What classics did you see last week, August 8 to August 14?
Aug 14, 2021 23:04:12 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Aug 14, 2021 23:04:12 GMT
Well here is what Wee Tele boy has seen:
The Red text was a precaution for my self since I've started writing and then forgets what I wrote, It's happened to often lately, sending half messy messages that makes no sense.
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War Dogs 2016 directed by Todd Phillips
A rather dark satire when Dick Chaney ruled America, and selling whatever weapons was more or less free, and even two twenty somethings got an armsdeal with Pentagon, and that's actually based on a true story.
A bit sloppy but still interesting...
Rocket Gibraltar 1988 directed by Daniel Petrie
In one of his later movies Burt Lancaster shows that less is more, as grandfather of many kids and even more grandchildren, he tells a tall tale to his grandchildren about Viking Burials at a family gathering, kids are easily impressed and actually fixes a Viking Burial boat in case he dies.
What could easily have been a tearjerker, it avoids most of those traps, but could have been more focused, still Burt and the kids is a joy.
Seen many family gathering films, and most are so-so, but this one got Burt Lancaster! and wonderful Billie Holiday songs on the soundtrack.
Skyjacked 1972 directed by John Guillermin and based based on a novel by David Harper.
Interesting to watch that before 9/11 anyone could jump on any airplane at anytime.
It have some Airport 1970 feeling, maybe in the music, but it's not a disaster movie even if Heston is around,and lovers and family problems are issues and dwelled into too much. It's a hi-jacking movie, with a crazy man forcing a flight to Moscow via Alaska.
It did do well commercially, but I can't help feeling that it felt like a TV-movie if it was made ten years later.
This was Jeanne Crain's acting farewell, in a very thankless standing around role.
The Maggie aka High and Dry 1954 directed by the very sparce Alexander Mackendrick.
American efficiency vs Scottish shrewdness.
Maybe not the laugh riot I remembered from childhood, but still a great movie that I enjoyed re-watching.
The Yellow Balloon 1953, directed by J-Lee Thompson.
Owning a yellow balloon from a street market could be very cool for a 10 y/o, but if one can't afford it, one can steal one from a friend as an innocent game, in a very bombed London. The game turns wry when friend falls a dies. A small-time crook happened to watch, tells kid lies and pretend he is friendly and uses him has a decoy to hit a bar saloon after closing time, the theft or robbery goes horribly wrong. A chase through The London Undergrounds (both sets and real bombed ones) gave this movie a X mark by English censors.
Very mild by nowday standards but still a good and solid movie
Bond's M Bernard Lee was a Bobby in this one.
Vivere in Pace aka To Live in Peace 1947 directed by Luigi Zampa.
In the later days of WWII some smaller spaces in Italy was left to one German and one Fascist to keep it in order. In the outskirts lives a farmer (played by the lovely Aldo Fabrizi, from Rome Open City) having normal day to day troubles, including that standard in Italian movies, a nagging wife. One day his younger kids searches for a runaway piglet, instead the kids find two American escaped POW, saving them and hiding them is normal according to the farmer, but one of two POW's is black, and how do you hide that... not easy.
While trying to keep the German happy with alcohol by playing loud music and at the same time hide the Black POW in a wine cellar the accident happens, they meet, they go on a drunken spree together, black and nazi laughing and dancing together as if there is no tomorrow...
Once considered one of the 10 best movies of 1947, it has now nearly fallen into oblivion.
Yes, the word for Italians about Blacks starts with the letter N, and it's unfortunately used a lot, but in this movie never in a negative way.
The Hidden Hand 1942, directed by Ben Stoloff and based on a play by Rufus King.
A nifty and entertaining quickie from Warner Bros as it is obviously played for laughs, using the old standard (and movie sets) of big houses with trap doors and secret passages.
Could be tiresome but this one was entertaining.
Unfortunately many cheap jokes relies on a black character played by Willie Best looking scared with big eyes, very sad but should't be censored away.
Old lady with tons of money in big house helps a brother escape from an insane asylum so he can scare other relatives away.
