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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 16, 2017 11:55:58 GMT -5
Heads up!
Don't forget to DVR The Incredible Journey showing on TCM tonight!
It may not be the first movie I ever saw in a theater, but it's definitely the first movie I saw in a theater that I have definite memories of the experience. My brother (who's a bit younger than me) was obsessed with this movie. For a while he thought the theater where we saw it only showed The Incredible Journey over and over.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2017 14:49:12 GMT -5
Heads up! Don't forget to DVR The Incredible Journey showing on TCM tonight! It may not be the first movie I ever saw in a theater, but it's definitely the first movie I saw in a theater that I have definite memories of the experience. My brother (who's a bit younger than me) was obsessed with this movie. For a while he thought the theater where we saw it only showed The Incredible Journey over and over. Thank You!!! ... it is one of my favorite movies and I've wanted to see this for 15+ years!
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 16, 2017 22:19:14 GMT -5
I used to read all those Alistair MacLean books when I was a kid and I remember Where Eagles Dare as one of the best of them, but I have never seen the movie. Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood kill half of the Wehrmacht; what more do you want? How about a truly awesome poster by Frank McCarthy?
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 16, 2017 22:41:13 GMT -5
I took a one week break from travelling to the Lincoln Center library due to the predicted snowstorm which wound up not quite what the advance trailers had us believe. But I did pick up some other films from a library closer to me
Susan Slept Here (1954) Dick Powell, Debbie Reynolds, Anne Francis -Ageing Dick Powell in his final theatrical film in a rom-com with 17 year old Debbie Reynolds
Summer Of '42 (1971) Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes- I remember seeing this in the theaters when it came out. Jennifer's husband has left to join the army. Gary Grimes is her 15 year old neighbor who is infatuated by her. Seems like a good double bill with Susan Slept Here
Something Wild (1961) Carroll Baker, Ralph Meeker - Carroll has been raped but keeps it hidden from her family. Ralph Meeker, a mechanic, tries to comfort her from depression and suicide attempt. Then he keeps her prisoner in his house
Solomon And Sheba (1959) Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida- Big budget spectacle. You have already seen Moses part the Red Sea. Now see Solomon part a baby in half
Slender Thread (1965) Sidney Poitier, Anne Bancroft, Telly Salvalas, Ed Asner- Sidney is a volunteer at a suicide hot-line phone bank. Anne Bancroft calls to tell him she just took an overdose of pills. Can Sidney convince her to reveal her name and location before time runs out?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2017 0:40:45 GMT -5
Incredible Journey - Disney Movie It was a heartwarming movie and I was overjoyed at the end of it and I have been wanting to see this movie for eons and it was incredible to watch and the photography was excellent and I just don't want this movie to end. It's on You Tube and it's was a wonderful movie about three pets that took on a journey of a lifetime. They are: Luath the Labrador Retriever, Bodger the Bull Terrier, and Tao the Siamese cat (Syn), as they journey 250 miles through the Canadian wilderness to return to their home just in time for the kid birthday party and it's was heartwarming reunion at the end of the movie. The way they handle their comfort together, getting food, and enduring hardship along the way was precious and I just wanted them to press forward with more adventure together and they were the real stars in this movie. I suggest that you should watch it and fully understand how I feel about this movie that came out in 1963. I'm thinking of watching it again on You Tube this weekend.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2017 21:00:50 GMT -5
I just watch Double Indemnity tonight on TCM and it's one of those classic film noirs that make you think about the twists and turns of this movie that been wonderfully played by MacMurray, Stanwyck, and Robinson. This 1944 Movie is one of my favorite film noirs and it's has all the makings of a great movie and it's was one of the best. Stars of Double Indemnity I seen it about 4-5 times and everytime that I seen it - I get another appreciation of the talents of these three actors brings to it. Great Photography, Music Score, and the action of every scene is wonderfully played out to the end.
