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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 10, 2015 22:47:03 GMT -5
FXM showed a movie last night that I've been wanting to see for DECADES and I got it on the DVR. It's called I Was an Adventuress, and it stars Peter Lorre and Erich von Stroheim. I don't even remember where I first heard of it, I just remember seeing a still in a book or a magazine. The image was Lorre and von Stroheim looking sneaky in the presence of a very pretty young lady (the adventuress, I presume) and the caption identified the film as I Was an Adventuress, directed by Gregory Ratoff. There was very little information otherwise. I don't think the film was identified in the text. (If it was, it was barely mentioned.) Ratoff was the dyspeptic producer Max in All About Eve. Very funny. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 10, 2015 23:23:00 GMT -5
FXM showed a movie last night that I've been wanting to see for DECADES and I got it on the DVR. It's called I Was an Adventuress, and it stars Peter Lorre and Erich von Stroheim. I don't even remember where I first heard of it, I just remember seeing a still in a book or a magazine. The image was Lorre and von Stroheim looking sneaky in the presence of a very pretty young lady (the adventuress, I presume) and the caption identified the film as I Was an Adventuress, directed by Gregory Ratoff. There was very little information otherwise. I don't think the film was identified in the text. (If it was, it was barely mentioned.) Ratoff was the dyspeptic producer Max in All About Eve. Very funny. I haven't seen All About Eve for a loooong time. Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders as Addison DeWitt, Marilyn Monroe as Miss Caswell.
They all look like unhappy rabbits. That's what they ah, deah. Now go and make them happy.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Feb 11, 2015 14:50:03 GMT -5
Angel Heart 1987 D-Alan Parker Starring Mickey Rourke, Robert DeNiro, Lisa Bonet
I movie I find that has improved with age. Its 1955 and Louis Cyphere (Dr Niro) hires private PI Harry Angel (Roarke) to find a long missing jazz musician named Johnny Favorite who had suffered a WW11 injury, had amnesia and disappeared from a hospital back in 1943. Harry Angel follows the trail down to New Orleans and everyone Harry meets who might know a piece of the puzzle winds up dead in a gruesome manner befitting the local Voodoo customs.
Great acting and directing on hand here and I love the names of all these characters. Lisa Bonet as Epiphany Proudfoot. A Jazz player named Toots Sweet
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2015 21:39:46 GMT -5
FXM showed a movie last night that I've been wanting to see for DECADES and I got it on the DVR. I always see awful stuff on here (tonight we are treated to a triple bill of Date Night, Duece Bigalow and Stealing Harvard), but then I scrolled little further. They seem to save the good stuff for the 3AM-early afternoon hours. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 12, 2015 0:22:54 GMT -5
FXM showed a movie last night that I've been wanting to see for DECADES and I got it on the DVR. I always see awful stuff on here (tonight we are treated to a triple bill of Date Night, Duece Bigalow and Stealing Harvard), but then I scrolled little further. They seem to save the good stuff for the 3AM-early afternoon hours. They do something called FXM Retro during the day and the early afternoon. I don't really follow the schedule as closely as I do for TCM because FXM Retro shows a lot of, well, I'll say average classics. It's a roll of the dice whether I'll like these movies or not. Sometimes I'll get curious and watch something bizarre. (They show Sheriff of Fractured Jaw a lot. I've never seen it. But it's on FXM so much that I'm starting to feel obligated.) |
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Post by MDG on Feb 12, 2015 11:33:19 GMT -5
Reading a blog yesterday I discovered that one of my favorite directors Jean-Pierre Melville made a movie in NYC and that it was available on Hulu. Tow Men in Manhattan looks like a noir, but is more a "newspaper procedural" about a French reporter and photographer trying to find a French UN delegate who didn't show up for a vote at the general assembly. It's almost leisurely paced and is probably Melville's love letter to New York and American noirs. And it's a gorgeous document of late 50s NYC. I mean, look at this stuff:    |
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 12, 2015 15:06:23 GMT -5
That looks great, MDG. I'll have to start looking for it.
And I love it that Separate Tables is at the theater! It's not a noir film by anybody's definition, but some of the cast members made some notable noir films. (Even Deborah Kerr made I See a Dark Stranger, which is a British sort-of film noir. I can't think of any David Niven films that would count, though he did play a Nick Charles-derived character in Murder by Death.)
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Post by Pharozonk on Feb 15, 2015 15:10:20 GMT -5
Last night, I watched the Toho classic Rodan (1956). It was surprisingly dark and serious movie for such a schlocky concept and is probably the best movie of the early Toho kaiju movies along with the original Gojira. The tragic ending is also really good, perfectly complimented with a haunting movie score.
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 15, 2015 15:46:09 GMT -5
FXM showed a movie last night that I've been wanting to see for DECADES and I got it on the DVR. I always see awful stuff on here (tonight we are treated to a triple bill of Date Night, Duece Bigalow and Stealing Harvard), but then I scrolled little further. They seem to save the good stuff for the 3AM-early afternoon hours. will be showing on FXM again, early Monday morning! It's scheduled for 3 am Pacific time! Check local listings! |
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 15, 2015 15:48:42 GMT -5
I'm about halfway through Giant with Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean. Despite my many years as a cinephile (I remember watching Son of Frankenstein late at night with my mom in the late 1960s. I was four years old) I have never seen Giant.
It's showing on TCM later this week. I've already set my DVR.
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 15, 2015 17:10:29 GMT -5
When I was four, I didn't realize that the inspector had a prosthetic arm, so I thought that the monster REALLY TORE HIS ARM OFF!!!!
Of all the thousands of movies I've seen since then, there's a bunch that I've totally forgotten or only remember vaguely, but I still remember the thrill I got from seeing THE FRANKENSTEIN MONSTER TEARING A GUY'S ARM OFF!!!!!
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 15, 2015 17:16:19 GMT -5
Heads up!
TCM is showing Fury this week. I think it's early Tuesday morning. (Check local listings!)
I've never seen Fury, but years ago I caught a short promo/documentary about it (on AMC or TCM) and I've been wanting to see it ever since. It's from the mid-1930s, it stars Spencer Tracy and it's directed by Fritz Lang. Tracy is a stranger in a Southern town and he is accused of a crime and is almost lynched but he barely escapes with his life! Then he goes back for revenge! (My plot description may be a little off.)
I can hardly wait!
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 15, 2015 17:19:19 GMT -5
I just went and looked at the rest of the cast for Fury. Sylvia Sydney, Walter Brennan, Bruce Cabot, Frank Albertson.
I'm definitely watching this.
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 15, 2015 17:50:50 GMT -5
Heads up! TCM is showing Fury this week. I think it's early Tuesday morning. (Check local listings!) I've never seen Fury, but years ago I caught a short promo/documentary about it (on AMC or TCM) and I've been wanting to see it ever since. It's from the mid-1930s, it stars Spencer Tracy and it's directed by Fritz Lang. Tracy is a stranger in a Southern town and he is accused of a crime and is almost lynched but he barely escapes with his life! Then he goes back for revenge! (My plot description may be a little off.) I can hardly wait! Excellent movie. You'll enjoy it. Lang brings some of the expressionistic style he brought to M. The movie brings the early Hitler years to an American setting. Not hard to see Tracy as a stand-in for the Jews being persecuted and hunted down. Overtones of the famous case in Georgia of Leo Frank, too. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 16, 2015 0:18:30 GMT -5
Nothing to see here. Keep walking. Nothing to see here...  |
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