Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, 2006. Directed by Gore Verbinski.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, 2006. Directed by Gore Verbinski.
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its a decent drama, but not my cuppa tbh. wasnt brilliantly filmed either. but it has suspenseQuote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
You will never forget Edward Norton's performance.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Robbery Under Arms, 1957. Directed by Jack Lee and starring Peter Finch, David McCallum, Maureen Swanson, Ronald Lewis, Laurence Naismith and Jill Ireland.
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Film did well in Australia but suffered poor reviews. Script isnt the best tbh but its an interesting film.
Frenzy, 1972.. Directed by the great Alfred Hitchcock and has a great cast. Jon Finch, Alec McCowen, and Barry Foster and features Billie Whitelaw, Anna Massey, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Bernard Cribbins and Vivien Merchant.
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Hitch back to his best here, and shot in London(mostly Covent Garden).
"lovely, lovely, lovely" Barry Foster was a proper nut! Top movie.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Another Hitchcock now...Dial M For Murder, 1954. starring Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, Anthony Dawson, and John Williams.
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The film was filmed in 3d although it crashed in that format and was hastily changed to the 2d version where it did well. John Williams as the inspector stole the film.
Blithe Spirit, 1945. Directed by David Lean. The screenplay by Lean, cinematographer Ronald Neame and associate producer Anthony Havelock-Allan is based on producer Noël Coward's 1941 play of the same name, the title of which is derived from the line "Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert" in the poem "To a Skylark" by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Stars Kay Hammond, Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings and Margaret Rutherford.
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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, one of the independent companies supported by the Rank Organization. The film was shot in Technicolor and marked Lean's first attempt at directing comedy after working on two straight films In Which We Serve and This Happy Breed, both also written by Noël Coward. The film was shot at Denham Studios in May 1944.
Nearby houses were used for exteriors: Denham Mount (Charles' and Ruth's home) and Fairway in Cheapside (Madame Arcati's house); some filming was also done at Blacksmith's Lane. One source mentions a third location: "Condomine House, exteriors".
The play had been a major success, and Coward advised Lean not to jeopardise this with the adaptation, telling him "Just photograph it, dear boy". In spite of this, Lean made a number of changes such as adding exterior scenes, whereas the play had been set entirely in a single room, showing scenes like the car journey to Folkestone which had only been referred to in the play. Perhaps most importantly, the final scene, in which Charles dies and joins his two wives as a spirit, does not occur in the play, which ends with his leaving his house after taunting his former wives, of whom he is now free. Coward objected strenuously to this change, charging Cineguild with having ruined the best play he ever wrote.
As with most of Coward's work, Blithe Spirit is renowned for its sophisticated dialogue. During an argument with Ruth, Charles declares, "If you're trying to compile an inventory of my sex life, I feel it only fair to warn you that you've omitted several episodes. I shall consult my diary and give you a complete list after lunch." The line, considered extremely risqué by censors, was deleted from the US release
Turning to a more grim subject now with the Classic British crime drama directed by Richard Fleischer, 10 Rillington Place. Stars Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, John Hurt and Pat Heywood.
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The film dramatises the case of British serial killer John Christie, who committed many of his crimes in the titular London terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving his neighbour Timothy Evans. Hurt received a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Evans.
Attenborough really got into the mind of Christie and was most convincing. Horrific yet compelling.
10 Rillington Place is now a memorial garden and the street rebuilt afaik.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Now, The Naked City, 1948. American film noir directed by Jules Dassin. Stars Barry Fitzgerald,Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart and Don Taylor.
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Filmed on location on streets of New York in a semi documentary style. It collected 2 Academy Awards and was a big hit.
See No Evil, Hear No Evil, 1989. Directed by Arthur Hiller, and stars Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder as the blind guy and the deaf guy.
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The Film didnt do well with the critics but made a decent profit.
Joan Severance is the sexy gal in the red dress..
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Vertigo (1958)
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Finally got round to watching this, it's rated as a classic.
James Stewart is an ex cop forced into retirement by his fear of heights. An old friend contacts him and asks him to keep an eye on his wife due to concerns about her mental health.
Great-looking film, you could make a still of pretty much any of the scenes into a painting. Hitchcock might have been an odd bloke but he knew his trade.
Like a lot of films from the 1950s the pacing is a bit slow but I did make it through to the end. One big problem is that Stewart was fifty years old at the time of filming, and looks it, and Kim Novak only 25. This makes it a bit hard to believe in their passionate romance on which the plot depends.
Lots of twists and turns, you never really know where it's going to go, which kept me watching despite the slow bits.
Are You Being Served (1977)
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Film version of the 1970s sitcom. As is traditional with any 1970s British sit-com movie spin off, it follows the characters as they go on a foreign holiday (to the Costa Plonka).
Never bodes well when the titles for the big screen version look cheaper than the titles for the TV show. And it gets worse from there. The players are good, they're all veteran comedy actors, but they've got nothing to work with here. The humour is along the same lines as the 'Carry On' films but makes them look like comic genius by comparison.
