What movie are you streaming?

I know it was very highly regarded and my sister absolutely loved it, but it just didn't do anything for me. I got quite irritated and I don't know why.

Don't know the book but will definitely give this a watch.

@SteveInJoburg I think you would love the book, Steve. The movie, too, but the book is so fantastic.

I didn't hate it, but it was hardly what I thought it could have been. They would have been smarter to do a straight origin story on Tony.

@Mario Brega It's often said to be the greatest concert film of all time.

What's your take on that?

@Jerseyfornia I can understand why people say it. The quality of the performances, the context of the night, the unique why Scorsese blends in the concert with Band interviews. I wouldn't say I've seen enough concert films to give a 'decisive' "it is" or "it isn't", but maybe the fact it made me want to rewatch The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts says more about my answer than anything else?

I'll also post in here what I wrote on Letterboxd (https://letterboxd.com/Kieran18/films/diary/):

A live performance immortalised over forty years ago, and a film where everyone involved is either in their late seventies/early eighties or has taken the mystery train to the other side, hearing Dylan sing "may you stay forever young" really drives it all home.

Just picked up on this - an amazing film.

@SteveInJoburg I just wish they'd released the soundtrack.

@Jerseyfornia So its obviously not this... But holy shit this is worth 20 minutes of your time. My word she is one talented lady.

@SteveInJoburg Brilliant and not far off from the version in the film. And she's pretty stoned there. "Auckland, New Jersey." Love her.

@Jerseyfornia Sharks - they have better frocks!!

@whispered secret Haha. I like your reasoning for where your loyalty lies. I'm a Sharks man all the way, but not because of their frocks. They had better hair.

@whispered secret I decided to get an unlimited pass at a local cinema and have been going to see just about everything. Would probably never have watched this film otherwise and now I can't stop listening to "Tonight" from the balcony scene...

... I saw it over a week ago! 😳

I've been waiting for someone to bring up Get Back. I'm about to finish the first episode... It really is a time capsule. It's pretty incredible.

@SteveInJoburg I very much liked the first episode, certainly quite a bit more than the original Let It Be—which I was astonished to find as a young Beatlemaniac really was a slog, at least at times—despite being much longer. Get Back was far more pleasant, if still tense. But the second and third episodes were even more enjoyable and seemed to go much faster. (I guess the third really is the shortest, although still longer than Let It Be.)

@Scott Peterson I have never actually seen Let It Be, which might account for all of this being so new and mindblowing to me. I have watched the second episode now, just need to find time to watch the final one.

Also, corny as it is, hearing Paul singing (in the 'song' Commonwealth) 'South Africa' delighted me no end...

Crikey, Barry Norman takes me back!

@whispered secret and why not?

(Another catch phrase that was, I'm told, never said.)

@Walkerinthesun I can't fucking stand perusing through Amazon and the seeing pay options. Can't they separate the two?

@Kay We had Prime for a week and when browsing there's an option "Free for me" (or words to that effect) which filters your browsing to stuff that is free on Prime.

Panic over, included. Phew!

That is exactly what I often want. When I was young and had not a care in the world (well, I had tons, but in retrospect...), I was all over grim and dark and depressing films. But now with the world collapsing around our ears, truly well-done escapist fare is often exactly what hits the spot, and it's almost always in such short supply.

@Walkerinthesun thanks - I will investigate.

Woot! This better be on Canadian Prime because with the pandemic and Netflix and Amazon, we're in a huge lull from stalling production sets, have not seen this one advertised yet.

Finally watched this - a most enjoyable couple of hours.

There's absolutely no reason you should have, of course...but...but...still...my mind is BAHLOWN.

I haven't watched it yet, but I do follow Bob's RV living youtube channel and those of some of the RVers he's featured who appear in the film.

@whispered secret If anything it's a solid companion piece to Citizen Kane.

The Oscars were a truly awful watch, and while I'm still surprised Boseman didn't win Best Actor it does leave me wanting to check out The Father now to see how good Hopkins actually was (You all know I'm so easily swayed) even though I don't particularly like watching films or shows focusing on Alzheimer's and Dementia.

@Mario Brega I didn't watch the Oscars, just caught the odd bits on the news.

I was always going to watch Nomadland and am really looking forward to that.

i will also watch The Father, I read and watch quite a lot of stuff around dementia, even though it terrifies me.

Want to see this move so bad, I've got a big girl crush on Carey Mulligan. Big time.