Ruthless People, 1986..
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Ruthless People, 1986..
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Walker, 1987... criterion bluray. reg a..
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Alex Cox says on the commentary of the Criterion Collection DVD, that out of all the movies he's done, and despite the fact that this film had hurt his career as a Hollywood director, he believes that Walker (1987) is his best work.
Actor Peter Boyle initially turned down the role of Cornelius Vanderbilt but later he accepted and volunteered to do the film free of charge.
David Copperfield, 1935..
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David Copperfield was nominated for three Academy Awards, including Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Film Editing (Robert J. Kern), and Best Assistant Director (Joseph M. Newman), and was nominated for the Mussolini Cup for Best Foreign Film at the Venice Film Festival (losing out to Anna Karenina).
Heist, 2001..
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Gene Hackman mentioned in several interviews that he found shooting the film difficult and somewhat uncomfortable because he was so much older than everyone involved. He therefore kept much to himself, and in the end managed to draw on that feeling of being an outsider in the group for his portrayal.
The PanGeneve Cargo plane is a Boeing 727. Produced between the early 1960s and 1984, some 727s are still used by freight and charter air service providers.
The Captain's Paradise, 1953..
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The Wild Bunch, 1969..
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a classic film this and one of the 'great' westerns
In an interview, Ben Johnson said that the Mexican women who "frolicked" with him and Warren Oates in the huge wine vats weren't actresses but prostitutes from a nearby brothel, who were hired by Sam Peckinpah so he could tell people that Warner Bros. paid for hookers for his cast.
Robert Ryan's incessant complaints about not receiving top billing so annoyed director Sam Peckinpah that he decided to "punish" Ryan. In the opening credits, after freezing the screen on closeups of William Holden's and Ernest Borgnine's faces while listing them, Peckinpah froze the scene on several horses' rear ends as Ryan was listed.
According to editor Lou Lombardo the original release print contains some 3,643 editorial cuts, more than any other Technicolor film ever processed. Some of these cuts are near subliminal, consisting of three or four frames, making them almost imperceptible to the naked eye.
After filming the scene where Ernest Borgnine and William Holden sit by a campfire and their characters vow they "wouldn't have it any other way", it was hard for director Sam Peckinpah to yell, "Cut!" because he was crying.
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'Picnic At Hanging Rock' (1976)
Mesmerising film even though there's not really much story. People often think it's based on real events. It isn't, although Hanging Rock does exist.
One of those films you can watch multiple times and get something new from it each time.
Great film.. it's typically weird but absorbing too . Even if it's not real you want it to be..Quote:
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Under Suspicion, 2000...
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The film was given limited release to only 19 theaters in North America, grossing a total of $334,245 during its theatrical run. The film was also given limited release internationally, grossing $752,783 in Mexico, $17,222 in Taiwan and $277,675 in the United Kingdom.
The film was nominated by the Mystery Writers of America for the 2001 Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture.
Shirley Valentine (1989)
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In the UK, after opening nationwide, it was number one for three consecutive weeks and was the highest-grossing independent British film of the year, with a gross of £11.5 million. The film grossed $6.1 million in the United States and Canada. Worldwide, it grossed $38 million.
Sherlock Holmes, 2009...
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In the stories, Holmes is described to be an expert in Baritsu. In the film, however, the martial art that Holmes used is the Wing-Chun Kung Fu (famously used by Ip Man Yee and Bruce Lee). Robert Downey, Jr. is a practitioner of the art in real-life, and the fight scene between him and David Garrick at Punch Bowl Pit was coordinated with the help of his trainer.
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, 1992... Criterion bluray. Essentially a prequel to David Lynch and Mark Frost's earlier TV series "Twin Peaks".
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Not a bad film, save for the laughable portrayal by Tom Conte.Quote:
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes, 2011...4k bluray..
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One of the first movies to use motion-capture in an on-location setting. Previously, motion-capture was limited to special studio set-up with special motion-capture cameras in very clearly defined surroundings.
Caesar's speaking voice was produced by sound designer Chuck Michael, who mixed the sounds of fully grown male chimps' vocalizations recorded at Chimp Haven with Andy Serkis's voice.
When the apes climb the tree to escape the dome, they form a double helix, the shape of DNA and the Gen-Sys logo.
Karin Konoval: The stubborn court clerk that gave Will a hard time about filing for his appeal was played by Karin Konoval, who also played Maurice the orangutan. Director Rupert Wyatt brought her back after her ape performance capture to play a human because he liked her so much.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, 2014.. 4k bluray...
... the second film in the trilogy..
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The Color Purple (1985)
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An intense film - moving and shocking in equal measure.
Whoopie Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover are excellent in their respective rôles.
Crash (2004)
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Director's Cut of the oscar-winning urban drama which tracks the volatile intersections of a multi-ethnic cast of characters' struggles to overcome their fears as they careen in and out of one another's lives. A Brentwood housewife and her DA husband; a Persian store owner; two police detectives who are also lovers; an African-American television director and his wife; a Mexican locksmith; two car-jackers; a rookie cop; and a middle-aged Korean couple - they all live in Los Angeles, and during the next 36 hours, they will all collide. Matt Dillon, Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle and Karina Arroyave star.
some classic Bogey now with...
To Have and Have Not, 1944... bluray.
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At the funeral for her husband, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall put a whistle in his coffin. It was a reference to the famous line in the film where she says to him: "You know how to whistle, don't you? You just put your lips together and blow."
One of my favourite films! :) :) :)
The Searchers, 1956..
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Several film critics have suggested that The Searchers was inspired by the 1836 kidnapping of nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker by Comanche warriors, who raided her family's home at Fort Parker, Texas. She spent 24 years with the Comanches, married a war chief, and had three children (one of whom was the famous Comanche Chief Quanah Parker), only to be rescued against her will by Texas Rangers.James W. Parker, Cynthia Ann's uncle, spent much of his life and fortune in what became an obsessive search for his niece, much like Ethan Edwards in the film.
In addition, the rescue of Cynthia Ann, during a Texas Ranger attack known as the Battle of Pease River, resembles the rescue of Debbie Edwards when the Texas Rangers attack Scar's village.
...But, author Alan Le May's surviving research notes indicate that the two characters who go in search of a missing girl were inspired by Britton Johnson, an African-American teamster who ransomed his captured wife and children from the Comanches in 1865. Afterward, Johnson made at least three trips to Indian Territory and Kansas, relentlessly searching for another kidnapped girl, Millie Durgan (or Durkin), until Kiowa raiders killed him in 1871.
Three Godfathers, 1948... another Ford western with john wayne etc...
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oft made film this in early days...1916, 1919, 1930, 1936 and now 1948.
This film was dedicated to John Ford's friend and early star, Harry Carey, who died in 1947. At the beginning, stuntman Cliff Lyons is shown silhouetted against a sunset, riding Carey's favorite horse, Sonny, over the words: "To the Memory of Harry Carey, bright star of the Western sky..." Ford sent young Carey jnr home the day he shot this scene, as he didnt want to upset him.
Blazing Saddles, 1974..
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Good antidote to all that John Wayne stuff you've been watching. ;)
Now I don’t have to tell you good folks what’s been happening in our beloved little forum. Sheriff murdered, crops burned, stores looted, people stampeded, and cattle raped. The time has come to act, and act fast. I’m leaving.Quote:
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Chinatown, 1974.. bluray.... one of the great hollywood movies...
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At the time of filming, Jack Nicholson had just embarked on his longstanding relationship with Anjelica Huston. This made his scenes with her father, John Huston, rather uncomfortable, especially as the only time Anjelica was on set was the day they were filming the scene where Noah Cross interrogates Nicholson's character with "Mr. Gittes...do you sleep with my daughter?"
After several takes that never looked quite right, Faye Dunaway got annoyed and told Jack Nicholson to actually slap her. He did and felt very guilty for it, despite it being Dunaway's decision. The shot made it into the movie.
blow out, 1981..
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In Which We Serve, 1942..
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more ww2, this time ... DUNKIRK, 1958....
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When the troop ship taking the platoon home is bombed and sunk in Dunkirk harbor, the scene of the ship sinking is taken from The Cruel Sea (1953), which depicts the sinking of H.M.S. "Compass Rose".
The command center used by Vice Admiral Ramsey (Nicholas Hannen) was the actual bunker used during the operation. It's part of a large underground complex beneath Dover Castle. It's open to the public. The balcony in the cliffs is visible from the ferry terminal below.
Sir John Mills was fifty-years-old at the time of filming. The British Expeditionary Force in France in 1940 were a professional army, not conscripts (conscription (the draft) only began after Dunkirk to recoup numbers) therefore, Sir John Mills would be beyond the retirement age for a soldier, and would have been considered too old even for conscription, the maximum age being forty-five. The only soldiers aged fifty or above would have been senior officers, not frontline soldiers, and certainly not Corporals.
Excellent film! :)Quote:
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Think I must have seen that film ten times or more, never occurred to me that Mills is too old. He's supposed to be the experienced one so it sort of makes sense.Quote:
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It's a much better film than the 2017 Dunkirk in every respect - despite that the 2017 version cost $125 million and the 1958 $1.7 million (which would be $15 million in 2017 dollars).
Just shows how the art of making good films is being lost - even when they've got bucket-loads of money to spend.
in reality tho he signed up in 39, and was in the royal engineers where he became an officer and was release on health grounds in 42. so he was right age for it, just not in 58...lolQuote:
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Tom Cruise is 60 and still playing characters half his age.
The you've got Sally Thomset age 20 playing an 11 year old in 'The Railway Children.'
Does it really matter? I don't think so. Won't ruin a good film or make a bad one better.
Agreed.
Band of Outsiders, 1964..criterion bluray...
