Recently Watched Films

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the cinemas are open again, so  - first movie watched on big screen from last November...

Edited by snobb - 08 May 2021 at 12:54pm

hungry for big screen movies after more than half-year gap because of lock-down restrictions, my this week-end movie was Danish-Swedish-Dutch "Druk", one of this movies dedicated to "normal" people becoming alcoholics. 

Edited by snobb - 16 May 2021 at 1:13pm

after summer break, my beloved art movies cinema with small hall and 70s-style cafe started new season with Italian movie "Gli Anni Piu Belli"(Our best years) - the romantic and very Italian story about three friends and a beautiful girl, which in time will become a girlfriend of two of them. The story begins in early 90s, when the boys are still teenagers, and finishes when they are in their 50s. Lot of Italian scenery, Rome & Naples, and Italian music, mostly easy recognizable ital-pop from late 80s. Not a masterpiece for sure, but nice 2 hours of very moody Italian pictures, emotions and sounds. 

in contrast to Bond, next day watched new Pedro Almodovar movie "Madres Paralelas", a story about two women who give birth a same day. Almodovar regulars Penelope Cruz and Rossy De Palma can't save the movie from being too long and a bit boring. Missed usual Almodovar unorthodox humor and a bit disappointed with obvious commercial influence (lesbian love without relation to main movie's line, all Spanish drive Suzuki (!), etc).  Even new Bond is better 

^ I'm not familiar with that one, but it does sound interesting.

Edited by js - 11 Dec 2021 at 1:58pm

^ Ha ha, that does sound good.

Swedish "Triangle of Sadness" is one of the best movies I watched this year so far. Social satyre on Post-industrial society, tasteful and groteske at the same time. American drunker yacht captain - socialist and Russian post-Soviet capitalist dialogues are really funny, more important - them arenot really much different between each other though. Modern values as equality, people rights, tolerance, women rights all are beautiful on the surface and disappears in a minute when serious problems are coming. Not a new concept at all, the modern touch is in details - Russian tycoon calls the black guy "pirate" just because he's black, black guy attacks him as "racist" even more aggressively. Philippine crew staff female member is silent and behaves as a slave when at work, but taking the situation under her control, she becomes a shameless dictator. Two-and-half hours long, the movie doesn't look as such long, has lot of layers and works as fresh air wave, leaving lot of things to think about in one's head

Edited by snobb - 23 Oct 2022 at 10:33am

I was lucky enough to spend two hours of the last day of the year 2023 watching the movie in small cinema close to downtown. The theater (possibly oldest still operating cinema in town) didn't change a lot from my young days - tiny café, around six small tables, offering coffee and tea from old coffee  machine, plus few sweets and biscuits in a menu. Just one big room for films, probably 150 seats. True, the picture and sound are both on today's level.