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Post by hitchcockthelegend on May 23, 2020 17:24:27 GMT
You know what to do peeps, reviews, pics, ratings, comments etc are encouraged. New films are also welcome in the spirit of good conversation.
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Post by wmcclain on May 23, 2020 17:34:06 GMT
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on May 23, 2020 18:36:17 GMT
Dial M for Murder (1954) - www.imdb.com/title/tt0046912/referenceReview > www.imdb.com/review/rw5764433/?ref_=tt_urv 8/10 Fort Massacre (1958) - www.imdb.com/title/tt0051629/referenceReview > www.imdb.com/review/rw2199033/?ref_=tt_urv 8/10 Lucky Jo (1964) - With thanks to mdf - www.imdb.com/title/tt0058306/referenceReview > www.imdb.com/review/rw5764522/?ref_=rw_urv 7/10 Magnum Force (1973) - www.imdb.com/title/tt0070355/referenceReview > www.imdb.com/review/rw2943318/?ref_=tt_urv 7.5/10 Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) - www.imdb.com/title/tt0076327/referenceReview > www.imdb.com/review/rw5764178/?ref_=tt_urv 7/10 Rocky II (1979) - www.imdb.com/title/tt0079817/referenceReview > www.imdb.com/review/rw2226720/?ref_=tt_urv 8/10 The Hard Way (1991) - www.imdb.com/title/tt0102004/referenceReview > www.imdb.com/review/rw5764390/?ref_=tt_urv 6/10 A Perfect Murder (1998) - www.imdb.com/title/tt0120787/referenceReview > Awaiting Clearance... 7/10 Disturbia (2007) - www.imdb.com/title/tt0486822/referenceReview > www.imdb.com/review/rw5764333/?ref_=tt_urv 7/10 Personal Shopper (2016) - www.imdb.com/title/tt4714782/referenceReview > Not cleared yet, but have a copy > Well ... How's within that, that the soul ... continues to exist ... after death? Personal Shopper is written and directed by Olivier Assayas. It stars Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz, Anders Danielsen Lie, Ty Olwin and Hammou Graïa. Cinematography is by Yorick Le Saux. A personal shopper in Paris refuses to leave the city until she makes contact with her twin brother who previously died there. Her life becomes more complicated when a mysterious person starts to contact her via text messages. Personal Shopper is a film that's impossible to recommend with any confidence, even if I personally liked it well enough. It was booed on first showing at Cannes, yet upon the second main screen viewing of it, it got a five minute standing ovation. If you look at the reviews on sites such as IMDb you will see plenty of 1/10 reviews mixed with high scoring ones, evidence of the divisive nature of Assayas' picture. A lot of people went into it expecting a "Paranormal Activity" type of film, but it's far from that. It's a meditation on grief and the complexities of the mind and the human condition under duress. Stewart gives her all for the director, a real bravura performance. Yes, the ending is either going to make or break your faith in what you have just witnessed, but if you buy into, and think about the narrative's trajectory, this has haunting and ethereal rewards. 7/10
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Post by teleadm on May 23, 2020 20:08:23 GMT
The Tele watched this: The Greatest Showman 2017, since it's a nearly new movie, I thought I should watch it. I have to give credit for trying to make a new musical on screen. many songs heard, can't remember any after seeing movie, pity. Not a movie for me, but I must say it was a feast for the eyes, sprawling in colours. Thunder Run 1986. Why on earth did I watch this? Oh yes, it somehow popped up in my head when I read the "Trucker Noir" thread LOL. This is a really awful movie with a few good stunts (big truck jumping over a collapsed bridge) and veteran actors in the leading roles (Forrest Tucker and John Ireland). It's about transporting plutonium from one point to another and fooling unnamed terrorists. There is a long and boring story about teens (looking over 30) streetracing in Nevada before the "action" starts.... Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? 