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Post by delon on Nov 9, 2019 13:47:48 GMT
Comments/ratings/recommendations/film posters are welcome and much appreciated.
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Post by wmcclain on Nov 9, 2019 13:54:28 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Nov 9, 2019 15:43:08 GMT
The Sentinel (2006) 3/10
Magnolia (1999) 5/10
Anna (2019) 3/10
Under the Silver Lake (2019) 6/10
Grace of Monaco (2014) 4/10
Driven (2019) 7/10
House of Usher (1960) 6/10
The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) 7/10
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967) 5/10
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Post by teleadm on Nov 9, 2019 19:19:01 GMT
Here comes the Tele week of wonders: ![]()  The true story is far more interesting than this movie. Moronic bodybuilders that want's to live in the fast lanes to quickly. Could have been an interesting movie, instead it''s edited in a way with fast change of images that gave me a headache. "Spiced" with with comic-ironic one-liners that get's tiresome, and the strange twist that the steroid pumped up morons was somehow not that bad! For heavens sake the beated up people and eventually killed some too. The story is so interesting I would have liked a more sober movie in the style of Zodiac or L.A. Confidential, as clues get's puzzled together. Loved the Florida sun-tinted pastell colours though!  Two seasoned comedians helps this otherwise trite story to be more entertaining than it actually is. Perfect lazy Sunday movie.  Just to make everything clear, I love Olivia, I love Gene, I love ELO, I love the music! I love many things in this movie!, But put together it's a mess that is struggling to keep a coherent style, it waves here and there and then it's suddenly Don Bluth animations. This was Gene Kelly's cinema farewell, and he does a lovely number with Olivia.  A nice bagatelle and a joyfull one. After the honeymoon is over for a young couple, being married is put to the test, with a narrow small apartment and the many stairs to walk up there. Redford and Fonda were young and fresh, old Boyer is old-fashioned charm, but the funniest is Mildred Natwick and she is a pure treasure. (I've lived on the fourth floor once without an elevator, so I know that some elder relatives had a hard time breathing once they came up to the floor were I lived for a while)  While obviously low-budget, still an entertaining old-fashioned matinee style movie, about a Godess who lives forever unless she falls in love, in some secret cave in Africa. Hammer mostly associated with horror movies did a few movies like this too. While it's always wonderful to see Ursula, Cushing and Lee, the biggest surprice is British comedian Bernard Cribbins who in this movie abandons comedy and actually plays a very resourceful guy who saves the main actors a few times, including a piece of wood named John Richardson.  The third and last of Bob Hope's "My Favorite" movies, while some say he degenarated as the 1950's went along and got worse during the 1960s including a movie that mentions my country in the title. Bob does double duty, replacing an agent who happens to look like him, also played by Bob, in exotic Tangier. Bob is on top of the material with the extra spice of have beautiful Hedy Lamarr around, as a woman of mystery or companion to trust. This movie bacame so popular in Sweden that it stayed in it's premiere cinema for nearly a year, we loved Bob here!  Well made and for it time maybe a realistic war movie. Using a lot of news reel footage or else it would cost gazillions. "From the Halls of Montezuma, to the Shores of Tripoli" Wayne has a very nice scene with a hooker (not called that in 1949), and pays for her baby's food so she can at least stay away for awhile. This is for my Mother, a song I could never find on a CD while she was alive, Jimmy Durante and Umbriago: And now I will turn my eyes into what others have watched the last week: |
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Post by mikef6 on Nov 9, 2019 19:55:32 GMT
Ruthless / Edgar G. Ulmer (1948). Eagle-Lion Films. Cinematography by Bert Glennon (Drums Along The Mohawk, Stagecoach). One of only two films directed by Edgar Ulmer that was given decent funding - the other being “The Strange Woman,” a historical costumer with noir overtones and starring Hedy Lamarr. “Ruthless” opens at a party thrown by aging multi-millionaire Horace Vindig (Zachary Scott) at his mansion. Vindig announces to the guests that he is establishing a Foundation to work for world peace. He will be donating several million dollars as an endowment for support and also his mansion as a headquarters. But several people among the guests doubt his motives. In a series of flashbacks, we learn how, as a boy, Vindig saved the life of the young daughter of a rich family. They gave Vindig a new home and an