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Inland Empire, 2006.. bluray
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The tagline "a woman in trouble" was used as marketing executives were so puzzled by the film that they did not know how to promote it.
Lynch's last film... its also the craziest by far...
Got the DVD, tried to watch it a few times and given up! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by struth
can't wholey blame you... itz the weird one of all his...bordering on insanity or just taking the pish at timesQuote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
I gave up with Lynch after 'Mulholland Drive'. Saw most of his output before that. Found much of it interesting but there is nothing I would want to see again, apart from 'The Straight Story' and possibly 'Eraserhead', which IMO has to be Lynch's weirdest film.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
An American Werewolf in London, 1981. 4k ltd edition boxset.... classic this.
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This is the first film to earn the Academy Award for Best Make-up. That category was created in 1981.
Rick Baker claimed to have been disappointed by the amount of time spent shooting the face-changing shot for the transformation after having spent months working on the mechanism. John Landis only required one take lasting about seven seconds. Baker felt he had wasted his time until seeing the film with an audience that applauded during that one seven-second shot.
David Naughton was reportedly cast because John Landis had seen him in a television commercial for Dr Pepper. However, Naughton was later let go by Dr Pepper because of his nude scenes in this film.
Griffin Dunne stated in 2007 that his biggest fear was that his mother, who was ill at the time, would not be able to handle seeing a film where her son appeared as a mutilated corpse. When she finally saw it, she was deeply disturbed by it.
i like mulholland a lot; yes its complex etc but its followable. inland is only followable if your a nutter yourself;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Not a bad film, but when it comes to lycanthropic films, IMO the best is 'Company of Wolves', made in 1984.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
See How They Run, 2022....It was theatrically released in the United Kingdom on 9 September 2022 and in the United States on 16 September 2022, by Searchlight Pictures. The film received positive reviews from critics and has grossed $22 million worldwide. It was nominated for Outstanding British Film at the 76th British Academy Film Awards.
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Richard "Dickie" Attenborough(Harris Dickenson) greets the detectives as "Darling." This was a real-life quirk of Attenborough's which he admitted he would often use if he forgot someone's name.
Film titles that misled
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"The Kinks at the BBC". Followed by "The Old Grey Whistle Test", then "I'm Not like Everbody Else: the World of Ray Davis and the Kinks". :)
The Company of Wolves, 1984... as recommended by Barry
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I usually can't be doing with vampire* and werewolf stuff. Saw that years ago didn't think much of it.
* your Hammer stuff with Lee and Cushing is okay but not the modern crap aimed at angsty teens.
im in agreement so far. its not bad, just not good... seems to lack any real direction tbh. acting isnt great either even tho there are good actors in it so maybe have to blame the direction and script. not a patch on 'london'...Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Usually not my sort of movie, but I seem to remember enjoying 'The Howling' years ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
The problem is the poor adaptation from what is a complex book by Angela Carter - hence the rambling direction. It's more about the psychology of why we have a need for, and enjoy, these sort of tales.
However it does have the sexy Tusse Silberg in it.
Overall I liked it and much prefer it to 'London', despite the impressive 'body-popping' special effects of the latter
she was quite nice in her day... think she is still alive too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
The Maltese Falcon, 1941.. all new 4k steelbook.
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The Maltese Falcon was shot on 35 mm black and white film (specifically Eastman Plus-X 1231 stock) using Mitchell BNC cameras with spherical lenses (Edeson reportedly favored a personally-owned 21 mm wide-angle for this production), and it was finished at the 1.37:1 Academy ratio typical of the period. While there are no restoration notes available, studio sources have confirmed that Warner Bros. Motion Picture Imaging completed a new 16-bit 4K scan and frame-by-frame digital remastering of the original camera negative earlier this year (and it’s worth noting that the entire original negative for this film actually does survive in good condition). The image was then carefully graded for High Dynamic Range for its Ultra HD release (HDR10 alone is available on this disc). The result is absolutely stunning, a gorgeous presentation that exhibits a significant uptick in resolution and refinement compared to the previous Blu-ray edition. Extremely deep blacks are in evidence, along with luminous highlights, and much greater variation in grayscale than ever before. Fine detail is crisp and clean, with more nuanced texturing too, an improvement that’s readily apparent in facial features, hair, costume textiles, furniture, and brickwork. Archer’s tweed suit in the opening scene, for example, reveals its intricate herringbone pattern with ease. You can nearly read the text on the business license in Spade’s office, not to mention the instructions on the pay phone he uses early in the film. The worn paint and wallpaper in his apartment too are remarkably detailed. Photochemical grain is light to moderate but controlled and natural looking at all times. To the extent that there’s any softness in the image at all, it’s found in optically-printed transitions or slight variations in the depth of focus in low-lighting conditions. But it seems abundantly clear that every bit of detail available in the negative is visible on screen.
