Kubrick was a perfectionist: he bought up the (two or three) remaining lenses that Zeiss had developed for NASA, so he could film the candle-lit scenes, without using any additional lighting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
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Kubrick was a perfectionist: he bought up the (two or three) remaining lenses that Zeiss had developed for NASA, so he could film the candle-lit scenes, without using any additional lighting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
I remember seeing it at the cinema; which would make it 60 years ago! :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
you must have sneaked in as it was X rated at the time due to her breasts being flashed(well parts of them):D well it was 61... val guest said there was some cuts for the american version to get by their censor.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
I don't remember seeing any 'flashes' of breasts. :doh:
You had to be (or look) 18 to be allowed to see x-rated films. I definitely saw it at the cinema, but I wouldn't have been 18 at the time; maybe 14, but not 18. I think it might have been at a late-night screening, where presumably the age of the viewers was given scant attention.
As well as 'Barry Lyndon', the other two period dramas I remember seeing around that time were 'Angelique' and 'Tom Jones'. Both of which were also very good.
Two Mules for Sister Sara, 1970 directed by Don Siegel and starring Shirley MacLaine and Clint Eastwood.
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Not one of Eastwood's better films but it made a profit.
Oh - I think it a good film. I love the way the Eastwood and Maclaine characters play off one another.
yeah i like it too, but dialogue isnt great; just a bit lame. but i like it enough to have the bluray lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Criterion's New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural of THE FOUR FEATHERS.
John Clements as,
Harry Faversham.
Ralph Richardson as,
Captain John Durrance.
C. Aubrey Smith as,
General Burroughs.
and
June Duprez as,
Ethne Burroughs.
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Directed by Zoltán Korda in 1939, so its 82 years young.
This is the region A bluray.
49th Parallel, 1941. Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Stars Anton Walbrook, Eric Portman, Glynis Johns, Raymond Massey, Laurence Olivier and Leslie Howard.
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Pressburger won an Oscar for Best Story and the film was nominated for Best Picture and Best Screenplay (including Rodney Ackland for additional dialogue). Powell was nominated for Best Director by the New York Film Critics Circle.
The British Film Institute ranked the film the 63rd most popular film with British audiences, based on cinema attendance of 9.3 million in the UK. It was released as 'The Invaders' in the USA; some scenes and dialogue were removed as being too sensitive racially.
Amazing cast there Grant, don't think I've seen it though. Anton Walbrook was a great actor, I thought he was tremendous as 'Michael Strogoff'.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
yes its quite good in a propaganda way of course. the germans were furious.lolQuote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
i think either powell or pressburger struggled to get back into britain after making it as one didnt have british passport. Think Leslie Howard sorted it
this again... top filmQuote:
Originally Posted by struth
Scarlett Street, 1945. directed by Fritz Lang and stars Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea. All 3 also played similar roles in the earlier 1944 The Woman in the Window also directed by Lang. But with a slightly different story and ending etc. This one was banned in several states at the time.
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Oddity this but a good cast and this farce plays out fairly well. Blame It On The BellBoy, 1996. Starring Dudley Moore, Bryan Brown, Richard Griffiths, Andreas Katsulas, Patsy Kensit, Alison Steadman and Penelope Wilton. It was directed by Mark Herman.
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The film was critically panned by all...lol ... but i like it so up the critics; wtf do they know:D
The Count of Monte Cristo ,2002.(he say yes;))directed by Kevin Reynolds, from the novel of same name by Alexandre Dumb Ass.:eyebrows:
Ive a couple of versions of this story; this one stars Jim Caviezel, Guy Pearce, and Richard Harris.
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The Bishop's Wife, 1947. directed by Henry Koster and starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David Niven.
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Tora! Tora! Tora!, 1970. directed by Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda and Kinji Fukasaku, and stars an ensemble cast including Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, So Yamamura, E.G. Marshall, James Whitmore, Tatsuya Mihashi, Takahiro Tamura, Wesley Addy, and Jason Robards.
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Not the greatest war film by any means but the action scenes are impressive
The Prisoner Of Zenda, 1979. Comedy directed by Richard Quine and adapted from the 1894 adventure novel by Anthony Hope. Stars Peter Sellers, Lynne Frederick, Lionel Jeffries, Elke Sommer, Gregory Sierra, Jeremy Kemp and Catherine Schell.
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The score by Henry Mancini was a highlight of the film and gained some critical acclaim. It was also Quine's final film as director before dying in 1989.
mmm...Catherine Schell...:drool:
Another Sellers Job.. Two Way Stretch, 1960. This time he is doing a job but is in prison; great alibi tho...
good supporting cast of Wilfrid Hyde-White, Lionel Jeffries, David Lodge, Liz Fraser and Bernard Cribbins.
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The prison scenes were filmed at the South Cavalry Barracks at Aldershot, and it was the most popular film of the year in UK...
Great film!Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
It's not that great.
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
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I've attempted that a few times but it's heavy going.
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, 1943. ITV Studios remastered Bluray. Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It stars Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr and Anton Walbrook.
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According to the directors, the idea for the film did not come from the newspaper comic strip by David Low but from a scene cut from their previous film, One of Our Aircraft Is Missing, in which an elderly member of the crew tells a younger one, "You don't know what it's like to be old." Powell has stated that the idea was actually suggested by David Lean (then an editor) who, when removing the scene from the film, mentioned that the premise of the conversation was worthy of a film in its own right.
Presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.37:1, encoded with MPEG-4 AVC and granted a 1080p transfer, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of British distributors ITV Studios Home Entertainment.
