What are you watching tonight?

[Annoyed Grunt]

Crank.

[CrazyHorse]

Fooking nora, the end of season 4 breaking bad. Brilliant.

[mrkint]

Shhhhhh I'm still on season two.

[LeverEnd]

Crank.

Statham in tracksuit. The 2nd one is ridiculous but quite amusing.

[William the White]

Went to the corner house this afternoon to see Wadjda a Saudi Arabian film with a female Saudi director. All about a young girl wanting to buy a bike despite it being forbidden in Saudi culture. Was a wonderful film, funny, tragic & touching. I left the cinema with a tear in my eye and not a little angry at the male interpretation of Islam that subjugates women in that region to the level it does.

Would highly recommend.

Thank you very much for this, Harry. I had clocked it but needed a prompt to go and see it - which you provided. I went with partner and youngest daughter this afternoon - all three of us really glad we'd seen it.

Agree totally with your assessment - I too left with a sniffle and tear in the eye. But exhilarated as well. The last scene as Wadjda finally races along the road with Abdallah, past all the surprised people, especially men (!) was very uplifting - as was that final shot as she pauses at the crossroads, on her bike, deciding which road she will travel. Excellent metaphor.

Nice to learn I still understand a little (very!) Arabic also, and could quibble with some subtitles.

[Annoyed Grunt]

Crank.

Statham in tracksuit. The 2nd one is ridiculous but quite amusing.

Exactly....bonkers but quite enjoyable.

Frankenweenie.....

[Prufrock]

Last night I watched 'The Imposter'. Jeeeez. And I thought Catfish was nuts?! I honestly thought it was Brass Eye at one point three quarters of the way through. Utterly nuts, and absolutely fab!

[General Mannerheim]

Last night I watched 'The Imposter'. Jeeeez. And I thought Catfish was nuts?! I honestly thought it was Brass Eye at one point three quarters of the way through. Utterly nuts, and absolutely fab!

I've tried to discuss this a few times but nobody had seen it. It's a good film and compelling story, but you must have been frustrated at how they build up this imminent 'twist' that ever actually materialises!? In fact it's a big let down in the end.

[Prufrock]

I thought the twist was that it was actually real! At one point about three quarters of the way through, as they set up the 'twist', I genuinely thought it was a Brass Eye style spoof.

I know what you mean, and if I'd known all the way through that it was a real documentary then it might have pissed me off more, but all I came away with really was what the actual f*ck?! I thought Catfish was messed up.

[Harry Genshaw]

Went to the corner house this afternoon to see Wadjda a Saudi Arabian film with a female Saudi director. All about a young girl wanting to buy a bike despite it being forbidden in Saudi culture. Was a wonderful film, funny, tragic & touching. I left the cinema with a tear in my eye and not a little angry at the male interpretation of Islam that subjugates women in that region to the level it does.

Would highly recommend.

Thank you very much for this, Harry. I had clocked it but needed a prompt to go and see it - which you provided. I went with partner and youngest daughter this afternoon - all three of us really glad we'd seen it.

Agree totally with your assessment - I too left with a sniffle and tear in the eye. But exhilarated as well. The last scene as Wadjda finally races along the road with Abdallah, past all the surprised people, especially men (!) was very uplifting - as was that final shot as she pauses at the crossroads, on her bike, deciding which road she will travel. Excellent metaphor.

Nice to learn I still understand a little (very!) Arabic also, and could quibble with some subtitles.

You seem to watch far more foreign films than I do, so really pleased you enjoyed it too.

Missed the metaphor so thanks for that. Mind you I had something in my eye at the time

[General Mannerheim]

I thought the twist was that it was actually real! At one point about three quarters of the way through, as they set up the 'twist', I genuinely thought it was a Brass Eye style spoof.

I know what you mean, and if I'd known all the way through that it was a real documentary then it might have pissed me off more, but all I came away with really was what the actual f*ck?! I thought Catfish was messed up.

Spoilers ahead...

Catfish was entirely fiction tho. This was supposedly real. But I was watching thinking I'm not buying this, no way would they accept this lad as they're son, wasn't he about 5 yrs older and different colour eyes ffs? So you start to suspect the family were up to summat, and the narrative begins to question them too, then you think oh aye, dodgy bastards, bang to rights.. Then nothing, pah, no evidence, credits role.... ARRGGHH

[Prufrock]

More spoilers....


I know what you mean, particularly when that PI was still digging that hole as the credits began to roll, what was that?!

I stuck it on my LF list ages ago based on a review in The Week, and had largely forgotten about it. When it started I vaguely remembered it being a documentary, but couldn't really remember, and so I wasn't sure that it was in fact real. Think it was way more fun that way! His constant gurning to camera and the unsympathetic way the family were treated before they even hinted at the 'twist' had me convinced it was a Catfish style fake-doc, but then when I googled it after I was really surprised. I spose that being what I took away meant I wasn't so let down by the massive anti-climax.

[Annoyed Grunt]

The Imposter is on 4, tonight.

[LeverEnd]

The Imposter is on 4, tonight.

Recorded.
I have however been watching 80s episodes of Bullseye on Challenge. Fantastic. And it wasn't even a pisstake.

[TANGODANCER]

Watched all the individual episodes of "Longtitude" on youtube. A really interesting history of the development of navigation at sea.

[William the White]

Nigel Kennedy on the BBC4 Prom presented Vivaldi's Four Seasons as an act of subversion, confrontation and insemination through mixing the famous masterpiece with variations in the form of jazz, swing, and, most delightfully, and daringly, Arabic incantatory folk music. His ensemble included his own, ringingly named, Orchestra of Life and musicians from the Palestine Strings.

It was the best Prom I've ever seen or heard. Daring, magnificent, challenging and profoundly satisfying.

Wonderful.

I agree with most of the Telegraph's review (though it was five star, never four)...

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The Inependent approved also:

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[Bruce Rioja]

'Compliance' is on its way from LF.

It was recommended, or at least mentioned on here, by A1.

So despite it being in English it'll probably still require subtitles.

[a1]

the reason i mentioned it were that its directed by a mate of the yo gabba gabba crew or something and it seems so.. "nah, really?" and it seems to fit the arthouse-y tone this thread has..

i've not seen it but it caused a ruck of some sort at sundance.

the lead actress/victim is the blonde in that recently cancelled sitcom with the guy from dawson's creek.

i'm frightened to watch it. it might be bobbins.. but that's not what's putting me off.

:/

[General Mannerheim]

I've seen it, it's ridiculous.

[a1]

based on a true story.

not like fargo or that alien abduction film with her out of that computer game film (resident evil?, she's in the fifth element) where its a lie.

if dj lance rock were in it , i'd be even more frightened to watch it.