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My Fair Lady, 1964... 8 Oscar wins for this musical classic..
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When (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwibydafw9b8AhUXaMAKHbPwCyEQFnoECB8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0058385 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1OjCxe9_6Mx5ceSTKbJ-Cv)Audrey Hepburn (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000030) (Eliza Dolittle.) was first informed that her voice wasn't strong enough and that she would have to be dubbed, she walked out. She returned the next day and, in a typically graceful Hepburn gesture, apologized to everybody for her "wicked behavior." She later admitted she would never have accepted the role of Eliza Dolittle if she had known that producer Jack L. Warner (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0912491) intended to have nearly all of her singing dubbed. After making this movie, Hepburn resolved not to appear in another movie musical unless she could do the singing on her own. Most of (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwibydafw9b8AhUXaMAKHbPwCyEQFnoECB8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0058385 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1OjCxe9_6Mx5ceSTKbJ-Cv)Audrey Hepburn (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000030)'s singing was dubbed by Marni Nixon (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0633262), despite Hepburn's lengthy vocal preparation for the role. A dubber was required because Eliza Doolittle's songs were not transposed down to accommodate Hepburn's "low-mezzo voice" (as Nixon referred to it), the way Guenevere's songs were transposed down to accommodate Vanessa Redgrave (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000603)'s limited vocal range in Camelot (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061439) (1967). Hepburn sang most of "Just You Wait," as well as the reprise to the song, showcasing her ability to sing perfectly at ease when the songs were set in a reasonable tessitura. Hepburn also sang one or two lines, elsewhere in the score, such as 'Sleep, sleep, I couldn't sleep tonight!' in "I Could Have Danced All Night." Thus, the claim that Nixon dubbed all of Hepburn's singing (as asserted by such people as syndicated columnist Hedda Hopper (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0394407)) is false.
When (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwibydafw9b8AhUXaMAKHbPwCyEQFnoECB8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0058385 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1OjCxe9_6Mx5ceSTKbJ-Cv)Audrey Hepburn (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000030) entered the set for the first time in Eliza's gown for the ball, she was so beautiful the crew and the rest of the cast stood silently gaping at her, then broke out with applause and cheers.
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a marvellous film with great performances all round. Stanley Holloway at over 70 was amazing...great voice and still able to dance a bit.
an easy saturday matinee now with .. Here Comes Mr. Jordan, 1941..
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'The Many Faces Of Christopher Lee' (date unknown)
Seen this before but it saw was on 'Talking Pictures' so watched it again.
Just Mr L sat in his office talking about his life and career. Compared to him pretty much everyone else on the planet has wasted their lives. I mean, this is the man who was the inspiration for James Bond for Christ's sake.
Very funny, very interesting, the only criticism I can make is that it isn't anything like long enough.
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'The Many Faces Of Christopher Lee' (date unknown)
Seen this before but it saw was on 'Talking Pictures' so watched it again.
Just Mr L sat in his office talking about his life and career. Compared to him pretty much everyone else on the planet has wasted their lives. I mean, this is the man who was the inspiration for James Bond for Christ's sake.
Very funny, very interesting, the only criticism I can make is that it isn't anything like long enough.
1996 mate.. quite rare too
The Eagle Has Landed, 1976... bluray..
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Benedetta, 2021.. 4k bluray..
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(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi6ouDc6dj8AhWHi1wKHY4-DxAQFnoECA0QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt6823148 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1mKG5tjRSAFhHmNtnsip8Y)
a good film that was... take a risk and you often get rewarded...
now... Little Big Man, 1970...bluray.. Legendary make-up artist Dick Smith (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004615) devised a latex face for old Crabb that allowed for the eyes to blink alongside Dustin Hoffman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000163)'s own blinking, something revolutionary in the make-up field at the time. Smith was dismayed when he saw the film for the first time to see that none of the close-up cuts of Hoffman's face showed off this feature.
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walpurgis
21-01-2023, 20:23
Tonight on Talking Pictures TV at 9.30, 'The Chase' 1965. With Marlon Brando, Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Robert Duvall, Angie Dickinson, James Fox, Richard Bradford, and Martha Hyer. An impressive but not well known thriller with a superb cast!
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Benedetta, 2021.. 4k bluray..
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What's it about Grant? I'm always doubtful when it comes to films by Paul Verhovhen, even if it does star Charlotte Rampling. :hmm:
Great Expectations, 1946...bluray.
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Charles Dickens (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002042) wrote a much harsher ending to the novel for its original publication in which Pip and Estella remain apart. He was forced to substitute the more famous ending when it later was published as a book, because the first one upset his readers. This appears to be the only time he ever changed the ending to one of his novels.
What's it about Grant? I'm always doubtful wihen it comes to films by Paul Verhovhen, even if it does star Charlotte Rampling. :hmm:
The film is loosely based on the 1986 non-fiction book Immodest Acts:
Based on a true story, a 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.
The English, 2022... bluray..
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The English, 2022... bluray..
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A remarkable film, which was a revelation to me in the depiction of the 'wild' west, and of the ruthless greed, and cruelty displayed by some of the settlers. I don't think I could watch it again - it's too revealing.
Tonight on Talking Pictures TV at 9.30, 'The Chase' 1965. With Marlon Brando, Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Robert Duvall, Angie Dickinson, James Fox, Richard Bradford, and Martha Hyer. An impressive but not well known thriller with a superb cast!
https://i.ibb.co/gr3wsHX/Screen-Shot-01-21-23-at-08-20-PM.png (https://ibb.co/XWbpmNd)
New to me, so I did watch it on Talking Pictures TV. Thanks for the 'heads up' Geoff.
Think the film might have been given a bit of spit 'n' polish, as it was pin sharp and the colours looked refreshed.
As a 'commentary' on '60s Texas USA, it didn't pull it punches, and was at times a difficult watch. But I'm glad I did.
Unfortunately I found the ending a bit of a cop out. Apparently the director Athur Penn virually disowned the film after it was re-edited: maybe it was through re-editing that the ending suffered.
Anyway, it was interesting to see how some of the actors looked back in 1966.
New to me, so I did watch it on Talking Pictures TV. Thanks for the 'heads up' Geoff.
Think the film might have been given a bit of spit 'n' polish, as it was pin sharp and the colours looked refreshed.
As a 'commentary' on '60s Texas USA, it didn't pull it punches, and was at times a difficult watch. But I'm glad I did.
Unfortunately I found the ending a bit of a cop out. Apparently the director Athur Penn virually disowned the film after it was re-edited: maybe it was through re-editing that the ending suffered.
Anyway, it was interesting to see how some of the actors looked back in 1966.
ive got that on bluray. it was redone for the release and is an excellent film.
Picked up in a charity shop for 50p:
'My Summer of Love'
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https://www.alternateending.com/2020/04/my-summer-of-love-2004.html
https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/film/forgotten-favourite-my-summer-of-love-emily-blunt-a4465856.html
Saw this at my film club on it's release, and since it includes Emily Blunt's (:drool:) debut appearence, is a film I've always wanted to get a copy of.
have a break from the bleak 'the english' and some comedy with...
The Man Who Knew Too Little, 1997.. bluray reg a..
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The Lemon Drop Kid, 1951..
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Road to Perdition, 2002...
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A disappointing film, that one. Mind you I am not much for Cohen brothers, except for Fargo and Lebowski.
A disappointing film, that one. Mind you I am not much for Cohen brothers, except for Fargo and Lebowski.
i like it... its detatched we are detatched a bit like the boy, looking through doors, shadows etc.. cinematography is excellent as is acting. the snivelling evil coward son of Newman is brilliantly exposed as opposed to the stark bravery and do what has to be done by Hanks character; Newman was also spot on as the man with a blood son and a non blood son, and alas they are wrong way round.
i like it... its detatched we are detatched a bit like the boy, looking through doors, shadows etc.. cinematography is excellent as is acting. the snivelling evil coward son of Newman is brilliantly exposed as opposed to the stark bravery and do what has to be done by Hanks character; Newman was also spot on as the man with a blood son and a non blood son, and alas they are wrong way round.
Yes it has a lot going for it but I felt it was utimately a lot less than the sum of its parts. Don't think Hanks or Newman ever gave anything less than a great performance in anything, although Hanks has been in some right rubbish over the years.
Yes it has a lot going for it but I felt it was utimately a lot less than the sum of its parts. Don't think Hanks or Newman ever gave anything less than a great performance in anything, although Hanks has been in some right rubbish over the years.
oh meant to say its not a coen bros film...
..but this one is.... Miller's Crossing, 1990..
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Writers (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjH8ey96d38AhW9QkEAHYe3DnIQFnoECA4QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0100150 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3EN2NZIImXSAjkOtyNXzhn)Joel Coen (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001054) and Ethan Coen (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001053) suffered writer's block while writing Miller's Crossing (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100150) (1990). They took a three week break and wrote Barton Fink (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101410) (1991) a film about a writer with writer's block. The name of Tom Regan's residence is "The Barton Arms". In one of the newspapers an article reads 'Seven Dead in Hotel Fire,' another reference to Barton Fink.
Although he was a native Irishman playing a lieutenant to an Irish mobster, the Coens did not originally want (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjH8ey96d38AhW9QkEAHYe3DnIQFnoECA4QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0100150 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3EN2NZIImXSAjkOtyNXzhn)Gabriel Byrne (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000321) to use his own accent in the film. Byrne argued that his dialogue was structured in such a way that it was a good fit for his accent, and after he tried it, the Coens agreed. Ultimately, both Byrne and Albert Finney (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001215) used Irish accents in the film.
In a 2015 interview (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjH8ey96d38AhW9QkEAHYe3DnIQFnoECA4QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0100150 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3EN2NZIImXSAjkOtyNXzhn)Jon Polito (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0689237) revealed that, during the production, a distressed Marcia Gay Harden (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001315), in her first major role, complained to him that she felt co-star Gabriel Byrne (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000321) was acting cold and distant towards her. Polito believed Byrne was doing this to remain in-character, for the sake of their performances.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjH8ey96d38AhW9QkEAHYe3DnIQFnoECA4QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0100150 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3EN2NZIImXSAjkOtyNXzhn)
This has a lot of great cinematography too, and a good splash of Hammett t'boot. Some very good performances too.
Gabriel Byrne said after working on Defense of the Realm..
Never work with kids, animals or Denholm Elliott, due to being upstaged so well and so often..lol.
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, 1974...
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The reason for the large gap between the subway cars and the platform is that a large portion of the underground scenes was filmed on the unused Court St. stub of the IND subway, which uses wider cars than the IRT cars used in the film.
One of Robert Shaw's favorite pastimes during breaks in filming was playing ping-pong on tables set up on the station's concourse. He reportedly badly beat all challengers.
Since the film's release, no #6 train has ever been scheduled to leave Pelham Bay Park Station at either 13:23 or 01:23 by the New York City Transit Authority. This was the practice for many years until the policy was discontinued. Trains are still not scheduled to leave the Pelham Bay Park Station at either 1.23 am or pm.
The Sweeny - 'Night Out.'
Regan buys an unopened bottle of scotch from behind the bar in a pub. Landlord asks him for three pounds thirty-one.
well, it is 1975. Almost fifty years ago, which is hard to take on board. I remember watching these when they were new.
The Sweeny - 'Night Out.'
Regan buys an unopened bottle of scotch from behind the bar in a pub. Landlord asks him for three pounds thirty-one.
well, it is 1975. Almost fifty years ago, which is hard to take on board. I remember watching these when they were new.
thats about right for a standard whisky then in a shop, and most were standard. in a pub you usually paid a lot more tho... the single malt takeoff hadnt really got into full swing, although there were still some like glenlivet, glenmorangie etc who did sell them to the more well heeled, and did since the 19th c.
great series the sweeney
Absolute Power, 1997...
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(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwia_pacmd78AhXFoFwKHSJTAlAQFnoECBsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FAbsolu te_Power_(film)&usg=AOvVaw3zKSjMLAEwtzpYPsSOC2No)Clint Eastwood (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000142) has said of this movie's development: "I was sent the script by the production team at Castle Rock and I liked it immediately. It was written by William Goldman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001279), who is one of the best screenwriters around. He had nicely tightened up the story from the book to fit into a movie format, while keeping the characters well defined and interesting people."
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........... Mind you I am not much for Cohen brothers, except for Fargo and Lebowski.
I've seen all of the Coen brothers early output (up to 2008), and have to admit I didn't like them all. Of those I really liked are:
Raising Arizona (1987)
Miller's Crossing (1990)
Barton Fink (1991)
Fargo (1996)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Chinatown, 1974..
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At the time of filming, (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi-8P2i_N_8AhWXUsAKHTRqD-cQFnoECA8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0071315 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3ClVQ_7YD3ZNJe0bRs-buL)Jack Nicholson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197) had just embarked on his longstanding relationship with Anjelica Huston (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001378). This made his scenes with her father, John Huston (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001379), rather uncomfortable, especially as the only time Anjelica was on set was the day they were filming the scene where Noah Cross interrogates Nicholson's character with "Mr. Gittes...do you sleep with my daughter?"
After several takes that never looked quite right, (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi-8P2i_N_8AhWXUsAKHTRqD-cQFnoECA8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0071315 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3ClVQ_7YD3ZNJe0bRs-buL)Faye Dunaway (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001159) got annoyed and told Jack Nicholson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197) to actually slap her. He did and felt very guilty for it, despite it being Dunaway's decision. The shot made it into the movie.
Roman Polanski (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000591) said that in staying true to the tradition of Raymond Chandler (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0151452)'s detective stories, he shot the whole movie from the perspective of the main character.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi-8P2i_N_8AhWXUsAKHTRqD-cQFnoECA8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0071315 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3ClVQ_7YD3ZNJe0bRs-buL)
walpurgis
24-01-2023, 10:21
Chinatown is a film everybody should watch.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1948..
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john huston directs this time(acted in last film) He also appears a few times at beginning as does a young Robert Blake as a kid hustling tickets.
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Another good one there Grant. :)
White Heat, 1949...
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If the surprise expressed by (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwij1PXZyuD8AhX3QEEAHfPOCRUQFnoECBkQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0042041 %2F&usg=AOvVaw0vsWGakkOMuAyTzw9Uwugo)James Cagney (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000010)'s fellow inmates during "the telephone game" scene in the prison dining room appears real, it's because it was. Director Raoul Walsh (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0909825) didn't tell the rest of the cast what was about to happen, so Cagney's outburst caught them by surprise. In fact, Walsh himself didn't know what Cagney had planned; the scene as written wasn't working, and Cagney had an idea. He told Walsh to put the two biggest extras playing cons in the mess-hall next to him on the bench (he used their shoulders to boost himself onto the table) and to keep the cameras rolling no matter what happened.
