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'Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson' (2008)
I was always a big fan. Not a bad documentary but it jumps about a bit too much and doesn't really do him full credit.
Nit-picking really, it's well worth a watch, there's no way to make a documentary about this man and have it be dull.
Sherlock Holmes in Washington, 1943..
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US War Bonds promo tagged onto the end of the film reads: "You're not giving - just lending - when you buy war savings stamps and bonds - on sale here" .. The "V for victory" matchbooks were for war bonds and were not fictional.
If you listen closely to Clarence Muse's (the porter) dialogue and how he is saying it, you can hear a highly intelligent black man speaking and playing the part of a lesser educated black man. Clarence Muse studied and attended law school for two tears before giving it up and turning to acting. He was the first black man ever to star in a movie.
Bad Timing, 1980... bluray.
https://a.ltrbxd.com/resized/film-poster/2/9/9/5/0/29950-bad-timing-0-230-0-345-crop.jpg?v=33dfd29cf4
Director (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwid7cjsp8f-AhUoVqQEHZEsCCcQFnoECBIQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0080408 %2F&usg=AOvVaw13I7nYw1W464yG3xeBX7vi)Nicolas Roeg (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001676) and actress Theresa Russell (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000622) fell in love during the shoot and married. Russell was 22 years old at that time, while Roeg was already 52 years old. They had two children, but divorced later.
In 2013 Criterion Collection released a list of director (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwid7cjsp8f-AhUoVqQEHZEsCCcQFnoECBIQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0080408 %2F&usg=AOvVaw13I7nYw1W464yG3xeBX7vi)Christopher Nolan (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0634240)'s 10 favorite films from its catalog and this film was among them.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwid7cjsp8f-AhUoVqQEHZEsCCcQFnoECBIQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0080408 %2F&usg=AOvVaw13I7nYw1W464yG3xeBX7vi)
Archive (2020), bluray..
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Archive is a 2020 British (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6882604/)science fiction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction_film) film written and directed by Gavin Rothery (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Rothery_(film_creator)), in his directorial debut. It stars Theo James (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_James), Stacy Martin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacy_Martin), Rhona Mitra (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhona_Mitra), Peter Ferdinando (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ferdinando), Timea Maday Kinga (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Timea_Maday_Kinga&action=edit&redlink=1) and Toby Jones (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby_Jones). Set in 2038, the film follows a scientist who is trying to advance artificial intelligence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence) a step further than human beings, all while bringing his wife back from the dead. (Or so it seems)
On (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6882604/)review aggregator (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Review_aggregator) website Rotten Tomatoes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotten_Tomatoes), Archive holds an approval rating of 78% based on 37 reviews, with an average rating of 7.2/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "Archive executes its fairly basic program efficiently, offering sci-fi fans an engaging meditation on love and human nature."
(https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6882604/)
Bad Timing, 1980... bluray.
https://a.ltrbxd.com/resized/film-poster/2/9/9/5/0/29950-bad-timing-0-230-0-345-crop.jpg?v=33dfd29cf4
It's a very disturbing film IMO: Art Garfunkle is quite sinister in his role, whereas Harvey Keitel plays a sympathetic character, unlike most of his usual parts.
I have only seen it on TV (twice), but would quite like to get a copy.
Director (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwid7cjsp8f-AhUoVqQEHZEsCCcQFnoECBIQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0080408 %2F&usg=AOvVaw13I7nYw1W464yG3xeBX7vi)Nicolas Roeg (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001676) and actress Theresa Russell (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000622) fell in love during the shoot and married. Russell was 22 years old at that time, while Roeg was already 52 years old. They had two children, but divorced later.
In 2013 Criterion Collection released a list of director (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwid7cjsp8f-AhUoVqQEHZEsCCcQFnoECBIQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0080408 %2F&usg=AOvVaw13I7nYw1W464yG3xeBX7vi)Christopher Nolan (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0634240)'s 10 favorite films from its catalog and this film was among them.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwid7cjsp8f-AhUoVqQEHZEsCCcQFnoECBIQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0080408 %2F&usg=AOvVaw13I7nYw1W464yG3xeBX7vi)
It's a very disturbing film IMO: Art Garfunklel is quite sinister in his role, whereas Harvey Keitel plays a sympathetic character, unlike most of his usual parts.
I have only seen it on TV (twice), but would quite like to get a copy.
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'Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson' (2008)
I was always a big fan. Not a bad documentary but it jumps about a bit too much and doesn't really do him full credit.
Nit-picking really, it's well worth a watch, there's no way to make a documentary about this man and have it be dull.
I agree - it would be difficult to make a good biopic/documentary about Hunter Thompson. The film 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' was IMO a limited success.
Back in the early '70's I read a book about the Hell's Angels, which I think was written by Thompson.
^^ not a bad film..
now, The Paleface, 1948..bluray reg A.
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81cO0Bd2W9L._AC_SL1500_.jpg
Bob is a class act, and Jane Russell was a doll...
Girl with a Pearl Earring, 2003..
https://pics.filmaffinity.com/Girl_With_a_Pearl_Earring-165498332-large.jpg
Although Vermeer and the painting both are real historic figures, the screenplay is based on Tracy Chevalier (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1256768)'s novel and therefore largely fictional or hypothetical. Only 36 Vermeer paintings are known to exist today, and none of the models has ever been positively identified. A poster of the painting in her bedroom inspired Chevalier to write her own version of how it came to exist, based on the framework of Vermeer's known history. Chevalier sold the film rights and opted not to have any involvement in the film or screenplay, although after its release said that she was pleased with the results.
The painting that Griet inspired Vermeer to paint while she is washing the window of his studio is called "Woman with a Water Jug". It is currently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY. In the movie, Vermeer is working on the painting "The Concert", which was stolen in 1990 and is still missing. It is now valued at over 200 million dollars and one of the most famous stolen painting in the world.
Donnie Brasco, 1997...
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The film was a box office success, earning $124.9 million against its $35 million budget, and received positive reviews from critics. The film was nominated for an Academy Award (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Awards) for Best Adapted Screenplay (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Adapted_Screenplay).
The film is loosely based on the true story of Pistone (Depp), an FBI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation) undercover agent who infiltrated the Bonanno crime family (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonanno_crime_family) in New York City (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City) during the 1970s, under the alias Donnie Brasco (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_D._Pistone), a jewel thief from Vero Beach, Florida (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vero_Beach,_Florida).
Girl with a Pearl Earring, 2003..
https://pics.filmaffinity.com/Girl_With_a_Pearl_Earring-165498332-large.jpg
Although Vermeer and the painting both are real historic figures, the screenplay is based on Tracy Chevalier (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1256768)'s novel and therefore largely fictional or hypothetical. Only 36 Vermeer paintings are known to exist today, and none of the models has ever been positively identified. A poster of the painting in her bedroom inspired Chevalier to write her own version of how it came to exist, based on the framework of Vermeer's known history. Chevalier sold the film rights and opted not to have any involvement in the film or screenplay, although after its release said that she was pleased with the results.
The painting that Griet inspired Vermeer to paint while she is washing the window of his studio is called "Woman with a Water Jug". It is currently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY. In the movie, Vermeer is working on the painting "The Concert", which was stolen in 1990 and is still missing. It is now valued at over 200 million dollars and one of the most famous stolen painting in the world.
Not a bad little film; creditable and stars the lovely Scarlett Johansson.
'Crown Court'
Can't believe they are showing these on 'Talking Pictures' channel. Not seen one since I was in primary school and off sick.
Don't think they have ever repeated them before now. Proper telly.
The Man Who Knew Too Little, 1997...
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the lovely joanne walley and bill murray in a great spoof..
Was it a TV series?
it was yes... early 70's onwards.. sometimes it was quite funny ... not that i saw it a lot but ive seen a good few.. actors played the parts except the jury who were real people off street i think.
it was yes... early 70's onwards.. sometimes it was quite funny ... not that i saw it a lot but ive seen a good few.. actors played the parts except the jury who were real people off street i think.
everyone except the foreman - since he had to speak he had to be an Equity member.
Apparently they did show some of them years ago on Granada Plus but I don't remember that. Must have been on in the daytime during the week - which is why I missed most of them first time around too. Birth, school, work, death.
Young Frankenstein, 1974.... bluray reg A..
Classics went mad for this Mel Brooks masterpiece.
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When Mel Brooks (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000316) was preparing for this film, he discovered that Ken Strickfaden (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0834349), who'd made the elaborate electrical machinery for the lab sequences in the Universal Frankenstein films, was still alive and living in the Los Angeles area. Brooks visited Strickfaden, and found that he had stored all the equipment in his garage. Brooks made a deal to rent the equipment, and gave Strickfaden the screen credit he didn't receive for the original films.
Mel Brooks (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000316) considers this the best film he ever directed, but rates it number three amongst his funniest, after Blazing Saddles (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071230) (1974) and The Producers (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063462) (1967). Brooks confirmed these views in interviews celebrating his ninetieth birthday in 2016.
Teri Garr (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000414) originally auditioned for the role of Elizabeth, the fiancée, while Madeline Kahn (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001404) was the front-runner for Inga, the assistant. But Kahn ultimately decided she'd rather play Elizabeth, leaving Mel Brooks (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000316) with the task of recasting the Inga role. Undaunted, he called Garr in and told her that if she could come back the next day with a German accent, he'd like her for the part. She looked at Mel and said, "Vell, yes, I could do zee German ackzent tomorrow, I could come back zis afternoon", and the part was hers. Garr has said that she based her accent on Cher (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000333)'s wig maker, with whom she worked on The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066717) (1971).
Hitchcock's Notorious, 1946... Criterion bluray.
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61tr7oTRQAL._AC_SL1500_.jpg
After filming had ended, Cary Grant (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000026) kept the famous UNICA key. A few years later he gave the key to his great friend and co-star Ingrid Bergman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000006), saying that the key had given him luck and hoped it would do the same for her. Many years later, at a tribute to director Sir Alfred Hitchcock (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000033), Bergman went off-script and presented the key to him, to his surprise and delight.
Sir Alfred Hitchcock (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000033) got the shot where Ingrid Bergman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000006) is in the background and the coffee cup is in the foreground, with both in focus, by using a giant coffee cup placed farther away than it appears.
Director Sir Alfred Hitchcock (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000033) and screenwriter Ben Hecht (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0372942) consulted Nobel Prize winner Dr. Robert Millikan on how to make an atomic bomb. He refused to answer, but confirmed that the principal ingredient, uranium, could fit in a wine bottle. Sir Alfred Hitchcock (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000033) claimed that the F.B.I. had him under surveillance for three months because this movie dealt with uranium.
"The girl's look is wrong", Ingrid said to Hitchcock when, after several takes of her close-up during the dinner sequence, everyone knew something was awry. "You have her registering [surprise] too soon, Hitch. I think she would do it this way." And with that, Ingrid did the scene her way. There was not a sound on the set, for Hitchcock did not suffer actors' ideas gladly: he knew what he wanted from the start. Well before filming began, every eventuality of every scene had been planned—every camera angle, every set, costume, prop, even the sound cues had been foreseen and were in the shooting script. But in this case, an actress had a good idea, and to everyone's astonishment, he said, "I think you're right, Ingrid."
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjr6bCBtsz-AhVPU6QEHTG9CuQQFnoECBwQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0038787 %2F&usg=AOvVaw2CMp-vOXe7K7BR1FV8mFli)
Mario Puzo's The Godfather, 1972... Coppola Restoration..
Note the attention to detail: most of the cars have wooden bumpers. Bumpers were removed by car owners during World War II, and replaced with wooden ones. The chrome ones were turned in to help with the war effort. After the war, it took several years for them to be replaced.
Don Vito Corleone's distinctive voice was based on real-life mobster (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000199)Frank Costello (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1388931). Marlon Brando (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000008) had seen him on television during the Estes Kefauver (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0444877) hearings in 1951, and imitated his husky whisper in the film.
Al Pacino (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000199)'s maternal grandparents immigrated to America from Corleone, Sicily, just as Vito Corleone had.
This latest edition was created with higher-quality sources of the film, improved digital technology and some 4,000 hours spent repairing stains, tears and other flaws.
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/02/24/arts/23godfather-coppola1/23godfather-coppola1-mediumSquareAt3X.jpg
https://youtu.be/43EnVRrWMTE?t=30
The Outfit, 1973.
Robert Duvall again but in different type of role...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ac/Theoutfitmovieposter.jpg
Cast includes Karen Black (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Black), Joe Don Baker (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Don_Baker) and Robert Ryan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ryan). Roger Ebert gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four and praised it as "a classy action picture, very well directed and acted." Others were less impressed but i agree, its a good film.
This was only the second picture in which Robert Duvall (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000380) was top-billed.
The picture was cast with such film noir veterans as Timothy Carey (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0137046), Elisha Cook, Jr., Jane Greer (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0339452), Robert Ryan (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0752813), Sheree North (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0636065), and Marie Windsor (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0934798), as it was originally to be as in the novel to be a period noir.
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, 1970... bluray
https://eurekavideo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/NewWebPack_EKA70283_TPLOSH_300dpi.jpg
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwie5ZSojc_-AhUHJ8AKHaCJBPoQFnoECCMQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Pr ivate_Life_of_Sherlock_Holmes&usg=AOvVaw11-5EFr-Udwj9YbUVVlpMY) Watson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0086780/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Holmes, let me ask you a question. I hope I'm not being presumptuous, but... there *have* been women in your life, haven't there?
Holmes (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0827137/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): The answer is yes...
Watson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0086780/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): [Watson breathes a sigh of relief]
Holmes (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0827137/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): ...You're being presumptuous. Good night.
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Badlands of Dakota, 1941...bluray. (French produced this but you can switch off subtitles)
https://images.static-bluray.com/movies/covers/228924_front.jpg?t=1549390387
decent film and a good cast.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwieiZ-nqs_-AhWTNcAKHTxsARIQFnoECAwQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBadlan ds_of_Dakota&usg=AOvVaw0dqHRTs_Tix443XI77CSKL)
Throw Momma from the Train, 1987...
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Elmer Gantry (1960), bluray..
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91g4A6I2LHL._AC_SY445_.jpg
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi8pdmP2tH-AhUQUcAKHfCRB08QFnoECAsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0053793 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1JxvYkj2lAruISIwNYI6WD) Jean Simmons (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001739) became so frightened in the fire scene with burning pieces of balsa wood falling all around her that she ran off the set. Richard Brooks (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0112218) didn't know what to do, so Arthur Kennedy (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0447913) suggested getting Simmons "bombed" on gin and milk. Kennedy had used the strategy on a nervous Dorothy McGuire (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0570192) in a scene from A Summer Place (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053320) (1959). After five drinks in her dressing room, Simmons performed as scripted.
