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First Men On The Moon, 1964.. bluray..
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In the book, the large monster which the Selenites hunt is called a Mooncalf. This is an old English term for idiot, since it was believed that being out under a full moon could cause madness (think also "lunatic"), but is also a clever pun on H.G. Wells' part, as the Selenites also hunt this beast like cattle, the young of which is called a calf.
Professor Cavor calls out "SOS" when he becomes stuck between the rocks on the moon's surface; however, SOS did not come into use until 1905, six years later.
This is the only one of Ray Harryhausen's films to be shot in anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1) due to the higher cost of anamorphic camera and projection lenses needed for his Dynamation Process.
certainly a different style. cgi is a bit 'in your face' but that seems to be the style folk want. it kinda reminds me of the doomed pearl harbour film, although much better done.
Yes the CGI is over the top. Same director as 'Pearl Harbour' I think?
Terminator Genisys, 2015... bluray.
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J.K. Simmons was stated to have improvised many of his lines. His description of a rocket to the T-800 ("Blows a door clean off. You know, for people who can't do that themselves.") even earns a stare of surprise from Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The original director of The Terminator (1984), James Cameron, asked and got to officially endorse this film. He said he loved this so much, he personally considers this the official third film in the franchise. However, in 2017, Cameron stated that he doesn't have much respect for the Terminator movies that were made after Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), but supported them because of his close friendship with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Kyle Reese: Survivors called it Judgement Day. People lived like rats in shadows, hiding, starving, or worse, captured and put into camps for extermination. sounds familiar over in ukraine
Five Graves to Cairo, 1943... Eureka bluray..
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The tank seen at the start of the picture was an actual American army tank but not authentically a British one. It was loaned to the production by a neighboring American army base. The production had attempted to get a real British tank but had had their request knocked back.
The desert scenes were filmed in sand dunes near Yuma, AZ. Shooting also took place at California's Salton Sea area and at Camp Young in Indio (Riverside County), where the battle scenes were staged, with the assistance of US Army troops.
This espionage thriller inspired a real spy operation. Actor Miles Mander looked so much like British Gen. Bernard L. Montgomery that British intelligence tried to hire him as Montgomery's double for a mission to deceive the Germans about the location of the D-Day invasion. However, Mander was too tall, so they found an Australian comic, M.E. Clifton James, to masquerade as Monty. They sent the phony Montgomery to Gibraltar to make the Germans think the British would invade southern France before they hit northern France. James later starred in I Was Monty's Double (1958). A synopsis of the operation appears in the bestseller, "Double Cross: True Story of the D-Day Spies" by Ben MacIntyre.
Heaven Can Wait, 1943...Henry Van Cleve presents himself at the gates of Hell only to find he is closely vetted on his qualifications for entry. Surprised there is any question on his suitability, he recounts his lively life and the women he has known from his mother onwards....
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In a 1983 interview, "A Conversation with Don Ameche", Don Ameche said this movie was his favorite of all the films he worked on.
Gene Tierney recalled that during production, "Lubitsch was a tyrant on the set, the most demanding of directors. After one scene, which took from noon until five to get, I was almost in tears from listening to Lubitsch shout at me. The next day I sought him out, looked him in the eye, and said, 'Mr. Lubitsch, I'm willing to do my best but I just can't go on working on this picture if you're going to keep shouting at me.' 'I'm paid to shout at you', he bellowed. 'Yes', I said, 'and I'm paid to take it - but not enough.' After a tense pause, Lubitsch broke out laughing. From then on we got along famously." (From Tierney's autobiography 'Self-Portrait'.)
This was the first of two unrelated films of the same title to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. The second was Heaven Can Wait (1978).
In his conversations with Billy Wilder, Cameron Crowe asked Wilder about Ernst Lubitsch's touch. Wilder replied like this - "It was the elegant use of the Superjoke. You had a joke, and you felt satisfied, and then there was one more big joke on top of it. The joke you didn't expect." In this film, the audience sees Charles Coburn (Grandfather) giving a big pat on young Albert's back. After that, Young Albert goes to downstairs and starts wearing his hand gloves. Grandfather (who is upstairs) takes the glass of water and pours the water on Young Albert's head.
Heaven Can Wait, 1978.... more a remake of here comes mr jordan but they called it this...which was the original title of the play...yeah its comlex lol
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Second of three collaborations of actor Jack Warden and Warren Beatty, the first having been about three years earlier with Shampoo (1975). These two 1970s films brought Warden to the peak of his acting career as he displayed a flair for comedy in both Shampoo (1975) and Heaven Can Wait (1978). As the faintly sinister businessman "Lester" in Shampoo (1975) and as the perpetually befuddled football trainer "Max Corkle" in Heaven Can Wait (1978), Warden received Academy Award nominations as Best Supporting Actor for both pictures but did not win the Oscar for either movie. Warden also later appeared in Beatty's Bulworth (1998) around twenty years after Heaven Can Wait (1978).
James Gleason was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in the role of Max Corkle for this movie's source original film Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941). This is the first time in Academy Awards history for a person to be nominated for a supporting Oscar for a role for which a different person would later also be nominated for a supporting Oscar: Jack Warden was nominated for Best Supporting Actor as Max Corkle in Heaven Can Wait (1978).
Apollo 13... 1995...
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In a commentary track, Marilyn Lovell comments that Tom Hanks exactly portrays Jim Lovell's mannerisms and style of movement.
In some scenes where the Earth can be seen from the windows of Apollo 13, it is one of the photos taken by Jim Lovell and Bill Anders on the Apollo 8 mission.
Jim Lovell wore his old Navy Captain's uniform in the scene where he greets the astronauts aboard the U.S.S. Iwo Jima. When Ron Howard asked Lovell if he'd like to be in the film as the ship's Admiral, Lovell agreed, but pointed out, "I retired as a Captain; a Captain I will be."
When the real Jim Lovell saw the film, he found the CGI work so convincing that he firmly believed that the filmmakers had uncovered some hitherto unseen NASA footage.
Failure is not an option!. Great line that was, in the film attributed to lead flight director Gene Kranz, but it was actually said(not in those exact words) by FDO Flight Controller Jerry Bostick when the script writers, Al Reinert and Bill Broyles interviewed him on how they behaved in an emergency. The question was "Weren't there times when everybody, or at least a few people, just panicked?" My answer was "No, when bad things happened, we just calmly laid out all the options, and failure was not one of them." ..
Mulholland Dr, 2001.. 4k Bluray. A native 3840 x 2160p resolution image with widescreen 1.85:1 aspect ratio, uses 10-bit video depth, High Dynamic Range, a Wide Colour Gamut (WCG) and is encoded using the HEVC (H.265) codec for HRD10 and Dolby Vision. Remasterd film is beautiful.
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I saw this at my film club and couldn't make head nor tail of it - and I'm not sure if I can be bothered to watch it again. :rolleyes:
Apollo 13... 1995...
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Good film - I have it on DVD.
Koyaanisqatsi
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The title is a Hopi native North American word for "life out of balance", and is just as valid today as it was when it was made in 1982.
Good film - I have it on DVD.
its a film i really like on various levels barry... i have a copy on 4k on order actually so will rewatch on the higher def soon. its such a superb film as a story(you couldnt make it up and be believed), as a spectacle with some of the shots you or I will never see, and as an emotional drain, with a glorious finale too. The fact that its 95% true is irrelevant i think initially but its a 'sucker punch'.
I saw this at my film club and couldn't make head nor tail of it - and I'm not sure if I can be bothered to watch it again. :rolleyes:
its basically a dream for the first 2/3s and then reality at end. obviously its super complex and i dont get it all either, but its so beautiful i enjoy trying to eke out a bit more on every watch. the 4k version is stunning
Powaqqatsi (1988)
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The title is a Hopi word for "life in transition" (or "a parasitic way of life"). It is the second film in the '-qatsi' trilogy.
A Beautiful Mind, 2001...
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John Nash visited the set, and Russell Crowe said later that he had been fascinated by the way he moved his hands, and he had tried to do the same thing in the movie. He thought it would help him get into the character.
The film was shot in sequence in order to help Russell Crowe develop a consistently progressive manner of behavior.
John and Alicia Nash were killed in a car accident on May 23, 2015, when the driver of a taxi they were riding in lost control of the car and collided with a guard rail and a second car on the New Jersey Turnpike. The New York Times said that although the two drivers suffered only minor injures, the Nashes were "ejected from the cab and pronounced dead at the scene." John was 86 and Alicia was 82.
The Monuments Men, 2014.. The "Monuments Men," were a group of approximately 345 men and women from thirteen nations, most of whom volunteered for service in the newly created MFAA section during World War II. Many had expertise as museum directors, curators, art historians, artists, architects, and educators. Their job description was simple: to protect cultural treasures so far as war allowed.
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The German vehicle (A "Kubelwagen") commandeered by Epstein and Stokes is eventually adorned with a hand-painted star in a circle on its side, redesignating it as a U.S. military vehicle. This is a recreation of an actual photograph taken during the war of a member of the Monuments Men driving the exact same model vehicle, complete with a hand-painted circled star on the side door. The recreation in the film is perfect, right down to the American military trailer it pulls behind it.
When Frank and James meet Donald Jefferies at the airfield, they walk past a B-17, with the serial number, 124485 on the tail. That plane is the Memphis Belle.
The cast includes six Oscar winners: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Cate Blanchett, Alexander Desplat, Jean Dujardin and Grant Heslov; and two nominees: Bill Murray and Bob Balaban.
walpurgis
24-06-2022, 14:22
The Monuments Men, 2014
Not seen that, supposed to be a good movie I believe.
Not seen that, supposed to be a good movie I believe.
yes, its very good. i saw it a good few years ago tho so dunno what it will be like on second viewing. so for i dont remember too much tho.
Not seen that, supposed to be a good movie I believe.
It's watchable but I thought it was a lot about nothing really.
It's watchable but I thought it was a lot about nothing really.
european heritage over last 1000yrs nothing? lol
i thought it a well worth watching film. guess like most films with all superstar casts, it doesnt do them justice, or them it. strangely they rarely work as well as you'd think.
anyhoo...lol
Mash, 1970.
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The first take of the shot where Hot Lips is revealed in the shower didn't work because Sally Kellerman anticipated the reveal, and was already lying on the floor when the tent flap went up. To distract her, Robert Altman and Gary Burghoff entered the shower tent and dropped their trousers while the shot was rolling outside. While Kellerman was staring at them, the tent flap was raised, resulting in her genuine surprise and shock when she realized what had happened. In the Special Edition double disc DVD, they say that Radar (portrayed by Gary Burghoff) had been standing naked beside the camera, and that's the reason why Sally Kellerman looks so surprised when the flap was raised.
walpurgis
24-06-2022, 16:51
Mash, 1970
I haven't seen that for maybe the best part of forty years, I remember loving it though.
I have the film as well as several DVDs of the TV series.
Small Time Crooks, 2000. Woody Allen claims he cast Tracey Ullman because she's one of the few comedians that makes him laugh.
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My Favorite Brunette, 1947. . Baby photographer Ronnie Jackson, on death row in San Quentin, tells reporters how he got there: taking care of his private-eye neighbor's office, Ronnie is asked by the irresistible Baroness Montay to find the missing Baron.
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As Bob Hope attempts to hide the record in the chandelier, he finds a bottle of champagne. His remark, "Ray Milland was here!" is a reference to the latter's portrayal of an alcoholic in The Lost Weekend (1945).
This was the second of three comedies Bob Hope made for Paramount that featured "My Favorite..." in their titles. The first was My Favorite Blonde (1942), and the third was My Favorite Spy (1951). All three paired Hope with sexy females, had fast-paced plots, and were peppered with cameos by major stars. All three were also among Hope's biggest box-office hits.
Foreign Correspondent, 1940.. Criterion Bluray remaster....
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Shooting was completed on May 29, 1940, after which director Alfred Hitchcock made a visit to England. He returned on July 3 with the word that the Germans were expected to start bombing at any time. Ben Hecht was hurriedly called in and wrote the tacked-on final scene set at a London radio station. It was filmed on July 5, and the real-life bombing started on July 10, 1940.
When the plane crash sequence was shot, a special tub within the studio tank had to be built for Herbert Marshall, who couldn't swim because he only had one leg (he'd lost a leg in combat in World War I).
In a 1972 interview on The Dick Cavett Show (1968), Alfred Hitchcock revealed that the plane crash scene was filmed by using footage shot from a stunt plane diving on the ocean, rear projected on rice paper in front of a cockpit set. Also, behind the rice paper were two chutes aimed at the cockpit's windshield connected to large tanks of water. With the press of a button at the right moment, water came crashing through the rice paper, into the plane simulating the plane crashing into the sea from the cockpit view.
When this movie was made, America was not part of World War II. At this time, several Hollywood studios were pro-American involvement in the war. This movie is one of several movies made during the late 1930s and early 1940s that represented pro-American intervention in the war. These movies include Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939), The Mortal Storm (1940), A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941), Man Hunt (1941), and Sergeant York (1941).
High Sierra, 1941...
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In addition to Hal B. Wallis, Humphrey Bogart also sent several telegrams to studio head Jack L. Warner, begging to be cast as Roy Earle. After Paul Muni left Warner Bros. in a contract dispute and George Raft turned down the role, Warner called Bogart and told him the part was his . . . on the condition that Bogart stop sending him telegrams.
John Huston would later remark on Humphrey Bogart's unique appeal in the role of Roy Earle: "Bogie was a medium-sized man, not particularly impressive off-screen, but something happened when he was playing the right part. Those lights and shadows composed themselves into another, nobler personality: heroic, as in 'High Sierra'. I swear the camera has a way of looking into a person and perceiving things that the naked eye doesn't register."
Raoul Walsh says in his biography that Humphrey Bogart always complained about anything or everything: food given for lunch, settings, conditions of shooting - everything.
interesting fact. mount whitney is mentioned as being 14,501ft, but now 81 yrs on its grown by 4 ft
North by Northwest, 1959...
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While filming Vertigo (1958), Sir Alfred Hitchcock described some of the plot of this project to frequent Hitchcock leading man and "Vertigo" star James Stewart, who naturally assumed that Hitchcock meant to cast him in the Roger Thornhill role, and was eager to play it. Actually, Hitchcock wanted Cary Grant to play the role. By the time Hitchcock realized the misunderstanding, Stewart was so anxious to play Thornhill that rejecting him would have caused a great deal of disappointment. So Hitchcock delayed production on this movie until Stewart was already safely committed to filming Otto Preminger's "Anatomy of a Murder (1959)" before "officially" offering him the role in this movie. Stewart had no choice but to turn down the offer, allowing Hitchcock to cast Grant, the actor he had wanted all along.
This movie has been referred to as "the first James Bond film" due to its similarities with splashily colorful settings, secret agents, and an elegant, daring, wisecracking leading man opposite a sinister yet strangely charming villain. The crop duster scene inspired the helicopter chase in From Russia with Love (1963). And another Bond nod to this film is the person in a couchette scene, used in a slightly different way in the 1973 007 film "Live and Let Die."
