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'Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson' (2008)
I was always a big fan. Not a bad documentary but it jumps about a bit too much and doesn't really do him full credit.
Nit-picking really, it's well worth a watch, there's no way to make a documentary about this man and have it be dull.
Sherlock Holmes in Washington, 1943..
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US War Bonds promo tagged onto the end of the film reads: "You're not giving - just lending - when you buy war savings stamps and bonds - on sale here" .. The "V for victory" matchbooks were for war bonds and were not fictional.
If you listen closely to Clarence Muse's (the porter) dialogue and how he is saying it, you can hear a highly intelligent black man speaking and playing the part of a lesser educated black man. Clarence Muse studied and attended law school for two tears before giving it up and turning to acting. He was the first black man ever to star in a movie.
Bad Timing, 1980... bluray.
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Director Nicolas Roeg and actress Theresa Russell fell in love during the shoot and married. Russell was 22 years old at that time, while Roeg was already 52 years old. They had two children, but divorced later.
In 2013 Criterion Collection released a list of director Christopher Nolan's 10 favorite films from its catalog and this film was among them.
Archive (2020), bluray..
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Archive is a 2020 British science fiction film written and directed by Gavin Rothery, in his directorial debut. It stars Theo James, Stacy Martin, Rhona Mitra, Peter Ferdinando, Timea Maday Kinga and Toby Jones. Set in 2038, the film follows a scientist who is trying to advance artificial intelligence a step further than human beings, all while bringing his wife back from the dead. (Or so it seems)
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Archive holds an approval rating of 78% based on 37 reviews, with an average rating of 7.2/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "Archive executes its fairly basic program efficiently, offering sci-fi fans an engaging meditation on love and human nature."
It's a very disturbing film IMO: Art Garfunklel is quite sinister in his role, whereas Harvey Keitel plays a sympathetic character, unlike most of his usual parts.Quote:
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I have only seen it on TV (twice), but would quite like to get a copy.
I agree - it would be difficult to make a good biopic/documentary about Hunter Thompson. The film 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' was IMO a limited success.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Back in the early '70's I read a book about the Hell's Angels, which I think was written by Thompson.
^^ not a bad film..
now, The Paleface, 1948..bluray reg A.
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Bob is a class act, and Jane Russell was a doll...
Girl with a Pearl Earring, 2003..
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Although Vermeer and the painting both are real historic figures, the screenplay is based on Tracy Chevalier's novel and therefore largely fictional or hypothetical. Only 36 Vermeer paintings are known to exist today, and none of the models has ever been positively identified. A poster of the painting in her bedroom inspired Chevalier to write her own version of how it came to exist, based on the framework of Vermeer's known history. Chevalier sold the film rights and opted not to have any involvement in the film or screenplay, although after its release said that she was pleased with the results.
The painting that Griet inspired Vermeer to paint while she is washing the window of his studio is called "Woman with a Water Jug". It is currently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY. In the movie, Vermeer is working on the painting "The Concert", which was stolen in 1990 and is still missing. It is now valued at over 200 million dollars and one of the most famous stolen painting in the world.
Donnie Brasco, 1997...
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The film was a box office success, earning $124.9 million against its $35 million budget, and received positive reviews from critics. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
The film is loosely based on the true story of Pistone (Depp), an FBI undercover agent who infiltrated the Bonanno crime family in New York City during the 1970s, under the alias Donnie Brasco, a jewel thief from Vero Beach, Florida.
Not a bad little film; creditable and stars the lovely Scarlett Johansson.Quote:
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'Crown Court'
Can't believe they are showing these on 'Talking Pictures' channel. Not seen one since I was in primary school and off sick.
Don't think they have ever repeated them before now. Proper telly.
Was it a TV series?
The Man Who Knew Too Little, 1997...
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the lovely joanne walley and bill murray in a great spoof..
it was yes... early 70's onwards.. sometimes it was quite funny ... not that i saw it a lot but ive seen a good few.. actors played the parts except the jury who were real people off street i think.Quote:
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everyone except the foreman - since he had to speak he had to be an Equity member.Quote:
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Apparently they did show some of them years ago on Granada Plus but I don't remember that. Must have been on in the daytime during the week - which is why I missed most of them first time around too. Birth, school, work, death.
Young Frankenstein, 1974.... bluray reg A..
Classics went mad for this Mel Brooks masterpiece.
