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12 Angry Men
A Beautiful Mind
A Time To Kill
Argo
As Good As It Gets
Avatar - (interesting to see most expensive movie ever made.)
Blood Diamond
Boondock Saints
Captain Phillips
Casino Royale
Castaway
Catch me if you Can
Chinatown
Clear And Present Danger
Crash
Dallas Buyers Club
Defiance
Double Jeopardy
Driving Miss Daisy
Face Off
Fallen
Fistful of Dollars
Flight
For a few Dollars More
Forrest Gump
Frozen
Goodfellas (great mafia movie.)
Grownups 1 & 2
Inside Man
It's a Wonderful Life
Jurassic Park
Justin Beiber  Never say Never
Just Go With It
Life is Beautiful
Life of Pi
Limitless
Little Fockers
Lone Survivor
Looper (was kinda creepy and weird)
Man On A Ledge
Mandela, long walk to Freedom
Meet the Fockers
Meet the Parents
Memento
Minions
Minority Report
Nebraska
No Country for Old Men
Non-Stop
Olympus Has Fallen
Once upon a time in the West
One flew over the Cuckoos Nest
Paycheck
Pulp Fiction
Red
Sahara
Salt
Schindler's List
Se7en
Shutter Island
Slumdog Millionaire
Taken 2
The Aviator
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Client
The Color of Freedom
The Day After Tomorrow
The Departed
The Dictator
The Expendables
The Firm
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Intouchables (it's in French, but well worth the watch!)
The Island
The King of Comedy
The King's Speech
The Lego Movie
The Lincoln Lawyer
The Man In The Iron Mask
The Mechanic
The Next Three Days
The Notebook
The Other Guys
The Pianist
The Prestige
The Prime Ministers
The Rite (better if you have an understanding of Catholics and their practices/tradition).
The Shawshank Redemption
The Shining
The Social Network
The Sting
The Sum Of All Fears
The Ten Commandments
The Terminal
The Usual Suspects
The Way Back
The Wolf of Wall Street
This Boy's Life
Titanic
True Grit
Unforgiven
United 93
Up In The Air (Just be sure to turn it off before the last 10 minutes)
Uprising
Wanderlust
Wanted
War of the Worlds
We're the Millers
White House Down
World War Z
Wreck-It Ralph
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Re: Movies
« Reply #780 on: October 24, 2022, 07:55:08 PM »
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenlife

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Screenlife or computer screen film is a genre of visual storytelling where all the events are shown on a computer,
tablet or smartphone screen. It became popular in the 2010s with the growing impact of the Internet.
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Re: Movies
« Reply #781 on: December 23, 2022, 01:09:51 AM »
Just saw that 3 idiots' is still on Netflix. I watched it a while ago and from what I remember it's long but I thought it was a good movie.

I lost most of my interest in movies/video games in the past year or two. So I find it hard to find something that interests me enough that I'd want to spend 2 hours on.
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Re: Movies
« Reply #782 on: February 10, 2023, 08:27:13 AM »
I watched Harry Potter and the goblet of fire on an airplane recently. I didn't realize all 7 are one big story.

Even though the above post still applies I spent around 15+ hours of time watching them all. They are good. Would I say it's the best use of my time? Not really

Now I also understand why airlines can offer a decent movie selection. For the people like me that would want to finish a series or single movie off the plane and would spend some money to watch it.

But I only spent $2 for a one month peacock tv subscription.
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« Reply #783 on: February 11, 2023, 01:09:16 PM »
A reviewer mentioned this scene from Tar, which intrigued me, so  I looked up the screenplay.
This is long, so feel free to ignore it. Is there a point? Perhaps. Also note that the wording is kind of explicit at times. I censored it a bit.
Tar is a conductor teaching a class at a school in Berlin. Max, the main target of her lecture in this scene, is a student.
Spoiler line from Tar:
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Unfortunately, the architect of your soul appears to be social media.

