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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 14, 2015 14:53:18 GMT -5
Never On Sunday (1960) Melina Mercouri, Jules DassinDassin is an American Tourist in Greece. He comes upon happy hooker Mercouri and believes she symbolizes the decline of Greek civilization. He aims to educate her Dassin also wrote and directed this film. Mercouri won the Cannes film festival award for this role. A classic theme song. The film still holds up but you'll need the captions activated to understand all the Greek. Drink some ouzo as you watch A very much underappreciated classic! I love the way Mercouri interprets Medea! When the actors came on stage to take a bow after the stage and Mercouri looked at Dassin with that triumphant gloating look on her face, I lost it! So funny. More people should know about this movie.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2015 2:35:02 GMT -5
The Silencers (1966) Dean Martin, Stella Stevens, Victor Buono, Cyd Charrisse, Dahlia Lavi, Roger C. CarmelMatt Helm, greasy haired spy vs the Big O (Victor Buono) who wants world domination by causing WWIII. Pretty dumb plan Matt Helm, the greatest 60's spy (after James Bond, Patrick McGoohan, Steed and Mrs Peel, Nick Fury, The Men from U.N.C.L.E., Our Man Flint, Secret Squirrel, I Spy, Mission Impossible Team and more). What other spy sings songs in the background of his films. He's got 2 gimmicks in this film, jacket buttons when pulled off act like hand grenades. Plus a revolver that shoots backwards so he wants you to take it away from him and use it to kill him. What a spy!! The film has drop dead gorgeous woman. Too bad Matt didn't drop dead but went on to sequels Daliah Lavi is also in the 1960s version of Casino Royale and I've been wondering if anybody else has been in both the Matt Helm series and a James Bond movie. Does anybody know? Daliah Lavi is the only actor/actress that appeared in both James Bond and Matt Helm movies. No one else can claim that.
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 15, 2015 9:36:13 GMT -5
Daliah Lavi is also in the 1960s version of Casino Royale and I've been wondering if anybody else has been in both the Matt Helm series and a James Bond movie. Does anybody know? Daliah Lavi is the only actor/actress that appeared in both James Bond and Matt Helm movies. No one else can claim that.Daliah Lavi is also in this 1961 movie The Return of Dr. Mabuse, with Gert Frobe!
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 15, 2015 12:32:48 GMT -5
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) D-Alain Resnais
A French actress, in Hiroshima to film an anti-war movie, is having an affair with a Japanese man. She tells him about her experience as a young girl living in occupied France and her first love being a German soldier. When the Germans leave, she is grabbed by the townsfolk, her head shaven , and made to live in a basement by her shamed parents. With the filming complete she is ready to leave Hiroshima but the Japanese guy stalks her, begging her not to go
Resnais originally meant this to be a documentary about the A-bomb blast and sure enough the first 15 minutes of the movie is just about all newsreel footage of the aftermath of the explosion. The director then changed his mind and inserted the fictional characters. An early example of what was known as the French New Wave Cinema. Very bleak, introspective, stark, depressing, barren, dark. I feel the shadows enfold me. I hear the sound of rats skittering on the pavement. The walls perspire. The emptiness is pressing in. It is crushing me with the feeling of ennui. The rats..the rats, they are my friends
By Criterion of course
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 15, 2015 12:40:20 GMT -5
The Gangs All Here (1943) D-Busby Berkeley Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, Benny Goodman, Edward Everett Horton, Eugene Pallette
Who cares about a plot in movies like this.
Man did I need this after the Hiroshima flick. Super saturated Technicolor and kaleidoscopic Berkeley dance sequences. Carmen Miranda does the classic "Girl With The Tutti-Frutti Hat" with 50 showgirls playing with giant bananas. Alice Faye was gorgeous. Pallette is always fun to watch. Chased the rats that were in my mind away but don't let DB Sinclair see this film
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 15, 2015 13:33:17 GMT -5
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) D-Alain ResnaisA French actress, in Hiroshima to film an anti-war movie, is having an affair with a Japanese man. She tells him about her experience as a young girl living in occupied France and her first love being a German soldier. When the Germans leave, she is grabbed by the townsfolk, her head shaven , and made to live in a basement by her shamed parents. With the filming complete she is ready to leave Hiroshima but the Japanese guy stalks her, begging her not to go Resnais originally meant this to be a documentary about the A-bomb blast and sure enough the first 15 minutes of the movie is just about all newsreel footage of the aftermath of the explosion. The director then changed his mind and inserted the fictional characters. An early example of what was known as the French New Wave Cinema. Very bleak, introspective, stark, depressing, barren, dark. I feel the shadows enfold me. I hear the sound of rats skittering on the pavement. The walls perspire. The emptiness is pressing in. It is crushing me with the feeling of ennui. The rats..the rats, they are my friends By Criterion of course I vaguely remember sitting through this many years ago. I don't think I liked it very much. I watch a lot of classic arty foreign films, and I like a lot of them. (I think Ish made a derogatory comment about Wild Strawberries that made me feel pity for him, the same kind of pity I feel for people who don't like Mike Murdock.) I love Kurosawa and Bergman and Fellini. Antonioni is growing on me. Herzog and Bunuel are gods to me. But every once in a while, I see something of this kind that I can hardly sit through and I can barely stand it. Like Battleship Potemkin. Or Zentropa. Or ... there's a couple of French films from the 1980s that I didn't like that put me off French cinema for a while but I can't remember the names. Or The Sacrifice! Boy, did I hate The Sacrifice! It's a Swedish production with a Russian director and it combines the worst characteristics of both national cinemas. And I thought Hiroshima Mon Amour was ... not my thing at all. I don't remember it well enough to say much more about it.
