TV/Movies Megathread

[garbon]

Okay episode 5 is not so light.

[crazy canuck]

Okay episode 5 is not so light.

Yeah, but damn good!

[mongers]

Is this on JBO Max?

As that's coming to the UK end of March, currently the only way for me to watch it is I think via Sky/NOW tv with their stupid lock in non-monthly subscription?

[crazy canuck]

Yeah, HBO and so whatever your distributor is locally.

[HVC]

For those enjoying the new GOT show (as am I) they behind the scenes stuff on YouTube is actually pretty good

[mongers]

'The Wages of Fear' - 1953 original not the remake (if there was one loosely based on it).

Also the restored version I watched from the BFI is a very good looking version.

[Duque de Bragança]

Wages of Fear is a classic, though the newer adaptation by Friedkin, Sorcerer, stands on its own, though less political.
Sorcerer not being a remake but a new adaptation of the book, à la Three Musketeers and its countless retellings on film.

Both were very well restored. 

[mongers]

Wages of Fear is a classic, though the newer adaptation by Friedkin, Sorcerer, stands on its own, though less political.
Sorcerer not being a remake but a new adaptation of the book, à la Three Musketeers and its countless retellings on film.

Both were very well restored. 

Thanks Duque for reminder me, that's on my list also.

Ironic that 'Wages of Fear' is about a US oil company struggling with oil infrastructure in the South American countryside only a few hundreds of kilometres from Caracas.

In a couple of years time, maybe it could be updated to the current times?

[mongers]

'The Battle of Algiers' - Forgotten what a superb film this is, was a teenager last time I saw it.

Is Jean Mathieu's colonel Mathieu, the fore-runner of many, though inferior, military elite officer performances in film?  If you see what I mean? 

[Duque de Bragança]

'The Battle of Algiers' - Forgotten what a superb film this is, was a teenager last time I saw it.

Is Jean Mathieu's colonel Mathieu, the fore-runner of many, though inferior, military elite officer performances in film?  If you see what I mean? 

The Strelnikov (!) in Red Dawn, played by Wiliam Smith?
I remember an extra on a French DVD edition where Jean Mathieu stated he went for a nuanced and ad times positive performance, not a cartoonish villain persona, despite being personally opposed to the Algerian War.
Plus an improvised rehearsal in costume in a Parisian café, where he got military salutes from servicemen or people, showing how credible he was.

[mongers]

'The Battle of Algiers' - Forgotten what a superb film this is, was a teenager last time I saw it.

Is Jean Mathieu's colonel Mathieu, the fore-runner of many, though inferior, military elite officer performances in film?  If you see what I mean? 

The Strelnikov (!) in Red Dawn, played by Wiliam Smith?
I remember an extra on a French DVD edition where Jean Mathieu stated he went for a nuanced and ad times positive performance, not a cartoonish villain persona, despite being personally opposed to the Algerian War.
Plus an improvised rehearsal in costume in a Parisian café, where he got military salutes from servicemen or people, showing how credible he was.

Yes I remember that Red Dawn performance, a bit OTT, but entertaining.

Oops made a typing slip, obviously I meant to say Jean Martin, but I mangled in Mathieu.