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Ruthless People, 1986..
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Walker, 1987... criterion bluray. reg a..
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Alex Cox (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0007182/?ref_=tttrv_tr) says on the commentary of the Criterion Collection DVD, that out of all the movies he's done, and despite the fact that this film had hurt his career as a Hollywood director, he believes that Walker (1987) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096409/?ref_=tttrv_tr) is his best work.
Actor Peter Boyle (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001967/?ref_=tttrv_tr) initially turned down the role of Cornelius Vanderbilt but later he accepted and volunteered to do the film free of charge.
David Copperfield, 1935..
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David Copperfield was nominated for three Academy Awards (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Awards), including Academy Award for Best Picture (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture), Best Film Editing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Film_Editing) (Robert J. Kern (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_J._Kern)), and Best Assistant Director (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_Assistant_Director) (Joseph M. Newman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_M._Newman)), and was nominated for the Mussolini Cup for Best Foreign Film at the Venice Film Festival (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice_Film_Festival) (losing out to Anna Karenina (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina_(1935_film))).
Heist, 2001..
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Gene Hackman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000432/?ref_=tttrv_tr) mentioned in several interviews that he found shooting the film difficult and somewhat uncomfortable because he was so much older than everyone involved. He therefore kept much to himself, and in the end managed to draw on that feeling of being an outsider in the group for his portrayal.
The PanGeneve Cargo plane is a Boeing 727. Produced between the early 1960s and 1984, some 727s are still used by freight and charter air service providers.
The Captain's Paradise, 1953..
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The Wild Bunch, 1969..
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a classic film this and one of the 'great' westerns
In an interview, Ben Johnson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0424565/?ref_=tttrv_tr) said that the Mexican women who "frolicked" with him and Warren Oates (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0643105/?ref_=tttrv_tr) in the huge wine vats weren't actresses but prostitutes from a nearby brothel, who were hired by Sam Peckinpah (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001603/?ref_=tttrv_tr) so he could tell people that Warner Bros. paid for hookers for his cast.
Robert Ryan (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0752813/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s incessant complaints about not receiving top billing so annoyed director Sam Peckinpah (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001603/?ref_=tttrv_tr) that he decided to "punish" Ryan. In the opening credits, after freezing the screen on closeups of William Holden (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000034/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s and Ernest Borgnine (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000308/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s faces while listing them, Peckinpah froze the scene on several horses' rear ends as Ryan was listed.
According to editor Lou Lombardo (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0518470/?ref_=tttrv_tr) the original release print contains some 3,643 editorial cuts, more than any other Technicolor film ever processed. Some of these cuts are near subliminal, consisting of three or four frames, making them almost imperceptible to the naked eye.
After filming the scene where Ernest Borgnine (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000308/?ref_=tttrv_tr) and William Holden (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000034/?ref_=tttrv_tr) sit by a campfire and their characters vow they "wouldn't have it any other way", it was hard for director Sam Peckinpah (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001603/?ref_=tttrv_tr) to yell, "Cut!" because he was crying.
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'Picnic At Hanging Rock' (1976)
Mesmerising film even though there's not really much story. People often think it's based on real events. It isn't, although Hanging Rock does exist.
One of those films you can watch multiple times and get something new from it each time.
https://i.ibb.co/27SmQhd/pibniv.jpg (https://ibb.co/WW0qw5f)
'Picnic At Hanging Rock' (1976)
Mesmerising film even though there's not really much story. People often think it's based on real events. It isn't, although Hanging Rock does exist.
One of those films you can watch multiple times and get something new from it each time.Great film.. it's typically weird but absorbing too . Even if it's not real you want it to be..
Under Suspicion, 2000...
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The film was given limited release to only 19 theaters in North America, grossing a total of $334,245 during its theatrical run. The film was also given limited release internationally, grossing $752,783 in Mexico, $17,222 in Taiwan and $277,675 in the United Kingdom.
The film was nominated by the Mystery Writers of America (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Writers_of_America) for the 2001 Edgar Award (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Award) for Best Motion Picture.
Shirley Valentine (1989)
(https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098319/)
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In the UK, after opening nationwide, it was number one (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_1989_box_office_number-one_films_in_the_United_Kingdom) for three consecutive weeks and was the highest-grossing independent British film of the year, with a gross of £11.5 million. The film grossed $6.1 million in the United States and Canada. Worldwide, it grossed $38 million.
Sherlock Holmes, 2009...
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In the stories, Holmes is described to be an expert in Baritsu. In the film, however, the martial art that Holmes used is the Wing-Chun Kung Fu (famously used by Ip Man Yee (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2416279/?ref_=tttrv_tr) and Bruce Lee (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000045/?ref_=tttrv_tr)). Robert Downey, Jr. is a practitioner of the art in real-life, and the fight scene between him and David Garrick (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1162877/?ref_=tttrv_tr) at Punch Bowl Pit was coordinated with the help of his trainer.
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, 1992... Criterion bluray. Essentially a prequel to David Lynch and Mark Frost's earlier TV series "Twin Peaks".
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Shirley Valentine (1989)
(https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098319/)
https://musicart.xboxlive.com/7/1fc31800-0000-0000-0000-000000000002/504/image.jpg?w=1920&h=1080
In the UK, after opening nationwide, it was number one (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_1989_box_office_number-one_films_in_the_United_Kingdom) for three consecutive weeks and was the highest-grossing independent British film of the year, with a gross of £11.5 million. The film grossed $6.1 million in the United States and Canada. Worldwide, it grossed $38 million.
Not a bad film, save for the laughable portrayal by Tom Conte.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes, 2011...4k bluray..
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One of the first movies to use motion-capture in an on-location setting. Previously, motion-capture was limited to special studio set-up with special motion-capture cameras in very clearly defined surroundings.
Caesar's speaking voice was produced by sound designer Chuck Michael (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0584093/?ref_=tttrv_tr), who mixed the sounds of fully grown male chimps' vocalizations recorded at Chimp Haven with Andy Serkis (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0785227/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s voice.
When the apes climb the tree to escape the dome, they form a double helix, the shape of DNA and the Gen-Sys logo.
Karin Konoval (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0465269/?ref_=tttrv_tr): The stubborn court clerk that gave Will a hard time about filing for his appeal was played by Karin Konoval, who also played Maurice the orangutan. Director Rupert Wyatt brought her back after her ape performance capture to play a human because he liked her so much.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, 2014.. 4k bluray...
... the second film in the trilogy..
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The Color Purple (1985)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Color_Purple_(1985_film)
An intense film - moving and shocking in equal measure.
Whoopie Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover are excellent in their respective rôles.
Crash (2004)
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Director's Cut of the oscar-winning urban drama which tracks the volatile intersections of a multi-ethnic cast of characters' struggles to overcome their fears as they careen in and out of one another's lives. A Brentwood housewife and her DA husband; a Persian store owner; two police detectives who are also lovers; an African-American television director and his wife; a Mexican locksmith; two car-jackers; a rookie cop; and a middle-aged Korean couple - they all live in Los Angeles, and during the next 36 hours, they will all collide. Matt Dillon, Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle and Karina Arroyave star.
some classic Bogey now with...
To Have and Have Not, 1944... bluray.
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At the funeral for her husband, (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjZ_rLe-sL_AhXPa8AKHcjiBc4QFnoECCQQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FTo_Hav e_and_Have_Not_(film)&usg=AOvVaw3n51gks4H-_AbDYA40xRDx)Humphrey Bogart (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000007/?ref_=tt_trv_trv), Lauren Bacall (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000002/?ref_=tt_trv_trv) put a whistle in his coffin. It was a reference to the famous line in the film where she says to him: "You know how to whistle, don't you? You just put your lips together and blow."
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One of my favourite films! :) :) :)
The Searchers, 1956..
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Several film critics have suggested that The Searchers was inspired by the 1836 kidnapping (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Parker_massacre) of nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Ann_Parker) by Comanche (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comanche) warriors, who raided her family's home at Fort Parker, Texas. She spent 24 years with the Comanches, married a war chief, and had three children (one of whom was the famous Comanche Chief Quanah Parker (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quanah_Parker)), only to be rescued against her will by Texas Rangers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Ranger_Division).James W. Parker, Cynthia Ann's uncle, spent much of his life and fortune in what became an obsessive search for his niece, much like Ethan Edwards in the film.
In addition, the rescue of Cynthia Ann, during a Texas Ranger attack known as the Battle of Pease River (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pease_River), resembles the rescue of Debbie Edwards when the Texas Rangers attack Scar's village.
...But, author Alan Le May (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Le_May)'s surviving research notes indicate that the two characters who go in search of a missing girl were inspired by Britton Johnson, an African-American (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans) teamster (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teamster) who ransomed his captured wife and children from the Comanches in 1865. Afterward, Johnson made at least three trips to Indian Territory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Territory) and Kansas, relentlessly searching for another kidnapped girl, Millie Durgan (or Durkin), until Kiowa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiowa_people) raiders killed him in 1871.
Three Godfathers, 1948... another Ford western with john wayne etc...
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oft made film this in early days...1916, 1919, 1930, 1936 and now 1948.
This film was dedicated to John Ford's friend and early star, Harry Carey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Carey_(actor)), who died in 1947. At the beginning, stuntman Cliff Lyons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Lyons_(actor)) is shown silhouetted against a sunset, riding Carey's favorite horse, Sonny, over the words: "To the Memory of Harry Carey, bright star of the Western sky..." Ford sent young Carey jnr home the day he shot this scene, as he didnt want to upset him.
Blazing Saddles, 1974..
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Good antidote to all that John Wayne stuff you've been watching. ;)
Good antidote to all that John Wayne stuff you've been watching. ;)
Now I don’t have to tell you good folks what’s been happening in our beloved little forum. Sheriff murdered, crops burned, stores looted, people stampeded, and cattle raped. The time has come to act, and act fast. I’m leaving.
Chinatown, 1974.. bluray.... one of the great hollywood movies...
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At the time of filming, Jack Nicholson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/?ref_=tttrv_tr) had just embarked on his longstanding relationship with Anjelica Huston (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001378/?ref_=tttrv_tr). This made his scenes with her father, John Huston (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001379/?ref_=tttrv_tr), rather uncomfortable, especially as the only time Anjelica was on set was the day they were filming the scene where Noah Cross interrogates Nicholson's character with "Mr. Gittes...do you sleep with my daughter?"
After several takes that never looked quite right, Faye Dunaway (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001159/?ref_=tttrv_tr) got annoyed and told Jack Nicholson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/?ref_=tttrv_tr) to actually slap her. He did and felt very guilty for it, despite it being Dunaway's decision. The shot made it into the movie.
blow out, 1981..
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In Which We Serve, 1942..
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more ww2, this time ... DUNKIRK, 1958....
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When the troop ship taking the platoon home is bombed and sunk in Dunkirk harbor, the scene of the ship sinking is taken from The Cruel Sea (1953) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045659/?ref_=tttrv_tr), which depicts the sinking of H.M.S. "Compass Rose".
The command center used by Vice Admiral Ramsey (Nicholas Hannen) was the actual bunker used during the operation. It's part of a large underground complex beneath Dover Castle. It's open to the public. The balcony in the cliffs is visible from the ferry terminal below.
Sir John Mills was fifty-years-old at the time of filming. The British Expeditionary Force in France in 1940 were a professional army, not conscripts (conscription (the draft) only began after Dunkirk to recoup numbers) therefore, Sir John Mills would be beyond the retirement age for a soldier, and would have been considered too old even for conscription, the maximum age being forty-five. The only soldiers aged fifty or above would have been senior officers, not frontline soldiers, and certainly not Corporals.
Chinatown, 1974.. bluray.... one of the great hollywood movies...
https://pics.filmaffinity.com/Chinatown-715792129-large.jpg
At the time of filming, Jack Nicholson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/?ref_=tttrv_tr) had just embarked on his longstanding relationship with Anjelica Huston (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001378/?ref_=tttrv_tr). This made his scenes with her father, John Huston (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001379/?ref_=tttrv_tr), rather uncomfortable, especially as the only time Anjelica was on set was the day they were filming the scene where Noah Cross interrogates Nicholson's character with "Mr. Gittes...do you sleep with my daughter?"
After several takes that never looked quite right, Faye Dunaway (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001159/?ref_=tttrv_tr) got annoyed and told Jack Nicholson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/?ref_=tttrv_tr) to actually slap her. He did and felt very guilty for it, despite it being Dunaway's decision. The shot made it into the movie.
Excellent film! :)
more ww2, this time ... DUNKIRK, 1958....
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/818s6OTDtIL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg
When the troop ship taking the platoon home is bombed and sunk in Dunkirk harbor, the scene of the ship sinking is taken from The Cruel Sea (1953) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045659/?ref_=tttrv_tr), which depicts the sinking of H.M.S. "Compass Rose".
The command center used by Vice Admiral Ramsey (Nicholas Hannen) was the actual bunker used during the operation. It's part of a large underground complex beneath Dover Castle. It's open to the public. The balcony in the cliffs is visible from the ferry terminal below.
Sir John Mills was fifty-years-old at the time of filming. The British Expeditionary Force in France in 1940 were a professional army, not conscripts (conscription (the draft) only began after Dunkirk to recoup numbers) therefore, Sir John Mills would be beyond the retirement age for a soldier, and would have been considered too old even for conscription, the maximum age being forty-five. The only soldiers aged fifty or above would have been senior officers, not frontline soldiers, and certainly not Corporals.
Think I must have seen that film ten times or more, never occurred to me that Mills is too old. He's supposed to be the experienced one so it sort of makes sense.
It's a much better film than the 2017 Dunkirk in every respect - despite that the 2017 version cost $125 million and the 1958 $1.7 million (which would be $15 million in 2017 dollars).
Just shows how the art of making good films is being lost - even when they've got bucket-loads of money to spend.
Think I must have seen that film ten times or more, never occurred to me that Mills is too old. He's supposed to be the experienced one so it sort of makes sense.
It's a much better film than the 2017 Dunkirk in every respect - despite that the 2017 version cost $125 million and the 1958 $1.7 million (which would be $15 million in 2017 dollars).
Just shows how the art of making good films is being lost - even when they've got bucket-loads of money to spend.
in reality tho he signed up in 39, and was in the royal engineers where he became an officer and was release on health grounds in 42. so he was right age for it, just not in 58...lol
Tom Cruise is 60 and still playing characters half his age.
The you've got Sally Thomset age 20 playing an 11 year old in 'The Railway Children.'
Does it really matter? I don't think so. Won't ruin a good film or make a bad one better.
Band of Outsiders, 1964..criterion bluray...
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Quentin Tarantino (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000233/?ref_=tttrv_tr) named his production company, A Band Apart, after this film.
Godard described it as "Alice in Wonderland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland) meets Franz Kafka (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka)"
Film critic Pauline Kael (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Kael) described Bande à part as "a reverie of a gangster movie" and "perhaps Godard's most delicately charming film"
Band of Outsiders, 1964..criterion bluray...
