actually that bracelet might just have been ok :D need to see it again tho. if it was a scissors one then its ok..Quote:
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actually that bracelet might just have been ok :D need to see it again tho. if it was a scissors one then its ok..Quote:
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Father Goose, 1964. starring Cary Grant, Leslie Caron and Trevor Howard.
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The scene in the dinghy where the small boat gets passed by two large ships was filmed on the Universal Studios back-lot in a large tank on a sound set. One of the child stars, Stephanie Berrington [now Stephanie Berrington McNutt] who played Elizabeth, in an interview said, "It was a large tank like a swimming pool. We had wave-making machines which were logs attached to steel arms that kept slapping the water to make waves. The larger ships were actually projected onto screens above the water. At first, the dinghy was just floating free and was not attached to anything. In one of the first few takes, it took on so much water that it sank (it wasn't supposed to) and most of the children were thrilled. It was like going for a swim. There was one child, however, who did not know how to swim so the directors and producers all jumped into the water in their good clothes and expensive watches to "save" us. Needless to say, most of us didn't want to be saved at all! Photos were taken and I believe they were published in the Los Angeles Times."
The Commonwealth Games opening ceremony. Wow. Doing the City of Birmingham proud.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1959...
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The Baskerville Hall set is a redress of that used for Castle Dracula in Dracula (1958), in which Sir Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing also starred.
To this day, the movie is still released in a censored version for the British market. The scene where Sir Hugo Baskerville pushes a servant into a burning fireplace, remains trimmed of a few seconds. When the local peasant girl is caught and murdered by Sir Hugo, there were more camera shots of the character using his dagger. This scene also remains censored.
The First Great Train Robbery, 1978...
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Sir Sean Connery spent several days running on top of a moving train. The train was supposed to be travelling at thirty-five miles per hour; Connery argued it was going faster. The train driver was counting telegraph poles to measure the speed. A helicopter pilot confirmed Connery's suspicion. The train was travelling at over fifty-five miles per hour.
The character of Clean Willy was played by one of Britain's premiere ballet dancers, Wayne Sleep, from The Royal Ballet Company. He did his own stunts, including scaling the Newgate prison walls, at the tremendous risk of falling and hurting himself.
Diamond Geezer series 1, 2005...
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All Of Me, 1984...
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Saboteur, 1942...
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The set used as the ranch house of Charles Tobin (Otto Kruger) was used as the home of the Brenners for another Alfred Hitchcock movie, The Birds (1963). It originally was a leftover set from a Deanna Durbin movie shot on the Universal backlot.
The special effects crew took stills of the Statue of Liberty's upraised hand, her torch, and the ledge beneath it. These were re-created to scale on a Universal Pictures soundstage.
Not a bad little film. :)Quote:
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2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968...
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an error was... Bowman inhales deeply before attempting to re-enter the ship from the pod. Arthur C Clarke in an interview later noted that this is incorrect. Bowman should have exhaled, as the vacuum of space would have damaged his lungs had they been full of air.
According to Douglas Trumbull(special effects), the total footage shot was some 200 times the final length of the film.
At the premiere screening, 241 people walked out of the theater, including Rock Hudson, who said, "Will someone tell me what the hell this is about?" Sir Arthur C Clarke once said, "If you understand '2001' completely, we failed. We wanted to raise far more questions than we answered." Clarke later expressed some concern that the film was too hard to follow, and explained things more fully in the novelization and subsequent sequels.
Stanley Kubrick calculated that it would take one person 13 years to hand draw and paint all the mattes needed to insert the assorted spacecraft into the starry backgrounds. Kubrick hired 12 other people, and did the job in one year.
Stagecoach, 1939. Directed by John Ford. Criterion Blu Ray reg A
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When Plummer's poker hand (aces and eights, the dead man's hand) is shown in close-up, the ace of spades shows that the deck is a Bee brand deck of cards, first produced in 1892 by the U.S. Playing Card Co. (Hence the "92" on the ace.) The movie takes place in approximately 1880, so these cards would not yet be available.
John Wayne's salary was considerably less than all of his co-stars, apart from John Carradine.
