Now Screening - What Are You Watching Right Now?

[Mikeandvan]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_B...er_(1959_film)

Yes, it is of it's time, but a refreshing 'kick up the arse' of the Britsh film industry - similar to the advent of punk on the safe and self-satisfied British music scene.

Until then the British industry churned out entertaining, but safe films such as the Ealing comedies - the only exception being the work of Powell & Pressburger

I thought it was histrionic and stagey, not to mention all the clumsy heavy handed metaphors about class. But apparently the critics think it's ok, so may be I'm missing something. Another 'classic' kitchen sink drama that I saw recently for the first time was A kind of Loving, which in contrast had an understated style, whose meanings are revealed rather than shouted.

[struth]

Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon , 1967...




Burl Ives would remain on in Ireland after making the film, buying a farm near Limerick, and living there, on and off, until the early 70's.

Bing Crosby was attached to this project; he was going to play P.T. Barnum, but delays and rewrites caused him to drop out, with Burl Ives taking role.

[struth]

somehing to make you realise whats really important...WHISKY GALORE!, 1949..

[struth]

There is no whisky!!!!

Lol

[struth]

Sweeney!, 1977...





This was the first British movie to be shown legally in Communist China.

The name of the police unit was "The Flying Squad". This is in real life an actual police division. Wikipedia explain it as being "a branch of the Specialist Crime & Operations section, within London's Metropolitan Police Service. The Squad's purpose is to investigate commercial armed robberies, along with the prevention and investigation of other serious armed crime. Possibly one of the best known operations of the squad was their foiling of the Millennium Dome raid".

[struth]

That'll Be The Day, 1973... stars David Essex, Ringo Starr, Billy Fury, Keith Moon, Robert Lindsay and Rosemary Leach.




Producer David Puttnam was impressed by Harry Nilsson's song "1941" and asked screenwriter Ray Connolly to create a screenplay based on it. The resulting movie resembles the song in all key respects except a funfair substitutes the circus of the song.

The original end music, "That'll Be The Day", was replaced for the American release by "Rock On", which had just been released.

There are two big Beatles connections that bookend this film. Firstly, right at the start of the film where Jim goes into the cafe a guitar instrumental called " Raunchy" is playing. This is the song that George Harrison played to John Lennon on the top of a Liverpool corporation bus as his audition to join The Quarrymen. The second is the Buddy Holly & The Crickets song "That'll be the Day" was the first song ever recorded by The Quarrymen, featuring Lennon, McCartney and Harrison.

The song played by Stormy Tempest and his band during the dance scene is "Long Live Rock" written by Pete Townshend of The Who.

[struth]

Gotta follow it up with Stardust from 1974... Essex again with Keith Moon, Adam Faith, Larry Hagman and Dave Edmunds....




Adam Faith's limping throughout the film was from injuries he sustained from a severe car accident he suffered prior to filming. However, the limp was consistent with Mike having been beaten up at the conclusion of the previous film. Ringo Starr turned down the chance to reprise his role of Mike from That'll Be the Day (1973)

A journalist asks Jim how he finds America. Following his answer, Kevin says "At least he didn't say "turn left at Greenland"". This was an actual response to the same question used in reality by John Lennon.

[Barry]

somehing to make you realise whats really important...WHISKY GALORE!, 1949..

Good film!

[Mikeandvan]

The Mind Benders, starring Dirk Bogarde, and same tasty actress what was in Look back in anger. It's very good actually, supremely creepy shot of Dirk floating in isolation tank, simple pretext, but script makes much of it.

[struth]

The Invisible Man, 2020...




The film follows Cecilia, who receives the news of her abusive ex-boyfriend's suicide. She begins to re-build her life for the better. However, her sense of reality is put into question when she begins to suspect her deceased lover is
not actually dead.




Leigh Whannell had told cinematographer Stefan Duscio that this horror movie would feature plenty of light as an invisible man doesn't need to hide in the darkness, "and he kind of groaned with pain" because cinematographers love darkness. The attic scene is a "little gift" that he gave to Duscio, and they lit it with just the torch.