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Quentin Tarantino (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000233/?ref_=tttrv_tr) named his production company, A Band Apart, after this film.
Godard described it as "Alice in Wonderland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland) meets Franz Kafka (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka)"
Film critic Pauline Kael (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Kael) described Bande à part as "a reverie of a gangster movie" and "perhaps Godard's most delicately charming film"
It's not a film I have seen, but I'm not sure if I could describe anything by Godard as "delicately charming ". :lol:
It's not a film I have seen, but I'm not sure if I could describe anything by Godard as "delicately charming ". :lol:
its possibly as charming as he gets... good film tho
Barry Lyndon, 1975.. criterion bluray.. reg a again...
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Contrary to legend, this movie did use artificial lighting in some scenes (for example, when Bryan (David Morley) learns he's getting a horse). However, it is true that no electronic lighting was used for the candle-lit scenes. A lens built by the Carl Zeiss Company for N.A.S.A., a 50mm Zeiss lens modified with the Kollmorgen adaptor used in still cameras, was used to shoot scenes lit only by candle. This lens had the largest aperture of any ever built for movie use (f/0.7).
Stanley Kubrick (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000040/?ref_=tttrv_tr) used to play the soundtrack's classical music during takes to get the actors and actresses in a better mood. He was reportedly influenced by Sergio Leone (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001466/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s method in Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064116/?ref_=tttrv_tr).
walpurgis
17-06-2023, 13:40
Barry Lyndon, 1975...
Superb film!
Superb film!
yes it was likened to a visit to a museum...everything exact as it should be. They stared filming in Ireland but had to leave due to the IRA
Barry Lyndon, 1975.. criterion bluray.. reg a again...
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Contrary to legend, this movie did use artificial lighting in some scenes (for example, when Bryan (David Morley) learns he's getting a horse). However, it is true that no electronic lighting was used for the candle-lit scenes. A lens built by the Carl Zeiss Company for N.A.S.A., a 50mm Zeiss lens modified with the Kollmorgen adaptor used in still cameras, was used to shoot scenes lit only by candle. This lens had the largest aperture of any ever built for movie use (f/0.7).
Yes it was developed for NASA.
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In the 1960s, NASA commissioned Carl Zeiss to develop a set of extremely large aperture lenses to capture images of the dark side of the moon in its Apollo missions. The company ended up creating 10 Carl Zeiss f/0.7 lenses. Six were sold to NASA, one was kept by Carl Zeiss, and three of them were sold to filmmaker Stanley Kubrick.
However, it is not the fastest lens ever made. That distinction again goes to Zeiss, but for an entirely different reason.
It is the Carl Zeiss Super-Q-Gigantar 40mm f/0.33. It’s what some have called "the fastest camera lens ever made".
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Is that claim true? Well, yes and no… but mostly no.
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Do a bit of research on the web, however, and you won’t find any sample photographs captured with this lens. Why? Because the lens was never designed for real world use, and was never functional.
In the auction description of this lens, the auctioneers WestLicht stated that the 1960s lens was a “unique lens made by Carl Zeiss for Public Relation purposes […] for the Zeiss Contarex 'Bullseye' camera”.
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The lens was born in the 1960s during a time in which camera companies were aiming for larger and larger apertures, just as companies these days are gunning for more and more megapixels. Canon had just released its 50mm f/0.95, and photographers became fixated on the speed of lenses on paper rather than their performance in real world situations.
Zeiss Ikon public relations guru Herr Wolf Wehran decided that he wanted to draw attention to his phenomenon by creating a product poking fun at the fast glass fad.
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Prior to Photokina in 1966, Wehran visited a buddy of his in the Zeiss lens design department. The two found an old condenser lens sitting around, and used it to create a Contarex-mount “frankenlens” using various found pieces. Along the way, they arbitrarily decided that their lens would have a focal length of 40mm and a maximum aperture of f/0.33.
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The lens was given the name “Super-Q-Gigantar.” The “Q” stands for “Quatsch,” which translates to “nonsense” in German. And that’s how the “fastest lens ever made” came to be.
(Apologies for the massive (or should that be 'Gigantic'?) thread drift, but I thought it might be of some interest.)
walpurgis
17-06-2023, 16:26
Those wouldn't have been cheap! :eek:
Those wouldn't have been cheap! :eek:
the 0.7 lens they made 10 of. zeiss i think were puttig one up for sale(dunno what it sold for, if its happen) but they expected it to make between $75k and $150k.
the 0.7 lens they made 10 of. zeiss i think were puttig one up for sale(dunno what it sold for, if its happen) but they expected it to make between $75k and $150k.
just read it went for an eyewatering $340,000....
If you are talking about the Zeiss 40mm f/0.3 lens, the lens went up for auction back in 2011 at the famous WestLicht Photographica Auction. It was billed as “the world’s fastest lens ever made,” had an opening bid of €6,000, and an estimated price of up to €16,000. It ended up selling for €60,000, or close to $80,000.
A sample of the Zeiss 50mm f/0.7 lens (attached to a modified Nikon F body) went for auction in June 2021, and was expected to fetch $150,000.
https://petapixel.com/2021/06/07/rare-zeiss-50mm-f-0-7-lens-made-for-nasa-to-fetch-up-to-146000/
Just read your update Grant - $340,000! Phew! :eek:
I wonder who bought it?
The fastest Zeiss lens I have in my arsenal is the 50mm f/2 Biotar, and worth about £150.
Just read your update Grant - $340,000! Phew! :eek:
I wonder who bought it?
The fastest Zeiss lens I have in my arsenal is the 50mm f/2 Biotar, and worth about £150.A lot of dough I guess for likes of us but for a rich collector it's peanuts to have such a thing
Binge watching “Plebs” on itv x , bloody funny.
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The Man Who Fell to Earth, 1976... 4k bluray.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1959... bluray...
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Cushing was an aficionado of Sherlock Holmes and brought his knowledge to the project. He re-read the stories, made detailed notes in his script and sought to portray Holmes closer to his literary counterpart. It was Cushing's suggestion that the mantelpiece feature Holmes's correspondence transfixed to it with a jackknife as per the original stories. However, when producer Anthony Hinds suggested excluding the famous deerstalker Cushing objected, saying Holmes' headgear and pipes would be expected by the audience.
The Man Who Fell to Earth, 1976... 4k bluray.
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Interesting film - I have it on 'bog standard' DVD.
House of Cards, 1990..
“Politics requires sacrifice. The sacrifice of others, of course.”
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It was a very good TV series. Ian Richardson was superb as the cynical, rapacious and self-centered Francois Urquhart.
(Does it remind you of someone? :D )
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, 1966... 4k bluray..
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According to Eli Wallach (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0908919/?ref_=tttrv_tr), when it came time to blow up the bridge, Sergio Leone (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001466/?ref_=tttrv_tr) asked the Spanish Army Captain in charge to trigger the fuse, as a sign of gratitude for the Army's collaboration. They agreed to blow up the bridge when Leone gave the signal "Vai!" (Go!) over the walkie-talkie. Unfortunately, another crew member spoke on the same channel, saying the words "vai, vai!", meaning "it's okay, proceed" to a second crew member. The Captain heard this signal, thought it was for him, and blew up the bridge. Unfortunately, no cameras were running at the time. Leone was so upset that he fired the crewman, who promptly fled from the set in his car. The Captain was so sorry for what happened that he proposed to Leone that the Army would rebuild the bridge to blow it up again, with one condition: that the fired crewman be re-hired. Leone agreed, the crewman was forgiven, the bridge was rebuilt, and the scene was successfully shot. When the bridge is blown up, and Tuco and Blondie are hunkered down behind sandbags waiting for the explosion, Clint Eastwood (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000142/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s career came within two feet of ending prematurely. A fist-sized piece of rock shrapnel from the explosion slams into the sandbag right next to Eastwood's head (watch it in slow motion to see the rock flying in).
One of the few westerns I like.
Scarlet Street, 1945.. bluray..
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A review in Variety (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety_(magazine)) magazine stated: "Fritz Lang's production and direction ably project the sordid tale of the romance between a milquetoast character and a gold-digging blonde ... Edward G. Robinson is the mild cashier and amateur painter whose love for Joan Bennett leads him to embezzlement, murder and disgrace. Two stars turn in top work to keep the interest high, and Dan Duryea's portrayal of the crafty and crooked opportunist whom Bennett loves is a standout in furthering the melodrama."
The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid, 1972..
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The Terminator, 1984..
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Cast Away, 2000..
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To make himself look like an average out of shape middle aged man Tom Hanks (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000158/?ref_=tttrv_tr) didn't exercise and allowed himself to grow pudgy. Production was then halted for a year so he could lose fifty pounds and grow out his hair for his time spent on the deserted island. During this hiatus, Robert Zemeckis (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000709/?ref_=tttrv_tr) used the same crew to film What Lies Beneath (2000) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0161081/?ref_=tttrv_tr).
Job applications for FedEx went up by 30% after the release of this film.
Not a bad little film. :)
Robinson Crusoe, 1997...
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Filmed in 1994, copyrighted in 1996 and released overseas in 1997. Never released theatrically in the U.S., nor in the UK. The day before production started on this film, June 8, 1994, Pierce Brosnan (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000112/?ref_=tttrv_tr) was being introduced to the press as the new James Bond at the Regent Hotel in London. He was already sporting his Robinson Crusoe beard.
The real Robinson Crusoe Island (which this is based off) is not known to have ever been inhabited by any Aboriginal races, unlike with most other Pacific Islands. This film places the island near New Guinea, and as such the native characters are depicted as having black skin, which is typical of islanders from around that area. The real Robinson Crusoe Island is much closer to Polynesia's Easter Island, whose natives have lighter skin than the ones depicted in this film.
Small Time Crooks, 2000. it stars Woody Allen(who also wrote it) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Allen), Hugh Grant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Grant), Elaine Ma (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_May)y and Tracey Ullman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracey_Ullman).
Ullman was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award_for_Best_Actress_%E2%80%93_Moti on_Picture_Musical_or_Comedy) for her performance, and Elaine May won Best Supporting Actress at the National Society of Film Critics Awards (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Society_of_Film_Critics_Awards) for her performance.
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The Lemon Drop Kid, 1951... corny bob hope vehicle, but watchable.
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Looper, 2011..
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Two Mules for Sister Sara, 1970...
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Both MacLaine and Eastwood are still alive...89 and 93...
Shirley MacLaine (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000511/?ref_=tttrv_tr) gets top billing in the credits (both opening and closing). This was the last time Clint Eastwood (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000142/?ref_=tttrv_tr) received second billing - or anything less than first - until A Perfect World (1993) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107808/?ref_=tttrv_tr), and the only time his leading lady was played by an A-list star until The Bridges of Madison County (1995) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112579/?ref_=tttrv_tr).
Shirley MacLaine (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000511/?ref_=tttrv_tr) did not get along during the shoot with anyone; especially Segal and Eastwood. It's rather conspicuous that in her many volumes of memoirs, Shirley MacLaine (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000511/?ref_=tttrv_tr) says virtually nothing about co-starring with Clint Eastwood (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000142/?ref_=tttrv_tr). When Shirley discussed her career in a two-part interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090493/?ref_=tttrv_tr) in 2011, Clint's name did not come up once.
The release of this film in 1970 marked the first occasion in 22 years that blacklisted screenwriter Albert Maltz had been given screen credit under his own name.
Operation Petticoat, 1959..
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In the film the submarine is on a constant quest to reach a submarine repair ship to restore her operational status again. In real life Tony Curtis (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000348/?ref_=tttrv_tr) served on the submarine repair ship USS Proteus during WW2. It was alleged his enlistment in the Pacific Submarine Force was inspired by the film Destination Tokyo (1943) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035799/?ref_=tttrv_tr), starring Cary Grant (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000026/?ref_=tttrv_tr).
The "sinking" of a truck was inspired by a real incident that happened in 1944. On August 9, USS Bowfin (SS-287) followed four Japanese ships into Minami Daito Harbor. She fired her six bow torpedoes at the moored ships, hitting three and sinking two of them, but one torpedo went astray and hit a pier. A bus parked on it was blown up and thrown into the water by the explosion.
Two Mules for Sister Sara, 1970...
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I liked it. :)
The Lone Ranger, 2013...
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Also liked that one as well.
Loot, 1970...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f6/Loot_FilmPoster.jpeg
a farce it was meant to be and a farce it is, although possibly the wrong kind of farce. Might of made a decent film if it had been played differently with a director who knew how to. Silvio Narizzano (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_Narizzano) for me got this wrong....
Lawrence001
27-06-2023, 21:01
Two Mules for Sister Sara, 1970...
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Both MacLaine and Eastwood are still alive...89 and 93...
Shirley MacLaine (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000511/?ref_=tttrv_tr) gets top billing in the credits (both opening and closing). This was the last time Clint Eastwood (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000142/?ref_=tttrv_tr) received second billing - or anything less than first - until A Perfect World (1993) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107808/?ref_=tttrv_tr), and the only time his leading lady was played by an A-list star until The Bridges of Madison County (1995) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112579/?ref_=tttrv_tr).
Shirley MacLaine (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000511/?ref_=tttrv_tr) did not get along during the shoot with anyone; especially Segal and Eastwood. It's rather conspicuous that in her many volumes of memoirs, Shirley MacLaine (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000511/?ref_=tttrv_tr) says virtually nothing about co-starring with Clint Eastwood (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000142/?ref_=tttrv_tr). When Shirley discussed her career in a two-part interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090493/?ref_=tttrv_tr) in 2011, Clint's name did not come up once.
The release of this film in 1970 marked the first occasion in 22 years that blacklisted screenwriter Albert Maltz had been given screen credit under his own name.There's something weird about that poster, like it's been photoshopped for modern audiences. I don't remember her having those streaks in her hair for example.
There's something weird about that poster, like it's been photoshopped for modern audiences. I don't remember her having those streaks in her hair for example.Yes it's well dodgy
Enemy of the State, 1998...
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The N.S.A. refused to cooperate with the production. Aerial footage of their headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland had to be shot from public air space.
The picture of a younger Gene Hackman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000432/?ref_=tttrv_tr) shown in a white shirt and tie, supposedly from his N.S.A. file, was taken from The Conversation (1974) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071360/?ref_=tttrv_tr). Hackman's character Edward "Brill" Lyle, closely resembles his "Conversation" character, Harry Caul. In The Conversation (1974) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071360/?ref_=tttrv_tr), Harry Caul, like Brill, is a paranoid surveillance expert who has his workplace in an industrial warehouse. Also, Brill wears the same translucent raincoat worn by Harry Caul in the previous movie. In the movie Harry Caul (like Robert Clayton Dean in this movie) is pressured to hand over a tape that has evidence of a murder conspiracy. At the end of The Conversation (1974) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071360/?ref_=tttrv_tr), Caul demolishes his apartment when he thinks people who have been observing him might be coming for him. It's been suggested by more than one movie critic that Brill could actually be an older Harry Caul, living under a pseudonym.
just finished;; the new version of Brighton Rock, 2010...
