What classics did you see last week, Sept 12 to Sept 18?
Sept 18, 2021 22:23:11 GMT
Fox in the Snow, wmcclain, and 7 more like this
Post by teleadm on Sept 18, 2021 22:23:11 GMT
OK now it's my turn!
Hannibal Rising 2007, directed by Peter Webber and based on characters created by Thomas Harris.
Was this movie necessary?
A nicely made production though, that might please some...
Outland 1981 directed by Peter Hyams
A sort of High Noon plot on a Jupiter moon, once it get there.
Economically it just broke even so interest wasn't there to begin with somehow.
While not ranking it high, I still feel it's overlooked, and not just for Connery completists.
Trouble Man 1972 directed by Ivan Dixon.
A very cool blaxploation movie that I enjoyed watching, with Robert Hooks as very cool ladies man, and he's not actually a trouble man, he's more of a trouble solver between rival minor crime bosses, between being a well-dressed ladies man.
The whole soundtrack was written by Marvin Gaye, and to my knowledge the only time he did such a thing.
The reason I dig this is that it's character driven and not action driven.
Robert Hooks shows great charisma here and should have had a better career, since the only thing I can remember seeing him in was as an Airport bad guy, and I can't even remember witch one.
The Man in the Dark aka Dark Corner 1964 directed by Lance Comfort.
A nice little British time waster, not meant in a bad way.
Blind Composer with sexy wife, someone is trying to get rid of him, but who???
A British Crooner named Ronnie Carroll sings a few songs and is peripherally part of the plot, I don't know much about that crooner.
The Hidden Fortress aka 隠し砦の三悪人 directed by Akira Kurusawa.
I must admit I was a bit ill prepared when I started watching this movie and had to pause it, and look up a few things of what I'm actually watching, then my hair went straight, when I read this was directed by Akira Kurusawa (and starring Toshiro Mifune!), I knew I didn't have to worry since I'm lead by one of the masters of cinema, and what a fantastic and funny adventure he brought me. Thankfully subititled in English.
The Rockets of Calabuch aka simply as Calabuch directed by Luis Gracia Berlanga (thanks london777 ).
I normally avoid Spanish movies, mainly since it was lead by a senile and cruel generalsimo for too many years.
That doesn't take a way that this was a very sweet and lovely movie to watch (and 10 minutes longer than our old sight says).
Tired of the armory race a rocket professor just had enough, relocates to a small coastal Spanish village, there he taken for a bum, and he likes it. It feels like a strange mix of an English Ealing comedy and an Italian farce, and somehow it nearly works most of the time.
Edmund Gwenn made his screen farewell here, and beautiful Italian actress Valentina Cortese plays a school marm (it was an Italian co-production).
The small coastal town of Calabuch was played by a real location named Peñíscola.
Streets of Laredo 1949 directed by Leslie Fenton, and in some part's maybe based on King Vidor's The Texas Rangers of 1936, if so I'm glad they skipped that whole native American part of the story, since with modern eyes I thought some parts was offensive.
This is an old fashioned movie in Technicolor with likable stars of the time, and I more or less knew what I was going to get, and I got it, and I was pleased. A pleasant watch, and what's wrong with that!
Laredo Tx still exists, and has grown from being a one street town depicted in the movie (I knew that! It was just fun looking it up)
...and that was the end of my presentation.
Hannibal Rising 2007, directed by Peter Webber and based on characters created by Thomas Harris.
Was this movie necessary?
A nicely made production though, that might please some...
Outland 1981 directed by Peter Hyams
A sort of High Noon plot on a Jupiter moon, once it get there.
Economically it just broke even so interest wasn't there to begin with somehow.
While not ranking it high, I still feel it's overlooked, and not just for Connery completists.
Trouble Man 1972 directed by Ivan Dixon.
A very cool blaxploation movie that I enjoyed watching, with Robert Hooks as very cool ladies man, and he's not actually a trouble man, he's more of a trouble solver between rival minor crime bosses, between being a well-dressed ladies man.
The whole soundtrack was written by Marvin Gaye, and to my knowledge the only time he did such a thing.
The reason I dig this is that it's character driven and not action driven.
Robert Hooks shows great charisma here and should have had a better career, since the only thing I can remember seeing him in was as an Airport bad guy, and I can't even remember witch one.
The Man in the Dark aka Dark Corner 1964 directed by Lance Comfort.
A nice little British time waster, not meant in a bad way.
Blind Composer with sexy wife, someone is trying to get rid of him, but who???
A British Crooner named Ronnie Carroll sings a few songs and is peripherally part of the plot, I don't know much about that crooner.
The Hidden Fortress aka 隠し砦の三悪人 directed by Akira Kurusawa.
I must admit I was a bit ill prepared when I started watching this movie and had to pause it, and look up a few things of what I'm actually watching, then my hair went straight, when I read this was directed by Akira Kurusawa (and starring Toshiro Mifune!), I knew I didn't have to worry since I'm lead by one of the masters of cinema, and what a fantastic and funny adventure he brought me. Thankfully subititled in English.
The Rockets of Calabuch aka simply as Calabuch directed by Luis Gracia Berlanga (thanks london777 ).
I normally avoid Spanish movies, mainly since it was lead by a senile and cruel generalsimo for too many years.
That doesn't take a way that this was a very sweet and lovely movie to watch (and 10 minutes longer than our old sight says).
Tired of the armory race a rocket professor just had enough, relocates to a small coastal Spanish village, there he taken for a bum, and he likes it. It feels like a strange mix of an English Ealing comedy and an Italian farce, and somehow it nearly works most of the time.
Edmund Gwenn made his screen farewell here, and beautiful Italian actress Valentina Cortese plays a school marm (it was an Italian co-production).
The small coastal town of Calabuch was played by a real location named Peñíscola.
Streets of Laredo 1949 directed by Leslie Fenton, and in some part's maybe based on King Vidor's The Texas Rangers of 1936, if so I'm glad they skipped that whole native American part of the story, since with modern eyes I thought some parts was offensive.
This is an old fashioned movie in Technicolor with likable stars of the time, and I more or less knew what I was going to get, and I got it, and I was pleased. A pleasant watch, and what's wrong with that!
Laredo Tx still exists, and has grown from being a one street town depicted in the movie (I knew that! It was just fun looking it up)
...and that was the end of my presentation.