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Post by batman on Jul 31, 2023 14:16:31 GMT
of course watching it in your own home would be different, and of course there has to be a limit. In this instance, he sponsored the event which was a public idenfication with the film.
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Post by Sibboleth on Jul 31, 2023 14:55:52 GMT
Put it like this. If, for whatever reason, you wished to watch The Triumph of the Will or Birth of a Nation in the privacy of your own home, what could be done about it? Who would even know? But if you were to attend a public screening of either film that had been put on by people who were openly and enthusiastically keen about it and its message, then at the very least you would likely have a few questions to answer.
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Post by kevinf on Jul 31, 2023 15:18:42 GMT
Thanks for responding everyone.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Jul 31, 2023 15:27:51 GMT
of course watching it in your own home would be different, and of course there has to be a limit. In this instance, he sponsored the event which was a public idenfication with the film. It doesn't sound particularly pleasant, but the description is ace: "A conspiracy to discredit Jeremy Corbyn". The most effective member of that conspiracy is a man from Shropshire in his Seventies known to hang out on his allotment in North London. |
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Post by mattbewilson on Jul 31, 2023 15:57:11 GMT
Regardless of where he watched it, I am surprised he wasn't suspended for sponsoring the event when the chief whip approached him a week before the event
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Post by uthacalthing on Jul 31, 2023 18:31:33 GMT
I really ought to watch The Triumph of the Will and Birth of a Nation but then I really ought to watch On the Waterfront and Casablanca and I haven't done those either. I gather that all four are fine movies.
But to be honest, I am low-brow and am going to watch Barbie with my daughters, who are professional women in their late twenties. It will involve lunch.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Jul 31, 2023 18:56:47 GMT
I really ought to watch The Triumph of the Will and Birth of a Nation but then I really ought to watch On the Waterfront and Casablanca and I haven't done those either. I gather that all four are fine movies. But to be honest, I am low-brow and am going to watch Barbie with my daughters, who are professional women in their late twenties. It will involve lunch. The Triumph of the Will was fascinating in its day. But it is fundamentally really boring. Still, as camp cinema by a director overly-obsessed with making unsubtle political gestures, it's still better than Love Actually. (The best films to watch from Germany that cover that period are Die Brücke and The Nasty Girl. Both post-war) |
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Post by carlton43 on Jul 31, 2023 21:54:20 GMT
I really ought to watch The Triumph of the Will and Birth of a Nation but then I really ought to watch On the Waterfront and Casablanca and I haven't done those either. I gather that all four are fine movies. But to be honest, I am low-brow and am going to watch Barbie with my daughters, who are professional women in their late twenties. It will involve lunch. Do both for twice the joy and the improvement! And give us a crit on 'Barbie'. |
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Post by CatholicLeft on Jul 31, 2023 22:07:45 GMT
I love Casablanca - the wonderful acting, the joy that is Claude Rains as Captain Louis Renault, the wonderful cast, and the remarkably moving moment when they sing the Marseillaise in the club, realising that many of the supporting cast are refugees from the Nazi invasion of France, make it one of the outstanding films of any generation. All shot in wartime.
The young woman's tears here were real:
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Post by carlton43 on Jul 31, 2023 22:16:15 GMT
I really ought to watch The Triumph of the Will and Birth of a Nation but then I really ought to watch On the Waterfront and Casablanca and I haven't done those either. I gather that all four are fine movies. But to be honest, I am low-brow and am going to watch Barbie with my daughters, who are professional women in their late twenties. It will involve lunch. The Triumph of the Will was fascinating in its day. But it is fundamentally really boring. Still, as camp cinema by a director overly-obsessed with making unsubtle political gestures, it's still better than Love Actually. (The best films to watch from Germany that cover that period are Die Brücke and The Nasty Girl. Both post-war) AND The Blue Angel Diary of a Lost Girl Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler The Testament of Dr. Mabuse Vampyr Madchen in Uniform Pandora's Box The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari M Metropolis Nosferatu |
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Post by nodealbrexiteer on Aug 1, 2023 10:45:48 GMT
The Triumph of the Will was fascinating in its day. But it is fundamentally really boring. Still, as camp cinema by a director overly-obsessed with making unsubtle political gestures, it's still better than Love Actually. (The best films to watch from Germany that cover that period are Die Brücke and The Nasty Girl. Both post-war) AND The Blue Angel Diary of a Lost Girl Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler The Testament of Dr. Mabuse Vampyr Madchen in Uniform Pandora's Box The Cabinet of Dr. CaligariM Metropolis
NosferatuI hope to catch Vampyr at some point, I've seen the ones in bold |
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Post by richardh on Aug 1, 2023 15:25:14 GMT
I have a video of Triumph of the Will (somewhere) but no video recorder to play it any more. The theme of the film may be awful, but there's no denying the cinematography is remarkable for the 1930s.
