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Came across the story of Sir Nicholas Winton.
He was an English stock broker and humanitarian (??!!) who in 1938 went to Czechoslavika and, somehow, managed to save the lives of 669 Jewish children who would have been inevitably murdered by the Germans in next 12 months.

Amazing true story. Well worth a look and a think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Winton
 
If you took the time to watch the story of the 664 children saved by Sir Nicolas Winton you will have also faced the horror of the millions of families destroyed by war. That was a very powerful doco.

So a brighter note check out another contemporay story of a person who refused to give up no matter how impossible the situation seemed.
 
Came back from a few days away and faced a very big pile of ironing... Sad.
Decided to do (some of) it while watching/hearing Adele at Royal Albert Hall.

Great songs, fantastic atmosphere but what was most moving were the stories she told in introducing her songs.
 
Watched The Martian on You Tube.

Certainly a BIG movie. Long, sciency , sardonic, totally over the top in terms of outrageous solutions to surving on Mars.

But fun.. Well worth it IMV
 
Disney's Descendants.

TV-movie that mixes high school musicals with Disney's (stolen and trademarked) fairy tale characters' children (i.e. descendants).

There's a lot, a whole lot, wrong with the movie and its premise but the kids love it.

The film make me think whether or not we're ruining our kids, seriously.

So all of Disney's characters kind of got together, at the same time, even though the stories set them continents, centuries, and various worlds apart... all of Disney's characters... like beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Mulan etc. etc. They all have kids about the same time.

These kids goes to the same school.

Children of the "good" character goes to a bright and sunny whatever castle; children of the "bad guys" get stranded on "the Isle" where they're pirates and low-life scums, like their parents.

Well, some of the children are actually good inside. So even though their parents are evil dudes, some of the kids are actually good. So that kinda save the idea of genetic purity and stuff, I guess.

then there's dead evil characters who we found out are still alive. I mean, they managed to bear and raise their kids. But then again I guess all Disney characters fell to their death so they didn't really die then.

I guess if you don't think about it, it's just another rip off of whatever them teens musicals are called.
 
I saw "Cider with Rosie" on You Tube over the weekend.

Its a an autobiography by Laurie Lee who born into a small English village in 1914. Really interesting insight into life in a pre industrial time English village.

The narrator is in fact Laurie Lee. He died the year before the movie was released. The book Cider with Rosie sold 6mill plus copies.
 
Darkest Hour is coming to our screens. Looks at Winston Churchill in 1940 when the fate of England and Europe was precarious.

The movie seems to be excellent. This review offers an insight into all the aspects of Churchills character and how his leadership shows up the present crop pf political leaders.

Winston Churchill makes a fine movie star. If only we had a leader to match him in real life today
Britain’s wartime leader is played by Gary Oldman in the film Darkest Hour, following portrayals by John Lithgow and Brian Cox. His enduring legend is a rebuke to current world politicians, says the Observer’s chief political columnist

In an early scene in Darkest Hour, Clementine Churchill tells another character that her husband is “just a man, like any other”. This is a knowing opening joke in Joe Wright’s new film about May 1940 and the first three weeks of Winston Churchill’s premiership. It is a joke that just about everyone is guaranteed to get. Even those of its citizens with the slenderest grasp of this country’s past will know that Churchill was not a man like any other. During its long and rich history, Britain has had good, bad and mediocre leaders. Churchill occupies an elevated plinth all to himself as the prime minister who led his country through a struggle for national survival, the like of which it had never before endured and has never since experienced. The stakes were vertiginous when he replaced the discredited Neville Chamberlain at Number 10. The choices made in the early weeks of Churchill’s premiership were a hinge point in history. In play was not just the freedom of Britain but the future of an entire continent.

This makes the Churchill legend one deserving of his country’s pride and at the same time it presents us with several linked problems. He is a challenge for actors who try to embody him and for the politicians who have followed him. There is also a Churchill conundrum for the country that remembers – and misremembers – his role in its history.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jan/07/winston-churchill-darkest-hour-andrew-rawnsley
 
basilio said:
Darkest Hour is coming to our screens. Looks at Winston Churchill in 1940 when the fate of England and Europe was precarious.