1972, a later version of Hansel and Gretel, that starts as a con, with hoax seances, fooling an American widow out of money, and then develops into child kidnapping, as the widow throw Christmas parties for orphans. She fancies a child that she want's to keep. The Widow is obviously crazy and deranged, but the kids might not be as innocent as they look either! While not a great movie, it's still interesting. Could be an alternate movie around Christmas to watch, if one get's tired of what Hallmark offers. A Night to Remember 1958, in my mind it's still the best movie made about the Titanic disaster, even if they didn't know that the ship cracked into two halves until 1985, or did it, since author Walter Lord interviewed survivors, at least someone would have known and told so. Anyway as a movie, it's one of the greats! Woman's World 1954, a very slick, streamlined and entertaining comedy drama. The lighter side of Executive Suite maybe. Great views of New York in the early 1950s. The chair after a recently deceased General Manager of a large car manufacturing company is empty, needs to be filled, three Men and their wives are called, and who will fill the empty chair? Big stars of the day in leads. This one was for you Mama, since you referred to it many times (hunk, hunk, handsome and one not so), and I finally watched it! She was the inspiration why I like movies, and it was Fred MacMurray she didn't like, for some reason. Salome 1953, time to throw your Bibles away and enjoy a romp, since it doesn't care much about the Holy Scriptures anyway. Columbia Pictures wasn't known for Biblical epics though they did some low budget exotica through producer Sam Katzmann. Rita Hayworth was a damn good actress! But the dance of the seven veils was a bit over the top, somehow I forget what a good actrees she was all the time, until I see her again. Charles Laughton has the time of his life as King Herod. Stewart Granger has the thankless task of just looking dashing and be on hand. A babtist head is served! Domenica d'Agosto aka Sunday in August 1950, a lesser known neo-realism movie maybe because it doesn't tell a sad story. It's Sunday in Roma, and we follow many persons as they go to the beach of Ostria, by bike, by car, by train and offcourse by Vespa. The rich have their secluded beach, and the rest have a general beach, and there is also a forbidden beach not cleaned from mines. A boy and a girl fall in love, a forever yelling family, a father leaving a kid at a nunnery and regrets it, the old drinks someting called Coca-Cola and so on. And yes a young Marcello Mastroianni plays a traffic cop. Pleasant. Watched Italian version with English subtitles, and Italians talks a lot. Thirty Seconds over Tokyo 1944, is offcourse a war propaganda flag waver, but if one can see beyond that, it's a damn good movie too. It doen't shy away that in war one might loose a limb, like Van Johnson's character. It was American pay back time to Japan after Pearl Harbour, and the Doolittle Raid. Surprisingly more accurate than many other Hollywood movies at the time (what I've read), and in 1944, the Chinese were chaps, while Japs were hated, things changed over the years, but they didn't know that in 1944. By the way a young Robert Mitchum is in it too. He Who Gets Slapped 1924, to see a movie with the great Lon Chaney and directed by the great Victor Sjöström is something fantastic, in the movie that started MGM, a huge hit in it's day. A brilliant mind and inventor (Chaney) is betrayed by a wife and his benefactor (Aussie Marc McDermott), and get's slapped. Slapped is how he sees the world as he (Chaney) becomes a famous clown who's act is to be slapped. Chaney is brilliant in a non-horror part, though still morbid, but there is a boring love story too between Norma Shearer and John Gilbert along the way and her father's hope the she (Norma) will marry into nobility. It's fascinating to watch, but around 15 minutes are still missing, and Leo the Original MGM Lion (?) has a pivotal part in the plot. Well that was my mixed bag! Wild Strawberries on a straw, maybe there will be a summer this year too... Time to read what exciting movies others have seen!
