what are you watching?

kmikeym · Post by **kmikeym** » Tue Mar 31, 2020 6:43 pm

i've been rewatching 'the west wing' and 'sopranos'

obv already finished tiger king... which was problematic

Post by **joni** » Wed Apr 01, 2020 2:19 pm

We're watching The Sopranos (Claire's first time), DEVS, Better Call Saul, and a bit of Star Trek: Voyager.

Post by **joni** » Wed Apr 01, 2020 6:33 pm

Also, I highly recommend the movie "Portrait of a Lady on Fire," which is currently exclusively on Hulu.

Post by **joni** » Wed Apr 01, 2020 6:42 pm

One more TV thing—when we're feeling a little down, we've been turning to a very British travel show hosted by comedian Richard Ayoade called TRAVEL MAN, also on Hulu. It's sometimes frantically-paced and best with subtitles on.

AbuelBanat · Post by **AbuelBanat** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 10:36 am

We are watching DEVS & Mr Robot. I've seen season 1, Ansley has now seen the first 3. If anyone wants a good pandemic move FLU was pretty good.

alexshred420 · Post by **alexshred420** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 10:51 am

Stuff from Church of Film on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/churchoffilm
Twitch streams:
https://twitch.tv/daneover
https://twitch.tv/digitalsaltlick
https://twitch.tv/commietalk

I'm not a member of Netflix or Hulu or anything.

Post by **joni** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 10:57 am

Rad, more Vimeo links!

Our friend Clay made this short that just went up:
https://vimeo.com/400449901

sashaburchuk · Post by **sashaburchuk** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 10:57 am

Great DJ sets on Twitch at /plantdd too

alexshred420 · Post by **alexshred420** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 10:59 am

Oh yeah also https://introtorhythm.com/

sashaburchuk · Post by **sashaburchuk** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 11:04 am

Also recently watched and really enjoyed this 10-minute thing about a guy in Florida trying to run to Bermuda in a bubble that he invented.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da6_LjiIzXk

sashaburchuk · Post by **sashaburchuk** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 11:56 am

Oh also, tonight, Naomi Klein (No Logo, Shock Doctrine) and Angela Davis will be having a zoom discussion on Movement Building. Happens at 4pm Pacific. Register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/361585 ... yMn165AEfg

richjensen · Post by **richjensen** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 12:20 pm

Big Fan of lefty webinar streams. The lefty European Party Diem25 founded by Yanis Varoufakis & Srećko Horvat have been running a YouTube livestream everyday, often with famous names and/or interesting talkers.

I'm also curious about https://koir.tv, a kind of curated live-stream recommendation list launched a couple of weeks ago by a few clever Berliners.

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 12:34 pm

We just finished season 2 of Kingdom, cannot recommend highly enough. We call it "Slappy Feet in a Closed Room" because season 1 had such bad sound design but don't let that deter you. It is a wonderful window into the world of ancient feudal Korea and its incredible array of fancy hats. Also it's about a zombie apocalypse.

We also watched a lot of Miami Vice because we painted our bathroom Miami Vice colors. It is an insane show and I can't believe it was on the air much less so beloved. We had to stop after 8 episodes.

We watched the spectacularly weird and brilliant movie GREENER GRASS

We watched the first three discs of Ken Burns Baseball which was excruciating but I was withstanding it to be polite but then finally Gary couldn't take anymore either so we stopped

We also watch a lot of weird good movies on Mubi, any Mubi-heads out there?

WHOA that webinar looks tight!!!

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 12:35 pm

MUBI! We just watched the Ryuichi Sakamoto documentary on Mubi!

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 12:36 pm

We should all get Mubi and then we can watch the same things and discuss them
just a suggestion

josh · Post by **josh** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 4:32 pm

I spend a lot of time looking up movies on Reelgood to see if they're available on the services I have access to. I tag them "To See." But I don't watch them.

I like the Mubi idea

Abe · Post by **Abe** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 7:50 pm

I watched Mandy which was fun but kind of falls apart. I watched The Invisible Man and it was the scariest thing I can remember seeing. I'm excited about Tales from the Loop because I've always adored the paintings.
Need to investigate Mubi...

kmikeym · Post by **kmikeym** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 8:30 pm

and let's not forget

QUIBI IS HAPPENING NEXT WEEK!!!

Phil · Post by **Phil** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 9:03 pm

Day 20, I caved and signed up for Disney Plus, the streaming service. It has become the main force in my small household (me and a 5 year old) and every day is built from moments in between doses from the stream. It is pure and powerful, 100% impenetrable intoxication, choice black tar. It's like I brought a nuclear weapon into the home and I fire it off all the time. But it allows me to do things like cook, clean, bathe, taxes, sit, etc.

robby · Post by **robby** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 9:19 pm

OZARK

Flossy Logs · Post by **Flossy Logs** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 9:36 pm

Breaking Bad (first time, no spoilers).

