Movies
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Watched “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die” yesterday and fell into the, what-did-I-just-watch category but in a good way. Reminded me of “Adventures in Babysitting” meets “Lawnmower Man” but again, in a good way.
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I’m did make it to the showing of Shigeru Yoshida’s doc Shades of Indigo this afternoon. I suspect it will be hard to find, but a great insight into Japanese indigo growing, harvesting, processing into sukumo, fermenting and dyeing. I hadn’t appreciated that natural indigo is a living being. The main contributor, Ryuta Sasaki, compares indigo to a woman seen from the perspective of a child, like a grandma or great-grandma in the case of his four year old indigo pot (we heard in the intro that this pot is sadly no more following a relocation). Apparently natural indigo has good days and bad days and if she’s not feeling well she won’t give a good colour but if she’s happy she’ll give you something beautiful.
There were some genuinely moving moments when an old indigo pot was returned to the earth and when a new pot came alive and started giving indigo.
The live intro from Dr Linda Brassington (also featured in the doc) was also good - I might post something more in the books thread.
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Just finished the remake of “The Running Man” with Glen Powell. I enjoyed it immensely.
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Spend four hours in cinema Saturday night with my son…
Yeah pretty bloody
God has blessed you richly, so get down on your knees and thank him. Don’t forget the less fortunate or God will personally kick your ass. I’d love to do it for him, but I can’t be everywhere. Willie Nelson
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That was fun. It's always good to follow @ARNC 's cultural tips.
Made me think about which other good films about 'The Troubles' I know.
- Bloody Sunday (2002)
- '71 (2014)
- In the Name of the Father (1993)
- Cal (1984)
- The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006, historically predating the Troubles, but connected)
More suggestions?
si tacuisses
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The Long Good Friday (1980) - Classic Bob Hoskins & Helen Mirren
A Prayer For The Dying (1987) - Mickey Rourke is a bit cheesy but perfectly balanced by another incredible Bob Hoskins performance, great plot!
The Crying Game (1992) - Best plot twist of all time?
The Boxer (1997) - DDL shines but for me Emily Watson is the real star
The General (1998) - Troubles related but more the organised crime elements. True story and a fantastic performance by Brendan Gleeson -
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@endo in addition to others mentioned:
Michael Collins (1996) based on the life of a leading figure in Irish history at the time of the Easter Rising in 1916
Hunger (2008) about the 1981 hunger strikes with Michael Fassbender playing Bobby Sands -
Both movies consist of scenes that can be watched independently of the rest of the film. There's a hotel in Berlin that has TBL on a dedicated channel on repeat 24 hours. You can turn it on and watch a few scenes at any point, and it makes sense. I think Bueller would work the same way.
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I just watched Under the Silver Lake and it is a wild neo noir. Personally I love Chinatown and Nightcrawler , any movies set in Los Angeles where the setting is another character in the movie. This movie had a cryptographer listed in the credits and with the nature of the movie there is an active sub reddit with crazy fan theories. I think movies that have legs are great. Another that comes to mind is Primer, the fan theories on that one make you want to keep rewatching. I am going to rewatch Under the Silver Lake again and jump into the rabbit hole. It's on Netflix.
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@endo I showed that one to my 5yo daughter. I’d forgotten the cursing (which I only care about because I don’t want my kid to “corrupt” other, more puritanical parents’ spawn) but, as expected, she loved it.
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@mclaincausey well done, all my children watched it with me when they were young and they loved it. It emphasizes freedom and joy.
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@endo the fact that people in church thought it was a bad influence when I was young supports this truth. I remember there was also a pamphlet decrying the Dead Kennedys because they wanted to “Kill the Poor.”
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