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Post by teleadm on May 23, 2020 20:25:45 GMT
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Post by MrFurious on May 23, 2020 21:26:19 GMT
Road(14)(doc) Tomb Raider(18) Zabriskie Point(70) ^^^
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Post by OldAussie on May 23, 2020 22:41:26 GMT
Episodes - Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo (1990) - Helen Shaver, Ian McShane Uneasy Lies the Crown (1990) = James Read Murder in Malibu (1990) - Andrew Stevens, Brenda Vaccaro Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star (1991) - Dabney Coleman Death Hits the Jackpot (1991) - Rip Torn
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Post by morrisondylanfan on May 23, 2020 23:46:44 GMT
Hi Spike,on your Personal Shopper review " If you look at the reviews on sites such as IMDb you will see plenty of 1/10 reviews mixed with high scoring ones." I found Olivier Assayas's Clouds of Sils Maria (2014) (also starring K-Stew) outstanding,but remember that Guy did not like it at all! I hope everyone is having a good weekend. The cooling fan in my laptop suddenly broke,and with no repair shops open nearby,I've gotten a old laptop out,and spent a few days getting everything up & running. Horror marathon: GDT's The Devil's Backbone (2001) 9 Spending 16 years developing the project, co-writer/(with Antonio Trashorras and David Munoz) directing auteur Guillermo Del Toro reunites with regular cinematographer Guillermo Navarro to expand on the Horror foundation of Cronos,whilst threading it with a new mature Gothic Melodrama quality. Filling Dr. Casares with huge jars and a swimming pool-sized vat of preserving fluid bubbling in the school, GDT brilliantly continues to display his love for those traditionally presented as monsters in Horror flicks, via warm close-ups on the ghostly face of Santi, linking Santi's lost childhood to the loss of young innocence Carlos has experienced in the Spanish Civil War. Stating in the audio commentary that "Horror is about context", GDT unveils the allegorical backbone with ultra-stylised long tracking shots round the orphanage held at a child's-height level capturing all of them being linked together by one location, (where a defused bomb stands in the grounds,casting a shadow across all) which GDT cracks with poetic warm amber wide-shots cast on outbursts of violence, heightening a atmosphere of magical realism rising out from the horror. Keeping the entire film on the grounds of the orphanage, the writers build the wall of the location as a haunting microcosm to the final days of the Spanish Civil War, as a tug of war between old, important, republic of Dr. Casares,which is being diced by the Fascist tendencies of caretaker Jacinto, leaving the children of this orphan country utter alone, and having to fight for their freedom from the place. Continuing a major recurring theme across his work of the lead being a outsider, GDT brings the horror up-close to Carlos, (whose dad was killed in the Civil War) not only in the haunted face of Santi, but also being pelted with bullying from all the fellow orphans, displeased of a outsider entering their land. Entering the orphanage with his innocence ruined, Fernando Tielve gives a astonishingly complex feature film debut performance as Carlos,whose childhood sense of wander over a desire to learn more about Santi, is burnt at the edges by Tielve from all the bruises of the horrors from the Spanish Civil War the adults cut across Carlos's face,as the devil's backbone breaks. Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) 10 Spending 18 months putting all the wages from his regular job into the production, leading to a burn out with the crew and the film maker even becoming tempted to burn the negative due to the stress over completing it,animator/co-star/ production designer/editor/co-cinematographer/producer/writer and director (!) Shin'ya Tsukamoto builds a magnificently transgressive Cyberpunk creation. Using his own flat as the editing room and the main location, the strong personal hold Tsukamoto has on the title blossoms into ultra-stylisation of stop-motion animation being skillfully welded onto the practical effects building of the man. Pieced together in grainy black and white,Tsukamoto brings The Metal Fetishist back to life with frenzied jump-cuts/scrambled close-ups being mashed up with hyper-stylised long Kinetic whip-pans rushing towards the Fetishist drilling the man who killed him into a grotesque surreal Horror creation of flesh and twisted metal. One of the few in the crew to not quit the production, Tsukamoto's regular composer Chu Ishikawa reveals why Tsukamoto kept the dialogue to a handful of lines, by delivering an extremely expressive Industrial score, thanks to Ishikawa layering each individual grind over the other, keeping the heart of the Iron Man beating, as he long lives for the new flesh. Street Trash (1987)6 Putting all the money he inherited from a will into buying a stedicam which would steadily lead to him being the steadicam operator for James Cameron from The