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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 25, 2015 13:56:51 GMT -5
My Fair Lady (1964) Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison
If Audrey doesn't speak proper English and act like a lady soon, Rex Harrison will try his luck with Julia Roberts. She's a pretty woman, so he thinks
I'm not necessarily a big fan of musicals but this has so many memorable songs that you might be singing along like a fool. A big 3 hour epic and Audrey handles herself with aplomb. So much better than her jungle girl performance as Rima in Green Mansions (I'll never forgive her for that one). Yes a movie you should see before you die
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 25, 2015 14:01:44 GMT -5
Roger and Me (1989) Michael Moore
Moore's film debut as he tries to interview the chairman of General Motors about all the plant closings in Flint Michigan
Whether you're a fan or foe of Michael Moore, his first film is spot on, informative, entertaining and heartbreakingly funny. And Michael is about 75 pounds lighter than he is now
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Post by Rob Allen on Sept 25, 2015 14:49:08 GMT -5
Audrey handles herself with aplomb. Audrey got the role because she was a famous movie star while the star of the Broadway show, Julie Andrews, was then mostly unknown in America. Some people think that Julie's Oscar win the following year for "Mary Poppins" was a sort of consolation or apology for her losing the part in this movie. And the young man who was besotted with Eliza and sang "On The Street Where You Live", Jeremy Brett, grew up to be Sherlock Holmes.
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Post by berkley on Sept 25, 2015 18:01:06 GMT -5
Audrey handles herself with aplomb. Audrey got the role because she was a famous movie star while the star of the Broadway show, Julie Andrews, was then mostly unknown in America. Some people think that Julie's Oscar win the following year for "Mary Poppins" was a sort of consolation or apology for her losing the part in this movie. And the young man who was besotted with Eliza and sang "On The Street Where You Live", Jeremy Brett, grew up to be Sherlock Holmes. She was perhaps a bit too elegant to play the street-wise cockney convincingly but she was an absolute vision of loveliness after she underwent her transformation. It would have been interesting if they'd allowed her to sing the songs herself - apparently she could carry a tune though her voice wasn't strong and of course wasn't on the level of professional singers like Julie Andrews or the lady who dubbed her songs (Marni Nixon?).
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 25, 2015 21:26:48 GMT -5
La Strada (1954) D-Frederico Fellini Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina
A poor waifish girl assists travelling strongman Quinn with his strong-man act from town to town
A straight-forward story of the strange pairing of the selfish and brutal Zampano the strong-man and his young female aide in the clown makeup. Quinn is quite memorable in this role but it's Masina who is unforgetable. She can magically change from silly, funny faces to heartbreaking sad looks in a split second. A Fellini movie that is accessable for everyone and needs to be seen
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Post by Jesse on Sept 25, 2015 23:37:14 GMT -5
If you want to get an idea of the kind of range Giulietta Masina had as an actress watch La Strada and Nights of Cabiria. She's utterly brilliant in both.
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 26, 2015 0:09:37 GMT -5
La Strada (1954) D-Frederico Fellini Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina A poor waifish girl assists travelling strongman Quinn with his strong-man act from town to town A straight-forward story of the strange pairing of the selfish and brutal Zampano the strong-man and his young female aide in the clown makeup. Quinn is quite memorable in this role but it's Masina who is unforgetable. She can magically change from silly, funny faces to heartbreaking sad looks in a split second. A Fellini movie that is accessable for everyone and needs to be seen One of my favorites of all time! I've seen it a bunch of times over the years. It's a WOW! Don't read any more about it! Just see it!
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 26, 2015 14:25:10 GMT -5
Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939) Robert Donat, Greer Garson
The long life of the beloved schoolmaster of a prestigious English boarding school. Mr. Chips served from 1870 to the end of WWI. His tragic marriage, his success and failures at the school
Greer Garson's film debut. Donat won the Oscar and the film was nominated as well in a year that's thought amongst classic film fans as the Greatest Year For Movies. A bit long and sentimental for my tastes but decent enough that I was glad I saw it. God knows how many films came later about teachers struggling with rambunctious students slowly winning their respect and are beloved. I guess this movie set the standard.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 26, 2015 14:35:17 GMT -5
Never Take Sweets From A Stranger (1960) Patrick Allen
The beginning of a series of Hammer Film Productions I'm about to view
Canada- A new family has just moved into town with their young 9 year old daughter. She is told that she can get free candy from an old man at his house. She enters and the old guy tells her she needs to play a game for the candy. The game is: Strip Naked And Dance for Jellybeans. The old man just watches and she soon leaves, telling mom and dad what happened when she gets home.
But the old man is part of the most prestigious family of the town, most denizens working for his saw mill. Many including the police think no harm was actually done and just to drop the subject.
