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Post by millar70 on Mar 15, 2020 22:47:42 GMT
The Treasure of Sierra Madre (1948)
Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt Directed by John Huston
What can you say, this is filmmaking at it's very best. A thrilling story, full of peaks and valleys, that keeps the viewers enthralled from beginning to end. All 3 lead actors shine, especially Walter Huston as we get the incredibly rare feat of both a father and a son winning Oscars for their work on the same film.
Does it get much better than this classic?
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Post by Autumn on Mar 16, 2020 5:14:12 GMT
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Post by Autumn on Mar 16, 2020 5:17:44 GMT
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Post by louise on Mar 16, 2020 16:05:59 GMT
The Thirty Nine Steps (1978). Not as good as the 1935 one but the climax on Big Ben is very exciting.
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Post by louise on Mar 16, 2020 18:50:12 GMT
Charge of the Light Brigade (1968). Long but quite interesting film about the Crimean War, showing the lives of officers and men of the Light Brigade. Good period detail. Trevor Howard particularly good as Lord Cardigan.
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 17, 2020 7:22:32 GMT
The Treasure of Sierra Madre (1948) Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt Directed by John Huston What can you say, this is filmmaking at it's very best. A thrilling story, full of peaks and valleys, that keeps the viewers enthralled from beginning to end. All 3 lead actors shine, especially Walter Huston as we get the incredibly rare feat of both a father and a son winning Oscars for their work on the same film. Does it get much better than this classic? "Well, first off, I'm goin' to a Turkish bath and I'm gonna sweat and soak till I get all the grime and dirt out of my system. Then I'm goin' to a haberdasher's and I'm gonna get myself a brand new set of duds...a dozen of everything. Then, I'm goin' to a swell cafe - order everything on the bill of fare, and if it ain't just right, or maybe even if it is, I'm gonna bawl the waiter out and make him take the whole thing back..."
THE TIME MACHINE 1960 - Like time itself, for some reason after having seen this film numerous times I tend to forget a lot of what happens, and when I watch it again I am sucked in without thinking about the past. The morlocks are impressive costumes when you think about it.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Mar 17, 2020 16:02:00 GMT
Glenn Ford is...Framed (1947)
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Post by teleadm on Mar 17, 2020 19:11:08 GMT
Mark the Narc aka Mark il poliziotto 1975, Italian crime action that spawn two sequels. My reason for watching this is that I remember a poster of this movie at my old local cinema, it hanged there for years, but they never showed the movie as far as I can remember. Lee J. Coob, nearing the end of his life, plays a prominent industrialist who is actually a drug czar. Mark the Narc is the one who is on his trail. Rather routine, with a little action, shot-outs and car chases, with a very confusing storyline that is difficult to follow.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Mar 17, 2020 20:49:37 GMT
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Post by kijii on Mar 18, 2020 4:07:34 GMT
The Lighthouse (2019) / Robert Eggers The black and white Cinematography of this movie is totally amazing!!! The story is hard to follow, but the movie shows, once again, that Willem Dafoe can act without boundaries. I watched this twice: once without captions and then again, with captions. Thomas Wake : Yer fond of me lobster aint' ye? I seen it - yer fond of me lobster! Say it! Say it. Say it! Ephraim Winslow : I don't have to say nothin'. Thomas Wake : Damn ye! Let Neptune strike ye dead Winslow! HAAARK! Thomas Wake : Hark Triton, hark! Bellow, bid our father the Sea King rise from the depths full foul in his fury! Black waves teeming with salt foam to smother this young mouth with pungent slime, to choke ye, engorging your organs til' ye turn blue and bloated with bilge and brine and can scream no more - only when he, crowned in cockle shells with slitherin' tentacle tail and steaming beard take up his fell be-finned arm, his coral-tine trident screeches banshee-like in the tempest and plunges right through yer gullet, bursting ye - a bulging bladder no more, but a blasted bloody film now and nothing for the harpies and the souls of dead sailors to peck and claw and feed upon only to be lapped up and swallowed by the infinite waters of the Dread Emperor himself - forgotten to any man, to any time, forgotten to any god or devil, forgotten even to the sea, for any stuff for part of Winslow, even any scantling of your soul is Winslow no more, but is now itself the sea! Ephraim Winslow : Alright, have it your way. I like your cookin'.
