Now Screening - What Are You Watching Right Now?

[struth]

a bit of red dwarf to see out my sesh Red Dwarf 10.

[Gazjam]

Cryton's edges are looking a bit blunt...

Firmware needing updating or...?

[struth]

Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1978.





good remake of a classic.

[struth]

Ryan's Daughter, 1970. directed by David Lean and starring Robert Mitchum and Sarah Miles.





It won 2 Oscars;
Best Supporting Actor - John Mills and Best Cinematography - Freddie Young.

[Barry]

Panned by the critics, but loved by cinema goers.

I though the parts played by John Mills and Trevor Howard to be particularly good.

[struth]

Panned by the critics, but loved by cinema goers.

I though the parts played by John Mills and Trevor Howard to be particularly good.

yes its a good film for all its faults. very watchable

[struth]

Oliver Twist, 1948. Another of David Lean's films; all pretty much classics. Lean re-assembled much of the same team for his adaptation of Dickens' 1838 novel, including producers Ronald Neame and Anthony Havelock-Allan, cinematographer Guy Green, designer John Bryan and editor Jack Harris. Lean's then-wife, Kay Walsh, who had collaborated on the screenplay for Great Expectations, played the role of Nancy. John Howard Davies was cast as Oliver, while Alec Guinness portrayed Fagin and Robert Newton played Bill Sykes (Bill Sikes in the novel).





The film was banned in Israel for anti-semitism. It was banned in Egypt for portraying Fagin too sympathetically. lol cant win eh

[struth]

Blame It on the Bellboy, 1992.

[struth]

Memoirs of an Invisible Man, 1992. directed by John Carpenter and starring Chevy Chase, Daryl Hannah, Sam Neill, Michael McKean and Stephen Tobolowsky.





Filming rolled for 84 days between April and June 1991. Parts of the film were shot in Snowbird, Utah.

Carpenter said due to the effects work by Industrial Light & Magic "we essentially had to shoot the same movie twice", as after normal takes the effects team would set up their bulky VistaVision motion control cameras to film the same elements again while gathering digital data for the computer-generated imagery.

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.

[struth]

Night Train to Munich, 1940.





The film has been compared to The Lady Vanishes, with the Princeton academic Michael Wood describing it as an "ironic remake"; the publicity at the time of release erroneously claimed it is a sequel. It has a similar situation in a war-torn continental Europe and both have scripts by Launder and Gilliat. The two slightly eccentric and cricket-mad English travellers, Charters and Caldicott, are carried over. The films are otherwise similar in setting, and both feature similar lead character types: the damsel in distress and eccentric upper-class British gentlemen spy, manifesting in the first film as Iris (played by Margaret Lockwood) and Gilbert and in the second as Anna Bomasch (also played by Lockwood) and Dickie Randall.