What movies have you seen recently?

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Last night we watched:

Visitors [2013]



The trailer above represents the film well. It is, essentially, a music video.

Godfrey Reggio, director of the Qatsi trilogy, and Philip Glass, composer for the Qatsi trilogy, collaborated again in Visitors. Unlike the Qatsi trilogy, the music in Visitors stays peaceful and calm for the entire movie and is all like the music you hear in the trailer above.

I liked Visitors and my bride did not. But, I like Philip Glass' music and she does not.

I think the IMDb listing for Visitors is flawed.
<=>- I would not have called Visitors a "documentary". I think its genre is "music".
<=>- The only "trance-like relationship with technology" explored is the viewer's likely trance-like state.
<=>- Yes, Visitors is in English...if you count the title and credits. Nothing is spoken and nothing else to read.
<=>- "Black and White" is almost true. There is, however, a blue dot.

As shown in the trailer, much of the movie is looking at people looking back. They are not still photos, they are people being still. And I was very impressed that they got a gorilla to sit still and stare back at the camera.

Taken 3
Pretty good.

Slaughterhouse 5 (1972 adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's antiwar novel directed by George Hill)

Eve's Bayou
very good film from 1997

Wedding Season. It's about Asha, an Indian-American economist who is fed up with her parents trying to marry her off to Indian men she hasn't met. So with their latest choice, Ravi (who is equally fed up with his parents trying to marry him off), she pretends to fall in love with him and he with her, to keep their parents quiet. They go as a couple to the huge number of Indian weddings in the season, everyone is happy...until the truth is revealed!

A sweet film to pass the time with some sharp cultural observations.

Taken

good

The Night Strangler.

1973 horror/comedy sequel to The Night Stalker. Intrepid but highly eccentric reporter, Carl Kolchak, finds evidence that a spree of strangulation murders in Seattle are being committed by a killer who reemerges every 21 years since the 19th century in order to prolong his life. But as always, everybody sees him as just a kook. Very funny, especially as Kolchak has this thing about him that gets everybody YELLING AT THE TOP OF THEIR VOICES!

Men.

A newly widowed woman, after seeing her husband die in what was either an accident or suicide after she threatened to divorce him, tries to get away from her feelings of guilt by taking a vacation to a small English country town. There, she experiences surreal and terrifying visions, which she can't tell are real or not.
Very good British horror flick.

bend it like Beckham
fun

Braveheart
Pretty good.

Lethal weapon
A christmas classic

Last night I watched:

Duck Soup [1933]
<=>"War Is Swell...when the Marx Brothers are in it.
<=+=>They'll be out of the trenches by Christmas...if the food doesn't improve."
The last movie with the four Marx Brothers: Groucho, Harpo, Chico & Zeppo.



The Trivia section of it's IMDb listing contains some things I did not know until reading it today:

The Night Stalker.

The made for TV movie that started the later Kolchak series, of the never-believed reporter who realizes what the police refuse to grasp: that the latest serial killer in Vegas is a vampire.

Missing
a good western.

Candyman (2021 version)