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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Jun 7, 2018 2:55:26 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 7, 2018 3:28:11 GMT
I saw it ages ago and must have liked it well enough because I have no memory of hating it. Have not seen it since that one time. I Remember Lee Marvin being there among all those "Classically Beautiful People" !
Several Oscar nominations and lots of off-screen drama associated with it.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Jun 7, 2018 3:41:47 GMT
WHAT IS IT with these PLACEHOLDER/S?  |
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Jun 7, 2018 3:51:24 GMT
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Jun 7, 2018 3:53:43 GMT
https://twitter. com/ClassicMovieHub/status/1004475618736525312
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Jun 7, 2018 10:02:09 GMT
I saw it ages ago and must have liked it well enough because I have no memory of hating it. Have not seen it since that one time. I Remember Lee Marvin being there among all those "Classically Beautiful People" ! Several Oscar nominations and lots of off-screen drama associated with it. thank you!  |
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jun 7, 2018 11:16:40 GMT
It's okay, interesting to see Clift's face both before and after the car accident, sometimes in the same scene.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 7, 2018 12:01:52 GMT
Lebowskidoo 🦞My mom had a major interest in this film. She was Clift's BirthDAY twin and he was a favorite of hers. I can remember how upset she was about the accident. I suspect that I saw the movie with her since it really was not age-appropriate for me to have seen it alone.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jun 7, 2018 12:16:53 GMT
Lebowskidoo 🦞 My mom had a major interest in this film. She was Clift's BirthDAY twin and he was a favorite of hers. I can remember how upset she was about the accident. I suspect that I saw the movie with her since it really was not age-appropriate for me to have seen it alone. I just saw it for the first time about two months ago, I had a Clift-a-thon. |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jun 7, 2018 14:20:40 GMT
It's not bad; opulently produced, if a bit ponderous, but worth a viewing especially for "completists" interested in the careers of principle or supporting players, although not among director Edward Dmytryk's best work.
Aside from any morbid interest in sussing out Monty's pre-and-post-accident scenes, its other claim to fame is as the first film shot in what was then called MGM Camera 65 (later rechristened Ultra Panavision), which applied anamorphic optics to a 65mm negative, yielding a projected aspect ratio of 2.76:1. It was subsequently used for no more than a dozen films - Ben-Hur, It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, and Battle Of the Bulge among them - from the late-'50s to the mid-'60s, and was revived by Quentin Tarantino after nearly a half-century of disuse for 2015's The Hateful Eight.
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Post by louise on Jun 7, 2018 19:48:04 GMT
IT we quite good, a bit dull.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 7, 2018 19:59:48 GMT
it applied anamorphic optics to a 65mm negative, yielding a projected aspect ratio of 2.76:1. Reason more than sufficient to seek it out, Doghouse6 
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jun 7, 2018 21:53:46 GMT
it applied anamorphic optics to a 65mm negative, yielding a projected aspect ratio of 2.76:1. Reason more than sufficient to seek it out, Doghouse6 I'd watch Clift in something shot on Super8, but these little techno-tidbits interest me (even if I can't manage to play a tune on a wiener whistle). |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 7, 2018 22:00:42 GMT
I'd watch Clift in something shot on Super8
Closely related to the ever popular "I would watch <insert name here> reading the Manhattan Yellow Pages" 
btw, playing a credible tune on a weiner whistle is a highly over-rated activity.... way surpassed by sharing knowledge of aspect ratios and anamorphic optics (now, say that 3 times, fast , Doghouse6 . that 3 times fast that 3 times fast that 3 times fast 
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Post by snsurone on Jun 7, 2018 22:11:30 GMT
Funny, I've seen the movie a few times, but I can't remember Eva Marie Saint wearing that sexy gown as in the poster.
LOL
As for the film itself, well, it was no GWTW, but it wasn't bad.
IMHO, it is far too long, and I couldn't stand the character of the "Professor".
And somehow, I didn't find Liz Taylor all that credible, her Oscar nomination notwithstanding.
What I do like is that the black people have intelligence and dignity, unlike the stereotyped "darkies" from older movies (Damn Spellcheck; it keeps changing "darkies" to "drakes".)
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jun 7, 2018 22:45:54 GMT
I'd watch Clift in something shot on Super8
Closely related to the ever popular "I would watch <insert name here> reading the Manhattan Yellow Pages"
btw, playing a credible tune on a weiner whistle is a highly over-rated activity.... way surpassed by sharing knowledge of aspect ratios and anamorphic optics (now, say that 3 times, fast , Doghouse6 . that 3 times fast that 3 times fast that 3 times fast For me, saying it's easier than typing it. Something of a disadvantage in a place where - to paraphrase another Yellow Pages association - we let our fingers do the talking. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 7, 2018 22:50:14 GMT
Doghouse6 congrats on the BIG 2000 … !
and apologies to nutsberryfarm 🏜 for the slight <ahem> divergence from the OP track … we tend to do that on rare <ahem> rare occasions. Have you watched RC yet ?
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jun 7, 2018 23:03:07 GMT
Well, would ya look at that! It flew right past me. And I see that my avatar didn't change into a shiny, black monolith for 2001*, either. *Which was shot in Super Panavision, btw...for those keeping track of the techno-tidbits. |
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Post by timshelboy on Jun 8, 2018 10:38:58 GMT
I'd say it's definitely worth a look
It was MGM's attempt to surpass GONE WITH THE WIND - and obviously it failed - but it was a big big financial hit nonetheless. Critics were somewhat cooler but it does have its admirers/defenders.The book is rather better, but the film has sweep and an epic scale, terrific MGM production values, a gorgeous score and enough incident and colour to keep it from being dull. It has a very good cast although not all are at their best. Obviously Clift's accident mid production affected his performance - and the ghoulish can play Before or After with his scenes. Taylor gets the best of it - (If you are a Taylor fan change the rating to MUST SEE) I think her pampered, pouting, unstable Southern Belle with a miscegenation related skeleton in the closet bagged her her first Oscar nomination here. Marvin is strong as Clift's friendly rival, and Nigel Patrick scores as bad influence teacher. Saint does what she can with the dull good girl part. The Sunday Times got it right when it said that the film is best enjoyed with a box of chocolates on the lap for the full effect.  Good Sunday afternoon movie to slump in front of after a Roast lunch and just let it wash over you. |
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Post by teleadm on Jun 8, 2018 16:00:03 GMT
 Interesting thought, at the same time MGM and David O. Selznick tried to outdo their own Gone With the Wind from 1939 (that by 1957 belonged to MGM solely), Selznick released A Farewell to Arms and MGM Raintree Country. Of those two I think I would prefer Raintree Country. |
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Good Sunday afternoon movie to slump in front of after a Roast lunch and just let it wash over you.