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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2018 13:54:06 GMT -5
I understand your comments about SPR ... Prince Hal and I did enjoy it very much and that's was the 2nd time that I saw it and wanted to watch with Closed Captioning and that made it better.
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 8, 2018 15:48:24 GMT -5
I DVRed Motel Hell and Scarecrows off TCM last night. I'm not sure when I'll get the chance to watch them.
I remember wanting to see Motel Hell when it first came out but I have never got around to it.
And while I was scheduling the DVR to get Motel Hell, I read the summary of the next film on the schedule - Scarecrows - and I decided I had to have that on the DVR too!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2018 21:53:58 GMT -5
I DVRed Motel Hell and Scarecrows off TCM last night. I'm not sure when I'll get the chance to watch them. I remember wanting to see Motel Hell when it first came out but I have never got around to it. And while I was scheduling the DVR to get Motel Hell, I read the summary of the next film on the schedule - Scarecrows - and I decided I had to have that on the DVR too! I saw Motel Hell (not yesterday on TCM) ... but it isn't all that good and I had a hard time enjoying it. Go ahead and watch it and make your judgment call on it. That's all I have for now.
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Post by brutalis on Sept 24, 2018 9:09:56 GMT -5
Thanks to GritTV it was Audie Murphy all last week. Recorded and watched them Sunday while doing up laundry and cooking. four early Murphy westerns:
Ride Clear of Diablo with Dan Duryea in this one with Audie out to find the gang of cattle rustlers who had killed his father and brother. Duryea is a killer that everyone tells him was involved. He wasn't and Audie's moxy interests the outlaw so he tags along and takes an interest and eventually helps Murphy find the true killers. Fun little B movie westerns that are all worth viewing.
Tumbleweed with Audi a wagon train scout who is accused of letting the train all be killed after only he survives. Only by bringing in an Indian that Murphy saved to prove his innocence can he be exonerated by the town. Lots of twists and turns and interesting.
The Wild and the Innocent with costar Sandra Dee finds Audie as a mountaineer/trapper come to the big city for the 1st time to sell his furs. Along for the ride Dee is escaping her family and falls for Audie who wants nothing to do with her until he finds he has too much trouble in town and has to shoot the town sheriff to help Dee escape from her job as a dance hall girl. Light fun with some serious thoughts.
Sierra with Wanda Hendrix (Audie's then current wife) and Tony Curtis as Murphy rides down from the hills seeking a doctor to help his hurt father. His father took to the hills and raised Audie alone as he was an accused of a murder. Along the way trouble finds Audie and he escapes to capture wild horses and the true villain is exposed in the end and Audie and his father are cleared of all charges and Audie gets the girl.
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 30, 2018 17:39:15 GMT -5
I saw seven films from the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die" list in September. Well, nine, actually, but the other two were "The Sound of Music" and "The Rules of the Game," but I've seen them before. "The Sound of Music" is actually quite enjoyable at times. I find it amusing that one of the von Trapp children is Penny Robinson from "Lost in Space." "The Rules of the Game" is one of the best French films ever made. I've been meaning to see it again for 25 years. The seven films from the List that I had never seen before are: Senso (1954) - Well, actually, I have seen it, but I counted it as one I hadn't seen because I didn't remember it very well. Alida Valli is in movies from the List a lot! Here, she plays a naughty contessa during the 1860s when northern Italy was fighting for independence from Austria. She falls for Farley Granger, and he is a bad person! Faces (1968) - I usually like the films of John Cassavettes, but I found this one to be a bit of a chore. The American Friend (1977) - This is so great! I hardly know where to begin. It's sort of like Win Wenders decided to make a film noir, but started feeling bad for his main characters. Very hard to describe. It's got Dennis Hopper and Bruno Ganz. It's also got a couple of Hollywood directors - Nicholas Ray and Samuel Fuller - among the actors. And a lot of it takes place in Hamburg. If this sounds intriguing, give it a try. Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) - Very arty. I'm not sure who I would recommend it to. I rather liked it for all the drunken pub singing. A Tale of the Wind (1988) - This is so weird! A very old French director goes to China to make a movie about wind. Very philosophical with lots of neat little things about China that aren't really explained, but I know just enough about China to sort of get it. (The image above is from this movie. The old director is dancing with the terracotta warriors.) Cyclo (1995) - My first Vietnamese movie! It starts out like The Bicycle Thief, starts to turn into Scarface (the one with Al Pacino) and then becomes its own thing. I liked this a lot! The Best of Youth (2003) - It's six hours long because it's actually an Italian TV show. It's about the adventures of an Italian family from the 1960s to about 2000. Jasmine Trinca isn't in it much, but she's so great! There were times when I liked it and times when I had trouble staying interested.
