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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 27, 2015 13:41:52 GMT -5
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 re-watch all that often. I think today's viewing will be the first in four years maybe. I've been kind of obsessive about The Birds and Suspicion for quite a while. But I've recently become kind of obsessive about Dial M for Murder. I first saw it about 25 years ago and I liked it but I didn't think it was one of Hitchcock's masterpieces. Two or three years ago I watched bits and pieces of it while switching the channels, and then a few months later, I watched the last half of it and I suddenly found it very intriguing. So I watched the whole thing last year and then I watched it again a few months ago. The last time I saw it, I deleted it from the DVR, and the very next day I was asking myself "Why did you do that?" because I wanted to see it again.
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 27, 2015 13:57:11 GMT -5
Artists and Models just screeches to a halt whenever Dean Martin starts singing.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2015 14:14:02 GMT -5
Bringing Up Baby - Is on TCM in 45 minutes and this will be my 10th time that I seen this screwball movie starring Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn a 1938 movie.
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 27, 2015 14:51:37 GMT -5
Artists and Models is going back and forth between being kind of tedious and then being very entertaining. Shirely MacLaine steals the show whenever she's onscreen. She has a musical number with Jerry Lewis that's HI-LARIOUS!
And Eva Gabor just showed up as a Communist agent!
The two big problems are 1) some of the routines are just plain stupid, and 2) Dean Martin's character is a conceited ass and his character does not deserve to end up with Dorothy Malone.
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 27, 2015 14:58:01 GMT -5
Bringing Up Baby - Is on TCM in 45 minutes and this will be my 10th time that I seen this screwball movie starring Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn a 1938 movie. It's hilarious, but I haven't seen it ten times. The screwball comedy I love is The Awful Truth. I'm sure I've seen that one ten times. If you like Bringing Up Baby and you've never seen The Awful Truth, you should give it a try. (It's got the same director as Duck Soup.)
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Post by berkley on Sept 27, 2015 19:33:52 GMT -5
I've always enjoyed Dean Martin's screen persona. I usually find it annoying when other people try to do it but he's one of the very few guys who can pull it off. The main disappointment I remember from Artists and Models was that Anita Ekberg was hardly in it at all.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2015 20:18:17 GMT -5
Bringing Up Baby - Is on TCM in 45 minutes and this will be my 10th time that I seen this screwball movie starring Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn a 1938 movie. It's hilarious, but I haven't seen it ten times. The screwball comedy I love is The Awful Truth. I'm sure I've seen that one ten times. If you like Bringing Up Baby and you've never seen The Awful Truth, you should give it a try. (It's got the same director as Duck Soup.) I've seen The Awful Truth a couple of times and it's an Irene Dunne masterpiece and Cary Grant plays Jerry Warriner and both of them were hilarious trying their hardest to ruin their re-marriage and so forth. It's dandy of the movie and wonderfully directed by Leo McCarey who did Duck Soup with the Marx Brothers.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 28, 2015 13:43:03 GMT -5
Ghost Dog-Way Of The Samurai (1999) Forest Whitaker, Henry Silva, John Tormey, Cliff Gordon
Ghost Dog (Whitaker) has taken up the code of the Samurai. As a young man his life was saved by a mafia gangster. He is now beholden to him as his master. He therefore becomes a secret assassin for the mob. When he performs a hit against a fellow mobster and is witnessed, the mob decrees Ghost Dog must be disposed of in order to tie up all loose ends
Easily this film could have failed but instead it's quite compelling. Chubby, lazy-eyed Whitaker would not be a typical choice for this role but he pulls it off. The mobsters are also well cast. A mash up between Japanese, Italian and Hip Hop cultures. It really does work thanks to the writing and directing of Jim Jarmusch. Inexplicably, all the gangsters love watching classic cartoons on the TV. Betty Boop, Felix The Cat and many more make appearances. There should have been a Ghost Dog comic series
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 28, 2015 13:51:42 GMT -5
Stop Me Before I Kill (1960) Ronald Lewis, Diane Cilento, Claude Dauphin
A Hammer Film Production
A race car driver, after sustaining head injuries from a car crash, has the urge to choke his wife
This film can be divided in 3 parts. First is the aftermath of the car crash with Alan Colby now high-strung, fidgety, arguementive and his hands uncontrollably grabbing his wife's neck. Diane Cilento, while a pleasure to look at, has a high piercing voice and annoying Italian accent. 45 minutes of marital anguish with Colby being a jerk and sweating profusely. Part 2 is a half hour of Colby on a psychologist's couch. Part 3 has a nice plot twist and is satisfying. If only Parts 1 and 2 were severely truncated it could have been a decent film
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 28, 2015 22:15:20 GMT -5
Grumpy Old Men (1993) Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margaret, Ossie Davis, Burgess Meredith
A life long friendly feud between neighbors Lennon and Matthau esculates when widow Ann-Margaret moves in accross the street.