MAX (24) conducts a STUDENT ENSEMBLE in rehearsal for Anna Thorvaldsdóttir’s Ró. This interrupted by the click, click, click of Tár’s baton striking a stand.
TÁR (O.C.)
Alright, let’s stop here.
Tár joins Max at the podium.
TÁR (CONT'D)
Thank you, Max... for my own edification, why did you come to Juilliard?
MAX
Uh... it’s the best music conservatory in the country?
TÁR
People from Curtis, Eastman, and others may beg to differ. Juilliard
is a brand, right? Did you come here to study with a brand?
MAX ... uh, no.
TÁR
There was a teacher, or graduate somewhere down the line that conjured something in your imagination. Someone you aspired to be yourself. Who was it?
MAX
(smiles) Sarah Chang.
TÁR
You’re a violinist.
MAX
Yes.
TÁR
(stares at score) Then I can see why you would choose to conduct a piece like this. There
must be a familiar pleasure in presiding over a bed of strings that behave as if they’re tuning. (Max good-naturedly laughs)
This piece is very au courant.
TÁR (CONT'D)
Here the composer tells us to begin with “back and forth tremolo strokes with wire brush & slowly sliding crotales over skin.” Sounds like René Redzepi’s recipe for reindeer.
Max laughs again.
TÁR (CONT'D)
Exciting to play new music, isn’t it?
(Max nods)
Please join the other fellows.
Tár looks out at the seated students.
TÁR (CONT'D)
Now, I know you’re all conducting students of Mr. Wolfe’s, but how many of you also study composition?
(hands up, she selects one)
What is your name?
OLIVE KERR
Olive Kerr.
TÁR
Okay, Olive. What do you make of what we’ve been listening to?
OLIVE KERR
It’s... pretty awesome... I mean there’s incredible atonal tension.
TÁR
(leaves stage)
I agree. About the tension part. Now you can intellectually contemplate, or m******* about the felicity of the so-called
atonal, but the important question here is what are you conducting? What is the effect? What is it actually doing to me?
(heads to where Max sits)
Good music can be as ornate as a cathedral or as bare as a potting shed. So long as it allows you to answer both of those questions. What do you think Max?
Max’s looks put on the spot, as nervous as his bouncing knee.
MAX
Uh... when Anna Thorvaldsdóttir gave her Master Class.
MAX (CONT'D)
She said she was often influenced by the form and structure of landscapes and nature she grew up within. But I’m not sure if she was interested per se, in describing those actual sounds.
TÁR
Very Punkt Kontra Punkt. (off blank looks, moves to apron of stage and sits)
Yes, the intent of her composition is vague, to say the least. So if her intent is vague, how do you, as a conductor, have a point of view about anything? Now to be fair, there are times when you will simply have no choice and be made to stand in front
of an orchestra and pretend there are invisible structures. But my prayer for you is that you‘ll be spared the embarrassment of standing on a podium with the four thirty-three trying to sell a car without an engine. Because now, my friends, now is the time to conduct music that actually requires something from you. (heads back to Max and takes a seat next to him)
For instance, Max. Why not a Kyrie? ... like Bach’s Mass in B minor?
MAX
I’m not really into Bach.
TÁR
You’re not into Bach. Oh, Max. Have you read the Schweitzer book?
MAX
No.
TÁR
Well, you should. (feigns a head punch)
It’s an important text. Antonia Brico thought so. So much so that she shipped herself to Equatorial Africa and canoed up the Congo River to track Schweitzer down and ask him to teach her what he knew about Bach... somewhere I’ve got a
picture of her in a pith helmet. Have you ever played or conducted Bach?
MAX
Honestly, as a BIPOC pangender- person, I would say Bach’s misogynistic life makes it kind of impossible for me to take his music seriously.
TÁR
What exactly do you mean by that?
MAX
Well, didn’t he sire like twenty kids?
TÁR
That’s documented, along with a considerable amount of music. But I’m unclear what his prodigious skills have to do with B minor.
MAX’S KNEE NOW ON OVERDRIVE, unignorable and intolerable to Tár who gets to her feet and heads back up onto the stage.
TÁR (CONT'D)
Okay, sure. It’s your choice. A soul selects her own society. But remember the flip-side of that selection closes the valves of one’s attention. (pacing now)
Of course, siloing what’s acceptable or not acceptable is a construct of many, if not most, symphony orchestras, who see it as their imperial right to curate for the cretins. So, slippery as it is, there’s some merit in examining Max’s... allergy. Can classical music written by a bunch of straight, Austro-German, church-going white guys, exalt us individually, as well as collectively? And who, may I ask, gets to decide that?
(turns back to Max)
What about Beethoven? Are you into him? Because for meee? As a U-Haul Lesbian? I’m not really sure about
ol’ Ludwig. But then I face him and find myself nose-to-nose with his magnitude and inevitability. (moves to piano bench)
Max, indulge me, let us allow Bach a similar gaze.
She gestures Max over to join her at the bench. He walks back up onto the stage and just stands there.
TÁR (CONT'D)
(pats bench)
Sit.
She playfully begins the C Major Prelude from Bach’s Well- Tempered Clavier. She makes a clown face. The point being this piece is so well-known that she knows she must make fun of the example before anyone else in the room can.
TÁR (CONT'D)
This is all filigree. It could be a first-year piano student, or Schroder playing for Lucy. (she gazes up moon-eyed) ... or Glen Gould for that matter.
She Gould-groans and changes the attack. Then stops.
TÁR (CONT'D)
It’s not until it changes. (she plays the first change) When you get inside, that you see what it really is. A question, and
an answer. (plays second change)
That begs another question. There’s a humility in Bach. He’s not pretending he’s certain of anything. He knows
it’s the question that involves the listener. Never the answer. (stops)
What do you think, Max?
MAX
You play really well? But... nowadays? White, male, cis composers? Just not my thing.
MAX’S KNEE starts BOUNCING up and down again. TÁR’S HAND reaches over and stops it.
TÁR
Don’t be so eager to be offended. The narcissism of small differences leads to the most boring conformity.
MAX
I guess Edgar Varèse is okay... I mean I like Arcana anyway.
Tár leaves stage, up the aisle, into the rake with the other fellows, leaving Max alone on the piano bench.

