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Post by Tomas on Apr 3, 2018 8:18:13 GMT
One of the things that struck me about the movie Risen was the sheer insignificance of the group of Jewish fishermen and the small group of women who followed Jesus. They are poor and confused in contrast to the powerful establishment of their time. I kept thinking of the parable image of the tiny mustard seed. The resurrection appearances are also depicted in striking mysterious ways. This is a movie that sticks in your mind which is always a good sign. It was unusal in its approach. The few flaws that I found disturbing were not sticking out too much from the whole story (especially the way in which the roman general got his share in the breaking of the "bread" - no more description here to avoid spoiler - and the silly scene where they starts yelling for "Yeshua" like it was some kind of hide and seek). The role of Pontius Pilate and some things within the walls of Jerusalem put good weight on the credit side.
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Post by Séamus on May 21, 2018 0:12:09 GMT
Vale: (Eileen) Patricia Morison, dead @103, whose tiny part as Napoléon III's consort in SONG OF BERNADETTE is considered one of her best parts
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2018 0:51:05 GMT
Does anyone else like the Alec Guinness Father Brown movie? I love all the things that I suppose anyone else who saw the movie and liked it might enjoy: Alec Guinness' warm portrayal of an eccentric but kindly priest, the comic plot, the hauteur and skill of Flambeau, etc. But above all I love Guinness' scenes in the pulpit. He preaches the scriptural text with a warmth that springs of the realness of it to him. He is not lecturing. He is recounting something priceless that taught and touched him. It may be a bit corny, but I count those scenes as the best portrayal of a believing priest I ever saw in a movie. I also enjoyed his eagerness to bring Flambeau to faith in a living God. He was other-worldly in the best of senses; connected by faith to heaven for good works on earth.
Of course you probably know that Sir Alec converted to Catholicism while filming this, so I suppose the experience brought a special grace to his performance.
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Jun 20, 2018 6:43:45 GMT
Does anyone else like the Alec Guinness Father Brown movie? I love all the things that I suppose anyone else who saw the movie and liked it might enjoy: Alec Guinness' warm portrayal of an eccentric but kindly priest, the comic plot, the hauteur and skill of Flambeau, etc. But above all I love Guinness' scenes in the pulpit. He preaches the scriptural text with a warmth that springs of the realness of it to him. He is not lecturing. He is recounting something priceless that taught and touched him. It may be a bit corny, but I count those scenes as the best portrayal of a believing priest I ever saw in a movie. I also enjoyed his eagerness to bring Flambeau to faith in a living God. He was other-worldly in the best of senses; connected by faith to heaven for good works on earth. Of course you probably know that Sir Alec converted to Catholicism while filming this, so I suppose the experience brought a special grace to his performance. f'Man Even though G.K. Chesterton is my favourite writer, I've never read more than a smattering of the Father Brown stories, since i can't stand detective fiction. I haven't seen the Alec Guinness portrayal. However, I will watch them if I get the chance, given your words here. I'm very interested in portrayals of priests and especially of priests preaching.
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Post by Tomas on Jun 23, 2018 6:39:22 GMT
Does anyone else like the Alec Guinness Father Brown movie? I love all the things that I suppose anyone else who saw the movie and liked it might enjoy: Alec Guinness' warm portrayal of an eccentric but kindly priest, the comic plot, the hauteur and skill of Flambeau, etc. But above all I love Guinness' scenes in the pulpit. He preaches the scriptural text with a warmth that springs of the realness of it to him. He is not lecturing. He is recounting something priceless that taught and touched him. It may be a bit corny, but I count those scenes as the best portrayal of a believing priest I ever saw in a movie. I also enjoyed his eagerness to bring Flambeau to faith in a living God. He was other-worldly in the best of senses; connected by faith to heaven for good works on earth. Of course you probably know that Sir Alec converted to Catholicism while filming this, so I suppose the experience brought a special grace to his performance. f'Man I liked that film but unfortunately have forgotten the sermon scene altogether. My favourite scene were early on where he sat in a chair and absentminded explained the prospect to transport the valuable item hidden among the Cardinals (can't even recall the story properly since it is a few years back seeing it). Once I showed the scene just described at a small party at home and it went down well despite the fact that most of the people there were secular Swedes with no open interest in Catholic faith. The story about Guinness conversion during the making of the film in France is endearing, and even though the suspense moments seems dated now it might well be revisited from the dvd shelf soon - I'd like to see the preaching after reading your post!
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Post by Stephen on Jul 17, 2018 8:41:51 GMT
13 hours the secret soldiers of benghazi...
Just watched this movie last night and it was interesting to see the chaos after the CIA helped to topple the government.
In the beginning and end there is the now standard issue solider banter and family videos which to its credit was fairly wholesome.The middle section of the events is high adrenaline action.
Whether this has much to do with what actually happened in Benghazi that night I'm not really sure, it is definitely dramatised. Others may have wanted a much more political film, but as far as the action and storyline goes there is nothing to complain about.
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Post by Séamus on Aug 21, 2018 2:02:53 GMT
It's a bit late, she died in March, but vale- Morgana King, originally named Maria Grazia Messina, mostly a cabaret singer, who played Carmela Corleone in THE GODFATHER I&II. I was reading an obituary this morning which mentioned that she recommended a statue of St Anthony be added to the house-set, knowing from her Sicilian parents that even a mafia home wasn't complete without one
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Sept 2, 2018 16:58:15 GMT
This thread is basically for every movie-related post that doesn't fit in "Conservatives Go to the Movies". I want to keep that thread dedicated to posts about actual trips to the cinema, and about the cinema-going experience. I'm moving some posts from the other thread here.