Virginia Mayo (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0562920) revealed in an interview that James Cagney (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000010) was hiding in a different spot than where she had been told he would be during the scene when they are reunited after he's been in prison. He then deliberately missed his cue, causing her shock and fear to be real. She said for a few seconds, she was actually afraid he was going to kill her.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwij1PXZyuD8AhX3QEEAHfPOCRUQFnoECBkQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0042041 %2F&usg=AOvVaw0vsWGakkOMuAyTzw9Uwugo)
Made it, Ma! Top of the world! :guns:
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, 2011...
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1948..
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john huston directs this time(acted in last film) He also appears a few times at beginning as does a young Robert Blake as a kid hustling tickets.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwieoZDsruD8AhUvS0EAHa_LB48QFnoECB8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Tr easure_of_the_Sierra_Madre_(film)&usg=AOvVaw2LzLiKLFreRYeeFpSfMaoB)
Was talking about the film 'Sahara' with a youth at work who is into films, I quickly realised he was talking about the remake with James Belushi, I said to him that the original with Humphrey Bogart was better.
He says 'Who's he?' Has to look him up on the internet. Told him to watch 'The Maltese Falcon.' But he probably won't.
Was talking about the film 'Sahara' with a youth at work who is into films, I quickly realised he was talking about the remake with James Belushi, I said to him that the original with Humphrey Bogart was better.
He says 'Who's he?' Has to look him up on the internet. Told him to watch 'The Maltese Falcon.' But he probably won't.
cant be much of a film buff if he's not heard of one of the greatest stars of the genre EVER! lol
now, Leave Her to Heaven, 1945..
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Leave_Her_to_Heaven_%281945_poster%29.jpg/1200px-Leave_Her_to_Heaven_%281945_poster%29.jpg (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiB67aQ0OL8AhXNh1wKHRE5AhAQFnoECB4QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FLeave_ Her_to_Heaven&usg=AOvVaw1SluwOGLZqJemFxfyKGCZv)
the evil people can do is brought firmly in focus in this film. a very well made film.
now, They Who Dare, 1954...bluray.
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this is another very good film... "undeservedly the least-known of director Lewis Milestone's sound films. Set in the Aegean sea during World War II, the film recounts the exploits of Britain's Special Boat Squadron. ... Robert Westerby is credited with the screenplay of 'They Who Dare', and Lewis Milestone insisted the story was taken verbatim from the reminiscences of the squadron's two survivors."
Russian born director Lewis Milestone was dragged into the McCarthy witch hunts during the early 1950s and fled to England to escape being vilified and questioned in the US. This is one of the films he made in the UK during that period.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjvm5Kb5-L8AhWMFMAKHSkfBaEQFnoECCEQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0046421 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1dTgn_2msyBDu1wh8zoATw)
Dead Reckoning, 1947...
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In the train, after they discover that Drake is to receive the Medal of Honor, Murdock quips that maybe the president will let Drake "sit on top of his piano". This is a reference to a then-scandalous photo of (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjF8YzXguP8AhWMM8AKHVj1A7sQFnoECB0QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FDead_R eckoning_(1947_film)&usg=AOvVaw3MDh1wyzCU8h7Us5K2sw3X)Harry S. Truman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0874288) playing piano with a leggy blonde on top that was taken at the National Press Club in 1945. The blonde was Lauren Bacall (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000002), later the wife of Humphrey Bogart (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000007).
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjF8YzXguP8AhWMM8AKHVj1A7sQFnoECB0QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FDead_R eckoning_(1947_film)&usg=AOvVaw3MDh1wyzCU8h7Us5K2sw3X)
The Maltese Falcon, 1941..
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(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwivw5SHmuP8AhWJSEEAHfbvDTsQFnoECBYQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Ma ltese_Falcon_(1941_film)&usg=AOvVaw3EdjAmcVqC91gYalp8FQco)Humphrey Bogart (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_Bogart) as private investigator Sam Spade (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Spade) and Mary Astor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Astor) as his femme fatale (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femme_fatale) client.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwivw5SHmuP8AhWJSEEAHfbvDTsQFnoECBYQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Ma ltese_Falcon_(1941_film)&usg=AOvVaw3EdjAmcVqC91gYalp8FQco)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, 1966... 4k bluray(2021)..
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51114wV5rnL._AC_.jpg
Long awaited 4k version.. From USA and bluray is locked reg a, but as per usual the 4k is reg free..
The Outlaw Josey Wales, 1976... Eastwood again here...
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Rockets Galore!, 1958..
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Of the original cast of Whisky Galore! (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042040) (1949), only Catherine Lacey, Jean Cadell, Duncan MaCrae and Gordon Jackson reprised their original roles.
During the political discussion towards the end, one participant is Michael Foot who was a Member of Parliament 1945 to 1955 and 1960 to 1992 (so wasn't when the film was made) and who became Leader of the Labour Party. Another was Robert Boothby who had also been an MP and was elevated to the Peerage soon after this film was made.
Vehicles/aircraft include . . . David Brown 50TD (Trackmaster) diesel crawler (bulldozer). Land Rover Series I, original 80-inch wheelbase model. Bristol Sycamore (helicopter). Blackburn Beverley (4-engine heavy transport
aircraft). Bristol Bloodhound (ramjet-powered radar-homing ground-to-air missile).
When the news about the rare pink gull is reported in the press, a newspaper is shown with the headline "Rocket Isle Bird Unique Say Experts". Although the opening paragraph relates to this, the following paragraphs are from a completely different story about the estrangement of actors Deborah Kerr and Anthony Bartley, who divorced the year after.
The Secret of My Success, 1987..
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Mikeandvan
26-01-2023, 22:00
The Maltese Falcon, 1941..
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/The_Maltese_Falcon_%281941_film_poster%29.jpg/330px-The_Maltese_Falcon_%281941_film_poster%29.jpg
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwivw5SHmuP8AhWJSEEAHfbvDTsQFnoECBYQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Ma ltese_Falcon_(1941_film)&usg=AOvVaw3EdjAmcVqC91gYalp8FQco)Humphrey Bogart (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_Bogart) as private investigator Sam Spade (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Spade) and Mary Astor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Astor) as his femme fatale (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femme_fatale) client.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwivw5SHmuP8AhWJSEEAHfbvDTsQFnoECBYQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Ma ltese_Falcon_(1941_film)&usg=AOvVaw3EdjAmcVqC91gYalp8FQco)
One of my fave films, it has some great character actors, that Wilmer guy! And of course Lorre and whoever that fat man was! Bogart's best film next to The Big sleep.
Mikeandvan
26-01-2023, 22:02
Just watched Apocalypse now, don't know why I put off watching this again for so long, its a cracking film. I am amazed by the soundtrack though, it's fucking blindin', not the pop songs, the rest of it. Need to get this on CD.
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, 2003..
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRKTcTqELNNPpy-c6orc876-Yxo-_QKENBdIufLEZNlSjHQBj_i (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean:_The_Curse_of_the_Black_P earl)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, 2006..
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTKp5KKVpoYkHVFoFCD0xC-FWBN1ZA2TTe20MNswXlzJ8I06QCM (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjl7IXF3Of8AhXTTsAKHdDIAVEQFnoECCEQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPirate s_of_the_Caribbean%3A_Dead_Man%2527s_Chest&usg=AOvVaw38hfKY-ZdWTSUgGwIIxoSA)
Son of Paleface, 1952... mad Hope slapstick..
https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSy6zc7Vh1vub9doXBItljPx98eRxEIT qT6AQHKd6A0RkjJkYtf (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiDzKfb_Of8AhXJEsAKHW0KDNQQFnoECBsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSon_of _Paleface&usg=AOvVaw0tv4_DVqMx3UHL82Wk5ovZ)
Appointment in London, 1953... bluray... aka 'raiders in the sky' in America...
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This movie was filmed at R.A.F. Upwood. The Lancasters used were NX673, NX679, and NX782. These aircraft also took part in the filming of (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjn0I2bkuj8AhUKXcAKHdREAY8QFnoECB8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FAppoin tment_in_London&usg=AOvVaw2C9hvLJz25gCoAssjEI9gq)The Dam Busters (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046889) (1955).
Co-writer John Wooldridge - who also wrote the score - was formerly an RAF pilot who who flew 108 missions, reduced to 90 in the film to make it seem more credible; he later wrote in his diary that Dirk Bogarde said to him that it was "the best script he had ever read".
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjn0I2bkuj8AhUKXcAKHdREAY8QFnoECB8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FAppoin tment_in_London&usg=AOvVaw2C9hvLJz25gCoAssjEI9gq)
The Two Jakes, 1990...
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At a movie theatre in Florida a patron left his seat to tell the theater manager that the reels of the movie were running out of sequence. The manager went to check and confirmed this, but then told the moviegoer "this movie's been playing here for three weeks and you're the first person who noticed that something was wrong."
A key prop in the film is a wire recorder--a machine that uses a magnet to record vibrations into a stainless steel wire as it passes through the machine. The quality of recording was actually quite good for the time, with the sound of the playback resembling that of a slightly tinny telephone connection. While magnetic tape recorders had been produced since 1930, they were extremely expensive and not easy to find. It was not until the late 1940s that the British firm AMPEX began to develop the medium that they began to gain popularity. A big influence in the development of audio tape, and whose efforts resulted in the development of consumer reel-to-reel machines (and later audio cassettes), was Bing Crosby (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001078)--the world's most popular singer at the time.
The wire recorder in the film is a Webster-Chicago Model 80, which was manufactured between 1948 and 1950. Functioning specimens and videos of the machines in action are available from various online sources.
Pirates Of The Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge, 2017...
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRXhEeDOpouHNg3A75Ngkgl-pQdWrr8ErxSuYCbb8-Tn7KcuD79 (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjXjuCmqur8AhWXbcAKHYaCCFUQFnoECHIQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FPirates-Caribbean-Salazars-Revenge-DVD%2Fdp%2FB077VC9XPT&usg=AOvVaw3zd6gDbK07jy1o-ax_KiQr)
walpurgis
28-01-2023, 13:10
The Two Jakes, 1990....
How did you get on with this Grant? I haven't watched it for ages and can't remember much about it.
How did you get on with this Grant? I haven't watched it for ages and can't remember much about it.
thought it was quite good, although a little fragmented at times.. better than i thought tho
Back to the Future Part II, 1989..
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Sunday matinee... Blue Murder at St Trinian's, 1957..
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impeccable cast here...
How did you get on with this Grant? I haven't watched it for ages and can't remember much about it.
lol - I watched 'The Two Jakes' again not so long ago, because all I can recall from seeing it when it first came out is that it was disappointing.
All I can recall from the second watch is that it's disappointing, but not as disappointing as I remembered.
'Chinatown' is one of my top ten though.
The Mouse on the Moon, 1963.. more old and light for Sunday... has to be a comedy if bernard is the male love interest.. lol
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lol - I watched 'The Two Jakes' again not so long ago, because all I can recall from seeing it when it first came out is that it was disappointing.
All I can recall from the second watch is that it's disappointing, but not as disappointing as I remembered.
'Chinatown' is one of my top ten though.
mostly as i found. better than i originally thought and as a individual film quite decent, but off back of chinatown it failed somewhat
Murder at the Gallop, 1963....
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cc/Murder_at_the_Gallop_FilmPoster.jpeg
Today in the 'Movie For A Dreary Afternoon' slot:
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'Union Pacific' (1939)
Today in the 'Movie For A Dreary Afternoon' slot:
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'Union Pacific' (1939)
actually this is prety decent film... it won an oscar for special effects ..
A Christmas Carol, 1984...
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The Bishop's Wife, 1947...
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poor old bishop,(david niven) has the task of fending off the attentions of an angel,(cary grant) to his wife,(loretta young) and vis a vis, and wishing he hadn't prayed for help...Market research showed that moviegoers avoided the film because they thought it was religious. So, Samuel Goldwyn (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0326418) decided to re-title it Cary and the Bishop's Wife for some US markets, while adding a black text box with the question "Have you heard about CARY AND THE BISHOP'S WIFE?" on posters in markets where the film kept the original title. By adding Cary Grant (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000026)'s first name to the title the film's business increased by as much as 25 per cent.
actually this is prety decent film... it won an oscar for special effects ..
it was pretty good, it was the first ever winner of the Cannes Palm D'Or although it wasn't actually awarded until 2000.
One thing I notice about these old films is that fist fights are often far more realistic than they are in modern films, but gunfights not so much (bloke gets shot, looks surprised, then drops slowly to the ground, no sign of a wound or even any blood).
it was pretty good, it was the first ever winner of the Cannes Palm D'Or although it wasn't actually awarded until 2000.
One thing I notice about these old films is that fist fights are often far more realistic than they are in modern films, but gunfights not so much (bloke gets shot, looks surprised, then drops slowly to the ground, no sign of a wound or even any blood).
That would be the Hays code...
What did Hays Code prohibit?
“The Hays Code was this self-imposed industry set of guidelines for all the motion pictures that were released between 1934 and 1968,” says O'Brien. “The code prohibited profanity, suggestive nudity, graphic or realistic violence, sexual persuasions and rape
Quick Change, 1990...
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(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi29qSwh-_8AhWEQcAKHZ3qDLgQFnoECBEQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FQuick_ Change&usg=AOvVaw15kJEhpCMvbG5mZTqbS2hD)Bill Murray (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000195) once said of this movie in an interview: "Everyone will enjoy this movie. But New Yorkers will enjoy it especially because they know how bad their city really is." In another later August 2010 interview with Dan Fierman of GQ Magazine, Murray said: "It's great. It's a great piece of writing. And how about the cast? You couldn't get that cast together for all the tea in China right now. I mean, Stanley Tucci (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001804), Tony Shalhoub (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001724)..."
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi29qSwh-_8AhWEQcAKHZ3qDLgQFnoECBEQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FQuick_ Change&usg=AOvVaw15kJEhpCMvbG5mZTqbS2hD)
That would be the Hays code...
What did Hays Code prohibit?