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 18, 2020 5:57:18 GMT
THE NIGHT CALLER aka the Blood Beast From Outer Space (misleading title) 1965 - John Saxon and fellow astronomers see an alien object land and after spooky investigations an alien creature is on the loose, leading to an epidemic of missing girls. The ideas in this science fiction film were intriguing--from teleportation to an examination of the notion mentioned by Carl Sagan--if aliens were truly advanced, wouldn't they have to be peaceful in order to survive technology that could wipe them out in a war? The only letdown is the ending. I think the revealing of the alien's face was not smart. It looked like a hastily added insert based on the continuity of the shots.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Mar 18, 2020 12:16:45 GMT
The Mummy's GHOST (1944).
6/10.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 19, 2020 4:33:15 GMT
If you have not seen this gem .. remedy that situation ASAP !
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Post by teleadm on Mar 19, 2020 18:38:24 GMT
23 Paces to Baker Street 1956, a nice surprice of a lighthearted thriller in the Hitchcock style directed by Henry Hathaway. A blind playwright happens to overhear a conversation between a man and a woman that sounds like some sort of crime that is going to be committed. Van Johnson, Vera Miles and Cecil Parker tries to puzzle the pieces together, since the police doesn't belive it. Nice London locations by the second-unit team and doubles, the stars never left Hollywood.
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Post by louise on Mar 20, 2020 19:21:47 GMT
If it's Tuesday This Must Be Belgium. Mildly amusing comedy about Americans on a package tour to Europe.
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Post by teleadm on Mar 20, 2020 23:39:00 GMT
A movie I had never heard about: Candlelight in Algeria 1944, with James Mason at his suavest and charming best, hiding a small camera with vital information, involving an American woman to ressurect the camera and it's vital film. Pity there is too little Mason, in this Mason movie, it concentartes too much on other's stories
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 21, 2020 8:06:35 GMT
PANIC IN THE STREETS 1950 - Richard Widmark is a doctor working for the police to find people in contact with someone who had pneumatic plague. The trail leads to Jack Palance. Timely story for sure, and an interesting cop buddy picture as Widmark is teamed with a cynical police captain. In one scene Widmark tells him: "You know my mother always told me if you look deep enough in anybody you'll always find some good but I don't know." To which the cop says: "With apologies to your mother, that's the second mistake she made." Widmark replies: "I should have seen that one coming."
JURASSIC PARK 3 - 2001 Not exactly a classic I suppose but I think the best made of the first three. Simple story with enough character development to make the non-dinosaur scenes work without feeling you are buying time until the dinosaurs show up. Sam Neill is given a much better role than in the first movie--in a way it echoes Son of Kong with Carl Denham returning to the island to find redemption. The raptors are given more respect too, when one of them jumps at a door in the first film-the kids were able to thwart the attempt. In the second, another kid is able to kick one off a rafter. Here, it takes three adults to keep one from shoving open a door which makes more sense given how large they are.
