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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Apr 6, 2021 5:06:43 GMT
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Apr 6, 2021 14:10:09 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Apr 6, 2021 17:53:33 GMT
The Ten Commandments 1956. Watched it over two evenings, breaking at the Intermission. Hadn't seen it in over to years or so. I remembered nearly everything, but apparently in the wrong order. Though it's mostly famous for it's spectacular scenery, but it's also very character driven with many intimate scenes. Maybe not as fantastic as it once was, it's still an entertaining movie, even for those who don't believe. Some of the special effects has aged, if they ever was good, but there was nothing to compare it with back then.
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Post by Prime etc. on Apr 6, 2021 21:59:33 GMT
THE MONGOLS 1961 - Jack Palance is the wild son of Genghis Khan--I don't now what they did with the makeup but it is subtle and somehow makes him appear more Asian without it looking ridiculous--there's a number of Asian actors in the film and it doesn't seem too jarring. Anita Ekberg does not seem Mongolian to me but who cares. She's not present to provide a history lesson. It is Palance's movie all the way. Genghis Khan is dubbed--but I think they clearly had to give him a dominating voice--I am not against dubbing if it improves the situation.
Footage from this was recycled into Charge of the Blank Lancers--another one I re-watched recently.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Apr 7, 2021 20:57:59 GMT
That whale of a tale, Moby Dick (1956). 🐳
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Apr 8, 2021 1:49:03 GMT
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Post by Prime etc. on Apr 8, 2021 2:21:03 GMT
That whale of a tale, Moby Dick (1956). 🐳 "She's a beauty, eh, Captain? Better than flesh and blood. Like her so much I've a mind to have me other arm cut off. The very thing for driving marlinspikes...knocking sense into green seamen's heads... and particularly good for tapping kegs of rum...if you get my meaning, Captain....I see you're wearing a bit of ivory yourself, sir. Lubbers with four limbs don't know what they're missing. When I got this ivory jib, all spanking new and scientific... why, I could've thanked that whale. Aye, a whale took me arm for his breakfast. Devilish big, he was. Pushed a tidal wave ahead with his nose...and typhoons jumped off his flukes when they banged the water. Old, he was, and scarred like Jerusalem's hills."
"Captain Boomer, what was his color?"
"He was white, sir. Think me crazy, it's a fact. He was snowy white."
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Post by Prime etc. on Apr 8, 2021 4:49:48 GMT
THE INN ON THE RIVER 1962 - A Krimi as they are called. In this one Klaus Kinski does not turn out to eb the obvious character he usually plays.
JIGSAW 1961 - This was good. A police procedural--you don't know who the killer is but you can piece it together if you are smart enough. I wasn't.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Apr 9, 2021 11:44:18 GMT
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Post by Prime etc. on Apr 11, 2021 6:16:31 GMT
THERE WAS A CROOKED MAN 1970 - What a strange movie. There are scenes that are laugh out loud funny--but it is such an uneven film especially when it veers from slapstick to rather cruel betrayal of characters that one generates sympathy for. I found these comments on IMDB that sums it up: "Too black for comedy, too upbeat for tragedy."
"The problem with this movie is not the excellent acting, but the tone and the Mickey Mouse musical score. It deals with murder and betrayal carelessly, it refers to revenge and cruelty with humor, and it moves back and forth from serious to light-hearted scenes so quickly and easily that it becomes difficult to maintain any clear perspective."
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Apr 11, 2021 7:50:02 GMT
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Post by jeffersoncody on Apr 11, 2021 11:38:48 GMT
THE PAINTED BIRD (2019) with Petr Kotlár and Udo Kier, Lech Dyblik, Jitka Cvancarová, Harvey Keitel, Stellan Skarsgård, Barry Pepper and Julian Sands, directed by Václav Marhoul. On Blu Ray. My Rating: 8 out 10. Cautiously Recommended - like COME AND SEE, with its searing, unforgettable images, this film might be too harsh and horrific for some folk.Based on the haunting and harrowing, but controversial holocaust novel of the same name by Jerzy Kosinski, Marhoul's faithful film version - which is shot in black and white and runs for nearly three hours, is stunningly well made and exquisitely photographed, but relentlessly grim. Still, my partner and couldn't tear our eyes from the screen and were gripped from beginning to end.
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Apr 11, 2021 12:30:11 GMT
The Pianist
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Post by politicidal on Apr 12, 2021 1:15:53 GMT
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Post by kijii on Apr 12, 2021 4:11:47 GMT
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Apr 12, 2021 21:13:31 GMT
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Apr 13, 2021 15:37:23 GMT
"Whistle Down the Wind" with Haley Mills and Alan Bates, children hide & protect an escaped criminal who they believe to be Jesus.
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Post by teleadm on Apr 13, 2021 17:39:10 GMT
Zeppelin 1971 war action adventure. To my knowledge not based on any true story, about a secret mission with the latest in airships during WWI, stealing the Magna Carta from the British. Starring Michael York and Elke Sommer. Special effects are not too bad for a 1971 movie. For the Zeppelin hangar they used an existing hangar at RAF Cardington in Bedfordshire.
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Post by Prime etc. on Apr 14, 2021 5:45:23 GMT
Zeppelin 1971 war action adventure. To my knowledge not based on any true story, about a secret mission with the latest in airships during WWI, stealing the Magna Carta from the British. Starring Michael York and Elke Sommer. Special effects are not too bad for a 1971 movie. For the Zeppelin hangar they used an existing hangar at RAF Cardington in Bedfordshire. I have seen it a couple of times. Interestingly, Warner Bros was going to do a Pterodactyls vs Zeppelin movie with Hammer and I wonder if they intended to re-use the sets from this film? Or was this made instead? Because the deal fell through due to the special effects people (David Allen, Dennis Muren, and Jim Danforth, was the mediator)--they could not agree on shifting control to Hammer and so it never got made. But they pursued it on their own for years and years-and I heard that Charles Band finally released it? The story changed dramatically-they dropped the airship plot completely.
I watched THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM which I thought was really charming. I dont think the cinerama works on a tv--but I think they used it better than How the West Was Won utilized it.
Someone said that if they had made Spider-man in the 1960s, Robert Walker Jr was like THE perfect Peter Parker--he's the spitting image of Steve Ditko's character. I think that is true, however, if they were going to use someone a little more famous, I think Russ Tamblyn would have been a good choice-especially seeing how athletic he was in this movie. This kind of movie takes a sketchy look at the theme of the passions of art and I think it is effective on that level--the scene with the children swarming around is a touching and profound use of the cinerama process. Their storytelling record is providing a generational gift for the renewal of society--that's ultimately the message.
Coincidentally, Jim Danforth did the stop-animation for this film.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Apr 14, 2021 6:12:11 GMT
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