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King of Thieves, 2018. The film based on the Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary of 2015, and film stars Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay, Michael Gambon, Charlie Cox, Jim Broadbent, Paul Whitehouse and Ray Winstone.
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walpurgis
24-09-2021, 11:24
King of Thieves, 2018
Good movie. All the clapped out old 'usual suspects'! :)
Got to admire them doing a blag like that at their age. Shame they forgot, or didn't realise, that CCTV is ubiquitous nowadays.
The Green Man, 1956. Stars Alastair Sim, George Cole, Terry-Thomas and Jill Adams.
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The New York Times TV section noted "Weekend at a horrible little country hotel, same name, and one of the funniest British films ever".
The Radio Times wrote "If you ever doubted that Alastair Sim was the finest British screen comedian of the sound era, then here's the proof of his immense talent. As the assassin with the mournful smile, he gives a performance of rare genius that more than makes amends for the longueurs in Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat's script".
Allmovie opined "If The Green Man finally falls a little short of being classic, it's only because the mechanics of the plot get a bit wearying at times; otherwise, it's a charmingly subversive little treat", while Time Out called it "A splendid black comedy."
Hitchcock's Strangers On A Train from 1951.
Farley Granger, Robert Walker and Ruth Roman star.
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Hitch again with Jimmy Stewart in Rope, 1948. Also stars John Dall and Farley Granger(again).
With Rope, Hitchcock threw out the rule book and left a new blueprint for future filmmakers. The film provided so many industry firsts that Hollywood began to fundamentally question the entire process of making movies. Rope is an astonishing feat of cinematic engineering – a pivotal piece of work that demonstrated Hitchcock’s meticulous pursuit of authenticity and his ability to redefine an entire art form.
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Recent reviews and criticism of Rope have noticed a homosexual subtext between the characters Brandon and Phillip, even though homosexuality was a highly controversial theme for the 1940s. John Dall, who played Brandon, is believed to have been gay, as were co-star Farley Granger and screenwriter Arthur Laurents. The play on which the film was based explicitly portrays Brandon and Phillip in a homosexual relationship.
Hitchcock shot long unbroken takes lasting up to 10 minutes (the length of a film camera magazine) involving carefully choreographed camera and actor movement, though most shots in the film wound up being shorter. Every other segment ends by panning against or tracking into an object—a man's jacket blocking the entire screen, or the back of a piece of furniture, for example. In this way, Hitchcock effectively masked half the cuts in the film.
Good movie. All the clapped out old 'usual suspects'! :)
Agreed - but an enjoyable movie nonetheless.
Witness for the Prosecution, 1957. Directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester.
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At the end of the film, as the credits roll, a voice-over announces:
The management of this theater suggests that, for the greater entertainment of your friends who have not yet seen the picture, you will not divulge to anyone the secret of the ending of Witness for the Prosecution.
This was in keeping with the advertising campaign for the film: one of the posters for the film said: "You'll talk about it! - but please don't tell the ending!"
The effort to keep the ending a secret extended to the cast. Billy Wilder did not give the actors the final ten pages of the script until it was time to shoot those scenes. The secrecy reportedly cost Marlene Dietrich an Academy Award, as United Artists didn't want to call attention to the fact that Dietrich was practically unrecognizable as the Cockney woman who hands over the incriminating letters to the defence.
Another classic now, this time directed by Robert Hamer. Kind Hearts and Coronets, 1949. Starring Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood, Valerie Hobson and Alec Guinness, who plays 9 roles...
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The film was produced at the same time as two other Ealing comedies, Passport to Pimlico and Whisky Galore!; all three were released into UK cinemas over two months.[10][n 1] The film's title was taken from the 1842 poem "Lady Clara Vere de Vere" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The full couplet reads
Kind hearts are more than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman blood.
While filming the scene Hamer asked Guinness if he could hold his pose—a salute, facing the camera while the water rose around him—so that the water went over his head; Hamer wanted to show the admiral's cap floating on the surface. Guinness agreed, telling Hamer that as he practised yoga, he could hold his breath for four minutes. Guinness was attached to the deck by wires to keep him steady and the shot was taken; when Hamer called "cut", the crew began packing up and forgot to release Guinness until four minutes after the scene ended.
An superb film, with a wonderfully delicious denouement! :)
Heaven Can Wait, 1978. Co-directed by Warren Beatty and Buck Henry, and stars Beatty, Julie Christie, and Jack Warden. The film was nominated for nine Academy Awards, winning 2.
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On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval "Certified Fresh" rating of 88% based on 42 reviews, with an average rating of 7.5/10. The site's critical consensus reads "A throwback to the high-gloss screwball comedies of the 1940s, Heaven Can Wait beguiles with seamless production values and great comic relief from Charles Grodin and Dyan Cannon." Metacritic gave the film a weighted average score of 72 out of 100 based on 10 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews"
Heaven Can Wait, 1943. Directed by Ernst Lubitsch and stars Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, and Charles Coburn.
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Nominated for 3 Academy Awards, although won none.
The last film i watched had the same name as this, but was a remake of Here Comes Mr Jordan(1941) so no-one gets mixed up lol.
Tora! Tora! Tora!, 1970. Directed by Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda and Kinji Fukasaku, and stars an ensemble cast including Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, So Yamamura, E.G. Marshall, James Whitmore, Tatsuya Mihashi, Takahiro Tamura, Wesley Addy, and Jason Robards.
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Richard Fleischer said of Akira Kurosawa's role in the project:
Well, I always thought that even though Kurosawa was a genius at film-making and indeed he was, I sincerely believe that he was miscast for this film, this was not his type of film to make, he never made anything like it and it just wasn't his style. I felt he was not only uncomfortable directing this kind of movie but also he wasn't used to having somebody tell him how he should make his film. He always had complete autonomy, and nobody would dare make a suggestion to Kurosawa about the budget, or shooting schedule, or anything like that. And then here he was, with Darryl Zanuck on his back and Richard Zanuck on him and Elmo Williams and the production managers, and it was all stuff that he never had run into before, because he was always untouchable. I think he was getting more and more nervous and more insecure about how he was going to work on this film. And of course, the press got a hold of a lot of this unrest on the set and they made a lot out of that in Japan, and it was more pressure on him, and he wasn't used to that kind of pressure.
The Uninvited, 1944. directed by Lewis Allen and stars Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Gail Russell and Donald Crisp.
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This was thought at time to be a well made and scary picture for grown ups.
This is the remastered Bluray version from Criterion.
The Man with Two Brains, 1983. directed by Carl Reiner and starring Steve Martin and Kathleen Turner.
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One of the few screwball comedies of Steve Martin that I like.
Love the way the David Warner character has his appartement decorated to look like Frankenstein's castle.
School for Scoundrels, 1960. Directed by Robert Hamer stars Ian Carmichael, Alistair Sim, Janette Scott and Terry-Thomas.
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Film did quite well at box office but was disliked by critics. Much better thought of nowadays.
walpurgis
27-09-2021, 10:39
School for Scoundrels, 1960. Directed by Robert Hamer stars Ian Carmichael, Alistair Sim, Janette Scott and Terry-Thomas.
I always liked that, Alastair Sim was the master of wry comic acting.
RED, 2010. Directed by Robert Schwentke and stars Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Karl Urban and Mary-Louise Parker, alongside Rebecca Pidgeon, Brian Cox, Richard Dreyfuss, Julian McMahon, Ernest Borgnine, and James Remar.
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The film did well at box office again, but was not liked much by critics.(what do they know)
RED, 2010. Directed by Robert Schwentke and stars Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Karl Urban and Mary-Louise Parker, alongside Rebecca Pidgeon, Brian Cox, Richard Dreyfuss, Julian McMahon, Ernest Borgnine, and James Remar.
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The film did well at box office again, but was not liked much by critics.(what do they know)
Much like 'Ryan's Daughter' - slated by the critics, loved by cinema goers.
Much like 'Ryan's Daughter' - slated by the critics, loved by cinema goers.
yeah. thats one ive not watched for some time. must work it into my scedule:)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, 2003. directed by Gore Verbinski .
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The Desperate Hours, 1955. directed by William Wyler and stars Humphrey Bogart and Fredric March
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It was loosely based on an actual event.
This was Bogey's 2nd from last film.
Laura, 1944. directed by Otto Preminger and stars Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, and Clifton Webb along with Vincent Price and Judith Anderson.
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Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote:
Film noir is known for its convoluted plots and arbitrary twists, but even in a genre that gave us The Maltese Falcon, this takes some kind of prize ... That Laura continues to weave a spell – and it does – is a tribute to style over sanity ... All of [the] absurdities and improbabilities somehow do not diminish the film's appeal. They may even add to it ... [T]he whole film is of a piece: contrived, artificial, mannered, and yet achieving a kind of perfection in its balance between low motives and high style. What makes the movie great, perhaps, is the casting. The materials of a B-grade crime potboiler are redeemed by Waldo Lydecker, walking through every scene as if afraid to step in something.
For me its a classic film, although Gene Tierney is perhaps a little miscast.
How to Murder Your Wife, 1965. stars Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi, and Terry-Thomas.
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the lovely virna lisi
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Just watched this:
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Nice mashup of Vanilla Sky, Truman show and (insert modern day video game reference)
Ryan Reynolds continues to surprise,
great range and a terrific actor.
the lovely virna lisi
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My God.
New to me...
Bardot level.
Johnny Guitar, 1954. Directed by Nicholas Ray starring Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Ernest Borgnine and Scott Brady. The screenplay was adapted from a novel by Roy Chanslor.
This is the new ltd edition box set from Eureka.
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Crawford and Nick Ray were scheduled to make a film called Lisbon at Paramount, but the script proved unacceptable. Crawford held the film rights to the book, which author Roy Chanslor had dedicated to her, brought the script to Republic and had them hire Ray to direct it.
Crawford wanted either Bette Davis or Barbara Stanwyck for the role of Emma Small, but they were too expensive. Claire Trevor was next in mind for the role but was unable to accept because she was tied up with another film. Finally, Nicholas Ray brought in McCambridge.