The movie seems to be excellent. This review offers an insight into all the aspects of Churchills character and how his leadership shows up the present crop pf political leaders.

Winston Churchill makes a fine movie star. If only we had a leader to match him in real life today
Britain’s wartime leader is played by Gary Oldman in the film Darkest Hour, following portrayals by John Lithgow and Brian Cox. His enduring legend is a rebuke to current world politicians, says the Observer’s chief political columnist

In an early scene in Darkest Hour, Clementine Churchill tells another character that her husband is “just a man, like any other”. This is a knowing opening joke in Joe Wright’s new film about May 1940 and the first three weeks of Winston Churchill’s premiership. It is a joke that just about everyone is guaranteed to get. Even those of its citizens with the slenderest grasp of this country’s past will know that Churchill was not a man like any other. During its long and rich history, Britain has had good, bad and mediocre leaders. Churchill occupies an elevated plinth all to himself as the prime minister who led his country through a struggle for national survival, the like of which it had never before endured and has never since experienced. The stakes were vertiginous when he replaced the discredited Neville Chamberlain at Number 10. The choices made in the early weeks of Churchill’s premiership were a hinge point in history. In play was not just the freedom of Britain but the future of an entire continent.

This makes the Churchill legend one deserving of his country’s pride and at the same time it presents us with several linked problems. He is a challenge for actors who try to embody him and for the politicians who have followed him. There is also a Churchill conundrum for the country that remembers – and misremembers – his role in its history.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jan/07/winston-churchill-darkest-hour-andrew-rawnsley
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Hope they have his oneliners:

https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/426856870915928521/?lp=true
 
Saw Rashamon again last night. Brilliant Japanese movie by Kuroswa. It's about the murder of a traveller and the rape of his wife but told from four different angles.
Black and white and Japanese but great cinema.

The story was reconstructed by Hollywood in the 60's for American audiences and called "The Outrage". Still a great story but probably more accessible.


https://doclip.com/list/the-outrage-full-movie-eng-sub
 
basilio said:
A bit more about Kurosawa and composing movement in film. Fascinating.
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A great series on the art of film-making by Tony Zhou there.

Kurosawa is one of the truly great movie directors. Saw a few of his films and they're really well made, beautiful to look at and tell a great story.

Check out Ran if you haven't. It's based on King Lear.

The Seven Samurai was also awesome. The sword fights... wow.
 
Films - Not what I am watching but what I will be watching over the next couple of weeks,

1. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

2. The Post.

Cheers.
 
Been watching Shetland for the past few weeks on ABC.
Totally brilliant crime drama with absorbing character development.
The last episode tonight was gripping. What really set it apart was a couple of incidents around rape, the effect on the women and how the women, police and the community reacted to the assault.
All the episodes are still on Iview and well worth watching.

http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/shetland/ZW1272A005S00
 
crawled in from the local at 2.30am the other night ... put on "Black Lightning" and binge watched to the latest episode.
 
Found a brilliant BBC comedy series on Iview. Written by Ben Elton, features David Mitchell.

Set in Elizabethian England and is set around Will Shakespeare and his efforts to write the classical Shakesperian plays. Totally droll. Six episodes to date

Upstart Crow
Series 1 Ep 1 Star Crossed Lovers
COMEDY
Will Shakespeare struggles to find inspiration for Romeo while at the same time having to deal with an angry actor, a very annoying house-guest, and his family's not-terribly-helpful script suggestions.

http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/upstart-crow/ZW1395A001S00
 
Tisme said:
Designated Survivor with Keifer Sutherland = binge watched
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Same here, although I haven't bothered with Series 2. I thought S1 excellent, but I felt I had enough of the characters by the end and thought having a Series 2 overkill.
 
bellenuit said:
Same here, although I haven't bothered with Series 2. I thought S1 excellent, but I felt I had enough of the characters by the end and thought having a Series 2 overkill.
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So didn't get up to the episode where he beds his mother in law?;)
 
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