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When Mel Brooks was preparing for this film, he discovered that Ken Strickfaden, who'd made the elaborate electrical machinery for the lab sequences in the Universal Frankenstein films, was still alive and living in the Los Angeles area. Brooks visited Strickfaden, and found that he had stored all the equipment in his garage. Brooks made a deal to rent the equipment, and gave Strickfaden the screen credit he didn't receive for the original films.
Mel Brooks considers this the best film he ever directed, but rates it number three amongst his funniest, after Blazing Saddles (1974) and The Producers (1967). Brooks confirmed these views in interviews celebrating his ninetieth birthday in 2016.
Teri Garr originally auditioned for the role of Elizabeth, the fiancée, while Madeline Kahn was the front-runner for Inga, the assistant. But Kahn ultimately decided she'd rather play Elizabeth, leaving Mel Brooks with the task of recasting the Inga role. Undaunted, he called Garr in and told her that if she could come back the next day with a German accent, he'd like her for the part. She looked at Mel and said, "Vell, yes, I could do zee German ackzent tomorrow, I could come back zis afternoon", and the part was hers. Garr has said that she based her accent on Cher's wig maker, with whom she worked on The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour (1971).
Hitchcock's Notorious, 1946... Criterion bluray.
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After filming had ended, Cary Grant kept the famous UNICA key. A few years later he gave the key to his great friend and co-star Ingrid Bergman, saying that the key had given him luck and hoped it would do the same for her. Many years later, at a tribute to director Sir Alfred Hitchcock, Bergman went off-script and presented the key to him, to his surprise and delight.
Sir Alfred Hitchcock got the shot where Ingrid Bergman is in the background and the coffee cup is in the foreground, with both in focus, by using a giant coffee cup placed farther away than it appears.
Director Sir Alfred Hitchcock and screenwriter Ben Hecht consulted Nobel Prize winner Dr. Robert Millikan on how to make an atomic bomb. He refused to answer, but confirmed that the principal ingredient, uranium, could fit in a wine bottle. Sir Alfred Hitchcock claimed that the F.B.I. had him under surveillance for three months because this movie dealt with uranium.
"The girl's look is wrong", Ingrid said to Hitchcock when, after several takes of her close-up during the dinner sequence, everyone knew something was awry. "You have her registering [surprise] too soon, Hitch. I think she would do it this way." And with that, Ingrid did the scene her way. There was not a sound on the set, for Hitchcock did not suffer actors' ideas gladly: he knew what he wanted from the start. Well before filming began, every eventuality of every scene had been planned—every camera angle, every set, costume, prop, even the sound cues had been foreseen and were in the shooting script. But in this case, an actress had a good idea, and to everyone's astonishment, he said, "I think you're right, Ingrid."
Mario Puzo's The Godfather, 1972... Coppola Restoration..
Note the attention to detail: most of the cars have wooden bumpers. Bumpers were removed by car owners during World War II, and replaced with wooden ones. The chrome ones were turned in to help with the war effort. After the war, it took several years for them to be replaced.
Don Vito Corleone's distinctive voice was based on real-life mobster Frank Costello. Marlon Brando had seen him on television during the Estes Kefauver hearings in 1951, and imitated his husky whisper in the film.
Al Pacino's maternal grandparents immigrated to America from Corleone, Sicily, just as Vito Corleone had.
This latest edition was created with higher-quality sources of the film, improved digital technology and some 4,000 hours spent repairing stains, tears and other flaws.
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The Outfit, 1973.
Robert Duvall again but in different type of role...
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Cast includes Karen Black, Joe Don Baker and Robert Ryan. Roger Ebert gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four and praised it as "a classy action picture, very well directed and acted." Others were less impressed but i agree, its a good film.
This was only the second picture in which Robert Duvall was top-billed.
The picture was cast with such film noir veterans as Timothy Carey, Elisha Cook, Jr., Jane Greer, Robert Ryan, Sheree North, and Marie Windsor, as it was originally to be as in the novel to be a period noir.
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, 1970... bluray
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Watson: Holmes, let me ask you a question. I hope I'm not being presumptuous, but... there *have* been women in your life, haven't there?
Holmes: The answer is yes...
Watson: [Watson breathes a sigh of relief]
Holmes: ...You're being presumptuous. Good night.
Throw Momma from the Train, 1987...
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Elmer Gantry (1960), bluray..
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Jean Simmons became so frightened in the fire scene with burning pieces of balsa wood falling all around her that she ran off the set. Richard Brooks didn't know what to do, so Arthur Kennedy suggested getting Simmons "bombed" on gin and milk. Kennedy had used the strategy on a nervous Dorothy McGuire in a scene from A Summer Place (1959). After five drinks in her dressing room, Simmons performed as scripted.
