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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 8, 2020 16:41:21 GMT
Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄It's one of my forever favorites .. but you know that already !  The other Tati films are not as good as this one (imo) They seem forced to me in a way that this ones does not.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 on Aug 8, 2020 16:44:10 GMT
Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 It's one of my forever favorites .. but you know that already ! The other Tati films are not as good as this one (imo) They seem forced to me in a way that this ones does not. Might check them out some time. Sequels rarely live up to the originals.
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Post by kijii on Aug 8, 2020 17:17:02 GMT
Alan Parker memorial watching schedule-Part 5 At the rate I am going, I may see all Alan Parker's feature films. As with all directors, some of his films are great while others don't do much for me. The Commitments (1991) / Alan Parker I love this film. It reminds me of other British-Irish films that feature working-class people coming together to dream big and then succeed with their dreams. Another movie that reminds me of this one is Brassed Off (1996)--Number 85 on the BFI's Top 100. (By the way, The Commitments is Number 38 on the same list.) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jimmy Rabbitte : Soul is the music people understand. Sure it's basic and it's simple. But it's something else 'cause, 'cause, 'cause it's honest, that's it. Its honest. There's no fuckin' bullshit. It sticks its neck out and says it straight from the heart. Sure there's a lot of different music you can get off on but soul is more than that. It takes you somewhere else. It grabs you by the balls and lifts you above the shite.
Jimmy Rabbitte : Do you not get it, lads? The Irish are the blacks of Europe. And Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland. And the Northside Dubliners are the blacks of Dublin. So say it once, say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud.
Joey : Look, I know you're hurtin' now, but in time you'll realize what you've achieved.
Jimmy Rabbitte : I've achieved nothing!
Joey : You're missin' the point. The success of the band was irrelevant - you raised their expectations of life, you lifted their horizons. Sure we could have been famous and made albums and stuff, but that would have been predictable. This way it's poetry.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 8, 2020 17:51:53 GMT
It's one of my forever favorites .. but you know that already ! The other Tati films are not as good as this one (imo) They seem forced to me in a way that this ones does not. Might check them out some time. Sequels rarely live up to the originals. They really aren't "sequels" as much as other movies he made ,, or maybe they are ? I dunno ! I just liked the vacation one and not the others so much. Mon Oncle is the better of the others. .
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Post by kijii on Aug 9, 2020 4:50:35 GMT
Alan Parker memorial watching schedule-Part 6Come See the Paradise (1990) / Alan Parker Alan Parker not only directed this movie, he also wrote the original screenplay. This epic-level drama encompasses the romance and marriage between two Americans: an Irish-American man and a Japanese-American woman. However, their relationship has to endure several hardships and separations due to WW II and their personal and ethnic backgrounds.The story is presented, in flashback, as the woman tells it to their daughter before the family can finally reunite after the last long separation. This may be the best movie made to have depicted the plight of Japanese-Americans during the War. After being sent to Japanese interment "camps,'' their loyalty to America is questioned and a new loyalty oath must be taken......before the "camps" are finally ruled unconstitutional in 1945. The movie is both powerfully beautiful and powerfully brutal at the same time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans   Wikipedia plot summary with SPOILERS: In the early 1950s, Lily Kawamura tells her pre-adolescent daughter Mini about her father and the life that she barely remembers, as the two of them are walking to a rural train station.
In 1936, Jack McGurn is a motion picture projectionist, involved in a campaign of harassment against non-union theaters in New York City. One such attack turns fatal, as one of his fellow union members starts a fire. McGurn's boss, knowing that the feelings of guilt would likely cause Jack to go to the police, urges him to leave the city. Jack moves to Los Angeles where his brother Gerry lives. Jack's role as a "sweatshop lawyer" strains an already-rocky relationship with Gerry who is willing to have any job, barely keeping his family afloat during the Great Depression.
Taking the name McGann, Jack finds a job as a non-union projectionist in a movie theater run by a Japanese American family by the name of Kawamura. He falls in love with Lily, his boss' daughter. Forbidden to see one another by her Issei parents and banned from marrying by California law, the couple elopes to Seattle, where they marry and have a daughter, Mini.
When World War II breaks out, Lily and their daughter are caught up in the Japanese American internment, rounded up and sent to Manzanar, California. Jack, away on a trip, is drafted into the United States Army with no chance to help his family prepare for their imprisonment.