Most people claimed Crawford was easy to work with, always professional, generous, patient and kind. Issues between the two women cropped up early on, but Ray was not alarmed – at first. He found it "heaven sent" that they disliked each other and felt it added greatly to the dramatic conflict. The reasons for the feud appear to date back to a time when Crawford had once dated McCambridge's husband, Fletcher Markle. According to some of the other co-stars, McCambridge needled Crawford about it. McCambridge also appears to have disliked that Crawford and Ray were in the midst of an affair. Crawford, on the other hand, disliked what she perceived to be "special attention" that Ray was giving to McCambridge.
Making things worse was that McCambridge was battling alcoholism during this period, something she admitted later contributed to the problems between her and Crawford.
After filming, McCambridge and Hayden publicly declared their dislike of Crawford, with McCambridge labeling Crawford, "a mean, tipsy, powerful, rotten-egg lady". Hayden said in an interview, "There is not enough money in Hollywood to lure me into making another picture with Joan Crawford. And I like money."
Crawford for her part said of McCambridge, "I have four children – I do not need a fifth."
Later, Ray claimed that Crawford, during a rage, drunkenly threw McCambridge's costumes into the street. Crawford later laughingly admitted she had thrown McCambridge's own clothing into the street.[6] Ray also said of that time, "Joan was drinking a lot and she liked to fight," but that she was also "very attractive, with a basic decency."
Ordered these cast cat bookends to hold some of my bluray's as I'm short of space and don't like them just in a pile.
Not too shabby for money. Got them on etsy. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210929/3a50ad818113900975dfbb380f7da2b5.jpg
Dead Man, 1995. Written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. It stars Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Billy Bob Thornton, Iggy Pop, Crispin Glover, John Hurt, Michael Wincott, Lance Henriksen, Gabriel Byrne, Mili Avital, and Robert Mitchum.
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The film, dubbed a "psychedelic Western" by its director, includes twisted and surreal elements of the Western genre. The film is shot entirely in black and white. Neil Young composed the guitar-dominated soundtrack with portions he improvised while watching the movie footage. It has been considered by many to be a premier postmodern Western. It has been compared to Cormac McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian.
Ordered these cast cat bookends to hold some of my bluray's as I'm short of space and don't like them just in a pile.
Not too shabby for money. Got them on etsy. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210929/3a50ad818113900975dfbb380f7da2b5.jpg
Nice one, mate. Princess would approve!:D
Marco.
Nice one, mate. Princess would approve!:D
Marco.Changed films around so these are my region A films. I like to keep separate.
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The Day the Earth Stood Still, 1951. Directed by Robert Wise and stars Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe and Sam Jaffe.
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Alias Nick Beal, 1949. American film noir mystery film retelling of the Faust myth directed by John Farrow and starring Ray Milland, Audrey Totter and Thomas Mitchell.
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A 1949 review of the film in The New York Times notes that, "Due to the fine acting and the wily direction, the story plays exceptionally well, but the script tends to be somewhat wobbly and indecisive upon reflection." Film4 commented on the leading man's performance, "Milland is outstanding as the personification of evil—a talent often obscured by his charm and early juvenile good looks."
This is the Kino Lorber region A bluray.
walpurgis
30-09-2021, 09:26
Alias Nick Beal, 1949. American film noir mystery film retelling of the Faust myth directed by John Farrow and starring Ray Milland, Audrey Totter and Thomas Mitchell
Sounds interesting. I don't know that one Grant, I wonder how true to Faustian legend it is? Good basis for a movie.
Sounds interesting. I don't know that one Grant, I wonder how true to Faustian legend it is? Good basis for a movie.
its pretty good tbh. You might stuggle to find it . This is a USA film encode. not sure if there is a uk one. director john farrow won Oscar for the screenplay of Around the World in Eighty Days.
Knight Without Armour, 1937. British historical drama film starring Marlene Dietrich, John Clements and Robert Donat. It was directed by Jacques Feyder and produced by Alexander Korda from a screenplay by Lajos Bíró adapted by Frances Marion from the 1933 novel by James Hilton. The novel was published in the United States as Without Armour. The music score was by Miklós Rózsa, his first for a motion picture, using additional music by Tchaikovsky.
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New York Times critic Frank Nugent praised the film, approving the title change from the book (from Without Armour to Knight Without Armour), “placing it in the realm of chivalry and high adventure.” He described the production as “a perfect fusion of several remarkable talents, so serene a blend that we cannot be sure which division is entitled to the most credit... It is a soundly narrated picture—colorful, romantic, melodramatic, and a first rate entertainment.”[5] Nugent singled out “relative newcomer” John Clements' “moving and poignant” portrayal of Poushkoff, predicting “we shall probably hear more of him.” In fact Clements had a brilliant career ahead of him, including a knighthood.
Back to the Future Part III, 1990. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, and stars Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen, Thomas F. Wilson and Lea Thompson.
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The film was a big success both at box office and with most critics. Mary Steenbergen was persuaded to take role by her kids who harped her til she agreed. She was also with and travelled with another time traveller in Time After Time.
Paul, 2011. directed by Greg Mottola from a screenplay by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost and the voice and motion capture of Seth Rogen. Also co stars Kirsten Wiig and Jason Bateman.
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This is the unrated version before cutting.
Murder by Decree, 1979. Christopher Plummer plays Holmes and James Mason plays Watson in this Ripper film. An all star cast backs the 2 main characters too..
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Red 2, 2013. It stars Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Lee Byung-hun, Anthony Hopkins, and Helen Mirren
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The Man Who Knew Too Much, 1934. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, featuring Leslie Banks and Peter Lorre, and released by Gaumont British. It was one of the most successful and critically acclaimed films of Hitchcock's British period.
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The Battle of the Sexes, 1959. Directed by Charles Crichton and starring Peter Sellers, Robert Morley, and Constance Cummings.
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Film rights to the story were owned by Hecht Hill Lancaster. Billy Wilder was signed to direct. Eventually they sold the rights.
It was the first film made by the newly-formed Bryanston Films, who approved it on 13 May 1959.
Casablanca, 1942. Directed by Michael Curtiz, and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid, and co stars Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and Dooley Wilson.
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Because of its November 1942 release, the New York Film Critics decided to include the film in its 1942 award season for best picture. Casablanca lost to In Which We Serve. However, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences stated that since the film went into national release at the beginning of 1943, it would be included in that year's nominations. Casablanca was nominated for eight Academy Awards, and won three.
The Fighting Kentuckian , 1949. Written and directed by George Waggner and starring John Wayne, Vera Ralston; Philip Dorn; Oliver Hardy and Marie Windsor.
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The story is set in Alabama in 1818, including the city of Demopolis, which was founded by Bonapartists. The Bonapartists had been exiled from France after the defeat of Napoleon I at the Battle of Waterloo. Congress authorized the sale of four townships in the Alabama Territory in March 1817 at two dollars per acre, and Marengo County was created on February 7, 1818 from lands that had been taken from the Choctaw Nation under the Treaty of Fort St. Stephens. It was named after Spinetta Marengo, Italy where Napoleon defeated Austria in 1800 in the Battle of Marengo. The county seat, Linden, Alabama, was named after Hohenlinden, Bavaria where Napoleon won another victory against the Austrians. The Bonapartist colony did not succeed overall, in part due to surveyance issues that contribute to the plot of the film and in part due to practical difficulties in establishing the vineyards.
Up Pompeii 1971.. Frankie Howerd and Michael Hordern star.
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picked up a rarish bluray of The Devil and Miss Jones so watching that now..
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its region A
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We watched this for family film night yesterday, it was really charming and I don't mind admitting it brought a tear to my eye on several occasions! (although I of course blamed it on the chillies I had been cutting!)
Wonder - 2017
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Blazing Saddles, 1974. Directed by Mel Brooks and Starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder, with Mel Brooks, Slim Pickens, Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn, and Harvey Korman. E ven Count Basie and his Orchestra pop into it.
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One of funniest films ever.
'Happy Birthday Gwen Stefani' on MTV Classic
Pigmy Pony
03-10-2021, 16:33
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So this is on Netflix? If so, I might give it a watch later. I've liked him since 'Donnie Darko'.
Pigmy Pony
03-10-2021, 16:36
We watched this for family film night yesterday, it was really charming and I don't mind admitting it brought a tear to my eye on several occasions! (although I of course blamed it on the chillies I had been cutting!)
Wonder - 2017
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At least you weren't cutting chilles while watching one from your porn library - that would bring a tear to your eyes, all three of them :eyebrows:
Pigmy Pony
03-10-2021, 16:42
'Happy Birthday Gwen Stefani' on MTV Classic
Bit of a Gwen fan then? Does she still have those Chinese birds following her round?
I have a couple of her CDs, "Underneath it all" is my favourite song.
At least you weren't cutting chilles while watching one from your porn library - that would bring a tear to your eyes, all three of them :eyebrows:
:lol:
Would have matched this morning's ring of fire I guess!
So this is on Netflix? If so, I might give it a watch later. I've liked him since 'Donnie Darko'.
Yes, it’s not bad but I understand that it’s a remake of a danish film that’s supposed to be better?
The Admirable Crichton. 1957.
Kenny More stars as the title role in a desert island home from home. [emoji23]
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Bit of a Gwen fan then? Does she still have those Chinese birds following her round?
I have a couple of her CDs, "Underneath it all" is my favourite song.
Yeah Gwen is ace. I don't think she has the Karajuki girls no more but then she did say they could just be a figment of her imagination.
Just started on 4, can't beat a nazi zombie movie
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Carry On Henry, 1971.
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Paint Your Wagon , 1969. Directed by Joshua Logan, and starring Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, and Jean Seberg.