“The Hays Code was this self-imposed industry set of guidelines for all the motion pictures that were released between 1934 and 1968,” says O'Brien. “The code prohibited profanity, suggestive nudity, graphic or realistic violence, sexual persuasions and rape
Yes the Hays Code will be the reason for the bloodless gunfights, but doesn't explain the fistfights.
Like for example the scene in 'Treasure Of The Sierra Madre' where Bogart and the other bloke fight the gang master to get their wages. It looks like they are fighting for real.
I suspect it is because the actors, director and the stuntmen and stunt arrangers all knew what a real fight looked like as they were from an age where settling disputes with violence was common. But it's just my theory.
Mikeandvan
30-01-2023, 11:11
Watched the Maltese Falcon again, I never before quite got how much of a bastard Sam Spade was, so used to childishly thinking the main character is always a ncie guy.
Groundhog Day, 1993....
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(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj12OyOnO_8AhUEYcAKHSXWDDAQFnoECAwQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0107048 %2F&usg=AOvVaw0NUTJG7Ze1GR49rBTRWd9N)Bill Murray (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000195) was bitten by the groundhog twice during shooting. Murray had to have anti rabies injections, because the bites were so severe.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj12OyOnO_8AhUEYcAKHSXWDDAQFnoECAwQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0107048 %2F&usg=AOvVaw0NUTJG7Ze1GR49rBTRWd9N)
Man of a Thousand Faces, 1957.. James Cagney plays Lon Chaney in his biopic..bluray..
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When asked by David Letterman what was his motivation for what he is doing, Tom Savini, the famous special effects artist and actor, told he saw this movie when he was 12 and that was his motivation and he named his son 'Lon' after Lon Chaney.
The film opens at a memorial for Chaney at the Lon Chaney sound stage. The camera pulls in to a closeup of the plaque that designates the building. The face on the plaque is that of (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwit5vCVue_8AhXDSUEAHfVgDU0QFnoECBMQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMan_of _a_Thousand_Faces_(film)&usg=AOvVaw0oTXXB4JJ7NsFaLC1b-Ac_)James Cagney (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000010) not Lon Chaney (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0151606). This was done because Cagney and Chaney looked nothing alike.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwit5vCVue_8AhXDSUEAHfVgDU0QFnoECBMQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMan_of _a_Thousand_Faces_(film)&usg=AOvVaw0oTXXB4JJ7NsFaLC1b-Ac_)
The Ballad of Cable Hogue, 1970..
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A New Leaf, 1971... great little film this...
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(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiUwZva0vH8AhVIOMAKHYuCAKIQFnoECB8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FA_New_ Leaf_(film)&usg=AOvVaw10S9O9V3EF4cyYlL41E5Bl)
Charley Varrick, 1973... matthau again...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a3/Charley_Varrick.jpg
Sullivan's Travels, 1941...
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Up Pompeii, 1971...film of series..
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The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery, 1966.. Frankie Howerd again in this 'not as great as usual'. st t's comedy.
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Planet of the Apes, 1968..
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ad for the film?? lol
https://youtu.be/qe8CttkfLj0
Papillon, 1973...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/23/Papillon_ver1.jpg (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjmx4G_nvT8AhWMI8AKHQhmAhgQFnoECAsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0070511 %2F&usg=AOvVaw0Bazn-6eyDYyt1xhXw6905)
The African Queen, 1951... Directed by John Huston and Cinematography by the great Jack Cardiff.
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"The African Queen" sank and had to be raised twice during filming of the movie. (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiYnsi7wvT8AhW5QEEAHUwIBFkQFnoECB8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Af rican_Queen_(film)&usg=AOvVaw0xUUDhiJ_3cCAyUrppz_NH)Lauren Bacall (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000002) is quoted as saying, "The natives had been told to watch it and they did. They watched it sink."
According to (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiYnsi7wvT8AhW5QEEAHUwIBFkQFnoECB8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Af rican_Queen_(film)&usg=AOvVaw0xUUDhiJ_3cCAyUrppz_NH)Katharine Hepburn (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000031)'s autobiography, John Huston (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001379) initially found her performance too rigid. One day, he visited her hut and suggested that she model her performance on Eleanor Roosevelt (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0740482), saying that Mrs. Roosevelt was not a comely woman by any means but whenever she was in public she carried herself well and had a beaming smile. She made do extremely well with what she had. After Huston left, Hepburn sat for a moment before deciding, "That is the best piece of direction I have ever heard."
In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked this as the #65 Greatest Movie of All Time.
Was Oscar-nominated for Best Actor ( (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiYnsi7wvT8AhW5QEEAHUwIBFkQFnoECB8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Af rican_Queen_(film)&usg=AOvVaw0xUUDhiJ_3cCAyUrppz_NH)Humphrey Bogart (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000007) - who won), Best Actress (Katharine Hepburn (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000031)), Best Director (John Huston (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001379)) and Best Screenplay, but oddly not Best Picture.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiYnsi7wvT8AhW5QEEAHUwIBFkQFnoECB8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Af rican_Queen_(film)&usg=AOvVaw0xUUDhiJ_3cCAyUrppz_NH)
Papillon, 1973...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/23/Papillon_ver1.jpg (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjmx4G_nvT8AhWMI8AKHQhmAhgQFnoECAsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0070511 %2F&usg=AOvVaw0Bazn-6eyDYyt1xhXw6905)
One of my favourite films. :)
One of my favourite films. :)
yes a very good film...
Shout at the Devil, 1976...
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The book(Wilbur Smith) on which the film is based is vaguely based on real events, but takes significant artistic licence with historical facts. The main story is loosely based on events concerning the light cruiser SMS Königsberg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_K%C3%B6nigsberg_(1905)), which was sunk after taking refuge in Rufiji Delta (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Rufiji_Delta) in 1915.[3] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shout_at_the_Devil_(film)#cite_note-SmithW-forward-3) Ivory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivory) hunter P J Pretorius had gone aboard Königsberg disguised as a native to pace out the ranges for the Royal Navy's guns.[2] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shout_at_the_Devil_(film)#cite_note-klinger-2)[7] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shout_at_the_Devil_(film)#cite_note-West2013-7)
In the film the German ship is named Blücher; there was a vessel of this name (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Bl%C3%BCcher), but it did not serve in Africa. The actual SMS Blücher was an armoured cruiser which sank during the Battle of Dogger Bank (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dogger_Bank_(1915)). The film implies that Portugal became a co-belligerent with Britain against Germany when the First World War erupted in August 1914, as the Portuguese supply O'Flynn and Oldsmith with a marked Portuguese plane and a Portuguese pilot to conduct surveillance in German territory. In reality, the Portuguese would not have permitted this, as they remained neutral until 1916.
Although the motives for killing Fleischer are personal, Sebastian Oldsmith is, in fact, the only major character who is a citizen of a nation actually at war with Germany.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 1975...
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Funds earned by Pink Floyd (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0969139)'s album "The Dark Side of the Moon" went towards funding this movie. The band were such fans of the show, they would halt recording sessions just to watch Monty Python's Flying Circus (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063929) (1969).
The famous depiction of galloping horses by using coconut shells (a traditional radio-show sound effect) came about from the purely practical reason that the production simply could not afford real horses.
A Letter to Three Wives, 1949...
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The film won the Academy Award (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award) for Best Director (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Director) and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Adapted_Screenplay) and was nominated for Best Picture (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture).
The Battle of the River Plate, 1956..
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EARLIER...
In Which We Serve, 1942...
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light comedy now with the mad... Nuns on the Run, 1990..
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We're No Angels, 1955...
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The Day Will Dawn, 1942..
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Extras for the assault scenes on the Norwegian coast included both actual Norwegians who had only recently escaped to England, many wearing their actual kit, and British "Tommies," some of whom had made the same assault landings being recreated in this film.
The Simpsons Movie, 2007...The Simpsons Movie is the only PG-13 rated animated film to be nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature. It is also the only film based on a television show to do so.
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Pigmy Pony
04-02-2023, 13:27
Just finished watching this ten-part series last night, and it is EASILY the best thing I've seen on TV in a long time.
https://tvseriesfinale.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/188312-590x393.jpg
Tim, Sam, and Billy Bob
It's called "1883", and tells the story of veterans of the Civil War/gunfighters leading some European immigrants on the Oregon trail, and dealing with every kind of shit imaginable on the way. I've never seen anything on TV coming so close when it comes to "authenticity" (though I only have their word for it). The actors, their performances, the sets, the costumes, the scenery... just incredible.
Star of the show has to be Sam Elliot, who was born to play this part. Also starring Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, with appearances from Tom Hanks and Billy Bob Thornton. As cinematic as TV gets, a total masterpiece. Showing on Paramount +.
its a prequel to yellowstone i believe.. got good reviews..
https://i.ibb.co/pdT1B2M/escape-from-alcatraz-3.jpg (https://ibb.co/TtGwxc7)
'Escape From Alcatraz' (1979)
Clint Eastwood is put in the titular prison and has to escape, with the help of some pals including the bloke from 'Tremors'. Patrick McGoohan does a quality turn as the twitchy warden.
The similarities of this film with the much later 'The Shawshank Redemption' are quite striking. Sent to escape-proof prison, harassed by a rapist, goes to work in the library, meets an old boy who is losing his marbles, and another who can help him with the escape.
The escape plan is the same (tunnel out the cell), the warden is twitchy and cruel, and the guards are sadists - (note: in a prison film either only one guard is a sadist or they all are. There's no in-between).
Anyway a good film, it was the last time Eastwood and Siegal worked together.
The Seven Little Foys, 1955....Hope was in his 50's and really a bit old to portray Eddie Foy at that time, but he had a youngish face still..
Jimmy Cagney pops in as George M cohan and there is a memorable Tabletop dance off between the 2.
https://youtu.be/ZP0KD82t8WA
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Pigmy Pony
04-02-2023, 13:47
It is Grant. I can't recommend it highly enough, if there's any way you can see it I know you'll be bowled over too. Absolutely every detail has been thoroughly researched and carefully recreated. There is another series following this, called "1923", starring Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren. I have high hopes for this too, and will start watching it tonight.
It is Grant. I can't recommend it highly enough, if there's any way you can see it I know you'll be bowled over too. Absolutely every detail has been thoroughly researched and carefully recreated. There is another series following this, called "1923", starring Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren. I have high hopes for this too, and will start watching it tonight.
keep an eye out for them...
now the main feature... The Rock, 1996...
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Just finished watching this ten-part series last night, and it is EASILY the best thing I've seen on TV in a long time.
https://tvseriesfinale.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/188312-590x393.jpg
Tim, Sam, and Billy Bob
It's called "1883", and tells the story of veterans of the Civil War/gunfighters leading some European immigrants on the Oregon trail, and dealing with every kind of shit imaginable on the way. I've never seen anything on TV coming so close when it comes to "authenticity" (though I only have their word for it). The actors, their performances, the sets, the costumes, the scenery... just incredible.
Star of the show has to be Sam Elliot, who was born to play this part. Also starring Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, with appearances from Tom Hanks and Billy Bob Thornton. As cinematic as TV gets, a total masterpiece. Showing on Paramount +.
I haven't seen the film, but when it comes to authenticity of 'the wild west' the BBC series 'The English' was a real eye opener, and it has to be said, at times an uncomfortable watch.
Pigmy Pony
05-02-2023, 00:13
I haven't seen the film, but when it comes to authenticity of 'the wild west' the BBC series 'The English' was a real eye opener, and it has to be said, at times an uncomfortable watch.
I've not heard of that, but I will check it out. Probably get it on BBC iPlayer.
I haven't seen the film, but when it comes to authenticity of 'the wild west' the BBC series 'The English' was a real eye opener, and it has to be said, at times an uncomfortable watch.
ive got the english on bluray. its a 2 disc 6 episode thing. first 3 were good, although deffo gritty
Enemy of the State, 1998...bluray..
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bluray is certainly sharper than the hd stream i have.. excellent film.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjPyYbF5P78AhUGQ8AKHeVgB34QFnoECAsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0120660 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3TWIVpOwTHuNWQ7dP6LpFn)
Just finished watching this ten-part series last night, and it is EASILY the best thing I've seen on TV in a long time.
https://tvseriesfinale.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/188312-590x393.jpg
Tim, Sam, and Billy Bob
It's called "1883", and tells the story of veterans of the Civil War/gunfighters leading some European immigrants on the Oregon trail, and dealing with every kind of shit imaginable on the way. I've never seen anything on TV coming so close when it comes to "authenticity" (though I only have their word for it). The actors, their performances, the sets, the costumes, the scenery... just incredible.
Try watching the BBC series 'The English' (starring Emily Blunt), for authentic depiction of the 'wild west'. Some of the scenes are eye-opening, and uncomfortable to watch.
Enemy of the State, 1998...bluray..
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bluray is certainly sharper than the hd stream i have.. excellent film.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjPyYbF5P78AhUGQ8AKHeVgB34QFnoECAsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0120660 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3TWIVpOwTHuNWQ7dP6LpFn)
Not a bad film, but nowhere near as good as 'The Conversation', where Gene Hackman also plays an electronic evesdropper.
Not a bad film, but nowhere near as good as 'The Conversation', where Gene Hackman also plays an electronic evesdropper.
yes ive got that on bluray too. i like hackman in general..
now, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, 2003...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f9/The_Curse_of_the_Black_Pearl_Soundtrack.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean:_The_Curse_of_the_Black_P earl)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, 2006..
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2d/Pirates_of_the_caribbean_2_poster_b.jpg (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj9suiky4H9AhWNd8AKHXCMAMcQFnoECB8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPirate s_of_the_Caribbean%3A_Dead_Man%2527s_Chest&usg=AOvVaw38hfKY-ZdWTSUgGwIIxoSA)
Pigmy Pony
07-02-2023, 10:18
Try watching the BBC series 'The English' (starring Emily Blunt), for authentic depiction of the 'wild west'. Some of the scenes are eye-opening, and uncomfortable to watch.
I like that you re-posted this, adding (starring Emily Blunt) :) Now I have to watch it.
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, 2007..
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5a/Pirates_AWE_Poster.jpg (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjp2-f9nIP9AhUEYcAKHXaKCnYQFnoECAwQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPirate s_of_the_Caribbean%3A_At_World%2527s_End&usg=AOvVaw3PWANorDk6f5j8I6tWvd9k)
Heaven Can Wait, 1978..
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Here Comes Mr. Jordan, 1941. criterion bluray.
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Pretty much same story, except he is a boxer this time..
The working titles of this film were "Heaven Can Wait" and "Mr. Jordan Comes to Town".