"Elmer Gantry" was originally intended to be screened in the UK on BBC2 on November 18, 1987, but the horrific fire at King's Cross Tube station led to its cancellation, due to the similarities between this real-life event and the big top fire depicted in the movie.
There is a warning at beginning not to show it to kids...
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi8pdmP2tH-AhUQUcAKHfCRB08QFnoECAsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0053793 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1JxvYkj2lAruISIwNYI6WD)
The Tree of Life (2011). criterion bluray.
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71HdmCuZKlL._AC_SL1500_.jpg
Dissatisfied by the look of modern computer generated visual effects, director (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjylKbh1dP-AhXVnVwKHW9ZAX4QFnoECAwQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0478304 %2F&usg=AOvVaw2zwEZW5cJy5x7UHtXpGN_F)Terrence Malick (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000517) approached veteran special effects supervisor Douglas Trumbull (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0874320), who was responsible for the visual effects in 2001: A Space Odyssey (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622) (1968), to create the visual effects for the film using bygone optical and practical methods. This marks the first feature film Trumbull has provided the effects for in 29 years, his last being Blade Runner (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083658) (1982).
The critic (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjylKbh1dP-AhXVnVwKHW9ZAX4QFnoECAwQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0478304 %2F&usg=AOvVaw2zwEZW5cJy5x7UHtXpGN_F)Jim Emerson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0256219) got word of what Terrence Malick (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000517) intended the sequence of dinosaurs to mean, by way of the visual effects supervisor in charge of that very sequence who is Michael L. Fink (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0277842). Emerson describes what he learned from Fink; "The premise of the four-shot scene was to depict the birth of consciousness (what some have called the "birth of compassion")-the first moment in which a living creature made a conscious decision to choose what Michael described as "right from wrong, good from evil." Or, perhaps, a form of altruism over predatory instinct".
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjylKbh1dP-AhXVnVwKHW9ZAX4QFnoECAwQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0478304 %2F&usg=AOvVaw2zwEZW5cJy5x7UHtXpGN_F)
https://i.ibb.co/VC6SWh4/The-Enforcer.jpg (https://imgbb.com/)
'The Enforcer' (1976)
Was originally to be called 'Dirty Harry And More' since Tyne Daley's character was called Kate More. Luckily saner heads prevailed.
Not as good as the first two but the introduction of the female partner throws up some interesting situations and makes it different enough for it to be a worth a watch.
Daley turned down the role three times until they gave her creative control of her character. At the premier she was 'shocked' by the amount of violence in the film. (I mean it's a Dirty Harry film, love. Seriously, what did you expect?)
One thing I like about Eastwood is that he's never been one of these Hollywood hand-wringing types. Just makes good films - which is all anyone wants.
Needless to say by modern standards there's hardly any violence and what there is isn't that explicit.
a lot of the harry films have aged quite a lot but i do like them. ive a boxset somewhere, but i usually only watch same one or 2.. yes clint makes his films well and doesnt fart about
a lot of the harry films have aged quite a lot but i do like them. ive a boxset somewhere, but i usually only watch same one or 2.. yes clint makes his films well and doesnt fart about
Like with Bogart you can watch Eastwood films many times and not got bored of them - can't say that about most of the modern films which aren't even worth watching once.
Pigmy Pony
01-05-2023, 09:37
I read somewhere that Eastwood never blinked when firing a gun, a rare thing apparently.
I read somewhere that Eastwood never blinked when firing a gun, a rare thing apparently.
yul brynner didnt either... he was, like clint, very musical and a great guitarist and singer clint plays piano
I read somewhere that Eastwood never blinked when firing a gun, a rare thing apparently.
I don't know about that, I don't blink. But saw an interview with Arnie where he said he had to train for ages on 'The Terminator' to stop himself doing it.
walpurgis
01-05-2023, 09:56
Like with Bogart you can watch Eastwood films many times and not got bored of them - can't say that about most of the modern films which aren't even worth watching once.
I dunno. When you've watched Clyde bop a hell's angel a couple of times it gets a bit samey :).
walpurgis
01-05-2023, 09:57
I read somewhere that Eastwood never blinked when firing a gun, a rare thing apparently.
I don't either. Did a lot of shooting.
I don't know about that, I don't blink. But saw an interview with Arnie where he said he had to train for ages on 'The Terminator' to stop himself doing it.
its a rare thing, but you can train it out of yourself apparently. havent shot since i was about 20
The Lone Ranger (2013).
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In an interview, (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjvt_WQ9dP-AhXkTEEAHV_8BDAQFnoECAsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt1210819 %2F&usg=AOvVaw2fhVdT1EKYtRt4YS9zh3vW)Johnny Depp (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000136) thanked his stunt horse, Scout, for saving his life after a violent fall during filming. After Scout dragged Depp 25 feet, Scout jumped over him to avoid stepping on him. A clip of the fall shows the horse clearly jumping over Depp, and detaching him from the saddle. Depp suffered only minor bruises and scrapes, but says it could have been a lot worse if the horse had stepped on him.
The "frame story" where young Will meets the old Tonto takes place in 1933, the year of the first Lone Ranger radio broadcast.
Todd McDaniels, a linguist at the Comanche Nation College, commented favorably on (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjvt_WQ9dP-AhXkTEEAHV_8BDAQFnoECAsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt1210819 %2F&usg=AOvVaw2fhVdT1EKYtRt4YS9zh3vW)Johnny Depp (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000136)'s attempts to speak Comanche, a language with 23 to 30 living native speakers. "The words were there, the pronunciation was shaky, but adequate."
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjvt_WQ9dP-AhXkTEEAHV_8BDAQFnoECAsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt1210819 %2F&usg=AOvVaw2fhVdT1EKYtRt4YS9zh3vW)
Looper, 2012..
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The Devil and Miss Jones, 1941..
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The Pearl of Death, 1944...
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Holmes tells Watson that if he's wrong about the pearl's hiding place, "I shall retire to Sussex and keep bees." In the original Holmes stories, this is exactly what he does upon retirement.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1939..
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In the original novel, and in all later film versions, the butler is named Barrymore. In this version, the butler was renamed Barryman since the famous Barrymore family - Lionel Barrymore (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000859), Ethel Barrymore (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000856) and John Barrymore (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000858) - were still acting in films at the time.
The impressive interior set for Baskerville Hall was subsequently recycled by Fox, most notably for their last Charlie Chan feature, Castle in the Desert (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034586) (1942).
We're No Angels, 1955.. watch this a lot as its a great example of a small group of excellent actors all pulling together. Bogey was the top star of course and shows he could do anything, even comedy.
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The Camomile Lawn, 1992.
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The Camomile Lawn, 1992.
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this again... superb program
Two Mules for Sister Sara, 1970...
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Charley Varrick, 1973..
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Prime Cut, 1972....A vicious Kansas City slaughterhouse owner and his hick family are having a bloody "beef" with the Chicago crime syndicate over profits from their joint illegal operations. Top enforcer Nick Devlin is sent to straighten things out.
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Lee Marvin had a serious feud with director Michael Ritchie, because Ritchie wanted him to have love scenes with the too young actress Sissy Spacek(22 to 48). Marvin hated Ritchie for this lack of respect for Spacek. It was Sissy Spacek (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000651)'s feature film debut.
Gene Hackman accepted the secondary role of "Mary Ann" because it was his first offer of work after being unemployed for nearly six months since the end of filming on The French Connection (1971).
The submachine gun used by Nick Devlin in the last part of the film is the now rare Smith & Wesson model 76, a near copy of the Swedish M/45. It was produced in very small numbers in the late 1960s, and it was eventually discontinued due to lack of interest in such a weapon by military and law enforcement agencies. In US service, it was largely known as the "Swedish-K" or "K-Rifle. It was used by US special services (like Navy SEALS and CIA operatives) during the Vietnam War.
walpurgis
03-05-2023, 18:33
Prime Cut, 1972
Good movie. Not well known, I have the DVD.
Man Hunt (1941), Holywoods version of Geoffrey Household's novel, Rogue Male starring Walter Pidgeon, George Sanders and Joan Bennett..
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When this movie was made, America was not part of World War II. At this time, a number of Hollywood studios were pro-American involvement in the war. This movie is one of a number of films made during the late 1930s and early 1940s that represented pro-American intervention in the war. These films include: (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjX_6XQudv-AhWCd8AKHfY3AX4QFnoECBgQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0033873 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1xLUh4uly0FIsGc80bBFap)A Yank in the R.A.F. (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034405) (1941), Man Hunt (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033873) (1941), Foreign Correspondent (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032484) (1940), The Mortal Storm (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032811) (1940), Confessions of a Nazi Spy (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031173) (1939) and Sergeant York (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034167) (1941).
Very little indeed remains of Geoffrey Household (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0396716)'s original novel in this adaptation, but the author, interviewed about it over thirty years later, conceded that "Fritz Lang (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000485) made a smashing film out of my book".
When Thorndike (Pidgeon) is captured, the George Sanders (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001695) character inspects his belongings including his rifle, which bears the maker's name of "Hammond and Hammond, Bond Street". There was no such gunsmith in the UK and it seems likely the name is borrowed from a very famous gunsmith called Holland and Holland of Bruton Street, which is situated nearby.
Great Expectations (1946), Classic David Lean drama of Dickens story. Sir John Mills stars.
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Sir (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiu75iw3tv-AhXIasAKHfxVCUsQFnoECCYQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0038574 %2F&usg=AOvVaw0lJ9gNGKBoXm5Mh3NV-bWQ)Alec Guinness (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000027) admired the way Sir David Lean (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000180) directed him, singling out a close-up in which he had to laugh out loud, and which he struggled to make look unmanufactured. Lean told him to forget about the whole thing, sat by his side, and made a little signal to the camera to start turning in the course of the conversation. He said something which made Guinness laugh and then said, "Cut." Guinness: "So he got this shot on a totally false premise, but thank God. I don't think I would have ever achieved it otherwise."
At the end, when Pip is persuading Estella to leave Satis House with him, a 'Chad' is clearly visible drawn on the screen behind him (Chads were a popular form of graffiti in the 1940s - a character with a big nose looking over a wall). Chad is a British term; the American equivalent would be Kilroy, as in 'Kilroy was here'.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiu75iw3tv-AhXIasAKHfxVCUsQFnoECCYQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0038574 %2F&usg=AOvVaw0lJ9gNGKBoXm5Mh3NV-bWQ)
21 years later... Quatermass and the Pit, 1967.. Directed by Roy Ward Baker.
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Professor Bernard Quatermass (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0445139/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): The will to survive... it's an odd phenomenon. Roney, if we found out earth was doomed - say, by climatic changes - what would we do about it?
Dr. Mathew Roney (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0232019/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Nothing. Just go on squabbling as usual.
When Dr. Roney is picking at the eyeball of the dead Martian creature in his laboratory, the pupils of the compound eye are a rectangular slot shape rather then round like a human eye. This is reminiscent of a goat's eye, a creature that, for centuries, has been associated with witchcraft and sorcery.
A Sony CV-2000B Videocorder - a very early and primitive form of videotape recorder - is on display during the sequences in which the Martian race memory is both recorded and later played back to the skeptical military.
Trading Places (1983)...
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(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjb5tqTjd7-AhWTQkEAHTFrDFkQFnoECBYQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0086465 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3cuuiys6_nQbNyrocAeFTe)Ralph Bellamy (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000897) (Randolph) and Don Ameche (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000747) (Mortimer) make cameo appearances in Coming to America (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094898) (1988) as the same characters; the two are now homeless, and Prince Akeem (Eddie Murphy (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000552)) gives them a large amount of money to get them back off the streets.
This was (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjb5tqTjd7-AhWTQkEAHTFrDFkQFnoECBYQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0086465 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3cuuiys6_nQbNyrocAeFTe)Ralph Bellamy (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000897)'s ninety-ninth film, and Don Ameche (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000747)'s forty-ninth. This was Eddie Murphy (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000552)'s second film, and he joked: "Between the three of us, we've made one hundred fifty movies!"
The baggage handlers were supposed to be (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjb5tqTjd7-AhWTQkEAHTFrDFkQFnoECBYQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0086465 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3cuuiys6_nQbNyrocAeFTe)Rick Moranis (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001548) and Dave Thomas (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0858686) as the Mackenzie brothers from SCTV (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075578) (1976). When they fell through, Dan Aykroyd (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000101) or Eddie Murphy (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000552) recommended Tom Davis (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0205569) and Al Franken (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0291253) from their Saturday Night Live (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072562) (1975) days.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjb5tqTjd7-AhWTQkEAHTFrDFkQFnoECBYQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0086465 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3cuuiys6_nQbNyrocAeFTe)
Private's Progress (1956) (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwio5IKtqN7-AhXJMMAKHeUoCzwQFnoECCAQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0049637 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1W0JbC_IsnmZEt6RnB_khq)
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William Hartnell (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0367156) made a career out of playing tough military NCOs in movies and on television. However, in real-life, he joined the Royal Armoured Corps in World War II, but was invalided out within eighteen months due to a nervous breakdown.
Erik the Viking (1989) (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiW4v7w0N7-AhUKXsAKHZ9yCr8QFnoECDUQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0097289 %2F&usg=AOvVaw0n5CUZc2n45JEd8lEakf0s)
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Starman (1984), bluray..
The film's two leads, (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjphOKAvuD-AhXDU6QEHWBaCzYQFnoECCAQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0088172 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3hJ6SKm0YTn1z5uR3KaKO0)Karen Allen (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000261) and Jeff Bridges (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000313), sang a duet in a new rendition of "All I Have to Do Is Dream" which was included on the movie's soundtrack. The song is heard in the film in an abridged acoustic version. The song was also recorded and filmed as a music video which is available on the DVD.
The Rolling Stones (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1213869/)' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" was not on the Voyager 1 & 2 disks. Chuck Berry (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001946/)'s "Johnny B. Goode" was.
https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTGuDuvUITRHM6C-EAgBlDZttnijqDmVKm2FPV9bxQzoiWUDFc3 (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjphOKAvuD-AhXDU6QEHWBaCzYQFnoECCAQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0088172 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3hJ6SKm0YTn1z5uR3KaKO0)
The Great Escape (1963) (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjf8-_12-D-AhUxWaQEHVbhDqQQFnoECBQQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0057115 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3o3F5dQFPQsP5ms4zbAAoY)
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The classic escape film i guess from John Sturges... Elmer Bernstein (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000930/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr5)wrote the engaging theme as well as the other stuff. He was prolific in films like this.
The motorcycle that Hilts uses in his escape attempt was a 1960s British Triumph 650.
In this movie, several Americans (including Hilts and Henley) were amongst the escapees. In real life, American officers assisted with the construction of the escape tunnel, but weren't amongst the escapees, because the Germans moved them to a remote compound just before the escape.
