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Post by jeffersoncody on Sept 7, 2021 5:44:19 GMT
"Barefoot in the Park" with Jane Fonda and Robert Redford, a nice light hearted comedy. Last night I watched Amarcord , a Fellini favorite (my favorite scene was when their crazy uncle climbed a tree and started screaming (in Italian of course) "I want a woman" and a short little nun climbed the ladder and got him down. I love Fellini films.Have you seen Nights of Cabiria and La Strada, which are favorite Fellini films?
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Sept 7, 2021 10:25:23 GMT
Jefferson Cody: I think I've seen all of Fellini's films but I only own a few ,they are expensive and WKD doesn't like films that are subtitled and I prefer the subtitles instead of dubbing. When I was a teen and in my 20's, there was a small theater that showed only foreign films so I've seen many foreign films.
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Post by phantomparticle on Sept 7, 2021 14:32:47 GMT
I own La Strada but I haven't seen Nights of Cabiria for several years. Both films have heart wrenching endings, but Nights of Cabiria hit me particularly hard and I don't know if I want to go through that again, knowing the last scene in advance.
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Post by politicidal on Sept 7, 2021 15:18:05 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Sept 7, 2021 17:39:20 GMT
The Double McGuffin 1979. A bit surprising to see these actors in this kind of movie, Elke Sommer hardly appears at all, plus Orson Welles narrates a short explanation of what a McGuffin is. A bit too family friendly for my taste.
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Post by politicidal on Sept 9, 2021 0:14:41 GMT
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Sept 9, 2021 2:42:24 GMT
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Sept 9, 2021 12:07:43 GMT
Lifeguard with Sam Elliot, a nice, calm movie - felt like I spent the morning at the beach.
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Post by jeffersoncody on Sept 9, 2021 17:44:29 GMT
I own La Strada but I haven't seen Nights of Cabiria for several years. Both films have heart wrenching endings, but Nights of Cabiria hit me particularly hard and I don't know if I want to go through that again, knowing the last scene in advance. I first saw NIGHTS OF CABIRIA in the seventies on 16 mm, it absolutely rocked my world. Saw it again, on Blu Ray a few months back, and all I want to say is, IMO, it is worth going "through that again" after all these years - 'course you might be younger than me and have seen it more recently. Infinitely so. I bought a Blu Ray of LA STRADA - which I also saw in the seventies; and re-visiting that after all these years was just as much of a pleasure. We enjoyed them so much on Blu Ray on the huge Samsung TV. They glowed, their magic undimmed by time. For me anyway.
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Post by jeffersoncody on Sept 9, 2021 20:09:02 GMT
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Post by jeffersoncody on Sept 10, 2021 4:56:19 GMT
Lifeguard with Sam Elliot, a nice, calm movie - felt like I spent the morning at the beach. I have loved LIFEGUARD - with a passion deep and true ever since seeing it on the big screen in the seventies, and I still watch it every couple of years - it's part of the fabric of my life now. Ironically, much much later. when my younger brother was selected for the South African life saving team to tour Australia he decided to drop out of medical school - in his 4th year, and concentrate on surfing and life saving. He moved out of his res and into a sleazy little beachfront motel in Cape Town after taking a job as a municipal lifeguard. For me LIFEGUARD is quite a spiritual film in its own way, and I love that Rick ultimately chooses a few more golden Californian summers of surf and sand over the pursuit of a more materialistic lifestyle and a salesman's job. But my parents were distraught when my brother dropped out and sent for me - the black sheep of the family, to talk him off the ledge, so to speak. I barely finished school, but after the army I became an extremely successful salesman. I worked at the coal face and was on the road four days out of seven. I earned good money, but man it was soul destroying too; the rat race. I flew down from Johannesburg and went to see Anth at that little motel on the beach. We had a bong and a bottle of tequila and talked all night next to the gently lapping waves. The next day he withdrew from the SA lifesaving team and went back to Med school at UCT. Today he is arguably the top anaesthetist in the country, seriously wealthy and has a son at Princeton. He still surfs, though. Of course, this beautiful seventies film could never be made today, and the sensitive sex scene between Rick and Kathleen Quinlan's young Wendy is now frowned upon - to put it mildly, but those were the days. Damn, I loved the seventies so much - and if I could ever build a time machine ... I have a crisp HD print of the film, but it is time for it be released on Blu Ray.
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Sept 10, 2021 9:58:50 GMT
I agree, they couldn't make Lifeguard in this uptight society, younger people just don't understand the 70's. I did my "own thing" in the 70's and have no regrets.
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Post by jeffersoncody on Sept 10, 2021 15:19:19 GMT
I agree, they couldn't make Lifeguard in this uptight society, younger people just don't understand the 70's. I did my "own thing" in the 70's and have no regrets. Have you ever seen CISCO PIKE (1971) - a film which was years before it's time and remains vastly underrated, and WHO'LL STOP THE RAIN? These are two seventies favorites of mine, and what a treat it was getting them on BluRay about a year back. While the great actor Gene Hackman is good in Cisco Pike, it's Kristofferson's real, natural, world weary, lived-in performance that is so special here - boy does he understand the territory. Also, the late Harry Dean Stanton serves up a haunting supporting performance as Cisco's buddy, the doomed junkie drummer Jesse Dupre. Just as a portrait of its time, this is an extraordinary film, but what it has to say remains relevant today.
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Sept 10, 2021 16:12:44 GMT
I saw both films at the theaters when they came but but have not seen them since and my memories of them have become very dim, details of the past are slowly fading away for me. Perhaps I'll see if I can find used copies on Thriftbooks (good source of used DVD's)>
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Sept 11, 2021 1:27:12 GMT
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Post by persistenceofvision on Sept 11, 2021 2:35:34 GMT
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky The only other Anna Mouglalis film I've seen is Gainsbourg: vie héroïque, where she plays Juliette Gréco as a vampiric temptress who steals the young songwriter from his wife under the guise of giving him patronage. Mouglalis does a strangely similar routine here, at greater length: as Coco Chanel she invites the penniless Stravinsky into her home along with his tubercular wife and tiny kids, ostensibly to take him under her wing but actually to put the moves on him. The picture doesn't cover up that Chanel was a pretty vile woman, and that's not even counting her anti-Semitism (here only suggested by giving an employee she particularly treats like dirt a Jewish name). Still, Mouglalis plays her with such style that I found myself strangely hypnotised, as you might be by a snake before it eats you.
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Post by politicidal on Sept 11, 2021 14:12:47 GMT
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Post by jeffersoncody on Sept 11, 2021 20:59:21 GMT
I saw both films at the theaters when they came but but have not seen them since and my memories of them have become very dim, details of the past are slowly fading away for me. Perhaps I'll see if I can find used copies on Thriftbooks (good source of used DVD's)> If I may ask, what country do you live in wickedkittiesmom?
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Sept 12, 2021 4:23:48 GMT
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Sept 12, 2021 10:10:08 GMT
I saw both films at the theaters when they came but but have not seen them since and my memories of them have become very dim, details of the past are slowly fading away for me. Perhaps I'll see if I can find used copies on Thriftbooks (good source of used DVD's)> If I may ask, what country do you live in wickedkittiesmom? I live in the U.S., I'm from the Chicago metropolitan area but in 2001 we moved to Las Vegas, NV, then New Mexico and now we're living in the Mobile, Al. area ( I don't fit in the Deep South). When I was single I also lived in Greece for a short time. Where do you live?
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