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Lee Marvin accepted the lead role instead of appearing in The Wild Bunch. He received $1 million while Eastwood was paid $750,000. Faye Dunaway turned down the role of Elizabeth before Seberg was cast. Diana Rigg and Julie Andrews were also considered for the role. Eastwood and Marvin did their own singing, while Seberg's songs were dubbed. The early incarnation of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band had a cameo in the song "Hand Me Down That Can o' Beans."
The Producers, 1967. Written and directed by Mel Brooks and starring Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn, and Kenneth Mars.
The Producers was Brooks's directorial debut. For the film, he won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. In 1996, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry and placed eleventh on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs list. It was later adapted by Brooks and Thomas Meehan as a stage musical, which itself was adapted into a film.
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According to Brooks, after the film was completed, Embassy executives refused to release it as being in "bad taste." The film's premiere in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on November 22, 1967, was a disaster and the studio considered shelving it. However, relief came when Pink Panther star Peter Sellers saw the film privately and placed an advertisement in Variety in support of the film's wide release. Sellers was familiar with the film because, according to Brooks, Sellers "had accepted the role of Bloom and then was never heard from again." The film allegedly was "banned in Germany." The film was screened in New York City in March 1968. The film's wide release would take place on March 18, 1968.
Pigmy Pony
04-10-2021, 16:49
Yes, it’s not bad but I understand that it’s a remake of a danish film that’s supposed to be better?
Well I would be happy to watch the Danish one. Trouble is, Mrs. P hates subtitles and I can't be doing with overdubbed dialogue.
To Have and Have Not, 1944. Directed by Howard Hawks and stars Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan and Lauren Bacall; it also features Dolores Moran, Hoagy Carmichael, Sheldon Leonard, Dan Seymour, and Marcel Dalio.
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To Have and Have Not, 1944. Directed by Howard Hawks and stars Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan and Lauren Bacall; it also features Dolores Moran, Hoagy Carmichael, Sheldon Leonard, Dan Seymour, and Marcel Dalio.
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One of my favourite films. In some ways I prefer it to 'Casablanca'. :sofa:
One that wasn't made 100 years ago ;)
Never seen this all the way through, thought I'd give it a go.
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Pigmy Pony
05-10-2021, 06:30
One that wasn't made 100 years ago ;)
Never seen this all the way through, thought I'd give it a go.
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Like this film, seen it a lot. Brick Top is my favourite character, but they're all good.
Like this film, seen it a lot. Brick Top is my favourite character, but they're all good.
Bit of trivia for you. The line 'I'll cut your f***ing jacobs off' (jacobs crackers - knackers) was initially adlibbed by Bradley Walsh when he auditioned for the part of Brick Top. Guy Ritchie ultimately decided that Walsh's alter ego of game show host might harm the films credibility.
And I still haven't seen it all the way through, fell asleep.
And I still haven't seen it all the way through, fell asleep.
You're not really selling this film Roy. :lol:
You're not really selling this film Roy. :lol:
Very true but I was being optimistic about my staying power when I started watching a two hour film at 2 am.
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, 2007.
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The Duel at Silver Creek (1952)
Audie Murphy is a gunfighter and gambler whose father is killed by claim jumpers. He teams up with a sherriff whose friend has been killed by the same men, and they hunt them down.
There's no bad Audie Murphy westerns. Murphy was not just some celluloid hero either, he won the Medal Of Honour in WW2:
''The Germans scored a direct hit on an M10 tank destroyer, setting it alight, forcing the crew to abandon it.
Murphy ordered his men to retreat to positions in the woods, remaining alone at his post, shooting his M1 carbine and directing artillery fire via his field radio while the Germans aimed fire directly at his position.
Murphy mounted the abandoned, burning tank destroyer and began firing its .50 calibre machine gun at the advancing Germans, killing a squad crawling through a ditch towards him. For an hour, Murphy stood on the flaming tank destroyer returning German fire from foot soldiers and advancing tanks, killing or wounding 50 Germans.
He sustained a leg wound during his stand, and stopped only after he ran out of ammunition. Murphy re-joined his men, disregarding his own injury, and led them back to repel the Germans. He insisted on remaining with his men while his wounds were treated.''
as yes audie.. he turned out a nutjob alas. he had great difficulty turning back off his aggression, but a war hero he sure was.
as yes audie.. he turned out a nutjob alas. he had great difficulty turning back off his aggression, but a war hero he sure was.
well he had PTSD, the real one not the one people think they have now because they once saw a fire or a car crash. He killed a lot of men, that's always going to weigh on you.
well he had PTSD, the real one not the one people think they have now because they once saw a fire or a car crash. He killed a lot of men, that's always going to weigh on you.
yup, combat stress i think they called it. before that shell shock, and cowardice. ww1 generals were such wankers
One of Our Aircraft is Missing, 1942.
Bedtime viewing lól
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Jesse James, 1939. Directed by Henry King and starring Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly and Randolph Scott.
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Murder on the Orient Express is a 1974 British mystery film directed by Sidney Lumet. It stars Albert Finney as Poirot, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery, John Gielgud, Vanessa Redgrave, Michael York, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Perkins and Wendy Hiller.
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Cast members eagerly accepted upon first being approached. Lumet went to Sean Connery first, who admitted that he had been "stupidly flattered" by Lumet saying that if you get the biggest star, the rest will come along. Bergman was initially offered the role of Princess Dragomiroff, but instead requested to play Greta Ohlsson. Lumet said:
She had chosen a small part, and I couldn't persuade her to change her mind. She was sweetly stubborn. But stubborn she was ... Since her part was so small, I decided to film her one big scene, where she talks for almost five minutes, straight, all in one long take. A lot of actresses would have hesitated over that. She loved the idea and made the most of it. She ran the gamut of emotions. I've never seen anything like it.
Bergman eventually won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the portrayal, the last one of her illustrious career.
St Martin's Lane, 1938. starring Charles Laughton, Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, Larry Adler and Tyrone Guthrie in a rare acting appearance. It also features Ronald Shiner as the barman (uncredited).
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super little film this ...
When Leigh was approached to make Sidewalks of London, she did not want to work with Laughton and she felt no attachment to the role. Nevertheless, she was persuaded otherwise. In Alexander Walker's biography of Leigh, Larry Adler is quoted as saying that Leigh was difficult to work with. He said, "She didn't like Charles and he didn't like her. But he was much more professional. One weekend there were a few close-ups of Vivien to be done outside a theater and Charles, who invariably went down to the country with Elsa (Lanchester) at weekends, stayed up in town to 'feed' Vivien lines from behind the camera. I doubt if she'd have done as much for him. [Laurence] Olivier would show up on the set and they'd disappear into her dressing-room and it was quite a business to get her back to work." Olivier would show up on the days that Leigh was to shoot love scenes with the handsome Rex Harrison.
Murder on the Orient Express is a 1974 British mystery film directed by Sidney Lumet. It stars Albert Finney as Poirot, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery, John Gielgud, Vanessa Redgrave, Michael York, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Perkins and Wendy Hiller.
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Cast members eagerly accepted upon first being approached. Lumet went to Sean Connery first, who admitted that he had been "stupidly flattered" by Lumet saying that if you get the biggest star, the rest will come along. Bergman was initially offered the role of Princess Dragomiroff, but instead requested to play Greta Ohlsson. Lumet said:
She had chosen a small part, and I couldn't persuade her to change her mind. She was sweetly stubborn. But stubborn she was ... Since her part was so small, I decided to film her one big scene, where she talks for almost five minutes, straight, all in one long take. A lot of actresses would have hesitated over that. She loved the idea and made the most of it. She ran the gamut of emotions. I've never seen anything like it.
Bergman eventually won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the portrayal, the last one of her illustrious career.
An excellent film - and certainly better (and closer to the book) than the over CGI'd travesty with Kenneth Branagh.
The Professionals, 1966. Written, produced, and directed by Richard Brooks and starring Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, and Claudia Cardinale, with Jack Palance, Ralph Bellamy, and Woody Strode in supporting roles.
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The movie, which was shot in Technicolor, was filmed in Death Valley, Valley of Fire and around Coachella Valley in California. The rail scenes were filmed on Kaiser Steel's Eagle Mountain Railroad. The steam locomotive seen in the movie currently resides on the Heber Valley Railroad.
During filming, the cast and crew stayed in Las Vegas. Actor Woody Strode wrote in his memoirs that he and Marvin got into a lot of pranks, on one occasion shooting an arrow into Vegas Vic, the famous smiling cowboy neon sign outside The Pioneer Club.
great pic of claudia from film showing her assets
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great end quote from lee marvin
J.W. Grant : You bastard.
Rico : Yes sir. In my case an accident of birth. But you, you're a self-made man.
:lol:
Two Mules for Sister Sara, 1970. Directed by Don Siegel and starring Shirley MacLaine and Clint Eastwood . (She got top billing).
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Carrol Case sold the screenplay to Martin Rackin, who had Albert Maltz, also living in Mexico, rewrite the story. Maltz's version had Clint Eastwood playing a soldier of fortune for the Juaristas and Shirley MacLaine playing a revolutionary prostitute now set during the French intervention in Mexico. The film saw Eastwood embody the tall mysterious stranger once more, unshaven, wearing a serape-like vest and smoking a cigar and the film score was composed by Ennio Morricone. Although the film had Leonesque dirty Hispanic villains, the film was considerably less crude and more sardonic than those of Leone.
It made a modest profit.
Another good film there Grant. :)
Another classic now with M*A*S*H, 1970. directed by Robert Altman and stars Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt, and Elliott Gould, with Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall, René Auberjonois, Gary Burghoff, Roger Bowen, Michael Murphy, and in his film debut, professional football player Fred Williamson.
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with a budget of $3m, it grossed over $80m, making it the 3rd highed of the year.
I have that, as well as some of the early TV episodes. :)
Porridge, 1979. includes one of the last appearances by Richard Beckinsale, the actor who played Godber. He died in March 1979, a few weeks after its completion.
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The film was one of the more popular of 1979 at the British box office, grossing more than 16 million pounds in the UK from a budget of only £250k.
