Last Movie You Watched

[Karl Henning]

Interesting, they did a remake!

PD

I like it a lot. Steve Martin does his own Clouseau rather than mimicking the inimitable Sellers. There are a couple of nice homages to the Blake Edwards movies, too. Steve Martin and Kevin Kline make a great pair.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I like it a lot. Steve Martin does his own Clouseau rather than mimicking the inimitable Sellers. There are a couple of nice homages to the Blake Edwards movies, too. Steve Martin and Kevin Kline make a great pair.

I'll check it out...thanks! 

PD

[71 dB]

SpaceCamp (1986)

I had never heard of this movie and I got interested. I found it on Youtube. This flick is very childish and silly. It is not for those who are into good acting, directing or cinematography. There was one strong things about this movie: The soundtrack by John Williams. It felt too good for this movie.

[Bachtoven]

The Competition with Richard Dreyfuss and Amy Irving. I enjoyed the music scenes, but most of the acting was dreadful. For anyone who has seen it recently, do you know what piece the conductor and a young female contestant are listening to as they lie on the floor in his house/apartment smoking pot? He says, "It's more aleatoric than serial" but doesn't mention the piece, and only works played in the competition get mentioned in the credits.

[Karl Henning]

The Competition with Richard Dreyfuss and Amy Irving. I enjoyed the music scenes, but most of the acting was dreadful. For anyone who has seen in recently, do you know what piece the conductor and a young female contestant are listening to as they lie on the floor in his house/apartment smoking pot? He says, "It's more aleatoric than serial" but doesn't mention the piece, and only works played in the competition get mentioned in the credits.

Hmmm. This has been off my radar completely. 

[Karl Henning]

TD: Rewatched the remake of The In-Laws last night. 

[Bachtoven]

Hmmm. This has been off my radar completely.

It's available for free on Amazon Prime. The piano playing scenes are very well done. Dreyfuss and Irving were coached on how to fake the playing. Dreyfuss had not played before, and he practiced 4 hours a day for several months to mimic the actual playing. Irving had taken piano lessons before, but she too had to practice a lot. Daniel Pollack was the actual pianist for Prokofiev's 3rd Concerto—he sounds like a fantastic player. Now, one just needs to get beyond the awful acting and often trite script.

[Karl Henning]

It's available for free on Amazon Prime. The piano playing scenes are very well done. Dreyfuss and Irving were coached on how to fake the playing. Dreyfuss had not played before, and he practiced 4 hours a day for several months to mimic the actual playing. Irving had taken piano lessons before, but she too had to practice a lot. Daniel Pollack was the actual pianist for Prokofiev's 3rd Concerto—he sounds like a fantastic player. Now, one just needs to get beyond the awful acting and often trite script.

Dreyfuss also figured prominently in the making-of featurette for Close Encounters, as he discreetly lobbied Spielberg to cast him as Neary.

[Madiel]

The Competition with Richard Dreyfuss and Amy Irving. I enjoyed the music scenes, but most of the acting was dreadful. For anyone who has seen it recently, do you know what piece the conductor and a young female contestant are listening to as they lie on the floor in his house/apartment smoking pot? He says, "It's more aleatoric than serial" but doesn't mention the piece, and only works played in the competition get mentioned in the credits.

I remember seeing this one, and yes I remember not being impressed by the acting.

[Karl Henning]

A Shot in the Dark (1964). I used to think I had seen this,  but I was completely mistaken. Great fun. Thanks for the prompt,  @71 dB !

[Brian]

A Shot in the Dark (1964). I used to think I had seen this,  but I was completely mistaken. Great fun. Thanks for the prompt,  @71 dB !

The first Pink Panther movie with Herbert Lom! As a kid I liked the nudism scenes. 

[Wendell_E]

The Competition with Richard Dreyfuss and Amy Irving. I enjoyed the music scenes, but most of the acting was dreadful. For anyone who has seen it recently, do you know what piece the conductor and a young female contestant are listening to as they lie on the floor in his house/apartment smoking pot? He says, "It's more aleatoric than serial" but doesn't mention the piece, and only works played in the competition get mentioned in the credits.

I remember seeing it in the theater when it was first released. I haven't seen it since, but found that scene on Amazon Prime. I didn't recognize it, and Shazam didn't either. Actually, he says "More modal than serial."  But searching further, I found a script online, and later in the movie there's the line "It's aleatoric rather than modal."

[71 dB]

A Shot in the Dark (1964). I used to think I had seen this,  but I was completely mistaken. Great fun. Thanks for the prompt,  @71 dB !

Nice to hear Karl it was worth it to give the movie a shot in the darkened room. Yes, it is great fun. 

[pjme]

Impressive!  "Los reyes del mundo".
This energetic, slightly surrealistic road movie veers between dream and reality, mythical tranquility and often brutal realism. Five young street rats travel from Medellín to the paramilitary-controlled Antioquia in the countryside. One of them, Rá thinks he can claim a piece of land there.....

[Karl Henning]

The Pink Panther Strikes Back.
"Do you know what kind of bomb it was?"
"The exploding kind."

[Karl Henning]

Trevor Nunn's Twelfth Night, which always gets me.

[Iota]

(Danish with subtitles)

Two things make this a powerful, unmissable film despite a few less compelling moments imo. First, Mads Mikkelsen's extraordinary presence, mostly silent and conveyed through his fairly static but endlessly expressive face, and secondly the gorgeous cinematography, comparable to some of the great epic Hollywood westerns, drawing you into a brooding, portentous atmosphere. Plenty of other fine actors and qualities, but the foundation of it all comes from those two I feel.
A film based on a real person, Ludvig Kahlen, a retired soldier who in the mid-18th century set out single-mindedly to cultivate Jutland, at the time inhabitable, barren heathland, and to settle it. Some intense encounters ensue, both good and bad, which ultimately lead to a very absorbing and moving tale.

[Karl Henning]

Michael Hoffman's A Midsummer Night's Dream 

[Madiel]

Trevor Nunn's Twelfth Night, which always gets me.

My favourite Shakespeare. If it's done well, it's glorious. I haven't seen that particular version though.

[DavidW]

I watched Chief of Station, which starts with actual spy craft like it was a Le Carre or Silva story. Not to worry there is plenty of flying kicks and punching that you know CIA analysts are known for. The plot twist was obvious to anyone that seen movies before, but it was a fun time.