Finally visiting the camp, he arranges a private meeting with his wife's father, telling him that he has gone AWOL and wants to stay with them, whatever they have to go through. They are his family now and he belongs with them. The older man counsels him to return to the Army, and says that he now believes that Jack is truly in love with Lily, and a worthy husband.
Returning, ready to face his punishment for desertion, he is met by FBI agents, who have identified "McGann" as being the McGurn wanted for his part in the arson of years before.
Finally, in the 1950s, the train arrives and Lily and Mini reunite with Jack, who has served his time in prison and is now returning to his family.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Aug 9, 2020 11:37:26 GMT
The Matrix (1999).  
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Post by Prime etc. on Aug 9, 2020 19:54:21 GMT
BROCK'S LAST CASE 1973 -- Seeing reports this was in fact the pilot for a tv series with Richard Widmark as a Madigan-style cop but played more for laughs. The network didn't like it so they decided to just make Madigan tv-movies instead. IMDB indicates this was shown a month after the final Madigan movie, so it feels like a comedic send off for his old-fashioned cop character. Works surprisingly well in a comedy--he decides to retire early to an orange grove he has been investing in, only to discover it is a disaster and right in the middle of a murder case which he does not want to get involved in. Various eccentric local characters (Henry Darrow--very funny as his Indian farm manager who has nothing but bad news for him, Dub Taylor, Pat Morita, Will Geer). As a series I think it would have fizzled but as a movie it seems to have beat the light comedy "cop out of water" trend by some years.
BATTLE OF THE GODFATHERS 1973 - another lighter movie--this time with Henry Silva as a mob boss with all sorts of problems including a daughter in a romance with his enemy's son. When he overhears his mistress making plans with one of his men he replies to him:
"No Sergio, you can't cheer her up for the simple reason she can't be cheered up by a corpse."
Nifty speed boat chase in the final act.
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Post by kijii on Aug 10, 2020 4:28:25 GMT
Alan Parker memorial watching schedule-Part 7
Fame (1980) / Alan Parker This was Alan Parker's third direction for a feature film. It received two Oscars--Best Music, Original Song (Michael Gore (music) Dean Pitchford (lyrics) and Best Music, Original Score (Michael Gore). It also received an Oscar nomination for Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen (Christopher Gore). The Picture follows a group of students attending a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts. We follow these students as they improve their major in a selected performing art (dance, music or acting). As we see how thees students blossom out as artists, we also learn about their individual life stories, their family lives and personal hardships they have to overcome. Some succeed and others fail. What I like most about this movie is how they begin to work with each other and route for each other through the years. There is a huge amount of talent displayed in this movie. So, here we get the dramas and the talents all in one movie. I have watched this movie a couple of other times since it was made, but I still enjoy it a lot. This movie launched the a successful TV series (1982–1987) as well a a remake in 2009. Shorofsky : One man is not an orchestra.
Bruno Martelli : Who needs orchestras? You can do it all with a keyboard, an amp and enough power.
Shorofsky : You going to play all by yourself?
Bruno Martelli : You don't need anybody else.
Shorofsky : That's not music, Martelli. That's masturbation.
 Alan Parker (man in the middle pointing) directing the movie (above and below)
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Post by kijii on Aug 10, 2020 17:34:29 GMT
Alan Parker memorial watching schedule-Part 8Evita (1996) / Alan ParkerI haven't seen too many of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical in the big screen. But, for all his fans, this one has got to be a winner!! Based on Tim Rice's book (and lyrics), with the screenplay by Alan Parker and Oliver Stone, this movie must have been a massive undertaking which encompassed the life of Eva Peron from her childhood through her death. I plays like a modern opera. Juan Perón (Jonathan Pryce): Dice are rolling - the knives are out. Would-be presidents are all around, I don't say they mean harm, but they'd each give an arm... to see us six feet underground.
Eva Perón (Madonna) : It doesn't matter what those morons say. Our nations leaders are a feeble crew. There's only twenty of them anyway. What is twenty next to millions who are looking to you? All you have to do is sit and wait, keeping out of everybody's way. We'll... you'll be handed power on a plate when the ones who matter have their say, and with chaos installed... you can "reluctantly" agree to be called.Juan Perón : There again, we could be foolish not to quit while we're ahead. For distance lends enchantment, and that is why... all exiles are distinguished. More important - they're not dead. I could find job satisfaction in Paraguay.
