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walpurgis
13-08-2021, 10:02
Nevada Smith, 1966.
I liked that movie, although critics gave it a bit of a bashing as I recall.
I liked that movie, although critics gave it a bit of a bashing as I recall.
yeah i like it too..
another good un now that got mixed reviews.. The Chase, 1966. Directed by Arthur Penn and stars Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, and Robert Redford, and in support E.G. Marshall, Angie Dickinson, Janice Rule, Miriam Hopkins, Martha Hyer, Robert Duvall and James Fox.
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This is the recent Bluray release.
walpurgis
13-08-2021, 13:39
The Chase, 1966.
Another good one. I really liked it when it was released. Very early role for Redford, his character was called 'Bubba Reeves' if I recall (no, I didn't just look it up :)).
Another good one. I really liked it when it was released. Very early role for Redford, his character was called 'Bubba Reeves' if I recall (no, I didn't just look it up :)).
yeah, well very close.. bubber reeves it was although it sounded like bubba
The Legend of Tarzan, 2016. directed by David Yates and stars Alexander Skarsgard, Samuel L. Jackson, Margot Robbie, Djimon Hounsou, Jim Broadbent, and Christoph Waltz.
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Making Africa seem authentic was especially important to the filmmakers, since the film was shot in England, except for six weeks in Gabon, filming background by helicopter without the cast. A working waterfall and a 100-foot-long collapsible pier were assembled at Warner Bros.’ Leavesden studios. Seven versions of the African jungle were constructed to show different scenery throughout the filming. Plants from Holland were mixed with trees sculpted by the art department. Kedleston Hall stood in for the Greystoke Manor, and a cedar tree on the grounds of Highclere Castle served as the setting for an early pivotal scene between Tarzan and Jane.
decent film tarzan.. well done too.. a bit of red dwarf now and a dram before my rest time... gotta get my beauty sleep:ner:
The Quiet Man, 1952. Directed by John Ford. It stars John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Barry Fitzgerald, Ward Bond and Victor McLaglen.
This is the Eureka Bluray.
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Winton C. Hoch’s glorious Technicolour cinematography is perhaps as big a star as the stars themselves; The colours just pop off the screen. Ford won another Oscar for this. The Irish locations are superb too.
O'Hara was almost forced to whisper a naughty into Wayne's ear and then run off, by John Ford whom she ended up thouroughly disliking, as she thought he hated her(which was the opposite of the truth). She once called him a a "bald-headed son of a bitch".. Wayne's look of shock was genuine(as Ford wanted) and he chased after... What she said went to their graves, as Ford, O'Hara and Wayne were the only people who knew what the words were. A mystery one can only guess at, but O'Hara was both reluctant and embarrassed to say it. (the mind boggles):)
Now, from way back in 1936, My Man Godfrey, directed by Gregory La Cava and starring William Powell and Carole Lombard, who had been previously wed.
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La Cava, a former animator and freelancer for most of his film career, held studio executives in contempt, and was known to be a bit eccentric. When he and Powell hit a snag over a disagreement about how Godfrey should be portrayed, they settled things over a bottle of Scotch. The next morning, La Cava showed up for shooting with a headache, but Powell didn't appear. Instead, the actor sent a telegram stating: "WE MAY HAVE FOUND GODFREY LAST NIGHT BUT WE LOST POWELL. SEE YOU TOMORROW."
When tensions hit a high point on the set, Lombard had a habit of inserting four letter words into her dialogue, often to the great amusement of the cast. This made shooting somewhat difficult, but clips of her cursing in her dialogue and messing up her lines can still be seen in blooper reels.
This is the remastered Criterion Bluray. Fabulous for '36.
Stagecoach, 1939. Directed by John Ford and stars John Wayne, Clair Trevor, Andy Devine, Thomas Mitchell, Louise Platt and John Carradine.
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Cast member Louise Platt, in a letter recounting the experience of the film's production, quoted Ford on saying of Wayne's future in film: "He'll be the biggest star ever because he is the perfect 'everyman'".
The film has also been recognized as transcending the Western genre. Robert B. Pippin has observed that both the collection of characters and their journey "are archetypal rather than merely individual" and that the film is a "mythic representation of the American aspiration toward a form of politically meaningful equality."
It won 2 Oscars; Best Supporting Actor – Thomas Mitchell, and Best Musical Score - Richard Hageman, W. Franke Harling, John Leipold, Leo Shuken
Dead Man's Folly, 1986. Directed by Clive Donner and starred Peter Ustinov, Jean Stapleton, Tim Pigott-Smith, Jonathan Cecil, Constance Cummings and Nicollette Sheridan.
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This is a made for tv film of Agatha Christie's Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. One of Ustinov's better Poirots.
A Passage to India, 1984. Directed by David Lean. It stars Peggy Ashcroft, Judy Davis, James Fox, Alec Guinness, Nigel Havers, Victor Banerjee and Roshan Seth.
E. M. Forster began writing A Passage to India during a stay in India from late 1912 to early 1913 (he was drawn there by a young Indian Muslim, Syed Ross Masood, whom he had tutored in Latin), completing it only after he returned to India as secretary to a maharajah in 1921. The novel was published on 6 June 1924.[4] It differs from Forster's other major works in the overt political content, as opposed to the lighter tone and more subdued political subtext in works such as Howards End and A Room With a View.
A Passage to India deals with the delicate balance between the English and the Indians during the British Raj.
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This was the final film of Lean's prestigious career, and the first feature film he had directed in fourteen years, since Ryan's Daughter in 1970. Receiving praise as Lean's finest since Lawrence of Arabia, A Passage to India received eleven nominations at the 57th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director for Lean, and Best Actress for Judy Davis for her portrayal as Adela Quested. Peggy Ashcroft won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal as Mrs Moore, making her, at 77, the oldest actress to win the award, and Maurice Jarre won his third Academy Award for Best Original Score.
This is a bluray hi def version. stunning scenery
Seventies horror genre now with Carrie, 1976. Directed by Brian De Palma and starring Sissy Spacek. It also features Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, Nancy Allen, William Katt, P. J. Soles, Betty Buckley, and John Travolta in support.
adapted from Stephen King's 1974 epistolary novel of the same name by Lawrence D. Cohen.
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Carrie is one of the few horror films to be nominated for multiple Academy Awards. Spacek and Laurie received nominations for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress awards, respectively. Niether won as they went to Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight.
This is the Arrow Video bluray and marvelous it is...
Classic scares there for the year.. Bet it put a few folk off proms at time:D
anyway on to the 2001 Mulholland Dr from director David Lynch. It stars Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Ann Miller, Mark Pellegrino and Robert Forster.
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In Rolling Stone, Peter Travers observed, "Mulholland Drive makes movies feel alive again. This sinful pleasure is a fresh triumph for Lynch, and one of the best films of a sorry-ass year. For visionary daring, swooning eroticism and colors that pop like a whore's lip gloss, there's nothing like this baby anywhere."
walpurgis
15-08-2021, 15:16
Got the DVD, but can't remember a thing about it. Needs watching again I guess.
I saw Lynch's 'Lost Highway' recently, very weird but leaves an impression.
got the dvd, but can't remember a thing about it. Needs watching again i guess.
I saw lynch's 'lost highway' recently, very weird but leaves an impression.
lost highways very surreal too
Seventies horror genre now with Carrie, 1976. Directed by Brian De Palma and starring Sissy Spacek. It also features Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, Nancy Allen, William Katt, P. J. Soles, Betty Buckley, and John Travolta in support.
adapted from Stephen King's 1974 epistolary novel of the same name by Lawrence D. Cohen.
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71dWftjAcKL._AC_SL1020_.jpg
Carrie is one of the few horror films to be nominated for multiple Academy Awards. Spacek and Laurie received nominations for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress awards, respectively. Niether won as they went to Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight.
This is the Arrow Video bluray and marvelous it is...
Great film! And who can forget the infamous 'fanny-pad' scene in the shower?:D:lol:
Marco.
Classic scares there for the year.. Bet it put a few folk off proms at time:D
anyway on to the 2001 Mulholland Dr from director David Lynch. It stars Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Ann Miller, Mark Pellegrino and Robert Forster.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0f/Mulholland.png
In Rolling Stone, Peter Travers observed, "Mulholland Drive makes movies feel alive again. This sinful pleasure is a fresh triumph for Lynch, and one of the best films of a sorry-ass year. For visionary daring, swooning eroticism and colors that pop like a whore's lip gloss, there's nothing like this baby anywhere."
super film tbh and laura harring had great, em, charms shall we say :eek: its a multi dream film but is exquisitly done by lynch... the master of the genre.
We're No Angels, 1955. Directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Aldo Ray, Joan Bennett, Basil Rathbone, Leo G. Carroll, and Gloria Talbott.
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Bogart's character says: We came here to rob them and that's what we're gonna do - beat their heads in, gouge their eyes out, slash their throats. Soon as we wash the dishes.
On stage before he came to Hollywood, Bogart actually did a lot of light comedy.
This was also Bogart's final film with Director Michael Curtiz with whom he worked often and well back at Warner Brothers. Most particularly in Casablanca which was Curtiz's Oscar winning film for himself and for the film. A lot consider that film the one that firmly cemented Humphrey Bogart as a top box office draw.
Another xmassy film now with ..A Christmas Carol , 1984.. Directed by Clive Donner, who had been an editor of the 1951 film Scrooge, and stars George C. Scott as Ebenezer Scrooge. Supporting are Frank Finlay, David Warner, Susannah York and Edward Woodward.
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The film closely follows the structure of Charles Dickens' original book, with some changes to the story's detail. Novelist and essayist Louis Bayard, writing for Salon.com, described this adaptation as "the definitive version of a beloved literary classic", praising its fidelity to Dickens' original story, the strength of the supporting cast, and especially Scott's performance as Scrooge.
why stop there; im taking no chances on not being here at xmas....Scrooge, 1951. It stars Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge. With Kathleen Harrison, George Cole, Hermione Baddeley and Mervyn Johns.
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This is the Black and White version(and the best imo.)
The film was a hit here, but initially was not liked in the States.. It did become a staple tho there later.
Sim is on top form
Big John Wayne in 'The Comancheros', 1961. Also stars Stuart Whitman, Jack Elam, Lee Marvin and Bruce Cabot. Directed by Michael Curtiz and John Wayne himself.
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Bosley Crowther called the film "so studiously wild and woolly it turns out to be good fun"; according to Crowther, "there's not a moment of seriousness in it, not a detail that isn't performed with a surge of exaggeration, not a character that is credible."
Tough Guys, 1986. Starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Eli Wallach and Charles Durning.
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Night Train to Munich, 1940.. rewatch this classic propaganda film on criterion bluray..
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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, 1986. Directed by Leonard Nimoy.
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Soldier Blue, 1970. Directed by Ralph Nelson and stars Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss, and Donald Pleasence. The title song, written and performed by Buffy Sainte-Marie(Solier Blue) was a top ten hit.
Based on the U.S. Cavalry's notorious Sand Creek Indian massacre in 1864.
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It wasnt for the faint hearted in the day.