TÁR
Then you must be aware that Varèse once famously stated that jazz was “a negro product exploited by the
Jews.” That didn’t stop Gerry Goldsmith from ripping him off for his Planet of the Apes score. (pacing the rake)
Kind of a perfect insult, don’t you think? But you see the problem with enrolling yourself as an ultrasonic epistemic dissident is, if Bach’s talent can be reduced to his gender, birth country, religion, sexuality, and so on -- then so can yours. Someday Max, when you go out into the world and guest conduct before a major, or minor, orchestra, you may notice that the players have more than lightbulbs and music on their stands. They’ll also have been handed rating sheets. The purpose of which is to rate you. What kind of criteria would you hope they use to do this? Your score reading and stick technique, or something else?
(Max is silent)
Okay everyone. Using Max’s criteria, let us consider Max’s thing. In this case Anna Thorvaldsdóttir. Now, can we agree
upon two pieces of observation: One, that Anna was born in Iceland? And two, that she is -- in a Waldorf teacher kind of way -- a super hot young woman? Show of hands. (hands shoot up )
Great. Now let’s turn our gaze back to the piano bench up there and see if we can square how any of those things possibly relate to the person seated before us. (Max heads for the exit)
Where are you going?
MAX
You’re a f* b*!
TÁR
And you are a robot! Unfortunately, the architect of your soul appears to be social media. If you want to dance the mask, you must service the composer. Sublimate yourself, your ego, and yes, your identity! You must in fact stand in front of the public and God and obliterate yourself.
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« Reply #784 on: February 11, 2023, 04:59:06 PM »
Dear Rider (Jake Burton Carpenter)

The Fastest Woman on Earth (Jessi Combs)
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« Reply #785 on: March 04, 2023, 08:30:07 PM »
Anyone watch the series Fauda?
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« Reply #786 on: March 04, 2023, 08:38:20 PM »
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« Reply #787 on: March 05, 2023, 11:49:45 AM »
Just watched the Chris Rock special on Netflix. Man did he tear into Jada and Will.
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« Reply #788 on: April 26, 2023, 02:41:48 PM »
Just ran across this on YouTube.
It's old animated stuff, all book adaptations (mostly Charles Dickens and Sherlock Holmes).
Speaking of Sherlock Holmes, here's the long-thought-lost 1916 silent film of that name:
(If you don't have YouTube access, you can try here: https://archive.org/details/SherlockHolmes1916 )


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« Reply #789 on: June 16, 2023, 12:41:08 AM »
Recently watched The Book of Henry. I thought it was pretty good.
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« Reply #790 on: June 16, 2023, 01:16:10 AM »
Just ran across this on YouTube.
It's old animated stuff, all book adaptations (mostly Charles Dickens and Sherlock Holmes).
<...>

That playlist seems to have been replaced by >this one<.
(i don't know if anything was removed. The Street Fighter one is not a book adaptation and was
not on the old list. They also have what looks like a sequel to that, but have neglected to add it.)
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« Reply #791 on: January 10, 2024, 12:23:29 AM »
That playlist seems to have been replaced by >this one<.
(i don't know if anything was removed. The Street Fighter one is not a book adaptation and was
not on the old list. They also have what looks like a sequel to that, but have neglected to add it.)

And now that one's gone, too, and the Street Fighter movies are gone from the channel (which was what I wanted to check out).
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« Reply #792 on: January 10, 2024, 08:52:24 AM »
Watched “Free Solo” recently, which documents a mountain climber achieving one of the greatest athletic feats in history. Some documentaries are slow or boring, this is anything but. I found it thrilling and thoroughly enjoyable, my body felt like I was there.

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