The Lady Vanishes, 1938... Criterion bluray remastered..
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The set on which the movie was shot was only 90 feet (27.4 meters) long.
The British Board of Film Censors, to avoid political controversy, would not allow the foreign villains to be specifically identified in the script as Germans.
Gilbert says he once drove "a miniature engine on the Dymchurch line". The Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway is a real-life miniature (1/3 normal size) railway in southeast England, which as of 2003 still uses steam locomotives, and carries passengers over 13 miles (21 kilometers) of the route.
Crossed Swords, 1977...Kino Lorber Bluray remaster. (aka The Prince And The Pauper)
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Although playing a nine-year-old, Mark Lester was actually eighteen at the time of filming. A drunken Oliver Reed brought a prostitute as a gift for Mark Lester to celebrate his birthday on July 11, 1976.
The film takes place from January 26 to February 20, 1547.
Charlton Heston, Raquel Welch, Oliver Reed, and Sybil Danning also appeared together in two previous Alexander Salkind and Ilya Salkind productions, The Three Musketeers (1973) and The Four Musketeers (1974). All three films were also written by George MacDonald Fraser, and produced by Pierre Spengler.
North by Northwest, 1959...
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Great film - one of my favourites, including the 'Freudian' ending! ;)
walpurgis
27-06-2022, 06:30
Crossed Swords, 1977
I don't recall that one at all.
I don't recall that one at all.That was it's USA title. Over here it was The Prince And The Pauper. This is a USA Blu-ray(reg a)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, 1947....Stars Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison and George Sanders.
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Despite being set in London and on the English Coast and having mostly English actors and actresses, this movie was shot entirely in California and along the central Pacific coastline.
The word "muir" means "sea" in Scots Gaelic. Many times sailors are said to have been "married" to the sea, or that the only woman they ever loved was the sea.
This was one of Twentieth Century Fox's biggest box-office hits of 1947, and was ranked tenth amongst the year's top grossers.
This film has a 100% rating based on 17 critic reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.
Mrs. Miniver, 1942...After first-choice Norma Shearer rejected the title role (as she refused to play a mother), Greer Garson was cast. Although she didn't want the part either, she was contractually bound to take it and won the Academy Award for her performance.
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In real life, shortly after shooting was completed, Greer Garson married Richard Ney, who plays her son, Vin, in the film.
Winston Churchill has been credited with saying Mrs. Miniver did more for the war effort than a flotilla of battle ships
The Vicar's final rousing speech was printed in magazines like "Time" and "Look". President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered that it be broadcast on the Voice of America, and copies of it were dropped over Europe as propaganda. This speech has come to be known as The Wilcoxon Speech, in tribute to actor Henry Wilcoxon's stirring delivery of it.
Carry on Cleo, 1964.
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To Catch a Thief, 1955...
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John Robie mentions that, as a youth, he was in a trapeze group that traveled around Europe. In reality, Cary Grant was in an acrobatic troupe that toured around Europe--and eventually brought him to America--when he was young.
Director Sir Alfred Hitchcock asked if chase scenes could be filmed from a helicopter, which required some ingenuity, as camera mounts did not exist for this purpose at the time. Using a Sikorsky S-51, UK registered G-AJOV, a former BEA airframe, the side door was removed, and the camera jerry-rigged with ropes, wires, and cables. These shots were done in July 1954, according to a "Making of" short documentary included in the DVD release
Of all the films Sir Alfred Hitchcock made for Paramount Pictures, this is the only one the studio retained the rights to. All the other films, including Rear Window (1954), Vertigo (1958), and Psycho (1960), were sold back to the director himself and later sold in turn by his daughter, Patricia Hitchcock O'Connell, to Universal in 1983, three years after his passing.
Dynasties season 2, 2022..
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Starman, 1984.... rewatch this.. quite a good film. voyager 2 says come and visit planet earth... forgot to say they would then hut you down and either experiment on you or just kill you;)
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Actor Jeff Bridges studied ornithology and the behavior of birds to prepare for his role as an alien in human form for this movie. Bridges particularly used the sudden jerky head movements, amongst other nuances and mannerisms, of birds for his Starman character. Bridges figured that the alien would not have human characteristics and, being encased in a human body, would act with base primitive animal instincts.
Death on the Nile, 2022.
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Principal photography began on September 30, 2019, at Longcross Studios in Surrey, England. The film was supposed to be filmed in Morocco instead of Egypt, but filming took place only in England.
A boat was recreated, as well as the Temple of Abu Simbel. The Tiffany Yellow Diamond was used for the film. Shooting lasted until December 18, 2019.
Post-production
Úna Ní Dhonghaíle served as the editor for Death on the Nile. Double Negative (DNEG) provided the visual effects for the film, with Academy Award-winning special effects artist George Murphy as the overall visual effects supervisor. Additional VFX were provided by Lola VFX and Raynault VFX.
The Lone Ranger, 2013... Mocked and derided by most, I love it. A good film of type.
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In an interview, Johnny Depp thanked his stunt horse, Scout, for saving his life after a violent fall during filming. After Scout dragged Depp 25 feet, Scout jumped over him to avoid stepping on him. A clip of the fall shows the horse clearly jumping over Depp, and detaching him from the saddle. Depp suffered only minor bruises and scrapes, but says it could have been a lot worse if the horse had stepped on him.
Todd McDaniels, a linguist at the Comanche Nation College, commented favorably on Johnny Depp's attempts to speak Comanche, a language with 23 to 30 living native speakers. "The words were there, the pronunciation was shaky, but adequate."
During the opening sequence of the bank robbery, the music in the background is the William Tell Overture, by Gioachino Rossini, which is later played extensively in the film's climax. It was the musical cue used in the original radio show and later films, particularly for intense sequences. It became so popular that most people know it only as the "Lone Ranger" theme.
Predator, 1987... 4k bluray remaster.. pic quality is stunning
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The film provided a variety of hardships for the actors, such as leeches, snakes, stifling humidity, heat, and rough terrain. All of the night scenes were filmed during freezing cold temperatures, which was especially hard on Arnold Schwarzenegger during the latter half of the film, when the mud he had to wear (actually pottery clay) became cold and wet. He was warned it would take his body temperature down a few degrees, and he shivered non-stop, even when they tried to heat him with lamps (it just made the clay dry out). He tried drinking jagertee, a schnapps mixture, to warm him, but that just got him drunk.
Jesse Ventura was delighted to find out from the wardrobe department that his arms were one inch bigger than Arnold Schwarzenegger's. He suggested to Schwarzenegger that they measure arms, with the winner getting a bottle of champagne. Ventura lost, because Schwarzenegger had told the wardrobe department to tell Ventura that his arms were bigger.
The invisibility cloaking effect was achieved with a bright red suit (because it was the farthest opposite of the green of the jungle and the blue of the sky) the size of the Predator. The red was removed with chroma key techniques, leaving an empty area. The take was then repeated without the actors using a 30% wider lens on the camera. When the two takes were combined optically, the jungle from the second take filled in the empty area. Because the second take was filmed with a wider lens, a vague outline of the alien could be seen with the background scenery bending around its shape.
Good film that, shame about the sequels.
Good film that, shame about the sequels.
really kills in 4k lol
now an older one from 1951, My Favorite Spy...
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In the original script, Peanuts is a schoolteacher who is caught impersonating a deceased gangster and is sent on a mission to Cairo.
Hedy Lamarr was reportedly disappointed that her role was not more comic. She had been looking forward to doing a Bob Hope comedy, only to find she was playing her typical "femme fatale" role.
classic clean comedy.. not seen the fire engine scene for 50 years.. great stuff.
Rogue Male, 1976. BFI Bluray remaster...
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Final movie of Alastair Sim.
This movie was based on the Geoffrey Household book "Rogue Male", published in 1939. The main protagonist and the main antagonist went unnamed in that novel. However, Household wrote a sequel--"Rogue Justice"--that was published in 1982. In that novel, the main characters' names were revealed: Raymond Ingelram and Von Lauen. The lawyer is named Saul Harding.
Published months before the UK became involved in WWII, British author Geoffrey Household never once mentions Hitler, the Nazi party, or Germany in his novel. Household said, "Although the idea for 'Rogue Male' germinated from my intense dislike of Hitler, I did not actually name him in the book as things were a bit tricky at the time.
Carry On Again Doctor, 1969... Gladstone Screwer, Dr Ernest Stoppidge, Dr Jimmy Nookey, Dr Frederick Carver, Nurse Willing and Goldie Locks aka Maud Boggins..:D great names...
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The stunts Jim Dale did when he was an intoxicated Nookey left him with back problems for many years later. The slide down the stairs on a medicine trolley tore a muscle in his left arm, which had to be operated on in hospital. Regardless, he refused to get a stunt double for Nookey's hammock fall, despite Peter Rogers' huge concern.
The bottles of Johnnie Walker Red Label whisky in Sid James's cupboard in the island hospital were all real. When Sid was given the script, without telling the producers he took it straight to the London office of the distillers and said he had a great idea for some product placement and if they gave him four cases of his favorite whisky (a case is 12 bottles) he would guarantee their product would be prominently seen in the new movie. On he day the scene was to be shot (with dummy bottles just marked 'Whisky') he turned up on the set with these cases and told the director, Gerald Thomas what he had done. Thomas was not amused as he did not like being usurped by any of the cast and Sid was also previously responsible for insisting on the 'Marcus et Spencius/Marks and Spencer' product placement gag in Carry on Cleo (1964), which Sid had used to clear his gambling debt. When Sid said he would not film the scene unless the bottles of Johnnie Walker were included, and was backed up by co-star in the scene, Jim Dale, Thomas contacted producer Peter Rogers for advice. Mindful of holding up filming over the dispute as well as not wanting to upset Sid James (who was popular with both the rest of the Carry On cast and the public), Thomas was told to just film the scene with the real Whisky to keep Sid happy and stop falling behind schedule. The scene was left in the final cut once a Johnnie Walker representative saw an early cut of the film and had no objections. Sid thanked Jim Dale and the props master on the day for backing him by giving them four bottles each and giving two to director Thomas and leaving two on Peter Rogers desk.
Throw Momma from the Train, 1987...
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Anne Ramsey's speech impediment was caused by operations she underwent in order to treat throat cancer. During filming, Ramsey was undergoing additional oral surgery and endured intense pain. However, according to director Danny DeVito, she never requested to be excused from work. "Momma" went on to become Ramsey's most critically-lauded performance, culminating with Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 1988.
For a time during filming, Danny DeVito was ill with flu-like symptoms. Balancing his heavy acting and directing responsibilities, and not taking time off, he said two things helped him get through those difficult days: cigarettes and chocolate.
Carry On Again Doctor, 1969... Gladstone Screwer, Dr Ernest Stoppidge, Dr Jimmy Nookey, Dr Frederick Carver, Nurse Willing and Goldie Locks aka Maud Boggins..:D great names...
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The stunts Jim Dale did when he was an intoxicated Nookey left him with back problems for many years later. The slide down the stairs on a medicine trolley tore a muscle in his left arm, which had to be operated on in hospital. Regardless, he refused to get a stunt double for Nookey's hammock fall, despite Peter Rogers' huge concern.
The bottles of Johnnie Walker Red Label whisky in Sid James's cupboard in the island hospital were all real. When Sid was given the script, without telling the producers he took it straight to the London office of the distillers and said he had a great idea for some product placement and if they gave him four cases of his favorite whisky (a case is 12 bottles) he would guarantee their product would be prominently seen in the new movie. On he day the scene was to be shot (with dummy bottles just marked 'Whisky') he turned up on the set with these cases and told the director, Gerald Thomas what he had done. Thomas was not amused as he did not like being usurped by any of the cast and Sid was also previously responsible for insisting on the 'Marcus et Spencius/Marks and Spencer' product placement gag in Carry on Cleo (1964), which Sid had used to clear his gambling debt. When Sid said he would not film the scene unless the bottles of Johnnie Walker were included, and was backed up by co-star in the scene, Jim Dale, Thomas contacted producer Peter Rogers for advice. Mindful of holding up filming over the dispute as well as not wanting to upset Sid James (who was popular with both the rest of the Carry On cast and the public), Thomas was told to just film the scene with the real Whisky to keep Sid happy and stop falling behind schedule. The scene was left in the final cut once a Johnnie Walker representative saw an early cut of the film and had no objections. Sid thanked Jim Dale and the props master on the day for backing him by giving them four bottles each and giving two to director Thomas and leaving two on Peter Rogers desk.
he was a character Sid James, never missed a trick. He designed and built his own house just down the road from Pinewood Studios so he could nip home for lunch.
he was a character Sid James, never missed a trick. He designed and built his own house just down the road from Pinewood Studios so he could nip home for lunch.
aye and kept 3 cases for himself:D
The Silver Streak, 1976...
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Originally meant to be filmed in the United States. However, the National Rail Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) was fearful of adverse publicity, and refused to cooperate. As a result, the producers were forced to work with the Canadian Pacific Railway, using thinly disguised CPRail equipment and shooting exteriors along the CP Rail right-of-way.
Richard Pryor wrote the dialogue for the scene where Grover (Richard Pryor) puts the shoe polish on George's (Gene Wilder's) face to make him appear to be black. When it was first filmed, the scene was changed so that a white man walked in and believed George was black. Richard Pryor was uncomfortable with the scene, and felt it would be funnier if it was done as he wrote it, a black man walked in and is not fooled at all. Pryor asked Arthur Hiller for a re-shoot, but Hiller refused. Pryor walked off the set and refused to return to filming until the scene was changed. Hiller relented and Pryor's idea was used for the final cut.
Soylent Green, 1973.. bluray.
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The Soylent Green manufacturing facility is the Chevron oil refinery and power plant in El Segundo, California.
Leigh Taylor-Young (Shirl) and Stephen Young (Gilbert) were the only stars of the film who lived to see the real 2022.
Knowing that he was dying, Charlton Heston brought Edward G. Robinson a variety of wines and cheeses from all over the world each day Robinson was on set for his scenes, which were all shot first. Robinson died at age 79 on January 26, 1973, four months before the film's release in May 1973.
Didn't realise that was set in 2022.
'One Soylent Green please, hold the butter.'
Murder on the Orient Express, 2017. 4k bluray..
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Veteran actress Jacqueline Bisset, who starred in Murder on the Orient Express (1974), told director Kenneth Branagh how excruciating it was to shoot the extended scene in which the murder was revealed. To avoid this feeling among the actors and actresses in his version, Branagh shot his side as Poirot first, cut wherever he could when shooting the actors and actresses up close, and did everything to make sure the whole cast spent as little time as possible on-set during the lengthy scene.