one of my all time favourites that, easily top ten.
So much great dialogue:
'The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.'
'When I slap you, you'll take it and like it.'
'I've practiced taking guns of these pocket-edition desperadoes before.'
'Another one who thinks a gat in the hand means the world by the tail.'
Actually that last one is from 'The Big Sleep'. But you get the idea.
'The stuff that dreams are made of'...
now, a bit earlier than last film; Ruggles of Red Gap, 1935...
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Charles Laughton won the New York Film Critics' Circle Awards for Ruggles of Red Gap (along with Mutiny on the Bounty) in 1935. The National Board of Review named the film the ninth best of 1935. [That year, Laughton's other two films, Les Misérables and Mutiny on the Bounty were sixth and eighth on the list, respectively]. The film was nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture and competed against two other Laughton films that were also nominated: Mutiny on the Bounty (which won the award) and Les Misérables.
Edward Dmytryk, the film's editor, said that Charles Laughton became so emotional during the scene in the saloon where he recites the Gettysburg Address that it took director Leo McCarey 1-1/2 days to complete shooting it. According to Dmytryk, the preview audiences found Laughton's close-ups in the scene embarrassing and tittered through the speech. When substitute shots of Laughton from behind were inserted, the audience found the reaction shots of the other people reacting to him very moving, and the second preview was extremely successful. The Gettysburg address had great personal significance to Charles Laughton as he was considering taking up American citizenship.
Are you quoting publicity blurb, or are they your own words?Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Good film nonetheless - one of the best. :)
mostly from a review mate..Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
now after finishing Ripping Yarns...
Memoirs of an Invisible Man, 1992... bluray..
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According to visual effects supervisor Bruce Nicholson, "Success in this movie was showing invisibility in detail". During nine months of preparation, Nicholson studied four previous films on the subject, The Invisible Man - which receives a tribute in the scene where Nick is shown to have his head wrapped in bandages and is wearing large dark goggles - and its sequel The Invisible Man Returns, Bedknobs and Broomsticks and Ghost.
Chase would wear a blue bodysuit below his clothing, so that computer artists would erase his body through chroma key and match the clothes with computer-generated replicas so that even the inside of the clothing could be seen, along with other touches such as erasing the shadow made by Chase's body. A particularly elaborate effect had Nick's invisible face being covered in flesh-colored make-up. The make-up was applied to Chase as his head was covered in viscous blue cosmetic, tongue and teeth coated with blue food coloring, and the cornea of each eye covered with blue contact lenses, an uncomfortable makeover made worse by the June heat and heavy studio lighting.
The Wild Bunch, 1969... bluray....one of the greats this...
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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.
During a screening in New York, Sam Peckinpah invited Jay Cocks, of "Time" magazine, who brought his friend Martin Scorsese. They sat in an empty Warner Bros. screening room with only two other critics, Judith Crist and Rex Reed. That final scene knocked them out of their seats. Recalled Scorsese, "We were mesmerized by it; it was obviously a masterpiece. It was real filmmaking, using film in such a way that no other form could do it; it couldn't be done any other way. To see that in an American filmmaker was so exciting." Cocks remembered that he and Scorsese "literally turned to each other at the end and were stunned. We were looking at each other, shaking our heads, like we had just come out of a shared fever dream."
The Jungle Book, 2016... 4k bluray..
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The CGI character Baloo is so large and furry, he took almost five hours of rendering time per frame.
Neel Sethi said that since he never actually worked with real animals on-set during filming, director Jon Favreau would on occasion stand in for where the animals would be present, most notably as Shere Khan lunging out from the tall grass.
