What's the last DVD or video you watched?

'Security Incidents' -- one of the compulsory Regular Reading & Viewing items that RBS staff have to watch every month.
I love this one because it was filmed in the building i used to work in, and i know a lot of the 'extras' in the film!

Stranger Than Fiction and it was definitely strange!  Saw it with a couple other people and none of us liked it. 

Watched 'Blue' last night, from the Three Colours Trilogy.  It was very well done.  Made me want to go to Paris again, though...

'This Sporting Life' -- didn't like it, but if it gets me closer to the storecupboard with Stu, I'd watch it twice!

'This Sporting Life' -- didn't like it, but if it gets me closer to the storecupboard with Stu, I'd watch it twice!

Trying to remember if we saw that.  I kind of think we might have, but I don't really remember it.  I probably fell asleep mid-movie if we did.

Watched 5 x 2 by Francois Ozon: his take on the disintegration of a marriage

The Holiday I really enjoyed it   

The Story of the Weeping Camel.

Oddly, watching it made me homesick as the scenes of the Gobi desert reminds me of the interior of BC somehow.

I really would like to see Hotel Rwanda.  My MIL started to tell me about it and broke down sobbing, saying she couldn't get over a scene from the movie and it haunts her to this day...I didn't dare ask what the scene was...


Just saw The Holiday - I so wanted this to be good... but it was just okay.

Quite a lot of gruesome stuff there (I think I might know the scene in question though) - particularly disturbing as it's something that really happened & considering they think 1 million people were violently murdered within the span of 3 months, while the western world pretty much turned its back on these people.

But you have to admire the character played by Don Cheadle.  I highly recommend the film.

You might be interested in a documentary called Shake Hands with the Devil about Romeo Dallaire:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shake_Hands_With_the_Devil:_The_Journey_of_Rom%C3%A9o_Dallaire

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424435/

http://www.whitepinepictures.com/dallairesite/index.htm

It's brutal but valuable.

Grace is Gone

FANTASTIC!

Thanks for the suggestion, mapleleafgirl72!

The last DVD we've seen was a perennial holiday favorite of mine...White Christmas.

And ever since, I've been singing - Sisters, sisters, there were never such devoted sisters...

Oh, that sounds lovely! I think we'll watch A Charlie Brown Christmas next.

I love White Christmas... my sister and I used to pretend to be the sisters. I always had to be Vera Ellen and she was stuck being Rosemary Clooney and getting Bing 

On the DVD we got, one of the special features is an interview with an old Rosemary Clooney.  She was saying that while she could sing (Rosemary - man could she ever!), she couldn't dance.  And Vera could dance like nobody's business, but she couldn't sing -- all her vocals were dubbed.  I didn't know that -- interesting about their complementary talents in any case.

On the DVD we got, one of the special features is an interview with an old Rosemary Clooney.  She was saying that while she could sing (Rosemary - man could she ever!), she couldn't dance.  And Vera could dance like nobody's business, but she couldn't sing -- all her vocals were dubbed.  I didn't know that -- interesting about their complementary talents in any case.

Oh yes, Vera was always dubbed.  And Donald O'Connor (my favourite dancer) was scheduled to play opposite her but he broke his ankle in rehearsal!  So Danny Kaye was brought in - but he was no dancer, so they had to bring in some nameless bloke to partner Vera - and to me, this is always the weakest bit of the film - her dance scenes. As much as I LOVE Danny in this and he is so funny - I always wonder how it would've been with a real dancing star like Donald in my favourite number, The Best Things...

Thus ends my White Christmas lecture!

But I love Rosemary Clooney and have all her Christmas songs on cd...

Juno

Fan-freakin'-tastic!