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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 5, 2018 12:28:58 GMT -5
Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) ... I'd first read about this movie, and about how its events unfolded in real time, decades ago. I finally got around to watching this, about six months ago. Hard to believe this was made in 1962, it feels and looks (cinematography, sound, etc.) so contemporary. Vive Agnes Varda, a true cinematic artist/genius. I saw so many great moves from the List in February that Cleo from 5 to 7 didn't really stand out, though I liked it well enough. But last night I watched Agnes Varda's 2000 documentary The Gleaners and I, and it's turned me into a big fan! (I saw it online on Amazon Movies for $3. It's only 80 minutes!) I'm starting to think that maybe Werner Herzog is the male Agnes Varda. I looked her up online to see what else she's done and if she's still alive and yup, she's 89 ... and her documentary Faces Places was nominated for Best Documentary Feature last night! (She didn't win though.)
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Post by brutalis on Mar 5, 2018 13:46:59 GMT -5
Saturday was 3 back to back Western oldies on GritTv.
1st up was from 1951: Warpath with Edmond O'Brien, Dean Jagger, Forrest Tucker, Harry Carey and Polly Bergen. Ex Cavalry man re-inlist's under Custer's command after hunting for 3 men who killed his wife. A nice revenge style western well acted throughout.
2nd is 1950's Branded with Alan Ladd, Charles Bickford, Robert Keith and Mona Freeman. Ladd is a down on his luck gunfighter and given a "tattoo/birthmark" by a pair of other no goodniks in the hopes that they can swindle a ranch family into believing Ladd is their long lost stolen child. Problem is Ladd falls for the daughter and finds out the true son is alive and he tries to reunite the family (which he does). A nice romp with Ladd doing his usual fine laid back performance.
Final movie was 1963 Audie Murphy Western Gunfight at Comanche Creek. Audie is part of a group of detectives hunting a villainous group which break prisoners out of jail using them to commit crimes and when the reward is high enough then kill and turn in the prisoner collecting the reward. Audie is locked up for having stolen gold certificates and then the bad guys break him out as Audie waits for the moment of his reward becoming high enough while searching for the hidden leader of the criminals. Starring Ben Cooper, Colleen Miller, Jan Merlin, John Hubbard and DeForest Kelley. A typical B-Western with a strong cast and interesting story.
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Post by Farrar on Mar 5, 2018 15:42:40 GMT -5
^^^ Have you seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes, Hoosier X? She's in that, though she's somewhat subdued. Her co-star is the always-excellent Michael Redgrave (another fave of mine).
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Post by Farrar on Mar 5, 2018 15:54:09 GMT -5
I'd first read about this movie, and about how its events unfolded in real time, decades ago. I finally got around to watching this, about six months ago. Hard to believe this was made in 1962, it feels and looks (cinematography, sound, etc.) so contemporary. Vive Agnes Varda, a true cinematic artist/genius. I saw so many great moves from the List in February that Cleo from 5 to 7 didn't really stand out, though I liked it well enough. But last night I watched Agnes Varda's 2000 documentary The Gleaners and I, and it's turned me into a big fan! (I saw it online on Amazon Movies for $3. It's only 80 minutes!) I'm starting to think that maybe Werner Herzog is the female Agnes Varda. I looked her up online to see what else she's done and if she's still alive and yup, she's 89 ... and her documentary Faces Places was nominated for Best Documentary Feature last night! (She didn't win though.) Yeah, I was disappointed she didn't win. Oh well, c'est la vie . Over the years she's received international accolades as one of the world's finest filmmakers, even if that recognition didn't really start until later in her career. Other films by Varda I've liked: One Sings, the Other Doesn't and Vagabonde (this one is very bleak, though).