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Post by Prince Hal on Oct 5, 2018 9:03:13 GMT -5
Hoosier X , did you notice that in the Sound of Music Universe, Spider-Man's secret identity is Friedrich von Trapp? Yep, that's Nicholas Hammond of TV Spidey fame...
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 5, 2018 22:32:21 GMT -5
Hoosier X , did you notice that in the Sound of Music Universe, Spider-Man's secret identity is Friedrich von Trapp? Yep, that's Nicholas Hammond of TV Spidey fame... I had never watched the film and some years back, one of the morning shows had a cast reunion and there was Nicholas Hammond. My response was "Spider-Man was in the Sound of Music?" Talk about a backwards step in a career! He was fine in the series; but the scripts didn't give him much to work with. I also could never get over Larry Tate (actor David White) as J Jonah (in the pilot).
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Post by berkley on Oct 6, 2018 0:57:19 GMT -5
Senso (1954) - Well, actually, I have seen it, but I counted it as one I hadn't seen because I didn't remember it very well. Alida Valli is in movies from the List a lot! Here, she plays a naughty contessa during the 1860s when northern Italy was fighting for independence from Austria. She falls for Farley Granger, and he is a bad person! Faces (1968) - I usually like the films of John Cassavettes, but I found this one to be a bit of a chore. The American Friend (1977) - This is so great! I hardly know where to begin. It's sort of like Win Wenders decided to make a film noir, but started feeling bad for his main characters. Very hard to describe. It's got Dennis Hopper and Bruno Ganz. It's also got a couple of Hollywood directors - Nicholas Ray and Samuel Fuller - among the actors. And a lot of it takes place in Hamburg. If this sounds intriguing, give it a try. Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) - Very arty. I'm not sure who I would recommend it to. I rather liked it for all the drunken pub singing. A Tale of the Wind (1988) - This is so weird! A very old French director goes to China to make a movie about wind. Very philosophical with lots of neat little things about China thataren't really explained, but I know just enough about China to sort of get it. (The image above is from this movie. The old director is dancing with the terracotta warriors.) Cyclo (1995) - My first Vietnamese movie! It starts out like The Bicycle Thief, starts to turn into Scarface (the one with Al Pacino) and then becomes its own thing. I liked this a lot! The Best of Youth (2003) - It's six hours long because it's actually an Italian TV show. It's about the adventures of an Italian family from the 1960s to about 2000. Jasmine Trinca isn't in it much, but she's so great! There were times when I liked it and times when I had trouble staying interested. All these sound like they're at least worth a look, so I might have to start checking out that 1001 list myself.
The only one I think I've seen is Cyclo back in the 90s, probably a year or so after it came out - that's how long it usually seems to take things from overseas to make their way to the local cinema here. Can't recall any details but I remember being impressed with it at the time, if it is indeed the film I'm thinking of.
Hadn't heard of Senso before and after looking it up I think I might want to read the 19th-century Italian novella it's based on before watching the film.
Cassavettes I still haven't seen anything of - which is the best to start with?
The Best of Youth sounds like it could be something I'd like but I doubt I'd watch it all in one go.