James Gleason was brought on board mainly to polish the dialogue. Gleason had a knack for authentic sounding vernacular language and also happened to be a great actor. (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjym_y32IP9AhWaaMAKHXcNAO4QFnoECBoQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FHere_C omes_Mr._Jordan&usg=AOvVaw1BOIl7zf8K4X7Ee0-gpr1r)
Cold Mountain, 2003..
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Brendan Gleeson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0322407) is an accomplished violin player and did all of his own playing, and Nicole Kidman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000173) did all of her own piano playing in this movie.
As of 2003, this was the most expensive movie Miramax Films financed on its own, with a budget of about $79 million. This movie has a shooting ratio of 60:1, which means that for every one minute that appears on-screen, there were sixty minutes of footage.
Jack the Ripper, 1959.. bluray, british cut.
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71LiJPbTOrL._AC_SL1500_.jpg
bluray has both the uk and usa versions...only 3 minutes of footage difference.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj26NaKh4b9AhXqQUEAHfN2AZ0QFnoECA8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FJack_t he_Ripper_(1959_film)&usg=AOvVaw2H1NoPxek9N3t4mLFXVpx-)Joseph E. Levine (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0505854) tried to duplicate the success he had with Hercules (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050381) (1958) (U.S. title: "Hercules") in the U.S. by using the same techniques. He spent $1 million (an extraordinary sum in 1959) on the promotional campaign that included extensive use of TV spots. This was backed up with the saturation booking of 643 prints. This film was well remembered by horror and thriller fans from this period. The massive advertising campaign generated huge ticket sales and a high number of holdover dates. But, according to (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj26NaKh4b9AhXqQUEAHfN2AZ0QFnoECA8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FJack_t he_Ripper_(1959_film)&usg=AOvVaw2H1NoPxek9N3t4mLFXVpx-)Joseph E. Levine (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0505854), the film was a failure in the U.S. He claimed, "We dropped dead in every one! You'd think somewhere, a small town maybe, someplace, it would have done business. But no. That's a record they'll never come close to."
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj26NaKh4b9AhXqQUEAHfN2AZ0QFnoECA8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FJack_t he_Ripper_(1959_film)&usg=AOvVaw2H1NoPxek9N3t4mLFXVpx-)
Blow Out, 1981.. criterion bluray...
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/819VSSQS2jL._AC_SL1500_.jpg
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiym5nCmYb9AhUBTMAKHT42B5gQFnoECA0QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0082085 %2F&usg=AOvVaw2qvUWJuDPxX4QJwIrSFJFY)Quentin Tarantino (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000233) stated in an interview that this film is his favorite Brian De Palma (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000361) movie. In fact, Tarantino cast John Travolta (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000237) in Pulp Fiction (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912) (1994) because he liked his performance in this movie so much.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiym5nCmYb9AhUBTMAKHT42B5gQFnoECA0QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0082085 %2F&usg=AOvVaw2qvUWJuDPxX4QJwIrSFJFY)
i need some fun...... The Belles of St. Trinian's, 1954...
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Blithe Spirit, 1945.. Charles' first car is a 1938 Triumph Dolomite roadster coupe. His second, replacement car after the first one was wrecked is a 1935 (Hudson) Terraplane DeLuxe convertible coupe.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/ba/Blithe_Spirit_-_UK_film_poster.jpg (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiXw46x1Ib9AhXQEsAKHST_CIIQFnoECAIQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt1033414 8%2F&usg=AOvVaw1GH73aWvIBzwPK11_9Ks_K)
Blow Out, 1981.. criterion bluray...
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/819VSSQS2jL._AC_SL1500_.jpg
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiym5nCmYb9AhUBTMAKHT42B5gQFnoECA0QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0082085 %2F&usg=AOvVaw2qvUWJuDPxX4QJwIrSFJFY)Quentin Tarantino (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000233) stated in an interview that this film is his favorite Brian De Palma (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000361) movie. In fact, Tarantino cast John Travolta (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000237) in Pulp Fiction (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912) (1994) because he liked his performance in this movie so much.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiym5nCmYb9AhUBTMAKHT42B5gQFnoECA0QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0082085 %2F&usg=AOvVaw2qvUWJuDPxX4QJwIrSFJFY)
Not the biggest fan of de Palma, but quite enjoyed 'Blow Out' and 'Carrie'.
Certainly a good film to play 'name that piece of equipment Travolta is using'. :D
Ice Cold in Alex, 1958..
https://cdn.hmv.com/r/w-640/hmv/files/fb/fb074f1a-ee20-4cde-b944-24dac6ec6cc6.jpg
The film was based on the 1957 novel Ice Cold in Alex and its serialisation (as Escape in the Desert) in the magazine Saturday Evening Post. The New York Times described the book as "an excellent escape story played out in the best Hitchcock manner."
The producers had intended to shoot the location work for Ice Cold in Alex in Egypt, but they had to switch to Libya because of the Suez conflict.
Ice Cold in Alex, 1958..
https://cdn.hmv.com/r/w-640/hmv/files/fb/fb074f1a-ee20-4cde-b944-24dac6ec6cc6.jpg
The film was based on the 1957 novel Ice Cold in Alex and its serialisation (as Escape in the Desert) in the magazine Saturday Evening Post. The New York Times described the book as "an excellent escape story played out in the best Hitchcock manner."
The producers had intended to shoot the location work for Ice Cold in Alex in Egypt, but they had to switch to Libya because of the Suez conflict.
One of my favourite films! :)
walpurgis
09-02-2023, 19:40
One of my favourite films! :)
I like it a lot too.
Lawrence001
10-02-2023, 12:51
Me too!
Erik the Viking, 1989..
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/31/Eriktheviking.jpg
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, 2011..
https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSStUs4lUPh-sTr6b324sTTSXt97xy_sSIxa5SRQKSbVOct7c5l
Little Big Man. 1970...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/Little_Big_Man_1970_film_poster.jpg
1883, 2021...
ep 1..
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3c/1883_series_title_card.jpg/375px-1883_series_title_card.jpg
1883, 2021...
ep 1..
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3c/1883_series_title_card.jpg/375px-1883_series_title_card.jpg
decent start.. has posibilities...
now, Some Like It Hot, 1959...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Some_Like_It_Hot_%281959_poster%29.png (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiyoK_FhY79AhVCFcAKHdbABbgQFnoECAwQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSome_L ike_It_Hot&usg=AOvVaw1lVZR6hpZOGrAuEc92_X5P)
water polo isnt that incredibly dangerous??
i'll say, i had 2 ponys drowned under me!!
boom, boom..
walpurgis
12-02-2023, 08:47
Been taking a look at 'Lost Gold of World War II' series on Blaze channel. It's The Curse of Oak Island all over again, a bunch of clueless blokes tramping about in the undergrowth on a Philippines island and drawing wrong conclusions left right and centre! :rolleyes:
Been taking a look at 'Lost Gold of World War II' series on Blaze channel. It's The Curse of Oak Island all over again, a bunch of clueless blokes tramping about in the undergrowth on a Philippines island and drawing wrong conclusions left right and centre! :rolleyes:
seen a couple of episodes of that, it's rubbish. At least on Oak Island they are always finding stuff. Okay so it's only pieces of wood and rusty bits of metal but at least it's something.
Watched 'Young Guns' last night, not seen that in decades. Pretty good film.
Watched 'Young Guns' last night, not seen that in decades. Pretty good film.
yup, its quite good... tom cruise even appears lol
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, 1962...
https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/4pzG9Yqo7ZPaJs080sU6BIsz-Bvfq0VLChrcEaWkj8HToqQo3z6t9lDSw2E2MrH2meCp=w240-h480-rw
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjMw8a54o_9AhVHTcAKHVuXBMgQFnoECAkQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Ma n_Who_Shot_Liberty_Valance&usg=AOvVaw1GSy3CQmB-nyOYoMJQkOdi) O.Z. Whitehead, playing a teenager, was actually 50 years old. Denver Pyle played O.Z. Whitehead's father, despite being nine years younger than him.
Several reasons have been put forward for the film being in black and white. John Ford once claimed it added to the tension, but others involved with the production said Paramount was cutting costs, which was why the film was shot on sound stages at the studio. Without the budget restraints, Ford would have been in Monument Valley using Technicolor stock. It has also been suggested that since both John Wayne and James Stewart were playing characters 30 years younger than their actual age (Wayne was 54 when the movie was filmed in the autumn of 1961 and Stewart was 53), the movie needed to be in black and white because they would never have gotten away with it in color. The age difference was particularly noticeable in Stewart's case, since he was playing a young lawyer who had only just graduated from law school and had moved west without even practicing law back east. Cinematographer William H Clothier said, "There was one reason and one reason only ... Paramount was cutting costs. Otherwise, we would have been in Monument Valley or Brackettville and we would have had color stock. Ford had to accept those terms or not make the film."
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjMw8a54o_9AhVHTcAKHVuXBMgQFnoECAkQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Ma n_Who_Shot_Liberty_Valance&usg=AOvVaw1GSy3CQmB-nyOYoMJQkOdi)
Big John again in... Rooster Cogburn, 1975...
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQdwwIJzWt26fMbXCoYQ0_rBgLigP3Qa nPwGCHz-9rqhYlfuVF8
John Wayne (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne) and Katharine Hepburn (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Hepburn) were both born in May 1907 (Hepburn the elder by two weeks), and their careers paralleled each other, yet this marked the only time the Hollywood veterans appeared together in a film. During filming, both 67-year-old stars stayed in Sunriver (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunriver,_Oregon), and Governor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Oregon) Tom McCall (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_McCall) flew in for a brief visit with them in early October.
In his review in The New York Times (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times), Vincent Canby (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Canby) called the film "a high-class example of the low Hollywood art of recycling" and praised the performances by the two leads—Wayne for his continuation of his Oscar-winning role as Cogburn, and Hepburn for a performance that recalls her "marvelous characterization opposite Humphrey Bogart (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_Bogart) in The African Queen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_African_Queen_(film))". Canby concluded that the film is "a cheerful, throwaway Western, featuring two stars of the grand tradition who respond to each other with verve that makes the years disappear."
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, 1962...
https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/4pzG9Yqo7ZPaJs080sU6BIsz-Bvfq0VLChrcEaWkj8HToqQo3z6t9lDSw2E2MrH2meCp=w240-h480-rw
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjMw8a54o_9AhVHTcAKHVuXBMgQFnoECAkQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Ma n_Who_Shot_Liberty_Valance&usg=AOvVaw1GSy3CQmB-nyOYoMJQkOdi) O.Z. Whitehead, playing a teenager, was actually 50 years old. Denver Pyle played O.Z. Whitehead's father, despite being nine years younger than him.
Several reasons have been put forward for the film being in black and white. John Ford once claimed it added to the tension, but others involved with the production said Paramount was cutting costs, which was why the film was shot on sound stages at the studio. Without the budget restraints, Ford would have been in Monument Valley using Technicolor stock. It has also been suggested that since both John Wayne and James Stewart were playing characters 30 years younger than their actual age (Wayne was 54 when the movie was filmed in the autumn of 1961 and Stewart was 53), the movie needed to be in black and white because they would never have gotten away with it in color. The age difference was particularly noticeable in Stewart's case, since he was playing a young lawyer who had only just graduated from law school and had moved west without even practicing law back east. Cinematographer William H Clothier said, "There was one reason and one reason only ... Paramount was cutting costs. Otherwise, we would have been in Monument Valley or Brackettville and we would have had color stock. Ford had to accept those terms or not make the film."
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjMw8a54o_9AhVHTcAKHVuXBMgQFnoECAkQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Ma n_Who_Shot_Liberty_Valance&usg=AOvVaw1GSy3CQmB-nyOYoMJQkOdi)
Seen that a few times and the age thing had never occurred to me. Good film though.
walpurgis
12-02-2023, 14:17
Tonight at 7pm on Talking Pictures TV, 'Two Way Stretch' 1960, with Peter Sellers, Bernard Cribbins, Wilfred Hyde White, Lionel Jeffries and David Lodge etc.
Terrific British Sixties comedy! Lionel Jeffries is amazing as the paranoid screw :).
A favourites of mine.
A classic now with.... Once Upon a Time in the West, 1968...
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQAcvMEWkOT67V-cdPW_7bvtC5dUBtEgSbHbvui_5cVvTCsrNE6
When Henry Fonda (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000020) was trying to decide whether to be in this film, he asked his friend Eli Wallach (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0908919), who had just made The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060196) (1966) with Sergio Leone (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001466), if he should take the part of Frank. Wallach said that he had to do it and told Fonda, "You will have the time of your life." (Similarly, it was Fonda, saying he considered Leone one of the greatest directors he ever worked with, who persuaded James Coburn (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000336) to take the part of Mallory in the second "Once Upon a Time..." film, A Fistful of Dynamite (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067140) (1971).)
Tonight at 7pm on Talking Pictures TV, 'Two Way Stretch' 1960, with Peter Sellers, Bernard Cribbins, Wilfred Hyde White, Lionel Jeffries and David Lodge etc.
Terrific British Sixties comedy! Lionel Jeffries is amazing as the paranoid screw :).
A favourites of mine.
great little film that..
The Searchers, 1956...
http://www.movienewsletters.net/photos/002134R1.jpg
Reportedly this film was seen in a theater in Texas by (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi-9f_uvZD9AhXbEcAKHbbkD_UQFnoECCMQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0049730 %2F&usg=AOvVaw395XbCSjVAbpenq6-W8U4_)Buddy Holly (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0391398) and his friends in the summer of 1956. They were so impressed with Ethan's (John Wayne (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000078)) repeated use of the phrase "That'll be the day" that they used it as the title for their now standard rock song, which they composed soon after.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi-9f_uvZD9AhXbEcAKHbbkD_UQFnoECCMQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0049730 %2F&usg=AOvVaw395XbCSjVAbpenq6-W8U4_)
My Favorite Brunette, 1947... digitally remastered.
https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/2/Open/Everett/My%20Favorite%20Brunette/_derived_jpg_q90_310x470_m0/My-Favorite-Brunette-poster.jpg
The Captain's Paradise, 1953...
https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTxY-KmDiJ61EnSId-lIMDC4opV5SrIX37lFytGk-S9BBztiu2Y
a year later and we had Hobson's Choice, 1954...
https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS6EkSn2Lf7Nrve1MyHPMtYJqHh_ZgGt DL6wgqKM6uYKjbVkBeY
classic this...