There's a great bit in 'Once Upon A Time In Hollywood' where they have Rick Dalton playing Hilts.
kirstysdad
06-05-2023, 14:58
On BBC iplayer
For the umpteenth time in various versions, Apocalypse Now Final whatever cut. Why don't I remember the French colonists in Cambodia ?
On BBC iplayer
For the umpteenth time in various versions, Apocalypse Now Final whatever cut. Why don't I remember the French colonists in Cambodia ?
wasn't in the original release.
thats the redux version...
or possibly the final cut... final cut is 20 mins shorter than the above but i think it has the planters in it
Mikeandvan
06-05-2023, 20:08
Twin peaks original series, first time I've seen it! Love it.
Lawrence001
06-05-2023, 20:55
Twin peaks original series, first time I've seen it! Love it.I watched it for the first time about 10 years ago. I remember when I was at school when it was first showed some of the arty kids in 6th form used to discuss it the next day and I thought it was just pretentious shite. Also when Das Boot the series was aired I thought who'd want to watch foreign language series with loads of blokes stuck in a boat for hours. I loved war films at the time but that was too much. Now I love them both.
I watched it for the first time about 10 years ago. I remember when I was at school when it was first showed some of the arty kids in 6th form used to discuss it the next day and I thought it was just pretentious shite.
I saw it first time round (age 20) and that was my conclusion too. Not seen it since but I doubt I'd change my mind.
Two Way Stretch, 1960...
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good Sellers' vehicle this. Lionel Jeffries is great too..
Mikeandvan
07-05-2023, 12:13
I watched it for the first time about 10 years ago. I remember when I was at school when it was first showed some of the arty kids in 6th form used to discuss it the next day and I thought it was just pretentious shite. Also when Das Boot the series was aired I thought who'd want to watch foreign language series with loads of blokes stuck in a boat for hours. I loved war films at the time but that was too much. Now I love them both.
Damn those arty 6th formers, Smiths fans all of them! So funny to see Morrisey turning out to be a bit of a patriot, in their eyes a nasty racist, love it!
Total Recall, 1990..
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Arnold Schwarzenegger (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000216) noticed that Michael Ironside (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000461) was constantly on the phone between takes. When he broached the subject with Ironside, he was told that he was phoning his sister and that she was currently suffering from cancer. Arnold immediately brought Michael to his trailer and they had an hour-long, three-way conversation with Ironside's sister about what exercises she should do and what kinds of foods she should be eating. Ironside has never forgotten Schwarzenegger's kindness and neither has his sister.
When Ronald Shusett (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0795953) and Dan O'Bannon (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0639321) first started working on the screenplay for this movie back in the 1970s, they realized that the movie would probably be too expensive and difficult to make (by the standards of special effects and budget at the time). They delayed working on the story and instead worked on an idea O'Bannon had about a space monster terrorizing a spaceship crew. This became Alien (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078748) (1979).
The Terminator, 1984..
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For the role of Kyle Reese, Orion wanted a star whose popularity was rising in the United States but who also would have foreign appeal. Orion co-founder Mike Medavoy had met Arnold Schwarzenegger (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schwarzenegger) and sent his agent the script for The Terminator. Cameron was uncertain about casting Schwarzenegger as Reese as he felt he would need someone even more famous to play the Terminator. Sylvester Stallone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester_Stallone) and Mel Gibson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Gibson) both turned down the Terminator role. The studio suggested O. J. Simpson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._J._Simpson) but Cameron did not feel that Simpson, at that time, would be believable as a killer.
Cameron agreed to meet with Schwarzenegger and devised a plan to avoid casting him; he would pick a fight with him and return to Hemdale and find him unfit for the role. However, Cameron was entertained by Schwarzenegger, who would talk about how the villain should be played. Cameron began sketching his face on a notepad and asked Schwarzenegger to stop talking and remain still. After the meeting, Cameron returned to Daly saying Schwarzenegger would not play Reese but that "he'd make a hell of a Terminator"
Terminator 2: Judgment Day, 1991...
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Robert Patrick (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001598) undertook a rigorous running regime and practiced breathing only through his nose, in order to appear to be a cyborg that could run at high speeds without showing fatigue. He had trained so hard that he was able to catch up to Edward Furlong (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000411) on his dirt bike with ease.
The effect of the T-1000 freezing and breaking up was achieved by filming shots of an amputee fitted with prosthetic, and of Robert Patrick (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001598) with his real limbs buried underneath the set. Clever editing makes the effect appear almost seamless.
Carolco studio executives were nervous and concerned when the original budget of US $75 million ballooned up to US $88 million, with more to come. In order to keep the budget manageable, they proposed to eliminate a few scenes, particularly the opening biker bar scene where The Terminator is introduced. They tried to get Arnold Schwarzenegger (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000216) to persuade James Cameron (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000116) to remove that scene, but Schwarzenegger turned them down, saying, "Only a studio guy would cut a scene out like that."
Arnold Schwarzenegger (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000216) was given a slightly used Gulfstream III airplane (worth about US $14 million) by producer Mario Kassar (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0440830), for accepting the role in this film.
Mikeandvan
07-05-2023, 18:30
Original Terminator was a classic, couldn't imagine anyone else but Arnie playing it. His opposite number was also a good choice, same actor that was in Aliens.
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Mindless violence on a bank holiday Monday, yeah.
A New Leaf, 1971..
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https://i.ibb.co/qB88Nr3/hawk.jpg (https://ibb.co/rkhhxwR)
'Hawk The Slayer' (1980)
Classic UK sword and sorcery epic - originally straight to video trash but now a cult film due to a whole load of reasons including the early synth soundtrack and the fact that it falls into the rarest category of films - those that are so bad that they're good.
Was intended to be a ''Medieval 'Fistful of Dollars' '' and it sort of is.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230508/fdcf1a8feefe42cf7573e1f9a1c4991a.jpg
With Eric Cantona?
More punch ups and machine guns so we’re on familiar territory
^^ not the worst film ever but up there:eyebrows:
was given a theatre run in the usa
Sullivan's Travels, 1941...
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^^ not the worst film ever but up there:eyebrows:
was given a theatre run in the usa
Seen worse films in the genre, lightning the mood with some Little Britain now.
Red, 2010,
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Looper, 2012..
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this again
Wilt, 1989..
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Cat Ballou (1965) (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj8muXUtuj-AhXRUMAKHWfrCHQQFnoECBkQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0059017 %2F&usg=AOvVaw0tigGaxoqBi1lHsjICVCvr)
https://images.moviesanywhere.com/9791b8c8826586df334a6c01c8d85102/fb93816d-33c3-4348-99e9-f524ed64fd3b.jpg
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjY4Kbwz-j-AhUbEcAKHQQ4CZAQFnoECDIQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0064116 %2F&usg=AOvVaw0kCeLgbeVAx6tQik4gVBPy)
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the lovely claudia..
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Sergio Leone originally wanted Sophia Loren to play Jill McBain, and Carlo Ponti, her husband, was willing to provide a considerable amount of financial backing if she was in the film. However, Leone decided not to cast her because he feared that she would try to gain too much dominance and influence on how the film was made, given her famously headstrong and temperamental personality. He instead cast Claudia Cardinale, a personal friend of his, whom he convinced to play Jill without showing her the script.
This marked the first of the last three films to be fully directed by Sergio Leone. All three of his last films would be edited for U.S. distribution, resulting in box-office failure in the U.S. (although the longer international versions would be successful in other countries). In Italy, an even longer version of the movie was released. It does not exist in an English dubbed version.
a great wee film showing the locations etc of the film
https://youtu.be/LwIJiSXgYjQ
a cheer me up film today..... Throw Momma from the Train, 1987..
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51133104XYL._AC_SY445_.jpg
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, 2003..
now
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, 2006..
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTKp5KKVpoYkHVFoFCD0xC-FWBN1ZA2TTe20MNswXlzJ8I06QCM
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean:_The_Curse_of_the_Black_P earl)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, 2007..
now
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, 2011..
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finish off the pirates series with no 5... Salazar's Revenge, 2017..
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Duke Wayne again in... The Searchers, 1956.. Possibly his most celebrated role as Ethan Edwards..
The film was a critical and commercial success. Since its release, it has come to be considered a masterpiece and one of the greatest and most influential films ever made (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_considered_the_best). It was named the greatest American Western (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI%27s_10_Top_10) by the American Film Institute (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Film_Institute) in 2008, and it placed 12th on the same organization's 2007 list of the 100 greatest American movies of all time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI%27s_100_Years%E2%80%A6100_Movies_(10th_Anniver sary_Edition)).
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/SearchersPoster-BillGold.jpg/800px-SearchersPoster-BillGold.jpg
Wayne again in.... True Grit, 1969, for which he won his only Oscar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Awards)...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a5/Truegritposter.jpg
Breaking the legend, Stunt double Jim Burk (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0121551) performed the entire scene where Rooster Cogburn charged Ned Pepper's gang on horseback. John Wayne (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000078) was only seen briefly in close-up, and he was riding on a trailer, not a horse. :D
The character of Rooster Cogburn was supposed to be around 40. John Wayne (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000078) was 61 when the film was made. Jeff Bridges was 60 when he played Rooster Cogburn in the remake, True Grit (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1403865) (2010). The character of Mattie was supposed to be 14. Kim Darby (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0200981) was 21 when the film was made in late 1968, and had already given birth to her first child.
In this and other John Wayne (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000078) westerns, he wears his gun low and to the rear. He also carries one long bullet in the center back of his ammunition belt.
I'm All Right Jack, 1959...
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Film critic and Peter Sellers biographer Alexander Walker was invited to the set by John Boulting one day. Walker looked to see where Peter Sellers was and Boulting said he was right next to the critic. Walker was stunned.
Ian Carmichael was one of several people who witnessed the mini silent films made by Peter Sellers on the set of this movie.
The Man in the White Suit, 1951.
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The fictional synthetic fiber in the film is made from a "long-chain molecule...of infinite length". Nothing like that existed in 1951, but similar synthetic polymers are now a reality. In 1968 the unusual properties of "Ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene", or UHMWPE, were first discovered. These are extremely long-chain molecules comprised of millions of individual atoms. UHMWPE wasn't commercialized until the 1990s and it's available now under the brand names Dyneema and Spectra. Variations of these molecules are used in protective armor, cut-resistant gloves, tear-resistant hosiery, bow strings, automotive winching rope, fishing line, high-performance sails, and in climbing cord and webbing. While modern materials don't have all the properties of the fictional fiber depicted in this film it has become much closer to reality.
School for Scoundrels (1960)
(https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054279/)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b8/School_for_Scoundrels_1960_UK_poster.jpg
The replacement car for the Swiftmobile, Reg PJB 828 is most probably the big Austin Healey 3000 launched just a couple of years earlier. Despite being first registered in 1958 it wasn't registered on uk roads until 1989 and was last on the roads in 2012, apparently it's red now but hard to tell if that's the original colour in B&W. The vehicle is currently off-road declared SORN by some lucky owner. Reminiscent of MG in style the Austin body was in fact built by Jensen and typically paired with a 125-150 hp engine unit - heady stuff for the 1950's hence why the 3000 was a regular race winner easily capable of over 100mph. Still popular today at anything from £20-£90k, but £50,000 can secure a fully refurbished as new example - a far cry from the original £825 (inc front discs but not optional heater or radio) + a huge £350 tax!
The 'Bellini' sports car driven by Terry-Thomas in the film, is in reality the actual Aston Martin DB3S which was once driven by Sterling Moss in the Mila Migilia and has been valued recently at £7 million.
The L-Shaped Room (1962) (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjLqa2GmvL-AhVWPcAKHSZgCogQFnoECB4QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0057239 %2F&usg=AOvVaw138jh25yITInGk9tkLR_Be)
https://theculturevulture.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/LSHAPEDROOM_QUAD_v6-e1511616327443.jpg
The film was green-lighted as result of a famous star, Leslie Caron (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001989), agreeing to play the lead (she was living in England at the time, following her marriage to Peter Hall (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0355991)). As a result, the lead character she played was changed into a Frenchwoman, having been English in the original novel.
Picked this up yesterday, watching today.
A favourite of mine and seen it a zillion times, but never like this.
3 disc set, not bad for £12. :thumbsup:
4K Dolby Vision/Atmos remaster from the original negative, with improved effects added.
Scan is taken from original negative, a lot of works gone into it so 4K transfer is pretty great.
https://cdn.hmv.com/r/w-640/hmv/files/08/08df60fa-f480-45c9-a4b4-75d9d7671996.jpg
https://youtu.be/tJmxfW35YdI
Robert Wise's Directors Cut is the better film, originally released on DVD in 2011 and still have my copy.
Always hoped it would come out on bluray at some point, never mind remastered 4K.
3 Disc Set, has all the special features from previous releases and new stuff about this 4K release, new commentaries that kinda thing.
Have the Theatrical Release on 4K on AppleTV, but as a physical media guy who finds that better quality, some Movies are worth having in the best quality possible.
The recent 4K 2001 is a great example of that, picture from the disc is stunning and adds to the experience of the film.
Happy Days.
Sunday matinee showing of Casablanca, 1942.
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The Day of the Jackal (1973) (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwju-eKJ3PT-AhU0Q0EAHW9WDmUQFnoECFQQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0069947 %2F&usg=AOvVaw2xbhdVZY7KNCE8CBUsgGzv)
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Director Fred Zinnemann (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003593) wanted the Jackal to be played by someone anonymous and indistinct, so he eschewed famous names in favor of casting a relatively unknown actor named Edward Fox (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002081). He later admitted this concept may have led to this movie's lack of expected success when it was released in theatres.
The special lightweight rifle that The Jackal concealed in a crutch was a genuine working model. Two of them were made for this movie. One was handed over to the British authorities, and the other now resides in the Paris Cinematheque.
Basic Instinct, 1992... 4k bluray.
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Upon seeing the film, Steven Spielberg (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000229) noticed Wayne Knight (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001431) and immediately wanted him to play Dennis Nedry in Jurassic Park (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290) (1993). He stayed through the end credits just to find his name, and Knight ended up being the first actor cast.
Michael Douglas (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000140) (a former race-car driver) did most of his own stunt driving in the film.
Sharon Stone (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000232) wasn't a big name and didn't read for the part, fearing she'd be disappointed. When she finally read the script and knew she was right for the role, she didn't want to call Paul Verhoeven (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000682) (whom she had worked with on Total Recall (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100802) (1990)) and ask if she could audition for him. "I wouldn't ask, because I didn't want him to test me just because he felt obligated," she told Playboy. One day, Verhoeven had her come in to dub lines for an airplane version of Total Recall (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100802) (1990), so she wore a tight Catherine-esque dress to demonstrate to Verhoeven that she could play the man-eater part. "I was being cool. Very cool," she said. "I didn't want him to think I was insane, but I did want to give him a general idea that I could transform myself. Men are visually stimulated, and that's usually enough, at least at first." The dress worked, and Stone tested with Michael Douglas (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000140) and won the role.
