Good fun film, I may have the DVD I think.Quote:
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Good fun film, I may have the DVD I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Sherlock Holmes, 2009,,
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yes it and im all right jack are very good filmsQuote:
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Death on the Nile, 2022..
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Salome Otterbourne is clearly based on real-life Sister Rosetta Tharpe (who just might have invented rock and roll). Five songs in the film are performed by Tharpe, and a sixth Tharpe song is performed by others.
Shot entirely on large format 65mm film. Sir Kenneth Branagh's previous turn as Hercule Poirot in Murder on the Orient Express (2017) was also shot in this format as well as his adaptation of Hamlet (1996).
I hadn't heard of 65mm film format, though I have heard of 70mm.
(Just looked it up, 65mm film stock is used in the camera, which is then printed onto 70mm wide film for projection. You learn something every day. :) )
Peggy Sue Got Married, 1986...
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The opening shot of the film is an optical illusion. Because the camera and crew would have been seen in the reflection of the mirror had the scene been shot in a conventional manner, there is a body double for Kathleen Turner (only she can be seen from behind in the shot) on the other side of the "mirror," doing the exact opposite of the star's movements, giving the illusion that Turner and Helen Hunt are reflections, when in fact they are the real actors in tableau with a body double sitting in front of them with her back to the camera in front of an empty mirror frame, framing a hole in the wall of the set.
When Peggy Sue's friends take her home after she faints at the blood drive, the car radio plays "Tequila." The radio station is KFRC San Francisco, which altered its live programming for the movie.
Helen Hunt, who plays Peggy Sue and Charlie's daughter, is nine years younger than her mother (Kathleen Turner) and a year older than her father (Nicolas Cage).
excellently made film and good fun t'boot..
now,made 3 vyears on ... Harlem Nights, 1989...
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Eddie Murphy once said that the jokes and camaraderie between him, Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, Robin Harris, and Della Reese behind the scenes were much funnier than anything that was in the film. The vulgar, yet playful arguments between Redd Foxx and Della Reese on the set inspired Eddie Murphy to create a series starring the two. The result was The Royal Family (1991), which was Foxx's final project before his death.
The story of Irish mobster Bugsy Calhoune trying to take over Sugar Ray's night club in order to control black Harlem is loosely inspired by the real-life feud between Jewish gangster Dutch Schultz and black gangster Bumpy Johnson over control of Harlem's lucrative "numbers" gambling rackets in the mid 1930s.
Breakfast at Tiffany's
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Classic movie. if not really one for me. Mrs. likes it! :)Quote:
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Jeremiah Johnson, 1972...Directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford as the title character and Will Geer as "Bear Claw"
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Mountains of the Moon, 1990..
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the 1857–1858 journey of Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke in their expedition to Central Africa, which culminated in Speke's discovery of the source of the Nile River and led to a bitter rivalry between the two men.
Never heard of that one Grant.Quote:
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exhillerating but eventually quite sad film.
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The Gathering Storm, 2002... https://www.cuckfieldconnections.org...sits-cuckfield
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Ralph Wigram, C.M.G. (the Foreign Office secretary who provided information on clandestine German rearmament) was one of four leading individuals amongst a group of around twenty who assisted Sir Winston Churchill in this manner. It is agreed that he provided this information with the tacit consent of his supervisor, Robert Vansittart, who was also alarmed by the rearmament. While this movie seems to indicate that Wigram's efforts were illegal, Churchill was a Member of Parliament and Privy Counselor, which would grant him access to such information. Wigram had been thwarted by the Baldwin regime and he took things as far as holding a press conference in 1936, but this garnered little attention. This sharing of secret documents with Churchill began in late 1934 and lasted for two years, when he apparently committed suicide in December 1936. Wigram's wife Ava made several trips to Germany before the outbreak of the war and shared her observations in her correspondence with Churchill. In 1941, nearly five years after Robert's death, Ava married Sir John Anderson, a member of the War Cabinet who became Chancellor of the Exchequer. She died in 1974 at the age of eighty-seven. As for his temperament and character, Wigram's secretary referred to him as "the authentic local deity" and "the departmental volcano". He was also described by others as having a visionary understanding of what was secretly unfolding in Germany. In Churchill's multi-volume history of World War II, he referred to Wigram as one of the great unsung heroes.
