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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 30, 2017 17:44:21 GMT -5
Perils of Nyoka is one of the crown jewels of the Republic serials and one of the influences on the Indiana Jones series. Nyoka first appears in Jungle Girl, with Frances Gifford in the role. It was loosely based on an Edgar Rice Burroughs story, though there isn't much Burroughs in there. Great serial, in its own right. Perils of Nyoka picked up the character and ran with it. Too bad they didn't do more. I wouldn't mind seeing someone take up a modern version, if they did something along the lines of Lucas and Spielberg, where they are faithful to the spirit of adventure in those serials.
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Post by shaxper on Dec 30, 2017 22:46:56 GMT -5
two and a half hours into The Great Ziegfeld. This movie is impressive and entertaining, but I've hit my attention span breaking point!
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 31, 2017 2:27:37 GMT -5
two and a half hours into The Great Ziegfeld. This movie is impressive and entertaining, but I've hit my attention span breaking point! This is the movie where I fell in love with Luise Rainer. She won Best Actress Oscars two years in a row, but her other movies are pretty obscure. I keep my eyes open on the TCM schedule for her movies and over the years I've seen The Toy Wife, The Great Waltz and (my favorite) Dramatic School.
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 31, 2017 16:56:01 GMT -5
Rewatched Willy Wonka last night, with the wife and grandkids. We booed the rotten kids and cheered Charlie. Lots of fun!
Piece of trivia: Peter Ostrum, who starred as Charlie, was offered a 3-picture deal, based on his performance. He turned it down and grew up to be a veterinarian. Said he had fun making the movie; but, he knew he didn't want to keep making movies. That's some great maturity for a young boy.
Meanwhile, the girls both had a crush on him and took turns being his girlfriend. The other one had to console herself with a producer's son, until it was her day.
Great, great movie.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2018 3:34:59 GMT -5
On TCM, I watched the following moviesThin Man, The (1934) After the Thin Man (1936) Another Thin Man (1939) Shadow of the Thin Man (1941) Thin Man Goes Home, The (1945) Song of the Thin Man (1947) Six Movies Mini-Marathon tonight to ring in the new year starring William Powell and Myrna Loy!
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 1, 2018 5:38:06 GMT -5
I watched Horse Feathers, Dial M for Murder and then went to the theater to see The Last Jedi.
After midnight, I decided to stay up and ring in the new year with a 1938 French film titled The Baker's Wife. I've watched about 30 minutes and I'm not sure how much longer I'll be staying up.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 1, 2018 13:06:10 GMT -5
Here is a list of the films from the "1001 Movies You Must See before You Die" list that I saw in December. I saw 21 films from the List. 1. Secret Beyond the Door (1948) - One of the editors on the List must really love Fritz Lang because this in not one of Lang's best movies. It's OK but they could use this space for a much better film noir like Too Late for Tears or Where Danger Lives. 2. Dog Star Man (1962) - For the most dedicated List completists only. 3. Me'diterranee' (1963) 4. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970) - DeSica's Holocaust film. 5. The Bitter Tears of Petra van Kant (1972) - I guess I've learned to appreciate Fassbinder because I liked this OK, but it was exhausting. But I knew what to expect because GERMAN MOVIES! 6. The Wicker Man (1973) - One of the better films I saw this month and not just because of Britt Ekland's lengthy nude scene. 7. Shaolin Master Killer (1978) - YES! The List has a few great martial-arts films, but inexplicably Master of the Flying Guillotine is not one of them. 8. Loulou (1980) - Isabelle Huppert rocks this movie! 9. The Last Metro (1980) - Catherine Deneuve is awesome as a woman running a theater in Occupied Paris. She's great as always. And I'd forgotten that Gerard Depardieu used to be capable of some very fine acting. 10. Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) - I found this to be alternately very funny and very frustratingly not funny. 11. A City of Sadness (1989) - Taiwan's Gone with the Wind. 12. Close-Up (1990) - I had no idea that Iranian cinema could get this strange. 13. Raise the Red Lantern (1991) - The best movie I saw this month and very possibly the best Chinese movie I've ever seen. Gong Li is magnificent. 14. Three Lives and Only One Death (1996) - One of Marcello Mastroianni's last movies. I was never bored but I was very confused most of the time. 15. Breaking the Waves (1996) - The Danes should be banned from filmmaking until they get Lars von Trier to STOP! Just kidding. Mostly. 16. Rushmore (1998) - I really don't know why I didn't see this a long time ago. 17. Nine Queens (2000) - A wonderful film from Argentina about a couple of con artists in Buenos Aires who stumble on a once-in-a-lifetime con. 18. Artificial Intelligence (2001) - A very good idea smothered by a lot of deeply stupid ideas. Jude Law is very good. Teddy is great. And I almost cried during the scene where the robot boy was abandoned in the woods. But when this movie is bad, it practically re-writes the book on bad filmmaking. I was never bored though! 19. Lantana (2001) - A very interesting Australian film about how four couples are affected when one of the women disappears. 20. Elephant (2003) - I was expecting a lot more from a movie directed by Gus Van Sant, based on the Columbine shooting, and included on a list of movies I allegedly MUST see before I die. 21. Moolaade (2004) - Quite possibly the best film ever made about ritual female genital mutilation. For fans of Blue Ribbon Mansplaining.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 1, 2018 13:12:09 GMT -5
The Wicker Man (1973) - One of the better films I saw this month and not just because of Britt Ekland's lengthy nude scene. I really love The Wicker Man. Edward Woodward was a vastly underrated actor.