In 1939 no paved road ran through Monument Valley: this is why it hadn't been used as a movie location before Stagecoach. (There wasn't a paved road until the 1950s.) Harry Goulding, who ran a trading post there, had heard that John Ford was planning a big-budget Western. So he traveled to Hollywood armed with over 100 photographs of Monument Valley and threatened to camp out on Ford's doorstep until the director saw him and the photographs. Ford saw him almost immediately. He was instantly sold on the location, particularly when he realized that its remoteness would free him from studio interference.
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'Ad Astra' (2019)
Brad Pitt is an astronaut renowned for being calm under pressure. When electromagnetic shockwaves from space threaten life on earth he is ordered to travel to Mars and try to make contact with his estranged father who is on a spaceship somewhere out near Neptune, and who may have the solution to the problem.
Not sure what to make of this one. If you took '2001: A Space Odyssey', 'Apocalypse Now' and 'Gravity' and mixed them all up in a big bowl you might get something like this film. This is hard science fiction set in the near future, good production values and special effects, but I did find it quite difficult to watch. There's action and tension but at the same time it's all very detached. Do you really care if Pitt succeeds in his mission or ends up dying horribly? I wasn't sure.
The central theme is about emotional detachment so I suppose it isn't surprising that concept is baked-in to the film as a whole, but the result is that at the end it all feels a bit 'meh'.
Worth a watch but if you're anything like me you will need to make a conscious effort to stick with it to the conclusion.
I quite liked it, but as with most films made this century it failed miserably the "would you watch it again" test. I only saw it a few months ago but can't remember anything about it.Quote:
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I have this on the planner, which I may watch later:
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Because I like Michael Mann. He has a way with filming in cities that I find appealing. Hard to explain, but "Heat" has some good examples.
seen that one. its not bad. not great but not bad.Quote:
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Yes I think it fails my "would you watch it again" test too. On the other hand it's at least a film for adults and there was nothing in it that made me think 'This is crap', unlike with 'Ready Player One' which was objectionably shit in places.Quote:
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I keep meaning to watch 'Heat' again but it's so long you really have to plan ahead for it, like with Godfather I and II, and I'm crap at planning ahead.
I agree - your findings match mine. The only interesting idea for me was the presence of lunar bandits - which being as the film is set in the near future (towards the end of the 21st century), implies that any international treaty on the neutrality of the Moon was never established, or if it was was broken.Quote:
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I would watch it again if it was shown in a year or so's time. I wouldn't bother owning a DVD.
Jeremiah Johnson, 1972..
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After burying her murdered family, Crazy Woman begins singing "Shall We Gather at the River" and Jeremiah joins in. This song was written by Robert Lowry in 1864 and first published in 1865, long after the time of the mountain men.
Based upon a real-life trapper named John Johnston, nicknamed "Crow Killer" and "Liver Eater Johnston" for his penchant for cutting out and eating the livers of Crow Indians he had killed (several Crows had murdered his wife and he swore vengeance against the entire tribe).
Liver Eatin' Johnston's wife (who was pregnant at the time) was actually killed by a random raiding party of Crow, not as revenge for a violation of their burial grounds. She was killed in the spring while Johnston was off trapping and he didn't return to find her body until several months later. He identified the band that had killed her because he recognized a Tennessee rifle he had given her in the possession of a Crow warrior. Also, rather than isolated incidents as shown in the movie, Johnston often recruited other mountain men as well as Indians (particularly Flatheads) to help him with his vendetta. The part about the warriors sent to kill him and told not to return without his scalp was true.
great quotes.... Del Gue : [to Jeremiah] You turn down this gift, and they'll slit you, me, Caleb and the horses from crotch to eyeball with a dull deer antler!
Hunderby and the latest I can get of two doors down , brilliant
A New Leaf, 1971...
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The film was a critical success upon its initial release. However, despite several accolades, award nominations, and a Radio City Music Hall run, A New Leaf fared poorly at the box office and remains little known by the general public. It is now considered a cult classic. In 2019, the film was selected by the Library Of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registary for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Great Quotes:
Henrietta Lowell: Did you hurt yourself?
