<p>Will definitely have to put Quartet on my list of movies to see. Love Maggie Smith!</p>
<p>I remember seeing this on television when I was young.
Even then Maggie Smith had great lines.
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<p>Quartet does sound good, Ill have to see if it moves closer to me.
I also just re watched The Philadelphia Story.
So funny. Didnt know that Hepburn had bought the rights & originally wanted Clark Gable & Spencer Tracy, for the roles that went to Cary Grant & Jimmy Stewart.</p>
<p>I didn’t * like* Amour, but it stays with you. Longer than you’d like.</p>
<p>Our atempt at “Anna Karenina” failed, could not finish watching it. So not reflective of Tolstoy that we questioned if anybody who was involved producing this parody has read the book. My H. commented that it looked like they got familiar reading Cliff Notes. I agree, maybe or maybe they did not bother even with Cliff notes. Other than that, any attempts at anything has failed lately, but works very well as a sleeping pill, no side effects…</p>
<p>Anna Karenina was very soothing, I agree Miami.
I think it was the way the scenes were choreographed.
I was also hypnotized by Knightleys teeth.</p>
<p>Its probably better than what I usually watch before I go to sleep.
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But the accent is soothing.
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<p>I want to go see Quartet, but my husband does not, nor does my daughter. Do any of you go to movies alone? I haven’t so far, but maybe I should change my ways . . . I should add that we recently moved, so haven’t acquired any <em>movie buddies</em> yet.</p>
<p>I went to see a movie matinee by myself for the first time this fall. I saw “The Perks of Being a Wallflower.” I don’t normally cry at the movies when I’m with my H or D. However, I didn’t feel self-conscious shedding some tears since I was by myself.</p>
<p>Say what you want about AK sucking, but it totally deserves cinematography, score, production design, and costume design.</p>
<p>And I didn’t like Perks.</p>
<p>I enjoyed perks. My 20 something daughter made me go.</p>
<p>Perks was ok. Well made, well shot, well acted, well edited. I appreciate the craft aspects. But the kids were way too sophisticated and I’m tired of the trope where the outcast has a high status sibling. When a recent graduate is a starting linebacker for a major college football team that’s huge in your state, you don’t pick on his little brother. </p>
<p>I used to go to movies by myself all the time. Why not? I bring along my friends so it’s me, myself and I.</p>
<p>mstee – I never used to, but now I go to the movies alone all the time. My husband doesn’t like the movies I choose (even if they end up being the ones everyone acknowledges are good, like Margin Call, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Side Effects). If there’s something I want to see, I see it. Often at the aging triplex in the town we live in (I can walk there). Even though the seats sag, the screen is small, and the place smells of popcorn, I always get that lift when I walk in. It’s like the song from Chorus Line: everything…was beautiful…at the movies.</p>
<p>Used to love to go to the movies by myself. We had a dollar cinema that showed a lot of the early Fox Searchlight Movies: Sliding Doors, Opposite of Sex. I miss that show so much. It was my treat on son’s first day back at school, when I finally had a day to myself after the long summer vacation.</p>
<p>My son has been watching the Criterion Collection on Hulu recently and delighted me with a phone call the other day to tell me about this amazing movie he had just seen: M, with Peter Lorre. We spent two hours on the phone talking about the amazing movies he was seeing. He had also seen the Seventh Seal about the chess match with death, which I will have to catch now, never heard of it, though seems it is a famous film. Son also watched Modern Times and has decided he is now a Charlie Chaplin fan, which I never could get into, and his next up is The Great Dictator. He’s enlightening me that Chaplin is not just a slapstick comedian, but in fact, a political satirist, so I’ll have to be more open minded when viewingthe Chaplin films from now on.</p>
<p>Hoping that Argo is out on video in time for Spring Break next month so we can watch it together and H and I can talk to him about what it was like to be his age during that time in American history.</p>
<p>Did love Quartet and the setting and concept of a retirement home for retired musicians. It was very poignant.</p>
<p>I watched the following movies on Netflix since last weekend: The Winds of War, Life Is Beautiful, and Pope Pius XII. They are pretty good.</p>
<p>Montegut, have you introduced your son to Harold Lloyd?
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It’s actually out this week! Surprising, considering it’s among the frontrunners for the Best Picture Oscar tomorrow night. But it’s cheaper at Target this week than it will be next week.</p>
<p>“The Seventh Seal” - one of Ingmar Bergman’s greatest and indeed most famous films. Many references to that chess match in other movies.</p>
<p>I didn’t realize Argo had come out on DVD already. Will have to add Seventh Seal to my “watch list.”</p>
<p>My Netflix selection for this weekend was Liberal Arts, a 2012 film. Not Oscar worthy, but an enjoyable Friday night on my own sofa. It’s the story of a 35 year old admissions counselor in NYC who returns to his liberal arts school to celebrate the retirement of his favorite professor/mentor. Evidently it was filmed at Kenyon College, the alma mater of two of the actors - Josh Radnor and Allison Janney.</p>
<p>Emerald, thank you so much for the Harold Lloyd reminder. I was trying to think of his name when talking to son. I remember Chaplin and Buster Keaton, but could not think of the guy with the clock. Your link brought me right to the picture of Lloyd and the clock. I do remember learning about him in film class. I think son will enjoy his films as well.</p>
<p>Son will have a new suitemate next year, who is part of a group he watches movies with on Netflix, and he found that young man has seen a lot of Westerns, something son says he is sadly lacking in his film repertoire. </p>
<p>The only Western I remember really enjoying was the original True Grit, though they were all over the theaters when I was growing up in the sixties.</p>
<p>Any idea of Westerns to introduce son to?</p>
<p>How about Unforgiven; High Noon; Shane; Wild Bunch; The Searchers; The Good, The Bad & The Ugly; Butch Cassidy; The Magnificent Seven; The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance; The Professionals; Tombstone; My Darling Clementine; Outlaw Josey Wales; and Rio Bravo.</p>
<p>DH is a huge John Wayne fan. We’ve seen them all…more than once. One of my favorites is The Cowboys. I like the kids trying so hard to be tough cowboys.</p>