Distant Voices, Still Lives and A Tale of the Wind are the two that are definitely going on my "to be viewed" list, just based on my first impressions from hearing about them here and then reading a bit more on wiki.
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 6, 2018 10:33:25 GMT -5
Hoosier X , did you notice that in the Sound of Music Universe, Spider-Man's secret identity is Friedrich von Trapp? Yep, that's Nicholas Hammond of TV Spidey fame... Oh yeah, I noticed. But there's so much to talk about with The Sound of Music that I didn't really want to get started. Like, Captain von Trapp was a U-boat captain in the Austrian navy during World War I.
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 6, 2018 10:36:56 GMT -5
Senso (1954) - Well, actually, I have seen it, but I counted it as one I hadn't seen because I didn't remember it very well. Alida Valli is in movies from the List a lot! Here, she plays a naughty contessa during the 1860s when northern Italy was fighting for independence from Austria. She falls for Farley Granger, and he is a bad person! Faces (1968) - I usually like the films of John Cassavettes, but I found this one to be a bit of a chore. The American Friend (1977) - This is so great! I hardly know where to begin. It's sort of like Win Wenders decided to make a film noir, but started feeling bad for his main characters. Very hard to describe. It's got Dennis Hopper and Bruno Ganz. It's also got a couple of Hollywood directors - Nicholas Ray and Samuel Fuller - among the actors. And a lot of it takes place in Hamburg. If this sounds intriguing, give it a try. Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) - Very arty. I'm not sure who I would recommend it to. I rather liked it for all the drunken pub singing. A Tale of the Wind (1988) - This is so weird! A very old French director goes to China to make a movie about wind. Very philosophical with lots of neat little things about China thataren't really explained, but I know just enough about China to sort of get it. (The image above is from this movie. The old director is dancing with the terracotta warriors.) Cyclo (1995) - My first Vietnamese movie! It starts out like The Bicycle Thief, starts to turn into Scarface (the one with Al Pacino) and then becomes its own thing. I liked this a lot! The Best of Youth (2003) - It's six hours long because it's actually an Italian TV show. It's about the adventures of an Italian family from the 1960s to about 2000. Jasmine Trinca isn't in it much, but she's so great! There were times when I liked it and times when I had trouble staying interested. All these sound like they're at least worth a look, so I might have to start checking out that 1001 list myself.
The only one I think I've seen is Cyclo back in the 90s, probably a year or so after it came out - that's how long it usually seems to take things from overseas to make their way to the local cinema here. Can't recall any details but I remember being impressed with it at the time, if it is indeed the film I'm thinking of.
Hadn't heard of Senso before and after looking it up I think I might want to read the 19th-century Italian novella it's based on before watching the film.
Cassavettes I still haven't seen anything of - which is the best to start with?
The Best of Youth sounds like it could be something I'd like but I doubt I'd watch it all in one go.
Distant Voices, Still Lives and A Tale of the Wind are the two that are definitely going on my "to be viewed" list, just based on my first impressions from hearing about them here and then reading a bit more on wiki.
The two from Cassavetes that I think are most accessible are Woman Under the Influence and Gloria, especially the latter. I also like Shadows and The Killing of a Chinese Bookie a lot. My friend who loves Cassavetes says Opening Night is really good, but I haven't seen it. Joan Blondell is in it!
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 6, 2018 10:57:15 GMT -5
Also from the List, I watched Soldier of Orange a few days ago, and it's a great Dutch film with Rutger Hauer.
And yesterday, I watched the beginning of a Japanese film called Hana-bi (Fireworks) just to see what kind of film it is, and it looks really good! I was hoping to watch it last night or this morning, but things have come up. Maybe tonight when I get home from work.
