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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 11, 2016 18:37:09 GMT -5
I watched Mondo Trasho (1969) this morning. I've now seen every feature-length film that John Waters ever made. I feel like I'm in a very special club. As for the movie, it is so wrong. WRONG WRONG WRONG! As wrong as ten episodes of "The Family Guy." I would recommend it for people who like a unique cinema experience. Also, it's entertaining and watchable for those cinephiles who like the early films of John Waters, like Pink Flamingos and Female Trouble. And Mondo Trasho is also fun for people who love the John Waters stock company because Mary Vivian Pearce, David Lochary, Divine and Mink Stole are all in it. Mink Stole steals the show with a very long topless dance. I'm part of that special club, seen all the early John Waters films and most, but not all, of his latest (Have not seen Cecil B. Demented or Kiddie Flamingos) . Even saw Pink Flamingos after midnight at the Elgin Cinema on the lower west side of Manhattan along with 3 other brain damaging movies all in one evening. Those other Waters films I've seen first on VHS and then DVDs. Last sew them about 10 years ago or so I never heard of Kiddie Flamingos, so I looked it up on IMDB. It sounds really hilarious and bizarre. I wonder if it's on YouTube?
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 11, 2016 19:10:44 GMT -5
Over the last few days, I thought of a bunch more movies that I'd like to see that might be on YouTube. And I started looking around and found quite a few of them! So I'm expanding my list to 20 and I'll post the new list when I'm done.
Until then, here's some highly recommended movies that you might like but you might not ever think of looking for:
It's the Old Army Game! (1926) with W.C. Fields and Louise Brooks. There's a scene in this that is just about the funniest thing I've ever seen in a movie.
The Diane Linkletter Story (1969), a ten-minute film directed by John Waters, starring Divine, Mary Vivian Pearce and David Lochary.
Beggars of Life (1928), with Louise Brooks and Wallace Beery. It boggles my mind that this is on YouTube!
The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933), with W.C. Fields and George Chandler. It's only 18 minutes but it's HILARIOUS!
The Lawless Frontier (1934), a John Wayne movie I bet you've never seen. It has a character who should be named "Mariachi Fu Manchu."
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 11, 2016 19:15:20 GMT -5
I'm leaving it up to you for now Hoosier to update us on the YouTube experience, I still have a large amount of unwatched DVDs to plow thru besides keeping up with new releases. I must ,must outlive my unwatched DVD pile. My clock is ticking
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 11, 2016 20:47:16 GMT -5
Here's my updated list for my YouTube Movie Project. I'll be trying to watch one of these every Sunday morning until I run out of movies.
The Last Days of Pompeii (1911) - I liked Cabiria a lot, so I thought I'd give this ancient Italian epic a try.
Girl Shy (1924)
The Wizard of Oz (1925) - A silent, feature-length version of The Wizard of Oz. With Oliver Hardy as the Tin Man! I've known about this for close to thirty years. I even knew it was on YouTube for the last five years or so! I can't believe I never got around to watching it.
The Bells (1926) - I don't know too much about this but it appears to be an adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe poem. And it stars Lionel Barrymore and Boris Karloff.
A Farewell to Arms (1932)
Waltzes from Vienna (1934) - I've heard this is pretty boring. But it's just about the only Hitchcock film I've never seen.
Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936) - This is the only film on the list that I've seen. But it's been a while. I didn't like it, but I think I may appreciate it more now that I've seen a lot more old British films and I also know a lot more about the Sweeney Todd legend.
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) - Something from 1001 Movies list that looks interesting ... and long.
The Quiet Duel (1949) - Akira Kurosawa is my favorite director and this is one that I haven't seen. It's apparently about a guy coping with syphilis. I can hardly wait.
Variety Lights (1950) - Fellini is another one of my favorites and Variety Lights is one I've never seen. It's the first film he directed.
Utopia (1951)
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955)
The Burmese Harp (1956) - This is a highly acclaimed film that I don't know much about. I'm surprised to see it on YouTube.
Kiss Them for Me (1957) - As soon as I see this, I'll have seen all of Cary Grant's movies from 1942 to 1966!
Mon Oncle (1958)
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964) - I don't know much about this but I decided to include one film from the year I was born.
