I liked that movie, although critics gave it a bit of a bashing as I recall.Quote:
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I liked that movie, although critics gave it a bit of a bashing as I recall.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
yeah i like it too..Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
another good un now that got mixed reviews.. The Chase, 1966. Directed by Arthur Penn and stars Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, and Robert Redford, and in support E.G. Marshall, Angie Dickinson, Janice Rule, Miriam Hopkins, Martha Hyer, Robert Duvall and James Fox.
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This is the recent Bluray release.
Another good one. I really liked it when it was released. Very early role for Redford, his character was called 'Bubba Reeves' if I recall (no, I didn't just look it up :)).Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
yeah, well very close.. bubber reeves it was although it sounded like bubbaQuote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
The Legend of Tarzan, 2016. directed by David Yates and stars Alexander Skarsgard, Samuel L. Jackson, Margot Robbie, Djimon Hounsou, Jim Broadbent, and Christoph Waltz.
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Making Africa seem authentic was especially important to the filmmakers, since the film was shot in England, except for six weeks in Gabon, filming background by helicopter without the cast. A working waterfall and a 100-foot-long collapsible pier were assembled at Warner Bros.’ Leavesden studios. Seven versions of the African jungle were constructed to show different scenery throughout the filming. Plants from Holland were mixed with trees sculpted by the art department. Kedleston Hall stood in for the Greystoke Manor, and a cedar tree on the grounds of Highclere Castle served as the setting for an early pivotal scene between Tarzan and Jane.
decent film tarzan.. well done too.. a bit of red dwarf now and a dram before my rest time... gotta get my beauty sleep:ner:
The Quiet Man, 1952. Directed by John Ford. It stars John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Barry Fitzgerald, Ward Bond and Victor McLaglen.
This is the Eureka Bluray.
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Winton C. Hoch’s glorious Technicolour cinematography is perhaps as big a star as the stars themselves; The colours just pop off the screen. Ford won another Oscar for this. The Irish locations are superb too.
O'Hara was almost forced to whisper a naughty into Wayne's ear and then run off, by John Ford whom she ended up thouroughly disliking, as she thought he hated her(which was the opposite of the truth). She once called him a a "bald-headed son of a bitch".. Wayne's look of shock was genuine(as Ford wanted) and he chased after... What she said went to their graves, as Ford, O'Hara and Wayne were the only people who knew what the words were. A mystery one can only guess at, but O'Hara was both reluctant and embarrassed to say it. (the mind boggles):)
Now, from way back in 1936, My Man Godfrey, directed by Gregory La Cava and starring William Powell and Carole Lombard, who had been previously wed.
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La Cava, a former animator and freelancer for most of his film career, held studio executives in contempt, and was known to be a bit eccentric. When he and Powell hit a snag over a disagreement about how Godfrey should be portrayed, they settled things over a bottle of Scotch. The next morning, La Cava showed up for shooting with a headache, but Powell didn't appear. Instead, the actor sent a telegram stating: "WE MAY HAVE FOUND GODFREY LAST NIGHT BUT WE LOST POWELL. SEE YOU TOMORROW."
When tensions hit a high point on the set, Lombard had a habit of inserting four letter words into her dialogue, often to the great amusement of the cast. This made shooting somewhat difficult, but clips of her cursing in her dialogue and messing up her lines can still be seen in blooper reels.
This is the remastered Criterion Bluray. Fabulous for '36.
Stagecoach, 1939. Directed by John Ford and stars John Wayne, Clair Trevor, Andy Devine, Thomas Mitchell, Louise Platt and John Carradine.
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Cast member Louise Platt, in a letter recounting the experience of the film's production, quoted Ford on saying of Wayne's future in film: "He'll be the biggest star ever because he is the perfect 'everyman'".
The film has also been recognized as transcending the Western genre. Robert B. Pippin has observed that both the collection of characters and their journey "are archetypal rather than merely individual" and that the film is a "mythic representation of the American aspiration toward a form of politically meaningful equality."
It won 2 Oscars; Best Supporting Actor – Thomas Mitchell, and Best Musical Score - Richard Hageman, W. Franke Harling, John Leipold, Leo Shuken
Dead Man's Folly, 1986. Directed by Clive Donner and starred Peter Ustinov, Jean Stapleton, Tim Pigott-Smith, Jonathan Cecil, Constance Cummings and Nicollette Sheridan.
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This is a made for tv film of Agatha Christie's Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. One of Ustinov's better Poirots.
A Passage to India, 1984. Directed by David Lean. It stars Peggy Ashcroft, Judy Davis, James Fox, Alec Guinness, Nigel Havers, Victor Banerjee and Roshan Seth.
E. M. Forster began writing A Passage to India during a stay in India from late 1912 to early 1913 (he was drawn there by a young Indian Muslim, Syed Ross Masood, whom he had tutored in Latin), completing it only after he returned to India as secretary to a maharajah in 1921. The novel was published on 6 June 1924.[4] It differs from Forster's other major works in the overt political content, as opposed to the lighter tone and more subdued political subtext in works such as Howards End and A Room With a View.