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 22, 2017 1:29:50 GMT -5
I just watch Double Indemnity tonight on TCM and it's one of those classic film noirs that make you think about the twists and turns of this movie that been wonderfully played by MacMurray, Stanwyck, and Robinson. This 1944 Movie is one of my favorite film noirs and it's has all the makings of a great movie and it's was one of the best. Stars of Double Indemnity I seen it about 4-5 times and everytime that I seen it - I get another appreciation of the talents of these three actors brings to it. Great Photography, Music Score, and the action of every scene is wonderfully played out to the end. Carol Burnette did a great spoof of the film, with Steve Lawrence in the Fred MacMurray role. She also sent up another big James M. Cain novel-turned movie, Mildred Pierce (as Mildred Fierce). She really captured Joan Crawford's look. All of the Cain adaptations are great, from Double Indemnity, to Mildred Pierce, to The Postman Always Rings Twice. Plus, in the latter, you can see Fred Flintstone himself, Alan Reed.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 23, 2017 3:16:23 GMT -5
My booty of rather obscure films for this week:
I've been remiss lately on foreign film but grabbed 3 French movies that look intriguing
Le Million (1931) Directed by Rene Clair-I watched it last night. A French comedy/musical about a guy who owes everyone money and they are breathing down his neck. Fortunately, he just won a million the lottery. Unfortunately, the winning ticket is in a jacket his girl friend gave away to a beggar. It's a fun film as the jacket floats around from one person to another
A Man Escaped (1956) Directed by Robert Bresson- This is supposedly a highly lauded movie about a jailbreak. Made the Top 100 Films of All Times list by Sight & Sound Critics poll.Won the Cannes Film Festival and scores a 8.2 on IMDB
Made In U.S.A. (1966) Directed by Jean-Luc Godard- Supposedly a color drenched chaotic crime noir satire on consumerism. Sounds good
On the domestic side , last night I watched Star Of Midnight (1936) with William Powell and Ginger Rogers. It's kind of a precursor to The Thin Man movies with Powell as an amateur detective with his gal pal Ginger. The murder takes place in Powell's own living room and Powell takes a bullet in the butt (or actually "hip "as he keeps correcting people). Unlike the Thin Man, Powell turns down a drink offer once
The Stone Killer (1973) Charles Bronson -Cold blooded detective Bronson against mobster Martin Balsam
Strange Impersonation (1946) Directed by Anthony Mann-The box cover details for this DVD is all about film noir/ plastic surgery/ blackmail and it co-stars Hillary Brooke and Lyle Talbot
Found 2 westerns as well: Station West (1948) Dick Powell,Jane Greer,Agnes Moorehead,Burl Ives. Also Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend (1957) with Randolph Scott and Angie Dickinson
The Stepfather (1986) Terry O'Quinn stars in this Donald Westlake thriller about a man who massacres his entire family and remarries a widow with a young daughter
Some Kind Of Wonderful (1987) John Hughes script starring Eric Stoltz,Lea Thompson and Mary Stuart Masterson
Also 2 new releases on DVD
The Arrival (2016) The SF film with Amy Adams
Gimme Danger (2016) The documentary by Jim Jarmusch and Iggy Pop and the Stooges
Looks to be a good week of viewing
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 23, 2017 16:16:22 GMT -5
Been watching a number of older comedies with my youngest son lately, including quite a few starring Gene Wilder. Night before last we watched.. Silver Streak (1976) Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor. Dir. Arthur Hiller I'd seen this before...probably a couple of times. But it had been at least 25 years since I'd last seen it. So I honestly remembered a lot less than I did when we watched Bustin' Loose or The Frisco Kid and certainly less than Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein. I absolutely did not remember that it's really more of an action-thriller than a comedy. And I didn't remember that Pryor didn't show up until past the half-way mark. It's a fun movie. Reminiscent of North by Northwest with more humor and less panache. It's a bit hard for me to view Wilder as a romantic lead. Especially not with Clayburgh, who I forget between times I see her was a very attractive lady. The real revelation was the supporting cast. Just a great bunch of actors including Patrick McGoohan as the chief baddie, leading Ray Walston and Richard Kiel; Ned Beatty, Scatman Crothers and Fred Willard in a small but funny role. Con-Man enjoyed it. And it really was almost like watching a new movie because I'd honestly forgotten most of it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2017 6:40:23 GMT -5
I just watched The X from Outer Space on TCM late night and it's really a fun movie to watch and it's quite dated at the time it was made. I enjoyed the funky aspects of it and the storyline was pretty simple to follow and find the actors and actresses very cute and enjoying to watch. It was made in 1967. Anyway, it was a blast seeing again after 20 years and I was chuckling along how goofy this monster was and you can see why it is. It was laughable and I had a kick watching it ... Here's the trailer ...