The restoration of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp was supervised by Michael Pogorzelski and Heather Linville of the Academy Film Archive, with assistance by 20th Century Fox film archivist Schawn Belston. The restoration was done in association with the British Film Institute and ITV Studios Global Entertainment Ltd., the film's rights holders. Funding was provided by Cinema Per Roma Foundation, The Louis B. Mayer Foundation, and the Material World Foundation.
Recently restored in 4K, the film looks spectacular. Definition and clarity are often quite extraordinary (see screencapture #4), while depth is the best I have seen on a Technicolor film released on Blu-ray.
One of the greats....
Ice Cold in Alex, 1958. Directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Anthony Quayle and Harry Andrews. From my Plex library
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The film was based on the 1957 novel Ice Cold in Alex and its serialisation (as Escape in the Desert) in the magazine Saturday Evening Post. The New York Times described the book as "an excellent escape story played out in the best Hitchcock manner."
The screenplay contains multiple key changes from the novel, including making Anson rather than Pugh the protagonist. ABPC bought the rights and assigned TJ Morison to collaborate on a treatment with Landon under the supervision of Walter Mycroft.
The producers had intended to shoot the location work for Ice Cold in Alex in Egypt, but the producers had to switch to Libya because of the Suez conflict.
Filming began 10 September 1957.
Sylvia Syms (Sister Murdoch) said in a 2011 interview about the film that conditions during the desert shoot were so difficult it felt like they were actually in the situation the film portrays. She said: "You may find this hard to believe, but there was very little acting. It was horrible. We became those people ... we were those people". She said that today people would probably call it method acting, but added: 'We didn't know what Method Acting was, we just called it 'getting on with it'." Syms said that during the scene where the ambulance rolls backwards down the hill narrowly avoiding her, the actors assumed there would be a hawser to stop the vehicle if anything went wrong, but there was not. The actress said she was "pretty sure" Mills, Quayle and Andrews angrily upbraided director J Lee Thompson for this risky approach. She added: "He liked to push actors a bit". The quicksand sequence was filmed in an ice cold artificial bog in an English studio (some scenes were shot at Elstree) and was "very tough" on Quayle and Mills. Syms said the producers got a good deal out of her for "£30 a week", adding: "But I made a lot more when they turned it into an advert for Carlsberg". She said there are "no false heroics in it" and that she had been told by desert war veterans it is a good picture of soldiers in that theatre of war, adding: "I am proud of it"
The Assassination Bureau Ltd, 1969, directed by Basil Dearden, and starring Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, and Curd Jürgens.
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The film was based on the Jack London novel, The Assassination Bureau. London purchased a storyline from Sinclair Lewis in 1910 and used it as the basis of two short stories and a novel. He was two-thirds of the way through finishing the novel (having written 40,000 words) when he died in 1916. The novel was later completed by Robert L. Fish and finally published in 1963. The New York Times called it "delightfully ridiculous".
Dead Of Night, 1945. Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden and Robert Hamer. Stars include Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers, Sally Ann Howes and Michael Redgrave.
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Film is based around several dreams and was the first horror film i Britain since start of war(they were banned)
Another good one.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
okay I agree with you on that one :D
The History Of Mr Polly, 1949. John Mills stars.
Mills daughter played the child too.
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A good film, but looks very dated now.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Now that is a good film, and terribly "British". :) I have it in my collection.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
The Micheal Redgrave ventriloquist tale is the best of them. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Studied the book at school. I've seen the film, but can't remember much about it. :doh:Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Since this pandemic started my wife and I have been into mystery series. Usually British or Australian. Stuff like Midsomer Murders, Shakespeare and Hathaway, Dr. Blake Mysteries, Blue Heelers.
Any others that you can recommend?
poirot (david suchet)and sherlock holmes (jeremy brett) spring to mind. Bergerac, inspector morse etcQuote:
Originally Posted by Blackdog
new tricks, george gently
Saturday matinee farce now. Carry On Up the Jungle, 1970. They dont come much more farcical :eyebrows:
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But there is Jacki Piper
A bit of class now with Casablanca, 1942.
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Thanks.Quote:
poirot (david suchet)and sherlock holmes (jeremy brett) spring to mind. Bergerac, inspector morse etc
new tricks, george gently
We watched New Tricks, that was pretty good.
I'll get with the missus and give some of the others a go.
My Fellow Americans, 1996. Directed by Peter Segal. It stars Jack Lemmon and James Garner as feuding ex-presidents, with Dan Aykroyd, Lauren Bacall, Esther Rolle, John Heard, Wilford Brimley, Bradley Whitford and Jeff Yagher in supporting roles.
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Not loved by many but i liked it. Thats what counts;)
Still awaiting my nice new bluray of this but will wathc it in sd.. The Front Page, 1974. Directed by Billy Wilder and starring 2 troupers, Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, with Susan Sarandon.
Marvelleous..
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Some Like It Hot, 1959... 62 years young, directed by Billy Wilder again. stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, and features George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee, Grace Lee Whitney, and Nehemiah Persoff.
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Another of the greats this.. Just wonderful stuff.
Private's Progress, 1956. Stars Ian Carmichael, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price and Terry-Thomas.
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from my plex library
Will stick with T-T and How to Murder Your Wife, 1956. stars Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi, Eddie Mayehoff and Terry-Thomas.
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Top Film and premise:eyebrows:
my plex library again.
Fury, 2014. 4k UHD Amazon library edition. directed by David Ayer, and starring Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Peña, Jon Bernthal, Jason Isaacs and Scott Eastwood.
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Made a tidy profit as most Pitt film do i suppose, grossing well over $200m
Fabulous film that.. worth the catching.
Harrow is worth a look.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blackdog