education but he found his true calling on Wall Street. He also recognizes in himself a coldness, an inability to care for anyone but himself. The film charts his rise as he ruins other business people, betrays his friends, and discards fiancés and wives as needed. Louis Hayward co-stars as Vic, a boyhood friend who joins Vindig in business until he can’t take the man’s methods any more. Diana Lynn plays a duel role as Martha, the grown-up version of the rescued daughter and as Mallory, a Martha look-a-like, who Vic brings as a date to the mansion party. Others players doing very good work are Sidney Greenstreet, Lucille Bremer, Martha Vickers, Dennis Hoey and Raymond Burr. “Ruthless” was not well received upon release but, like most of Ulmer’s work, it has been re-evaluated. A recommended (by me) viewing.  Louis Hayward, Diana Lynn, Zachary Scott ![]() Road House / Jean Negulesco (1948). 20th Century Fox. Cinematography by Joseph LaShelle (Oscar winner for Laura, nine other nominations, also The Apartment, Marty). Pete Morgan (Cornel Wilde) has a job he likes as manager of Jefty’s, the title road house. The business is owned by Pete’s old friend Jefferson “Jefty” Robbins (Richard Widmark in his fourth feature film). When Jefty books singer Lily Stevens (Ida Lupino) without Pete knowing about it, he tries to fire her but Jefty overrules him. Lily’s voice had been blown out during training for operatic singing but her musicality sold the songs. As head cashier Susie (Celeste Holm, only two years away from an acting Oscar) says, “She is the best singer I know with no voice.” Eventually, Jefty decides he wants to marry Lily but, of course, he doesn’t mention this to her. When he goes away for a week’s hunting trip with buddies, Pete and Lily fall in love. When Jefty returns and learns what has happened, his revenge is swift but subtle. Pete doesn’t know the half of it until later. The two female actors lead the cast with fine performances. Of the men, Wilde is OK, sort of the strong, stoic type, while Widmark in places seems to still be channeling Tommy Udo from his film debut, “Kiss of Death” (1947). The director and cinematographer are seasoned noir veterans who know how to chronicle a story of people’s lives spinning out of control.  Ida Lupino  Gunsmoke / Nathan Juran (1953). Universal International. Fairly interesting Audie Murphy shoot-‘em-up. The more Murphy westerns I see, the more I recognize tropes that are reused two or more times. In “Gunsmoke,” we get 1) the inexperienced trail boss trying to take a herd to market, recreated in “Cast A Long Shadow” from 1959. 2) his character falling in love with a woman already engaged to be married until her fiancé is revealed to be a part of the criminal gang, reused the next year in “Ride Clear Of Diablo” and 3) Murphy’s last ditch plan to defeat the outlaws is very similar to his plan at the end of “Sierra” made 3 years earlier in 1950. This is not to say that the films are cookie-cutter or anything like that. There is always wide-screen Technicolor vistas and furious action. Audie Murphy himself always gives value to anything he is in – a very charismatic actor - at least for me. In “Gunsmoke,” Reb Kittredge (Murphy), a known gun slinger, rides into town after a summons from wealthy land owner Matt Telford. Telford is buying up all the ranches in the area but can’t close on the last one. The one holdout is Dan Saxon (Paul Kelly) and his daughter Rita (Susan Cabot) who Reb is smitten with. Reb decides to take Saxon’s side and, though a little slight of hand by Dan, ends up owning the ranch and needing to get the cattle to the railroad in a month. Question: can he do it? Answer: Shut up. You (mostly) can’t go wrong with Audie Murphy on horseback in the out-of-doors.  Audie Murphy  A Blueprint For Murder / Andrew L. Stone (1953). Twentieth Century Fox. Cinematographer Leo Tover (The Day The Earth Stood Still, The Heiress). Whitney “Cam” Cameron (Joseph Cotton) is a good uncle to Polly and Doug, his niece and nephew, children of his diseased brother. But when he arrives for a visit, his niece has been taken to the hospital having a seizure and screaming “Don’t touch my feet!” She dies the next day. Cam goes to comfort Polly’s and Doug’s stepmother Lynn Cameron (Jean Peters) who everybody sees as a loving generous guardian to the children and who Cam has always had a crush on. He visits his brother’s former lawyer Fred Sargent (Gary Merrill) and his mystery writing wife Maggie (Catherine McLeod). Maggie, having done poison research for her books, identifies Polly’s symptoms with strychnine poisoning. When it is proved that Polly did, indeed, die from strychnine, the obvious culprit is Lynn. More evidence is gathered and then facts turn up to cast doubt on her guilt. Not a whodunit but a did-she-do-it. Cam, now worried about young Doug, concocts a dangerous plan to clear up the case once and for all leading to a powerful confrontation that leaves matters open until the final couple of minutes. I liked this one. Cotton and Peters play off each other very well in fine performances. Merrill and McLeod are underused.  