Totally lame, I couldn't even make it all the way through.
I wouldn't have started! Martin you must have too much time on your hands. :lol:
I wouldn't have even started to watch that film; especially after have watched the classic 'Vertigo'! Martin you must have too much time on your hands. :lol:
Billy Wilder's Five Graves To Cairo, 1943. Starring Franchot Tone, Erich von Stroheim and Anne Baxter.
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Eureka's newest remastered 4k transfer bluray.
Sourced from a brand new 4K master, newer even then the one used for Eureka’s recent release, Kino’s transfer is simply stunning, with a consistently sharp, richly detailed image that’s free of all signs of debris. Ample and evenly distributed grain helps preserve the original film-like texture of the 35mm print, while the high contrast ratio produces inky blacks and an impressive range of grays, which go a long way to highlighting John F. Seitz’s moody cinematography. The DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack is well balanced, capturing the full depth of Miklós Rózsa’s rousing score and sporting perfectly clean dialogue.
I wouldn't even admit to watching that (even though I have :lol:).Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
I watched (actually a better word is 'attempted') 'Are You Being Served' first then, went on to 'Vertigo.'Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
It's true that if I am not working my time is completely free, on the other hand after staring at spread sheets all day I'm not good for much of anything other than watching low-brow seventies sit coms and similar tat. Even listening to music seems to require too much mental energy.
Another Hitchcock classic. Lifeboat, 1944, from a story by John Steinbeck. It stars Tallulah Bankhead and William Bendix, alongside Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Heather Angel, Hume Cronyn and Canada Lee. The film is set entirely on a lifeboat launched from a passenger vessel torpedoed and sunk by a Nazi U-boat.
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One of Hitch's oddest and most controversial films.. also one of his best imo.
John Steinbeck wrote the screenplay but wasnt happy about its treatment and wanted his name removed....He was unsuccessful.
Don't know it, but William Bendix was one of my favourite actors and Steinbeck was a great writer.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
It was a bit of an unknown cast at time but they mostly all went on to good careers. Fabulous film imo.. very much worth watchingQuote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
I remember enjoying that film when it was shown on TV many years ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Contact, 1997. Directed by Robert Zemeckis and stars Jody Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, Tom Skerritt, William Fichtner, John Hurt, Angela Bassett, Rob Lowe, Jake Busey and David Morse.
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Carl Sagan conceived the idea for Contact in 1979. The same year, Lynda Obst, one of Sagan's closest friends, was hired by film producer Peter Guber to be a studio executive for his production company, Casablanca FilmWorks. She pitched Guber the idea for Contact, who commissioned a development deal.[2] Sagan and Ann Druyan (who were later married) wrote a more than 100 page film treatment, finishing in November 1980.[5][6] Druyan explained:
Carl's and my dream was to write something that would be a fictional representation of what contact would actually be like, that would convey something of the true grandeur of the universe.
I liked that film. Not sure why really, 'cos it's a bit anticlimactic and the story does not make much sense. Carl Sagan was a great guy though.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
The longest shaggy-dog story ever.
I saw the film when it came out, but wasn't impressed at the time. As you say the anti-climax is a big let down.
I quite like it.. Its a story that cannot have an end, only a beginning i guess.. The known universe is huge.. but how big is it outwith the knownn, and what is it?
The 39 Steps, 1935. Robert Donat stars with Madeleine Carroll. Hitch directs.
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Alas not the criterion reworked blueray but an sd file from Amazon prime
Forbidden Planet, 1956. directed by Fred M. Wilcox, that stars Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, and Leslie Nielsen.
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In times long past, this planet was the home of a mighty, noble race of beings who called themselves the Krell. Ethically and technologically they were a million years ahead of humankind, for in unlocking the mysteries of nature they had conquered even their baser selves, and when in the course of eons they had abolished sickness and insanity, crime and all injustice, they turned, still in high benevolence, upwards towards space. Then, having reached the heights, this all-but-divine race perished in a single night, and nothing was preserved above ground.
'We're all part monsters in our subconscious, so we have laws and religion!'
'The beast. The mindless primitive! Even the Krell must have evolved from that beginning.'
Great movie, an absolute classic of its time!Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, 1973. directed by Sam Peckinpah and stars James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Richard Jaeckel, Katy Jurado, Chill Wills, Barry Sullivan, Jason Robards and Bob Dylan(who also did the score).
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John Wick. 2015. A vigilante action-thriller film directed by Chad Stahelski, in his directorial debut, and written by Derek Kolstad. It stars Keanu Reeves.
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I liked this first film. I wasnt keen on second and have not seen any more.
The Man Who Never Was, 1956. A 2k bluray version from 2012 in original AS of2:55:1(cinemascope).. It was directed by Ronald Neame and stars Clifton Webb and Gloria Grahame and features Robert Flemyng, Josephine Griffin and Stephen Boyd.
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Take your pick...
