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Post by Ish Kabbible on Dec 8, 2016 1:42:13 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. That was one of a trilogy by director Godfrey Reggio with Philip Glass doing the score for all ( Powaqqatsi 1988 and Naqoygatsi 2002). Koyaanisqatsi is the best. I watched each one last year, one a month. By the time I got to the 3rd, even though visually stunning, I got bored with it
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Dec 8, 2016 1:58:58 GMT -5
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. Finished watching It Started With A Kiss which co-starred the 1955 one-of-a-kind red Lincoln Futura which 10 years later became the Batmobile.
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 8, 2016 23:48:42 GMT -5
Today I watched Dance, Girl, Dance (1940), starring Maureen O'Hara and Lucille Ball. It's another one of those movies from the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die" list. I'm not going to say too much about it. Except for one annoying scene where Maureen O'Hara is really really stupid (there seems to be at least one of these in most of her movies), it was a joy to watch. And part of that joy came from being surprised and not knowing what to expect. This is probably Lucille Ball's best movie. With a great supporting cast. And also, my favorite Maureen O'Hara moment ever. Highly recommended to anyone who is a little intrigued by any of the details revealed so far.
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 9, 2016 2:13:05 GMT -5
Tonight I watched The Mad Genius (1931). I saw it on the TCM schedule and I DVRed it just because it was titled The Mad Genius and it was made in 1931. And when I watched it, I was happy to see that it starred John Barrymore and was directed by Michael Curtiz. It was a lot like a regular mad scientist movie, except that the mad scientist is actually a mad opera producer. And he doesn't make an artificial man out of dead bodies, he turns a peasant boy into a genius ballet prodigy. And at the end, he isn't thrown out of a burning windmill, he is killed by a choreographer drug-addict who chops him up with an ax and leaves the body on the face of Moloch (it's a weird ballet) so that everybody in the audience can see it when the curtain opens. The usual. If you've seen a lot of movies about crazy artist types from the 1920s and 1930s. Reasons to see this movie: John Barrymore, Michael Curtiz, weird puppet show opening, Marian Marsh, the face of Moloch, ax murder. Reasons not to see this movie: You've seen the old death-by-choreographer-drug-addict bit too many times.
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Post by Pharozonk on Dec 9, 2016 13:27:04 GMT -5
Not nearly as exciting or scary as the poster or trailer would lead you to believe. The maybe 15 minutes where George Eastman is actually on screen are really well done though.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Dec 9, 2016 16:33:46 GMT -5
Not nearly as exciting or scary as the poster or trailer would lead you to believe. The maybe 15 minutes where George Eastman is actually on screen are really well done though. Is that fellow actually eating his own innards? Holy Ouroboros, Batman!
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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 9, 2016 22:11:54 GMT -5
Spartacus today, for Kirk Douglas! I am Sparatcus!
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 10, 2016 2:19:15 GMT -5
The Critic does Spartacus (at about 2:12)
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 10, 2016 21:12:50 GMT -5
OMG! Marie Windsor is on the 1960s Batman TV show! She's an annoying reporter from the Gotham City Herald. It's the episode where Otto Preminger is Mr. Freeze.
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 11, 2016 9:45:20 GMT -5
I DVRed Thirteen Women, The Barbarian and Scarlet River during the pre-Code Myrna Loy programming on TCM Friday. And I watched The Barbarian (1933) last night.
Ramon Novarro is a dragoman, a servant that offers his services to tourists in Cairo as a guide, a porter, an errand boy, etc. And he's handsome, very handsome (Novarro was a sort of substitute Rudolph Valentino at the end of the silent era). So he's also a seducer and a con artist. He seeks out female European and American tourists and they give him money and jewels as he pretends he has fallen in love with them. And then they go back home and he moves on to the next.
Well, he doesn't find Myrna Loy such an easy conquest! He has to kidnap her and take her to the desert, where he's actually a Bedouin prince, where she's almost killed by the desert and ravished by a rival pasha, before she falls in love with him.
With supporting roles by Edward Arnold as the rival pasha, C. Aubrey Smith as her uncle and Reginald Denny as Myrna's hapless fiancé.
It was fun. The scene where they go to the pyramids was really good. But the character played by Novarro was such an arrogant ass, I was kind of pissed that she finally succumbed to his charms. She was quite contemptuous toward him a lot of the time. When he abducted her, she agreed to marry him, but then she slapped him at the altar, humiliating him in front of the tribe!
But just a few minutes later, they were running away into the desert.
It made me think of one of those Doris Day movies where Rock Hudson is a horrible horrible person but he gets the girl in the end anyway.
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 11, 2016 10:00:26 GMT -5
And then Svengoolie was showing this: Weird Woman (1944) is one of the few Universal horror movies of the early 1940s that I haven't seen. So I had to stay up late and watch it. What's not to love about that cast! Lon Chaney Jr., Anne Gwynne, Lois Collier, Elizabeth Risdon, Elizabeth Russell, Ralph Morgan. And also the guy who played Uncle Owen in Star Wars! Of course, the best thing was seeing Elizabeth Ankers ... and she gets to be the bad guy! (Bad gal, I mean.) I love her! She's so pretty, and she stands out in all the silly monster movies she made. Its very nice to see her in a change-of-pace role as a jealous, scheming, jilted lover. And make no mistake, this movie is pretty silly. Lon is a sociologist who travels to a Pacific island and falls in love with a white woman (Anne Gwynne) on the island. Her father was a professor at the university and she was mostly raised by a high priestess of the god Koana anu anu. And she's pretty much a high priestess herself! They get married and he takes her back to the small college town where Lon teaches and they have to contend with back-biting colleagues, former girlfriends and lovesick co-eds. Complications ensue. A fun little entry in Universal's "Inner Sanctum" series.
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Post by Pharozonk on Dec 11, 2016 10:41:51 GMT -5
Saw this last night. It's a weird little movie...Great funky soundtrack though!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2016 13:43:22 GMT -5
Once Upon A Time in the West... just wow. Such a great movie. My favorite movie directed by Sergio Leone. Easily Henry Fonda's darkest role.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 11, 2016 13:53:41 GMT -5
Saw this last night. It's a weird little movie...Great funky soundtrack though! Blacula is incredible.
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Post by Pharozonk on Dec 11, 2016 14:06:25 GMT -5
Saw this last night. It's a weird little movie...Great funky soundtrack though! Blacula is incredible. It needed more scenes of William Marshall.
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