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The climax was filmed at Beachy Head, a notorious suicide spot. A woman tried to kill herself by driving her car off the cliff on the night of filming.
Phil Davis (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0205289/?ref_=tttrv_tr) (Frank Spicer) previously played the mod Chalky in Quadrophenia (1979) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079766/?ref_=tttrv_tr), which was likewise set in Brighton in 1964.
I I don't want to run it down too far as it has some decent bits, especially when Helen Mirren, John Hurt and Phil Davis were on screen but the 2 leads, Sam Riley and Andrea Riseborough both fail alas, although much of that is the screenplays' fault. Obviously its difficult making 2010 Brighton look like when its set, but at times it wasnt even tried. Nonso Anozie did best he could with a poor part too. He is a good actor usually.
It would be difficult for anyone to surpass Richard Attenborough in playing the part of Pinky. Attenborough had a knack of playing creepy characters such as Christie in '10 Rillington Place '.
It would be difficult for anyone to surpass Richard Attenborough in playing the part of Pinky. Attenborough had a knack of playing creepy characters such as Christie in '10 Rillington Place '.
true.. he could produce that look' and many others; great as the Reg sergeant Major in guns of batasi too with another 'look'
now, The Last of the Mohicans, 1992.. Another great actor, whom i read recently has retired at 60, 6 years ago..must have missed his announcement. Daniel Day-Lewis (https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&sxsrf=APwXEddFqTSz2TgXf1llAL2_YFn2KTdmbg:168803581 1195&q=Daniel+Day-Lewis&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgFuLUz9U3MDUoMqxSAjMNzSrLyrWE spOt9NMyc3LBhFVyYnHJIlYBl8S8zNQcBZfESl2f1PLM4h2sjA Bze264QgAAAA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj6yZO3p-j_AhV0TEEAHYKdCTgQgOQBegQISBAE)
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Many long nights were spent filming the siege scenes. Loudspeakers were installed around the battlefield and fort so directions could easily be given to the hundreds of cast and crew. One night after many long hours, Mann shouted over the speakers, "What's that orange light? Turn out that orange light!" After a pause, another voice came over the speakers saying, "That's the SUN, Michael."
Daniel Day-Lewis (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000358/?ref_=tttrv_tr) is well known for going to extremes in preparation for his roles. For this film he lived in the wilderness where his character might have lived, hunting and fishing and living off the land for several months prior to shooting.
By most accounts, each scene took at least 20 takes. Concerned about the growing cost, 20th Century Fox sent a representative to the set who did nothing but stand behind Michael Mann (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000520/?ref_=tttrv_tr) and say, "That's enough Michael, move on." lol
The shoot employed more than 900 Native Americans from all over the United States, mostly from the Cherokee tribes.
Daniel Day-Lewis (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000358/?ref_=tttrv_tr)' commitment to his role and the strenuous shooting schedule took a toll on his health. He was treated for claustrophobia and "mild hallucinations" after this movie wrapped.
The Bourne Supremacy, 2004..
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To give this movie its gritty, documentary-style appearance, director Paul Greengrass (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0339030/?ref_=tttrv_tr) used mostly handheld cameras, and a muted color palette. Greengrass also made sure to avoid computer graphics at all costs, and all of the stunts shown in the movie were achieved practically.
Unlike the James Bond franchise, all the devices that Bourne uses are real and can be purchased by the average citizen.
In the house in Munich, when Jason Bourne uses the rolled newspaper as a weapon, the martial art he performs is derived from Escrima, an old Philippine martial art, also called Arnis or Kali. This fighting style mainly uses sticks to fight, and in modern times the use of everyday objects is taught, including ball pens (as seen in The Bourne Identity (2002) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258463/?ref_=tttrv_tr) and rolled up newspapers. In the film it is combined with Bruce Lee (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000045/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s Jeet Kune Do. The fighting syle of Jeet Kun Do was also shown in the film, Rapid Fire (1992) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105219/?ref_=tttrv_tr) with late actor, Brandon Lee (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000488/?ref_=tttrv_tr). Jeff Imada (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0408001/?ref_=tttrv_tr), served as a stunt coordinator for both projects.
Key Largo, 1948..
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The script was adapted from a 1939 play of the same name (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_Largo_(play)) by Maxwell Anderson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell_Anderson). In the play, the gangsters are Mexican bandidos, the war in question is the Spanish Civil War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War), and McCloud is a disgraced deserter who dies at the end.
Robinson had top billing over Bogart in their four previous films together: Bullets or Ballots (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullets_or_Ballots) (1936), Kid Galahad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Galahad_(1937_film)) (1937), The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Dr._Clitterhouse) (1938) and Brother Orchid (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother_Orchid) (1940), but the situation switched for the billing in this final film in which Bogart and Robinson worked together. In at least one trailer for the film, however, Robinson is billed above Bogart in a list of the actors' names at the end of the preview, and photographs exist of Robinson being billed above Bogart on some theatre marquees. In the film itself and in posters, Robinson's name is between Bogart's and Bacall's but slightly higher than the other two. In some posters, Robinson's picture is substantially larger than Bogart's, and in the foreground manhandling Bacall while Bogart is in the background.
The film was shot primarily at the Warner Bros. Studios, Burbank (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros._Studios,_Burbank), in order to keep costs down. The beach and hotel exterior were constructed on the Warner Bros. backlot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backlot); the interior scenes were filmed on a sound stage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_stage); and the boat scenes were filmed in Sound Stage 21, a huge indoor water tank. Exterior shots of the hurricane (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane) were taken from stock footage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_footage) used in Night Unto Night (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Unto_Night), a Ronald Reagan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan) melodrama (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melodrama) which Warner Bros. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros.) also produced in 1948. Filming took 78 days.
The boat used by Rocco's gang to depart Key Largo, with Bogart's character at the helm, is named the Santana, which was also the name of Bogart's personal 55-foot (17 m) sailing yacht.
Murder, My Sweet, 1944..
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). Murder, My Sweet is, along with Double Indemnity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Indemnity) (released five months prior), one of the first films noir, and a key influence in the development of the genre.
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Key Largo, 1948..
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I feel I should know this fim - but the action/plot escapes me! :scratch:
I feel I should know this fim - but the action/plot escapes me! :scratch:
gangsters led by robinson take over a hotel in the keys. storm happens then bogey takes them out on boat and kills them, and returns to his prize..bacall..:eek: very shortened. great film; one of bogeys best.
another Robinson Crusoe film aptly named CRUSOE, 1988...
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Roger Ebert (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ebert) of the Chicago Sun-Times (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Sun-Times) gave the film three and a half out of four stars, saying "It is a big, bold production, with the width of vision that sometimes develops when the director has a background in cinematography. Caleb Deschanel, who made it, needs few spoken words to tell his story, and probably could have done with less." Film4 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film4) said that although "the film is stronger on visuals than actual substance" it was "still a brave interpretation of an oft-told tale, with Quinn as a convincingly unpleasant Crusoe."
The Trouble with Harry - 4K Bluray, 1955..
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This movie was unavailable for three decades because its rights (together with four other movies of the same period) were bought back by Sir Alfred Hitchcock (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000033/?ref_=tttrv_tr) and left as part of his legacy to his daughter Patricia Hitchcock (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0386877/?ref_=tttrv_tr). They were known for years as the infamous "five lost Hitchcocks" amongst movie buffs. The films were re-released in theaters in 1984 after an approximately thirty year absence. The others are Rope (1948) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040746/?ref_=tttrv_tr), Rear Window (1954) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047396/?ref_=tttrv_tr), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049470/?ref_=tttrv_tr), and Vertigo (1958) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052357/?ref_=tttrv_tr).
This was one of Sir Alfred Hitchcock (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000033/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s favorites of all his movies.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1969..
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With nine wins, it currently holds the record for the British Academy Awards (BAFTAs). It won for picture, actor (Robert Redford (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000602/?ref_=tttrv_tr)), actress (Katharine Ross (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001684/?ref_=tttrv_tr), direction (George Roy Hill (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001351/?ref_=tttrv_tr)), screenplay, cinematography, film editing, sound, and score. It won every award it could, as its tenth nomination was a dual nomination for Best Actor.
On the first day of shooting, involving the train robbery scenes, Katharine Ross (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001684/?ref_=tttrv_tr) came to the set to watch. There were five cameras and only four operators, so cinematographer Conrad L. Hall (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005734/?ref_=tttrv_tr) put her on the extra camera. He showed her how to operate it and how to move it to get her shot. Director George Roy Hill (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001351/?ref_=tttrv_tr) was furious, but said nothing the whole day. At the end of the day, however, he banned her from the set except when she was working. Hall wasn't punished by Hill for letting her.
Sorry, Wrong Number, 1948...
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The jewel-clasped cigarette case Leona offers to Henry was Barbara Stanwyck (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001766/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s own. It was a birthday gift from Joan Crawford (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001076/?ref_=tttrv_tr), one of her dearest friends.
The enormous emerald-cut diamond engagement ring that Leona is wearing during much of the film is real and worth a fortune. It was loaned to the studio by Harry Winston Jewelers in Beverly Hills. Every night after filming had wrapped for the day, the ring was placed in the Paramount vault.
Barbara Stanwyck (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001766/?ref_=tttrv_tr) found that sustaining that level of emotion all week long and then going home on the weekend was a draining experience. "Five days I was handling it, starting the next day's work where I'd picked up, sustaining it all, and then I had two whole days to relax and not to worry about the character, and I tell you it was strange," said Stanwyck. "It was really hard to pump myself up on Monday morning to try to feel that desperate tension." She claimed that the terror she played in the bedroom scenes is actually what made her hair begin to prematurely gray.
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'Jack The Ripper' (1988)
Michael Caine is a detective from Scotland Yard assigned to solve the Whitechapel murders, Lewis Collins plays his sidekick.
Two part mini-series made by Euston Films, and with almost every actor used by Euston in their TV shows over the years getting at least a bit part.
Production values are good but Caine does have to carry it quite a lot, not least because Collins - and some of the other actors - deliver very uneven performances.
Lots of historical inaccuracies but in fairness it does not pretend to be a documentary or recreation of the real events. Better than the rubbish they make now, and worth a watch.
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'Jack The Ripper' (1988)
Michael Caine is a detective from Scotland Yard assigned to solve the Whitechapel murders, Lewis Collins plays his sidekick.
Two part mini-series made by Euston Films, and with almost every actor used by Euston in their TV shows over the years getting at least a bit part.
Production values are good but Caine does have to carry it quite a bit, not least because Collins - and some of the other actors - deliver very uneven performances.
Lots of historical inaccuracies but in fairness it does not pretend to be a documentary or recreation of the real events. Better than the rubbish they make now, and worth a watch.
yes its a good show; ive got it on bluray.
House of Cards, 1990...bluray... second series... to play the king..
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Gambit, 2012... bluray.
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While ostensibly a remake of Gambit (1966), the plot of this version is actually quite different.
The Coen brothers' draft of the script was originally written in the early 2000s, but the project became stuck in development hell after several directors dropped out. Despite several uncredited rewrites that removed many of their contributions, the Coens were still given main writing credits.
Producer Mike Lobell spent fourteen years trying to set this up. Alexander Payne and Robert Altman were amongst the directors involved, before it went to Michael Hoffman.
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walpurgis
01-07-2023, 15:48
Just watched 'X The Unknown' 1956 on Talking Pictures TV. A corny old Hammer sci-fi horror effort about a radioactive monster that looked like a big marshmallow. Dire, but at least it managed to bump off Anthony Newley :).
(Newley was a sort of showbiz 'swiss army knife', did a bit of everything without being very good at any of them, like Roy Castle. Newley was more irritating though)
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Gambit, 2012... bluray.
While ostensibly a remake of Gambit (1966), the plot of this version is actually quite different.
Agreed - I much prefer the original:
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Agreed - I much prefer the original:
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just what im watching now lol...GAMBIT, 1966...
The first draft of the screenplay was written by Bryan Forbes in 1960, when the story was designed as a vehicle for Cary Grant. He eventually dropped out of the project, which subsequently underwent many changes. It was eventually decided to make the girl the central character, and Shirley MacLaine was signed for the lead. After seeing The Ipcress File (1965), she suggested Michael Caine as her leading man, which led to still more re-writing to accommodate his working-class cockney persona.
Dave, 1993..
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Dave debuted at number 2 at the US box office, behind Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon:_The_Bruce_Lee_Story). It reached number 1 in its second weekend. In total, Dave made $63.3 million in the United States and Canada and $28.5 million internationally for a worldwide total of $91.8 million.
Dave was met with critical acclaim and has a 95% rating based on 55 reviews collected at Rotten Tomatoes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotten_Tomatoes). The consensus on the site states: "Ivan Reitman's refreshingly earnest political comedy benefits from an understated, charming script and a breezy performance by Kevin Kline." Roger Ebert (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ebert) of the Chicago Sun-Times (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Sun-Times) gave the film three and a half stars out of four. Ebert praised the film's acting and wrote, "Dave takes that old plot about an ordinary person who is suddenly thrust into a position of power, and finds a fresh way to tell it. [...] When I first heard this story line, I imagined that Dave would be completely predictable. I was wrong. The movie is more proof that it isn't what you do, it's how you do it: Ivan Reitman's direction and Gary Ross's screenplay use intelligence and warmhearted sentiment to make Dave into wonderful lighthearted entertainment. [...] Both Kline and Weaver are good at playing characters of considerable intelligence, and that's the case here. The movie may be built on subtle variations of the Idiot Plot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot_plot) (in which the characters skillfully avoid tripping over obvious conclusions), but they bring such particular qualities to their characters that we almost believe them."
Then-President Bill Clinton (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton) approved of the film, and gave Ross a framed script, which Clinton had autographed, writing that it was a "funny, often accurate lampooning of politics." Clinton also gave Ross a picture of himself holding a Dave mug.
Without a Clue, 1988...
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The closing credits offer an apology that states: "With apologies to the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0236279/?ref_=tt_trv_trv), creator of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson."
Quotes (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096454/quotes/?ref_=tt_trv_qu)Holmes (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000323/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): It wasn't YOU he tried to kill!
Watson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001426/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Think man, think... Who was SUPPOSED to be in that room?
Holmes (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000323/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): That's right! You were!
Watson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001426/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Moriarty knows... I'm am the only match for his evil genius.
Holmes (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000323/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): You mean he's not trying to kill me?
Watson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001426/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Of course not. He knows you're an idiot.
Holmes (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000323/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Oh, thank God.
Blithe Spirit, 1945..
