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Post by shaxper on Nov 4, 2019 10:34:40 GMT -5
Errol Flynn's The Adventures of Robin Hood from 1938. Buckle up your swash, shine your sword and join a gang of merry men fighting against villainous royalty! It don't get much more fun than this folks! a colorful spectacle of cinema joy that still captivates and inspires when viewed today. Flynn will ALWAYS be the best and most fun version of Robin Hood for me. Toss in Basil Rathbone villainy as the Sherrif of Nottingham and Olivia de Havilland's beautiful and charming Marian Alan Hale Sr as Little John and Claude Rains' despicable Prince John along with Eric Korngold's rousing score and you are instantly transported to another place and time where chivalry lives and men in tights is not a silly thing at all! Have you ever seen Captain Blood? Flyn and De Havilland playing essentially the same roles in an earlier film that I find far more fun. I'm actually planning to watch this for the first time this month. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 4, 2019 10:42:10 GMT -5
For the afternoon re-watched my man Bogart in 1948's Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Love me some Bogey, throw in Tim Holt, Walter Huston and Bruce Bennet and instant can't take your eyes of the screen movie thrills begin! This one is pure characterization through and through that will captivate, entertain and haunt your thoughts afterwards. And oh what I wouldn't give to have been on that set in Mexico during filming. What tales that could be told from the fly's buzzing around those bars! This played at the theater a couple of years back as part of Fathom Events and TCM's "Big Screen Classics Series." I took my youngest son, who had never seen it. I love this movie so much. Just a fabulous character study. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Nov 4, 2019 10:52:27 GMT -5
Errol Flynn's The Adventures of Robin Hood from 1938. Buckle up your swash, shine your sword and join a gang of merry men fighting against villainous royalty! It don't get much more fun than this folks! a colorful spectacle of cinema joy that still captivates and inspires when viewed today. Flynn will ALWAYS be the best and most fun version of Robin Hood for me. Toss in Basil Rathbone villainy as the Sherrif of Nottingham and Olivia de Havilland's beautiful and charming Marian Alan Hale Sr as Little John and Claude Rains' despicable Prince John along with Eric Korngold's rousing score and you are instantly transported to another place and time where chivalry lives and men in tights is not a silly thing at all! Have you ever seen Captain Blood? Flyn and De Havilland playing essentially the same roles in an earlier film that I find far more fun. I'm actually planning to watch this for the first time this month. Wow, I'm surprised you haven't seen this one yet, can't wait to read about your first experience with it. |
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Post by brutalis on Nov 4, 2019 10:56:05 GMT -5
Errol Flynn's The Adventures of Robin Hood from 1938. Buckle up your swash, shine your sword and join a gang of merry men fighting against villainous royalty! It don't get much more fun than this folks! a colorful spectacle of cinema joy that still captivates and inspires when viewed today. Flynn will ALWAYS be the best and most fun version of Robin Hood for me. Toss in Basil Rathbone villainy as the Sherrif of Nottingham and Olivia de Havilland's beautiful and charming Marian Alan Hale Sr as Little John and Claude Rains' despicable Prince John along with Eric Korngold's rousing score and you are instantly transported to another place and time where chivalry lives and men in tights is not a silly thing at all! Have you ever seen Captain Blood? Flyn and De Havilland playing essentially the same roles in an earlier film that I find far more fun. I'm actually planning to watch this (Treasure of the Sierra Madre) for the first time this month. Blood is by far the superior and more fun/entertaining/interesting movie, but Robin Hood was my VERY FIRST Flynn movie experience so it holds a special spot in my heart. The 1st in most anything will remain forever with you. Flynn and Hood started me down the path of swordplay/historical movies and books which persists within me today! You will be mesmerized with Sierra Madre. It's one of those movies I wanted to see for quite a long while and finally I found a used DVD last year. How good is it? I have watched it last night for the 3rd time within a year. One of those movies you immerse yourself in and don't want any interruptions while doing so! |
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 4, 2019 22:49:57 GMT -5
I got kind of busy the end of October the first few days of November and I didn't mark the last couple of monster movies I saw. Or did I? Did I mention The Invisible Man? The one with Claude Rains? I've seen it a few times over the years, but not nearly as often as Dracula, Frankenstein or The Wolf Man. And at this point, it's been a while since the last time. So I had fun, watching a film that's pretty familiar to me but enough time has passed that it seems a little fresh because of all the things I've forgotten.