Joseph Cotton and Jean Peters  Peppermint / Pierre Morel (2018). A movie with a long line of ancestors leading back, probably, to the original “Death Wish” (1974). Soccer mom Riley North (Jennifer Garner) is happy with her mechanic husband and elementary age daughter. One night, for reasons she doesn’t understand, members of a drug gang connected to a south of the border cartel run by Diego Garcia (Juan Pablo Raba) gun the three of them down in a drive-by. Riley lives but husband and daughter are killed. She identifies the four shooters in the car but when they come to trial, the D.A. doesn’t even try to present evidence and the judge abruptly dismisses the case. Escaping from custody, she lifts 50 large from the bank where she works, and disappears. Five years later, she is back with knowledge of all kinds of firearms, martial arts, bomb making and tracking skills – and in great physical shape. She is also a remorseless killer. A couple of large plot holes here, at least unexplained events. An FBI agent says Riley had been traveling the world under assumed names and has been spotted in China via a YouTube video. Whoa, hold on. She is travelling to Asia under an assumed name? As an ordinary middle class person with no contacts to get valid-looking fake I.D. how did she manage this? How did she travel anywhere? In the modern world you can hardly make any transaction at all without a Real ID and/or a Passport – especially get on a plane. Another concern is that Riley is a very white person killing dozens of Latinos who are “People that have lots of problems…they're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists.” This is a pretty brutal film but doesn’t add anything to the vigilante/revenge sub-genre except a racist bad taste – to be fair, she does off the judge, the D.A., and the defendants’ attorney (two of them off-screen) who are white males.  Riley tells the judge: “If you tell me my name, I will let you live.” He can’t. 
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Nov 9, 2019 21:01:25 GMT
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016). A Perfect Day (2015). I Origins (2014). A Ghost Story (2017). Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014). Vanity Fair (2004).
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Post by OldAussie on Nov 9, 2019 22:11:16 GMT
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Post by morrisondylanfan on Nov 9, 2019 22:28:55 GMT
Hi Aussie,having recently discussed it with Spike,how did you find Fear in the Night to be?
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Post by teleadm on Nov 9, 2019 22:29:45 GMT
wmcclainThe New Centurions and Police Python 357, I remember those two titles from early video rentals, remebering being impressed by Scott's performance as a man who actually has no life once he retires. Python with Yves, I remember as over complicated, but that could also have been my own immaturity at the time, "sounded like a cool flic" watched it with other immature pals Simple question, how were those two movies?
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Post by wmcclain on Nov 9, 2019 22:41:34 GMT
wmcclainThe New Centurions and Police Python 357, I remember those two titles from early video rentals, remebering being impressed by Scott's performance as a man who actually has no life once he retires. Python with Yves, I remember as over complicated, but that could also have been my own immaturity at the time, "sounded like a cool flic" watched it with other immature pals Simple question, how were those two movies? is another adaptation of The Big Clock, previously made with Ray Milland and Charles Laughton. The great concept in that story is that the suspected murderer is expected to solve the murder while working for the real murderer, and they are both unaware of the truth for a while. The French film doesn't really grab onto that aspect. Post- Dirty Harry they introduce distracting action film elements. I'll do a review of The New Centurions and post it separately soon. The "police patrolman" is a well-established film & TV genre in the US and always reflects social issues and political point of view. This one is about older cops mentoring the young ones, and what happens to that class. The old guys really are quite good here: George C Scott, Ed Lauter, Clifton James. A lot of familiar blaxploitation faces. The film is the middle of those creative indie years.
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Post by teleadm on Nov 9, 2019 22:41:34 GMT
OldAussieJudith and Sophia questions. I've only read bad things about that movie, and simply wondering is it that bad? Since I've been avoiding it, and maybe I was wrong...