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Sept 7, 2018 9:14:02 GMT
A YouTube ad for a new comedy called "Night School" shows the protagonist dressed as a chicken, outside a fast food restaurant, shouting at cars: "Honk once if you love chicken. Honk twice if you love the Lord". www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBs1pRx2TywA clear swipe at Chick-Fil-A, the fast food franchise in America which liberals hate because they have a Christian ethos-- not opening on Sundays, and supporting groups which lobby for traditional marriage (though they've somewhat caved in on the second). I get tired of the constant propaganda in movies today. Anti-Christianity is one part of it, race baiting is another. Every week there seems to be new anti-white movies in the multiplex. (Lots of people have recommended I see the movie Get Out, in which a black character is persecuted by a group of white people. I tell them I don't watch anti-white movies.) (I wouldn't watch an anti-black movie, either, if such a thing existed. Shaft is one of my favourite movies.) I walked out of the movie Cedar Rapids because of its anti-Christian subtext. It follows an insurance agent whose company has a strong Christian ethos, praying before meetings, etc. Of course, they turn out to be hypocrites. It's not enough for Hollywood to paint Christians as narrow-minded, stupid, repressed, etc. They can't even let them be sincere. And let's not forget that every action movie today needs to feature a scene where a woman beats up several men and this is presented as funny, or social justice.
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Post by Séamus on Sept 8, 2018 7:55:10 GMT
A YouTube ad for a new comedy called "Night School" shows the protagonist dressed as a chicken, outside a fast food restaurant, shouting at cars: "Honk once if you love chicken. Honk twice if you love the Lord". www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBs1pRx2TywA clear swipe ....etc...] I get tired of the constant propaganda in movies today. Anti-Christianity is one part of it, race baiting is another. Every week there seems to be new anti-white movies in the multiplex. (Lots of people have recommended I see the movie Get Out, in which a black character is persecuted by a group of white people. I tell them I don't watch anti-white movies.) (I wouldn't watch an anti-black movie, either, if such a thing existed. Shaft is one of my favourite movies.) I walked out of the movie Cedar Rapids because of its anti-Christian subtext...etc. I read a piece on today's paper advertising movie THE NUN. While I'm sure some haunted monasteries and unholy nuns have graced history, the ridiculousness of the plot, if the paragraph can be believed, is seen in the line- 'a priest with a haunted past and a noviciate (sic) on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate(the haunted convent in Romania)' Even in McCarrick times, it seems remarkable that a 'priest with a haunted past' would be sent on such a mission to a highly-unlikely-to-even-exist (seeing that it's an 80%> Eastern Orthodox population)convent...and with a novice?
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Sept 8, 2018 11:45:47 GMT
I generally look favorably on horror movies with Catholic themes as they are basically accepting Catholic cosmology. I thought of going to see this but the reviews look awful. (Not that I'm always put off by hostile reviews. I'm even drawn by them sometimes. It depends what they say.)
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Post by assisi on Sept 9, 2018 13:13:13 GMT
I generally look favorably on horror movies with Catholic themes as they are basically accepting Catholic cosmology. I thought of going to see this but the reviews look awful. (Not that I'm always put off by hostile reviews. I'm even drawn by them sometimes. It depends what they say.) In that case I think you would like 'Deliver us from Evil' (2014). I would give it 7 out of 10, better than average and with peripheral but important Catholic content. Also, on the subject of identity politics in the movies, I watched 'Bushwick' on Netflix. Action movie (spoilers ahead if you want to avoid)........................................................................................... ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. Bushwick is a diverse area of Brooklyn New York being attacked and targeted by Southern State secessionists as a kind of opening gambit to a civil war. The local diverse groups unexpectedly fight back. So black gang members, orthodox Jews and dopeheads all pop into view as chaos ensues and they fight the well armed anonymous (dressed in black) Texans. Not for the first time in my movie lifetime I ended up picking for the 'baddies'.
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Post by cato on Sept 12, 2018 10:13:23 GMT
Has anyone seen Black 47? It seems it is the first major movie depicting the Great Hunger.
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Sept 12, 2018 10:32:02 GMT
Has anyone seen Black 47? It seems it is the first major movie depicting the Great Hunger. No...I avoid anything about the Great Famine. It is just too dark a subject. The same applies to the Holocaust.
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Post by assisi on Sept 24, 2018 19:30:53 GMT
Just watched 'Gangs of New York' from 2002, directed by Martin Scorsese.
I'm glad I eventually got round to seeing it. There are very few actors or actresses that I rate, but Daniel Day-Lewis is very good. I know he is a bit of a recluse, and could be accused of cultivating the tortured artist stereotype, but he is, in my opinion, a level higher than most of his colleagues.
The movie is violent. The Irish gangs' fighting the native (American Protestants of English origin) are a mix of the symbolically Catholic and the debauched lifestyle of the 'Five Points' slum of Manhattan in the mid 1800s. The Day-Lewis character hates the incoming Irish immigrants coming off the boats and the Irish are swallowed up in the crime and poverty of the slums.
These slums were infamous, only matched by the poverty and crime of the East end of London at that time. And the mix of Irish and Blacks living together there may have been the first example of the melting pot scenario of America. Indeed the competition between and merging of Black music and Irish music may have given rise to 'tap dancing' and been a precursor to Jazz and rock and roll. At some point later the Blacks moved to the Northern part of Manhattan, Harlem and the Bronx.
I guess when you see a movie like this you realise the toughness and roughness of the Irish. Where we naturally disposed to fight or was violence a natural consequence of an impoverished life in slums and being hated by many of the 'Natives'?
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