What Are You Watching Right Now?

ando here · 01-03-2021, 04:11 AM

One of my favorite shorts from Samuel Beckett. Two old blokes after the apocalypse still can’t get it together.

ando here · 01-03-2021, 07:36 PM

Jazz (2001, Ken Burns) Ep. 6 The Velosity of Swing

Psy-Fi’s Benny Goodman post made me want to revisit this episode of the Burns series.

**Frownland** · 01-04-2021, 10:57 AM

debaserr · 01-04-2021, 11:09 AM

A beautiful mind that has atrophied.

ando here · 01-04-2021, 07:16 PM

Beginning To End Beckett

**Frownland** · 01-04-2021, 08:27 PM

I think that's on my Beckett on Film collection that I need to revisit, is that where you're watching these?

ando here · 01-04-2021, 08:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

I think that's on my Beckett on Film collection that I need to revisit, is that where you're watching these?

Yep. Just ordered a used copy of the set (new ones long out of print). A mixed bag (imo), actually, but no one's ever attempted to put his best known plays on film so it's a keeper.

ando here · 01-04-2021, 09:09 PM

Hardcore (1979, Paul Schrader)

Watching a streamer. Gerorge C. Scott is great as an American Mid-Western Calvinist who has to confront aspects of himself in the form of a missing daughter caught in the world of porn. Good Schrader script (save a dumb Hollywood-style ending).
Not a bad soundtrack, either (Jack Nitzsche), even though it was Arvo Pärt's Miserere that put me in the mind of the movie.

John Connor · 01-04-2021, 11:33 PM

John Connor · 01-05-2021, 01:55 PM

01-04-2021, 10:57 AM	#1933 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	__________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

01-04-2021, 11:09 AM	#1934 (permalink)
debaserr eat the masters Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 5,467	A beautiful mind that has atrophied. __________________ Last.FM

01-04-2021, 08:27 PM	#1936 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	I think that's on my Beckett on Film collection that I need to revisit, is that where you're watching these? __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

01-05-2021, 01:55 PM	#1940 (permalink)
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01-03-2021, 04:11 AM	#1931 (permalink)
ando here Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2020 Location: NY, NY Posts: 1,803	One of my favorite shorts from Samuel Beckett. Two old blokes after the apocalypse still can’t get it together.

01-03-2021, 07:36 PM	#1932 (permalink)
ando here Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2020 Location: NY, NY Posts: 1,803	*Jazz* (2001, Ken Burns) Ep. 6 The Velosity of Swing Psy-Fi’s Benny Goodman post made me want to revisit this episode of the Burns series.

01-04-2021, 07:16 PM	#1935 (permalink)
ando here Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2020 Location: NY, NY Posts: 1,803	Beginning To End Beckett

01-04-2021, 09:09 PM	#1938 (permalink)
ando here Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2020 Location: NY, NY Posts: 1,803	Hardcore (1979, Paul Schrader) Watching a streamer. Gerorge C. Scott is great as an American Mid-Western Calvinist who has to confront aspects of himself in the form of a missing daughter caught in the world of porn. Good Schrader script (save a dumb Hollywood-style ending). Not a bad soundtrack, either (Jack Nitzsche), even though it was Arvo Pärt's Miserere that put me in the mind of the movie.

01-04-2021, 11:33 PM	#1939 (permalink)
John Connor Music Addict Join Date: Nov 2015 Posts: 896