A good number of critics in 1970 believed that Soldier Blue had set a new mark in cinematic violence, as a result of its graphic scenes of Cheyenne women and children being slaughtered, and had thus lived up – or down – to its U.S. poster boast that it was "The Most Savage Film in History." A massive hit in Great Britain and much of the rest of the world, Soldier Blue was, in the words of its maverick director, Ralph Nelson, "not a popular success" in the United States.
The Wild Bunch, 1969. Directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Warren Oates, Jaime Sánchez, Ben Johnson, Emilio Fernández Strother Martin and L. Q. Jones.
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oday, the film holds a 90% "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on reviews from 62 critics with its consensus stating, "The Wild Bunch is Sam Peckinpah's shocking, violent ballad to an old world and a dying genre".
The Scalphunters, 1968. starring Burt Lancaster, Ossie Davis, Shelley Winters and Telly Savalas. Was directed by Sydney Pollack.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6d/The_Scalphunters_poster.jpg
Classic scares there for the year.. Bet it put a few folk off proms at time:D
anyway on to the 2001 Mulholland Dr from director David Lynch. It stars Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Ann Miller, Mark Pellegrino and Robert Forster.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0f/Mulholland.png
In Rolling Stone, Peter Travers observed, "Mulholland Drive makes movies feel alive again. This sinful pleasure is a fresh triumph for Lynch, and one of the best films of a sorry-ass year. For visionary daring, swooning eroticism and colors that pop like a whore's lip gloss, there's nothing like this baby anywhere."
I saw the film at my local film club and loathed it - simply couldn't make head nor tail as to what was happening.
Paris Texas, 1984. Directed by Wim Wenders and stars Harry Dean Stanton, Dean Stockwell, Nastassja Kinski and Hunter Carson.
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At the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, it won the Palme d'Or from the official jury, as well as the FIPRESCI Prize and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury. It went on to other honors and critical acclaim.
THis is the Criterion Bluray.
Soldier Blue, 1970. Directed by Ralph Nelson and stars Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss, and Donald Pleasence. The title song, written and performed by Buffy Sainte-Marie(Solier Blue) was a top ten hit.
Based on the U.S. Cavalry's notorious Sand Creek Indian massacre in 1864.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7c/Soldier_Blue.jpg
It wasnt for the faint hearted in the day.
A good number of critics in 1970 believed that Soldier Blue had set a new mark in cinematic violence, as a result of its graphic scenes of Cheyenne women and children being slaughtered, and had thus lived up – or down – to its U.S. poster boast that it was "The Most Savage Film in History." A massive hit in Great Britain and much of the rest of the world, Soldier Blue was, in the words of its maverick director, Ralph Nelson, "not a popular success" in the United States.
Saw it at the cinema on it's release. A powerful and harrowing film, and not one I would want to watch again in a hurry. No surprise it didn't do well in the States, given the subject.
Paris Texas, 1984. Directed by Wim Wenders and stars Harry Dean Stanton, Dean Stockwell, Nastassja Kinski and Hunter Carson.
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At the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, it won the Palme d'Or from the official jury, as well as the FIPRESCI Prize and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury. It went on to other honors and critical acclaim.
THis is the Criterion Bluray.
Excellent film - made all the better with Ry Cooder's guitar playing.
walpurgis
20-08-2021, 08:37
Just ordered a DVD of 'BLOW-UP' 1966, with David Hemmings. I haven't seen it for maybe forty years, but remember finding it fascinating.
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Just ordered a DVD of 'BLOW-UP' 1966, with David Hemmings. I haven't seen it for maybe forty years, but remember finding it fascinating.
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dont recall that one...
walpurgis
20-08-2021, 08:43
dont recall that one...
I think you'd like it Grant.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060176/
An old drama now from director George Stevens. A Place In The Sun, 1951, stars Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Raymond Burr and Shelley Winters.
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The film earned an estimated $3.5 million at the US and Canadian box office, and earned critical acclaim in 1951.[6][7]
Upon seeing the film, Charlie Chaplin called it "the greatest movie ever made about America".
It won 6 Academy awards. This is the Paramount Bluray
walpurgis
20-08-2021, 08:50
An old drama now from director George Stevens. A Place In The Sun, 1951, stars Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Raymond Burr and Shelley Winters.
A classic movie. I should get a copy.
I think you'd like it Grant.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060176/
i will try and pick up a dvd cheapish:lol:
Hopscotch, 1980. Directed by Ronald Neame, and stars Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Sam Waterston, Ned Beatty, and Herbert Lom.
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According to Neame in the special feature "Introduction by Neame & Garfield", the Jewish Matthau refused to film on location in Germany, as he had lost many relatives in the Holocaust. However, he wanted to have Neame cast his son David and later his stepdaughter Lucy Saroyan, so Matthau gave in. David Matthau played Ross, the CIA agent Kendig takes prisoner after leaving Myerson's house, and Saroyan the pilot who takes Kendig to Bermuda.
According to Neame, he did not think they could get Glenda Jackson, but she and Matthau had previously worked together in the 1978 film House Calls, and she was delighted with the prospect of reteaming with him.
This is the Criterion bluray.(finally arrived)lol
Rio Lobo, 1970(again lol).. Duke Wayne stars.. Howard Hawks directs
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not one of the duke's best this but it has a good story; as similar as it was to the others. jack elam didnt get to work in wayne's next film as wayne felt he upstaged him several times... shows how childish actors can be.
Just ordered a DVD of 'BLOW-UP' 1966, with David Hemmings. I haven't seen it for maybe forty years, but remember finding it fascinating.
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Looks kinda kinky.... Any 'beaver' in it?:eyebrows:
Marco.
Just ordered a DVD of 'BLOW-UP' 1966, with David Hemmings. I haven't seen it for maybe forty years, but remember finding it fascinating.
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Excellent film - I have a copy.
Looks kinda kinky.... Any 'beaver' in it?:eyebrows:
Marco.
There is a nude scene - but you would have to be quick to see any 'beaver'.
Another of my David Lynch films today.. Blue Velvet, 1986. It stars Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, and Laura Dern.
Super song too....
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Blue Velvet initially received a divided critical response, with many stating that its objectionable content served little artistic purpose. Nevertheless, the film earned Lynch his second Academy Award nomination for Best Director, and came to achieve cult status. As an example of a director casting against the norm, it was credited for revitalizing Hopper's career and for providing Rossellini with a dramatic outlet beyond her previous work as a fashion model and a cosmetics spokeswoman. In the years since, the film has generated significant attention, and it is now widely regarded as one of Lynch's major works and one of the greatest films of the 1980s.
Another of my David Lynch films today.. Blue Velvet, 1986. It stars Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, and Laura Dern.
Super song too....
https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTxip46nwFHwkBpGRSUx2Wvq3fGrB-aScFforMh0jdBHFXuHs4r
Blue Velvet initially received a divided critical response, with many stating that its objectionable content served little artistic purpose. Nevertheless, the film earned Lynch his second Academy Award nomination for Best Director, and came to achieve cult status. As an example of a director casting against the norm, it was credited for revitalizing Hopper's career and for providing Rossellini with a dramatic outlet beyond her previous work as a fashion model and a cosmetics spokeswoman. In the years since, the film has generated significant attention, and it is now widely regarded as one of Lynch's major works and one of the greatest films of the 1980s.
Watched that on TV last night.
Only the second time, since I saw it at my local fim club back in its day. Still a difficult watch.
There seems to be a dislocation in time: the film starts with MacLachan finding the severed ear and reporting it to police. Later Maclachlan is kidnapped by Hopper and his henchmen, and taken, along with Rossellini, to where Rossellini's son is being held captive. Her son is being 'looked after' by the camp singer who at the time he appears in the film, is in possesion of both his ears. Yet later still in the film, when MacLachan returns to Rossellini's appartment, he finds the singer there: dead and missing his right ear. Have I missed something?
An interesting film - but not an easy watch.
i read it as 2 realities within one reality... but it could be anything with lynch. i just enjoy the ride:)
walpurgis
21-08-2021, 10:05
i read it as 2 realities within one reality... but it could be anything with lynch. i just enjoy the ride:)
Lynch can be challenging. I still have 'Inland Empire' to get through, tried twice but couldn't latch onto it....................
Lynch can be challenging. I still have 'Inland Empire' to get through, tried twice but couldn't latch onto it....................
ive not seen lost highway for a while. i guess i should... this is probably his most challenging
walpurgis
21-08-2021, 10:24
ive not seen lost highway for a while. i guess i should... this is probably his most challenging
I like 'Lost Highway', but I haven't a clue why :).
I like 'Lost Highway', but I haven't a clue why :).
lol. i never liked inland empire.. the photography stank
I don't think I've seen 'Inland Empire', but have seen most of Lynch's output.
The bar for sheer bizarreness was set high with Lynch's "Eraserhead", but all of his output is weird and challenging.
Another of my David Lynch films today.. Blue Velvet, 1986. It stars Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, and Laura Dern.
Super song too....
https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTxip46nwFHwkBpGRSUx2Wvq3fGrB-aScFforMh0jdBHFXuHs4r
Blue Velvet initially received a divided critical response, with many stating that its objectionable content served little artistic purpose. Nevertheless, the film earned Lynch his second Academy Award nomination for Best Director, and came to achieve cult status. As an example of a director casting against the norm, it was credited for revitalizing Hopper's career and for providing Rossellini with a dramatic outlet beyond her previous work as a fashion model and a cosmetics spokeswoman. In the years since, the film has generated significant attention, and it is now widely regarded as one of Lynch's major works and one of the greatest films of the 1980s.
Its a good film, and a hard watch as said at times; a bit like growing up from late childhood to adult, which can be a nightmare, which i think much of it is about..
Something a bit lighter now; a straight up Hitchcock; The 39 Steps from 1935, so 86 years young. this is the criterion bluray and very clean it is too.
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The 39 Steps is another in a line of Hitchcock films based upon an innocent man being forced to go on the run, including The Lodger (1926), Saboteur (1942) and North by Northwest (1959). The film contains a common Hitchcockian trope of a MacGuffin (a plot device which is vital to the story, but irrelevant to the audience); in this case, the designs for a secret silent aeroplane engine.
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'Black Sunday' (1977)
Robert Shaw is a Mossad agent who tracks a Black September terrorist cell to the USA and tries to stop them committing an atrocity at Super Bowl X.
Not seen this since the early 80s but I remembered it as being pretty good. And in retrospect it is a pretty good film, with several surprises along the way.
The only problem is the pacing is a bit stop-start like a lot of 1970s thrillers ('The Taking Of Pelham 123' being an exception to that rule) and some of the SFX in the blimp scenes are a bit ropey which jars with the 'ultra realism' look of the rest of the film.
Worth a watch though.
Blow Out, 1981. Directed by Brian De Palma and stars John Travolta, Nancy Allen and John Lithgow.
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Blow out got mostly positive reviews at time and now is classed as a cult classic.
walpurgis
21-08-2021, 13:41
Blow Out, 1981. Directed by Brian De Palma and stars John Travolta, Nancy Allen and John Lithgow.
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Blow out got mostly positive reviews at time and now is classed as a cult classic.
