What was the last movie you saw ? + recomendations

[Alan]

Blu-Ray: Battle Royale

[McClance]

DVD:
Oliver & Company

[iiradned]

The Big Country

[Alan]

Blu-Ray: Doctor Who: The Runaway Bride

[iiradned]

Pacific Rim

[Alan]

Blu-Ray: Taxi Driver [1976]

[iiradned]

One on One

[Alan]

Amazon Prime: Lost in Translation

[iiradned]

Clash of the Titans

[Alan]

Netflix: Spectral

[Alan]

Blu-Ray: Pulp Fiction

[BruTak]

At the world famous Britannia Panopticon Music Hall in Glasgow, the oldest surviving music hall in the world and where Stan Laurel made his stage debut in 1906 aged just 16, a trio of classic silent films with live musical accompaniment from the Panopticon's house band Gladstone's Bag.


The Boat (1921)

Starring - Buster Keaton, and Sybil Seely.

Buster is married with two children (both of whom wear child-sized versions of the same pork pie hat). He's built a large boat he has christened Damfino inside his home. When he finishes and decides to take the boat out to sea, he realises it is too large to fit through the door. He enlarges the opening a bit, but when he tows the boat out using a pulley line from his Model T car, the boat proves to be a bit bigger than he estimated, and the house completely collapses.

When he attempts to launch the boat, Buster loses the family car. The boat passes with impunity under the exceedingly low bridges of the Venice (California) canals thanks to Buster's clever boat design. Once they're out on the Pacific, Buster and his family are caught in a terrible storm. The boat is barely seaworthy to begin with, and it does not help that Buster nails a picture up inside the boat, causing an improbable leak; or when he further drills through the bottom of the boat to let the water out, resulting in a spectacular gusher. He radios a Morse Code call for help, but when the Coast Guard operator asks who it is, he answers, "d-a-m-f-i-n-o" in Morse Code. The operator interprets it as "damn if I know" and dismisses the call as a prank. Taking to a ridiculously small dinghy that is in fact a bathtub, the family resign themselves to sinking into the sea—until they realise they are actually standing in shallow water. After wading a short distance, they come up on a deserted beach in the dark of night. "Where are we?" asks his wife (via an intertitle), to which Buster replies, "Damn if I know" (mouthing the words to the camera; no intertitle is used).


Near Dublin (1924)

Starring - Stan Laurel, James Finlayson, and Ena Gregory.

Con (Stan Laurel) is postman in an Irish village and is in love with the belle of the town (Ena Gregory). His rival is a brick manufacturer (James Finlayson) who makes bricks for both building and social purposes such as being used by all the Irish men, women, and children in fighting. Con is thrown into jail on a trumped up charge but escapes and, in a battle with his rival, he is knocked out by a rap on the head. The villain is jailed and Con wins the affections of the lady.


One Week (1920)

Starring - Buster Keaton, and Sybil Seely.


Newlyweds Buster and Sybil receive a kit house as a wedding gift. The instructions describe how to construct the house by assembling materials in numbered packing crates. A rejected suitor secretly renumbers packing crates, and the result is a lopsided structure with revolving walls, kitchen fixtures on the exterior, and upper-floor doors that open onto thin air. During a housewarming party on Friday the 13th, a storm spins the house and its occupants around like a merry-go-round.

The couple find they have built the house on the wrong lot and must move it. They manage to move it on rollers but it stalls on railroad tracks. The couple try to move it out the way of an oncoming train, which eventually passes on the neighbouring track. As the couple look relieved, the house is immediately struck and demolished by another train coming the other way. The groom stares at the scene, places a 'For Sale' sign with the heap (attaching the building instructions) and walks off with his bride.

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Ice Station Zebra

[Alan]

DVD: Color of Night

[iiradned]

Apollo 13: Survival