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Post by teleadm on Nov 9, 2019 23:05:07 GMT
wmcclain The New Centurions and Police Python 357, I remember those two titles from early video rentals, remebering being impressed by Scott's performance as a man who actually has no life once he retires. Python with Yves, I remember as over complicated, but that could also have been my own immaturity at the time, "sounded like a cool flic" watched it with other immature pals Simple question, how were those two movies? is another adaptation of The Big Clock, previously made with Ray Milland and Charles Laughton. The great concept in that story is that the suspected murderer is expected to solve the murder while working for the real murderer, and they are both unaware of the truth for a while. The French film doesn't really grab onto that aspect. Post- Dirty Harry they introduce distracting action film elements. I'll do a review of The New Centurions and post it separately soon. The "police patrolman" is a well-established film & TV genre in the US and always reflects social issues and political point of view. This one is about older cops mentoring the young ones, and what happens to that class. The old guys really are quite good here: George C Scott, Ed Lauter, Clifton James. A lot of familiar blaxploitation faces. The film is the middle of those creative indie years. I think you've solved something here! While watching No Way Out with a former GF "because Kostner is hot" at a cinema, there was some parts that felt familiar but I couldn't understand why, being familiar that there was a Milland/Laughton older movie, that I still haven't seen, at the time, It was the French Python movie... that's why! Well, we couldn't look thing up on the net back then!
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Post by OldAussie on Nov 9, 2019 23:22:06 GMT
OldAussie Judith and Sophia questions. I've only read bad things about that movie, and simply wondering is it that bad? Since I've been avoiding it, and maybe I was wrong... I like it a lot - my 3rd viewing, this one on youtube, pan'n'scan, as it seems to be very hard to find a real copy. It may not be to everyone's taste but it's a recommendation for fans of either Loren or Finch.
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Post by OldAussie on Nov 9, 2019 23:25:17 GMT
Hi Aussie,having recently discussed it with Spike,how did you find Fear in the Night to be? Really enjoyed it - 1st viewing and only because my son had the bluray. As a fan of Diaboliques / Deathtrap / Images we came up with the twist fairly early but it didn't matter.
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Nov 10, 2019 2:04:55 GMT
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Post by morrisondylanfan on Nov 10, 2019 4:00:41 GMT
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016). A Perfect Day (2015). I Origins (2014). A Ghost Story (2017). Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014). Vanity Fair (2004). Hi COE! I hope you are having a good weekend,I was wondering how you found APD to be? Having heard about the movie just after it left Netflix UK,it took some tracking down, for what I ended up finding to be a outstanding film. From Sep 2018: "Oh, it's such a perfect day,I'm glad I spent it with you,Oh, such a perfect day,You just keep me hanging on." Remarkably having the Granada, Malaga and Cuenca locations in Spain stand in for the Balkans, the rugged terrain tightly captures the rough-edge atmosphere of co-writer/(with Paula Farias) director Fernando León de Aranoa's adaptation of Farias's novella Dejarse llover. Taking place at the end of the Yugoslav Wars, the writers intelligently use earthy humour to bring a touch of warmth to the grim setting, from the bickering on the radio between Mambrú and "B", to Mambrú's attempts to build a bond with a boy in the war zone. Travelling round before the UN peace troops arrive, the writers give the film a road movie rhythm, as the aid workers travel round various bombed-out villages and bureaucratic dead-ends to try and help the surviving locals, whilst the friendships in their team tighten. Backed by ill-fitting Rock songs, director Aranoa & cinematographer Alex Catalán sweep along the landscape in vast crane shots that view from the horizon the aftermath of war. Landing on earth with a corpse in a well and a mass suicide in a back garden,Aranoa grates a raw, grubby atmosphere, with the aid workers and the survivors having to pull what little remains of their livelihoods out of the ground. Joined by a gruff Tim Robbins as "T" and a heart-felt Olga Kurylenko as Katya,Benicio Del Toro gives an outstanding performance as Mambrú, with Del Toro bringing extra weight to the horrific situations with a thick gravitas and heaviness over this less than perfect day. 9.
