What Was The Last Movie You Saw? Welcome Cinephiles.

[cinnamongrrl]

I just finished watching Little Women...

A favorite book brought to life...and done well. I'm glad to own it again.

[Orema]

Truth



I liked it. Cate Blanchette was good as usual. Redford was good, too—better than I thought he would be. There's a stiffness to Dan Rather that Redford captured well. I think this was made by a first-time director and it felt like it. Kind of felt like a made-for-tv movie. Still, I enjoyed it because of the story. It was nice to see Stacy Keach—always a good actor.

[ProfPacker]

Carol and for me, I found it very moving on different levels. I am also in awe of Cate Blanchette's regalness, acting ability and beauty.

[cinnamongrrl]

Stacy Keach has a sexy voice. I imagine now that Edward Hermann has passed he will be getting even more work...

I bought the movie Wild last night. Its one of the only movies I've seen in the theater the last year.

I was particularly excited to watch the extras. And im so glad I did. The little girl who plays Cheryl as a child is actually Cheryl's daughter, Bobbi, named after her mother. The woman who drops her off to start her hike is the author herself. The family at the end that passes and waves to her is the author, her husband and their 2 children. I just loved these little touches....

The book was still better. They don't even mention how she got her Bob Marley T-shirt and they don't mention a guy she met along the way that I swear was her soul mate...you just have to read it and see for yourself lol

[afrcnqueen]

Had a movie fest with a friend and saw:
Carol with Cate Blanchett
Freeheld ....Cried like a baby and loved it.
Star Wars The Force Awakens.... I'm a nerd, so I loved it.

[homoe]

I watched the Intern last night! I wasn't expecting much BUT I was pleasantly surprised I must say

[GeorgiaMa'am]

I saw Carol last night. It was very beautifully filmed, and the acting was first class. Rooney Mara was completely convincing as a young lesbian developing her first love in the 1950s. The movie does an exceptional job of depicting the subtleties of two lesbian lives in a repressive era.

Visually, this film was gorgeous. The 1950s details, from everyday objects such as cars and furniture, and the costumes, makeup and hair, to places such as roadside motels and The Drake hotel in Chicago were fun to watch for someone like me (I'm a lover of mid-century everything). Therese works in a toy department, and one of the first things that hit me was seeing my old tin doll house. Every scene was like a delicious flashback into my childhood. I was engulfed in this film, as the setting drew me into the parts of the story I was less familiar with, such as a 1950s butch and femme flirting in a NYC record store.

I heard screenwriter Phyllis Nagy on NPR's Fresh Air, and she commented that this story was "extremely forward thinking" at the time Patricia Highsmith wrote the novel. Apparently it was typical for lesbian novels of the time to end with one or both women dying, or ending up in a mental hospital. Carol does have a relatively happy ending, and it made it easier for me to watch, knowing in advance that this would be the case.