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 15, 2015 13:36:19 GMT -5
The Gangs All Here (1943) D-Busby Berkeley Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, Benny Goodman, Edward Everett Horton, Eugene Pallette Who cares about a plot in movies like this. Man did I need this after the Hiroshima flick. Super saturated Technicolor and kaleidoscopic Berkeley dance sequences. Carmen Miranda does the classic "Girl With The Tutti-Frutti Hat" with 50 showgirls playing with giant bananas. Alice Faye was gorgeous. Pallette is always fun to watch. Chased the rats that were in my mind away but don't let DB Sinclair see this film This on the other hand looks like a lot of fun! Have you seen The Harvey Girls, Ish? I saw it for the first time about six months ago and I loved it and I keep thinking about how great it was! Highly recommended. I can't wait to see it again.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Sept 15, 2015 15:42:33 GMT -5
The Gangs All Here (1943) D-Busby Berkeley Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, Benny Goodman, Edward Everett Horton, Eugene Pallette Who cares about a plot in movies like this. Man did I need this after the Hiroshima flick. Super saturated Technicolor and kaleidoscopic Berkeley dance sequences. Carmen Miranda does the classic "Girl With The Tutti-Frutti Hat" with 50 showgirls playing with giant bananas. Alice Faye was gorgeous. Pallette is always fun to watch. Chased the rats that were in my mind away but don't let DB Sinclair see this film Why do I get the feeling it wasn't really about bananas?
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 15, 2015 21:46:38 GMT -5
The Gangs All Here (1943) D-Busby Berkeley Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, Benny Goodman, Edward Everett Horton, Eugene Pallette Who cares about a plot in movies like this. Man did I need this after the Hiroshima flick. Super saturated Technicolor and kaleidoscopic Berkeley dance sequences. Carmen Miranda does the classic "Girl With The Tutti-Frutti Hat" with 50 showgirls playing with giant bananas. Alice Faye was gorgeous. Pallette is always fun to watch. Chased the rats that were in my mind away but don't let DB Sinclair see this film Why do I get the feeling it wasn't really about bananas? Judge for yourself
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 15, 2015 21:53:37 GMT -5
The Gangs All Here (1943) D-Busby Berkeley Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, Benny Goodman, Edward Everett Horton, Eugene Pallette Who cares about a plot in movies like this. Man did I need this after the Hiroshima flick. Super saturated Technicolor and kaleidoscopic Berkeley dance sequences. Carmen Miranda does the classic "Girl With The Tutti-Frutti Hat" with 50 showgirls playing with giant bananas. Alice Faye was gorgeous. Pallette is always fun to watch. Chased the rats that were in my mind away but don't let DB Sinclair see this film This on the other hand looks like a lot of fun! Have you seen The Harvey Girls, Ish? I saw it for the first time about six months ago and I loved it and I keep thinking about how great it was! Highly recommended. I can't wait to see it again. Have not seen it nor own it. Up to know, everything I've been watching and commentating on is from my private DVD collection numbering about 6000 movies plus loads of TV season sets, concerts, documentaries etc. I'm determined to watch them all before my inevitable end. Have about 1700 movies still to go. Maybe I can squeeze that in soon
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 15, 2015 22:26:13 GMT -5
I was visiting my dad and he dozed off and See No Evil started on the MOVIES! channel and before I knew it, I was hooked. See No Evil is a 1971 film starring Mia Farrow as a blind woman being terrorized in the English countryside.
A bit like Wait Until Dark. Just not quite as good. But I enjoyed it anyway. When I was younger, I didn't like Mia Farrow but nowadays when I see her in something, I always like her and I can't even remember why I didn't like her back then.
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Post by dupersuper on Sept 15, 2015 22:43:42 GMT -5
Why do I get the feeling it wasn't really about bananas? Judge for yourself Bananas are good.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Sept 16, 2015 7:59:59 GMT -5
Why do I get the feeling it wasn't really about bananas? Judge for yourself Thanks for posting that, but that was way too many bananas this early in the morning. The hordes of women waiving around their giant, evil yellow phallic symbols was disturbing, especially when they did the view from above and it looked like a huge round mouth lined with big yellow teeth closing on the women on the ground. Some things are hard to un-see.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Sept 16, 2015 8:02:04 GMT -5
If you mean as vehicles for classic slapstick comedy, then I agree. They should not, however, be taken internally.
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Post by Jesse on Sept 16, 2015 10:11:00 GMT -5
3:10 to Yuma (1957) Just caught this on TCM On Demand and thought it was fantastic. I was really impressed with how well put together it was from the cinematography to the sets and costumes, the score is really cool, the casting is excellent and the dialogue is superb. Certainly a must see for fans of the Western genre.
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