Eva Perón : This is crazy defeatist talk! Why commit political suicide? There's no call for any action at all... when you have unions on your side.
Evita is a 1996 American musical drama film based on the 1976 concept album of the same name produced by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, which also inspired a 1978 musical. The film depicts the life of Eva Perón, detailing her beginnings, rise to fame, political career and death at the age of 33. Directed by Alan Parker, and written by Parker and Oliver Stone, Evita stars Madonna as Eva, Jonathan Pryce as Eva's husband Juan Perón, and Antonio Banderas as Ché, an everyman who acts as the film's narrator.
Following the release of the 1976 album, a film adaptation of the musical became mired in development hell for more than fifteen years, as the rights were passed on to several major studios, and various directors and actors considered. In 1993, producer Robert Stigwood sold the rights to Andrew G. Vajna, who agreed to finance the film through his production company Cinergi Pictures, with the Walt Disney Studios distributing the film through Hollywood Pictures. After Stone stepped down from the project in 1994, Parker agreed to write and direct the film. Recording sessions for the songs and soundtrack took place at CTS Studios in London, England, roughly four months before filming. Parker worked with Rice and Lloyd Webber to compose the soundtrack, reworking the original songs by creating the music first and then the lyrics. They also wrote a new song, "You Must Love Me", for the film. Principal photography commenced in February 1996 with a budget of $55 million, and concluded in May of that year. Filming took place on locations in Buenos Aires and Budapest, and on soundstages at Shepperton Studios. The film's production in Argentina was met with controversy, as the cast and crew faced protests over fears that the project would tarnish Eva's image.
Evita premiered at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, on December 14, 1996. Hollywood Pictures gave the film a platform release, which involved releasing it in select cities before expanding distribution in the following weeks. The film had a limited release on December 25, 1996, before opening nationwide on January 10, 1997. It grossed over $141 million worldwide. The film received a mixed critical response; reviewers praised Madonna's performance, the music, costume designs and cinematography, while criticism was aimed at the pacing and direction. Evita received many awards and nominations, including the Academy Award for Best Original Song ("You Must Love Me"), and three Golden Globe Awards for Best Picture – Comedy or Musical, Best Original Song ("You Must Love Me") and Best Actress – Comedy or Musical (Madonna). 
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Aug 10, 2020 21:39:47 GMT
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Post by Prime etc. on Aug 11, 2020 6:14:07 GMT
THEY ONLY KILL THEIR MASTERS 1972 - Dobermans sure were popular then-I see there was a series of movies called the Doberman gang too. This practically feels like a tv-movie given how contained it is. Having seen it before I forgot about the lesbian sub-plot.
According to Wikipedia it filmed in July-September 1972 and then came out in November.
And it also says:
'Garner wrote in his memoirs that "I'd rather not talk about" the film.'
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Post by kijii on Aug 11, 2020 17:01:07 GMT
Alan Parker memorial watching schedule-Part 9
The Road to Wellville (1994) / Alan ParkerBased on T. Coraghessan Boyle's novel, this is as over-the-top--really silly--satire of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg's philosophy of holistic--often scatological-- health fades at his turn-of-the century sanatorium/health spa in Battle Creek Michigan--Examples:
Interviewer : Sir, how often should one evacuate one's bowels?
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (Anthony Hopkins) : One should never, ever, interrupt one's desire to defecate. I have inquired at the Bronx and London Zoos as to the daily bowel evacuations of primates. It is not once, twice, or three times, sir, but four. At the end of an average day, their cages are filled with a veritable mountain of natural health.
Interviewer : And, sex?
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg : Sex is the sewer drain of a healthy body, sir! Any use of the sexual act other than procreation is a waste of vital energy! Wasted seeds are wasted lives!
Interviewer : Uh, eating meat?
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg : "He that killeth the ox is as if he slew a man." Each juicy morsel of meat is alive, and swarming with the same filth as found in the carcass of a dead rat. Meat eaters, sir, are drowning in a tide of gore. What is a sausage? A sausage is an indigestible balloon of decayed beef, riddled with tuberculosis. Eat and die! For I have seen many a repentant meat glutton his body full of uric acid and remorse, his soul adrift on the raft in the ocean of poisonous slime, sloshin' against the walls of the body's kitchen.
Interviewer : Smoking?