Henry Graham: No, kneeling on glass is my favorite pastime. It keeps me from slouching.
Henry Graham: [as Sally Hart starts to remove her bra...] No, don't let them out!
Henry Graham: The only difference between us is I am a man and you are a woman and we don't have to let that interfere if we are reasonably careful.
Avanti!, 1972....
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Produced and directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Jack Lemmon and Juliet Mills. The screenplay by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond is based on Samuel A. Taylor's play, which had a short run for the 1968 Broadway season. The film follows a businessman attempting to deliver the body of his father from Italy. It premiered on December 17, 1972. Lemmon won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. The film was nominated for five Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Best Director, Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical and Best Screenplay.
The Front Page, 1974...
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directed by Billy Wilder and starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. The screenplay by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is based on Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's 1928 play of the same name, which inspired several other films and televised movies and series episodes.
Plaza Suite, 1971...
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The Odd Couple, 1968...
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Walter Matthau, who played Oscar in both the original Broadway play and the movie, asked the play's author, Neil Simon, if he could play Felix instead. This was because Matthau thought Oscar's personality was too similar to his own and the role would be too easy; whereas playing the persnickety Felix would be a real acting challenge. Simon replied, "Walter, go and be an actor in somebody else's play. Please be Oscar in mine." Matthau finally agreed to it.
Charley Varrick, 1973....
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The film's working title was "The Last of the Independents". Director Don Siegel wanted this to be the final title of the movie but in the end it became a tagline on the movie's main poster. The phrase is also the motto of Walter Matthau's crop-dusting company in the film.
Walter Matthau's character makes love repeatedly to Felicia Farr's character. She was the wife of his longtime comedic partner, Jack Lemmon.
Blazing Saddles, 1974... simply the best.... pure genius
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Rooster Cogburn, 1975...
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Richard Jordan later admitted he decided to overplay his part because he thought the movie was going to flop, and if anybody paid to see it then it would only be for the two stars. He also said he felt that Katharine Hepburn was about to die at any minute - ironically, she outlived him by a decade.
Director Stuart Millar insisted on so many takes that eventually John Wayne snapped, "God damn it Stuart, there's only so many times we can say these awful lines before they stop making any sense at all." John Wayne found making the film to be very difficult, particularly since he had just finished a grueling shoot on Brannigan (1975) and recovered from pneumonia.
ROOSTER...Out here we value a spirited woman almost as much as we value a spirited horse...
MISS EULA... Almost as much?
ROOSTER... YUP, ALMOST AS MUCH; NOT QUITE BUT ALMOST!!! :D
Out of Africa (2 disc version)
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Rio Lobo, 1970....
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Directed and produced by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne.
During a break in filming, John Wayne collected his Best Actor Oscar for True Grit (1969) from Barbra Streisand at The 42nd Annual Academy Awards (1970). When he returned, every member of the cast was wearing an eye patch, including his horse.
earlier... Hopscotch, 1980.
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Dances With Wolves, 1990... extended version(which Costner hade no part in the making. His cut was 3 hrs; this is nearer 4)
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Kevin Costner's daughter Annie Costner, playing Stands With A Fist as a child, is seen running away from the Pawnee party that killed her family in the dream sequence. She looks back over each shoulder as she runs because Costner told her to look over her right shoulder and she didn't know her right from her left - she was only 6 years old at the time.
Kevin Costner's spreading out of his arms while doing his suicide run at the start of the film was a completely spontaneous gesture that took his stunt coordinator by surprise.
The major studios wouldn't provide the proper funding. They took issue with the script's length and the amount of subtitles - the latter something that Kevin Costner and crew would not budge on - on top of the film being a western. The film ran over budget, forcing Kevin Costner to make up the overages personally. That caused rumors that the film would be another out-of-control, disappointing western like Heaven's Gate (1980). In fact, some studio people were referring to it as "Kevin's Gate", a mock title that was later given to Waterworld (1995). It went on to win the first Best Picture Oscar for a western since Cimarron (1931), almost 60 years before it. Costner realized upwards of $40 million in profit after the film made over $400m.
