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Post by london777 on Feb 17, 2019 1:52:53 GMT
Woody Allen has cropped up a few times already. He likes to quote film classics. In Whatever Works (2009) the central character, played by Larry David, takes his young wife to see Touch of Evil (1958) dir: Orson Welles, of which we see a brief clip.
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Post by london777 on Feb 22, 2019 3:44:09 GMT
Pedro Almodóvar again: near the beginning of All About My Mother they are watching All About Eve. Marisa Paredes plays Huma, an actress, and her character tells us that as a teenager she was inspired by Bette Davis both to act and to chain-smoke. The movie is dedicated to Davis (and to others).
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Post by teleadm on Feb 22, 2019 18:32:29 GMT
The Black Dahlia 2006 characters watch the old Conrad Veidt silent The Man Who Laughs 1928. A movie I for some reason have thought was lost. Since The Back Dahlia took place just after WWII, why a silent movie?
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Post by london777 on Feb 22, 2019 22:40:12 GMT
The Black Dahlia 2006 characters watch the old Conrad Veidt silent The Man Who Laughs 1928. A movie I for some reason have thought was lost. Since The Black Dahlia took place just after WWII, why a silent movie? Because the murder victim (The Black Dahlia) was mutilated in the same way as "the man who laughed" and the murderer was thought to have copied the movie.
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Post by teleadm on Feb 22, 2019 22:54:54 GMT
The Black Dahlia 2006 characters watch the old Conrad Veidt silent The Man Who Laughs 1928. A movie I for some reason have thought was lost. Since The Black Dahlia took place just after WWII, why a silent movie? Because the murder victim (The Black Dahlia) was mutilated in the same way as "the man who laughed" and the murderer was thought to have copied the movie. Well at keast that part made sense, of a muddled movie that I Didn't like
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Post by Doghouse6 on Feb 23, 2019 0:06:56 GMT
One of no fewer than a dozen screen adaptations of the 1928 novel, "Dvenadtsat stulyev" (known to we English speakers as "The Twelve Chairs"), It's In the Bag (1945) stars Fred Allen as flea circus empresario Fred Floogle, on the trail of one of several chairs in which is concealed an inherited fortune. The premise serves as not much more than something upon which to hang a series of extended comic sketches, some featuring cameos by those in the poster art above (appearing as themselves). Perhaps the most memorable of these is a sequence in which Fred and his wife (Binnie Barnes) kill time by going into a theater showing Zombie In the Attic, outside of which is a sidewalk hawker proclaiming, "Immediate seating on the inside!" Directed by usher after to usher to higher and higher balconies, each of whom meets Fred's protest, "But the man outside said there's immediate seating" with a hearty guffaw and a dismissive and noncommittal, "Oh, that's Joe," the Floogles finally find themselves at the uppermost balcony, from which the barely discernible screen appears the size of a postage stamp. The frustrated pair go to see the manager (Emory Parnell), who meets Fred's complaint with the expected, "Oh, that's Joe." When Fred demands his money back, the manager fast-talks him: "Money, money, money. That's all some people ever think about. Do you remember what happened in 1929?" Fred's outraged reply is, "Yes, 1929 was the year I came into this theater to see Zombie In the Attic. I was a young man then. I was full of hope. Look at me now!"
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Post by london777 on Feb 23, 2019 2:52:29 GMT
Because the murder victim (The Black Dahlia) was mutilated in the same way as "the man who laughed" and the murderer was thought to have copied the movie. Well at least that part made sense, of a muddled movie that I didn't like. It was the first sensational murder case after World War II, and (I appreciate this sounds a weird and insensitive thing to say) was devoured by the public as a "back to normal" news story after all the war stories. I think there have been three attempts to tell the story of this still unsolved murder mystery, none of them very good, and I think I read yet another is mooted. Better luck this time!
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Post by marianne48 on Mar 10, 2019 1:35:52 GMT
The Bollywood musical number at the opening of Ghost World (2001) is from the 1965 film Gumnaam, a pretty good thriller loosely based on Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None. Worth a watch (and that dance sequence, "Jaan Pehechan Ho," is a lot of fun).
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Post by london777 on Apr 25, 2019 3:24:08 GMT
In The Grifters (1990) dir: Stephen Frears clips of The Lady Vanishes (1938) dir: Alfred Hitchcock are seen on the TV in Lilly's motel room (one Brit director plugging another?). I just read that it was Martin Scorsese who chose Frears to replace him as director, though Scorsese stayed on as producer.
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Post by london777 on Apr 28, 2019 19:56:47 GMT
In Pedro Almodóvar's Los Abrazos Rotos (2009), Penélope Cruz and Lluís Homar are watching For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) dir: Sam Wood on television. She is crying (but I did not think the movie was that bad).
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Post by london777 on Jun 7, 2019 2:12:10 GMT
In Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) dir: Marielle Heller, Melissa McCarthy's character is watching The Little Foxes (1941) dir: William Wyler, and is speaking Bette Davis' lines and distinctive laugh. I cannot find a still of that scene in the modern film, so let's look at what she was watching:
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Post by london777 on Jun 8, 2019 1:10:15 GMT
Early in American Animals (2018) written and directed by Bart Layton, the initial pair of amateur robbers are watching The Killing (1956) dir: Stanley Kubrick.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jun 10, 2019 11:05:16 GMT
In Just Wright (2010) Queen Latifah and Common watch Romancing the Stone (1984) on TV while his character recuperates from an injury. I thought that was great since I love that movie.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jun 10, 2019 11:18:32 GMT
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) Frank (Leslie Nielsen) and Jane (Priscilla Presley) are shown leaving a theater showing Platoon (1986) and laughing.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jun 10, 2019 13:04:58 GMT
From Throw Momma From the Train (1987), a marquee showing Strangers On a Train (1951), which inspires the plot within this movie, and also inspired the movie itself.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jun 10, 2019 16:32:34 GMT
One Oscar winning Best Picture inside another Oscar winning Best Picture, whoa! A marquee in Green Book (2018) showing Lawrence of Arabia (1962).
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Post by bravomailer on Jun 10, 2019 17:57:43 GMT
Is it Look Back In Anger where Richard Burton is in a theater making rude comments about a war film, much to the irritation of another patron?
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Post by teleadm on Jun 14, 2019 15:54:30 GMT
In the Swedish Golden Globe nominated Everlasting Moments 2008, a poor family in the early 1900s, where the mother suddenly wins a fancy camera, anyway the movie has brighter moments too, like going to the cinema and then goes home and paints little mustachoes on their lips and does a very famous walk. They had offcourse seen Chaplin's Easy Street 1917 (seen it many times so I knew it was that movie), and some clips are showed. I liked that it wasn't a Chaplin movie chosen in random, but fitted in since the Everlasting Moments scenes took place, around 1918. I took some time for movies to travel over the Atlantic during the War we now know as Number One.
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Post by london777 on Dec 4, 2019 2:15:37 GMT
Hollywood Story (1951) dir: William Castle is about the murder of a distinguished silent-film director in the 1920s. As an example of his work a clip of The Phantom of the Opera (1925) dir: Rupert Julian is shown but attributed to the fictitious "Franklin Ferrara". This seems very disrespectful and I cannot imagine even a low-budget film doing that today.
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Post by teleadm on Dec 7, 2019 16:17:17 GMT
In The Wilby Conspiracy 1974, after being hunted from Cape Town to Johannesburg, Michael Caine's character buys a ticket to a small cinema that only shows old India Bollywood Musicals, and a few scenes from a Bollywood musical is seen.
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