Fat City (1972)
A*P*E (1976) - I've been wanting to see this since it opened!
Orchestra Rehearsal (1978) - Another Fellini I've never seen.
Madadayo (1993) - Akira Kurosawa's last movie.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 11, 2016 20:58:52 GMT -5
The 1925 Wizard Of Oz is included in the big deluxe boxset I own. Have not got arond to it yet
The Life and Death Of Colonel Blimp I watched and reviewed about 2 months ago, give or take. Its a Criterion by crikey. I forgot what I wrote exactly, I must have liked it since I watched the whole film in one sitting but I think I had some reservations on the main actor. And it seemed to be such a lavish film since it was a 1943 English movie. Tough year to make a beautiful looking film. But Powell and Pressburger films are always stunningly shot
The Last Days Of Pompeii-I've seen the later veersion
A Farewell To Arms- the early Gary Cooper film. Great movie but the DVD I owned had horrible sound quality thereby hard to enjoy it. Would YouTube be better? Let me know
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 12, 2016 0:07:07 GMT -5
I've watched about 20 minutes of Cries and Whispers and I'm thinking I should have started this earlier. I'm going to get about halfway through it and I'll realize I haven't been reading the sub-titles and I'm not sure what's going on.
Ingmar Bergman is one of my favorites but I'm generally not as fond of his post-1965 films as I am of his earlier work. (Except I love The Magic Flute.)
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 12, 2016 0:53:00 GMT -5
A Soldier's Story (1984) Henry E.Rollins Jr., Adolph Caesar, Denzel Washington, David Alan Greer, Robert Townshend, Patti LaBelle
1944 at an Army training camp for black soldiers in Louisiana. A black Sgt. is found, shot dead and a black captain is sent from Washington DC to investigate the murder. A KKK killing or something else?
A very powerful script adapted from a play dealing with WWII racial issues and a murder investigation. I was extremely enthralled by the acting of Adolf Caesar as the murder victim. Caesar did not have very many opportunities on the big screen, did a lot of voice-work and TV, got a part in The Color Purple and then died in 1988.I believe this was the first dramatic role for Denzel Washington and you knew this actor would be one to continue watching. The movie, Adolph Caesar and the screenplay were all Oscar and Golden Globes nominated
I recommend this movie whole heartedly
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 12, 2016 3:29:45 GMT -5
Three Sailors And A Girl (1953) Jane Powell, Gordon MacRae, Gene Nelson, Jack E.Leonard
A submarine crew gets 30 days shore leave in NYC. Since they have been collecting pay for 8 months with nowhere to spend it previously, the crew pool their money together to invest on Wall St. 3 sailors are chosen as the crew's representatives. But the sailors get bamboozled by a quick talking Broadway producer and a talented showgirl in backing a stage musical instead
Why do I own this? I can only make a guess that since this was an early release in Warner Brothers Archive burn-on-demand program, I ordered this to qualify for a discount when purchasing multiple titles.
Anyway the good points: It is in technicolor, it has a cameo by Burt Lancaster and TV's Jimmy Olsen (Jack Larson) is one of the crew-hands
The so-so points: The music has no breakout songs. The plot is very standard. There's no great location shots of the real Manhattan, just stock footage. Jack E. Leonard preceded Don Rickles as a great insult comedian. But in this movie there is no opportunity for such a character and he just plays a fat and bald jolly seaman
Three Sailors And A Girl. There's probably an X-Rated movie with that title that could be better
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 12, 2016 14:59:47 GMT -5
I managed to stay up to watch all of Cries & Whispers and I liked it a lot. But I was a little tired and I did find my mind wandering. Liv Ullmann is Harriet Andersson's sister, but she also plays their mother in a flashback. So there was a scene where I thought I was watching a flashback and then Liv Ullmann was in the scene and I thought "I thought this scene was 20 or 30 years ago. I must be mistaken" and I rewound it and read the sub-titles a little more carefully. And finally figured out what was going on.
The flashback's have voice-over and I did get a bit confused about whose voice I was listening to at times.
Someday I'll watch it again when I'm a little more alert.
