What was the last movie you watched?
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Azure
G.O.A.T.
Lol I did not know Ursula acted in serious movies too....I just know her as Bond girl
Gary Duane
G.O.A.T.
Green Book...
Thought I would hate it, but it was entertaining if probably very little to do with what really happened.
Thought I would hate it, but it was entertaining if probably very little to do with what really happened.
Sentinel
Bionic Poster
Who said it was a serious movie?
Sentinel
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Sounds interesting. Must find it .
MichaelNadal
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Sentinel
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Brief Encounter (1945) - David_Lean. With Celia_Johnson and Trevor_Howard
Watching it for the third time.
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Watching it for the third time.
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Sentinel
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) - funny (and slightly sad) movie about a school teacher who thinks she is in her prime, has an over-romanticized view of fascists, loves art, teaches outside the curriculum.
Starring a young Maggie_Smith and an old Celia_Johnson (24 years after Brief Encounter) as the conservative head mistress. Maggie's husband (Robert_Stevens) plays her lover in this.
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Starring a young Maggie_Smith and an old Celia_Johnson (24 years after Brief Encounter) as the conservative head mistress. Maggie's husband (Robert_Stevens) plays her lover in this.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (film) - Wikipedia
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Sentinel
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The Fallen Idol (1948) - Butler and little kid buddy movie. Butler at the London Embassy of the French ambassador. Someone dies and he is the suspect. Kid (Bobby_Henrey) is a witness. Based on a Graham_Greene short story.
The end was disappointing. Ralph_Richardson as the butler. The kid is now 80 years old !!!
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The end was disappointing. Ralph_Richardson as the butler. The kid is now 80 years old !!!
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Zara
G.O.A.T.
I watched The 100-Foot Journey last night. It’s a feel good movie, a bit cliche but it was still quite nice. Beautiful music score by A. R. Rahman and gorgeous cinematography (believe it was shot somewhere in South of France) and heartwarming acting by Om Puri, Helen Mirren and other lead actors. A family movie no doubt.
ollinger
G.O.A.T.
"Yesterday"
Director Danny Boyle turns 63 today; he needs to resolve to get back to making films like "Trainspotting" or even "Slumdog Millionaire" rather than this garbage. A one-joke film, and the joke really isn't that funny. They guy who plays the lead seems earnest, though, and gives it his all.
Director Danny Boyle turns 63 today; he needs to resolve to get back to making films like "Trainspotting" or even "Slumdog Millionaire" rather than this garbage. A one-joke film, and the joke really isn't that funny. They guy who plays the lead seems earnest, though, and gives it his all.
Poisoned Slice
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Happy Gilmore
Sentinel
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Om Puri was a wonderful and versatile actor (IMO). Sadly, he died a years or so back, I am told he had a drinking problem.
Sentinel
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Lorenzo's Oil (1992) - movie based on a boy, Lorenzo, who suffered from ALD, a rare disease. His parents research a lot and find something that helped Lorenzo live long past the expected two years.
I found it very interesting esp since there was some chemistry talk involved (fatty acids).
Lorenzo lived to 30. Many children in early stages were helped by their discovery (oleic acid and erucic acid, found in Olive oil and rapeseed oil). Btw, erucic acid is also present in mustard oil which has been used for centuries in northern India.
With Nick_Nolte and Susan_Sarandon.
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I found it very interesting esp since there was some chemistry talk involved (fatty acids).
Lorenzo lived to 30. Many children in early stages were helped by their discovery (oleic acid and erucic acid, found in Olive oil and rapeseed oil). Btw, erucic acid is also present in mustard oil which has been used for centuries in northern India.
With Nick_Nolte and Susan_Sarandon.
Lorenzo's Oil - Wikipedia
Augusto, Michaela, and Lorenzo Odone - Wikipedia
Zara
G.O.A.T.
He was really good and quite adorable. He might have drank but it seems he had a heart attack and was only 66 years old. That's unfortunate but when it's time, one must go.
Was he also in Gandhi?
Poisoned Slice
Bionic Poster
Ip Man is a 2008 biographical martial arts film based on the life of Ip Man, a grandmaster of the martial art Wing Chun and teacher of Bruce Lee. The film focuses on events in Ip's life that supposedly took place in the city of Foshan during the Sino-Japanese War
Sentinel
Bionic Poster
Appears so. I saw it a long while back so can't remember.
Gandhi (film) - Wikipedia
Capulin Zurdo
Hall of Fame
The Bone Collector (1999) - Denzel Washington is always a bada$$, a nice crime/suspense movie.