01001010 01010101 01000100 01000001 01001000 · Thu Apr 02, 2020 10:24 pm

hey ya jamokes

First time full thru Sopranos
My Brilliant Friend
Curb
Ugly Delicious
Triple D, always
Looking forward to new season of Killing Eve.

Been striking out on film lately, with the exception of The Farewell, Parasite obviously, The Last Black Man in San Francisco. Muriel's Church of Film Streaming is great.

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Fri Apr 03, 2020 12:57 am

DS9 is happening!!!
Just started Russian Doll...
Still have not made it all the way through the Larry Gus documentary! But I like it!

I've got Mubi and am into the idea of a mutual experience. It would hopefully get me to use it more. I kind of doubt we have the same movies in Belgium though...

Post by **joni** » Fri Apr 03, 2020 5:29 pm

3 minutes in to ANTI-TRUST (2001) and whoo boy!

You all use Kanopy and/or Hoopla, yeah?

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Sat Apr 04, 2020 4:30 am

We watched Invisible Man last night and were surprised by how good it was. We (specifically Gary) are huge, huge fans of the 1930s original and were annoyed when this reboot was announced but credit where it's due, that shit was scary as hell, and flipping the protagonist from the IM himself to the girlfriend (who is not much of a real charac in the orig) was a great concept, there I said it.

I felt like the ending was setting up a superhero backstory which would be SO rad. A female superhero with that specific type of gaslighting/abuse trauma as her origin story??? She's got that suit and even that crazy Doberman companion which is so comic booky. And she goes around invisibly and punishes abusers? PITCH ROOM

uncleboatshoes · Post by **uncleboatshoes** » Sat Apr 04, 2020 7:20 am

We watched the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, Oklahoma, the other night.
Good dancing, bad plotting.

We're watching:
Little House on the Prairie
Veronica Mars
Below Deck: Sailing YACHT
RuPauls Drag Race

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Sat Apr 04, 2020 7:34 am

Oklahoma is so creepy. We watched it recently and I'd forgotten how dark it is--that guy is a stalker and a sex creep, and no one listens to her! It's stressful. I also like the dancing though.

Revisiting Little House is a strong call right now!!!!!

uncleboatshoes · Post by **uncleboatshoes** » Sat Apr 04, 2020 7:41 am

I was surprised at how little happened in Oklahoma. Nothing happens for 2 hours and then it gets wild in the last 5 minutes.

Little House is amazing. The pilot is a movie from 73 and it's so slow and so few characters and about them moving to Kansas (not where the show takes place) and living alone on the plains and almost dying and its like a 70s Malick or a Kelly Reichardt.

The actual series has some bad eps, but some are so beautiful and intense and deep.
In season 1 there's an episode where there's a typhus outbreak and everyone has to quarantine and it turned out there were rats in the towns cornmeal supply (typhus comes from fleas on rats). So that was cool.

Post by **joni** » Sat Apr 04, 2020 7:55 am

ritchey wrote: ↑Sat Apr 04, 2020 4:30 am She's got that suit and even that crazy Doberman companion which is so comic booky. And she goes around invisibly and punishes abusers? PITCH ROOM

invisible gum?

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Sat Apr 04, 2020 8:46 am

ritchey wrote: ↑Sat Apr 04, 2020 4:30 am We watched Invisible Man last night and were surprised by how good it was. We (specifically Gary) are huge, huge fans of the 1930s original and were annoyed when this reboot was announced but credit where it's due, that shit was scary as hell, and flipping the protagonist from the IM himself to the girlfriend (who is not much of a real charac in the orig) was a great concept, there I said it.

I felt like the ending was setting up a superhero backstory which would be SO rad. A female superhero with that specific type of gaslighting/abuse trauma as her origin story??? She's got that suit and even that crazy Doberman companion which is so comic booky. And she goes around invisibly and punishes abusers? PITCH ROOM

RIGHT but the whole time: she’s gum

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Sat Apr 04, 2020 10:14 am

jonathan_stick wrote: ↑Sat Apr 04, 2020 7:55 am
ritchey wrote: ↑Sat Apr 04, 2020 4:30 am She's got that suit and even that crazy Doberman companion which is so comic booky. And she goes around invisibly and punishes abusers? PITCH ROOM
invisible gum?

InvisiBILITY gum!

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Sat Apr 04, 2020 10:32 am

jonathan_stick wrote: ↑Fri Apr 03, 2020 5:29 pm 3 minutes in to ANTI-TRUST (2001) and whoo boy!

You all use Kanopy and/or Hoopla, yeah?

I've got Kanopy! Hoopla doesn't work with my Tucson or Brussels library cards.