The Cruel Sea (1953)...
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, 1947..
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bc/Nicholas_Nickelby_1947_UK_poster.jpg
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi02cWU8fb-AhUZR8AKHSPvD9YQFnoECAwQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Li fe_and_Adventures_of_Nicholas_Nickleby_(1947_film)&usg=AOvVaw0x59M6n4XFihpRIJHBUGOW)
another Dickens classic... the tv mini series rolled into one...
David Copperfield, 2000. ..
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiLo9atiff-AhXSiFwKHQxKBrIQFnoECCQQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0167872 %2F&usg=AOvVaw0fCOaqIugTtGOlvGQpnj_G)Harry Lloyd (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0516003) (Young Steerforth) is the great-great-great-grandson of Charles Dickens (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002042), who wrote the novel on which this production was based.
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This version makes a change from the novel. In the book, young David is put to work pasting labels on bottles of wine at Murdstone and Grinby's wine company. In this movie, he is put to work pasting labels on jars of blacking (shoe polish). No doubt the change was made, because (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiLo9atiff-AhXSiFwKHQxKBrIQFnoECCQQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0167872 %2F&usg=AOvVaw0fCOaqIugTtGOlvGQpnj_G)Charles Dickens (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002042) was put to work pasting labels in Warren's Blacking Factory at the age of twelve, when his father John Dickens was imprisoned for debt.
John Sullivan (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0838153), the writer of Only Fools and Horses (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081912) (1981), was originally slated to write this adaptation, with David Jason (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0419248) cast as Mr. Micawber, effectively re-uniting him with his Only Fools and Horses co-star Nicholas Lyndhurst (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0528525) as Uriah Heep. However, Sullivan left the production when the BBC moved it from the comedy department to make it into a full-blown period drama instead (even though it still boasts numerous stars of BBC comedy in various roles). The role of Mr. Micawber eventually went to Bob Hoskins (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001364). Sullivan then wrote his own mini-series Micawber (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303496) (2001) as a vehicle for Jason.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiLo9atiff-AhXSiFwKHQxKBrIQFnoECCQQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0167872 %2F&usg=AOvVaw0fCOaqIugTtGOlvGQpnj_G)
Death on the Nile, 2022... 4k bluray
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now the 4k player is worky again, john carpenter's ... The Fog...
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Some Like It Hot, 1959... 4k bluray.
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71TZX6mwY8L._AC_SL1457_.jpg
The basic characteristics of the 4K restoration remain just as impressive as they were in 1080p, but in native 4K new crucial nuances emerge that give the film an even lusher appearance.
Years after the film's release, a movie reviewer asked Tony Curtis (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000348) why his "Josephine" was so much more feminine than Jack Lemmon (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000493)'s "Daphne." Curtis explained he was so scared to be playing a woman (or a man pretending to be one) that his tightly wound body language could be read as demure and shy, traditionally feminine traits, whereas Lemmon, who was completely unbothered, and "ran out of his dressing room screaming like the Queen of the May," kept much more of his masculine body language.
Upon its original release, Kansas banned the film from being shown in the state, explaining that cross-dressing was "too disturbing for Kansans." :eyebrows:
Prime Cut, 1972....A vicious Kansas City slaughterhouse owner and his hick family are having a bloody "beef" with the Chicago crime syndicate over profits from their joint illegal operations. Top enforcer Nick Devlin is sent to straighten things out.
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/519bqT4WcVL._AC_SX342_.jpg
Lee Marvin had a serious feud with director Michael Ritchie, because Ritchie wanted him to have love scenes with the too young actress Sissy Spacek(22 to 48). Marvin hated Ritchie for this lack of respect for Spacek. It was Sissy Spacek (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000651)'s feature film debut.
Gene Hackman accepted the secondary role of "Mary Ann" because it was his first offer of work after being unemployed for nearly six months since the end of filming on The French Connection (1971).
The submachine gun used by Nick Devlin in the last part of the film is the now rare Smith & Wesson model 76, a near copy of the Swedish M/45. It was produced in very small numbers in the late 1960s, and it was eventually discontinued due to lack of interest in such a weapon by military and law enforcement agencies. In US service, it was largely known as the "Swedish-K" or "K-Rifle. It was used by US special services (like Navy SEALS and CIA operatives) during the Vietnam War.
Good film - I've seen it a few times.
School for Scoundrels (1960)
(https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054279/)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b8/School_for_Scoundrels_1960_UK_poster.jpg
The replacement car for the Swiftmobile, Reg PJB 828 is most probably the big Austin Healey 3000 launched just a couple of years earlier. Despite being first registered in 1958 it wasn't registered on uk roads until 1989 and was last on the roads in 2012, apparently it's red now but hard to tell if that's the original colour in B&W. The vehicle is currently off-road declared SORN by some lucky owner. Reminiscent of MG in style the Austin body was in fact built by Jensen and typically paired with a 125-150 hp engine unit - heady stuff for the 1950's hence why the 3000 was a regular race winner easily capable of over 100mph. Still popular today at anything from £20-£90k, but £50,000 can secure a fully refurbished as new example - a far cry from the original £825 (inc front discs but not optional heater or radio) + a huge £350 tax!
The 'Bellini' sports car driven by Terry-Thomas in the film, is in reality the actual Aston Martin DB3S which was once driven by Sterling Moss in the Mila Migilia and has been valued recently at £7 million.
I was disappointed with the film - especially the denoument.
Ronin
https://s3.amazonaws.com/static.rogerebert.com/uploads/movie/movie_poster/ronin-1998/large_9SFjoCXctd9LGNcgvn6O1YEEhsg.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronin_(film)
Ronin
https://s3.amazonaws.com/static.rogerebert.com/uploads/movie/movie_poster/ronin-1998/large_9SFjoCXctd9LGNcgvn6O1YEEhsg.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronin_(film)
good film that. one i don't have.
War for the Planet of the Apes, 2017.. 4k bluray..
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81elE53Da7L._AC_SL1500_.jpg
When Maurice speaks to the human child with her new name "Nova... No-va," the dialogue is the actual voice of Charlton Heston (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000032/?ref_=tttrv_tr) speaking the same words to Linda Harrison (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0365709/?ref_=tttrv_tr) in Planet of the Apes (1968) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063442/?ref_=tttrv_tr). The voice has been electronically altered, but is still clearly recognizable.
As with Rise and Dawn, the visual effects for War were created by Weta Digital (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weta_Digital); the apes were created with a mixture of motion-capture and CGI key-frame animation, as they were performed in motion-capture technology and animated in CGI.
walpurgis
16-05-2023, 10:43
good film that. one i don't have.
Seen it a couple of times. Thought it was OK, but didn't want to add it to my DVD collection :).
Tried to watch 'Inland Empire' again yesterday and gave up again, wasn't in the right mood to torture myself! :eek:
Seen it a couple of times. Thought it was OK, but didn't want to add it to my DVD collection :).
Tried to watch 'Inland Empire' again yesterday and gave up again, wasn't in the right mood to torture myself! :eek:
a very difficult film to penetrate.. there is a new bluray coming out next month and ive a pre order on it lol.. for my arty collection
Predestination, 2014... bluray..
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The picture of the Crosby Shoes building in the beginning of the movie is actually a picture of the exploded reactor number 4 from Chernobyl Power Plant which exploded on 26 April 1986.
When the barkeep sits down at the typewriter for the first time, there is a copy of "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert A. Heinlein (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0374423/?ref_=tttrv_tr) next to the typewriter. Heinlein is the author of the short story "All You Zombies" on which the movie is based. Many lines of dialogue in the film are copied faithfully from Robert A. Heinlein (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0374423/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s source story
First Blood (1982), 4k bluray.
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After watching a rough cut of the film, which was about three hours long, (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiO9YScj_r-AhXOMMAKHa6ZBmYQFnoECCYQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0083944 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1SnHGdyB2o3bBzvNUdDCRo)Sylvester Stallone (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000230/?ref_=tttrv_tr) and his agent claimed that the film was so bad that it made them sick. Stallone also feared that the film would kill his career, and he attempted to buy all the footage and destroy it. When he couldn't do that, he suggested that the producers cut much of his part and let the rest of the characters tell the story. After heavy edits, the film was cut down to 93 minutes and set a precedent for future action movies.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiO9YScj_r-AhXOMMAKHa6ZBmYQFnoECCYQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0083944 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1SnHGdyB2o3bBzvNUdDCRo)
Mikeandvan
16-05-2023, 21:52
First Blood (1982), 4k bluray.
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After watching a rough cut of the film, which was about three hours long, (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiO9YScj_r-AhXOMMAKHa6ZBmYQFnoECCYQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0083944 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1SnHGdyB2o3bBzvNUdDCRo)Sylvester Stallone (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000230/?ref_=tttrv_tr) and his agent claimed that the film was so bad that it made them sick. Stallone also feared that the film would kill his career, and he attempted to buy all the footage and destroy it. When he couldn't do that, he suggested that the producers cut much of his part and let the rest of the characters tell the story. After heavy edits, the film was cut down to 93 minutes and set a precedent for future action movies.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiO9YScj_r-AhXOMMAKHa6ZBmYQFnoECCYQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0083944 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1SnHGdyB2o3bBzvNUdDCRo)
Classic film, pared back, lovely austere camera work.
Mikeandvan
16-05-2023, 21:56
Man who fell to earth. Nicolas Roeg, brilliant just like another of his films, Performance.
2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968... was it that long ago??
classic space si-fi.. 4k bluray
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/8118Q76FLDL._AC_SL1500_.jpg
Stanley Kubrick (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000040/?ref_=tttrv_tr) calculated that it would take one person 13 years to hand draw and paint all the mattes needed to insert the assorted spacecraft into the starry backgrounds. Kubrick hired 12 other people, and did the job in one year.
At the premiere screening, 241 people walked out of the theater, including Rock Hudson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001369/?ref_=tttrv_tr), who said, "Will someone tell me what the hell this is about?" Sir Arthur C. Clarke (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002009/?ref_=tttrv_tr) once said, "If you understand '2001' completely, we failed. We wanted to raise far more questions than we answered." Clarke later expressed some concern that the film was too hard to follow, and explained things more fully in the novelization and subsequent sequels.
The movie was not a financial success at first. MGM was planning to pull it back from theaters, but several theater owners persuaded them to keep showing the film. Many owners noticed increasing numbers of young adults attending the film. They were especially enthusiastic about watching the "Star Gate" sequence under the influence of psychedelic drugs. This helped the film to become a financial success.
Stanley Kubrick (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000040/?ref_=tttrv_tr) worked for several months with effects technicians to come up with a convincing effect for the floating pen in the shuttle sequence. After trying many different techniques, without success, Kubrick decided to simply use a pen that was adhered (using newly invented double-sided tape) to a sheet of glass and suspended in front of the camera. In fact, the shuttle attendant can be seen to "pull" the pen off the glass when she takes hold of it.
amazing film especially for 65/68... this web site has some info on how complex it was to shoot..
http://cinematyler.com/archives/749 (http://cinematyler.com/archives/749)
https://hartzog.org/j/2001beyondanalysis.html
(https://hartzog.org/j/2001beyondanalysis.html)
The Anderson Tapes (1971) (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjq4NT_pfz-AhUHYcAKHaJ-Dr8QFnoECA0QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0066767 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3rQOUkA85jsiXTaG-KNwce)
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The apartment building in the movie is in reality the Convent of the Sacred Heart, whose address is indeed the one given as that of the building, 1 East 91st Street.
One of the burglars looks into a sack taken out of the safe and exclaims in delight, "Double eagles!" The double eagle is a $20 gold coin, no longer made. One of them is now worth several thousand dollars.
To Have and Have Not, 1944... bogey meets bacall; the rest was history..
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/To_Have_and_Have_Not_%281944_poster_-_insert%29.jpg/320px-To_Have_and_Have_Not_%281944_poster_-_insert%29.jpg (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjgr8je3Pz-AhVHTcAKHbITBdcQFnoECBUQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FTo_Hav e_and_Have_Not_(film)&usg=AOvVaw3n51gks4H-_AbDYA40xRDx)
To Have and Have Not, 1944... bogey meets bacall; the rest was history..
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/To_Have_and_Have_Not_%281944_poster_-_insert%29.jpg/320px-To_Have_and_Have_Not_%281944_poster_-_insert%29.jpg (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjgr8je3Pz-AhVHTcAKHbITBdcQFnoECBUQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FTo_Hav e_and_Have_Not_(film)&usg=AOvVaw3n51gks4H-_AbDYA40xRDx)
One of my favourite films.
The Anderson Tapes (1971) (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjq4NT_pfz-AhUHYcAKHaJ-Dr8QFnoECA0QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0066767 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3rQOUkA85jsiXTaG-KNwce)
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Think I saw this many years ago - but if I did, I don't remember anything about it. :doh:
Think I saw this many years ago - but if I did, I don't remember anything about it. :doh:
crime caper... not bad, but without ever hitting the heights i guess... some good acting performances tho.
One of my favourite films.
yes, a very good film. typical howard hawks style. bacall was only 19 when it was made.
Payroll, 1961..
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Rio Lobo, 1970..
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the 3rd remake of rio bravo by howard hawks... wayne said something like, ' havent we made this film before' when he read script;)
The Comancheros (1961) (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiaofOgiv_-AhWrTEEAHeCvBIgQFnoECAkQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0054757 %2F&usg=AOvVaw04QRVQAIp1iqNO1EX0zirt)
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George Sherman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0792450/?ref_=tttrv_tr) produced this film, and Michael Curtiz (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002031/?ref_=tttrv_tr) directed it. During much of the shooting, Curtiz was seriously ill: he died of cancer shortly after the film's release. On the days when Curtiz was too ill to work, John Wayne (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000078/?ref_=tttrv_tr) took over direction. When the film was completed, he told the studio that he did not want credit as co-director and insisted that Curtiz's name alone appear as director. Wayne performed the same function in 1971 on "Big Jake (1971) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066831/?ref_=tttrv_tr)," which was directed by Sherman, who took ill during production. Wayne directed the film on the days when Sherman couldn't and agaain insisted that he not receive co-director credit.
Wayne again with ... Big Jake (1971) (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjSn7TBov_-AhWmSkEAHUT4BhIQFnoECAkQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0066831 %2F&usg=AOvVaw2TXSnygaTz_xV5YJVhHH6i)
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In 1971, owing to the success of this film, John Wayne (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000078/?ref_=tttrv_tr) was number one at the U.S. box office for the last time
Payroll, 1961..
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What's it about, and who's the girl?