Excellent thriller. Not well known. I have the DVD in my collection.
Pigmy Pony
21-08-2021, 14:21
i read it as 2 realities within one reality... but it could be anything with lynch. i just enjoy the ride:)
My thoughts exactly - just embrace the weirdness, don't ruin it by trying to understand it!
The Sand Pebbles, 1966. Directed by Robert Wise and starring Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen, Mako, Simon Oakland, Larry Gates, and Marayat Andriane. Robert Anderson adapted the screenplay from the 1962 novel of the same name by Richard McKenna.
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The Sand Pebbles was a critical and commercial success at its general release. It became the fourth highest-grossing film of 1966 and was nominated for eight Academy Awards and eight Golden Globe Awards, with Attenborough winning the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor.
It rained the night of the premiere, December 20, 1966, at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City. Afterwards, McQueen did not do any film work for about a year due to exhaustion, saying that whatever sins he had committed in his life had been paid for when he made The Sand Pebbles. The performance earned McQueen the only Academy Award nomination of his career. He was not seen on film again until two 1968 films, The Thomas Crown Affair and Bullitt (which included his fellow Sand Pebbles actor Simon Oakland as Bullitt's boss).
walpurgis
21-08-2021, 16:19
The Sand Pebbles, 1966
Another good one. I think it's mentioned in the film that they were known as the Sand Pebbles after the ship, the 'San Pablo'.
My thoughts exactly - just embrace the weirdness, don't ruin it by trying to understand it!
Having seen most of Lynch's output I would agree, but it's an uphill struggle. "Mulholland Drive" did it for me - I just couldn't understand it at all.
"Dune" wasn't weird at all, just badly made. But it is a difficult book to transfer to the screen. Lynch, IMO, just took the opportunity to impose his 'optics' onto the story, without understanding the breadth of the 'space opera'. Nor was "The Straight Story", which although far from a conventional Hollywood film, was original and (err) straightforward.
And the "Elephant Man" was a sympathetic telling of a heavily disfigured man who is doomed to be a fairground freak, until he was looked after by an understanding London doctor. Again an excellent film.
But if you want weird - go no further than "Eraserhead"; Lych's first big-screen film. Should be seen by everyone.
Blow Out, 1981. Directed by Brian De Palma and stars John Travolta, Nancy Allen and John Lithgow.
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Blow out got mostly positive reviews at time and now is classed as a cult classic.
It's OK, but IMO derivative - a sort of 'audio' parallel to "Blow Up", although more horrific. Maybe I should watch it again.
Something a bit lighter now; a straight up Hitchcock; The 39 Steps from 1935, so 86 years young. this is the criterion bluray and very clean it is too.
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The 39 Steps is another in a line of Hitchcock films based upon an innocent man being forced to go on the run, including The Lodger (1926), Saboteur (1942) and North by Northwest (1959). The film contains a common Hitchcockian trope of a MacGuffin (a plot device which is vital to the story, but irrelevant to the audience); in this case, the designs for a secret silent aeroplane engine.
That is the one with Robert Donat - an absolute classic, and IMO, the best version.
Pigmy Pony
21-08-2021, 21:51
But if you want weird - go no further than "Eraserhead"; Lych's first big-screen film. Should be seen by everyone.
I used to go out with a girl who looked a bit like the "girl in the radiator" - well we didn't actually go out in public very much :(
Pigmy Pony
21-08-2021, 21:56
Not watching right now, but earlier tonight - "Knives Out", on Sky Cinema. I wasn't expecting much, but turned out to be quite good, if you like Whodunnits. Even Mrs. P sat through it all. Cast included Christopher Plummer, Daniel Craig, Toni Collette, Don Johnson and Chris Evans.
The Rebel, 1961.. It stars Tony Hancock and was written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. Supporting cast of George Sanders, Irene Handl, Paul Massie, John Le Mesurier, Liz Fraser, Margit Saad and Dennis Price.
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Avanti!, 1972. Directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Jack Lemmon and Juliet Mills. One of my all-time favorites this. Superb script and acting.. Glorious locations and direction at its best.
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Bluray version, German issue but in English.
Great quote for Marco...:D
Carlo Carlucci: In Italy, the lunch hour is from one to four.
Wendell Armbruster: *Three hours* for lunch?
Carlo Carlucci: Mr. Armbruster. Here we do not rush to drugstore for chicken sandwich & Coca-Cola. Here, we take our time. We cook our pasta, we sprinkle our Parmigiano, we drink our wine, we make our love...
Wendell Armbruster: What do you do in the evening?
Carlo Carlucci: In the evening, we go home to our wives.
Italians eh?:D
Another Brian De Palma film now with Dressed To Kill, 1980. Starring Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen, and Keith Gordon.
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Excellent film. I liked Nancy Allen.
Bed now so got Carry on Cleo on.. Actually one of the best carry ons
A real classic this morning from the Criterion bluray stable. The Night Of The Hunter, 1955. Directed by Charles Laughton(his only directed film) and stars Robert Mitchum.
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Laughton's initial thought after reading the novel was to cast himself in the role of the preacher, but Gregory convinced him that no studio would finance a film unless they cast someone else. For the most part, he didn't hold traditional auditions for the actors; he simply met with them to get a sense of their personalities and whether they were right for the role.
Laughton considered casting Gary Cooper as Harry Powell, but Cooper did not accept the role as he thought it might be detrimental to his career. John Carradine expressed interest in the role of the reverend, as did Laurence Olivier, but his schedule wasn't free for two years. Robert Mitchum was eager for the part of the preacher. When he auditioned, a moment that particularly impressed Charles Laughton was when Laughton described the character as "a diabolical shit," and Mitchum promptly answered "Present!" Laughton liked Mitchum for the role partly due to his sexual persona, but Grubb was concerned about the character of the preacher being considered sexual. Laughton told him, "If you want to sell God, you have to be sexy."
walpurgis
23-08-2021, 09:13
A real classic this morning from the Criterion bluray stable. The Night Of The Hunter, 1955. Directed by Charles Laughton(his only directed film) and stars Robert Mitchum.
I have the DVD. Yes, it is a classic. Along with Mitchum's 'Out of The Past', also a dark tale. Both films where the main characters have no redeeming characteristics.
I have the DVD. Yes, it is a classic. Along with Mitchum's 'Out of The Past', also a dark tale. Both films where the main characters have no redeeming characteristics.
another classic that.. was called build my gallows high in this country i think
walpurgis
23-08-2021, 09:33
another classic that.. was called build my gallows high in this country i think
Correct, I think. I watched it recently.
Correct, I think. I watched it recently.
the bluray is on my wishlist, but its under the usa name and a usa disc. need to wait for a while tho lol. im fortunate that my oppo plays region a blurays; in fact thats all i play on it as ive a panasonic 4k one that i use for uk stuff.
Navajo Joe, Ulzana's Raid and Elmer Gantry are 3 others i would like to pickup
A Night To Remember, 1958. Directed by Roy Ward Baker and stars Kenneth More, Kenneth Griffith, David McCallum and Honor Blackman.
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In addition to basing the script -— both in action and dialogue -— on Lord's book, the filmmakers achieved nuanced performances and authentic atmosphere by consulting several actual Titanic survivors, who served as technical advisors. Among them were Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall and passengers Edith Russell and Lawrence Beesley. One day during shooting, Beesley famously gatecrashed the set. He infiltrated the set during the sinking scene, hoping to 'go down with the ship', but was discovered by the director, who ordered him off and vetoed this unscheduled appearance due to actors' union rules. Thus, as Julian Barnes puts it, "for the second time in his life, Beesley left the Titanic just before it was due to go down."
The owner says to 2 people at his table, you see, she's as steady as a rock proudly... what he forgot to mention was it sank like one too;)
Twilight's Last Gleaming, 1977. directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Burt Lancaster, Charles Durning and Richard Widmark.
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The film did poorly at box office.
decent film tbh and not surprised americans didnt like it; it was too close to the truth;)
The History Of Mr Polly 1949.
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Pigmy Pony
24-08-2021, 06:12
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Great little film that, one of my favourites :) Story of Tony Wilson and Factory records, which may even be true :D Brilliant cast, and quite a few cameos. Especially liked the Rob Gretton character
Great film that. Coogan just becomes Wilson, it's uncanny.
Finally arrived, the Criterion region A version of Stagecoach, 1939, directed by John Ford and starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne in his breakthrough role. The screenplay by Dudley Nichols is an adaptation of "The Stage to Lordsburg", a 1937 short story by Ernest Haycox. The film follows a group of strangers riding on a stagecoach through dangerous Apache territory.
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The original negative of Stagecoach was either lost or destroyed. Wayne had one positive print that had never been through a projector gate that director Peter Bogdanovich noticed in Wayne's garage while visiting. In 1970, Wayne allowed it to be used to produce a new negative and that is the film seen today at film festivals.[21] UCLA fully restored the film in 1996 from surviving elements and premiered it on cable's American Movie Classics network. The previous DVD releases by Warner Home Video did not contain the restored print but rather a video print held in the Castle Hill/Caidin Trust library. A digitally restored Blu-ray/DVD version was released in May 2010 via The Criterion Collection.
A year older than last film but about a dangerous journey too.. Alfred Hitchcock directs and it stars Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave. Co stars include Dame May Whitty, Cecil parker and the duo of Naunton Wayne and Basil Radford.
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This is the region A bluray from Criterion.
Lawrence001
24-08-2021, 14:09
A year older than last film but about a dangerous journey too.. Alfred Hitchcock directs and it stars Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave. Co stars include Dame May Whitty, Cecil parker and the duo of Naunton Wayne and Basil Radford.
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This is the region A bluray from Criterion.Can't see the picture but I'm guessing those two co-stars played Englishmen abroad whose only interest was hearing the latest cricket score from Lord's?
Can't see the picture but I'm guessing those two co-stars played Englishmen abroad whose only interest was hearing the latest cricket score from Lord's?
yes, they were called Charters and Caldicott. became quite a hit.
The Holy Grail, 1975.. the python team...
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TIM: That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on!
ROBIN: You tit! I soiled my armor I was so scared!
TIM: Look, that rabbit's got a vicious streak a mile wide! It's a killer!
GALAHAD: Get stuffed!
TIM: He'll do you up a treat, mate.
Beat The Devil, 1953. Directed by John Huston and stars Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones and Gina Lollobrigida, and featured Robert Morley, Peter Lorre and Bernard Lee. Screenplay by John Huston and Truman Capote, and was written on a day to day basis..
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During the filming of Beat the Devil, Humphrey Bogart lost several of his teeth in a car accident. Peter Sellers, then not known internationally, but with a talent for imitating voices, was hired to dub some of Bogart's lines while Bogart was adjusting to the loss of his teeth and unable to speak clearly
The Stranger, 1946... Directed by Orson Welles, It stars Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, and Orson Welles.
This is the Kino Lorber Bluray(region A) restored version from Library of Congress 35mm film restore.
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Minimal restoration was done tbh as they didnt want to alter its impressive noir feel... overall, warts and all its fairly successful.
a very good film that was popular in its day
Charade, 1963. Directed by Stanley Donen and starring Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, James Coburn and George Kennedy.
