First time watching this classic.
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Spring here hasn’t quite blessed us with higher temperatures yet, so even though I had my bike fixed for the season, so far I am spending too many evenings inside watching movies. Does wonders for my Letterboxd stats 
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here also Spring season is still a little bit frozen especially in the night until sunrise
the movie watched was a german long tv film Tatort with Sieghardt Rupp
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Watched WILLOW a few weeks ago.
It’s one of the 80’s cult movies (only in Germany? ).
But today I heared very bad news.
RIP Val Kilmer 
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I noticed that LongLegs is a fan of British glam rock band, T Rex with the late, great Marc Bolan. In his car he plays T-Rex songs like Jewel, Bang a Gong, and Planet Queen! Also, LongLegs has a poster hanging in his basement workshop with the icon black and white photo of Bolan for the song, The Slider. It’s hard to hate a creepy weirdo who loves the band that brought the world Cosmic Dancer, Jeepster and 20th Century Boy.
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Lazzarella, with a very young chap called Mario Girotti.
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Speed Cross, with Fabio Testi racing dirt bikes and hitting on girls.
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Winterwar. Not as good as Stalingrad but still worth seeing.
G20. Content crap. Skip it.
Do you mean the Finnish movie/miniserie Winter War (Talvisota) from 1989 ?
I am watching it now, the miniserie-version. I have seen the movie-version a long time ago.
it was the movie version
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John Woo’s The Killer. His remake with Emmanuel and Sy. This was a pleasant surprise. Disregard for a second the fact that it’s a remake, this is actually very entertaining, enjoyable, well-made and tongue-in-cheek enough without being goofy, sort of in the Once a Thief mold.
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Masquerade. A lame eurospy romp.
I’m currently re-watching Lars von Tier’s The Kingdom and The Kingdom II before I move on to The Kingdom Exodus. I can’t believe it’s been 31 years since I first started watching this.
For anyone not familiar it’s a Danish, absurdist, supernatural, horror trilogy that is lazily compared to Twin Peaks but really is it’s own thing.
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Last 10. Quite many silent films this time.
- Ingram: Scaramouche 5/10
- Flynn: Monte Cristo 5/10
- von Stroheim: Blind Husbands 5/10
- Fleming: When the Clouds Roll By 7/10
- Sharman: Rocky Horror Picture Show 10/10
- Ritt: Hombre 6/10
- Schwarz: Die wunderbare Lüge der Nina Petrowna 7/10
- Borzage: Lazybones 7/10
- Invisible Maniac (cinema) 6/10
- Demange: White Boy Rick 6/10
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Not a movie but I finally finished The Sopranos. What a show!
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I started to re-watch just last week, after a break of about 10 years plus … it is a great series, but there are characters who are so irritating you want to ‘whack’ them yourself … I had to be satisfied with fast forwarding any scene with the obnoxious spoilt brat of the century, ‘Meadow Soprano’ … although her character is important to the dynamic, she sort of ruins it for me on repeats.
Glad you enjoyed it!
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There are lots of very irritating characters but I think they work them into the show so well, they are very purposely written and played excellently. I certainly wanted to punch Noah square in his face!
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THE OLD OAK (2024, Ken Loach)
Ken Loach’s latest (and probably last) film THE OLD OAK, is set in a post-industrial village in the north of England. The Old Oak from the title is the local pub, where the former miners recall memories of better times and talk about poverty, unemployement, racism and the rise of nationalism. Tensions rise when a group of Syrian refugees arrive, but pub proprietor DJ Ballantine befriends a young Syrian photographer and the two start making plans to reconcile the hostile communities.
The Old Oak got mixed reviews; it’s no doubt well-meant and there are several insightful moments, but it all feels a bit too easy, too smooth. Left-wing director Ken Loach was always at his best when he was furious about something: there was always room for hope or some comic relief, but first and foremost his films were a cry for justice. In The Old Oak the permanently angry director has become mild (and often sentimental). if only it were that easy to solve the issues that are addressed in this movie, the world would be a better place, but we know too well it is not.
According to the man himself, this could be his last film. The Old Oak is far from Grade A Loach, but better a minor Loach than no Loach at all.
*** out of 5
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