What's it about, and who's the girl?
not a bad film actually.. about a payroll robbery of an armoured truck, and how it all goes wrong. she is Francoise Prevost.. billy whitelaw, michael craig, tom bell and kenneth griffith all in it.
Thanks Grant. Looks like something I might enjoy watching - will keep an eye out. :)
Thanks Grant. Looks like something I might enjoy watching - will keep an eye out. :)
think it was called I Promised to Pay (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwju4cTetf_-AhWIN8AKHcoZAKAQFnoECCMQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0055283 %2F&usg=AOvVaw24kHo_xt0sscqjnvuWaL81)
in the States..
some quality Wayne there Grant. I've watched all of those recently plus 'The Alamo' and 'The Searchers'.
Don't know how many times I've watched 'The Searchers' but it gets better each time.
What is it with Westerns? I just find them boring, and completely inaccurate historically.
(Though I have to admit I do like the ones with Clint Eastwood. :scratch:)
What is it with Westerns? I just find them boring, and completely inaccurate historically.
(Though I have to admit I do like the ones with Clint Eastwood. :scratch:)
Most films based on real events are inaccurate historically and most Westerns aren't based on real events anyway. I mean they're primarily entertainment.
These days we have documentary programmes that are historically inaccurate, now that's a real problem.
walpurgis
19-05-2023, 06:51
Can't say westerns appeal to me generally, but I've always thought 'The Big Country', took some beating and I have a DVD copy of 'High Noon' and the virtually unheard of 'The Last Hunt' with Robert Taylor (well worth a watch).
guess there is lots of reasons; there is the black v white and no middle colour of life out on the edge of the new civilization and wilds and such. a simpler way of dealing with an issue as the law was either non existant or simple. 'he drew first' sorta thing.
i guess it reminds us of our childhood too when westerns were the main staple; the saturday matinee if you like. you get wide open spaces with grand scenery;; man and horse crossing plain and fighting off the indians etc..
all great fun
Can't say westerns appeal to me generally, but I've always thought 'The Big Country', took some beating and I have a DVD copy of 'High Noon' and the virtually unheard of 'The Last Hunt' with Robert Taylor (well worth a watch).
That's another western I like. Strange really, as there is a lot of waiting around before there is any action.
Little Big Man, 1970..
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Dark Passage (1947)...Bluray.
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Director Rene Clair's 'I Married a Witch' from 1942. Reg A Bluray from Criterion.
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Veronica Lake (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000043/?ref_=tttrv_tr) and Fredric March (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0545298/?ref_=tttrv_tr) did not like one another, due in part to some disparaging remarks March made about her. During filming, Lake delighted in playing pranks on March. In one scene in which the two were photographed from only the waist up, Lake stuck her foot in March's groin. In another incident, Lake hid a 40-pound weight under her costume when March had to carry her in his arms. After that incident, March nicknamed the film "I Married a Bitch".
Charles Chaplin (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000122/?ref_=tttrv_tr) was a fan of director René Clair (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0163229/?ref_=tttrv_tr). After seeing this film he told Clair, "There was no need to see the credits, in two minutes I had known it was your work."
Sol Saks (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0757268/?ref_=tttrv_tr), creator of Bewitched (1964) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057733/?ref_=tttrv_tr), stated in an interview for Bewitched (1999) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0352204/?ref_=tttrv_tr) that he drew inspiration both from this film and Bell Book and Candle (1958) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051406/?ref_=tttrv_tr) in creating the iconic TV series. Columbia Pictures owned the rights to both of those movies. Since it also owned the television studio that was to produce "Bewitched," Saks didn't worry about getting sued.
The Sinking of the Laconia, 2011.
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The Sinking of the Laconia is a two-part television film, first aired on 6 and 7 January 2011 on BBC Two (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Two), about the Laconia incident (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconia_incident); the sinking of the British ocean liner (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_liner) RMS Laconia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Laconia_(1921)) during World War II by a German U-boat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-boat), which then, together with three other U-boats and an Italian submarine, rescued the passengers but was in turn attacked by an American bomber.
some nonsense for saturday morning... Nuns on the Run, 1990..
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more nonsense... The Square Peg..
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never understood what the deal was with Norman Wisdom and then when he disappeared we got Lee Evans doing the same schtick. Although he seems to have gone now too.
never understood what the deal was with Norman Wisdom and then when he disappeared we got Lee Evans doing the same schtick. Although he seems to have gone now too.
he was incredibly popular.. even charlie chaplin loved him, plus the whole of albania.. a clown, actor, musician, singer, gymnast, stuntman..the list is long.
a class act now with.... Dances with Wolves, 1990. This is the extended bluray version. Reg A.
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81HhewF4CwL._AC_SL1500_.jpg
Won 7 Oscars inc Best Picture.
Kevin Costner (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000126/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s spreading out of his arms while doing his suicide run at the start of the film was a completely spontaneous gesture that took his stunt coordinator by surprise.
Kevin Costner (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000126/?ref_=tttrv_tr) did all his own riding, including bareback and shooting his gun without holding the reins, during the buffalo hunt.
The Lady Vanishes (1938), criterion bluray, reg a..
https://s3.amazonaws.com/criterion-production/films/2fed34c1c6f7f467f24763b2185827dc/723P9Fd9nV3vxwIe1xQFQyoJioZZG8_original.jpg
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwinod2Mm4b_AhVZN8AKHfLLAEoQFnoECB0QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0030341 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1EYqX1LpmOqSUb1DxWyJut)At first, Hitchcock considered Lilli Palmer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilli_Palmer) for the female lead, but went instead with Margaret Lockwood, who was at the time relatively unknown. Lockwood was attracted to the heroines of Ethel Lina White (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Lina_White)'s stories and accepted the role.
Michael Redgrave was also unknown to the cinema audience, but was a rising stage star at the time. He was reluctant to leave the stage to do the film, but was convinced by John Gielgud (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gielgud) to do so. As it happened, the film, Redgrave's first leading role, made him an international star. However, according to Robert Osborne (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Osborne), host of Turner Classic Movies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turner_Classic_Movies), Redgrave and Hitchcock did not get along; Redgrave wanted more rehearsals, while Hitchcock valued spontaneity more. The two never worked together again.
Alfred Hitchcock can be seen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Alfred_Hitchcock_cameo_appearances) at Victoria Station (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Victoria_station), wearing a black coat and smoking a cigarette, near the end of the film. The film marks the first appearance of the comedy double-act (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-act) Charters and Caldicott (played by Naunton Wayne and Basil Radford).
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwinod2Mm4b_AhVZN8AKHfLLAEoQFnoECB0QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0030341 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1EYqX1LpmOqSUb1DxWyJut)
The Graduate (1967).. lovely restoration by criterion on this bluray..
https://s3.amazonaws.com/criterion-production/films/c1cb7c7c93760075005158d586b67d45/ace3Y8tk9zZ6RU58hIflxVsxZUIA2B_large.jpg
Fab soundtrack too...
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiG68_Rsob_AhUUiVwKHeCRDjUQFnoECAcQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0061722 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3wUPThwzaAlgfKeoDeITam)
Dark Passage (1947)...Bluray.
https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQdpJ7D6hrKuuXMgwso8GrR_4O1HrOPj 76w2cwHpNQLC5Y4AE2s (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi_8bD6r4H_AhWKFMAKHVyFBN4QFnoECBAQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0039302 %2F&usg=AOvVaw2nK0qZkv1JIwKOPSq-j4Kl)
Ooh! - a Bogart/Bacall film that's new to me! :) Any good Grant?
Ooh! - a Bogart/Bacall film that's new to me! :) Any good Grant?
yes its a very good film. a bit different too. worth getting
The Graduate (1967).. lovely restoration by criterion on this bluray..
https://s3.amazonaws.com/criterion-production/films/c1cb7c7c93760075005158d586b67d45/ace3Y8tk9zZ6RU58hIflxVsxZUIA2B_large.jpg
Fab soundtrack too...
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiG68_Rsob_AhUUiVwKHeCRDjUQFnoECAcQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0061722 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3wUPThwzaAlgfKeoDeITam)
A brilliant biting satire of middle class '60s America. And remarkably funny as well.
A brilliant biting satire of middle class '60s America. And remarkably funny as well.
yes, very biting, especially first half, although it kinda sold out in second...
Dustin Hoffman was cast as Liebkind in the Mel Brooks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Brooks) film The Producers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Producers_(1967_film)) (1967), but before filming began Hoffman begged Brooks to let him go to audition for The Graduate. When Dustin Hoffman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dustin_Hoffman) auditioned for the role of Benjamin, he was just short of his 30th birthday at the time of filming. He was asked to perform a love scene with Ross, having previously never done one during his acting classes and believed that, as he said later, "a girl like [Ross] would never go for a guy like me in a million years." Ross agreed, believing that Hoffman "looked about 3 feet tall ... so unkempt. This is going to be a disaster." Producer Joseph E. Levine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_E._Levine) later admitted that he at first believed that Hoffman "was one of the messenger boys." Despite—or perhaps because of—Hoffman's awkwardness, Nichols chose him for the film. "As far as I'm concerned, Mike Nichols did a very courageous thing casting me in a part that I was not right for, meaning I was Jewish," said Hoffman. "In fact, many of the reviews were very negative. It was kind of veiled anti-Semitism.... I was called 'big-nosed' in the reviews, 'a nasal voice'." Hoffman was paid $20,000 for his role in the film, but netted just $4,000 after taxes and living expenses. After spending that money, Hoffman filed for New York State benefits (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment_benefits), receiving $55 per week while living in a two-room apartment in Manhattan.
Although Life magazine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_(magazine)) joked that "if Dustin Hoffman's face were his fortune, he'd be committed to a life of poverty", The Graduate was a gigantic box office hit for Embassy Pictures (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy_Pictures), making Hoffman a major new star at the same time. The film received near-unanimous good reviews. Time magazine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(magazine)) called Hoffman "a symbol of youth" who represented "a new breed of actors". The film's screenwriter, Buck Henry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Henry), notes that Hoffman's character made conventional good looks no longer necessary on screen: A whole generation changed its idea of what guys should look like. ... I think Dustin's physical being, brought a sort of social and visual change, in the same way people first thought of Bogart (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_Bogart). They called him ugly.
I believe Robert Redford was initially approached to play Hoffman's role, but declined saying that it would be hard to imagine he would have any difficulty attracting women.
I agree the second half is a bit surreal, but Hoffman and Ross are not 'sailing off into the sunset': if you look at the expressions on their faces when the board the bus, the initial expression of euphoria changes to one of uncertainty.
I believe Robert Redford was initially approached to play Hoffman's role, but declined saying that it would be hard to imagine he would have any difficulty attracting women.
I agree the second half is a bit surreal, but Hoffman and Ross are not 'sailing off into the sunset': if you look at the expressions on their faces when the board the bus, the initial expression of euphoria changes to one of uncertainty.
My interpretation is that although they have realised that the adult world is phoney they also know that their romantic relationship is just as superficial and are wondering where to go from there. It's a great ending IMO.
Plus the music just makes the film even though I'm not a fan of S&G (see also 'Flash Gordon').
I believe Robert Redford was initially approached to play Hoffman's role, but declined saying that it would be hard to imagine he would have any difficulty attracting women.
I agree the second half is a bit surreal, but Hoffman and Ross are not 'sailing off into the sunset': if you look at the expressions on their faces when the board the bus, the initial expression of euphoria changes to one of uncertainty.
yes redford tested for it (with Candice Bergman i think) but was thought to be too damned handsome lol
Plus the music just makes the film even though I'm not a fan of S&G (see also 'Flash Gordon').
Yes it was the first time non-commissioned music was used in a film - and music which had no obvious connection with the 'story'.
No doubt Both Simon and Garfunklel were delighted with the royalties.
The Cat and the Canary, 1939... bluray..
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/df/The_Cat_and_the_Canary_%281939_film%29_poster.jpg
The New York Times (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times) wrote that Elliott Nugent "has directed it smartly, taking full advantage of the standard chiller devices for frightening the susceptible of his audience but never losing sight of his main objective—comedy...the objective is carried briskly and to our complete satisfaction. Good show."
Paulette Goddard (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002104/?ref_=tttrv_tr) did not actually come on board this project until more than three months after "Paramount" had announced its intention of remaking the 1927 film. Successively preceding Goddard as the film's prospective leading lady had been two of Bob Hope (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001362/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s recent co-stars, Martha Raye (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0713106/?ref_=tttrv_tr) and Shirley Ross (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0743841/?ref_=tttrv_tr), respectively. Though the reasoning behind Raye's replacement by Ross was never made public, the rationale for "Paramount"'s final choice is no great mystery. A bigger star than either Ross or Raye, Goddard was snapped up by "Paramount" once she became available, owing to pre-production snafus with her then husband Charles Chaplin (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000122/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s "The Great Dictator (1940) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032553/?ref_=tttrv_tr)."
always thought Paulette was one of the prettiest of the actresses in the GAoH..
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Just watched The Railway Children on TV.
Don't care if it is perceived as being a bit soppy and sentimental - I like it, and so do 'Rotten Tomatoes'; they score it 100%. :)
just watched the railway children on tv.
Don't care if it is perceived as being a bit soppy and sentimental - i like it, and so do 'rotten tomatoes'; they score it 100%. :)
the original is the best but the remake was very good too.
It was the 1970 version with the rather cute Jenny Agutter.
The Front Page, 1974...
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Classic Billy Wilder, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau film.. set in 1928 when it was written as a play by (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiBgZ_i54b_AhWEg1wKHbQwA0QQFnoECCEQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Fr ont_Page_(1974_film)&usg=AOvVaw2eGo54UP64ImevuhQOsPOr)Ben Hecht (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Hecht) and Charles MacArthur (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_MacArthur)
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiBgZ_i54b_AhWEg1wKHbQwA0QQFnoECCEQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Fr ont_Page_(1974_film)&usg=AOvVaw2eGo54UP64ImevuhQOsPOr)
It was the 1970 version with the rather cute Jenny Agutter.
ah yes as Bobbie. she was also in the remake as the mother.
A New Leaf, 1971... bluray reg a
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The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, 1976.. bluray reg a
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/89/Sevenpct.jpg
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiLou2C5oj_AhUZS8AKHSN7BHIQFnoECB8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Se ven-Per-Cent_Solution&usg=AOvVaw2jp5FQPypjlotW8Dj1KdTx)Vincent Canby (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Canby) of The New York Times (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times) called the film "nothing less than the most exhilarating entertainment of the film year to date." Gene Siskel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Siskel) of the Chicago Tribune (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tribune) gave the film four stars out of four and called it "the classiest motion picture of the holiday season" and "a rare combination of money and brains."