Milton Parsons who played the insane brother in the last movie I mentioned, need to read more about him...since I like the odd ones.
See you next week!
The Red text was a precaution for my self since I've started writing and then forgets what I wrote, It's happened to often lately, sending half messy messages that makes no sense.
War Dogs 2016 directed by Todd Phillips
A rather dark satire when Dick Chaney ruled America, and selling whatever weapons was more or less free, and even two twenty somethings got an armsdeal with Pentagon, and that's actually based on a true story.
A bit sloppy but still interesting...
Rocket Gibraltar 1988 directed by Daniel Petrie
In one of his later movies Burt Lancaster shows that less is more, as grandfather of many kids and even more grandchildren, he tells a tall tale to his grandchildren about Viking Burials at a family gathering, kids are easily impressed and actually fixes a Viking Burial boat in case he dies.
What could easily have been a tearjerker, it avoids most of those traps, but could have been more focused, still Burt and the kids is a joy.
Seen many family gathering films, and most are so-so, but this one got Burt Lancaster! and wonderful Billie Holiday songs on the soundtrack.
Skyjacked 1972 directed by John Guillermin and based based on a novel by David Harper.
Interesting to watch that before 9/11 anyone could jump on any airplane at anytime.
It have some Airport 1970 feeling, maybe in the music, but it's not a disaster movie even if Heston is around,and lovers and family problems are issues and dwelled into too much. It's a hi-jacking movie, with a crazy man forcing a flight to Moscow via Alaska.
It did do well commercially, but I can't help feeling that it felt like a TV-movie if it was made ten years later.
This was Jeanne Crain's acting farewell, in a very thankless standing around role.
The Maggie aka High and Dry 1954 directed by the very sparce Alexander Mackendrick.
American efficiency vs Scottish shrewdness.
Maybe not the laugh riot I remembered from childhood, but still a great movie that I enjoyed re-watching.
The Yellow Balloon 1953, directed by J-Lee Thompson.
Owning a yellow balloon from a street market could be very cool for a 10 y/o, but if one can't afford it, one can steal one from a friend as an innocent game, in a very bombed London. The game turns wry when friend falls a dies. A small-time crook happened to watch, tells kid lies and pretend he is friendly and uses him has a decoy to hit a bar saloon after closing time, the theft or robbery goes horribly wrong. A chase through The London Undergrounds (both sets and real bombed ones) gave this movie a X mark by English censors.
Very mild by nowday standards but still a good and solid movie
Bond's M Bernard Lee was a Bobby in this one.
Vivere in Pace aka To Live in Peace 1947 directed by Luigi Zampa.
In the later days of WWII some smaller spaces in Italy was left to one German and one Fascist to keep it in order. In the outskirts lives a farmer (played by the lovely Aldo Fabrizi, from Rome Open City) having normal day to day troubles, including that standard in Italian movies, a nagging wife. One day his younger kids searches for a runaway piglet, instead the kids find two American escaped POW, saving them and hiding them is normal according to the farmer, but one of two POW's is black, and how do you hide that... not easy.
While trying to keep the German happy with alcohol by playing loud music and at the same time hide the Black POW in a wine cellar the accident happens, they meet, they go on a drunken spree together, black and nazi laughing and dancing together as if there is no tomorrow...
Once considered one of the 10 best movies of 1947, it has now nearly fallen into oblivion.
Yes, the word for Italians about Blacks starts with the letter N, and it's unfortunately used a lot, but in this movie never in a negative way.
The Hidden Hand 1942, directed by Ben Stoloff and based on a play by Rufus King.
A nifty and entertaining quickie from Warner Bros as it is obviously played for laughs, using the old standard (and movie sets) of big houses with trap doors and secret passages.
Could be tiresome but this one was entertaining.
Unfortunately many cheap jokes relies on a black character played by Willie Best looking scared with big eyes, very sad but should't be censored away.
Old lady with tons of money in big house helps a brother escape from an insane asylum so he can scare other relatives away.
Milton Parsons who played the insane brother in the last movie I mentioned, need to read more about him...since I like the odd ones.
See you next week!