Another classic western now with 'McCabe And Mrs Miller, 1971... Criterion BluRay Reg A..
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For a distinctive look, Robert Altman and Vilmos Zsigmond chose to "flash" (pre-fog) the film negative before its eventual exposure, as well as use a number of filters on the cameras, rather than manipulate the film in post-production; in this way the studio could not force him to change the film's look to something less distinctive. However, this was not done for the final 20 minutes of the picture, as Altman wanted the danger to McCabe to be as realistic as possible. Note the change when McCabe wakes up, grabs a shotgun, and starts off to the church.
At the beginning of the film, there is a shot of McCabe lighting a cigar before crossing the bridge. According to Robert Altman, Stanley Kubrick loved that shot and called him up asking him: "How did you know you had it?"
During post-production on this film, Robert Altman was having a difficult time finding a proper musical score, until he attended a party where the album "Songs of Leonard Cohen" was playing and noticed that several songs from the album seemed to fit in with the overall mood and themes of the movie. Cohen, who had been a fan of Altman's previous film, Brewster McCloud (1970), allowed him to use three songs from the album - "The Stranger Song", "Sisters of Mercy" and "Winter Lady" - although Altman was dismayed when Cohen later admitted that he didn't like the movie. A year later, Altman received a phone call from Cohen, who told him that he changed his mind after re-watching the movie with an audience and now loved it.
Both good films; though I'm not sure I could sit through a near four hour long film. Costner's version is good enough for me.
one of the few 'long' films ive not noticed the time going by and never wanted it to end really.Quote:
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heaven's gate which i also love, isnt as long but seems longer.. pacing and story is all i guess
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, 1970... Eureka BluRay...
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By the time of filming, Sir Christopher Lee had become famous as Count Dracula. When he and Billy Wilder walked on the shores of Loch Ness at dusk, with bats circling overhead, Wilder said to him, "You must feel quite at home here."
In the scene with the Russian ballerinas, Billy Wilder's advice to Colin Blakely was that he should "dance like Nureyev and act like Laughton". After the first take, Wilder was heard to say, "Wonderful, Colin - but why did you dance like Laughton and act like Nureyev?".
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'Holy Man' (1998)
Jeff Goldblum has to turn around a failing shopping channel and get off with Kelly Preston even though she's a lot younger than he is and doesn't like him. When he runs into mysterious guru Eddie Murphy he thinks he has the solution to his problems but needless to say....zzzzzzzzzz
This is just a terrible film. And I know what you're thinking - Jeff Goldblum is always good and Eddie Murphy can be very good - but even they cannot save this picture from stinking like the Mersey at low tide. Goldblum's character isn't likeable so you don't care if he saves the company or gets to shag Kelly Preston, and there's zero laughs and no suspense.
The only good thing in it is Robert Loggia, playing the owner of the network exactly the same way as he plays Feech LaManna in 'The Sopranos', but he's only in a couple of short scenes.
I couldn't make it all the way to the end but I figured out what would happen and checked on Wikipedia and I was right. Lame. Avoid.
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I know they're s**t but I like 'em
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Me, Myself and Irene, 2000.....
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The soundtrack is almost exclusively covers of Steely Dan songs recorded specifically for this movie.
The scene where Charlie throws himself out of the car was done in only one take.
The glasses that Michael Bowman (Whitey) wears are his real-life glasses, including the little microscope on the end.
The scene where Renée Zellweger kicks Jim Carrey over the railing and down the hill was done by Jim Carrey (instead of a stunt double) after many pleadings. He did a few takes, but they used the first one. A mattress was used for him to pop back into frame.
Poirot, series 3....1989..
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Star Trek: First Contact, 1996..
This is actually streamed off my Apple library onto tv via my Amazon 4k box..
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Directed by Jonathan Frakes.
Due to budgetary restrictions, the crew of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) was never quite satisfied with the Borg sets and costumes as used during the series. However, the significantly bigger budget for this film finally allowed them to design the Borg in a way that was much closer to what they had intended. As a result, the suits and sets were reused extensively on Star Trek: Voyager
Although his name is never given in this film, according to "Star Trek" canon, the Vulcan who salutes Zefram Cochrane is named Solkar. As mentioned in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), Solkar is the father of Sarek, and subsequently the grandfather of Spock.