Mackay:
Are you wearing make-up again, Whittaker?
Whittaker:
Just a touch of rouge Mr Mckay.
:D
Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple in MURDER SHE SAID, 1961. with with Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow, Joan Hickson, James Robertson Justice, and Stringer Davis(Rutherford's husband).
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Typical Rutherford performance and a 'good fun' murder mystery.
How many films do you watch in a day Grant!?
How many films do you watch in a day Grant!?
that depends on my mobility barry. im pretty much immobile at moment having smashed my good leg. 4/5 a day plus when in bed i may watch more if i cant sleep.( pain can cause sleepless nights. )
currently im pretty pissed off:D
The Defiant Ones, 1986. Is a made-for-television crime drama film directed by David Lowell Rich starring Robert Urich and Carl Weathers. It is a remake of the 1958 film of the same name.
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The Bishop's Wife, 1947. Directed by Henry Koster and starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David Niven.
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A Xmas film with a great cast and a pleasent enough storyline. This was remade(badly) in 1996.
The film won the Academy Award for Best Sound (Gordon E. Sawyer), and was nominated for Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture and Best Picture.
Duck You Sucker, 1971.aka A Fistful Of Dynamite.aka Once Upon A Time In The Revolution.aka Giù la testa,
A revolution is not a dinner party, an embroidery, writing an essay, or painting a picture. It cannot be done with elegance and courtesy. The revolution … is an act of violence…” Mao-Tse Tung.
Directed by Sergio Leone and stars James Coburn and Rod Steiger. Set during the Mexican Revolution of the 1910s, the film tells the story of Juan Miranda, an amoral Mexican outlaw, and John Mallory, a former member of the Irish Republican Army. After they accidentally meet under less-than-friendly circumstances, Juan and John involuntarily become heroes of the Revolution, despite being forced to make heavy sacrifices.
One of Leone's best and much ovelooked. It crashed in usa no doubt due to its leftist leanings but did well elsewhere. Music from Ennio Morricone is fabulous.
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I chose to oppose an intellectual, who has experienced a revolution in Ireland, with a naïve Mexican... you have two men: one naïve and one intellectual (self-centred as intellectuals too often are in the face of the naïve). From there, the film becomes the story of Pygmalion reversed. The simple one teaches the intellectual a lesson. Nature gains an upper hand and finally the intellectual throws away his book of Bakunin's writings. You suspect damn well that this gesture is a symbolic reference to everything my generation has been told in the way of promises. We have waited, but we still are waiting! I have the film say, in effect "Revolution means confusion".
The Man in the Iron Mask, 1998. starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Gérard Depardieu and Gabriel Byrne.
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The film made over $180m for a $35m outlay. It opened while another DiCaprio film was in the box office, Titanic.
The Man in the Iron Mask, 1998. starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Gérard Depardieu and Gabriel Byrne.
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The film made over $180m for a $35m outlay. It opened while another DiCaprio film was in the box office, Titanic.
Not a bad film. It certainly had a stellar cast. :)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, 1962. John Wayne, James Stewart, Vera Miles and Lee Marvin star. Directed by John Ford.
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The film was both a critical and financial success.
walpurgis
10-10-2021, 11:32
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, 1962. John Wayne, James Stewart, Vera Miles and Lee Marvin star. Directed by John Ford.
A proper movie! :)
A proper movie! :)
yeah, its a top film..
now, Shirley Valentine from 1989. Directed by Lewis Gilbert (with the screenplay by Willy Russell). It stars Pauline Collins and Tom Conti, with Alison Steadman and Bernard Hill in support.
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In the UK, it was the highest-grossing independent British film of the year, with a gross of £11.5 million, while it made a further $6.1m in usa/canada.
yeah, its a top film..
now, Shirley Valentine from 1989. Directed by Lewis Gilbert (with the screenplay by Willy Russell). It stars Pauline Collins and Tom Conti, with Alison Steadman and Bernard Hill in support.
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In the UK, it was the highest-grossing independent British film of the year, with a gross of £11.5 million, while it made a further $6.1m in usa/canada.
And allegedly the film is a favourite of the Queen.
Young Frankenstein, 1974. directed by Mel Brooks. It stars Gene Wilder, Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars, Richard Haydn, and Gene Hackman.
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Pure class...
Young Frankenstein, 1974. directed by Mel Brooks. It stars Gene Wilder, Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars, Richard Haydn, and Gene Hackman.
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Pure class...
"Walk this way", "Hump? What hump?" :)
"Walk this way", "Hump? What hump?" :)
Oh. Where you going?... Oh, you men are all alike. Seven or eight quick ones and then you're out with the boys to boast and brag. YOU BETTER KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT. Oh... I think I love him.:lol::lol:
yes, lots of great lines in this.
Back to the Future Part II, 1989. Robert Zemeckis directs...
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Back to the Future Part II was also a ground-breaking project for visual effects studio Industrial Light & Magic (ILM): In addition to digital compositing, ILM used the VistaGlide motion control camera system, which allowed an actor to portray multiple characters simultaneously on-screen without sacrificing camera movement.
The 39 Steps, 1935. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll. This is the region A Criterion bluray, and superb.
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Since its initial release, the film has been widely acknowledged as a classic. Filmmaker and actor Orson Welles referred to it as a "masterpiece." Screenwriter Robert Towne remarked, "It's not much of an exaggeration to say that all contemporary escapist entertainment begins with The 39 Steps."
The Dark Eyes of London, 1939. directed by Walter Summers, and starring Béla Lugosi, Hugh Williams, and Greta Gynt. The film is an adaptation of the 1924 novel of the same name by Edgar Wallace.
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It was released in November 1939 in Britain, where it became the first British film to receive the "H" rating meaning "Horrific for Public Exhibition" (persons aged 16 or above will only be admitted). It was released in the United States in 1940 by Monogram Pictures under the title The Human Monster.
This is the newly released bluray, nicely remastered.
Still working my way through this gastronomic adventure around the world, tonight we’ve been to Sicily and just finishing the Punjab episode.
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The 1966 remake of Stagecoach.
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I'm All Right Jack, 1959. directed and produced by John and Roy Boulting.
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The film was a big hit, being the most popular film in Britain for the year ended 31 October 1959. It was reportedly the second most profitable British movie that year after Carry On Nurse and helped turn British Lion profitable for the year after two years of losses.
I think it's dated to the point of being unwatchable, but I was never much for Ian Carmichael at the best of times.
I think it's dated to the point of being unwatchable, but I was never much for Ian Carmichael at the best of times.
obviously a film of its time and up to thatcher years i guess but still has a point imo.. The Al Saxon theme tune was also released as a single, although with different lyrics. Sellers was excellent, and it had a steller british cast for the day.
The Comancheros, 1961. Directed by Michael Curtiz. John Wayne, Stuart Whitman and Lee Marvin star.
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Bosley Crowther called the film "so studiously wild and woolly it turns out to be good fun"; according to Crowther, "[t]here'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."
as he says, GOOD FUN!!
walpurgis
12-10-2021, 14:01
The Comancheros, 1961. Directed by Michael Curtiz. John Wayne, Stuart Whitman and Lee Marvin star.
I like that movie. Saw it again not long ago. John Wayne just played John Wayne as usual, but Whitman and Marvin were excellent.
I like that movie. Saw it again not long ago. John Wayne just played John Wayne as usual, but Whitman and Marvin were excellent.Yes it's a good film. Nothing too serious but keeps the interest even tho you've seen it 10 times
The Ballad of Cable Hogue, 1970. directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Jason Robards, Stella Stevens and David Warner.
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this is the bluray i picked up.. top film.
A little known neo noir now. The Naked Kiss, 1964. Directed by Samuel Fuller and starring Constance Towers, Anthony Eisley, Michael Dante, and Virginia Grey.
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Privates Progress, 1956. Directed and produced by John and Roy Boulting, and stars Ian Carmichael, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price and Terry-Thomas.
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The War Office refused all requests for cooperation, even after the ending of the film was changed to show the guilty being caught. The producers inserted a title card depicting three officers in the See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil stance with the words "the producers gratefully acknowledge the official cooperation of absolutely nobody".
It was the first in a series of successful satirical comedies made by the Boulting brothers for their production company Charter Films. Their 1959 comedy, I'm All Right Jack, featured many of the same actors and characters. A number of references are made to the events of Private's Progress
an even older oldie now. Cottage To Let, 1941. directed by Anthony Asquith starring Leslie Banks, Alastair Sim and John Mills. It also includes the first appearance of George Cole, superbly confident as a cocky young evacuee.
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A very well made film considering it was during the toughest period of war.
Another oldie now with The Cat and the Canary, 1939. Directed by Elliott Nugent starring Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard.
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The New York Times wrote that Elliott Nugent "has directed it smartly, taking full advantage of the standard chiller devices for frightening the susceptible of his audience but never losing sight of his main objective—comedy...the objective is carried briskly and to our complete satisfaction. Good show."
Variety wrote that the movie retained "the basic spooky atmosphere and chiller situations" of the original play and "will amply satisfy the mystery fans, and provide spine-chilling thrills for audiences generally."
The Asphalt Jungle, 1950. Is directed by John Huston and stars Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern and Jean Hagen, and features James Whitmore, Sam Jaffe, and John McIntire. Marilyn Monroe also appears, in one of her earliest roles.
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https://media.elcinema.com/uploads/_315x420_d307b1563d7c7c7a84fc6dd39946a333b5a8ccff3 ee11a7d3ee09e915e1ab9fc.jpg The covers changed with Monroe's improved status later on like this lol
On the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 97% based on 35 reviews, with an average rating of 8.4/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "The Asphalt Jungle is an expertly told crime story with attention paid to the crime and characters in equal measure."
The Criterion Collection critic Peter Heath Becker admired Huston's technique:
Through his experience as a painter, [Huston] learned to frame an image, and throughout the film, he uses one shot where other directors might have needed three. He dispenses with editing flourishes and over-dramatic lighting and opts instead for sustained, well-composed shots. By balancing elements in the foreground and background of his images, Huston frames events and responses at once, without cutting between them.