Didn't realise that was set in 2022.
yes and i suppose its not happened...YET!.. but it still could
Carry On Jack, 1964.. A young and pretty Juliet Mills gets here only Carry on role(she was 3 months pregnant but didnt tell anyone for fear of losing job)
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The original "Up the Armada" title didn't find favor with the British Board of Film Censors. They declined to allow the title despite that there had actually been an earlier British comedy called Further Up the Creek (1958).
The film is a parody of Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), in which Percy Herbert (Mr. Angel) also appeared.
Some of the film's literal English language translations of its foreign language titles were "Carry On Venus" (Germany), "Beware of the Pirates" (Denmark), "The Mutineers of The Venus" (Belgium) and "Pull Yourself Together Skipper" (Denmark).(humourless bunch the Danes)
Death on the Nile, 2022... 4k bluray. The war scenes at beginning give you an inkling of Poirot's 'little grey cells' and the reason for the moustache..
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Tiffany & Co designed jewelry worn in the film, most prominently featured is Linnet's diamond necklace. The necklace features a replica of the Tiffany Yellow Diamond, one of the largest yellow diamonds ever discovered. First discovered in South Africa in 1877; as of 2022, it has only been worn publicly by four women. At the 1957 Tiffany Ball, it was worn by Mrs. E. Sheldon Whitehouse. It was worn by Audrey Hepburn for Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) publicity photos. Lady Gaga wore the diamond at the The Oscars (2019). Beyoncé wore the necklace in a campaign with Tiffany in 2021.
This version of Poirot is implied to have been born much later than his literary counterpart, who was in his fifties at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. In this movie, Poirot is shown in the prologue as a young soldier in 1914, making him at least thirty years younger than Book Poirot.
While sitting and admiring the Sphinx, Poirot can be seen sitting by a table on which are two eggs in cups. This is likely a reference to Kenneth Branagh's earlier Poirot film, Murder on the Orient Express (2017), in which Poirot is struggling to find two eggs of the exact same size for breakfast.
Some Like It Hot, 1959..
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Some Like It Hot opened to critical and commercial success and is considered to be one of the greatest films of all time. The film received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Actor, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, winning for Best Costume Design. In 1989, the Library of Congress selected it as one of the first 25 films for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
yes and i suppose its not happened...YET!.. but it still could
I don't know how many films there are that predict the future, whether dystopian or not. I can't think of a single one that gets even a couple of things right, TV shows too. I mean look at 'Space: 1999' predicating that the Moon would be blown out of Earth's orbit on Friday 13th September 1999. Red faces all round when that didn't happen.
Thinking about it they all go too far one way or another. Either society is in a right old state, or it's way too far advanced. Base on the Moon by the late 1990s? Not even close. Hoverboards and everyone with a flying car? Still a pipe dream. On the plus side we are not all crammed in like sardines, eating recycled people.
Mrs. Miniver, 1942...After first-choice Norma Shearer rejected the title role (as she refused to play a mother), Greer Garson was cast. Although she didn't want the part either, she was contractually bound to take it and won the Academy Award for her performance.
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In real life, shortly after shooting was completed, Greer Garson married Richard Ney, who plays her son, Vin, in the film.
Winston Churchill has been credited with saying Mrs. Miniver did more for the war effort than a flotilla of battle ships
The Vicar's final rousing speech was printed in magazines like "Time" and "Look". President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered that it be broadcast on the Voice of America, and copies of it were dropped over Europe as propaganda. This speech has come to be known as The Wilcoxon Speech, in tribute to actor Henry Wilcoxon's stirring delivery of it.
The war drama Mrs. Miniver dominated the box office in 1942 and won six Oscars, but it’s remembered today chiefly for its final scene, in which a town vicar gives an inspiring speech in a bombed church, exhorting his flock to “free ourselves and those who come after us from the tyranny and terror that threaten to strike us down.”
The film was made before America had formally entered the war, and director William Wyler had rewritten this speech repeatedly on the night before shooting, in hopes that it would sway public opinion. “I’m a warmonger,” he said simply. “I was deeply concerned about Americans being isolationists. Mrs. Miniver obviously was a propaganda film.”
It succeeded beyond his hopes. Churchill claimed that the speech was “propaganda worth a hundred battleships,” and after a private screening at the White House, Franklin Roosevelt asked that it be translated into French, German, and Italian, broadcast throughout Europe on the Voice of America, and air-dropped in millions of leaflets into German-occupied territories.
Henry Wilcoxon, the actor who delivered the speech, must have had his own feelings about this — his only brother had been fatally injured at Dunkirk in 1940.
The Vicar:
We, in this quiet corner of England, have suffered the loss of friends very dear to us-- some close to this church: George West, choir boy; James Bellard, station master and bell ringer and a proud winner, only one hour before his death, of the Belding Cup for his beautiful Miniver rose; and our hearts go out in sympathy to the two families who share the cruel loss of a young girl who was married at this altar only two weeks ago.
The homes of many of us have been destroyed, and the lives of young and old have been taken. There is scarcely a household that hasn't been struck to the heart.
And why? Surely you must have asked yourself this question. Why in all conscience should these be the ones to suffer? Children, old people, a young girl at the height of her loveliness. Why these? Are these our soldiers? Are these our fighters? Why should they be sacrificed?
I shall tell you why.
Because this is not only a war of soldiers in uniform. It is a war of the people, of all the people, and it must be fought not only on the battlefield, but in the cities and in the villages, in the factories and on the farms, in the home, and in the heart of every man, woman, and child who loves freedom!
Well, we have buried our dead, but we shall not forget them. Instead they will inspire us with an unbreakable determination to free ourselves and those who come after us from the tyranny and terror that threaten to strike us down. This is the people's war! It is our war! We are the fighters! Fight it then! Fight it with all that is in us, and may God defend the right.
Might have been writter for Ukraine too.. it was in fact written by William Wyler
Carry On Dick, 1974... great quote: Lady Daley: All this talk of Big Dick. I've had enough of it! :D
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The film was banned in South Africa in the 1970s as the South African authorities considered it anti-Christian. This was because of Sidney James's role as a parish priest as being corrupt having an alias as a robber.
Some of the film's literal English language translations of its foreign language titles were "Go on Dick" (Hungary), "Carry on Robber" (Germany), "The Totally Crazy Mugger" (West Germany), "Do it again, Dick" (Eastern Germany [former GDR]) and "Way to Go...of Gurnard Unleashed" (Portugal).
Picnic at Hanging Rock, 1975. Peter Weir Cut...Bluray. From the original 1967 novel by Joan Lindsay ....
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Picnic at Hanging Rock is a cautionary tale about societies so afraid of uncertainty that they demand conformity to social norms. To be free, this story says, we must embrace the unknowability and complexity of human existence.
In the first draft of the book, Lindsay included a final chapter with an explicit explanation of what happened. Her editor astutely suggested removing it.
" The speculative aboriginal legend that “nobody stayed there after dark because it’s where spirits roamed.” "
So it initially published with only a brief epilogue: a newspaper clipping set thirteen years after the main events. It explained that records of the disappearances were all mysteriously burned in a bush fire. Regardless, the search for the girls continued -- though only a piece of a dress was ever found.
The final chapter was published after her death, and caused even more confusion.lol
Executive producer Patricia Lovell admits to being genuinely afraid of Hanging Rock. In an interview, she explained that she has only gone back to Hanging Rock once since the shooting. It was 10 years later in 1985 and Lovell said she got so frightened at the location she left almost immediately. She refuses to go back to this day.
While filming on location at Hanging Rock, actress Anne-Louise Lambert (Miranda) had a most surreal encounter. During a break from shooting, Lambert went for a walk through the woods. She turned to see Joan Lindsay, author of the novel 'Picnic at Hanging Rock', stumbling toward her. Lambert said Lindsay then embraced her with strong, joyful emotion and called her Miranda. It was a powerful moment for both of them.
Blast from the Past, 1999...
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While living in the bunker, Calvin unsuccessfully attempts to explain the game of baseball to a young Adam. When Adam finally leaves the bunker, he gets to witness a game, upon which he states "Now I get it! You have to actually see it to understand it!" The game he is watching is in fact softball, not baseball.
The jet that crashes into Calvin and Helen's house is a North American F-86 Sabre.
Runaway Train, 1985... Arrow bluray..
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Danny Trejo was visiting a friend who was working as a production assistant on the set when he was offered a job as an extra. Edward Bunker recognized Trejo because they served time in San Quentin State Prison together. Bunker helped Trejo get hired as Eric Roberts' boxing coach. Director Andrey Konchalovskiy was so impressed with Trejo that he gave him a small role. Trejo later stated that he was staggered to find out that the coaching job earned him $320 per day, which was more than he had ever gotten from a robbery. He went on to a good acting career.
Jon Voight was persuaded to take the lead role of convict Oscar "Manny" Manheim by director Andrey Konchalovskiy. Voight had thought that the character was "all wrong" for him until Konchalovsky advised Voight that the best villains in movies are "actors who play against type." Voight ended up winning the Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama award for this film, as well as receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
Publicity for this picture stated: "The train sequences were filmed on the seward main track of the Alaska Railroad, which runs from Seward, through Anchorage, and up to Fairbanks. The company shot on locations sixty miles up the mountains, with no roads, and were only accessible by helicopter or train. It was a wild environment, where bald eagles, moose, and jack rabbits were seen almost daily."
A surprisingly good film. :)
Picnic at Hanging Rock, 1975. Peter Weir Cut...Bluray. From the original 1967 novel by Joan Lindsay ....
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Picnic at Hanging Rock is a cautionary tale about societies so afraid of uncertainty that they demand conformity to social norms. To be free, this story says, we must embrace the unknowability and complexity of human existence.
In the first draft of the book, Lindsay included a final chapter with an explicit explanation of what happened. Her editor astutely suggested removing it.
" The speculative aboriginal legend that “nobody stayed there after dark because it’s where spirits roamed.” "
So it initially published with only a brief epilogue: a newspaper clipping set thirteen years after the main events. It explained that records of the disappearances were all mysteriously burned in a bush fire. Regardless, the search for the girls continued -- though only a piece of a dress was ever found.
The final chapter was published after her death, and caused even more confusion.lol
Executive producer Patricia Lovell admits to being genuinely afraid of Hanging Rock. In an interview, she explained that she has only gone back to Hanging Rock once since the shooting. It was 10 years later in 1985 and Lovell said she got so frightened at the location she left almost immediately. She refuses to go back to this day.
While filming on location at Hanging Rock, actress Anne-Louise Lambert (Miranda) had a most surreal encounter. During a break from shooting, Lambert went for a walk through the woods. She turned to see Joan Lindsay, author of the novel 'Picnic at Hanging Rock', stumbling toward her. Lambert said Lindsay then embraced her with strong, joyful emotion and called her Miranda. It was a powerful moment for both of them.
In what way does the 'directors' cut' differ from the theatre version? Good film! :)
To Have And Have Not, 1944..
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On a ten-day fishing trip, independent director Howard Hawks tried to persuade Ernest Hemingway to write him a script, but Hemingway was not interested in working in Hollywood. Hawks insisted he could make a film from Hemingway's "worst story". Although Hawks had a high regard for Hemingway's works in general, he considered To Have and Have Not his worst book, a "bunch of junk", and told Hemingway so. Hemingway and Hawks worked on the screenplay during the remainder of the fishing trip. They decided the film would not resemble the novel, but rather would tell the story of how Morgan met Marie. Marie's character was extensively altered for the film as well.
In May 1939, Hemingway sold the book rights to the Hughes Tool Company, with whom Hawks had connections. Hawks bought the book rights in October 1943, then sold them to Warner Bros. Because the rights to the novel bounced between sellers, Hawks made ten times more money selling the rights than Hemingway did. On learning this, Hemingway reportedly refused to speak to Hawks for "three months". The screenplay for To Have and Have Not bears little resemblance to Hemingway's novel. The only similarities include the title, the name and a few personality traits of the main character Harry Morgan, the name of Marie, the name of Eddie, and the name and character traits of Johnson. Johnson is the only character that remained the same in the novel, in every revised screenplay, and in the film. The film bears resemblance to only the novel's first four chapters.
In what way does the 'directors' cut' differ from the theatre version? Good film! :)
actually the directors cut is a bit shorter as some of the less interesting bits were cut. there is an alternate ending although it wasnt used in either.
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'Lonely Are The Brave' (1962)
Kirk Douglas is a war veteran and cowboy drifter who is at odds with the modern world. This is a western, but set in 1962. Supporting cast includes Walter Matthau, George Kennedy, Gena Rowlands and Carol O'Conner so you wonder how it could go wrong - well, it doesn't.
One of those films where the story is quite slight, but that you can watch many times. It was Douglas's favourite film of all those he made, which when you consider the number of great films he was in, is really saying something.
''President John F. Kennedy watched the movie in the White House in November 1962. In his memoir Conversations with Kennedy, Ben Bradlee wrote, "Jackie read off the list of what was available, and the President selected the one film we had all unanimously voted against, a brutal, sadistic little Western called Lonely Are the Brave."
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'Lonely Are The Brave' (1962)
Kirk Douglas is a war veteran and cowboy drifter who is at odds with the modern world. This is a western, but set in 1962. Supporting cast includes Walter Matthau, George Kennedy, Gena Rowlands and Carol O'Conner so you wonder how it could go wrong - well, it doesn't.
One of those films where the story is quite slight, but that you can watch many times. It was Douglas's favourite film of all those he made, which when you consider the number of great films he was in, is really saying something.
''President John F. Kennedy watched the movie in the White House in November 1962. In his memoir Conversations with Kennedy, Ben Bradlee wrote, "Jackie read off the list of what was available, and the President selected the one film we had all unanimously voted against, a brutal, sadistic little Western called Lonely Are the Brave."
not seen it for years. interesting film, and fairly sad yet uplifting too
yes it is quite sad. The way it is shot in stark black and white is very effective, in that respect it reminds me of 'Touch Of Evil' which was made four years before.
yes it is quite sad. The way it is shot in stark black and white is very effective, in that respect it reminds me of 'Touch Of Evil' which was made four years before.
yeah ive got that somewhere on dvd... good film too
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, 2003...
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Apollo 13...4k bluray... superb picture detail on this... maybe too sharp at times
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To Have And Have Not, 1944..
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On a ten-day fishing trip, independent director Howard Hawks tried to persuade Ernest Hemingway to write him a script, but Hemingway was not interested in working in Hollywood. Hawks insisted he could make a film from Hemingway's "worst story". Although Hawks had a high regard for Hemingway's works in general, he considered To Have and Have Not his worst book, a "bunch of junk", and told Hemingway so. Hemingway and Hawks worked on the screenplay during the remainder of the fishing trip. They decided the film would not resemble the novel, but rather would tell the story of how Morgan met Marie. Marie's character was extensively altered for the film as well.