Often called the best Hitchcock movie that Hitchcock never made.
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When the film was released at Christmas time, 1963, Audrey Hepburn's line, "at any moment we could be assassinated", was dubbed over with "at any moment we could be eliminated" due to the recent assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The dubbed word stood out quite clearly, so official video releases of the film have since restored the original dialogue, though some public domain videos taken from original release prints still carry the redubbed line.
Cary Grant, who turned 59 during filming, was sensitive about the 25-year age difference between Audrey Hepburn (33 at the time of filming) and himself, and was uncomfortable with their romantic interplay. To satisfy his concerns, the filmmakers agreed to add dialogue that has Grant's character comment on his age, and Regina — Hepburn's character — is portrayed as the pursuer.
Ten Little Indians 1945. directed by René Clair and was released in America as And Then There Were None.
stars among others, Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, C. Aubrey Smith and Louis Hayward.
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watch this again.
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from 2001, David Lynch's Mulholland Drive.
bluray
walpurgis
26-08-2021, 09:09
watch this again.
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from 2001, David Lynch's Mulholland Drive.
bluray
Got the DVD, but don't think I've watched it yet.
walpurgis
26-08-2021, 09:28
It occurs to me that I haven't watched 'Mulholland Falls' for years either, that was a decent movie too. I'll dig both out and watch them.
It occurs to me that I haven't watched 'Mulholland Falls' for years either, that was a decent movie too. I'll dig both out and watch them.
Mulholland Falls is a good film but rare to find now.
Mulholland Dr is half reality and half dream i think... enjoyed it more this time.
now a 1949 British film Noir in The Third Man.. directed by Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard.
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walpurgis
26-08-2021, 12:23
now a 1949 British film Noir in The Third Man.. directed by Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard.
Seen it loads of times and still think it's great.
The Hunter, 1980. Steve McQueen's final film.
Supporting cast is Eli Wallach, Kathryn Harrold, LeVar Burton, Ben Johnson, and Richard Venture.
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The Outfit, 1973. Stars Robert Duvall, Karen Black, Joe Don Baker and Robert Ryan.
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watch this again.
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from 2001, David Lynch's Mulholland Drive.
bluray
Saw it at my film club, shortly after it was released. Couldn't make head nor tail of it - and have to say I didn't enjoy it. Ought to give it another go, but not sure I can be bothered.
Mulholland Falls is a good film but rare to find now.
Mulholland Dr is half reality and half dream i think... enjoyed it more this time.
now a 1949 British film Noir in The Third Man.. directed by Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard.
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Excellent film. Like Geoff, I've also seen it many times.
The Ox-Bow Incident, 1943. Directed by William A. Wellman, and starring Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews and Mary Beth Hughes, with Anthony Quinn, William Eythe, Harry Morgan and Jane Darwell.
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The film premiered in May 1943 to positive reviews from critics. It was nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture at the 16th Academy Awards, losing to Casablanca.
More recently, La Furia Umana's Toshi Fujiwara said the film is "one of the most important westerns in the history of American cinema", and Clint Eastwood has stated this is his favorite film.
This is the Arrow bluray.
The African Queen, 1951.. Directed by John Huston and stars Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn.
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Production censors objected to several aspects of the original script, which included the two characters cohabiting without the formality of marriage (as in the book) and some changes were made before the film was completed.[12] Another change followed the casting of Bogart; his character's lines in the original screenplay were rendered with a thick Cockney dialect but the script had to be completely rewritten because the actor was unwilling to attempt it. The rewrite made the character Canadian.
This is the ITV studios uk bluray(not one above)
Lost Highway, 1997. Bill Pullman and Patricia Arquette star.. A David Lynch film.... and as far as i can see, another dream film..
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walpurgis
27-08-2021, 16:04
Lost Highway, 1997. Bill Pullman and Patricia Arquette star.. A David Lynch film.... and as far as i can see, another dream film.
Really weird, but there's something fascinating about it.
Really weird, but there's something fascinating about it.
i think if you take it as a dream its much easier to understand that, like mulholland the person, in this case pullman is making new identities and life but in his mind while in prison
Dead Men Tell No Tales, 2017. 4kuhd version.
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walpurgis
28-08-2021, 07:41
Looking forward to seeing this again, I've ordered the DVD.
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Great film and definitely a classic thriller.
(the 1999 remake, 'Payback', with Mel Gibson wasn't bad either)
Looking forward to seeing this again, I've ordered the DVD.
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Great film and definitely a classic thriller.
(the 1999 remake, 'Payback', with Mel Gibson wasn't bad either)
great film. ive that on my hdd..
I've recently watched The Lady Vanishes and The 39 Steps that you posted a short while ago Grant and enjoyed them very much.
I have been meaning to ask this question for a while; I have a memory (just!) of a movie that ends with two or three people leaving their car whilst at a set of traffic lights as they can't decide of where to leave it.
I also maybe remember the following too, I think it is in black and white, Burt Lancaster? I think that it was an American movie.
Any ideas?
Young Frankenstein, 1974.. Directed by Mel Brooks and stars Gene Wilder.. co-stars Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars, Richard Haydn, and Gene Hackman.
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many great lines including... he would have an enormous Schwanzstucker!!!... :eyebrows:
I've recently watched The Lady Vanishes and The 39 Steps that you posted a short while ago Grant and enjoyed them very much.
I have been meaning to ask this question for a while; I have a memory (just!) of a movie that ends with two or three people leaving their car whilst at a set of traffic lights as they can't decide of where to leave it.
I also maybe remember the following too, I think it is in black and white, Burt Lancaster? I think that it was an American movie.
Any ideas?
it dosnt ring any bells alas peter..sorry
Erik The Viking, 1989. Tim Robbins stars as Erik
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Principal photography took place at Shepperton Studios in England. Some footage of Erik's village and environments was shot in Norway, while the Hy-Brasil sequence was filmed in Malta. Artwork was made by Tolkien artist Alan Lee. The music score was composed by Neil Innes.
Total Recall, 1990.. Big Arnie saves Mars
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The Day the Earth Stood Still , 1951. directed by Robert Wise and stars Michael Rennie and Patricia Neal.
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original and best.. now in 4kuhd
"Klaatu barada nikto". :)
walpurgis
29-08-2021, 08:32
I've been watching 'The Terrornauts', 1967 on Talking Pictures TV. This is a truly crummy film and deserves an award for its uselessness! There are a lot of 'sparkler' special effects and dodgy props, although there are some decent actors. It falls somewhere between Doctor Who and Blake's 7 for wobbly sets, but isn't as good as either! It's actually bad enough to be fun to watch :D.
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Notorious, 1946. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, and Claude Rains.
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quality film . this is a usa region a bluray.
walpurgis
29-08-2021, 11:15
Notorious, 1946. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, and Claude Rains.
I know I've seen it, but can't remember it. Was a highly rated movie.
I know I've seen it, but can't remember it. Was a highly rated movie.
yup its a good movie... just had car out again.. some fresh air etc :eyebrows:
now where the air can be tight.... The Enemy Below, 1957. Directed by Dick Powell and starring Bob Mitcham and Kurt Jurgens.
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For the audible effects, Walter Rossi received the 1958 Academy Award for Best Special Effects.
The destroyer escort USS Haynes (DE-181) was portrayed by the USS Whitehurst, filmed in the Pacific Ocean near Oahu, Hawaii. Many of Whitehurst's crewmen acted in the film: The phone talkers, the gun and depth charge crews, the sailor fishing, and all of the men seen abandoning ship, were real Whitehurst crewmen. The ship's commanding officer, Lieutenant Commander Walter Smith, played the engineering officer. He is the man seen reading comics (Little Orphan Annie) during the lull before the action. In the same scene an enlisted man can be seen reading The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1939. Directed by William Dieterle and stars Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara. Cast includes
Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell, Edmond O'Brien, Alan Marshal and Walter Hampden.
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When Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany on September 1, most of the cast and crew was in a state of fear of what was going to happen. Laughton lightened the mood by reciting the Gettysburg Address (that he had recited in Ruggles of Red Gap). Another incident of emotional filming was the filming of the scene where Quasimodo rings the bells in the tower of the cathedral for Esmeralda. Feeling in pain because his native Britain had declared war on Germany, Laughton rang the bells over and over again until he fell down from exhaustion, overwhelming the crew with emotion.
Censorship
The characters of Claude Frollo and Jehan Frollo are changed from the novel, as was done in the 1923 film. Such changes were made because the filmmakers were concerned that portraying the priest as a villain would violate the policy of the Hays Production Code. In the novel Claude is depicted as the villainous 36-year-old Archdeacon of Notre Dame; in the film he is the good character and much older in age. His younger brother Jehan, who in the novel is a teenaged drunken student and a juvenile delinquent, is in the film a middle-aged villain who is Paris' chief justice and a close advisor to King Louis XI.
The Bells!!!
A charming little film now.. The Smallest Show on Earth, 1957.. (released in the US as Big Time Operators). Stars in abundance with Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Peter Sellers, Bernard Miles, Leslie Phillips, Francis de Wolff, and of course, Margaret Rutherford.
Directed by Basil Dearden.
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The cast alone makes the movie a must-see, and the sequence in which projectionist Peter Sellers, pianist Margaret Rutherford and doorman Bernard Miles relive the glories of the silent era is adorable.
This is the Network Bluray.
The Likely Lads, 1976. Film offshoot of the series. Rodney Bewes and James Bolam star with Brigit Forsyth. The screenplay is by the scriptwriters of the television show, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.
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Again a Network bluray
How the West Was Won, 1962. directed mostly by Henry Hathaway; 3/5 segments, John Ford and George Marshall do one each..Its narrated by Spencer Tracy.
All star cast includes Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, Carolyn Jones, Karl Malden, Gregory Peck, George Peppard, Robert Preston, Debbie Reynolds, James Stewart, Eli Wallach, John Wayne, and Richard Widmark.
Filmed in Cinerama, which was 3 projection onto a curved screen, hence you get a line on screen where its joined for tv purposes.
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Ford complained about having to dress such huge sets, since Cinerama photographed a much wider view than the standard single-camera process to which Hollywood directors were accustomed. Director Henry Hathaway was quoted as saying, "That damned Cinerama. Do you know a waist-shot is as close as you can get with that thing?"
Stick with wild west and this Sydney Pollack film from 1972.. Jeramiah Johnston. Robert Redford in title role. Will Geer, Allyn Ann McLerie, Stefan Gierasch, Charles Tyner and Delle Bolton fill out cast.
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Based loosely on a real mountain man of name John Johnson. He changed his name to that after deserting during the Mexican–American War after striking an officer, when he served aboard a fighting ship, having enlisted under a false age.
Rumors, legends, and campfire tales about Johnson abound. Perhaps chief among them is that in 1847, his wife, a member of the Flathead American Indian tribe, was killed by a young Crow brave and his fellow hunters, which prompted Johnson to embark on a vendetta against the tribe. According to historian Andrew Mehane Southerland, "He supposedly killed and scalped more than 300 Crow Indians and then devoured their livers" to avenge the death of his wife, and "As his reputation and collection of scalps grew, Johnson became an object of fear."