Switch, 1991.... Ellen Barkin stars..
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The Devil (played by Bruce Payne) makes a total of six appearances in this movie. Aside from his two speaking roles (when Steve is sent back to earth, and when he visits Amanda at 3:00 in the morning), he also makes four sneak appearances: Once as a patron at the City Grille's bar when Amanda meets Walter for lunch, once as a piano player at Sheila's party, once as a piano player (in drag) at the lesbian club, and finally as a televangelist on TV when Margo hides the murder weapon in Amanda's couch. In a directors cut, he makes another speaking role in an elevator scene.
Paint Your Wagon, 1969...
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Lee Marvin drank real alcohol throughout the production, even though director Joshua Logan fought him about it. In most movies, the actors and actresses drink tea for whiskey and water for vodka. Marvin would only work if he got real liquor. He
was apparently drunk nearly every day of filming.
Never heard of it let alone seen it but it looks diabolically bad.Quote:
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Jimmy Smits made his name on 'L.A Law', he also played Krusty The Clown in the film about Krusty's battle with Percodan addiction.
its a marmite film... either you connect with it or not i think.. interestingly it has 2 soundtracks. the one in film which is a pop mix or the original mancini one which ended up being dropped. they also dropped a largish lesbian scene as not being appropriate oddly..Quote:
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i like it. it was an unofficial remake of Vincente Minnelli's Goodbye, Charlie (1964), which starred Tony Curtis and Debbie Reynolds.
this is another marmite film.. i think you need to be of a certain age tho to be prepared to watch it. lol... imo its a superb comedy.Quote:
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quotes..
Horton: Well, since this afternoon. I know you don't approve, Pop, but believe me, until you've had a good cigar and a shot of whiskey, you're missing the second and third best things in life.
Mrs. Fenty: You should read the Bible, Mr. Rumson.
Ben Rumson: I have read the Bible, Mrs. Fenty.
Mrs. Fenty: Didn't that discourage you about drinking?
Ben Rumson: No, but it sure killed my appetite for readin'!
Raging Bull, 1980... With this stunningly visceral portrait of self-destructive machismo, Martin Scorsese created one of the truly great and visionary works of modern cinema. Robert De Niro pours his blood, sweat, and brute physicality into the Oscar-winning role of Jake La Motta. Criterion 4k and bluray on reg a discs.. this is the bluray as i cant access the 4k player currently.
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When the real Jake LaMotta saw the movie, he said it made him realize for the first time what a terrible person he had been. He asked the real Vicki LaMotta "Was I really like that?". Vicki replied "You were worse."
In 1978, Martin Scorsese was at an all-time low after his last movie New York, New York (1977) had bombed at the box office, followed by a near-overdose resulting from an addiction to cocaine. Robert De Niro visited him at the hospital, and told him that he had to clean himself up and make this movie about a boxer. De Niro had asked Scorsese many times before, but he had always refused (he didn't like sports movies anyway), but due to De Niro's persistence, he eventually gave in. Scorsese believed that his American career was over anyway, so he wanted to do one final film there, and then move to Europe to make smaller movies. Many (including Scorsese) claim that De Niro saved Scorsese's life by getting him back into work, and that this movie cemented Scorsese's reputation as one of the most important American filmmakers.
In preparation for his role, Robert De Niro went through extensive physical training, then entered in three genuine Brooklyn boxing matches and won two of them.
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Breakdown (1997)
Kurt Russell drives from Boston to San Diego along with his wife, hoping to make a fresh start on the West Coast. When he nearly crashed into a hillbilly truck things start to go wrong.
The 90s was the decade of the throwaway thriller and this is an above-average example. Good pacing and you don't know what direction it's going to go in.
Not a classic, but well worth a watch.
Binge watching this whilst recovering from a quite uncomfortable hospital procedure yesterday, got to the middle of season 2 and it’s still holding my attention.
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