYSTAL NACH''........infuriated Adolf Hitler......not because of the aggro to the jewish population.....

but, because plate glass to replace the damage could only be got from Belgiun.....and that would mean spending much needed foreign currency......

[Zurn]

I watched "The wind that shakes that barley" yesterday.

It´s a really sad movie....and I suffered with the Irish in it.

[Slow Motion]

I watched "The wind that shakes that barley" yesterday.

It´s a really sad movie....and I suffered with the Irish in it.

As in the history, or the language? Haven't seen it myself yet!