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Post by bravomailer on Nov 10, 2019 6:26:16 GMT
Key Largo – 7/10
A play turned into a film. Bogie, Bacall, and Barrymore are held hostage by Edward G and his Milawaukee-based hoods while a counterfeit deal goes down amid a hurricane. There's a Native American element worked in as Barrymore is friendly toward local indigenous people and two of them are tragically killed. Barrymore laments how badly they've been treated here.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Nov 10, 2019 7:15:26 GMT
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016). A Perfect Day (2015). I Origins (2014). A Ghost Story (2017). Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014). Vanity Fair (2004). Hi COE! I hope you are having a good weekend,I was wondering how you found APD to be? Having heard about the movie just after it left Netflix UK,it took some tracking down, for what I ended up finding to be a outstanding film. From Sep 2018: "Oh, it's such a perfect day,I'm glad I spent it with you,Oh, such a perfect day,You just keep me hanging on." Remarkably having the Granada, Malaga and Cuenca locations in Spain stand in for the Balkans, the rugged terrain tightly captures the rough-edge atmosphere of co-writer/(with Paula Farias) director Fernando León de Aranoa's adaptation of Farias's novella Dejarse llover. Taking place at the end of the Yugoslav Wars, the writers intelligently use earthy humour to bring a touch of warmth to the grim setting, from the bickering on the radio between Mambrú and "B", to Mambrú's attempts to build a bond with a boy in the war zone. Travelling round before the UN peace troops arrive, the writers give the film a road movie rhythm, as the aid workers travel round various bombed-out villages and bureaucratic dead-ends to try and help the surviving locals, whilst the friendships in their team tighten. Backed by ill-fitting Rock songs, director Aranoa & cinematographer Alex Catalán sweep along the landscape in vast crane shots that view from the horizon the aftermath of war. Landing on earth with a corpse in a well and a mass suicide in a back garden,Aranoa grates a raw, grubby atmosphere, with the aid workers and the survivors having to pull what little remains of their livelihoods out of the ground. Joined by a gruff Tim Robbins as "T" and a heart-felt Olga Kurylenko as Katya,Benicio Del Toro gives an outstanding performance as Mambrú, with Del Toro bringing extra weight to the horrific situations with a thick gravitas and heaviness over this less than perfect day. 9. It was different to the typical sort of movie I watch. I find most kids in movies/shows annoying, so I wasn't fond of that side of things. At least the interaction Del Toro's character had with the characters played by Tim Robbins, Olga Kurylenko and Mélanie Thierry made up for that. They had some humourous moments. Mostly, though, I was just ticked off that everyone left that poor dog tied up. He got a bit of food off them, but who knows if anyone else would ever come by. The thought of the dog forever being stuck there (we got a shot of the poor animal near the end seeking shelter from the rain) kind of made it hard for me to 'enjoy' the film. An alternate title for this movie could've been 'Rope & Balls' given how much discussion took place regarding those things (though maybe that title would've suggested this movie was about something else than what it actually was).
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Post by claudius on Nov 10, 2019 12:01:14 GMT
DARK SHADOWS (1969) Episodes 876-880 50TH ANNIVERSARY. The last full week of the storyline, finishing off next week. MPI Home Video DVD.
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (1979) "Bill Russell/Chicago" 40TH ANNIVERSARY. I remember this one back in it’s THE BEST OF SATURDAY NIGHT form, with “The Black Shadow” sketch and the “Banshee” commercial. Universal DVD.
SCOOBY DOO AND SCRAPPY DOO SHOW (1979) “Demon on the Dugout” 40TH ANNIVERSARY. Warner DVD.
THE WORLD’S GREATEST SUPERFRIENDS (1979) “The Superfriends Meet Frankenstein” 40TH ANNIVERSAR:Y. Dr. Frankenstein makes a monster out of the powers of Superman, Batman (mental), and Wonder Woman, with Robin the major hero in this one. Warner DVD.
THE NEW ADVENTURES OF FLASH GORDON (1979) “Escape to Aboria” 40TH ANNIVERSARY. BCI Eclipse DVD.
THE TRANSFORMERS (1984) “The Ultimate Doom Part 1” 35TH ANNIVERSARY. Shout DVD.
MUPPET BABIES (1984) “What Do You Want to Be when you Grow Up?” 35TH ANNIVERSARY. The Babies think about their futures, with Kemrit uncertain about his. The Babies help him out, with Piggy showing her movie star dreams (meeting Tom Selleck- for real- while Kermit deals with Drew Barrymore from ET). Bootleg DVD.
THE MIGHTY ORBOTS (1984) “Leviathan” 35TH ANNIVERSARY. Warner DVD.
FELIDAE (1994) 25TH ANNIVERSARY Noir mystery concerning murder, sex, diabolical genetic experimenting. Oh, and did I mention the film is animated with the cast all cats? German made production (although Boy George has an English song), among my first PAL DVDs. Like my anniversary viewings of foreign films/shows, I had to watch this one in its native language, even though the disc had no English subtitles. Universum DVD.
ER (1994) “Another Perfect Day” 25TH ANNIVERSARY. Warner DVD.
MY LITTLE PONY: RESCUE AT MIDNIGHT CASTLE (1984) 35TH ANNIVERSARY. The first animated production of the Kenner doll series. This was my first introduction with the franchise. Youtube.
ROMAN SCANDALS (1933) UNITED ARTISTS 100TH ANNIVERSARY. Considered the best of Eddie Cantor’s Goldwyn musicals (with Ruth Etting and a nude Lucille Ball as an extra). This is my last Eddie Cantor film for the Centennial (WHOOPEE, PALMY DAYS, ROMAN SCANDALS, KID MILLIONS). HBO Video VHS.
ZORRO (1992) “The Arrival” ZORRO 100TH ANNIVERSARY. Introductory episode of a four-part storyline involving twin brothers. Early film appearance for Daniel Craig. Bootleg DVD.
NARUTO SHIPPUDEN (2012) “Medic Ninja in Danger” Viz Media DVD.
MISTER MAGOO’S 1001 ARABIAN NIGHTS (1959) 60TH ANNIVERSARY this year. UPA’s first theatrical feature with its star Mister Magoo, a take on ALADDIN with the voices of Jim Backus, Dwayne Hickman, Kathryn Grant (playing another Arabian princess, THE 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD) Hans Conreid, Alan Reed (two years before Fred Flintstone) and Herschel Bernadi. Bears some story ideas that will be used in the future Disney film like a sentient Flying Carpet and a smart-mouth Genie. I think I first saw this in the 1980s on Cinemax. Shout DVD.
THE FIFTH MUSKETEER (1979) 40TH ANNIVERSARY this year. The title seems to be a nod to the Lester Musketeer films, but this is more an adaptation of THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK (or more precisely, the 1939 version) with the Musketeers Conrad Wilde, Alan Hale Jr. (these two having played the Musketeers sons in 1948's AT SWORD’S POINT) Jose Ferrer and Lloyd Bridges. This is an edited cut of an X-rated version (I made a list of the excisions- among them full frontal shots of Sylvia Kristel and Ursula AndRess- on the Alternate Versions page on IMDb). I was rather fond of this adaptation despite its flaws. Saw parts of this on Cinemax back in 1992, finally watching the whole thing on VHS in Christmas 1994. Columbia Tri-Star DVD.
BEETLEJUICE (1989) “Bizarre Bazaar” 30TH ANNIVERSARY. Shout DVD.
GOODBYE MR. CHIPS (1969) 50TH ANNIVERSARY Musical version of the novella, updated to the 1920s and WWII with Chippings' relationship with Katherine (now a music hall star) given a longer lifespan. The film- made in the dying age of the Muscials- has been much criticized, but I have a liking to it, first seeing it on TCM in 2000 and then later on Cinemax in 2002. Interesting to see the characters of George Baker and Sian Philips as lovers, considering their more famous relationship as mother and son in I, CLAUDIUS. Warner DVD.
HEATHCLIFF (1984) “Soap Box Derby/A Better Mousetrap”, “Bamboo Island/Superhero Mungo”, “Dr.Mousetus”, “Cat Food for Thought” 35TH ANNIVERSARY. Youtube & Mill Creek Entertainment DVD.
THE VIKINGS (1958) UNITED ARTISTS 100TH ANNIVERSARY.MGM/UA DVD.