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 5, 2018 17:00:08 GMT -5
^^^ Have you seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes, Hoosier X ? She's in that, though she's somewhat subdued. Her co-star is the always-excellent Michael Redgrave (another fave of mine). I was wondering if I'd seen her in anything, but I haven't checked her IMDB listing. I've seen enough British films from the 1930s and 1940s that I've probably seen her a coupe of times. I've seen The Lady Vanishes two or three times over the years, but not lately. It's one of the movies my movie-buff mom "made" me watch when I was a kid. I've seen all but a handful of Hitchcock's films, including silent films like The Manxman and The Ring and the early sound films like Number 17 (which I love!), The Skin Game (which is quite good at times) and the awful awful awful Juno and the Paycock. The Lady Vanishes is probably his best film before coming to America. I just looked at Margaret Lockwood's filmography and I haven't seen any of her films except The Man in Grey, The Lady Vanishes and (oddly) Susannah of the Mounties with Shirley Temple.
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 5, 2018 17:03:12 GMT -5
I saw so many great moves from the List in February that Cleo from 5 to 7 didn't really stand out, though I liked it well enough. But last night I watched Agnes Varda's 2000 documentary The Gleaners and I, and it's turned me into a big fan! (I saw it online on Amazon Movies for $3. It's only 80 minutes!) I'm starting to think that maybe Werner Herzog is the female Agnes Varda. I looked her up online to see what else she's done and if she's still alive and yup, she's 89 ... and her documentary Faces Places was nominated for Best Documentary Feature last night! (She didn't win though.) Yeah, I was disappointed she didn't win. Oh well, c'est la vie . Over the years she's received international accolades as one of the world's finest filmmakers, even if that recognition didn't really start until later in her career. Other films by Varda I've liked: One Sings, the Other Doesn't and Vagabonde (this one is very bleak, though). I know the name but I don't think I ever saw one of Varda's films before Cleo from 5 to 7 last month. And I wasn't such a big fan until I saw The Gleaners and I last night. Have you seen The Gleaners and I? Vagabond is also on the List. And I also want to see her Oscar-nominated recent film Faces Places.
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Post by Farrar on Mar 5, 2018 17:33:09 GMT -5
And I wasn't such a big fan until I saw The Gleaners and I last night. Have you seen The Gleaners and I? No, I haven't seen it, but from what I've read it sounds interesting. Thanks for the recommendation. Fwiw I mostly like old films, pre-1980. When I was a teen I started going to repertory cinemas--there were many of them in my city back then--that would show two old films daily. I tended towards the foreigh films (I'm in the US btw), but I also saw my share of old Hollywood classics.
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 5, 2018 17:54:26 GMT -5
And I wasn't such a big fan until I saw The Gleaners and I last night. Have you seen The Gleaners and I? No, I haven't seen it, but from what I've read it sounds interesting. Thanks for the recommendation. Fwiw I mostly like old films, pre-1980. When I was a teen I started going to repertory cinemas--there were many of them in my city back then--that would show two old films daily. I tended towards the foreigh films (I'm in the US btw), but I also saw my share of old Hollywood classics. Here's a recommendation for a largely unknown classic that deserves more attention. TCM is showing Three Men on a Horse (1936) later this month - March 21. With Joan Blondell and Frank McHugh. I watched it a year or so ago just because I'll watch anything with Joan Blondell, and I was very pleasantly surprised at how funny this movie is! Highly recommended!
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 5, 2018 21:03:11 GMT -5
From the halcyon days of the 1950s come that little gem of not-quite Lovecraftian horror : The Maze!
Nice little suspense with no moustache-twirling villain or stupid evidence-denying official, in which the aunt accompanying the heroine actually has a head on her shoulders!
I first saw that film in the early 80s, with my father, on a late-night TV show titled “Shock Theater”. It retains a special place in y heart, because I had no idea until that moment that my dad might have liked shlock movies!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2018 22:05:15 GMT -5
No, I haven't seen it, but from what I've read it sounds interesting. Thanks for the recommendation. Fwiw I mostly like old films, pre-1980. When I was a teen I started going to repertory cinemas--there were many of them in my city back then--that would show two old films daily. I tended towards the foreigh films (I'm in the US btw), but I also saw my share of old Hollywood classics. Here's a recommendation for a largely unknown classic that deserves more attention. TCM is showing Three Men on a Horse (1936) later this month - March 21. With Joan Blondell and Frank McHugh. I watched it a year or so ago just because I'll watch anything with Joan Blondell, and I was very pleasantly surprised at how funny this movie is! Highly recommended! It's on my calendar to watch "Three Men on a Horse" ... I'm looking forward to it.
