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24 Apr 20 - 03:08 PM (#4048221) Subject: Recommendations for lockdown From: Dave the Gnome Not folk I'm afraid. Watching "Spooks" on BBC iPlayer. Highly recommended. Well, by me anyway :-) |
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24 Apr 20 - 03:14 PM (#4048223) Subject: RE: Recommendations for lockdown From: Joe Offer https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mf4b I'm gonna guess this belongs in the non-music section.... Good, though. |
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24 Apr 20 - 03:40 PM (#4048226) Subject: RE: Recommendations for lockdown From: DMcG I subscribed to "The Great Courses", which is round about the same price as Netflix. There are hundreds of courses and I am part way through several, but one I have completed is called "The Deceptive Mind" which is all about ways we deceive ourselves and are deceived. One area of particular interest at the moment is about how poor we are at assessing risks, and particularly relevant is a section on how the accuracy of medical testing is distorted if you omit the base rate. |
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24 Apr 20 - 03:54 PM (#4048229) Subject: RE: Recommendations for lockdown From: DMcG On a lighter note, I have also been watching a lot of plays etc. The National Theatre (UK) is broadcasting a play every Thursday and I have seen all of those, and at the moment am watching a broadcast from one of the local theatres. But a particular highlight was on Britbix, which has all the old Doctor Who episodes. Some from the earliest series seemed to be calling on stage actors who had little or no experience of television, so I particularly enjoyed a villainous Aztec priest that the actor decided to use his stage experience of Shakespeare's King John for, complete with hunch back, Shakespearean language and mannerisms suitable for watching from the back of a large theatre, so wildly overextended for TV. Hilarious! |
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24 Apr 20 - 04:59 PM (#4048240) Subject: RE: Recommendations for lockdown From: Bonzo3legs I hope the National will show The Mysteries. |
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24 Apr 20 - 06:24 PM (#4048257) Subject: RE: Recommendations for lockdown From: John P I have a new synthesizer and recording system I've been learning to use. I've actually made some very presentable recordings without ever picking up a "real" instrument. Also working at my job about half time from home. In the evenings we've been binge-watching science fiction and fantasy movie series. Star Trek, Star Wars, currently working through Harry Potter. Next up is Terminator. Also playing lots of Scrabble. |
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24 Apr 20 - 06:50 PM (#4048261) Subject: RE: Recommendations for lockdown From: meself If you want to watch something gentle that will make you feel good about the world and its possibilities - there is, apparently, a whole series of these little videos of a young Chinese woman gardening, harvesting, and preparing meals for her grandmother - no narration, no background music, just - life, as it should be: https://youtu.be/gcShBujgsIQ |
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24 Apr 20 - 07:00 PM (#4048263) Subject: RE: Recommendations for lockdown From: gillymor Don't drink bleach. Also it's about time to rewatch Deadwood which Donuel mentioned today. Also I'm bingeing the 10th and newest season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, for the 2nd time. |
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24 Apr 20 - 09:29 PM (#4048282) Subject: RE: Recommendations for lockdown From: Donuel While far more tame and poor, life for me is most like Curb Your Enthusiasm. I stick my foot in my mouth more than tight lipped people. I'm watching so many movies like 'The good Liar' and 'The Hunter' that I am correctly predicting the plot twists halfway through the movie. My 'suspensioner' of belief might be broke. At least 'the plot against America' has a happy ending I wasn't expecting. |
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25 Apr 20 - 07:32 AM (#4048350) Subject: RE: Recommendations for lockdown From: Steve Shaw I hardly ever watch films. I did watch Airplane! the other night. My very favourite. Mrs Steve hits the sack before me so I've been playing one classical masterpiece per evening. I'm trying to avoid ones with tragic undertones. Try Beethoven's sonata in F sharp, op 78 (Youtube is wonderful). It's a ten-minute love letter. The first ten seconds of it is the most wonderful music, and after that start you never hear that passage again. Tonight I might try the Waldstein sonata or the Emperor Concerto. It had better be headphones for that. |
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25 Apr 20 - 07:59 AM (#4048356) Subject: RE: Recommendations for lockdown From: Backwoodsman A number of local folk clubs have been running ‘Zoom’ on-line singarounds and I’ve joined a couple - very enjoyable but, of course, there’s little or no opportunity for the general socialisation, chat, and light-hearted heckling that goes on when we meet ‘in the flesh’. Otherwise, everything for me is pretty normal - I’m not a pub-goer or cinema-attendee, I no longer row, play football or squash (or even bowls!), and golf is my idea of hell, so I take my dog for a three or four mile walk, play my guitar, try to learn new songs, watch a bit of whatever Mrs. Backwoodsperson has her head into on TV (Vet programmes, dog programmes, Box-Sets, Zombies, yadda yadda), read (currently ‘The Sisters of Auschwitz’ and ‘The Photographer of The Lost’, running concurrently) drink tea... |