In May 1939, Hemingway sold the book rights to the Hughes Tool Company, with whom Hawks had connections. Hawks bought the book rights in October 1943, then sold them to Warner Bros. Because the rights to the novel bounced between sellers, Hawks made ten times more money selling the rights than Hemingway did. On learning this, Hemingway reportedly refused to speak to Hawks for "three months". The screenplay for To Have and Have Not bears little resemblance to Hemingway's novel. The only similarities include the title, the name and a few personality traits of the main character Harry Morgan, the name of Marie, the name of Eddie, and the name and character traits of Johnson. Johnson is the only character that remained the same in the novel, in every revised screenplay, and in the film. The film bears resemblance to only the novel's first four chapters.
One of my favourite films - in some ways I prefer it to 'Casablanca'! :eek:
Apollo 13...4k bluray... superb picture detail on this... maybe too sharp at times
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Good film. :)
Good film. :)
yes a great ending too which was true.. 6 minutes of silence when you usually get about 3 lol. must have been hell for the families. it was due to the shallower angle of entry, mustly as they couldnt steer well initially. as gene kranz alledgedly said. this was our greatest hr...or words to that effect. fantastic ground crew.
One of my favourite films - in some ways I prefer it to 'Casablanca'! :eek:
its its equal in many ways. bogey made a number of superb films in 40's
The One That Got Away, 1957...Opening credits prologue: This is the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war taken in Britain who escaped from captivity and got back to Germany.
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Hardy Krüger was only cast after Kenneth More and Dirk Bogarde had turned the film down. Hardy Krüger served in the SS during World War II and was captured by the Americans. He managed to escape on his third attempt.
Krüger's parents were ardent Nazis and he stated in a 2016 interview that he was "raised to love Hitler." From 1941, he attended an elite Adolf Hitler School at the Ordensburg Sonthofen. At the age of 15, Hardy made his film début in Alfred Weidenmann's The Young Eagles. It was here that he met the eminent actor Hans Söhnker, who became a friend for life. Söhnker was a covert anti-Nazi, who gave refuge to those fleeing the regime. He made a point of educating Krüger, who assisted his friend with delivering messages to fugitives.
In March 1945, Krüger was assigned to the 38th SS Division Nibelungen and was drawn into heavy combat. The 16-year-old Krüger was ordered to shoot at an American squad. When he refused, he was sentenced to death for cowardice, but another SS officer countermanded the order. Krüger described this experience as his break with Nazism. He afterwards served as a messenger for the SS, but later escaped and hid out in Tyrol until the end of the war. He was a member of the Amadeu Antonio Foundation and frequently spoke publicly against extremism and for democracy, citing his own experiences.
Not seen that in decades but I remember it being really good.
walpurgis
07-07-2022, 11:31
Not seen that in decades but I remember it being really good.
I liked it too. Kruger died very recently.
I liked it too. Kruger died very recently.
So he did, age 93. Was in some of my favourites - 'Barry Lindon', 'The Wild Geese' and 'A Bridge Too Far'.
So he did, age 93. Was in some of my favourites - 'Barry Lindon', 'The Wild Geese' and 'A Bridge Too Far'.
got all 3 of those. barry lyndon is superb...
got all 3 of those. barry lyndon is superb...
It is. And a lot of people have never even heard of it.
Murphy's War, 1971... gritty and although different from book in many ways is still a decent film.
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Filming began on 23 February 1970, and was completed with location filming in Malta on 5 July, having filmed at a number of locations in the regions of Puerto Ordaz and Castillos de Guayana on the Orinoco River in Venezuela, as well as set filming at Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath and Twickenham Film Studios, Middlesex, England . Deeley described the shoot as the toughest of his career and it led to the breakup of his partnership with Peter Yates, with whom he had made several films.
It is. And a lot of people have never even heard of it.
its not shown much over here. i got it on bluray, but it was american reg a...
Murder on The Orient Express, 1974...
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In 1929, a westbound Orient Express train was stuck in snow for five days at Çerkezköy, approximately one hundred thirty kilometers (eighty-one miles) from Istanbul, Turkey. This incident inspired the setting of the book and movie.
During promotion and publicity junkets, many of the stars admitted, independently of one another, that their chief reason for appearing in this movie was the chance to meet and work with the other cast members. In her memoir, Lauren Bacall recalled that the lure for most of the cast was getting to act on-screen with "Albie" Finney.
In an interview, co-producer Richard Goodwin said that Vanessa Redgrave "would spend all of her lunchtimes converting the workers (to Communism), making speeches about politics in the canteen, while the rest of the actors would sit and listen to Sir John Gielgud telling his amazing stories. Eventually, the guys in the canteen asked if we could get Vanessa to go and talk to someone else."
edit. wonderfull performance from Finney.
load this up for tomorrow but might watch some of it... Key Largo, 1948... one of if not bogey and bacall's greatest..
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The script was adapted from a 1939 play of the same name by Maxwell Anderson. In the play, the gangsters are Mexican bandidos, the war in question is the Spanish Civil War, and McCloud is a disgraced deserter who dies at the end.
The film was shot primarily at the Warner Bros. Studios, Burbank,[6] in order to keep costs down.[7][8] The beach and hotel exterior were constructed on the Warner Bros. backlot;[7] the interior scenes were filmed on a sound stage;[7][9] and the boat scenes were filmed in Sound Stage 21, a huge indoor water tank.[6] Exterior shots of the hurricane were taken from stock footage used in Night Unto Night, a Ronald Reagan melodrama which Warner Bros. also produced in 1948. Filming took 78 days.
Another great film that I must have seen a dozen times.
Funny how those old black and white films that are mostly just people talking in rooms stand the test of time, whereas the latest CGI all-action blockbusters are rarely worth even a second watch.
Another great film that I must have seen a dozen times.
Funny how those old black and white films that are mostly just people talking in rooms stand the test of time, whereas the latest CGI all-action blockbusters are rarely worth even a second watch.
great scrips and real actors. thats really all you need. don't have much of that now tho, plus cinema goers now seem to meed a light show every couple of minutes to hold their attention.
Beat the Devil, 1953... produced by bogey's Santana company, which was name of his boat, and the boat in the last film, key largo..
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During the filming of Beat the Devil, Humphrey Bogart lost several of his teeth in a car accident. Peter Sellers, then not known internationally but with a talent for imitating voices, was hired to dub some of Bogart's lines while Bogart was adjusting to the loss of his teeth and unable to speak clearly.
Claud Cockburn wrote the screenplay based on his novel. Truman Capote was purportedly brought in to complete the script, late in the process, when Cockburn left or was fired.
Humphrey Bogart described Gina Lollobrigida as "the most woman I've seen for a long time--makes Marilyn Monroe look like Shirley Temple."
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great scrips and real actors. thats really all you need. don't have much of that now tho, plus cinema goers now seem to meed a light show every couple of minutes to hold their attention.
Yes, they make what is proven to deliver a profit, or at least they try to. I think that's always been the case.
years ago when I shared a house with three work colleagues I was watching telly with one of them and 'The Maltese Falcon' was due on. I said to him 'You have to watch this, it's one of the best films ever made.' It starts and he says 'Oh, black and white, I'm not interested in this.' And he got up and left. That's your modern punter.
I've got a book called 'Blockbuster' by Tom Shone that goes into it all in detail.
In the 1960s studios concentrated on big production action films trying to offer something that television couldn't since TV was really hitting their profits. But it was hit and miss, and if they had a miss they lost money big time since the production was so expensive.
Then 'Easy Rider' was a huge hit despite costing pennies to make, so the studios started looking for similar scripts that would be cheap to make but would appeal to mass audiences. We got a lot of good films out of that period in the early 1970s.
Then along came 'Jaws' and 'Star Wars' and changed everything. If you made a big spectacle film with the right ingredients and promoted it well you could not only make a fortune but get a whole franchise out of it. So they lost interest in making low-key character-driven films.
I've got a book called 'Blockbuster' by Tom Shone that goes into it all in detail.
In the 1960s studios concentrated on big production action films trying to offer something that television couldn't since TV was really hitting their profits. But it was hit and miss, and if they had a miss they lost money big time since the production was so expensive.
Then 'Easy Rider' was a huge hit despite costing pennies to make, so the studios started looking for similar scripts that would be cheap to make but would appeal to mass audiences. We got a lot of good films out of that period in the early 1970s.
Then along came 'Jaws' and 'Star Wars' and changed everything. If you made a big spectacle film with the right ingredients and promoted it well you could not only make a fortune but get a whole franchise out of it. So they lost interest in making low-key character-driven films.
yeah its amazing the rubbish the studios will invest a small fortune in, yet ignore great scripts. the public needs to be shown what i want them to see lol
the one im watching with bogey is pretty poor but its better than most modern stuff
Carry On Cowboy, 1965... so bad its good...
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Belle Armitage: My, but you got a big one!
Johnny Finger: I'm from Texas, ma'am. We all got big ones down there.
The Belles of St. Trinian's, 1954... The third most successful film at the British box office for 1954.
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The school motto, written under the silver cup stands, is "In flagrante delicto", Latin for "a burning offense". However, it was commonly used in British divorce cases as a euphemism for caught in the act of sex. It would, of course, hardly be the motto of a girls' school.
Deliverance, 1972..
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While filming the white water canoeing scene, Ned Beatty was thrown overboard and was sucked under by a whirlpool. A production assistant dove in to save him, but he didn't surface for thirty seconds. John Boorman asked Beatty, "How did you feel?", and Beatty responded, "I thought I was going to drown, and the first thought was, how will John finish the film without me? And my second thought was, I bet the bastard will find a way!"
Burt Reynolds broke his coccyx (tailbone) while going down the rapids when the canoe capsized. Originally, a cloth dummy was used, but it looked too fake, like a dummy going over a waterfall. While Reynolds recovered, he asked, "How did it look?" Director John Boorman replied, "Like a dummy going over a waterfall."
Arguably Burt's only really good film, unless your a fan of 'Boogie Nights.'
Arguably Burt's only really good film, unless your a fan of 'Boogie Nights.'
think burt said it was the first real film he was in... maybe the only :eek:
think burt said it was the first real film he was in... maybe the only :eek:
I did run through his filmography before I posted that just in case there was one I'd forgotten.
Nope.
I don't mind some of his redneck films, 'Cannonball Run' and that, as long as I'm at least half drunk and not looking to be challenged. But they are complete trash.
Man Who Knew Too Little, 1997... Manage to pick this up on bluray; its a reg A as its not available in uk afaik...
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Great cast inc joanne whalley, who was super hot in her day...
When Wallace Ritchie (Bill Murray) uses the mallet to break down the door, he yells "Here's Johnny!" This is a nod to Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) breaking down the door with an axe and saying the same thing in The Shining (1980). The mallet is also the signature weapon used by Jack Torrance in Stephen King's novel The Shining, unlike the axe used in the Stanley Kubrick movie.
Filming took place in London's East End (Three Mills Studios), at a variety of London locations, and just outside London at the Elstree Film Studios.
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, 1970..
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Writer and director Billy Wilder said of this movie in the book "Conversations with Wilder" by Cameron Crowe, "when I came back (from Paris), it was an absolute disaster, the way it was cut. The whole prologue was cut, a half-sequence was cut. I had tears in my eyes as I looked at the thing. It was the most elegant picture I've ever shot."
Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge, 2017... currently the last of the POTC films.
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Grossed about $800mil from a $300 budget.
Memoirs of an Invisible Man, 1992... Director is John Carpenter...
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John Carpenter has stated that this is his least favorite of all the films he's directed, and is the film he "hates thinking about the most". One reason was because of the constant studio interference that didn't allow Carpenter much creative freedom. Carpenter also called Chevy Chase "a director's worst nightmare" and "nearly impossible to direct", also saying the same about Daryl Hannah. According to Carpenter, Chase would complain non-stop about the film's tone and hated wearing the special effects, often prematurely removing his makeup and ruining hours of filming. At one point, Carpenter broke a clipboard in half over his knee in a fit of rage when Chase removed his makeup mid-take. Carpenter said that Chase and Hannah were "immune to any punishment from the studio, and they knew it, so they walked over me and everyone else on set and essentially told us we'd be replaced if we had any problem with them...it was like working with your boss's snooty children who would tattle on you if you didn't bend to their every will." Despite this, Carpenter ended up bonding and seeking comfort in Sam Neill over the troubling production and the two became close friends, with Neill agreeing to work with Carpenter again on In The Mouth Of Madness.
never was keen on Daryl Hannah, didn't fancy her and having to sit through that terrible film where she's a mermaid pretty much did it for me.
Chevy Chase, on the other hand, will always be a legend for 'Fletch' (and, to a lesser extent, 'Fletch Lives').
Rio Bravo, 1959...
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Exteriors for the film were shot at Old Tucson Studios, just outside Tucson. Filming took place in the summer of 1958, and the movie's credits gave 1958 for the copyright; the film was released in March 1959.
Rio Bravo is generally regarded as one of Hawks' best, and is known for its long opening scene which contains no dialogue. The film received favorable reviews, and was successful, taking in over US$5.5 million.
never was keen on Daryl Hannah, didn't fancy her and having to sit through that terrible film where she's a mermaid pretty much did it for me.
Chevy Chase, on the other hand, will always be a legend for 'Fletch' (and, to a lesser extent, 'Fletch Lives').
not big on her either tbh. she was fairly pretty in her own way but i think she was probably nuts.
not big on her either tbh. she was fairly pretty in her own way but i think she was probably nuts.
yeah she's far from ugly just not my type. Nothing wrong with her acting. Thing is if you are doing a romantic film about a bloke chasing after a woman, it doesn't work for you if you don't at least fancy the bird he is chasing. You sit there thinking 'Mate, just look for someone else, she's no great shakes.'
I've always had the problem with 'Casablanca'. Bergman's very pretty but her character in the film is a very bland personality. You can't really imagine her appealing to someone like Rick. I mean a few weeks of fun in Paris, yes, but him falling hard for her? No chance.
yeah she's far from ugly just not my type. Nothing wrong with her acting. Thing is if you are doing a romantic film about a bloke chasing after a woman, it doesn't work for you if you don't at least fancy the bird he is chasing. You sit there thinking 'Mate, just look for someone else, she's no great shakes.'
I've always had the problem with 'Casablanca'. Bergman's very pretty but her character in the film is a very bland personality. You can't really imagine her appealing to someone like Rick. I mean a few weeks of fun in Paris, yes, but him falling hard for her? No chance.
bergman was a lot hotter than her hollywood image. she had affairs with everyone; bar bogey of course. the 2 didnt like each other
talking about this film recently so have a mind to watch it again..
Barry Lyndon, 1975... Director is Stanley Kubrick.
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Production was moved from Ireland to England after writer, producer, and director Stanley Kubrick received word that his name was on an I.R.A. hit list for directing a movie featuring English soldiers in Ireland. Consequently, several scenes were dropped.
