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Post by kijii on Feb 9, 2021 5:31:53 GMT
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Feb 9, 2021 10:24:01 GMT
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 on Feb 9, 2021 17:06:25 GMT
Aces High (1976) 
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Post by teleadm on Feb 9, 2021 18:56:12 GMT
 Nobody Runs Forever aka The High Commissioner 1968 directed by Ralph Thomas and based on a novel by Jon Cleary. A movie I've been pushing forward for different reasons, but now when Mr Plummer is gone I thought it's the time to watch it. It an OK thriller were Plummer's character is in constant danger from different fractions during a conference in London. 
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 10, 2021 7:14:21 GMT
FAHRENHEIT 451 1966 - what a brilliant movie. I remember being impressed by the way it predicted things like interactive reality tv--but it goes way beyond that. The story could easily have been pretentious but it avoids this, maybe by somehow not being partisan. That alone is impressive.
The reliance on drugs to feel better.
How modern is that?
The firemen kind of appear fascistic yet the "family's cousin" on the tv is a woman--they talk about the negatives of having children-so there's a feminist thread in it---and at one point she talks about equality and tolerance! In order to have equality you cannot have differences. Just amazingly prophetic. In fact, you get a close up of Defoe's Journal of the Plague Years being burned, and it shows someone's face with the lower half masked. Amazing how fitting this movie is to now.
The musical score is so effectively profound--I do find the finale tear-inducing. It could be regarded as hokey but I think the music prevents that from happening--it shepherds you into the correct emotional state, as well as with some cleverly used humor.
The story isn't simply a warning--it's kind a meditative sketch into human behavior--conformity, how easily humans can fall to fear, ignorance, and loss of history, repression of natural behavior (I noticed the women scratching at their faces and necks on the train), the contrast between creation and destruction--the fire is almost like a religious belief. The fact that there's no explanation of how this society started kind of helps to focus one on the basics. No freedom, no expression of thought, and at the same time, they don't just make the firemen look completely evil or insane--they give some explanation for why they do it--that books make people unhappy or different. And yet the ending is suggesting the uniqueness of the books help to bring the people there into a kind of utopian society as outcasts.
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Post by OldAussie on Feb 10, 2021 11:30:20 GMT
Farewell, My Lovely (1975)  |
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Post by teleadm on Feb 10, 2021 18:38:08 GMT
 Spring and Port Wine 1970 Kitchen-sink drama starring James Mason and Susan George. Interesting to see Mason in a "normal" role of a factory-working family father of four kids, who slowly is beginning to stand up to his stern ways, and his world is slowly crumbling or at least shaking a bit. It starts when one of his daughter refuse to eat herring, and a battle of wills begins... Though it is a drama, it has lots of humor too. It was made on locations in Bolton, England. I liked this one, even if I had some trouble with some dialects. "It takes a lifetime to bring up a family and a weekend to lose the lot!" was one of it's taglines.    
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Post by lune7000 on Feb 10, 2021 18:44:00 GMT
"The Nun's Story"- (1959) Audrey Hepburn w/o make up, supernova bling, and a killer dress. Unexpected ending.  ![]() |
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Feb 10, 2021 19:28:31 GMT
The Silence of the Lambs (1991).  
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Post by politicidal on Feb 11, 2021 19:56:44 GMT
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Post by jeffersoncody on Feb 11, 2021 21:36:31 GMT
I have a copy of PICKUP ALLEY, but I can never quite bring myself to watch it. Was it worth a look?
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Post by politicidal on Feb 11, 2021 21:37:12 GMT
I have a copy of PICKUP ALLEY, but I can never quite bring myself to watch it. Was it worth a look? Not really. Trevor Howard is good as the villain but I guess that goes without saying.
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Post by jeffersoncody on Feb 11, 2021 21:46:27 GMT
UNDER FIRE (1983). Rating: 8 out of 10. Recommended. On Blu Ray.
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Post by jeffersoncody on Feb 11, 2021 22:01:52 GMT
THIS GUN FOR HIRE (1942). Rating: 8 out of 10. Recommended.
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Post by kijii on Feb 12, 2021 5:13:49 GMT
Shakespeare-Wallah (1965) / James Ivory
I enjoyed this B&W film, the 2nd feature film made by the Ivory /Merchant / Ruth Prawer Jhabvala collaboration. It's also great if you are familiar with Shakespeare's plays because there are several scenes from his plays throughout the film. The play scenes serve to separate episodes from the acting family's travels throughout India. The husband and wife acting team seems to have come to India before 1947 because they couldn't quite make it in England. They never left India, but the pace of life, over time, has made their audiences much smaller and less profitable.
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Post by Archelaus on Feb 12, 2021 5:23:59 GMT
The King of Marvin Gardens (1972) 
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Post by Spooky Ghost Ackbar on Feb 12, 2021 8:04:23 GMT
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 12, 2021 8:20:47 GMT
Two rewatches.
HIS KIND OF WOMAN 1951 - It is a laugh how Vincent Price takes over the movie.
Without his contribution at the end, it would be a pretty routine film noir.
Tim Holt sure looks much older after only 3 years since Sierra Madre.
KILLER CALIBER .32 - 1967 Kind of standard for a spaghetti western yet the hired gunfighter is interesting enough--has some good lines. One of the best here is when he talks to the good girl character about the deputy he keeps having to punch out (who looks like George Dubya Bush) "Marry him. He has a habit of losing fights-in time you will see that's a good trait in a husband."
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Feb 12, 2021 9:27:57 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Feb 12, 2021 21:11:12 GMT
How do one actually classify some movies? When they are lower than the bottle of the barrel?  Hillbillys in a Haunted House 1967 directed by Jean Yarborough Feels like a rejected Abbott and Costello script, but with non acting country and western stars instead caught in a storm and have to stay in a hunted mansion, also inhabited by international spies who creates ghost effects, who for some reason also needs a giant gorilla. In the middle of being scared why not sing some country and western songs. Sad to see old Lon Chaney, John Carradine and especially Basil Rathbone in something like this, but at least they pump some life into the the little plot there is. Sadly it's as awful as it sounds, unless you like country and western singers in awful movies Why did I watch it myself, big fan of Basil!  _011.jpg)   |
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