Capulin Zurdo
Hall of Fame
Insomnia (2002) - another Nolan classic.
Mike Bulgakov
G.O.A.T.
I haven't seen "Soviet Hippies," but it looks interesting.
Life in the 'hairy underground': the lost history of Soviet hippies
It was a subculture shaped by communism, inspired by the west – and watched by the KGB. Now, a new documentary charts the movement’s charismatic leaders, conflicts and future
n 1968, Aksel Lampmann was a teenager growing up in Soviet Estonia. That summer, he went to an international camp, where he met students from Czechoslovakia and began listening to the Beatles. He didn’t understand the lyrics (“No one spoke English back then”), but loved the sound. “We had no clue what they were singing about. What a strange vibration!”
He learned guitar and grew his hair. By 1969, Lampmann had become a full-blown Soviet hippy. The iron curtain made a road trip to the US impossible, so he hitchhiked from his home in the Baltics to Crimea. “Our lives were more colourful, more alive,” he says. “Other people didn’t have the same encounters or emotions.”
Lampmann is one of the stars of Soviet Hippies, a film by the Estonian writer and director Terje Toomistu about a lost period in Soviet history. The documentary explores a subculture that was inspired by the west yet distinctly homegrown – existing in a society shaped by communism and watched over by the KGB.
“In the west, nobody was arrested simply for having long hair or wearing strange clothes,” Toomistu explains. The USSR, by contrast, wanted complete control of its citizens’ lives: how people worked, dressed, or even danced. Anyone who rejected the **** sovieticus model could be in “big trouble”, including having their hair forcibly cut.
The Soviet hippy movement emerged in Moscow and Leningrad around 1966 and 1967, in the early years of Leonid Brezhnev’s rule. The first red hippies were the sons or daughters of the privileged Soviet nomenklatura – well-behaved kids from elite families. They had access to music from the capitalist world and to jeans. By the early 70s, the movement had grown sufficiently big and unruly to alarm the authorities – though it probably only ever numbered a few thousand, Toomistu says. The secret police began tailing the long-haired to school. In June 1971, the hippies were given permission to demonstrate against the Vietnam war outside the US embassy in Moscow.
This was a trap. The KGB rounded up and arrested demonstrators, with the goal of wiping out hippy culture. Some demonstrators were sent to psychiatric facilities and injected with insulin; others dispatched to the army and camps near the Chinese border. The film re-creates this grim clampdown and uses surveillance photos found in KGB archives in Lithuania.
According to Lampmann, harassment by the police and KGB was common. “One of my close friends ended up in prison,” he says. Hippies were persecuted under criminal rather than political law. They could find themselves sharing a cell with gangsters and murderers. To avoid arrest, Lampmann always kept his documents in perfect order.
By the late 70s, the hippies had developed a counterculture, with Russian slang and a music scene. There was what Toomistu calls “analogue Facebook” – notebooks listing names and numbers of contacts across the USSR, used by travellers seeking somewhere to crash for the night. This network is gloriously animated in the film, which features psychedelic drawings and cartoons.
The underground subculture connected people from different social backgrounds, the writer Vladimir Wiedemann says. It included hippies, dissidents, mystics, religious activists and human-rights campaigners. Some embraced spiritualism, others yoga and veganism. All rejected the Soviet regime and thus played a role in its eventual demise.
Wiedemann was exposed to rock’n’roll culture via Finnish TV and Radio Luxembourg, which he could pick up from his home in Estonia. “The iron curtain wasn’t that strong,” he says. Now based in London, Wiedemann wrote a book on hippies, Forbidden Union, which is currently running as a play, How Estonian Hippies Brought Down the Soviet Union!, on the Moscow stage...
The film features interviews with Wiedemann and other survivors from the “hairy underground”, as Toomistu puts it. Most are men, still espousing hippy ideas and with beards and hair still flowing but grey. There are fewer Soviet female hippies, Toomistu says; many left the scene to have children. The movement’s charismatic leaders are largely dead, often from drink and drugs.
These were widely available under Marxism. Forbidden from travelling physically beyond the eastern bloc, Soviet hippies instead became “psychonauts”, Toomistu says. They consumed weed from central Asia and the Caucasus, opium and poppy tea. Some drank Sopals, a Soviet cleaning detergent containing ether.
