Last Film You Watched

[Rebecka Fan]

Are You Being Served? The Movie (Alyssa's choice). Funny as heck!!

[fish]

Never been a huge fan of Ricky Gervais but I thoroughly enjoyed "The Invention Of Lying".



Synopsis courtesy IMDb.
"It's a world where everyone tells the truth - and just about anything they're thinking. Mark Bellison is a screenwriter, about to be fired. He's short and chunky with a flat nose - a genetic pool that means he won't get to first base with Anna, the woman he loves. At a bank, on the spur of the moment he blurts out a fib, with eye-popping results."

Funny, tender, touching, and very good.

[Juule]

Magneettimies.

Documentary. Amazingly powerful experience.

Well, since watching Fucking Åmål couple of weeks ago (and then silently crawling here) almost everything seems to get me in tears... But good it was.

[fish]

... almost everything seems to get me in tears... But good it was.

The Telstra (our major phone co in Australia) ads telling people to "phone home" used to get to me. Couldn't watch them without blubbing like a baby.

[Juule]

My Summer of Love

Had high hopes for some reason. Then almost fell asleep. And in some point realized that I've seen it before... what a remarkable piece of art.

That's what I wrote two days ago and thought it was such a crap (or such a lame way to say things) that I didn't want to post. But then... I've been thinking about it (the movie), a lot. There was something in it. Don't know if it was the magic that fish mentioned, but anyway, I kind of liked it. I think.

[fish]

I so rarely do magic that it's nice of someone to notice.

I didn't mind "My Summer Of Love" but it was always goining to end in tears. Then you think, "did I sit through the last couple of hours for this?"


"An Education" on one of the movie channels yesterday.


You could do great things with a cast like this: Carey Mulligan, Alfred Molina, Olivia Williams, Peter Sarsgaard, Rosamund Pike, Emma Thompson, Sally Hawkins, plus loads more talent.

Set in 1961, Carey Mulligan plays a private school student trying to get accepted into Oxford.

Pretty good film, at least two thumbs.

[Ian]

One day I'm going to make Kyle's day by posting some photos of her from "Blink".



Like that one.

[fish]

Yum.


"The Other Boleyn Girl"


I was fascinated by all the intrigues surrounding the royal court, those in favour trying to enhance their status, those out of favour trying to find a way back in. The machinations of (in particular) the Boleyn family, willing to sacrifice not one daughter but two. The rivalry between Anne and Mary. King Henry with his completely self centred view of the world and his ruthless use of anyone to serve that end.

Excellent performances by the cast. Henry was ruthless and heartless as he should be. Mary was probably more demure than history would have us believe but Natascha McElhone was great in the part. And Jodhi May's Anne I just loved , set her goal and walked over anyone in her way.

All in all an enjoyable film about a not so enjoyable time in history. Three thumbs up.

[Ian]

I'm sensing a pattern in the movies you're watching lately, fishy.

[fish]

I'm sensing a pattern in the movies you're watching lately, fishy.

I was hoping you wouldn't notice.


"Nightwatching."
Came with a second DVD for the semi-doco "J'Accuse" which it's best to watch first.



90 min doco which deconstructs and reconstructs Rembrandt's masterpiece "The Nightwatch". Has the same actors as the movie and is very interesting to anyone who likes art. Sets out the conspiracy to murder by those in the painting.

"Nightwatching".



An epic of well over 2 hours in length, which combined with J'Accuse means you should allow something like 4 hours if you wish to see it all at the one sitting.

Tells the story of Rembrandt, the three main women in his life, The Nightwatch, all the characters in the painting, and the conspiracy which took place.

Not at all bad, sort of like a stageplay put to film. Well acted, interesting story, but so, so, long.
Two thumbs.

Then you know why I bought it, don't you?
Jodhi May's character Geertje was excellent, and by that I mean .

I'll have to track down some more of her work now.

[fish]

On TV yesterday.

An alien lifeform.
Hurtles through space via a freak wormhole thingy.
Winds up on planet Earth.

Made by George Lucas.

What could possibly go wrong.

Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you to......



Generally acknowleged as one of the worst films ever made.



I liked it.

[Ian]

I've never actually seen it, for some reason...

[fish]

:lol: I've never actually seen it, for some reason...

It's probably for the best.

[Ian]

Saw Into The Night last night. Enjoyable 80s romantic comedy thriller with Jeff Goldblum and Michelle Pfeiffer. Goldblum is particulaly good as the rather distant, terminally bored and insomniac everyman suddenly thrown into an increasingly dangerous - and absurd - situation.

[fish]

On the ABC last night, a film made in 2008.



Primarily about 16 year old Thomas whose brother Charlie is autistic. Thomas is trying to have a "normal" adolescence and is not very tolerant of Charlie. The family (Toni Collette plays the mother) are loving and caring as you need to be with a child with disabilities.

Despite the heavy subject matter of caring for a disabled child it has some very light moments, especially between Thomas and Charlie, and Thomas' new girlfriend Jackie.

Definitely worth at least three thumbs up, but I'm giving it four because of Jackie.
Played by the stunningly beautiful Gemma Ward.





And what's more, she can act.
Can act.