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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 24, 2017 13:25:39 GMT -5
Here's what I've seen lately:
The Great Waltz (1938) - Luise Rainer
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
Indiscretion of an American Wife (1953) - Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift, Dick Beymer
Cassandra's Dream (2007) - Directed by Woody Allen, starring Ewan McGregor, Colin Farrell, Haley Athwell (Agent Carter)
And it's not from a movie, but today I saw Ruta Lee on "The Twilight Zone"!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 25, 2017 23:54:52 GMT -5
Watched The Frisco Kid last night with my Younger son. We had recently watched Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein so I wanted to try some Gene Wilder without Mel Brooks. Wilder plays a naive Polish rabbi who is sent to a new synagogue in San Francisco. Along the way he loses all his money and ends up teamed up with Harrison Ford who plays a bank robber with a bit of heart. It's a fairly fun Buddy/Western. Wilder shows he has the range to play serious. Worth a look if you want something light.
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 26, 2017 11:33:27 GMT -5
Watched The Frisco Kid last night with my Younger son. We had recently watched Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein so I wanted to try some Gene Wilder without Mel Brooks. Wilder plays a naive Polish rabbi who is sent to a new synagogue in San Francisco. Along the way he loses all his money and ends up teamed up with Harrison Ford who plays a bank robber with a bit of heart. It's a fairly fun Buddy/Western. Wilder shows he has the range to play serious. Worth a look if you want something light. Great movie. Love the scene where the rabbi meets a group of Amish.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Feb 26, 2017 11:41:21 GMT -5
Palooka (1934) Jimmy Durante, Stuart Erwin, Lupe Velez, Robert Armstrong, William Cagney Comic strip character Joe Palooka, middleweight boxer, comes to the big screen Jimmy Durante is the real star as Joe's (Stuart Erwin) manager, getting as much screen time as the title character. And since Durante is genuinely hilarious, that's fine with me. He even gets an opportunity to sing his trademark "Inky Dinky Doo" song. Robert Armstrong, fresh from his King Kong movies, plays Joe's father Pete Palooka. Watching the film, I was wondering about earlier newspaper strip films. Were there any prior to this. Yes, a bunch according to my investigation, both full-length silent films like Skippy and even full length talking features like Little Orphan Annie But then I did a double-take when Joe Palooka meets his chief boxing rival in the ring Why is Jimmy Cagney named Bill? Why is his voice similar but a bit deeper? Yes, Jimmy Cagney did have a look-alike brother named William who appeared in 5 movies. I guess the similarity forced William to eventually stop acting and instead he became a movie producer and his brother's business agent. He was the co-producer for Yankee Doodle Dandy among others As for the movie, it's fine for what it is and I always get a hoot from Durante. 2 years later, a series of 9 short films about Joe Palooka began (1936 &1937). Then in 1946 Monogram Studios started a series of 11 low-budget Palooka movies that lasted until 1951
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2017 21:44:54 GMT -5
I just watch The Thin Man on TCM that starred William Powell and Myrna Loy and I was gratefully entertained by the antics of Nick and Nora Charles and it was a great film to watch. I haven't seen it for awhile and I was grateful to watch it today ... that was on TCM.
Earlier today, also on TCM ... I watch the classic horror film Them starring James Whitmore and Company and it was unbelievably fast film to watch and it's holds up well in the sands of time. It was suspenseful, dramatic, and wonderfully scripted movie that really keeps to on the edge of your seat. Edmund Gwenn and Joan Welden were great serving as Doctors to assist the authorities to deal with giant ants. I just find this movie fascinating and never, ever gets tired of watching it.
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Post by Confessor on Feb 27, 2017 4:15:39 GMT -5
Them is a classic guilty pleasure of mine. Terrible b-movie effects and scripting, but it's so, so good to watch.
