What classics did you see last week, Feb 28 to Mar 6?
Mar 6, 2021 20:56:05 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Mar 6, 2021 20:56:05 GMT
Here are the movies Tele has seen:
The Meg 2018 directed by Jon Turteltaub and based on a novel by Steve Alten.
Let the Megaldodons free, they eat whales like snacks.
It's a bit fun to see a rather modern movie too from time to time, even if it's not for me, and I'm not the target audience anyway.
Noticed a few shades of King Kong, Jaws and Gorgo, but I might be the only one who did that.
Jason Statham actually do have some old fashioned movie charisma, something many modern action actors lacks.
The Wild Bunch 1969 directed by Sam Peckinpah.
Western, one last caper and then we are done, was the plan, but it goes awry.
It erases the thin line between who the good and bad guys are and raises the question of who are what, since the bunch certainly meets persons far worse than themselves and for once does something that doesn't gain themselves. They have become obsolete as the world changes.
I've seen it before a few times, and I like to return to it to remind myself what a great movie it is. (and when I'm out of ideas)
What a Way to Go! 1964 directed by J Lee Thompson.
Black comedy and movie clichés parody mix.
I must have been in the wrong mood when I watched it, since after I watched it I read lots and lots of positive reviews.
Legendary Edith Head must have had a field day because her costume designs are deliberately outrageously overdone, and in color, and she was Oscar nominated, like a colorful candy box.
While Shirley and the six male stars seems to have fun, it was nice to see old foe of the Marx Brothers movies Margaret Dumont having a substantial role as Shirley's mother, sadly it was her screen farewell. It was also George Sanders Falcon brother Tom Conway's screen farewell, it's buried somewhere in the movie among the uncredited ones, I couldn't find it.
Neither bad or good, but fun to have seen.
About Mrs Leslie 1954 directed by Delbert Mann and based on a novel by Viña Delmar.
A movie that I've been wanting to see since Robert Ryan plays a nice guy here, maybe not totally honest, but still a nice guy.
I couldn't stand Shirley Booth in Come Back Little Sheba 1953, so I was a bit hesitant to watch this, but here she was lovable, warm and touching and one could feel for her.
Six week a year they live together as companions, rather daring for it's time, but just to be together and share each others companionship, eating, reading, bathing, drinking and so on.
Victor Young's music certainly tries to pull the heartstrings with a melodic theme.
It could easily have fallen into a sentimental tearful trap, but director Mann keeps us out of that.
I enjoyed watching it.
Hondo 1953 directed by John Farrow (and uncredited John Wayne and John Ford) and based on a story by Louis L'Amour.
A very simple story on the surface, but layers after layers reveals that the story isn't that simple after all, and much more complicated.
I watched the so called "flat" version and not in 3-D.
I wouldn't call it a masterpiece, but it's still a damn good movie.
John Wayne shows the versatility of his movie persona, tough and merciless when needed, and humble and caring when needed.
Geraldine Page seems like an odd choice for a western heroine. Wayne liked to work with theatre actor "they always knew their lines" and even payed for her teeths to look more cinematic. She's quiet resourceful in her role and not the usual dame that needs to be saved, and fits very well into the rough surroundings, a role originally planned for Katherine Hepburn.
Night Has a Thousand Eyes 1948 directed by John Farrow and based on a novel by Cornell Woolrich.
A supernatural noir thriller, but not a horror movie.
Edward G plays a phony stage mentalist who suddenly get's precognitions, that turns out to be true, get's scared and goes into hiding for nearly twenty years or so. But get's active again when his could be daughter is in great danger. He was about to get married when he disappeared, so she married someone else, and now that daughter is in danger.
A nifty little thriller with supernatural elements.
Monsieur Vincent 1947 directed by Maurice Cloche.
A biographical movie about Vincent de Paul's later life, a person I knew absolutely nothing about before I watched this movie.
It popped up on our old site as "recommended especially for you" so I though let's give it a try then, and I was very sceptical to watch it thinking if would be too religious. Though Catholicism is present throughout, it's more about humanity in mid 1600's France, were the rich were rich and the poor was poor, and that was that. What Vincent started, at least in France, is what could now be called welfare at it's infancy, take a little from the rich and raise the standards of the poor, not an easy task.
It certainly was an interesting movie, and thankfully I found a version with English subtitles, and the director knows how to tell a story in pictures and not too much dialogue.
