What classics did you see last week, Sept 19 to Sept 25?
Sept 25, 2021 21:03:26 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Sept 25, 2021 21:03:26 GMT
I always love reading this thread since it gives me ideas.
Anyway here is what Tele have seen lately:
Money Monster 2016 directed by Jodie Foster.
Took me awhile before I realized I've seen this one before. It has some good punches against capitalism.
Not Bad.
The Package 1989 directed by Andrew Davis.
I felt I needed some slam bang movie, and with this I got it, and with a solid performance by Gene Hackman.
"The Package" in question is a person exchanged with KGB (those where the days) who isn't the one the viewer know but played by Tommy Lee Jones instead, something fishy going on. Hackman is in deep trouble in a wintry Chicago, his only aids is ex-wife Joanna Cassidy and a Chicago cop Dennis Franz. Who pays for it all is never clear, since the plot is to kill a Gorbachov-like character, and who will gain.
Still not too bad.
Seems Like Old Times 1980 directed by Jay Sandrich
With the recent passing of Charles Grodin I was trying to remember this movie but couldn't at that time.
I hadn't seen it since the 1980's, and it's a very amusing movie when Hawn, Grodin and even Chase was in their comedy prime. Some say it's a variation of George Stevens' Talk of the Town and there might be a few similarities.
Two hoodlums forces Chase to rob a bank and take the blame, he hides out in the house of his ex-wife Hawn who is now married to Grodin who is a prosecutor awaiting an important nomination. Lot's of door slamming like a French farce on stage, but this time it somehow works. Written by Neil Simon but not based on a play.
No Love for Johnnie 1961 directed by Ralph Thomas and based on a postumus book by Wilfred Fienburgh.
Peter Finch give a great bravura performance as a labour MP with a troubled love life who didn't get place in the recent government, and in the British tradition keeps a stiff upper lip instead of being furious. His commie wife leaves him, his young neighbour likes him but he falls for a blonde 20 someting girl at a party.
Solid supporting actors in mass here, headed by Stanley Holloway and Donald Pleasence.
It is a drama but it's a very good drama.
I now realise I've seen too few movies with Peter Finch
Never Take Sweet from a Stranger 1960, directed by Cyril Frankel and based on a play by Roger Garis.
I can understand why the Canadian Tourist Board wouldn't like this movie since it sets an old demented dangerous pedohile loose on little schoolgirls.
A very bold venture and departure for Hammer Films, and they do it very good, no histronics, just matter-of-fact and only panic when it's sadly too late.
Yes I was disturbed and shaken by the end, since it could have been different If they only listened....and it could happen anywhere.
Elisabeth Lutyens (1906 - 1983) wrote the score for the movie above, one of the too few female composers of film music.
House of Strangers 1949 directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and based on a novel by Jerome Weldman
Taking a seven year rap in prison, Richard Conte promises to revenge on his other three brother for what they did to him and their father(Edward G.Robinson) maneuvering him and his father out of a bank. Then most of the story goes in flashback so we know how it became the way it is.
Along the way Conte's character meets a far more interesting woman (Susan Hayward) than father's decision (Debra Paget).
Susan Hayward's part feels underwritten since I never got why Conte keeps coming back to her, except her looks offcourse.
I wanted to like this movie but it was too melodramatic for my taste. A good and interesting story though.
L'aigle à deux têtes aka The Eagle with Two Heads 1948 written and directed by Jean Cocteau and nobody else.
A veiled Queen traveling the countryside afraid of being assassinated just like her husband the King, has a secret love affair with an anarchist who happens to look like assassinated King. It's all planned to come out at a giant county estate (actual Château de Pierrefonds) but court intrigues interferes.
Whatever great things this was supposed to be, it was lost to me, but I give Cocteau a few more chances.
Visually it's stunning though!
Château de Pierrefonds, my little summer cottage.
Time to see what stunning things others have seen...
Anyway here is what Tele have seen lately:
Money Monster 2016 directed by Jodie Foster.
Took me awhile before I realized I've seen this one before. It has some good punches against capitalism.
Not Bad.
The Package 1989 directed by Andrew Davis.
I felt I needed some slam bang movie, and with this I got it, and with a solid performance by Gene Hackman.
"The Package" in question is a person exchanged with KGB (those where the days) who isn't the one the viewer know but played by Tommy Lee Jones instead, something fishy going on. Hackman is in deep trouble in a wintry Chicago, his only aids is ex-wife Joanna Cassidy and a Chicago cop Dennis Franz. Who pays for it all is never clear, since the plot is to kill a Gorbachov-like character, and who will gain.
Still not too bad.
Seems Like Old Times 1980 directed by Jay Sandrich
With the recent passing of Charles Grodin I was trying to remember this movie but couldn't at that time.
I hadn't seen it since the 1980's, and it's a very amusing movie when Hawn, Grodin and even Chase was in their comedy prime. Some say it's a variation of George Stevens' Talk of the Town and there might be a few similarities.
Two hoodlums forces Chase to rob a bank and take the blame, he hides out in the house of his ex-wife Hawn who is now married to Grodin who is a prosecutor awaiting an important nomination. Lot's of door slamming like a French farce on stage, but this time it somehow works. Written by Neil Simon but not based on a play.
No Love for Johnnie 1961 directed by Ralph Thomas and based on a postumus book by Wilfred Fienburgh.
Peter Finch give a great bravura performance as a labour MP with a troubled love life who didn't get place in the recent government, and in the British tradition keeps a stiff upper lip instead of being furious. His commie wife leaves him, his young neighbour likes him but he falls for a blonde 20 someting girl at a party.
Solid supporting actors in mass here, headed by Stanley Holloway and Donald Pleasence.
It is a drama but it's a very good drama.
I now realise I've seen too few movies with Peter Finch
Never Take Sweet from a Stranger 1960, directed by Cyril Frankel and based on a play by Roger Garis.
I can understand why the Canadian Tourist Board wouldn't like this movie since it sets an old demented dangerous pedohile loose on little schoolgirls.
A very bold venture and departure for Hammer Films, and they do it very good, no histronics, just matter-of-fact and only panic when it's sadly too late.
Yes I was disturbed and shaken by the end, since it could have been different If they only listened....and it could happen anywhere.
Elisabeth Lutyens (1906 - 1983) wrote the score for the movie above, one of the too few female composers of film music.
House of Strangers 1949 directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and based on a novel by Jerome Weldman
Taking a seven year rap in prison, Richard Conte promises to revenge on his other three brother for what they did to him and their father(Edward G.Robinson) maneuvering him and his father out of a bank. Then most of the story goes in flashback so we know how it became the way it is.
Along the way Conte's character meets a far more interesting woman (Susan Hayward) than father's decision (Debra Paget).
Susan Hayward's part feels underwritten since I never got why Conte keeps coming back to her, except her looks offcourse.
I wanted to like this movie but it was too melodramatic for my taste. A good and interesting story though.
L'aigle à deux têtes aka The Eagle with Two Heads 1948 written and directed by Jean Cocteau and nobody else.
A veiled Queen traveling the countryside afraid of being assassinated just like her husband the King, has a secret love affair with an anarchist who happens to look like assassinated King. It's all planned to come out at a giant county estate (actual Château de Pierrefonds) but court intrigues interferes.
Whatever great things this was supposed to be, it was lost to me, but I give Cocteau a few more chances.
Visually it's stunning though!
Château de Pierrefonds, my little summer cottage.
Time to see what stunning things others have seen...