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Post by Doghouse6 on Jun 14, 2023 6:04:37 GMT
Nice expansion of the topic. Whether powered by horse or horsepower, a cab is a cab (Hansom or otherwise, I guess). Hi there, actually I am sorry that I did not read your opening thread correctly, and then going off on a totally different strand. Something more suitable, Kostas (1979) from down here in Australia, a touching clash of culture and class, a wonderful romantic drama from writer director Paul Cox.. Kostas (Takis Emmanuel), formerly a journalist in Greece, now a taxi driver in Melbourne, spots Carol (Wendy Hughes), a divorced mother of one, at the airport, follows her home, and asks her out for a dinner date. No apology necessary at all. On the relatively rare occasions I start threads, there's nothing I enjoy more than those who get creative with them and take them places I never thought of. Thanks also for the mention of Kostas, a film of which I'd been unaware, but which sounds quite interesting. I intend to try tracking it down.
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Post by movielover on Jun 14, 2023 6:20:01 GMT
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Post by movielover on Jun 14, 2023 6:27:22 GMT
Ernest Borgnine in Escape from New York
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Post by movielover on Jun 14, 2023 6:31:47 GMT
The cab ride in After Hours. (Ironically, from the same director as Taxi Driver.)
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Post by spiderwort on Jun 14, 2023 13:23:39 GMT
Knowing of your fondness for Kazan's work, you top the list of people to whom I'm most ashamed to make that admission. As long as I'm in humiliating, full-disclosure mode, I'll mention that I tend to run hot or cold on his films. Boomerang, Gentleman's Agreement, Panic In the Streets, Man On a Tightrope, East of Eden and A Face In the Crowd all ones for which I have tremendous admiration. And I've said before that I'm wild about Wild River. Others like Streetcar, Baby Doll and Splendor, not so much. I recognize their artistry and craftsmanship, but they don't reach me. Waterfront presents an atmosphere and story that aren't usually up my alley, but I've no good reason not to give it a fair shot, and I'll do so. I'm sure you know how much I value your knowledge and opinions. We still friends? Absolutely we are still friends! In the end, it's to each his own. But let me know how you feel about Waterfront if/when you see it. I think you'll like it, but maybe you won't. And I'm glad you love East of Eden and Wild River, two of my Kazan favorites.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jun 14, 2023 14:01:19 GMT
It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World featured memorable taxi drivers Peter Falk and Eddie “Rochester” Anderson. Good one! And let's not leave out Leo Gorcey, who had a smaller role as a cab driver. He's the one who takes Caesar and Adams to the hardware store. When Caesar pays him and says, " Keep the change, but wait for us," Gorcey responds with a broadly sarcastic, "Ohhh, sure."
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jun 14, 2023 14:08:29 GMT
Knowing of your fondness for Kazan's work, you top the list of people to whom I'm most ashamed to make that admission. As long as I'm in humiliating, full-disclosure mode, I'll mention that I tend to run hot or cold on his films. Boomerang, Gentleman's Agreement, Panic In the Streets, Man On a Tightrope, East of Eden and A Face In the Crowd all ones for which I have tremendous admiration. And I've said before that I'm wild about Wild River. Others like Streetcar, Baby Doll and Splendor, not so much. I recognize their artistry and craftsmanship, but they don't reach me. Waterfront presents an atmosphere and story that aren't usually up my alley, but I've no good reason not to give it a fair shot, and I'll do so. I'm sure you know how much I value your knowledge and opinions. We still friends? Absolutely we are still friends! In the end, it's to each his own. But let me know how you feel about Waterfront if/when you see it. I think you'll like it, but maybe you won't. And I'm glad you love East of Eden and Wild River, two of my Kazan favorites. That closing question was just funnin,' of course. I know you'd never hold differing viewpoints against anyone. I will seek out Waterfront and duly report on it. Many players in it I very much enjoy.
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Post by jervistetch on Jun 14, 2023 17:07:56 GMT
DARK PASSAGE Cabbie Sam (Tom D’Andrea) knows a doctor that can fix up Bogie’s face real good. Physician, heal thyself.