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25 Apr 20 - 09:00 AM (#4048368) Subject: RE: Recommendations for lockdown From: Steve Shaw Mrs Steve is far more affected than I am. She's lost her two weekly exercise classes and her dance class, and she can't do her frequent coffee mornings with her chums any more. I don't do any of that and I'm OK with my own company. We have to be careful not to get on each other's nerves too much. We have a big garden, we're near the sea and the weather's been ridiculously good for five or six weeks. The dark cloud on my horizon is that my mum is in a care home six miles away and I haven't seen her for six weeks. Previously I saw her three or four times a week. She's too deaf to talk on the phone. I'm finding that pretty difficult to take, but lots of people are much worse off than me. The home's carers manage to do a FaceTime once or twice a week. Angels. |
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25 Apr 20 - 09:02 AM (#4048370) Subject: RE: Recommendations for lockdown From: Donuel Postpandemic Drive In Movie Theaters may make a comeback. They still exist in Frankfurt Germany and are doing very well. There maybe lots of new/old business that may result. |
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25 Apr 20 - 04:24 PM (#4048438) Subject: RE: Recommendations for lockdown From: Helen Dave the Gnome, I agree about Spooks. I have the full set on DVD and watch the different series now and then over the years. I also have the full set, so far, of Line of Duty, By Any Means, Fringe (weird, whacky, funny sci-fi series where the protagonists create as much weird science as the weird science they are trying to defend the world against), Foyle's War, any Coen brothers films, any Kevin Smith films, just discovered films by Martin McDonagh, e.g. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Death in Bruges etc. Recently re-read Stephen King's book Dolores Claiborne and then watched the film. A different take on the story in the film from the book so reading the book then watching the film is an interesting exercise. The only other Stephen King films I like are Shawshank Redemption, and The Green Mile. The list goes on. |
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25 Apr 20 - 11:48 PM (#4048488) Subject: RE: Recommendations for lockdown From: Helen Also, I would add any TV series starring Nicola Walker. |
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26 Apr 20 - 12:46 AM (#4048493) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: punkfolkrocker My wife dominates the telly until she goes to bed. Our after evening meal routine is.. I must sit on the sofa with her watching her choice of light entertainment tripe.. Which so far this week, all on catch up, consists of.. Dogs can Fly Naked Attraction A Country Life for Half the Price With Kate Humble Celebrity Murder Mystery The Tuckers The Windsors Tudur's TV Flashback Wales in Lockdown.. These are the shows I can remember, which I didn't sleep through.. ..take yer pick.. some of it is worth a watch to laugh with, groan at, or be saddened and angered by... |
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26 Apr 20 - 12:48 AM (#4048495) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Helen Get a TV in another room. That's what Hubby & I have. He watches a lot of comedy, especially stand-up comedy, but other shows as well, but I watch mostly documentaries or drama or thrillers. |
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26 Apr 20 - 12:50 AM (#4048497) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: rich-joy I think I'm gonna dig out all my "SHARPE" dvds, starring (the younger!) Sean Bean and other luminaries (like Folkie, John Tams!) - adventuring in early 19th century wars (mostly Napoleonic) for Britain. They were a great escape thoroughly enjoyed by my late Beloved and myself, last decade. I also have the full set of Bernard Cornwall novels re Richard Sharpe, which I devoured after I'd watched all the DVDs! Well, Winter is getting close here Down Under, so time to get the Fire Makings set up and ready. Just need to invite a new feline in to share it wiv me an' Sharpey!! Cheers! R-J |
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26 Apr 20 - 01:01 AM (#4048500) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: punkfolkrocker Helen - it's the 'togetherness' ritual on the sofa that really matters.. Tonight was both episodes of "celebrity murder mystery", several mugs of tea, and a big bag of jelly babies... |
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26 Apr 20 - 01:14 AM (#4048503) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: JennieG A few nights ago the movie "Contagion" was shown on TV.....needless to say, neither Himself nor I watched it! We watch some of the renno porn shows (house hunting, home renovation) but are selective about which ones as we like some presenters, but are less - way less - keen on others. More often thsn not, though, we turn off the TV and put on one of the online radio stations we are discovering. |