But even in my lugubrious state, I enjoyed it despite finding it a bit mysterious. It's about a woman dying of cancer and her two sisters are looking after her. The room where she's dying is GIGANTIC and colored bright red. The rug, the walls, the bedclothes. It's a remarkable room. I was kind of fascinated by that room and I've been wondering if bright red rooms were all the rage among rich Swedish woman in 1905.
The thing that kept me interested despite my sleepiness, though, was the magnificent performances of Harriet Andersson, Ingrid Thulin and Liv Ullmann. It's taken me awhile to warm to Liv Ullmann (I don't like Persona at all, but I did like her in Autumn Sonata) but she's really good in Cries & Whispers. And the other two - Harriet Andersson and Ingrid Thulin - can do no wrong, as far as I'm concerned. I love everything they've ever done.
Fun fact about Harriet Andersson - She played Jerry Lewis's wife in The Day the Clown Cried, Jerry Lewis's infamous Holocaust movie that was never released.
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 12, 2016 15:20:24 GMT -5
I got up early this morning for a couple of little tasks and then tried to get a little more shuteye, but I couldn't go back to sleep, so I put my laptop on my stomach and fired up YouTube and decided to watch Utopia (1951), Laurel and Hardy's last movie. I very soon had the sweet little black cat with the white feet asleep on my legs and the big gray fluffy cat on my chest. (I had to press her hair down and twist my neck a bit so I could see 80% of the screen.) Ish was right. It does deserve its bad reputation. The only reason I watched it in one sitting was because the cats and I were pretty comfortable, and I decided to just sit there and deal with it. During the making of Utopia, Stan and Ollie were both having health problems and Stan especially had aged A LOT since their early 1940s films. Apparently Ollie's weight topped out at 330 pounds during the time they were making this film. There's more than a hint of desperation in almost every frame of this movie, and a lot of it is because the stars are so obviously well past their prime. It's not very funny, beyond a few nostalgic pity chuckles. And when you remove the humor from the Laurel and Hardy formula, you get a movie about a narcissistic, irritable, overweight man who manipulates and verbally abuses his feeble-witted friend. The filmmakers did brighten things up with a talented, attractive French actress named Suzy Delair: I'm trying to decide if she's the French Ann Sothern or the French Gloria Grahame. She does her best with the material she's given and she made the film quite a bit more watchable. And she's still alive, according to Wikipedia. She turned 98 in December.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2016 20:58:34 GMT -5
I got up early this morning for a couple of little tasks and then tried to get a little more shuteye, but I couldn't go back to sleep, so I put my laptop on my stomach and fired up YouTube and decided to watch Utopia (1951), Laurel and Hardy's last movie. I very soon had the sweet little black cat with the white feet asleep on my legs and the big gray fluffy cat on my chest. (I had to press her hair down and twist my neck a bit so I could see 80% of the screen.) Ish was right. It does deserve its bad reputation. The only reason I watched it in one sitting was because the cats and I were pretty comfortable, and I decided to just sit there and deal with it. During the making of Utopia, Stan and Ollie were both having health problems and Stan especially had aged A LOT since their early 1940s films. Apparently Ollie's weight topped out at 330 pounds during the time they were making this film. There's more than a hint of desperation in almost every frame of this movie, and a lot of it is because the stars are so obviously well past their prime. It's not very funny, beyond a few nostalgic pity chuckles. And when you remove the humor from the Laurel and Hardy formula, you get a movie about a narcissistic, irritable, overweight man who manipulates and verbally abuses his feeble-witted friend. The filmmakers did brighten things up with a talented, attractive French actress named Suzy Delair: I'm trying to decide if she's the French Ann Sothern or the French Gloria Grahame. She does her best with the material she's given and she made the film quite a bit more watchable. And she's still alive, according to Wikipedia. She turned 98 in December. If you ask my own opinion she does remind me more like Gloria Grahame to me than Ann Sothern and she's a beauty of her own right. I do like her a lot and I have seen these following movies ..... of her in it. 1960 - Rocco and His Brothers 1956 - Fernandel the Dressmaker 1954 - Fly in the Ointment 1950 - I'm in the Revue 1942 - The Murderer Lives at Number 21 and Utopia as well too ... and did an excellent job as Chérie Lamour in this film of which it was the last film of Stan and Ollie did together and I wished it was a better movie in terms of comedy and I was very disappointed in this movie Hoosier and I expected more from Laurel and Hardy here. But after watching this film ... I did not know that they had health problems and that's made it very hard for me to watch it altogether Hoosier. That's my 2 cents worth ...