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Post by jervistetch on Jun 14, 2023 17:09:09 GMT
It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World featured memorable taxi drivers Peter Falk and Eddie “Rochester” Anderson. Good one! And let's not leave out Leo Gorcey, who had a smaller role as a cab driver. He's the one who takes Caesar and Adams to the hardware store. When Caesar pays him and says, " Keep the change, but wait for us," Gorcey responds with a broadly sarcastic, "Ohhh, sure." Doghouse, of all the times I’ve watched this movie I never knew that was Leo Gorcey!!
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Post by Richard Kimble on Jun 14, 2023 19:20:43 GMT
OMG, Doghouse, you must, must, must see On the Waterfront!! It's a great film, which I'm sure you would love. And I'm so glad for your love of The Catered Affair, one of my personal favorites, and Midnight, which is indeed a screwball jewel. (But please do see On the Waterfront, one of the best American films with one of the most famous cab scenes in film history.) Knowing of your fondness for Kazan's work, you top the list of people to whom I'm most ashamed to make that admission. As long as I'm in humiliating, full-disclosure mode, I'll mention that I tend to run hot or cold on his films. Boomerang, Gentleman's Agreement, Panic In the Streets, Man On a Tightrope, East of Eden and A Face In the Crowd all ones for which I have tremendous admiration. And I've said before that I'm wild about Wild River. Others like Streetcar, Baby Doll and Splendor, not so much. I recognize their artistry and craftsmanship, but they don't reach me. Waterfront presents an atmosphere and story that aren't usually up my alley, but I've no good reason not to give it a fair shot, and I'll do so. I'm sure you know how much I value your knowledge and opinions. We still friends?
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Post by marianne48 on Jun 14, 2023 19:32:31 GMT
In the underrated romantic comedy Crossing Delancey, a largely accurate portrait of NYC in the 1980s, Izzy (Amy Irving) is desperate to get to a particular destination in a hurry, but finds herself at the mercy of a cab driver who is apparently learning how to drive as he goes along, with the help of his wife/girlfriend reading multiple choice quiz questions from a drivers' manual as they drive. A weird little sequence, but so New Yawk. They should have made a sequel with what was going on with that couple.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jun 14, 2023 23:33:27 GMT
Hi there, actually I am sorry that I did not read your opening thread correctly, and then going off on a totally different strand. Something more suitable, Kostas (1979) from down here in Australia, a touching clash of culture and class, a wonderful romantic drama from writer director Paul Cox.. Kostas (Takis Emmanuel), formerly a journalist in Greece, now a taxi driver in Melbourne, spots Carol (Wendy Hughes), a divorced mother of one, at the airport, follows her home, and asks her out for a dinner date. No apology necessary at all. On the relatively rare occasions I start threads, there's nothing I enjoy more than those who get creative with them and take them places I never thought of. Thanks also for the mention of Kostas, a film of which I'd been unaware, but which sounds quite interesting. I intend to try tracking it down. Thanks, it is a great thread... hailing the humble cabbie... Kostas is available for free download at the Internet Archive >Feature Films >Year Filter (1979). The print is a bit grainy but very watchable starring Wendy Hughes also. a great actress, the archive also has a number of other Paul Cox films, currently the only source for them ...
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jun 14, 2023 23:48:16 GMT
Night on Earth (1991) written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. One night. Five cities. Five Taxicabs. Jim Jarmusch’s lovingly askew view of humanity from the driver and the passenger seat. Spanning time zones, continents, and numerous languages, the film is an engaging and amusing quintet of tales telling of urban displacement, existential angst, love, hope and dreams... The cabs and cities featured are New York, Paris, Rome, Helsinki. In Los Angeles as evening falls, tomboy cabby Corky (Winona Ryder) picks up Hollywood executive Victoria Snelling (Gena Rowlands) from the airport, and as Corky drives, Victoria chats away and tries to conduct business on her cell phone. Victoria Snelling: Everyone wants to be a movie star!
Corky: Look, lady, I like the movies and all and I see you're being serious, you know, but, that's not a real life for me, you know.
Corky: I don't always want to be a cab driver.
Victoria Snelling: What do you really want to be.
Corky: A mechanic.
Victoria Snelling: A mechanic?