Colditz, 1972 (tv series). All star cast for this major bbc production, when the beeb were masters of the drama series.
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The Island of Dr. Moreau, 1977. It stars Burt Lancaster, Michael York, Nigel Davenport, Barbara Carrera, and Richard Basehart, and was directed by Don Taylor.
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Actress Barbara Carrera claims there were three or four different endings imagined, including one in which her character gave birth to a kitten. That version was favored by producer John Temple-Smith, which actor Michael York flatly refused to do. Director Don Taylor said that he did not take it seriously and the footage was never shot.
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Bluray finally arrived ... one of the very best from way back in 74, when i was a younger man:eyebrows:. Filmed in B&W for better atmosphere too..
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The Horse Soldiers, 1959. Directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, William Holden and Constance Towers.
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The film was loosely based on Harold Sinclair's 1956 novel of the same name,[11] which in turn was based on the historic 17-day Grierson's Raid and Battle of Newton's Station in Mississippi during the Civil War
Saturday morning and "The Ipcress File", 1965, starring Michael Caine.
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The first of 3 harry palmer films
Dances With Wolves, 1990. Kevin Costner.
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Dunkirk, 1958. Directed by Leslie Norman and starring John Mills, Richard Attenborough, and Bernard Lee.
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Film was very popular everywhere but USA.. no yanks winning the war so not worth watching;)
Beach sequences were shot at Camber Sands near Rye, East Sussex, and Dunkirk town centre was recreated using part of Rye Harbour.
We're going hang out the washing on the Siegfried Line,
Have you any dirty washing, mother dear?
We're gonna hang out the washing on the Siegfried Line,
Why? 'Cause the washing day is here.
A Matter of Life and Death, 1946. Written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, the film stars David Niven, Roger Livesey, Raymond Massey, Kim Hunter and Marius Goring.
The film was originally released in the United States under the title Stairway to Heaven, which derived from the film's most prominent special effect: a broad escalator linking Earth to the afterlife.
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The beach scene was shot at Saunton Sands in Devon, and the village seen in the camera obscura was Shere in Surrey.
Dad's Army, 2016. A great cast giving this old sitcom a new spin. Not to everyone's pleasure but i for one, love it(not taking anything away from the old one)
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Filming began in Yorkshire in October 2014. Principal photography took place at North Landing, Flamborough Head and Bridlington. The East Riding Theatre in Beverley was used for Church Hall/Parade room and Captain Mainwaring's office. Sections of the film were also captured in Leeds and Pickering. Jones' van from the original television series, on loan from the Dad's Army Museum, was used in the film.
I've been watching Blakes 7 on Forces TV. Highlight of the day.
Shame they don't make proper telly like that any more. BBC cancelled it even though it got consistently high ratings. They never gave a reason.
I've been watching Blakes 7 on Forces TV. Highlight of the day.
Shame they don't make proper telly like that any more. BBC cancelled it even though it got consistently high ratings. They never gave a reason.
quite liked it in the day, even if the sets were dodgy. not sure how well its aged tho
The Bourne Identity, 2002. The first of the Bourne series of films. Film made over $214m from a budget of $60m.
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quite liked it in the day, even if the sets were dodgy. not sure how well its aged tho
Yes no budget for much in the way of sets back then. Lots of location scenes though in the BBC gravel pit and some nuclear power stations.
I think it still works probably because they had no money to fill the time with lots of special effects so had to develop the characters instead. And they had some quality actors too.
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, 1991.
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one of the better films from the franchise
Sneakers, 1992. Starring Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley, Mary McDonnell, River Phoenix, Sidney Poitier, and David Strathairn.
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The Undefeated, 1969.. John Wayne and Rock Hudson and was directed by Andrew V. McLaglen.
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Wayne and Hudson finally got along well after a shaky start.
Carry On at Your Convenience, 1971.
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The film failed at box office mostly due to its shop steward/union jokes.
After Sid James's character was criticised for leering at some girls in Carry On Henry (1971), here his character was changed to the put-upon family man similar to the character he portrayed in the TV sitcom Bless This House. In the next film Carry On Matron (1972) his character was preoccupied with thieving, but made odd suggestive comments to nurses (including one played by Jacki Piper, who played his daughter in this film). Sid's girl-chasing persona was fully reinstated for subsequent films.
'At Your Convenience' is one of the few films in the Carry On series where several script lines take on a semi-serious tone and are not played entirely for laughs.
In a 'convenience', flushed right down the pan, is where they should put ALL the 'Carry On' films!!:ner:
;)
Marco.
Carry On at Your Convenience, 1971.
https://thewonderfulworldofcinema.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/poster-780.jpg
Probably my favourite Carry On, and the only one I own on DVD!
Probably my favourite Carry On, and the only one I own on DVD!
Prefer Carry on Camping (that's a pound) or Carry on Abroad
(Kenneth Williams) "My name is Stuart Farquhar, the representative of Wundatours."
(Peter Butterworth) "Stupid what?"
(Kenneth Williams) "STUART. STUART FARQUHAR."
(Peter Butterworth) "Ahh, you Mr. Farqiarse."
The Bourne Supremacy, 2004.
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There were no plans to make a sequel to The Bourne Identity (2002) when it was conceived. Matt Damon commented, "When The Bourne Identity came out I said, 'There is very little chance we will do a second film, just because nobody on the team who made the first wants to make another movie if it can't be as good as, or better than, the first one.'" According to producer Frank Marshall, the plot for the sequel was not only based on the novel The Bourne Supremacy but also on Bourne's threat in the first film to come after the CIA if it targeted him. Producer Paul L. Sandberg felt that screenwriter Tony Gilroy's deviating so much from the book was necessary "because so much of the world has changed" since 1986, when the sequel was first published. Marshall said that Gilroy thought of an idea that Bourne "would go on what amounts to the samurai's journey, this journey of atonement."
Prefer Carry on Camping (that's a pound) or Carry on Abroad
(Kenneth Williams) "My name is Stuart Farquhar, the representative of Wundatours."
(Peter Butterworth) "Stupid what?"
(Kenneth Williams) "STUART. STUART FARQUHAR."
(Peter Butterworth) "Ahh, you Mr. Farqiarse."
when I was at my brothers for Xmas the children were watching some shite so I switched over to Carry On Camping. Howls of protest from the children which naturally I ignored. Within 30 seconds they were laughing.
The second of the carry on's now. Carry On Nurse., 1959. Shirley Eaton, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey and Hattie Jacques star among many...
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Made in 1972, this is FRENZY. Directed by Hitch and stars Barry Foster.
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film did well at box office and was well liked and reviewed. Hitch back to his best.
walpurgis
19-10-2021, 14:01
Made in 1972, this is FRENZY. Directed by Hitch and stars Barry Foster.
Serious film there Grant, if a bit grim. "Lovely! Lovely! Lovely!" :eek:
(Got the DVD)
Serious film there Grant, if a bit grim. "Lovely! Lovely! Lovely!" :eek:
(Got the DVD)
yeah a grizzly film at times and yet it goes along at a pace that keeps it, almost fun:D barry foster did very well in a difficult role.. michael caine refused it
Heaven Can Wait, 1978. Warren Beatty stars.
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Former owner : He got my team. The son of a bitch got my team.
Advisor to former owner : What kind of pressure did he use, Milt?
Former owner : Well, I asked for sixty-seven million, and he said "okay."
Advisor to former owner : Ruthless bastard.
Saturday morning and "The Ipcress File", 1965, starring Michael Caine.
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The first of 3 harry palmer films
Yep - the first and the best! :)
Carry On Sergeant, 1958, starring William Hartnell, Bob Monkhouse, Shirley Eaton and Eric Barker.
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The first of the 31 films.
Doctor at Large 1957. directed by Ralph Thomas, and the 3rd in series of 7.
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The film was the second most popular movie of the year at the British box office, after High Society.
Doctor at Large 1957. directed by Ralph Thomas, and the 3rd in series of 7.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/df/Doctor_at_Large_poster.jpg
The film was the second most popular movie of the year at the British box office, after High Society.
When I was in primary school my mate's dad was the spitting image of James Robertson Justice, and he was a doctor too. Can't watch those films without thinking it's him.
When I was in primary school my mate's dad was the spitting image of James Robertson Justice, and he was a doctor too. Can't watch those films without thinking it's him.
he was a good actor.. he was a linguist too and spoke several languages very well.french and german perfectly
he was a good actor.. he was a linguist too and spoke several languages very well.french and german perfectly
Just looked him up, he had an amazing life, he was a gold miner, he fought in the Spanish Civil War and WW2, died penniless in 1975 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Robertson_Justice
walpurgis
20-10-2021, 12:23
Just looked him up, he had an amazing life, he was a gold miner, he fought in the Spanish Civil War and WW2, died penniless in 1975 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Robertson_Justice
I read that, it's interesting. I get the impression his younger life was something between 'adventurous' and 'directionless' :).
I read that, it's interesting. I get the impression his younger life was something between 'adventurous' and 'directionless' :).
The two usually go hand in hand...
Crocodile Dundee II, 1988. Paul Hogan and Linda Kozlowski reprise their roles as Mick Dundee and Sue Charlton.
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again this did well.
Little Nicky, 2000.. fantasy comedy film directed by Steven Brill, written by Brill, Adam Sandler, and Tim Herlihy, and starring Sandler, Patricia Arquette, Harvey Keitel, Rhys Ifans, Tommy "Tiny" Lister Jr., and Rodney Dangerfield.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/53/Little_nicky.jpg
Universally disliked; except me.:eyebrows:
One for budding princesses now.. Matilda, 1996. fantasy comedy film co-produced and directed by Danny DeVito, from a screenplay written by Nicholas Kazan and Robin Swicord. Based on Roald Dahl's popular 1988 novel of the same name, the film stars Mara Wilson as the title character with DeVito (who also served a dual role as the narrator), Rhea Perlman, Embeth Davidtz and Pam Ferris in supporting roles.