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 12, 2016 23:12:57 GMT -5
Ordinary People (1980) Mary Tyler Moore, Donald Sutherland, Timothy Hutton, Judd Hirsch, M. Emmett Walsh, Elizabeth McGovern
Timothy Hutton is a troubled teen, something bothering him, seems jittery. His mother Mary Tyler Moore is very reserved and shows no love for him. His father, Donald Sutherland is trying to understand whats going on and convinces his son to talk to a shrink (Hirsch). Slowly we learn that Timothy's older brother recently died in a boating accident and Timothy had tried to commit suicide
When this film was released originally it left me cold, as cold as the ice queen MTM was portraying. It was such a departure for the MTM we knew and loved as Laura Petrie or Mary Richards. This was her big opportunity to show her chops in a meaty dramatic role. Same for Donald Sutherland who up till then played anti-establishment, somewhat wacky, quirky characters. Here he was a upright, well-to-do, loving father.
The unusual parts for these two coupled with the mature theme was something I wasn't ready to handle back then. I certainly appreciate the film much more now.Won Oscars as Movie of The Year, Best Supporting Actor (Dalton) Best Director (Robert Redford) and writing with many more nominations
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 13, 2016 2:58:47 GMT -5
Men In Black II (2002) Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Rosario Dawson.Rip Torn, Lara Flynn Boyle, Patrick Warburton,
Jay (Smith) forces Kay (Jones) out of retirement and restores his memory for he alone knows where to find the treasure that an alien biker chick is searching for
U recall pretty much enjoying the initial film and thinking the third was getting very tired. This one teeters on funny bits and utterly stupid and juvenile scenes. Thankfully the funny outweighs the stupid but when its stupid its extremely stupid. Right at the beginning when Will Smith confronts the giant slug in the subway-done moronically
The computer effects and make up save the film. Very effective for its time and very imaginative. And Frank, the dog in black, almost steals the show.
The movie also proves that Michael Jackson was a scary alien-looking dude. I thought that cameo was a parody with some look-a-like, but no, it was really him
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 13, 2016 12:51:27 GMT -5
I saw The Lady Eve (1941) last night. I'm such a big Barbara Stanwyck fan that it seems very strange that I've never seen The Lady Eve, one of the top three films for which she's known. (The other two are Double Indemnity and Stella Dallas.) I've been looking for it for two years on TCM or the other movies channels, but it just doesn't seem to be shown, or maybe I've just missed it.
But I found it on FIOS On Demand and watched it last night. Hooray!
I liked it a lot. It mostly lives up to its reputation. I say "mostly" because, even though I think it's a great movie, Stanwyck made a lot of great movies! and The Lady Eve didn't make me want to re-arrange my Top Five Barbara Stanwyck Movies list the way The Bitter Tea of General Yen did.
Highly recommended! Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Melville Cooper, William Demarest and Eric Blore are all great! I especially liked Eugene Pallette! He's so great! I wish there was a movie where he gets in a fistfight with Sydney Greenstreet.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 13, 2016 13:00:45 GMT -5
I saw The Lady Eve (1941) last night. I'm such a big Barbara Stanwyck fan that it seems very strange that I've never seen The Lady Eve, one of the top three films for which she's known. (The other two are Double Indemnity and Stella Dallas.) I've been looking for it for two years on TCM or the other movies channels, but it just doesn't seem to be shown, or maybe I've just missed it. But I found it on FIOS On Demand and watched it last night. Hooray! I liked it a lot. It mostly lives up to its reputation. I say "mostly" because, even though I think it's a great movie, Stanwyck made a lot of great movies! and The Lady Eve didn't make me want to re-arrange my Top Five Barbara Stanwyck Movies list the way The Bitter Tea of General Yen did. Highly recommended! Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Melville Cooper, William Demarest and Eric Blore are all great! I especially liked Eugene Pallette! He's so great! I wish there was a movie where he gets in a fistfight with Sydney Greenstreet. Great film. And its a Criterion too. And I'm a parrot that keeps repeating that
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