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Our readers have confirmed: they are, indeed, waiting for-freaking-ever to get some discs from Netflix. These include classic films, animated movies, television series, and new DVD releases. Is there some kind of nationwide DVD shortage, or is Netflix trying to strangle its DVD business?
After installing the plug-in on my Windows laptop today and trying to get it to work for an hour, I installed it on my Mac desktop and have the exact same problem where the only Spanish series that loads subtitles is La Nia.
I am having the same exact problem. The subtitles will not load for any Spanish film/show on Netflix regardless of how long I wait. I tried to get the subtitles for Elite to work and I left it to load for several hours and they never did.
Midnight in Paris is great. Paris Je t'Aime is also great if mixed. 16 vignettes based on different arrondissement -- some wonderful, some stupid. My favorite is the 14th arrondissement -- a middle aged US postal worker narrates her long dreamed of visit to Paris in heavily American accented French -- charming and because she is talking slowly and with an American accent even those of us with limited French can understand every word of her French. Before Midnight is also good.
I agree about Woody Allen's Rome movie -- totally tedious but Midnight in Paris was both better written and acted and well, the pictures of Paris are stunning. Towards the very end of this post on churches off the beaten track in Paris are a couple of pictures of the steps at St. Etienne du Mont where Giles is picked up by the car from the past in Midnight in Paris.
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Offbeat but worth the time is Agnes Varda, we just watched her film Faces Places which has her traversing France with a photographer who papers his portraits of people all over small towns in France to great appreciation from the locals, it's at 99% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Gunderson, you're not the only dissenter. I was not that fond of Midnight in Paris. I'm not a fan of Owen Wilson so, for me, that ruined it. I would have preferred to see another actor in the role. Just a personal opinion. But I did like the Paris locations filmed and I like the premise of the story. I usually do like Woody Allen movies.
"Gundersen, would that be TVO by any chance? Fellow Ontarian here :)" - Yes indeed. It's never been the same without the great Elwy Yost. He moved to the west coast after he retired, before moving on to greener pastures. As a young man I met him many years ago, in the Viking fish and chip shop in Etobicoke. He was tall and thin, which suprised me. He certainly loved movies and could find just about something good to say about every movie, maybe even Midnight in Paris if he had a chance to see it. The best part of Midnight in Paris, apart from the locations, is that we are not constantly bombarded by Woody Allen's whiny ramblings.
Hugo is a live-action-animation hybrid about a little boy hiding in the Mont Parnasse rail station. I was charmed -- and since the director was Martin Scorsese, charm is the last thing I expected. It evokes mid-20th-Century Paris, and especially the railroad. The central incident features a steam locomotive ramming through a giant stained-glass clock, an actual happening. Winner of five Oscars.
A memoir written by Adam Gopnik called Paris to the Moon is also charming, and also depends on a little boy's viewpoints to see the city. Worth reading.
Paris Can Wait. Sorry I was responding to the OP about that movie. I also adore Midnight in Paris and Amelie. Both are my absolute two favorite movies set in Paris. I actually saw Owen Wilson when we were in Paris in 2015. I was outside the Orangerie and he walked right past me. I was kind of in shock. LOL I also love Hugo and the cartoon movie, Ratatouille.
Take a look at "Lost in Paris." A sweet romantic comedy that has been called quirky, offbeat, whimsical. It's all of those.
This film received rave reviews at the 2016 Telluride Film Festival, where it made the Official Selection.
Love Amelie, beautiful film.
But another couldnt finish Midnight in Paris, it felt very cringy and cheesy, but as some one else said if it had some one other than Owen Wilson in the lead then it might (big might) have worked.....
I'm struck by how many film recommendations are about Americans rather than Paris itself. However Triplets de Belleville could be nothing other than French even though it reverses the flow to go to somewhere like the US. Theme song, in Hot Club of Paris style, is unforgettable (even though it originated partly in Canada.)
I've recommended Hugo before, and stand by it. A lost kid, a railway station, and Martin Scorsese being sentimental about something other than gangs. Plus an armload of Oscars.
