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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 23, 2016 1:18:11 GMT -5
Sucked to be in your schools. No, it didn't. In fact, it made for a much better school. Parents were very supportive, because kids weren't out of school when they weren't home. Required resonsibility, too; if students weren't there by 8 (it was 8-12, not 9-12), they lost the privilege of Saturday School. Much more progressive, didn't interfere with classroom time for students, actually encouraged them to be better students, as they had to bring schoolwork and reading. They couldn't just sit there and sleep. Teachers often worked with the students as well one-on-one or in small groups as needed. Kids could also trade off hours doing manual labor -- weeding, clean-up, painting, etc. -- during the week and contribute to the upkeep of our Memorial Garden and Astro Park (complete with observatory, btw). Works out very nicely, thank you. Sorry, just joking, a bit. Glad it seemed to work. Detention in my school was hardly sitting around or sleeping, schoolwork was a requirement. My father was a teacher in the system for over 35 years, so no disrespect to anyone else's school. Being a smaller school district, we had more community involvement and fewer hard-core disciplinary problems; at least, in my years there and before. i can't speak for after. Community service and responsibility were strong themes in my school years, too.
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Post by Pharozonk on Dec 23, 2016 11:32:33 GMT -5
For a movie teaming up Cushing, Lee, Price, and Carradine, it's actually rather slow for the most part. Once all four of them are together, the movie starts to get rather fun and there's some neat twists along the way.
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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 27, 2016 12:45:08 GMT -5
No, it didn't. In fact, it made for a much better school. Parents were very supportive, because kids weren't out of school when they weren't home. Required resonsibility, too; if students weren't there by 8 (it was 8-12, not 9-12), they lost the privilege of Saturday School. Much more progressive, didn't interfere with classroom time for students, actually encouraged them to be better students, as they had to bring schoolwork and reading. They couldn't just sit there and sleep. Teachers often worked with the students as well one-on-one or in small groups as needed. Kids could also trade off hours doing manual labor -- weeding, clean-up, painting, etc. -- during the week and contribute to the upkeep of our Memorial Garden and Astro Park (complete with observatory, btw). Works out very nicely, thank you. Sorry, just joking, a bit. Glad it seemed to work. Detention in my school was hardly sitting around or sleeping, schoolwork was a requirement. My father was a teacher in the system for over 35 years, so no disrespect to anyone else's school. Being a smaller school district, we had more community involvement and fewer hard-core disciplinary problems; at least, in my years there and before. i can't speak for after. Community service and responsibility were strong themes in my school years, too. No offense taken! Sorry if I seemed prickly. Thank your dad for me for his years in the trenches for me. I can empathize.
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 27, 2016 12:50:34 GMT -5
We had trouble with our W-Fi for a few days, so I had very limited Internet access, and that's why I haven't been posting. But I did see a lot of movies, probably more than usual because I wasn't spending any time surfing the Net. If I get time in the next few days, I might list the movies I saw (I saw some good ones!) with a few sentences about each one. But I do have to say a few words about Carmen Jones (1954), which I saw yesterday. There is pretty much no way that I wouldn't love this because it gets so many points before I even started the movie. It's an updated version of "Carmen," my favorite opera. They've taken some of the more famous musical segments and written completely new lyrics. These new lyrics were written by the guy that did stuff like Oklahoma! and The Sound of Music. It stars the beautiful Dorothy Dandridge as Carmen Jones. The Don Jose counterpart is played by Harry Belafonte. It also features Pearl Bailey and Diahann Carroll. Instead of a bullfighter, they have a boxer! So it's a boxing movie at the end! And it's directed by Otto Preminger! He's such a great director. And I also saw him as Mr. Freeze in the 1960s Batman movie just a few weeks ago. So, yes, this movie was directed by Mr. Freeze! Add in gorgeous Technicolor and some amazing dance numbers, and this is a sure-fire hit for Hoosier X.
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 27, 2016 13:02:54 GMT -5
And last night I watched Salome (1953). With Rita Hayworth as Salome, Charles Laughton as Herod and Judith Anderson as Herodias. And Stewart Grainger as a random Roman soldier who is besties with John the Baptist. I've seen it before. This is one of the many movies that I love far beyond the actual merits of the film. Rita, Laughton and Anderson are all great, just wonderful to watch as they all dive in and use their various cinematic talents to the best of their ability. But it's all so silly, so wondrously, amusingly silly. But highly entertaining for all that. If they had put in Victor Mature in place of Grainger, it would very likely be the most entertaining bible movie ever made. (I say that as a big fan of The Robe.) So I saw Carmen Jones and Salome yesterday. I can't complain about a day as cinematically wonderful as that. I almost forgot that I had the 1938 version of A Christmas Carol playing while I was doing my bills and having lunch and playing with the dogs. It's one of my favorite movies and I already watched it about ten days ago. A Cinema Wonderland!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2016 13:58:07 GMT -5
Hoosier XI saw Salome a couple of times in my life and I felt that Stewart Granger is a bit out of place and I saw your comment about Victor Mature it would be more entertaining of a movie and I did not think of that. Your comment about the "entertaining" part hit me and I totally agree with you on that alone. Mature for Granger would had made more sense to me.