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 6, 2018 22:18:00 GMT -5
Also from the List, I watched Soldier of Orange a few days ago, and it's a great Dutch film with Rutger Hauer. And yesterday, I watched the beginning of a Japanese film called Hana-bi (Fireworks) just to see what kind of film it is, and it looks really good! I was hoping to watch it last night or this morning, but things have come up. Maybe tonight when I get home from work. Excellent film, based on the memoir of Erik Roelfzema. I think it is Paul Verhoeven's best film and there are a lot of personal elements (he was a boy, during the occupation and then went to the same university, seen in the film. Verhoeven does a thematic sequel, with Black Book, about a Jewish woman who becomes involved with the Resistance, tasked to get near a German officer, in charge of the police. It was inspired by a few women, involved in the Dutch Resistance. There is a tighter connection as Derek de Lint, who played Alex, the half-German/half-Dutch member of the group, who joins the utch SS and goes to the Russian Front, plays a Resistance leader, in Black Book, nearly 30 years later. His character organizes soup kitchens to feed the starving populace (the Germans are taking food and crops for the Wehrmacht) and Verhoeven, in the commentary, talks about how it was made from tulip bulbs and he can still taste the foul broth to this day. Verhoeven's Dutch films are so much better than his Hollywood ones, though I do like the subversive humor in Robocop and Starship Troopers. i especially love how he stamps fascist imagery all over the vert fascist theme of Starship Troopers.
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Post by Farrar on Oct 7, 2018 18:57:41 GMT -5
Senso (1954) - Well, actually, I have seen it, but I counted it as one I hadn't seen because I didn't remember it very well. Alida Valli is in movies from the List a lot! Here, she plays a naughty contessa during the 1860s when northern Italy was fighting for independence from Austria. She falls for Farley Granger, and he is a bad person! As an opera fanatic this is one of my all-time favorite films. I also like Valli's work over her career, not so much in The Paradine Case but in her Italian films. And I've been a Farley fan since he popped up on one of my soaps One Life to Live many years ago. His autobiography "Include Me Out" is a great read about himself and the classic Hollywood studio era.
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Post by Farrar on Oct 7, 2018 19:14:51 GMT -5
...Cassavettes I still haven't seen anything of - which is the best to start with?
Try his "Husbands", a sort of Long Day's Journey Into Night with three guys played by real-life pals Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara and Peter Falk (I was a huge Columbo fan and remember catching this opus on late night TV many times to see Falk in a different type of role). My dad knew Cassavetes slightly when they were both at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, before JC went out to the West Coast.
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 8, 2018 17:49:02 GMT -5
Senso (1954) - Well, actually, I have seen it, but I counted it as one I hadn't seen because I didn't remember it very well. Alida Valli is in movies from the List a lot! Here, she plays a naughty contessa during the 1860s when northern Italy was fighting for independence from Austria. She falls for Farley Granger, and he is a bad person! As an opera fanatic this is one of my all-time favorite films. I also like Valli's work over her career, not so much in The Paradine Case but in her Italian films. And I've been a Farley fan since he popped up on one of my soaps One Life to Live many years ago. His autobiography "Include Me Out" is a great read about himself and the classic Hollywood studio era. I love opera too, but in a weird way because it's just from movie clips and selected operas. I love Carmen so much! I listen to the cd in the car all the time. And one of my favorite Bergman films is The Magic Flute. But I love scenes in movies about opera or they go to the opera or they talk about opera or they talk about going to the opera. I would love to go to the opera some day! And yes, I gave Senso extra points for opening at the opera! Another movie from the List that I saw recently with a short opera scene was Prima della rivoluzione. There's a very early film on the List (1923, I think) called The Smiling Madame Beudet. It's short and it's kind of dumb, but it's supposed to be the first feminist film. The husband is horrible, but it's hard to feel any sympathy for the wife because she declines a chance to go to the opera in the first scene. You fool! This movie could have been about a trip to the opera! Not on the List but available on YouTube is Charlie Chaplin's A Burlesque on Carmen. There are two versions. Watch both. The version edited by Chaplin is better overall but the studio's version is interesting because it has a lot of great scenes with Edna Purviance that Chaplin edited out or used a different take. I opened another tab and played Spike Jones version of Carmen while I was watching.
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