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Post by jeffersoncody on Mar 26, 2018 16:22:03 GMT
Nalkarj RE: Sahara. I need to watch this one again. I am sure Salzmank will tell you the same thing, but just in case he is to polite. No you don't. You really, really don't. |
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Mar 26, 2018 17:23:03 GMT
kijii , you're having the movie week I was going to have, until I got distracted in another direction. Last week was Joan Crawford's birthday and I have been accumulating her movies from TCM and elsewhere. I have Above Suspicion, Queen Bee, Harriet Craig, The Women and Rain waiting in the wings to go. I really want to see Strait Jacket and Berserk but having a time finding these. _03C.jpg)
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Mar 26, 2018 17:31:38 GMT
Just finished Cannery Row (1982), based on two books by John Steinbeck. It's such a fun movie, Nick Nolte is so young and Debra Winger is so alluring. M. Emmet Walsh, everyone's favorite movie sidekick is here. Lots of madcap adventures and characters. It's narrated by John Huston!  |
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Post by kijii on Mar 26, 2018 17:54:00 GMT
kijii , you're having the movie week I was going to have, until I got distracted in another direction. Last week was Joan Crawford's birthday and I have been accumulating her movies from TCM and elsewhere. I have Above Suspicion, Queen Bee, Harriet Craig, The Women and Rain waiting in the wings to go. I really want to see Strait Jacket and Berserk but having a time finding these. Lebowskidoo-- It's true. I do go though phases with actors or directors, and I am in a Joan Crawford phase now. I hope to still have A Woman's Face (1941) on my DVR--not yet watched. With my Amazon Prime subscription I can see and hope to see: Rain (1932) and Johnny Guitar (1954) Also note that Susan and God (1940) will be airing on TCM tomorrow--(Tue, Mar 27 2:45 PM) |
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Mar 26, 2018 18:05:58 GMT
kijii , you're having the movie week I was going to have, until I got distracted in another direction. Last week was Joan Crawford's birthday and I have been accumulating her movies from TCM and elsewhere. I have Above Suspicion, Queen Bee, Harriet Craig, The Women and Rain waiting in the wings to go. I really want to see Strait Jacket and Berserk but having a time finding these. Lebowskidoo-- It's true. I do go though phases with actors or directors, and I am in a Joan Crawford phase now. I hope to still have A Woman's Face (1941) on my DVR--not yet watched. With my Amazon Prime subscription I can see and hope to see: Rain (1932) and Johnny Guitar (1954) Also note that Susan and God (1940) will be airing on TCM tomorrow--(Tue, Mar 27 2:45 PM) Thanks for the heads up about Susan and God tomorrow!  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2018 1:15:21 GMT
Cardinal Richelieu (1935)
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Post by outrider127 on Mar 27, 2018 1:23:25 GMT
The Incredible Shrinking Man(1957) on TCM, fun movie
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Post by outrider127 on Mar 27, 2018 1:26:34 GMT
The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975), with Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft. DVR's off of TCM last night.
This is a repeat viewing for me. I like this one - lots of funny lines and over-the-top angst from Jack Lemmon's character. Sometimes a bit *too* over-the-top. But, a fun watch just the same, and has some timeless comments and observations about contemporary living that are still spot-on some 40 years later. See it if you haven't. Get a load of the HUGE mid-70s cars we used to drive in America, too. lol Yeah, just saw it also--very funny movie, altho second half had too many scenes involving his siblings--not just the weird cars but NYC looked like hell back then, those second avenue scenes looked awful--Lemmon was great |
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Mar 27, 2018 6:16:37 GMT
Easy Rider (1969) DVR'd off of TCM the other night. Repeat viewing. I'm not all that wild about this one - it's pretty insipid in a lot of ways. But I enjoy some of the road-trip elements with the American West scenery, some of the soundtrack, and the nuttiness of Jack Nicholson's character. I probably won't watch this one again for another ten years or so.
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Post by jeffersoncody on Mar 27, 2018 7:31:18 GMT
DARK BLUE WORLD (2001). Rating: 8 out of 10.  |
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Mar 27, 2018 8:01:23 GMT
jeffersoncody: Dark Blue World was a fantastic film. Very moving experience. One of my favorite war films.
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Post by jeffersoncody on Mar 27, 2018 8:06:35 GMT
jeffersoncody : Dark Blue World was a fantastic film. Very moving experience. One of my favorite war films. I have been wanted to see it since it first came out in 2001. But it was never released theatrically in South Africa. Fortunately I managed to get it on Blu ray recently, and it lived up to all my expectations.  |
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Post by teleadm on Mar 27, 2018 17:17:36 GMT
Tarzan Finds a Son! 1939, directed by Richard Thorpe, based on characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, starring Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Johnny Sheffield, Ian Hunter, Henry Stephenson, Frieda Inescort, Henry Wilcoxon, Laraine Day and others. The fourth of the MGM Tarzan movies, about a young couple who dies in a plane crash in the jungle. Their son is found by Tarzan and Jane who name him Boy and raise him as their own. Five years later a search party comes to find the young heir to millions of dollars. Jane agrees, against Tarzan's will, to lead them to civilization. The movie is what it is, entertainment for the moment, if one don't thinks too much about it. Underwater scenes were made at Silver Springs in Florida. Boy has developed his own Boy yell whenever he's in trouble. There was a Jane yell too in the second movie, but that was scipped in later movies. A few little things I came to think of though: The reason Tarzan and Jane couldn't have their own son was because the censors at the time didn't allowed them to have sex because they weren't properly married. The first three Tarzan movies takes place in the early 1900s but the plane that crashed look like it's from the late 1930s, so Tarzan and Jane must also have found the fountain of youth. The heirs searching for Boy mentions that Boy is the rightfull heir to the title of Lord Greystoke!!! Hmm, so that would mean that Tarzan is not a lost Greystoke as in the books. Shrunken heads are just as a scare gimmick even if shrunken heads belongs to the jungles of South America, not Africa. Cockatoos are seen flying free even if they belong the Asian-Australian jungles of Indonesia, The Phillipines, Papau New Guinea and Australia, not wild in African jungles. 
