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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 6, 2016 2:44:51 GMT -5
Made my weekly excursion to the Performing Arts Library and picked up this batch to watch during the week Harem Girl (1952) Joan Davis, Peggie Castle Hot Blood (1956) Jane Russell, Cornell Wilde Hook,Line and Sinker (1968) Jerry Lewis, Peter Lawford The Brothers Warner-Documentary about Warner Bros Studio It Started With A Kiss (1959) Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds Harry And Walter Go To New York (1976) Michael Caine, James Caan, Diane Keaton, Elliot Gould Ironweed (1987) Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep Inn Of The Sixth Happiness (1958) Ingrid Bergman, Robert Donat, Curt Jurgens The most intriguing is one I've never heard about and stars no one I've ever heard of Calvacade (1933)-It won the Oscar for Best Picture and Frank Lloyd won for Best Director. The box states that there are 25,000 costumes and a scene using 2,500 actors. It's a Noel Coward adaptation about a British Family during the first few decades of the 20th Century. And the library had it available in Blu-Ray I have It Started With a Kiss, from the Warner Archive; plus, The Gazebo. Both are great romantic comedies (Gazebo is more of a crime comedy). Glen Ford and Debbie reynolds had great chemistry together. Kiss makes great use of the Spanish locales, and the Ford Futura, aka the Batmobile.
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Post by berkley on Dec 6, 2016 3:00:49 GMT -5
With all this Myrna Loy talk, anyone care to give a list of her essential movies? Glancing through her filmography, the only ones I've seen are a couple she did with Cary grant in the 40s - The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer and Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House, both excellent, of course. I know I want to see the Thin Man films and the Fu Manchu ones she did. What else should I be looking for to see her at her best?
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Dec 6, 2016 6:23:25 GMT -5
With all this Myrna Loy talk, anyone care to give a list of her essential movies? Glancing through her filmography, the only ones I've seen are a couple she did with Cary grant in the 40s - The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer and Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House, both excellent, of course. I know I want to see the Thin Man films and the Fu Manchu ones she did. What else should I be looking for to see her at her best? Besides what you mentioned: Best Years Of Our Lives (1946) Winner of many Oscars Cheaper By The Dozen (1950) The April Fools (1969) w/Jack Lemmon The End (1978) w/Burt Reynolds
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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 6, 2016 9:46:36 GMT -5
The most intriguing is one I've never heard about and stars no one I've ever heard of Calvacade (1933)-It won the Oscar for Best Picture and Frank Lloyd won for Best Director. The box states that there are 25,000 costumes and a scene using 2,500 actors. It's a Noel Coward adaptation about a British Family during the first few decades of the 20th Century. And the library had it available in Blu-Ray You may find this interesting, ish. Downton Abbey channeled some of the tone of this movie, but Cavalcade is more elegiac than melancholy, because it ends just as Hitler is coming to power. It is not just the end of an era for a certain way of life, but the end of the world as everyone knew it. Very much an anti-war film as well. All told, far more "modern" than one might think, especially in light of recent events. And among the veddy British cast, you will recognize the great Una O'Connor ( Invisible Man, Bride of Frankenstein) as Mrs. Bridges.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2016 14:00:16 GMT -5
With all this Myrna Loy talk, anyone care to give a list of her essential movies? Glancing through her filmography, the only ones I've seen are a couple she did with Cary grant in the 40s - The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer and Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House, both excellent, of course. I know I want to see the Thin Man films and the Fu Manchu ones she did. What else should I be looking for to see her at her best? Any of the other movies with William Powell besides the Thin Man movies are great. Manhattan Melodrama, Evelyn Prentice, Love Crazy, I Love You Again and Libeled Lady are some of those with him. I also enjoyed a Wife vs. Secretary, Too Hot to Handle, Whipsaw and a Test Pilot are a few others.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Dec 7, 2016 14:42:42 GMT -5
Harry And Walter Go To New York (1976) Michael Caine, James Caan, Diane Keaton, Elliot Gould, Charles Durning, Leslie Anne Warren, Jack Gilford, Carol Kane, Ted Cassidy, Michael Conrad, Bert Remson, Burt Young A fantastic cast and a film I've not seen till now. Caan & Gould are bumbling song & dance con-men who are incarcerated in prison and meet master thief Caine. Caan and Gould are able to escape with the plans Gould concocted to rob one of America's biggest banks. Caine also gets out and races to the bank to rob it first Excellent sets and costumes to invoke the time period. Caan and Gould's song and dance routines are hysterical. But the best thing of all is to see this cast, in their prime. How I missed this film up to now, since it starred so many of my favorites is something I can't explain but have instead rectified. I think it got poor reviews when released and certainly it was no box-office smash. The passing decades treated it well like fine wine
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Post by berkley on Dec 7, 2016 20:13:14 GMT -5
I don't think I ever heard of Harry And Walter Go To New York before now, which surprises me since I imagine it would have been well publicised with that cast. I wonder if it didn't last long in the theatres or something. I'll want to see it regardless, mainly because of Gould and Caine, who was still in his good period at this time, if memory serves - I think he had several years not long after when he made a lot of bad, cheap movies, though there were always a few good ones here and there even then.
