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Post by Jesse on Jun 27, 2014 22:56:44 GMT -5
I've been meaning to check out Dr. Mabuse for years now. I didn't realize Netflix had it! I've only watched The Testament of Dr. Mabuse and I was blown away at the quality. Worth watching for the opening scene alone. It sounds like Bunuel or Antonioni or Tarkovsky. Godard, maybe?
I'm sure I've never seen it, but there are a few directors who do stuff like that.
Do you have any other clues? Is it in color? Is it relatively recent?
It was in color and I want to say it's from the '60s or maybe early '70s. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 27, 2014 22:58:34 GMT -5
I'll skip past a never seen The Big Shot that I don't own and bypass my recently viewed Across The Pacific and the all-time classic Casablanca and land on:
Action In The North Atlantic (1943)
Humphrey Bogart,Raymond Massey,Alan Hale,Ruth Gordon
D-Lloyd Bacon
An American tanker is sunk by a German U-boat and the survivors spend eleven days at sea on a raft. They're next assigned to the liberty ship "Sea Witch" bound for Murmansk through the sub-stalked North Atlantic.
Big budget spectacular war propaganda film. The first half hour is highlighted by magnificent special effects denoting an American tanker torpedoed and set afire by U-boats.After the survivors are rescued,we have a brief interlude as they rest up at the homefront. Raymond Massey, as the ship's captain,is reunited with his wife played by Ruth Gordon. After recently watching Harold and Maude,it was wonderful watching Gordon 30 years younger.In fact,Massey and Gordon were also husband and wife on the earlier Abe Lincoln in Illinois
And then its back out to sea on an international convoy to get supplies to Murmansk,Russia by way of the Scandanavian Sea.Bogart is 1st officer Joe Rossi but the real star of the show are the naval battle sequences.A wolf pack of U-Boats stalk the convoy,a pair of German planes also get in on the action.Who needs CGI when you have expert craftsmen who know how to stage these action scenes.
For a war propaganda film it doesn't go overboard. Unlike some of the seamen.Bogart acts cool even under heavy fire and doesn't try to compete with the action.Thats why I like his acting.He knows when its time to be subdued or when its time to light some fireworks
The DVD incldes an 18 minute doc on unheralded directors like Keighley,Sherman.Bacon etc.And a Warners Night at the Movies with a musical short "Calvacade of Dance" and cartoon "Greetings Bait"
8 of 10 stars
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 27, 2014 23:01:51 GMT -5
I'm stumped, Dropout.
Maybe if you looked at the IMDB synopses for some of the movies by some of the directors I mentioned ... if you're that curious and it's still bugging you.
I could definitely see Bunuel making something like that, and I've seen quite a few of his movies but not all of them.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 27, 2014 23:05:59 GMT -5
I've been meaning to check out Dr. Mabuse for years now. I didn't realize Netflix had it! I've only watched The Testament of Dr. Mabuse and I was blown away at the quality. Worth watching for the opening scene alone. It sounds like Bunuel or Antonioni or Tarkovsky. Godard, maybe?
I'm sure I've never seen it, but there are a few directors who do stuff like that.
Do you have any other clues? Is it in color? Is it relatively recent?
It was in color and I want to say it's from the '60s or maybe early '70s. I reviewed the Mabuse films a few weeks ago (except the silent). Testament of Dr.Mabuse is simply astonishing.A must see for film fans and even action comic book fans. That French film your looking for.Run,Lola,Run is somewhat like that,but not 3 hours and no breakfast that I recall involved.And its from 1998 |
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 27, 2014 23:07:08 GMT -5
Action In The North Atlantic (1943)
Humphrey Bogart,Raymond Massey,Alan Hale,Ruth Gordon
D-Lloyd Bacon
I saw this a long time ago and I thought it was kind of boring. Not as boring as China Clipper and not as excruciating as Call It Murder, but not a very interesting film.
