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Started by Eddie Teach, March 06, 2011, 09:29:27 AM

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Admiral Yi

#56445
February 18, 2025, 05:40:14 AM
Just watched Manchester by the Sea.  Casey Affleck won best actor for playing man with tragic past tryiing to deal with tragic past.  Beautiful and heartbreaking.

celedhring

#56446
February 18, 2025, 08:02:57 AM
Manchester by the Sea is up there in my "saddest movies of all time" list.

Josquius

#56447
February 18, 2025, 11:24:20 AM
The title just irks me. I can't help but think of Manchester Manchester.
Saltburn is similar. But at least it doesn't include a geographically incorrect descriptor.
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garbon

#56448
February 18, 2025, 12:52:35 PM
Quote from: Josquius on February 18, 2025, 11:24:20 AMThe title just irks me. I can't help but think of Manchester Manchester.
Saltburn is similar. But at least it doesn't include a geographically incorrect descriptor.

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"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Savonarola

#56449
February 19, 2025, 05:16:42 PM
The Palm Beach Story (1942)

And they all lived happily ever after, or did they?

Joel McCrea is a down on his luck inventor and his wife, Claudette Colbert, decides that she's holding him back, so she comes to Palm Beach for a divorce.  On the train, after a number of misadventures, she meets a thinly veiled caricature of John D. Rockefeller played by Rudy Vallee.  Joel McCrea flies down to stop the divorce where he meets Vallee's five-times married sister (in order to make it acceptable to the Production Code, two of her marriages had been annulled), played by Mary Astor.  Colbert and McCrea pretend to be brother and sister; in comedies of this era the divorce can't go through so they get back together, but, as luck would have it both Colbert and McCrea have identical twins.  And they all lived happily ever after, or did they?

That's quite a cast, and Colbert is always a delight and it's one of Preston Sturges's fine screwball comedies. I didn't know Florida was a place for quickee divorces in the 1940s.   
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

mongers

#56450
February 20, 2025, 10:05:41 AM
Quote from: Josquius on February 18, 2025, 11:24:20 AMThe title just irks me. I can't help but think of Manchester Manchester.
Saltburn is similar. But at least it doesn't include a geographically incorrect descriptor.

Josq, you might like this an episode mainly about the Stockton and Darlington railway:

The Architecture the Railways Built
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

mongers

#56451
February 20, 2025, 05:07:02 PM
Only ever watched them on release in the cinema, so I bought the extended versions of the three Lord of the Rings films, that should keep me occupied for a few hours.   :)

Or looking at the runtimes, maybe a dozen.  :D 
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"
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