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The film was well liked but failed t the box office oddly.
As of September 2020, on Rotten Tomatoes, Matilda had an approval rating of 90% based on 21 reviews with an average rating of 7.48/10. The website's critical consensus read, "Danny DeVito-directed version of Matilda is odd, charming, and while the movie diverges from Roald Dahl, it nonetheless captures the book's spirit."
The Four Feathers, 1939.. This is the Criterion bluray and is superb. this film is still the best version and still looks a lot younger than 82.
Directed by Hungarian Zoltan Korda, and stars John Clements, Ralph Richardson, June Duprez, and C. Aubrey Smith(who was a big cricketer once and also leader of the Hollywood Raj.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Charles_Aubrey_Smith_c1895.jpg/390px-Charles_Aubrey_Smith_c1895.jpgAubrey Smith. and as he was in film... https://pictureshowman.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/C-Aubrey_Smith_CAS1-1935-2.jpg
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The film still has a 100% freshness rating from Rotten Tomatoes. The only let down for me was John Laurie as the Khalifa Abdullah, as he still looks like and sounds like a Private Fraser:lol: I will say the book by A E W Mason is a lot different, although in many ways i quite like the way the film handled the story too.
Rio Bravo, 1959. Starring John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan and Ward Bond.
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As was often the case in a John Wayne Western, Wayne wore his "Red River D" belt buckle in the movie. It can be clearly seen in the scene where Nathan Burdette comes to visit his brother Joe in the jail where he is being held for the U.S. Marshal about 60 minutes into the film.
Saboteur, 1942. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock with a screenplay written by Peter Viertel, Joan Harrison and Dorothy Parker. The film stars Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane and Norman Lloyd.
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Hitchcock made use of irony on numerous occasions in Saboteur. For example, early in the film, the authorities are seen as menacing, while the well-respected rancher and kind grandfather is an enemy agent. In contrast, only ordinary folks and the down-on-their-luck perceive Kane's innocence and offer trust: a long-haul truck driver, a blind householder and the circus freaks. In New York City, wealthy Mrs. Sutton is secretly funding an enemy group.
Saboteur is an early example of the distrust of authority that is one of Hitchcock's hallmarks.
Driving along the New York waterfront, Kane's car passes by the capsized hulk of the liner SS Normandie, an ominous warning of what could happen if the conspirators succeed in their plans.
The final battle symbolizing tyranny against democracy takes place on the torch of the Statue of Liberty.
Classic western today. Shane, 1953. directed by George Stevens based on the 1949 novel of the same name by Jack Schaefer(which ive read when a kid). It stars Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur and Van Heflin, and features Brandon deWilde, Jack Palance, Emile Meyer, Elisha Cook Jr., and Ben Johnson.
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Shane was expensive for a Western movie at the time with a cost of $3.1 million.[10] It was the first film to be projected in "flat" widescreen, a format that Paramount invented in order to offer audiences a wider panorama than television could provide.[11]
Although never explicitly stated, the basic plot elements of Shane were derived from the 1892 Johnson County War in Wyoming, the archetypal cattlemen–homesteaders conflict, which also served as the background for The Virginian and Heaven's Gate.
Bosley Crowther called the film a "rich and dramatic mobile painting of the American frontier scene". He continued:
Shane contains something more than the beauty and the grandeur of the mountains and plains, drenched by the brilliant Western sunshine and the violent, torrential, black-browed rains. It contains a tremendous comprehension of the bitterness and passion of the feuds that existed between the new homesteaders and the cattlemen on the open range. It contains a disturbing revelation of the savagery that prevailed in the hearts of the old gun-fighters, who were simply legal killers under the frontier code. And it also contains a very wonderful understanding of the spirit of a little boy amid all the tensions and excitements and adventures of a frontier home.
Going to watch this tonight, once darkness has descended...
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I have it on good authority that it's suitably sick, brutal and depraved.. Just my thang!:eyebrows:
Trailer here:
https://youtu.be/xwWgp1bqVwE
Love a nice cheery revenge flick!:D
Marco.
Going to watch this tonight, once darkness has descended...
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That looks good, I like a bloody revenge movie.
Me too, mate, and on this occasion I'll happily put up with the subtitles!
In any case, something was badly needed to alter the vibe here of Granty's never-ending procession of 'feel-good golden oldies'!:doh::D:ner:
;)
Marco.
Me too, mate, and on this occasion I'll happily put up with the subtitles!
In any case, something was badly needed to alter the vibe here of Granty's never-ending procession of 'feel-good golden oldies'!:doh::D:ner:
;)
Marco.
Watched this a little while back if you fancy good old fashioned shocks (the 1st film in the series is good to).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFsmuRPClr4
Watched this a little while back if you fancy good old fashioned shocks (the 1st film in the series is good to).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFsmuRPClr4
I just started watching that last night but only got about 20 minutes into it so far as I was falling asleep.
Based on the Enfield Poltergeist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enfield_poltergeist which is a fascinating case with a number of unresolved events.
I just started watching that last night but only got about 20 minutes into it so far as I was falling asleep.
Based on the Enfield Poltergeist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enfield_poltergeist which is a fascinating case with a number of unresolved events.
So I gather. The first one actually has more 'jumps' in it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k10ETZ41q5o
The weirdest thing I've noticed so far in it is that the house appears to be much larger inside than it is outside. Maybe they nicked that from 'The Shining'?
The weirdest thing I've noticed so far in it is that the house appears to be much larger inside than it is outside. Maybe they nicked that from 'The Shining'?
It wouldn't be as effective if a kid was only thrown across a normal sized council house living room.
All just entertaining hokum after all, first time I've watched these kind of films in years and enjoyed them.
I'm not at all interested in 'slasher movies'. When I watch horror films I prefer subtly over in-your-face schlock horror. The Japanese are masters in making subtle but nonetheless shocking horror films.
Of the revenge horror films, most of them are just too ridiculous (such as 'Kill Bill') to be taken seriously, or are of the 'torture porn' variety (such as the 'Hostel' trilogy) which are just downright unpleasant to watch and makes you wonder the intentions of the film maker.
But if you do want a revenge horror film which shows some imagination, then I would recommend the 2010 remake of 'I Spit on Your Grave': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Spit_on_Your_Grave_(2010_film)
i'll stick with shane. good old fashioned shootin' baddies:D
It wouldn't be as effective if a kid was only thrown across a normal sized council house living room.
All just entertaining hokum after all, first time I've watched these kind of films in years and enjoyed them.
I'm fine with a bit of artistic licence, it's just that the inside the house seems to be some sort of odd amalgam of a British 1930s semi and a much larger American house. Like the sets were designed by an American who only had a little knowledge of what those houses are actually like inside.
Here's the actual house, still there today https://www.instantstreetview.com/@51.655166,-0.035576,24.62h,5p,1z,Fq3KKrZLbisxff1BOsynfQ
i'll stick with shane. good old fashioned shootin' baddies:D
LOL... I don't mind that stuff mate, it's the mind-numbingly awful 'Carry On' films, or anything of a similar ilk, which for me are dreadfully dated and old hat, that drives me demented!:lol:
That sort of 'humour' was never my thing (same with Dad's Army, It Ain't Half Hot Mum - all that cack). Anything 'typically British' (read as English, really, from that era). For that reason I can only take Black Adder in small doses, too - despite the brilliance of some of the characters.
Soz:o
Marco.
Watched this a little while back if you fancy good old fashioned shocks (the 1st film in the series is good to).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFsmuRPClr4
Classic, mate:)
Marco.
LOL... I don't mind that stuff mate, it's the mind-numbingly awful 'Carry On' films, or anything of a similar ilk, which for me are dreadfully dated and old hat, that drives me demented!:lol:
That sort of 'humour' was never my thing (same with Dad's Army, It Ain't Half Hot Mum - all that cack). Anything 'typically British' (read as English, really, from that era). For that reason I can only take Black Adder in small doses, too - despite the brilliance of some of the characters.
Soz:o
Marco.
check out the cat fight in 'Carry On Girls' you soon change your mind.:D
One of the reasons I like Carry On is that it's set back in the time when the world was still normal. Same with 'On The Buses'
Dad's Army is a different type of humour I think.
I'm not at all interested in 'slasher movies'. When I watch horror films I prefer subtly over in-your-face schlock horror. The Japanese are masters in making subtle but nonetheless shocking horror films.
Of the revenge horror films, most of them are just too ridiculous (such as 'Kill Bill') to be taken seriously, or are of the 'torture porn' variety (such as the 'Hostel' trilogy) which are just downright unpleasant to watch and makes you wonder the intentions of the film maker.
But if you do want a revenge horror film which shows some imagination, then I would recommend the 2010 remake of 'I Spit on Your Grave': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Spit_on_Your_Grave_(2010_film)
I don't necessarily disagree, Barry (and I love ISoYG), but I watch 'gory' films (the more deranged the better) because I find them FUNNY!:D
Plus, I'm very much a 'film noir' kind of guy in general, which covers a broad spectrum of material. I don't do 'cheery' - period!
Marco.
check out the cat fight in 'Carry On Girls' you soon change your mind.:D
One of the reasons I like Carry On is that it's set back in the time when the world was still normal. Same with 'On The Buses'
Dad's Army is a different type of humour I think.
Yeah I know what you mean, but that's the only reason I'd be watching it!:D
I TOTALLY get where you're coming from with 'when the world was normal', and agree, as I'm also fundamentally non-PC. 'On the Buses' was ok. It had a few giggles, but most of that stuff (Love thy Neighbour too, etc) wasn't really my thing.