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Post by kijii on Mar 21, 2020 13:53:46 GMT
My Weekend with Marilyn Monroe
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) / Howard Hawks Lorelei Lee [Marilyn Monroe] : [Lorelei is holding a tiara] How do you put it around your neck? Dorothy Shaw [Jane Russell] : You don't, honey, it goes on your head! Lorelei Lee : You must think I was born yesterday. Dorothy Shaw : Well, sometimes there's just no other possible explanation. How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) / Jean Negulesco
"I can't shack up with a dame I've never met before" Schatze Page : I can't shack up with a dame I've never met before and she's crazy too! Pola Debevoise : You don't have to. She'll come up and you'll see if you like her. If you don't... Schatze Page : Is she any help to this? Pola Debevoise : Let's see [over the phone to Loco] Pola Debevoise : Hey Loc, how much money you got? Loco Dempsey : [on the phone] I got a quarter. Pola Debevoise : Great. Pick up lunch on your way over. Loco Dempsey : Ok, how many. Pola Debevoise : Three Loco Dempsey : Ok, I'll be there in 15 minutes. [hangs up] Schatze Page : Well that's a big contribution to a million dollar proposition. One whole quarter! Pola Debevoise : Maybe, but she's awfully clever with a quarter.
The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) / Laurence Olivier Charles, the Prince Regent [Laurence Olivier] : Do you know what your hair reminds me of? Summer corn kissed by the winds into enchantingly exciting furrows. Your eyes... Elsie Marina [Marilyn Monroe] : Hey! Where's that music coming from? Charles, the Prince Regent : Music? One of my servants, a Hungarian, always plays at this hour. He's lamenting his lost love. Elsie Marina : Ah, poor boy. Isn't life awful? Go back to my eyes. Charles, the Prince Regent : Twin pools of gladness and joy in which any man would be happy to drown himself. Elsie Marina : In both of them? Charles, the Prince Regent : In either. Elsie Marina : Oh, I like that. "Twin pools. " Go on. Charles, the Prince Regent : Your chin... Elsie Marina : Oh, you skipped my nose because you noticed the bump on the end? Charles, the Prince Regent : Oh, no, no, no, no. I left it out because there is nothing to say of perfection. Elsie Marina : Oh, that's nice. Back to my chin. Charles, the Prince Regent : This is what I think of your chin. [kisses her neck] Charles, the Prince Regent : My darling. Oh, my darling.My Week with Marilyn (2011) / Simon Curtis
This is a movie about the making of The Prince and the Showgirl (1957). It's quite entertaining. However, the film, above, shows Marilyn in some of her best work. She is really quite effective as Elsia Marina in the movie itself. The movie was strangely written by Terence Rattigan (not like his other works). This movie shows Marilyn with as her typically difficult problems. YET. in the final product, The Prince and the Showgirl (1957), she is winning and cleaver in her performance as Elsia. Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), : Let me protect you from all this. Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams) : What are you gonna do? Marry me? Colin Clark : Why not? You could quit this. Forget Marilyn Monroe. Forget Hollywood. Let it all go. Just let it go. Marilyn Monroe : I couldn't just give it up. Colin Clark : Why not? Why not when it drives you crazy? Marilyn Monroe : You think I'm crazy? Colin Clark : I just meant you could be happy. Marilyn Monroe : I am happy. Colin Clark : ...Of course you're happy. You're the biggest star in the world.
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Post by kijii on Mar 23, 2020 4:05:08 GMT
Timon of Athens (2018) / Barry Avrich This is a play-on-video rather than a movie. But, it gives me a chance, once again, to plug that wonderful theater in the round--Stratford, Ontario, Canada. They have filmed many of Shakespeare's plays with a live audiences. I am rarely disappointed with these performances. This performance is about as good as it gets for this particular, lesser-known Shakespeare play. Summary from the IMDb
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 23, 2020 6:21:52 GMT
SEVEN SEAS TO CALAIS 1962 - Rod Taylor as Sir Francis Drake voyaging around the world, taking Spanish gold and bringing it back to Queen Elizabeth (Irene Worth). The relationship between him and her is the heart of the movie-providing some charming moments. Keith Mitchell is his shipmate who has relationship problems with Edy Vessel who looks EXACTLY like a Barbie doll. It always distracts me when she is in a film because "Elizabethan Court Barbie" comes to mind. The story is not complex and avoids violence and unpleasantness (executions happen off screen). A Rod Taylor film that deserves more fans IMO.
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