I think I might have seen that film, but I can't be certain. It is certainly something that would interest me, with my interest in foreign travel.Quote:
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certainly worth seeking out barry... quality film and fairly trueQuote:
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It's a good film - but then anything with Albert Finney in it is worth watching.Quote:
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another of Albie's... Murder on the Orient Express, 1974...
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During promotion and publicity junkets, many of the stars admitted, independently of one another, that their chief reason for appearing in this movie was the chance to meet and work with the other cast members. In her memoir, Lauren Bacall recalled that the lure for most of the cast was getting to act on-screen with "Albie" Finney.
The final scene, in which Poirot relates his solution to the crime, had to be shot countless times, as it required more angles than could be captured in a single take, and more cameras than could fit on the confining dining car set. The multiple takes were especially challenging for Albert Finney, whose uninterrupted monologue was eight pages long, but many cast members later recalled the tedium of sitting motionless for so long, maintaining their physical posturing for continuity, bolstered only by their professional drive to provide support for Finney's tour de force.
Commando, 1985...
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According to Alyssa Milano, Arnold Schwarzenegger was very protective of her on set. "He even helped with my algebra homework."
Arnold Schwarzenegger performed many of his own stunts, as producers found it difficult to find a stunt double for the bodybuilder. The actor suffered a dislocated shoulder and several stitches during the shoot.
There are 54 stunt performers listed in the credits, 17 more people than the actual cast.
Arnold Schwarzenegger can bench press over 450 pounds, but they made the phone booth out of balsa wood anyway.
Martial arts expert and fight choreographer Michael M. Vendrell worked with Arnold Schwarzenegger on the film, and, by the end of production, Vendrell estimated that Schwarzenegger had become a second degree black belt.
Arius (Dan Hedaya) is said to be a deposed dictator from the country of Val Verde. Val Verde was a fictionalized South/Central American country used by Hollywood from the 1980s to early 1990s to depict a Spanish speaking country similar to Cuba or Nicaragua without encountering diplomatic problems. It is also referenced in the films Predator (1987), Die Hard 2 (1990), and the made for TV movie Supercarrier: Deadly Enemies (Pilot) (1988). Even with blanks in his gun, Dan Hedaya was afraid to shoot.
Doc Hollywood, 1991...
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The car driven cross-country is a 1956 Porsche 356 Speedster. These are currently valued at a quarter of a million dollars now..
At one point Hank Gordon says, "I don't trust a man who doesn't eat meat." In real life, Woody Harrelson is a vegan. (I never did trust him)
Julie Warner's only nude scene in her career. Asked at the time how she felt doing it, she said, "Cold! Humiliation aside, and I'm not an exhibitionist, the hardest thing about it was that I was freezing," she explains. "Lou represents earthiness, and it wouldn't have been right for her to be in a Speedo."
In his autobiography, Lucky Man, Michael J. Fox tells of how he woke up one morning during production with a barely noticeable tapping in one finger. He'd had a big night drinking with Woody Harrelson and thought he may have injured it during some roughhousing he only partly remembered, but instead it would be diagnosed as the first presentation of his Parkinson's Disease.
Joe Versus the Volcano, 1990...
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The cab seen taking Joe's steamer trunks to the sailboat belongs to Neil Abercrombie, who at the time was a Congressman from Hawaii. Abercrombie drives a refurbished plantation-era taxi. The graphic on the side of cab is Abercrombie, a small nod to the residents of Hawaii, where some of the movie was filmed.