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27 Apr 20 - 06:47 AM (#4048832) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Steve Shaw I watched the YouTube of Claudio Arrau playing Beethoven's Waldstein last night, in Bonn in 1977. A mighty performance of one of my favourites. I saw him at the Festival Hall at around the same time, playing Beethoven's third, fourth and fifth piano concertos, all in one concert! |
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27 Apr 20 - 08:32 PM (#4049013) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Steve Shaw Who added "Video" to the thread title? Why does it have to be video?? As I type this I'm listening to a recording of Mozart's C minor Mass, K427, a concert conducted by Herbert Blomstedt which was repeated on Radio 3 this evening. A stunningly wonderful life-affirming masterpiece. Mozart wrote the soprano sections for his sister-in-law Aloysia Weber and for his wife Constanze (Aloysia's sister, of course), and the music is, unusually, scored for two soprano voices. The amazing coloratura Et Incarnatus Est was written for Constanze. Sections of the Mass are missing, most notably the whole of the Agnus Dei. I reckon that Wolfie was more in love with Aloysia, though he was a faithful husband to Constanze. Dammit, who wouldn't have written such lovely music, surrounded as he was by such beautiful women... |
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28 Apr 20 - 10:55 AM (#4049114) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Donuel One of the best US political comedy series for these times is VEEP. Its full of outrageous phrases. On the classical side I'm fond of Hanson, Borodin, Debussey, Ravel, Boito, Rachmaninov... B I have a collection of nature sounds that are soothing. I also go with soundtracks for blasts from the past. There's a movie called the road to Wellville with a laughing chorus that puts Die Fleidermouse in the shade. Masses or Mahler are too serious at the moment for me. |
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28 Apr 20 - 11:19 AM (#4049116) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Steve Shaw Mahler is too serious for me all the time. If I want life-affirming I don't want Mahler. The best Masses are uplifting. Apart from the aforementioned Mozart, there's lots of cheery music in Haydn's Nelsonmesse and Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle. If Rossini can't make you smile you're tired of life. There isn't a laugh a minute in Bach's B Minor Mass, but you'll come away with your spirit strengthened (as long as you had the two hours to spare). |
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28 Apr 20 - 11:40 AM (#4049120) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Dave the Gnome I went through my Sharpe Dvds too, Rich-Joy. Followed by Hornblower :-) I must revisit the Hornblower book too. I spent the first term of 6th form deciding if it was for me or not and in the library reading Forester. I dropped out of college but kept up my love of adventure on the high seas :-) |
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28 Apr 20 - 06:08 PM (#4049186) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Donuel It's rare to hear anyone else like Haydn. I like reducing Haydn to duets or quartets. Even modern improv can jazz it up. You know, the way Jacque Loussier can do with ANYTHING! He once did 30 variations on Beethoven's 7th of which I liked several, but he is such a perfectionist. |
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28 Apr 20 - 08:07 PM (#4049203) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Steve Shaw Beethoven's 7th doesn't need pissing around with. |
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28 Apr 20 - 09:02 PM (#4049211) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Donuel Rossini: Petite messe solennelle starts like Motzart and goes just shy of Beethoven. Ever wonder what Motzart would compose in his 70's be nice, time is short. |
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28 Apr 20 - 09:07 PM (#4049213) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Helen Google has put some of their classic doodle games back up and this is my favourite: Fischinger Create your own musical mini-pieces and you get the accompanying visual effects as well. |
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28 Apr 20 - 09:21 PM (#4049215) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Donuel The seed of Beethoven's 9 th That makes very satisfying tunes Helen |
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29 Apr 20 - 10:20 AM (#4049333) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: rich-joy Oooo, thanks Dave - I'd quite forgotten about Hornblower - better search out my set of Horatio DVDs, too! (and should I get tired of watching all that action from my two British heroes, I can always go for "The Darling Buds of May" :) R-J |
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30 Apr 20 - 08:45 PM (#4049649) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Steve Shaw Abandoned classical for one night and did a triple on YouTube, ignoring awful video and sound quality...Chris Wood and Andy Cutting doing History Man/Roseville Fair, then them doing Hares On A Mountain, then Chris Wood doing his amazing story song One In A Million. We had them at our folk club a lot in the early-mid 90s. Sublime. The absolute dog's danglies. |
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01 May 20 - 06:28 AM (#4049710) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Dave the Gnome Spooks season 5 episodes 1 and 2 are stunners. Nailbiting stuff. I am not doing UK politics for a while but I was very tempted to post into that thread. Politicians and billionaires alike using their press lackeys to wind up the population for their own nefarious ends. Fact mirroring fiction or what! |
