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Post by Ish Kabbible on Apr 20, 2017 15:14:47 GMT -5
Replenished my DVD viewing pile from the library yesterday and have these upcoming:
The Strange Affair Of Uncle Harry (1945) Directed by Robert Siodmak w/ George Sanders & Gerldine Fitzgerald. A noirish type of film
Satan's Wife (1977) An Italian psychotronic horror cult film w/Anne Heywood
Secret Beyond The Door (1947) Fritz Lang directs with Joan Bennett and Michael Redgrave
Sombrero (1953) -An MGM musical w/Ricardo Montalban, Cyd Charisse, Yvonne De Carlo
Saint Joan (1957) A Joan Of Arc tale with Richard Widmark,Jean Seberg,John Gielgud
Sayonara (1957) Marlon Brando, Ricardo Montalban, Yoko Ono,James garner, Red Buttons
Plus some double/triple feature DVDs
Walter Pidgeon chews up the scenes in both Society Lawyer and Stronger Than Desire (both 1939). Virginia Bruce co-stars in both
Hedley Lamarr flutters her eyes in Dishonored Lady (1947) and Strange Woman (1946). I don't care if she's strangely dishonored
Richard Roundtree and his great theme score in the triple header of Shaft (1971), Shaft's Big Score (1972) & Shaft In Africa (1973)
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 22, 2017 13:05:31 GMT -5
Svengoolie showed Godzilla's Revenge (1971) a few weeks ago and I DVRed it, but I'm only just now getting around to it. I'm watching it in segments because, I dunno, I just don't seem to have time slots where I can watch a whole movie right now and I've been in the mood for this one because I love it! I don't know how many times I've seen Godzilla's Revenge over the years. It cracks me up. I used to be kind of obsessed with it. I wrote a lengthy critique for a short-lived fanzine called Cinema Hawks many years ago.
After I watch the whole thing, I'll probably be back with some more comments. The thing is, I'm not really sure it's fair to call it a bad movie. If you've seen it, I can understand why you might be dubious. But I'll try to explain it later.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2017 14:00:15 GMT -5
Hoosier XGodzilla's Revenge in my mind is the worst TOJO movie of all time and I watch it twice and vowed never, ever see it again ...
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Apr 25, 2017 16:52:55 GMT -5
Replenished my DVD viewing pile from the library yesterday and have these upcoming: The Strange Affair Of Uncle Harry (1945) Directed by Robert Siodmak w/ George Sanders & Gerldine Fitzgerald. A noirish type of film Satan's Wife (1977) An Italian psychotronic horror cult film w/Anne Heywood Secret Beyond The Door (1947) Fritz Lang directs with Joan Bennett and Michael Redgrave Sombrero (1953) -An MGM musical w/Ricardo Montalban, Cyd Charisse, Yvonne De Carlo Saint Joan (1957) A Joan Of Arc tale with Richard Widmark,Jean Seberg,John Gielgud Sayonara (1957) Marlon Brando, Ricardo Montalban, Yoko Ono,James garner, Red Buttons Plus some double/triple feature DVDs Walter Pidgeon chews up the scenes in both Society Lawyer and Stronger Than Desire (both 1939). Virginia Bruce co-stars in both Hedley Lamarr flutters her eyes in Dishonored Lady (1947) and Strange Woman (1946). I don't care if she's strangely dishonored Richard Roundtree and his great theme score in the triple header of Shaft (1971), Shaft's Big Score (1972) & Shaft In Africa (1973) Some comments on those films I watched Sayonara is an adaptation of a James A. Michener novel concerning the post WWII American occupation of Japan and regulations against fraternizing with the natives. The army made marriage between servicemen and Japanese women as difficult as possible and when they reassigned the serviceman back home, his Japanese wife was not allowed to come to the states with him. Roughly 10,000 servicemen however did marry Japanese women. The regulations were repealed by 1954. Michener knew what the conditions were-he married a Japanese woman himself. The film is respectful of both cultures except for one glaring and aggravating portrayal. Ricardo Montalban plays a Japanese man. Whenever he showed up, it jolted me out of the movie's narrative. Saint Joan is a very entertaining Otto Preminger production of the Joan Of Arc story. It's obvious the Preminger was a fan of the famed silent film, The Passion Of Joan Of Arc, for he used the same extreme close-up shots during the trial as did the former film. Richard Widmark plays a totally different character from his usual fare. As the Boy King of France, Charles VII, he's timid & infantile. The epilogue to the movie is rather weird but interesting Speaking of weird, Fritz Lang is always good for gothic and suspenseful stories. Secret Behind The