MD wrote:All the staff can view reports.
I might have to warn withnail for making spurious reports and thus wasting our time.
Pops wrote:I like watching series TV without the cable:
Deadwood, awesome western, great staging, thick Edwardian dialog with "fuck" approx every third word
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And of course Mad Men, probably the main reason for the popularity of "Mid-Century Modern" style
Sixstrings wrote:
I've never seen a Russian movie. Are there any Russian movies like that, like something that may be shown at Cannes or Sundance over here, indie type stuff.
radon1 wrote:This year's Cannes winner is Russian Leviathan movie, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_%282014_film%29
A modern reworking of the Book of Job, the film is set on a peninsula by the Barents Sea and tells the story of a man who struggles against a corrupt mayor who wants his piece of land. The film is adjudged the best film of the 45th International Film Festival of India. The producer Alexander Rodnyansky has said: "It deals with some of the most important social issues of contemporary Russia while never becoming an artist's sermon or a public statement, it is a story of love and tragedy experienced by ordinary people".[5]
The film was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.[6] Zvyagintsev and Negin won the award for Best Screenplay.
Then there are good Soviet-time movies, but they are old.
K-19: The Widowmaker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-19:_The_Widowmaker
radon1 wrote:The only good ones that come to mind are The Island by Lungin, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8bcGrQf ... GpWVV-xgvd.
pstarr wrote:Is there something wrong with the sound on The Island by Lungin?
dinopello wrote:You probably already know about this but Wolf of Wall Street is on Netflix probably for a limited time. Speaking of Leonardo, Django is still on Netflix.
Sixstrings wrote:dinopello wrote:You probably already know about this but Wolf of Wall Street is on Netflix probably for a limited time. Speaking of Leonardo, Django is still on Netflix.
I saw that on my suggestions..
You know..
I don't think I want to watch banksters being rich and obnoxious.
pstarr wrote:"Wolf of Wall Street" no banksters, just corrupt stock brokers. Wonderful over-the-top paean to American excess. No one (excepting perhaps Nero and dracula) did it as well. Django is an over-the-top depiction of the evils of slavery. Over-the-top is good on the screen.
Patton Theatrical Movie Trailer (1970)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-0dTpzNzwo
pstarr wrote:
by Nikita Mikhalkov
The Departed, Shutter Island, Inception.As for Di Caprio -- I can't remember a good movie, with him in it.
Putin's Kiss trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mu3jqfyAdY
"Putins Kiss" "Поцелуй Путина"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iKj41HgtFk
Putin's Kiss is a 2012 documentary, directed by Lise Birk Pedersen, about Russian youth activist Masha Drokova and her experiences with the youth organisation Nashi.
As the film goes on, Drokova becomes friends with several other journalists, many of whom are critical of the Russian ruling party. Her views are called into question and she becomes increasingly torn between the two. The situation reaches a head when her friend and fellow journalist Oleg Kashin is violently beaten; though his attackers are never identified, it is speculated by many that they were working for the Kremlin in some capacity. By the end of the film, though Drokova remains an ardent supporter of Putin, she is no longer a member of Nashi, and she is shown discussing her views freely with Kashin.
Putin's Kiss won the World Cinema Cinematography Award in Documentary at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.[1] It has received mixed reviews, and holds a rating of 52 out of 100 on review aggregator Metacritic.[2] OpenDemocracy.com refers to it as "a complex tale of inner conflict"[3] and the New York Post said that it was "more than just the portrait of a naive young woman...it’s a frightening look at Putin’s warped version of democracy."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putin%27s_Kiss
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Tanada wrote:Netflix keeps throwing Orange Is The New Black up at me so I watched the first couple episodes. Very strange yuppy drama prison show about women, sort of.
Sixstrings wrote:I decided to type "ukraine" into netflix, and it popped up a Frontline episode and also this, which is on youtube as well.
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