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    Originally posted by Jon View Post
    Saw some of it last night. Is it part of a series?
    Yes it is, Lisbon is first (last night's was 1/3), next series will be on Beirut.

    Originally posted by Jon View Post
    Did you manage to catch the art of Spain, kev? I only caught about one and a half episodes but it was really excellent. I especially liked the focus on the various smaller castillan towns; Madrid was only mentioned near the end of that episode.
    Yes, I did (https://www.onetouchfootball.com/sho...=1#post1404903), it was a repeat (first aired about ten years ago) but still highly watchable.

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      Comme des garçons, a comedy on the postwar pioneer of women’s football in France, Club Féminin Rémois (http://feminine.stade-de-reims.com/presentation) to be released in France on 25 April. Bande-annonce/trailer:



      [this is NOT a rigorously researched post, it was hastily done so there may well be errors/approximations, feel free to point them out if you spot any]

      Just like in England, where women’s football was officially banned from 1921 to 1971, woman’s football in France remained frowned upon and marginalised for a long time, roughly between 1933 and the late 1960s. Yet, between its advent in the 1910s and the early 1930s, it blossomed in France (especially in the Paris area) and even drew sizeable crowds, especially for internationals vs England and Belgium, and really grew in popularity (in 1920, the world’s first national women's league was created in France). Maybe it’s that popularity that terrified the rabidly misogynistic French Association blazers who were backed up by contemptible shills such as journalist Henri Desgrange (1925: « Que les jeunes filles fassent du sport entre elles, dans un terrain rigoureusement clos, inaccessible au public : oui d'accord. Mais qu'elles se donnent en spectacle, à certains jours de fêtes, où sera convié le public, qu'elles osent même courir après un ballon dans une prairie qui n'est pas entourée de murs épais, voilà qui est intolérable! »).

      AFAIK, it wasn’t banned as such in France (except during WWII) but the FFF rejected women’s football which went underground and was saved from marginalisation by a newly-created Women's Sports Association (the FSFSF, Fédération des Sociétés Féminines Sportives de France) that developed it and set up a national woman’s league (1921-1932). However, in 1937, the FSFSF discarded woman’s football as the association's leaders accused it of hindering the development of women’s sport and it thus entered a thirty-year long tunnel.

      Woman’s football was revived in the late 1960s by pioneering clubs such as Reims, credited to be the one club that gave the impetus for the FFF to rehabilitate it, which was officially done in March 1970 before the 3F set up a national league in 1974.

      Comme des garçons is a light-hearted film so don’t expect any deep analysis on the whys and wherefores but it seems (it’s not even been released so I haven't seen it, obvs.) to touch on the discrimination and the barriers that these courageous trailblazing women had to face, and probably still do today to a degree.

      Will be out on DVD later this year, hopefully with English subtitles.


      https://wallabet.fr/histoire-footbal...-grandes-dates

      https://www.fff.fr/actualites/177588...oot-au-feminin

      Last edited by Pérou Flaquettes; 11-04-2018, 12:41.

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        Checking out the Netflix Lost In Space series reboot. I've only seen one episode, but as a devoted fan of the original during my childhood, the jury, as they say, is still out. I'll watch a few more episodes and see if it gets better.

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          Saw the preview of the new Lost in Space - way too cool, clever, and slick. Though Parker Posey as Dr. Smith might make me check it out. Like you, I devoured the original as a kid. Years ago my brother made me DVD discs and it just wasn't the same. Which is probably ok.

          Just finished Wild, Wild Country - well done and recommended.

          Working on second season Chronicles of Frankenstein and Occupied.

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            Let us know what you think of Occupied

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              It's a little over the top, but I quite like it and it definitely has my attention. When watching, one can't help but think of current Euro/Russia tension but also of Norwegian WWII resistance. The characters are realistic and engaging and the script is solid.

              I was raised in Stavanger as my Dad worked offshore, so I easily connect to Norsk films and TV. I would imagine Occupied has to be all the rage in Norway.

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                I felt the same (re: Euro/Russia). What I like about it is the refusal to underline black hats/white hats. As an illustration of attempts to be pragmatic while maintaining ideals and all the shades of grey they cover it's rather good. It is a bit OTT, particularly as it nears the climax, but otherwise well worth watching.