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Coward had turned down offers from Hollywood to sell the film rights, stating that previous American versions of his plays had been "vulgarized, distorted and ruined". The rights were instead sold to Cineguild (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cineguild_Productions), one of the independent companies supported by the Rank Organization (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rank_Organization). The film was shot in Technicolor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technicolor) and marked Lean's first attempt at directing comedy after working on two straight films In Which We Serve (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Which_We_Serve) and This Happy Breed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Happy_Breed_(film)), both also written by Noël Coward (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Coward). The film was shot at Denham Studios (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denham_Studios) in May 1944.
Miller's Crossing, 1990... Criterion bluray reg A...
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Writers Joel Coen (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001054/?ref_=tttrv_tr) and Ethan Coen (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001053/?ref_=tttrv_tr) suffered writer's block while writing Miller's Crossing (1990) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100150/?ref_=tttrv_tr). They took a three week break and wrote Barton Fink (1991) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101410/?ref_=tttrv_tr) a film about a writer with writer's block. The name of Tom Regan's residence is "The Barton Arms". In one of the newspapers an article reads 'Seven Dead in Hotel Fire,' another reference to Barton Fink.
Although he was a native Irishman playing a lieutenant to an Irish mobster, the Coens did not originally want Gabriel Byrne (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000321/?ref_=tttrv_tr) to use his own accent in the film. Byrne argued that his dialogue was structured in such a way that it was a good fit for his accent, and after he tried it, the Coens agreed. Ultimately, both Byrne and Albert Finney (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001215/?ref_=tttrv_tr) used Irish accents in the film.
walpurgis
03-07-2023, 10:43
Miller's Crossing, 1990....
Excellent movie!
I've seen it - but not sure if I liked it.
Excellent movie!
I've seen it - but not sure if I liked it.
yes its a classic neo noir and one of the coens' best films imo... Albie again showed his class with a good irish american type accent.
The 39 Steps, 1935.. Criterion collection bluray..
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loosely based on the 1915 novel The Thirty-Nine Steps (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirty-Nine_Steps) by John Buchan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Buchan), and stars Robert Donat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Donat) and Madeleine Carroll (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Carroll). Since its initial release, the film has been widely acknowledged as a classic. Filmmaker and actor Orson Welles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Welles) referred to it as a "masterpiece". Screenwriter Robert Towne (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Towne) remarked, "It's not much of an exaggeration to say that all contemporary escapist entertainment begins with The 39 Steps."
According to one of his sons, John Buchan (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0117955/?ref_=tttrv_tr), upon whose novel this movie was based, was impressed with this movie despite its departures from his original plot, and during a private screening, Alfred Hitchcock (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000033/?ref_=tttrv_tr) asked John Buchan (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0117955/?ref_=tttrv_tr) what he thought of the movie so far. Buchan replied: "Fascinating! I wonder how it will end.".
Living, 2022.. excellent remake of IRIKU from 1952.
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a bit close to home that. superb acting, script etc... a must watch.
now, something lighter....
Young Frankenstein, 1974..
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A critical and commercial success, 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).[35] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Frankenstein#cite_note-35) 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.[36] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Frankenstein#cite_note-36) 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. So, who knows.. both are great stories.
My Favorite Blonde, 1942.. kino lorber bluray..
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Although filmed during World War II, with a plot about a race to the death against Nazi spies, the words "Nazi" and "Germany" are never spoken in the movie. Bob Hope (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001362/?ref_=tttrv_tr) does come close when he calls the villains "nasties" in the climax, "nasty" being a vocal anagram of Nazi.
On Rotten Tomatoes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotten_Tomatoes), the film has an aggregate score of 100% based on 7 critic reviews.
This was the first of a trio 'My Favorites' films...
BOB HOPE, A QUICK BIOGRAPHY...
HE was not really a singer, but he introduced a handful of standards in a pitch-perfect voice. He was not really a dancer, but held his own as a hoofer with Cagney and Baryshnikov.
He was never nominated for his acting, but presided over more Oscar ceremonies than anyone and was among the top box office draws of his day. He never had a regular television series, but his specials were smash ratings hits, and the creators of ''M*A*S*H'' and ''Gilligan's Island'' cut their teeth as his radio writers. He lent jokes to Franklin D. Roosevelt, played golf with Bill Clinton and entertained the troops in every American war, from Pearl Harbor to the Persian Gulf.
He was born in London the year that the Wright Brothers first flew at Kitty Hawk.... He also lived to over 100 years old, and during most of it he was a womanizer.. amazing guy.
Foreign Correspondent, 1940... Criterion bluray..
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Correspondent_(film))
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Producer Walter Wanger (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Wanger) bought the rights to journalist Vincent Sheean (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Sheean)'s memoir Personal History in 1935, but after several adaptations proved unsatisfactory, Wanger allowed the story to stray significantly from the book. It took numerous writers and five years before Wanger had a script he was satisfied with, by which time Hitchcock was in the United States under contract with David O. Selznick (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_O._Selznick) and available to direct this film on a loan-out. Hitchcock, who did not enjoy working under the usual close scrutiny of Selznick, originally wanted Gary Cooper (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Cooper) and Joan Fontaine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Fontaine) for the lead roles, but Cooper was not interested in doing a thriller at the time, and Selznick would not loan out Fontaine. Later, Cooper admitted to Hitchcock that he had made a mistake in turning down the film. The $1.5m budget was very high for time and although very popular it just failed to cover itself at box office.
Foreign Correspondent opened on August 16, 1940, in the United States and on October 11 of that year in the United Kingdom. The film, which ends with London being bombed, opened in the United States at the dawn of the Battle of Britain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain), just three days after the Luftwaffe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luftwaffe) began bombing British coastal airfields in the early Adlerangriff (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain#Adlerangriff) phase of the Battle of Britain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain), and a week before Germany began bombing London (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_britain#Raids_on_British_cities) on August 24.
After the film wrapped, Hitchcock visited his native England, and returned to Los Angeles on July 3, to report that the Germans were expected to begin bombing London at any time. To accommodate this, Ben Hecht (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Hecht) was called in to write the epilogue of the film, the scene in the radio station, which replaced the original end sequence in which two of the characters discussed the events of the film on a transatlantic seaplane trip. The new ending was filmed on July 5, presciently foreshadowing the celebrated radio broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_R._Murrow).
In a 1972 interview on (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Correspondent_(film)#cite_note-tcmtriv-2)The Dick Cavett Show (1968) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063894/?ref_=tttrv_tr), Alfred Hitchcock (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000033/?ref_=tttrv_tr) revealed that the plane crash scene was filmed by using footage shot from a stunt plane diving on the ocean, rear projected on rice paper in front of a cockpit set. Also, behind the rice paper were two chutes aimed at the cockpit's windshield connected to large tanks of water. With the press of a button at the right moment, water came crashing through the rice paper, into the plane simulating the plane crashing into the sea from the cockpit view.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Correspondent_(film)#cite_note-tcmtriv-2)
Rear Window, 1954...
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Time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(magazine)) called it "just possibly the second-most entertaining picture (after The 39 Steps (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_39_Steps_(1935_film))) ever made by Alfred Hitchcock" and a film in which there is "never an instant ... when Director Hitchcock is not in minute and masterly control of his material."(although i did read that Jimmy Stewart was even more picky and 'loud' than Hitch when he didn't like something like the lighting etc)
The film negative was damaged considerably as a result of color dye fading as early as the 1960s. Nearly all of the yellow image dyes had faded. Despite fears that the film had been irrevocably damaged, preservation experts were able to restore the film nearly to its original coloration.
According to Georgine Darcy (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0201045/?ref_=tttrv_tr), the man and woman on the fire escape struggling to get out of the rain was based on a prank by Sir Alfred Hitchcock (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000033/?ref_=tttrv_tr). Each actor and actress in the apartment complex facing Jeff's rear window wore an earpiece through which they could receive Hitchcock's directions. Hitchcock told the man to pull the mattress in one direction and told the woman to pull in the opposite direction. Unaware that they had received conflicting directions, the couple began to fight and struggle to get the mattress inside once the crew began filming. The resulting mayhem, in which one of the couple is tossed inside the window with the mattress, provided humor and a sense of authenticity, which Hitchcock liked. He was so pleased with the result that he did not order another take.
The Password Is Courage, 1962.. loosely based on the even looser book..lol...although he did apparently get a medal etc.
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The Mouse on the Moon, 1963... the sequel to The Mouse That Roared (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mouse_That_Roared_(film)). It is an adaptation of the 1962 novel The Mouse on the Moon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mouse_on_the_Moon_(novel)) by Irish author Leonard Wibberley (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Wibberley)...
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The film was made on sets left over from Cornel Wilde (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornel_Wilde)'s film Sword of Lancelot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancelot_and_Guinevere). Peter Sellers recommended Dick Lester, whom he knew from his direction of The Running, Jumping and Standing Still Film (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Running,_Jumping_and_Standing_Still_Film). Producer Walter Shenson and director Lester next made The Beatles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles) film A Hard Day's Night (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hard_Day%27s_Night_(film)).
The American premier was held at Cape Canaveral, Florida, where cast members mingled with NASA astronauts. Can only wonder what they thought of it lol...
Great cast tho here and just about holds it on course.
RED, 2010.. JUST COZ ITS FUN
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Camera enthuiasts still speculate about the make and focal length of the lens fitted to Jimmy Stewart's camera.
Camera enthuiasts still speculate about the make and focal length of the lens fitted to Jimmy Stewart's camera.
supposed to have been a Kilfitt Fern-Kilar 400mm lens.
https://pixelcraft.photo.blog/2020/10/21/use-of-the-camera-in-hitchcocks-rear-window/
Murder Ahoy!, 1964..
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Unlike the previous three films that were adapted from Christie novels – The 4.50 from Paddington (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_4.50_from_Paddington) (Murder, She Said (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder,_She_Said) – the only Miss Marple novel used), After the Funeral (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_the_Funeral) (a Poirot mystery, adapted for Miss Marple with the title Murder at the Gallop (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_at_the_Gallop)) and Mrs. McGinty's Dead (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._McGinty%27s_Dead) (another Poirot novel, adapted as Murder Most Foul (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_Most_Foul_(film))) – this film used an original screenplay that was not based on any of Christie's stories.
It does, however, employ elements of the 1952 Miss Marple story They Do It With Mirrors (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Do_It_With_Mirrors). Specifically, the Battledore is a training ship for teenage boys with criminal tendencies, who are supposedly being set on the straight and narrow path – when, in fact, one of the members of the crew is training them for careers in housebreaking. Likewise, in They Do It With Mirrors, a boarding school for delinquent youths is actually being used to hone their criminal skills. This is the only element in the film borrowed from a Christie story.
The Likely Lads: A Special Christmas Edition, 1973.. (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0747116/)https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Whatever_Happened_to_the_Likely_Lads_opening_title .jpg/1200px-Whatever_Happened_to_the_Likely_Lads_opening_title .jpg
Ripping Yarns, 1976.. classic stuff from michael palin
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'The Hired Gun' (1957)
Rory Calhoun (standing on his hind legs) is a bounty hunter who has to get Ann Francis (at the height of her powers) out of a spot of bother.
Quality B western.
Never noticed it before but Rory Calhoun looks a lot like Noel Gallagher out of Oasis.
Last day of TCM today, that's a bit of a blow.
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'The Hired Gun' (1957)
Rory Calhoun (standing on his hind legs) is a bounty hunter who has to get Ann Francis (at the height of her powers) out of a spot of bother.
Quality B western.
Never noticed it before but Rory Calhoun looks a lot like Noel Gallagher out of Oasis.
Last day of TCM today, that's a bit of a blow.
she was of forbidden planet fame. quite pretty
Tom Jones, 1963...bluray.
https://shop-cdn.bfi.org.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/3e114a9bcdb9ddec78ab9c1de50916ee/t/o/tom_jones_bd_draft.jpg
Playing the director's cut from the 2 disc set.. The Film won 4 Oscars...
It took two nights to film the sequence in which Squire Western chases after Tom. The second night, Hugh Griffith (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0341518/?ref_=tt_trv_trv) managed to undo the wiring on his riding crop, and actually hit Albert Finney (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001215/?ref_=tt_trv_trv) with it, drawing blood. In character, Finney turned on Griffith and said, "I can't abide to be whipped, Squire," then punched him in the face. Each stalked off the set, swearing never to work with the other again. Hugh Griffith (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0341518/?ref_=tttrv_tr) was reportedly drunk through much of the production; the scene in which his horse falls on him was not planned, and many believed he was saved by virtue of his inebriated condition. The film incorporated every frame of footage before rescuers entered the frame to save him.
This was the last film that President John F. Kennedy (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0448123/?ref_=tttrv_tr) saw during a stopover in Palm Beach, Florida, en route to Dallas, Texas (November 17, 1963).
Welsh singer Tom Jones (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0429367/?ref_=tttrv_tr) (born Thomas John Woodward) chose his professional stage name from the title character/protagonist of this film.
Quartet, 2012..
https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTliBNvElHLxTopXljKFNqwf7f5E2W4K jYQLQprbiLbXdDj5l_8
Dustin Hoffman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000163/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s first completed directorial effort. In 1978, he began directing Straight Time (1978) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078326/?ref_=tttrv_tr), but after a few days, he decided it was too difficult to both star and direct, and asked Ulu Grosbard (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0343260/?ref_=tttrv_tr) to take over.
Ronald Harwood (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0367838/?ref_=tttrv_tr) wrote the part of Wilf for Albert Finney (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001215/?ref_=tttrv_tr), who had worked with Sir Tom Courtenay (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0183822/?ref_=tttrv_tr) on The Dresser (1983) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085461/?ref_=tttrv_tr). Finney was forced to turn down the role due to ill health, and Peter O'Toole (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000564/?ref_=tttrv_tr) was cast to replace him. Before shooting began, O'Toole concluded that he was unable to survive the rigors of a movie shoot and he was replaced by Sir Billy Connolly (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0175262/?ref_=tttrv_tr).
Most of the supporting cast were retired professional musicians.
The principal actors and actresses were trained to sing, but the scene of them singing the title quartet from Giuseppe Verdi (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006333/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s opera Rigoletto was cut from the movie, but is heard playing over the end credits.
Starman, 1984.. bluray..
https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTGuDuvUITRHM6C-EAgBlDZttnijqDmVKm2FPV9bxQzoiWUDFc3
Only John Carpenter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carpenter) film to get an Oscar nomination (Bridges)
Irma la Douce, 1963.. Eureka bluray version...
https://eurekavideo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Irma.jpg
The pimps' union is called the "Mecs (Guys or Blokes) Paris Protective Association" (MPPA), which also stands for "Motion Picture Producers Association", an organization which had given Director Billy Wilder (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000697/?ref_=tttrv_tr) some trouble.
According to an article in the 21 October 1962 edition of the New York Times, the sprawling Rue Casanova set took three months to build at a cost of $250,000 ($2.45M in 2022), and included 48 buildings and three converging streets.
