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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 2, 2017 2:59:21 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! I saw this a few years ago at a revival house on a double feature with The Toolbox Murders. I can vouch that Amityville II does indeed have more than its fair share of incest.
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 2, 2017 3:03:59 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 I liked The Player OK but I think Gosford Park is a pretty great Altman movie, and I also love Popeye, mostly for being so dang weird. I saw Quintet a few months ago and I really liked it. There should be more weird random sci-fi movies with Paul Newman and Bibi Andersson.
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 2, 2017 12:05:30 GMT -5
Ish Kabbible, watch for leo Gordon in Cell Block 11: classic character actor, the kind you recognize immediately but may not have a name for: he actually served several years in San Q for armed robbery, during which he was shot. He educated himself in prison and goes into acting. The Folsom prison authorities didn't want him in the movie b/c of his record, but Don Siegel somehow got them to change their minds. Check out his bio. He was a fascinating guy.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 2, 2017 13:32:14 GMT -5
Ish Kabbible , watch for leo Gordon in Cell Block 11: classic character actor, the kind you recognize immediately but may not have a name for: he actually served several years in San Q for armed robbery, during which he was shot. He educated himself in prison and goes into acting. The Folsom prison authorities didn't want him in the movie b/c of his record, but Don Siegel somehow got them to change their minds. Check out his bio. He was a fascinating guy. Sure, I've seen Leo Gordon in many movies and TV shows. IMDB shows he did close to 200 filmed appearances as well as writing some screenplays. You needed a menacing mobster/soldier etc. and didn't want to pay big bucks for a star like Lee Marvin, then Leo was your man. Thanks for pointing him out. Never did take the time to look up his name.
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Post by Confessor on Mar 2, 2017 13:47:18 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! I'm struggling to remember any incest in Amityville. I watched it fairly recently too.
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Post by Pharozonk on Mar 2, 2017 15:15:38 GMT -5
I'm struggling to remember any incest in Amityville. I watched it fairly recently too. It was just me being cheeky. It's not in the original movie, but there's a weird brother-sister incest subplot in the second movie.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 2, 2017 20:53:17 GMT -5
Red Rock West (1993) Nicholas Cage, Dennis Hopper, Lara Flynn Boyle Out of work Nicholas Cage is mistaken as a hired killer by a man who wants his wife killed. Cage takes the money and goes to see the wife. She offers more money for him to kill the husband. Cage takes that cash too and plans to just drive off from the small Wyoming town. But the real hired killer, Dennis Hopper, puts an end to that plan A neo-noir thriller with enough twists and turns to keep your eyes glues to the screen. If you liked films like Blood Simple or Usual Suspects, this is right up your alley I recall this movie having an unusual post-production life. It was ignored by critics and bombed in the box office. But then, when released on home video, it garnered rave reviews and was a hot rental item for quite some time
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Post by Farrar on Mar 3, 2017 14:55:06 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! 😻💛💜 Oh, I love Tristana! It's long been one of my favorite movies. I saw it many many years ago, at a cinema revival house. I was so entralled by Bunuel's surrealistic touches. I remember Tristana (Deneuve) walking up some steps with her wooden leg; and Tristana playing Chopin's Revolutionary etude (so apropos), and that incredible ending with the rapid intersplicing of shots. I even went out and found the Galdos novel (in English) at the library and read it. The novel contained many, many subplots not in the film, but what Bunuel distilled from it was perfect for the screen. Such a rich, complex film. I should really watch this film again. I was, and still am, a real Bunuel fan; among his many films he did a great version of Wuthering Heights. Unlike the Hollywood version (which is great in its own right), Bunuel's actually included the generational aspect of the novel.
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Post by berkley on Mar 4, 2017 2:37:52 GMT -5
Red Rock West (1993) Nicholas Cage, Dennis Hopper, Lara Flynn Boyle Out of work Nicholas Cage is mistaken as a hired killer by a man who wants his wife killed. Cage takes the money and goes to see the wife. She offers more money for him to kill the husband. Cage takes that cash too and plans to just drive off from the small Wyoming town. But the real hired killer, Dennis Hopper, puts an end to that plan A neo-noir thriller with enough twists and turns to keep your eyes glues to the screen. If you liked films like Blood Simple or Usual Suspects, this is right up your alley I recall this movie having an unusual post-production life. It was ignored by critics and bombed in the box office. But then, when released on home video, it garnered rave reviews and was a hot rental item for quite some time This was a very solid movie. I made a point of seeing it at the theatre when it came out because I was a big fan of Hopper's performance in Blue Velvet and it sounded like he might be doing something similar in this one. Nicholas Cage has become a bit of a joke these days, but I thought he was quite good in movies like Red Rock West, Lynch's Wild at Heart, and John Woo's over-the-top Face-Off (the best of Woo's American movies IMO).