Now, The Kenny Everett TV Show or Not the Nine O'Clock News, different kettle of fish!;)
Marco.
walpurgis
22-10-2021, 12:33
good old fashioned shootin' baddies:D
Time to watch 'Point Blank again? :)
The Halfway House, 1944. Great period cast for this slightly supernatural drama. Directed by Basil Dearden and starring Mervyn Johns, his daughter Glynis Johns, Tom Walls and Françoise Rosay.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/be/%22The_Halfway_House%22_%281944%29.jpg
The Huffington Post reviewer disagreed, writing "I really can't recommend The Halfway House enough: unlike the more overt Ealing war films (which this resembles in many ways, not least the disparate group coming together and working together), this is subtler propaganda, and its overarching supernatural atmosphere is well done. Apart from that, however, it offers strong character portraits, great visual flourishes, and another solid turn from [Mervyn] Johns."
Nice one, Granty. Even though it's old, I actually love stuff like that!:cool:
Marco.
Not sure if this the correct place to post (and if it's not, can a Mod move it to a more appropriate place), but tonight at 9:00pm on BBC4 is a documentary about Frank Zappa.
To quote from the RT:
The first all-access documentary - years in the making - about the American musician Frank Zappa, who died in 1993. It conveys the scope of his prodigious and varied creative output, and the breadth of his extraordinary personal and political life. The documentary team was granted exclusive access by his widow Gail to a vast collection of Zappa's unreleased music, movies, incomplete projects, unseen interviews and unheard concert recordings, much of which was deteriorating and in being in danger of being lost for ever.
and
A musically divisive figure, Frank Zappa was a wildly creative Renaissance or a maker of unlistenable noise, depending on your viewpoint. At his artistic zenith - an era of wall-to-wall disco - Zappa was certainly running in the opposite direction. A prolific artist (62 albums) and a beacon for nonconformity (calling two of his children Moon Unit and Dweezil), Zappa freeform oddness connected with many people who were bored of bubblegum pop.
Born in Baltimore in 1940, Zappa led 60s sonic experimentalists the Mothers of Invention, a group that seemed to attract Spinal Tap levels of disaster - Zappa himself was injured after being thrown from a stage.
In solo mode he released prog-jazz-comedy fusion LPs including Hot Rats an Zoot Allures, but as this in-depth, all-access documentary shows. he was also a film-maker and political activist. And one who was almost unstoppably creative, whether you like him or not.
Bazza, did you forget about this thread for that very purpose: https://theartofsound.net/forum/showthread.php?4986-Music-Coming-Soon-to-a-TV-Near-You&p=1244419#post1244419
Thanks for the heads-up:thumbsup:
Granty, could you do me a big favour mate, and move Barry's post about Zappa to the appropriate thread above? I' need to go and pick up the princess from work:)
Marco.
Cheers for moving that, Granty:thumbsup:
Princess says hi, btw:wave:
Marco.
Cheers for moving that, Granty:thumbsup:
Princess says hi, btw:wave:
Marco.
no bother.. hi big P:D
now, 28 Days Later, 2002. post-apocalyptic horror drama film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Alex Garland.
it stars Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston, Megan Burns and Brendan Gleeson.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e4/28_days_later.jpg
28 Days Later was a considerable success at the box office and became highly profitable on a budget of about £5 million. In the UK, it took in £6.1 million, while in the US it became a surprise hit, taking over $45 million despite a limited release at fewer than 1,500 screens across the country. The film garnered over $85.7 million worldwide.
Notting Hill, 1999. directed by Roger Michell, and stars Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant, Rhys Ifans, Emma Chambers, Tim McInnerny, Gina McKee, and Hugh Bonneville.
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Notting Hill, 1999. directed by Roger Michell, and stars Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant, Rhys Ifans, Emma Chambers, Tim McInnerny, Gina McKee, and Hugh Bonneville.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/38/NottingHillRobertsGrant.jpg
written by Richard 'Everything that's wrong with this country epitomised in one man' Curtis.
Unwatchable IMO even though it's got Hugh Grant in it. See also 'Love Actually.'
Point Blank, 1967. directed by John Boorman, starring Lee Marvin, co-starring Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn and Carroll O'Connor, and adapted from the 1963 crime noir pulp novel The Hunter by Donald E. Westlake, writing as Richard Stark.
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Point Blank is hailed in the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die as "The perfect thriller in both form and vision." Film historian David Thomson calls the film a masterpiece.
walpurgis
23-10-2021, 11:57
Point Blank, 1967. directed by John Boorman, starring Lee Marvin, co-starring Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn and Carroll O'Connor
:thumbsup:
Great film! Got the DVD. (Marco would like this :))
I also like 'Payback', the 1997 Mel Gibson remake, which was also nicely savage, albeit with some humour thrown in.
Pigmy Pony
23-10-2021, 12:07
I've been watching Blakes 7 on Forces TV. Highlight of the day.
Shame they don't make proper telly like that any more. BBC cancelled it even though it got consistently high ratings. They never gave a reason.
I think it was the rising cost of MDF.
From Hell, 2001, stars Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm, Robbie Coltrane, Ian Richardson, and Jason Flemyng. It was directed by the Hughes Brothers.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/66/From_Hell_film.jpg
Visually well done and acting is good, but its not the best ripper film.
Blast from the Past, 1999. directed by Hugh Wilson and starring Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Christopher Walken, Sissy Spacek, and Dave Foley.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7e/BlastFromThePast.jpg
Film recieved mixed reviews and just made a profit. I like this; I think Walken and Spacek steal the show tho
Film time, and Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes, 1938. starring Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave, and support from May Whitty, Cecil Parker, Googie Withers and the pairing of Naunton Wayne and Basil Radford playing Charter and Caldicott. This is the Criterion Region A bluray.
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The story is blessed by great characters and many witty and imaginative touches, in particular the conceit by which the passengers are each given selfish motives for refusing to verify Iris' story. As well as the chemistry between the two leads, the film has some of Hitchcock's best character parts, with Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne particularly good value as the cricket obsessed Charters and Caldicott.
The American film critic and historian Leonard Maltin gave the film four out of four stars in his Movie Guide and included the film in his list of 100 Must-See Films of the 20th Century. The Guardian called the film "one of the greatest train movies from the genre's golden era", and a contender for the "title of best comedy thriller ever made".
Carry On Girls, 1973. regulars Sid James, Barbara Windsor, Joan Sims, Kenneth Connor, Patsy Rowlands, June Whitfield, Bernard Bresslaw and Peter Butterworth all star.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b9/CarryOnGirls.Cinemaposter.jpg
The film marked a slightly more risqué treatment of the topic with more nudity and openly sexual jokes than previous films. Discreet cuts by the BBFC (mainly to saucy dialogue and the hotel fight sequence between bikini-clad contestants played by Barbara Windsor and Margaret Nolan) enabled the film to gain the more commercially acceptable A certificate (open to families) than the more restrictive AA certificate, barring entry to the under-fourteens.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest , 2006.
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Going from the sublime to the ridiculous there Grant :lol:
Apropos 'The Lady Vanishes' being deemed by The Guardian to be "one of the greatest train movies from the genre's golden era", I would reserve that accolade for the Albert Finney version of 'Murder on the Orient Express'. :)
Carry On Girls, 1973. regulars Sid James, Barbara Windsor, Joan Sims, Kenneth Connor, Patsy Rowlands, June Whitfield, Bernard Bresslaw and Peter Butterworth all star.
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The film marked a slightly more risqué treatment of the topic with more nudity and openly sexual jokes than previous films. Discreet cuts by the BBFC (mainly to saucy dialogue and the hotel fight sequence between bikini-clad contestants played by Barbara Windsor and Margaret Nolan) enabled the film to gain the more commercially acceptable A certificate (open to families) than the more restrictive AA certificate, barring entry to the under-fourteens.
June Whitfield as Augusta Prodworthy. Margret Nolan as Dawn Breaks. Angela Grant as Miss Bangor. Sid James as Sidney Fiddler.
Been binging this weekend Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" TV series on Apple TV.
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Haven't read the books, but aware of them, and was interested when I heard they made a TV series.
Quite Game of Thrones-ey in scale,
Pretty epic stuff.
Visually gorgeous, real AV demo stuff.
6 episodes in its... intriguing.
Squid Game up next after this.
Squid Game up next after this.
We succumbed to the hype - I enjoyed it, thought I would hate the dubbing but in the end you hardly notice as it is synced very well, although some of the voices were a bit annoying. Enjoy!
walpurgis
25-10-2021, 06:53
Been binging this weekend Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" TV series on Apple TV.
Not heard of that, but I have read the books.
I just started watching that last night but only got about 20 minutes into it so far as I was falling asleep.
Based on the Enfield Poltergeist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enfield_poltergeist which is a fascinating case with a number of unresolved events.
Finished watching this. Absolute shite. I got properly bored with about an hour to go so I just started looking for anachronisms. Note to Yank directors - if you're setting your film in 1970s London don't actually film it in London. London in the 1970s was run-down and filthy, it only got Disneyfied about 20 years ago.
Also poor people generally kept their houses clean even if they were a bit shabby. There's a difference between shabby and dirty.
Only a few wealthy people like doctors had big American-style 'fridges back then. Not single parents on benefits.
No 1930s semi-detached houses have huge American-style 'basements'. And even if they did they would be called 'cellars', not basements. And no-one in the UK keeps their automatic washing machine in the cellar. Even if they had a washing machine back in the 1970s which, if they were on the bones of their arses like the family in this film, I can guarantee they didn't.
That's enough for now.
Finished watching this. Absolute shite. I got properly bored with about an hour to go so I just started looking for anachronisms. Note to Yank directors - if you're setting your film in 1970s London don't actually film it in London. London in the 1970s was run-down and filthy, it only got Disneyfied about 20 years ago.
Also poor people generally kept their houses clean even if they were a bit shabby. There's a difference between shabby and dirty.
Only a few wealthy people like doctors had big American-style 'fridges back then. Not single parents on benefits.
No 1930s semi-detached houses have huge American-style 'basements'. And even if they did they would be called 'cellars', not basements. And no-one in the UK keeps their automatic washing machine in the cellar. Even if they had a washing machine back in the 1970s which, if they were on the bones of their arses like the family in this film, I can guarantee they didn't.