"Elmer Gantry" was originally intended to be screened in the UK on BBC2 on November 18, 1987, but the horrific fire at King's Cross Tube station led to its cancellation, due to the similarities between this real-life event and the big top fire depicted in the movie.
There is a warning at beginning not to show it to kids...
The Tree of Life (2011). criterion bluray.
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Dissatisfied by the look of modern computer generated visual effects, director Terrence Malick approached veteran special effects supervisor Douglas Trumbull, who was responsible for the visual effects in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), to create the visual effects for the film using bygone optical and practical methods. This marks the first feature film Trumbull has provided the effects for in 29 years, his last being Blade Runner (1982).
The critic Jim Emerson got word of what Terrence Malick intended the sequence of dinosaurs to mean, by way of the visual effects supervisor in charge of that very sequence who is Michael L. Fink. Emerson describes what he learned from Fink; "The premise of the four-shot scene was to depict the birth of consciousness (what some have called the "birth of compassion")-the first moment in which a living creature made a conscious decision to choose what Michael described as "right from wrong, good from evil." Or, perhaps, a form of altruism over predatory instinct".
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'The Enforcer' (1976)
Was originally to be called 'Dirty Harry And More' since Tyne Daley's character was called Kate More. Luckily saner heads prevailed.
Not as good as the first two but the introduction of the female partner throws up some interesting situations and makes it different enough for it to be a worth a watch.
Daley turned down the role three times until they gave her creative control of her character. At the premier she was 'shocked' by the amount of violence in the film. (I mean it's a Dirty Harry film, love. Seriously, what did you expect?)
One thing I like about Eastwood is that he's never been one of these Hollywood hand-wringing types. Just makes good films - which is all anyone wants.
Needless to say by modern standards there's hardly any violence and what there is isn't that explicit.
a lot of the harry films have aged quite a lot but i do like them. ive a boxset somewhere, but i usually only watch same one or 2.. yes clint makes his films well and doesnt fart about
Like with Bogart you can watch Eastwood films many times and not got bored of them - can't say that about most of the modern films which aren't even worth watching once.Quote:
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I read somewhere that Eastwood never blinked when firing a gun, a rare thing apparently.
yul brynner didnt either... he was, like clint, very musical and a great guitarist and singer clint plays pianoQuote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
I don't know about that, I don't blink. But saw an interview with Arnie where he said he had to train for ages on 'The Terminator' to stop himself doing it.Quote:
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I dunno. When you've watched Clyde bop a hell's angel a couple of times it gets a bit samey :).Quote:
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I don't either. Did a lot of shooting.Quote:
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its a rare thing, but you can train it out of yourself apparently. havent shot since i was about 20Quote:
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The Lone Ranger (2013).
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In an interview, Johnny Depp thanked his stunt horse, Scout, for saving his life after a violent fall during filming. After Scout dragged Depp 25 feet, Scout jumped over him to avoid stepping on him. A clip of the fall shows the horse clearly jumping over Depp, and detaching him from the saddle. Depp suffered only minor bruises and scrapes, but says it could have been a lot worse if the horse had stepped on him.
The "frame story" where young Will meets the old Tonto takes place in 1933, the year of the first Lone Ranger radio broadcast.
Todd McDaniels, a linguist at the Comanche Nation College, commented favorably on Johnny Depp's attempts to speak Comanche, a language with 23 to 30 living native speakers. "The words were there, the pronunciation was shaky, but adequate."
Looper, 2012..
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The Devil and Miss Jones, 1941..
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The Pearl of Death, 1944...
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Holmes tells Watson that if he's wrong about the pearl's hiding place, "I shall retire to Sussex and keep bees." In the original Holmes stories, this is exactly what he does upon retirement.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1939..
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In the original novel, and in all later film versions, the butler is named Barrymore. In this version, the butler was renamed Barryman since the famous Barrymore family - Lionel Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore and John Barrymore - were still acting in films at the time.
The impressive interior set for Baskerville Hall was subsequently recycled by Fox, most notably for their last Charlie Chan feature, Castle in the Desert (1942).
We're No Angels, 1955.. watch this a lot as its a great example of a small group of excellent actors all pulling together. Bogey was the top star of course and shows he could do anything, even comedy.
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The Camomile Lawn, 1992.
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this again... superb program
Two Mules for Sister Sara, 1970...