Toomistu grew up in post-Soviet Estonia. She was interested in the hippy scene as a teenager, and was a fan of Jim Morrison. She spent half a year in Russia as a student, and wrote a thesis about memory culture. The idea for the film came together after her own road trip in South America, she says. She is currently completing an anthropology PhD. There is little archive material on communist-era hippies, whom the Soviet press ignored, Toomistu says, erasing them from history. She retrieved a box of video footage of festivals and gatherings from a hippy who had to leave Russia in a hurry. In 2017, several of her subjects went to a hippy reunion held every year at Moscow’s Tsaritsyno Park, to mark the 1971 demo busted by the KGB.
The reunion is poignant. Russia’s war in Ukraine and its 2014 annexation of Crimea divided opinion. Some hippies support Vladimir Putin and his idea of a great spiritual Russia. Others take a more traditional pacifist view that all war is bad. The film ends with Putin’s police breaking up the party. It is a metaphor for state-hippy relations, now and then.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/oct/23/lost-history-of-soviet-hippies-documentary-communism
Life in the 'hairy underground': the lost history of Soviet hippies
It was a subculture shaped by communism, inspired by the west – and watched by the KGB. Now, a new documentary charts the movement’s charismatic leaders, conflicts and future
n 1968, Aksel Lampmann was a teenager growing up in Soviet Estonia. That summer, he went to an international camp, where he met students from Czechoslovakia and began listening to the Beatles. He didn’t understand the lyrics (“No one spoke English back then”), but loved the sound. “We had no clue what they were singing about. What a strange vibration!”
He learned guitar and grew his hair. By 1969, Lampmann had become a full-blown Soviet hippy. The iron curtain made a road trip to the US impossible, so he hitchhiked from his home in the Baltics to Crimea. “Our lives were more colourful, more alive,” he says. “Other people didn’t have the same encounters or emotions.”
Lampmann is one of the stars of Soviet Hippies, a film by the Estonian writer and director Terje Toomistu about a lost period in Soviet history. The documentary explores a subculture that was inspired by the west yet distinctly homegrown – existing in a society shaped by communism and watched over by the KGB.
“In the west, nobody was arrested simply for having long hair or wearing strange clothes,” Toomistu explains. The USSR, by contrast, wanted complete control of its citizens’ lives: how people worked, dressed, or even danced. Anyone who rejected the **** sovieticus model could be in “big trouble”, including having their hair forcibly cut.
The Soviet hippy movement emerged in Moscow and Leningrad around 1966 and 1967, in the early years of Leonid Brezhnev’s rule. The first red hippies were the sons or daughters of the privileged Soviet nomenklatura – well-behaved kids from elite families. They had access to music from the capitalist world and to jeans. By the early 70s, the movement had grown sufficiently big and unruly to alarm the authorities – though it probably only ever numbered a few thousand, Toomistu says. The secret police began tailing the long-haired to school. In June 1971, the hippies were given permission to demonstrate against the Vietnam war outside the US embassy in Moscow.
This was a trap. The KGB rounded up and arrested demonstrators, with the goal of wiping out hippy culture. Some demonstrators were sent to psychiatric facilities and injected with insulin; others dispatched to the army and camps near the Chinese border. The film re-creates this grim clampdown and uses surveillance photos found in KGB archives in Lithuania.
According to Lampmann, harassment by the police and KGB was common. “One of my close friends ended up in prison,” he says. Hippies were persecuted under criminal rather than political law. They could find themselves sharing a cell with gangsters and murderers. To avoid arrest, Lampmann always kept his documents in perfect order.
By the late 70s, the hippies had developed a counterculture, with Russian slang and a music scene. There was what Toomistu calls “analogue Facebook” – notebooks listing names and numbers of contacts across the USSR, used by travellers seeking somewhere to crash for the night. This network is gloriously animated in the film, which features psychedelic drawings and cartoons.
The underground subculture connected people from different social backgrounds, the writer Vladimir Wiedemann says. It included hippies, dissidents, mystics, religious activists and human-rights campaigners. Some embraced spiritualism, others yoga and veganism. All rejected the Soviet regime and thus played a role in its eventual demise.
Wiedemann was exposed to rock’n’roll culture via Finnish TV and Radio Luxembourg, which he could pick up from his home in Estonia. “The iron curtain wasn’t that strong,” he says. Now based in London, Wiedemann wrote a book on hippies, Forbidden Union, which is currently running as a play, How Estonian Hippies Brought Down the Soviet Union!, on the Moscow stage...
