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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 16, 2014 17:01:47 GMT -5
I highly recommend Nights of Cabiria. Yeah it's excellent. I think Giulietta Masina is highly underrated. You get a real feel for her range as an actress watching both Cabiria and La Strada. "La strada" is my favorite Fellini film. I saw it again recently (for the third or fourth time) and it really struck me just how great it is. For close to thirty years, my favorite Fellini film has been "Satyricon," and "La strada" has been a close second since I first saw it ten or twelve years ago.
Basehart and Quinn are both great, but Masina as Gelsomina is really the heart of the movie.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2014 17:06:53 GMT -5
La Strada is the only Felini I've seen, but I loved it. Haven't seen it in years, unfortunately.
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Post by berkley on Nov 17, 2014 1:07:52 GMT -5
Multiple versions of Blade Runner out there - but I think it's not a bad idea to watch the original theatrical release (or any of them, really) first, without reading anything about the others, and then, if you find you're motivated, try the variations.
The local repertory cinema is showing Roberto Rossellini's Rome, Open City, which I've never seen, 3 or 4 weeks from now, so that'll most likely be the next classic film for me, work permitting.
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Post by Dizzy D on Nov 17, 2014 12:19:01 GMT -5
Which of the half-dozen versions will it be? The 1982 theatrical version. Which other versions are there? I actually haven't gotten to watching it yet. It was a busy week and I ended up binge-watching The Blacklist instead. There are 5 different versions on the last DVD collection (and apparently a couple of lesser versions like a version for TV broadcast, but we're not counting those usually). There is the version that went to test audiences. The US theatrical release (which is probably the version you'll be seeing). The International theatrical release. The Director's Cut The Final version I haven't gotten around to watching the Final version yet, but the Director's Cut is a great improvement over the original. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 21, 2014 22:45:56 GMT -5
I'm watching "The Whistler" on tcm.com right now and the deaf mute who carries messages to the hired assassin is reading an issue of Superman. Comics were GIGANTIC in the 1940s. (The actor is very familiar. He might have been in The Bowery Boys at one time, but I'm not 100% sure on that.)
Also: This movie was directed by William Castle long before he made things like "The Tingler" and "The House on Haunted Hill."
Also: J. Carroll Naish is in this, about the same time he made "House of Frankenstein."
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 21, 2014 23:19:15 GMT -5
I'm still watching "The Whistler" and Guess What?!?! Joan Woodbury (not listed in the opening credits) is in it too!
Joan Woodbury is kind of obscure, but she's one of my favorites. She's the lead in quite a few low budget movies in the early 1940s. My favorite is probably "I Killed that Man."
You may remember her from a small role in "Bride of Frankenstein." When Dr. Pretorius brings out his creations, Joan Woodbury is the queen. (Get it? Small role? HAW!)
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Post by MDG on Nov 24, 2014 10:24:57 GMT -5
Also: J. Carroll Naish is in this, about the same time he made "House of Frankenstein." I find Naish annoying in HoF, but I just watched one of his best performances in Violent Saturday. |
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Post by Jesse on Nov 24, 2014 19:54:33 GMT -5
Friday TCM is running an Alfred Hitchcock marathon - The Lady Vanishes (1938)
- Saboteur (1942)
- Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
- Dial M for Murder (1954)
- Marnie (1964)
- The Birds (1963)
- Psycho (1960)
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 25, 2014 17:30:59 GMT -5
Friday TCM is running an Alfred Hitchcock marathon - The Lady Vanishes (1938)
- Saboteur (1942)
- Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
- Dial M for Murder (1954)
- Marnie (1964)
- The Birds (1963)
- Psycho (1960)
Thanks for the heads up, Jesse!
This is a pretty good selection of Hitchcock films, though I wish they had picked something better than Marnie for that slot. Suspicion. Notorious. The Trouble with Harry.
I've seen The Birds twice in the last month, so I think I can give that a pass this time around, even if it is one of my favorites. The Lady Vanishes and Saboteur are both great movies, but I've seen them within the last two or three years.
Same for Shadow of a Doubt. This was my favorite Hitchcock for a very long time and I watched it repeatedly in the 1990s. This is the one I recommend for Hitchcock fans who haven't seen that many of his movies yet. It's definitely in my Top Five Hitchcock Films.
That leaves Dial M for Murder and Psycho. I prefer to spread out my viewings of Psycho, as I think it really suffers if you watch it too often. So I've seen it three or four times since the 1970s. I'm about due, I think. I'll probably watch it Friday.
And then Dial M for Murder. I haven't watched the whole thing since 1990, but I keep catching bits of it on cable and I keep thinking I need to watch it again. Here's my chance!
(And I can't stop thinking about The Birds! It's one of my favorite movies! I might watch it Friday in addition to Psycho and Dial M for Murder.)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2014 17:38:53 GMT -5
I just watched on Fox Movie Channel - Sink the Bismarck starring Kenneth More and Dana Wynter. A classic tale of the British Navy to sink the world's largest Battleship and I enjoyed the climax and the coordination of this movie. I watch this movie about 8-12 times in my life and never, ever get tired of it. One of my favorites.
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Post by gothos on Nov 25, 2014 18:04:15 GMT -5
Is Citizen Kane about Bob or Gil? It was to star Bob Kane but Bill Finger did all the actual acting and once again got no credit  LOL here. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2014 21:54:35 GMT -5
Watching All the President's Men right now, another film on the National Film Registry list. That's one of my favorites too. |
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Post by MDG on Dec 1, 2014 14:29:49 GMT -5
Watched The Tall T the other night, one of the Randolph Scott/Budd Boetticher westerns. They're all incredibly solid, well-made movies, but this is one of the best.
Also watched Decision at Sundown; good, but not great.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 1, 2014 14:46:59 GMT -5
Watched The Tall T the other night, one of the Randolph Scott/Budd Boetticher westerns. They're all incredibly solid, well-made movies, but this is one of the best. Also watched Decision at Sundown; good, but not great. I'm a big fan of the Randolph Scott/Budd Boetticher movies. I'm an even bigger fan of "The Captives", the Elmore Leonard short story on which "The Tall T" was based. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Dec 1, 2014 14:47:20 GMT -5
It's a recent movie but has the makings of a classic: Bobcat Goldthwait's God bless America is a cruel and pretty accurate satire of our early XXI century western civilization. I hope that some day youngsters will watch that and say "I can't believe society was like that back then".
I really hope so.
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