In order to be able to play Irma properly, Shirley MacLaine traveled to Paris to see what it was like for real Parisian prostitutes. They were eager to tell her what it was like, and very willing to answer any questions she had. When asked if she would like to "watch them in action", she politely declined, but to her surprise they became indignant. They requested that she watch one of their weekly customers with three of the girls through a small window in the hotel door; she unwillingly obliged.
Shirley MacLaine (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000511/?ref_=tttrv_tr) was not happy with the script, and thought even less of the film after it was finished, calling it "crude and clumsy". She was surprised to get a Best Actress Oscar nomination out of it, saying, "I would have been nonplussed had I won it."
https://i.ibb.co/djqtn8R/hired-gun.jpg (https://imgbb.com/)
'The Hired Gun' (1957)
Rory Calhoun (standing on his hind legs) is a bounty hunter who has to get Ann Francis (at the height of her powers) out of a spot of bother.
Quality B western.
Never noticed it before but Rory Calhoun looks a lot like Noel Gallagher out of Oasis.
Last day of TCM today, that's a bit of a blow.
What is TCM?
What is TCM?
turner clasic movies
turner clasic movies
Was that a subscription service? What happened to it?
Was that a subscription service?Not here. It had a lot of oldish films . Sometimes good ones. Think it was on Freeview once. But was on cable and satellite for sure. They are keeping going in in America afaik
they never said why
Ah yes - now you mention Freeview, I think I saw TCM listed in the Radio Times.
I don't think it has ever been on freeview it's always been a pay channel as long back as I can remember.
Lots of channels are going I think. Been watching Pluto TV which has 250 channels, sort of like cable within cable, and they show a lot of proper telly. Were showing back to back Laurel and Hardy shorts last night.
It was the mention of "Freeview" that reminded me of seeing TMC listings in the Radio Times, but I didn't mean to suggest one could see TMC for free.
RT lists subscription channels that can be received 'off air'.
Robot & Frank, 2012..bluray..
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT-dq-FC7wLaUbpbfa3WeSPcejJwUkvE5GbCtWJIG9yIpO3i19I
walpurgis
09-07-2023, 08:27
Something to watch tonight. 'Mr Hulot's Holiday' 1953, with Jaques Tati. Not seen this for about forty years, but I like Tati's films.
https://i.ibb.co/yWXJYvy/Screen-Shot-07-09-23-at-09-19-AM.png (https://imgbb.com/)
Robot & Frank, 2012..bluray..
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT-dq-FC7wLaUbpbfa3WeSPcejJwUkvE5GbCtWJIG9yIpO3i19I
Interesting film - one that needs more than one viewing.
Something to watch tonight. 'Mr Hulot's Holiday' 1953, with Jaques Tati. Not seen this for about forty years, but I like Tati's films.
https://i.ibb.co/yWXJYvy/Screen-Shot-07-09-23-at-09-19-AM.png (https://imgbb.com/)
I like those Jaques Tatie films as well. :)
Interesting film - one that needs more than one viewing.
yes i quite liked it barry..
Star Trek: The Motion Picture, 1979...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/df/Star_Trek_The_Motion_Picture_poster.png
William Shatner (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000638/?ref_=tttrv_tr), who saw the completed film for the first time at the world premiere, was struck by the overall sluggishness of this film, and was convinced that the Star Trek franchise died there and then. He opined, "Well, that's it. We gave it our best shot, it wasn't good, and it will never happen again." Recalling his initial reaction 15 years later, he added "Shows you what I know."
Uhura's communications earpieces are the only original props from Star Trek (1966) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060028/?ref_=tttrv_tr). They were dug out of storage when it was realized someone had forgotten to make new ones for this film.
James Doohan (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001150/?ref_=tttrv_tr) also devised the Vulcan words heard during the Kolinahr sequence. The scenes were originally shot in English, and when it was decided to change the dialogue to Vulcan, Doohan wrote lines that fit the existing lip movements. Some of the subtitles were rearranged to make this less obvious.
During the rewrite of the final scenes, the studio executives clashed with Gene Roddenberry (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0734472/?ref_=tttrv_tr) about the script's ending, believing that the concept of a living machine was too far-fetched. The executives consulted Isaac Asimov (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001920/?ref_=tttrv_tr); if the writer decided a sentient machine was plausible, the ending could stay. Asimov loved the ending, but made one small suggestion; he felt that the use of the word "wormhole" was incorrect, and that the anomaly that the Enterprise found itself in would be more accurately called a "temporal tunnel".
The Limehouse Golem, 2016... bluray
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQcxP-DEwgb-6UJjyPoa_-9f0AZJ8kyiNH9QLMS_Lf_1G2eyBkX
Though the film is based on a work of fiction, three of the readers in the library, all of them suspects in the golem case, are real people who did at the time live in London: Karl Marx, George Gissing and Dan Leno.
The role portrayed by Bill Nighy was initially given to Alan Rickman (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000614/?ref_=tttrv_tr), but the latter had to pull out of the project due to ill-health, which eventually led to his untimely death from pancreatic cancer in January 2016. At the end of the end credits, the following dedication appears on the screen: "This film is dedicated to the memory of Alan Rickman".
Though only appearing in the movie briefly, philosopher Karl Marx was indeed living in London at the time the movie is set. Because he was a Jew and propounded socialist ideas, he was actually harassed by the police.
Looks interesting Grant - any good?
Looks interesting Grant - any good?
the sets are lush and atmospheric acting is good too. script is ok but its a kind of flashback style that can disrupt the flow at times. well worth watching a couple of times to catch it all..
now something less gory lol...
The Four Feathers, 1939.. criterion bluray, regA.
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81S3WEYdHPL._AC_SL1500_.jpg
A timid 1880s British Army officer resigns, burning his last-day summons to war in Egypt. Accusing him of cowardice, his girlfriend and three friends give him white feathers. To gain redemption, he shadows his friends to save their lives.
Zoltan Korda's original, and the best version of this A E W Mason 'BOYS OWN' tale with a good cast t'boot.
The action scenes, photographed by Osmond Borradaile (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0097306/?ref_=tttrv_tr), were not only filmed where the historical battles had taken place, but also included among the many extras, people who had witnessed or participated in the fighting more than forty years earlier. These battle scenes further benefitted from Director Zoltan Korda (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0466113/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s expertise at large-scale action and his early experience as a cavalry officer.
The sailing ships pulled by hordes of Sudanese along the Nile were constructed specially for the production in exact period detail at great cost.
Blood Simple, 19844... bluray..
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71tmRJ-qDYL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg
On the advice of Sam Raimi (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000600/?ref_=tttrv_tr), the Coens went door-to-door showing potential investors a two minute 'trailer' of the film they planned to make. They ultimately raised $750,000 in a little over a year, enough to begin production of the movie.
The original video version of Blood Simple couldn't get the rights to use The Four Tops song "It's the Same Old Song" (which essentially became the theme for the film). It was instead replaced with the Neil Diamond cover song of "I'm a Believer." Later DVD and Blu-ray releases restore the Four Tops song.
walpurgis
11-07-2023, 13:49
Blood Simple
Really good movie, that not many know of. I like the Coen's work, got this on DVD along with others.
Really good movie, that not many know of. I like the Coen's work, got this on DVD along with others.
yes it was a close to a classic tbh... first film too...
I'm sure I've seen (I think I've seen all of the Coen brother's output), but can't remember much about it.
I'm sure I've seen (I think I've seen all of the Coen brother's output), but can't remember much about it.
some good interviews on the bluray disc.. well worth catching at least if not buying..
Another Coen Bros film now.... Fargo, 1996... bluray..
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/811hUhyLXwL._AC_SL1500_.jpg
Fargo premiered at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Cannes_Film_Festival), where Joel Coen won the festival's Prix de la mise en scène (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannes_Film_Festival_Award_for_Best_Director) (Best Director Award) and the film was nominated for the Palme d'Or (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palme_d%27Or). The film was both a commercial and critical success, earning particular acclaim for the Coens' direction and script and the performances of McDormand, Macy, and Buscemi. Fargo received seven Oscar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Awards) nominations at the 69th Academy Awards (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/69th_Academy_Awards), including Best Picture (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture), Best Director (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Director), and Best Supporting Actor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Supporting_Actor) for Macy, winning two: Best Actress (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Actress) for McDormand and Best Original Screenplay (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Original_Screenplay) for the Coens.
William H. Macy (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000513/?ref_=tttrv_tr) begged the directors for the role of Jerry Lundegaard. He did two readings for the part, and became convinced he was the best man for the role. When the Coens (Joel Coen (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001054/?ref_=tttrv_tr) & Ethan Coen (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001053/?ref_=tttrv_tr)) didn't get back to him, he flew to New York (where they were starting production) and said, "I'm very, very worried that you are going to screw up this movie by giving this role to somebody else. It's my role, and I'll shoot your dogs if you don't give it to me." He was joking, of course.
One of the best of the Coen brothers' films.
Why, however do their films have to be so violent - is it their trademark?
One of the best of the Coen brothers' films.
Why, however do their films have to be so violent - is it their trademark?
black humour(sometimes odd) is one of their main trade marks, and there is nothing more black than gory or odd deaths/murders.
ive a few of theirs'
fargo, no country for..., blood simple, o' brother..., millers crossing, the man who wasnt there and buster scruggs. think thats all..
narabdela
13-07-2023, 18:01
fargo, no country for..., blood simple, o' brother..., millers crossing, the man who wasnt there and buster scruggs. think thats all..
No Barton Fink? :confused:
No Barton Fink? :confused:
oddly no;; i dont have it....currently; hey you cant have them all
The Revenant, 2015... 4k bluray... stunning in 4k
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/813RnMtxhIL._AC_SL1500_.jpg
Leonardo DiCaprio (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000138/?ref_=tttrv_tr) chose to devour a raw slab of bison's liver, even though he is vegetarian. He also had to learn to shoot a musket, build a fire, speak two Native American languages (Pawnee and Arikara), and study with a doctor who specializes in ancient healing techniques. DiCaprio calls it the hardest performance of his career.
Shot chronologically on an 80-day schedule that took place over a total principal photography time period of nine months. This unusually long production time was due to the cold weather conditions, the remoteness of the locations and director Alejandro G. Iñárritu (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0327944/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0523881/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s aesthetic plan to shoot only with natural light for maximum realism. Only a few shooting hours were available every day and had to be carefully planned in advance.
Pigmy Pony
15-07-2023, 07:51
The Revenant, 2015... 4k bluray... stunning in 4k
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/813RnMtxhIL._AC_SL1500_.jpg
Leonardo DiCaprio (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000138/?ref_=tttrv_tr) chose to devour a raw slab of bison's liver, even though he is vegetarian. He also had to learn to shoot a musket, build a fire, speak two Native American languages (Pawnee and Arikara), and study with a doctor who specializes in ancient healing techniques. DiCaprio calls it the hardest performance of his career.
Shot chronologically on an 80-day schedule that took place over a total principal photography time period of nine months. This unusually long production time was due to the cold weather conditions, the remoteness of the locations and director Alejandro G. Iñárritu (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0327944/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0523881/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s aesthetic plan to shoot only with natural light for maximum realism. Only a few shooting hours were available every day and had to be carefully planned in advance.
Really liked this film. Probably the best acting of DiCaprio's career. And Tom Hardy was totally convincing too. Amazing camera work, which really put you in the thick of it. One of the few films post-2000 which I could watch more than once.
Shown on BBC1 last night, I recorded and watched it this morning:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9e/Yesterday_%282019_poster%29.png
Starring some bloke I only know from "Eastenders", co-starring the ever-pretty Lily James ("The Darkest Hour"), and with appearances by Sarah Lancashire, Ed Sheeran, and whossisname, Begbie from "Trainspotting", as well as a lot of other familiar faces. it's about an unsuccessful musician who, after an accident wakes up in a world where The Beatles never existed.
Most enjoyable little film directed by Danny Boyle. And written by Richard Curtis, but don't let that put you off.
Really liked this film. Probably the best acting of DiCaprio's career. And Tom Hardy was totally convincing too. Amazing camera work, which really put you in the thick of it. One of the few films post-2000 which I could watch more than once.
Shown on BBC1 last night, I recorded and watched it this morning:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9e/Yesterday_%282019_poster%29.png
Starring some bloke I only know from "Eastenders", co-starring the ever-pretty Lily James ("The Darkest Hour"), and with appearances by Sarah Lancashire, Ed Sheeran, and whossisname, Begbie from "Trainspotting", as well as a lot of other familiar faces. it's about an unsuccessful musician who, after an accident wakes up in a world where The Beatles never existed.
Most enjoyable little film directed by Danny Boyle. And written by Richard Curtis, but don't let that put you off.
Too late. Can't abide either of them.
Inland Empire, 2006.. bluray
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The tagline "a woman in trouble" was used as marketing executives were so puzzled by the film that they did not know how to promote it.
Lynch's last film... its also the craziest by far...
walpurgis
15-07-2023, 13:05
Inland Empire, 2006
Got the DVD, tried to watch it a few times and given up! :D
Got the DVD, tried to watch it a few times and given up! :D
can't wholey blame you... itz the weird one of all his...bordering on insanity or just taking the pish at times
Got the DVD, tried to watch it a few times and given up! :D
I gave up with Lynch after 'Mulholland Drive'. Saw most of his output before that. Found much of it interesting but there is nothing I would want to see again, apart from 'The Straight Story' and possibly 'Eraserhead', which IMO has to be Lynch's weirdest film.
An American Werewolf in London, 1981. 4k ltd edition boxset.... classic this.
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/FHAAAOSwsXxjZRgE/s-l1600.jpg
This is the first film to earn the Academy Award for Best Make-up. That category was created in 1981.
Rick Baker (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000711/?ref_=tttrv_tr) claimed to have been disappointed by the amount of time spent shooting the face-changing shot for the transformation after having spent months working on the mechanism. John Landis (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000484/?ref_=tttrv_tr) only required one take lasting about seven seconds. Baker felt he had wasted his time until seeing the film with an audience that applauded during that one seven-second shot.
David Naughton (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0622544/?ref_=tttrv_tr) was reportedly cast because John Landis (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000484/?ref_=tttrv_tr) had seen him in a television commercial for Dr Pepper. However, Naughton was later let go by Dr Pepper because of his nude scenes in this film.
Griffin Dunne (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001162/?ref_=tttrv_tr) stated in 2007 that his biggest fear was that his mother, who was ill at the time, would not be able to handle seeing a film where her son appeared as a mutilated corpse. When she finally saw it, she was deeply disturbed by it.
I gave up with Lynch after 'Mulholland Drive'. Saw most of his output before that. Found much of it interesting but there is nothing I would want to see again, apart from 'The Straight Story' and possibly 'Eraserhead', which IMO has to be Lynch's weirdest film.
i like mulholland a lot; yes its complex etc but its followable. inland is only followable if your a nutter yourself;)
An American Werewolf in London, 1981. 4k ltd edition boxset.... classic this.
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/FHAAAOSwsXxjZRgE/s-l1600.jpg
This is the first film to earn the Academy Award for Best Make-up. That category was created in 1981.
