it improves with multiple viewings imo.. quite a good and moral tale.Quote:
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it improves with multiple viewings imo.. quite a good and moral tale.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Just watched 'Build My Gallows High' 1947, with Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer and Kirk Douglas. An absolute classic film noir, dark, brooding and mean. Nobody comes out of it alive! Great movie.
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The Fly, 1986. Directed by David Cronenberg and stars Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis.
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Was a commercial and critical success and won an Oscar t'boot.
Criss Cross, 1949. Directed by Robert Siodmak and stars Burt Lancaster and Yvonne De Carlo.
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A new 4K restoration in the The Masters of Cinema Series. on bluray. (a birthday pressie)
The Boys From The Dwarf... Season 10... to finish the afternoon.. Quality stuff includes meeting, who they think is Jesus.:D
superb series this as is 11
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I think she was much better in 'Summer of Love' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Summer_of_Love, and 'The Girl on the Train'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Inception, 2010. Directed by Christopher Nolan. Stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Ken Watanabe.
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The film was a huge commercial success and was well regarded by critics and reviewers.
interestingly i was just reading an article there about this type of thing and they have now managed to communicate with some people in their dreams.... creepy:D
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First Contact. 1996. Directed by Jonathan Frakes. Stars the next Gen team.
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excellent film this; the eighth in the series.
some light entertainment now with The Seven Little Foys, 1955, stars Bob Hope.
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Jimmy Cagney drops in as a guest for a tap off.
Blimey Martin, you're doing it again! Seeing the mention of Emily Blunt, my first thought was to mention "The Devil Wears Prada" where she has a bit of a "heroin chic" look going on. Then I scroll down and see your post.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
You need to get out of my head, you won't like it... ;)
the sultry bitch with the fire in her eyes... bring her to me...:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
never saw prada film
You haven't missed much.
Not true - as chick-flicks go it's up there with 'An Officer And A Gentleman.'
I've seen it a few times now.
Not seen this in decades - I'm currently reading a book where one of the jury members (who has been nobbled) is using this story for ideas on how to sway the other jurors. Made me think about seeking it outQuote:
Originally Posted by Roy S
Yeah some great performances in it. I've got it somewhere. Fonda was good, as he was in the wrong man. Another top film
American Guerrilla in the Philippines, 1950. Directed by Fritz Lang and starring Tyrone Power.
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'We need a title for this new Tyrone Power film.'
'What's it about?'
'It's about an American guerrilla in the Philippines.'
'There you go then, job done. Time for lunch.'
Blast from the Past, 1999. Directed by Hugh Wilson.. Stars Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Christopher Walken, Sissy Spacek, and Dave Foley.
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Film didnt do particularly well and critics didnt like it much either. It still made a profit tho. I think its great fun:)
Seen it, I liked it too. :)
Merrill's Marauders, 1962. Directed by Samuel Fuller and stars Jeff Chandler.
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The film was shot in the Philippines and is a rather good account.
Chandler injured his back while making film, and filmed most of film under painkilling injections. you can see him wincing, and when he returned to USA had an op, but alas died under anesthetic..
Just catching up with these, quite entertaining, two mates trying stuff and taking the piss out of one another, the basic premise.
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Up Pompeii!, 1971. Stars Frankie Howerd as Lurcio and Michael Hordern as Ludicrus Sextus.
quality stuff this, although if you hate his style you obviously wont like this.
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Cassandra : Pompeii's citizens will befall the fate of the sinful men of Gomorrah!
Lurcio : Will they, indeed?
Cassandra : And Sodom
Lurcio : Ooh, I agree, the lot of them!
The Grapes of Wrath, 1940. Directed by John Ford. Stars Henry Fonda
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Good film - shame they bowdlerised the ending, but I imagine it would be far too much to portray for audiences at the time.
Cambridge Spies, 2003. 4 part series centring on the 4 most famous spies, Burgess, McClean, Philby and Blunt.