This is the final movie of Garry Shandling (Ikki the Porcupine), released less than a month after he died of a heart attack. In a tragic parallel, The Jungle Book (1967) also had a posthumous performance from Verna Felton (Winifred, Hathi's wife).
The Long Riders, 1980...
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The film stars four sets of actual brothers: the Carradines, the Keachs, the Quaids and the Guests.
The Alamo, 1960...
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John Wayne formed a close friendship with Laurence Harvey during filming. He later said Harvey should have received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor instead of Chill Wills.
John Wayne partially financed this film himself. During shooting, the film was delayed due to various production problems. Wayne was under so much pressure, he smoked cigarettes almost non-stop when not acting.
Although it was a biggish hit, it cost so much to film, much of which Wayne morgaged himself to hilt to get, that it took 11 years for him to get it payed back... madness...
stay with the western genre and john wayne again in.... Rio Lobo, 1970...
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John Wayne felt that Jack Elam had stolen several scenes from him in this movie, and therefore vetoed the casting of Elam as Grady in The Train Robbers (1973). Jack Elam (Phillips, the "Old Man") was 13 years younger than John Wayne.
When Howard Hawks told John Wayne that he was remaking Rio Bravo (1959) for the second time, Wayne's immediate response was: "Do I get to play the drunk this time?"
When Cord McNally (John Wayne) visits Sheriff Pat Cronin (Bill Williams) in the Sheriff's office, there is a wanted poster on the wall for Hondo Lane, the character Wayne played in Hondo (1953).
The Big Sleep, 1946
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According to Lauren Bacall, production was such fun that they got a memo from Jack L. Warner saying, "Word has reached me that you are having fun on the set. This must stop."
Philip Marlowe's habit of feeling his earlobe while in deep thought was something Humphrey Bogart incorporated from his own behavior.
The scene where Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall make suggestive talk about horses was added almost a year after filming was otherwise complete, in an attempt to inject the film with the kind of risqué innuendos that had made To Have and Have Not (1944), and Bacall, so popular a few years earlier.
Another excellent film there Grant. :)
another classic bogey film with... To Have and Have Not, 1944..
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Lauren Bacall as Marie "Slim" Browning. At the time of casting, Bacall was an 18-year-old model. She had appeared on the cover of Harper's Bazaar, and was noticed by Hawks' wife, Nancy "Slim" Keith, who showed the cover photo to her husband. Hawks sought Bacall out in April 1943 and signed her for the role, her first movie appearance. In the film, Harry calls her by the nickname "Slim", and she calls him "Steve", the nicknames used between Keith and Hawks. Hawks shot her screen test with contract player John Ridgely in January 1944. Her screen test was the seduction and "whistle" scene. This scene wasn't originally meant to go in the film, but Jack L. Warner told Hawks that he needed to integrate it into the film, and so it was later adapted into the film. After the screen test, Hawks signed his first personal contract with an unknown actress with Bacall.
Possibly my favourite Bogey film. :)
considering it was her first film it was remarkable. good cast helpedQuote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Bogey again in ... We're No Angels, 1955... bogart's 4th last film...
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Jack Moffit of The Hollywood Reporter had a favorable review of the film, calling it "a glamorous comedy" full of performances which "are uniformly excellent" and a screenplay which "is worthy of study." Likewise, Lionel Collier of Picturegoer praised it as "a real breakaway comedy--ghoulish humor with a neat sardonic kick."
fun now with.... Throw Momma from the Train, 1987...
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Hondo, 1953..
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Michael Pate who plays the Indian chief was also in real life an expert in Old West Military procedure. He told later that the Indian attack in the movie was not realistic at all, because Indians were experts in guerrilla warfare and would never have been trapped in an arroyo by the U.S. Army.
The film was based on a story by Louis L'Amour which was first published in Collier's Magazine and adapted for the screen by James Edward Grant. It was later printed as a novel of which John Wayne said ' The best western novel I have ever read'. He added ' When I read Louis L'Amour's exciting novel, I knew I had to play Hondo Lane in a motion picture. In the man Hondo, I found the very spirit of the old West.'
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, 1979...series..
