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Post by politicidal on Oct 12, 2022 15:22:47 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Oct 13, 2022 17:44:23 GMT
Skipped what I was supposed to watch and instead watched this old TV-movie instead, in Memory of Angela Lansbury. The Love She Sought aka A Green Journey 1990 directed by Joseph Sargent and based on a novel by Jon Hassler. Angela plays an aging unmarried schoolteacher at a Catholic grammar school in Minnesota, questions her life's existence when she must start battling a new Bishop. She retires and follows a group travel to Ireland, partly to search for her Irish roots and partly to meet a penpal that she feels a kinship with, and maybe more. They meet and immediately is smitten by each others, or what you might call falls in love with each others. Suddenly though he must leave her, there is a secret he has never shared, not a dark secret but still an important secret. These are mature people who can resolve problems in a mature way, eventually. This is Angela removed from her Jessica Fletcher character, playing a strong willed aging woman who can also show feelings and she's also lovelorn. She plays this character as if it's the easiest thing in the world, in other words magnificently. She probably had the power and respect at this stage in her career that she could search out interesting roles to play. This was a nicely made movie in the way that they used to be able to do them. Denholm Elliott played her Irish penpal, and they work very well together, and is a good match to each others. Sadly Elliott passed away only two years after this movie, in AIDS. This movie seems to have been unfairly forgotten since I can hardly find any pics from it.
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Post by politicidal on Oct 13, 2022 17:47:31 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Oct 14, 2022 1:24:22 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Oct 14, 2022 18:22:14 GMT
I couldn't help thinking of this one when I heard of Angela Lansbury passing away, not a big role but to the plot an important role. The Court Jester 1956 directed by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama. Throw everything you can plot about a false King of England and a rightful heir, who is just a baby, to the throne with a pimpernel birthmark, with a Black Fox Robin Hood-like character threatening the False Crown, and evil cohorts. And it all works. While Danny Kaye is the real star and excels, the real fun starts when the plot reaches the castle, and others too has a time to show their comic skills. As for Angel's role, her maid, played by Mildred Natwick, get's a warning "If he dies, You dies" if she don't save Kaye. The finger snapping sequence with Cecil Parker with Kaye hypnotized, snap a finger and he's out of the spell, snap again and he's tough is still a riot. There is also the "the chalice with the palace has the brew that is true" routine. Still funny after all those years and I enjoyed seeing it again Glynis Johns in the cast is after Angela's passing away, the only living survivor of the cast. Angela and Kaye recorded a song, "I Live To Love", that should have appeared after Kaye swings into her chambers, it was recorded but never filmed, but appears on the original Soundtrack album.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Oct 14, 2022 23:04:07 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Oct 15, 2022 0:07:02 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Oct 15, 2022 12:38:45 GMT
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Post by stryker on Oct 17, 2022 13:31:29 GMT
Clerks III (2022).
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Post by stryker on Oct 17, 2022 13:37:28 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Oct 17, 2022 14:20:16 GMT
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Post by london777 on Oct 17, 2022 17:55:30 GMT
Was this the incomprehensible mess it is said to be?
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Post by politicidal on Oct 17, 2022 17:59:12 GMT
Was this the incomprehensible mess it is said to be? I enjoyed it for the most part, but the last fifteen minutes was disappointing. There's one subplot that does make perfect sense because BDT is repeatedly called out for his stupidity by other characters and he finally gets killed off in a way you would expect so that checks out. But a lot of the threads seem too easily wrapped up.
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Post by teleadm on Oct 18, 2022 17:23:33 GMT
I think I write here since it's more an adventure movie than a horror movie. One Million B.C. 1940 directed and produced by Hal Roach. It takes time in the days when mankind and optically magnified lizards roamed the earth. There is the Rock-tribe were everything is every man for himself, and the Shell-tribe were everything is shared equally among each others. There is a love story with a Rock-man (Victor Mature) and Shell-woman (Carole Landis). Both tribes work together when they have common enemies, a giant lizard and a volcano eruption. A sort of piece message when there were dark days in Europe. I actually thought the optical effects was better than in King Kong 1933. They only speak in few made-up words so i's nearly as a silent movie, except music and sound effects and yelling and screaming. That Roach came from the world of comedy can be seen in a few scenes. It's a rather harmless movie to watch with a few thrills here and there. Though there is also animal cruelty that in a few cases is unpleasant to watch, since they were obviously not special effects. Stories goes apart about D,W, Griffith's involvement, that it was intended as a comeback as director, to creative consultant, a co-producer credit, to that Roach just hired him and kept him on the payroll for two weeks to help him economically. The only dinosaur in the movie, a bit taller than Victor Mature who stands to the right. I guess it was meant to be a baby dinosaur since it's not much taller in the movie.
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Post by politicidal on Oct 18, 2022 22:16:44 GMT
Awful. Alright.
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Post by stryker on Oct 19, 2022 17:12:33 GMT
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971).
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Post by stryker on Oct 19, 2022 21:19:18 GMT
The Stranger (2022).
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Post by stryker on Oct 19, 2022 21:23:59 GMT
The Good House (2022).
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Post by politicidal on Oct 20, 2022 14:14:06 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Oct 22, 2022 1:16:49 GMT
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