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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2018 16:18:57 GMT -5
SINCE SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28th
ON DVD -- GODZILLA vs DESTOROYAH (1995)
TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES
On Monday, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932) On Tuesday, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) (This is a silent movie)
On Halloween Day
House of Wax (1953) Pit and the Pendulum (1961) House on Haunted Hill (1958) Theatre of Blood (1973)
ON IFC
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
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Post by berkley on Nov 1, 2018 19:40:20 GMT -5
Saw The Hunger for the first time a few nights ago when it was playing at the local cinema. I was pleasantly surprised, having had the impression that it wasn't supposed to be very good. It's true that it falls apart a bit at the end but for the most part I thought it was nicely done up to then. Bowie wasn't in it as much as I had expected, but he was good while he was there and Catherine Deneuve was outstanding - again, they unfortunately messed up her character at the end but that wasn't her fault.
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 1, 2018 20:03:08 GMT -5
In October, I saw ten movies from the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die" list. I saw some pretty good ones this month! I think my favorite is Chinese Ghost Story (1987). 1. The Exiles (1961) - A documentary-style film about Native Americans living in the Bunker Hill section of Los Angeles. 2. The Servant (1963) - Screenplay by Harold Pinter. Starring Dirk Bogarde. 3. Soldier of Orange (1977) - Simultaneously answers the questions 1) What did Rutger Hauer do before Blade Runner? and 2) What was World War II like in the Netherlands? 4. The Draughtsman's Contract (1982) - My favorite Peter Greenaway movie. 5. Chinese Ghost Story (1987) - This is amazing! I saw it on YouTube and I highly suggest that you watch it NOW! 6. Dead Ringers (1988) - This movie is so WRONG! They never say "Lovecraft," but at times it seemed a little bit like a Cthullu story. 7. Neco z Alenky (1988) - A Czechoslovakian adaptation of Alice in Wonderland that I didn't know about. If I HAD known this film was a Czechoslovakian Alice in Wonderland, I'd have watched it a long time ago. Another favorite of mine from this month. 8. HANA-BI (Fireworks) (1997) - I liked this one a lot too. It's a Japanese film about a very very tough retired policeman who borrows a lot of money from the Yakuza and comes up with a very enterprising scheme to get the money. But it's not REALLY about THAT. Great movie! 9. Yi Yi (2000) - A film from Taiwan about a family and how they're affected when grandma goes into a coma after a stroke. But there's so much more to it. Very beautiful and moving, but you have to have patience and watch it when you're in the mood for a three-hour film that's sub-titled. 10. La captive (2000) - A French film that adapts a segment from Marcel Proust's long novel Remembrance of Things Past. The first thing that pops into my head when I hear "Marcel Proust" is that Monty Python sketch about the Summarizing Proust contest. So I did a little research on Proust and it appears that Remembrance of Things Past is more than twice as long as War and Peace. I don't think I'll be recommending this film to a lot of people, but I got into as I watched it and I liked the last half a lot better than the first half.
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 1, 2018 20:16:15 GMT -5
SINCE SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28thON DVD -- GODZILLA vs DESTOROYAH (1995) TURNER CLASSIC MOVIESOn Monday, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932) On Tuesday, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) (This is a silent movie) On Halloween DayHouse of Wax (1953) Pit and the Pendulum (1961) House on Haunted Hill (1958) Theatre of Blood (1973) ON IFCHouse on Haunted Hill (1999) I was busy on Halloween, but on Tuesday night I watched Spook Busters (1946) with the Bowery Boys, and Eyes Without a Face (1960), which is one of my favorites. This afternoon, I watched Spirits of the Dead (1968), an anthology of Edgar Allan Poe stories with segments directed by Roger Vadim, Louis Malle and Federico Fellini. The film stars Jane Fonda, Brigitte Bardot and Terence Stamp. I'm planning on watching Dead of Night (1945) later tonight. I've seen it a couple of times and I love it!
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Post by Farrar on Nov 1, 2018 21:33:01 GMT -5
... This afternoon, I watched Spirits of the Dead (1968), an anthology of Edgar Allan Poe stories with segments directed by Roger Vadim, Louis Malle and Federico Fellini. The film stars Jane Fonda, Brigitte Bardot and Terence Stamp. And the sublime Alain Delon!!! There were other notables in it too such as Peter Fonda but Alain trumped them all IMO. Anyway, I saw this movie decades ago, I think on a double bill with a Vadim-J. Fonda French film, The Game Is Over. I don't remember much about the film, apart from Delon and a black-wigged Bardot. I'm planning on watching Dead of Night (1945) later tonight. I've seen it a couple of times and I love it! I really have to see this. Can't explain why I haven't already done so (except for excerpts), since I am a huge Michael Redgrave fan.
