slaytonf Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 Except that it is known how Covid-19 spreads. You may not. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 The plague interferes in the plans of the Friar to deliver an all important letter in Romeo and Juliet. Scene 2 Enter Friar John. FRIAR JOHN Holy Franciscan friar, brother, ho!Enter Friar Lawrence. FRIAR LAWRENCE This same should be the voice of Friar John.—Welcome from Mantua. What says Romeo?Or, if his mind be writ, give me his letter. FRIAR JOHN Going to find a barefoot brother out,One of our order, to associate me,Here in this city visiting the sick,And finding him, the searchers of the town,Suspecting that we both were in a houseWhere the infectious pestilence did reign,Sealed up the doors and would not let us forth,So that my speed to Mantua there was stayed. Link to post Share on other sites
LonesomePolecat Posted April 27 Author Share Posted April 27 Yesterday the LA Times was talking about doctors making hard decisions, and quoted COMA (1978) Here's the article: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-25/triage-rules-priority-ventilators 1 Link to post Share on other sites
LonesomePolecat Posted April 27 Author Share Posted April 27 Joanna in SWEENEY TODD knows a lot about quarantine! Link to post Share on other sites
EricJ Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 9 hours ago, LonesomePolecat said: Yesterday the LA Times was talking about doctors making hard decisions, and quoted COMA (1978) Here's the article: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-25/triage-rules-priority-ventilators I was quoting that same image right around the time we were wondering about Kim-Jong Un's current unverified state of health. (And why couldn't he afford something as cool as that?) 1 Link to post Share on other sites
LonesomePolecat Posted April 28 Author Share Posted April 28 EVENING PRIMROSE -- Anthony Perkins thinks it's a great idea to quarantine in a department store, only to discover others had been quarantining in there for years, one amongst them against her will. This song is kind of how we all feel right now: "I remember sky....." 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 The Union Carbide chemical disaster in India. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
LornaHansonForbes Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 getting ready to post a revu in the I JUST WATCHED thread, but last night I watched WITCHFINDER GENERAL (1968)... IS IT JUST ME, or are A LOT OF MOVIES suddenly PREGNANT WITH EXTRA MEANINGS given the current CRISIS in which we find ourselves? the basis of this film: during a time of DIVISION, STRIFE and INEFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP- all sorts of DESPICABLE people emerge from the woodwork to TAKE ADVANTAGE of the lawlessness, fear and unrest. I think my last words when I'm getting roasted on the pyre will be "BALENCIEGA!!!!!" 1 Link to post Share on other sites
CinemaInternational Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 The movie i saw just before bed last night fits the bill...... Much of the movie is a charming fish-out-of-water romance comedy but its attached to the mother of all lockdowns. Brendan Fraser (hey, nice to see the lead of a movie who actually has the same first name as me!) plays a young men who sallies forth into 1997 LA to find supplies, food, and a bride, after spending all 35 years of his life in a fall-out shelter built by his father Christopher Walken. Walken sealed himself and very pregnant wife Sissy Spacek in the shelter after what he though was the opening salvo of World War III in 1962. in actuality it was a plane crash that destroyed their house. No matter though as Walken puts locks on the shelter that don't open for 35 years, bringing the family into an entombed world of Perry Como records, shuffleboard, Jackie Gleason reruns, and Readers Digest Condensed Books, safe from massive changes in society. Walken and Fraser fare rather well during it all, Spacek, getting cabin fever within minutes, starts hitting the cooking sherry with gusto. Needless to say they are in for a rude awakening when they reenter society. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites
speedracer5 Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 18 minutes ago, CinemaInternational said: The movie i saw just before bed last night fits the bill...... I loved this movie! I saw it when it came out in 1999. "I love sushi." "I love Lucy." "Who doesn't? She's hilarious." 2 Link to post Share on other sites
kingrat Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 12 hours ago, LonesomePolecat said: EVENING PRIMROSE -- Anthony Perkins thinks it's a great idea to quarantine in a department store, only to discover others had been quarantining in there for years, one amongst them against her will. This song is kind of how we all feel right now: "I remember sky....." A gorgeous song, which I have actually sung in public. Unlike many Sondheim songs, the piano part is relatively easy. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites
LonesomePolecat Posted April 28 Author Share Posted April 28 35 minutes ago, kingrat said: A gorgeous song, which I have actually sung in public. Waiting for the video of your solo!!! Link to post Share on other sites
LonesomePolecat Posted April 28 Author Share Posted April 28 Right now I'm re-watching THE MIRROR CRACK'D starring Angela Lansbury as Miss Marple, and I suddenly see the significance of an important plot point about a highly contagious disease and a nurse who spreads it (spoiler alert!) 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites
LornaHansonForbes Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 On 4/27/2020 at 6:37 AM, Bogie56 said: The plague interferes in the plans of [ROMEO AND JULIET] Damn shame. In just a couple of years they could’ve started collecting Social Security. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites
LornaHansonForbes Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 1 hour ago, LonesomePolecat said: Right now I'm re-watching THE MIRROR CRACK'D starring Angela Lansbury as Miss Marple, and I suddenly see the significance of an important plot point about a highly contagious disease and a nurse who spreads it (spoiler alert!) YES!!!!!!!!! I was totally, totally thinking about this one the other day and made a mental note ti cite it in this thread. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
spence Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 9 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said: Damn shame. In just a couple of years they could’ve started collecting Social Security. Des[ite being former polo playing pals with THE GREAT TRACY, along with WALT DISNEY & WILL ROGERS, never cared for Leslie Howard myself For yrs TRACY kept his polo playing stables, mostly after they died to sleep one off though That's where they found him finally, to due BOYS TOWN Link to post Share on other sites
LawrenceA Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 I'm watching a rather lackluster thriller on Netflix entitled The Perfection (2018), and part of the plot involves two Americans staying in China when a mysterious and deadly disease starts spreading. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
spence Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 so fed up about hearing about covid19, but he media just adores it Link to post Share on other sites
slaytonf Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 The Painted Veil (1934). Love and adultery in the time of cholera. With Greta Garbo, Herbert Marshall and George Brendt: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/1266/The-Painted-Veil/ The Vessel of Wrath (1938). Love and alcoholism in the time of typhoid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vessel_of_Wrath 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites
slaytonf Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 Surprising how disease figures in so many movies. Myrna Loy gets it in The Rains Came (1939): http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/87640/The-Rains-Came/ It's cholera this time. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 Friends on a camping trip discover that the town they're vacationing in is being plagued in an unusual fashion by parasitic aliens from outer space. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
TikiSoo Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 Sorry if this has been said already, but I can't help but think of the ending of WAR OF THE WORLDS 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Sepiatone Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 TV channel COMET recently showed this one --- '80 Sepiatone 1 Link to post Share on other sites
LonesomePolecat Posted April 29 Author Share Posted April 29 INTO THE WOODS -- as the kingdom is in crisis and people die all around them, the leaders bail and the survivors blame each other. All the bickering in politics and media with everyone blaming each other makes this song sound awfully familiar: 3 Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted April 30 Share Posted April 30 The Pied Piper, Jacques Demy's 1972 film with Donovan about the 14th century Black Plague. Link to post Share on other sites
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