Son of Paleface, 1952... Bob Hope, Jane Russell and Roy Rogers plus Trigger...
has to be good:D
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well that was a strange but excellent experience... impressed and needs rewatching a few times i think..
NOW ... Silver Streak, 1976..
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Waterloo Road, 1945...Directed by Sidney Gilliat and starring John Mills, Stewart Granger, and Alastair Sim.
It is the third in an "unofficial war trilogy" by Gilliat, preceded by Millions Like Us (1943) and Two Thousand Women (1944).
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Set in 40/41, this film is about soldier, Jim Colter (Mills), who goes AWOL to return to his home in south London to save his wife from the advances of Ted Purvis (Granger), a philandering conscription-dodger.
The Apartment (1960)
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For this film, Billy Wilder became the first person to win the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay.
Jack Lemmon said he learned much about filmmaking from Billy Wilder, particularly the director's use of "hooks," bits of business the audience remembers long after they've forgotten other aspects of the movie. One such hook was the passing of the key to Baxter's apartment. Lemmon said for years after the picture's release, people would come up to him and say, "Hey, Jack, can I have the key?"
earlier--- A New Leaf...
now.... Casablanca (1942)
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The film had six quotes on the American Film Institute's list of top movie quotes, more than any other movie on the list. The quotes with their ranks are: (5) Here's looking at you, kid. (20) Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. (28) Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.' (32) Round up the usual suspects. (43) We'll always have Paris; and (67) Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
Gone with the Wind (1939) and The Wizard of Oz (1939) came in tied for second place, with three quotes apiece (including the #1 quote for Gone With the Wind).
Ingrid Bergman's contract was owned by producer David O. Selznick, and producer Hal B. Wallis sent the film's writers, Philip G. Epstein and Julius J. Epstein, to persuade Selznick to loan her to Warner Bros. for the picture. After 20 minutes of describing the plot to Selznick, Julius gave up and said, "Oh, what the hell! It's a lot of shit like Algiers (1938)!" Selznick nodded and agreed to the loan. O. Selznick, had also heard rumors that Sweden might become an ally of Germany, he was afraid that her career might be in danger because she was Swedish. It was likely he decided to loan her out and make some money before her image might get tainted.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
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The iconic five-note melody was a chance arrangement that both composer John Williams and director Steven Spielberg happened to like out of hundreds of different permutations. The tone was later used in Moonraker (1979) and again in the cue line in Star Tours (1987).
Richard Dreyfuss had become quite interested in the ideas behind Close Encounters of the Third Kind when he heard Steven Spielberg talking about them on the set of Jaws (1975). When Dreyfuss heard that casting for the film was underway, he made a concerted effort to persuade Spielberg to take him on.
Steven Spielberg ran a few tests of computer generated imagery (CGI), now the industry standard, but then in its very first stages of development. He decided none of it looked believable.
The Arrival (1996)
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The signal detected is similar to the The Wow! signal, a strong narrowband radio signal received on August 15, 1977, by Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope. Though that was 72 seconds instead of 42.
Even though this movie failed at the domestic box office (partially because the highly advertised Independence Day (1996) would come out one month later), it fared much better abroad, where Charlie Sheen still enjoyed quite some popularity. A direct-to-video sequel called The Second Arrival (1998) was released in 1998, directed by Kevin Tenney, starring Patrick Muldoon as the brother of Sheen's character in this movie. David Twohy, director and writer of the first Arrival, was given no credit for the sequel.
third si-fi in row with Cowboys & Aliens, ...2011...
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good cast and a decent watch..and Olivia Wilde is in it:)
Hotel Transylvania, 2012...
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great fun for young and old:D
Four Weddings and a Funeral, 1994...
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Inspiration for this movie came when co-executive producer and writer Richard Curtis was flipping through some old diaries and realized that he had been to seventy-two weddings in ten years.
For several years after its release, this movie was the highest-grossing British movie in history, with worldwide box office in excess of $260 million.
Backstories were given in a deleted scene. Charles (Hugh Grant), Matthew (John Hannah), and Fiona (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas) were at university together, and Gareth (Simon Callow) was a lecturer. Scarlett (Charlotte Coleman) was found under Charles' kitchen table after a party and has lived there ever since.
The Ipcress File (1965)
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Harry Palmer is depicted as an accomplished cook, but when you see Palmer skillfully break a couple of eggs, the hands in the close-up belong to Len Deighton, author of the book on which this movie was based. Deighton was an accomplished cook and also wrote a comic strip about cooking for The Observer. The walls of Palmer's kitchen are full of these strips.