The Last of the Mohicans, 1992...
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQRynH3tEw3AmV0hTHYimFSfXgFmqF8E AcUWqpAoiu2ZCDDpsLJ
Adaptd from James Fenimore Cooper (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0178126/?ref_=tt_ov_wr)'s novel..
Many long nights were spent filming the siege scenes. Loudspeakers were installed around the battlefield and fort so directions could easily be given to the hundreds of cast and crew. One night after many long hours, Mann shouted over the speakers, "What's that orange light? Turn out that orange light!" After a pause, another voice came over the speakers saying, "That's the SUN, Michael."
Daniel Day-Lewis (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000358) is well known for going to extremes in preparation for his roles. For this film he lived in the wilderness where his character might have lived, hunting and fishing and living off the land for several months prior to shooting.
By most accounts, each scene took at least 20 takes. Concerned about the growing cost, 20th Century Fox sent a representative to the set who did nothing but stand behind Michael Mann (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000520) and say, "That's enough Michael, move on." Which Mann ignored...
The main theme of the movie is taken from the tune "The Gael" by Scottish singer-songwriter Dougie MacLean on his 1990 album The Search.
The Hunt for Red October, 1990..
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/The_Hunt_for_Red_October_movie_poster.png
After the release of Tom Clancy's novel "The Hunt for Red October," some members of Congress contacted the CIA, demanding to know why the Russians had invented a caterpillar drive before the U.S. Navy did. Although a result of good research, the caterpillar drive is pure fiction.
While under attack from the other Russian submarine, Ramius asks Ryan which books he has written. Ryan describes one book about Admiral Halsey, to which Ramius replies "I know this book. Your conclusions were all wrong, Ryan. Halsey acted stupidly." No further explanation is given, but they are referring to the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944. The U.S. was about to invade the Phillipines and knew the Japanese Navy would counterattack, but didn't know where. Halsey's fleet was supposed to guard the northern approaches to the invasion beaches. The Japanese Navy sent a small fleet of their ships in one direction as a decoy. Halsey took the bait and sent his entire fleet after it, but without informing the rest of the U.S. Navy of what he was up to, leaving the north completely unguarded. (This action is what Ramius refers to when he says "Halsey acted stupidly.") The rest of the Japanese Navy was able to slip through unscathed and undetected. If not for the valiant action of destroyers and escort carriers, the Japanese fleet could have devastated the U.S. invasion fleet.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj83dPjyZX9AhXsRkEAHbKqDrcQFnoECA0QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Hu nt_for_Red_October_(film)&usg=AOvVaw3xXDZLYDjMC3VX863PIdRw)
Red, 2010... staying up tonight as im down, if that makes sense :eyebrows: a bit of fun is needed...
https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQJg_FDQNa4vMRMmUteGFdV53fNaia-KJyoYZ4LInclWVd3nCWN
All star cast(if mostly old uns). Bruce Willis (https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&sxsrf=AJOqlzVQ6HPCaOk0xorkBhBB_Zxqhw2NVQ:167640469 9855&q=Bruce+Willis&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgFuLSz9U3sCwzy6rMUOIAsTPMC7K0 hLKTrfTTMnNywYRVcmJxySJWHqei0uRUhfDMnJzM4h2sjACWaG 38PgAAAA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiLx4mV5pX9AhUJIMAKHV0kB20QgOQBegQILxAE) , John Malkovich (https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&sxsrf=AJOqlzVQ6HPCaOk0xorkBhBB_Zxqhw2NVQ:167640469 9855&q=John+Malkovich&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgFuLSz9U3sCwzy6rMUOIEsQ3NiwyN tYSyk6300zJzcsGEVXJicckiVj6v_Iw8Bd_EnOz8sszkjB2sjA AJFFuEQQAAAA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiLx4mV5pX9AhUJIMAKHV0kB20QgOQBegQILxAG) , Helen Mirren (https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&sxsrf=AJOqlzVQ6HPCaOk0xorkBhBB_Zxqhw2NVQ:167640469 9855&q=John+Malkovich&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgFuLSz9U3sCwzy6rMUOIEsQ3NiwyN tYSyk6300zJzcsGEVXJicckiVj6v_Iw8Bd_EnOz8sszkjB2sjA AJFFuEQQAAAA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiLx4mV5pX9AhUJIMAKHV0kB20QgOQBegQILxAG) , Morgan Freeman, Mary-Louise Parker, Brian Cox etc etc...
Dame Helen Mirren (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000545) had to learn how to shoot a gun without blinking so as to look more like an experienced killer. (Blinking was one of the main reasons why the stars in The Matrix trilogy wore sunglasses to mask their involuntary reactions.)
Karl Urban (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0881631) nicked Bruce Willis (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000246) with the cup he throws at him in their fight scene, because he threw it faster than Willis expected. You can see the slight look of surprise on Willis' face in the scene.
In Bulgaria, this movie was distributed under the title "B.S.P." ("Besni Strashni Pensii", which means Furious Frightful Pensioners). But B.S.P. is also a mock title referring to the abbreviation of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (B.S.P.). Its political color is red, and its voters are mainly elder and retired people, just like the R.E.D.s.
(https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&sxsrf=AJOqlzVQ6HPCaOk0xorkBhBB_Zxqhw2NVQ:167640469 9855&q=John+Malkovich&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgFuLSz9U3sCwzy6rMUOIEsQ3NiwyN tYSyk6300zJzcsGEVXJicckiVj6v_Iw8Bd_EnOz8sszkjB2sjA AJFFuEQQAAAA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiLx4mV5pX9AhUJIMAKHV0kB20QgOQBegQILxAG)
The Day the Earth Stood Still, 1951...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still_%281951_poster%29.jp eg (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiI1sfHq5f9AhUJLsAKHSmnDHkQFnoECBEQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0043456 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3pBo4czRjOu1ZXSHuRJS2t)
Cowboys & Aliens, 2011... daniel craig, harrison ford and the lovely olivia wilde star.
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTJmu1mMauuoJEckzvI0aczqMEyZq-T43cq3p59jlHG-d2yXVcn
The Day the Earth Stood Still, 1951...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still_%281951_poster%29.jp eg (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiI1sfHq5f9AhUJLsAKHSmnDHkQFnoECBEQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0043456 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3pBo4czRjOu1ZXSHuRJS2t)
The original and the best! (Typical sensationalist poster though.)
Private's Progress, 1956...
https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRj6IEL_FkP6209VuxXDjXwipsm5PXNx N1MQa4mEVabIu3bpjAO
walpurgis
15-02-2023, 14:43
Private's Progress, 1956.
Good fun film, I may have the DVD I think.
Sherlock Holmes, 2009,,
https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTmyM6ZWyvIA4_Pe2GvYZmKB-zscbt_KaL4LQWqyRh39bir4FrO
Good fun film, I may have the DVD I think.
yes it and im all right jack are very good films
Death on the Nile, 2022..
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRvKCXqzpTydBqW935ZIKTobVO30rObd HYJafokbFbiTWX5PNe5
Salome Otterbourne is clearly based on real-life Sister Rosetta Tharpe (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0857093) (who just might have invented rock and roll). Five songs in the film are performed by Tharpe, and a sixth Tharpe song is performed by others.
Shot entirely on large format 65mm film. Sir Kenneth Branagh (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000110)'s previous turn as Hercule Poirot in Murder on the Orient Express (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3402236) (2017) was also shot in this format as well as his adaptation of Hamlet (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116477) (1996).
I hadn't heard of 65mm film format, though I have heard of 70mm.
(Just looked it up, 65mm film stock is used in the camera, which is then printed onto 70mm wide film for projection. You learn something every day. :) )
Peggy Sue Got Married, 1986...
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSw0YpQA-jTZZ-VCBg19BiBQmMIJSLpexVaYbg-6T9tU_N5yMD5
The opening shot of the film is an optical illusion. Because the camera and crew would have been seen in the reflection of the mirror had the scene been shot in a conventional manner, there is a body double for Kathleen Turner (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000678) (only she can be seen from behind in the shot) on the other side of the "mirror," doing the exact opposite of the star's movements, giving the illusion that Turner and Helen Hunt (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000166) are reflections, when in fact they are the real actors in tableau with a body double sitting in front of them with her back to the camera in front of an empty mirror frame, framing a hole in the wall of the set.
When Peggy Sue's friends take her home after she faints at the blood drive, the car radio plays "Tequila." The radio station is KFRC San Francisco, which altered its live programming for the movie.
Helen Hunt (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000166), who plays Peggy Sue and Charlie's daughter, is nine years younger than her mother (Kathleen Turner (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000678)) and a year older than her father (Nicolas Cage (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000115)).
excellently made film and good fun t'boot..
now,made 3 vyears on ... Harlem Nights, 1989...
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Eddie Murphy (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000552) once said that the jokes and camaraderie between him, Richard Pryor (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001640), Redd Foxx (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0289359), Robin Harris (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0365264), and Della Reese (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005343) behind the scenes were much funnier than anything that was in the film. The vulgar, yet playful arguments between Redd Foxx (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0289359) and Della Reese (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005343) on the set inspired Eddie Murphy (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000552) to create a series starring the two. The result was The Royal Family (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101187) (1991), which was Foxx's final project before his death.
The story of Irish mobster Bugsy Calhoune trying to take over Sugar Ray's night club in order to control black Harlem is loosely inspired by the real-life feud between Jewish gangster Dutch Schultz and black gangster Bumpy Johnson over control of Harlem's lucrative "numbers" gambling rackets in the mid 1930s.
Breakfast at Tiffany's
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walpurgis
17-02-2023, 08:58
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Classic movie. if not really one for me. Mrs. likes it! :)
Jeremiah Johnson, 1972...Directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford as the title character and Will Geer as "Bear Claw"
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Mountains of the Moon, 1990..
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the 1857–1858 journey of Richard Francis Burton (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Francis_Burton) and John Hanning Speke (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hanning_Speke) in their expedition to Central Africa, which culminated in Speke's discovery of the source of the Nile River (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile_River) and led to a bitter rivalry between the two men.
walpurgis
17-02-2023, 13:54
Mountains of the Moon, 1990.
Never heard of that one Grant.
Never heard of that one Grant.
exhillerating but eventually quite sad film.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Francis_Burton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hanning_Speke
The Gathering Storm, 2002... https://www.cuckfieldconnections.org.uk/post/1937-winston-churchill-visits-cuckfield (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiVg7O0jZ39AhUGCsAKHQ57AssQFnoECBAQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Ga thering_Storm_(2002_film)&usg=AOvVaw0rMBk94C1DyuJM9zfF-wUC)
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Ralph Wigram, C.M.G. (the Foreign Office secretary who provided information on clandestine German rearmament) was one of four leading individuals amongst a group of around twenty who assisted Sir Winston Churchill (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0161476) in this manner. It is agreed that he provided this information with the tacit consent of his supervisor, Robert Vansittart, who was also alarmed by the rearmament. While this movie seems to indicate that Wigram's efforts were illegal, Churchill was a Member of Parliament and Privy Counselor, which would grant him access to such information. Wigram had been thwarted by the Baldwin regime and he took things as far as holding a press conference in 1936, but this garnered little attention. This sharing of secret documents with Churchill began in late 1934 and lasted for two years, when he apparently committed suicide in December 1936. Wigram's wife Ava made several trips to Germany before the outbreak of the war and shared her observations in her correspondence with Churchill. In 1941, nearly five years after Robert's death, Ava married Sir John Anderson, a member of the War Cabinet who became Chancellor of the Exchequer. She died in 1974 at the age of eighty-seven. As for his temperament and character, Wigram's secretary referred to him as "the authentic local deity" and "the departmental volcano". He was also described by others as having a visionary understanding of what was secretly unfolding in Germany. In Churchill's multi-volume history of World War II, he referred to Wigram as one of the great unsung heroes.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiVg7O0jZ39AhUGCsAKHQ57AssQFnoECBAQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Ga thering_Storm_(2002_film)&usg=AOvVaw0rMBk94C1DyuJM9zfF-wUC)
exhillerating but eventually quite sad film.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Francis_Burton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hanning_Speke
I think I might have seen that film, but I can't be certain. It is certainly something that would interest me, with my interest in foreign travel.
I think I might have seen that film, but I can't be certain. It is certainly something that would interest me, with my interest in foreign travel.
certainly worth seeking out barry... quality film and fairly true
The Gathering Storm, 2002...
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Ralph Wigram, C.M.G. (the Foreign Office secretary who provided information on clandestine German rearmament) was one of four leading individuals amongst a group of around twenty who assisted Sir (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiVg7O0jZ39AhUGCsAKHQ57AssQFnoECBAQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Ga thering_Storm_(2002_film)&usg=AOvVaw0rMBk94C1DyuJM9zfF-wUC)Winston Churchill (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0161476) in this manner. It is agreed that he provided this information with the tacit consent of his supervisor, Robert Vansittart, who was also alarmed by the rearmament. While this movie seems to indicate that Wigram's efforts were illegal, Churchill was a Member of Parliament and Privy Counselor, which would grant him access to such information. Wigram had been thwarted by the Baldwin regime and he took things as far as holding a press conference in 1936, but this garnered little attention. This sharing of secret documents with Churchill began in late 1934 and lasted for two years, when he apparently committed suicide in December 1936. Wigram's wife Ava made several trips to Germany before the outbreak of the war and shared her observations in her correspondence with Churchill. In 1941, nearly five years after Robert's death, Ava married Sir John Anderson, a member of the War Cabinet who became Chancellor of the Exchequer. She died in 1974 at the age of eighty-seven. As for his temperament and character, Wigram's secretary referred to him as "the authentic local deity" and "the departmental volcano". He was also described by others as having a visionary understanding of what was secretly unfolding in Germany. In Churchill's multi-volume history of World War II, he referred to Wigram as one of the great unsung heroes.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiVg7O0jZ39AhUGCsAKHQ57AssQFnoECBAQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Ga thering_Storm_(2002_film)&usg=AOvVaw0rMBk94C1DyuJM9zfF-wUC)
It's a good film - but then anything with Albert Finney in it is worth watching.
another of Albie's... Murder on the Orient Express, 1974...
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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.
The final scene, in which Poirot relates his solution to the crime, had to be shot countless times, as it required more angles than could be captured in a single take, and more cameras than could fit on the confining dining car set. The multiple takes were especially challenging for Albert Finney, whose uninterrupted monologue was eight pages long, but many cast members later recalled the tedium of sitting motionless for so long, maintaining their physical posturing for continuity, bolstered only by their professional drive to provide support for Finney's tour de force.