Abyss to Titanic,and for Oliver Stone from The Doors to Any Given Sunday, James M. Muro displays in his lone feature film directing debut a interest to test out camera moves, kicking off with a opening chase shaking with urgency from the golf cart used to place the camera on, and Muro impressively displaying a early ease with the stedicam in winding stedicam shots going down the streets with the fighting tramps. Expanding from his short student film, Muro drips out a kitsch splatter Comedy Horror atmosphere, bursting from the toxic brew colourfully melting all who taste it, with the chaos it causes being kicked around by Muro with a round of footy with a severed manhood. Turning the plot of the short into a feature, the screenplay by Roy Frumkes sips the toxic brew as a linking device to hit and miss episodic splatter Comedy, largely focused on the various tramps in the city fighting to get their hands on a bottle of the brew from the street trash. Uncle Jess's Succubus (1968) 9 Crossing the audience with a startling play within a film opening for his 15th feature, directing auteur "Uncle" Jess Franco reunites with occasional cinematographer Jorge Herrero for a major turning point in his career. Becoming the first of his films not to be shot in Spain, due to as Stephen Thrower notes in the magnificent book Murderous Passions:The Delirious Cinema Of Jess Franco,the film board banning a script presented to them, (which was much simpler than the final creation) from being filmed. Uncle Jess takes full advantage of the freedoms offered in West Germany with a sensually charged dreamy Horror atmosphere, swooning over Lorna with his trademark button-bashing trombone zoom-ins. Having made films before this which whilst excellent, did tend to have a narrative focus, here Uncle Jess plays the Horror genre as a bare outline to playing his unique full Jazz styling. From the opening staged set-piece, Jess hits the notes of a major theme across his works, with the blending of dreams and reality in a ultra-stylised tapestry formed from distorted wide-shots weaved with shards of bright colour, seeping into the saturated crisply lit coloured world Lorna acts in, all wrapped in Jerry van Rooyen refine classical diced with Friedrich Gulda- inspired Jazz score. Disputed later by Jess as Pier A. Caminnecci only getting the script credit so it could meet the legal limit of being a German co-production, whoever was the actual writer, magic's up a superb dream-logic horror nightmare, dropping references to De Sade and Freud, (major recurring themes of Jess) like sweet gumball's , that satirize psycho-analyses and Art-House cinema,with the word association games Lorna plays blurring her murderous dreams into reality. The first of nine times they teamed up,Jack Taylor gives a terrific turn as Lorna's lover Mulligan, thanks to Taylor threading Mulligan's digs into Lorna's mind with a wry curiosity, whilst Howard Vernon reunites with Jess to add a fitting mysterious air as Kapp. Shining with glamour in her dream state,gorgeous Janine Reynaud gives a hypnotic performance as Lorna,thanks to Reynaud bringing out a depth in Lorna's erotic dreamy lust bending to terror from a murderous loss on reality,as Uncle Jess sets the succubus free. Other flicks: Riot in a Women's Prison (1974)6 Stripping the prisoners down in their sentencing, co-writer/(with Leila Buongiorno/Anthony La Penna and Aldo Semeraro) director Brunello Rondi (who wrote Fellini's most famous works!) & cinematographer Gino Santini lay bare a nice and sleazy WIP atmosphere from the ladies ripping their clothes off in cat fights,and wonderfully bonkers dips into unintended (?) comedy (a noose for a dog!) Kicking it all off in the prison, Rondi charges in with a Grindhouse rough and ready style in hand-held camera moves punching into the middle of the action, and rapid spinning camera moves rolling on the disorientating state of a riot. Each coming from the school of hard knocks, the writers give each of the gals tasty coarsely cut dialogue, bringing out a ruthless bite to when the action starts. Entering the big house being found wrongly guilty, fit Martine Brochard gives a live wire turn as Fresienne, whose innocent state Brochard grinds down,by getting Fresienne caught up in a riot in a women's prison.
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Post by morrisondylanfan on May 24, 2020 0:01:21 GMT
Road(14)(doc) Tomb Raider(18) Zabriskie Point(70) ^^^ Hi Furious,how did you find Vikander's Tomb Raider levels to be?
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Post by politicidal on May 24, 2020 0:23:32 GMT
Uncommon Valor (1983 8/10
Lonely Hearts (2006) 7/10
Just Getting Started (2017) 4/10
Tripoli (1950) 5/10
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) 6/10
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Post by OldAussie on May 24, 2020 0:31:04 GMT
Another recommendation from me for FORT MASSACRE. Not sure if the Aussie DVD is region free or region 4.
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Post by hi224 on May 24, 2020 2:19:59 GMT
Sorry to Bother You The Nightingale.