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03 May 20 - 10:53 AM (#4050127) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Donuel Defending your Life is a favorite of mine. Watched 'Gawd' last night and 30% of it was excellent. The formulaic writing to stretch an extra hour was unessesary. |
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03 May 20 - 01:09 PM (#4050147) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Bonzo3legs Plenty of facebook concerts from home videos to watch and the wonderful Show of Hands concert at the Minack with Geoff Lakeman. |
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03 May 20 - 02:06 PM (#4050155) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Backwoodsman I second - great stuff from Winter Wilson, Reg Meuross, Martin Simpson, Mary Chapin Carpenter and lots of others. We’ve just watched ‘Blood’ season 2 on Channel 5 - very good. |
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03 May 20 - 02:08 PM (#4050156) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Backwoodsman I typed “I second Bonzo”, but ‘Bonzo’ disappeared! Je ne comprends pas! |
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03 May 20 - 02:17 PM (#4050162) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Steve Shaw Be careful what you wish for... ;-) |
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04 May 20 - 06:27 AM (#4050288) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Donuel A movie that spins like a Mudcat thread is Man from Earth. It was made with no CGI and no real money. I found it worthwhile and stimulating. |
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04 May 20 - 07:02 AM (#4050297) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Dave the Gnome I wonder why, when the root is "moving pictures", Americans go to the movies while us Brits go to the pictures? |
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04 May 20 - 07:09 AM (#4050298) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: DMcG Daughter-of-mine is recommending Pleasantville. Here is a "copy and paste" of a thread on Messenger about it: ===== Her: I think that I loved this film but didn't know the words for it I just didn't know enough Sartre I think that we watched it when I was about 15? It has so many avenues of interest and something that I now find more interesting as an adult The idea of colour representing existentialism or free thought "They are happy like this" "No woman is happy in a poodle skirt" Me: Clever, yes, but also probably really critical timing in making it. Having every frame partially colour and partially not was probably impossible earlier, and later films needing that depth of thought were not "box office" === So if your Sartre is up to scratch, it is worth a try. |
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04 May 20 - 07:26 AM (#4050306) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: weerover Like some others, I am working my way through all the series of "Spooks" - first class. |
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04 May 20 - 08:57 AM (#4050352) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Jeri On Amazon Prime: The Mountain Minor. It has old timey music and Elizabeth LaPrelle. |
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04 May 20 - 09:33 AM (#4050374) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: rich-joy Dave, Aussies still go to the flicks! R-J |
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04 May 20 - 03:51 PM (#4050495) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Nigel Parsons DMcG: I particularly enjoyed a villainous Aztec priest that the actor decided to use his stage experience of Shakespeare's King John for, complete with hunch back, Shakespearean language and mannerisms suitable for watching from the back of a large theatre, so wildly overextended for TV. Hilarious! Are you sure he wasn't channelling Richard III? I don't recall King John having a hunch back even when played by a lion in Disney's Robin Hood. |
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04 May 20 - 04:03 PM (#4050498) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Nigel Parsons But, nit-picking aside, my viewing? I haven't watched it recently, but I would second the suggestion of "Pleasantville". Not quite time-travel, but much in the vein of "Back to the Future". I enjoy the BTTF trilogy, but (for a similar theme) prefer "Peggy Sue Got Married" with Kathleen Turner & Nicholas Cage. Lockdown viewing has included re-watching a lot of Dr Who (post 2005). Also the "Harriet Vane" series from the Lord Peter Wimsey books of Dorothy L Sayers. I've watched in the last 10 days "Strong Poison", "Have His Carcase", "Gaudy Night" & "Busman's Honeymoon". After seeing on the news that they were ringing the bell in Notre Dame I also re-watched "The Nine Tailors". Plenty still to watch though Cheers |