But it was a long while ago. I hadn't seen very many Bogart movies outside of the obvious ones like Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, Key Largo, African Queen, etc. (I don't think I'd seen High Sierra yet.) Maybe I'd like it a lot better if I saw it again. (Another of his early movies that I saw back then was The Oklahoma Kid. I didn't like it. Quite possibly my least favorite Bogart performance.)
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Post by Jesse on Jun 27, 2014 23:09:00 GMT -5
That French film your looking for.Run,Lola,Run is somewhat like that,but not 3 hours and no breakfast that I recall involved.And its from 1998 Naw that's not it. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 27, 2014 23:16:30 GMT -5
Run Lola Run is a German movie. (I think you assumed it was French because it was good.)
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 28, 2014 0:13:47 GMT -5
Run Lola Run is a German movie. (I think you assumed it was French because it was good.) Fritz Lang would like to have a word with you. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 28, 2014 0:51:12 GMT -5
Run Lola Run is a German movie. (I think you assumed it was French because it was good.) Fritz Lang would like to have a word with you. Fritz Lang and G.W. Pabst are among my favorite directors. And then there's Herzog. And the German films of Lubitsch.
But by and large, German cinema is kinda slow, bordering on terrible too much of the time. You look at how many great films come from France, Italy and Japan, and then compare that to great films from Germany, and it's quite a great discrepancy.
I think Akira Kurosawa by himself directed as many great films as Germany has produced during the entire time it's had a film industry.
(Remember, Lang made a lot of films in the US.)
I also want to add that, yes, there are a few great German films that are more recent: Like Das Boot, The Lives of Others, uh ... Stalingrad ... uh, oh, yeah! I like Veronika Voss a lot! The boche need to make more movies like Veronika Voss.
And then there's a German horror movie called "The Head" from about 1960 that I was kind of obsessed with for a while.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 28, 2014 1:05:15 GMT -5
I recall liking The Tin Drum many years ago.Got an Oskar as well
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Post by MDG on Jun 28, 2014 7:28:34 GMT -5
There's a movie that I can't remember the name of and it's really been bothering me. I figure this may be the place to ask. The film is very long and IIRC in french. It shows a woman repeatedly doing menial tasks. She wakes up, makes breakfast, sends her sons off to school. The director shows that same sequence of events over and over again for like 3 hours. Any one have a clue what I'm talking about? Can you be thinking of Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, with the luminous Dephine Seyrig? |
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Post by Jesse on Jun 28, 2014 9:37:25 GMT -5
Can you be thinking of Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, with the luminous Dephine Seyrig? That's exactly it thanks MDG! With a title like that no wonder I couldn't remember it. One of the most tedious things I've ever watched for over 3 hours. The ending is definitely unexpected though. |
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Post by paulie on Jun 28, 2014 13:03:05 GMT -5
Criterion Collection sale begins at Barnes and Noble on Tuesday for all you film buffs.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 28, 2014 14:25:07 GMT -5
I was flipping through the channels to see what's on and TCM is showing Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I left it there for a few minutes while I'm checking my e-mail and looking at the news and getting a snack and so on. I haven't seen it since I was a kid! (Probably in the early 1970s. I didn't see it in the theater.)
I'm finding it very compelling and very entertaining. I can see why I loved it so much as a kid!
(Just saw the number where Grandpa Potts is in that little shed and he's kidnaped by Goldfinger in a balloon/zeppelin contraption and he sings "P-O-S-H". I love that number. I remember it very well from 40 years ago.)
Benny Hill is in it later, isn't he.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 28, 2014 14:32:04 GMT -5
I recall liking The Tin Drum many years ago.Got an Oskar as well I haven't seen that one. I've had some bad experiences with German films, even some that are highly acclaimed. I thought Herzog's version of Nosferatu was just boring, except when it was just awful. I didn't give Herzog another chance for several decades. (And I'm glad I did!)
And then there's Zentropa. Oh, dear. I didn't walk out (because I seldom walk out) but I came awfully close to just giving up and leaving the theater and never going to the movies again! (I felt the same way after I saw The Crow.)
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