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Should have been shot.;)
Erik The Viking, 1989. Tim Robbins stars
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Wasn't that a remake of an earlier B&W film? I seem to recall thinking the first one was actually better and more nuanced.Quote:
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Originally Posted by Lawrence001
Yes, the first one was was better IMO, but would never have held comparison with Cronenberg's visceral "body horror" approach.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lawrence001
The Three Musketeers, 1973. Stars Michael York as d'Artagnan, Oliver Reed as Athos, Frank Finlay as Porthos / O'Reilly and Richard Chamberlain as Aramis. Directed by Richard Lester and written by George MacDonald Fraser. It was originally proposed in the 1960s as a vehicle for The Beatles, whom Lester had directed in two other films.
Plenty other stars in this film too including Fay Dunnaway, Raquel Welch, Christopher Lee and Simon Ward to name a few.
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Good film, very entertaining. Nonsense really, but well done and good fun! :)
Face Off, 1997. Directed by John Woo. Stars John Travolta, Nicolas Cage and Joan Allen.
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Film made $245m for an $80m outlay and was well recieved. There was talk of a sequel.
Broken Arrow, 1996. Travolta again along with Christian Slater and Samantha Mathis. Again directed by John Woo.
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another biggish success with a $150m return from a $50m outlay, although it wasnt particularly well recieved.. odd how it mad such a profit and was the no 1 film in usa 2 weeks running;)
Jason Bourne, 2016.
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The New Avengers - 'Angels of Death'
Classic 1977 episode where Joanna Lumley fights Caroline Munro. Both at the height of their powers.
Blues Brothers and Blues Brothers 2000
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The first film was excellent (if intentionally OTT) and it would have appeared impossible to replace the late John Belushi, but John Goodman stands in brilliantly, as does 'The Kid'. :)
The Commitments
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Absolutely brilliant: funny, touching with some great soul music. How come the the singers never furthered their career afterward?
a bit of red dwarf to cheer me up...
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The Fog, 1980. Directed by John Carpenter. Stars Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Atkins, Janet Leigh and Hal Holbrook.
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Now a cult classic, it was not so well recieved initially although it was a financial hit.
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, 1949. Stars John Wayne and Victor McLaglen .. Directed by John Ford.
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The second in Ford's "Cavalry Trilogy".
The Big Sleep, 1946. Directed by Howard Hawks and stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.
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One of the best Grant, an all time classic!
indeed, a super film...Quote:
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now a western of the italian school/ A Fistful Of Dollars, 1964. First of the 'Trilogy' from Sergio Leone. (release in USA was '67)
As few Spaghetti Westerns had yet been released in the United States, many of the European cast and crew took on American-sounding stage names. These included Leone himself ("Bob Robertson"), Gian Maria Volonté ("Johnny Wels"), and composer Ennio Morricone ("Dan Savio"). A Fistful of Dollars was shot in Spain, mostly near Hoyo de Manzanares[7] close to Madrid, but also (like its two sequels) in the Tabernas Desert and in the Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park, both in the province of Almería.
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Whisky Galore, 1949, directed by Alexander Mackendrick. Stars Basil Radford, James Robertson Justice, Joan Greenwood and Gordon Jackson.
Written by Compton Mackenzie and Angus MacPhail . One of the great Ealing Comedies, and filmed on the island of Barra...
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On Horror Channel at 9pm, 'Shed of The Dead'. Sounds daft enough to be fun! :)
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Cheyenne Autumn, 1964. Directed by John Ford in what was i believe, his last film; starring Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, James Stewart, and Edward G. Robinson.
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Angels With Dirty Faces, 1938. Directed by Michael Curtiz and stars James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, The Dead End Kids, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, and George Bancroft.
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Classed as one of the best film noirs of its day.. Still a classic imo.
Mavrick, 1994. stars Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster and James Garner. Directed by Richard Donner.
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Pimpernel Smith 1941. Stars Leslie Howard. Quality propaganda film this.
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