A Passage to India deals with the delicate balance between the English and the Indians during the British Raj.
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This was the final film of Lean's prestigious career, and the first feature film he had directed in fourteen years, since Ryan's Daughter in 1970. Receiving praise as Lean's finest since Lawrence of Arabia, A Passage to India received eleven nominations at the 57th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director for Lean, and Best Actress for Judy Davis for her portrayal as Adela Quested. Peggy Ashcroft won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal as Mrs Moore, making her, at 77, the oldest actress to win the award, and Maurice Jarre won his third Academy Award for Best Original Score.
This is a bluray hi def version. stunning scenery
Seventies horror genre now with Carrie, 1976. Directed by Brian De Palma and starring Sissy Spacek. It also features Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, Nancy Allen, William Katt, P. J. Soles, Betty Buckley, and John Travolta in support.
adapted from Stephen King's 1974 epistolary novel of the same name by Lawrence D. Cohen.
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Carrie is one of the few horror films to be nominated for multiple Academy Awards. Spacek and Laurie received nominations for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress awards, respectively. Niether won as they went to Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight.
This is the Arrow Video bluray and marvelous it is...
Classic scares there for the year.. Bet it put a few folk off proms at time:D
anyway on to the 2001 Mulholland Dr from director David Lynch. It stars Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Ann Miller, Mark Pellegrino and Robert Forster.
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In Rolling Stone, Peter Travers observed, "Mulholland Drive makes movies feel alive again. This sinful pleasure is a fresh triumph for Lynch, and one of the best films of a sorry-ass year. For visionary daring, swooning eroticism and colors that pop like a whore's lip gloss, there's nothing like this baby anywhere."
Got the DVD, but can't remember a thing about it. Needs watching again I guess.
I saw Lynch's 'Lost Highway' recently, very weird but leaves an impression.
lost highways very surreal tooQuote:
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Great film! And who can forget the infamous 'fanny-pad' scene in the shower?:D:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Marco.
super film tbh and laura harring had great, em, charms shall we say :eek: its a multi dream film but is exquisitly done by lynch... the master of the genre.Quote:
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We're No Angels, 1955. Directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Aldo Ray, Joan Bennett, Basil Rathbone, Leo G. Carroll, and Gloria Talbott.
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Bogart's character says: We came here to rob them and that's what we're gonna do - beat their heads in, gouge their eyes out, slash their throats. Soon as we wash the dishes.
On stage before he came to Hollywood, Bogart actually did a lot of light comedy.
This was also Bogart's final film with Director Michael Curtiz with whom he worked often and well back at Warner Brothers. Most particularly in Casablanca which was Curtiz's Oscar winning film for himself and for the film. A lot consider that film the one that firmly cemented Humphrey Bogart as a top box office draw.
Another xmassy film now with ..A Christmas Carol , 1984.. Directed by Clive Donner, who had been an editor of the 1951 film Scrooge, and stars George C. Scott as Ebenezer Scrooge. Supporting are Frank Finlay, David Warner, Susannah York and Edward Woodward.
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The film closely follows the structure of Charles Dickens' original book, with some changes to the story's detail. Novelist and essayist Louis Bayard, writing for Salon.com, described this adaptation as "the definitive version of a beloved literary classic", praising its fidelity to Dickens' original story, the strength of the supporting cast, and especially Scott's performance as Scrooge.
why stop there; im taking no chances on not being here at xmas....Scrooge, 1951. It stars Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge. With Kathleen Harrison, George Cole, Hermione Baddeley and Mervyn Johns.
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This is the Black and White version(and the best imo.)
The film was a hit here, but initially was not liked in the States.. It did become a staple tho there later.
Sim is on top form
Big John Wayne in 'The Comancheros', 1961. Also stars Stuart Whitman, Jack Elam, Lee Marvin and Bruce Cabot. Directed by Michael Curtiz and John Wayne himself.
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Bosley Crowther called the film "so studiously wild and woolly it turns out to be good fun"; according to Crowther, "there's not a moment of seriousness in it, not a detail that isn't performed with a surge of exaggeration, not a character that is credible."
Tough Guys, 1986. Starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Eli Wallach and Charles Durning.
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Night Train to Munich, 1940.. rewatch this classic propaganda film on criterion bluray..
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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, 1986. Directed by Leonard Nimoy.
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Soldier Blue, 1970. Directed by Ralph Nelson and stars Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss, and Donald Pleasence. The title song, written and performed by Buffy Sainte-Marie(Solier Blue) was a top ten hit.
Based on the U.S. Cavalry's notorious Sand Creek Indian massacre in 1864.
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It wasnt for the faint hearted in the day.
A good number of critics in 1970 believed that Soldier Blue had set a new mark in cinematic violence, as a result of its graphic scenes of Cheyenne women and children being slaughtered, and had thus lived up – or down – to its U.S. poster boast that it was "The Most Savage Film in History." A massive hit in Great Britain and much of the rest of the world, Soldier Blue was, in the words of its maverick director, Ralph Nelson, "not a popular success" in the United States.