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 6, 2018 1:40:49 GMT -5
We recently watched Creed, so the wife and I were watching Rocky and Rocky 2. She was bored by Creed (I was, in parts, but liked it overall) and she loves the original. Just a really great movie. 2 spends waaaaaaaay too much time knocking Rocky and Adrian down to their lowest points, before kicking in to the training montage and the fight. I felt they short shifted the fight, plus booked the end badly. Rocky had to win; but, the whole double 10-count was too pro wrestling. Avildsen is greatly missed. We will probably watch Rocky 3, soon.
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Post by brutalis on Mar 6, 2018 8:33:03 GMT -5
Brain tired last night after teaching a class at work for leaders on how to manage the time-card system (6 hours of idiocy i tell you) i needed to wash my brain from work. Sat down with a Boris Karloff DVD with 3 movies: The Black Room from 1935 with Karloff playing twin brothers in the late 18th century doomed to fulfilling a family prophecy that the family will line will die when the younger brother kills the elder in the Black Room of the castle. You can Karloff was having a good time portraying the younger vile son who kills the elder and pretends to be him so he can woo the lady of his dreams who hates him as the original younger son persona. Gets his just desserts in the end. Quite fun.
Next up is the Man They Could Not Hang from 1933. Karloff is a surgeon obsessed with bringing the dead back to life and he tries an artificial heart/respirator (essentially the 1st open heart surgery) to revive a willing man who wants to be famous with the surgery. Interrupted by police because the patient's girlfriend calls them in the young man dies on the table before he can be resuscitated. Karloff is sentenced to die for murder. His assistant uses Karloff's new technique to save him after being hanged by the neck. Karloff then proceeds to go on a killing spree after all that wronged him and in the end he uses the technique to save his daughter who is shot before dying himself from a gunshot wound.
Lastly is 1940's The Man with Nine Lives with Karloff portraying another surgeon who originates frozen or cryo surgery. To prove his methods Karloff has frozen himself and 4 other men for 10 years when they are finally found he and the men are successfully revived but Karloff holds everyone captive while trying to unlock the mysteries of his cryogenic treatments by experimenting on them.
Both movies: The Man with Nine Lives and The Man They Could Not Hang were based in part on the real-life story of Dr. Robert Cornish, a University of California professor who, in 1934, announced he had restored life to a dog named Lazarus that he had put to death by clinical means. The resulting publicity (including a Time magazine article and motion picture footage of the allegedly re-animated canine) led to Cornish being booted off campus.
These were all quite entertaining and interesting viewing. If you like Karloff you won't be disappointed!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2018 13:27:28 GMT -5
Roman Holiday - 1953 FilmI haven't seen this movie for eons and it's one of Audrey's best films and Gregory Peck role as Newspaper Man Joe Bradley was superb and Eddie Albert and others round off one of the neatest films ever made in Rome. It has everything you want and more and I loved the chemistry of Hepburn and Peck and that Vespa scene was my favorite ... see third clip! He (Peck) has a lot of problems on hand and having said that it's made this movie believable and his relationship with Princess (Audrey Hepburn) Ann complicates things and that's made the performance of Hepburn so brilliant that she won an Oscar in 1954. I just in unbelief of how she able to do this role so flawlessly and that's made Peck's role even better. Harcourt Williams, Margaret Rawlings, and Paolo Carlini as Mario Delani were excellent too and they made the movie very real and provide drama and good vibes in this charming movie. William Wyler's Produced and Directed this masterpiece ...
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Post by dbutler69 on Mar 8, 2018 14:47:42 GMT -5
Roman Holiday - 1953 Film I've got the DVD and it's been sitting in my stack up "up next" DVD's for a while now. I need to get around to watching it. You're starting to motivate me!
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 8, 2018 18:11:08 GMT -5
Roman Holiday - 1953 Film I've got the DVD and it's been sitting in my stack up "up next" DVD's for a while now. I need to get around to watching it. You're starting to motivate me! This movie will make you fall in love with Audrey Hepburn, as if anyone needed a reason. It feels closest to who she was, by most descriptions: a classy lady, who lived a life in service to others, who seemed to be part of everyone, from the greatest to the smallest.
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