That's enough for now.
yanks eh? what ya gonna do;)
yanks eh? what ya gonna do;)
Total balls mate.
At least Blakes 7 is back on tonight. Series 3. Not seen these since they were originally broadcast so it's all almost new to me, with it being 40 odd years ago.
Not enjoyed a TV series as much since The Sopranos finished.
More madness now with Dad's Army, the film. 1971. Original cast.
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It did well at the UK box office.
walpurgis
25-10-2021, 10:55
At least Blakes 7 is back on tonight.
What channel's that on Martin?
I watched that again just the other week. Really good film version unlike most of the 70s sit com big screen efforts ('On The Buses' excepted).
The village they filmed it in has barely changed in the last 50 years.
What channel's that on Martin?
Forces TV at 2100 every weeknight, catch-up at the weekend.
walpurgis
25-10-2021, 11:25
Forces TV at 2100 every weeknight, catch-up at the weekend.
Can't get that.
Can't get that.
It's on Freeview, does your telly not have that built-in?
walpurgis
25-10-2021, 11:36
It's on Freeview
I know, but I still can't get it. Retuning TV's doesn't help, maybe it's a regional thing.
I know, but I still can't get it. Retuning TV's doesn't help, maybe it's a regional thing.
could be but seems odd that it's not available in London.
Check for sure here https://www.freeview.co.uk/freeview-channel-checker
walpurgis
25-10-2021, 12:02
Not shown as being available from transmitter.
its channel 96 on freeview apparently, but might just be n england as it said bilsdale transmitter
could be but seems odd that it's not available in London.
Check for sure here https://www.freeview.co.uk/freeview-channel-checker
pretty sure it wasnt available up here either when i had tv... think you had to have sattelite
walpurgis
25-10-2021, 12:17
its channel 96 on freeview apparently, but might just be n england as it said bilsdale transmitter
Yeah, found it. Radio Times site has it as channel 88 for some reason.
Give the Telly a thump,
that'll do it.
Groundhog Day, 1993. directed by Harold Ramis and stars Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell and Chris Elliott.
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Didn't you watch that before?
Didn't you watch that before?
didn't you say that before?:ner:
The Man Who Knew Too Little, 1997. starring Bill Murray, Joanne Whalley, Alfred Molina and Richard Wilson.
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it didnt do well but i like it.
didn't you say that before?:ner:
:D
a bit of red dwarf to see out my sesh:lol: Red Dwarf 10.
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Cryton's edges are looking a bit blunt...
Firmware needing updating or...?
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1978.
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good remake of a classic.
Ryan's Daughter, 1970. directed by David Lean and starring Robert Mitchum and Sarah Miles.
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It won 2 Oscars;
Best Supporting Actor - John Mills and Best Cinematography - Freddie Young.
Panned by the critics, but loved by cinema goers.
I though the parts played by John Mills and Trevor Howard to be particularly good.
Panned by the critics, but loved by cinema goers.
I though the parts played by John Mills and Trevor Howard to be particularly good.
yes its a good film for all its faults. very watchable
Oliver Twist, 1948. Another of David Lean's films; all pretty much classics. Lean re-assembled much of the same team for his adaptation of Dickens' 1838 novel, including producers Ronald Neame and Anthony Havelock-Allan, cinematographer Guy Green, designer John Bryan and editor Jack Harris. Lean's then-wife, Kay Walsh, who had collaborated on the screenplay for Great Expectations, played the role of Nancy. John Howard Davies was cast as Oliver, while Alec Guinness portrayed Fagin and Robert Newton played Bill Sykes (Bill Sikes in the novel).
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The film was banned in Israel for anti-semitism. It was banned in Egypt for portraying Fagin too sympathetically. lol cant win eh;)
Blame It on the Bellboy, 1992.
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Memoirs of an Invisible Man, 1992. directed by John Carpenter and starring Chevy Chase, Daryl Hannah, Sam Neill, Michael McKean and Stephen Tobolowsky.
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Filming rolled for 84 days between April and June 1991. Parts of the film were shot in Snowbird, Utah.
Carpenter said due to the effects work by Industrial Light & Magic "we essentially had to shoot the same movie twice", as after normal takes the effects team would set up their bulky VistaVision motion control cameras to film the same elements again while gathering digital data for the computer-generated imagery.
According to visual effects supervisor Bruce Nicholson, "Success in this movie was showing invisibility in detail". During nine months of preparation, Nicholson studied four previous films on the subject, The Invisible Man - which receives a tribute in the scene where Nick is shown to have his head wrapped in bandages and is wearing large dark goggles - and its sequel The Invisible Man Returns, Bedknobs and Broomsticks and Ghost.
Chase would wear a blue bodysuit below his clothing, so that computer artists would erase his body through chroma key and match the clothes with computer-generated replicas so that even the inside of the clothing could be seen, along with other touches such as erasing the shadow made by Chase's body. A particularly elaborate effect had Nick's invisible face being covered in flesh-colored make-up. The make-up was applied to Chase as his head was covered in viscous blue cosmetic, tongue and teeth coated with blue food coloring, and the cornea of each eye covered with blue contact lenses, an uncomfortable makeover made worse by the June heat and heavy studio lighting.
Night Train to Munich, 1940.
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The film has been compared to The Lady Vanishes, with the Princeton academic Michael Wood describing it as an "ironic remake"; the publicity at the time of release erroneously claimed it is a sequel. It has a similar situation in a war-torn continental Europe and both have scripts by Launder and Gilliat. The two slightly eccentric and cricket-mad English travellers, Charters and Caldicott, are carried over. The films are otherwise similar in setting, and both feature similar lead character types: the damsel in distress and eccentric upper-class British gentlemen spy, manifesting in the first film as Iris (played by Margaret Lockwood) and Gilbert and in the second as Anna Bomasch (also played by Lockwood) and Dickie Randall.
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American Psycho (2000)
Sue wanted to watch this last night - we both missed it at the time, and reviews looked good. We both thought it was absolute rubbish! American Garbage more like!
Some more of Colditz the series.. made in early 70's by bbc
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American Psycho (2000)
Sue wanted to watch this last night - we both missed it at the time, and reviews looked good. We both thought it was absolute rubbish! American Garbage more like!
It's a lot about nothing isn't it?
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Assault on Precinct 13, 1976. Directed by John Carpenter. (all done for $100k) became a classic after its showings in UK and then Europe.
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Capricorn One , 1978. It was written and directed by Peter Hyams and stars Elliott Gould with James Brolin, Sam Waterston, Hal Holbrook and O. J. Simpson.
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Hyams later joked, "O. J. Simpson was in it, and Robert Blake was in (Hyams' first feature) Busting. I’ve said many times: Some people have AFI Lifetime Achievement awards, some people have multiple Oscars, my bit of trivia is that I’ve made films with two leading men who were subsequently tried for the first-degree murder of their wives."
both got slung too, although in Blake's case the Chewbacca Defense wasn't required.
Both also found guilty in civil suits.
Blake was in 'Pork Chop Hill', one of my favourites.
walpurgis
28-10-2021, 12:01
Blake was in 'Pork Chop Hill', one of my favourites.
He was an unstable, narcissistic, loony, like the similarly bonkers Phil Spector.
He was an unstable, narcissistic, loony, like the similarly bonkers Phil Spector.
His case was interesting. Wife was murdered in a car outside a restaurant, Blake's defence was that at the time of the murder he was in the restaurant, having gone back inside to collect his pistol, which he had forgotten to take with him when he left there earlier.
Presumably he'd just absent-mindedly left it on the table by the basket of bread rolls. As you do. But then it's Hollywood, where anything is possible.
a couple of his bodyguards stated he asked them to kill her, although they were forced to testify under threat of a charge themselves, so they may just have said what prosocution wanted. was he guilty? it was not proven as there was no way to tie him to it.
The Devil And Miss Jones(again):lol: 1941.
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bluray version
Young Frankenstein, 1974...
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Inga : He vould have an enormous schwanzstucker.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein : That goes without saying.
Inga : Voof.
Igor : He's going to be very popular.
Cowboys & Aliens, 2011. directed by Jon Favreau and starring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, and Olivia Wilde.
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It made a disappointingly small profit, although it took a total of $174m
The Maltese Falcon, 1941.. (a good year 41) Directed by John Huston in his directorial debut, It stars Humphrey Bogart as private investigator Sam Spade and Mary Astor as his femme fatale client. Gladys George, Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet co-star, with the last appearing in his film debut.
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A topper of a Debut.
walpurgis
29-10-2021, 14:59
The Maltese Falcon, 1941.
Got the DVD. Cracking film and an all time classic!
Got the DVD. Cracking film and an all time classic!
i agree, and apart from some aspects, its up there with his best. big sydney's first film at age 61:D
The Island of Dr. Moreau, 1977.
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Khartoum, 1966. Directed by Basil Dearden. It stars Charlton Heston as British Gen. Charles "Chinese" Gordon and Laurence Olivier as Muhammad Ahmed (a Sudanese leader whose devotees proclaimed him the Mahdi), with a supporting cast that includes Richard Johnson and Ralph Richardson.
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It was the last movie filmed in Ultra Panavision 70 until The Hateful Eight, written and directed by Quentin Tarantino forty-nine years later.
Pigmy Pony
29-10-2021, 17:15
We succumbed to the hype - I enjoyed it, thought I would hate the dubbing but in the end you hardly notice as it is synced very well, although some of the voices were a bit annoying. Enjoy!
+1 for Squid game. A bit brutal, but well made.
Saturday matinee starts with the 1940 wartime flagwaver, Convoy, starring Clive Brook John Clements and Edward Chapman. it was directed by Pen Tennyson for Ealing Studios.
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Writer and director Pen Tennyson served in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) at the time of the production of Convoy. To gain some experience in convoy conditions, he was given an exemption in order to be assigned to HMS Valorous (L00), then stationed on convoy duty.
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