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Charley Varrick, 1973..
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Prime Cut, 1972....A vicious Kansas City slaughterhouse owner and his hick family are having a bloody "beef" with the Chicago crime syndicate over profits from their joint illegal operations. Top enforcer Nick Devlin is sent to straighten things out.
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Lee Marvin had a serious feud with director Michael Ritchie, because Ritchie wanted him to have love scenes with the too young actress Sissy Spacek(22 to 48). Marvin hated Ritchie for this lack of respect for Spacek. It was Sissy Spacek's feature film debut.
Gene Hackman accepted the secondary role of "Mary Ann" because it was his first offer of work after being unemployed for nearly six months since the end of filming on The French Connection (1971).
The submachine gun used by Nick Devlin in the last part of the film is the now rare Smith & Wesson model 76, a near copy of the Swedish M/45. It was produced in very small numbers in the late 1960s, and it was eventually discontinued due to lack of interest in such a weapon by military and law enforcement agencies. In US service, it was largely known as the "Swedish-K" or "K-Rifle. It was used by US special services (like Navy SEALS and CIA operatives) during the Vietnam War.
Good movie. Not well known, I have the DVD.Quote:
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Man Hunt (1941), Holywoods version of Geoffrey Household's novel, Rogue Male starring Walter Pidgeon, George Sanders and Joan Bennett..
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When this movie was made, America was not part of World War II. At this time, a number of Hollywood studios were pro-American involvement in the war. This movie is one of a number of films made during the late 1930s and early 1940s that represented pro-American intervention in the war. These films include: A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941), Man Hunt (1941), Foreign Correspondent (1940), The Mortal Storm (1940), Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) and Sergeant York (1941).
Very little indeed remains of Geoffrey Household's original novel in this adaptation, but the author, interviewed about it over thirty years later, conceded that "Fritz Lang made a smashing film out of my book".
When Thorndike (Pidgeon) is captured, the George Sanders character inspects his belongings including his rifle, which bears the maker's name of "Hammond and Hammond, Bond Street". There was no such gunsmith in the UK and it seems likely the name is borrowed from a very famous gunsmith called Holland and Holland of Bruton Street, which is situated nearby.
Great Expectations (1946), Classic David Lean drama of Dickens story. Sir John Mills stars.
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Sir Alec Guinness admired the way Sir David Lean directed him, singling out a close-up in which he had to laugh out loud, and which he struggled to make look unmanufactured. Lean told him to forget about the whole thing, sat by his side, and made a little signal to the camera to start turning in the course of the conversation. He said something which made Guinness laugh and then said, "Cut." Guinness: "So he got this shot on a totally false premise, but thank God. I don't think I would have ever achieved it otherwise."
At the end, when Pip is persuading Estella to leave Satis House with him, a 'Chad' is clearly visible drawn on the screen behind him (Chads were a popular form of graffiti in the 1940s - a character with a big nose looking over a wall). Chad is a British term; the American equivalent would be Kilroy, as in 'Kilroy was here'.
21 years later... Quatermass and the Pit, 1967.. Directed by Roy Ward Baker.
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Professor Bernard Quatermass: The will to survive... it's an odd phenomenon. Roney, if we found out earth was doomed - say, by climatic changes - what would we do about it?
Dr. Mathew Roney: Nothing. Just go on squabbling as usual.
When Dr. Roney is picking at the eyeball of the dead Martian creature in his laboratory, the pupils of the compound eye are a rectangular slot shape rather then round like a human eye. This is reminiscent of a goat's eye, a creature that, for centuries, has been associated with witchcraft and sorcery.
A Sony CV-2000B Videocorder - a very early and primitive form of videotape recorder - is on display during the sequences in which the Martian race memory is both recorded and later played back to the skeptical military.
Trading Places (1983)...
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Ralph Bellamy (Randolph) and Don Ameche (Mortimer) make cameo appearances in Coming to America (1988) as the same characters; the two are now homeless, and Prince Akeem (Eddie Murphy) gives them a large amount of money to get them back off the streets.
This was Ralph Bellamy's ninety-ninth film, and Don Ameche's forty-ninth. This was Eddie Murphy's second film, and he joked: "Between the three of us, we've made one hundred fifty movies!"
The baggage handlers were supposed to be Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas as the Mackenzie brothers from SCTV (1976). When they fell through, Dan Aykroyd or Eddie Murphy recommended Tom Davis and Al Franken from their Saturday Night Live (1975) days.