The story here is changed somewhat.
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Farewell My Lovely (1975)
Robert Mitchum is private investigator Philip Marlowe, hired to find the missing girlfriend of a bank robber who has just been released from prison. This is adapated from a Raymond Chandler novel so inevitably the task is massively more complicated than it seems.
The 1941 period setting is well done, partly helped by the fact that in 1975 you could still find locations that hadn't substantially changed since 1941. Mitchum is good which doesn't really need saying, as is Jack O'Halloran as bank robber 'Moose' Malloy, but the film feels a bit constrained, not enough time is spent establishing and developing the characters and the atmosphere, two things which are really essential to do justice to any Chandler novel.
Not to say it isn't worth a watch as it gets a lot right, it's just a shame another 10 percent of effort wasn't put in and it could have been a classic.
I don't know why Tarantino doesn't have a go at a Chandler story, I have the feeling that he would know exactly how to do it justice.
Mitchum's recollections of making the picture are highly amusing and sound a lot like Chandler's dialogue:
The producer, Elliott Kastner, comes by with Sir Lew Grade, the British tycoon. He has a black suit, a black tie, a white shirt and a whiter face. 'I know nothing about motion pictures,' Sir Lew says. 'What I know is entertainment: Ferris wheels, pony rides.' I suggested we buy up the rights to Murder, My Sweet with Dick Powell, re-release it and go to the beach.
But, no, they hired a director, Dick Richards, so nervous he can't hold his legs still. They have all the hide rubbed off them, He started doing TV commercials. He was accustomed to, you know, start the camera, expose 120 feet of film and tell somebody to move the beer bottle half an inch clockwise. He does the same thing with people.
Mitchum called O'Halloran "One great find on this picture. At least, he's a find if we can ever find him again... They hired him for $500 a week. He looked perfect for the part. One time he hit the producer. One of the producers. We had seven of them. We called them the Magnificent Seven. Jack was swinging this poor bastard around his head like an Indian war club.
I tried to explain to him: 'The guy can be talked to, Jack.' He shakes his head. 'Mitch,' he says, 'I was crying too hard.'"
''Charlotte Rampling arrived with an odd entourage, two husbands or something. Or they were friends and she married one of them and he grew a mustache and butched up. She kept exercising her mouth like she was trying to swallow her ear. I played her on the right side because she had two great big blackheads on her left ear, and I was afraid they'd spring out and lodge on my lip."
lol, irish jack was a boxer, 6'6", and the illegitimate son of mafia hitman Albert Anastasia. best not mess lol. He is still alive
Joe Kidd. 1972. stars Clint Eastwood and Robert Duvall. Directed by John Sturges.
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walpurgis
31-08-2021, 15:18
Joe Kidd. 1972. stars Clint Eastwood and Robert Duvall. Directed by John Sturges.
Watched that last week. It's OK, but not one of Eastwood's best. Some good 'baddie' actors in it, I always found John Saxon irritatingly unconvincing. Duvall and Don Stroud were excellent as usual.
Watched that last week. It's OK, but not one of Eastwood's best. Some good 'baddie' actors in it, I always found John Saxon irritatingly unconvincing. Duvall and Don Stroud were excellent as usual.
saxon, yeah. he mostly worked in italy i think. was in that bruce lee film too
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Film Noir this morning i think, and where better to start than Key Largo, 1948. Directed by: John Huston and stars Humphrey Bogart , Lauren Bacall, Claire Trevor and Edward G. Robinson.
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The script was adapted from a 1939 play of the same name by Maxwell Anderson. In the play, the gangsters are Mexican bandidos, the war in question is the Spanish Civil War, and McCloud is a disgraced deserter who dies at the end.
Robinson had top billing over Bogart in their four previous films together: Bullets or Ballots (1936), Kid Galahad (1937), The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) and Brother Orchid (1940), but the situation switched for the billing in this final film that Bogart and Robinson worked together on.
walpurgis
01-09-2021, 09:30
Film Noir this morning i think, and where better to start than Key Largo, 1948. Directed by: John Huston and stars Humphrey Bogart , Lauren Bacall, Claire Trevor and Edward G. Robinson.
Can't go wrong with that. Great classic movie.
Can't go wrong with that. Great classic movie.
"You don't like the storm do you Rocco?. Show it your gun; if it don't stop, shoot it!"
Fabulous line delivered perfectly by Bogey.
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, 1974. directed by Joseph Sargent, and stars Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, and Hector Elizondo.
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Production began with scenes inside the subway tunnel. These were filmed over the course of eight weeks on the local tracks of the IND Fulton Street Line at the abandoned Court Street in Brooklyn. Closed to the public in 1946, it became a filming location and home to the New York Transit Museum. (Among other films, the Court Street station was used for The French Connection, Death Wish, and the 2009 remake of Pelham.)
The production company set up chess boards, card tables, and ping pong tables along the Court Street platform for cast and crew recreation between set-ups. Robert Shaw apparently beat all comers in ping pong.
Dead Reckoning, 1947, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lizabeth Scott.
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Not one of his best but not too bad either. Scott was a bit lifeless
Picnic at Hanging Rock , 1975. With its haunting panpipes and unanswerable conclusion(or lack of), Peter Weir's film of the disappearance of several schoolgirls and their teacher during a picnic at Hanging Rock, Victoria on Valentine's Day in 1900, and the subsequent effect on the local community is still a classic tale and a beautiful one.
One odd film and one you'd more expect from likes of David Lynch.
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I suppose its a film about unhealthy obsessions really.
This is the Director's Cut Bluray.
Picnic at Hanging Rock , 1975. With its haunting panpipes and unanswerable conclusion(or lack of), Peter Weir's film of the disappearance of several schoolgirls and their teacher during a picnic at Hanging Rock, Victoria on Valentine's Day in 1900, and the subsequent effect on the local community is still a classic tale and a beautiful one.
One odd film and one you'd more expect from likes of David Lynch.
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The difference is David Lynch is crap and Peter Weir is a genius...
lol.. i love both. peter's master and commander is a cracking film... must watch it again soon. truman show was clever too.
a tale of sexual repression of girls. And i guess, greed and spite of the old over young i think. Wonderfully visualized too.
Curse of the Black Pearl, 2003.
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uhd amazon file
lol.. i love both. peter's master and commander is a cracking film...
went to see that at a matinee showing when it first came out. Me and a mate we were the only two people in the theatre. They didn't even bother to put the heating on for us. I was okay had a big coat on but my pal was just wearing a leather jacket, he was practically blue with cold by the time it finished. Good film though.
Surprising how few films he has made in fifty years. 'Gallipoli' is his best IMO. A perfect film.
went to see that at a matinee showing when it first came out. Me and a mate we were the only two people in the theatre. They didn't even bother to put the heating on for us. I was okay had a big coat on but my pal was just wearing a leather jacket, he was practically blue with cold by the time it finished. Good film though.
Surprising how few films he has made in fifty years. 'Gallipoli' is his best IMO. A perfect film. it was good, but needless to say not perfect. i enjoyed it at time, although Mel is inclined to overact at times.
Truman show was brilliantly done, although its not really my thing tbh i did find it so well done you have to enjoy it. Ive read a lot of the O'Brian books so enjoyed M and C
The difference is David Lynch is crap and Peter Weir is a genius...
Or - David Lynch's films are ugly-looking, whereas Peter Weir's films are much more pleasing to the eye.
Three Days of the Condor, 1975. Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway star along with Cliff Roberton and Max von Sydow. Director was Sydney Pollack .
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This is the Eureka Bluray version. Probably the best you can get . Picture is much improved as is the 2 channel audio.
Or - David Lynch's films are ugly-looking, whereas Peter Weir's films are much more pleasing to the eye.
True. 'Picnic At Hanging Rock' is beautiful but deeply unsettling at the same time. Takes real skill to pull that off.
Whereas Lynch just goes with the 'Make it as weird and unfathomable as possible and some people will say it's genius and most people will go along with them so as not to look stupid' approach.
Emperor's new clothes. Although I do like 'Dune', I think he nailed that.
True. 'Picnic At Hanging Rock' is beautiful but deeply unsettling at the same time. Takes real skill to pull that off.
Whereas Lynch just goes with the 'Make it as weird and unfathomable as possible and some people will say it's genius and most people will go along with them so as not to look stupid' approach.
Emperor's new clothes. Although I do like 'Dune', I think he nailed that.
interesting as lynch hated dune, as it was kinda taken out of his hands by Universal, who took post-production control of the film away from Lynch and re-edited his original three-hour version into a shorter two-hour and fifteen-minute studio cut.
still, as you say its a work of art but could have been better if they had let him alone.
Three Days of the Condor, 1975. Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway star along with Cliff Roberton and Max von Sydow. Director was Sydney Pollack .
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This is the Eureka Bluray version. Probably the best you can get . Picture is much improved as is the 2 channel audio.
Interestingly the job he had didnt originally exist in the cia, but the russians thought it did and opened their own version. this was so successful, apparently the cia then opened their own version.
another thing i found funny was Faye Dunaway saying that getting raped etc by Redford isnt the worst thing that can happen to a woman, so to get some fearful expressions, director Pollack shot some closeups of her while he said nasty and scary things he was going to do to her.:eek: the mind boggles
Cloak and Dagger, 1946. Directed by Fritz Lang and stars Gary Cooper and Lilli Palmer.
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This is Eureka's bluray version. A quality ww2 espionage thriller.. "Our Germans Are Better Than Your Germans":eyebrows:
Fritz Lang again with his classic first talkie, the 1931, M. Stars Peter Lorre.
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Eureka Bluray(which is an excellent print and in German with subtitles)
A little ditty now to fill time after such a intense film as M... Blame It on the Bellboy, 1992. directed by Mark Herman and starring Dudley Moore, Bryan Brown, Patsy Kensit, Richard Griffiths, Penelope Wilton, Alison Steadman, Andreas Katsulas, and Bronson Pinchot.
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I quite like all the main stars in this and although its a nothing much film it has its moments. Penelope Wilton is quite funny and a nice lived in face too.
Balls to Penelope Wilton, it has Patsy Kensit at the height of her powers. That's the only thing that makes it watchable.
walpurgis
03-09-2021, 18:05
Pink Floyd 'Live in Venice' 1989, on Sky Arts tonight at 9pm if anybody is interested (I saw it last time it was on :)).
'The Man From Atlantis'
Just a random episode from 1978 that I taped as it was on in the middle of the night.
Not seen any of these since they were ordinally broadcast. I recalled it being watchable if not great, but I can tell you now it's shockingly poor. Much worse than I remember.
'The Man From Atlantis'
Just a random episode from 1978 that I taped as it was on in the middle of the night.
Not seen any of these since they were ordinally broadcast. I recalled it being watchable if not great, but I can tell you now it's shockingly poor. Much worse than I remember.
Forces network strikes again!
Just started on 5USA
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walpurgis
03-09-2021, 20:20
Those Jesse Stone thrillers are excellent.
I did try to watch one based on your recco but it was very, very slow to get started and seemed to require some prior knowledge I didn't have.