Corky: I practically know all there is to know about it. Both my brothers are mechanics. They're older than me; but, you know, cause I'm like a girl and I'm like still kinda young and all, I gotta kinda like work up to it, you know.
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Post by london777 on Jun 15, 2023 0:10:51 GMT
In one segment of Out of the Past (1947) dir: Jacques Tourneur, Jeff Bailey (Robert Mitchum) has a tame cab driver, Petey (Wallace Scott), whom he can rely on. When Petey sees Meta Carson (Rhonda Fleming), he comments 'Nice'. Mitchum replies 'Awful cold aound the heart'. One of my favorite lines in all US movies and a great life lesson.
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Post by london777 on Jun 15, 2023 0:42:42 GMT
In Dancing with Crime (1947) dir: John Paddy Carstairs, London taxi-driver Richard Attenborough exposes a criminal gang who exploit dance halls. Uncredited walk-ons for Dirk Bogarde and Diana Dors and co-starring Attenborough's wife, Sheila Sim. Superior score for a Brit B-film by Benjamin Frankel. The film is available on YouTube. One poster bore the slogan 'A British film that's tough'. An interesting insight into the public opinion of British crime movies at the time (and for many years after, until Get Carter and The Long Good Friday earned international respect).
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Post by london777 on Jun 15, 2023 0:50:31 GMT
In Collateral (2004) dir: Michael Mann, a cab-driver (Jamie Foxx) is held hostage by a contract killer (Tom Cruise) and forced to drive him to the sites of his various violent assignments.
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Post by london777 on Jun 15, 2023 1:05:42 GMT
Does limousine-hire qualify? Holy Motors (2012) dir: Leos Carax, we only find out at the end is a limousine-hire company with, apparently, a spiritual or redemptive purpose. We follow one limousine, chauffered by Edit Scob, as she drives Mr Oscar (Denis Lavant) to his nine very varied assignments. He appears to be a performance artist, but who has commissioned him and where is the audience? I think this may be a great film. I will let you know after three more viewings.
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Post by london777 on Jun 15, 2023 1:31:37 GMT
Un Taxi Mauve The Purple Taxi (1977) dir: Yves Boisset. Has anybody here seen it? Fred Astaire as the taxi-driver, with Charlotte Rampling, Peter Ustinov, and Philippe Noiret. I have never heard of it, and I am guessing not many of you have either. I would guess it was suppressed when the backers realized that they were lumbered with an excruciating piece of Franco-Irish whimsy and sentimentality. But several of the few reviewers on IMDb deem it a lost masterpiece. Perhaps it is.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jun 15, 2023 1:42:27 GMT
Roman Holiday (1953) Dir. William Wyler. Award winning classic romantic comedy, filmed entirely in Rome. Early on in the film American reporter Joe Bradley (Gregory Peck) finds a woman Princess Ann (Audrey Hepburn) blissfully curled up on a stone bench. Not recognizing who she is and thinking that she is intoxicated, Bradley hails a cab to get her safely home... The cab driver Alfredo Rizzo... Italian actor, screenwriter and director. "Where you want to go?" asks the patient cab driver, a little bemused and unsure of his fare...
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jun 15, 2023 5:59:53 GMT
In one segment of Out of the Past (1947) dir: Jacques Tourneur, Jeff Bailey (Robert Mitchum) has a tame cab driver, Petey (Wallace Scott), whom he can rely on. When Petey sees Meta Carson (Rhonda Fleming), he comments 'Nice'. Mitchum replies 'Awful cold aound the heart'. One of my favorite lines in all US movies and a great life lesson. Nothing wrong with your memory... Wallace Scott hailed from down here in my hometown of Melbourne, a character actor often uncredited or notably as you remember. played bit parts with a bit of substance... Wallace Scott was the uncredited cab driver in this important taxicab scene from the romantic comedy She Wrote the Book (1946) Here with Joan Davis , "Driver please hurry...okay lady..." Wallace Scott was also an uncredited cab driver in the period film noir mystery Moss Rose (1947) With just a few words, "Miss Daisy Arrow" and a tip of the hat, the cab driver picks up his booked fare, barely visible he trots off into the gloom, just as another cab pulls in for the theatre patrons Belle and George.,,
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