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 27, 2018 20:28:49 GMT
 Watched it a second time to see if disliking it was just a "wrong time" viewing situation .... it wasn't. followed by  Not bad but not as "non-kid" friendly as Nemo was BUT on the disk is PIPER ... that alone was worth borrowing the dvd from the library. The PIXAR "extras" are almost always great fun and this one was A++++ !  |
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Mar 28, 2018 7:54:45 GMT
Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969). Repeat viewing for me. This was shown recently on TCM.
"How the West was fun" is where this one is at. It's such a good send-up of the Western genre. I've probably seen it half a dozen times now. I suppose I should be sick of it by now, but it still has a timeless charm to it. I also enjoy the follow-on "sequel" done a few years later, Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971), which also starred James Garner and Jack Elam.
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Post by teleadm on Mar 28, 2018 17:59:32 GMT
Hustle 1975, directed by Robert Aldrich, based on the novel "City of Angels" by Steve Shagan who also wrote the screenplay, starring Burt Reynolds, Catherine Deneuve, Ben Johnson, Paul Winfield, Eileen Brennan, Eddie Albert, Ernest Borgnine and others including Robert Englund in a bit part as a Hold-up Man. Phil Gaines (Burt Reynolds) is a bitter, cynical cop who investigates the case of a dead stripper/porno actress found on the beach. Gaines is experiencing a troubled relationship with a hooker (Catherine Deneuve), and things don't get any better when the dead girl's father (Ben Johnson) launches his own investigation. This movie gets bad reviews in all my old movie guides, but it's certainly not THAT bad, without being a great movie it's still interesting. It's not an action movie, it's more a detective movie with a few action scenes throwned in to live it up. It's not without wondering what could have attracted Aldrich and Reynolds to follow up their successfull collaboration with The Longest Yard 1974 with this material, unless they might have tried to make a sort of Chinatown 1974, but in a contemporary environment. The story is much more complex than first meets the eye, well worth a look, but don't expect to be stunned. One can't help but wonder what kind of salary cops used to have, since they can live in a rather flashy house with a great view, and afford a Ford Mustang Convertable. Another very 1970s thing I noticed is those dark brown plywood panels they used to have in offices.  
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2018 22:20:33 GMT
Street Angel (1928)
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Post by kijii on Mar 28, 2018 23:21:38 GMT
The Model and the Marriage Broker (1951) Although I am not a big fan of Thelma Ritter, she does actually play the lead (rather than her usual supporting role) in this movie. At first I didn't think I would like it, but I stayed with it and it paid off in the end. This is a clever movie, directed by George Cukor at his peak. Dan Chancellor (Jay C. Flippen): Beautiful up here, isn't it? Those trees. I've always liked that poem that said, "Only God can make a tree."Mae Swasey (Thelma Ritter): Yeah, but on the other hand, you gotta figure, who else would take the time? ------------------------------------------------------- Bhowani Junction (1956) in which Ava Gardner plays an Anglo-Indian women caught between the British the English as they quite India in 1947.Ranjit Kasel (Francis Matthews): Why did he call you Miss Darkie?
Victoria Jones (Ava Gardner): To hurt.
Ranjit Kasel : I don't always understand Col. Savage.
Victoria Jones : I wish I didn't always understand him.
Ranjit Kasel : But, I want to be able to share these things with you, Victoria.
Victoria Jones : Then listen: There was a young lady named Starkey, who got herself hitched to a darkie. The results of her sins, was an eightsome of twins: 2 black, 2 white and 4 cocky.
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Post by teleadm on Mar 29, 2018 17:20:23 GMT
The Servant 1963, directed by Joseph Losey, based on a novel by Robin Maugham with a screenplay by Harold Pinter, starring Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Yvonne Craig, James Fox, Catherine Lacey, Richard Vernon and others. Winner of three BAFTA Awards, Best British Actor (Dirk Bogarde), Best British Cinematography B/W (Douglas Slocombe) and Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles (James Fox). "An upper-class man hires a servant who turns out to have a hidden agenda". I know this is a very famous movie and that it got a lot of accolades, and has been called Britain's first successful art movie, I know all that, but I have no clue what to think about it, because I kept thinking and wondered what it was all about. It's very well made but I'm totally clueless. I've read many interpretations of how to understand it, but none felt satisfying compared to what I have seen, and that disturbs me, and maybe that was the filmmakers intentions.  
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Mar 29, 2018 18:53:13 GMT
Steelyard Blues (1973), with Donald Sutherland, Jane Fonda, Peter Boyle, Howard Hessemann. DVR'd this off of TCM a while back.
This one is supposedly a cult favorite, but it pretty much fell flat with me. It has a real early-70s/post-Vietnam War "F the Establishment" zeitgeist about it that might have worked amongst some viewers back in the day, but looking at it now, it just seems like a mish-mash of absurd behavior carried out by unlikable people. And I was particularly bummed out by the fact that the Navy PBY Catalina that they restored in the film never even took flight - instead they just blew it up in the end. What a let down.
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