Pigmy Pony
03-09-2021, 20:47
Stupid Sky box only recorded first half of Ep. 1 and couldn't get the rest on catch up. So no idea how it ended up. Then I lost interest.
Just getting into something called "Bosch" on Prime Video. Quite interesting despite the main character being a bit dull. I'll stick with it for a while in case he does something interesting.
walpurgis
03-09-2021, 20:50
I did try to watch one based on your recco but it was very, very slow to get started and seemed to require some prior knowledge I didn't have.
I guess you could describe the pace as 'measured', but the cast and acting are top notch and what violent action there is, is immediate and decisive.
It does help if you see them in sequence though.
It does help if you see them in sequence though.
I figured that about 10 minutes into it. They'll be round again.
Stupid Sky box only recorded first half of Ep. 1 and couldn't get the rest on catch up. So no idea how it ended up. Then I lost interest.
Just getting into something called "Bosch" on Prime Video. Quite interesting despite the main character being a bit dull. I'll stick with it for a while in case he does something interesting.First series was quite good if a little slow.
Second series I disliked and stopped watching.
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Trading Places, 1983. Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, and Jamie Lee Curtis star in this John Landis film.
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a classic comedy. While the film never claimed the number one box office ranking, it spent seventeen straight weeks among the top ten-highest-grossing films. By September, it was the fourth-highest-grossing film of the year with $80.6 million. By the end of its theatrical run, Trading Places earned an approximate box office gross of $90.4 million. It finished as the fourth-highest-grossing film of 1983, behind Paramount Studio's surprise hit, the romantic drama Flashdance.
one of my brothers had the music from the opening credits to Trading Places at his wedding, for the 'leaving the church' bit.
His first choice was the closing credits music from Star Wars 'A New Hope' but his wife to be vetoed that.
You can see how it would work though
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yeah the trading places one was a good choice i guess. no sure re star wars but might have been good if not so well known
walpurgis
04-09-2021, 09:49
Got a DVD of 'The Drowning Pool' 1975 to watch. Paul Newman, Joanna Woodward and Melanie Griffith. I saw this follow up to 'Harper' years ago and thought it was an excellent thriller.
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Another Fritz lang film with American Guerrilla in the Philippines, 1950. It stars Tyrone Power, who during the war was a pilot and flew in the pacific combat area.
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Based on the factual book of same name. US Navy Ensign Iliff "Rich" Richardson was the executive officer of PT 34. After its sinking by the Japanese, Richardson and a dozen fellow Americans attempted to sail a native outrigger to Australia, but the boat was sunk in a storm. He eventually joined the Philippine guerrilla forces, setting up a radio network to keep the various bands in touch with each other and Allied forces in Australia. After the liberation of the Philippines, Richardson dictated his memoirs to war correspondent Ira Wolfert, who published them in 1945 as An American Guerilla in the Philippines. The book became a Book-of-the-Month Club selection and was published in condensed form in the March 1945 issue of Readers Digest.
Cowboys & Aliens, 2011. Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford star.
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Wilt, 1989. Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith, Alison Steadman, and Diana Quick star.
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This is the Bluray version i was lucky enough to find. every time i try its sold out lol..
nice black comedy adaption of Tom Sharpe's book.
Another Fritz Lang film today. The 1945, Scarlett Street. Stars Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea, who had earlier appeared together in The Woman in the Window (1944), also directed by Fritz Lang. Local authorities in three cities (New York, Milwaukee, and Atlanta) banned Scarlet Street early in 1946 because of its dark plot and themes.
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This is the Kino Lorber Bluray Region A, and tmk the only bluray version.
A box-office hit in its day (despite being banned in three states), Scarlet Street is perhaps legendary director Fritz Lang's (Metropolis) finest American film. Kino's immaculate 1080P transfer, from a 35mm Library of Congress vault negative, restores Lang's extravagantly fatalistic vision to its original B&W glory. When middle-aged milquetoast Chris Cross (Edward G. Robinson -- Double Indemnity, Little Caesar) rescues street-walking bad girl Kitty (Joan Bennett -- The Reckless Moment) from the rain slicked gutters of an eerily artificial backlot Greenwich Village, he plunges headlong into a whirlpool of lust, larceny and revenge. As Chris' obsession with the irresistibly vulgar Kitty grows, the meek cashier is seduced, corrupted, humiliated and transformed into an avenging monster before implacable fate and perverse justice triumph in the most satisfyingly downbeat denouement in the history of American film. Both Scarlet Street producer Walter Wanger's wife and director Lang's mistress, Joan Bennett created a femme fatale icon as the unapologetically erotic and ruthless Kitty. Robinson breathes subtle, fragile humanity into Chris Cross while film noir super-heavy Dan Duryea, as Kitty's pimp boyfriend Johnny, skillfully molds ''a vicious and serpentine creature out of a cheap, chiseling tin horn.'' (The New York Times). Packed with hairpin plot twists from screenwriter Dudley Nichols (Stagecoach) and ''bristling with fine directorial touches and expert acting'' (Time), Scarlet Street is a dark gem of film noir and golden age Hollywood filmmaking at its finest.
Pigmy Pony
05-09-2021, 12:08
"CHiPs" on Forces TV. Bit dated, but good for vegging out on a Sunday sofa :)
You can't fault a bit of Forces TV. They seem to be the only channel showing proper telly nowadays.
Them and ITV4 I suppose. Except when ITV4 cancel the proper telly to put on the Tour De France or some other sporting shite no-one cares about. At least Forces never does that.
ITV got 4 channels which except for ITV4 are wall-to-wall wank. Yet if they want to put on women's cricket or some other total non-event they put it on the only channel that shows anything good.
The Day of the Locust, 1975. directed by John Schlesinger, and starring Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, William Atherton, Burgess Meredith, Richard Dysart, John Hillerman, and Geraldine Page.
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personally, the kid deserved all it got;)
"CHiPs" on Forces TV. Bit dated, but good for vegging out on a Sunday sofa :)
was a recent film made of that i think; different actors of course.lol cant have pensioners in the chp
Them and ITV4 I suppose. Except when ITV4 cancel the proper telly to put on the Tour De France or some other sporting shite no-one cares about. At least Forces never does that.
ITV got 4 channels which except for ITV4 are wall-to-wall wank. Yet if they want to put on women's cricket or some other total non-event they put it on the only channel that shows anything good.
I’m a big British Touring Car Championship fan, and grateful for the ITV4 coverage but I can see losing over 7 hours of normal scheduling on race Sundays would be a right ball ache if you don’t like it...
I’m a big British Touring Car Championship fan, and grateful for the ITV4 coverage but I can see losing over 7 hours of normal scheduling on race Sundays would be a right ball ache if you don’t like it...
Actually I do sometimes watch the TCC...although it's not as good as it used to be in the 70s and 80s.
Dead Man's Chest, 2006.
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In Which We Serve, 1942. Stars John Mills, Bernard Miles, Celia Johnson, Richard Attenborough and of course Coward himself.
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The film was the second most popular movie at the British box office in 1943. (According to Kinematograph Weekly the film was the most popular.)
The film was one of the most successful British films ever released in the US, earning $1.8 million in rentals
A patriotic war film directed by Noël Coward and David Lean. It was made during the Second World War with the assistance of the Ministry of Information.
Bosley Crowther of The New York Times observed, "There have been other pictures which have vividly and movingly conveyed in terms of human emotion the cruel realities of this present war. None has yet done it so sharply and so truly as In Which We Serve... For the great thing which Mr. Coward has accomplished in this film is a full and complete expression of national fortitude ... Yes, this is truly a picture in which the British may take a wholesome pride and we may regard as an excellent expression of British strength."
Lawrence001
05-09-2021, 18:45
Is that the one where the sailor gets home to see his wife and new baby and there's a gap in the terrace where his house stood after a bomb landed there?
Can see how that would affect the audience at the time.
Pigmy Pony
06-09-2021, 17:12
was a recent film made of that i think; different actors of course.lol cant have pensioners in the chp
Eric Estrada died last week :(
Eric Estrada died last week :(Must have missed that. Must have been in 70,s I guess.
Carry on Cleo 1964.
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The Day of the Triffids, 1962. Loosely based on the 1951 novel of the same name by John Wyndham, and stars Howard Keel and Nicole Maurey.
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Not very close to book but is interesting too... A bit 'war of the worlds' on a budget
Eric Estrada died last week :(
Not according to the internet - 72 and still alive - news of his death was a hoax.
Who the fook is he?:D
Marco.
Who the fook is he?:D
"Ponch" out of CHiPS! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Estrada
Pigmy Pony
07-09-2021, 15:19
Not according to the internet - 72 and still alive - news of his death was a hoax.
Social media is a bastard, but I'm glad to hear he's still around, and not cashed in his CHiPs yet :)
The Ghosts of Berkeley Square 1947. Stars Robert Morley and Felix Aylmer.
Quality stuff this. Aylmer was not in a lot of films but was a class act, as was Morley
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The Four Feathers, 1939. directed by Zoltan Korda, starring John Clements, Ralph Richardson, June Duprez, and C. Aubrey Smith.
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the 1902 novel of the same name by A.E.W. Mason is different to this, but the film still makes for an exciting watch. probably more so than the book would have in pictures.
Dune, 1984. directed by David Lynch and based on the 1965 Frank Herbert novel of the same name. The film stars Kyle MacLachlan (in his film debut) .
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First Men in the Moon, 1964. An adaptation of H. G. Wells' 1901 novel The First Men in the Moon. Directed by Nathan Juran, and starring Edward Judd, Martha Hyer and Lionel Jeffries.
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Ray Harryhausen provided the stop-motion animation effects, which include the Selenites, giant caterpillar-like "Moon Cows" and the large-brained Grand Lunar.
This is the Indicator bluray ....
The spacesuit type worn by the film's UN Astronauts is actually the Windak high-altitude pressure suit, developed for the Royal Air Force. Each was fitted with a 1960s-type aqualung cylinder worn as a backpack. These pressure suits would also be used in two Doctor Who stories: William Hartnell's final story "The Tenth Planet" and the Patrick Troughton-era "The Wheel in Space". They also appear in the original Star Wars trilogy as the costumes for Bossk and Bo Shek.
Terminator Genisys, 2015. Directed by Alan Taylor. Big Arnie is back!
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Film grossed $440m.
"Ponch" out of CHiPS! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Estrada
Ah right, cheers. I used to watch that programme, but couldn't have told you what either of their real names were! Just don't really pay much attention to such things. Anyway, glad that he's still with us:)
Marco
Man Hunt, 1941. Is directed by Fritz Lang (again)and starring Walter Pidgeon and Joan Bennett. Based on Geoffrey Household's 1939 novel, Rogue Male. In support the cast includes george Sanders, John Carradine and Roddy McDowall.
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A superior boys own tale of bravery and British spunk v German evil.:eyebrows:
This is the Bluray.
The Ballad of Cable Hogue, 1970. directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Jason Robards, Stella Stevens, Strother Martin, Slim Pickens and David Warner.
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The Dogs Of War, 1980. directed by John Irvin and starred Christopher Walken and Tom Berenger. Based of the book by Fredrick Forsyth.