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg : The liver is the only thing standing between the smoker and death! Also certain other things have to be avoided... like, uh, feather beds, and romantic novels... and the, uh, touching of one's organs. Masturbation is the silent killer of the night! The vilest sin of self-pollution! It is the sin of Onan!
Interviewer : Uh, Dr. Kellogg, how did you come to invent the corn flake?
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg : The corn flake, sir, is just one of my 75 creations for heathy livin', among them peanut butter and the electric blanket.
Interviewer : And what about your imitators? There are 103 other corn flakes presently being manufactured here in Battle Creek!
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg : Sir, corn is the injuns gift to the new world, and the corn flake is my gift to the entire world.
Interviewer : And what do you think about your brother?
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg : My brother, W.K. Kellogg, worked for me as a low-paid assistant for many years. Now he's off on his own and amassin' fortunes with my corn flake invention. Unfortunately, he has chosen the family name to promote it. But the whole world knows only one Kellogg: me, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg! Surgeon, inventor, author, and crusader for biological livin'! I do not seek monetary rewards, for I am called to a greater glory. Here at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, the spirits soar, the mind is educated, and the bowels - -the bowels are born again!
Wikipedia plot summary with SPOILERS: Dr. John Harvey Kellogg opened a sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan, where he practiced his unusual methods for maintaining health, including colonic irrigation, electrical stimulus and sexual abstinence, vegetarianism and physical exercise. The sanitarium attracts well-to-do patients including William and Eleanor Lightbody, who are suffering from poor health following the death of their child. On their way to Battle Creek they meet Charles Ossining, hoping to make a fortune by exploiting the fad for health food cereals.
Ossining finds a partner in Goodloe Bender. Having enlisted the services of George Kellogg, the doctor's estranged adopted son, they attempt to produce "Kellogg's Perfo Flakes."
In the sanitarium, Will Lightbody is separated from his wife, and is soon harboring lustful thoughts toward Nurse Graves and patient Ida Muntz. His wife Eleanor, meanwhile, befriends Virginia Cranehill, who has a modern attitude toward sexual pleasure, influenced by the works of Dr. Lionel Badger. Will eventually succumbs to Ida Muntz's charms. Later he learns that Ida has died during treatment. Following the death of a patient in the sinusoidal bath, and the discovery of yet another death, Will suffers a breakdown, flees the sanitarium, gets drunk and eats meat. At a restaurant, he meets Ossining, and agrees to invest $1,000 in his health food business. Will returns drunk to the sanitarium, where he is reprimanded by Dr. Kellogg and is abandoned by a distraught Eleanor.
Ossining's business is a disaster, with no edible product. He and the partners resort to stealing Kellogg's cornflakes and repackaging them in their own boxes. Ossining meets his aunt, his sole investor, on visiting day at Kellogg's sanitarium, and is there exposed as a fraud and arrested.
Nurse Graves attempts to seduce Will, who is guilt-stricken and spurns her advances. He searches for Eleanor, only to find her and Virginia Cranehill receiving clitoral massages from Dr. Spitzvogel while Dr. Badger masturbates. Will is incensed, thrashes Dr. Spitzvogel with a branch and takes Eleanor away.
George Kellogg visits his father, but things go badly. George burns down the sanitarium. In the ensuing chaos, Ossining escapes. Kellogg seems to reconcile with George in the mud bath in the aftermath of the fire.
In a final coda, the Lightbodys have reconciled and are happily married, with four daughters. Will receives a check for $1,000 from Ossining, who has become a cola beverage tycoon. Dr. Kellogg dies of a heart attack while diving from a high board.
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Post by teleadm on Aug 11, 2020 18:04:50 GMT
Had a little 80s nostalgia and watched The Final Countdown 1980. A few special effect hadn't aged well, but it's still an entertaining movie.
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Post by Prime etc. on Aug 12, 2020 8:01:55 GMT
THE BIG COUNTRY - 1958 Well I have to say I was impressed. This movie had grandeur. The landscape. Practically a character in the story. And unlike Rio Bravo, I didn't find it veered into hokey land. I had wanted to see this since I heard it mentioned that Charlton Heston reshot a scene while making Ben Hur (which was witnessed by Sergio Leone) and that Gregory Peck was in the same movie-- I never knew they did a movie together.
However, I assumed he got killed, and the scene in question--him falling down after getting shot--I don't know--it looked to me like they were not in the arena set--or they had to add a lot of background stuff for it.
