Movies to watch while self-quarantined.

Ooooo! I have that boxed set, too-- just the Diana Rigg episodes. The series came out when I was just starting high school and I adored it. It really captures the flavor of the nascent 1960s.

Factoid: Do watch the PBS series The Bletchley Circle – I highly recommend it! I’ve watched the whole thing about 5 times. Rachael Martin, who plays Millie, is Diana Rigg’s daughter. Also stunningly beautiful.

Watched The Lighthouse last night. Fantastic. I already want to see it again.

Since people are mentioning TV, too, I’ve been rewatching Buffy. Up to S5E3 now.

Ohhhh…if this were taking place near Halloween i’d watch The Terror.

Everything on my DVR that has been sitting there, or “why don’t I have these on DVD/file?” Some I have seen before, and are “comfort” movies, or movies I have not seen in a long time. A few are new movies I missed in the theaters:

The Man Who Came to Dinner
Roman J. Israel, Esq.
The Exorcist
Nosferatu (the silent one)
Rope
The Lady Vanishes
Get Out
Anna Christie
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (the one with Mickey Rooney as Puck)
Night of Dark Shadows
Nothing Sacred
Dinner at Eight
Arsene Lupine
The Kid Who Would be King
My Favorite Wife

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Some are on YouTube

Harry and Tonto, La Strada, Nashville, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?,Network, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Battle of Algiers, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, A Woman Under The Influence, Buffalo '66, Shadows in Paradise, Harold and Maude

Great movie! One of my favorites from the new century.

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“Dawn of the Dead” is another one I won’t be ready to watch for a good long while.

“The Shining” may be another one to avoid for now. :smiley:

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

Has a bit about the plague. The plague! The plague!

Zero Mostel and friends at their best.

Sondheim music, won an Oscar for Best Original Score.

Bonus point: Buster Keaton.

People often regret asking me what I have been watching recently. Inevitably, it’s always something like this or something like this.

If you haven’t seen them, here are four incredible films -

Joe vs The Volcano
The Zero Effect
Groundhog Day
Moon

We just Googled up a file of* Monty Python and the Holy Grail*.

“Bring ou’cher dead! Bring ou’cher Dead!”

No. I have fewer places I can go, but I still go to the grocery store, take drives, ride my bike and take long walks. And the drive-in movie theater is open in my town.

Vulture.com has a bunch of lists including their “100 best movies on <streaming service> right now”, which will give one plenty of suggestions:

They do the same for TV shows (per streaming service).

I watched* The End of the World*, a Danish silent film from 1916. A newly discovered comet threatens to wreck havoc on North-Western Europe. After a stock market crash, a rich mine owner buys up the market and then plants a story in the newspaper that everything will be fine. He sells when the stock market recovers. He has a big party on the day of destruction, but armed miners crash it as the town (miniature) is set ablaze by comet sparks and flooded.

It was not very good – not up to Abel Gance’s 1931 movie of the same name and nearly identical plot – but the parallels to today’s headlines made it mildly interesting.

Next up, I will try to get through another Danish silent epic, A Trip to Mars (1918): “A group of researchers from Earth travel in a spaceship to Mars, where, to big surprise, they find a peaceful vegetarian and pacifist civilization.” (from IMDB)