Palmer is the first action hero to wear glasses. (Sir Michael Caine is near-sighted in real life.) Caine chose to wear glasses because he expected this movie to be the first of a franchise, similar to the Bond movies. He feared being over-identified with the character of Harry Palmer, and so he wore the glasses so that he could remove them for other roles.
This film has a 100% rating based on 30 critic reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.
Excellent film! Far closer to the workings of MI5/6 than the fanciful Bond franchise. The first of the Harry Palmer trilogy, and IMO the best.
Murder, My Sweet (1944)
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Audiences initially stayed away, thinking that "Farewell, My Lovely", its original title, was yet another Dick Powell musical. After the studio changed the title to "Murder, My Sweet", box-office receipts picked up considerably.
In a 1946 "Saturday Evening Post" article, Dick Powell wrote that the film was the result of his ten-year effort to escape musicals. Powell said that when he asked Charles Koerner for a "solid tough guy" character to portray, Koerner offered him the role of Philip Marlowe.
It was hard to get Mike Mazurki to tower over Dick Powell, because the former singer stood 6'2", with Mazurki--a former pro wrestler--only slightly taller at 6' 4-1/2". For many scenes, Powell had to stand in a trench.
over to bluray now and a recent buy... Memoirs of an Invisible Man, 1992..
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Carpenter called Chevy Chase "a director's worst nightmare" and "nearly impossible to direct", also saying the same about Daryl Hannah. According to Carpenter, Chase would complain non-stop about the film's tone and hated wearing the special effects, often prematurely removing his makeup and ruining hours of filming. At one point, Carpenter broke a clipboard in half over his knee in a fit of rage when Chase removed his makeup mid-take. Carpenter said that Chase and Hannah were "immune to any punishment from the studio, and they knew it, so they walked over me and everyone else on set and essentially told us we'd be replaced if we had any problem with them...it was like working with your boss's snooty children who would tattle on you if you didn't bend to their every will." Despite this, Carpenter ended up bonding and seeking comfort in Sam Neill over the troubling production and the two became close friends, with Neill agreeing to work with Carpenter again on In the Mouth of Madness (1994).
Shooter (2007), 4k bluray..
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The large caliber rifle that Swagger owns, with which he is framed, is a Cheyenne Tactical M200 Intervention. It fires a .408 caliber projectile accurately out to and beyond two thousand meters. The CheyTac M200 is also available with a Long Range Rifle System, which consists of a laser range finder, magnifying scope with night vision capability, and a weather-sensing module, all of which interface with a PDA running ballistics calculation software.
Forrest Gump (1994)
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Prior to filming, Paramount Pictures had cut the original budget by about $10 million, and were trying to force director Robert Zemeckis to cut out scenes they felt were unnecessary, like the shrimp boat or the Vietnam scenes. Zemeckis fought the studio hard to keep those scenes, and Paramount executive Michelle Manning was even sent to the set to supervise filming, and make sure the movie stayed within budget. Zemeckis eventually gave up part of his and Tom Hanks' salary to keep most of the scenes, and eventually agreed to cut out Forrest's running sequence. However, Zemeckis then simply ignored the studio's wishes, even receiving support from Manning. The running scenes were shot in secrecy without the studio's knowledge, and Tom Hanks' younger brother, Jim Hanks, doubled for him in many of them. According to Jim, "Tom had other doubles but they couldn't do the run", referring to Forrest's geeky stiff stride "that's a stupid Hanks thing." The studio eventually found out, but when they saw the raw footage, they relented. Only the scene at Monument Valley was still missing because the money had run out, and since the studio refused to pay for it, Hanks and Zemeckis did it themselves.
Produced on a budget of $55 million, Forrest Gump opened in 1,595 theaters in the United States and Canada grossing $24,450,602 in its opening weekend. Motion picture business consultant and screenwriter Jeffrey Hilton suggested to producer Wendy Finerman to double the P&A (film marketing budget) based on his viewing of an early print of the film. The budget was immediately increased, in line with his advice. In its opening weekend, the film placed first at the US box office, narrowly beating The Lion King, which was in its fourth week of release. For the first twelve weeks of release, the film was in the top 3 at the US box office, topping the list 5 times, including in its tenth week of release. After reissues, the film has gross receipts of $330,252,182 in the U.S. and Canada and $347,693,217 in international markets for a total of $677,945,399 worldwide. Even with such revenue, the film was known as a "successful failure"—due to distributors' and exhibitors' high fees, Paramount's "losses" clocked in at $62 million, leaving executives realizing the necessity of better deals.[62] This has also been associated with Hollywood accounting, where expenses are inflated in order to minimize profit sharing.[63] It is Robert Zemeckis' highest-grossing film to date.