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 27, 2016 14:08:07 GMT -5
Hoosier X I saw Salome a couple of times in my life and I felt that Stewart Granger is a bit out of place and I saw your comment about Victor Mature it would be more entertaining of a movie and I did not think of that. Your comment about the "entertaining" part hit me and I totally agree with you on that alone. Mature for Granger would had made more sense to me. I love old bible movies so much.
And Victor Mature ... Not much of an "actor" really, if you're going to be mean, but he was an awesome performer!
He's supposed to have said something like "I'm not an actor. And I made 60 movies to prove it."
Juggernaut, have you seen The Big Fisherman, with Howard Keel as St. Paul, Herbert Lom as Herod and Susan Kohner as ... an Arab princess wandering around Palestine dressed as a boy for some reason? It's very long and extravagantly silly and I watched it in three or four segments stretched out over two days because I found it a bit of a chore at times. But when it delivered, it was very amusing and I've never regretted the time I put into it. But I don't ever recommend it to anybody because it's odd, even for the cult-movie crowd, and I've never run into anybody who's seen it, so forget running into anybody who likes it as much as I do.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2016 15:48:56 GMT -5
Hoosier X I saw Salome a couple of times in my life and I felt that Stewart Granger is a bit out of place and I saw your comment about Victor Mature it would be more entertaining of a movie and I did not think of that. Your comment about the "entertaining" part hit me and I totally agree with you on that alone. Mature for Granger would had made more sense to me. I love old bible movies so much.
And Victor Mature ... Not much of an "actor" really, if you're going to be mean, but he was an awesome performer!
He's supposed to have said something like "I'm not an actor. And I made 60 movies to prove it."
Juggernaut, have you seen The Big Fisherman, with Howard Keel as St. Paul, Herbert Lom as Herod and Susan Kohner as ... an Arab princess wandering around Palestine dressed as a boy for some reason? It's very long and extravagantly silly and I watched it in three or four segments stretched out over two days because I found it a bit of a chore at times. But when it delivered, it was very amusing and I've never regretted the time I put into it. But I don't ever recommend it to anybody because it's odd, even for the cult-movie crowd, and I've never run into anybody who's seen it, so forget running into anybody who likes it as much as I do.
No I've haven't Hoosier and I missed it a couple of times when I was on Vacation and it's on my list of movies to see and I forgot that You Tube had a full movie of it and I'm planning on watching it this weekend. I love Victor Mature and he's one of my favorite actors - loved him in My Gal Sal with Rita Hayworth, My Darling Clementine as Doc Holiday, Red, Hot, and Blue, Samson and Delilah with Hedy Lamarr, Androcles and the Lion (Loved this Movie), Million Dollar Mermaid with Esther Williams, and Demetrius and the Gladiators of which I consider on of his best role as Demetrius.
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Post by Rob Allen on Dec 28, 2016 12:52:41 GMT -5
A couple of films from the last few weeks:
Hell's Angels - long before the motorcycle gang, this was an early-30s movie about World War I aviators. It was produced and directed by Howard Hughes when he was still relatively sane. The dogfights and other aerial shots are spectacular. This is the movie that made Jean Harlow a star.
Advise and Consent - Otto Preminger's adaptation of Allen Drury's novel about the US Senate confirmation hearings for a controversial nominee for Secretary of State. It's so realistic that critics thought it would be mistaken for a documentary. Quite a cast - Henry Fonda as the nominee, Walter Pidgeon as the majority leader, Charles Laughton as an elderly Southern senator (his last role), Franchot Tone as the President, Burgess Meredith as a surprise witness, and a lot of other familiar faces. There's even a scene in a gay bar in New York - pretty edgy for the early 60s.
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 28, 2016 13:21:59 GMT -5
Hell's Angels - long before the motorcycle gang, this was an early-30s movie about World War I aviators. It was produced and directed by Howard Hughes when he was still relatively sane. The dogfights and other aerial shots are spectacular. This is the movie that made Jean Harlow a star. I saw The Aviator (2004) a few weeks ago, the biopic about Howard Hughes, and it starts with a few scenes about the making of Hell's Angels. I knew all this stuff because I used to be kind of fascinated by Hughes, but The Aviator reminded me that, despite many decades as a film buff who especially loves the early sound era, I still have never seen Hell's Angels. It starting to look like a major blind spot. I'm going to have to look around for it. Maybe it's on YouTube. The Aviator is a pretty great film, by the way, despite a number of bizarre mistakes with Hollywood chronology that I think might have been intentional to give the film a timeless quality.