Door delivers on both counts. Joan Bennett plays a tourist who meets a stranger and marries him within days. He takes her home to his creepy manor. He's an architect and adds rooms to his manor constantly. Each room is a reproduction of where a famous murder took place. What's behind the locked door of the one room he does not want his new bride to see? Could it be a reproduction of her own private room? Strange Affair Of Uncle Harry is adapted from a controversial play. George Sanders lives with his 2 sisters. George finally finds a women to marry and asks his sisters to find a new place. One sister does everything she can to delay leaving and winds up wrecking Sanders' engagement. Sanders gets revenge by putting poison in that sisters cocoa. But the sister gives the cocoa to the other sister who drops dead. The film had to change key parts from the play to avoid an important story point. Sanders and the sister who did not want to leave were having an incestuous affair. That would not fly in a 1947 Hollywood film. 5 different endings were previewed to audiences. The one that was kept would make Mort Weisinger proud Sombrero and Satan's Wife really sucked Strange Woman is my favorite Hedley LaMarr film. It's her at her most beauty and showcases her talented she was as an actress. She plays a poor,abused by her father girl who uses her beauty and guile to marry the town's richest man. Then she uses her wiles to get that man's son to murder him. And she's still not done manipulating men. But through it all, Hedley will convince you that she's really not evil at all. Highly recommended and it's public domain so it's easy to find and probably on YouTube The Theme From Shaft Song- for years I misheard the lyrics, particularly one line . The correct line is "He's a complicated man but no one understands him but his woman (John Shaft)" I always thought I heard "He's a carpet cleaning man but no one understands him but his woman (John Shaft)"
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 25, 2017 18:27:17 GMT -5
You see this cat Shaft is a bad mother.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Apr 25, 2017 20:23:22 GMT -5
You see this cat Shaft is a bad mother. Shut your mouth!
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Apr 25, 2017 23:54:25 GMT -5
This week, the library lent me the following DVDs
New Releases:
Star Wars:Rogue One Silence-Directed by Martin Scorsese w/Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson & Adam Driver
Classics:
Supernatural (1933) Carole Lombard,Randolph Scott-Seances, possession from the beyond, electric chairs, evil mad scientists Syncopation (1942) Jackie Cooper, Adolphe Menjou, Bonita Granville, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa-New Orleans jazz story Silver City (1951) Edmond O'Brien, Yvonne DeCarlo, Barry Fitzgerald-Western Schizopolis (1996) Writer/Director/Actor Steven Soderbergh The Story Of Alexander Graham Bell (1939) Don Ameche, Loretta Young, Henry Fonda Slacker (1991) Directed by Richard Linklater
And a box set of 4 films from Director Sam Fuller. These are films he wrote before he began to direct It Happened In Hollywood (1937) Fay Wray, Richard Dix Adventure In Sahara (1938) Paul Kelly Power Of The Press (1943) Guy Kibbee, Lee Tracy Shockproof (1949) Cornell Wilde, Patricia Knight
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2017 4:31:30 GMT -5
King Kong, Starring Namoi Watts and Company 2005 FilmI find it hard to believe that this movie is 12 years old and I just in awe of this movie - they made it set in days of New York of (in the mid 30's, during the depression time) which the Empire State Building was the only big building in town and the photography, the special effects of those T-Rex's, the Monster himself (King Kong), and everything else and transform the 1933 Classic into something more grandeur and more dominant. I just can't get over the fact that this movie has everything you want and then some and the acting of all actors are downright good. You just can't say anything bad about them and I just find it surprisingly well that their were good chemistry among them. Watts was sensational, Black and Brody were unreal and everything about these three individuals that they all click together and made the movie very real and full of emotions. I consider this movie the best King Kong Movie of all times and I just find it hard to believe that this is movie is 12 years old (I hate repeating myself) and that's the fact. Anyway, I had a ball watching tonight on American Movie Classics and this is one of those movie that makes it real as you can get. There is never a dull moment in this movie.
