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Post by profbooboo on May 27, 2017 22:30:56 GMT
The Damned United, with Michael Sheen as Brian Cough, is being shown on BbC2 tomorrow at 10:30pm.
I'm not a big football fan, just national games like the Euros and World Cup, but I really enjoyed this. I saw it at the cinema and a group of about 10 Leeds fans came in with scarves and flags.
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Post by Miranda on May 28, 2017 6:23:59 GMT
I don't think you need to be a football fan to enjoy it. It's more about the personalities of the two leads. And Michael Sheen does a brilliant Cloughie.
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Post by Delia on May 29, 2017 18:45:18 GMT
Yes, he's great in the role. A good film as said, even if you don't normally follow football.
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Post by profbooboo on May 29, 2017 19:04:08 GMT
I decided to watch it again and really enjoyed it, I don't think I've seen it since getting the DVD on release and forgot how good Sheen is as Clough. He's not an impressionist but seems so good at portraying real people. Clough, Kenneth Williams, David Frost and Tony Blair 3 times.
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Post by Miranda on May 29, 2017 19:12:56 GMT
He is. He really does inhabit the characters without going over the line into caricature.
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Post by marion on May 29, 2017 19:34:41 GMT
I don't think you need to be a football fan to enjoy it. It's more about the personalities of the two leads. And Michael Sheen does a brilliant Cloughie. I saw this too. I am no football fan and I thought it was really good. |
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Post by profbooboo on Jun 2, 2017 23:22:14 GMT
9pm, Channel 4, tonight (Saturday)
Legend, with Tom Hardy as both Reggie and Ronnie Kray. It's pretty violent but Tom Hardy is really good in the film.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2017 22:46:14 GMT
Watched 'Stardust' tonight, brilliant fantasy film with an awesome cast. Robert De Niro as you've never seen him before,  Michelle Feffer and every British actor thrown in. Just a fun film and I highly recommend it.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2017 21:51:46 GMT
The Three Musketeers and its sequel The Four Musketeers - the 1970s Richard Lester adaptations. Hugely entertaining with a fabulous cast including Oliver Reed as Athos, Faye Dunaway as Milady and Charlton Heston as Richlieu (yes, not the most obvious choice but he's terrific) to name but a few. Also notable in that, to the best of my knowledge, they're the only adaptations to do the whole book. Don't bother so much with the second sequel, The Return of the Musketeers, except for completeness. It passes the time entertainingly enough, and has some great moments, but doesn't hold a candle to the others.
Also a Biblical 'epic' (although it's actually fairly short) - The Miracle Maker. An animation (mostly stop-motion but some 2D stuff) of the Gospels, it avoids the tedious excessive piety of most Biblical films and levens it with a smattering of humour, too.
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Post by beverley61 on Jun 23, 2017 12:11:07 GMT
If you get a chance, watch Franz if only for the photography and cinematography, first half is wonderful and there are some harrowing/amazing scenes about half way through. It is in French and German (with subtitles). Second half, especially last third is pants unfortunately. Stop at that point and make up your own ending!!!
It is a remake of a Lubitsch film and wonderfully filmed but the original story is better.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2017 16:04:02 GMT
Watched 'Stardust' tonight, brilliant fantasy film with an awesome cast. Robert De Niro as you've never seen him before, Michelle Feffer and every British actor thrown in. Just a fun film and I highly recommend it. Let me second this, and I agree about De Niro as Captain Shakespeare. A nice film adaptation of the Neil Gaiman novel. Here is the cast: www.imdb.com/title/tt0486655/fullcredits/ |
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Post by diziet sma on Jun 23, 2017 18:08:01 GMT
Thanks for the recommendation Hollybeau and Mahery, have d/l Stardust and am looking foward to it.
I watched Denial last night, very good if a little predictable. Fantastic cast, Tim Spall, Rachel Wiesz and Tom Wilkinson among others, in the true tale of the libel trial of Holocaust Historian (or not) David Irving.
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Post by profbooboo on Jul 8, 2017 0:00:04 GMT
Beautiful Things on FilmFour now, well 10mins at 1:05am
It has Shirley and Kim from EE as neighbours!
It's about 2 teenage guys who are falling in love and discovering their sexuality...if that doesn't sound too cheesy.
Full use of the Mamas & Papas back catalogue.
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Post by HoraceCoker on Oct 2, 2017 13:30:01 GMT
...anybody seen this...the Beatles visit a chippy in Taunton....
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2017 17:22:27 GMT
I am watching "A Lion in Winter" again. And although I went to see it in the cinema, and have watched it many times before, it's almost like seeing it for the first time. Probably because I have been reading Eleanor of Aquitaine's biography. The acting is wonderful, the dialogue witty. I can almost repeat it, word for word. But I am still seeing things I have missed.
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