Well, here it goes on a Sunday afternoon.
In honor of the summer olympics get Cidade de Deus (City of God). It deals with the lives of two boys growing up in the favalas. It is in subtitles. It is violent. It will make you turn away. It will make you uneasy. It will draw you to the screen. Don’t watch the stupid olympics watch this movie.
Unfortunately, I am limited to watching movies on netflix or buying them outright, as the new movies are of low-brow quality and low culture.
Alan Partridge
The Red Violin
One of my favorite movies is Mrs. Henderson Presents. It is a true story that takes place during WWII. You will laugh, you will cry, and you will be glad you saw it.
Don’t watch it with children. It contains elegant nudity. The nude female entertainers are like beautiful statues.
A recently widowed eccentric with money to burn and no intentions of settling down enlists the aide of a showbiz professional to transform a run-down theater in Soho into London’s most innovative entertainment hot spot in director Stephen Frears’ cinematic account of the groundbreaking Windmill Theater. The year is 1937 and, despite having recently lost her husband, 69-year-old Laura Henderson (Judy Dench) remains as ambitious and vital as ever. Aghast at her friend Lady Conway’s (Thelma Barlow) suggestion that she take up a mundane hobby such as diamond collecting to pass the time, Mrs. Henderson instead shocks her well-to-do social circle by purchasing the ramshackle Windmill Theater in the heart of downtown Soho. Unafraid to take a risk in the venture, yet lacking the experience needed to run the theater, Mrs. Henderson brings in showbiz veteran Vivian Van Damm (Bob Hoskins) to line up an opening act that will set the stage ablaze. When the ever-curious Mrs. Henderson’s intrusive spying begins to impede on Mr. Van Damm’s creative progress, the frustrated theater manager has her banished from rehearsals. Though Van Damm’s innovative idea to stage an unending stream of entertainment dubbed “Revudeville” proves a wild and profitable success, the Windmill begins to suffer when other local theaters quickly follow suit. Now faced with the prospect of seeing her once-lucrative endeavor fall by the wayside due to the unoriginality of the copycats who surround her, Mrs. Henderson decides to show audiences something they’ve never seen before by making the Windmill the first theater to feature nude female entertainers live on-stage. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi