now the 4k player is worky again, john carpenter's ... The Fog...
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now the 4k player is worky again, john carpenter's ... The Fog...
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Some Like It Hot, 1959... 4k bluray.
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The basic characteristics of the 4K restoration remain just as impressive as they were in 1080p, but in native 4K new crucial nuances emerge that give the film an even lusher appearance.
Years after the film's release, a movie reviewer asked Tony Curtis why his "Josephine" was so much more feminine than Jack Lemmon's "Daphne." Curtis explained he was so scared to be playing a woman (or a man pretending to be one) that his tightly wound body language could be read as demure and shy, traditionally feminine traits, whereas Lemmon, who was completely unbothered, and "ran out of his dressing room screaming like the Queen of the May," kept much more of his masculine body language.
Upon its original release, Kansas banned the film from being shown in the state, explaining that cross-dressing was "too disturbing for Kansans." :eyebrows:
Good film - I've seen it a few times.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
I was disappointed with the film - especially the denoument.Quote:
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good film that. one i don't have.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
War for the Planet of the Apes, 2017.. 4k bluray..
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When Maurice speaks to the human child with her new name "Nova... No-va," the dialogue is the actual voice of Charlton Heston speaking the same words to Linda Harrison in Planet of the Apes (1968). The voice has been electronically altered, but is still clearly recognizable.
As with Rise and Dawn, the visual effects for War were created by Weta Digital; the apes were created with a mixture of motion-capture and CGI key-frame animation, as they were performed in motion-capture technology and animated in CGI.
Seen it a couple of times. Thought it was OK, but didn't want to add it to my DVD collection :).Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Tried to watch 'Inland Empire' again yesterday and gave up again, wasn't in the right mood to torture myself! :eek:
a very difficult film to penetrate.. there is a new bluray coming out next month and ive a pre order on it lol.. for my arty collectionQuote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Predestination, 2014... bluray..
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The picture of the Crosby Shoes building in the beginning of the movie is actually a picture of the exploded reactor number 4 from Chernobyl Power Plant which exploded on 26 April 1986.
When the barkeep sits down at the typewriter for the first time, there is a copy of "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert A. Heinlein next to the typewriter. Heinlein is the author of the short story "All You Zombies" on which the movie is based. Many lines of dialogue in the film are copied faithfully from Robert A. Heinlein's source story
First Blood (1982), 4k bluray.
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After watching a rough cut of the film, which was about three hours long, Sylvester Stallone and his agent claimed that the film was so bad that it made them sick. Stallone also feared that the film would kill his career, and he attempted to buy all the footage and destroy it. When he couldn't do that, he suggested that the producers cut much of his part and let the rest of the characters tell the story. After heavy edits, the film was cut down to 93 minutes and set a precedent for future action movies.
Classic film, pared back, lovely austere camera work.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Man who fell to earth. Nicolas Roeg, brilliant just like another of his films, Performance.
2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968... was it that long ago??
classic space si-fi.. 4k bluray
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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.
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.
The movie was not a financial success at first. MGM was planning to pull it back from theaters, but several theater owners persuaded them to keep showing the film. Many owners noticed increasing numbers of young adults attending the film. They were especially enthusiastic about watching the "Star Gate" sequence under the influence of psychedelic drugs. This helped the film to become a financial success.
Stanley Kubrick worked for several months with effects technicians to come up with a convincing effect for the floating pen in the shuttle sequence. After trying many different techniques, without success, Kubrick decided to simply use a pen that was adhered (using newly invented double-sided tape) to a sheet of glass and suspended in front of the camera. In fact, the shuttle attendant can be seen to "pull" the pen off the glass when she takes hold of it.
amazing film especially for 65/68... this web site has some info on how complex it was to shoot..
http://cinematyler.com/archives/749
https://hartzog.org/j/2001beyondanalysis.html
The Anderson Tapes (1971)
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The apartment building in the movie is in reality the Convent of the Sacred Heart, whose address is indeed the one given as that of the building, 1 East 91st Street.
One of the burglars looks into a sack taken out of the safe and exclaims in delight, "Double eagles!" The double eagle is a $20 gold coin, no longer made. One of them is now worth several thousand dollars.
One of my favourite films.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Think I saw this many years ago - but if I did, I don't remember anything about it. :doh:Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
crime caper... not bad, but without ever hitting the heights i guess... some good acting performances tho.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
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Originally Posted by Barry
yes, a very good film. typical howard hawks style. bacall was only 19 when it was made.
Payroll, 1961..
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Rio Lobo, 1970..
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the 3rd remake of rio bravo by howard hawks... wayne said something like, ' havent we made this film before' when he read script;)
The Comancheros (1961)
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George Sherman produced this film, and Michael Curtiz directed it. During much of the shooting, Curtiz was seriously ill: he died of cancer shortly after the film's release. On the days when Curtiz was too ill to work, John Wayne took over direction. When the film was completed, he told the studio that he did not want credit as co-director and insisted that Curtiz's name alone appear as director. Wayne performed the same function in 1971 on "Big Jake (1971)," which was directed by Sherman, who took ill during production. Wayne directed the film on the days when Sherman couldn't and agaain insisted that he not receive co-director credit.
Wayne again with ... Big Jake (1971)
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In 1971, owing to the success of this film, John Wayne was number one at the U.S. box office for the last time
What's it about, and who's the girl?Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
not a bad film actually.. about a payroll robbery of an armoured truck, and how it all goes wrong. she is Francoise Prevost.. billy whitelaw, michael craig, tom bell and kenneth griffith all in it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Thanks Grant. Looks like something I might enjoy watching - will keep an eye out. :)
think it was called I Promised to PayQuote:
Originally Posted by Barry
in the States..
some quality Wayne there Grant. I've watched all of those recently plus 'The Alamo' and 'The Searchers'.
Don't know how many times I've watched 'The Searchers' but it gets better each time.
What is it with Westerns? I just find them boring, and completely inaccurate historically.
(Though I have to admit I do like the ones with Clint Eastwood. :scratch:)
Most films based on real events are inaccurate historically and most Westerns aren't based on real events anyway. I mean they're primarily entertainment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
These days we have documentary programmes that are historically inaccurate, now that's a real problem.
Can't say westerns appeal to me generally, but I've always thought 'The Big Country', took some beating and I have a DVD copy of 'High Noon' and the virtually unheard of 'The Last Hunt' with Robert Taylor (well worth a watch).
guess there is lots of reasons; there is the black v white and no middle colour of life out on the edge of the new civilization and wilds and such. a simpler way of dealing with an issue as the law was either non existant or simple. 'he drew first' sorta thing.
i guess it reminds us of our childhood too when westerns were the main staple; the saturday matinee if you like. you get wide open spaces with grand scenery;; man and horse crossing plain and fighting off the indians etc..
all great fun
That's another western I like. Strange really, as there is a lot of waiting around before there is any action.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Little Big Man, 1970..
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Director Rene Clair's 'I Married a Witch' from 1942. Reg A Bluray from Criterion.
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Veronica Lake and Fredric March did not like one another, due in part to some disparaging remarks March made about her. During filming, Lake delighted in playing pranks on March. In one scene in which the two were photographed from only the waist up, Lake stuck her foot in March's groin. In another incident, Lake hid a 40-pound weight under her costume when March had to carry her in his arms. After that incident, March nicknamed the film "I Married a Bitch".
Charles Chaplin was a fan of director René Clair. After seeing this film he told Clair, "There was no need to see the credits, in two minutes I had known it was your work."
Sol Saks, creator of Bewitched (1964), stated in an interview for Bewitched (1999) that he drew inspiration both from this film and Bell Book and Candle (1958) in creating the iconic TV series. Columbia Pictures owned the rights to both of those movies. Since it also owned the television studio that was to produce "Bewitched," Saks didn't worry about getting sued.
The Sinking of the Laconia, 2011.
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The Sinking of the Laconia is a two-part television film, first aired on 6 and 7 January 2011 on BBC Two, about the Laconia incident; the sinking of the British ocean liner RMS Laconia during World War II by a German U-boat, which then, together with three other U-boats and an Italian submarine, rescued the passengers but was in turn attacked by an American bomber.
some nonsense for saturday morning... Nuns on the Run, 1990..
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more nonsense... The Square Peg..
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never understood what the deal was with Norman Wisdom and then when he disappeared we got Lee Evans doing the same schtick. Although he seems to have gone now too.
he was incredibly popular.. even charlie chaplin loved him, plus the whole of albania.. a clown, actor, musician, singer, gymnast, stuntman..the list is long.Quote:
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a class act now with.... Dances with Wolves, 1990. This is the extended bluray version. Reg A.
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Won 7 Oscars inc Best Picture.
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.
Kevin Costner did all his own riding, including bareback and shooting his gun without holding the reins, during the buffalo hunt.
The Lady Vanishes (1938), criterion bluray, reg a..
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At first, Hitchcock considered Lilli Palmer for the female lead, but went instead with Margaret Lockwood, who was at the time relatively unknown. Lockwood was attracted to the heroines of Ethel Lina White's stories and accepted the role.
Michael Redgrave was also unknown to the cinema audience, but was a rising stage star at the time. He was reluctant to leave the stage to do the film, but was convinced by John Gielgud to do so. As it happened, the film, Redgrave's first leading role, made him an international star. However, according to Robert Osborne, host of Turner Classic Movies, Redgrave and Hitchcock did not get along; Redgrave wanted more rehearsals, while Hitchcock valued spontaneity more. The two never worked together again.
Alfred Hitchcock can be seen at Victoria Station, wearing a black coat and smoking a cigarette, near the end of the film. The film marks the first appearance of the comedy double-act Charters and Caldicott (played by Naunton Wayne and Basil Radford).
Ooh! - a Bogart/Bacall film that's new to me! :) Any good Grant?Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
yes its a very good film. a bit different too. worth gettingQuote:
Originally Posted by Barry
A brilliant biting satire of middle class '60s America. And remarkably funny as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
yes, very biting, especially first half, although it kinda sold out in second...Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Dustin Hoffman was cast as Liebkind in the Mel Brooks film The Producers (1967), but before filming began Hoffman begged Brooks to let him go to audition for The Graduate. When Dustin Hoffman auditioned for the role of Benjamin, he was just short of his 30th birthday at the time of filming. He was asked to perform a love scene with Ross, having previously never done one during his acting classes and believed that, as he said later, "a girl like [Ross] would never go for a guy like me in a million years." Ross agreed, believing that Hoffman "looked about 3 feet tall ... so unkempt. This is going to be a disaster." Producer Joseph E. Levine later admitted that he at first believed that Hoffman "was one of the messenger boys." Despite—or perhaps because of—Hoffman's awkwardness, Nichols chose him for the film. "As far as I'm concerned, Mike Nichols did a very courageous thing casting me in a part that I was not right for, meaning I was Jewish," said Hoffman. "In fact, many of the reviews were very negative. It was kind of veiled anti-Semitism.... I was called 'big-nosed' in the reviews, 'a nasal voice'." Hoffman was paid $20,000 for his role in the film, but netted just $4,000 after taxes and living expenses. After spending that money, Hoffman filed for New York State benefits, receiving $55 per week while living in a two-room apartment in Manhattan.
Although Life magazine joked that "if Dustin Hoffman's face were his fortune, he'd be committed to a life of poverty", The Graduate was a gigantic box office hit for Embassy Pictures, making Hoffman a major new star at the same time. The film received near-unanimous good reviews. Time magazine called Hoffman "a symbol of youth" who represented "a new breed of actors". The film's screenwriter, Buck Henry, notes that Hoffman's character made conventional good looks no longer necessary on screen: A whole generation changed its idea of what guys should look like. ... I think Dustin's physical being, brought a sort of social and visual change, in the same way people first thought of Bogart. They called him ugly.