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                  Cal - I'm still watching it with one episode left. My main complaints against it are 1) it's far too serious, and 2) it's so different from the original premise that they should have called it something else and given the characters different names. I'm going to watch the last episode, but if it makes it to a second season, I won't be watching that. Even the feature-length version was better than this, and that's not saying a lot.

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                    Watched the first episode of The Expanse season 3. Decent setup episode. Definitely left me wanting more.

                    If any of you like Sci fi and haven't watched The Expanse, get on it. It's bloody brilliant.

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                      Where are you watching it?

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                        His gaff, probably. But, I mean, it's hobbes....so....

                        Meanwhile, props to Amor for telling me to stick with Peaky Blinders. Fucking loved it.

                        Now, six eps into Santa Clarita Diet. LOVING it.

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                          Originally posted by hobbes View Post
                          Watched the first episode of The Expanse season 3. Decent setup episode. Definitely left me wanting more.

                          If any of you like Sci fi and haven't watched The Expanse, get on it. It's bloody brilliant.
                          I've read the books. Not sure I have the time to watch it on TV

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                            Originally posted by Ginger Yellow View Post
                            Where are you watching it?
                            Yeah I was wondering about that. Netflix only have the first two series in the UK at the moment.

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                              <ahem>eztv<ahem>
                              Make sure you disable java scripting from their website before you search though. Otherwise you get a load of annoying pop ups.

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                                Since I guess this is the closest thing to a Netflix thread, I'll put this here: Netflix has hired Julian Fellowes to make a drama about the history of football. Seems like it's going to have a Downton-esque upstairs/downstairs dynamic, which is ominous.

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                                  Is there an app where we can play Amazon Prime on our TV? We need it for the new Bosch.

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                                    Watched the new Alex Garland film Annihilation, with Natalie Portman, on Netflix.

                                    Contains themes reminiscent of Solaris, Predator and Blair Witch Project. I enjoyed it, but I won't pretend it all made sense.

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                                      Is there an app where we can play Amazon Prime on our TV? We need it for the new Bosch.
                                      Um, only you can answer that. There are Amazon TV apps. Whether or not your TV has one, I've no idea. Obviously, an Amazon Fire stick will also work, as will a Roku and I think an AppleTV. Chromecast I'm not sure about, as Google and Amazon have a weird tiff going on.

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                                        Originally posted by Ginger Yellow View Post
                                        Chromecast I'm not sure about, as Google and Amazon have a weird tiff going on.
                                        The only way to do it is to download the Prime Video app to your phone, then use Google Home to cast the whole screen to the TV. (Of course you could cast your monitor or laptop screen instead.)

                                        Not ideal.

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                                          Veronica on Netflix has had a lot of hype, of the 'scariest movie ever' variety. Ignoring that, it's pretty good.

                                          I refer to the Spanish film. There's also a Mexican film on Netflix with the same name, which isn't bad either.

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                                            Bosch s04 is on Crave up here — which probably doesn't do anyone any good — but suggests that Amazon Prime isn't available in Canada (I haven't checked.)

                                            Watched season two of Casa de Papel (which for some reason Netflix has re-titled Money Heist, descriptive but about as meh as you can get.) As I mentioned up thread somewhere I've a thing for heist movies, and this one pushes most of the right buttons. It's a bit over-cooked emotionally at times, but it's a Spanish show and that may be how they roll. It keeps you guessing until the last few minutes of the final episode , and the concept — taking over the national mint and printing as much money as you can in a given time — is pretty original. Finally the twin leads — Female cop and male bad guy — are both excellent. Definitely recommended if you like this sub-genre.

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                                              Looking forward to west World Series 2

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                                                Watching 'An Honourable Woman'. Stunning performance by Maggie Gyllenhaal but grim stuff. Plot does not quite work for me. I don't quite get Atika's motivation, for example.

                                                Stephen Rea seems to have reinvented himself as a world-weary schemer.

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                                                  Happy! is now on Netflix, so worth a look.

                                                  Also, the legend of Monkey really is irrepressible, with 'The New Legends of Monkey' also available on Netflix. No egg or mountain top though (yet) which was a little disappointing.

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                                                    I can't quite bring myself to watch this Monkey reboot (is that what it's going for, or is it just another telling of Journey to the West?). If it doesn't have the music and the narration and the sound effects and hammy acting and the random gender swapping, it's just not the same.

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