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Post by RiP, IMDb on Dec 9, 2019 0:34:06 GMT
NOT a classic (NEEDS to be either twenty-five OR thirty-five years old to be EVEN considered to a classic). UNLESS it's a SPECIAL film such as Jaws (1975) or Star Wars (1977) which get INSTANT classification. MOST films (with a RARE exception) NEED to have been released in either 1994 or earlier, OR 1984 or earlier to get the CLASSIC certification.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Dec 9, 2019 8:50:35 GMT
Brideshead Revisited (2008).
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Dec 9, 2019 16:38:50 GMT
David Cronenberg's M. Butterfly (1993), not his usual type of movie.
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Post by louise on Dec 9, 2019 17:08:15 GMT
Make Mine Mink (1960). An elderly lady (Athene Seyler) who is accustomed to make large donations to charity find that she is running out of money. She bands together with her lodgers (Terry-Thomas, Hattie Jacques, and Elizabeth Duxbury), to steal fur coats to finance her charitable donations. Billie Whitelaw is Seyler's maid who unwittingly gives them the idea of becoming fur thieves. Very amusing.
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Post by louise on Dec 11, 2019 17:39:10 GMT
Madeline (1950). Based on a real life murder case about a young woman accused of poisoning her former lover. Very well made with good period detail.
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Post by Prime etc. on Dec 11, 2019 17:54:58 GMT
DIRTY HARRY 1971 - Watched a HD version. It is amazing how some scenes look like they could have been shot yesterday with a digital cleanup. Has great re-watch value and Andrew Robinson is infinitely amusing as Scorpio. It is interesting that unlike other such crime films he is not even given a name--and presented with zero sympathy. On the other hand the "it sucks to be a cop" message is so heavy-handed and repeated. Even the opening credit with the list of dead cops could be interpreted as a demoralization gesture. Did it really need to end with him throwing away his badge? Given that the entire film focused on how he was never appreciated for the tasks--what if it ended with someone, a kid, whoever, handing him a flower or some other gift of appreciation? I don't think it would have ruined the film.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Dec 11, 2019 22:23:27 GMT
Cutthroat Island (1995).
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Post by louise on Dec 12, 2019 19:05:45 GMT
Brothers In Law (1957). Quite amusing comedy with Ian Carmichael and David Attenborough as junior barristers trying to make their way in the complicated legal profession. Terry-Thomas very funny in a cameo as a very dodgy crook who Ian Carmichael reluctantly defends.
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Post by teleadm on Dec 12, 2019 19:43:16 GMT
Papillon 1973, still great after all these years. Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman are both tops, and 145 minutes went by relativley fast. Based on a true story? Well, there has been doubts in later years, and it could be just a tall-tale Henri Charrière mixed together of stories he had heard and made them into his own experiences, even so, it was a good story that created a great and memorable movie.
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Post by Prime etc. on Dec 14, 2019 7:32:12 GMT
I think Lucy Lawless should have been the star of Cutthroat Island. She would have aced it. Geena Davis lacked the edge needed for that.
I finally watched the 1991 ROBIN HOOD tv movie starring Patrick Bergin and Uma Thurman. In many ways superior to the Costner version and more cinematic in feeling than I expected. Hardly any production design drop from the Costner version--I might have assumed they used the same locations.I liked how they ended with the sun coming out to was h away the dreary weather that seems so common in 80s-90s stories set in English locations.
They do remove a lot of the swash from Robin's buckle though so he doesn't come close to the Flynn version for energy. Thurman is one of those Americans who seems to fit well into a English historical film, she kind of resembles a Pre-Raphaelite painting model. Then again, when she is dressed up as a boy she is very very convincing....that is not a compliment. I never realized how masculine her face was before. Edward Fox has an amusing bit as King John.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Dec 14, 2019 14:35:58 GMT
Murder on the Orient Express (2017).
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Post by millar70 on Dec 14, 2019 21:28:21 GMT
He Was Her Man
1934 crime drama with James Cagney, Joan Blondell, and Victor Jory
Pretty good film, a little more to the bone than a normal gangster film from that era. Cagney's performance was much more low-key than what he normally did, and it works well. Kind of a downer ending as well.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Dec 15, 2019 12:05:29 GMT
Ophelia (2018).
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Post by louise on Dec 15, 2019 13:53:58 GMT
Page Miss Glory (1935). Two con men (Pat O'Brien and Frank McHugh) are desperate to avoid being chucked out of the hotel they are staying in. They read about a nationwide beauty contest in which the photograph of the most beautiful girl will win $250,00. They concoct a composite photograph and send it in under the name 'Dawn Glory' and it wins. A famous pilot (Dick Powell) sees the photo of Dawn Glory and falls in love with her, and proposes to Dawn on nationwide radio. So reporters start flocking to the hotel and clamour to meet 'Dawn Glory'. The conmen get a chambermaid (Marion Davies) to dress up and pretend to be Dawn Glory, and of course it all gets more and more complicated after that. Absurd but very funny.
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Post by millar70 on Dec 15, 2019 23:05:44 GMT
Bell, Book, and Candle
1958 romantic comedy with James Stewart, Kim Novak, and Jack Lemmon.
Kind of an up and down film, I dug the concept but maybe a little too screwball for my taste. Good cast, though, Stewart was his normal great and Kim Novak does good work (and is sexy as always). Not a great film, but a fun Sunday afternoon watch.
One real funny line, Stewart is talking to his ex-fiance, played by Janice Rule, about Novak's character when he says "I'm telling you, she's a witch" and Rule responds with "Gil, your big problem is your spelling". Pretty funny and raunchy joke for a 1958 movie.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 15, 2019 23:13:22 GMT
Hadda watch it again on the 80th Anniversary of the Premiere in Atlanta, Georgia
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 16, 2019 22:19:37 GMT
BIG Danny Kaye fan but this one was a major disappointment. The story is too silly and the songs go on way too long. Vera Ellen has a very impressive musical number with tap dancing en pointe <--- don't get to see that every day of the week ! The picture was given an Oscar for its Special Effects.. which it did deserve .. there is a ghost involved !
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 17, 2019 1:43:46 GMT
ROMANCE IN MANHATTAN (1935)Non-singing, non-dancing, non-wisecracking Ginger Rogers with Francis Lederer. Basiclly a salute to America and an immigrant's American Dream. Very good performance by a youngster named Jimmy Butler, sadly killed at the age of 24 in France during WW II. Worth watching ... it's a quiet little movie with heart.
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Post by OldAussie on Dec 17, 2019 3:06:43 GMT
Pretty good....gonna watch the remake if I have time, but if memory serves, it sucks.
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Post by Prime etc. on Dec 17, 2019 7:43:22 GMT
I re-watched ALFRED THE GREAT 1969 (I like visiting movies on significant anniversary years). Reading up on the actual history, the movie really takes liberties to shoehorn a heavy-handed democratic message and I would say this just goes to show that even in 1969 Hollywood was on the look out for toxic masculinity- the irony is the Michael York's character comes across as far more attractive than David Hemmings, seems like they should have picked a Nigel Davenport or someone less sympathetic for the role if they wanted to present the viking in a negative light. As I said the last time, a waste of the cast.
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