Commando, 1985...
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According to (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj-iur_hJ_9AhXRlFwKHa0xCzAQFnoECAsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0088944 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3wPM4CyKsGiH332pT22T_j)Alyssa Milano (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000192), Arnold Schwarzenegger (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000216) was very protective of her on set. "He even helped with my algebra homework."
Arnold Schwarzenegger (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000216) performed many of his own stunts, as producers found it difficult to find a stunt double for the bodybuilder. The actor suffered a dislocated shoulder and several stitches during the shoot.
There are 54 stunt performers listed in the credits, 17 more people than the actual cast.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj-iur_hJ_9AhXRlFwKHa0xCzAQFnoECAsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0088944 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3wPM4CyKsGiH332pT22T_j)Arnold Schwarzenegger (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000216) can bench press over 450 pounds, but they made the phone booth out of balsa wood anyway.
Martial arts expert and fight choreographer (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj-iur_hJ_9AhXRlFwKHa0xCzAQFnoECAsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0088944 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3wPM4CyKsGiH332pT22T_j)Michael M. Vendrell (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0892972) worked with Arnold Schwarzenegger (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000216) on the film, and, by the end of production, Vendrell estimated that Schwarzenegger had become a second degree black belt.
Arius ( (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj-iur_hJ_9AhXRlFwKHa0xCzAQFnoECAsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0088944 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3wPM4CyKsGiH332pT22T_j)Dan Hedaya (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000445)) is said to be a deposed dictator from the country of Val Verde. Val Verde was a fictionalized South/Central American country used by Hollywood from the 1980s to early 1990s to depict a Spanish speaking country similar to Cuba or Nicaragua without encountering diplomatic problems. It is also referenced in the films Predator (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093773) (1987), Die Hard 2 (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099423) (1990), and the made for TV movie Supercarrier: Deadly Enemies (Pilot) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096195) (1988). Even with blanks in his gun, Dan Hedaya (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000445) was afraid to shoot. (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj-iur_hJ_9AhXRlFwKHa0xCzAQFnoECAsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0088944 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3wPM4CyKsGiH332pT22T_j)
Doc Hollywood, 1991...
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The car driven cross-country is a 1956 Porsche 356 Speedster. These are currently valued at a quarter of a million dollars now..
At one point Hank Gordon says, "I don't trust a man who doesn't eat meat." In real life, Woody Harrelson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000437) is a vegan. (I never did trust him)
Julie Warner (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000689)'s only nude scene in her career. Asked at the time how she felt doing it, she said, "Cold! Humiliation aside, and I'm not an exhibitionist, the hardest thing about it was that I was freezing," she explains. "Lou represents earthiness, and it wouldn't have been right for her to be in a Speedo."
In his autobiography, Lucky Man, Michael J. Fox tells of how he woke up one morning during production with a barely noticeable tapping in one finger. He'd had a big night drinking with Woody Harrelson and thought he may have injured it during some roughhousing he only partly remembered, but instead it would be diagnosed as the first presentation of his Parkinson's Disease.
Joe Versus the Volcano, 1990...
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The cab seen taking Joe's steamer trunks to the sailboat belongs to Neil Abercrombie, who at the time was a Congressman from Hawaii. Abercrombie drives a refurbished plantation-era taxi. The graphic on the side of cab is Abercrombie, a small nod to the residents of Hawaii, where some of the movie was filmed.
The only major issue that executive producer Steven Spielberg (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000229) took with the production, was with the long unbroken take of Joe leaving Dr. Ellison's office building. The issue was that John Patrick Shanley (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0788234) did not shoot any coverage of the scene besides the one shot. Spielberg sent Shanley back to the location to film additional angles, which were promptly discarded in favor of the one-shot take.(even Spielberg gets it wrong sometimes)
just finished, the classic ... Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, 2003...
fab film.
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRKTcTqELNNPpy-c6orc876-Yxo-_QKENBdIufLEZNlSjHQBj_i (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean:_The_Curse_of_the_Black_P earl)
On Film 4 earlier this afternoon:
'Addams Family Values'
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Back to the Future Part III, 1990..
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Cheyenne Autumn (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057940/?ref_=tttr_tr_tt) (1964) ...https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSD7ASgGer_d_xUOAsm-6X5bvrqDn7mD1Fu6RBoKHOvQDZJxUm9
Little Wolf was a chief of the Cheyenne tribe in 1878. He and another chief led the Cheyenne off their Oklahoma reservation and took them back to their homeland in Montana, despite hundreds of US cavalry troops trying to stop them. This was called the "Cheyenne Autumn Trail" and is the basis for this film.
The "Cheyenne" in the film are actually Navajo, and they are speaking in the Navajo language (mostly telling each other dirty jokes).
The striped neckerchiefs shown are historically correct. Cavalry colors are yellow, artillery are red, infantry are light blue, medical corps are burgundy.
Dad's Army, 1971... tv movie..
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Dial M for Murder, 1954...
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John Williams won the 1953 Tony Award (Broadway) for Best Featured Actor in a Play for "Dial M for Murder" as Inspector Hubbard. He re-created the role in this movie.
Warner Bros. insisted on shooting the movie in 3-D, although the craze was fading and Sir Alfred Hitchcock was sure the movie would be released flat. Hitchcock wanted the first shot to be that of a close-up of a finger dialing the letter M on a rotary dial telephone, but the 3-D camera would not be able to focus such a close-up correctly. Hitchcock ordered a giant finger made from wood with a proportionally large dial built in order to achieve the effect.
how anyone could plan to kill gracie:doh: funny but he always gets foiled at the end:ner:
Big Fish, 2003....
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(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjZnq-UnqL9AhUDg1wKHbZACgAQFnoECBYQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0319061 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3wG_VT7IYNau_Gf7SeanxK)Ewan McGregor (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000191) was cast as Young Ed Bloom when producers noticed the striking similarity between him and pictures of a young Albert Finney (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001215), who plays Senior Ed Bloom.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjZnq-UnqL9AhUDg1wKHbZACgAQFnoECBYQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0319061 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3wG_VT7IYNau_Gf7SeanxK)
Murder at the Gallop, 1963..
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Like Murder Most Foul (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058383) (1964), this movie was adapted from an Hercule Poirot novel ( "After the Funeral"), not a Miss Jane Marple novel.
Murder Most Foul, 1964..
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Like (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjt4onmkaT9AhVJRUEAHRFlAnQQFnoECAsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0058383 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3Tadq_vSli-AehNEOaCK6Q)Murder at the Gallop (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057334) (1963), this movie was adapted from an Hercule Poirot novel, the 1952 book "Mrs. McGinty's Dead".
Miss Jane Marple's audition piece for the Cosgood Players is her dramatic rendering of "The Shooting of Dan McGrew", a 1907 poem by (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjt4onmkaT9AhVJRUEAHRFlAnQQFnoECAsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0058383 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3Tadq_vSli-AehNEOaCK6Q)Robert W. Service (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0785827). Dame Margaret Rutherford (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0751983) was especially fond of the piece and reportedly once intended to give a reading of it at a women's prison to cheer up the inmates. :D
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjt4onmkaT9AhVJRUEAHRFlAnQQFnoECAsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0058383 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3Tadq_vSli-AehNEOaCK6Q)
Murder She Said, 1961...
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The name of the manor house where Miss Jane Marple conducts her inquiries is called Rutherford Hall in Dame (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjegPjFpaT9AhUQQkEAHZZeBNIQFnoECCEQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0055205 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1R6MOalS-JxeQcmdvChuwb)Agatha Christie (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002005)'s novel. This was changed to Ackenthorpe in this movie to avoid comparison with the surname of Dame Margaret Rutherford (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0751983) (Miss Jane Marple)
The character of Miss Jane Marple's librarian friend, Jim Stringer, was not part of the original story (and never featured in any of the Christie books). The part was written for (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjegPjFpaT9AhUQQkEAHZZeBNIQFnoECCEQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0055205 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1R6MOalS-JxeQcmdvChuwb)Stringer Davis (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0205518), who was married to Dame Margaret Rutherford (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0751983).
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjegPjFpaT9AhUQQkEAHZZeBNIQFnoECCEQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0055205 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1R6MOalS-JxeQcmdvChuwb)
Murder Ahoy!, 1964...
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Dame (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj1saSOuaT9AhUGQkEAHUG9BlQQFnoECBsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMurder _Ahoy!&usg=AOvVaw3704Eu035VBF8gV69mxWUj)Margaret Rutherford (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0751983) undertook a month of fencing practice for this movie's denouement.
The screenplay was not based on any published Dame (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj1saSOuaT9AhUGQkEAHUG9BlQQFnoECBsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMurder _Ahoy!&usg=AOvVaw3704Eu035VBF8gV69mxWUj)Agatha Christie (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002005) story. It did, however, borrow a few obscure plot details from "They Do It With Mirrors", and there is a delightful moment when Miss Jane Marple pays homage to Christie's long-running play, "The Mousetrap".
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj1saSOuaT9AhUGQkEAHUG9BlQQFnoECBsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMurder _Ahoy!&usg=AOvVaw3704Eu035VBF8gV69mxWUj)
My Favorite Spy, 1951...
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The only one of Hope's three "My Favorite" movies not to feature a cameo from Bing Crosby. Though Hope does make reference to Crosby when he holds up a skull and says "you remind me of someone I know who used to sing."
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwia6pDE26b9AhXJa8AKHYJKCtoQFnoECCIQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0043827 %2F&usg=AOvVaw0G50WGvzDsNqXCf-t5pF9-)
Young Frankenstein, 1974..
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Gene Hackman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000432) learned about the film through his frequent tennis partner Gene Wilder (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000698) and requested a role, because he wanted to try comedy. He volunteered to play the Blind Hermit for free. It was four days of shooting for about four minutes of running time.
Gene Hackman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000432) ad-libbed The Blind Man's parting line "I was gonna make espresso." The scene immediately fades to black because the crew erupted into fits of laughter. Hackman was unable to repeat the line without laughing with the rest of the crew, so the first take was used. Hackman was uncredited when the movie was originally released in theaters.
In 1974 Aerosmith (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0012613) took a break from a long night of recording to see this film. Steven Tyler (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0878911) wrote the band's hit "Walk This Way" the morning after seeing the movie, inspired by Marty Feldman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001204)'s first scene, the "walk this way . . . this way" scene.
Looper (2012)
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A New Leaf (1971) (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiS3Ymhman9AhVHXsAKHVOpBLEQFnoECCUQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0067482 %2F&usg=AOvVaw2_L0cgkhUoCBQBc-xQwzY2)
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Mikeandvan
22-02-2023, 21:37
Watched a few Coen bros films over the past week, they are exceptional, Blood simple, Raising Arizona, A serious man, Millers crossing, Fargo, with Blood simple and Fargo being the stand out films for me anyway, with that beautiful actress Francis Mcdormand.
The Paleface, 1948...
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The Smallest Show on Earth, 1957...
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Comin' Thro' the Rye (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0231379) (1923) was not filmed just for this movie, but was an actual silent classic directed by Cecil M. Hepworth (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0378408).
The scenes of Comin' Thro' the Rye (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0231379) (1923) with Dame Margaret Rutherford (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0751983) at the piano show Alma Taylor (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0851953) and Shayle Gardner (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0307105). The movie was directed by Hepworth, Cecil and still exists.
The movies shown at the Bijou (all fictional and presumably filmed just for this movie) are: Killer Riders of Wyoming, The Mystery of Hell Valley, Devil Riders of Parched Point.
The Terminator, 1984..
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Mikeandvan
23-02-2023, 22:24
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Classic^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^80s^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^classic^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^80s^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^cl
Public Enemies (2009)....
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While filming on location in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, a boy, aged eleven, told (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi4maLDhK79AhUHS8AKHWusB5gQFnoECCAQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt1152836 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3tICj8gplVpT0e4ZaBUN-t)Johnny Depp (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000136) he loved his Fedora hat, and would like to have one like it. Depp told the boy he would see what he could do about that. After filming finished, Depp sent the boy the hat in the mail.
For (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi4maLDhK79AhUHS8AKHWusB5gQFnoECCAQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt1152836 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3tICj8gplVpT0e4ZaBUN-t)John Dillinger (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0226926)'s famous escape from Crown Point Jail, the film makers decided to film at the real jail, which had been closed and turned into a historical museum when the new jail opened in the 70s. They dressed the jail and store fronts on the square to its original condition, as it would've appeared in 1933. They also filmed the Little Bohemia shoot-out at the real lodge. Johnny Depp (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000136) was staying in the same room the real Dillinger stayed in.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi4maLDhK79AhUHS8AKHWusB5gQFnoECCAQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt1152836 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3tICj8gplVpT0e4ZaBUN-t)
Total Recall (1990)..
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earlier... Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, 2017..
now, Made in 1943, it is a loose adaptation of Sir (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean:_Dead_Men_Tell_No_Tales)A rthur Conan Doyle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle)'s Holmes 1893 story "The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventure_of_the_Musgrave_Ritual)." Sherlock Holmes Faces Death.
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enough music for now.... The Producers (1967)...
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(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjZtKvGr7D9AhVVjFwKHb-GCYoQFnoECFMQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0063462 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3sbDcb9zr220oTlyPnHPGJ)Roger Ebert (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001170) recounted how he was in an elevator with Mel Brooks (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000316) and Anne Bancroft (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000843) in New York City after the film premiered. A woman got onto the elevator, recognized him and said, "I have to tell you, Mr. Brooks, that your movie is vulgar." Brooks replied, "Lady", he said, "it rose below vulgarity."
Mel Brooks (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000316) cannot read music. "Springtime for Hitler" and "Prisoners of Love" (as were all the songs Brooks writes for his films) were hummed into a tape recorder and transcribed by an expert. When Brooks adapted the movie into a stage musical, he wrote the entire score by himself using the same method.
Mel Brooks (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000316) has said that one of his "lifelong jobs" is "to make the world laugh at Adolf Hitler." The film was a way to enact vengeance through comedy. "The only real way I could get even with Hitler and company was to bring them down with laughter", Brooks said.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjZtKvGr7D9AhVVjFwKHb-GCYoQFnoECFMQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0063462 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3sbDcb9zr220oTlyPnHPGJ)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day, 1991..
