What Movies Are You Watching and Ones You've Seen Recently?

[bellagypsy79]

I recently watched the other night a movie called "The Boy In The Striped Pajamas". It is based on the book with the same title. An 8 year old german boy becomes friends with an 8 year old Jewish boy in a concentration camp. Turns out the boys family moved to a new house. His father is with the German army. The house is located not too far from a concentration camp. The boy figures it all out and takes several trips sneaking out of the house to visit this Jewish boy by bringing him food and having conversations with him through the wired fence. It is a touching story, but of course is very sad. Because as we all know that was a very sad time back then.

Also, on a brighter note, I just recently for the first time watched the 1995 remake of the movie "Sabrina" with Harrison Ford, Julia Ormond, and Greg Kinnear. Sydney Pollock directed the remake and did a good job keeping it pretty accurate as the original with Audrey Hepburn. Julia Ormond is one of my favorites and I love hearing her speak. She has such a gentle and sweet voice, just like Audrey did. She fit perfectly as "Sabrina".

[rubytuesday]

I recently watched the other night a movie called "The Boy In The Striped Pajamas". It is based on the book with the same title. An 8 year old german boy becomes friends with an 8 year old Jewish boy in a concentration camp. Turns out the boys family moved to a new house. His father is with the German army. The house is located not too far from a concentration camp. The boy figures it all out and takes several trips sneaking out of the house to visit this Jewish boy by bringing him food and having conversations with him through the wired fence. It is a touching story, but of course is very sad. Because as we all know that was a very sad time back then.

Also, on a brighter note, I just recently for the first time watched the 1995 remake of the movie "Sabrina" with Harrison Ford, Julia Ormond, and Greg Kinnear. Sydney Pollock directed the remake and did a good job keeping it pretty accurate as the original with Audrey Hepburn. Julia Ormond is one of my favorites and I love hearing her speak. She has such a gentle and sweet voice, just like Audrey did. She fit perfectly as "Sabrina".

I really didn't like The boy in the striped Pyjamas. It seemed like world war II being explained for children really. I just thouhgt it was preachy and so unoriginal but each to there own.

I just saw and loved District 9.

[David]

I've been Netflixing a lot the past few weeks. Here's what I've seen:

ONLY FOOLS & HORSES
CHRONICLE OF ANNA MAGDALENA BACH
A SCANDAL IN PARIS
THERESE RAQUIN
MABOROSI
THE CHILDREN ARE WATCHING US
THE ADVENTURES OF ICHABOD & MR. TOAD
STEPHEN KOVACEVICH: BEETHOVEN SONATAS
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (1923)
NATHAN MILSTEIN: IN PORTRAIT

I recommend all of them to the fans of Stevie Nicks & Bob Welch, but most decidedly not to the fans of Peter Green or Chris McVie.

[AliceLover]

hmmm....

Saw 5
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
The Strangers
Friday the 13th (Remake)
Bruno
Funny People
Inglorious Basterds

[Ghost_Tracker]

Gonna be seeing "Mamma Mia" very soon - looking forward to it big-time.

We're also gonna go see "The District" today - -- "Now playing in a theater near you."
That one's more like "just for something to do."

[daniellaaarisen]

I only recently saw Fight Club. I looooooooooooved it, but I still feel like a failure of a person for seeing it this late in life.

[skcin]

http://www.ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showthread.php?t=39417

[TrueFaith77]

I just watched the new John Boorman movie: The Tiger's Tail. Relegated to a straight-to-DVD release, it is the best film by this GIANT of filmmaking in over a decade (and I was moved by the cathartic In My Country). If it weren't so wise and elegant, I'd say it exhibits the youthful inventiveness of his Catch Us If You Can (yes, greater than A Hard Day's Night), while updating his complicated, humane view of Capitalism in Where the Heart Is (post-Reagan, pre-Clinton, it went unheeded) to the Obama era. Its insights into the human eternal adrift in the political-economic present couldn't be more urgently needed. Deep, mysterious, fun, funny, The Tiger's Tail swirls with intellectual romance and primal emotions, from its teeming traffic-jam opening to its final boat-trip punchline.

It joins Julian Hernandez's Raging Sun, Raging Sky and Andre Techine's The Girl On The Train as the best new movies I've seen this year -- all (thus far) unreleased theatrically in the United States.