Anyway, Burl Ives. He was so bad ass in this. Even Chuck Connors had to crawl in his presence.
I didn't expect the "silver and gold" guy to be so intimidating.
I generally avoid US westerns because something about them annoys me, but I didn't get that feeling from this one.
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Post by teleadm on Aug 12, 2020 17:54:14 GMT
Billy Liar 1963, directed by John Schlesinger. Billy (Tom Courtenay) can't handle the depressing realities of life and disappears into his own dream world, taking irresponsible and immature decisions in real life, including having two girlfriends at the same time and believing a comedian who made a flighty promise to hire him as a gag writer. The only one who knows and understand him is a girlfriend (Julie Christie) from the past. A comedy with serious undertones, and I wouldn't call it kitchen-sink realism, since the house he lives in with father, mother and grandma didn't look too shabby even if the neighbourhood did. Hadn't seen it since the late 1970s and I was wondering if it would be as good as I remembered it, well it was, and I rate this one high. Since the story takes place in an unnamed Northern English town the makers didn't have to bother with a specific dialect, and that is thankful since I watched it without any subtitles option, but it was easy to follow what they said anyway.   
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Post by kijii on Aug 12, 2020 19:16:04 GMT
Alan Parker memorial watching schedule-Part 10Angel Heart (1987) / Alan Parker
Based on a novel from William Hjortsberg, this movie has a VERY complex plot. In fact, I'm STILL not sure I understand it. The movie starts out as if it might be a PI film noir with the PI being led to many different places. But, what starts out as a sending a PI in search of a missing person becomes a horror film with many different layers. This movie has some beautiful special effects and cinematography. The look and feel of this movie is wonderful at every turn, but the story is just too far out to be accepted, even while keeping my sense of suspended disbelief intact. Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) : She was doing my chart. I gave her Johnny's birthdate, February 14th. Except someone got to her and took out their own Valentine card. They split her open, and they cut out her heart. I guess she couldn't predict the future for herself.
Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro) : The future isn't what it used to be, Mr. Angel. 
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Aug 13, 2020 14:02:58 GMT
Skyscraper (2018).  
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Aug 13, 2020 21:51:37 GMT
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Post by kijii on Aug 14, 2020 4:07:51 GMT
Alan Parker memorial watching schedule-Part 11Bugsy Malone (1976) / Alan Parker
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This was Parker's first feature film. It is the classical mobster movie but done as a musical and with an all-kid cast. Though is resembles an Our Gang or Little Rascals movie. It is cute and fun and totally PG rated. It has all of the usual cast of character types one might see in a mobster movie, but there is no violence except that the kids shoot each other with splurge guns that shoot cream pies rather than regular movies. Paul Williams was Oscar-nominated for his musical contribution to the film. Bugsy Malone : [noting the solemn look on Matt the Barman's face] You know what, you look like you put your face on backwards this morning.
Matt The Barman : You've got too much mouth, mack.
Bugsy Malone : So, tell my dentist. Fat Sam : [as the speakeasy is closing down for the night and everyone is leaving] Tallulah! How much longer you want us to wait?
Tallulah : [sweetly yet slightly sarcastically] Coming honey, you don't want me to look a mess, do you sweetheart?
Fat Sam : Snap it up, will ya?
Tallulah : Put your flaps down tiger or else you'll take off.
Fat Sam : [annoyed] You spend more time prettying yourself up then there is time in the day!
Tallulah : [pointedly] Listen honey, if I didn't look this good, you wouldn't give me the time of day.
Fat Sam : [rejectedly] I'll see you in the car!
Allan Parker with the two stars of the movie
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Post by kijii on Aug 14, 2020 4:43:29 GMT
Alan Parker memorial watching schedule-Part 12Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982) /Alan Parker IMDb reviewer: "The Wall" is so much more than you think it is. The only solution to not understaning the movie is watching it again and paying more attention. Once you get it, you will never forget it. However, I cannot tell you how disappointed I am that this movie is so underestimated, and, above all, misunderstood. How many times have you heard someone say something like: "You can't watch 'The Wall' unless you're really drunk or really high" ? I have heard this line probably from every single person that has seen the movie and it hurts me so much that nobody really tries to understand the movie.
Me: OK,so next time I watch it, it will be with the closed captions "ON". 
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