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Post by johnloony on Aug 1, 2023 19:04:40 GMT
I have a video of Triumph of the Will (somewhere) but no video recorder to play it any more. The theme of the film may be awful, but there's no denying the cinematography is remarkable for the 1930s. I have a copy of “Triumph of the Will” and I have often thought that if I had to make a hypothetical list of 10 DVDs I could save and have with me on the hypothetical desert island, it would be one of them. I have a collection of about 300 VHS tapes accumulated from recording stuff off the TV over the last 30 years, but they are disintegrating and I haven’t played any of them for about a decade. About 8 or 9 years ago I had an intensive period of a few weeks in which i copied about a hundred of my VHS tapes onto DVD, ostensibly to preserve them before the tapes wore out. But even those I now find are wearing out, in the sense that the DVD player doesn’t recognise them when i put the disc into the machine. I have found that some DVDs were playable on my parents’ DVD machine but not mine. I don’t know if the problem is with the disks themselves or with the machine itself just wearing out. |
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Post by cibwr on Aug 3, 2023 16:24:45 GMT
Some dvd players will not play copied disks, its a copyright thing....
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Post by johnloony on Aug 3, 2023 18:24:56 GMT
Some dvd players will not play copied disks, its a copyright thing.... That’s not the problem with my machine. I copy something off TV onto a VHS tape. Many years later, I use the DVD player to copy the VHS tape onto a blank DVD disk. I watch the DVD which I have copied, several times, over many years. After a number of years, it doesn’t recognise it any more. I sometimes found that the same disk worked properly on my parents’ DVD player. I think it’s just a matter of the disk wearing out. |
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Post by pl on Aug 3, 2023 18:37:59 GMT
Some dvd players will not play copied disks, its a copyright thing.... That’s not the problem with my machine. I copy something off TV onto a VHS tape. Many years later, I use the DVD player to copy the VHS tape onto a blank DVD disk. I watch the DVD which I have copied, several times, over many years. After a number of years, it doesn’t recognise it any more. I sometimes found that the same disk worked properly on my parents’ DVD player. I think it’s just a matter of the disk wearing out. Self written DVDs never last as long as commercial ones... |
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Post by johnloony on Aug 3, 2023 20:37:50 GMT
That’s not the problem with my machine. I copy something off TV onto a VHS tape. Many years later, I use the DVD player to copy the VHS tape onto a blank DVD disk. I watch the DVD which I have copied, several times, over many years. After a number of years, it doesn’t recognise it any more. I sometimes found that the same disk worked properly on my parents’ DVD player. I think it’s just a matter of the disk wearing out. Self written DVDs never last as long as commercial ones... So i have discovered. The irony is that (about 8 or 9 years ago) I went through an intensive stage of copying many (about 100j of my (about 300) VHS tapes onto DVD disks, ostensibly to preserve the contents before the tapes disintegrated. I had my first VHS player in 1987, so my collection of VHS tapes accumulated gradually over many years from then onwards. I had already had a few tapes which snapped inside the machine. |
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Post by neilm on Aug 16, 2023 22:56:43 GMT
I love Casablanca - the wonderful acting, the joy that is Claude Rains as Captain Louis Renault, the wonderful cast, and the remarkably moving moment when they sing the Marseillaise in the club, realising that many of the supporting cast are refugees from the Nazi invasion of France, make it one of the outstanding films of any generation. All shot in wartime. The young woman's tears here were real: Casablanca is one of the great joys. I've watched it at least yearly since I was 14 or 15. Many films win awards or praise for all sorts of reasons. Of these, some are a brilliant romp with a thin story or hammy acting, some are technically brilliant but just very meh, some are so of their time that they look dated within a few years (I rewatched All The King's Men one night last week, a good example of that), some are a tour de force but need to be actively and constantly watched, some are just rubbish and don't deserve the praise they get, some are long winded and you lose interest. Casablanca is that rare beast- a bloody good film that stands exclusively on its own merit. |
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