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04 May 20 - 04:59 PM (#4050504) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Helen Australian ABC-TV is currently re-running some of the Unforgotten series starring Nicola Walker and Sanjeev Bhaskar. I said before that I watch any show starring Nicola Walker and some series I have watched and enjoyed recently on TV have been River (a bit strange but worth watching), Last Tango in Halifax, and The Split. I have mentioned Sanjeev Bhaskar in another thread. He and Meera Syal are favourites of mine because of Goodness Gracious Me, the outrageously funny Indian comedy skit series which started in 1998. I have to admit that I haven't needed to watch the DVD's much because I can always rely on ABC-TV and SBS-TV to air excellent series and movies. SBS has started a World Movies channel a year ago and it's always worthwhile checking out the schedule. |
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04 May 20 - 05:24 PM (#4050508) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Dave the Gnome I just watched the last of S5, Weerover. A real nailbiter. |
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04 May 20 - 05:27 PM (#4050509) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Bonzo3legs Race across the world series 2 - Mexico City to Ushaia in Argentina, the most southerly city in the world! |
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04 May 20 - 08:29 PM (#4050534) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Steve Shaw I watched every episode of Spooks that was ever broadcast when it was actually on. But, for those of you getting all heavy with film DVDs, etc., sod all that. We had that Father Ted one on the box tonight in which Ted kicked Bishop Brennan up the erse. Bloody classic. I'm still corpsing half an hour later. |
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04 May 20 - 10:18 PM (#4050543) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Mrrzy Death in Paradise has good mysteries, great accents, and superb music. And 9 seasons. |
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04 May 20 - 11:30 PM (#4050547) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Helen One thing I like in British TV shows is when they throw in a reference to another show that an actor has starred in. Miranda Raison who played Jo in Spooks played the wife of a murdered man in a Death in Paradise episode called Missing a Body. When Ben Miller's character and another one of the members of the police team are discussing whether Miranda's character could manage to shoot her husband right between the eyes, on a beach in the pitch dark, Ben Miller says something to the effect of, "She would have to be MI5 to take that shot". How he or any of the cast kept a straight face when he said that is beyond me, although I expect the director had to yell "Cut!" until they stopped laughing. I seem to remember that in one of the early episodes of Death in Paradise there was a similar funny aside made about Danny John-Jules's character with reference to his famous character, The Cat in the Red Dwarf series. Ardal O'Hanlon is worth watching in the show too but I keep expecting him to break into his Father Dougal character. |
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05 May 20 - 05:54 AM (#4050576) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Steve Shaw I watched every single episode of Death In Paradise when they were on too. It's daft but it's good escapist fun of a Thursday night. My mate used to teach Danny in London... |
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05 May 20 - 06:20 AM (#4050580) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Dave the Gnome Orlando Bloom once appeared in Midsommer Murders. I have not been able to find it but I'm sure they managed to squeeze some references to Lord of the Rings in. |
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05 May 20 - 06:47 AM (#4050586) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Donuel What happens when the ultimate neural implant version of Facebook, located in London, begins to resemble eugenetics? It happens in 10 hours of the high budget series 'FEED' Every facet of London and environs is a real tour d'force. Are the English accents accurate? |
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05 May 20 - 08:42 AM (#4050612) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Dave the Gnome Dunno, Donuel. Not seen it. The Feed I Looks interesting. |
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05 May 20 - 09:28 AM (#4050617) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Donuel The annoying little brother made a good villain just like in real life. |
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05 May 20 - 09:52 AM (#4050622) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Jon Freeman We start on the The Avengers (60s UK tv series) tonight. I’ll be interested to see what remains of series 1 which starred Ian Hendry as Dr. David Keel with Patrick McNee/John Steed in a secondary role. I’ve probably seen every episode from Honor Blackman/Cathy Gale on more than once (although they will stand another viewing) but I don’t think I’ve seen these bits. |
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05 May 20 - 10:52 AM (#4050637) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Mrrzy Also this: https://digg.com/video/invisible-rube-goldberg |
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05 May 20 - 10:57 AM (#4050639) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Mrrzy Aaand... The US Supreme Court. This, for example: https://www.vox.com/2020/5/4/21230146/supreme-court-ministerial-exemption-religion-civil-rights-discrimination-biel-morrissey-berru |