Contrary to legend, this movie did use artificial lighting in some scenes (for example, when Bryan (David Morley) learns he's getting a horse). However, it is true that no electronic lighting was used for the candle-lit scenes. A lens built by the Carl Zeiss Company for N.A.S.A., a 50mm Zeiss lens modified with the Kollmorgen adaptor used in still cameras, was used to shoot scenes lit only by candle. This lens had the largest aperture of any ever built for movie use (f/0.7).
A myth grew that the Academy Award winning costumes used in this movie were genuine antique clothes, but this is only partly correct. Some of the costumes were genuine antiques bought at auction by costume designer Milena Canonero, while others were custom-made specifically for this movie and were based on clothing of the period and costumes seen in period paintings.
walpurgis
10-07-2022, 16:41
talking about this film recently so have a mind to watch it again..
Barry Lyndon, 1975... Director is Stanley Kubrick.
Tremendous film!
A lens built by the Carl Zeiss Company for N.A.S.A., a 50mm Zeiss lens modified with the Kollmorgen adaptor used in still cameras, was used to shoot scenes lit only by candle. This lens had the largest aperture of any ever built for movie use (f/0.7)
To be precise, the modified lens (modified by Ed DiGiulio) retained the focal length of 50mm with a full aperture of f/0.7. When used with the Kollmorgan adaptor, the focal length of the combination was reduced to 36.5mm, but retained a full aperture of f/0.7, so in effect a little 'slower'.
walpurgis
11-07-2022, 08:28
I see Talking Pictures TV have the 1961 classic 'Only Two Can Play', with Peter Sellers on at 11.55 this morning.
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I saw it recently and it's well worth a watch.
Dances With Wolves, 1990.
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Because of budget overruns and general industry reluctance to invest in a Western, Kevin Costner Costner was forced to dig deep into his own pockets and pay $ 3 million to make up the film's $18 million budget to cover overages. As it then went on to gross over $100 million, he himself earned an estimated $40 million from his original investment.
Kevin Costner's spreading out of his arms while doing his suicide run at the start of the film was a completely spontaneous gesture that took his stunt coordinator by surprise.
I see Talking Pictures TV have the 1961 classic 'Only Two Can Play', with Peter Sellers on at 11.55 this morning.
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I saw it recently and it's well worth a watch.
a good one that geoff. rarely available too
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'Oliver Twist' (1948)
Unrivalled adaption of the Dicken's novel that actually improves on it in a number of ways. Great performances, sets, and atmosphere.
There were issues regarding the portrayal of the Fagin character. The original idea was to copy the appearance of Fagin from the illustrations used for the first edition of the book, requiring Alec Guinness to wear a large prosthetic nose. But so soon after the Holocaust this was considered unwise so the prosthetics were toned down and some scenes were shot. The problem now was that Fagin resembled Jesus Christ. So David Lean elected to return to the original make-up.
Consequently 12 minutes of footage of the scenes with Fagin in were removed for the American release.
The film was banned in Israel as Guinness's performance as Fagin was thought to be anti-Semitic. The film was banned in Egypt because it was thought that Fagin was portrayed too sympathetically.
Dances With Wolves, 1990.
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Because of budget overruns and general industry reluctance to invest in a Western, Kevin Costner Costner was forced to dig deep into his own pockets and pay $ 3 million to make up the film's $18 million budget to cover overages. As it then went on to gross over $100 million, he himself earned an estimated $40 million from his original investment.
Kevin Costner's spreading out of his arms while doing his suicide run at the start of the film was a completely spontaneous gesture that took his stunt coordinator by surprise.
An excellent film.
Harvey, 1950... bluray... Director is Henry Koster.
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At the suggestion of James Stewart, the director changed many shots to make them wider so that "Harvey" would be in the frame.
As a joke, the cast and crew would often set a chair for the title character at lunch and order him something to eat.
When speaking with Mrs. Chumley, Elwood describes Harvey as a púca, which is a creature from Irish mythology, and in Celtic as well Nordish myth as well. Referred to as a bringer of either good or bad tidings, a púca can appear in the form of various animals, and sometimes as a human. In most cases, a púca is both friendly and very helpful.
Henry Koster and James Stewart discovered that they worked extremely well together. Koster said later that working with Stewart was "without any doubt one of the most pleasant experiences of my life...It must have been his spirit. There was very little friction, ever, only ambition and craftsmanship and precision, just doing it right professionally. On top of that he put the whipped cream of great talent...He was always the first on the set."
Her Comes Mr Jordan, 1941, bluray.. Director is Alexander Hall...
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Columbia chief Harry Cohn had serious misgivings about this adaptation of Harry Segall's minor stage play. He preferred to reserve his more lavish budgets for surefire successes (i.e., anything featuring the studio's biggest star, Rita Hayworth). However, Sidney Buchman was eventually able to talk Cohn into forking out for costly celestial sets and Farnsworth's elaborate mansion and also into hiring Robert Montgomery on loan-out from MGM. Buchman was also able to convince Cohn that he had a better appreciation of what the public would pay to see than the Wall Street bankers who Cohn answered to.
James Gleason was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in the role of Max Corkle. This is the first time in Academy Awards history for a person to be nominated for a supporting Oscar for a role for which a different person would later also be nominated for a supporting Oscar: Jack Warden was nominated for Best Supporting Actor as Max Corkle in Heaven Can Wait (1978). James Gleason was mainly brought on board to polish the dialogue. Gleason had a knack for authentic sounding vernacular language but also happened to be a great actor.
James Gleason
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Another film with James Gleason now... The Bishop's Wife, 1947...
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Originally Cary Grant played the bishop and David Niven the angel. When original director William A. Seiter left the film, Henry Koster replaced him and viewed what had been shot so far. He realized that the two were in the wrong roles. It took some convincing because Grant wanted the title role of the Bishop. He eventually accepted the change and his role as the angel was one of the most widely praised of his career.
Very Important Person, 1961.
Stanley Baxter and James Robertson Justice.
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How To Murder Your Wife, 1965...
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Porridge, 1979.
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My Fellow Americans, 1996.
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Jamaica Inn, 1939..
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In a 1972 interview with Pia Lindström, Alfred Hitchcock said that it took one full morning to get one close-up of Charles Laughton. He also said that "He was a nice man. A charming man. He really was. But oh! He suffered so much, because he felt he couldn't get it out, and we were one whole morning on the one close-up until he got up, and he was crying in the corner, and I went over and patted him on the shoulder."
The real Jamaica Inn still exists as of 2020 and is located just off the A30 in Bolventor, Cornwall, England.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, 2006..
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Us-&-Them
12-07-2022, 22:02
An excellent film.
I dont know if any of you have but, if you haven't, I strongly suggest watching the full extended version of Dances With Wolves - it really does add to what is already a fantastic film!!!!
I dont know if any of you have but, if you haven't, I strongly suggest watching the full extended version of Dances With Wolves - it really does add to what is already a fantastic film!!!!
yes its the extended version ive got.. top class .
"The Heiress" 1949.. A gem of a film with a superb leading cast of Olivia De Haviland(maybe her greatest portrayal), Montgomery Clift(the young conman of the heart) and Sir Ralph Richardson(as the domineering father who knows a conman when he sees him).
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After seeing "The Heiress" on Broadway, Olivia de Havilland approached William Wyler about directing her in a screen adaptation of the play. He agreed and encouraged Paramount Pictures executives to purchase the rights from the playwrights (Ruth and Augustus Goetz) for $250,000 and offer them $10,000 per week to write the screenplay. The couple were asked to make Morris less of a villain than he was in their play and the original novel in deference to the studio's desire to capitalize on Montgomery Clift's reputation as a romantic leading man.
Olivia de Havilland wisely chose William Wyler as her director, considering that such a meticulous director would be able to coax a strong performance from her. As it turned out, Wyler became a staunch supporter of his leading actress, particularly in regard to the sneering attitude that Montgomery Clift displayed toward her (he didn't value her talents as an actress) and Sir Ralph Richardson taking every opportunity to steal scenes from under her nose with his improvisations. Montgomery Clift was so unhappy with his performance, he walked out of the premiere.
From a budget of around $2,600,000 , it grossed about $160 worldwide.
The song sung by Montgomery Clift while playing the piano is originally a vocal romance, "Plaisir d'amour," composed in 1784 by classical composer Jean-Paul-Égide Martini (August 31, 1741 - February 10, 1816), and was the basis for Elvis Presley's 1961 hit "I Can't Help Falling In Love With You" written for the movie Blue Hawaii (1961).
During the staircase scene, director William Wyler shot 37 takes with Olivia de Havilland. Only after the final one, whereupon she fell down from exhaustion, did Wyler declare that this was the take he wanted to print.
Indiscreet, 1958... Cary Grant said that this was his personal favorite film.
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The casting of Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman as slightly older and wiser lovers had greater relevance to 1958 audiences. Grant was on the third of his five marriages, while Bergman had ridden the waves of scandal following her adulterous relationship with Italian director Roberto Rossellini.
When the censors had a problem with Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in bed together, director Stanley Donen shot an overhead split-screen sequence showing both stars side-by-side in bed, but with a clearly visible "border" between them.
The car Anna's chauffeur drives is a brand new 1958 Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith, valued at $23,000 at the time (over $209,000 in 2020). Reportedly, Cary Grant purchased the car at the end of filming.
Scrooge, 1951.
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Although this movie is widely regarded as the best version of Charles Dickens' story, it is the only one which omits Ebenezer Scrooge's famous line: "If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled in his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart." Alastair Sim would eventually get a chance to say it, however, when he reprised his role in the animated A Christmas Carol (1971), which also featured Sir Michael Hordern returning as Jacob Marley.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 1975.
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A 2021 tweet by Eric Idle revealed that the film was financed by eight investors: Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson, Holy Grail co-producer Michael White, Heartaches (a cricket team founded by lyricist Tim Rice), and three record companies including Charisma Records, the record label that released Python's early comedy albums. The investors contributed the entire original budget of £175,350 (about $410,000 in 1974). He added that this group also received a percentage of the proceeds from the 2005 musical Spamalot.
According to Terry Gilliam, the Pythons turned to rock stars like Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin for finance as the studios refused to fund the film and rock stars saw it as "a good tax write-off" due to the top rate of UK income tax being "as high as 90%" at the time.
quote...
Dingo : You must spank her well, and after you are done with her, you may deal with her as you like... and then... spank me.
All : And me. And me too. And me.
Dingo : Yes. Yes, you must give us all a good spanking.
Dingo : And after the spanking, the oral sex.
Galahad : Well, I could stay a bit longer...
Red, 2010...
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now Red 2, 2013..
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Dark Passage, 1947...
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Warner Brothers studio head Jack L. Warner was not pleased to discover that the face of one of his biggest stars, Humphrey Bogart, is not seen for the first half of the movie. By the time Warner knew this, the film was too far along to be changed.
Pigmy Pony
14-07-2022, 19:48
Not right now, but last night watched "Boys from the Black Stuff" - part 4, Yosser's story. Funny and sad at the same time.
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"I'm desperate father"
"Call me Dan"
"I'm desperate Dan."
This drama was a big deal in the 80s. Currently showing on BBC iPlayer.
Yosser's kids were played by creator Alan Bleasdale's kids. I wonder if any of it affected them.
I remember watching the series when it was first screened. Unless something is done very soon, I fear we are heading towards another depression - yet don't see anything from the current administration or from the competitors for leadership to be encouraged.
Not right now, but last night watched "Boys from the Black Stuff" - part 4, Yosser's story. Funny and sad at the same time.
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"I'm desperate father"
"Call me Dan"
"I'm desperate Dan."
This drama was a big deal in the 80s. Currently showing on BBC iPlayer.
Yosser's kids were played by creator Alan Bleasdale's kids. I wonder if any of it affected them.
I remember watching those when they were brand new. That bit where she headbutts the social worker is classic.
I think Bleasdale was too middle-class to write anything authentic though. The whole series is about how middle class think the working class live and how terrible it must be,. Not much in the way of reality, but still entertaining.
The Long Goodbye, 1973..
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Both Leigh Brackett and Robert Altman have said that Sterling Hayden and Elliot Gould''s dialogue during the drinking scenes was improvised. This was because Hayden was drunk and stoned on marijuana most of the time.
Elliott Gould smokes in every scene.
Marlowe's car was a 1948 Lincoln Continental Cabriolet that belonged to Elliott Gould. In 2013 it was in The National Automobile Museum (The Harrah Collection) in Reno, Nevada, and where it had been repainted yellow.
The Devil and Miss Jones, 1941..
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Pigmy Pony
15-07-2022, 16:18
I remember watching those when they were brand new. That bit where she headbutts the social worker is classic.
I think Bleasdale was too middle-class to write anything authentic though. The whole series is about how middle class think the working class live and how terrible it must be,. Not much in the way of reality, but still entertaining.
So were you not a regular at The Green Man? I thought I saw you drinking there in the last episode :D
So were you not a regular at The Green Man? I thought I saw you drinking there in the last episode :D
shake hands:eyebrows:
So were you not a regular at The Green Man? I thought I saw you drinking there in the last episode :D
No I was too young to get served back then, even in Liverpool. :)
I did occasionally drink in the Aigburth Arms which gets mentioned quite often in 'Red Dwarf'.
Some Like It Hot, 1959...again...lol...well it is a classic
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Some Like It Hot, 1959...again...lol...well it is a classic
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"Well nobody's perfect". :)
Saturday matinee....Back to the Future, 1985...
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I'm All Right Jack, 1959..
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and now...
The Square Peg, 1958...
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a bit of 'good ol' boy si-fi' now with Tremors, 1990...
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Back to the Future II, 1989.
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The biggest effect the picture employs is a camera system called the VistaGlide. There are four scenes that use the effect of the same actor interacting with themselves. The four scenes that were shot were Griff and 2015 Biff in the Cafe 80's, the dinner sequence in 2015, 1955 Biff talking to 2015 Biff in the garage, and 1955 Doc talking with 1985 Doc. In order to create the dinner sequence with VistaGlide, the camera had to be divided into thirds and Michael had to come in three different times to play his older self, Marty Jr., and his daughter Marlene. This is the first film to accomplish interaction between the same actor on the screen twice as two different characters. If you watch closely, you'll see that 2015 Biff's hand disappears during the scene in the garage.
Independence Day, 1996... 4k bluray..
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(at around 1h 7 mins) The scene in which Will Smith drags the unconscious alien across the desert was filmed on the salt flats near Great Salt Lake in Utah. Smith's line, "And what the hell is that *smell*?" was unscripted. Great Salt Lake is home to tiny crustaceans called brine shrimp. When they die, the bodies sink to the bottom of the lake (which isn't very deep) and decompose. When the wind kicks up just right, the bottom mud is disturbed and the smell of millions of decaying brine shrimp can be very, very bad. Apparently, nobody warned Will.
Holds the record for most miniature model work to appear in one film. Model shop supervisor Michael Joyce estimated that more miniatures were used for this film than in any other two films combined. Due to the advances in digital technology since this film's release, most experts believe this record may stand forever.