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiLou2C5oj_AhUZS8AKHSN7BHIQFnoECB8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Se ven-Per-Cent_Solution&usg=AOvVaw2jp5FQPypjlotW8Dj1KdTx)
Watson, i'll trouble you for the service revolver...:D
CLASSIC LINE IN THIS VERY GOOD VERSION OF A HOLMES FILM..
The League of Gentlemen (1960).. 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=2ahUKEwjP9OWXg4n_AhWNUcAKHcYYAOMQFnoECBIQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0052997 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3HcPGmS5kpyx2GQxxn6Jz7)Jack Hawkins (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0370144/?ref_=tttrv_tr) was ill with cancer during filming. Shooting was shut down for several days. A chain smoker, underwent cobalt treatment after filming ended for what was described as a "secondary condition of the larynx".
The Army raid was inspired partly by a real I.R.A. raid when I.R.A. members impersonated officers and stole weapons from a barracks.
"Neatly written and expertly played," wrote The New York Times (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjP9OWXg4n_AhWNUcAKHcYYAOMQFnoECBIQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0052997 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3HcPGmS5kpyx2GQxxn6Jz7) in its 1961 review, "a devilishly inventive and amusing screen play by Mr. Forbes...directed crisply and spinningly by Basil Dearden"; while more recently The Daily Telegraph (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph) called it "a masterpiece of British cinema"; Dennis Schwartz noted "a fine example of old-fashioned English humor: droll and civil"; and Time Out (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Out_(magazine)), "A terrific caper movie...with typically excellent character playing from a lovable set of old lags."
Murder on the Orient Express, 2017... 4k bluray
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The Fragilite cake scene, the exchange between Hercule Poirot and Edward Ratchett, was filmed over a day and a half. In addition to improvisation, the scene also required numerous bites of cake. According to Sir Kenneth Branagh (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000110/?ref_=tttrv_tr), Johnny Depp (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000136/?ref_=tttrv_tr) "is absolutely unafraid of a world most actors live in fear of, which is eating on-screen."
Johnny Depp (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000136/?ref_=tttrv_tr) asked director Branagh to apologize to Derek Jacobi on his behalf after filming their scene together "because I had to shout at him, I don't want to shout at Derek Jacobi."
Nowhere near as good as the 1974 version with Albert Finney as Poirot. Also it departs significantly from the book. :(
Nowhere near as good as the 1974 version with Albert Finney as Poirot. Also it departs significantly from the book. :(
i wouldn't go that far, although i know you dislike it... its a different take, and often these things do stray. but its a really well made film for me.
A a hard-luck drama from Barbara Loden which she wrote, directed, and starred in; Wanda, 1970.. has a cinéma vérité style. Loden rejected Hollywood style, wanting to only present the world "as it actually is". She worked mainly with non-professional actors, which resulted in the film's original script being loosely referenced. The film was made with a skeleton crew (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeleton_crew) of only four people. These two factors led to the film's improvisational style. The visuals in the film were inspired by several Andy Warhol films.
Kazan(whom she was married to) compared Loden's acting technique to Marlon Brando (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlon_Brando): "There was always an element of improvisation, a surprise, in what she was doing. The only one, as far as I know, who was like that is Brando when he was young. He never knew exactly what he was going to say, therefore everything would come out of his mouth very alive."
A film that is or was very difficult to see is now available on the Criterion bluray label.
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Badlands, 1973.. Bluray. Directed by Terrence Malick.
The film's tag line ("In 1959 a lot of people were killing time. Kit and Holly were killing people") inspired the Zodiac Killer, who had been lying low for years, to write a letter to a newspaper denouncing their flippant attitude to violence in society by running such an ad.
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Can't make up my mind whether I like this film or not. It's a hard watch that's for sure.
One thing I did like was the incidental music - it took me a long time to find out what it was.
walpurgis
23-05-2023, 19:00
Can't make up my mind whether I like this film or not. It's a hard watch that's for sure.
One thing I did like was the incidental music - it took me a long time to find out what it was.
It's one of my favourites. I have the DVD. I seem to like bleak or grim films, not sure why :).
The Maltese Falcon, 1941.. 4k bluray.
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Three of the statuettes still exist and are conservatively valued at over $1 million each. This makes them some of the most valuable film props ever made; indeed, each is now worth more than three times what the film cost to make.
At 357 pounds, 60-year-old British newcomer (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjywJDozI3_AhUPEcAKHQ8XDtMQFnoECBcQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Ma ltese_Falcon_(1941_film)&usg=AOvVaw3EdjAmcVqC91gYalp8FQco)Sydney Greenstreet (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002113/?ref_=tttrv_tr) was so large that the studio had to specially manufacture his entire wardrobe for the role of Kasper Gutman. The chair in which Greenstreet sits while talking with Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000007/?ref_=tttrv_tr)) in the hotel room was also specially made for him; the chairs the prop department was going to use weren't wide enough to accommodate Greenstreet's girth nor strong enough to support his weight.
Humphrey Bogart (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000007/?ref_=tttrv_tr) had to supply his own wardrobe. This was common practice at Warner Brothers as a way for the studio to save some money.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjywJDozI3_AhUPEcAKHQ8XDtMQFnoECBcQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Ma ltese_Falcon_(1941_film)&usg=AOvVaw3EdjAmcVqC91gYalp8FQco)
The Conversation, 1974... bluray.
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Written, produced, and directed by Francis Ford Coppola (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Ford_Coppola). On the DVD commentary, Coppola says he was shocked to learn that the film used the same surveillance and wire-tapping equipment that members of the Nixon Administration (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_Administration) used to spy on political opponents prior to the Watergate scandal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal). Coppola has said this reason is why the film gained part of the recognition it has received, but it is entirely coincidental. Not only was the script for The Conversation completed in the mid-1960s (before the Nixon Administration came to power), but the spying equipment used in the film was discovered through research and the use of technical advisers, and not, as many believed, by revelatory newspaper stories about the Watergate break-in. Coppola also noted that filming of The Conversation had been completed several months before the most revelatory Watergate stories broke in the press. Because the film was released to theaters just a few months before Richard Nixon resigned as president, Coppola felt that audiences interpreted the film to be a reaction to both the Watergate scandal and its fall-out.
The African Queen, 1951..bluray
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It was adapted from the 1935 novel of the same name (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_African_Queen_(novel)) by C. S. Forester (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._S._Forester). The film was directed by John Huston (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Huston) and produced by Sam Spiegel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Spiegel) and John Woolf (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_and_James_Woolf).
One of the two boats used as the African Queen is actually the 35-foot (10 m) L.S. Livingston, which had been a working diesel boat for 40 years; the steam engine was a prop and the real diesel engine was hidden under stacked crates of gin and other cargo. Florida attorney and Humphrey Bogart enthusiast Jim Hendricks Sr. purchased the boat in 1982 in Key Largo, Florida. After falling into a state of disrepair following Hendricks' 2001 death, the ship was discovered rusting in a Florida marina (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina) in 2012 by Suzanne Holmquist and her engineer husband Lance. The couple repaired and refurbished the ailing ship and made it available to tourists and film enthusiasts, providing cruises around the Florida Keys (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Keys).
Dressed to Kill, 1980.. bluray.
https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTJ_01pu5lGB-sCA8vM78Bl1Qm3phQchNJDSaVUoqa_nHKXf9wa
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwia6YCXq47_AhWURUEAHaIIA9MQFnoECA8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FDresse d_to_Kill_(1980_film)&usg=AOvVaw2fgpe0bzmEedFCgwOYzv1Y)Angie Dickinson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001141/?ref_=tttrv_tr) (Kate Miller) said the scene where her character gets seduced in the back of a taxicab was filmed on-location in New York City, where several gawkers observed the scene and shouted, "Right on, Police Woman!" (referring to her previous television role).
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwia6YCXq47_AhWURUEAHaIIA9MQFnoECA8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FDresse d_to_Kill_(1980_film)&usg=AOvVaw2fgpe0bzmEedFCgwOYzv1Y)
The Conversation, 1974... bluray.
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Written, produced, and directed by Francis Ford Coppola (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Ford_Coppola). On the DVD commentary, Coppola says he was shocked to learn that the film used the same surveillance and wire-tapping equipment that members of the Nixon Administration (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_Administration) used to spy on political opponents prior to the Watergate scandal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal). Coppola has said this reason is why the film gained part of the recognition it has received, but it is entirely coincidental. Not only was the script for The Conversation completed in the mid-1960s (before the Nixon Administration came to power), but the spying equipment used in the film was discovered through research and the use of technical advisers, and not, as many believed, by revelatory newspaper stories about the Watergate break-in. Coppola also noted that filming of The Conversation had been completed several months before the most revelatory Watergate stories broke in the press. Because the film was released to theaters just a few months before Richard Nixon resigned as president, Coppola felt that audiences interpreted the film to be a reaction to both the Watergate scandal and its fall-out.
One of my favourite films.
It is also the reason why the nickname for a surveillance operative is 'plumber'.
One question though - how did his clients record Harry Caul's saxophone playing towards the end of the film?
Dressed to Kill, 1980.. bluray.
https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTJ_01pu5lGB-sCA8vM78Bl1Qm3phQchNJDSaVUoqa_nHKXf9wa
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwia6YCXq47_AhWURUEAHaIIA9MQFnoECA8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FDresse d_to_Kill_(1980_film)&usg=AOvVaw2fgpe0bzmEedFCgwOYzv1Y)Angie Dickinson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001141/?ref_=tttrv_tr) (Kate Miller) said the scene where her character gets seduced in the back of a taxicab was filmed on-location in New York City, where several gawkers observed the scene and shouted, "Right on, Police Woman!" (referring to her previous television role).
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwia6YCXq47_AhWURUEAHaIIA9MQFnoECA8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FDresse d_to_Kill_(1980_film)&usg=AOvVaw2fgpe0bzmEedFCgwOYzv1Y)
Saw it at the cinema on its release.
It's OK, but not one of my favourite films.
The Interrupted Journey, 1949..
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/01/The_Interrupted_Journey_poster.jpg
The film was directed by editor Daniel Birt who wanted to become a director. It didn't do very well but just about covered its costs. it is much better regarded now tho and The Encyclopedia of Film Noir describes it as a "superior film noir (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_noir)" and compares its ending to the 1944 The Woman in the Window (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_in_the_Window_(1944_film)).
Capricorn One, 1977...
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Telly Savalas stole the film(perverts), which wasnt too hard i guess.. Hal Holbrooks look at end which was a classic 'oh f***' look if there ever was one was second best.
One of my favourite films.
It is also the reason why the nickname for a surveillance operative is 'plumber'.
One question though - how did his clients record Harry Caul's saxophone playing towards the end of the film?
even as of today that has not been revealed... lots of theories tho..
Harlem Nights, 1989...
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The vulgar, yet playful arguments between Redd Foxx (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0289359/?ref_=tttrv_tr) and Della Reese (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005343/?ref_=tttrv_tr) on the set inspired Eddie Murphy (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000552/?ref_=tttrv_tr) to create a series starring the two. The result was The Royal Family (1991) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101187/?ref_=tttrv_tr), which was Foxx's final project before his death.
"It's turning out to be more pleasant than I expected," Pryor told Rolling Stone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Stone). "[Murphy is] wise enough to listen to people. I seen him be very patient with his actors. It's not a lark to him. He's really serious." "He's on top of the world and he's doing a hell of a job," agreed Foxx. "He sure knows how to handle people with sensitivity. He'll come over to your side and give private direction—he never embarrasses anyone." "You walk around here and look at the people," added Pryor. "Have you ever in your life seen this many black people on a movie set? I haven't."
About the movie's reception, Murphy said: "It wasn't a pleasurable experience. I just wanted to direct—just to see if I can do it. And I found out that I can't, and I won't do it anymore. And the biggest thing is I didn't enjoy doing it. The problem with Harlem Nights wasn't the directing as much as it was the writing of it. It was just written fucked up, and that's because I threw it together real quick. And then it was disappointing because Richard wasn't the way I thought Richard was gonna be. I thought it would be like a collaborative thing where I would get to work with my idol, and then it would be like, "This is great." But Richard would come to the set, say his line and leave, it wasn't like a collaborative thing."
Later he said: "That movie was a blur. It was Richard [Pryor], Robin Harris—all comedians. I remember Richard and Redd Foxx laughing offstage during the whole movie. The funniest shit was off camera, we're all just crying. Redd was a really funny dude, he would have the set screaming all the time. But afterwards it was like, Whoa, that's a lot of work. I was really young when I did it. I had one foot in the club, and one foot on the set, a lot of shit going on. It's amazing it came together." He also said he didn't know Pryor was sick at the time. "He was sick with MS by then, but nobody knew it was going on. And I was like a puppy to him 'cause he was my idol. "Hey! Let's go make this movie!" I never put it together what was happening till afterwards. So it was kind of sad, that part of it."
Salazar’s Revenge, 2017..
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back to wayback when now with Bob Hope and My Favorite Spy (1951) (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjQje2miJP_AhUDhlwKHRYIDzoQFnoECAsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0043827 %2F&usg=AOvVaw0G50WGvzDsNqXCf-t5pF9-)
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Cowboys & Aliens, 2011..
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olivia wilde is a big draw, but its a decent film too
you think? I was shocked at how bad it was especially given the cast
Been watching this, it's not bad - some laugh out loud moments which is pretty rare for a sitcom these days:
https://i.ibb.co/JrbW0Sm/sick-of-it.jpg (https://imgbb.com/)
Kelly's Heroes, 1970... the 14k gold bars i estimate came to about 172 metric tonnes... possibly a bit difficult to transport.
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Young Frankenstein, 1974...
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A critical favorite and box-office hit, Young Frankenstein ranks No. 28 on Total Film (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Film) magazine's readers' "List of the 50 Greatest Comedy Films of All Time".
Igor's line "walk this way" in the film inspired the song of the same name (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_This_Way) by Aerosmith (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerosmith). According to Gene Wilder, the joke was added while shooting the scene by Mel Brooks, inspired by the old "talcum powder (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_this_way_(humor))" joke.(One version of this old joke goes like this: A heavy-set woman goes into a drug store and asks for talcum powder. The bowlegged clerk says, "Walk this way," and the woman answers, "If I could walk that way I wouldn't need talcum powder!".)A partially contradictory account appears in eyE Marty, Feldman's posthumously published autobiography: Feldman recalls spontaneously doing the "walk this way" shtick to make his colleagues laugh, with Brooks then insisting, despite Wilder's and Feldman's reservations, that it stay in the film.
Back to the Future Part II, 1989..