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Post by mikef6 on May 24, 2020 2:56:28 GMT
The Crimson Kimono / Samuel Fuller (1959). Columbia Pictures. Cinematography by Sam Leavitt. Surprisingly progressive movie that features not only a romance between an Asian man and Caucasian woman...BUT it also gives us an Asian detective played by an actor with an actual by god Asian heritage. Take that, Charlie Chan. I’m talking about third generation Japanese-American actor James Shigeta in his motion picture debut. He is paired with British actor Victoria Shaw as Christine Downs whose life is in danger as she is a valuable witness to solving the murder of a stripper. A complication is that Shigeta’s character, Det. Joe Kojaku, has already learned that his partner Charlie Bancroft (Glenn Corbett) is also in love with Christine. Joe becomes tormented by newly arrived feelings of “otherness” – being of Japanese ancestry in a white world – as he and Charlie go about following clues. A pretty good mystery story and police procedural are also part of the tale, or “yarn,” as Sam Fuller referred to his movies. Shigeta and Shaw play their roles very well. Glenn Corbett (who replaced George Maharis on “Route 66” in 1963) had a long movie and TV guest star career but was never a very good actor. This is obvious every time he shares the screen with Shigeta. Atlantic City / Louis Malle (1980). Burt Lancaster was never shy about taking age appropriate roles. Sometimes he even played older. In this must-see, big budget, major studio art film (contradictions, I know), the 67-year-old Lancaster plays Lou, a retired low-level mobster living in a tenement apartment targeted for demolition to make way for a new casino in the title New Jersey coast city. He makes a few extra dollars caring for the pampered widow (Kate Reed) of a deceased mob boss who is also reduced to the cheap apartment building. Lou becomes infatuated by the lovely young woman he can see across the way. This is Sally Matthews (Susan Sarandon). Sally is taking lessons to be a card dealer when her husband (Robert Joy) and sister Crissie (Hollis McLaren) show up. The hubby is a drug dealer who ripped off a major bad man in Philadelphia. Lou meets the husband (as a way to insinuate himself into Sally’s world) by offering to help him sell of the drugs. But things go bad when the Philly guy shows up after blood and his dope. Lou sees protecting Sally as his one last chance to do something good (and successful) in his life. Lancaster is wonderful with a typical detailed performance. He got the last of four (winning one) Oscar nominations as Best Actor. Before “Atlantic City,” “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” (1975) had been Sarandon’s most prominent movie. For “Atlantic City” she received her first of six (winning one) Best Actress nominations. I love this film. SOME EXTENDED PROGRAMS FOR SHELTERING IS PLACE The Winter's Tale Live from Shakespeare's Globe (2018). Throughout its stage history, The Winter’s Tale has been out on the periphery of the Shakespeare repertoire – until, I reckon, about the last quarter of the 20th century when it was “discovered” so now is regularly played within the English speaking world. And I just love it. It is one of my favorite plays. Usually listed as the next to last of Will’s solo written plays, it is in the form of the kind of romantic comedy/drama that was becoming popular with audiences in the early 17th century. There are plenty of laughs but also near tragic drama with large dollops of fantasy and folk tale. There are three great roles for women: two are strong, outspoken, daring people and the other is a charming ingenue in the Juliet/Rosalind mold. Many fine set-pieces of which my favorite is a trial decided by a pronouncement from the Oracle at Delphi. Die Entführung Aus Dem Serail (Abduction From The Seraglio) by W.A. Mozart. (1980) The terrible (but traditional) English title could by rendered much better by something along the lines of The Escape From The Harem.” If you remember your “Amadeus,” this opera is the one with “too many notes.” But there is musical heaven in every one of them. A production with a lot of names that long time opera buffs from the ‘80s will recognize such as Francisco Araiza, Edita Gruberova, and Matti Talvela. Superb. A Streetcar Named Desire: National Theatre Live (2014). This Tennessee Williams American classic play was mounted by the Young Vic Theatre in 2014. It was the hottest ticket in London during that summer. It moved to Broadway two years later for a limited run. Most of the attention was given to Gillian Anderson as the haunted, poverty stricken Southern