The film features interviews with Wiedemann and other survivors from the “hairy underground”, as Toomistu puts it. Most are men, still espousing hippy ideas and with beards and hair still flowing but grey. There are fewer Soviet female hippies, Toomistu says; many left the scene to have children. The movement’s charismatic leaders are largely dead, often from drink and drugs.
These were widely available under Marxism. Forbidden from travelling physically beyond the eastern bloc, Soviet hippies instead became “psychonauts”, Toomistu says. They consumed weed from central Asia and the Caucasus, opium and poppy tea. Some drank Sopals, a Soviet cleaning detergent containing ether.
Toomistu grew up in post-Soviet Estonia. She was interested in the hippy scene as a teenager, and was a fan of Jim Morrison. She spent half a year in Russia as a student, and wrote a thesis about memory culture. The idea for the film came together after her own road trip in South America, she says. She is currently completing an anthropology PhD. There is little archive material on communist-era hippies, whom the Soviet press ignored, Toomistu says, erasing them from history. She retrieved a box of video footage of festivals and gatherings from a hippy who had to leave Russia in a hurry. In 2017, several of her subjects went to a hippy reunion held every year at Moscow’s Tsaritsyno Park, to mark the 1971 demo busted by the KGB.
The reunion is poignant. Russia’s war in Ukraine and its 2014 annexation of Crimea divided opinion. Some hippies support Vladimir Putin and his idea of a great spiritual Russia. Others take a more traditional pacifist view that all war is bad. The film ends with Putin’s police breaking up the party. It is a metaphor for state-hippy relations, now and then.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/oct/23/lost-history-of-soviet-hippies-documentary-communism
- Soviet Hippies is being screened by Dash Café at Rich Mix, London, on 23 October.
Born_to_slice
Legend
Bone Tomahawk, 2015. Cowboys vs. Troglodyte Native Americans. Was disappointing to see some good actors in that crap. Hack frauds made me waste my time watching it. They loved it.
Tried to watch Tarantino's Hateful 8 few weeks ago but fell asleep at half of it.
Tried to watch Tarantino's Hateful 8 few weeks ago but fell asleep at half of it.
Azure
G.O.A.T.
And Quiet Rolls The Dawn, 1979
Ek Din Pratidin (English title: "And Quiet Rolls the Dawn") is directed by Mrinal Sen.
I am a big fan of Bengali masters and their film making abilities. This one was a very good watch but perhaps people not familiar with the social construct in 70's Calcutta might find it hard to connect. Fantastic direction and acting by the lead cast. The story line is a bit similar to another well taken movie by the same master - 'Achanak ek Din'.
Ek Din Pratidin (English title: "And Quiet Rolls the Dawn") is directed by Mrinal Sen.
I am a big fan of Bengali masters and their film making abilities. This one was a very good watch but perhaps people not familiar with the social construct in 70's Calcutta might find it hard to connect. Fantastic direction and acting by the lead cast. The story line is a bit similar to another well taken movie by the same master - 'Achanak ek Din'.
Zara
G.O.A.T.
Currently watching Tell it to the Bees (2018) - Set in 1950's Scotland.
I only recently saw it as it was on Netflix.
JoelSandwich
Hall of Fame
The Lighthouse was an absolute masterpiece
Easily the best movie I’ve seen this year
Easily the best movie I’ve seen this year
Sentinel
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My Days of Mercy (2017) - Ellen_Page, Kate_Mara
The daughter of a man on death row falls in love with a woman who is on the opposing side of her family's political cause.
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The daughter of a man on death row falls in love with a woman who is on the opposing side of her family's political cause.
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Sudacafan
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Are you related to Joel Dali?
Sentinel
Bionic Poster
Wow. Just. Wow.
JoelSandwich
Hall of Fame
Sudacafan
Bionic Poster
Never mind.
Sudacafan
Bionic Poster
How many pictures do you have of your avatar, if we got to believe that it’s not yourself?
gn
G.O.A.T.
Zara
G.O.A.T.
I am dead too, you know. You are essentially talking to a dead person. DEAD.
Sudacafan
Bionic Poster
I can’t sleep since I found out that.
We should play Ouija some day.
Zara
G.O.A.T.
Yes, next time I go MIA and you miss me, get the Ouija out and call upon my name.
Sudacafan
Bionic Poster
Should I call Zara or Sri?
Zara
G.O.A.T.
Who do you feel closer to?
Sudacafan
Bionic Poster
Sudacafan
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MichaelNadal
Bionic Poster
Nightmare 1
Zara
G.O.A.T.
Greedy human. Yes you could have both.
Sudacafan
Bionic Poster
Wow!
