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Post by london777 on Jul 22, 2018 21:56:47 GMT
Films and trains have gone together from the very birth of cinema. Though not the first moving picture publicly shown, probably the first to be acclaimed by a sizable audience was the Lumiere Brothers' L'Arrivée d'un Train en Gare de la Ciotat (1896). Yes, if memory serves (correct me if I'm wrong), this is the one where they ran from the theatre out of fear that the train was going to hit them. We've come a long way from those days.It is just a question of familiarization. My two-year-old sat on my lap to watch cartoons on my laptop. One very crudely drawn (and to me totally unrealistic) cartoon showed a bus heading for the screen. Junior screamed and tried to jump off my lap, whacking his knee in the process (so he screamed more). A year later he watches the same cartoon with no reaction.
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Post by london777 on Jul 22, 2018 22:10:04 GMT
Terminus (1961) is a "documentary" (actually partially scripted) that lasts for around 33 minutes and is filmed entirely at a train station. It's actually quite brilliant. It is one of many fine efforts by the prolific "British Transport Films" company. It is the film which launched John Schlesinger's directorial career and immediately preceded a sequence of six fine films by him, after which his output became more patchy.
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Post by london777 on Jul 22, 2018 22:25:28 GMT
The first seven minutes of Harikomi (1958) dir: Yoshitarô Nomura solely depict the train journey of the two cop heroes to the town where they will enact a stakeout, featuring the notorious heat and humidity and unavailability of seats on the long journey. (I imagine the Japanese train service has improved in the intervening sixty years, but as a Brit I have to love those steam locomotives).
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Post by spiderwort on Jul 23, 2018 2:56:20 GMT
The first seven minutes of Harikomi (1958) dir: Yoshitarô Nomura solely depict the train journey of the two cop heroes to the town where they will enact a stakeout, featuring the notorious heat and humidity and unavailability of seats on the long journey. (I imagine the Japanese train service has improved in the intervening sixty years, but as a Brit I have to love those steam locomotives). Haven't seen this one, London, but it looks interesting. I'll keep an eye out for it. And thanks for bumping this old thread, one of my favorites.
You've also given me a chance to add a film I saw long ago and remember liking a lot, though it wasn't particularly well-received: Wild Seed (1965), directed by Brian Hutton and starring Michael Parks and Celia Kaye (now Celia Milius). Kaye/Milius plays a 17-year-old girl who's running away from her east coast home, headed west to Los Angeles to meet her biological father. Parks plays a migrant who helps her on her journey by hopping freight trains with her. Of course they encounter numerous obstacles along the way. It was beautifully photographed in by Conrad Hall, whose camera operator was William Fraker, a man who went on to a great career as a cinematographer, receiving 6 Oscar nominations along the way. I haven't seen it since it was released and I'm not sure what I would think of it today, but I really admired it then.
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Post by london777 on Jul 23, 2018 3:24:58 GMT
The first seven minutes of Harikomi (1958) dir: Yoshitarô Nomura solely depict the train journey of the two cop heroes to the town where they will enact a stakeout, featuring the notorious heat and humidity and unavailability of seats on the long journey. (I imagine the Japanese train service has improved in the intervening sixty years, but as a Brit I have to love those steam locomotives). Haven't seen this one, London, but it looks interesting. I'll keep an eye out for it.
Easy enough to find (nudge, wink). I have just posted some comments (including more train references) on it here: Comments on Harikomi
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 23, 2018 3:45:29 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 23, 2018 3:56:15 GMT
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jul 23, 2018 8:29:06 GMT
Apologies if any of these train scenes have been mentioned previously and I've just simply missed them, but I have checked through the five pages of this thread a couple of times, so hopefully I'm not repeating any. I've also put asterisks next to the videos that are particularly spoilery if you haven't seen the movie (ie. they give away what happens to certain characters): Superman (1978). The Lost Boys (1987). Mission: Impossible (1996).* Underworld (2003).* A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004).Captain America: The First Avenger (2011).* The Wolverine (2013). Thor: The Dark World (2013). Divergent (2014).
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 23, 2018 17:51:44 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 23, 2018 17:58:04 GMT
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jul 24, 2018 8:33:54 GMT
A few I forgot...
**video clips are spoilery if you haven't seen the movies they're from**
X-Men (2000).
Batman Begins (2005).
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018).
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Post by london777 on Jul 29, 2018 23:35:52 GMT
The Last Passenger (2013) dir: Omid Nooshin and starring Dougray Scott and Lindsay Duncan was the director's only feature film before his premature death at the age of 43. The whole movie takes place on a London suburban train. It is a UK low-budget runaway train plot but the director does treat this hoary theme in a fresh and under-stated way.
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Post by london777 on Sept 2, 2018 1:57:44 GMT
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Think ya used enough dynamite there, Butch?
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Post by london777 on Sept 2, 2018 2:18:48 GMT
Night Passage (1957) dir: James Neilson is a dire James Stewart western in which railroad building is the main theme. In fact the railway stuff is the only thing I liked about it. OK for ten-year-olds, I suppose. (It has a secret tunnel through the mountain. Wow!) Across the Bridge (1957) dir: Ken Annakin (his best movie, for sure) is an English thriller set in the USA and Mexico but actually filmed in the UK (interiors) and Spain (exteriors). It stars Rod Steiger. A 20-minute-long sequence near the start shows Steiger fleeing arrest on a train to the Mexican border and getting himself into worse trouble. I could not find a train still but I know there are some dog lovers here, so:
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Post by london777 on Sept 5, 2018 1:27:57 GMT
Time Table (1956) produced and directed by, and starring, Mark Stevens, is a tight little Film Noir. The first ten minutes show a cleverly planned heist of the safe on a train. The rest of the movie deals with the aftermath. There is a great twist around the 26 mins mark which changes it from a documentary style police procedural (in vogue at the time) into a genuine, if belated, Noir. Unusual to see Wesley Addy as a bad guy:
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Oct 27, 2018 11:17:16 GMT
I haven't had much luck so far finding this scene on YouTube, but there's quite a memorable encounter between Dean Corso (Johnny Depp) and 'The Girl' (Emmanuelle Seigner) in the movie The Ninth Gate (1999) that's set on a train.
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Oct 28, 2018 12:27:08 GMT
Either those in which films are a major part of the story, or those with interesting scenes/sequences. I appreciate these:
Murder on the Orient Express Emperor of the North The Train The Grey Fox The Lady Vanishes
and some with interesting scenes/sequences: Casablanca - Rick standing on the train steps, reading Ilsa's letter in the rain Dr. Zhivago - Zhivago, family & the huddled masses being transported during the revolution East of Eden - Dean sitting atop the rolling train after trying to see his mother Meet John Doe - Brennan playing the harmonica & dancing while Cooper watches I don't care if "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" isn't an older or classic film (2007) ... The opening Train Robbery sequence is one of my favorite train moments in film history. Outstanding cinematography there.
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Oct 28, 2018 12:33:22 GMT
Nicholas and Alexandra Biloxi Blues Europa The Incident Gandhi Risky Business The Greatest Show on Earth Union Pacific The Good Earth Transsiberian Yay! Someone mentioned Biloxi Blues - big fan here!
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Oct 28, 2018 12:44:27 GMT
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Oct 28, 2018 12:49:30 GMT
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