What are you watching?

[hollywood10]

Alexander Payne's "The Holdovers" is a bittersweet holiday dramedy.  Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph and Dominic Sessa all perform flawlessly.  There are echoes of other old teacher films but this one can stand on its own.

[Wilfrid]

I enjoyed it and especially the performances of Randolph and Giamatti; but I admit I struggled with the bridge between hilarious comedy and utter tragedy.

[splinky]

Crashing Eid on Netflix. It's a rom com but so much more. 
It also has all the things and addresses racism, feminism, toxic masculinity, divorce, changing culture and norms, different forms of abuse - family, domestic, family relationships, toxic family members,

[splinky]

next up, Rustin on Netflix.

[hollywood10]

2 hours ago, Wilfrid said:

I enjoyed it and especially the performances of Randolph and Giamatti; but I admit I struggled with the bridge between hilarious comedy and utter tragedy.

Cheers!

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[bloviatrix]

Season 2 of Julia on HBO, which they've been dropping with absolutely no fanfare. Delightful. Although I'm doubtful of the veracity.

[splinky]

1 hour ago, bloviatrix said:

Season 2 of Julia on HBO, which they've been dropping with absolutely no fanfare. Delightful. Although I'm doubtful of the veracity.

i'm looking forward to sitting down with it. they took a lot of dramatic license in the first season, so i'm not surprised that they continue. 

[splinky]

High on the Hog season 2 on Netflix

this is a truly deep dive into the history of america

[splinky]

"aka Mr Chow" such an interesting man. i love the thing where he gives the opening shots of great films. he and his sister the actress Tsai Chin totally have "IT" whatever IT actually is, she was also a Bond Girl.

[small h]

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. The first episode was a lot of fun! And a little confusing for me - it jumps back and forth through time, and look, it's John Goodman! and then it's like he was never there at all.

[hollywood10]

Maestro.  Going beyond the vaguely similar "Tar" the film raises the question how did Bernstein do so much and so many for so long, and live to tell about it.  Entertaining for sure.

[splinky]

Hate watching the second season of The Gilded Age. 

[small h]

Why put yourself through that?

[Sneakeater]

On 12/5/2023 at 10:48 PM, hollywood10 said:

Maestro.  Going beyond the vaguely similar "Tar" the film raises the question how did Bernstein do so much and so many for so long, and live to tell about it.  Entertaining for sure.

He didn't live that long.

[hollywood10]

1 hour ago, Sneakeater said:

He didn't live that long.

He lived to 72 whereas his wife only made it to around 60.  If the film is at all accurate, he was a prodigious smoker and maybe had some coke as well all while maintaining liaisons with various men and women.

[Sneakeater]

You know as well as I do that 72 is a baby.

Cancer doesn't count.

[hollywood10]

A film that works you over but is well worth it is "Anatomy of a Fall" from France.  You might quibble with courtroom scenes that emphasize dramatic revelations over compliance with rules of procedure and evidence but it's all done with amazing skill.  Available in some theatres and on Prime.  Excellent in either format.

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[Wilfrid]

It just won a Golden Globe.

[hollywood10]

Best screenplay and best international film.  Not bad.

[small h]

Well, now I want to see it.

Don't bother with Good Grief. It is, as the kids say, mid.

[Wilfrid]

Past Lives had a bunch of nominations, won nothing, but it was the one movie last year I really wanted to see, did see, and loved. But it’s the kind of cinema I love.

I did see The Holdovers which was fine.

[small h]

Saltburn. That is one deeply silly movie.

[maison rustique]

9 hours ago, small h said:

Saltburn. That is one deeply silly movie.

We must be too old for it. We got through about 15 minutes and turned it off.

[hollywood]

True Detective: Night Country on HBO.  With amazing Jodie Foster (whose character does not like the Beatles, Wilf).  Somewhat like TD, season one. A tiny bit of "Alaska Daily."  With a dollop of "Twin Peaks" based on episode one of six.  So which of various murders will be solved, if any?  The film has a blue-green tint like Fuji film as opposed to idk (?) Kodachrome.  Alaska is a cold place (though this was filmed in Iceland).  Curious that one character drinks Lone Star Beer.

[hollywood]

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Edited January 15, 2024 by hollywood