The movie won a Honorary Oscar "Voted by the Academy Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States during 1948" before there was a Foreign Language category.
Well, that was my week, how about you!?
The Meg 2018 directed by Jon Turteltaub and based on a novel by Steve Alten.
Let the Megaldodons free, they eat whales like snacks.
It's a bit fun to see a rather modern movie too from time to time, even if it's not for me, and I'm not the target audience anyway.
Noticed a few shades of King Kong, Jaws and Gorgo, but I might be the only one who did that.
Jason Statham actually do have some old fashioned movie charisma, something many modern action actors lacks.
The Wild Bunch 1969 directed by Sam Peckinpah.
Western, one last caper and then we are done, was the plan, but it goes awry.
It erases the thin line between who the good and bad guys are and raises the question of who are what, since the bunch certainly meets persons far worse than themselves and for once does something that doesn't gain themselves. They have become obsolete as the world changes.
I've seen it before a few times, and I like to return to it to remind myself what a great movie it is. (and when I'm out of ideas)
What a Way to Go! 1964 directed by J Lee Thompson.
Black comedy and movie clichés parody mix.
I must have been in the wrong mood when I watched it, since after I watched it I read lots and lots of positive reviews.
Legendary Edith Head must have had a field day because her costume designs are deliberately outrageously overdone, and in color, and she was Oscar nominated, like a colorful candy box.
While Shirley and the six male stars seems to have fun, it was nice to see old foe of the Marx Brothers movies Margaret Dumont having a substantial role as Shirley's mother, sadly it was her screen farewell. It was also George Sanders Falcon brother Tom Conway's screen farewell, it's buried somewhere in the movie among the uncredited ones, I couldn't find it.
Neither bad or good, but fun to have seen.
About Mrs Leslie 1954 directed by Delbert Mann and based on a novel by Viña Delmar.
A movie that I've been wanting to see since Robert Ryan plays a nice guy here, maybe not totally honest, but still a nice guy.
I couldn't stand Shirley Booth in Come Back Little Sheba 1953, so I was a bit hesitant to watch this, but here she was lovable, warm and touching and one could feel for her.
Six week a year they live together as companions, rather daring for it's time, but just to be together and share each others companionship, eating, reading, bathing, drinking and so on.
Victor Young's music certainly tries to pull the heartstrings with a melodic theme.
It could easily have fallen into a sentimental tearful trap, but director Mann keeps us out of that.
I enjoyed watching it.
Hondo 1953 directed by John Farrow (and uncredited John Wayne and John Ford) and based on a story by Louis L'Amour.
A very simple story on the surface, but layers after layers reveals that the story isn't that simple after all, and much more complicated.
I watched the so called "flat" version and not in 3-D.
I wouldn't call it a masterpiece, but it's still a damn good movie.
John Wayne shows the versatility of his movie persona, tough and merciless when needed, and humble and caring when needed.
Geraldine Page seems like an odd choice for a western heroine. Wayne liked to work with theatre actor "they always knew their lines" and even payed for her teeths to look more cinematic. She's quiet resourceful in her role and not the usual dame that needs to be saved, and fits very well into the rough surroundings, a role originally planned for Katherine Hepburn.
Night Has a Thousand Eyes 1948 directed by John Farrow and based on a novel by Cornell Woolrich.
A supernatural noir thriller, but not a horror movie.
Edward G plays a phony stage mentalist who suddenly get's precognitions, that turns out to be true, get's scared and goes into hiding for nearly twenty years or so. But get's active again when his could be daughter is in great danger. He was about to get married when he disappeared, so she married someone else, and now that daughter is in danger.
A nifty little thriller with supernatural elements.
Monsieur Vincent 1947 directed by Maurice Cloche.
A biographical movie about Vincent de Paul's later life, a person I knew absolutely nothing about before I watched this movie.
It popped up on our old site as "recommended especially for you" so I though let's give it a try then, and I was very sceptical to watch it thinking if would be too religious. Though Catholicism is present throughout, it's more about humanity in mid 1600's France, were the rich were rich and the poor was poor, and that was that. What Vincent started, at least in France, is what could now be called welfare at it's infancy, take a little from the rich and raise the standards of the poor, not an easy task.
It certainly was an interesting movie, and thankfully I found a version with English subtitles, and the director knows how to tell a story in pictures and not too much dialogue.
The movie won a Honorary Oscar "Voted by the Academy Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States during 1948" before there was a Foreign Language category.
Well, that was my week, how about you!?