And on Halloween, I watched … Eyes Without a Face! This has been my go-to Halloween film for four or five consecutive years. I really love it! It's about a plastic surgeon who's obsessed with his daughter's deformed face! Alida Valli is in it! There's the daughter's creepy mask to cover her meatloaf face! And it has a bunch of dogs for some reason! It's my favorite French film!
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Post by robot1a on Nov 5, 2019 0:50:02 GMT -5
I've always wanted to watch Roman Holiday. I'll have to see if it's streaming anywhere. I think it's on Prime if you have that. Charade is on Prime, but not Roman Holiday. I wish Prime had my movie because I could have saved $14.99 from Apple. Incidentally, Charade stars Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn and I read that Cary Grant was originally planned to star in Roman Holiday opposite Liz Taylor. |
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Post by brutalis on Nov 5, 2019 7:31:25 GMT -5
Note for those interested in watching: MoviesTV HD Network (free over air channel) has Treasure of Sierra Madre on tomorrow (Wed 11/6/19) afternoon at 1:15pm Arizona time (repeats Tuesday night 11/12).
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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 5, 2019 12:33:30 GMT -5
Anyone who has Turner Classics and loves the Errol Flynn-Olivia de Havilland team should be ready this coming Friday for 12 hours of excitement. Less the second feature, a light comedy, but directed by Michael Curtiz, the Jack Kirby -- nobody could do so many genres as well as Curtiz --of Hollywood directors.
All but They Died With Their Boots On are directed by Curtiz. The great Raoul Walsh directed Boots.
Here's the All-Star lineup:
They Died With Their Boots On * # + &
Four's a Crowd (Haven't seen it, but will!)
Dodge City** &
Santa Fe Trail* &
Charge of the Light Brigade*+
Captain Blood %
The Adventures of Robin Hood # % &
*Contains virtually no similarity whatsoever to the historical events portrayed. But who cares?
** Features the ur-saloon brawl, from which all others have sprung.
# Particularly quotable lines. I'm not giving them away for any newbies.
Hints: Custer's farewell words to his wife before leaving for the Little Bighorn;
Vickers' exhortation to the Light Brigade before the charge begins;
Peter Blood's observations about himself and his fellow Irishmen's inability to forget a wrong. (I'm Irish. I can vouch for Blood's observation);
Robin's response to Lady Marian's proclamation, "Why, you speak treason!":
% Superb duels between Flynn and Basil Rathbone.
+ Stunning battle scenes on an immense scale... and all with actual human beings and horses
& Excellent supporting performances from Alan Hale
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Post by thwhtguardian on Nov 5, 2019 15:19:09 GMT -5
Spirited Away  2001(Japan)/2002(US) Despite loving other such Studio Ghibli films as My Neighbor Totoro, Castle in the Sky, Nausica of the Valley of the Wind and Princess Mononoke this was my first time seeing Spirited Away. I really don't know why it's taken me this long to see it to be honest, it's not as if I don't still enjoy anime(I still do) and I've seen other Ghibli films that came out after Spirit of the Wind like Howl's Moving Castle but for some reason I just never picked this up before and that's a shame as if I had seen it before it surely would have been a perennial favorite as it shall be henceforth. With it's slight horror mood, beautiful back drops and it's engaging coming of age story it's so easy to get wrapped up in this film, losing yourself completely in its world. Although these kinds of fantasy stories can be told in live action, Wizard of Oz is a classic and I wouldn't have it any other way, Spirited Away really takes full advantage of all the benefits of animation in molding the characters(both supernatural or human) to perfectly express their emotions and as everything is in the same style the blending of the fantastic and the real is entirely seamless. |
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Post by brutalis on Nov 5, 2019 16:39:16 GMT -5
Quick look through MoviesTVNetwork listings for the next 2 weeks finds several nominated gems.Plenty of choices for watching.
Tonight Cabaret and Passage to India. Wednesday Treasure of Sierra Madre on very early am (4am Az time) and again afternoon. Friday: Gaslight, Taxi Driver. Saturday has Funny Girl, Cabaret. Sunday: Love is a Many Splendored Thing and Love Story and Crossfire.
