What classics did you see last week, August 15 to August 21?
Aug 21, 2021 17:55:25 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Aug 21, 2021 17:55:25 GMT
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The pic is Angela Lansbury, wild guess Harvey Girls!
Here is what Tele have seen lately:
The Kids Are All Right 2010 directed by Lisa Cholodenko
Honestly thought that I was going to watch some Kind of bio movie about "The Who", that I never heard about.
Instead I got to see a pretty good drama about two kids growing up with two mothers. and one kid searching who donated the sperms once. Once sperm donator is found complicates things, when he becomes too interested in his kids lives.
Big fan of Carol Kane! and following a recommendation.
When a Stranger Calls 1979, directed by Fred Walton
Babysitter get's call after call "Have you checked the children?" and when she called the police, and the called back "Listen to me. We've traced the call... it's coming from inside the house".
That's the best part, then comes a long stretch, while not bad feels uninteresting after watching those first 25 minutes or so..
For being such a well known slasher movie, it's very slasher less, at least visually. Though not to bad in itself.
Serpico 1973 directed by Sidney Lumet and based on based on a book by Peter Maas.
This was a damn good movie showing how runned downed New York and vicinities once looked.
The once naive policeman get's a lesson in corruption, in a fragmentary story that for once actually works.
Lumet was a great craftsman and here is shows it.
Great soundtrack from legendary Mikis Theodorakis, who's love theme I think I'v heard a thousand times.
17 million Frenchmen can't be wrong! The most viewed movie in France until Titanic in 1997.
La grande vadrouille aka Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! 1966, directed by Gerard Oury
An RAF bomber crew who thinks it's in Calais accidentally lands in Paris instead, and need help by French Resistance during WW II, those who lead them back is an odd couple, played by French legendary comedians Bourvil and Louis de Funès, an the Englishman is played by Terry-Thomas, who for once let's the others do the comedy and be a smart resourceful guy himself.
It's very uneven actually.
Man Hunt 1941, directed by Fritz Lang and based on based on a novel by Geoffrey Household.
The man who nearly shot Hitler, if only his rifle was loaded.
Since Fritz Lang fled the latest German regime it's rather clear were the sympathies are, even if it was a complicated matter before Pearl Harbour and neutralism.
It's an old fashioned movie with a very jovial Walter Pidgeon, for being hunted all the time, fled Germany and entered back into good old England, and Nazis pops up on every London fairground, led by George Sanders with a monocle.
Joan Bennett's cockney dialect I let others judge...
Thanks for the recommendation!
Why Worry? 1923 directed by Fred Newmeyer and Sam Taylor.
This was Harold Lloyd's last movie at the old Mack Sennett studio, and his first with new heroine Jobyna Ralston.
A naive young fellow with spectacles needs a rest, travels to a south american resort Island conveniently called Paradiso, little knowing that a revolution is going on, and is mistaken for an accountant.
Maybe not Lloyd's best, but many funny and ingenious ideas makes it float for it's 63 minutes or so.
The Swedish poster says "Blixt och Dunder" it's like "Lightning and Thunder".
Schloß Vogelöd aka The Haunted Castle 1921 directed by F.W. Murnau.
Take a good look at the poster if it's still there, since in the movie there has neither hauntings or ghosts whatsoever, but it's still a cool poster. The eventual hauntings is guilt.
Happy weekend for hunting at Vogelöd is disrupted by an uninvited guest, who was accused of killing his brother, this weekend he will reveal who killed his brother, who's fortunes other's live on.
It's very slow and one needs a lot of patients to watch this movie, and at least I thought that was an interesting experience. Maybe for Murnau completists only.
Well that was my week!
The pic is Angela Lansbury, wild guess Harvey Girls!
Here is what Tele have seen lately:
The Kids Are All Right 2010 directed by Lisa Cholodenko
Honestly thought that I was going to watch some Kind of bio movie about "The Who", that I never heard about.
Instead I got to see a pretty good drama about two kids growing up with two mothers. and one kid searching who donated the sperms once. Once sperm donator is found complicates things, when he becomes too interested in his kids lives.
Big fan of Carol Kane! and following a recommendation.
When a Stranger Calls 1979, directed by Fred Walton
Babysitter get's call after call "Have you checked the children?" and when she called the police, and the called back "Listen to me. We've traced the call... it's coming from inside the house".
That's the best part, then comes a long stretch, while not bad feels uninteresting after watching those first 25 minutes or so..
For being such a well known slasher movie, it's very slasher less, at least visually. Though not to bad in itself.
Serpico 1973 directed by Sidney Lumet and based on based on a book by Peter Maas.
This was a damn good movie showing how runned downed New York and vicinities once looked.
The once naive policeman get's a lesson in corruption, in a fragmentary story that for once actually works.
Lumet was a great craftsman and here is shows it.
Great soundtrack from legendary Mikis Theodorakis, who's love theme I think I'v heard a thousand times.
17 million Frenchmen can't be wrong! The most viewed movie in France until Titanic in 1997.
La grande vadrouille aka Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! 1966, directed by Gerard Oury
An RAF bomber crew who thinks it's in Calais accidentally lands in Paris instead, and need help by French Resistance during WW II, those who lead them back is an odd couple, played by French legendary comedians Bourvil and Louis de Funès, an the Englishman is played by Terry-Thomas, who for once let's the others do the comedy and be a smart resourceful guy himself.
It's very uneven actually.
Man Hunt 1941, directed by Fritz Lang and based on based on a novel by Geoffrey Household.
The man who nearly shot Hitler, if only his rifle was loaded.
Since Fritz Lang fled the latest German regime it's rather clear were the sympathies are, even if it was a complicated matter before Pearl Harbour and neutralism.
It's an old fashioned movie with a very jovial Walter Pidgeon, for being hunted all the time, fled Germany and entered back into good old England, and Nazis pops up on every London fairground, led by George Sanders with a monocle.
Joan Bennett's cockney dialect I let others judge...
Thanks for the recommendation!
Why Worry? 1923 directed by Fred Newmeyer and Sam Taylor.
This was Harold Lloyd's last movie at the old Mack Sennett studio, and his first with new heroine Jobyna Ralston.
A naive young fellow with spectacles needs a rest, travels to a south american resort Island conveniently called Paradiso, little knowing that a revolution is going on, and is mistaken for an accountant.
Maybe not Lloyd's best, but many funny and ingenious ideas makes it float for it's 63 minutes or so.
The Swedish poster says "Blixt och Dunder" it's like "Lightning and Thunder".
Schloß Vogelöd aka The Haunted Castle 1921 directed by F.W. Murnau.
Take a good look at the poster if it's still there, since in the movie there has neither hauntings or ghosts whatsoever, but it's still a cool poster. The eventual hauntings is guilt.
Happy weekend for hunting at Vogelöd is disrupted by an uninvited guest, who was accused of killing his brother, this weekend he will reveal who killed his brother, who's fortunes other's live on.
It's very slow and one needs a lot of patients to watch this movie, and at least I thought that was an interesting experience. Maybe for Murnau completists only.
Well that was my week!