Really weird, but there's something fascinating about it.Quote:
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Really weird, but there's something fascinating about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
i think if you take it as a dream its much easier to understand that, like mulholland the person, in this case pullman is making new identities and life but in his mind while in prisonQuote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Dead Men Tell No Tales, 2017. 4kuhd version.
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Looking forward to seeing this again, I've ordered the DVD.
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Great film and definitely a classic thriller.
(the 1999 remake, 'Payback', with Mel Gibson wasn't bad either)
great film. ive that on my hdd..Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
I've recently watched The Lady Vanishes and The 39 Steps that you posted a short while ago Grant and enjoyed them very much.
I have been meaning to ask this question for a while; I have a memory (just!) of a movie that ends with two or three people leaving their car whilst at a set of traffic lights as they can't decide of where to leave it.
I also maybe remember the following too, I think it is in black and white, Burt Lancaster? I think that it was an American movie.
Any ideas?
Young Frankenstein, 1974.. Directed by Mel Brooks and stars Gene Wilder.. co-stars Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars, Richard Haydn, and Gene Hackman.
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many great lines including... he would have an enormous Schwanzstucker!!!... :eyebrows:
it dosnt ring any bells alas peter..sorryQuote:
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Erik The Viking, 1989. Tim Robbins stars as Erik
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Principal photography took place at Shepperton Studios in England. Some footage of Erik's village and environments was shot in Norway, while the Hy-Brasil sequence was filmed in Malta. Artwork was made by Tolkien artist Alan Lee. The music score was composed by Neil Innes.
Total Recall, 1990.. Big Arnie saves Mars
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The Day the Earth Stood Still , 1951. directed by Robert Wise and stars Michael Rennie and Patricia Neal.
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original and best.. now in 4kuhd
"Klaatu barada nikto". :)
I've been watching 'The Terrornauts', 1967 on Talking Pictures TV. This is a truly crummy film and deserves an award for its uselessness! There are a lot of 'sparkler' special effects and dodgy props, although there are some decent actors. It falls somewhere between Doctor Who and Blake's 7 for wobbly sets, but isn't as good as either! It's actually bad enough to be fun to watch :D.
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Notorious, 1946. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, and Claude Rains.
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quality film . this is a usa region a bluray.
I know I've seen it, but can't remember it. Was a highly rated movie.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
yup its a good movie... just had car out again.. some fresh air etc :eyebrows:Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
now where the air can be tight.... The Enemy Below, 1957. Directed by Dick Powell and starring Bob Mitcham and Kurt Jurgens.
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For the audible effects, Walter Rossi received the 1958 Academy Award for Best Special Effects.
The destroyer escort USS Haynes (DE-181) was portrayed by the USS Whitehurst, filmed in the Pacific Ocean near Oahu, Hawaii. Many of Whitehurst's crewmen acted in the film: The phone talkers, the gun and depth charge crews, the sailor fishing, and all of the men seen abandoning ship, were real Whitehurst crewmen. The ship's commanding officer, Lieutenant Commander Walter Smith, played the engineering officer. He is the man seen reading comics (Little Orphan Annie) during the lull before the action. In the same scene an enlisted man can be seen reading The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1939. Directed by William Dieterle and stars Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara. Cast includes
Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell, Edmond O'Brien, Alan Marshal and Walter Hampden.
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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...smerelda_2.jpg O'Hara at her beautiful best.
When Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany on September 1, most of the cast and crew was in a state of fear of what was going to happen. Laughton lightened the mood by reciting the Gettysburg Address (that he had recited in Ruggles of Red Gap). Another incident of emotional filming was the filming of the scene where Quasimodo rings the bells in the tower of the cathedral for Esmeralda. Feeling in pain because his native Britain had declared war on Germany, Laughton rang the bells over and over again until he fell down from exhaustion, overwhelming the crew with emotion.
Censorship
The characters of Claude Frollo and Jehan Frollo are changed from the novel, as was done in the 1923 film. Such changes were made because the filmmakers were concerned that portraying the priest as a villain would violate the policy of the Hays Production Code. In the novel Claude is depicted as the villainous 36-year-old Archdeacon of Notre Dame; in the film he is the good character and much older in age. His younger brother Jehan, who in the novel is a teenaged drunken student and a juvenile delinquent, is in the film a middle-aged villain who is Paris' chief justice and a close advisor to King Louis XI.
The Bells!!!
A charming little film now.. The Smallest Show on Earth, 1957.. (released in the US as Big Time Operators). Stars in abundance with Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Peter Sellers, Bernard Miles, Leslie Phillips, Francis de Wolff, and of course, Margaret Rutherford.
Directed by Basil Dearden.
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The cast alone makes the movie a must-see, and the sequence in which projectionist Peter Sellers, pianist Margaret Rutherford and doorman Bernard Miles relive the glories of the silent era is adorable.
This is the Network Bluray.
The Likely Lads, 1976. Film offshoot of the series. Rodney Bewes and James Bolam star with Brigit Forsyth. The screenplay is by the scriptwriters of the television show, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.