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Quentin Tarantino named his production company, A Band Apart, after this film.
Godard described it as "Alice in Wonderland meets Franz Kafka"
Film critic Pauline Kael described Bande à part as "a reverie of a gangster movie" and "perhaps Godard's most delicately charming film"
It's not a film I have seen, but I'm not sure if I could describe anything by Godard as "delicately charming ". :lol:Quote:
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its possibly as charming as he gets... good film thoQuote:
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Barry Lyndon, 1975.. criterion bluray.. reg a again...
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Contrary to legend, this movie did use artificial lighting in some scenes (for example, when Bryan (David Morley) learns he's getting a horse). However, it is true that no electronic lighting was used for the candle-lit scenes. A lens built by the Carl Zeiss Company for N.A.S.A., a 50mm Zeiss lens modified with the Kollmorgen adaptor used in still cameras, was used to shoot scenes lit only by candle. This lens had the largest aperture of any ever built for movie use (f/0.7).
Stanley Kubrick used to play the soundtrack's classical music during takes to get the actors and actresses in a better mood. He was reportedly influenced by Sergio Leone's method in Once Upon a Time in the West (1968).
Superb film!Quote:
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yes it was likened to a visit to a museum...everything exact as it should be. They stared filming in Ireland but had to leave due to the IRAQuote:
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Yes it was developed for NASA.Quote:
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In the 1960s, NASA commissioned Carl Zeiss to develop a set of extremely large aperture lenses to capture images of the dark side of the moon in its Apollo missions. The company ended up creating 10 Carl Zeiss f/0.7 lenses. Six were sold to NASA, one was kept by Carl Zeiss, and three of them were sold to filmmaker Stanley Kubrick.
However, it is not the fastest lens ever made. That distinction again goes to Zeiss, but for an entirely different reason.
It is the Carl Zeiss Super-Q-Gigantar 40mm f/0.33. It’s what some have called "the fastest camera lens ever made".
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Is that claim true? Well, yes and no… but mostly no.
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Do a bit of research on the web, however, and you won’t find any sample photographs captured with this lens. Why? Because the lens was never designed for real world use, and was never functional.
In the auction description of this lens, the auctioneers WestLicht stated that the 1960s lens was a “unique lens made by Carl Zeiss for Public Relation purposes […] for the Zeiss Contarex 'Bullseye' camera”.
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The lens was born in the 1960s during a time in which camera companies were aiming for larger and larger apertures, just as companies these days are gunning for more and more megapixels. Canon had just released its 50mm f/0.95, and photographers became fixated on the speed of lenses on paper rather than their performance in real world situations.
Zeiss Ikon public relations guru Herr Wolf Wehran decided that he wanted to draw attention to his phenomenon by creating a product poking fun at the fast glass fad.
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Prior to Photokina in 1966, Wehran visited a buddy of his in the Zeiss lens design department. The two found an old condenser lens sitting around, and used it to create a Contarex-mount “frankenlens” using various found pieces. Along the way, they arbitrarily decided that their lens would have a focal length of 40mm and a maximum aperture of f/0.33.
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The lens was given the name “Super-Q-Gigantar.” The “Q” stands for “Quatsch,” which translates to “nonsense” in German. And that’s how the “fastest lens ever made” came to be.
(Apologies for the massive (or should that be 'Gigantic'?) thread drift, but I thought it might be of some interest.)
Those wouldn't have been cheap! :eek:
the 0.7 lens they made 10 of. zeiss i think were puttig one up for sale(dunno what it sold for, if its happen) but they expected it to make between $75k and $150k.Quote:
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just read it went for an eyewatering $340,000....Quote:
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If you are talking about the Zeiss 40mm f/0.3 lens, the lens went up for auction back in 2011 at the famous WestLicht Photographica Auction. It was billed as “the world’s fastest lens ever made,” had an opening bid of €6,000, and an estimated price of up to €16,000. It ended up selling for €60,000, or close to $80,000.
A sample of the Zeiss 50mm f/0.7 lens (attached to a modified Nikon F body) went for auction in June 2021, and was expected to fetch $150,000.
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Just read your update Grant - $340,000! Phew! :eek:
I wonder who bought it?
The fastest Zeiss lens I have in my arsenal is the 50mm f/2 Biotar, and worth about £150.
A lot of dough I guess for likes of us but for a rich collector it's peanuts to have such a thingQuote:
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Binge watching “Plebs” on itv x , bloody funny.
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The Man Who Fell to Earth, 1976... 4k bluray.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1959... bluray...
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Cushing was an aficionado of Sherlock Holmes and brought his knowledge to the project. He re-read the stories, made detailed notes in his script and sought to portray Holmes closer to his literary counterpart. It was Cushing's suggestion that the mantelpiece feature Holmes's correspondence transfixed to it with a jackknife as per the original stories. However, when producer Anthony Hinds suggested excluding the famous deerstalker Cushing objected, saying Holmes' headgear and pipes would be expected by the audience.