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05 May 20 - 04:09 PM (#4050701) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Helen Ian Hendry. I remember a TV show he starred in called The Lotus Eaters, based on a book written by Michael J. Bird. Back in 1972. I was really engrossed by that series and something happened so that I never saw the last episode. This was before the prevalence of home video recorders. For many years I never found out what happened at the end. It was a real cliffhanger for me until I started surfing the 'net and every now and then I would search for the show. It wasn't available to buy as far as I could see, and neither was the book. I even looked for it when I started working as a librarian. Finally I found someone on the 'net who referred to the series and I contacted him. Because there were no copies of the video available he very kindly sent me a copy and I finally saw the last episode. That might have been 20 years after I originally saw the TV show. I read some of Michael J. Bird's other books when I worked at the library. I liked them too. |
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05 May 20 - 04:11 PM (#4050702) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Mrrzy Ooh! 10 seasons! But why do they keep getting white men to run St Marie's police force? |
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05 May 20 - 06:05 PM (#4050724) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Nick Helen I really liked the Lotus Eaters too and the last episode was good as I remember. You can find the episodes on YouTube last time I looked. And there is an interview with Wanda Ventham talking about the filming of it. If I remember it was the first TV program allowed to be filmed in Greece and was allowed because of the help given to the Locals during the war. It’s weird looking at a Crete with no tourism. But it looks incredibly dated and a lot of the sets look incredibly like the studio they were filmed in! |
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05 May 20 - 06:11 PM (#4050726) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Steve Shaw "But why do they keep getting white men to run St Marie's police force?" They don't. The commissioner is a charismatic black man who, millennia ago, was the scourge of Rigsby in Rising Damp. If you can see racism in Death In Paradise, you not watching it properly. |
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05 May 20 - 06:15 PM (#4050728) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Helen Thanks Nick. I really liked the Greek music in the show too. I watched Michael J. Bird's other series as well: Who Pays the Ferryman? set in Crete, The Aphrodite Inheritance set in Cyprus, and The Dark Side of the Sun set in Rhodes, and Maelstrom set in Norway. While watching one of the early Doctor Who re-runs I realised that Wanda Ventham was one of the main actors in that set of episodes. |
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06 May 20 - 02:39 AM (#4050756) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Dave the Gnome Series 6 of Spooks starts with a virus that is very contagious, has flue like symptoms and affects the lungs. Were the writers prophets as well? :-) |
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07 May 20 - 07:19 PM (#4051118) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Donuel Bad US TV shows like 'toddlers & tiaras' is hard to beat but toddlers & Tattoos might do it. |
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10 May 20 - 08:41 AM (#4051600) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: gillymor I've been working my way through a BFI list- One great film noir for every year . It turns out a lot of these films can be found on Youtube so get you a HDMI cable, hook up to your big screen and you're in fat city. I got interested in Film Noir through the TCM show "Noir Alley" but sadly my cable provider dropped TCM which, IMO, is a national treasure for those of us who like old and not so old movies uninterupted by ads and presented mostly by knowledgeable film buffs. |
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11 May 20 - 08:35 AM (#4051791) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Donuel Finally a super adult/family COMEDY called -UPLOAD- is on Prime video. The first 9 hours are free. Larry David should be jealous how the writers were able to combine; reality, comedy, sci fi, fantasy, mystery and romance into a delicious timely and genius experience. |
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11 May 20 - 08:43 AM (#4051793) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: gillymor I'm not into sci-fi but that he does look interesting. I watched World on Fire on PBS last night, a WW II drama based in 1940 Europe, and on the basis of season 1 episode 6 I want to see the previous episodes. |
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11 May 20 - 08:49 AM (#4051796) Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown From: Mrrzy Why do they keep getting foreigners, British, whom I guess all happen to be white and male, to captain St Marie's French-colonized police force under that great chief? Why not bring in a Frenchman, a woman, or poc? More importantly, why not promote from within? The sarge who ended up leaving for reasons I'm not spoiling coulda been promoted. The new sarge having just been promoted to sarge is not qualified right now, sure. But if Internal Affairs comes from France, why not the police chiefs? Great, great show. Marvy mysteries, superb settings, magnificent music, I alliterate reiteratively. |