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*** Official Film Thread ***

Gutter Boy said:
Have you seen the Spencer Tracey original? If so, how does this compare?

Tbh I couldn't got past the barrier of the Crowe casting to watch it.
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It's very very different TBH, I love that BTW.

It's got a fairly Oppenheimer feel about this in some ways. It's like Nazi v America cos play, its a watchable film but feels like its trying too hard.
 
Mcfee said:
On the subject of films up for awards, I went to Sentimental Value last week, thought it was excellent, all the main actors superb.
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Nice, will give it a go.

Not sure if its award worthy, but seen people rave about the Clooney film Jay Kelly, decent watch but not sure its award worthy
 
Mcfee said:
On the subject of films up for awards, I went to Sentimental Value last week, thought it was excellent, all the main actors superb.
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Not sure I’d watch it again but Stellan Skaarsgard deserved all the praise and awards he’s going to get and Renate Reinsve was also excellent as was the actress who played her sister (don’t know her name).
 
Jurgen the German said:
That’s two films in a row where Chalamat has played a clam; A Complete Unknown and Marty Supreme. Strange as he seems like a nice guy. Shows he’s a brilliant actor I guess.
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No one works harder in Hollywood in terms of trying to win awards, meaning he does every single tour and appointment to win them where he can. Watched a fascinating episode of the rest is entertainment and it literally costs millions more of events, PR and pushing someone round the world to win an Oscar and they reckon old Tim is the most accessible actor who goes along with he plans to do so, nearly to the sickly point of Cruise jumping up and down on chairs declaring his love for a film
 
MartyFunkhouser said:
Nuremberg a good film without being spectacular

Sent me down a rabbit hole on the subject, trivial to know it was chosen as the location because it was in the American sector of Germany and the attendees wanted Burgers and Beers between the trial, the UK sector was on rations still
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Hmm, I went to the Nuremberg museum on the site of the parade ground. They say it was more because:

Symbolic Reasons
    • Nazi Heartland:
      Nuremberg was where the Nazi Party held its massive annual rallies and where Hitler intended to build a "city of the party," making it central to Nazi identity.
    • Birthplace of Nazi Laws:
      The city was where the discriminatory Nuremberg Laws, which stripped Jews of citizenship, were proclaimed, creating a potent backdrop for accountability.
    • Symbolic Closure:
      Holding the trials in the former epicenter of Nazi power served as a powerful statement, turning a symbol of Nazi strength into the location of its ultimate judgment and demise.
Ultimately, the decision to hold the trials in Nuremberg was to confront the Nazis in the very place they glorified themselves, ensuring a public reckoning with the law rather than just a military defeat.
 
Bullet said:
Hmm, I went to the Nuremberg museum on the site of the parade ground. They say it was more because:

Symbolic Reasons
    • Nazi Heartland:
      Nuremberg was where the Nazi Party held its massive annual rallies and where Hitler intended to build a "city of the party," making it central to Nazi identity.
    • Birthplace of Nazi Laws:
      The city was where the discriminatory Nuremberg Laws, which stripped Jews of citizenship, were proclaimed, creating a potent backdrop for accountability.
    • Symbolic Closure:
      Holding the trials in the former epicenter of Nazi power served as a powerful statement, turning a symbol of Nazi strength into the location of its ultimate judgment and demise.
Ultimately, the decision to hold the trials in Nuremberg was to confront the Nazis in the very place they glorified themselves, ensuring a public reckoning with the law rather than just a military defeat.
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Interesting, the curator of the holocaust exhibition in London said ultimately the final decision came down to creature comforts of those attending and America sector has access to all of them.

Maybe it wasn't as an impactful decision as those you mentioned, but they did say it was a sway.

I still need to get some reading material on the initial break up of Germany after the war, its massively intriguing for me
 
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