The Last Movie You Saw On DVD or VHS or TV.

just got done watching romancing the stone on betamax. need to throw out the three or four big boxes of betamax disks (more like books) i have.

last movie i watched was office space i think....that or grind house

Tried to watch the new 'Diehard'. Got bored and started reading while hubby watched.

How many times has a film/movie been made in your immediate area?.Living in South East London,I can recall many,but most have been CGI'd to look somewhere different.Of those that weren't,Mike Leigh's All Or Nothing mini-cab office scenes were filmed at the end of my street in Greenwich.
G:MT was totally filmed in and around Greenwich and as far as I know,is/was only available on VHS (sorry kitkat_bar)
I'm gonna add another to the list.
Making Waves was filmed a stones throw away from me,in and around Blackheath Village and Greenwich.It's a romantic comedy about a group of ham-radio enthusiasts who,assuming they will never meet,exaggerate their identities (apart from one) on the airwaves.A bit like some do on the net.The story revolves around a lonely VHS video store owner Robert,a thirty-something divorce,who is a total film nurd,and Rachel,an oral hygienist,who longs to climb mountains and travel to exotic lands.Things start to get complicated when they fall in love with each other's imaginary personas,especially when they have to meet face-to-face and find themselves trying to live up to their fictitious alter-egos.

PS.
The video store is still there,but is now renting out DVD's.The chip shop next door stays open till 11pm seven days a week.
The tramp/hobo outside the video store is based on a real character.To my shame,I don't know his name but will make an effort to "get to know him" soon.
The restaurant is now Indian/Nepalese.

PPS.
This is a low budget film,but they still got the real Archbishop of Canterbury to play his part

hard candy, very good, very disturbing film

Mr. Brooks. I fell asleep about three quarters through and woke up just before the end. And what an ending it was.

I watched Flightplan for the first time on TV tonite. I can't remember the last time I was so involved in a movie.

Got really bored and started watching something about furry little woodland critters..."once upon a forest" I think....
but there was a really cool documentary after that about hell and how it relates to different cultures and religions on the history channel.
it was called "Hell: The Devil's domain"

Francoise Truffaut's masterpiece "The 400 Blows," a film every director who has made a coming-of-age movie has watched if they want to know the possibilities in the genre. Except that no writer or producer has come even close.

I watched "Irreversible" last week. It's a pretty disturbing story (after all it's from Gaspar Noé who also directed "I Stand Alone") about vengeance for a rape with a reverse chronology of events beginning with the protagonists' arrest for their deed of revenge.

Here's another disturbing story.Come And See.A Russian film telling a story of a young lad confronting the onslaught of the German army during WW2.Couldn't find it my side of the pond so had to get it through a seller on Amazon.com.
On a more cheerful note,I'm working my way through the enhanced 5 disc set of Blade Runner.IMHO the bargain of the year.

According to the website linked above there are five versions of this movie! And all along I had thought that there was the theatrical version, and the utterly crappy Directors Cut. I knew that Scott was working on a definitive final cut. What are the other two?

It's ironic that Harrison Ford hated the voiceover narration. He said in an interview a while back that he had deliberately delivered them in an artless monotone to sabotage the work of the writers.

Without the narration, however, much is lost in explanation and understanding of the story as is evidenced in the stinking Director's Cut.

I just saw on the wikipedia entry for the movie that there have been seven versions of the movie released.

Thanks for that reference. It looks to be a very good film. I immediately queued it up on Netflix.

He said "Mike Leigh"!

Really loved "Naked."

Here's the list....
1.The Final Cut(2007) digitally restored and remastered incorporating new footage and special effects never before seen,soundtrack remastered in DD 5.1,3 commentaries,one by Scott recorded this year.
2.US Theatrical Cut(1982)
3.International Theatrical Cut(1982)
4.Director's Cut(1992)
5.Workprint....rarely seen workprint with alternate music,footage and voice-over.

Taken from the Director's commentary---the voice-over was insisted on by the producers.Neither Ford or Scott wanted it's inclusion as they wanted the viewer to work things out for themselves.The original cut was 4 hours long and many sceens that hinted to just who was a replicant ended up on the cutting room floor.
Scott's commentary is really informative and pulls no punches,as is the "making-of" on Disc 2,which covers the film's difficult creation and controversial legacy.

Watched BABEL last night.

Joe(still reeling)Nation

Kinda sucks you in, ties you up in knots & yes, leaves you reeling, that film!

Deserved every award it won,and then some!

Battle of Algiers.

Plan to revisit the Pontecorvo flics I've seen in the past.

Oh yeah, I saw this movie this past summer. What with it's theme of imperialist occupation and suppression, it is still very relevant to today's geopolitics.

Pocketful of Miracles.
It's that time of year again.