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 26, 2017 19:08:39 GMT -5
King Kong, Starring Namoi Watts and Company 2005 FilmI find it hard to believe that this movie is 12 years old and I just in awe of this movie - they made it set in days of New York of (in the mid 30's, during the depression time) which the Empire State Building was the only big building in town and the photography, the special effects of those T-Rex's, the Monster himself (King Kong), and everything else and transform the 1933 Classic into something more grandeur and more dominant. I just can't get over the fact that this movie has everything you want and then some and the acting of all actors are downright good. You just can't say anything bad about them and I just find it surprisingly well that their were good chemistry among them. Watts was sensational, Black and Brody were unreal and everything about these three individuals that they all click together and made the movie very real and full of emotions. I consider this movie the best King Kong Movie of all times and I just find it hard to believe that this is movie is 12 years old (I hate repeating myself) and that's the fact. Anyway, I had a ball watching tonight on American Movie Classics and this is one of those movie that makes it real as you can get. There is never a dull moment in this movie. Then why did I fall asleep in the middle of it? Everybody has their own experience with any movie; but, for me, aside from the effects, this one didn't do much to elevate it above the original. The performances are good, it's well shot and all of that; but, I just find I react more to the original. I suppose part of it is the CGI. I tend to notice the artifice and it pulls me out of things, no matter how good the movie is. The original was done with solid models, so they have a weight to them that CGI just doesn't match. I also kind of felt it need a trim, on the editing. It's an obvious labor of love from Jackson; I think maybe he was a little too close to it. Still beats the Dino De Laurentis one, though. Now, if Jackson had included Mechani-Kong, I'd be in heaven!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2017 21:25:28 GMT -5
codystarbuckYour points are very understandable and not all movies are meant to be enjoyed and since you made a comment that you fall asleep on this one is the fact that this movie was 3hr & 7 mins long that might be the cause the problem of which I can't answer that for you. I read and understand your thoughts and appreciate your thoughts on it. I loved this movie and always will and this is the movie that made me a fan of Naomi Watts and it was her that made it great. I have never, ever heard of her until I saw this movie.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Apr 26, 2017 23:09:06 GMT -5
I can easily watch the original King Kong once every year. The Peter Jackson remake- once was enough. Not bad but way too long
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 27, 2017 11:21:15 GMT -5
I can easily watch the original King Kong once every year. The Peter Jackson remake- once was enough. Not bad but way too long I can't even tell you how many times I've seen the original 1933 version. Twenty times? Thirty? More? I saw the Peter Jackson version in the theater. I could name things I liked about it, and things I didn't like. Jack Black and Naomi Watts were great! I have no intention of ever watching it again.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 27, 2017 11:34:32 GMT -5
I can easily watch the original King Kong once every year. The Peter Jackson remake- once was enough. Not bad but way too long I can't even tell you how many times I've seen the original 1933 version. Twenty times? Thirty? More? I saw the Peter Jackson version in the theater. I could name things I liked about it, and things I didn't like. Jack Black and Naomi Watts were great! I have no intention of ever watching it again. As with most of Jackson's movies he needed to hire a good editor for King Kong. It was just interminably long. A movie about a super-sized ape should never be boring...but it frequently was. There are things to like about Jackson's work...but his penchant for vomiting every second of film he shoots onto the screen is not one of them. I've seen it once. I feel no need to see it again.
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 28, 2017 12:01:59 GMT -5
Here are the films from the "1001 Movies You Must See before You Die" list that I saw in April:
The Leopard - A three-hour movie about Sicily in the 1850s. Burt Lancaster. Alain Delon. Claudia Cardinale.
Vinyl (1965) - An Andy Warhol film that is supposedly an adaptation of A Clockwork Orange. Edie Sedgwick stares into space and drops things. It's not for everyone. It's also only forty minutes long.
Hombre (1967) - Paul Newman is a white boy, raised by Apaches, who grows up and then goes on a very interesting stagecoach ride with Richard Boone and Frederic March.
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) - I haven't seen any Fassbinder movies for a while and I'd forgotten how ... quirky he can be. Oh well. You deserve what you get when you start watching German movies. (I like this one quite a bit. But I always make fun of German cinema.)
Sideways (2004) - I was expecting this to be a bit of a chore, but its actually really good! I especially liked Virginia Madsen.
Amour (2012) - A French film about an elderly man coping with his wife's deteriorating mental and physical faculties. A great cast makes this movie a lot more watchable than it sounds.
Ida (2013) - A young Polish nun finds out she is actually Jewish and heads out into the world to find out what happened to her parents. Since it's in black and white, it plays out like a very weird film noir that feels like it was directed by Jim Jarmusch.
Leviathan (2014) - A very depressing Russian movie. I.e, a Russian movie.
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 28, 2017 13:51:53 GMT -5
Here are the films from the "1001 Movies You Must See before You Die" list that I saw in April: The Leopard - A three-hour movie about Sicily in the 1850s. Burt Lancaster. Alain Delon. Claudia Cardinale. Have always wanted to see this. Lancaster is, I am sure, excellent. Saw Sweet Smell of Success yesterday for the first time. Superb. Lancaster is icily, frighteningly good, and Tony Curtis a revelation. It's too bad he didn't have more roles in the slimy, villainous vein. The screenplay is a killer.
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