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King Kong, 1976.. bluray restoration.. not the best version of kong; probably not the worst either but its a nice restore... pity they cheaped out on the gorilla
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For shots of Kong holding Jessica Lange (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001448/?ref_=tt_trv_trv), the filmmakers built giant hydraulic gorilla arms. The hands were six feet across, and the arms weighed 1,650 lbs. (750 kg.) each. They weren't ready until shooting was well underway. When they were finally built, Dino De Laurentiis (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0209569/?ref_=tt_trv_trv) was invited to the set to witness a test. He walked into the studio, and a giant arm extended in his direction. Then the middle finger slowly uncurled and extended itself. De Laurentiis broke up. So did the arm; it was frozen, finger up, for a week.
Young Frankenstein, 1974...
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A critical favorite and box-office hit, Young Frankenstein ranks No. 28 on Total Film (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Film) magazine's readers' "List of the 50 Greatest Comedy Films of All Time".
Igor's line "walk this way" in the film inspired the song of the same name (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_This_Way) by Aerosmith (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerosmith). According to Gene Wilder, the joke was added while shooting the scene by Mel Brooks, inspired by the old "talcum powder (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_this_way_(humor))" joke.(One version of this old joke goes like this: A heavy-set woman goes into a drug store and asks for talcum powder. The bowlegged clerk says, "Walk this way," and the woman answers, "If I could walk that way I wouldn't need talcum powder!".)A partially contradictory account appears in eyE Marty, Feldman's posthumously published autobiography: Feldman recalls spontaneously doing the "walk this way" shtick to make his colleagues laugh, with Brooks then insisting, despite Wilder's and Feldman's reservations, that it stay in the film."Hump? What hump?"
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The Railway Children, 1970...bluray.
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Sally Thomsett (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0860951/?ref_=tttrv_tr) was 20 when she was cast as 11-year-old Phyllis. Her contract forbade her to reveal her true age during the making of the film and she was not allowed to be seen smoking, drinking, going out with her boyfriend or driving the sports cars that were her passion. Even the film crew did not know her true age. Lionel Jeffries (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0420383/?ref_=tttrv_tr) grounded Jenny Agutter(17) (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000256/?ref_=tttrv_tr) and Sally Thomsett (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0860951/?ref_=tttrv_tr) when he caught them in a nightclub in Leeds after they had sneaked off the set for a night on the town.
Lionel Jeffries read the book for the first time when he was returning to Britain by ship from the US to film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitty_Chitty_Bang_Bang), in which he appeared as an actor. He had lost his own books and borrowed The Railway Children from his 13-year-old daughter Martha (he had two other children). He loved it, although he admitted "my personality is so different from the quiet romance of the story."
However, he said "I found the climate of the... story just right for me, a way in which to start entertaining people and help not destroy our industry. There are hardly any films being made for children and for middle aged and older age groups. I thought this could be one."
He bought a six-month option on the film rights for £300 and wrote a screenplay. "I've kept to the story," said Jeffries. "It would be an imposition not to – after all, E. Nesbit's survived 50 years."
Jeffries succeeded in attracting financing from Bryan Forbes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Forbes) at EMI Films (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMI_Films), who was interested in making family films. Forbes suggested Jeffries direct. "I knew there were slight bets among the technical staff as to how long I'd last," said Jeffries later.
bank holiday and big arnie...Terminator 2: Judgment Day, 1991..
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Over the five-day holiday weekend (Wednesday to Sunday), Terminator 2 grossed $52.3 million, becoming the second-highest opening five-day total ever behind Batman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_(1989_film))'s $57 million in 1989.
Highest grossing opening weeked films:
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What they all have in common is they're all terrible (okay so I've not seen most of the super-hero ones but we can take them as read) with the arguable exception of 'Rogue One' which was passable but not great.
And we wonder why no-ones making good films any more.
seen the pirates ones' but none of the others. not really into super heroes in general. also these takes could be for a week worldwide.. also due to them being recent
seen the pirates ones' but none of the others. not really into super heroes in general. also these takes could be for a week worldwide.. also due to them being recent
They are just for opening weekends but yes, may be worldwide. No adjustment for inflation which is why original Star Wars, Gone With The Wind, Close Encounters, ET, Jaws etc are missing.
Watched this again last night:
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Follows the 'Tom Cruise Rule' - any film where he plays an arsehole will be a good film. If he's not playing an arse it will be terrible.
I like a good courtroom drama, they don't seem to make them anymore.
Jeremiah Johnson, 1972.. robert redford stars as the iconic mountain man...
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Watched this again last night:
https://i.ibb.co/MpH37yf/A-Few-Good-Men-poster.jpg (https://imgbb.com/)
Follows the 'Tom Cruise Rule' - any film where he plays an arsehole will be a good film. If he's not playing an arse it will be terrible.
I like a good courtroom drama, they don't seem to make them anymore.
No disagreement there. He was excellent in 'Rain Man', but awful in the 'Mission Impossible' films and in 'Top Gun'.
He wasn't much good in 'War of the Worlds' either.
No disagreement there. He was excellent in 'Rain Man', but awful in the 'Mission Impossible' films and in 'Top Gun'.
He wasn't much good in 'War of the Worlds' either.
He's a good actor - if he's playing an arse.
I quite like his 'War Of The Worlds' - in fact prefer it to the old version which I've always thought was awful. But he does play an arse in it. That's his character arc in that film - starts of as a total arse and by the end is less of an arse.
'Rain Man' is a brilliant film but again he has the same character arc in that.
The 'Mission Impossible' films are crap, as was the TV series.
'Top Gun' - arsehole at the start, mate dies, you think he will get better, he doesn't, ends with him still an arse but a vindicated one.
walpurgis
29-05-2023, 13:29
I tend not to watch Tom Cruise movies. Not a conscious thing, I just don't!
I remember liking The Firm and Cocktail though.
Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid, 1973..
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another 70's western,,, The Ballad of Cable Hogue, 1970...
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The chaotic filming wrapped 19 days over schedule and $3 million over budget, terminating Sam Peckinpah (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001603/?ref_=tttrv_tr)s tenure with Warner Bros./Seven Arts, and caused permanent damage to his career. The critical and box office hits Deliverance (1972) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068473/?ref_=tttrv_tr) and Jeremiah Johnson (1972) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068762/?ref_=tttrv_tr) were in development at the time, and Peckinpah was considered the first choice to direct them. His departure from Warner Brothers left him with a limited number of directing jobs. Peckinpah was forced to do a 180-degree turn from this film, and travelled to England to direct Straw Dogs (1971) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067800/?ref_=tttrv_tr), one of his darkest and most psychologically disturbing films. This was the favorite film of the director. Often, when asked to speak about his work, he brought a print of this film to show, instead of one of his more famous works. According to David Weddle (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0917131/?ref_=tttrv_tr), author of "If They Move, Kill 'Em: The Life And Times Of Sam Peckinpah (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001603/?ref_=tttrv_tr)", in August 1969 Warner Brothers showed its distributors a 2½ hour rough cut of the film without the knowledge of either Peckinpah or producer Phil Feldman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0271093/?ref_=tttrv_tr). The director had urged the studio to hold off on their judgment (which was generally negative towards this rough cut) until he could cut another half hour from it. The studio allowed him to do so, but it was more out of apathy than respect for his talent. Despite positive audience reactions of seventy percent at its previews in January and February 1970, the film was dumped onto the market in the spring with hardly any promotion behind it. According to Stella Stevens (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001771/?ref_=tttrv_tr), "Warner Brothers didn't release it, they flushed it."
I tend not to watch Tom Cruise movies. Not a conscious thing, I just don't!
I remember liking The Firm and Cocktail though.
I quite liked 'Risky Business', but I saw it a long time ago so could well change my mind if I were to watch it today.
The Jungle Book (2016) (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiM9Le20Jz_AhUioFwKHQFCA9oQFnoECAwQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt3040964 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3Fs7o5zRJM2zicxTzmDmEZ)
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The Woman in the Window, 1944.. bluray.
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Edward G. Robinson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000064/?ref_=tttrv_tr), Dan Duryea (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002053/?ref_=tttrv_tr), and Joan Bennett (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000910/?ref_=tttrv_tr) would go on to play the three leads in Fritz Lang (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000485/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s next film, Scarlet Street (1945) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038057/?ref_=tttrv_tr).
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60-minute radio adaptation of the movie on June 25, 1945, with Joan Bennett (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000910/?ref_=tttrv_tr), Dan Duryea (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002053/?ref_=tttrv_tr), and Edward G. Robinson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000064/?ref_=tttrv_tr) reprising their film roles.
When the film was released, the staff at Variety (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety_(magazine)) magazine lauded the film and wrote, "Nunnally Johnson whips up a strong and decidedly suspenseful murder melodrama in Woman in the Window. The producer, who also prepared the screenplay (from the novel Once off Guard by J.H. Wallis), continually punches across the suspense for constant and maximum audience reaction. Added are especially fine timing in the direction by Fritz Lang and outstanding performances by Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey and Dan Duryea."
The Sign of Four, 1983.. bluray.
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Ride the High Country, 1962.. top cast in this excellent western. Final film of Randolph Scott (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000068/?ref_=tttrv_tr). He retired from acting once he saw the finished film, saying he wanted to quit while he was ahead and that he would never be able to better his work here.
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Peggy Sue Got Married, 1986...
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as pretty and young as kathleen turner looked (i think she was about 32) she couldnt pass for a teenager.. good, fun film with a great cast
The Jungle Book (2016)
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiM9Le20Jz_AhUioFwKHQFCA9oQFnoECAwQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt3040964 %2F&usg=AOvVaw3Fs7o5zRJM2zicxTzmDmEZ)
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watching this again, this time in 4k bluray.. its much sharper although in first running section the pic stuggled a bit to stay perfect.. dunno if the tv or the player was at fault.. or maybe i imagined it
First Men in the Moon, 1964. bluray
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This is the only one of (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiB-8jM-aH_AhUUH-wKHZk9Br4QFnoECA8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0058100 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1zi3yxpV_uO7R-Y9N6zCpO)Ray Harryhausen (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0366063/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s films to be shot in anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1) due to the higher cost of anamorphic camera and projection lenses needed for his Dynamation Process.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiB-8jM-aH_AhUUH-wKHZk9Br4QFnoECA8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0058100 %2F&usg=AOvVaw1zi3yxpV_uO7R-Y9N6zCpO)Harryhausen was planning on following Jason and the Argonauts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_and_the_Argonauts_(1963_film)) (1963) with a version of H.G. Wells (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._G._Wells)' 1904 novel The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Food_of_the_Gods_and_How_It_Came_to_Earth) when he met with writer Nigel Kneale (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Kneale). Harryhausen had long wanted to film Wells' First Men in the Moon but producer Charles Schneer was not enthusiastic, in part due to worries about the film's period setting. Kneale thought it was an excellent idea, however, and he and Harryhausen managed to persuade Schneer to make it.
Schneer said Kneale "is a very dour, straightforward, serious classicist. He was recognized in England as being the contemporary science-fiction screenwriter. I hired him because we needed his technical expertise. Then, we superimposed on that what we thought audiences would appreciate".
Another writer was brought on to rework Kneale's script. According to Kneale: "They wanted to jazz it up, make it funnier than I had imagined". He says this inspired the casting of Lionel Jeffries (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Jeffries).
Kneale said in the book, Judd's character "was a blundering creature and it seemed important to keep that". The writer says he knew that a country would get to the Moon relatively soon and discover there were no Selenites. This is why he added to the script that the Selenites were wiped out by a cold virus carried to the Moon by the professor, an idea Kneale says he took directly from The War of the Worlds (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds).
Absolute Power,1997..
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Clint Eastwood (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000142/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s extremely organized methods of directing led to filming being completed over three weeks ahead of schedule and $2-4 million under budget.
The worldwide book and film rights to the novel were sold for a reported $5 million. William Goldman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Goldman) was hired to write the screenplay in late 1994. He worked on several drafts through 1995, which he later described in his memoir Which Lie Did I Tell? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Which_Lie_Did_I_Tell%3F)
When Eastwood first heard of the book being turned into a film, he liked the basic plot and the characters, but disliked that most of those he considered interesting were killed off. He requested that Goldman make sure that "everyone the audience likes doesn't get killed off." Absolute Power was filmed between June and August 1996.
Among the Washington, D.C. locations used for filming was the apartment of journalist Christopher Hitchens (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Hitchens)
Blythe Spirit, 1945...
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As with most of Coward's work, Blithe Spirit is renowned for its sophisticated dialogue. During an argument with Ruth, Charles declares, "If you're trying to compile an inventory of my sex life, I feel it only fair to warn you that you've omitted several episodes. I shall consult my diary and give you a complete list after lunch." The line, considered extremely risqué by censors, was deleted from the US release.
No-one was pleased with Lean's direction except possibly Lean himself. Rex Harrison commented the shooting was unimaginative and flat, a filmed stage play. He didn't direct me too well, either - he hasn't a great sense of humour... By that time it was over three years since I'd done any acting, and I can remember feeling a bit shaky about it, and almost, but not quite, as strange as when I'd first started, but Lean did something to me on that film which I shall never forget, and which was unforgivable in any circumstances. I was trying to make one of those difficult Noel Coward scenes work... when David said: "I don't think that's very funny." And he turned round to the cameraman, Ronnie Neame, and said: "Did you think that was funny, Ronnie?" Ronnie said: "Oh, no, I didn't think it was funny." So what do you do next, if it isn't funny?...
The point of the play is a middle-aged man well into his second marriage, having long ago put away the follies of his youth with his sexy first wife, and suddenly being ‘woken up’ by her reappearance as a ghost. Rex Harrison was not middle-aged; and Kay Hammond, though a brilliant stage actress, didn’t photograph well and also had a very slow delivery, which was difficult in films. When we started shooting scenes with Kay and Rex it became obvious that Constance Cummings [the second wife] looked more attractive to the average man in the street than Kay. This upset the whole play.
Don't Lose Your Head
1967.. carry on film with Jim Dale joining the usual.
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Murder, My Sweet, 1945...
directed by Edward Dmytryk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Dmytryk) and starring Dick Powell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Powell), Claire Trevor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Trevor) and Anne Shirley (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Shirley_(actress)) (in her final film before retirement). The film is based on Raymond Chandler (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Chandler)'s 1940 novel Farewell, My Lovely (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farewell,_My_Lovely). It was the first film to feature Chandler's primary character, the hard-boiled private detective Philip Marlowe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Marlowe).
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In order to make Mike Mazurki (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0563417/?ref_=tttrv_tr) more threatening, Edward Dmytryk (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0229424/?ref_=tttrv_tr) had the sets built with slanted ceilings to force the perspective. As Mazurki walked closer to the camera, he seemed almost to grow. Mike Mazurki was a Ukrainian-American actor and professional wrestler who appeared in more than 142 films. His 6 ft 5 in presence and face had him often typecast as brainless athletes, tough guys, thugs, and gangsters.
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Chato's Land, 1972..
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How to Murder Your Wife, 1965..