Decent enough comedy that is really driven by seeing this veteran cast performing together. Ann-Margaret at this point in time still looks great. She's also the only one still with us. Co-stars Buck Henry and Daryll Hannah. Man, do I miss Jack Lemmon, a consummate actor who's at ease with drama or comedy
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 29, 2015 13:16:07 GMT -5
Cash on Demand (1961) Peter Cushing, Andre Morell
A Hammer Film Production
Cushing is in charge of a small bank. A gentleman thief walks into his office, tells him his family is being held hostage, and forces him to comply with the robbery.
Effective 80 minute drama all shot within the bank. The acting of Cushing and Morell is superb. The operative word here is nifty. Bank caper buffs will be pleased
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 29, 2015 16:24:41 GMT -5
Has anybody seen Hausu? It's a 1977 Japanese horror movie that is OFF-THE-HOOK!
There's a group of seven schoolgirls that go to a remote mansion for the holidays. And things don't go well.
It sounds like a million haunted house movies but it's REALLY NUTS!
Every year, in the fall, I start looking for horror movies that I've never seen in the hopes that I'll find something so good that I'll want to watch it every year for a while and then keep it in the rotation. Last year, it was the French film Eyes Without a Face (which I saw is on the TCM schedule in October!) and this year, it's Hausu.
I'm not going to say anything more about Hausu because you might like it more if you're as surprised as I was.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 29, 2015 19:50:20 GMT -5
Has anybody seen Hausu? It's a 1977 Japanese horror movie that is OFF-THE-HOOK! There's a group of seven schoolgirls that go to a remote mansion for the holidays. And things don't go well. It sounds like a million haunted house movies but it's REALLY NUTS! Every year, in the fall, I start looking for horror movies that I've never seen in the hopes that I'll find something so good that I'll want to watch it every year for a while and then keep it in the rotation. Last year, it was the French film Eyes Without a Face (which I saw is on the TCM schedule in October!) and this year, it's Hausu. I'm not going to say anything more about Hausu because you might like it more if you're as surprised as I was. Yes, I saw it about 2 years ago. I believe its a Criterion release under the English name House. Yes its colorful, campy and very very nuts
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Post by berkley on Sept 29, 2015 21:16:56 GMT -5
Ghost Dog-Way Of The Samurai (1999) Forest Whitaker, Henry Silva, John Tormey, Cliff Gordon Ghost Dog (Whitaker) has taken up the code of the Samurai. As a young man his life was saved by a mafia gangster. He is now beholden to him as his master. He therefore becomes a secret assassin for the mob. When he performs a hit against a fellow mobster and is witnessed, the mob decrees Ghost Dog must be disposed of in order to tie up all loose ends Easily this film could have failed but instead it's quite compelling. Chubby, lazy-eyed Whitaker would not be a typical choice for this role but he pulls it off. The mobsters are also well cast. A mash up between Japanese, Italian and Hip Hop cultures. It really does work thanks to the writing and directing of Jim Jarmusch. Inexplicably, all the gangsters love watching classic cartoons on the TV. Betty Boop, Felix The Cat and many more make appearances. There should have been a Ghost Dog comic series I thought this was just great. Lots of nice touches, for example the quotes from that samurai book, forget the name of it, which were really well-placed. Also little things like the elderly Italian gangster singing/rapping along to some hip-hop track alone in his house. Yeah, would have been interesting to see a sequel or two, but then you suspect that it might have been hard to re-produce the magic.
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Post by berkley on Sept 29, 2015 21:19:12 GMT -5
Has anybody seen Hausu? It's a 1977 Japanese horror movie that is OFF-THE-HOOK! There's a group of seven schoolgirls that go to a remote mansion for the holidays. And things don't go well. It sounds like a million haunted house movies but it's REALLY NUTS! Every year, in the fall, I start looking for horror movies that I've never seen in the hopes that I'll find something so good that I'll want to watch it every year for a while and then keep it in the rotation. Last year, it was the French film Eyes Without a Face (which I saw is on the TCM schedule in October!) and this year, it's Hausu. I'm not going to say anything more about Hausu because you might like it more if you're as surprised as I was. Yeah, saw it a few years ago at a local cinema. One of the weirdest movies I've seen, even within the sub-category of odd Japanese films. I liked it very much.
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