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Post by profbooboo on Jun 22, 2020 20:55:39 GMT
I can't remember if she tipped him.🤔 At the start the phone rings and a guy asks for a quarter and she starts swearing, then when she's about to be dragged away she's says, ok, he can have the quarter!
I remember watching it on BBC1 years ago, maybe early 90s, but at about 10:30-11pm and it was all flamin' this, instead of the swear word. All the sweary words were replaced.
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Post by beverley61 on Aug 3, 2020 14:06:21 GMT
Just watched Red Joan, it was panned by critics. I thought it was fine and good small budget film and nice to see 'Prince Albert' in something else. I remembered the true story anyway. Had some moments of tension and peril and well done by everyone.
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Post by yankee on Aug 4, 2020 17:58:54 GMT
Judi Dench is always good value.
Maybe its my imagination, but it seems there has been a spate of these "red scare" films recently, set in the 1950s at the beginning of the Cold War, McCarthyism, naming names, etc.
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Post by beverley61 on Aug 5, 2020 11:25:04 GMT
Probably because a lot of the people involved have now died and they can release files etc. They only got Joan because another spy who'd kept records died and they got hold of his files.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2020 15:36:40 GMT
The Nigel Kneale version of 'The Woman in Black' is coming out soon. I would definitely recommend it, if you are a fan of horror. Much better than the version with Daniel Radcliffe.
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Post by Miranda on Aug 7, 2020 15:50:48 GMT
The latter was rubbish! Could barely see what was happening on the screen. Not at all creepy.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2020 16:04:41 GMT
Nigel Kneale and Herbert Wise knew what they were doing.
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Post by profbooboo on Aug 14, 2020 15:36:46 GMT
I recommend The Stone Tapes by Nigel Kneale with the fantastic Michael Bryant. It's from 1972 and a TV movie so don't expect the best graphics or anything like that, but it's very creepy. There's quite a bit of screaming so be careful with volume.
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Post by profbooboo on Aug 14, 2020 15:54:52 GMT
I watched A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg last night.
Blimey it was good. It's a hard watch but has done incredibly black humour aswell.
Alan Bates and Janet Suzman play a husband and wife to a severely disabled child. Their daughter has been disabled from birth and is totally reliant on her parents. The mother has more hope that things might improve, but the father has talked about killing her. Some of it is in black humour but you can see that the situation has taken its toll on their marriage, their external friendships (Peter Bowles and Shelia Gish play friends, while Bowles is kind and gives suggestions, Gish doesn't even want to visit the child upstairs) and Bates character appears to be on the verge of a breakdown. In the end he walks out. Suzman mentions taking their daughter to live in a residential school (theyd tried it before, but we're too upset and took her home again) and you see a slight relief on his face, but she then continues that it'd be for a few weeks or a month so they could have a holiday, you then see his face drop. In the end he leaves, curled up in a train compartment.
It's a a complex film because you see both of their sides. Bates shouldn't really leave her to cope alone, but he also can't stay without suffering some kind of breakdown himself.
Ive wanted to see this for awhile as I love a good Alan Bates film and I'm so glad I did.
Other recommended Bates films
Nothing But The Best
Women In Love
Butley
Zorba The Greek
The Running Man (bonus of Laurence Harvey)
Georgy Girl
A Kind Of Living
The Go-Between
The Entertainer
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Post by profbooboo on Sept 19, 2020 17:33:27 GMT
I, Tonya tonight on BBC2 at 9:30pm.
It's the story of Tonya Harding.
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Post by geometryman on Sept 19, 2020 18:04:48 GMT
I need to record I, Tonya - thanks for pointing it out. First it was on my DVD rental list, then it was free on Amazon Prime for a while so I transferred it to that, then it wasn't free on Amazon Prime so I removed it again... should have watched it sooner!
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Post by profbooboo on Sept 19, 2020 19:20:06 GMT
I watched it when it first came out and I remember really liking it. Based on the real story but Alison Janney plays the mother and is really good. I think she was nominated for the role.
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Post by profbooboo on Sept 19, 2020 19:21:53 GMT
Just checked and she was nominated...and won. Best supporting actress Oscar.
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Post by yankee on Sept 26, 2020 13:53:42 GMT
I Tonya is such a grim story.
Tonya Harding could have been an example of "the American dream", rising from trailer trash poverty to international stardom through hard work and skill in a sport usually reserved for rich kids. A true real life Disney fairytale if there ever was one.
Instead her story was an American nightmare of an abusive, demeaning mother who tried to exploit her and live vicariously through her, instilling a "win no matter what" mindset in her that led to the assault on Nancy Kerrigan.
Tonya Harding found infamy rather than fame. Instead of becoming rich through being an advert spokesperson after her Olympic career she earned coin through homemade porn and getting beat up in womens boxing.
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Post by profbooboo on Oct 3, 2020 18:19:55 GMT
Tonight on BBC2 at 00:20 (so officially Sunday I suppose) is A Hard Day's Night.
Fantastic film.
"Pardon me for askin', but who's that little old man?"
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Anymore to come?
