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We joined Netflix, and we have a nice selection of DVDs that we own...it has been so hot in the house in the evening that we have taken to having dinner and a movie out on the patio. Here are our recent selections:
Three seasons of Bless Me, Father  , a few John Wayne films  , and tonight--Inn of the Sixth Happiness. It has been so hot in the house that dinner and a movie on the patio has been a great relief.
Anyone else watching any family-friendly films?
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Our new library has a great DVD collection! Last time we were there we checked out a collection of The Muppet Show. My kids loved it! They were !
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We recently watched The Secret Garden. Both my kids said they thought the book was much better. We may rent the Sound of Music tomorrow night. My children always want to rent the same thing over and over. We recently went through a Waltons spree. My 7 yr old dd loved it!
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We just watched: Babette's Feast (lovely and the subtitles don't "interrupt" if y'know what I mean); and last night we watched "Vigil in the Night" -- Carole Lombard's first serious movie abut being a nurse!
If you watch one "feel good movie" this year, Vigil in the Night is it!
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We just received Witness to Hope on DVD and my kids are looking forward to a movie night tonight. Henceforth, Movie Night will be on Wednesday because our town has a Famrer's Market on Wednesday and...drumroll, MacBeth...they have the real, live (well, not really live), Kettle Corn like the kind we had at the conference 
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We recently noticed  that we are getting so old that our younger kids have never seen a lot of the good family movies we watched with our olders. So we plan to watch Avalon, Little Men, Empire of the Sun(not for the little littles; it's a WWII POW movie), Secret Garden, Boys Town (w/Micky Rooney).....I'd have to pull out my list to remember any more.
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We have family movie night every Saturday night so I love this subject. I do have a list, but not sure I can get to it before we leave for ten days. But I'm going to try to get back to this topic
Movie night, like homeschooling, has been one of the few constants in our life (because of many moves).
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Ijust rewatched my favorite Carole Lombard movie last evening. My Man Godfrey which always makes me laugh.
My nephew has found out about my LOTR ignorance and has given me all the DVDs to watch. He is pretty appalled by me not even reading them yet....as he puts it...you are too old not have read them at least once!
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We just watched the old 1960s That Darn Cat, with Hayley Mills.
I liked Lindsay Lohan ( Jamie Lee Curtis ) in the new version of Freaky Friday but I admit that I don't know anything about her or her lifestyle. 
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We watched Fat Albert last night, and it was so funny! I think Rick and I enjoyed it more than the children because we watched the cartoon when we were little--our kiddos didn't know who Fat Albert was! The movie was very family friendly. Everything in it was "nice"--just like Fat Albert.
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My family likes the older Walt Disney movies. The ones with real people, such as The 3 Lives of Thomasina, That Darn Cat, The Parent Trap, etc.
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Our family loves old musicals. All right, *I* love old musicals and they like them enough to watch them with me. Our fave is The King and I, but we have all the Rogers and Hammerstein DVD's.
We recently watched Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and all the kids loved it, so much so that I bought the CD off ebay and just found the DVD at Target today!
Also the old Herbie movies (Love Bug etc) and the old Parent Trap with Hayley Mills.
I just bought Man From Snowy River today. I loved it and the sequel when I saw them years ago. it's rated PG; anyone know if there's anything my 12 yo shouldn't see?
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Just thought I'd list the films we have watched this summer out on the patio (or in the LR due to rain!):
*Song of Bernadette
*St. Therese (not the latest, but a quirky French minimalist story of her life...not really for kids, so I did not let them see it)
*The Cardinal
*Molokai
*St. John in Exile (outstanding one man show starring Dean Jones--if you can find it, see it!!)
*Going My Way
*The Bells of St. Mary's
*The Hoodlum Priest
*A Time for Miracles (made for TV with some really terrible acting)
*This House of Brede
*Big Jake (dh is John Wayne fan...)
*Ballykissangel (the first season with Libby, but not the younger kids...we watched through the third season alone, and decided not to let the kids see it, as it becomes very soap-opera-ish).
*Inn of the Sixth Happiness (tooooo looooong, but beautiful)
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i'm hoping to see St. Batman Begins sometime in the near future.
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MacBeth wrote:
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Oh....is that your Outdoor Film Festival?
Our patio is uncovered and on the west side of the house. We'd have to wait until 9:30 p.m. to watch videos out there. Sounds fun though!
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momwise wrote:
Oh....is that your Outdoor Film Festival?
Our patio is uncovered and on the west side of the house. We'd have to wait until 9:30 p.m. to watch videos out there. Sounds fun though! |
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Ours is too, Gwen (MacBeth pictures Gwen's house looking just like hers ), and we do wait until late, having dinner and dessert first. Then, when the star comes out, we start the movie.
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MacBeth wrote:
*St. Therese (not the latest, but a quirky French minimalist story of her life...not really for kids, so I did not let them see it)
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I almost bought this today but thought better of it when the reviews referred to lesbianism??? Is it worth it for adults?
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Well, it is a French film, after all. The film is a long series of mostly dark vignettes from the life of St. Therese. It is a very uncomfortable film to watch.
There were good parts, some quite lovely, others quite grim, but there were many odd overtones. I am not sure if I would call it lesbianism, but it did not hide any love between women, though perhaps I was oblivious to that particular shade of love. Suppose it depends on the viewer's POV.
We began to watch the dubbed version, but it was terrible, so we switched to French with subtitles. I think my French carried me though, but Don got tired of reading and picked up a book .
The best part about the film was the uncanny resemblance of the actress to the saint.
Adults, yes. Teens? Your call.
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I'll pass...waiting for the good one...
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Yeah, we keep hearing votes for that, and St. Wars, too.
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