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 27, 2017 11:06:43 GMT -5
From the films I watched last week a few really stick out
A Man Escaped (1956) Directed by Robert Bresson- Well deserving of all the praise heaped upon it. Based on a true story taking place in occupied France during WWII. A French patriot is thrown into prison on a sabotage charge. Awaiting his sentence (there will be no trial), he slowly concocts a plan of escape. Meticulously carving an exit from his cell for months and building tools to climb the outside walls, he is suddenly assigned a cellmate. Is the cellmate a spy or another patriot? Can he reveal to the cellmate the escape plan or kill him before proceeding? A great POW drama
Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend (1957) Randolph Scott, Angie Dickinson, James Garner, Gordon Jones - A real fun western. Scott, Garner and Jones are robbed of everything including their clothes out on the trail. When they get to the nearby town, they find their horses and belongings being sold in the general store. The town is owned lock, stock and barrel by the villainous James Craig. Including the sheriff and mayor. It will take more than a shoot out to achieve justice
Strange Impersonation (1946) Directed by Anthony Mann-Brenda Marshall, William Gargan,Hillary Brooke,Lyle Talbot -What a whacked out movie. Ostensibly a so-called women's movie it blends in mad science and plastic surgery, dialogue that will make your jaw drop, Hillary Brooke in her best femme fatale role and many plot twists and turns
Made In U.S.A. (1966) Directed by Jean-Luc Godard- Anna Karina -This film's completely incomprehensible. It looks great with all it's bright and vibrant colors. Anna Karina looks great too in her trench coat as she investigates who killed her boyfriend Richard P. But after Anna kills the dwarf with her shoe I had no idea what was going on. Every time someone mentions the boyfriend Richards name, a car horn honks, a jet plane flies overhead and you never can hear the last name. Richard Pryor? Maybe
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 27, 2017 11:33:11 GMT -5
Movies on DVD I picked up for this week
New release: Manchester By The Sea
Musical Of The Week-State Fair (1945)
Tortilla Flat (1942) Spencer Tracy, John Garfield, Hedley Lamarr-watched it last night.John Steinbeck adaptation with a great cast including Sheldon Leonard, Donald Meek, Akim Tamiroff, John Qualen , Frank Morgan and Allen Jenkins. These bunch of paisanos are hysterical
Roxie Hart (1942) Ginger Rogers-The movie that inspired the musical Chicago with Richard Gere
Susan Lenox (Her Rise And Fall) (1931) Greta Garbo, Clark Gable-I had no idea they were ever in the same film
Too Many Girls (1940) Lucille Ball,Desi Arnaz,Ann Miller,Van Johnson- The movie where Lucy and Desi first met
Something To Sing About (1937) James Cagney-the only big budget film made by Grand National Studios. They soon went bankrupt
Stars In My Crown (1950) Joel McCrea-I need a weekly western fix
Rhapsody (1954) Elizabeth Taylor-Will she choose a violinist or pianist. A Taylor film I've never seen
The Tenant (1976) Roman Polanski directs and stars in this psychological thriller
Saratoga Trunk (1946) Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman- I'm amazed at these movies I find that I've never known about
All This And Heaven Too (1940) Bette Davis, Charles Boyer- Only pairing of these 2 stars with 3 Oscar nominations
Robert Benchley Miniatures Collection (1935-1944) A 3 disc collection of shorts starring RB
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 27, 2017 22:40:27 GMT -5