The only major issue that executive producer Steven Spielberg took with the production, was with the long unbroken take of Joe leaving Dr. Ellison's office building. The issue was that John Patrick Shanley did not shoot any coverage of the scene besides the one shot. Spielberg sent Shanley back to the location to film additional angles, which were promptly discarded in favor of the one-shot take.(even Spielberg gets it wrong sometimes)
just finished, the classic ... Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, 2003...
fab film.
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On Film 4 earlier this afternoon:
'Addams Family Values'
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Back to the Future Part III, 1990..
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Cheyenne Autumn (1964) ...
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Little Wolf was a chief of the Cheyenne tribe in 1878. He and another chief led the Cheyenne off their Oklahoma reservation and took them back to their homeland in Montana, despite hundreds of US cavalry troops trying to stop them. This was called the "Cheyenne Autumn Trail" and is the basis for this film.
The "Cheyenne" in the film are actually Navajo, and they are speaking in the Navajo language (mostly telling each other dirty jokes).
The striped neckerchiefs shown are historically correct. Cavalry colors are yellow, artillery are red, infantry are light blue, medical corps are burgundy.
Dad's Army, 1971... tv movie..
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Dial M for Murder, 1954...
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John Williams won the 1953 Tony Award (Broadway) for Best Featured Actor in a Play for "Dial M for Murder" as Inspector Hubbard. He re-created the role in this movie.
Warner Bros. insisted on shooting the movie in 3-D, although the craze was fading and Sir Alfred Hitchcock was sure the movie would be released flat. Hitchcock wanted the first shot to be that of a close-up of a finger dialing the letter M on a rotary dial telephone, but the 3-D camera would not be able to focus such a close-up correctly. Hitchcock ordered a giant finger made from wood with a proportionally large dial built in order to achieve the effect.
how anyone could plan to kill gracie:doh: funny but he always gets foiled at the end:ner:
Big Fish, 2003....
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Ewan McGregor was cast as Young Ed Bloom when producers noticed the striking similarity between him and pictures of a young Albert Finney, who plays Senior Ed Bloom.
Murder at the Gallop, 1963..
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Like Murder Most Foul (1964), this movie was adapted from an Hercule Poirot novel ( "After the Funeral"), not a Miss Jane Marple novel.
Murder Most Foul, 1964..
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Like Murder at the Gallop (1963), this movie was adapted from an Hercule Poirot novel, the 1952 book "Mrs. McGinty's Dead".
Miss Jane Marple's audition piece for the Cosgood Players is her dramatic rendering of "The Shooting of Dan McGrew", a 1907 poem by Robert W. Service. Dame Margaret Rutherford was especially fond of the piece and reportedly once intended to give a reading of it at a women's prison to cheer up the inmates. :D
Murder She Said, 1961...
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The name of the manor house where Miss Jane Marple conducts her inquiries is called Rutherford Hall in Dame Agatha Christie's novel. This was changed to Ackenthorpe in this movie to avoid comparison with the surname of Dame Margaret Rutherford (Miss Jane Marple)
The character of Miss Jane Marple's librarian friend, Jim Stringer, was not part of the original story (and never featured in any of the Christie books). The part was written for Stringer Davis, who was married to Dame Margaret Rutherford.
Murder Ahoy!, 1964...
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Dame Margaret Rutherford undertook a month of fencing practice for this movie's denouement.
The screenplay was not based on any published Dame Agatha Christie story. It did, however, borrow a few obscure plot details from "They Do It With Mirrors", and there is a delightful moment when Miss Jane Marple pays homage to Christie's long-running play, "The Mousetrap".
My Favorite Spy, 1951...
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The only one of Hope's three "My Favorite" movies not to feature a cameo from Bing Crosby. Though Hope does make reference to Crosby when he holds up a skull and says "you remind me of someone I know who used to sing."
Young Frankenstein, 1974..
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Gene Hackman learned about the film through his frequent tennis partner Gene Wilder and requested a role, because he wanted to try comedy. He volunteered to play the Blind Hermit for free. It was four days of shooting for about four minutes of running time.