Operation Mincemeat involved the acquisition and dressing up of a human cadaver as a "Major William Martin, R.M." and putting it into the sea near Huelva, Spain. Attached to the dead body was a briefcase containing fake letters falsely stating that the Allied attack would be against Sardinia and Greece rather than Sicily, the actual point of invasion. When the body was found, the Spanish Intelligence Service passed copies of the papers to the German Intelligence Service which passed them on to their High Command. The ruse was so successful that the Germans still believed that Sardinia and Greece were the intended objectives weeks after the landings in Sicily had begun.
The exact identity of the "man who never was" has been the centre of controversy since the end of the war. On the one hand, certain accounts claim the true identity of "Major William Martin" was a homeless, alcoholic rat-catcher from Aberbargoed, Wales, Glyndwr Michael, who had died by self-administering a small dose of rat poison. However, in 2002, authors John and Noreen Steele published the non-fictional account of The Secrets of HMS Dasher, about an ill-fated escort carrier that exploded and sank in the Firth of Clyde around the time Operation Mincemeat had commenced. The Steeles argued that "Major Martin's" body was actually that of seaman John Melville, one of the Dasher's casualties. Further, it has been reported that the accuracy of this claim was verified by the Royal Navy in late October 2004, and a memorial service was held for Melville, in which he was celebrated as one whose "memory lives on in the film The Man Who Never Was...we are gathered here today to remember John Melville as a man who most certainly was." But in fact, Professor Denis Smyth, a researcher at the University of Toronto, has counter-argued that Glyndwr Michael was indeed the real "Major Martin." To support his claims, Smyth published the contents of a secret memo and an official report, both authored by Ewen Montagu himself, confirming the Glyndwr Michael story.
The Day Of The Jackal, 1973. Stars Edward Fox, Terence Alexander and Tony Britton.
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An Arrow(2018) 2k scan on BluRay of the classic Fredrick Forsyth novel directed by Fred Zinnemann.
The film did well at the box office and was well liked.. Among those who praised the film was Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times, who gave it his highest rating of four stars, writing:
I wasn't prepared for how good it really is: it's not just a suspense classic, but a beautifully executed example of filmmaking. It's put together like a fine watch. The screenplay meticulously assembles an incredible array of material, and then Zinnemann choreographs it so that the story — complicated as it is — unfolds in almost documentary starkness.
Proper movie that. Even if Tony Britton's brummie accent is a bit over-egged at times.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Pulp Fiction, 1994. directed by Quentin Tarantino, and stars John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, Tim Roth, Ving Rhames, and Uma Thurman.
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Pulp Fiction premiered in May 1994 at the Cannes Film Festival. The film was unveiled at a midnight hour screening and caused a sensation. It won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, generating a further wave of publicity. It was nominated for seven awards at the 67th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won Best Original Screenplay;
One of the most amazing films ever. First time I saw it, I just thought WOW!Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Wonder if Marco's seen it? Just his sort of thing I'd think.
willis going through better weapons reminds me of you:DQuote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
marco is Marsellus:eyebrows:
Cant imagine why. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
One of my favourite films. Can't say I noticed Tony Britton's accent.Quote:
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I always wonder if Calthrop kills the gunsmith (Cyril Cusack) to cover his tracks; as Calthrop says it will be his last contract killing. The film is ambiguous on this, and I haven't read the book to find out.
in the book he doesnt.. he respected the man and had no reason to.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Some comfort films starting with Buccaneers...
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl , 2003. Capain Jack and his naval buckaroos..
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The Big Combo, 1955. directed by Joseph H. Lewis and stars Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte and Brian Donlevy.
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Better regarded today than at time...
The Comancheros, 1961. Directed by Michael Curtiz, although Wayne supposedly had a hand in it too. Stars John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Stuart Whitman and Ina Balin.
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A bit of 'comic book' style to this, but it is fun. Despite being set in Texas in 1843, all the characters use Winchester lever-action rifles and Colt Peacemaker pistols which were not in production until almost three decade later.
They pulled a similar fiddle in 'Zulu', no surprise that we won. Of course in the prequel 'Zulu Dawn' we get stuck with the historically correct weapons. Result - the Brits get massacred.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
yes, the were short of Martini Henry rifles so used others that were disguised and shot from different angles .. Apparently there were 20k bullets fired by the garrison and they killed 400... They also killed most of the wounded apparently after the battle.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
But it was in most part, fairly honest. The character of Henry Hook was a liberty apparently.
Always wanted to try one of those. Used Martini action guns, but not the Henry.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Silver Streak, 1976. directed by Arthur Hiller and stars Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, and Richard Pryor, with Patrick McGoohan and Ned Beatty in support.
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The film grossed over $51 million at the box office and was praised by critics.
The Godfather Pt 2, 1974. directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
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Initial critical reception of The Godfather Part II was divided, with some dismissing the work and others declaring it superior to the first film. While its cinematography and acting were immediately acclaimed, many criticized it as overly slow-paced and convoluted. Vincent Canby viewed the film as "stitched together from leftover parts. It talks. It moves in fits and starts but it has no mind of its own. The plot defies any rational synopsis."