Well I was looking forward to watching "Ad Astra" on the Channel 4 last night. The plot is complicated (very complicated for a sci-fi film), so needs to be followed carefully.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_Astra_(film)
Unfortunately about an hour in to the screening, the signal level dropped and the picture broke up and was either unwatchable or a complete blank screen. (this affected all the independent channels, all the BBC channels were fine). :( I don't know if was due to the weather (with the old analogue system, hot weather could cause co-channel interference with one of the French stations), but I just gave up and played some music instead.
First Blood, 1982.. 4k bluray...
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The film was shot in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia, Canada on a $15 million budget beginning on November 15, 1981, and continuing until April 1982. The town scenes in the movie were shot in Hope and the nearby Othello Tunnels, called Chapman Gorge in the film,[12] while the rest of the movie was shot in Capilano Canyon, Golden Ears Provincial Park and Pitt Lake in Pitt Meadows. During the production Buzz Feitshans replaced producer Ed Carlin, who suffered a heart attack.
Back to the Future III, 1990...
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Total Recall, 1990...4k..
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Dark City, 1998... due to extremely short scene lengths, this can be a difficult watch.
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A number of pieces of the set, including those used for the rooftop chase, were sold to the production of The Matrix (1999) at the end of shooting.
An over-sized version of Dr. Schreber's syringe (roughly a yard long) was built for the close up shots of the needle being extended so that its surface details would be visible in the focal plane of the camera lens.
walpurgis
18-07-2022, 11:53
Dark City, 1998
A favourite of mine. It's suitably weird! :)
A favourite of mine. It's suitably weird! :)
i couldnt get to grips with it...
now, The Titfield Thunderbolt, 1953... Director Charles Crighton...This was Ealing's first Colour film, and was a great achievement for the small independent film company which was struggling to keep up with the big guys.
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Godfrey Tearle was 68 years old at the time of filming, and despite his age, he was required to perform heavy labor like shoveling coal and pushing the Titfield Thunderbolt up the hill with George Relph. Soon after filming, he died of a heart attack.
The Lady Vanishes, 1938... Dirctor Alfred Hitchcock..Produced by the Gainsborough Pictures Company... classic hitch... this time not the fancy remastered criterion as its a bit hot to run blurays..
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The cricket-obsessed characters Charters and Caldicott were created especially for this movie and do not appear in the novel written by Ethel Lina White.
Leslie Gilliat shot screen tests, including that of Michael Redgrave (with and without mustache), and later remembered that when testing one actress for the role of Miss Froy, Alfred Hitchcock instructed him not to put any film in the camera, since he had already secretly and successfully negotiated for May Whitty to play the part.
Groundhog Day, 1993...4k
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Phil at the piano teacher's house, when he is fumblingly playing Sergei Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme by Paginini," is actually Bill Murray playing. He does not read music, but he learned that much of the song by ear. The same rhapsody, specifically its 18th Variation, was also used in another time fantasy movie, Somewhere in Time (1980).
The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1939.
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Although Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce are the stars of the film, 20th Century Fox was unsure whether the film would be a hit or not, therefore Richard Greene, already a well-established star, was given top billing, while Rathbone and Bruce were billed second and fourth respectively. After the massive box office success of the first film, Rathbone and Bruce received top billing in the thirteen films which followed.
The Apartment, 1960..
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The Front Page, 1974.. pure class from billy wilder..
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The opening scene showing the newspaper being printed was shot at the Los Angeles Herald Examiner's print room. It had one of the last fully operational old style printing presses still in use.
Forbidden Planet, 1956...
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First mainstream film to have the music performed entirely by electronic instruments.
This film marked one of the first times a science-fiction project had received a large budget. The genre had rarely been taken seriously by studio executives, and sci-fi films generally received the most meager of budgets. The critical success of this film convinced many in the film industry that well-funded science-fiction projects could be successful. Film historian Ben Mankiewicz has claimed that this film's success made future big-budget science-fiction films possible.
walpurgis
20-07-2022, 14:04
Forbidden Planet, 1956
All time classic. Love that movie!
All time classic. Love that movie!
Well it was (loosely) based on a rather good play written in the early 17th century. :D
Well it was (loosely) based on a rather good play written in the early 17th century. :DThe Tempest?
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, 2006.
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(at around 2h) The scene when Jack Sparrow calls Davy Jones "fish face", and sings to them "I got a jar of dirt", was unscripted and improvised by Johnny Depp, most of the reactions of the rest of the characters are real.
The dice game that Will Turner plays with Davy Jones is called Liar's Dice, a gambling game where each player has to make consecutively higher bids based upon how many of each die they claim are on the table (two threes, four fives, etc.), until a player is called a liar, in which case, all the dice are shown, and it's seen if the bid is correct. Normally, a player only loses a die when caught in a lie, and is not out of the game until he has lost all of his dice.
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, 2007.
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The most expensive film ever made (at the time), not adjusted for inflation. The budget ran to $300 million. That's more than the budget of all three Lord of the Rings films combined.
The green flash is a real, but very rare, optical phenomenon during sunrise or sunset, that is best observed at sea. It is caused by the refraction of light in the atmosphere, amplified by a mirage.
A real-life council of pirates existed at one time. The Brethren of the Coast was a loose coalition of pirates and buccaneers, active in the 17th and 18th centuries in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of Mexico. They had a base on the island of Tortuga, off the coast of Haiti, and in Port Royal, Jamaica. The Brethren were originally French Huguenots and British Protestants, but their ranks were joined by other adventurers of various nationalities, including Spaniards and Africans.
Kelly's Heroes, 1970...
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During filming in Yugoslavia in 1969, Donald Sutherland (Oddball) received word, via co-star Clint Eastwood (Lieutenant Kelly), that his then-wife Shirley Douglas was arrested: she had tried to buy--using a personal check--hand grenades from an undercover FBI agent for the Black Panthers. Sutherland recounts this story often, mentioning that when Eastwood got to the part about the personal check, he laughed so hard that he fell to his knees and Sutherland had to help him up. Eastwood then put his arm around Sutherland, walked him down the hill that overlooked the Yugoslavian countryside, and assured his friend of his complete support with his predicament. Sutherland and Douglas, who are the parents of Kiefer Sutherland and twin sister Rachel Sutherland, divorced in 1970.
The three Tiger I tanks used were actually ex-Soviet Army T-34 tanks, converted in great detail by specialists of the Yugoslavian Army. They are not the same ones used in a previous movie, The Battle of Neretva (1969), which were much less well done. The care taken to make the T-34s look like Tiger tanks was notable, most period World War II movies used unmodified modern tanks as their vehicles, with minimal effort to change their appearances, often no more than painting the tanks with gray or yellow with distinctive German crosses. Oddball's (Donald Sutherland's) Shermans are Yugoslavian Army M4A3E4 Shermans (post-war U.S. upgraded to 76mm in original 75mm turret).
the true story behind the film can be read here.. well some of it lol...
https://www.military.com/history/story-behind-true-events-inspired-kellys-heroes.html
Hope and Glory, 1988...
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A 650 feet long suburban street set with seventeen semi-detached houses was constructed for this movie. Apparently, at the time at least, it was the largest set built in the UK for twenty-five years.
Great Expectations, 1946.. classic dickens adaptation from david lean....
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Ruthless People, 1986...
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Hope and Glory, 1988...
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A 650 feet long suburban street set with seventeen semi-detached houses was constructed for this movie. Apparently, at the time at least, it was the largest set built in the UK for twenty-five years.
Good film. :)
Throw Momma from the Train, 1987..
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In the scene which Owen and Larry save Momma Lift from falling off the train, Anne Ramsey performed the stunt herself without the use of a stunt double.
School for Scoundrels, 1960...
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The film uses vehicles as plot devices. Palfrey foolishly buys a "1924 4-litre Swiftmobile" from the crooked "Winsome Welshmen". Later in the film he succeeds in trading the car back to them for an ex-works Austin-Healey 100-six and 100 guineas (£105). The "Swiftmobile" was in fact based upon a 1928 4½ litre Open four-seater Bentley, with a custom two-seat open body. The car, minus the body, was sold by the studio in 1961 for £50, and re-sold (with new body) at an auction in 2003 for £110,000. The Austin-Healey 100-six used in the film was passed in at auction in the 1970s at around £30,000. The "Bellini 3.6" driven by Terry-Thomas is in fact a disguised Aston Martin DB3S.
walpurgis
24-07-2022, 17:05
School for Scoundrels, 1960.
Classic British comedy, great fun!
Classic British comedy, great fun!
yes a classic indeed... now from 1949 qanother classic in Kind Hearts and Coronets..
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The original camera negative was saved from the Henderson's Film Laboratories fire of 1993, just before a massive nitrate explosion destroyed the negatives of many other movies, including several other Ealing comedies.
In the trial at the end of the film, as the camera pans round, you can clearly see a very young Sean Connery sitting on the back row. He is in quite a few sustained shots too. This has never been confirmed but it's definitely him and the timing is right for the start of his film career.
Hobson's Choice, 1954...
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Witness for the Prosecution, 1957...
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yes a classic indeed... now from 1949 qanother classic in Kind Hearts and Coronets..
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The original camera negative was saved from the Henderson's Film Laboratories fire of 1993, just before a massive nitrate explosion destroyed the negatives of many other movies, including several other Ealing comedies.
In the trial at the end of the film, as the camera pans round, you can clearly see a very young Sean Connery sitting on the back row. He is in quite a few sustained shots too. This has never been confirmed but it's definitely him and the timing is right for the start of his film career.
I'll have to re-watch the film, to see. I do love the fascinating 'tit bits' you come up with Grant. Even if I'm not interested in the film itself, your footnotes are always interesting. Well done. :)
I'll have to re-watch the film, to see. I do love the fascinating 'tit bits' you come up with Grant. Even if I'm not interested in the film itself, your footnotes are always interesting. Well done. :)
its a nice story, but ive no idea if its true. personally i'd say it wasn't. Connery tho was at one time thought to have been the cause of gangster Johnny Stompanato's death, and gangsters were thought to be after him. he went into hiding until it was cleared up.... it was of course lana turners daughter who killed him. Stompanato had flown to england at one time and pointed a gun a sean, who promptly disarmed him etc.. Stompanato was annoyed at a possible affair between sean and lana while they were making a film.
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, 2003.... yes i watch these a lot ..lol
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i see david warner died today aged 80..... so will watch this.. The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
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great cast and film this...
David Warner suffered from vertigo and had a panic attack before he was due to fly out to the set. Although they had never met and the Englishman wasn't a name to conjure with in Hollywood, Sam Peckinpah was so determined to cast Warner that it was arranged he should sail over to America, even though this meant holding up his scenes three weeks. Warner deeply appreciated this and they made two more films together: Straw Dogs (1971) and Cross of Iron (1977).
Good film.
Sad news about David Warner. I remember being impressed by his (debut?) performance in "Morgan - a Suitable Case for Treatment" (1966). And I liked his performance as 'Dr Necessiter' in "The Man With Two Brains". He was also good in the two films you mention.
a quick bogey now... Dark Passage, 1947..
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The photo of Vincent before surgery is shown in the newspaper and elsewhere. It represents the height of photomanipulation of the day, with carefully masked double-exposures and careful airbrushing. The lower half of the face is that of character actor [linkKenneth MacDonald. The upper half, from just below the bridge of the nose, is that of Bogart himself.
The Maltese Falcon, 1941...
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Three of the statuettes still exist and are conservatively valued at over $1 million each. This makes them some of the most valuable film props ever made; indeed, each is now worth more than three times what the film cost to make.
At 357 pounds, 60-year-old British newcomer Sydney Greenstreet was so large that the studio had to specially manufacture his entire wardrobe for the role of Kasper Gutman. The chair in which Greenstreet sits while talking with Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) in the hotel room was also specially made for him; the chairs the prop department was going to use weren't wide enough to accommodate Greenstreet's girth nor strong enough to support his weight.
sticking with bogey, a rare comedy, and a very good one too... We're No Angels, 1955..
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Included among the American Film Institute's 2000 list of the 500 movies nominated for the Top 100 Funniest American Movies.
Bogart could be generous with actors, particularly those who were blacklisted, down on their luck or having personal problems. He stood behind Joan Bennett and insisted on her as his co-star in Michael Curtiz's We're No Angels (1955) when a scandal made her persona non grata with studio head Jack Warner.
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, 1966...
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According to Eli Wallach, when it came time to blow up the bridge, Sergio Leone asked the Spanish Army Captain in charge to trigger the fuse, as a sign of gratitude for the Army's collaboration. They agreed to blow up the bridge when Leone gave the signal "Vai!" (Go!) over the walkie-talkie. Unfortunately, another crew member spoke on the same channel, saying the words "vai, vai!", meaning "it's okay, proceed" to a second crew member. The Captain heard this signal, thought it was for him, and blew up the bridge. Unfortunately, no cameras were running at the time. Leone was so upset that he fired the crewman, who promptly fled from the set in his car. The Captain was so sorry for what happened that he proposed to Leone that the Army would rebuild the bridge to blow it up again, with one condition: that the fired crewman be re-hired. Leone agreed, the crewman was forgiven, the bridge was rebuilt, and the scene was successfully shot.
There are lots of goofs in this film, not that they spoil the fun too much... When Angel Eyes enters the house at the beginning you can see a radiant station antenna in the background.
Blondie is seen shooting Tuco's rope with a Sharps 1874, 12 years too late for the film's setting.
The American flags flown by the Union army have 50 stars, 97 years too late for the film's setting.
the list is long lol
“You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.”
classic line from a classic film... great soundtrack too...
Stick with Clint and go for... Two Mules for Sister Sara, 1970....
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The story takes place during the French intervention in Mexico from 1861 to 1867. Dynamite was invented in 1867 by Nobel, yet it was not easily available in the US until at least 1868. A common error in westerns..... and.... The French did not celebrate Bastille Day, the 14 July, until 1880.... oh and .... In the tunnel scenes, Hogan and friends are using hand-held carbide lamps. Carbide was not produced in any quantity until 1892, and carbide lamps were not invented until several years later.
“You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.”
classic line from a classic film... great soundtrack too...
Stick with Clint and go for... Two Mules for Sister Sara, 1970....
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The story takes place during the French intervention in Mexico from 1861 to 1867. Dynamite was invented in 1867 by Nobel, yet it was not easily available in the US until at least 1868. A common error in westerns..... and.... The French did not celebrate Bastille Day, the 14 July, until 1880.... oh and .... In the tunnel scenes, Hogan and friends are using hand-held carbide lamps. Carbide was not produced in any quantity until 1892, and carbide lamps were not invented until several years later.
Duh - you have just ruined a very good film! :rolleyes:
Duh - you have just ruined a very good film! :rolleyes:
i give up:rolleyes:
The Guns of Navarone, 1961.
