Watching old movies in Lockdown

[newcastle]

One of the benefits of this wretched lockdown - particularly if you’re in Tier 4 with everything shut - is that it gives you, in fact compels you, to do things that you might otherwise have neglected.

Like reading....although I confess to having got into the habit of audiobooks, and using them to aid sleep!

But it also gives you to watch movies....and, with Prime, Netflix, BBC iPlayer etc, there’s plenty of classics you can watch. Movies you may have heard of but, for some reason, never watched.

There was a biography of Anthony Hopkins on TV today, followed by Shadowlands....a beautiful movie based on the later years of the life of C. S.Lewis, with only a few diversions from the accurate history ( Invariably inevitable ).

I’ve long been a fan of Hopkins and look forward to watching some others of his excellent performances...The Remains of the Day, Howard’s End etc.

[carrie]

I loved that movie, last night I found The Square on Youtube.
I lived here during the Mubarak revolution and was glued to the telly but that film was a real eye opener.

[newcastle]

I loved that movie, last night I found The Square on Youtube.
I lived here during the Mubarak revolution and was glued to the telly but that film was a real eye opener.

Ooh.....thanks for that Carrie.

It’s currently available on Netflix...that’s Christmas sorted

[Chris]

The Square does not seem to be available on Netflix when I do a search - maybe it is not availbale in Egypt on Netflix?

[newcastle]

The Square does not seem to be available on Netflix when I do a search - maybe it is not availbale in Egypt on Netflix?

Certainly currently available in UK.

But Netflix does confine its releases at certain times to certain countries so it may not be available in Egypt.

The Egyptian authorities would also not be keen for it to be available in a Egypt!

[BBLUX]

I loved that movie, last night I found The Square on Youtube.
I lived here during the Mubarak revolution and was glued to the telly but that film was a real eye opener.

Thanks for this Carrie. I had been looking for it online for a few weeks.
Now it is downloaded for viewing at our leisure.

[carrie]

Chris I found it on youtube

[DJKeefy]

is this the one?

The Square: Egypt At War (Oscar-Nominated Documentary) | Real Stories

[newcastle]

That’s the one!

It’s amazing how the current regime have whitewashed - or buried - what actually took place 2011-2013.

[carrie]

Thanks Keefy that is the one.

[Who2]

Not very old but for me this should be interesting.
I see they are wearing SRT t-shirts, hope they show a lot more.
Our boy's wrote that 'Welcome to Sarajevo on the wall, what made it difficult
it was on a wall in 'snipers ally....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000qpkh

[newcastle]

Not very old but for me this should be interesting.
I see they are wearing SRT t-shirts, hope they show a lot more.
Our boy's wrote that 'Welcome to Sarajevo on the wall, what made it difficult
it was on a wall in 'snipers ally....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000qpkh

Sarajevo serenaded by Iron Maiden?

Hadn’t they suffered enough?

[newcastle]

TV pretty good for Christmas Eve....

Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V ( film version) and Phantom of the Opera (Royal Albert Hall performance)