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Post by berkley on Nov 1, 2018 23:32:18 GMT -5
I saw it on tv when I was a kid and it's always stayed with me. The "Never bet the Devil Your Head" segment was the scariest one! But they wre all good, or so they felt to me at the time.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2018 23:40:15 GMT -5
Farrar ... Alain Delon is one of my all time favorites and unfortunately I don't see much of him. I'm planning on working on that in 2019.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2018 14:59:46 GMT -5
This morning, I watched Double (On TCM) Indemnity and purpose of this viewing and I have seen this more than you've bargained for and I wanted to focus on Jean Heather who played Lola Dietrichson the step-daughter of Phyllis (played by Barbara Stanwyck) Dietrichson and she discussing the treatment of her step-mother and her relationship of her Mother in this film (Phyllis was her nurse) and really understood the dynamics of that rotten relationship and all that.
Man, this movie really have something new to me -- everytime that I watch it and I really find this movie so good that I've gotten more into Nino Zachetti who was Lola's boyfriend and that's was another eye-opener as well.
This movie gets better every time that I watch it.
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Post by brianf on Nov 2, 2018 22:03:12 GMT -5
Finally watched My Dinner with Andre last night. I was really underwhelmed. As a teenager I read every Phillip K Dick (& Vonnegut) book I could get my hands on, so their "deep" conversation about reality was rather boring to me. I found myself paying more attention to how long it took for their food to arrive (and how little work the bartender in the background had) than the actual conversation. The most interesting thing to me was to see Lloyd Kaufman's name (& Troma) in the credits.
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 2, 2018 23:55:05 GMT -5
In October, I saw ten movies from the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die" list. I saw some pretty good ones this month! I think my favorite is Chinese Ghost Story (1987). 1. The Exiles (1961) - A documentary-style film about Native Americans living in the Bunker Hill section of Los Angeles. 2. The Servant (1963) - Screenplay by Harold Pinter. Starring Dirk Bogarde. 3. Soldier of Orange (1977) - Simultaneously answers the questions 1) What did Rutger Hauer do before Blade Runner? and 2) What was World War II like in the Netherlands? 4. The Draughtsman's Contract (1982) - My favorite Peter Greenaway movie. 5. Chinese Ghost Story (1987) - This is amazing! I saw it on YouTube and I highly suggest that you watch it NOW! 6. Dead Ringers (1988) - This movie is so WRONG! They never say "Lovecraft," but at times it seemed a little bit like a Cthullu story. 7. Neco z Alenky (1988) - A Czechoslovakian adaptation of Alice in Wonderland that I didn't know about. If I HAD known this film was a Czechoslovakian Alice in Wonderland, I'd have watched it a long time ago. Another favorite of mine from this month. 8. HANA-BI (Fireworks) (1997) - I liked this one a lot too. It's a Japanese film about a very very tough retired policeman who borrows a lot of money from the Yakuza and comes up with a very enterprising scheme to get the money. But it's not REALLY about THAT. Great movie! 9. Yi Yi (2000) - A film from Taiwan about a family and how they're affected when grandma goes into a coma after a stroke. But there's so much more to it. Very beautiful and moving, but you have to have patience and watch it when you're in the mood for a three-hour film that's sub-titled. 10. La captive (2000) - A French film that adapts a segment from Marcel Proust's long novel Remembrance of Things Past. The first thing that pops into my head when I hear "Marcel Proust" is that Monty Python sketch about the Summarizing Proust contest. So I did a little research on Proust and it appears that Remembrance of Things Past is more than twice as long as War and Peace. I don't think I'll be recommending this film to a lot of people, but I got into as I watched it and I liked the last half a lot better than the first half. Saw Chinese Ghost Story back in the 90s, at a local Hong Kong Cinema film festival. It was one of five films, including Hard Boiled, Once Upon a Time in China 5, City on Fire and A Better Tomorrow. All great films, heavily swiped from by Quentin Tarantino (especially City on Fire and A Better Tomorrow, in the making of Reservoir Dogs. Film Threat magazine called him out on it.) Chinese Ghost Story was just a really amazing mix of martial arts, horror and romance and just looks beautiful. Once Upon a Time in China 5 is my second favorite of the series (after the first film, with Jet Li in the role of Wong Fei Hung) and was the most fun of the 5. By this point, Wong Fei Hung is a kind of Asian Doc Savage, with a group of assistants who have their own specialties. One wears glasses and seems hapless, until he learns he is a natural pistol shot (by accident) and turns into a deadly gunman, as the group protects a village against pirates. Rutger Hauer and Paul Verhoeven go way back. Hauer starred in a tv series, Floris, in 1969, featuring a medieval knight. Verhoeven directed some of the series. He then cast Hauer in his films Turks Fruit ( Turkish Delight, in English), Katie Tippel, Spetters and Soldat Van Orange ( Soldier of Orange). Soldier of Orange also has Jeroen Krabbe (Living Daylights, The Fugitive), who Verhoeven would cast again in De Vierde