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For the Los Angeles River sequence, (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwisq8mtxrD9AhW3RUEAHRKVAXMQFnoECAkQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FTermin ator_2%3A_Judgment_Day&usg=AOvVaw3KRcQN_Pbiq4Bm6VRTEZqy)Arnold Schwarzenegger (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000216) was in pain because he could not wear a glove while cocking the gun, so his fingers would get stuck in the mechanism. He tore the skin from his fingers and hand many times before he mastered it, and he frequently hit Edward Furlong (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000411) with the gun while doing it, one time almost knocking the young actor out. He had to achieve all this while trying to act and control a Harley at the same time as James Cameron (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000116) told him where to look. He could not dart his eyes either because it would have ruined the shot. Shooting the gates also took weeks of practice because he had to also "act cool" while doing it.
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The Secret of My Success (1987)...
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Ruthless People (1986)...
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Sullivan's Travels (1941)...
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(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwifmre5nLP9AhXPgVwKHVm0BUsQFnoECCUQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0034240 %2F&usg=AOvVaw2P8iFrJZ6_DwlmhLv057ha)Preston Sturges (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002545) had originally intended to use a clip from a Charles Chaplin (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000122) film for the church sequence, but Chaplin wouldn't give permission. In an earlier scene, Joel McCrea (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0566948) does parody the Little Tramp character. The cartoon eventually used was Walt Disney (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000370)'s 1934 Mickey Mouse Cartoon "Playful Pluto (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025657) (1934)".
Reportedly, (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwifmre5nLP9AhXPgVwKHVm0BUsQFnoECCUQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0034240 %2F&usg=AOvVaw2P8iFrJZ6_DwlmhLv057ha)Preston Sturges (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002545) got the idea for the movie from stories of John Garfield (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002092) living the hobo life, riding freight trains and hitchhiking his way cross-country for a short period in the 1930s.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwifmre5nLP9AhXPgVwKHVm0BUsQFnoECCUQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0034240 %2F&usg=AOvVaw2P8iFrJZ6_DwlmhLv057ha)
Son of Paleface, 1952... Bob Hope, Jane Russell and Roy Rogers plus Trigger...
has to be good:D
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Everything Everywhere All at Once, 2022...
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well that was a strange but excellent experience... impressed and needs rewatching a few times i think..
NOW ... Silver Streak, 1976..
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Waterloo Road, 1945...Directed by Sidney Gilliat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Gilliat) and starring John Mills (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mills), Stewart Granger (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Granger), and Alastair Sim (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastair_Sim).
It is the third in an "unofficial war trilogy" by Gilliat, preceded by Millions Like Us (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millions_Like_Us) (1943) and Two Thousand Women (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Thousand_Women) (1944).
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Set in 40/41, this film is about soldier, Jim Colter (Mills), who goes AWOL (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWOL) to return to his home in south London to save his wife from the advances of Ted Purvis (Granger), a philandering conscription (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription)-dodger.
The Apartment (1960) (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi3iJCGlLj9AhUGZsAKHcDsAvQQFnoECCEQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0053604 %2F&usg=AOvVaw0LUm12CatXVef2Xo17QZuL)
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For this film, Billy Wilder (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000697) became the first person to win the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay.
Jack Lemmon (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000493) said he learned much about filmmaking from Billy Wilder (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000697), particularly the director's use of "hooks," bits of business the audience remembers long after they've forgotten other aspects of the movie. One such hook was the passing of the key to Baxter's apartment. Lemmon said for years after the picture's release, people would come up to him and say, "Hey, Jack, can I have the key?"
earlier--- A New Leaf...
now.... Casablanca (1942)
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The film had six quotes on the American Film Institute's list of top movie quotes, more than any other movie on the list. The quotes with their ranks are: (5) Here's looking at you, kid. (20) Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. (28) Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.' (32) Round up the usual suspects. (43) We'll always have Paris; and (67) Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
Gone with the Wind (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031381) (1939) and The Wizard of Oz (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138) (1939) came in tied for second place, with three quotes apiece (including the #1 quote for Gone With the Wind).
Ingrid Bergman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000006)'s contract was owned by producer David O. Selznick (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006388), and producer Hal B. Wallis (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0909259) sent the film's writers, Philip G. Epstein (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0258525) and Julius J. Epstein (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0258493), to persuade Selznick to loan her to Warner Bros. for the picture. After 20 minutes of describing the plot to Selznick, Julius gave up and said, "Oh, what the hell! It's a lot of shit like Algiers (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029855) (1938)!" Selznick nodded and agreed to the loan. O. Selznick (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006388), had also heard rumors that Sweden might become an ally of Germany, he was afraid that her career might be in danger because she was Swedish. It was likely he decided to loan her out and make some money before her image might get tainted.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj49O6oubr9AhUFYcAKHbToDNgQFnoECBEQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0075860 %2F&usg=AOvVaw0fHMV4OwzNFhHTNPkb93UC)
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The iconic five-note melody was a chance arrangement that both composer John Williams (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002354) and director Steven Spielberg (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000229) happened to like out of hundreds of different permutations. The tone was later used in Moonraker (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079574) (1979) and again in the cue line in Star Tours (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094029) (1987).
Richard Dreyfuss (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000377) had become quite interested in the ideas behind Close Encounters of the Third Kind when he heard Steven Spielberg (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000229) talking about them on the set of Jaws (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073195) (1975). When Dreyfuss heard that casting for the film was underway, he made a concerted effort to persuade Spielberg to take him on.
Steven Spielberg (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000229) ran a few tests of computer generated imagery (CGI), now the industry standard, but then in its very first stages of development. He decided none of it looked believable.
The Arrival (1996) (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiEx9aD1rr9AhWIUsAKHVamDRwQFnoECCUQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0115571 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3KzoAIUrgxSJRt8oWkFmp4)
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The signal detected is similar to the The Wow! signal, a strong narrowband radio signal received on August 15, 1977, by Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope. Though that was 72 seconds instead of 42.
Even though this movie failed at the domestic box office (partially because the highly advertised Independence Day (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116629) (1996) would come out one month later), it fared much better abroad, where Charlie Sheen (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000221) still enjoyed quite some popularity. A direct-to-video sequel called The Second Arrival (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122961) (1998) was released in 1998, directed by Kevin Tenney (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0855107), starring Patrick Muldoon (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005258) as the brother of Sheen's character in this movie. David Twohy (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0878638), director and writer of the first Arrival, was given no credit for the sequel.
third si-fi in row with Cowboys & Aliens, ...2011...
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good cast and a decent watch..and Olivia Wilde is in it:)
Hotel Transylvania, 2012...
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great fun for young and old:D
Four Weddings and a Funeral, 1994...
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Inspiration for this movie came when co-executive producer and writer Richard Curtis (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0193485) was flipping through some old diaries and realized that he had been to seventy-two weddings in ten years.
For several years after its release, this movie was the highest-grossing British movie in history, with worldwide box office in excess of $260 million.
Backstories were given in a deleted scene. Charles (Hugh Grant (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000424)), Matthew (John Hannah (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001314)), and Fiona (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000218)) were at university together, and Gareth (Simon Callow (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001003)) was a lecturer. Scarlett (Charlotte Coleman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0170976)) was found under Charles' kitchen table after a party and has lived there ever since.
The Ipcress File (1965)
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Harry Palmer is depicted as an accomplished cook, but when you see Palmer skillfully break a couple of eggs, the hands in the close-up belong to (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjS0IjOjb39AhXRgVwKHboDA5kQFnoECCAQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0059319 %2F&usg=AOvVaw2alNpUkSSNewalce6g5y_H)Len Deighton (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0215050), author of the book on which this movie was based. Deighton was an accomplished cook and also wrote a comic strip about cooking for The Observer. The walls of Palmer's kitchen are full of these strips.
Palmer is the first action hero to wear glasses. (Sir (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjS0IjOjb39AhXRgVwKHboDA5kQFnoECCAQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0059319 %2F&usg=AOvVaw2alNpUkSSNewalce6g5y_H)Michael Caine (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000323) is near-sighted in real life.) Caine chose to wear glasses because he expected this movie to be the first of a franchise, similar to the Bond movies. He feared being over-identified with the character of Harry Palmer, and so he wore the glasses so that he could remove them for other roles.
This film has a 100% rating based on 30 critic reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Excellent film! Far closer to the workings of MI5/6 than the fanciful Bond franchise. The first of the Harry Palmer trilogy, and IMO the best.
Murder, My Sweet (1944) (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjW8fKHpb39AhWXSMAKHf1gATsQFnoECCEQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0037101 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3rsTAfncRgqbN4P4fcPeNt)
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Audiences initially stayed away, thinking that "Farewell, My Lovely", its original title, was yet another Dick Powell (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0694090) musical. After the studio changed the title to "Murder, My Sweet", box-office receipts picked up considerably.
In a 1946 "Saturday Evening Post" article, Dick Powell (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0694090) wrote that the film was the result of his ten-year effort to escape musicals. Powell said that when he asked Charles Koerner (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4763878) for a "solid tough guy" character to portray, Koerner offered him the role of Philip Marlowe.
It was hard to get Mike Mazurki (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0563417) to tower over Dick Powell (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0694090), because the former singer stood 6'2", with Mazurki--a former pro wrestler--only slightly taller at 6' 4-1/2". For many scenes, Powell had to stand in a trench.
over to bluray now and a recent buy... Memoirs of an Invisible Man, 1992..
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Carpenter called Chevy Chase (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000331) "a director's worst nightmare" and "nearly impossible to direct", also saying the same about Daryl Hannah (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000435). 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 (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000554) over the troubling production and the two became close friends, with Neill agreeing to work with Carpenter again on In the Mouth of Madness (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113409) (1994).
Shooter (2007), 4k bluray..
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The large caliber rifle that Swagger owns, with which he is framed, is a Cheyenne Tactical M200 Intervention. It fires a .408 caliber projectile accurately out to and beyond two thousand meters. The CheyTac M200 is also available with a Long Range Rifle System, which consists of a laser range finder, magnifying scope with night vision capability, and a weather-sensing module, all of which interface with a PDA running ballistics calculation software.
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Forrest Gump (1994) (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwinqKfQyL_9AhXQiFwKHTUCCeQQFnoECCMQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0109830 %2F&usg=AOvVaw301q97MwwAJbB3oev27a4S)
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Prior to filming, Paramount Pictures had cut the original budget by about $10 million, and were trying to force director Robert Zemeckis (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000709) to cut out scenes they felt were unnecessary, like the shrimp boat or the Vietnam scenes. Zemeckis fought the studio hard to keep those scenes, and Paramount executive Michelle Manning (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0543339) was even sent to the set to supervise filming, and make sure the movie stayed within budget. Zemeckis eventually gave up part of his and Tom Hanks (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000158)' salary to keep most of the scenes, and eventually agreed to cut out Forrest's running sequence. However, Zemeckis then simply ignored the studio's wishes, even receiving support from Manning. The running scenes were shot in secrecy without the studio's knowledge, and Tom Hanks (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000158)' younger brother, Jim Hanks (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0360028), doubled for him in many of them. According to Jim, "Tom had other doubles but they couldn't do the run", referring to Forrest's geeky stiff stride "that's a stupid Hanks thing." The studio eventually found out, but when they saw the raw footage, they relented. Only the scene at Monument Valley was still missing because the money had run out, and since the studio refused to pay for it, Hanks and Zemeckis did it themselves.
Produced on a budget of $55 million, Forrest Gump opened in 1,595 theaters in the United States and Canada grossing $24,450,602 in its opening weekend. Motion picture business consultant and screenwriter Jeffrey Hilton suggested to producer Wendy Finerman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Finerman) to double the P&A (film marketing budget) based on his viewing of an early print of the film. The budget was immediately increased, in line with his advice. In its opening weekend, the film placed first at the US box office (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_1994_box_office_number-one_films_in_the_United_States), narrowly beating The Lion King (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lion_King), which was in its fourth week of release. For the first twelve weeks of release, the film was in the top 3 at the US box office, topping the list 5 times, including in its tenth week of release. After reissues, the film has gross receipts of $330,252,182 in the U.S. and Canada and $347,693,217 in international markets for a total of $677,945,399 worldwide. Even with such revenue, the film was known as a "successful failure"—due to distributors' and exhibitors' high fees, Paramount's "losses" clocked in at $62 million, leaving executives realizing the necessity of better deals.[62] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Gump#cite_note-62) This has also been associated with Hollywood accounting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting), where expenses are inflated in order to minimize profit sharing.[63] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Gump#cite_note-63) It is Robert Zemeckis' highest-grossing film to date.
Forrest Gump won Best Picture (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture), Best Actor in a Leading Role (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Actor) (Hanks had won the previous year for Philadelphia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_(film))), Best Director (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Director), Best Visual Effects (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Visual_Effects), Best Adapted Screenplay (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Writing_(Adapted_Screenplay )), and Best Film Editing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Film_Editing) at the 67th Academy Awards (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/67th_Academy_Awards). The film was nominated for seven Golden Globe Awards (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/52nd_Golden_Globe_Awards), winning three of them: Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award_for_Best_Actor_%E2%80%93_Motion _Picture_Drama), Best Director – Motion Picture (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award_for_Best_Director), and Best Motion Picture – Drama (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award_for_Best_Motion_Picture_%E2%80% 93_Drama). The film was also nominated for six Saturn Awards (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Awards) and won two for Best Fantasy Film (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Award_for_Best_Fantasy_Film) and Best Supporting Actor (Film) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Award_for_Best_Supporting_Actor).
The Maltese Falcon (1941) (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwish76r5b_9AhUMTcAKHQo4D1oQFnoECC0QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0033870 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3WteNk5BwOA5_dlv4PiQFV)
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Director of Photography Arthur Edeson, who had a background that included Universal's monster films (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Classic_Monsters), used low-key lighting and arresting angles to emphasize the nature of the characters and their actions, such as the scene where Gutman explains the history of the Falcon to Spade, drawing out his story so that the knockout drops in Spade's drink will take effect.[14] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maltese_Falcon_(1941_film)#cite_note-commentary-16) Roger Ebert (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ebert) describes this scene as "an astonishing unbroken seven-minute take",[10] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maltese_Falcon_(1941_film)#cite_note-Ebert-12) and script supervisor Meta Wilde remarked of this scene:
It was an incredible camera setup. We rehearsed two days. The camera followed Greenstreet and Bogart from one room into another, then down a long hallway and finally into a living room; there the camera moved up and down in what is referred to as a boom-up and boom-down shot, then panned from left to right and back to Bogart's drunken face; the next pan shot was to Greenstreet's massive stomach from Bogart's point of view.… One miss and we had to begin all over again.
