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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 27, 2016 12:31:44 GMT -5
I forgot to mention that John Huston was one of the screenwriters on Juarez.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Feb 27, 2016 12:43:29 GMT -5
Fat City was an awesome movie
John Huston was an unforgettable actor as well. Loved him in Chinatown
Back on July 29th I wrote
Reflections In A Golden Eye (1967) Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Brian Keith
Its 1967, LSD and psychedelic hippydom is sweeping the nation during the summer of love. Sgt. Pepper is playing, the Vietnam war is escalating, civil rights protests are getting bigger and this movie weirdly fits right in
Marlon Brando is a stiff army major teaching at a military academy and possibly a repressed gay man
Elizabeth Taylor is his wife-horney, vivacious and can't stand Marlon
Brian Keith-a Lt Col. at the academy, friend of Marlon's, having an affair with Elizabeth
Julie Harris- Brian's Keith's neurotic wife, who after her breakdown over the death of her young daughter, clipped her nipples off with a pair of garden shears
Robert Forster- a private at the academy, a loner and creepy stalker obsessed with Elizabeth Taylor. He likes to go horseback riding in the nude and sneak into Liz's bedroom in the middle of the night to smell her underwear
Zorro David- Plays Brian Keith's gay Pilipino houseboy
I can't make this up
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 27, 2016 12:49:07 GMT -5
I just finished watching Far from the Madding Crowd (1967).
It seemed like a pretty good bet when I DVRed it. I tend to like movies based on 19th-century British novels. I haven't read the book but I did read Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure many years ago.
Also, I like a lot of British movies from the 1960s.
And also, I knew Julie Christie was in it. At one of movie blogs I frequent, the guy is a big Julie Christie fan and I realized I hadn't really seen many of her movies so I've been keeping an eye on the TCM schedule for Julie Christie movies. I saw her in Billy Liar 20 years ago and she's really good in it. In the last few months I've seen Doctor Zhivago and Don't Look Now. (I still haven't seen Darling.)
And it paid off! I didn't know it also featured Alan Bates, Terrence Stamp and Peter Finch! (I hoped he would yell "I'm mad as Hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!" at the end. It would have been entirely appropriate.) I knew I would like it in the first few minutes.
Very entertaining and worthwhile movie. I recommend it to anybody that likes 1960s British movies about 19th-century British novels.
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 27, 2016 12:51:22 GMT -5
Back on July 29th I wrote Reflections In A Golden Eye (1967) Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Brian Keith Its 1967, LSD and psychedelic hippydom is sweeping the nation during the summer of love. Sgt. Pepper is playing, the Vietnam war is escalating, civil rights protests are getting bigger and this movie weirdly fits right in Marlon Brando is a stiff army major teaching at a military academy and possibly a repressed gay man Elizabeth Taylor is his wife-horney, vivacious and can't stand Marlon Brian Keith-a Lt Col. at the academy, friend of Marlon's, having an affair with Elizabeth Julie Harris- Brian's Keith's neurotic wife, who after her breakdown over the death of her young daughter, clipped her nipples off with a pair of garden shears Robert Forster- a private at the academy, a loner and creepy stalker obsessed with Elizabeth Taylor. He likes to go horseback riding in the nude and sneak into Liz's bedroom in the middle of the night to smell her underwear Zorro David- Plays Brian Keith's gay Pilipino houseboy I can't make this up I'm so there! This movie doesn't have to be good to be great! It just has to exist.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Feb 27, 2016 19:49:48 GMT -5
Back on July 29th I wrote Reflections In A Golden Eye (1967) Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Brian Keith Its 1967, LSD and psychedelic hippydom is sweeping the nation during the summer of love. Sgt. Pepper is playing, the Vietnam war is escalating, civil rights protests are getting bigger and this movie weirdly fits right in Marlon Brando is a stiff army major teaching at a military academy and possibly a repressed gay man Elizabeth Taylor is his wife-horney, vivacious and can't stand Marlon Brian Keith-a Lt Col. at the academy, friend of Marlon's, having an affair with Elizabeth Julie Harris- Brian's Keith's neurotic wife, who after her breakdown over the death of her young daughter, clipped her nipples off with a pair of garden shears Robert Forster- a private at the academy, a loner and creepy stalker obsessed with Elizabeth Taylor. He likes to go horseback riding in the nude and sneak into Liz's bedroom in the middle of the night to smell her underwear Zorro David- Plays Brian Keith's gay Pilipino houseboy I can't make this up I'm so there! This movie doesn't have to be good to be great! It just has to exist. Oh man, I remember seing this in a movie theatre and being completely mesmerized by Robert Forster, he was really "magnetic"! #Hoosier : Have you checked hte link I provided about Fat City?