IN SEARCH OF DR. SEUSS (1994) 25TH ANNIVERSARY. Documentary Special has Kathy Najimy learning about Ted Geisel through personas (Matt Frewer as the Cat in the Hat, Christopher Lloyd as Mr. Hunch, Patrick Stewart as Officer Mulvaney, Eileen Brennan as the Who Hag) and clips. The stories are portrayed in many ways: dubbed-over versions of Bob Clampett’s HORTON HATCHES THE EGG, George Pals’ AND TO THINK THAT I SAW IT ON MULBERRY STREET, Chuck Jones’ THE GRINCH WHO STOLE CHRISTMAS, Ralph Bakshi’s THE BUTTER BATTLE BOOK (although Boris Karloff, Charles Durning, and June Foray keep their voices), Live Action (Robin Williams reads THE CAT IN THE HAT as a Bedtime Story to two little girls, YERTLE THE TURTLE a Church choir, GREEN EGGS AND HAM as a dance number), and a little of both (Kathy Najimy interacting with a Live Action Once-ler with Bob Holt’s voice from the 1972 THE LORAX TV Special). I first saw this on its premiere in November 1994 (although I had to miss the first 30 minutes for THE SIMPSONS) Turner VHS.
1941 (1979) 40TH ANNIVERSARY this year. Last time I saw Steven Spielberg’s Comedy Spectacular was in December 13, 2016 celebrating the 75th Anniversary of when the film’s events occurred. Universal DVD.
DRAGON BALL Z (1989) “An Intense Three-Hour Delay! The Kinto Un Bullet Express.” 30TH ANNIVERSARY Funimation DVD.
SCOOBY DOO, WHERE ARE YOU? (1969) “A Backstage Rage” 50TH ANNIVERSARY. Warner DVD.
THE FIRST CHURCHILLS (1969) “Trial of Strength” 50TH ANNIVERSARY. James has been deposed, and now William and Mary are on the throne. AcornMedia DVD.
HE WHO GETS SLAPPED (1924) 95TH ANNIVERSARY Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s first film under its merging, a tragedy with Lon Chaney and future MGM stars John Gilbert and Norma Shearer. Warner DVD.
ANGEL (1999) “Sense and Sensitivity” 20TH ANNIVERSARY. FoxVideo DVD.
ONCE AND AGAIN (1999) “The Past is Prologue.” 20TH ANNIVERSARY. Buena Vista DVD.
MICKEY’S ONCE UPON A CHRISTMAS (1999) “A Very Goofy Christmas” 20TH ANNIVERSARY. Made-for-VHS Disney film consisting of three stories. The middle one viewed for this occasion is an episode with Goofy and his son Max (Shaun Fleming voicing the kid version after the late Dana Hill). This was made at the time when Disney decided to fit Goofy’s son into the Disney Gang. I once wrote an essay on IMDb's Message Boards showing how the three Christmas stories concerning Max (this film, A GOOF TROOP CHRISTMAS, and TWICE UPON A CHRISTMAS) present his relationship with his father. This is a VHS recording on Disney XD on Christmas Day 2010.
MICKEY’S TWICE UPON A CHRISTMAS (2004) “Christmas Maximus” 15TH ANNIVERSARY Just as ONCE UPON A CHRISTMAS began Max Goof’s integration into the Disney cast, this sequel ended that association, Disney retiring the character (here voiced by Jason Marsden). It's a nice coda, with Max getting over his Goof issues and a new girlfriend (voiced by Kellie Martin, who was Roxanne from A GOOFY MOVIE). This is a VHS recording from Christmas 2010.
GANKUTUSOU: THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO (2004) “Her Melancholy, My Melancholy” 15TH ANNIVERSARY. Geneon Entertainment DVD.
NINOTCHKA (1939) 80TH ANNIVERSARY. Garbo Laughs eighty years ago in this Ernst Lubitsch Comedy. Interesting to see Bela Lugosi sharing a film with NOSFERATU’S “Renfield” Alexander Granach. Warner DVD.
THE WIND IN THE WILLOW (1984) “The Grand Annual Show” 35TH ANNIVERSARY A&E Video DVD.
LIMELIGHT (1952) UNITED ARTISTS 100TH ANNIVERSARY. Chaplin’s last American film before his departure from the country (as well as a first for Geraldine Chaplin and Claire Bloom's career). First saw this on American Movie Classics back in the early 1990s. And with that, I end my viewing of Chaplin’s UA catalogue (THE GOLD RUSH, CITY LIGHTS, MODERN TIMES, THE GREAT DICTATOR, MONSIEUR VERDOUX, and LIMELIGHT). Criterion BluRay.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Nov 10, 2019 14:09:45 GMT
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