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The title is based on a phrase from William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar: "Cry, 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war."
Jack Cardiff did the Cinematography.
Pigmy Pony
11-09-2021, 13:06
The Dogs Of War, 1980. directed by John Irvin and starred Christopher Walken and Tom Berenger. Based of the book by Fredrick Forsyth.
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The title is based on a phrase from William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar: "Cry, 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war."
Jack Cardiff did the Cinematography.
I read the book a long time ago (my Fred Forsyth period), and liked it. But somehow this film has passed me by :scratch: I'll see if I can find it, but only have Prime Video and Netflix. I wouldn't mind re-watching Day of the Jackal and Odessa File too. All good stuff :)
The Wild Geese, 1978. directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and starring Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris, and Hardy Krüger.
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The film was named The Wild Geese after the Wild Goose flag and shoulder patch used by Michael "Mad Mike" Hoare's Five Commando ANC.
Ian Yule, who played Tosh Donaldson, had been a real mercenary in Africa in the 1960s and 1970s. He was cast locally in South Africa. He then brought his former commanding officer, Michael "Mad Mike" Hoare, who had led one legion of mercenaries, 5 Commando, Armée Nationale Congolaise (not to be confused with 5 Commando, the Second World War British Commando force), in the Congo Crisis of the 1960s, to be the technical adviser for the film. a role which he shared with Yule.
Another Andrew V. McLaglen film, and with Roger Moore in it too, along with Gregory Peck and David Niven. The Sea Wolves, 1981.
The film is based on the 1978 book Boarding Party by James Leasor, which itself is based on a real incident which took place in World War II. The incident involved Operation Creek, the Calcutta Light Horse's covert attack on 9 March 1943 against a German merchant ship, which had been transmitting information to U-boats from Mormugão Harbour in neutral Portugal's territory of Goa, India.
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The film reunited much of the cast and crew from 1978's The Wild Geese, including actors Roger Moore, Kenneth Griffith, Jack Watson, Percy Herbert, Patrick Allen, Brook Williams, Patrick Holt and Terence Longdon, writer Reginald Rose, producer Euan Lloyd, director Andrew V. McLaglen, designer Syd Cain, and composer Roy Budd.
Von Ryan's Express, 1965. directed by Mark Robson and starring Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard and Raffaella Carrà.
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Stay on war and Brian G Hutton's 1970 classic, Kelly's Heroes. It stars Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O'Connor, and Donald Sutherland.
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The Tiger I tanks were actually Soviet T-34 tanks that had been modified to look like the German tank. The US Sherman tanks were the M4A3E4 variant. Kelly's platoon also drove an M3 Gun Motor Carriage before it was destroyed on the hill, as well as several half-tracks. The Germans also drove a Kübelwagen.
Kelly's men were armed with a mix of .30 caliber machine guns, Browning Automatic Rifles and Thompson submachine guns, with few carbines or rifles. Gutkowski, the unit's sniper, was armed with a Soviet Mosin–Nagant M91/30 rifle disguised by a US bayonet lashed to the muzzle. The German soldiers were armed almost exclusively with MP 40 submachine guns.
Taken, 2002. Stephen Spielberg presents.. mini series on aliens etc.. very good this and worth watching..
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Right now, this:
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Friends hiking the Appalachian Trail are confronted by 'The Foundation', a community of people who have lived in the mountains for hundreds of years - and they don't like strangers!
EVIL lurks at every turn... :eyebrows:
Marco.
The Lost weekend, 1945. directed by Billy Wilder starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman. It was based on Charles R. Jackson's 1944 novel of the same title about an alcoholic writer. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won four: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It also shared the Grand Prix at the first Cannes Film Festival, making it one of only three films (the other two being Marty (1955) and Parasite (2019)) to win both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the highest award at Cannes.
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The Lost weekend, 1945. directed by Billy Wilder starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman. It was based on Charles R. Jackson's 1944 novel of the same title about an alcoholic writer. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won four: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It also shared the Grand Prix at the first Cannes Film Festival, making it one of only three films (the other two being Marty (1955) and Parasite (2019)) to win both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the highest award at Cannes.
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Not a bad film - though I often find Ray Milland's delivery to be lecturing rather than normal speech.
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What's it about?
What's it about?
Football
Taken, 2002. Stephen Spielberg presents.. mini series on aliens etc.. very good this and worth watching..
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been continuing with this.. great stuff...silly but is it?:eek:
Football
Looks more like the preamble to a lesbo porn fest!:eyebrows:
Marco.
Watched the series of 7 episodes over 2 nights. It's been nominated for 18 Emmys and won 2 Golden Globe Awards.
I found it a bit slow but quite engaging.
Paths Of Glory, 1957. Co-written and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on the novel of the same name by Humphrey Cobb. It stars Kirk Douglas as Col Drax.
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The title of Cobb's novel came from the ninth stanza of Thomas Gray's poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (1751).[9]
The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
Awaits alike th'inevitable hour.
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
On its release, the film's anti-military tone was subject to criticism and censorship.
In France, both active and retired personnel from the French military vehemently criticized the film—and its portrayal of the French Army—after it was released in Belgium. The French government placed enormous pressure on United Artists, (the European distributor) not to release the film in France. The film was eventually shown in France in 1975 when social attitudes had changed.
In Germany, the film was withdrawn from the Berlin Film Festival to avoid straining relations with France; it was not shown until two years after its US release.
In Spain, the right-wing government of Francisco Franco objected to the film. It was first shown in 1986, 11 years after Franco's death.
The film was banned by Switzerland as "incontestably offensive" to France, her judicial system and her army, until 1970.
The film was banned in all United States military establishments, both at home and overseas, due to its content.
Bend of the River, 1952. Western film directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Julie Adams, and Rock Hudson.
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Stewart took a percentage of the profits. In 1953, William Goetz estimated that Stewart had earned $750,000 from the film.
The movie holds a perfect 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
The First Great Train Robbery, 1978. Directed by Michael Crichton, who also wrote the screenplay. It stars Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, and Lesley-Anne Down, with Michael Elphick and Wayne Sleep.
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The film's plot is loosely based on the Great Gold Robbery of 1855, in which a cracksman named William Pierce engineered the theft of a trainload of gold being shipped to the British Army during the Crimean War. The gold shipment of £12,000 (equal to £1,129,671 today) in gold coin and ingots from the London-to-Folkestone passenger train was stolen by Pierce and his accomplices, a clerk in the railway offices named Tester, and a skilled screwsman named Agar. The robbery was a year in the planning and involved making sets of duplicate keys from wax impressions for the locks on the safes, and bribing the train's guard, a man called Burgess. Crichton, the author of the book and the screenplay, was inspired by Kellow Chesney's 1970 book The Victorian Underworld, which is a comprehensive examination of the more sordid aspects of Victorian society.
walpurgis
15-09-2021, 14:22
The First Great Train Robbery, 1978.
Good movie, clever and funny.
another classic, this time from big Clint... The Outlaw Josey Wales, 1976. Clint Eastwood directs and stars... co stars are with Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, Sam Bottoms, and Geraldine Keams.
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Upon release in August 1976, The Outlaw Josey Wales was widely acclaimed by critics, many of whom saw Eastwood's role as an iconic one, relating it with much of America's ancestral past and the destiny of the nation after the American Civil War. The film was pre-screened at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities in Idaho in a six-day conference entitled Western Movies: Myths and Images. Academics such as Bruce Jackson, critics such as Jay Cocks and Arthur Knight and directors such as King Vidor, Henry King, William Wyler and Howard Hawks were invited to the screening.Time magazine named the film one of the year's top 10. Roger Ebert compared the nature and vulnerability of Eastwood's portrayal of Josey Wales with his "Man with No Name" character in the Dollars Trilogy and praised the atmosphere of the film. On The Merv Griffin Show, Orson Welles lauded the film, calling Eastwood "one of America's finest directors".
Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes retrospectively gave the film a 90% approval rating based on 41 reviews.
Ministry of Fear, 1944. Directed by Fritz Lang and stars Ray Milland. Based on the 1943 novel by Graham Greene, the film tells the story of a man just released from a mental asylum who finds himself caught up in an international spy ring and pursued by Nazi agents after inadvertently receiving something they want.
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In a review at the time of release, Bosley Crowther of The New York Times wrote positively of Ministry of Fear stating: "Mr. Lang has given the picture something of the chilling quality of some of his early German shockers—a strangely arch and maniacal surge that comes through suggestive use of camera and morbid pace in more critical spots. The clammy and numbing sensations of fear are thereby conveyed in a manner that is quite unusual for our generally overworked screen."
This is the region A bluray from Criterion,
Man in the Vault, 1956. The film was the directorial debut of Andrew V. McLaglen, and stars William Campbell.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, 2011.
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El Dorado, 1966. directed by Howard Hawks(the second of 3 hawks films on subject) and starring John Wayne, James Caan and Robert Mitchum.
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Barring ensamble film 'the longest day' this was only film the two major stars, wayne and mitchum did together
Saturday matinee... Jack the Ripper, 1959, produced and directed by Monty Berman and Robert S. Baker. It stars Lee Patterson and Eddie Byrne and co-stars Betty McDowall, John Le Mesurier, and Ewen Solon.
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There are 2 versions on this bluray, USA and UK.. this is the UK version.
Sullivan's Travels, 1941. Written and directed by Preston Sturges and stars Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake.
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This is the Arrow Bluray.
The film's primary theme is best summed up in the last line of dialogue as spoken by Sullivan: "There's a lot to be said for making people laugh. Did you know that's all some people have? It isn't much, but it's better than nothing in this cockeyed caravan."
The scene in which the prisoners are taken to watch the 1934 Disney cartoon Playful Pluto takes place in a Southern black church; the film treats the African-American characters there with a level of respect unusual in films of the period. The Secretary of the NAACP, Walter White, wrote to Sturges:
I want to congratulate and thank you for the church sequence in Sullivan's Travels. This is one of the most moving scenes I have seen in a moving picture for a long time. But I am particularly grateful to you, as are a number of my friends, both white and colored, for the dignified and decent treatment of Negroes in this scene. I was in Hollywood recently and am to return there soon for conferences with production heads, writers, directors, and actors and actresses in an effort to induce broader and more decent picturization of the Negro instead of limiting him to menial or comic roles. The sequence in Sullivan's Travels is a step in that direction and I want you to know how grateful we are.
The ever-young 'Some Like It Hot', 1959. Billy Wilder directs and it stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, and features George Raft, Pat O'Brien and Joe E. Brown.
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One of the greatest of the greats imho....pure genius at times.
Some Like It Hot received widespread acclaim from critics, and is considered among the best films of all time. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 94% of 66 critics have given the film a positive review, with an average rating of 9.1/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Some Like It Hot: A spry, quick-witted farce that never drags." According to Metacritic, another review aggregator which calculated a weighted average score of 98 out of 100 based on 19 critics, the film received "universal acclaim". Chicago Sun-Times's Roger Ebert wrote, "Wilder's 1959 comedy is one of the enduring treasures of the movies, a film of inspiration and meticulous craft." Ebert gave the film four stars out of four and included it in his Great Movies list. John McCarten of The New Yorker referred to the film as "a jolly, carefree enterprise". Richard Roud, writing for The Guardian in 1967, said with this film Wilder comes "close to perfection".