NAMBLA's film of the decade. Patrick Allen , as the father, has the greatest granite jaw I've ever seen. All kidding aside, this was pretty good. At 81 minutes it is quick paced, decent acting and a very suspenseful conclusion. You'll just be scratching you're head in the beginning as everyone comes up with contorted logic defending the old perv
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Post by thwhtguardian on Sept 27, 2015 11:01:35 GMT -5
Psycho and The Birds are playing back to back on BBC America right now, I guess I know what I'm doing for the next few hours.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 27, 2015 13:20:53 GMT -5
Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001) D-Alfonso Cuaron Diego Luna, Gael Garcia Bernal, Ana Lopez Mercado
Two teenage boys on a road trip with an older woman
Mexican film from, you guessed it, Criterion. Ultra raunchy sex comedy as the boys learn life and sex lessons from their female companion. I rather enjoyed this movie. A hundred times better than Porky's or the slew of other teenage sex films from Hollywood immediately following. Director Cuaron went on to do a Harry Potter movie, Children Of Men and Gravity.
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 27, 2015 13:24:02 GMT -5
Psycho and The Birds are playing back to back on BBC America right now, I guess I know what I'm doing for the next few hours. I've seen Psycho five or six times over the years and I still like it, but the gloss is off. I watched it a few months ago and I was hypnotized up to the point where Norman hides Marion Crane's body, but for me, it's not quite as good after that (except for Norman's speech at the end). The Birds I can watch over and over. I saw it three times last year and started to watch it a fourth time when it came on TCM while I was visiting my father. I thought that was overdoing it a bit so I switched to something else, probably a football game. I'm the same way with Suspicion. I've seen it three or four times over the last two years. The last time I DVRed it off TCM, I saved it and watched it again the next day.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Sept 27, 2015 13:26:54 GMT -5
Psycho and The Birds are playing back to back on BBC America right now, I guess I know what I'm doing for the next few hours. I've seen Psycho five or six times over the years and I still like it, but the gloss is off. I watched it a few months ago and I was hypnotized up to the point where Norman hides Marion Crane's body, but for me, it's not quite as good after that (except for Norman's speech at the end). The Birds I can watch over and over. I saw it three times last year and started to watch it a fourth time when it came on TCM while I was visiting my father. I thought that was overdoing it a bit so I switched to something else, probably a football game. I'm the same way with Suspicion. I've seen it three or four times over the last two years. The last time I DVRed it off TCM, I saved it and watched it again the next day. Yeah, the first half has to be one of the tightest films made but it does lose a bit of its punch in the second half. Birds is one of those movies that I love but for one reason or another I don't rewatch all that often. I think today's viewing will be the first in four years maybe.
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 27, 2015 13:32:19 GMT -5
I'm watching Artists and Models on YouTube. I took a little break to get some lunch.
I'm a half hour in and I'm enjoying it a lot. Jerry Lewis is a would-be writer and Dean Martin is a would-be artist and they live in Greenwich Village where they can't hold down a job because Lewis is incompetent and gets them fired. Lewis is obsessed with a comic book character called "Bat Lady" (this movie was released the same year Batwoman debuted).
It turns out that the artist on "Bat Lady" (Dorothy Malone) lives in the same building, and her roommate (Shirley MacLaine) poses for her dressed in the Bat Lady costume. So Jerry Lewis goes to their room and sees Shirley MacLaine in the Bat Lady costume and, of course, he thinks Bat Lady is real!
It actually sounds like the potential for this to be REALLY DUMB is pretty high, but I'm sticking with it because of the great cast and because there's also the potential for two or three TOTALLY CRAZY scenes even if the movie isn't that great overall.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 27, 2015 13:40:50 GMT -5
These Are The Damned (1963) MacDonald Carey, Oliver Reed, Alexander Knox
A Hammer Film Production
Pretty much a mash-up of a juvenile delinquent and Children Of The Damned movie. In fact I'm sure the box office success of Children was the sole inspiration of this movie. MacDonald Carey is an older horndog tourist who's lured into by the shapely sister of Oliver Reed into an ambush. Oliver is the leader of a Teddy Boy motorcycle gang in black leather. In fact they have their own song
Black Leather, Black Leather Smash, Smash, Smash Black Leather, Black Leather Kill, Kill, Kill
*Words and Music by Bob Haney
Was England really terrorized by young JDs known as "Teddy Boys"? Did they ride their bikes with stuffed bears on the handlebars? I digress, please excuse
Oliver Reed's sister then decides to run off with the tourist who's about 3x her age. That's probably the creepiest thing in this flick. Oliver chases after them, into a top secret British military installation. Within a cave of the installation are about a dozen young children kept in complete isolation. The children are ice-cold and radioactive. The three adult intruders decide to lead them to freedom despite the objections of the scientists and troops who command the government base. For, you see, these children were born this way by irradiated parents and can survive the conditions following a nuclear war. Therefore the government wants to examine them and possibly breed more of their kind. Even if exposure to these children will slowly poison normal folks
Well all righty. An early example of evil government projects using you're tax dollars. I'll give the film credit for that. The rest is ridiculous entertainment . Be warned. I still have that awful song in my head
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