If you're looking for films about the lives of Parisians by French directors I recommend "Paris" a film I watched on French tv that is now available on Prime Video with subtitles in English. Fascinating and compelling
This is the imdb blurb
During one 24-hour period, the lives of diverse characters from a cross-section of Parisian society intersect each other. Government officials, middle-class workers, a thief, and a transgender singer - they are all interconnected, whether they know it or not.
If you have time to read, I'd suggest Cara Black's "Murder in..." fiction series, based on a young private eye named Aimee Leduc. Each book takes place in a different quartier, and the geography and accuracy is amazing. There's even a map at the front of each book. The first is "Murder in the Marias". It'd be fun to read one taking place in the area where you'll be staying!
If you search 'Paris'. or anyplace else on Netflix you will get a whole bunch of movies and travelogues -- I am planning a trip to Edinburgh August 2020 and know nothing about it and tried the same thing there and got a huge number of travel features etc there too. Same with Croatia which we are doing as a side trip from Paris this spring. Alice in Paris gives you great pictures of Paris -- never heard of it before. But there are Rick Steves shows, travelogues by various guide books, Bourdaine, --- one on Paris history and another on the architecture of the rooftops of Paris as well as murder and spy series set in Paris. I was surprised at how much useful stuff there is for trip planning.
If you have time, take a Paris Walks tour. We took the Hemingway tour that also took us back to the steps in Midnight in Paris where Owen Wilson got into the car. What is so wonderful about these tours is getting off the beaten touristy path and seeing enchanting places. It was our favorite experience of Paris!
We are also fans of Paris Can Wait. Does anyone know of a website that details out the trip that was taken in the film? The film's official site has a listing of the towns/major locations they stopped, but not restaurant names, hotels, markets, museums, etc...
After a very long wait, Netflix's adaptation of the YA sci-fi book Uglies is finally on the way, and I'm just as terrified as I am excited. The film is based on the series of books by author Scott Westerfeld, which were initially released between 2005 and 2007. A screen adaptation has been highly requested ever since YA readers got their hands on the Uglies series, so the news that Netflix was finally making it happen was well-received. Filming wrapped back in 2021, but Netflix has been frustratingly quiet about the dystopian sci-fi project since. However, we finally have an official release date.
The story in Uglies follows Tally Youngblood, a 15-year-old who lives in a dystopian future in which all citizens undergo a surgery that makes them impossibly beautiful when they turn 16. Of course, in traditional sci-fi fashion, everything isn't as it seems, and rather than becoming "Pretty" like everyone else, Tally gets swept up in a political mess. Tally's story continued into several sequels, including Pretties, Specials, and Extras, as well as a spinoff book series, Imposters, which further explores this sci-fi world. It was my favorite YA book series back in the day, and I'm eager to see Tally brought to the screen.
Netflix's Uglies movie was first announced in 2020, but I've been waiting for a screen adaptation for much longer than just this. 20th Century Fox bought the film rights for Westerfeld's sci-fi series back in 2006, and there have been various promises of a film adaptation ever since then. My copy of the Uglies book even has the "soon to be a major motion picture" stamp on the cover, which I have looked at bitterly for nearly 20 years now. Something always seemed to fall through when it came to getting this story on a screen, and the lack of updates on Netflix's Uglies movie had be quaking.
While an official release date allowed me to sigh a breath of relief, it wasn't long before the anxiety set back in. After all these years of waiting, I am terrified that Uglies won't live up to the book series I know and love. I admit, I'm glad that the film was made in the 2020s rather than in 2006 since bringing the heavily surged characters of Uglies to life will require technology that Hollywood only recently mastered. However, I'm concerned that this will be another case of a wonderfully complex literary world condensed into a stand-alone film that simply doesn't cut it.
Westerfeld's YA sci-fi series is now technically comprised of eight books. The original series included Uglies, Pretties, Special, and Extras, but the author has since continued the story with Imposters (2018), Shatter City (2019), Mirror's Edge (2021), and Youngbloods (2022). The newer novels follow a new protagonist and are set decades after the initial Uglies books, so I wouldn't expect this story to be included in Netflix's Uglies movies. Still, it's inconceivable that even the first three books in Westerfel's sci-fi series could be covered by only one movie.
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