Not sure if this is the right thread, but why not? Films for kids. I’m a kid!
I remember The Magic Roundabout (B&W) in the 1960s but I must have been in my 20s! Remember enjoying it - Zebedee & Doogle!
Seems it’s making a comeback. Was originally a French series.
“Hit children’s TV showThe Magic Roundaboutis being brought back by a French production company. Beloved by an entire generation growing up in the UK, it was originally adapted from a French stop-motion animation calledLe Manège enchanté.”
The Detectorists – on TV. Who watched? I felt captivated by a series that wouldn’t have been what it was/is without Mackenzie Crook, and Toby Jones especially. I found the series soothing and satisfying.
Summed up in The Guardian – “Detectorists has become one of those programs I find myself endlessly, overzealously recommending. It’s good-natured and charming, and there’s really something admirable about a series so singularly dedicated to making you feel good. And after the year we’ve just had, don’t we all deserve that?”
I watched that as a young child with my dad. He died young so the film holds a place in my heart for that reason alone, but it’s also a great film that’s worth watching regardless.
Sorry - didn’t know the series was doing a re-run - starting last night! Must’ve been something in the ether!
Am going to build my own library of those old comedy TV series of my generation which are still worth watching today, and are starting to appear on YouTube. I’m currently downloading all 19 episodes of the Detectorists which for me is a classic.
And others such as ‘Jeeves and Wooster’ ‘One Foot in the Grave’ ‘Steptoe and Son’ ‘The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin’ and so on.
Not much enticing comedy for me on TV these days – down to the generation gap no doubt.
Sorry, Bonzocat, I agree with you about UK TV, although, the new series of Happy Valley on BBC, with not so many laughs, is worth watching.
I can recommend Netflix, especially if you ignore their suggestions and do your own search. I have found Swedish comedies, much funnier than expected.
And, currently I am cruising through the Spanish comedies, which as ling as you can read the subtitles very fast, are hilarious. The series of 10 called ‘Alpha Males’ is machismo joy. (But a but rude in parts, so best watched with a Cava in hand ).
I downloaded all 3 seasons of ‘dectorists’, each having 6 episodes, and I opened up 6 episodes en bloc at a time, like 3-hour long films.
In seeing the series right through like that I saw it very differently and got so intensely involved, fully absorbed.
In BBC Culture today I read that in the last episode of the first six episodes, the 2 detectorists find yet another ring pull, call it a day, and then go off to the pub. But the aerial scene of them walking along reveals them passing by the edge of a faint outline of a large Saxon ship. Never saw that before. In the screenshot, you have to look closely to see it.
Worryingly, I was reading today that BBC 4 may go to archive and ‘online only’. Something to do with the TV license issue. I’m not sure if they mean to remove things from iPlayer, which is how I watch. Possibly a step towards requiring payment…
Haven’t used Netflix before, thanks, so will give it a try, but the humour will have to be British, having been a Londoner for the first 50 impressionable years of my life. Although I loved the USA series ‘Cheers’. So maybe some American humour.
Nearly finished watching Grand Budapest Hotel. It’s a film that amuses and irritates intensely in equal measure, and I need occasional breaks in order to be able to continue watching to the end. I wanted to watch it because it seems to have acquired classic status, but like much art, it’s not about actually enjoying it.
I”m one 100% with you on Laurel and Hardy, in fact mow the lawn with nail scissors! But with GBH I found interest in the filming, the detail of the sets and the little sub-jokes visual and otherwise.
Did you watch it on a TV? It was made for screening so maybe looses something (a lot?) in a small format?
My film viewing is on a 15.6" laptop, although the screen is QHD and watched in Opera browsers high-res mode for added detail. I am aware that seen large, it’s probably a visual feast, and I wondered if the new Emma Thompson film was paying tribute in its own way.
I’m probably not cinematically oriented enough to spot many references, just like I wouldn’t expect a non-guitar player to get much out of This Is Spinal Tap.
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Agree!