seby wrote: Mon Mar 16, 2026 7:21 am Watched Blow Up recently. Fantastic and cannot believe that I had not seen it before.

I'm envious. I wish I could see that for the first time again. I recommend you watch Blow Out (1981) next, if you haven't seen it.

Had been holding off on watching Hamnet because I knew it would be rough, but decided I should watch it before the Oscars, so we watched it Sunday afternoon. Yep, destroyed me. Wonderful movie.

enframed wrote: Mon Mar 16, 2026 9:28 am

seby wrote: Mon Mar 16, 2026 7:21 am Watched Blow Up recently. Fantastic and cannot believe that I had not seen it before.

I'm envious. I wish I could see that for the first time again. I recommend you watch Blow Out (1981) next, if you haven't seen it.

Shall do!

enframed wrote: Mon Mar 16, 2026 9:28 am

seby wrote: Mon Mar 16, 2026 7:21 am Watched Blow Up recently. Fantastic and cannot believe that I had not seen it before.

I'm envious. I wish I could see that for the first time again. I recommend you watch Blow Out (1981) next, if you haven't seen it.

I only stumbled across Blow Up last year on late night TV - great and slightly deranged film

Will check Blow out too - Travolta pre Saturday night fever!

Iancee wrote: Tue Mar 17, 2026 3:20 am

enframed wrote: Mon Mar 16, 2026 9:28 am

seby wrote: Mon Mar 16, 2026 7:21 am Watched Blow Up recently. Fantastic and cannot believe that I had not seen it before.

I'm envious. I wish I could see that for the first time again. I recommend you watch Blow Out (1981) next, if you haven't seen it.

I only stumbled across Blow Up last year on late night TV - great and slightly deranged film

Will check Blow out too - Travolta pre Saturday night fever!

You can finish with Coppola's the Conversation for the trifecta.

More recently: The Relay- starring the always watchable Riz Ahmed - mines this patch

Went out to an early screening of Project Hail Mary last night. Love the book. Very underwhelmed by the film. I do not think Ryan Gosling was the best choice for this role. Could have been much better as a one season limited series.

Spoorloos (The Vanishing). Adding Johanna ter Steege to the celeb crush list.

iembalm wrote: Mon Mar 16, 2026 11:17 am Had been holding off on watching Hamnet because I knew it would be rough, but decided I should watch it before the Oscars, so we watched it Sunday afternoon. Yep, destroyed me. Wonderful movie.

Just caught up on this one too.

While well acted and shot from the first frame, I feared it was a melodramatic slog, a two hankie weeper with the worst happening in the most visceral ways. But man, they really stuck the landing. The turn in the third act, the sense of resolution, the transference of tragedy into art.... it really hit for me.

As a side note I started noticing the rhotic Rs coming out of the lead actors and thought they were capturing more of the accent at the time. Then I realized both leads are Irish and do not drop their Rs, but then also they weren't doing their native accent. Then there was a bunch of online criticism that no one could be bothered to be period correct with dialects blah, blah. In the end, none of that was the point. I think they spoke the way they did on camera to find a happy medium that shouldn't get lost in all of that confusion. At the end of the day they communicated the characters so well, linguistics could only detract from that.