Gene Hackman ad-libbed The Blind Man's parting line "I was gonna make espresso." The scene immediately fades to black because the crew erupted into fits of laughter. Hackman was unable to repeat the line without laughing with the rest of the crew, so the first take was used. Hackman was uncredited when the movie was originally released in theaters.
In 1974 Aerosmith took a break from a long night of recording to see this film. Steven Tyler wrote the band's hit "Walk This Way" the morning after seeing the movie, inspired by Marty Feldman's first scene, the "walk this way . . . this way" scene.
Watched a few Coen bros films over the past week, they are exceptional, Blood simple, Raising Arizona, A serious man, Millers crossing, Fargo, with Blood simple and Fargo being the stand out films for me anyway, with that beautiful actress Francis Mcdormand.
The Paleface, 1948...
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The Smallest Show on Earth, 1957...
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Comin' Thro' the Rye (1923) was not filmed just for this movie, but was an actual silent classic directed by Cecil M. Hepworth.
The scenes of Comin' Thro' the Rye (1923) with Dame Margaret Rutherford at the piano show Alma Taylor and Shayle Gardner. The movie was directed by Hepworth, Cecil and still exists.
The movies shown at the Bijou (all fictional and presumably filmed just for this movie) are: Killer Riders of Wyoming, The Mystery of Hell Valley, Devil Riders of Parched Point.
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Public Enemies (2009)....
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While filming on location in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, a boy, aged eleven, told Johnny Depp he loved his Fedora hat, and would like to have one like it. Depp told the boy he would see what he could do about that. After filming finished, Depp sent the boy the hat in the mail.
For John Dillinger's famous escape from Crown Point Jail, the film makers decided to film at the real jail, which had been closed and turned into a historical museum when the new jail opened in the 70s. They dressed the jail and store fronts on the square to its original condition, as it would've appeared in 1933. They also filmed the Little Bohemia shoot-out at the real lodge. Johnny Depp was staying in the same room the real Dillinger stayed in.
enough music for now.... The Producers (1967)...
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Roger Ebert recounted how he was in an elevator with Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft in New York City after the film premiered. A woman got onto the elevator, recognized him and said, "I have to tell you, Mr. Brooks, that your movie is vulgar." Brooks replied, "Lady", he said, "it rose below vulgarity."
Mel Brooks cannot read music. "Springtime for Hitler" and "Prisoners of Love" (as were all the songs Brooks writes for his films) were hummed into a tape recorder and transcribed by an expert. When Brooks adapted the movie into a stage musical, he wrote the entire score by himself using the same method.
Mel Brooks has said that one of his "lifelong jobs" is "to make the world laugh at Adolf Hitler." The film was a way to enact vengeance through comedy. "The only real way I could get even with Hitler and company was to bring them down with laughter", Brooks said.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day, 1991..
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For the Los Angeles River sequence, Arnold Schwarzenegger was in pain because he could not wear a glove while cocking the gun, so his fingers would get stuck in the mechanism. He tore the skin from his fingers and hand many times before he mastered it, and he frequently hit Edward Furlong with the gun while doing it, one time almost knocking the young actor out. He had to achieve all this while trying to act and control a Harley at the same time as James Cameron told him where to look. He could not dart his eyes either because it would have ruined the shot. Shooting the gates also took weeks of practice because he had to also "act cool" while doing it.
Sullivan's Travels (1941)...
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Preston Sturges had originally intended to use a clip from a Charles Chaplin film for the church sequence, but Chaplin wouldn't give permission. In an earlier scene, Joel McCrea does parody the Little Tramp character. The cartoon eventually used was Walt Disney's 1934 Mickey Mouse Cartoon "Playful Pluto (1934)".
Reportedly, Preston Sturges got the idea for the movie from stories of John Garfield living the hobo life, riding freight trains and hitchhiking his way cross-country for a short period in the 1930s.