The Wild Bunch, 1969. Directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Warren Oates, Jaime Sánchez, Ben Johnson, Emilio Fernández Strother Martin and L. Q. Jones.
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oday, the film holds a 90% "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on reviews from 62 critics with its consensus stating, "The Wild Bunch is Sam Peckinpah's shocking, violent ballad to an old world and a dying genre".
The Scalphunters, 1968. starring Burt Lancaster, Ossie Davis, Shelley Winters and Telly Savalas. Was directed by Sydney Pollack.
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I saw the film at my local film club and loathed it - simply couldn't make head nor tail as to what was happening.Quote:
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Paris Texas, 1984. Directed by Wim Wenders and stars Harry Dean Stanton, Dean Stockwell, Nastassja Kinski and Hunter Carson.
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At the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, it won the Palme d'Or from the official jury, as well as the FIPRESCI Prize and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury. It went on to other honors and critical acclaim.
THis is the Criterion Bluray.
Saw it at the cinema on it's release. A powerful and harrowing film, and not one I would want to watch again in a hurry. No surprise it didn't do well in the States, given the subject.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Excellent film - made all the better with Ry Cooder's guitar playing.Quote:
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Just ordered a DVD of 'BLOW-UP' 1966, with David Hemmings. I haven't seen it for maybe forty years, but remember finding it fascinating.
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dont recall that one...Quote:
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I think you'd like it Grant.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
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An old drama now from director George Stevens. A Place In The Sun, 1951, stars Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Raymond Burr and Shelley Winters.
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The film earned an estimated $3.5 million at the US and Canadian box office, and earned critical acclaim in 1951.[6][7]
Upon seeing the film, Charlie Chaplin called it "the greatest movie ever made about America".
It won 6 Academy awards. This is the Paramount Bluray
A classic movie. I should get a copy.Quote:
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i will try and pick up a dvd cheapish:lol:Quote:
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Hopscotch, 1980. Directed by Ronald Neame, and stars Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Sam Waterston, Ned Beatty, and Herbert Lom.
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According to Neame in the special feature "Introduction by Neame & Garfield", the Jewish Matthau refused to film on location in Germany, as he had lost many relatives in the Holocaust. However, he wanted to have Neame cast his son David and later his stepdaughter Lucy Saroyan, so Matthau gave in. David Matthau played Ross, the CIA agent Kendig takes prisoner after leaving Myerson's house, and Saroyan the pilot who takes Kendig to Bermuda.
According to Neame, he did not think they could get Glenda Jackson, but she and Matthau had previously worked together in the 1978 film House Calls, and she was delighted with the prospect of reteaming with him.
This is the Criterion bluray.(finally arrived)lol
Rio Lobo, 1970(again lol).. Duke Wayne stars.. Howard Hawks directs
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not one of the duke's best this but it has a good story; as similar as it was to the others. jack elam didnt get to work in wayne's next film as wayne felt he upstaged him several times... shows how childish actors can be.
Looks kinda kinky.... Any 'beaver' in it?:eyebrows:Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Marco.
Excellent film - I have a copy.Quote:
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There is a nude scene - but you would have to be quick to see any 'beaver'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
Another of my David Lynch films today.. Blue Velvet, 1986. It stars Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, and Laura Dern.
Super song too....
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Blue Velvet initially received a divided critical response, with many stating that its objectionable content served little artistic purpose. Nevertheless, the film earned Lynch his second Academy Award nomination for Best Director, and came to achieve cult status. As an example of a director casting against the norm, it was credited for revitalizing Hopper's career and for providing Rossellini with a dramatic outlet beyond her previous work as a fashion model and a cosmetics spokeswoman. In the years since, the film has generated significant attention, and it is now widely regarded as one of Lynch's major works and one of the greatest films of the 1980s.
Watched that on TV last night.Quote:
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Only the second time, since I saw it at my local fim club back in its day. Still a difficult watch.
There seems to be a dislocation in time: the film starts with MacLachan finding the severed ear and reporting it to police. Later Maclachlan is kidnapped by Hopper and his henchmen, and taken, along with Rossellini, to where Rossellini's son is being held captive. Her son is being 'looked after' by the camp singer who at the time he appears in the film, is in possesion of both his ears. Yet later still in the film, when MacLachan returns to Rossellini's appartment, he finds the singer there: dead and missing his right ear. Have I missed something?
An interesting film - but not an easy watch.
i read it as 2 realities within one reality... but it could be anything with lynch. i just enjoy the ride:)
Lynch can be challenging. I still have 'Inland Empire' to get through, tried twice but couldn't latch onto it....................Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
ive not seen lost highway for a while. i guess i should... this is probably his most challengingQuote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
I like 'Lost Highway', but I haven't a clue why :).Quote:
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lol. i never liked inland empire.. the photography stankQuote:
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I don't think I've seen 'Inland Empire', but have seen most of Lynch's output.
The bar for sheer bizarreness was set high with Lynch's "Eraserhead", but all of his output is weird and challenging.