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Again a Network bluray
How the West Was Won, 1962. directed mostly by Henry Hathaway; 3/5 segments, John Ford and George Marshall do one each..Its narrated by Spencer Tracy.
All star cast includes Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, Carolyn Jones, Karl Malden, Gregory Peck, George Peppard, Robert Preston, Debbie Reynolds, James Stewart, Eli Wallach, John Wayne, and Richard Widmark.
Filmed in Cinerama, which was 3 projection onto a curved screen, hence you get a line on screen where its joined for tv purposes.
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Ford complained about having to dress such huge sets, since Cinerama photographed a much wider view than the standard single-camera process to which Hollywood directors were accustomed. Director Henry Hathaway was quoted as saying, "That damned Cinerama. Do you know a waist-shot is as close as you can get with that thing?"
Stick with wild west and this Sydney Pollack film from 1972.. Jeramiah Johnston. Robert Redford in title role. Will Geer, Allyn Ann McLerie, Stefan Gierasch, Charles Tyner and Delle Bolton fill out cast.
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Based loosely on a real mountain man of name John Johnson. He changed his name to that after deserting during the Mexican–American War after striking an officer, when he served aboard a fighting ship, having enlisted under a false age.
Rumors, legends, and campfire tales about Johnson abound. Perhaps chief among them is that in 1847, his wife, a member of the Flathead American Indian tribe, was killed by a young Crow brave and his fellow hunters, which prompted Johnson to embark on a vendetta against the tribe. According to historian Andrew Mehane Southerland, "He supposedly killed and scalped more than 300 Crow Indians and then devoured their livers" to avenge the death of his wife, and "As his reputation and collection of scalps grew, Johnson became an object of fear."
The story here is changed somewhat.
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Farewell My Lovely (1975)
Robert Mitchum is private investigator Philip Marlowe, hired to find the missing girlfriend of a bank robber who has just been released from prison. This is adapated from a Raymond Chandler novel so inevitably the task is massively more complicated than it seems.
The 1941 period setting is well done, partly helped by the fact that in 1975 you could still find locations that hadn't substantially changed since 1941. Mitchum is good which doesn't really need saying, as is Jack O'Halloran as bank robber 'Moose' Malloy, but the film feels a bit constrained, not enough time is spent establishing and developing the characters and the atmosphere, two things which are really essential to do justice to any Chandler novel.
Not to say it isn't worth a watch as it gets a lot right, it's just a shame another 10 percent of effort wasn't put in and it could have been a classic.
I don't know why Tarantino doesn't have a go at a Chandler story, I have the feeling that he would know exactly how to do it justice.
Mitchum's recollections of making the picture are highly amusing and sound a lot like Chandler's dialogue:
The producer, Elliott Kastner, comes by with Sir Lew Grade, the British tycoon. He has a black suit, a black tie, a white shirt and a whiter face. 'I know nothing about motion pictures,' Sir Lew says. 'What I know is entertainment: Ferris wheels, pony rides.' I suggested we buy up the rights to Murder, My Sweet with Dick Powell, re-release it and go to the beach.
But, no, they hired a director, Dick Richards, so nervous he can't hold his legs still. They have all the hide rubbed off them, He started doing TV commercials. He was accustomed to, you know, start the camera, expose 120 feet of film and tell somebody to move the beer bottle half an inch clockwise. He does the same thing with people.
Mitchum called O'Halloran "One great find on this picture. At least, he's a find if we can ever find him again... They hired him for $500 a week. He looked perfect for the part. One time he hit the producer. One of the producers. We had seven of them. We called them the Magnificent Seven. Jack was swinging this poor bastard around his head like an Indian war club.
I tried to explain to him: 'The guy can be talked to, Jack.' He shakes his head. 'Mitch,' he says, 'I was crying too hard.'"
''Charlotte Rampling arrived with an odd entourage, two husbands or something. Or they were friends and she married one of them and he grew a mustache and butched up. She kept exercising her mouth like she was trying to swallow her ear. I played her on the right side because she had two great big blackheads on her left ear, and I was afraid they'd spring out and lodge on my lip."
lol, irish jack was a boxer, 6'6", and the illegitimate son of mafia hitman Albert Anastasia. best not mess lol. He is still alive
Joe Kidd. 1972. stars Clint Eastwood and Robert Duvall. Directed by John Sturges.
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Watched that last week. It's OK, but not one of Eastwood's best. Some good 'baddie' actors in it, I always found John Saxon irritatingly unconvincing. Duvall and Don Stroud were excellent as usual.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
saxon, yeah. he mostly worked in italy i think. was in that bruce lee film tooQuote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Film Noir this morning i think, and where better to start than Key Largo, 1948. Directed by: John Huston and stars Humphrey Bogart , Lauren Bacall, Claire Trevor and Edward G. Robinson.
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The script was adapted from a 1939 play of the same name by Maxwell Anderson. In the play, the gangsters are Mexican bandidos, the war in question is the Spanish Civil War, and McCloud is a disgraced deserter who dies at the end.