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Post by Jesse on Jan 1, 2018 15:15:35 GMT -5
The original Wicker Man is one of my favorites horror movies! I think it's interesting how it plays on the Christian fear of paganism. The casting alone is pretty great; Christopher Lee, Ed Woodward, Ingrid Pitt and Britt Ekland. Robin Hardy did a follow up years later called The Wicker Tree in 2011 which was decent but not nearly as good as the original. Christopher Lee does have a cameo in it though. I've been meaning to check out the story it's based "Ritual" by David Pinner on for awhile as well. 6. The Wicker Man (1973) - One of the better films I saw this month and not just because of Britt Ekland's lengthy nude scene. Yeah plus she sings and dances too!
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Post by brutalis on Jan 2, 2018 8:53:41 GMT -5
Spent New Year's Eve with a few friends and our all night movie marathon was to watch all the Ocean's movies. Starting with Rat Pack Ocean's 11, then the Clooney/Pitt/Soderbergh Ocean's 11, 12 and 13. Made for a splenid night of eats, drinks, watching and discussions. These heist movies are fun and chock full of nuts (stars) in entertaining and stylish and humorous situations and the soundtracks ain't nothing to be sneezing at either. nothing like a bunch of buddies hanging out making movies and having a paid vacation in the form of a movie. Mindless fluff of film with not much deep acting and many merely playing off what we perceive as their movie star persona but in general all are visually gorgeous and fun as all get out. Which is what I want in a movie night: to turn off the brain and settle back and be lost in the action...
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jan 2, 2018 12:02:51 GMT -5
I have yet to see the original Ocean's 11, but the Clooney ones are entertaining. Although, I have to say, I find 11 and 13 far better than 12 - I think that cast and those characters just work better in the Vegas setting.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2018 13:30:06 GMT -5
I have yet to see the original Ocean's 11, but the Clooney ones are entertaining. Although, I have to say, I find 11 and 13 far better than 12 - I think that cast and those characters just work better in the Vegas setting. I just love the original Ocean's 11 and it's a classic and it's has a definite charm about it and that's why I've loved the original movie and it's great seeing Vegas back in those days.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 3, 2018 0:57:09 GMT -5
Spent New Year's Eve with a few friends and our all night movie marathon was to watch all the Ocean's movies. Starting with Rat Pack Ocean's 11, then the Clooney/Pitt/Soderbergh Ocean's 11, 12 and 13. Made for a splenid night of eats, drinks, watching and discussions. These heist movies are fun and chock full of nuts (stars) in entertaining and stylish and humorous situations and the soundtracks ain't nothing to be sneezing at either. nothing like a bunch of buddies hanging out making movies and having a paid vacation in the form of a movie. Mindless fluff of film with not much deep acting and many merely playing off what we perceive as their movie star persona but in general all are visually gorgeous and fun as all get out. Which is what I want in a movie night: to turn off the brain and settle back and be lost in the action... If you enjoy those, you have to see this.... Maudlin's 11, from SCTV Sammy Maudlin started as a parody of Sammy Davis Jr's brief talk show, Maudlin, which was just sycophantic treacle. They took the premise and ran with it, with Joe Flaherty as Sammy Maudlin, a pseudo Vegas singer/entertainer, Eugene Levy as comic Bobby Bittman, John Candy as Sammy's sidekick William B. Williams (even more of a suck-up than Ed McMahon), Andrea Martin's Lorna Minelli, Catherine O'Hara's Lola Heatherton and Rick Moranis' Skip Bittman. Dave Thomas would come on as Bob Hope.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2018 13:04:19 GMT -5
In the past week, I watched on Starz/Encore these movies
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
I'm currently (starting to watch) the Undiscovered Country and I've seen these movies for about a decade and decided to watch them for the fun of it. The Voyage home is my favorite of the six listed here and Khan is a classic. Final Frontier is not my cup of tea and the Search for Spock is an interesting film that really pique my interest and I find it a fascinating film to watch. All of these are well made for their own merits.
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Post by Jesse on Jan 6, 2018 17:31:55 GMT -5
My Letterboxd Year in Review.
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