Category Archives: Movies

Movies

Movie genre’s

We are movieholic’s. Watching everything. Sometimes we thing “why the F did we watch that” other times it’s a pretty unknown jewel.

We loved “De kijk van Koolhoven” a dutch tv serie about movies, by our dutch director Martin van Koolhoven.
He explained why he liked certain movies. Tarantino did simular but couldn’t find much about that

We started watching the top 250 IMDB movies a few years ago. Comming a long way, and has been a treat.

Below a list of top movies i could thing of in serveral genre’s.
Nowhere complete, and probably forgot better ones

Action

  • 3 days of the condor
  • Snowpiercer
  • Maze runner
  • Inferno
  • Bourne series
  • Enter the Dragon
  • Fugitive
  • John Wick

Animation

  • Akira
  • Ghost in the shell
  • 9
  • 5cm per second
  • Tintin (2011)
  • Beowulf
  • Coco
  • Song of the sea

Comedy

  • guest house paradiso
  • Life of brian
  • “100-year old man who climbed out of the window”
  • Blues brothers
  • “Dont look now we’re being shot at”
  • Groundhog day
  • The man who sues god
  • Mash attacks
  • Modern times
  • Great Dictator
  • Airplane

Crime

  • 12 Angry men
  • The sting
  • The Mule
  • Oceans series
  • “No Country for Old Men”

Drama

  • Roma
  • A beautiful mind
  • Bicycle thieves
  • Cast away
  • Cinema Paradiso
  • Green book
  • Kite runner
  • Man on the moon
  • Seven samurai
  • American Sniper
  • Wadjda

Dutch

  • Amsterdamed
  • De Lift
  • The Johnsons
  • “Schippers van de Kameleon”
  • Michiel de Ruijter

Fantasy

  • The BFG
  • Hobbit
  • Lotr
  • Labyrinth
  • “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”
  • Time bandits
  • City of lost children

Film Noir

  • Double indemnity
  • Touch of evil
  • Sin City
  • M

Horror

  • Alien
  • Saw
  • The Platform
  • Underwater
  • Them
  • The Thing
  • Troll hunter?
  • Braindead

IT-Related

  • Antitrust
  • Hackers
  • Tron
  • Matrix
  • Source code
  • Swordfish
  • Takedown
  • War games

Mindfuck

  • Looper
  • Memento
  • Oldboy
  • Vertigo
  • The Prestige
  • Primer
  • Time lapse

Pre-1940

  • The general
  • Metropolis
  • Modern times
  • Gold Rush
  • M

SciFy

  • Bladerunner
  • Metropolis (silent)
  • Attraction
  • Inception
  • Interstellar
  • Martian
  • Terminator
  • Avatar
  • Arrival (2016)
  • Incredible shrinking man
  • Them (1954)

Fun to watch

  • 4Latas

War

  • Live is beautiful
  • Great escape
  • Dunkirk
  • The pianist
  • T-34
  • Oorlogswinter
  • Schindler’s list
  • Das boot
  • Downfall
  • Inglourious basterds
  • The imitation game
  • Ballad of a Soldier (1959)
  • Escape from Sobibor (1987)
  • painted bird (2019)

Weird

  • Funky Forrest
  • Existence
  • Delicatessen
  • Meet the feebles
  • “Requiem for a dream”
  • Swiss army man
  • Tenet
  • A clockwork orange
  • “Curious case of Benjamin Button”
  • The Lobster
  • Zardoz

Western

  • Revenant
  • Brimstone
  • Hang m high
  • Good bad and the Ugly
  • Magnificent Seven (1960)

Woman Power

  • Jackie Brown
  • Hidden figures
  • Color Purple
  • Moana / Brave
  • Roma
  • Alien
  • The Piano
  • Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  • A League of Their Own
  • 9 to 5
  • Kill bill

List for Maryse

  • Zwartboek
  • Red sea ding resort
  • The pianist
  • Schindler’s list
  • Zwartboek
  • Son of Saul
  • Boy in the striped pyjama’s
  • Waltz With Bashir
  • La vita è bella

Indian movies

  • Taare Zameen Par (2007) – Like stars on earth (is a tearjerker)
  • 3 Idiots (2009)
  • Slumdog millionaire (Techinally a british movie)
  • Dangal (2016)
Computer, Movies

Kodi movies and metadata

UPDATE: 20220307

I’m using Kodi for a long time now, but never was really satisfied with the results of automatically scraping metadata.

Movie names had to be just right, and changing some metadata was hard.

A while ago i made a NFO generator for own movies, digitized 8mm material, mobile movies etc.

So for movies/tv shows i started using Tinymediamanager for metadata management. You have more controll over your NFO files.
Don’t forget to add media sources to Kodi, selecting the ‘local NFO scraper’ option.

I’m using TVDB scraper in TMM, and trakt to mark seen.
But that way i’m missing IMDB top 250.

Fix:

  • Scrape metadata for selected movies
  • Choose IMDB as the Metadata scraper
  • Remember to DESELECT ALL metadata options with the exceptions of Rating , to keep your existing metadata.
TinyMediaManager Scraper page

UPDATE:
Problems with premiered date/release date showing up as movie date in kodi? Here is my fix.

find . -type f -name '*.nfo' -print -exec sed -i -e '/<premiered>/d' {} \;
Movies, Music, Pipes / Folk / Instruments

Best of Einaudi (lying down)

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Music by Ludovico Einaudi, pianist Jeroen van Veen.
And you could lie down in the big “Werkspoorkathedraal” in Utrecht.

Ludovico Maria Enrico Einaudi (Italian: born 23 November 1955) is an Italian pianist and composer. Trained at the Conservatorio Verdi in Milan, Einaudi began his career as a classical composer, later incorporating other styles and genres such as pop, rock, folk, and world music.

Einaudi has composed the scores for a number of films and television productions, including This Is England, The Intouchables, I’m Still Here, the TV miniseries Doctor Zhivago, and Acquario (1996), Nomadland and The Father.

He has also released a number of solo albums for piano and other instruments, notably I Giorni in 2001, Nightbook in 2009, and In a Time Lapse in 2013.

Coline plays some of Einaudi on keyboard, and we play I Giorni with our Folkband.

Update 2023

Arja’s book (Now here with her Harp)
Movies

Looking for the building in Revenge of the Ninja

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When I was young I studied several Martial Arts.
Ninjutsu was one of them.

( Monique had a workshop from Masaaki “okay lets play” Hatsumi )

One of the two places i studied Ninpo

Ninjutsu (忍術), sometimes used interchangeably with the modern term ninpō (忍法), is the martial art strategy and tactics practised by the ninja.

I alway liked the movie “Revenge of the Ninja”.
I like Sho Kosugi
More info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SclkTYTawmI

Well .. didn´t want to go to bed. Lets try to find the building where they are fighting on the roof.


Found it!

Movies, Photography

Stabilise and speedup movie – Death road Bolivia

This year we spend our vacation in Peru and Bolivia with Arja. (20160606-20160704)

We did the Death road in Bolvia, wellll Arja and me. Coline fell ill the day before.

I tried to get a sense of what it was using a action cam mounted on my helmet and speeding it up in afterprocessing.
Shamefully i have to admit, that most of the times my camera was recording my frontwheel ..

To post: script/program to create this effect

This movie has been stabilized and sped up.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yungas_Road for more information.

Starting at 4700 meters and on the good parts going down @70km/h. Then the dangerous parts started. Feeling like ‘offroad’ narrow corners, where you can expect to see a minivan coming around the corner anytime. Steep drops without barriers. Water and land slides.

(Whole story in dutch)

Us at a bend in the ‘road’