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 28, 2016 10:00:52 GMT -5
I'm so there! This movie doesn't have to be good to be great! It just has to exist. Oh man, I remember seing this in a movie theatre and being completely mesmerized by Robert Forster, he was really "magnetic"! #Hoosier : Have you checked hte link I provided about Fat City? Thanks for the link. I checked it out but I'm wary of downloading anything new because of how slow my computer is. But good news! Fat City is available on YouTube! I'll watch it over the next few days.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Feb 28, 2016 22:57:12 GMT -5
Portrait of a small mid-western town in 1984. A town for all intents and purposes believes its 1954. A town that is afraid of its teenagers. A town concerned with the influence of outside corruption that will lead them astray. To protect it's young they control their thoughts and behavior. There can be no books of controversial matter. There can be no music that will make them gyrate. There will be no dancing. They want peace and quiet..here in The Footloose Zone
Footloose (!984) Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, John Lithgow, Christopher Penn
Avoided watching this until tonight and because of that it's hysterical. Who can really blame preacher Lithgow concerned with the satanic music of Kenny Loggins? Who can believe that the Flashdance style dancing of Kevin Bacon in the warehouse was actually him? Who can believe that Dianne Wiest who plays "Teen" Lori Singer's mother was actually 9 years younger? Who can believe when the town bully challenges the new kid from the big city that they have a tractor contest? Hysterical !!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2016 23:58:09 GMT -5
I just watched the lovely magic of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire - Swing Time a 1936 film that was so glamorous, beautiful gowns by Rodgers, and the magic of Fred Astaire that left me speechless of how well they danced. They were extraordinarily graceful and I was in awe of the romance that they brought in this dazzling movie. Loved every second of it ... I haven't seen it in years ...
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Feb 29, 2016 2:58:53 GMT -5
Hans Christian Anderson (1952) Danny Kaye, Farley Granger, Zizi Jeanmarie
From the opening titlecard: "Once upon a time there lived in Denmark a great storyteller named Hans Christian Andersen. This is not the story of his life, but a fairy tale about the great spinner of fairy tales."
So up front it tells you its a fanciful and entirely fabricated story about the legendary teller of fables. Beautifully shot in technicolor and a family fare treat. I was surprised over the number of songs that were part of it's soundtrack, songs that are very well known such as the Thumbelina themesong and No Two People. I'm Hans Christian Anderson is a fun tune as well. Then I discovered that the soundtrack album shot up to #1 on the charts were it remained for 17 consecutive weeks. There's a 20 minute surrealistic ballet sequence of The Little Mermaid towards the end. Plus you hear Danny's recital of The King's New Clothes and The Ugly Duckling tales. Pretty nice film
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Post by DE Sinclair on Feb 29, 2016 10:33:17 GMT -5
Last week we were flipping through the channels and came across The More The Merrier on Turner Classic Movies. On a whim we decided to watch it and were rewarded with a hilarious movie. It was from 1943 and starred Joel McCrea, Jean Arthur, and Charles Coburn (who won Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role).
A patriot single woman in NY (Arthur) offers to rent half her apartment to help ease the wartime housing shortage in Washington, DC. Through deceit and quick talking, Mr. Dingle (Coburn) chases off the other would be tenants and talks her into renting to him, though she wanted to rent to a woman (this was 1943, after all). He then meets a young man looking for a room, Joe Carter (McCrea), and rents him half of his half of the apartment, without telling her. Wackiness ensues as they clash and Mr. Dingle covertly plays cupid to bring the two together.