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Some Holmes and Watson now and 'The Seven Percent Solution', 1974...
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Published as a "lost manuscript" of the late Dr. John H. Watson, the book recounts Holmes' recovery from cocaine addiction (with the help of Sigmund Freud) and his subsequent prevention of a European war through the unravelling of a sinister kidnapping plot. It was followed by four other Holmes pastiches by Meyer, The West End Horror (1976), The Canary Trainer (1993), The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols (2019) and The Return of the Pharaoh (2021) [2] none of which have been adapted to film.
The Guns of Navarone, 1961.
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One of my favourite films!
What errors were made? - I'm sure there were some. :eyebrows:
Some Holmes and Watson now and 'The Seven Percent Solution', 1974...
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Published as a "lost manuscript" of the late Dr. John H. Watson, the book recounts Holmes' recovery from cocaine addiction (with the help of Sigmund Freud) and his subsequent prevention of a European war through the unravelling of a sinister kidnapping plot. It was followed by four other Holmes pastiches by Meyer, The West End Horror (1976), The Canary Trainer (1993), The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols (2019) and The Return of the Pharaoh (2021) [2] none of which have been adapted to film.
Think I have seen the film. Nicol Williams was a fine actor.
One of my favourite films!
What errors were made? - I'm sure there were some. :eyebrows:
The German general demands that scopolamine be used to interrogate the prisoner left behind by the group. However, while scopolamine was documented in 1881 it did not come into commercial or widespread use until 1947, two years after WWII ended. Additionally, it was not known to be a truth serum drug until the early 1950s.
The map featured near beginning of the film is a map showing the post war position with territorial boundaries of Germany and Poland that were not made and recognized until well after 1945.
Cheers! :lol:
and in the 7%... Freud accuses Holmes of being "egocentric." However, the use of the term ego (Latin for "I") was not used by Freud until the 1920 and the psychological adjective "egocentricity" did not exist until after Freud established the concept of the ego, id and superego in his paper "The Ego and the Id" in 1923.
:ner:
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, 1957...
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When filming began, Robert Mitchum worried that Deborah Kerr would be like the prim characters she frequently played. However, after she swore at director John Huston during one take, Mitchum, who was in the water, almost drowned laughing. The two stars went on to have an enduring friendship which lasted until Mitchum's death in 1997.
Robert Mitchum is shown throughout the movie wearing a metal expansion bracelet for his wristwatch. Such bracelets were introduced by Speidel in the 1950s afaik. lol
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, 1957...
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When filming began, Robert Mitchum worried that Deborah Kerr would be like the prim characters she frequently played. However, after she swore at director John Huston during one take, Mitchum, who was in the water, almost drowned laughing. The two stars went on to have an enduring friendship which lasted until Mitchum's death in 1997.
Robert Mitchum is shown throughout the movie wearing a metal expansion bracelet for his wristwatch. Such bracelets were introduced by Speidel in the 1950s afaik. lol
actually that bracelet might just have been ok :D need to see it again tho. if it was a scissors one then its ok..
Father Goose, 1964. starring Cary Grant, Leslie Caron and Trevor Howard.
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The scene in the dinghy where the small boat gets passed by two large ships was filmed on the Universal Studios back-lot in a large tank on a sound set. One of the child stars, Stephanie Berrington [now Stephanie Berrington McNutt] who played Elizabeth, in an interview said, "It was a large tank like a swimming pool. We had wave-making machines which were logs attached to steel arms that kept slapping the water to make waves. The larger ships were actually projected onto screens above the water. At first, the dinghy was just floating free and was not attached to anything. In one of the first few takes, it took on so much water that it sank (it wasn't supposed to) and most of the children were thrilled. It was like going for a swim. There was one child, however, who did not know how to swim so the directors and producers all jumped into the water in their good clothes and expensive watches to "save" us. Needless to say, most of us didn't want to be saved at all! Photos were taken and I believe they were published in the Los Angeles Times."
Pigmy Pony
28-07-2022, 20:17
The Commonwealth Games opening ceremony. Wow. Doing the City of Birmingham proud.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1959...
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The Baskerville Hall set is a redress of that used for Castle Dracula in Dracula (1958), in which Sir Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing also starred.
To this day, the movie is still released in a censored version for the British market. The scene where Sir Hugo Baskerville pushes a servant into a burning fireplace, remains trimmed of a few seconds. When the local peasant girl is caught and murdered by Sir Hugo, there were more camera shots of the character using his dagger. This scene also remains censored.
The First Great Train Robbery, 1978...
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Sir Sean Connery spent several days running on top of a moving train. The train was supposed to be travelling at thirty-five miles per hour; Connery argued it was going faster. The train driver was counting telegraph poles to measure the speed. A helicopter pilot confirmed Connery's suspicion. The train was travelling at over fifty-five miles per hour.
The character of Clean Willy was played by one of Britain's premiere ballet dancers, Wayne Sleep, from The Royal Ballet Company. He did his own stunts, including scaling the Newgate prison walls, at the tremendous risk of falling and hurting himself.
Diamond Geezer series 1, 2005...
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All Of Me, 1984...
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Saboteur, 1942...
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The set used as the ranch house of Charles Tobin (Otto Kruger (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0472603)) was used as the home of the Brenners for another Alfred Hitchcock (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000033) movie, The Birds (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056869) (1963). It originally was a leftover set from a Deanna Durbin movie shot on the Universal backlot.
The special effects crew took stills of the Statue of Liberty's upraised hand, her torch, and the ledge beneath it. These were re-created to scale on a Universal Pictures soundstage.
The First Great Train Robbery, 1978...
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Sir Sean Connery spent several days running on top of a moving train. The train was supposed to be travelling at thirty-five miles per hour; Connery argued it was going faster. The train driver was counting telegraph poles to measure the speed. A helicopter pilot confirmed Connery's suspicion. The train was travelling at over fifty-five miles per hour.
The character of Clean Willy was played by one of Britain's premiere ballet dancers, Wayne Sleep, from The Royal Ballet Company. He did his own stunts, including scaling the Newgate prison walls, at the tremendous risk of falling and hurting himself.
Not a bad little film. :)
2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968...
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an error was... Bowman inhales deeply before attempting to re-enter the ship from the pod. Arthur C Clarke in an interview later noted that this is incorrect. Bowman should have exhaled, as the vacuum of space would have damaged his lungs had they been full of air.
According to Douglas Trumbull(special effects), the total footage shot was some 200 times the final length of the film.
At the premiere screening, 241 people walked out of the theater, including Rock Hudson, who said, "Will someone tell me what the hell this is about?" Sir Arthur C Clarke once said, "If you understand '2001' completely, we failed. We wanted to raise far more questions than we answered." Clarke later expressed some concern that the film was too hard to follow, and explained things more fully in the novelization and subsequent sequels.
Stanley Kubrick calculated that it would take one person 13 years to hand draw and paint all the mattes needed to insert the assorted spacecraft into the starry backgrounds. Kubrick hired 12 other people, and did the job in one year.
Stagecoach, 1939. Directed by John Ford. Criterion Blu Ray reg A
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When Plummer's poker hand (aces and eights, the dead man's hand) is shown in close-up, the ace of spades shows that the deck is a Bee brand deck of cards, first produced in 1892 by the U.S. Playing Card Co. (Hence the "92" on the ace.) The movie takes place in approximately 1880, so these cards would not yet be available.
John Wayne's salary was considerably less than all of his co-stars, apart from John Carradine.
In 1939 no paved road ran through Monument Valley: this is why it hadn't been used as a movie location before Stagecoach. (There wasn't a paved road until the 1950s.) Harry Goulding, who ran a trading post there, had heard that John Ford was planning a big-budget Western. So he traveled to Hollywood armed with over 100 photographs of Monument Valley and threatened to camp out on Ford's doorstep until the director saw him and the photographs. Ford saw him almost immediately. He was instantly sold on the location, particularly when he realized that its remoteness would free him from studio interference.
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'Ad Astra' (2019)
Brad Pitt is an astronaut renowned for being calm under pressure. When electromagnetic shockwaves from space threaten life on earth he is ordered to travel to Mars and try to make contact with his estranged father who is on a spaceship somewhere out near Neptune, and who may have the solution to the problem.
Not sure what to make of this one. If you took '2001: A Space Odyssey', 'Apocalypse Now' and 'Gravity' and mixed them all up in a big bowl you might get something like this film. This is hard science fiction set in the near future, good production values and special effects, but I did find it quite difficult to watch. There's action and tension but at the same time it's all very detached. Do you really care if Pitt succeeds in his mission or ends up dying horribly? I wasn't sure.
The central theme is about emotional detachment so I suppose it isn't surprising that concept is baked-in to the film as a whole, but the result is that at the end it all feels a bit 'meh'.
Worth a watch but if you're anything like me you will need to make a conscious effort to stick with it to the conclusion.
Pigmy Pony
31-07-2022, 12:17
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'Ad Astra' (2019)
Brad Pitt is an astronaut renowned for being calm under pressure. When electromagnetic shockwaves from space threaten life on earth he is ordered to travel to Mars and try to make contact with his estranged father who is on a spaceship somewhere out near Neptune, and who may have the solution to the problem.
Not sure what to make of this one. If you took '2001: A Space Odyssey', 'Apocalypse Now' and 'Gravity' and mixed them all up in a big bowl you might get something like this film. This is hard science fiction set in the near future, good production values and special effects, but I did find it quite difficult to watch. There's action and tension but at the same time it's all very detached. Do you really care if Pitt succeeds in his mission or ends up dying horribly? I wasn't sure.
The central theme is about emotional detachment so I suppose it isn't surprising that concept is baked-in to the film as a whole, but the result is that at the end it all feels a bit 'meh'.
Worth a watch but if you're anything like me you will need to make a conscious effort to stick with it to the conclusion.
I quite liked it, but as with most films made this century it failed miserably the "would you watch it again" test. I only saw it a few months ago but can't remember anything about it.
I have this on the planner, which I may watch later:
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Because I like Michael Mann. He has a way with filming in cities that I find appealing. Hard to explain, but "Heat" has some good examples.
I quite liked it, but as with most films made this century it failed miserably the "would you watch it again" test. I only saw it a few months ago but can't remember anything about it.
I have this on the planner, which I may watch later:
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Because I like Michael Mann. He has a way with filming in cities that I find appealing. Hard to explain, but "Heat" has some good examples.
seen that one. its not bad. not great but not bad.
I quite liked it, but as with most films made this century it failed miserably the "would you watch it again" test. I only saw it a few months ago but can't remember anything about it.
I have this on the planner, which I may watch later:
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Because I like Michael Mann. He has a way with filming in cities that I find appealing. Hard to explain, but "Heat" has some good examples.
Yes I think it fails my "would you watch it again" test too. On the other hand it's at least a film for adults and there was nothing in it that made me think 'This is crap', unlike with 'Ready Player One' which was objectionably shit in places.
I keep meaning to watch 'Heat' again but it's so long you really have to plan ahead for it, like with Godfather I and II, and I'm crap at planning ahead.
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'Ad Astra' (2019)
Brad Pitt is an astronaut renowned for being calm under pressure. When electromagnetic shockwaves from space threaten life on earth he is ordered to travel to Mars and try to make contact with his estranged father who is on a spaceship somewhere out near Neptune, and who may have the solution to the problem.
Not sure what to make of this one. If you took '2001: A Space Odyssey', 'Apocalypse Now' and 'Gravity' and mixed them all up in a big bowl you might get something like this film. This is hard science fiction set in the near future, good production values and special effects, but I did find it quite difficult to watch. There's action and tension but at the same time it's all very detached. Do you really care if Pitt succeeds in his mission or ends up dying horribly? I wasn't sure.
The central theme is about emotional detachment so I suppose it isn't surprising that concept is baked-in to the film as a whole, but the result is that at the end it all feels a bit 'meh'.
Worth a watch but if you're anything like me you will need to make a conscious effort to stick with it to the conclusion.
I agree - your findings match mine. The only interesting idea for me was the presence of lunar bandits - which being as the film is set in the near future (towards the end of the 21st century), implies that any international treaty on the neutrality of the Moon was never established, or if it was was broken.
I would watch it again if it was shown in a year or so's time. I wouldn't bother owning a DVD.
Jeremiah Johnson, 1972..
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After burying her murdered family, Crazy Woman begins singing "Shall We Gather at the River" and Jeremiah joins in. This song was written by Robert Lowry in 1864 and first published in 1865, long after the time of the mountain men.
Based upon a real-life trapper named John Johnston, nicknamed "Crow Killer" and "Liver Eater Johnston" for his penchant for cutting out and eating the livers of Crow Indians he had killed (several Crows had murdered his wife and he swore vengeance against the entire tribe).
Liver Eatin' Johnston's wife (who was pregnant at the time) was actually killed by a random raiding party of Crow, not as revenge for a violation of their burial grounds. She was killed in the spring while Johnston was off trapping and he didn't return to find her body until several months later. He identified the band that had killed her because he recognized a Tennessee rifle he had given her in the possession of a Crow warrior. Also, rather than isolated incidents as shown in the movie, Johnston often recruited other mountain men as well as Indians (particularly Flatheads) to help him with his vendetta. The part about the warriors sent to kill him and told not to return without his scalp was true.
great quotes.... Del Gue (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0317369/?ref_=tt_ch) : [to Jeremiah] You turn down this gift, and they'll slit you, me, Caleb and the horses from crotch to eyeball with a dull deer antler!
Pieoftheday
02-08-2022, 20:38
Hunderby and the latest I can get of two doors down , brilliant
A New Leaf, 1971...
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The film was a critical success upon its initial release. However, despite several accolades, award nominations, and a Radio City Music Hall run, A New Leaf fared poorly at the box office and remains little known by the general public. It is now considered a cult classic. In 2019, the film was selected by the Library Of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registary for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Great Quotes:
Henrietta Lowell (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0561938/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Did you hurt yourself?
Henry Graham (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000527/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): No, kneeling on glass is my favorite pastime. It keeps me from slouching.
Henry Graham (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000527/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): [as Sally Hart starts to remove her bra...] No, don't let them out!
Henry Graham (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000527/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): The only difference between us is I am a man and you are a woman and we don't have to let that interfere if we are reasonably careful.
Avanti!, 1972....
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Produced and directed by Billy Wilder (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Wilder), and starring Jack Lemmon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Lemmon) and Juliet Mills (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliet_Mills). The screenplay by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._A._L._Diamond) is based on Samuel A. Taylor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_A._Taylor)'s play, which had a short run for the 1968 Broadway (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_theatre) season. The film follows a businessman attempting to deliver the body of his father from Italy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy). It premiered on December 17, 1972. Lemmon won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award_for_Best_Actor_%E2%80%93_Motion _Picture_Musical_or_Comedy). The film was nominated for five Golden Globe Awards (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Globe_Awards), including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award_for_Best_Motion_Picture_%E2%80% 93_Musical_or_Comedy), Best Director (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award_for_Best_Director), Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award_for_Best_Actress_%E2%80%93_Moti on_Picture_Comedy_or_Musical) and Best Screenplay (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award_for_Best_Screenplay).
