Love this movie!
Good on Tubi! Enjoy!
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Tubi has now added
The Lion in Winter
. Hope it stays on for a long time. Thanks, Tubi.

I sort of like the barren feel of no snow.
It's a pity that this fine old classic movie isn't available on Tubi or Freevee, and isn't accessible to Comcast customers with only basic service.
I got tired of waiting for it to show up on the streaming channels. I got the DVD by purchasing it on Amazon…
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There are other means to get a hold of a copy Ronno but it is a classic and should be available more easily
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Chinon in France averages only about a half inch of snow each winter. However, as mentioned, it would have added to the claustrophobic atmosphere to have had a bit of snow on the ground.
It's a pity that this fine old classic movie isn't available on Tubi or Freevee, and isn't accessible to Comcast customers with only basic service.

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You enjoy your family, friends and foods and embrace every moment of it Margo
Online games will always be around and can get picked up and dropped as and when
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The Lion in Winter has a ridiculously brilliant cast of all ages which casts a huge net over lots of associations too
I really do believe that this was a perfect cast to choose from…
I'd love to play, but we have a lot going on in this coming week. We have family and friends visiting for the Independence Day celebrations we have here.
I get the fact that there are people who are so hung up on politics, but we are all for patriotism here. There are those of us who still love our country and we still strive for freedom.
We will still celebrate by being together and making our favorite foods and enjoying fellowship. That is what being an American really is all about.
For that matter, that is what being a human being should be about!
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It's a fun game to play when travelling Margo
But showing off would be something along the lines of:
Renne was in Judy (2019) with Michael Gambon
Who was in Paddington 2 (2017) with Hugh Grant
Then you have films like The Player (1992), It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963), the various Muppet and Cannonball Run films to really open up the connections
The Lion in Winter has a ridiculously brilliant cast of all ages which casts a huge net over lots of associations too
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W
W!
I'm impressed!
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Too easy Margo!
Renee Zellweger was in Jerry Maguire (1996) with Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise was in Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) with Henry Cavill
Henry Cavil was in The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015) with Hugh Grant
I'm sure someone can get it tighter too if they try
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I'll think about it.
When I get the chance, I will take some time and gaze at my wall of DVDs , and attempt to string two actors together.
At the moment I am watching Bridget Jones Diary… can you come up with Hugh Grant and Renee Zellweger without them ending up in the second Bridget Jones Diary?
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I only happened upon it as The Kevin Bacon game and updated it to be more footloose on the starting and ending points Margo
I've
started one in The Knitting Club forum
if you fancy giving it a go
Or you can try to come up with your own two actors and see who can whittle them down by association the best
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Ahhhhh, you are talking about the degree game…
Three degrees of Laurence Olivier is what you did there.
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It certainly comes in handy for the Kevin Bacon Game - But Removed.
That's where you take two actors who have appeared in film and try and knit them together within 7 movies using only other actors they have worked with
For example taking someone young these days and someone old from early cinema. Let's go for
Sydney Sweeney
and get her to
Laurence Olivier
Margo
Sydney was in Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (2019) with Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo DiCaprio was in Inception (2010) with Michael Caine
Michael Caine was in Sleuth (1972) with Laurence Olivier
There we go, just 3 steps and didn't even have to use this film's cast
It's a fun game which I'll propose to
The Knitting Club
and see if people can bring two actors together within 7 movies or less
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As someone here mentioned, in a far away time, in IMDb Land…
Hey beep I'm almost positive that the term "Winter," references his age, not the season.
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That was my understanding, even though it was Christmastime.
Regardless of whether there was snow that particular winter or not, Ifound the whole situation compelling to watch again… and I have…
Again and again!
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You are probably right there.
However, seems the 20thC wasn't that warm either if tales of the winter of 1947 are a good gauge, and indeed 1963, which I recall well as a boy, trudging through feet upon feet of snow for week after week, and even our bathroom cistern with a thin veneer of ice round the inner edges, and windows frosted over until very late mornings, only to frost up again nightly! Grim hardly summed up that winter for us,especially in Scotland.

I really do not think that it really makes that much difference to the effectiveness of the film.
That said, the events occur during the Mediaeval Warm Period which climate scientists say occurred. Some give a range of 900-1300 for this period, some say 950-1250. All would place the events in the warm period however. From around 1600 until around 1800 (or 1850 according to some studies) the "mini ice age" was a cooler period in which alpine glaciation increased.

This was filmed in Winter, in France. A least the exteriors.
Director Anthony Harvey repeats this several times during his audio commentary on the DVD.

It looks like winter to me. The sun is low and I wouldn't describe it as verdant
In the commentary by Anthony Harvey he keeps talking about how cold it was.

Yes, great acting, fantastic script.
Pointless nit-picking, as you described, is exactly that - pointless.
Glaring errors another matter entirely.
I did notice the Christmas tree!

Yes, I love it dearly, too.
And nitpicking over its historical accuracy is quite pointless, given that the film (and indeed the play it's based on) employed deliberate anachronism in its vision of the Plantagenets' family life. It's not that Goldman didn't realise that 12th-century royalty didn't have Christmas trees, wrap and label Christmas presents, etc - he introduced these anachronisms quite deliberately, and avoided anything like real medieval manners, precisely so we would relate to them as a real dysfunctional family.
My point was that was the OP's nitpick was unjustified anyway, even if the film had been intended to be realistic.

This is one of my favourite films, without doubt.
However, I doubt very much if Harvey sat down and thought, before commencing filming,now was this set in the Mediaeval Warm Period ? I am all in favour of historical accuracy, but isn't this almost paranoid attention to detail perhaps just a tad OTT?