Rick Baker (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000711/?ref_=tttrv_tr) claimed to have been disappointed by the amount of time spent shooting the face-changing shot for the transformation after having spent months working on the mechanism. John Landis (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000484/?ref_=tttrv_tr) only required one take lasting about seven seconds. Baker felt he had wasted his time until seeing the film with an audience that applauded during that one seven-second shot.
David Naughton (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0622544/?ref_=tttrv_tr) was reportedly cast because John Landis (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000484/?ref_=tttrv_tr) had seen him in a television commercial for Dr Pepper. However, Naughton was later let go by Dr Pepper because of his nude scenes in this film.
Griffin Dunne (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001162/?ref_=tttrv_tr) stated in 2007 that his biggest fear was that his mother, who was ill at the time, would not be able to handle seeing a film where her son appeared as a mutilated corpse. When she finally saw it, she was deeply disturbed by it.
Not a bad film, but when it comes to lycanthropic films, IMO the best is 'Company of Wolves', made in 1984.
See How They Run, 2022....It was theatrically released in the United Kingdom on 9 September 2022 and in the United States on 16 September 2022, by Searchlight Pictures (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searchlight_Pictures). The film received positive reviews from critics and has grossed $22 million worldwide. It was nominated for Outstanding British Film (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAFTA_Award_for_Outstanding_British_Film) at the 76th British Academy Film Awards (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/76th_British_Academy_Film_Awards).
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/72/See_How_They_Run_%282022_film%29.jpg
Richard "Dickie" Attenborough(Harris Dickenson) greets the detectives as "Darling." This was a real-life quirk of Attenborough's which he admitted he would often use if he forgot someone's name.
Film titles that misled
https://www.thetoptens.com/movies/movie-titles-could-be-mistaken-as-porn-titles/
"The Kinks at the BBC". Followed by "The Old Grey Whistle Test", then "I'm Not like Everbody Else: the World of Ray Davis and the Kinks". :)
The Company of Wolves, 1984... as recommended by Barry
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I usually can't be doing with vampire* and werewolf stuff. Saw that years ago didn't think much of it.
* your Hammer stuff with Lee and Cushing is okay but not the modern crap aimed at angsty teens.
I usually can't be doing with vampire* and werewolf stuff. Saw that years ago didn't think much of it.
* your Hammer stuff with Lee and Cushing is okay but not the modern crap aimed at angsty teens.
im in agreement so far. its not bad, just not good... seems to lack any real direction tbh. acting isnt great either even tho there are good actors in it so maybe have to blame the direction and script. not a patch on 'london'...
walpurgis
16-07-2023, 10:28
I usually can't be doing with vampire* and werewolf stuff. Saw that years ago didn't think much of it.
* your Hammer stuff with Lee and Cushing is okay but not the modern crap aimed at angsty teens.
Usually not my sort of movie, but I seem to remember enjoying 'The Howling' years ago.
The problem is the poor adaptation from what is a complex book by Angela Carter - hence the rambling direction. It's more about the psychology of why we have a need for, and enjoy, these sort of tales.
However it does have the sexy Tusse Silberg in it.
Overall I liked it and much prefer it to 'London', despite the impressive 'body-popping' special effects of the latter
The problem is the poor adaptation from what is a complex book by Angela Carter - hence the rambling direction. It's more about the psychology of why we have a need for, and enjoy, these sort of tales.
However it does have the sexy Tusse Silberg in it.
Overall I liked it and much prefer it to 'London', despite the impressive 'body-popping' special effects of the latter
she was quite nice in her day... think she is still alive too.
The Maltese Falcon, 1941.. all new 4k steelbook.
https://cdn.hmv.com/r/w-1280/p-webp/hmv/files/a1/a108c887-fb4f-4621-a0e8-ef178331267f.jpg
The Maltese Falcon was shot on 35 mm black and white film (specifically Eastman Plus-X 1231 stock) using Mitchell BNC cameras with spherical lenses (Edeson reportedly favored a personally-owned 21 mm wide-angle for this production), and it was finished at the 1.37:1 Academy ratio typical of the period. While there are no restoration notes available, studio sources have confirmed that Warner Bros. Motion Picture Imaging completed a new 16-bit 4K scan and frame-by-frame digital remastering of the original camera negative earlier this year (and it’s worth noting that the entire original negative for this film actually does survive in good condition). The image was then carefully graded for High Dynamic Range for its Ultra HD release (HDR10 alone is available on this disc). The result is absolutely stunning, a gorgeous presentation that exhibits a significant uptick in resolution and refinement compared to the previous Blu-ray edition. Extremely deep blacks are in evidence, along with luminous highlights, and much greater variation in grayscale than ever before. Fine detail is crisp and clean, with more nuanced texturing too, an improvement that’s readily apparent in facial features, hair, costume textiles, furniture, and brickwork. Archer’s tweed suit in the opening scene, for example, reveals its intricate herringbone pattern with ease. You can nearly read the text on the business license in Spade’s office, not to mention the instructions on the pay phone he uses early in the film. The worn paint and wallpaper in his apartment too are remarkably detailed. Photochemical grain is light to moderate but controlled and natural looking at all times. To the extent that there’s any softness in the image at all, it’s found in optically-printed transitions or slight variations in the depth of focus in low-lighting conditions. But it seems abundantly clear that every bit of detail available in the negative is visible on screen.
one of my all time favourites that, easily top ten.
So much great dialogue:
'The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.'
'When I slap you, you'll take it and like it.'
'I've practiced taking guns of these pocket-edition desperadoes before.'
'Another one who thinks a gat in the hand means the world by the tail.'
Actually that last one is from 'The Big Sleep'. But you get the idea.
'The stuff that dreams are made of'...
now, a bit earlier than last film; Ruggles of Red Gap, 1935...
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Charles Laughton (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Laughton) won the New York Film Critics' Circle Awards (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Film_Critics_Circle_Awards_1935) for Ruggles of Red Gap (along with Mutiny on the Bounty (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutiny_on_the_Bounty_(1935_film))) in 1935. The National Board of Review (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Board_of_Review_Awards_1935) named the film the ninth best of 1935. [That year, Laughton's other two films, Les Misérables (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables_(1935_film)) and Mutiny on the Bounty were sixth and eighth on the list, respectively]. The film was nominated for the Oscar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Awards) for Best Picture (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture) and competed against two other Laughton films that were also nominated: Mutiny on the Bounty (which won the award) and Les Misérables.
Edward Dmytryk (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0229424/?ref_=tttrv_tr), the film's editor, said that Charles Laughton (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001452/?ref_=tttrv_tr) became so emotional during the scene in the saloon where he recites the Gettysburg Address that it took director Leo McCarey (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0564970/?ref_=tttrv_tr) 1-1/2 days to complete shooting it. According to Dmytryk, the preview audiences found Laughton's close-ups in the scene embarrassing and tittered through the speech. When substitute shots of Laughton from behind were inserted, the audience found the reaction shots of the other people reacting to him very moving, and the second preview was extremely successful. The Gettysburg address had great personal significance to Charles Laughton (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001452/?ref_=tttrv_tr) as he was considering taking up American citizenship.
The Maltese Falcon, 1941.. all new 4k steelbook.
https://cdn.hmv.com/r/w-1280/p-webp/hmv/files/a1/a108c887-fb4f-4621-a0e8-ef178331267f.jpg
The Maltese Falcon was shot on 35 mm black and white film (specifically Eastman Plus-X 1231 stock) using Mitchell BNC cameras with spherical lenses (Edeson reportedly favored a personally-owned 21 mm wide-angle for this production), and it was finished at the 1.37:1 Academy ratio typical of the period. While there are no restoration notes available, studio sources have confirmed that Warner Bros. Motion Picture Imaging completed a new 16-bit 4K scan and frame-by-frame digital remastering of the original camera negative earlier this year (and it’s worth noting that the entire original negative for this film actually does survive in good condition). The image was then carefully graded for High Dynamic Range for its Ultra HD release (HDR10 alone is available on this disc). The result is absolutely stunning, a gorgeous presentation that exhibits a significant uptick in resolution and refinement compared to the previous Blu-ray edition. Extremely deep blacks are in evidence, along with luminous highlights, and much greater variation in grayscale than ever before. Fine detail is crisp and clean, with more nuanced texturing too, an improvement that’s readily apparent in facial features, hair, costume textiles, furniture, and brickwork. Archer’s tweed suit in the opening scene, for example, reveals its intricate herringbone pattern with ease. You can nearly read the text on the business license in Spade’s office, not to mention the instructions on the pay phone he uses early in the film. The worn paint and wallpaper in his apartment too are remarkably detailed. Photochemical grain is light to moderate but controlled and natural looking at all times. To the extent that there’s any softness in the image at all, it’s found in optically-printed transitions or slight variations in the depth of focus in low-lighting conditions. But it seems abundantly clear that every bit of detail available in the negative is visible on screen.
Are you quoting publicity blurb, or are they your own words?
Good film nonetheless - one of the best. :)
Are you quoting publicity blurb, or are they your own words?
Good film nonetheless - one of the best. :)
mostly from a review mate..
now after finishing Ripping Yarns...
Memoirs of an Invisible Man, 1992... bluray..
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According to visual effects supervisor Bruce Nicholson, "Success in this movie was showing invisibility in detail". During nine months of preparation, Nicholson studied four previous films on the subject, The Invisible Man (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invisible_Man_(1933_film)) - which receives a tribute in the scene where Nick is shown to have his head wrapped in bandages and is wearing large dark goggles - and its sequel The Invisible Man Returns (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invisible_Man_Returns), Bedknobs and Broomsticks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedknobs_and_Broomsticks) and Ghost (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_(1990_film)).
Chase would wear a blue bodysuit below his clothing, so that computer artists would erase his body through chroma key (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroma_key) and match the clothes with computer-generated replicas so that even the inside of the clothing could be seen, along with other touches such as erasing the shadow made by Chase's body. A particularly elaborate effect had Nick's invisible face being covered in flesh-colored make-up. The make-up was applied to Chase as his head was covered in viscous blue cosmetic, tongue and teeth coated with blue food coloring, and the cornea of each eye covered with blue contact lenses, an uncomfortable makeover made worse by the June heat and heavy studio lighting.
The Wild Bunch, 1969... bluray....one of the greats this...
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In an interview, Ben Johnson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0424565/?ref_=tttrv_tr) said that the Mexican women who "frolicked" with him and Warren Oates (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0643105/?ref_=tttrv_tr) in the huge wine vats weren't actresses but prostitutes from a nearby brothel, who were hired by Sam Peckinpah (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001603/?ref_=tttrv_tr) so he could tell people that Warner Bros. paid for hookers for his cast.
During a screening in New York, Sam Peckinpah (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001603/?ref_=tttrv_tr) invited Jay Cocks (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0168379/?ref_=tttrv_tr), of "Time" magazine, who brought his friend Martin Scorsese (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000217/?ref_=tttrv_tr). They sat in an empty Warner Bros. screening room with only two other critics, Judith Crist (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0188038/?ref_=tttrv_tr) and Rex Reed (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0715643/?ref_=tttrv_tr). That final scene knocked them out of their seats. Recalled Scorsese, "We were mesmerized by it; it was obviously a masterpiece. It was real filmmaking, using film in such a way that no other form could do it; it couldn't be done any other way. To see that in an American filmmaker was so exciting." Cocks remembered that he and Scorsese "literally turned to each other at the end and were stunned. We were looking at each other, shaking our heads, like we had just come out of a shared fever dream."
The Jungle Book, 2016... 4k bluray..
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The CGI character Baloo is so large and furry, he took almost five hours of rendering time per frame.
Neel Sethi (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5888481/?ref_=tttrv_tr) said that since he never actually worked with real animals on-set during filming, director Jon Favreau (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0269463/?ref_=tttrv_tr) would on occasion stand in for where the animals would be present, most notably as Shere Khan lunging out from the tall grass.
This is the final movie of Garry Shandling (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0788009/?ref_=tttrv_tr) (Ikki the Porcupine), released less than a month after he died of a heart attack. In a tragic parallel, The Jungle Book (1967) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061852/?ref_=tttrv_tr) also had a posthumous performance from Verna Felton (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0271658/?ref_=tttrv_tr) (Winifred, Hathi's wife).
The Long Riders, 1980...
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The film stars four sets of actual brothers: the Carradines, the Keachs, the Quaids and the Guests.
The Alamo, 1960...
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John Wayne (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000078/?ref_=tttrv_tr) formed a close friendship with Laurence Harvey (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002131/?ref_=tttrv_tr) during filming. He later said Harvey should have received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor instead of Chill Wills (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0932629/?ref_=tttrv_tr).
John Wayne (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000078/?ref_=tttrv_tr) partially financed this film himself. During shooting, the film was delayed due to various production problems. Wayne was under so much pressure, he smoked cigarettes almost non-stop when not acting.
Although it was a biggish hit, it cost so much to film, much of which Wayne morgaged himself to hilt to get, that it took 11 years for him to get it payed back... madness...
stay with the western genre and john wayne again in.... Rio Lobo, 1970...
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John Wayne (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000078/?ref_=tttrv_tr) felt that Jack Elam (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001181/?ref_=tttrv_tr) had stolen several scenes from him in this movie, and therefore vetoed the casting of Elam as Grady in The Train Robbers (1973) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070825/?ref_=tttrv_tr). Jack Elam (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001181/?ref_=tttrv_tr) (Phillips, the "Old Man") was 13 years younger than John Wayne (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000078/?ref_=tttrv_tr).
When Howard Hawks (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001328/?ref_=tttrv_tr) told John Wayne (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000078/?ref_=tttrv_tr) that he was remaking Rio Bravo (1959) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053221/?ref_=tttrv_tr) for the second time, Wayne's immediate response was: "Do I get to play the drunk this time?"
When Cord McNally (John Wayne (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000078/?ref_=tttrv_tr)) visits Sheriff Pat Cronin (Bill Williams (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0930103/?ref_=tttrv_tr)) in the Sheriff's office, there is a wanted poster on the wall for Hondo Lane, the character Wayne played in Hondo (1953) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045883/?ref_=tttrv_tr).
The Big Sleep, 1946
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According to Lauren Bacall (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000002/?ref_=tttrv_tr), production was such fun that they got a memo from Jack L. Warner (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0912491/?ref_=tttrv_tr) saying, "Word has reached me that you are having fun on the set. This must stop."
Philip Marlowe's habit of feeling his earlobe while in deep thought was something Humphrey Bogart (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000007/?ref_=tttrv_tr) incorporated from his own behavior.
The scene where Humphrey Bogart (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000007/?ref_=tttrv_tr) and Lauren Bacall (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000002/?ref_=tttrv_tr) make suggestive talk about horses was added almost a year after filming was otherwise complete, in an attempt to inject the film with the kind of risqué innuendos that had made To Have and Have Not (1944) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037382/?ref_=tttrv_tr), and Bacall, so popular a few years earlier.