Small Time Crooks (2000) (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj027TS-7_9AhUCkFwKHXIqDlcQFnoECCUQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0196216 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1pjuwyKjwyLzOXOkON8vGr)
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On Rotten Tomatoes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotten_Tomatoes) the film has an approval rating of 66% based on reviews from 100 critics, with an average rating of 6.3/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Woody Allen rises from his recent slump with Small Time Crooks. A simple, funny movie, Crooks proves Allen still has the touch that made his name synonymous with off-beat comedy." On Metacritic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacritic) the film has an average score of 69 out of 100, based on reviews from 32 critics, indicating "generally positive reviews". Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CinemaScore) gave the film a grade "B" on scale of A to F.
Stephen Holden of The New York Times (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times) wrote: "In this sweet, funny wisp of a movie, Mr. Allen shucks off his fabled angst and returns in spirit to those wide-eyed days of yesteryear, before Chekhov, Kafka and Ingmar Bergman invaded his creative imagination." Todd McCarthy of Variety (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety_(magazine)) magazine called it a "Breezy, enjoyable romp gratifyingly zigzags in directions that aren't apparent at the outset and features some intriguingly personal subtext for longtime Woody watchers." Roger Ebert (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ebert) of the Chicago Sun-Times (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Sun-Times) gave it 3 out of 4, and wrote: "Dumb as they (allegedly) are, the characters in Small Time Crooks are smarter, edgier and more original than the dreary crowd in so many new comedies."
Mikeandvan
03-03-2023, 21:08
Planet of the Apes - 1968,started watching last night, will finish tonight. Dreadful to think that the ending may actually prove prescient in my lifetime.
new in.. bluray edition of..
To Have and Have Not (1944) (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiU3trdhsL9AhUPesAKHSWBBOkQFnoECGAQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0037382 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1Sn3JcpBaB8URw069O9D_E)
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loosely based on Ernest Hemingway's 1937 novel of the same name by Howard Hawks.
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"You know how to whistle don't you Harry? You just put your lips together - and blow."
Probably my favourite Bogart film - but they are all good.
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'Clarkson's Farm'
Some youth at work told me how to get Prime on my telly and it didn't seem too complicated so I tried it and it actually worked.
The king of TV presenters tries running his own farm with predictably hilarious results.
Probably the only thing worth watching on Prime aside from the odd Liverpool match, and given their recent form I'm having my doubts about that too.
Pigmy Pony
04-03-2023, 12:01
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'Clarkson's Farm'
Some youth at work told me how to get Prime on my telly and it didn't seem too complicated so I tried it and it actually worked.
The king of TV presenters tries running his own farm with predictably hilarious results.
Probably the only thing worth watching on Prime aside from the odd Liverpool match, and given their recent form I'm having my doubts about that too.
The characters surrounding him make it worth watching - his accountant (the voice of doom), Caleb, who's never been more than a few miles from home, knows nowt about the outside world and is all the better for it, and his dad, who seems to have his own language :)
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) Bluray..
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A great pairing this... plus Chris Lee and Genevieve Page too...
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The characters surrounding him make it worth watching - his accountant (the voice of doom), Caleb, who's never been more than a few miles from home, knows nowt about the outside world and is all the better for it, and his dad, who seems to have his own language :)
The 'head of security' bloke? Didn't realise he is Caleb's dad.
He is totally impenetrable. I did four years in telesales and I got pretty good at deciphering super-strength regional accents, even Northern Ireland, but his is like nothing I have ever experienced.
The 'head of security' bloke? Didn't realise he is Caleb's dad.
He is totally impenetrable. I did four years in telesales and I got pretty good at deciphering super-strength regional accents, even Northern Ireland, but his is like nothing I have ever experienced.
its all dutch to me:D .. ive never seen it by way... i used to work in ireland so got pretty good at language, and was good at speaking n irish lol could fool natives
Murder on the Orient Express (2017), 4K Bluray..
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Even first class passengers on the Orient Express - at the time of the publication of the novel - did not have private bathrooms. The passengers shared toilets and did without showers or baths.
"The Simplon" (as in the Simplon Orient Express) is in reference to the twelve-mile Simplon Tunnel linking Switzerland and Italy, which removed a half day's travel time between Paris and Istanbul by way of Venice.
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'The Martian' (2015)
Got tired of people asking me if I'd seen this so I got round to giving it a go.
Matt Damon is an astronaut who gets left behind on Mars when his colleagues think he has been killed in a storm.
Another disappointing modern film. You never get properly involved in it, since a few upsets aside you sort of know he is going to be okay and somehow get home. About the closest film I can think of is 'Apollo 13', which unlike this, is a true story. And unlike this has much better characterisation and tension - even though you know the outcome already.
There seems to have been something lost in script-writing ability in the intervening 30 years.
Oh and even though the film is set in 2035, which isn't that far away, the NASA HQ is all shiny and ultra-modern, like it's the 25th century or something, and that doesn't ring true either.
Would have been a better film if they had to scrabble round with scanty resources in order to rescue him, instead they just send the big shiny spaceship back again. Yes, spoilers, but if you've not seen it already then really isn't worth bothering to watch it.
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'The Martian' (2015)
Got tired of people asking me if I'd seen this so I got round to giving it a go.
Matt Damon is an astronaut who gets left behind on Mars when his colleagues think he has been killed in a storm.
Another disappointing modern film. You never get properly involved in it, since a few upsets aside you sort of know he is going to be okay and somehow get home. About the closest film I can think of is 'Apollo 13', which unlike this, is a true story. And unlike this has much better characterisation and tension - even though you know the outcome already.
There seems to have been something lost in script-writing ability in the intervening 30 years.
Oh and even though the film is set in 2035, which isn't that far away, the NASA HQ is all shiny and ultra-modern, like it's the 25th century or something, and that doesn't ring true either.
Would have been a better film if they had to scrabble round with scanty resources in order to rescue him, instead they just send the big shiny spaceship back again. Yes, spoilers, but if you've not seen it already then really isn't worth bothering to watch it.
yes i do have film as a dig file via amazon when it was fairly new. i was a bit disappointed too. as you say the script was going nowhere.
type of film you can walk away from for 30 mins and when you return your still pretty much in same spot.
yes i do have film as a dig file via amazon when it was fairly new. i was a bit disappointed too. as you say the script was going nowhere.
type of film you can walk away from for 30 mins and when you return your still pretty much in same spot.
Yes that's it in a nutshell.
The book it was based on is apparently a best-seller but then I guess no-one is writing good novels anymore either, at least not since George McDonald-Frasier died.
They need to make some more Flashman films, but do it properly for once.
They need to make some more Flashman films, but do it properly for once.
the one they made was ghastly tbh... i think the books are best left as books. they will try and rewrite them as they are not suitible for snowflakes..
The Bourne Identity (2002) (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwin2sH62sT9AhWIhFwKHUCMAeIQFnoECBoQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0258463 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1HqHIF00q5WvRHjieimTBb)
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Matt Damon (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000354) climbed down the last 30 feet of the building himself, without a stunt double. He called it "the most gruelling thing I had to do."
the one they made was ghastly tbh... i think the books are best left as books. they will try and rewrite them as they are not suitible for snowflakes..
It was so bad GMF refused to allow any more to be made unless he had complete creative control. Which was never going to happen.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966).. bluray.. (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj92-ez9sT9AhXLN8AKHVTZDZYQFnoECEUQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0060196 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1VUCQIoDxznOLFobcSCfdE)
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Because writer and director Sergio Leone (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001466) spoke barely any English and Eli Wallach (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0908919) (Tuco) spoke barely any Italian, the two communicated in French.
During the scene right before the final duel where Tuco (Eli Wallach (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0908919)) is running frantically through the cemetery, a dog can be seen running on-screen at the beginning of the scene. In reality, that was improvised on the spot. Sergio Leone (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001466), who was afraid that the scene was going to slip into melodrama, released the dog without informing Eli Wallach (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0908919) first--thus, his look of surprise is quite genuine.
For the scene where Angel Eyes interrogates Maria the prostitute for information about Bill Carson, Lee Van Cleef (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001812) was appalled by the fact that he was required to actually hit Maria (Rada Rassimov (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0711502)), complaining "I can't hit a woman." Rassimov replied with, "Don't worry. I'm an actress. Even if you slap me for real, it's no problem", but Van Cleef further stated, "I know, but I can't!" As a result, a stunt double was used for shots where Rassimov was slapped, which were intercut with shots of Van Cleef. As he later put it: "There are very few principles I have in life. One of them is I don't kick dogs, and the other one is I don't slap women in movies."
The Conversation (1974).. bluray.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiHrtiHn8X9AhVynVwKHXwAByoQFnoECEcQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0071360 %2F&usg=AOvVaw20yjgSkr4qUk_hCOMHEpGn)
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Gene Hackman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000432) learned to play the saxophone especially for the film.
Gene Hackman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000432) played a former N.S.A. Agent who is a surveillance expert in Enemy of the State (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120660) (1998), and the images of his character in his younger days are taken directly from this film. Hackman's characters are so similar in both movies, fans have theorized that they may be the same person, but there is no evidence of this provided by the makers of either film.
In the first scene inside Harry's apartment the camera is in a fixed position, and does not follow Harry as he walks in and out of view. When he goes to his couch the camera turns left and remains fixed on the couch. This is an imitation of a surveillance camera, as if the viewer is spying on Harry.
Excellent film! The whole plot turns on its head when one hears the change of intonation and stress of the words: "He'd kill us if he could."
I have watched the film so many times, trying to work out how Harry Caul's flat is bugged. Even he can't find the bugging device(s). One suggestion is that it is contained in his saxophone lanyard - but I find that hard to believe.
In my opinion it is a much better film than 'Enemy of the State'.
(Point of information: surveillance operatives (such as those who bugged the Watergate Hotel) are now referred to as "plumbers", after the 1974 film,)
Excellent film! The whole plot turns on its head when one hears the change of intonation and stress of the words: "He'd kill us if he could."
I have watched the film so many times, trying to work out how Harry Caul's flat is bugged. Even he can't find the bugging device(s). One suggestion is that it is contained in his saxophone lanyard - but I find that hard to believe.
In my opinion it is a much better film than 'Enemy of the State'.
(Point of information: surveillance operatives (such as those who bugged the Watergate Hotel) are now referred to as "plumbers", after the 1974 film,)
i feel now there was no bug, it was just his imagination or his brain going due to type of person he was etc. its a different film of course..eos is more mainstream and flashy, but well enough done. due to lak of having such abilities, these older films often have the advantage of needing a better script and better acting.
the other possible was it was to do with the phone gadget his compeditor was showing at the show
kirstysdad
05-03-2023, 21:36
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, 2011...
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ4hukbs571MwrsRvhFHpXwOf8xeGaeh z_9K0VgeosBZeqg4rHg
I know the critics hated it, but...
kirstysdad
05-03-2023, 21:38
OK, I can't do the big pictures...
The Banshees of Inisherin. Fekkin outstanding.
here ya go sandy
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcThhgoQLbpBiw-KNrpL1pWmS3YnzVwBLn5-1cw3BQ1hyO41y7--
Heist (2015) (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwivioHqscf9AhXTTEEAHd19DPYQFnoECCMQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt3276924 %2F&usg=AOvVaw0_T3JmKeXrBtnotig7sfL2)
https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSvKEx9NVpfDInCLrnMfppGXOl-dwgrgFVKhp-4i_OMSVSkehld
Filmed in and around Mobile, Alabama.
The second heist film starring Robert De Niro (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000134) and being directed by someone with the last name Mann, the first being Heat (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113277) (1995).
Alive (1993)
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj93Jrqxsf9AhX3SUEAHblsDt0QFnoECEYQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0106246 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1WhjCPt926z06-7BEZhWhV)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8b/Alive92poster.jpg
the book is much better but its still watchable...
The real Nando Parrado (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0663427) (Ethan Hawke (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000160)'s character) was technical advisor to the film.
Nando Parrado's determination to escape was driven by the thought of his father, Seler Parrado, suffering back in Montevideo. He could not bear the thought of his father grieving for his wife, daughter and son, when the son was still alive. In the movie, when Nando and Canessa reach the top of a peak and see only more mountains, Canessa despairs and is convinced they will die in the Andes. In real life, Nando instead named the mountain Mt. Seler, after his father, and drew on his absolute determination to see him again to keep going. As one of the 16 survivors, he said if he was to die, he was going to "die walking."
Director Frank Marshall (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0550881) auditioned novice actor Brad Pitt (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000093) for the Roberto Canessa part, but Pitt's reading was poor, and the part went to Josh Hamilton (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0357979) instead.
How to Murder Your Wife (1965) (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiMw6Le8cf9AhVgQkEAHX3jA_0QFnoECB0QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0058212 %2F&usg=AOvVaw0jlAdnMOERX0oc6u0-6aXj)
https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT6MuiPWruXs3L1pH-DIcxbg5daKFEKCVVH8J1BSauhz0Tkqc1O
Alive (1993)
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj93Jrqxsf9AhX3SUEAHblsDt0QFnoECEYQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0106246 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1WhjCPt926z06-7BEZhWhV)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8b/Alive92poster.jpg
the book is much better but its still watchable...
The real Nando Parrado (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0663427) (Ethan Hawke (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000160)'s character) was technical advisor to the film.
Nando Parrado's determination to escape was driven by the thought of his father, Seler Parrado, suffering back in Montevideo. He could not bear the thought of his father grieving for his wife, daughter and son, when the son was still alive. In the movie, when Nando and Canessa reach the top of a peak and see only more mountains, Canessa despairs and is convinced they will die in the Andes. In real life, Nando instead named the mountain Mt. Seler, after his father, and drew on his absolute determination to see him again to keep going. As one of the 16 survivors, he said if he was to die, he was going to "die walking."
Director Frank Marshall (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0550881) auditioned novice actor Brad Pitt (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000093) for the Roberto Canessa part, but Pitt's reading was poor, and the part went to Josh Hamilton (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0357979) instead.
'Pass me another chunk of co-pilot.'
'Pass me another chunk of co-pilot.'Lol..the Simpsons again..
https://youtu.be/4_vyYY7qwxs
From way back - when it was funny.
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