What Movies Are You Watching?

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Originally Posted by treehugger

Just watched Bill Cunningham, New York last night. Someone here mentioned it recently. Really enjoyed it; what a fascinating character. He is the real deal with no pretensions. Lives the life he wants, doing what he wants, how he wants. I really respect that, even if I don't want to live like him. I'm not even really interested in fashion, but wow, through Mr. Cunningham's eyes, it is very exciting and interesting. Highly recommend this movie. Saw it via Netflix streaming.

Kara

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I watched that last year. My take away from that was: wow. To have a sustained passion for 50 years--that's amazing. The same passion, day after day, month after month, year after year.

This sounds like my kind of film--and it's free on Amazon prime! Thanks so much.

We watched Skyfall on Netflix DVD. I can never follow the story/plot in those movies. Lots of action and explosions. The end was good.

I watched Incendies last night. Wow, it is heavy and very interesting. It is about a young woman in Lebanon who loses a lover and child in their war of the 1970's, and how that affects her and what she does about those losses. It's about hatred and revenge, about hate and love.

I highly recommend this. It's based on a stage play. You've got to suspend belief to swallow the plot which is centered on a series of horrific coincidences of random violence, but it's very moving. It's in English subtitles.

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Originally Posted by Florence

We watched Skyfall on Netflix DVD. I can never follow the story/plot in those movies. Lots of action and explosions. The end was good.

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I'm like you, I can't follow action films, but I think it's mainly because I don't care enough to follow them.

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Originally Posted by iris lily

Yes I saw Dancing without Borders within the same time frame as the Mao's Dancer film. Bunheads has an obscenely high rating on Netflix!

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yes here I am quoting myself, but I mean to correct something: it is Breaktin Pointe that has a VERY high rating on Netflix. It's not out in DVD but one can stream it.

I watched a batch of films (or tried out some) this week. Here athey are:

Loved these:

The Sessions with John Hawkes and Helen--this is the one about a man incapacitated by polio who decides to learn about sex with a professional sexual surrogate.Very moving.

Arranged: an indy film about two young women, a Muslim and a Jew, who become friends as teacher. It's an interesting twist on diversity and tolerance since the women have much in common because both want traditional lifestyles. They get hassled for that by their work colleagues.

Mediocre:

Rust and Bone-Marian Cottilard is arresting in this film but otherwise it dragged.

Tsotsi: set in South Africa, this is about a young hoodlum who mistakenly kidnaps a baby and is humanized by caring for the infant

Didn't Like:

Tyranasaur--couldn't get past the first ten minutes. If anyone else has seen this and thinks I ought to try again, let me know.

I zipped through a lot of films but have been sneaking in epsodes of my new guilty pleasure, the FX tv series Sons Of Anarchy. I'm still on Season one. I hear that it goes downhill a lot after S 2.

This weekend..... Anna Karenina, Argo, Zero Dark Thirty, Well Digger's Daughter.

I bought a movie I had watched a couple years ago, and re-watched it last night. Its "Moon". I thought it was really good, with an interesting plot. Anyone else ever see this one?