Belle struggling to keep her sanity, so I was really looking forward to seeing this. Unfortunately, I was disappointed. Anderson’s voice was pitched so high that it often became shrill. This may (or may not) have been a deliberate choice, but it got on my nerves something terrible. Stella was taken by Vanessa Kirby and was excellent. Kirby is best known in the U.S. as an Emmy winner for Princess Margaret in “The Crown” and The White Widow in the “Mission: Impossible” films. But the true star and major reason I can still recommend this production is Ben Foster as Stanley Kowalski. If he doesn’t erase the memory of Marlon Brando (but then, who could?), Foster is every inch Stanley. You won’t look at him as a actor playing a character, however well. You will always believe in him. Believe he is Stanley. Foster quite brilliantly immerses himself in the role. If I got this information correctly, this will only be streaming on YouTube until May 28.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2020 9:53:52 GMT
The Gentle Sex-1943 Umberto D.-1952-Italy Woman on the Run-1950 Camille -1936 Mr. Arkadin-1955 Dry Summer-1963-Turkey Chase A Crooked Shadow-1958 La Chienne-1931-France The Proud Ones-1956 Pale Flower-1964-Japan All the Mornings of the World-1991-France Happy End-2017-France The King of Devil's Island-2010-Norway The Tree of Wooden Clogs-1979-Italy Mean Time-1983 Bad Words-2013 Entre Nos-2009
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Post by claudius on May 24, 2020 10:36:12 GMT
Sunday SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (1980) “Steve Martin/3-D/Paul and Linda McCartney” 40TH ANNIVERSARY The penultimate episode of the Original Cast era (although Steve Martin will continue to host the series). A running gag is Father Guido Sarducci trying to get a London Interview with Paul McCartney about his Drug arrest in Japan. He succeeds (with Linda to boot) as well as the airing of his Music Video “Coming Up”. This was probably the last SNL I saw on its syndicated edit THE BEST OF SATURDAY NIGHT (minus Paul). Universal DVD.
DAVID COPPERFIELD (1998) COPPERFIELD 170TH ANNIVERSARY “Episode One” I take it this one is referred to as the Harry Potter version, because it stars Daniel Radcliffe as David the Boy, with fellow Potter regulars like Maggie Smith as Aunt Betsy, Imeda Staunton as Mrs. Micawber, Zoe Wanamaker as Miss Murdstone (and other Potters like Dawn French, Patsy Byrne, etc.). Also starring in this production are Emelia Fox as Clara, Bob Hoskins as Micawber, Trevor Eve as Mr. Murdstone, Nicholas Lyndhurst as Uriah Heep, and Ian McKellan as Mr Creakle. First saw some of this on PBS Masterpiece Theatre back on its American Broadcast. BBC Video DVD.
STAR WARS EPISODE V THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980) 40TH ANNIVERSARY The first STAR WARS Sequel, some would say the best. I may have seen it in theaters, although it was probably the 1981 re-issue. At any rate, my first real viewing was on a TV broadcast on Showtime in 1985, feeling weirded out by its downbeat ending (I remember less about Vader’s “I Am Your Father” and more to Luke’s pained reaction). We later recorded another broadcast, and for a time it was my only access to STAR WARS until I got A NEW HOPE on VHS in 1987 (it wasn’t until 1996 that we owned a VHS of RETURN OF THE JEDI). This is the original Theatrical version with Clive Revill’s Emperor. FoxVideo DVD.
AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER (2007) “The Western Air Temple” My first AVATAR Episode, with Zuko finally joining the Gang. First viewed this on YouTube in December 2007 (from a Canadian broadcast; it took almost five months to reach US availability), and would watch it a lot on the Youtube (as well as clips from a Animated Music Video with One Republic’s “Too Late to Apologize”) until getting it on Disc that summer 2008. Paramount DVD.
Monday THE TRANSFORMERS (1984) “Fire in the Sky” I had watched this episode last fall in honor of its 35th Anniversary. This CBS (or more accurately WSEE 35) broadcast (c. May 1985, 35 years ago) is probably my first viewing of the episode. Commercials include an animated advertisement of G.I JOE#30, promos for THE DUKES OF HAZZARD (syndicated repeat), HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE.
ER (1995) “Everything is New Again” 25TH ANNIVERSARY I’ve been a little negligent of my season viewing, skipping about three episodes (at least I got to the end, unlike my 25th Anniversary viewing of Season 4). Carol Hathaway’s wedding goes nowhere; Benton has lost his mother but is still talking to the married Jeanie, and Carter ends his first year residency. Warner DVD.