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George Smiley has been retired for about a year when he finds a friend from the Circus, his old outfit in British Intelligence, sitting in his living room. He is taken to the home of an advisor to the Prime Minister on intelligence matters, where he finds evidence that one of the men in the senior ranks of his old agency is a Russian spy. Smiley is asked to find him, without official access to any of the files in the Circus or letting on that anyone is under suspicion. With only a few old friends, his own powers of deduction, and secrecy as weapons, Smiley must unearth the spy who turned him out of the Circus.
John le Carré was so impressed by Alec Guinness's performance as George Smiley that, in later novels, he wrote Smiley's characterization to be in keeping with Guinness' performance.
John le Carré has admitted that the vocabulary used in the novels/series (babysitters, lamplighters, the Circus, the nursery, moles, scalp hunters) was made up. He was later amused to discover that real agents had begun to appropriate some of his vocabulary once his espionage stories were published.
Although I enjoyed the later film made of TTSS, IMO the TV series was better and was more 'believable'.
Predestination, 2014... bluray...
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The movie is based on Robert A. Heinlein's short story "All You Zombies".
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.
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film had a score of 84% based on 111 reviews, with an average rating of 6.9 out of 10. The site's critical consensus stated: "Fun genre fare with uncommon intelligence, Predestination serves as a better-than-average sci-fi adventure—and offers a starmaking turn from Sarah Snook."
Smiley's People, 1982..
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Sir Alec Guinness insisted on watching his scenes in the unedited rough cuts and would get depressed, thinking his performance was poor. Screenwriter John le Carré told Director Simon Langton not to worry about it because Guinness had done the same thing while filming Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979), and his performance then turned out fine.
got my tv shows on hdd back working..yay... so, Blackadder II, 1986..
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Tonight, if you want a movie later. 'Night of The Demon' 1957, with Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins and Niall MacGinnis. Great cast and acting. Properly creepy cult classic and one of my favourites :).
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Was talking about that in work yesterday. No-one had even heard of it let alone seen it.
probably the best horror film ever. Although I always think it would have been better if they never actually showed the demon, but IIRC the distributor demanded it
The tense sense of unease through it is clever and the dawning terrible realisation of sceptic Dane Andrews is well portrayed.
Indeed. I sort of want him to get his comeuppance by the end of it. The Niall MacGinnis character is far more interesting.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Great actor.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
I was watching him not so long ago in some other film, can't recall what it was now.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Playing a totally different character, he looked familiar to me but it was a while before it clicked that it was him. Sign of a good actor.
he was in a lot of films; even shakspeare...but lots of war stuffQuote:
Originally Posted by Macca
The Boys from Brazil, 1978.. classic film score in this from Jerry Goldsmith, who also got an Oscar nomination..
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Publicity for the film stated that this was the first villainous role of Gregory Peck's career. Peck felt that his portrayal of Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele was the only completely unsympathetic role that he ever performed. Peck was upset by the extremely negative reactions to his performance. He later said, "I felt, Laurence Olivier felt, friends of mine like Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon felt, that I was good in this part. Some critics seem unwilling to accept actors when they break what they think is the mold or the image."
In a promotional interview with Roger Ebert, James Mason explained that he had hoped to get either Laurence Olivier's or Gregory Peck's role, and was disappointed to be offered neither, but then was contacted about the subsidiary role of Seibert: "They'd found that when Dr. Mengele was in Paraguay, he had no one to talk to. So they fleshed out the other Nazi, and he fell into my lap. It was convenient, it was acceptable, I could even make sense of the character, and besides, it was four weeks work in Portugal, where I'd never been before."
Laurence Olivier received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for his role in this movie, playing a Jewish man who hunts Josef Mengele and other Nazi war criminals. His most recent Oscar nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role prior to this, was for Marathon Man (1976), in which he played Dr. Christian Szell, a Nazi war criminal based on Dr. Josef Mengele. For this film, Olivier received his tenth and final Academy Award nomination, making him the most nominated actor up to that point. His record was later surpassed by Jack Nicholson, with 12 nominations.
Looked up his filmography it was 'Sword Of Sherwood Forest' he was Friar Tuck.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Not a bad film that. My uncle Pat was obsessed with the war and the Nazis, anytime I saw him he would go on about what a great film it was. I didn't see it until a few years later.Quote:
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