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 4, 2017 12:36:59 GMT -5
Quintet (1979) Paul Newman, Vittorio Gassman, Fernando Rey, Bibi Andersson Directed by Robert Altman Earth is in it's final stages of a new ice age. One of it's last communities wile away it's time by playing a dice game called Quintet. Paul Newman and his wife arrive at this casino-city. Newman's wife dies in a terror bombing leaving behind a parchment with a list of names . Newman searches for the people on the parchment who are also being killed one by one How was it that I was unaware of this film? Paul Newman's a favorite. Robert Altman had a string of favorite movies of mine during the 70's (MASH, Brewster McCloud, McCabe & Mrs Miller, Long Goodbye, Thieves Like Us, California Split, Nashville). SF films was a genre I always checked out back then, still relatively few each year. After watching this for the first time last night I an see why. Obviously I saw plenty of bad or ho-hum reviews of this film and steered clear. I'll add mine to the list. First, it doesn't feel like an Altman film. He helped write and produced this and yet the sparkling dialogue and great character interplay he is known for is missing. Lot's of silence. Lots of one-dimensional people. Lot's of unexplained motives. The dice game is featured plenty of times but there's never a mention of it's rules or objectives. No background given of the ice age event. The reason behind the serial killings are very murky. There's many scenes where the edges, both top and sides, of the movie frame is hazy. I guess Altman wanted to give us the feeling of viewing the film through a frosty window pane. I could have done without it. It's a slow and ponderous film like walking through a snowstorm. It's empty, without sub-plots or characterization. The only tidbit that's interesting are the mastiffs that roam through the community eating corpses. This film bombed in the box office, along with Altman's other projects at this time- A Wedding (1978) and A Perfect Couple (1979). To get back into the good graces with movie studios, Altman then agreed to do a sure-fire commercial film- Popeye (1980) If you want to see a SF film by Altman, try 1967's Countdown-not great but much better. If you want a good SF film with Paul Newman, you are out of luck
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2017 12:14:03 GMT -5
Fathom - Raquel WelchPeter Merriwether: Fathom, eh? I never met a Fathom. Where did you ever get a kinky name like that? Fathom Harvill: First initials for uncles- Freddy, Arthur, Tom, Harry, Oscar, Milton. They were all rich, and Papa wasn't taking any chances- unlike me. This is one of my favorite and clever way of putting it all together ... It's involved a skydiver by the name of Fathom who was recruited to find the Fire Dragon and getting involved in so many crazy characters in this stylish spy caper that going nowhere until the Fire Dragon goes to the rightful hands of Jo-May that was being played by Greta Chi. I watch this movie pretty much every two years on Cable Television and I have seen it about a dozen of times because it is one of my favorite Raquel Welch films that uses her beauty to keep all the crazy characters on this film on their toes (in check) to get the Fire Dragon. Anthony Franciosa as Peter Merriwether was her co-star in this movie and I was impressed by his charm in this movie and one of my favorite part of his determination to get Fathom on a date at Pedro's at 7:30 is he said 7-4-4-3-7-7-1 to her and without any hesitation she said that's my Passport Number. So, while the two are flying they agree to me at Pedro's at 7:30 as the movie ends right there. It's a decent film, nothing really outstanding and I felt it was done in the time that Spy Movies were at it's height and glory during the late 60's and through the 70's. Anyway, it was a fun movie to watch and it's was also was fairly fast movie and the pace of it is pretty darn good. I enjoyed watching it today and I provided you a trailer to check things out this movie is a favorite of mine.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 6, 2017 0:07:50 GMT -5