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 28, 2016 13:33:06 GMT -5
Last night I watched Chocolat (2000) with Juliette Binoche, Johnny Depp, Judi Densch, Lena Olin and Alfred Molina, with a surprise appearance by Leslie Caron! It seems weird considering it a classic film because it still seems like a relatively recent film. To me, anyway. But it's more than 15 years old. Pretty good movie! It totters on the edge of magical realism but doesn't quite fall in. Directed by the guy who gave us My Life as a Dog. I'd forgotten how great Juliette Binoche is! I haven't seen her in anything for a while. And seeing Alfred Molina made me think of Prick Up Your Ears, which I saw more than 25 years ago. Great movie! I'd kind of like to see it again.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Dec 28, 2016 13:43:19 GMT -5
Watched an interesting film last night: Love Letters (1945) with Joseph Cotton and Jennifer Jones Joseph Cotton, while serving in the army during WWII wrote love letters on behalf of a friend. After the war, the friend marries that gal (Jennifer Jones). A year later, Cotton discovers his friend had been murdered, his wife suspected as the killer but she's suffering from amnesia and just released from an institution. Cotton visits her and of course falls in love too. Slowly her memory begins to return. Somewhat gothic, reminiscent of a Hitchcock movie and becomes quite compelling But what really surprised me was seeing Ayn Rand credited as the screenplay writer. She only did 2 other ones, The Fountainhead and You Came Along. I had no idea she wrote screenplays Also found this item at the library. advertised as a forgotten film noir, 1947's The Long Night starring Henry Fonda, Vincent Price,Barbara Bel Geddes, Elisha Cook Jr. and Ann Dvorak. Directed by Anatole Litvak with music by Dimitri Tiomkin. A nice looking pedigree. Looking forward to watch this
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 31, 2016 17:29:09 GMT -5
I'm trying to watch a few movies to clear the DVR for the New Year. So in the last few days, I watched:
Shall We Dance (1937) - The best of the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers pairings, a non-stop AWESOME movie.
Umberto D. (1952) - I love this movie! I cry at the end when the dog forgives him.
Midnight Lace (1960) - Doris Day has been getting threatening phone messages and hearing threats shouted at her in the fog. Her husband and the cops are a little dubious. With Rex Harrison, Myrna Loy, Roddy MacDowell, Herbert Marshall, John Williams and Jay Gavin.
Children of a Lesser God (1986) - I can totally see why Marlee Matlin took home the Oscar for this.
(I also watched Café Society (2016), but I got that from the library.)
So that leaves On the Beach and Lonelyhearts.
And for some reason (perhaps because I was possessed by my Jerry Lewis demon), I DVRed Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River, which I have a feeling will be simultaneously terrible and fascinating.
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 31, 2016 22:48:28 GMT -5
I'm trying to watch a few movies to clear the DVR for the New Year. So in the last few days, I watched: Shall We Dance (1937) - The best of the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers pairings, a non-stop AWESOME movie. Umberto D. (1952) - I love this movie! I cry at the end when the dog forgives him. Midnight Lace (1960) - Doris Day has been getting threatening phone messages and hearing threats shouted at her in the fog. Her husband and the cops are a little dubious. With Rex Harrison, Myrna Loy, Roddy MacDowell, Herbert Marshall, John Williams and Jay Gavin. Children of a Lesser God (1986) - I can totally see why Marlee Matlin took home the Oscar for this. (I also watched Café Society (2016), but I got that from the library.) So that leaves On the Beach and Lonelyhearts. And for some reason (perhaps because I was possessed by my Jerry Lewis demon), I DVRed Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River, which I have a feeling will be simultaneously terrible and fascinating. Not a bad assessment of the Lewis film. Jerry Lewis and Swinging London didn't quite work; but, it has moments. Patricia Routledge, of Keeping Up Appearances and Hetty Wainthropp Investigates has a role in it.
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 31, 2016 22:52:25 GMT -5
We decided to open a bottle of wine and watch Blake Edwards & Peter Sellers masterpieces, starting with Return of the Pink Panther and continuing with The Pink Panther Strikes Again. Loved these films since my dad took us to see them, when we were kids. The fights with Cato are things of brilliance. Christopher Plummer is quite dashing as The pHantom, Sir Charles Lytton, in Return. Watching it, it made me wish he had been cast as James Bond (he was considered at one point). There are also som homages to Casablanca, in that one, as well as a great museum robbery, at the beginning. Strikes Again has Dreyfuss in full lunacy and Herbert Lom is having a ball.
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