Tuesday CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS (1985) 35TH ANNIVERSARY TV Miniseries on the Explorer, starring Gabriel Byrne as Columbus, with Eli Wallach, Oliver Reed, Max Von Sydow, and Nicol Williamson & Faye Dunaway as Ferdinand and Isabella. First saw a little of this on the Disney Channel back in the Columbus Quincentennial in the fall of 1992. Saw most of it on the History Channel in 1996. Koch PAL DVD.
POLLYANNA (1960) 60TH ANNIVERSARY Walt Disney’s adaptation of childhood favorite, starring Hayley Mills, Jane Wyman, Agnes Moorehead, Richard Egan, Adolph Menjou, and Donald Crisp. I do recall seeing the second half back in the 1980s, probably on the Disney Channel. The 1989 All-Black TV remake POLLY (the one with Claire and Rudy Huxtable) helped give me a better understanding of the plotline. And then I saw more of the film later that year. Buena Vista DVD.
THE SLAYERS (1995) “GIVE UP! But, just before we do, the Sure Kill Sword Appears!” 25TH ANNIVERSARY The first appearance of Gourry’s Light Blade. Japanese with English Subtitles. Software Sculptor DVD.
MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM WING (1995) “Scenario For Bloodshed” 25TH ANNIVERSARY The first major setback to the Gundam pilots hit when they are tricked into killing pro-colony diplomats. Japanese with English Subtitles. Bandai DVD
Wednesday DADDY LONG LEGS (1990) “The First Novel Plagirized?” 30TH ANNIVERSARY Japanese with English Subtitles. Bootleg DVD.
Thursday THE ROSE OF VERSAILLIES (1980) “You Are the Light, I Am the Shadow” 40TH ANNIVERSARY Japanese with English Subtitles. RightStuf DVD.
Friday NARUTO SHIPPUDEN “Madara Uchiha” English Dubbed. Viz Media DVD.
Saturday BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (2000) “Restless” 20TH ANNIVERSARY Having finished the Big Bad last episode, the Season Finale has each of the four Scoobies suffer nightmares about their private feelings and insecurities, all revolving with a confrontation with the original Slayer. Seth Green makes his final appearance. FoxVideo DVD.
ANGEL (2000) “To Shanshu in L. A.” 20TH ANNIVERSARY The Season Finale throws away the old (Goodbye, Oracles & Angel’s office & residence) and adds the new (the Shanshu prophecy and the reappearance of Darla, setting up next season). Thus ends my 20th Anniversary viewing, which I had previously celebrated ten years ago. FoxVideo DVD.
AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER (2005) “The Boy in the Iceberg” 15TH ANNIVERSARY this year. Seeing this anniversary, and missing the first 11 episodes on their actual date, I’ve decided to play catch-up for Book One. The first episode, introducing Aang, Appa, Kitara, Sokka, Zuko, and Iroh. Paramount DVD.
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Post by MrFurious on May 24, 2020 13:08:45 GMT
Road(14)(doc) Tomb Raider(18) Zabriskie Point(70) ^^^ Hi Furious,how did you find Vikander's Tomb Raider levels to be? I thought she was great. I can barely remember the 2 Jolie ones. This one was very faithful to the games I thought. She makes a great little action hero. Looking forward to her return.
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on May 24, 2020 14:12:51 GMT
I hope you get to see it, especially if you like McCrea, it's the sort of role Randolph or Jimmy could have done for Boetticher and Mann respectively.
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on May 24, 2020 14:19:39 GMT
Another recommendation from me for FORT MASSACRE. Not sure if the Aussie DVD is region free or region 4. Since I wrote that review it has become more readily available, so I'll have to update, it can be got on Blu-ray now from Spain. It's also in a cool DVD Box Set from Spain, with Ride the High Country as part of the set. That's enough right there!
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Post by mikef6 on May 24, 2020 14:25:27 GMT
Admin!!: What the hell happened to all my pictures? They were present when I created the reply. The empty spaces are still there but all the links have been reduced to [the abbreviated link won't copy] . You should put your engineers on to that.
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on May 24, 2020 14:44:45 GMT
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