The Front Page, 1974...
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directed by Billy Wilder (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Wilder) and starring Jack Lemmon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Lemmon) and Walter Matthau (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Matthau). The screenplay by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.A.L._Diamond) is based on Ben Hecht (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Hecht) and Charles MacArthur (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_MacArthur)'s 1928 play of the same name (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Front_Page), which inspired several other films and televised movies and series episodes.
Plaza Suite, 1971...
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The Odd Couple, 1968...
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Walter Matthau (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000527), who played Oscar in both the original Broadway play and the movie, asked the play's author, Neil Simon (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0800319), if he could play Felix instead. This was because Matthau thought Oscar's personality was too similar to his own and the role would be too easy; whereas playing the persnickety Felix would be a real acting challenge. Simon replied, "Walter, go and be an actor in somebody else's play. Please be Oscar in mine." Matthau finally agreed to it.
Charley Varrick, 1973....
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The film's working title was "The Last of the Independents". Director Don Siegel (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0796923/?ref_=tt_trv_trv) wanted this to be the final title of the movie but in the end it became a tagline on the movie's main poster. The phrase is also the motto of Walter Matthau (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000527/?ref_=tt_trv_trv)'s crop-dusting company in the film.
Walter Matthau's character makes love repeatedly to Felicia Farr (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0268012)'s character. She was the wife of his longtime comedic partner, Jack Lemmon (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000493).
Blazing Saddles, 1974... simply the best.... pure genius
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Rooster Cogburn, 1975...
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Richard Jordan (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0430151) later admitted he decided to overplay his part because he thought the movie was going to flop, and if anybody paid to see it then it would only be for the two stars. He also said he felt that Katharine Hepburn (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000031) was about to die at any minute - ironically, she outlived him by a decade.
Director Stuart Millar (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0587706) insisted on so many takes that eventually John Wayne (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000078) snapped, "God damn it Stuart, there's only so many times we can say these awful lines before they stop making any sense at all." John Wayne (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000078) found making the film to be very difficult, particularly since he had just finished a grueling shoot on Brannigan (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072732) (1975) and recovered from pneumonia.
ROOSTER...Out here we value a spirited woman almost as much as we value a spirited horse...
MISS EULA... Almost as much?
ROOSTER... YUP, ALMOST AS MUCH; NOT QUITE BUT ALMOST!!! :D
Out of Africa (2 disc version)
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Rio Lobo, 1970....
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Directed and produced by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne.
During a break in filming, John Wayne (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000078) collected his Best Actor Oscar for True Grit (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065126) (1969) from Barbra Streisand (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000659) at The 42nd Annual Academy Awards (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0276746) (1970). When he returned, every member of the cast was wearing an eye patch, including his horse.
earlier... Hopscotch, 1980.
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Dances With Wolves, 1990... extended version(which Costner hade no part in the making. His cut was 3 hrs; this is nearer 4)
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Kevin Costner's daughter Annie Costner, playing Stands With A Fist as a child, is seen running away from the Pawnee party that killed her family in the dream sequence. She looks back over each shoulder as she runs because Costner told her to look over her right shoulder and she didn't know her right from her left - she was only 6 years old at the time.
Kevin Costner's spreading out of his arms while doing his suicide run at the start of the film was a completely spontaneous gesture that took his stunt coordinator by surprise.
The major studios wouldn't provide the proper funding. They took issue with the script's length and the amount of subtitles - the latter something that Kevin Costner and crew would not budge on - on top of the film being a western. The film ran over budget, forcing Kevin Costner to make up the overages personally. That caused rumors that the film would be another out-of-control, disappointing western like Heaven's Gate (1980). In fact, some studio people were referring to it as "Kevin's Gate", a mock title that was later given to Waterworld (1995). It went on to win the first Best Picture Oscar for a western since Cimarron (1931), almost 60 years before it. Costner realized upwards of $40 million in profit after the film made over $400m.
Another classic western now with 'McCabe And Mrs Miller, 1971... Criterion BluRay Reg A..
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For a distinctive look, Robert Altman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000265) and Vilmos Zsigmond (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005936) chose to "flash" (pre-fog) the film negative before its eventual exposure, as well as use a number of filters on the cameras, rather than manipulate the film in post-production; in this way the studio could not force him to change the film's look to something less distinctive. However, this was not done for the final 20 minutes of the picture, as Altman wanted the danger to McCabe to be as realistic as possible. Note the change when McCabe wakes up, grabs a shotgun, and starts off to the church.
At the beginning of the film, there is a shot of McCabe lighting a cigar before crossing the bridge. According to Robert Altman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000265), Stanley Kubrick (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000040) loved that shot and called him up asking him: "How did you know you had it?"
During post-production on this film, Robert Altman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000265) was having a difficult time finding a proper musical score, until he attended a party where the album "Songs of Leonard Cohen (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0169552)" was playing and noticed that several songs from the album seemed to fit in with the overall mood and themes of the movie. Cohen, who had been a fan of Altman's previous film, Brewster McCloud (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065492) (1970), allowed him to use three songs from the album - "The Stranger Song", "Sisters of Mercy" and "Winter Lady" - although Altman was dismayed when Cohen later admitted that he didn't like the movie. A year later, Altman received a phone call from Cohen, who told him that he changed his mind after re-watching the movie with an audience and now loved it.
Both good films; though I'm not sure I could sit through a near four hour long film. Costner's version is good enough for me.
Both good films; though I'm not sure I could sit through a near four hour long film. Costner's version is good enough for me.
one of the few 'long' films ive not noticed the time going by and never wanted it to end really.
heaven's gate which i also love, isnt as long but seems longer.. pacing and story is all i guess
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, 1970... Eureka BluRay...
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By the time of filming, Sir Christopher Lee (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000489) had become famous as Count Dracula. When he and Billy Wilder (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000697) walked on the shores of Loch Ness at dusk, with bats circling overhead, Wilder said to him, "You must feel quite at home here."
In the scene with the Russian ballerinas, Billy Wilder's advice to Colin Blakely was that he should "dance like Nureyev and act like Laughton". After the first take, Wilder was heard to say, "Wonderful, Colin - but why did you dance like Laughton and act like Nureyev?".
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'Holy Man' (1998)
Jeff Goldblum has to turn around a failing shopping channel and get off with Kelly Preston even though she's a lot younger than he is and doesn't like him. When he runs into mysterious guru Eddie Murphy he thinks he has the solution to his problems but needless to say....zzzzzzzzzz
This is just a terrible film. And I know what you're thinking - Jeff Goldblum is always good and Eddie Murphy can be very good - but even they cannot save this picture from stinking like the Mersey at low tide. Goldblum's character isn't likeable so you don't care if he saves the company or gets to shag Kelly Preston, and there's zero laughs and no suspense.
The only good thing in it is Robert Loggia, playing the owner of the network exactly the same way as he plays Feech LaManna in 'The Sopranos', but he's only in a couple of short scenes.
I couldn't make it all the way to the end but I figured out what would happen and checked on Wikipedia and I was right. Lame. Avoid.
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'Holy Man' (1998)
Jeff Goldblum has to turn around a failing shopping channel and get off with Kelly Preston even though she's a lot younger than he is and doesn't like him. When he runs into mysterious guru Eddie Murphy he thinks he has the solution to his problems but needless to say....zzzzzzzzzz
This is just a terrible film. And I know what you're thinking - Jeff Goldblum is always good and Eddie Murphy can be very good - but even they cannot save this picture from stinking like the Mersey at low tide. Goldblum's character isn't likeable so you don't care if he saves the company or gets to shag Kelly Preston, and there's zero laughs and no suspense.
The only good thing in it is Robert Loggia, playing the owner of the network exactly the same way as he plays Feech LaManna in 'The Sopranos', but he's only in a couple of short scenes.
I couldn't make it all the way to the end but I figured out what would happen and checked on Wikipedia and I was right. Lame. Avoid.I've seen that. Your right!
I know they're s**t but I like 'em
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Me, Myself and Irene, 2000.....
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The soundtrack is almost exclusively covers of Steely Dan songs recorded specifically for this movie.
The scene where Charlie throws himself out of the car was done in only one take.
The glasses that Michael Bowman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0101365) (Whitey) wears are his real-life glasses, including the little microscope on the end.
The scene where Renée Zellweger (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000250) kicks Jim Carrey (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000120) over the railing and down the hill was done by Jim Carrey (instead of a stunt double) after many pleadings. He did a few takes, but they used the first one. A mattress was used for him to pop back into frame.
Poirot, series 3....1989..
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Star Trek: First Contact, 1996..
This is actually streamed off my Apple library onto tv via my Amazon 4k box..
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Directed by Jonathan Frakes.
Due to budgetary restrictions, the crew of (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjcse3vsbf5AhXGbMAKHSm9AfIQFnoECB0QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0117731 %2F&usg=AOvVaw00mCPa7iShU96r6kV05EM6)Star Trek: The Next Generation (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092455) (1987) was never quite satisfied with the Borg sets and costumes as used during the series. However, the significantly bigger budget for this film finally allowed them to design the Borg in a way that was much closer to what they had intended. As a result, the suits and sets were reused extensively on Star Trek: Voyager (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112178)
Although his name is never given in this film, according to "Star Trek" canon, the Vulcan who salutes Zefram Cochrane is named Solkar. As mentioned in (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjcse3vsbf5AhXGbMAKHSm9AfIQFnoECB0QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0117731 %2F&usg=AOvVaw00mCPa7iShU96r6kV05EM6)Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088170) (1984), Solkar is the father of Sarek, and subsequently the grandfather of Spock.
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Switch, 1991.... Ellen Barkin stars..
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The Devil (played by Bruce Payne) makes a total of six appearances in this movie. Aside from his two speaking roles (when Steve is sent back to earth, and when he visits Amanda at 3:00 in the morning), he also makes four sneak appearances: Once as a patron at the City Grille's bar when Amanda meets Walter for lunch, once as a piano player at Sheila's party, once as a piano player (in drag) at the lesbian club, and finally as a televangelist on TV when Margo hides the murder weapon in Amanda's couch. In a directors cut, he makes another speaking role in an elevator scene.
Paint Your Wagon, 1969...
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Lee Marvin (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001511) drank real alcohol throughout the production, even though director Joshua Logan (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0517597) fought him about it. In most movies, the actors and actresses drink tea for whiskey and water for vodka. Marvin would only work if he got real liquor. He
was apparently drunk nearly every day of filming.
Switch, 1991.... Ellen Barkin stars..
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The Devil (played by Bruce Payne) makes a total of six appearances in this movie. Aside from his two speaking roles (when Steve is sent back to earth, and when he visits Amanda at 3:00 in the morning), he also makes four sneak appearances: Once as a patron at the City Grille's bar when Amanda meets Walter for lunch, once as a piano player at Sheila's party, once as a piano player (in drag) at the lesbian club, and finally as a televangelist on TV when Margo hides the murder weapon in Amanda's couch. In a directors cut, he makes another speaking role in an elevator scene.
Never heard of it let alone seen it but it looks diabolically bad.
Jimmy Smits made his name on 'L.A Law', he also played Krusty The Clown in the film about Krusty's battle with Percodan addiction.
Never heard of it let alone seen it but it looks diabolically bad.
Jimmy Smits made his name on 'L.A Law', he also played Krusty The Clown in the film about Krusty's battle with Percodan addiction.
its a marmite film... either you connect with it or not i think.. interestingly it has 2 soundtracks. the one in film which is a pop mix or the original mancini one which ended up being dropped. they also dropped a largish lesbian scene as not being appropriate oddly..
i like it. it was an unofficial remake of Vincente Minnelli's Goodbye, Charlie (1964), which starred Tony Curtis and Debbie Reynolds.
Paint Your Wagon, 1969...
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Lee Marvin (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001511) drank real alcohol throughout the production, even though director Joshua Logan (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0517597) fought him about it. In most movies, the actors and actresses drink tea for whiskey and water for vodka. Marvin would only work if he got real liquor. He
was apparently drunk nearly every day of filming.
this is another marmite film.. i think you need to be of a certain age tho to be prepared to watch it. lol... imo its a superb comedy.
quotes..
Horton (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0510069/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Well, since this afternoon. I know you don't approve, Pop, but believe me, until you've had a good cigar and a shot of whiskey, you're missing the second and third best things in life.
Mrs. Fenty (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0874119/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): You should read the Bible, Mr. Rumson.
Ben Rumson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001511/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): I have read the Bible, Mrs. Fenty.
Mrs. Fenty (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0874119/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Didn't that discourage you about drinking?
Ben Rumson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001511/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): No, but it sure killed my appetite for readin'!
Raging Bull, 1980... With this stunningly visceral portrait of self-destructive machismo, Martin Scorsese created one of the truly great and visionary works of modern cinema. Robert De Niro pours his blood, sweat, and brute physicality into the Oscar-winning role of Jake La Motta. Criterion 4k and bluray on reg a discs.. this is the bluray as i cant access the 4k player currently.
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When the real Jake LaMotta (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0483766) saw the movie, he said it made him realize for the first time what a terrible person he had been. He asked the real Vicki LaMotta (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1241649) "Was I really like that?". Vicki replied "You were worse."
In 1978, Martin Scorsese (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000217) was at an all-time low after his last movie New York, New York (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076451) (1977) had bombed at the box office, followed by a near-overdose resulting from an addiction to cocaine. Robert De Niro (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000134) visited him at the hospital, and told him that he had to clean himself up and make this movie about a boxer. De Niro had asked Scorsese many times before, but he had always refused (he didn't like sports movies anyway), but due to De Niro's persistence, he eventually gave in. Scorsese believed that his American career was over anyway, so he wanted to do one final film there, and then move to Europe to make smaller movies. Many (including Scorsese) claim that De Niro saved Scorsese's life by getting him back into work, and that this movie cemented Scorsese's reputation as one of the most important American filmmakers.
In preparation for his role, Robert De Niro (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000134) went through extensive physical training, then entered in three genuine Brooklyn boxing matches and won two of them.
The Sign of Four, 1987. (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjuwqH1yrz5AhVTSkEAHS83A6sQFnoECAkQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0685628 %2F&usg=AOvVaw2xXqCEDVO3CBOHRr6TaEQ4)
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Breakdown (1997)
Kurt Russell drives from Boston to San Diego along with his wife, hoping to make a fresh start on the West Coast. When he nearly crashed into a hillbilly truck things start to go wrong.
The 90s was the decade of the throwaway thriller and this is an above-average example. Good pacing and you don't know what direction it's going to go in.
Not a classic, but well worth a watch.
Binge watching this whilst recovering from a quite uncomfortable hospital procedure yesterday, got to the middle of season 2 and it’s still holding my attention.
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