Another excellent film there Grant. :)
another classic bogey film with... To Have and Have Not, 1944..
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Lauren Bacall (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Bacall) as Marie "Slim" Browning. At the time of casting, Bacall was an 18-year-old model. She had appeared on the cover of Harper's Bazaar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper%27s_Bazaar), and was noticed by Hawks' wife, Nancy "Slim" Keith (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slim_Keith), who showed the cover photo to her husband. Hawks sought Bacall out in April 1943 and signed her for the role, her first movie appearance. In the film, Harry calls her by the nickname "Slim", and she calls him "Steve", the nicknames used between Keith and Hawks. Hawks shot her screen test with contract player John Ridgely (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ridgely) in January 1944. Her screen test was the seduction and "whistle" scene. This scene wasn't originally meant to go in the film, but Jack L. Warner (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_L._Warner) told Hawks that he needed to integrate it into the film, and so it was later adapted into the film. After the screen test, Hawks signed his first personal contract with an unknown actress with Bacall.
Possibly my favourite Bogey film. :)
Possibly my favourite Bogey film. :)
considering it was her first film it was remarkable. good cast helped
Bogey again in ... We're No Angels, 1955... bogart's 4th last film...
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Jack Moffit of The Hollywood Reporter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hollywood_Reporter) had a favorable review of the film, calling it "a glamorous comedy" full of performances which "are uniformly excellent" and a screenplay which "is worthy of study." Likewise, Lionel Collier of Picturegoer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picturegoer) praised it as "a real breakaway comedy--ghoulish humor with a neat sardonic kick."
fun now with.... Throw Momma from the Train, 1987...
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Hondo, 1953..
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Michael Pate who plays the Indian chief was also in real life an expert in Old West Military procedure. He told later that the Indian attack in the movie was not realistic at all, because Indians were experts in guerrilla warfare and would never have been trapped in an arroyo by the U.S. Army.
The film was based on a story by Louis L'Amour which was first published in Collier's Magazine and adapted for the screen by James Edward Grant. It was later printed as a novel of which John Wayne said ' The best western novel I have ever read'. He added ' When I read Louis L'Amour's exciting novel, I knew I had to play Hondo Lane in a motion picture. In the man Hondo, I found the very spirit of the old West.'
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, 1979...series..
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George Smiley has been retired for about a year when he finds a friend from the Circus, his old outfit in British Intelligence, sitting in his living room. He is taken to the home of an advisor to the Prime Minister on intelligence matters, where he finds evidence that one of the men in the senior ranks of his old agency is a Russian spy. Smiley is asked to find him, without official access to any of the files in the Circus or letting on that anyone is under suspicion. With only a few old friends, his own powers of deduction, and secrecy as weapons, Smiley must unearth the spy who turned him out of the Circus.
John le Carré (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0494170/?ref_=tttrv_tr) was so impressed by Alec Guinness (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000027/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s performance as George Smiley that, in later novels, he wrote Smiley's characterization to be in keeping with Guinness' performance.
John le Carré (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0494170/?ref_=tttrv_tr) has admitted that the vocabulary used in the novels/series (babysitters, lamplighters, the Circus, the nursery, moles, scalp hunters) was made up. He was later amused to discover that real agents had begun to appropriate some of his vocabulary once his espionage stories were published.
Although I enjoyed the later film made of TTSS, IMO the TV series was better and was more 'believable'.
Predestination, 2014... bluray...
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The movie is based on Robert A. Heinlein (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0374423/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s short story "All You Zombies".
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.
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotten_Tomatoes), the film had a score of 84% based on 111 reviews, with an average rating of 6.9 out of 10. The site's critical consensus stated: "Fun genre fare with uncommon intelligence, Predestination serves as a better-than-average sci-fi adventure—and offers a starmaking turn from Sarah Snook."
Smiley's People, 1982..
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Sir Alec Guinness (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000027/?ref_=tttrv_tr) insisted on watching his scenes in the unedited rough cuts and would get depressed, thinking his performance was poor. Screenwriter John le Carré (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0494170/?ref_=tttrv_tr) told Director Simon Langton (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0486748/?ref_=tttrv_tr) not to worry about it because Guinness had done the same thing while filming Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080297/?ref_=tttrv_tr), and his performance then turned out fine.
got my tv shows on hdd back working..yay... so, Blackadder II, 1986..
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walpurgis
22-07-2023, 10:41
Tonight, if you want a movie later. 'Night of The Demon' 1957, with Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins and Niall MacGinnis. Great cast and acting. Properly creepy cult classic and one of my favourites :).
https://i.ibb.co/0Jdyxwm/Screen-Shot-07-22-23-at-11-38-AM.png (https://ibb.co/9YCH7Mc)
Was talking about that in work yesterday. No-one had even heard of it let alone seen it.
probably the best horror film ever. Although I always think it would have been better if they never actually showed the demon, but IIRC the distributor demanded it
walpurgis
22-07-2023, 11:28
The tense sense of unease through it is clever and the dawning terrible realisation of sceptic Dane Andrews is well portrayed.
The tense sense of unease through it is clever and the dawning terrible realisation of sceptic Dane Andrews is well portrayed.
Indeed. I sort of want him to get his comeuppance by the end of it. The Niall MacGinnis character is far more interesting.
walpurgis
22-07-2023, 12:19
The Niall MacGinnis character is far more interesting.
Great actor.
Great actor.
I was watching him not so long ago in some other film, can't recall what it was now.
Playing a totally different character, he looked familiar to me but it was a while before it clicked that it was him. Sign of a good actor.
I was watching him not so long ago in some other film, can't recall what it was now.
Playing a totally different character, he looked familiar to me but it was a while before it clicked that it was him. Sign of a good actor.
he was in a lot of films; even shakspeare...but lots of war stuff
The Boys from Brazil, 1978.. classic film score in this from Jerry Goldsmith (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000025/?ref_=ttawd_awd_1), who also got an Oscar nomination..
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Publicity for the film stated that this was the first villainous role of Gregory Peck (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000060/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s career. Peck felt that his portrayal of Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele was the only completely unsympathetic role that he ever performed. Peck (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000060/?ref_=tttrv_tr) was upset by the extremely negative reactions to his performance. He later said, "I felt, Laurence Olivier (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000059/?ref_=tttrv_tr) felt, friends of mine like Walter Matthau (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000527/?ref_=tttrv_tr) and Jack Lemmon (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000493/?ref_=tttrv_tr) felt, that I was good in this part. Some critics seem unwilling to accept actors when they break what they think is the mold or the image."
In a promotional interview with Roger Ebert (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001170/?ref_=tttrv_tr), James Mason (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000051/?ref_=tttrv_tr) explained that he had hoped to get either Laurence Olivier (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000059/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s or Gregory Peck (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000060/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s role, and was disappointed to be offered neither, but then was contacted about the subsidiary role of Seibert: "They'd found that when Dr. Mengele was in Paraguay, he had no one to talk to. So they fleshed out the other Nazi, and he fell into my lap. It was convenient, it was acceptable, I could even make sense of the character, and besides, it was four weeks work in Portugal, where I'd never been before."
Laurence Olivier (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000059/?ref_=tttrv_tr) received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for his role in this movie, playing a Jewish man who hunts Josef Mengele (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1394337/?ref_=tttrv_tr) and other Nazi war criminals. His most recent Oscar nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role prior to this, was for Marathon Man (1976) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074860/?ref_=tttrv_tr), in which he played Dr. Christian Szell, a Nazi war criminal based on Dr. Josef Mengele. For this film, Olivier received his tenth and final Academy Award nomination, making him the most nominated actor up to that point. His record was later surpassed by Jack Nicholson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/?ref_=tttrv_tr), with 12 nominations.
he was in a lot of films; even shakspeare...but lots of war stuff
Looked up his filmography it was 'Sword Of Sherwood Forest' he was Friar Tuck.
The Boys from Brazil, 1978.. classic film score in this from Jerry Goldsmith (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000025/?ref_=ttawd_awd_1), who also got an Oscar nomination..
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Publicity for the film stated that this was the first villainous role of Gregory Peck (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000060/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s career. Peck felt that his portrayal of Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele was the only completely unsympathetic role that he ever performed. Peck (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000060/?ref_=tttrv_tr) was upset by the extremely negative reactions to his performance. He later said, "I felt, Laurence Olivier (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000059/?ref_=tttrv_tr) felt, friends of mine like Walter Matthau (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000527/?ref_=tttrv_tr) and Jack Lemmon (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000493/?ref_=tttrv_tr) felt, that I was good in this part. Some critics seem unwilling to accept actors when they break what they think is the mold or the image."
In a promotional interview with Roger Ebert (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001170/?ref_=tttrv_tr), James Mason (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000051/?ref_=tttrv_tr) explained that he had hoped to get either Laurence Olivier (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000059/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s or Gregory Peck (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000060/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s role, and was disappointed to be offered neither, but then was contacted about the subsidiary role of Seibert: "They'd found that when Dr. Mengele was in Paraguay, he had no one to talk to. So they fleshed out the other Nazi, and he fell into my lap. It was convenient, it was acceptable, I could even make sense of the character, and besides, it was four weeks work in Portugal, where I'd never been before."
Laurence Olivier (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000059/?ref_=tttrv_tr) received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for his role in this movie, playing a Jewish man who hunts Josef Mengele (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1394337/?ref_=tttrv_tr) and other Nazi war criminals. His most recent Oscar nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role prior to this, was for Marathon Man (1976) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074860/?ref_=tttrv_tr), in which he played Dr. Christian Szell, a Nazi war criminal based on Dr. Josef Mengele. For this film, Olivier received his tenth and final Academy Award nomination, making him the most nominated actor up to that point. His record was later surpassed by Jack Nicholson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/?ref_=tttrv_tr), with 12 nominations.
Not a bad film that. My uncle Pat was obsessed with the war and the Nazis, anytime I saw him he would go on about what a great film it was. I didn't see it until a few years later.
Not a bad film that. My uncle Pat was obsessed with the war and the Nazis, anytime I saw him he would go on about what a great film it was. I didn't see it until a few years later.
it is, and a real scary idea, well done too... good cast and decent script..
another class film... The Eagle Has Landed, 1976...
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Sir Michael Caine (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000323/?ref_=tttrv_tr) was originally offered the role of Devlin, but did not want to play an I.R.A. member, and requested to play Steiner instead.
A funny thing about having a small stunt team: one of the German soldiers shoots and kills the driver of an American Jeep, so it crashes into the pond. Both the German and the driver of the Jeep were played by the same stuntman (Jim Dowdall (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0235695/?ref_=tttrv_tr)). He kills himself, so to speak.
The watermill where the girl gets rescued is the one on the cover of Black Sabbath (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1277292/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s first album. It's in the village of Mapledurham, Berkshire, England. The church where the hostages are kept is just across the road from it.
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Classic film I've seen it too many times.
Worth a watch just for Pleasance's turn as Himmler.
Ex Machina, 201...
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Director Alex Garland (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0307497/?ref_=tttrv_tr) has described the future presented in the film as "ten minutes from now," meaning, "If somebody like Google or Apple announced tomorrow that they had made Ava, we would all be surprised, but we wouldn't be that surprised."
This recipient of the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects was made only on a budget of $15 million, and won the award over several big-budget movies like The Revenant (2015) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1663202/?ref_=tttrv_tr) ($135 million), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392190/?ref_=tttrv_tr) ($150 million), and Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2488496/?ref_=tttrv_tr) ($200 million).
walpurgis
23-07-2023, 11:53
Ex Machina
I have seen it, but can't remember anything about it. Presumably, it wasn't memorable! :)
I have seen it, but can't remember anything about it. Presumably, it wasn't memorable! :)
They so rarely are these days.
It's not a bad film - but not particularly memorable.
it could have been so much more... acting and script just didn't handle the good idea.
Diamond Geezer, 2005...
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Des' pseudonym John Robie is named after Cary Grant (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000026/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s character in Alfred Hitchcock (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000033/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s To Catch a Thief (1955) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048728/?ref_=tttrv_tr).
now the second series... not as good as first but worth a watch again..
Diamond Geezer, 2005...
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Des' pseudonym John Robie is named after Cary Grant (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000026/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s character in Alfred Hitchcock (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000033/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s To Catch a Thief (1955) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048728/?ref_=tttrv_tr).
Distant Drums, 1951...
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Distant Drums is wildly historically inaccurate, received mixed reviews upon release, and was a moderate financial success. It is notable for being the source of the Wilhelm scream (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream) sound effect, which is believed to have been voiced by cast member Sheb Wooley (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheb_Wooley) and is used when a supporting character is attacked by an alligator (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_alligator)
The fort used in the film was the historic Castillo de San Marcos (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castillo_de_San_Marcos) in St. Augustine, Florida (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Augustine,_Florida), and most of the principal photography was shot on location in Florida.
Another Raoul Walsh (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0909825/?ref_=tt_ov_dr) film with The Enforcer, 1951..
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The death of the "Joe Rico" character in a fall from a building parallels the real-life death (in 1941) of Abe Reles (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1532814/?ref_=tttrv_tr) (aka "Kid Twist"), an underworld killer whose arrest the previous year led authorities first to discover the existence of the organization popularly dubbed "Murder Inc." in the newspapers. Reles, in order to avoid execution in the electric chair, agreed to testify against the organization after submitting to a police interrogation about it, which famously took a full two weeks to complete, so exhaustive were his recollections. However, he never appeared on the stand, dying --after falling or being pushed out of a window in the hotel where he was staying---the day before he was due to appear. The film depicts Rico's death as a tragic accident, but it is more than likely that Reles' death was murder--one which, furthermore, almost certainly had the collusion of corrupt police officers, although this was never proved.
Murder on the Orient Express, 1974....
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Poirot's summation scene, from his laying out of the evidence on the table to his final line of dialogue, runs 27 minutes and 57 seconds.
During promotion and publicity junkets, many of the stars admitted, independently of one another, that their chief reason for appearing in this movie was the chance to meet and work with the other cast members. In her memoir, Lauren Bacall (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000002/?ref_=tttrv_tr) recalled that the lure for most of the cast was getting to act on-screen with "Albie" Finney (Albert Finney (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001215/?ref_=tttrv_tr)). Sidney Lumet went to Sean Connery (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Connery) first, who admitted that he had been "stupidly flattered" by Lumet saying that if you get the biggest star, the rest will come along. Bergman was initially offered the role of Princess Dragomiroff, but instead requested to play Greta Ohlsson. Lumet said: She had chosen a small part, and I couldn't persuade her to change her mind. She was sweetly stubborn. But stubborn she was ... Since her part was so small, I decided to film her one big scene, where she talks for almost five minutes, straight, all in one long take. A lot of actresses would have hesitated over that. She loved the idea and made the most of it. She ran the gamut of emotions. I've never seen anything like it.
How to Murder Your Wife, 1965..