Forrest Gump won Best Picture, Best Actor in a Leading Role (Hanks had won the previous year for Philadelphia), Best Director, Best Visual Effects, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Film Editing at the 67th Academy Awards. The film was nominated for seven Golden Globe Awards, winning three of them: Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama, Best Director – Motion Picture, and Best Motion Picture – Drama. The film was also nominated for six Saturn Awards and won two for Best Fantasy Film and Best Supporting Actor (Film).
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
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Director of Photography Arthur Edeson, who had a background that included Universal's monster films, used low-key lighting and arresting angles to emphasize the nature of the characters and their actions, such as the scene where Gutman explains the history of the Falcon to Spade, drawing out his story so that the knockout drops in Spade's drink will take effect.[14] Roger Ebert describes this scene as "an astonishing unbroken seven-minute take",[10] and script supervisor Meta Wilde remarked of this scene:
It was an incredible camera setup. We rehearsed two days. The camera followed Greenstreet and Bogart from one room into another, then down a long hallway and finally into a living room; there the camera moved up and down in what is referred to as a boom-up and boom-down shot, then panned from left to right and back to Bogart's drunken face; the next pan shot was to Greenstreet's massive stomach from Bogart's point of view.… One miss and we had to begin all over again.
Small Time Crooks (2000)
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On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 66% based on reviews from 100 critics, with an average rating of 6.3/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Woody Allen rises from his recent slump with Small Time Crooks. A simple, funny movie, Crooks proves Allen still has the touch that made his name synonymous with off-beat comedy." On Metacritic the film has an average score of 69 out of 100, based on reviews from 32 critics, indicating "generally positive reviews". Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade "B" on scale of A to F.
Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote: "In this sweet, funny wisp of a movie, Mr. Allen shucks off his fabled angst and returns in spirit to those wide-eyed days of yesteryear, before Chekhov, Kafka and Ingmar Bergman invaded his creative imagination." Todd McCarthy of Variety magazine called it a "Breezy, enjoyable romp gratifyingly zigzags in directions that aren't apparent at the outset and features some intriguingly personal subtext for longtime Woody watchers." Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave it 3 out of 4, and wrote: "Dumb as they (allegedly) are, the characters in Small Time Crooks are smarter, edgier and more original than the dreary crowd in so many new comedies."
Planet of the Apes - 1968,started watching last night, will finish tonight. Dreadful to think that the ending may actually prove prescient in my lifetime.
new in.. bluray edition of..
To Have and Have Not (1944)
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loosely based on Ernest Hemingway's 1937 novel of the same name by Howard Hawks.
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"You know how to whistle don't you Harry? You just put your lips together - and blow."
Probably my favourite Bogart film - but they are all good.
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'Clarkson's Farm'
Some youth at work told me how to get Prime on my telly and it didn't seem too complicated so I tried it and it actually worked.
The king of TV presenters tries running his own farm with predictably hilarious results.
Probably the only thing worth watching on Prime aside from the odd Liverpool match, and given their recent form I'm having my doubts about that too.
The characters surrounding him make it worth watching - his accountant (the voice of doom), Caleb, who's never been more than a few miles from home, knows nowt about the outside world and is all the better for it, and his dad, who seems to have his own language :)Quote:
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The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) Bluray..
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A great pairing this... plus Chris Lee and Genevieve Page too...
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He is totally impenetrable. I did four years in telesales and I got pretty good at deciphering super-strength regional accents, even Northern Ireland, but his is like nothing I have ever experienced.
its all dutch to me:D .. ive never seen it by way... i used to work in ireland so got pretty good at language, and was good at speaking n irish lol could fool nativesQuote:
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Murder on the Orient Express (2017), 4K Bluray..
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Even first class passengers on the Orient Express - at the time of the publication of the novel - did not have private bathrooms. The passengers shared toilets and did without showers or baths.
"The Simplon" (as in the Simplon Orient Express) is in reference to the twelve-mile Simplon Tunnel linking Switzerland and Italy, which removed a half day's travel time between Paris and Istanbul by way of Venice.
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'The Martian' (2015)
Got tired of people asking me if I'd seen this so I got round to giving it a go.
Matt Damon is an astronaut who gets left behind on Mars when his colleagues think he has been killed in a storm.
Another disappointing modern film. You never get properly involved in it, since a few upsets aside you sort of know he is going to be okay and somehow get home. About the closest film I can think of is 'Apollo 13', which unlike this, is a true story. And unlike this has much better characterisation and tension - even though you know the outcome already.
There seems to have been something lost in script-writing ability in the intervening 30 years.
Oh and even though the film is set in 2035, which isn't that far away, the NASA HQ is all shiny and ultra-modern, like it's the 25th century or something, and that doesn't ring true either.