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Sat Apr 04, 2020 12:06 pm

Guys that movie was NOT about gum

I'm gonna watch Little House!!! It sounds so good. I know I watched it as a kid but I only remember the season (?) when they are living in a town, and it's decadent but Laura is menaced at school by the bully Nellie Olsen.

richjensen · Post by **richjensen** » Sat Apr 04, 2020 11:59 pm

O hey.. It's Brian Eno talking about what everybody else is talking about. https://youtu.be/J7ei1-rYHMU

richjensen · Post by **richjensen** » Sun Apr 05, 2020 6:26 am

SOUTHLAND TALES screening on MUBI.com w/Richard Kelly today (April 5) at 1pm Pacific. Free 7 day trial passes available.

meadows · Post by **meadows** » Sun Apr 05, 2020 9:29 am

Yesterday I learned that you can't stream criterion channel while connected to an external monitor. This is a problem, as that's our only tv screen larger than laptop! CRITERION!!!!!!

kmikeym · Post by **kmikeym** » Sun Apr 05, 2020 1:40 pm

richjensen wrote: ↑Sat Apr 04, 2020 11:59 pm O hey.. It's Brian Eno talking about what everybody else is talking about. https://youtu.be/J7ei1-rYHMU

I first learned about Yanis Varoufakis when he was the in-house economist at Valve, a video game company.

alexshred420 · Post by **alexshred420** » Mon Apr 06, 2020 12:20 pm

Sasha and I watched "A Pervert's Guide to Ideology" by Zizek over the weekend. Pretty entertaining and interesting.

I rented it on Vimeo "On-Demand" via a VPN connected to Germany and ripped it if anybody's interested. Will be up for week:
https://www.alexmahan.com/files/zizek-p ... gy.mp4.zip

kmikeym · Post by **kmikeym** » Mon Apr 06, 2020 12:37 pm

QUIBI!!!!

01001010 01010101 01000100 01000001 01001000 · Mon Apr 06, 2020 12:48 pm

TALES FROM THE LOOOOOP

RCH · Post by **RCH** » Mon Apr 06, 2020 3:25 pm

I'm enjoying a funny sketch comedy program on Home Box Office called Mr. Show. It seems like it was deeply influential in its time and beyond. I am borderline sexually obsessed with one of the head writers, Bob Odenkirk, who has been an emotionally thwarted middle-aged man his entire life.

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Mon Apr 06, 2020 7:36 pm

RCH wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2020 3:25 pm I'm enjoying a funny sketch comedy program on Home Box Office called Mr. Show. It seems like it was deeply influential in its time and beyond. I am borderline sexually obsessed with one of the head writers, Bob Odenkirk, who has been an emotionally thwarted middle-aged man his entire life.

I'm so jealous that you get to watch Mr. Show for the first time

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Mon Apr 06, 2020 7:36 pm

01001010 01010101 01000100 01000001 01001000 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2020 12:48 pm TALES FROM THE LOOOOOP

This is the show that's based on, like, viral internet robot illustrations, right? What's the deal, is it good?

infopetal · Post by **infopetal** » Mon Apr 06, 2020 8:07 pm

recent movie highlights...
* Cane River (1982)
* Comrades
* Almost a Love Story (1996)
* Certain Women (2016)
* Sorry We Missed You (2019)
* Losing Ground (1982)
* The Daytrippers (1996)

tv-wise...
* My Brilliant Friend S02
* High Maintenance S04
* Awkwafina is Nora from Queens S01
* Bob's Burgers S10
* High Fidelity S01 (two months ago I was ragging so hard on how unnecessary is this reboot but Still Processing convinced me to give it a try, and I REGRET NOTHING!)

excited for the returns of Killing Eve S03, Insecure S04, and The Trip S04; and to check out debuts of Betty, Devs, Mrs. America, Unorthodox, and Run (new show produced by Phoebe Waller-Bridge).

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Tue Apr 07, 2020 4:04 am

RCH that is so fun and cool. What a fun gift you gave yourself by waiting so long to watch Mr. Show!!

We are finally watching the new Twin Peaks and I love it.

richjensen · Post by **richjensen** » Tue Apr 07, 2020 4:27 am

I watched our insane alcoholic step-father yell at ladies for an hour yesterday. Incredible that we let this happen. Seems eternal.

Also finished the Tigers. Same show.

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Tue Apr 07, 2020 4:39 pm

I really loved "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" (it's on Hulu now!) so last night I decided to go deeper into the Céline Sciamma oeuvre and watched Girlhood, which really tore my lil soul up.

infopetal · Post by **infopetal** » Wed Apr 08, 2020 8:48 pm

yourfriendclaire wrote: ↑Tue Apr 07, 2020 4:39 pm I really loved "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" (it's on Hulu now!) so last night I decided to go deeper into the Céline Sciamma oeuvre and watched Girlhood, which really tore my lil soul up.

I love Girlhood and will never hear Diamonds the same way again. :'-)

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Thu Apr 09, 2020 2:21 am

Man, I am currently weary of any film that will tear me apart emotionally. Girlhood is now on the list though.
We just started watching Lars von Trier's 1994 Danish hospital horror mini-series, The Kingdom. And oooh boy.

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Thu Apr 09, 2020 3:54 am

WHOA I don't know that von Trier! What's it like? I bet it's psychotic!