Been watching a number of older comedies with my youngest son lately, including quite a few starring Gene Wilder. Night before last we watched.. Silver Streak (1976) Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor. Dir. Arthur Hiller I'd seen this before...probably a couple of times. But it had been at least 25 years since I'd last seen it. So I honestly remembered a lot less than I did when we watched Bustin' Loose or The Frisco Kid and certainly less than Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein. I absolutely did not remember that it's really more of an action-thriller than a comedy. And I didn't remember that Pryor didn't show up until past the half-way mark. It's a fun movie. Reminiscent of North by Northwest with more humor and less panache. It's a bit hard for me to view Wilder as a romantic lead. Especially not with Clayburgh, who I forget between times I see her was a very attractive lady. The real revelation was the supporting cast. Just a great bunch of actors including Patrick McGoohan as the chief baddie, leading Ray Walston and Richard Kiel; Ned Beatty, Scatman Crothers and Fred Willard in a small but funny role. Con-Man enjoyed it. And it really was almost like watching a new movie because I'd honestly forgotten most of it. Saw this in the theater, when I was a kid. One of the first films I saw with profanity (such as it is). The best is when Wilder is putting shoe polish on his face to pass as black, trying to get in a mindset. It's so ludicrous! Great character actors abound and a nice Henry Mancini score. I disagree about Wilder and Clayburgh. Wilder charms her quite well and I can buy the romance. I think, at first, Clayburgh is just flirting to relieve boredom, especially given her other choices on the train. However, I think the more she gets to know Wilder, the more she likes him. Certainly enough for a dalliance on a cross-country train trip. She is dazzling in the film; sexy without being provocative. How I miss that kind of subtlety in film.
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 29, 2017 16:58:45 GMT -5
I've been watching new movies at the theater (Moonlight, the new Resident Evil movie, Kong Skull Island, Logan, Beauty and the Beast) and movies from the 1001 list (1927 Napoleon, Run Lola Run, Son of Saul), which I list at the end of the month, so I haven't been commenting here much. The two exceptions I saw over the last two weeks were Jeopardy (1953) with Barbara Stanwyck and Ralph Meeker, and Fantastic Planet (1973) a weird animated science-fiction film, made in a collaboration by the French and the Czechs. You might have seen it. I remember seeing it on cable in the 1980s. It's the one about the giant blue-skinned, wing-eared people called the Draags and their problems with the tiny Oms (humans) who make great pets but the wild ones are dirty and they multiply so fast and they are going to take our jobs.
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 31, 2017 11:04:09 GMT -5
In March, I saw these eight movies from the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die" list:
Napoleon (1927) - I've been wanting to see this for almost 30 years. I watched it online on a Russian Web site. The inter-titles were in English and you would hear a guy reading the Russian translation. I'll probably put up a separate post about this movie.
A Day in the Country (1936) - Jean Renoir was such a great director that even when he only makes half a movie, it's still considered a world classic.
Babes in Arms (1939) - It's not for everyone, but if you love goofy 1930s Hollywood movies with Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, this is a pretty good one.
Woman in the Dunes (1964) - This isn't particularly MESSED-UP for a Japanese movie from the 1960s. But it's still MESSED-UP.
The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967) - A 1960s French musical with Catherine Deneuve and Gene Kelly. Several sorts of wonderful, especially the cinematography, the choreography and the 1960s fashions.
Run Lola Run (1998) - I can't believe I'd never seen this. Great movie! Not necessarily my favorite among these films, but it's the one I'd be most likely to recommend to the general movie buff.
The Constant Gardener (2005)
Son of Saul (2015) - This Holocaust film won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, and I can see why. Some amazing filmmaking going on here with some unbelievable camera work. I have no trouble seeing why it was added to the latest edition of the "1001 Movies" book. But it's not for everyone.
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