What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[AmateisGal]

The Magnificent Seven. Little did I know that the actor who played Chico, the young Mexican gunfighter, was actually a German - Horst Buchholz.

And I love Yul Brynner. I want to read his son's book about the family and their lives in Russia.

 

[John in Covina]

The Magnificent Seven. Little did I know that the actor who played Chico, the young Mexican gunfighter, was actually a German - Horst Buchholz.

We always wondered how they cast Horst as Chico since his accent was so radically different than the villagers or the bandits. "Clap hands he says!"

 

[KnoxvilleRoxie]

Too Cheesy

Ok Its cheesy but the last movie I watched was confessions of a shopahollic!
Ha ha It's just so relate-able about me and Ebay everytime I see something vintage I must buy it and I must Have it because I neeeed it!

 

[Edward]

This week watched the animated feature 9. One of the few films I have ever seen that I can honestly say I thoroughly enjoyed and can describe as 'heartwarming' in a conventional sense without feeling the need for recourse to the sick bucket. Well worth your consideration. Set in a post-apocalyptic world where humanity has been rendered extinct having lost the war against intelligent machines of its own creation, the story follows the trials of several, small mechanical creatures, each carrying with them a piece of the soul of one of the last humans. In tone much of it reminded me of the classic 1940s Christmas short, Peace on Earth. The visual style is very much 20s / 30s future dystopia, many echoes of art deco styling.

convinced the wife to sit down with me and watch Public Enemies last night. I think I'm over my early objections to the handheld camera issue. The movie just gets better with repeated viewings

Watched that again myself recently - picked up the DVD cheap for a long train journey. It may not be as historically accurate as some would have preferred, but it is a cracking yarn with a great period feel.

Slasher flicks scare me but I assemble replica costumes from this genre. Zombie's Halloween efforts seem to draw mixed reviews from the hardcore Halloween devotees but his first effort ('H1 Remake' in their vernacular) gets marks for the backstory of the Michael Myers character.

Whereas the original Seventies and Eighties slasher horrors such as Halloween, Friday the 13th, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and so on offered little explanation for their key villians - in some cases, as Leatherface and his cannibal family, they just were - the contemporary reimaginings increasingly seek to offer an explanation as to how they came to being, or 'ended up that way'. An interesting reflection of wider sociological understandings of deviant and criminal behaviour, it seems to me. Something worthy of consideration when one bears in mind the modern horror movie's cultural place as the myth, or morality play, of our time.

The Wind That Shakes the Barley - a movie about the early IRA during the 1920s. Its a story about two brothers in ireland fighting for the freedom of their country but ultimatly ending on different sides of the conflict and getting enemies.

As I have posted many times on FL before, this is an excellent film. One of the most powerful scenes, in my opinion, comes towards the end as the local republican organisation debates the Anglo-Irish Treaty. The complexities of the conflict between simple nationalism and the strong strain of Irish socialism that saw the nationalist cause as the route to a new state in which a wider political revolution would be enshrined, are superbly outlined and explored. In its concentration upon (fictionalised) 'little people' as opposed to the big players - deV, Mick Collins, and so on - and its overall tone of tragedy, this film carries many echoes of Sean O'Casey's later plays in which he increasingly dismayed of the destructiveness of political violence.

 

[Lefty]

It Might Get Loud - I thought the movie might just be for guitar fans, but the conversations with and profiles of Jack White, Jimmy Page, and The Edge were great.

 

[DanielJones]

Disney's The Princess & the Frog. Thought it was rather nice. I dig on the 1920's elements in it and the references to past Disney princess animated films. Subtle, but they are there.

Cheers!

Dan

 

[Miss Golightly]

Cheri

 

[fortworthgal]

Gone with the Wind a couple of nights ago on TCM.

 

[VitaminG]

We always wondered how they cast Horst as Chico since his accent was so radically different than the villagers or the bandits. "Clap hands he says!"

Hollywood was already using British actors to play Germans in all their war films. Why not use a German to play a Mexican in a western?

This week watched the animated feature 9. One of the few films I have ever seen that I can honestly say I thoroughly enjoyed and can describe as 'heartwarming' in a conventional sense without feeling the need for recourse to the sick bucket. Well worth your consideration. Set in a post-apocalyptic world where humanity has been rendered extinct having lost the war against intelligent machines of its own creation, the story follows the trials of several, small mechanical creatures, each carrying with them a piece of the soul of one of the last humans. In tone much of it reminded me of the classic 1940s Christmas short, Peace on Earth. The visual style is very much 20s / 30s future dystopia, many echoes of art deco styling.

thoroughly enjoyed that one. As well as everything you mentioned, it managed to avoid falling back on schmaltzy kids-movie cliches. Would be a worthy addition to my post-apocalyptic movie collection

oh, and my most recent viewing, having been inspired by the great noir thread: The Big Sleep

 

[Widebrim]

The scene where Vivien Leigh and Taylor's mother discuss the past,
and the look VL gives as a silent answer tears heart and soul.

Such a dart that sears like hot iron and sends a shudder through the soul.

I love the opening scene, though, where you see Robert Talylor's character lose 25 years of age: gray hair and moustache go dark, and his face and eyes become youthful again. Reminds me of the beginning of Raging Bull when DeNiro goes from an overweight, bald, older Jake LaMotta to a slim, "hairy," younger one.

 

[Widebrim]

The Invention of Lying
Flash of Genius
Chinatown
Das Weisse Band (The White Ribbon)

I'm also watching Chinatown (for the 3rd time).

 

[Harp]

..its overall tone of tragedy, this film carries many echoes of Sean O'Casey's later plays in which he increasingly dismayed of the destructiveness of political violence.

O'Casey rivals Beckett and Joyce for this and more.

 

[Wally_Hood]

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

 

[Tomasso]

I'm also watching Chinatown (for the 3rd time).

I've watched it 50 times but only for this one scene.........

Not....that's actually the only scene in the movie where I close my eyes.....

 

[Miss Golightly]

I've watched it 50 times but only for this one scene.........

Not....that's actually the only scene in the movie where I close my eyes.....

I hadn't seen Chinatown before but thought it was excellent - I found the ending really very sad.

As for that particular scene - I had seen stills of it before but wasn't prepared for how gruesome it was!

 

[Miss sofia]

oh, and my most recent viewing, having been inspired by the great noir thread: The Big Sleep[/QUOTE]

Me too! I had forgotten how great a film it was.

 

[Madkat]

Finally got to see "Anatomy of a Murder" - LOVED IT!

 

[Cricket]

Watched The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond on television night before last. Really enjoyed it. So much that I would like to read a book about the gangster.

Honestly, had never heard of him before. At first thought it was just a movie, but then I watched the commentary afterwards and discovered it was a true story.

 

[Lefty]

The Wrestler - good, but not to the level of the hype.

 

[acl1]

Ponyo, a Japanese animated movie. The ideas and setting (a small Japanese fishing village on a chain of islands) was fantastic.