My wife couldn't stop laughing at this, so I'm off to Amazon to see if they have it reasonably on DVD/Blue-ray. Highly recommended.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 29, 2016 11:49:15 GMT -5
Last week we were flipping through the channels and came across The More The Merrier on Turner Classic Movies. On a whim we decided to watch it and were rewarded with a hilarious movie. It was from 1943 and starred Joel McCrea, Jean Arthur, and Charles Coburn (who won Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role). A patriot single woman in NY (Arthur) offers to rent half her apartment to help ease the wartime housing shortage in Washington, DC. Through deceit and quick talking, Mr. Dingle (Coburn) chases off the other would be tenants and talks her into renting to him, though she wanted to rent to a woman (this was 1943, after all). He then meets a young man looking for a room, Joe Carter (McCrea), and rents him half of his half of the apartment, without telling her. Wackiness ensues as they clash and Mr. Dingle covertly plays cupid to bring the two together. My wife couldn't stop laughing at this, so I'm off to Amazon to see if they have it reasonably on DVD/Blue-ray. Highly recommended. I love this movie! I watched it for the first time that night too after I got home from work and randomly came across it. You're right it's hilarious. One of my favorite parts is when Jean Arthur's character is dictating the morning routines to Charles Coburn and he is all bemused. And of course chaos ensures the next morning. Just brillant. I ordered it from Amazon the following day for a paltry $9.99. Well worth it!
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Post by Rob Allen on Feb 29, 2016 15:07:41 GMT -5
Having seen Salò recently, my wife got Pasolini's Decameron from the library. It's a lot more fun, but very irreverent and X-rated. The music is by Morricone. The success of this movie and his next two, equally bawdy adaptations of Canterbury Tales and 1001 Arabian Nights led to numerous pornographic imitations and pseudo-sequels, which infuriated Pasolini. One of the reasons he made Salò as gut-churning as he did was to say, "here, imitate this, you bastards".
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Mar 1, 2016 10:35:40 GMT -5
I... comme Icare (1979) Continuing my diet of 70ies political thrillers, here comes one of the great french movies of its time, from a highly successfull maker of popular films, his only venture into political cinema. Hailing a similar plot as JFK, it is much more grounded in reality, in procedural aspects of the investigation, and delivers great performances from the whole cast, including from the Z & L'Aveu star, Yves Montand. Even if you could feel the movie was a little old and maybe too didactic, it still was quite enjoyable and interesting, dark in a very frightening way. Starting "Z" right now.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Mar 1, 2016 14:49:19 GMT -5
Z (1969) - I was in the mood for a political thriller and I was not disappointed by Z at all. I'm usually fairly indifferent to Yves Montand but he's good here and I liked seeing Jean-Louis Trintignant and Irene Papas. It wasn't at all what I expected it to be. It's not quite as good as Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion. But what is? Just watched this for the first time. For me, Montand is above everything a singer, and a damn good one. While his movie career took over his singing one, he has an impressive record of important films in a vast spectrum of genres. Let's be honest, he isn't the star of Z. I'm not even sure Trintignant is since his acting and character doesn't evolve a iota from start to end. They both are quite good with the limited amount of either screen time or type of performances required of them, but the star of the film is the plot. While Gavras manages to infuse a very personnal and cinematographic feel to the movie, the mechanics of the plot are brilliant : an incoruptible conservative judge bowes in front of the evidence gathered and will not bow to the corrupted and ludicrous demands of his hierarchy. The setting is a somewhat distopian mediteranean country that is easy to figure out as the Colonel's Greece, one of the most violent regime the west witnessed since WWII. It is easy to forget the past , but the present clues towards our future are very troubling when you consider those same clues can be ssen at the begining of the movie. Z almost is a forsighted prequel to Witness, and i'm sur we could now find a series of movies that show from start (the end of a war) to end (a western democracy giving up democracy officially) the path of fascism and how real and menacing it currently is to our world.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 1, 2016 15:03:17 GMT -5
Frances (1982) Jessica Lange, Kim Stanley, Sam Shepard
The tragic story of Hollywood starlet Frances Farmer-her meteoric rise to the top in the 1930s as a beautiful actress best known for her co-starring role in the hit Come And Get It. Her rebellious nature leading to the ire and sabotage of her career by the Hollywood studios. Her affair with author Clifford Odets. Her descent into alcohol and drugs. Her years both in and out of mental institutions
Jessica Lange nails this performance and well earned an Oscar nomination. She also looks uncannily like Frances. I was not familiar with the story of this actress before watching the film but it was enthralling and captured the time period faithfully as well. There is some manipulation on the true facts, for instance Frances Farmer never actually received a lobotomy.
Kevin Costner made his first major film appearance here and Jessica Lange fell in love with co-star Sam Shepard and together had 2 children with him
If you like movies about old-time Hollywood, or a mesmerizing bio pic in general, I highly recommend this
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