Riot In Cell Block 11 (1954) Neville Brand, Leo Gordon, Emile Meyer, Frank Faylen, Dabs Greer, Whit Bissell Oh this was good. Real good. No film about prison conditions until the 1970's comes close to this picture. Even after watching every episode of HBO's Oz I'm impressed In real life, movie producer Walter Wanger served a few months in jail for shooting a man he suspected for cheating with his wife. The conditions he experienced in lock-up compelled him to make a film as realistic as the Hollywood code would allow. Along with director Don Siegel they shot the film in California's Folsom prison, using real guards and inmates as extras, numbering in the hundreds. Sam Peckinpah served as assistant to the director Neville Brand stars as the ringleader, fed up with conditions such as brutal guards, no job training, bad lighting etc. Prison guard hostages are taken,hundreds of prisoners are freed and tear up the facilities, the state police arrive by the truckload and a stalemate is created Leo Gordon is the burly enforcer for Neville Brand. Frank Faylan is the prison commissioner who'd just be happy if the police massacre the inmates. Emile Meyer is the warden who's been asking for reforms for years but ignored It's 80 quick minutes, no sentimental slop included, lots of debate about the penal system and a huge box office hit. Now available on Criterion. And again-WOW
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 6, 2017 10:54:38 GMT -5
Ish Kabbible, I've always wanted to see this. I hope you've also seen Brute Force (1947). Another prison movie that lives up to its name in spades.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 6, 2017 11:13:39 GMT -5
Ish Kabbible , I've always wanted to see this. I hope you've also seen Brute Force (1947). Another prison movie that lives up to its name in spades. Yes, I own that DVD and seen it about 5 years ago. Very good film as many Jules Dassin movies are. Riot In Cell Block 11 is available in full on Youtube If you're able to get ahold of the Criterion disc thru the library or such, you'll see it with a pristine print and many fine supplements
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2017 4:52:53 GMT -5
Robert Osborne 48 Hours Tribute on TCMTCM LinkThe complete schedule for TCM's tribute to Robert Osborne is included below: TCM Remembers Robert OsborneSaturday, March 186 a.m. - Private Screenings: Robert Osborne 7:30 a.m. - Private Screenings: Norman Jewison 9 a.m. - Robert Osborne's 20th Anniversary Tribute 10:15 a.m. - Live From the TCM Classic Film Festival: Alan Arkin 11:30 a.m. - Live From the TCM Classic Film Festival: Luise Rainer 12:15 p.m. - Private Screeniings: Liza Minnnelli 1:30 p.m. - Private Screenings: Robert Osborne 3 p.m. - Live From the TCM Classic Film Festival: Eva Marie Saint 4:15 p.m. - Robert Osborne's 20th Anniversary Tribute 5:30 p.m. - Live From the TCM Classic Film Festival: Peter O'Toole 6:45 p.m. - Live From the TCM Classic Film Festival: Kim Novak 8 p.m. - Robert Osborne introduces Gone with the Wind in his first-ever on-air appearance as TCM's host 8:05 p.m. - Private Screenings: Robert Osborne 9:30 p.m. - Private Screenings: Debbie Reynolds 10:30 p.m. - Private Screenings: Betty Hutton 11:45 p.m. - Private Screenings: Liza Minnelli 12:45 a.m. - Private Screenings: Robert Osborne 2:15 a.m. - Private Screenings: Norman Jewison 3:30 a.m. - Private Screenings: Ernest Borgnine 4:45 a.m. - Robert Osborne's 20th Anniversary Tribute Sunday, March 196 a.m. - Private Screenings: Liza Minnnelli 7 a.m. - Live From the TCM Classic Film Festival: Eva Marie Saint 8:15 a.m. - Live From the TCM Classic Film Festival: Kim Novak 9:15 a.m. - Live From the TCM Classic Film Festival: Peter O'Toole 10:30 a.m. - Private Screenings: Robert Osborne Noon - Robert Osborne's 20th Anniversary Tribute 1 p.m. - Live From the TCM Classic Film Festival: Alan Arkin 2:15 p.m. - Live From the TCM Classic Film Festival: Luise Rainer 3 p.m. - Private Screenings: Ernest Borgnine 4:15 p.m. - Private Screenings: Norman Jewison 5:30 p.m. - Private Screenings: Robert Osborne 7 p.m. - Private Screenings: Liza Minnelli 8 p.m. - Robert Osborne's 20th Anniversary Tribute 9 p.m. - Live From the TCM Classic Film Festival: Eva Marie Saint 10:15 p.m. - Live From the TCM Classic Film Festival: Luise Rainer 11 p.m. - Robert Osborne's 20th Anniversary Tribute Midnight - Live From the TCM Classic Film Festival: Peter O'Toole 1:15 a.m. - Live From the TCM Classic Film Festival: Kim Novak 2:30 a.m. - Live From the TCM Classic Film Festival: Alan Arkin 3:45 a.m. - Private Screenings: Robert Osborne 5:15 a.m. - Live From the TCM Classic Film Festival: Luise Rainer (All times Eastern)
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