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Eddie Mayehoff (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0562305/?ref_=tt_cl_t_4) steals most of the scenes he is in...
During a taping of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055708/?ref_=tttrv_tr), Jack Lemmon (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000493/?ref_=tttrv_tr) told this story. Prior to starting the film, the husband of co-star Virna Lisi (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0514059/?ref_=tttrv_tr) made her promise that she would not be talked into doing a nude scene in her first American film. She assured him that she would not, signed the contract and traveled to Hollywood. While filming the "revelation" scene, where Lemmon awakens to discover in horror that he had gotten married at the bachelor party, she had to disrobe and lay in the bed nude but discreetly covered with a sheet. However, it was this day that her husband, an architect, arrived unannounced at the set to surprise his wife. When he walked into the scene, he became very upset. He focused his anger toward Lemmon who, realizing that discretion was the better part of valor, exited the set at full speed with Virna's husband in pursuit. Running past several sound stages on the MGM lot, he quickly found a garbage dumpster, jumped in and closed the cover. He waited there until security officers found him.
Quigley Down Under, 1990..
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Three Sharps rifles were built for the film: one for shooting, one as a club in the fight scenes, and a back-up weapon in case one was damaged. Tom Selleck (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000633/?ref_=tttrv_tr) requested to keep the 3 rifles built for the film. He had two of them reconditioned to remove scratches and straighten and tighten some of the moving parts. Years later, he signed and auctioned 2 of them as part of a fundraiser for the National Rifle Association, of which he is a national board member. Selleck donated the third rifle, with its fringed leather scabbard, and belt knife to the Brownell's Family Museum. Sharps Rifles are now so inseparably related to this film that they are commonly nicknamed "Quigley guns." Sales for such weapons increased by over 1000% following the film's release, especially in the United States and Australia, and continue through 2013.
Tom Selleck said his scariest moment ever as an actor occurred while standing on a boulder near Alice Springs, Australia, over a cliff. "I had to look down, and it was a big boulder so they said, "Just go stand on the boulder, you'll be fine." But the boulder started rattling back and forth, and and I said, "Maybe you need to tie me off."
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 Harry S. Truman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0874288/?ref_=tttrv_tr) 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/?ref_=tttrv_tr), later the wife of Humphrey Bogart (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000007/?ref_=tttrv_tr).
The role of Coral Chandler was originally intended for Rita Hayworth (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000028/?ref_=tttrv_tr), but she already had been cast by her estranged husband, Orson Welles (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000080/?ref_=tttrv_tr) for the role of Elsa in The Lady from Shanghai (1947) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040525/?ref_=tttrv_tr). Also, according to Ben Mankiewicz's introduction to this movie on TCM, Ms. Hayworth was engaged in a contract dispute with the studio at the time, and refused the role.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, 2014... 4k bluray.
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The film takes place in 2026.
According to Director Matt Reeves (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0716257/?ref_=tttrv_tr), the original draft of the screenplay, which was written before he was hired, was set further in the future, with the apes having obtained the ability to speak almost flawlessly, and Caesar playing a much smaller role. Reeves thought it would be more interesting to explore Caesar's story at an earlier stage, and asked for permission to re-write the script from scratch. His request was granted, on the condition that he deliver the film in time for the scheduled release date.
The orangutan that is featured prominently in the film is named Maurice. This is a reference to Maurice Evans (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0263052/?ref_=tttrv_tr), who portrayed the orangutan Dr. Zaius in Planet of the Apes (1968) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063442/?ref_=tttrv_tr) and Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065462/?ref_=tttrv_tr).
'I hate very ape I see from chimpan - A to Chimpan - Z'
the 'impsons....and troy(he sleeps with the fishes) mcclure:eyebrows:
the 'impsons....and troy(he sleeps with the fishes) mcclure:eyebrows:
you may remember him from such films as 'Christmas Ape', and 'Christmas Ape Goes To Summer Camp.'
Pigmy Pony
04-06-2023, 12:22
Watched an episode of Minder early this morning (the proper ones with Terry, not a fan of them later ones). Ruined by having the sign language midget in the bottom corner :( What's that all about? Are deaf people nocturnal?
With digital technology as it is, why can't we have a 'dwarf off' button on the remote? We can already select subtitles, which are less of a distraction.
Watched an episode of Minder early this morning (the proper ones with Terry, not a fan of them later ones). Ruined by having the sign language midget in the bottom corner :( What's that all about? Are deaf people nocturnal?
With digital technology as it is, why can't we have a 'dwarf off' button on the remote? We can already select subtitles, which are less of a distraction.
didnt know there was a newer version.. bet it crap
Watched an episode of Minder early this morning (the proper ones with Terry, not a fan of them later ones). Ruined by having the sign language midget in the bottom corner :( What's that all about? Are deaf people nocturnal?
With digital technology as it is, why can't we have a 'dwarf off' button on the remote? We can already select subtitles, which are less of a distraction.
Yes really annoying when you tape something that's on in the middle of the night and when you come to watch it next day find out it's the version with sign language.
Like you say you can have subtitles on everything now so there's just no need for it.
Minder is always on ITV 4 at ten to five and 4+1 at ten to six weekdays with no signing I don't get in till six so miss the first act. But I've seen them all loads of times anyway.
Ray Daley era is nothing like as good but I do watch them since compared to modern telly they're Shakespeare.
Pigmy Pony
04-06-2023, 12:42
Yes really annoying when you tape something that's on in the middle of the night and when you come to watch it next day find out it's the version with sign language.
Like you say you can have subtitles on everything now so there's just no need for it.
Minder is always on ITV 4 at ten to five and 4+1 at ten to six weekdays with no signing I don't get in till six so miss the first act. But I've seen them all loads of times anyway.
Ray Daley era is nothing like as good but I do watch them since compared to modern telly they're Shakespeare.
Ah yes that's him. Ray and 'Uncle Arfur'. Yeah much prefer Terry's ones. Yesterday was a corker, with Terry and a young Brian Cox scrapping on the bus... proper telly :)
since ive got the 4ks out... Shooter, 2007..
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According to the movie's script doctor William Goldman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001279/?ref_=tttrv_tr), Clint Eastwood (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000142/?ref_=tttrv_tr), Robert Redford (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000602/?ref_=tttrv_tr), and Harrison Ford (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000148/?ref_=tttrv_tr) passed on the movie. These men would have fit the literary Bob Lee Swagger's age a bit more closely than Mark Wahlberg (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000242/?ref_=tttrv_tr) (born in 1971). Author Stephen Hunter (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2394211/?ref_=tttrv_tr) introduced Swagger as a Vietnam veteran in a 1993 novel, taking place in 1992; however, to accommodate Wahlberg's age, this film has Swagger active in Africa in the 1990s, instead of Vietnam in the 1970s.
Shooter depicts a number of sniper tactics, thanks to the guidance of former US Marine scout sniper Patrick Garrity, who trained Mark Wahlberg for the film. Garrity taught Wahlberg to shoot both left- and right-handed (the actor is left-handed), as he had to switch shooting posture throughout the movie, due to Swagger's sustained injuries. He was also trained to adjust a weapon's scope, judge effects of wind on a shot, do rapid bolt manipulation, and develop special breathing skills. His training included extreme distance shooting (up to 1,100 yards (1.0 km), and the use of camouflage ghillie suits (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghillie_suit). Fuqua appointed Garrity as the film's military-technical advisor.
In the special features of the DVD, Garrity is interviewed pointing out that the shot fired in the assassination would not have hit the archbishop straight on, as in the film. When a round is fired it will fall from 30 to 40 feet (9 to 10 m) depending on the distance of the shot. To compensate, the round is fired at an arc calibrated by how far the round is going to fall, the distance of the shot, temperature, humidity, and wind. In his interview, Garrity said "At 2 yards (1.8 m), because of the hydrostatic shock (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrostatic_shock) that follows a large-caliber, high-velocity round such as the .408 Chey Tac (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.408_Chey_Tac) (which is used in the shot), the target would literally be peeled apart and limbs would be flying 200 feet (60 m) away." The exit wound on the archbishop's head would have been too extreme to show in movie theaters. Instead, the movie depicts a much less graphic representation of the assassination.
Throughout the film, Swagger uses an array of sniper rifles, including the USMC M40A3 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M40A3), the CheyTac Intervention (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CheyTac_Intervention), and the Barrett M82 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrett_M82).
Back to the Future Part III, 1990..
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Waterloo Road, 1945...
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Stewart Granger later said the film was one of his favourites as his role "was a heel, but a real character". He says the film was made in ten days while he was also making Love Story. He was particularly proud of the fight scene with John Mills.
Sidney Gilliat said he was taken off the film before it was finished. Production was stopped and there were still some exteriors to be shot. Ted Black had gone and the Ostrers put the film at the end of the dubbing schedule. However, Earl St John (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_St_John) who was in charge of Odeon cinemas liked the film and got the dubbing done.
Starring
John Mills (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mills)
Stewart Granger (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Granger)
Joy Shelton (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Shelton)
Jean Kent (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Kent)
Alastair Sim (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastair_Sim)
Stagecoach, 1939..bluray(spanish with english soundtrack). got this before i got the criterion version. its pretty good too so reckon it must be close to the same restoration.
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My Man Godfrey, 1936.. bluray
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The Ipcress File, 1965..bluray...
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Three pairs of glasses were used by Sir Michael Caine (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000323/?ref_=tttrv_tr) during filming. When all of these were broken during filming, production was held up for a day, until replacements had been found. After that, the Prop Department was stocked with twenty extra pairs of the Harry Palmer model glasses.
Saltzman wanted The Ipcress File to be an ironic and downbeat alternative to the portrayal of espionage in Ian Fleming (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Fleming)'s novels about the spy James Bond (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond) and the film series (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_in_film) which followed from them. He also wanted it to be more in the style of his previous realist films. The Ipcress File therefore became the first of the nominally rival Harry Palmer series and some aspects are reminiscent of film noir (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_noir). In contrast to Bond's public school (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_school_(UK)) background and playboy lifestyle, Palmer is a working class (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_class) Londoner who lives in a Notting Hill (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notting_Hill) bedsit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedsit) and has to put up with red tape (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_tape) and inter-departmental rivalries. The action is set entirely in "a gritty, gloomy, decidedly non-swinging (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swinging_London)" London with humdrum locations, aside from the Royal Albert Hall (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Albert_Hall).
It's also a lot more believable than the James Bond films.
One of my favourite films.
It's also a lot more believable than the James Bond films.
One of my favourite films.
Part of the appeal of Bond is that it's outrageous nonsense.
I like the Harry Palmer films too. Never seen them as an alternative to Bond just a different style entirely.
The War Wagon, 1967.
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John Wayne (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000078/?ref_=tttrv_tr), who had lost his entire left lung and several ribs in major surgery for cancer in 1964, had great difficulty breathing on an airplane while flying to the location for the start of filming and had to use an oxygen mask throughout the journey. Kirk Douglas (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000018/?ref_=tttrv_tr) recalled that he hadn't realized just how fragile Wayne was until this moment.
Although Keenan Wynn (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0943978/?ref_=tttrv_tr) played the crazy old man, he was in fact nine years younger than John Wayne (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000078/?ref_=tttrv_tr).
The 49-year-old Kirk Douglas (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000018/?ref_=tttrv_tr) performed most of his own stunts.
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The Bourne Identity, 2002..
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Liman approached a wide range of actors for the role of Bourne, including Brad Pitt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Pitt), who turned it down to star in Spy Game (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spy_Game), as well as Russell Crowe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Crowe), Arnold Schwarzenegger (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schwarzenegger), Tom Cruise (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Cruise) and Sylvester Stallone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester_Stallone), before he eventually cast Damon. Liman found that Damon understood and appreciated that, though The Bourne Identity would have its share of action, the focus was primarily on character and plot. Damon, who had never played such a physically demanding role, insisted on performing many of the stunts himself. With stunt choreographer Nick Powell, he underwent three months of extensive training in stunt work, the use of weapons, boxing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing), and the Filipino martial art eskrima (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnis). He eventually performed a significant number of the film's stunts himself, including hand-to-hand combat and climbing the safe house walls near the film's conclusion.
Reach for the Sky, 1956...
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According to Lewis Gilbert (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0318150/?ref_=tttrv_tr), Douglas Bader (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0046035/?ref_=tttrv_tr) was difficult to deal with.
"When he read the script he said I had made a terrible hash of it because I'd cut out a lot of his friends. I pointed out that the book contained hundreds of names and I had to cut it down or else the film would run for three days. He said, 'That's your problem. If you don't get my friends in, I won't double for the film,' because he was going to double for Kenneth More in long shots. explained to him that that wouldn't stop the film being made; I said that we would undoubtedly find someone with a disability similar to his - which he did. In fact a number of his friends had helped me with the script, although we didn't tell Douglas that. Douglas wasn't in the film at all".
Small Time Crooks, 2000...
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The Day Will Dawn, 1942..
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, 2011..
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The text of the note that Holmes leaves Watson on the packing crate reads: "Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same." This quote is taken directly from the opening lines of Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0236279/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s Sherlock Holmes short story "The Adventure of the Creeping Man"
The fifteen-second on-screen dance between Jude Law (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000179/?ref_=tttrv_tr) and Noomi Rapace (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0636426/?ref_=tttrv_tr) in the gypsy camp took three days to shoot.
Angel Heart, 1987..
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Writer and director Alan Parker (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000570/?ref_=tttrv_tr) claims that Robert De Niro (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000134/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s performance as Louis Cyphre was so eerie and realistic that he generally avoided him during his scenes, letting him just direct himself.
When Louis (Robert De Niro) blows salt from his egg onto the restaurant table, Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) takes a pinch and throws it over his left shoulder. The superstition is that by doing so you blind the devil (or your evil angel).
The line "How terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the wise" is drawn from Sophocles (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0814668/?ref_=tttrv_tr)' "Oedipus The King".
The Grapes of Wrath, 1940..
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A good, but bowdlerised, film version of the book. The ending was a 'cop out', so as not to upset the delicate sensibilities of the American viewer.
Picked this up today in a charity shop for £1:
Tina Turner – 'Simply The Best - The Video Collection'
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Label: Falcon Neue Medien – 0264
Format: DVD, DVD-Video, Compilation
Country: Europe
Released: 2004
Genre: Rock, Pop
Style: Pop Rock
Steptoe and Son, 1972..
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0037/8008/3782/products/SteptoeandSon-OriginalMoviePoster-05-927160_1200x1200.jpg?v=1645478562 (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiDic6IrrP_AhWLRsAKHWJoC_wQFnoECDEQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FStepto e_and_Son_(film)&usg=AOvVaw0b9F8Oo5wft_v1nDQ3dLSL)
carolyn seymour was a tidy girl in those days.:D she was the snooty one in survivors...
Throw Momma from the Train, 1987..
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