The Searchers, 1956. Directed by John Ford, based on the 1954 novel by Alan Le May, set during the Texas–Indian wars, and starring John Wayne as a middle-aged Civil War veteran who spends years looking for his abducted niece (Natalie Wood), accompanied by his adoptive nephew (Jeffrey Hunter).
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The Searchers has been cited as one of the greatest films of all time, such as in the BFI's decennial Sight & Sound polls. In 1972, The Searchers was ranked 18th; in 1992, 5th; in 2002, 11th; in 2012, 7th. In a 1959 Cahiers du Cinema essay, Godard compared the movie's ending with that of the reuniting of Odysseus with Telemachus in Homer's Odyssey. In 1963, he ranked The Searchers as the fourth-greatest American movie of the sound era, after Scarface (1932), The Great Dictator (1940), and Vertigo (1958). The 2007 American Film Institute 100 greatest American films list ranked The Searchers in 12th place. In 1998, TV Guide ranked it 18th. In 2008, the American Film Institute named The Searchers as the greatest Western of all time. In 2010, Richard Corliss noted the film was "now widely regarded as the greatest Western of the 1950s, the genre's greatest decade" and characterized it as a "darkly profound study of obsession, racism, and heroic solitude".
The film currently maintains a 96% approval rating on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes based on 48 reviews, with an average rating of 9/10. The site's critics' consensus reads: "The Searchers is an epic John Wayne Western that introduces dark ambivalence to the genre that remains fashionable today."
Magnificent film.
Sherlock Holmes, 2009. Directed by Guy Ritchie ... Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law portray Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson.
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Salads in Burma
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Blow Out, 1981. Written and directed by Brian De Palma. It stars John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow and Dennis Franz.
This is the Criterion Bluray.
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The New Yorker, Pauline Kael gave the film one of her few unconditional raves:
"De Palma has sprung to the place that Robert Altman achieved with films such as McCabe & Mrs. Miller and Nashville and that Francis Ford Coppola reached with The Godfather films — that is, to the place where genre is transcended and what we're moved by is an artist's vision...it's a great movie. Travolta and Allen are radiant performers".
Roger Ebert's four-star review in the Chicago Sun-Times noted that Blow Out "is inhabited by a real cinematic intelligence".
Apocalypse Now(final Cut), 1979. Directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola. It stars Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, Harrison Ford, and Dennis Hopper.
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Real human corpses were bought from a man who turned out to be a grave-robber. The police took the film crew's passports and questioned them, and then soldiers came and took the bodies away.
At times, Dennis Hopper tormented Marlon Brando, leading Brando to refuse to be on the set at the same time as Hopper.
The Final Countdown, 1980. Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, James Farentino, Katharine Ross and Charles Durning star.
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Catherine the Great
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Made for Sky TV and starring the devine Helen Mirren (who was also an executive producer), this is a pig's ear of a production. Sumptious sets and costumes, there are several flaws in detail and an absolutely dire script!
Local Hero
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A wonderful, funny and life affirming films.
If you liked 'Gregory's Girl' (but thought it a bit 'twee'), then Bill Forsyth does better this time around.
The Holcroft Covenant, 1985. directed by John Frankenheimer and stars Michael Caine.
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Although James Caan was originally cast as Noel Holcroft, he walked off the set due to disagreements with the producers. Director John Frankenheimer later said "I will be forever grateful to James Caan. Forever. Because he gave me the best gift that's ever happened to me in my career, which is Michael Caine."As far as I'm concerned, he is probably the best actor I've ever worked with," added Frankenheimer. "Certainly the best actor I've ever worked with who gets the girl."
walpurgis
20-09-2021, 13:49
I read Robert Ludlum's books including The Holcroft Covenant many years ago, I quite liked them. My favourite was The Road to Gandolfo, which I thought would make a great basis for a film.
I read Robert Ludlum's books including The Holcroft Covenant many years ago, I quite liked them. My favourite was The Road to Gandolfo, which I thought would make a great basis for a film.
ive got it on audiobook.. just the other day bought The Parsifal Mosaic audiobook too. quite like his stuff
The Fourth Protocol, 1987. Mchael Caine again stars this time with Pierce Brosnan. A Fredrick Forsyth novel this time.
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The Fourth Protocol, 1987. Mchael Caine again stars this time with Pierce Brosnan. A Fredrick Forsyth novel this time.
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Not a bad film, save Kim Philby died of old age and was not shot as shown in the film. I have a copy somewhere.
Avanti, 1972... one of my favs this. not a bad line or bad scene. Genius, and the score is super too.
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The Day Will Dawn, 1942. It stars Ralph Richardson, Deborah Kerr, Hugh Williams and Griffith Jones, and was directed by Harold French from a script written by Anatole de Grunwald, Patrick Kirwan and Terence Rattigan, based on a story by Frank Owen. The music by Richard Addinsell was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Muir Mathieson.
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David Parkinson gave the film three out of five stars in the Radio Times, and wrote, "Markedly less restrained than many other British tales of wartime resistance, this well-meaning flag-waver is far more effective than the majority of have-a-go Hollywood movies on the same theme...what sets this apart is a remarkable cast of British stalwarts, not one of whom puts a foot wrong. Special mention should be made, however, of Deborah Kerr, who lends quiet courage to an unrewarding romantic part, and Francis L Sullivan, who makes a most malevolent Nazi".
Sullivan played a similar part in Pimpernel Smith the year before.
Peggy Sue Got Married, 1986. directed by Francis Ford Coppola starring Kathleen Turner and Nick Cage.
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Jack the Ripper, 1988. Stars Michael Caine, Lewis Collins, Jane Seymour and Hugh Fraser among many...
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A 2 episode for tv film Directed by David Wickes. Not the most accurate but holds the interest; thanks to cast and a decent script.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1977. Written and directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, Cary Guffey, and François Truffaut.
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The film was nominated for eight Oscars at the 50th Academy Awards, including Best Director, Supporting Actress (Melinda Dillon), Visual Effects, Art Direction (Joe Alves, Daniel A. Lomino, Phil Abramson), Original Music Score, Film Editing, and Sound (Robert Knudson, Robert Glass, Don MacDougall and Gene Cantamessa). The film's only win was for Vilmos Zsigmond's cinematography, although the Academy honored the film's sound effects editing with a Special Achievement Award (Frank Warner).
Budget $19.4 million.
Box office $306.1 million.
walpurgis
22-09-2021, 12:55
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1977
Still a great film. I've seen it loads of times, but always enjoy it.
Blowup, 1966. stars David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, John Castle, Jane Birkin, Tsai Chin, Peter Bowles, and Gillian Hills, as well as 1960s model Veruschka.
It was directed by Michelangelo Antonioni.
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MGM did not gain approval for the film under the MPAA Production Code in the United States. The film was condemned by the National Legion of Decency. The code's collapse and revision was foreshadowed when MGM released the film through a subsidiary distributor, Premier Productions, and Blowup was shown widely in North American cinemas.
Writing about Antonioni for Time in 2007, the film writer Richard Corliss states that the film grossed "$20 million (about $120 million today) on a $1.8 million budget and helped liberate Hollywood from its puritanical prurience".
The film earned $5.9 million in theatrical rentals in the United States and Canada in 1967.
The film's non-diegetic music was scored by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, while rock group the Yardbirds also feature. The film is set within the mod subculture of 1960s Swinging London.
Excellent film and one which captures the mood of the '60s in 'Swinging London' perfectly.
I wonder if 'Blow Up' was the inspiration for 'Blow Out': both films starting with the idea of an artist (photographer and sound recorder respectively) inadvertently stumbling on something odd and potentially risky as they went about their business.
Curiously I love 'Blow Up', but think little of 'Blow Out' (as I do of most of Brian de Palma's films).
The Titfield Thunderbolt, 1953. British comedy film directed by Charles Crichton and starring Stanley Holloway, Naunton Wayne, George Relph and John Gregson. The screenplay concerns a group of villagers trying to keep their branch line operating after British Railways decided to close it. The film was written by TEB Clarke and was inspired by the restoration of the narrow gauge Talyllyn Railway in Wales, the world's first heritage railway run by volunteers. The name "Titfield" is an amalgamation of the villages of Limpsfield and Titsey in Surrey, near Clarke's home at Oxted.
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There was considerable inspiration from the book Railway Adventure by established railway book author L.T.C. Rolt, published in 1952.[6] Rolt had acted as honorary manager for the volunteer enthusiasts running the Talyllyn Railway for the two years 1951–52. A number of scenes in the film, such as the emergency re-supply of water to the locomotive by buckets from an adjacent stream, or passengers being asked to assist in pushing the carriages, were taken from this book.
Excellent film and one which captures the mood of the '60s in 'Swinging London' perfectly.
I wonder if 'Blow Up' was the inspiration for 'Blow Out': both films starting with the idea of an artist (photographer and sound recorder respectively) inadvertently stumbling on something odd and potentially risky as they went about their business.
Curiously I love 'Blow Up', but think little of 'Blow Out' (as I do of most of Brian de Palma's films).
blow out is one of my fav de palma films lol. travolta and nancy allen were a good pair together. both of course were in carrie too
The Square Peg, 1959. Normn Wisdom takes on the third reich
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The Interrupted journey, 1949. Directed by Daniel Birt and starring Valerie Hobson, Richard Todd, Christine Norden and Tom Walls. A young Roger Moore plays an uncredited role as a soldier.
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The film's ending is sometimes considered by critics to be contrived, as Todd realises that much of the plot has been a nightmare and awakens from this dream sequence shortly before the conclusion for a happy ending. However, it has been noted that the whole film "simulates the qualities of a nightmare" through its use of coincidences and the lighting. The Encyclopedia of Film Noir describes it as a "superior film noir" and compares its ending to the 1944 The Woman in the Window.
Blue Murder at St Trinian's, 1957.... Directed by Frank Launder and written by him and Sidney Gilliat, it was the second of the series of four films. The film stars Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Joyce Grenfell, Lionel Jeffries and Richard Wattis.
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Bosley Crowther wrote in The New York Times, "what is important and delightful is that the spirit of knockabout farce, evolved in "The Belles of St. Trinian's," is retained uninhibited in this film...it is wild but generally funny—explosively funny in spots, especially when that fellow Terry-Thomas, who was the mustachioed major in "Private's Progress," is dragooned as a bus driver to transport the girls to Rome. And since he has toothy Joyce Grenfell to accompany him on the trip—she's "a crazy, mixed-up police-woman," as she dubs herself—the fun is as much in their behavior as it is in that of the belles. None of the latter is notable as an actress; all are lissome and lively girls. They make for pleasant company on a mad excursion. It's only too bad that Mr. Sim had to languish in jail".
Quatermass and the Pit, 1967. Directed by Roy Ward Baker and stars Andrew Keir, James Donald, Barbara Shelley and Julian Glover.
It was released in the USA as Five Million Years to Earth.
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