watching rest of this... top stuff tbh. amazing photographyQuote:
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watching rest of this... top stuff tbh. amazing photographyQuote:
Originally Posted by struth
The Woman in the Window, 1944. Stars Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, and Dan Duryea. Directed by Fritz Lang.
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Wanley's (Robinson)car is a 1937 Cadillac Series 65 Touring sedan. MSRP new was $2,190 ($31,900 in 2020). Only 7,003 of this model were made.
For the transition at the end out of the dream, Edward G. Robinson wore a tear-away suit over the original suit he wore in the beginning of the film, and while the camera was focused on his face that suit was removed and all of the set around him was changed in one unbroken shot.
A bit of Python now, and The Holy Grail from 1975.
"your mother was a hamster and your father smells of elderberries"
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During one of the first screenings of this movie in front of a live audience, co-writer and co-director Terry Jones noticed that when music was played during the jokes, there was a marked reduction of laughter from the audience. He went back and edited the music out whenever a punchline was delivered. At subsequent screenings, he noticed a dramatic increase in the audiences' positive reactions to the jokes. From that point on, whenever he directed, he remembered to stop the music for the funny parts
I watched that again the other day. Didn't 'click' with me this time and I lost interest unfortunately.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Sadly it never 'clicked' with me. :( Unlike 'Life of Brian'. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
tis a classic but to a particular taste i guess. life of brian was a different animal really. both great films tho
The Old Dark House, 1932.. golden oldie pre-Code comedy horror film directed by James Whale.
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In a 1988 interview, Gloria Stuart recalled that Boris Karloff ran back and forth across the stage to achieve the desired effect of being out of breath. She asked him, "Can't you just FAKE it?" and he said that wasn't the way he worked.
The Old Dark House (1932) was withdrawn from circulation when the remake The Old Dark House (1963) by William Castle Productions was released. This film was considered to be lost until director Curtis Harrington discovered a printable negative.
A movie poster for The Old Dark House sold at Christie's in New York in December 1991 for $48,400, making it at the time the most valuable poster ever sold.
Always, 1989. directed by Steven Spielberg, and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter and John Goodman.
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This was Audrey Hepburn's final film before her death on January 20, 1993 at the age of 63. She accepted the role of Hap because she wanted to work with Steven Spielberg.
The incident where Dorinda mistakes Ted's John Wayne imitation for Henry Fonda actually occurred between Holly Hunter and Brad Johnson during filming. Steven Spielberg found the incident so comical that he reproduced it in the film.
During production, Steven Spielberg confided that while making Jaws (1975), he and Richard Dreyfuss had traded quips from A Guy Named Joe (1943), which they both wanted to remake. As an "inside joke," a clip from the film is included in a scene in Poltergeist (1982), which Spielberg had produced. Dreyfuss had seen the 1943 melodrama "at least 35 times." For Spielberg, who recalled seeing it as a child late at night, "it was one of the films that inspired him to become a movie director," creating an emotional connection to the times that his father, a wartime air force veteran had lived through. The two friends quoted individual shots from the film to each other and when the opportunity arose, years later, were resolved to recreate the wartime fantasy.
I have A Guy Named Joe (Spencer Tracy)in my collection; must revisit it soon.
The Rock, 1996. directed by Michael Bay.
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There were tensions during shooting between director Michael Bay and Walt Disney Studios executives who were supervising the production. On the commentary track for the Criterion Collection DVD, Bay recalls a time when he was preparing to leave the set for a meeting with the executives and was approached by Sir Sean Connery in golfing attire. Connery, who also produced this movie, asked Bay where he was going, and when Bay explained that he had a meeting with the executives, Connery asked if he could accompany him. Bay complied, and when Bay arrived in the conference room, the executives' jaws dropped when they saw Connery appear behind him. According to Bay, Connery then stood up for him, and insisted that he was doing a good job and should be left alone.
Some of the Navy SEALs in this movie were played by real Navy SEALs. Michael Biehn, who has played Navy SEALs or some variation thereof on multiple occasions, apparently grew unsure of himself while acting for the first time here against real SEALs He told Michael Bay he was freezing up pretending to be the leader in front of them, as well as in Sir Sean Connery's presence.
The Woman in Green, 1945... sherlock holmes mystery...
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The Breen Office ordered two cuts from the original script. First, the victims were supposed to be young girls. That was ordered to be changed to young women although Dr. Simnell's bizarre doll fetish may be a leftover from the initial concept. In addition, during the scene in the Mesmer Club, Watson was supposed to take off his pants, not just roll up his pant leg.