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 7, 2016 20:20:10 GMT -5
I don't think I ever heard of Harry And Walter Go To New York before now, which surprises me since I imagine it would have been well publicised with that cast. I wonder if it didn't last long in the theatres or something. I'll want to see it regardless, mainly because of Gould and Caine, who was still in his good period at this time, if memory serves - I think he had several years not long after when he made a lot of bad, cheap movies, though there were always a few good ones here and there even then. For some reason, this comment makes me think of The Hand.
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 7, 2016 20:26:17 GMT -5
I watched La chienne (1931) last night. It's a French film that seems to be the same story as Scarlet Street, directed by Fritz Lang and starring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea.
The French version was directed by Jean Renoir, but I don't recognize any of the actors. The guy playing the Edward G. Robinson part looks like the French Sidney Toler.
Despite not having Lang, Robinson, Bennett and Duryea, La chienne is as good as the later version by Lang. Maybe it's better. Anyway, I was quite fascinated for 96 minutes.
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 7, 2016 20:34:47 GMT -5
And this afternoon, I watched Make Way for Tomorrow (1937). It was directed by Leo McCarey, who directed The Awful Truth the same year. He won the Oscar for Best Director for The Awful Truth, but he said he won for the wrong movie.
Make Way for Tomorrow is not your usual Hollywood fare. Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi and are an elderly couple who have lost their house in the Depression. They have five children (one of them is Thomas Mitchell) but none of them has room (or will make room) for both parents. So they are separated. The children bicker about the disruption in their lives. The parents (especially the father) come to realize that their children are kind of selfish.
I didn't expect to like this as much as I did. I can see why Make Way for Tomorrow is so highly regarded.
But I'll have to disagree with director McCarey. The Awful Truth is a great movie! It's my favorite Cary Grant film!
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Dec 7, 2016 20:36:06 GMT -5
I don't think I ever heard of Harry And Walter Go To New York before now, which surprises me since I imagine it would have been well publicised with that cast. I wonder if it didn't last long in the theatres or something.. Come to think of it, the name of the film didn't do it any favors. Besides not being "ear-catching", it might have confused people as a sequel to the movie Harry And Tonto that came out 2 years before with Art Carney and his cat.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Dec 7, 2016 20:39:06 GMT -5
And this afternoon, I watched Make Way for Tomorrow (1937). It was directed by Leo McCarey, who directed The Awful Truth the same year. He won the Oscar for Best Director for The Awful Truth, but he said he won for the wrong movie. Make Way for Tomorrow is not your usual Hollywood fare. Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi and are an elderly couple who have lost their house in the Depression. They have five children (one of them is Thomas Mitchell) but none of them has room (or will make room) for both parents. So they are separated. The children bicker about the disruption in their lives. The parents (especially the father) come to realize that their children are kind of selfish. I didn't expect to like this as much as I did. I can see why Make Way for Tomorrow is so highly regarded. I saw Make Way For Tomorrow last year and thought it was a fine, sentimental movie. Yes, it is highly regarded, enough so that it's available via Criterion
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Dec 7, 2016 20:46:28 GMT -5
Ironweed (1987) Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Carrol Baker, Tom Waits, Fred Gwynne, Michael O'Keefe
Albany N.Y. 1938 and the story of two derelicts, Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. What caused them to live on the streets and how they survive.
It's a tough film to watch. It's realistic in it's portrayal of the homeless and conditions in frigid upstate NY at the tail end of the depression adds to the bleakness. The surprise performance is by Tom Waits as another vagabond. He was quite a fine actor and held his own against two iconic performers.
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 8, 2016 0:13:49 GMT -5
Ironweed (1987) Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Carrol Baker, Tom Waits, Fred Gwynne, Michael O'Keefe Albany N.Y. 1938 and the story of two derelicts, Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. What caused them to live on the streets and how they survive. It's a tough film to watch. It's realistic in it's portrayal of the homeless and conditions in frigid upstate NY at the tail end of the depression adds to the bleakness. The surprise performance is by Tom Waits as another vagabond. He was quite a fine actor and held his own against two iconic performers. I'm surprised how well I remember this considering it's been so long since I saw it. I saw it early in 1988 at a second-run house in Los Angeles. My favorite Meryl Streep movie! Carrol Baker is in it! Baby Doll! I must not have known who she was that far back. You know, I think I might have read the book soon after. Maybe that's why I remember it so well.
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 8, 2016 1:18:45 GMT -5
Tonight I'm watching Koyaanisqatsi (1983), one of the documentaries I DVRed off TCM last month. It's one of the most random things I've ever seen. Which is not to say that I'm not enjoying it. The Philip Glass score is amazing, for one thing. The film itself is kind of mesmerizing. I paused it to get a sweater and I was surprised to find that I had sat through half of it (about 50 minutes). The time has just flown by.
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