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Post by Farrar on Feb 27, 2017 13:46:12 GMT -5
Watched the much maligned musical menagerie of Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club last night. Call me odd but i enjoyed it when it premiered and still enjoy it today. It is a chronicle of the time: the 70's was coming to a close as the even stranger 80's were about to emerge. Peter Frampton and the Bee Gee's made quite a musical team redoing/updating the Beatle's tunes very well for the upcoming generation that may not have known or cared about the Beatle's. Is the movie a strange oddity even as a musical? Yes, but still it was all a part of a simpler time when movies could be silly and fun without setting out to do anything more than to entertain. Watch it as a concert of superstar 1970's musicians and it isn't all that horrible! Your post dredges up a long-buried memory of mine. A friend's family had connections, so we attended a stage version of this (this was a few years before the movie). The premiere actually, though all I recall of that event was rubbing elbows with Yoko and Andy Warhol--literally--as we entered the theatre. Ted Neeley, who'd been in Jesus Christ Superstar on Broadway, played the lead.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Feb 28, 2017 10:01:58 GMT -5
Recently Watched The Razor's Edge (1946) Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, Anne Baxter, Clifton Webb W.Somerset Maugham's novel adaptation of an aimless rich playboy (Power) who decides to leave America and his girlfriend to seek the meaning of life in Europe and India I watched a passle of Power films last year, not including this one, and it seems I've saved his most sophisticated till now. Nominated for best picture, I'm sure it resonated with returning veterans of WWII. Sparkling dialogue and a great performance from Clifton Webb as Gene Tierney's snobby guardian. There were two odd things about the film. The author himself, W. Somerset Maugham was a major character throughout the film Spoiled playboy Power spends a few years in India, living with an Ancient One who teaches him the mystic arts and philosophy of the East.When Power returns to America, he demonstrates a gift of healing both physical and mental ailments. I was wondering if Power had an amulet and a magic cloak stashed in his closet Behind the scenes, during the movie shoot, Tyrone Power fell in love with Gene Tierney and lavished her with gifts. She was married to designer Oleg Cassini at the time who was working on some of the wardrobe used in the film. Tierney was also involved at the same time in an affair with Joseph Kennedy's son John Fitzgerald. Tierney had too much on her plate and Power moved on. So did JFK. Report To The Commissioner (1975) Michael Moriarty, Yaphet Kotto, Susan Blakely Gritty story of undercover NYC police work against pimps and drug dealers. I love all the location shots of midtown Manhattan from back then. Especially seeing things like Tad's Steakhouse and Orange Julius storefronts. Early roles for Richard Gere as a pimp and William Devane as a IA investigator. I'll always connect this movie to my subscribing to HBO for the first time in 1977. HBO back then only broadcast from 1PM till midnight and only had about a dozen films a month. So each film was re-played to death. This was one of them. Still a good cop movie It's Always Fair Weather (1955) Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse, Dan Dailey Excellent musical about 3 WWII vets who vow to reunite in Manhattan in 1955. So many musicals are corny but not this one. Very imaginative dance routines such as Gene Kelly on rollerskates and the 3 vets dancing in the streets of Manhattan. Good parody of early TV and Madison Ave advertising too. This has shot up to one of my favorite musicals of the 1950's
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 28, 2017 14:43:26 GMT -5
Recently Watched The Razor's Edge (1946) Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, Anne Baxter, Clifton Webb W.Somerset Maugham's novel adaptation of an aimless rich playboy (Power) who decides to leave America and his girlfriend to seek the meaning of life in Europe and India I watched a passle of Power films last year, not including this one, and it seems I've saved his most sophisticated till now. Nominated for best picture, I'm sure it resonated with returning veterans of WWII. Sparkling dialogue and a great performance from Clifton Webb as Gene Tierney's snobby guardian. There were two odd things about the film. The author himself, W. Somerset Maugham was a major character throughout the film Spoiled playboy Power spends a few years in India, living with an Ancient One who teaches him the mystic arts and philosophy of the East.When Power returns to America, he demonstrates a gift of healing both physical and mental ailments. I was wondering if Power had an amulet and a magic cloak stashed in his closet Behind the scenes, during the movie shoot, Tyrone Power fell in love with Gene Tierney and lavished her with gifts. She was married to designer Oleg Cassini at the time who was working on some of the wardrobe used in the film. Tierney was also involved at the same time in an affair with Joseph Kennedy's son John Fitzgerald. Tierney had too much on her plate and Power moved on. So did JFK. I've seen bits of this a few times on TV. MOVIES! seems to show it pretty regularly. I was intrigued by what I saw and now I'm interested in seeing the whole thing but I've not gotten around to it yet.
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 28, 2017 14:48:21 GMT -5
Here's a Hoosier X YouTube recommendation.