Would have been a better film if they had to scrabble round with scanty resources in order to rescue him, instead they just send the big shiny spaceship back again. Yes, spoilers, but if you've not seen it already then really isn't worth bothering to watch it.
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type of film you can walk away from for 30 mins and when you return your still pretty much in same spot.
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The book it was based on is apparently a best-seller but then I guess no-one is writing good novels anymore either, at least not since George McDonald-Frasier died.
flashman is my hero:D
They need to make some more Flashman films, but do it properly for once.
the one they made was ghastly tbh... i think the books are best left as books. they will try and rewrite them as they are not suitible for snowflakes..Quote:
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The Bourne Identity (2002)
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Matt Damon climbed down the last 30 feet of the building himself, without a stunt double. He called it "the most gruelling thing I had to do."
It was so bad GMF refused to allow any more to be made unless he had complete creative control. Which was never going to happen.Quote:
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966).. bluray..
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Because writer and director Sergio Leone spoke barely any English and Eli Wallach (Tuco) spoke barely any Italian, the two communicated in French.
During the scene right before the final duel where Tuco (Eli Wallach) is running frantically through the cemetery, a dog can be seen running on-screen at the beginning of the scene. In reality, that was improvised on the spot. Sergio Leone, who was afraid that the scene was going to slip into melodrama, released the dog without informing Eli Wallach first--thus, his look of surprise is quite genuine.
For the scene where Angel Eyes interrogates Maria the prostitute for information about Bill Carson, Lee Van Cleef was appalled by the fact that he was required to actually hit Maria (Rada Rassimov), complaining "I can't hit a woman." Rassimov replied with, "Don't worry. I'm an actress. Even if you slap me for real, it's no problem", but Van Cleef further stated, "I know, but I can't!" As a result, a stunt double was used for shots where Rassimov was slapped, which were intercut with shots of Van Cleef. As he later put it: "There are very few principles I have in life. One of them is I don't kick dogs, and the other one is I don't slap women in movies."
The Conversation (1974).. bluray.
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Gene Hackman learned to play the saxophone especially for the film.
Gene Hackman played a former N.S.A. Agent who is a surveillance expert in Enemy of the State (1998), and the images of his character in his younger days are taken directly from this film. Hackman's characters are so similar in both movies, fans have theorized that they may be the same person, but there is no evidence of this provided by the makers of either film.
In the first scene inside Harry's apartment the camera is in a fixed position, and does not follow Harry as he walks in and out of view. When he goes to his couch the camera turns left and remains fixed on the couch. This is an imitation of a surveillance camera, as if the viewer is spying on Harry.
Excellent film! The whole plot turns on its head when one hears the change of intonation and stress of the words: "He'd kill us if he could."
I have watched the film so many times, trying to work out how Harry Caul's flat is bugged. Even he can't find the bugging device(s). One suggestion is that it is contained in his saxophone lanyard - but I find that hard to believe.
In my opinion it is a much better film than 'Enemy of the State'.
(Point of information: surveillance operatives (such as those who bugged the Watergate Hotel) are now referred to as "plumbers", after the 1974 film,)
i feel now there was no bug, it was just his imagination or his brain going due to type of person he was etc. its a different film of course..eos is more mainstream and flashy, but well enough done. due to lak of having such abilities, these older films often have the advantage of needing a better script and better acting.Quote:
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the other possible was it was to do with the phone gadget his compeditor was showing at the show
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OK, I can't do the big pictures...
The Banshees of Inisherin. Fekkin outstanding.
here ya go sandy
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Heist (2015)
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Filmed in and around Mobile, Alabama.
The second heist film starring Robert De Niro and being directed by someone with the last name Mann, the first being Heat (1995).
Alive (1993)
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the book is much better but its still watchable...
The real Nando Parrado (Ethan Hawke's character) was technical advisor to the film.
Nando Parrado's determination to escape was driven by the thought of his father, Seler Parrado, suffering back in Montevideo. He could not bear the thought of his father grieving for his wife, daughter and son, when the son was still alive. In the movie, when Nando and Canessa reach the top of a peak and see only more mountains, Canessa despairs and is convinced they will die in the Andes. In real life, Nando instead named the mountain Mt. Seler, after his father, and drew on his absolute determination to see him again to keep going. As one of the 16 survivors, he said if he was to die, he was going to "die walking."
Director Frank Marshall auditioned novice actor Brad Pitt for the Roberto Canessa part, but Pitt's reading was poor, and the part went to Josh Hamilton instead.
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Lol..the Simpsons again..Quote:
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From way back - when it was funny.