Robinson had top billing over Bogart in their four previous films together: Bullets or Ballots (1936), Kid Galahad (1937), The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) and Brother Orchid (1940), but the situation switched for the billing in this final film that Bogart and Robinson worked together on.
Can't go wrong with that. Great classic movie.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
"You don't like the storm do you Rocco?. Show it your gun; if it don't stop, shoot it!"Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Fabulous line delivered perfectly by Bogey.
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, 1974. directed by Joseph Sargent, and stars Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, and Hector Elizondo.
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Production began with scenes inside the subway tunnel. These were filmed over the course of eight weeks on the local tracks of the IND Fulton Street Line at the abandoned Court Street in Brooklyn. Closed to the public in 1946, it became a filming location and home to the New York Transit Museum. (Among other films, the Court Street station was used for The French Connection, Death Wish, and the 2009 remake of Pelham.)
The production company set up chess boards, card tables, and ping pong tables along the Court Street platform for cast and crew recreation between set-ups. Robert Shaw apparently beat all comers in ping pong.
Dead Reckoning, 1947, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lizabeth Scott.
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Not one of his best but not too bad either. Scott was a bit lifeless
Picnic at Hanging Rock , 1975. With its haunting panpipes and unanswerable conclusion(or lack of), Peter Weir's film of the disappearance of several schoolgirls and their teacher during a picnic at Hanging Rock, Victoria on Valentine's Day in 1900, and the subsequent effect on the local community is still a classic tale and a beautiful one.
One odd film and one you'd more expect from likes of David Lynch.
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I suppose its a film about unhealthy obsessions really.
This is the Director's Cut Bluray.
The difference is David Lynch is crap and Peter Weir is a genius...Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
lol.. i love both. peter's master and commander is a cracking film... must watch it again soon. truman show was clever too.
a tale of sexual repression of girls. And i guess, greed and spite of the old over young i think. Wonderfully visualized too.
Curse of the Black Pearl, 2003.
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uhd amazon file
went to see that at a matinee showing when it first came out. Me and a mate we were the only two people in the theatre. They didn't even bother to put the heating on for us. I was okay had a big coat on but my pal was just wearing a leather jacket, he was practically blue with cold by the time it finished. Good film though.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Surprising how few films he has made in fifty years. 'Gallipoli' is his best IMO. A perfect film.
it was good, but needless to say not perfect. i enjoyed it at time, although Mel is inclined to overact at times.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Truman show was brilliantly done, although its not really my thing tbh i did find it so well done you have to enjoy it. Ive read a lot of the O'Brian books so enjoyed M and C
Or - David Lynch's films are ugly-looking, whereas Peter Weir's films are much more pleasing to the eye.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Three Days of the Condor, 1975. Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway star along with Cliff Roberton and Max von Sydow. Director was Sydney Pollack .
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This is the Eureka Bluray version. Probably the best you can get . Picture is much improved as is the 2 channel audio.
Another good film Grant.
True. 'Picnic At Hanging Rock' is beautiful but deeply unsettling at the same time. Takes real skill to pull that off.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Whereas Lynch just goes with the 'Make it as weird and unfathomable as possible and some people will say it's genius and most people will go along with them so as not to look stupid' approach.
Emperor's new clothes. Although I do like 'Dune', I think he nailed that.
interesting as lynch hated dune, as it was kinda taken out of his hands by Universal, who took post-production control of the film away from Lynch and re-edited his original three-hour version into a shorter two-hour and fifteen-minute studio cut.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
still, as you say its a work of art but could have been better if they had let him alone.
Interestingly the job he had didnt originally exist in the cia, but the russians thought it did and opened their own version. this was so successful, apparently the cia then opened their own version.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
another thing i found funny was Faye Dunaway saying that getting raped etc by Redford isnt the worst thing that can happen to a woman, so to get some fearful expressions, director Pollack shot some closeups of her while he said nasty and scary things he was going to do to her.:eek: the mind boggles
Cloak and Dagger, 1946. Directed by Fritz Lang and stars Gary Cooper and Lilli Palmer.
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This is Eureka's bluray version. A quality ww2 espionage thriller.. "Our Germans Are Better Than Your Germans":eyebrows:
Fritz Lang again with his classic first talkie, the 1931, M. Stars Peter Lorre.
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Eureka Bluray(which is an excellent print and in German with subtitles)
A little ditty now to fill time after such a intense film as M... Blame It on the Bellboy, 1992. directed by Mark Herman and starring Dudley Moore, Bryan Brown, Patsy Kensit, Richard Griffiths, Penelope Wilton, Alison Steadman, Andreas Katsulas, and Bronson Pinchot.
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I quite like all the main stars in this and although its a nothing much film it has its moments. Penelope Wilton is quite funny and a nice lived in face too.
Balls to Penelope Wilton, it has Patsy Kensit at the height of her powers. That's the only thing that makes it watchable.
Pink Floyd 'Live in Venice' 1989, on Sky Arts tonight at 9pm if anybody is interested (I saw it last time it was on :)).