Cairo Station (1958)
I don't want to say too much about it because part of my enjoyment derived from not knowing what to expect and being very pleasantly surprised.
It's an Egyptian film, and it was banned in its home country for decades. I saw it because it's one of the movies on the "1001 movies you must see before you die" list and I found it on YouTube and it's a very nice print.
It looks a lot like a film noir where the director took suggestions from Rossellini and Fellini while he was making it. And you sort of get the idea that the Egyptians are the Italians of the Muslim world.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2017 17:25:34 GMT -5
I just watched the Laws of Attraction starring Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore and it's one of my favorite romantic/screwball movie that done in a funny tasteful ways about divorce and marriage. I wished they made more movies together - the chemistry between these two is exceptional.
Here's the trailer.
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Post by Pharozonk on Mar 1, 2017 18:48:51 GMT -5
Did you think that the original Amityville Horror didn't have enough incest in it? Then do I have the movie for you!
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 1, 2017 18:57:19 GMT -5
Watched The Player (1992) directed by Robert Altman and starring Tim Robbins, Fred Ward, Greta Scacci and Whoopi Goldberg 1-Far and away the best Altman film since 1975 2-One of the best films about making movies 3-One of the best non-stop tracking scene openings in a movie 4-Possibly the greatest assemblage of guest star cameos this side of Mad,Mad,Mad,Mad World Which brings me to this week's library pickups. A few look quite interesting. Going through the racks in alphabetical order, I finished Q and am starting the R's The Quiet Gun (1957)-Forest Tucker, Jim Davis, Mara Corday, Lee Van Cleef -A serious western even with F Troop's Forest Tucker The Rocket Man (1954)-Charles Coburn, Spring Byrington, Anne Francis-This looks weird. The DVD box has a guy in a Rocketeer outfit. Says it's about a little boy with a ray gun that compels people to tell the truth Riot In Cell Block 11 (1954)-Directed by Don Siegel- A cult classic shot at Folsom Prison using real convicts and guards. And it's a Criterion DVD The Red Menace (1949) Robert Rockwell, Hanne Axman-Never heard of them but looks to be a real over-the-top dirty commie film Rabbit,Run (1970) James Caan,Jack Albertson, Anjanette Comer- A John Updike adaptation. I'll see anything with James Caan Retreat,Hell (1952) Frank Lovejoy, Richard Carlson, Rusty Tamblyn- DVD box says considered one of the best Korean War films. Better not be commie propaganda Red Rock West (1992) Nicolas Cage, Dennis Hopper, Lara Flynn Boyle- I think I saw this quirky thriller when it came out Quintet (1979) Paul Newman, Bibi Andersson, Fernando Rey-Directed by Robert Altman. Sounds like it has SF overtones with mankind struggling to survive the final ice age The musical of the week is Kiss Me Kate (1949) with Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson and Anne Miller
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 1, 2017 19:20:50 GMT -5
Watched The Player (1992) directed by Robert Altman and starring Tim Robbins, Fred Ward, Greta Scacci and Whoopi Goldberg 1-Far and away the best Altman film since 1975 2-One of the best films about making movies 3-One of the best non-stop tracking scene openings in a movie 4-Possibly the greatest assemblage of guest star cameos this side of Mad,Mad,Mad,Mad World. I remember liking that movie, but I haven't seen it in a long time. I always liked Cynthia Stevenson: Cameron finally thought of something good to do; make a movie with Cynthia Stevenson! 😸 The Player turns out to be the first theatrical movie she ever did
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 2, 2017 2:56:43 GMT -5
I stayed up late watching this one. I ended up only sleeping like 2 hours before I had to get ready for work, despite dozing off during the movie itself. Yikes. It takes place in the 1920's in Spain. Tristana (Catherine Deneuve) is a young woman who loses her family and is taken in by a rich man, Don Lope (Fernando Rey), who takes advantage of her... She later falls in love with an artist and tries to live indepenently from Lope, but develops a tumor in her leg and ends up living with him again. It's a sad movie, basically. Apparently it's one of Catherine Deneuve's favorite films that she worked on, so I will try to watch it again some time, because she is the best. Her hair is so cute here I can almost forget what she is looking at. 😺 Early in the movie Tristana is walking in a park with Lope. Look at this scarf! 😸💛 Yas queen! 😻💛💜 Bunuel is the BEST!
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