Man ( The 4th Man), along with Renee Soutendijk (who also appeared in Spetters and later the American movie Eve of Destruction). Turkish Delight features Hauer as an artist who falls for a Turkish woman, then loses her in an accident. It is a romantic film; but has some brutal elements in it that can make you uncomfortable. Never saw Katie Tippel; but, it's about a woman who moves with her family to the city and is subjected to rape and sexual harassment, before being forced into prostitution. Hauer is a banker who uses her to spy on businesses to determine whether he should lend to them or not (after helping pull her away from prostitution). Spetters centers around a group of dirt bike racers and a woman who sleeps with each of them, trying to escape her brother and working at the track. Jeroen Krabbe is also in that one. The 4th Man features Krabbe as an author who goes on a sponsored lecture, and stays with a young woman, (Soutendijk) who was the sponsor. She has a beauty salon attached to her large home and he sleeps with her, despite being gay, because her androgynous look (her hair is cut very short and she is small breasted). He then finds photos of her three previous husbands/lovers and discovers that all three died in freak accidents. he uses her to meet her current lover and seduces him. He comes to believe he is next on her killing agenda, though the film leaves you wandering if she is a killer or if it is his own paranoid delusion. Really good, noirish psycho-thriller, though with some shocking scenes (including a nightmare of castration via barber shears that few men can watch without cringing). Spetters led to all kinds of protests against Verhoeven. He's never dull, even when the film isn't great (like a chunk of his American stuff). He and Hauer also united in his American studio film Flesh & Blood (aka The Sword and the Rose), where Hauer is part of a betrayed mercenary company who kidnaps a prince's bride-to-be and holds her in a captured castle, while the prince lays siege and uses science to prey on the superstition of the mercenaries. Not a bad film; but, rather uneven and some so-so performances. You can see nancy "Bart Simpson" Cartwright as a maid to the princess-to-be (Jennifer Jason-Leigh). You can also see Ronald Lacey, who was Toht, in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Monty Python and Proust?
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 3, 2018 0:01:11 GMT -5
Finally watched My Dinner with Andre last night. I was really underwhelmed. As a teenager I read every Phillip K Dick (& Vonnegut) book I could get my hands on, so their "deep" conversation about reality was rather boring to me. I found myself paying more attention to how long it took for their food to arrive (and how little work the bartender in the background had) than the actual conversation. The most interesting thing to me was to see Lloyd Kaufman's name (& Troma) in the credits. I'm partial to Andy Kaufman's Breakfast With Blassie, where he sits down with pro wrestler and manager "Classy" Freddie Blassie, at a Sambo's Restaurant, spoofing My Dinner With Andre.
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 3, 2018 0:03:06 GMT -5
This morning, I watched Double (On TCM) Indemnity and purpose of this viewing and I have seen this more than you've bargained for and I wanted to focus on Jean Heather who played Lola Dietrichson the step-daughter of Phyllis (played by Barbara Stanwyck) Dietrichson and she discussing the treatment of her step-mother and her relationship of her Mother in this film (Phyllis was her nurse) and really understood the dynamics of that rotten relationship and all that. Man, this movie really have something new to me -- everytime that I watch it and I really find this movie so good that I've gotten more into Nino Zachetti who was Lola's boyfriend and that's was another eye-opener as well. This movie gets better every time that I watch it. Can't go wrong with the film adaptations of James M. Cain: Double Indemnity, The Postman Always Rings Twice, and Mildred Pierce. Nor can you go wrong with Carol Burnett's parodies of said films.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2018 14:01:50 GMT -5
I just finished watching the Sting (1073) -- The Paul Newman and Robert Redford team-up and that movie is a must see and enjoyed it immensely as they managed to get large sum of monies from Doyle Lonnegan that was played by Robert Shaw. It was joy to watch after not seeing it for a very long time.
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 4, 2018 22:35:04 GMT -5
I just finished watching the Sting (1073) -- The Paul Newman and Robert Redford team-up and that movie is a must see and enjoyed it immensely as they managed to get large sum of monies from Doyle Lonnegan that was played by Robert Shaw. It was joy to watch after not seeing it for a very long time. Great cast all across the board: Newman, Redford, Shaw, Harold Gould, Eileen Brennan, Ray Walston, Charles Durning, Dana Elcar, James Sloyan... Charles Dierkop, who worked with Newman & Redford (and George Roy Hill) on Butch Cassidy (was a regular on Police Woman). Near perfect film. Newman help me; but, I actually saw The Sting II, with Jackie Gleason and Mack Davis in a theater. Whoof!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2018 21:49:35 GMT -5
Round up the usual suspects...
just watched one of my favorites, Casablanca, on TCM. This movie is a perennial on every top 5 movie list I have made since I first saw it.
-M
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