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Survivors, 1975. season 1
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Survivors is a British post-apocalyptic fiction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalyptic_and_post-apocalyptic_fiction) drama (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drama) television series created by Terry Nation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Nation) and produced by Terence Dudley (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Dudley) at the BBC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC), that broadcast from 1975 to 1977. It concerns the plight of a group of people who have survived an apocalyptic plague pandemic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic), which was accidentally released by a Chinese scientist and quickly spread across the world via air travel. Referred to as "The Death", the plague kills approximately 4,999 out of every 5,000 human beings on the planet within a matter of weeks of being released. (has a ring to it.)
The Bourne Supremacy, 2004..
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Murder on the Orient Express, 1974....
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So much better than Kenneth Branagh's version, and much, much closer to the book.
Jeremiah Johnson, 1972..
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Silver Streak, 1976..
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link to last film; Stefan Gierasch... played the Professor in this and (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Gierasch)Del Gue in last film.
The Adjustment Bureau, 2011...bluray..
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Do we control our destiny, or do unseen forces manipulate us? A man glimpses the future Fate has planned for him and realizes he wants something else.
The names of the three main members of the Adjustment Bureau are Thompson, Richardson, and Harry: a play on the term Tom, Dick, and Harry, which is slang for any anonymous persons. Phillip K. Dick is also the writer of the short story the movie is based on.
Some of Emily Blunt (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1289434/?ref_=tttrv_tr)'s dancing scenes were completed using a body double, dancer Acacia Schachte of the Cedar Lake Company, with the actress' face being digitally placed on the dancer's body.
https://i.ibb.co/qjfRYWw/King-of-the-Khyber-Rifles.jpg (https://imgbb.com/)
'King Of The Khyber Rifles' (1953)
Tyrone Power graduates Sandhurst and is sent to the North-West frontier of India, seemingly just before the Mutiny.
First ever film to be made in Technicolour Cinemascope so the production values are good and California makes a surprisingly convincing Afghanistan.
Otherwise though this film has a lot of problems. It moves along more slowly than the M25 in rush hour. The American actors don't bother to disguise their accents and from a historical angle nothing is right. The uniforms seem to be made up from whatever they had lying around and bear no resemblance to any British or East India Company uniform of any period. Tribesmen are seen reloading their muskets at the breach and the problem of the Mutiny setting is that the Khyber Rifle Regiment that Power leads wasn't even formed for another 20 odd years.
Rubbish, really. I won't go so far as to give it a 'Don't Bother' rating but you would have to be desperate.
https://i.ibb.co/qjfRYWw/King-of-the-Khyber-Rifles.jpg (https://imgbb.com/)
'King Of The Khyber Rifles' (1953)
Tyrone Power graduates Sandhurst and is sent to the North-West frontier of India, seemingly just before the Mutiny.
First ever film to be made in Technicolour Cinemascope so the production values are good and California makes a surprisingly convincing Afghanistan.
Otherwise though this film has a lot of problems. It moves along more slowly than the M25 in rush hour. The American actors don't bother to disguise their accents and from a historical angle nothing is right. The uniforms seem to be made up from whatever they had lying around and bear no resemblance to any British or East India Company uniform of any period. Tribesmen are seen reloading their muskets at the breach and the problem of the Mutiny setting is that the Khyber Rifle Regiment that Power leads wasn't even formed for another 20 odd years.
Rubbish, really. I won't go so far as to give it a 'Don't Bother' rating but you would have to be desperate.
obviously you were ner
obviously you were ner
I watch them so you don't have to. :D
Sometimes a good one comes up, you never know. There's a lot if good, old films that are pretty much forgotten by the mainstream. And a lot which were average but are now good compared to today's rubbish.
Seraphim Falls, 2006..
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In Jewish and Christian theology, a seraphim is a type of angel. One could conclude the two main characters are angels that have fallen from grace. They battle each other from the mountain tops (Heaven) to the hot desert (Hell).
Liam Neeson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000553/?ref_=tttrv_tr) and Pierce Brosnan (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000112/?ref_=tttrv_tr) said they had the most fun in their career making this film. They loved westerns as kids, and were thrilled to finally to be in one.
Xander Berkeley (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0075359/?ref_=tttrv_tr) is an American who plays an Irishman. Liam Neeson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000553/?ref_=tttrv_tr) and Pierce Brosnan (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000112/?ref_=tttrv_tr) are Irishmen who play Americans. Anjelica Huston (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001378/?ref_=tttrv_tr) lived in Ireland for a lot of her youth, and holds Irish citizenship.
Pigmy Pony
30-07-2023, 15:58
That's Leam Neeson trying to look tough, but to me he looks like he's just detected a fart.
That's Leam Neeson trying to look tough, but to me he looks like he's just detected a fart.
aye and not one of his;)
The Passenger , 1975...
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(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiBoMXI8LaAAxWITMAKHZpmA3IQFnoECA0QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Pa ssenger_(1975_film)&usg=AOvVaw2tpI2ywxDuWnST28aBI00l&opi=89978449)
Wanting to protect a piece of art that he loved, Jack Nicholson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/?ref_=tttrv_tr) bought the rights to the film shortly after its release, and kept it out of circulation for many years. In 2003, he entered into negotiations with Sony to re-release the film.
When Michelangelo Antonioni (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000774/?ref_=tttrv_tr) received his honorary Oscar in 1995, the Academy asked Jack Nicholson (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/?ref_=tttrv_tr) to present it to him.
According to director Bernardo Bertolucci: "Michelangelo Antonioni, a great director, had to wait six years after 'The Passenger' to find the money to do a movie. Someone like Antonioni shouldn't be unemployed for six years."
The Girl (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0773932/?ref_=ttqu_qu): Isn't it funny how things happen? All the shapes we make. Wouldn't it be terrible to be blind?
David Locke (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/?ref_=ttqu_qu): I know a man who was blind. When he was nearly 40 years old, he had an operation and regained his sight.
The Girl (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0773932/?ref_=ttqu_qu): How was it like?
David Locke (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/?ref_=ttqu_qu): At first he was elated... really high. Faces... colors... landscapes. But then everything began to change. The world was much poorer than he imagined. No one had ever told him how much dirt there was. How much ugliness. He noticed ugliness everywhere. When he was blind... he used to cross the street alone with a stick. After he regained his sight... he became afraid. He began to live in darkness. He never left his room. After three years he killed himself.
never seen it but it sounds like a light-hearted romp.
Mention of Maria Schneider reminds me of the film 'Last Tango in Paris'.
https://i.ibb.co/vBSCQ4P/onion.jpg (https://ibb.co/FWFk04w)
'The Onion Field' (1979)
James Woods is a slightly crazy stick-up man making a living by robbing liquor stores. He gets a new partner and things start to go wrong.
Starts strongly but you do need a bit of stamina as it's quite long and does trail off a bit in the last third. But it's a proper film, and James Woods is always good.
Worth a watch.
walpurgis
01-08-2023, 07:20
'The Onion Field' (1979)
It is a decent film.
The book was better, Joseph Wambaugh's stories were great, read them all I think.
The Green Man, 1950... bluray...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ca/The_greenman_movieposter.jpg
A black comedy written by Frank Launder (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Launder) and Sidney Gilliat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Gilliat).
Radio Times (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Times) wrote "If you ever doubted that Alastair Sim was the finest British screen comedian of the sound era (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_era), then here's the proof of his immense talent. As the assassin with the mournful smile, he gives a performance of rare genius.
Dark Passage, 1947..bluray...AGAIN lol..
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Warner Bros. paid author David Goodis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Goodis) $25,000 for the rights to the story, which had originally been serialized in The Saturday Evening Post (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saturday_Evening_Post) from July 20 to September 7, 1946, before being published in book form. Bogart himself had read the book and wanted to make it into a movie. At the time that Dark Passage was shot, Bogart was the best-paid actor in Hollywood, averaging $450,000 a year.
Robert Montgomery (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Montgomery_(actor)) had made the film Lady in the Lake (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_in_the_Lake) (1946) which also uses a "subjective camera (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_view_shot)" technique, in which the viewer sees the action through the protagonist's eyes. This technique was used in 1927 in France by Abel Gance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_Gance) for Napoléon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napol%C3%A9on_(1927_film))[9] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Passage_(film)#cite_note-9) and by the director Rouben Mamoulian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rouben_Mamoulian) for the first five minutes of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Jekyll_and_Mr._Hyde_(1931_film)) (1931). Film critic Hal Erikson believes Dark Passage does a better job at using this point-of-view technique, writing, "The first hour or so of Dark Passage does the same thing—and the results are far more successful than anything seen in Montgomery's film."
According to Bacall, in her autobiography By Myself, during the filming of Dark Passage, Bogart's hair began to fall out in clumps, the result of alopecia areata (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alopecia_areata), although photos from their 1945 wedding show Bogart to be losing his hair two years earlier. By the end of filming he wore a full wig. Bogart eventually had B12 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_B12) shots and other treatments to counteract the effects, but he was helped by the fact that in his next film, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treasure_of_the_Sierra_Madre_(film)) he was required to wear a full wig.
Parts of the film were filmed on location in San Francisco, California, including the Filbert Steps (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filbert_Steps) and the cable car system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_cable_car_system). The elegant Streamline Moderne (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streamline_Moderne) Malloch Building (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malloch_Building) on Telegraph Hill was used for the apartment of Irene Jansen where Parry hides out and recuperates from his surgery. Apartment Number 10 was Jansen's. The current residents of that apartment occasionally place a cutout of Bogart in the window. The diner was "Harry's Wagon" at 1921 Post Street, a long-closed diner in the Fillmore District (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fillmore_District) of San Francisco.
Dances with Wolves, 1990.
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Personal Services, 1987...
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Personal Services opened at five cinemas in central London on 3 April 1987, and was the highest-grossing film in London for the week, with a gross of £57,775. It reached number one nationally in the UK (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_1987_box_office_number-one_films_in_the_United_Kingdom) after 10 weeks of release and was number one for two weeks. The film was the second highest-grossing British film of the year in the UK, behind only The Living Daylights (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Living_Daylights), with a gross of £1,952,017 ($3.2 million)
The film was banned in the Republic of Ireland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland) upon theatrical release (although the ban was lifted two months later). At the time, there were four films that were banned in Ireland, and Jones had directed three of them (Personal Services, Monty Python's Life of Brian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_Life_of_Brian), and Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_The_Meaning_of_Life)).
It's OK, but not a 'must watch'.
It's OK, but not a 'must watch'.
hilarious view of the rich n privilaged doing what they learnt at public school i guess;)
The Bishop's Wife, 19447..
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Production faced a few difficulties. Producer Samuel Goldwyn replaced director William A. Seiter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_A._Seiter) with Henry Koster to create a completely new film. In early previews, audiences disliked the film, so Billy Wilder (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Wilder) and Charles Brackett (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Brackett) made uncredited rewrites. Even so, and even though the premiere of The Bishop's Wife was accompanied by critical success, the film did not initially perform well at the box office. Market research showed that moviegoers avoided the film because they thought it was religious. As a result, Goldwyn decided to retitle it Cary and the Bishop's Wife for certain US markets, while adding a black text box with the question "Have you heard about CARY AND THE BISHOP'S WIFE?" on posters in markets where the film kept the original title. By adding Grant's first name to the title, the film's business increased by as much as 25 percent.
Murder Most Foul, 1964...
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a very decent british cast in this...
The theatre in which the Cosgood Players perform Fly By Night and where much of the action takes place is the Palace Theatre (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watford_Palace_Theatre) on Clarendon Road in Watford (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watford). At the time of filming the theatre was being run by Jimmy Perry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Perry) (co-creator of Dad's Army (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dad%27s_Army)) and his wife Gilda.
Back to the Future Part III, 1990..
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The Curse of the Black Pearl, 2003...
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Goodnight Sweetheart, 1993/99...
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Peterloo, 2018...
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Production shot the interior of the Tarred Yarn Store in Plymouth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth), Devon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devon), and the exterior of the Ropery at the Chatham Historic Dockyard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_Historic_Dockyard) in Kent (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent) to double as a cotton mill (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_mill) in Manchester. St Mary's Marshes on the Isle of Grain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Grain) also appears in a short scene at the beginning of the film, when a lonely figure is seen walking along the marshes. Much of the dialogue is in traditional Lancashire dialect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancashire_dialect). To achieve this, the director used the book The Dialects of South Lancashire, which was written by the same Samuel Bamford who is portrayed in the film.
The best review was from 'The New York Times (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times)' called it a "brilliant and demanding film".
The Maltese Falcon, 1941.. 4k bluray.
https://cdn.hmv.com/r/w-1280/p-webp/hmv/files/a1/a108c887-fb4f-4621-a0e8-ef178331267f.jpg
John Huston (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001379/?ref_=tttrv_tr) and company tickled themselves with a number of other on-set jokes. As Mary Astor (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000802/?ref_=tttrv_tr) recounted in her autobiography, the cast and crew had a system, whereby Huston would signal for a certain practical joke to be played for visitors to the set. For the benefit of visiting star-struck social club women, the "No. 5" had Humphrey Bogart (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000007/?ref_=tttrv_tr) going into a prepared act with Sydney Greenstreet (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002113/?ref_=tttrv_tr). He'd start yelling and cursing at him, calling him a fat old fool. "Who the hell do you think you are? You upstaged me, and I'm telling you I'm not having any--," at which point Huston would jump into the act, holding back Bogart's mock rage. Very quickly, the embarrassed and disillusioned ladies would shuffle towards the nearest exit. Meanwhile, the "No. 10" had Peter Lorre (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000048/?ref_=tttrv_tr) coming out of Astor's dressing room at the appropriate moment, adjusting his fly and saying, "See you later, Mary."
Memoirs of an Invisible Man, 1992..
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/20/Memoirs_of_an_invisible_man.jpg
Thats gotta look fantastic in 4K!
The Maltese Falcon, 1941.. 4k bluray.
Thats gotta look fantastic in 4K!
it does garry, yes.. one really cool remaster as is casablanca in 4k.
Fritz Lang 'M' (1931)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M_(1931_film)
Got that on Blu-ray. Super film
The Wrong Arm of the Law, 1963...
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The white Ferrari in which Peter Sellers (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000634/?ref_=tttrv_tr) pulled up at the fairground was his own. It's a Ferrari 250GTE, registration 5 XPC, one of several Ferraris owned by him. As at May 2017, it is now red and is in the U.S.
Uncredited theatrical movie debut of Billy Murray (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0614854/?ref_=tttrv_tr) (Crook at Syndicate Meeting). Michael Caine also has a bit part as a gangster.
Two of the writers, Galton and Simpson, created BBC television's Steptoe and Son (1962) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057785/?ref_=tttrv_tr) (Sanford and Son (1972) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068128/?ref_=tttrv_tr) in the U.S. remake) and also wrote BBC television's Hancock's Half Hour (1956) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124703/?ref_=tttrv_tr).
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