Next week delivers: Monday: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Prince of Tides. Tuesday: Tootsie, Bonnie and Clude, Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Wednesday: The Graduate, Cabaret. Thursday: Crossfire. Friday: Gaslight, Ordinary People. Sunday: Tootsie, Bonnie and Clyde.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 5, 2019 18:20:00 GMT -5
1931-32 nominees for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Subject.
Flowers and Trees (1932), Walt Disney Studios. Director: Burt Gillett. Producer: Walt Disney. The winner of the first Academy Award for Animated Short Subject was from Disney's Silly Symphony series. The film is a technical marvel being the first animated film done in three-strip technicolor. The film was already in production as a black & white film when Disney decided to take a chance on the brand new three-strip technique. The Silly Symphony series had not been performing well (particularly compared to the Mickey Mouse shorts) but the change to three-strip color saved the series. The story itself is pretty simple. A musical look at flowers and trees that centers on a young healthy tree and an old hollow tree vying for the love of a waspish female tree. Of course the nasty old tree resorts to dirty tricks, including fire, that ultimately back-fire on him. If you're familiar with Who Framed Roger Rabbit this is one of the bases for the pastoral areas of Toontown. It's Got Me Again! Warner Brothers. Director: Rudolf Ising. Producers: Hugh Harmon, Rudolf Ising & Leon Schlesinger.  A group of mice (who bear a strong resemblance to a certain famous mouse) are having a party and playing musical instruments when they are interrupted by a much more realistic looking cat who puts a kibosh on the fun. One little mouse is trapped until he is rescued by his compatriots. This is mainly interesting as a very early Warner Brothers cartoon (Merry Melodies # 10) and the first WB cartoon nominated for an Oscar. Otherwise it's important to keep in mind that one of the main points of those early Merry Melodies was to sell songs owned by the studios. There's not much here to point to the future greatness of the series though later director Friz Freling was an animator on this film.
Mickey's Orphans: Walt Disney Pictures. Director: Burt Gillett. Producer: Walt Disney.  A hooded figure drops a basket off on the doorstep of the house where Mickey, Minnie and Pluto are preparing for Christmas. It contains a large but unclear number of kittens. Our heroes take them in and Mickey and Pluto dress as Santa and a reindeer to give them toys that are inexplicable mostly implements of destruction. The kittens proceed to wreck havoc on the house. And...yeah...that's pretty much it. This was a re-make of an Oswald the Rabbit cartoon called "Empty Sock" that was long thought to be lost until it was rediscovered in Norway in 2014. So did they get it right? Yeah...in this case they definitely did. All three of the films are very dated 87 years on. But Flowers and Trees is still a lovely film and I say that knowing that I'm watching a not fabulous print. Add on that it was an extremely important film for its use of three-strip technicolor and it is the easy winner. Neither of the other two are remotely important or even particularly interesting.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Nov 5, 2019 19:17:26 GMT -5
Strangely enough I was introduced to both Flowers and Trees and Mickey's Orphans through the Epic Mickey video games, I loved how they included the full shorts in the levels based on them.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 5, 2019 19:43:51 GMT -5
I'll add that I'm not in any way trying to win with short films. It is just an easy and (for me) interesting way to look at the theme when I don't have a lot of time to watch full length movies.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Nov 5, 2019 19:46:59 GMT -5
I'll add that I'm not in any way trying to win with short films. It is just an easy and (for me) interesting way to look at the theme when I don't have a lot of time to watch full length movies. I would think that as you are doing multiples as a review of the whole class for the award that it would fit the theme but I'll let Shax decide as its his month. |
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Post by shaxper on Nov 5, 2019 20:36:02 GMT -5
I'll add that I'm not in any way trying to win with short films. It is just an easy and (for me) interesting way to look at the theme when I don't have a lot of time to watch full length movies. I would think that as you are doing multiples as a review of the whole class for the award that it would fit the theme but I'll let Shax decide as its his month. I realize slam is not planning to rack up the most films this month, so I really wasn't worried about it. In the old club, the rule was always that 40 mins or more was what counted, but sharing is welcome regardless of runtime. |
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