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Post by london777 on Feb 3, 2023 15:03:15 GMT
Woman in the Dunes aka Suna no onna 1964 directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara
This Japanese movie was Oscar nominated both for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Director, but not the same year.
How does that work?
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Post by louise on Feb 3, 2023 15:19:02 GMT
Topaze (1932). Unusual comedy about a naive schoolteacher (John Barrymore) who is sacked from his job for refusing to give falsely high grades to a pupil from a titled family. Albert Conti, the father of the pupil in question decides Topaze is the ideal man to act as a front for the brand of mineral water he is marketing. And Topaze is attracted to Conti’s mistress (Myrna Loy). But then Topaze discovers the mineral water is not what he had imagined. He may not be as naive as Conti thinks him.
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Post by politicidal on Feb 3, 2023 16:03:32 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Feb 3, 2023 17:41:52 GMT
Woman in the Dunes aka Suna no onna 1964 directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara
This Japanese movie was Oscar nominated both for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Director, but not the same year.
How does that work? It clued me too, and I'm sure there is an answer somewhere on the net... 1965 for the movie and 1966 for the director.
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Post by politicidal on Feb 3, 2023 17:49:16 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Feb 3, 2023 18:59:48 GMT
O. Henry's Full House 1952 directed by Henry Hathaway, Howard Hawks, Henry King, Henry Koster and Jean Negulesco A compendium movie with five short stories based on the writings of a beloved American author, that I maybe should have read up about before watching this movie since I know nearly nothing about him, presented by nobody else but John Steinbeck himself. A stellar cast was gathered, but the stories are a bit uneven as played out. First has a delightful Charles Laughton as a bum who who want's to spend three months in jail for comfort during the winter season. Second has Richard Widmark more or less doing a reprise or parody of his Tommy Udo character. Third is a sad story with Anne Baxter counting leaves. Fourth is a near embarrassment starring Fred Allen and Óscar Levant as would be kidnappers. Fifth is a sweet Christmas story starring Farley Granger and Jeanne Crain. As a whole, with five directors with different styles, it becomes very uneven though stylish, except part four.
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Post by CountVolpe on Feb 3, 2023 20:55:50 GMT
Elvis (2022)
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Post by stryker on Feb 4, 2023 10:54:34 GMT
Eaten Alive (1976).
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Post by louise on Feb 4, 2023 14:02:40 GMT
Random Harvest (1942). Ronald Coleman is a soldier suffering from amnesia after being injured fighting in WW1. He has spent some time in an asylum, but his memory has not come back and nobody know who he is or where he comes from. Wandering out one night (which happens to be Armistice night) he met a girl called Paula (Greer Garson) and they fall in love. They get married and go to live in the country, where ‘Smithy’ as Paula calls him begins to write articles for the papers. One day he has to go to Liverpool for a job interview, where he is knocked over by a cab and recovers his pre-Smithy memory. He now remembers his name, home and family, but the three years since his memory loss are wiped out, he remembers nothing about Paula or their marriage. He goes back to his family and takes up his life again, but the three year gap in his memory continues to bother him. And then - well,it’s a bit hard to believe that what happens next doesn’t jog his memory at all. It’s quite a good film if you can swallow the improbabilities, and personally I think it’s an improvement on the book,which tells the story in an entirely different and for me less satisfactory way. Ronald Coleman and Greer Garson are both excellent.
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Post by politicidal on Feb 5, 2023 2:38:27 GMT
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 5, 2023 8:44:51 GMT
THE SPY WHO LOVED ME - 1977
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Post by politicidal on Feb 6, 2023 3:26:29 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Feb 7, 2023 2:49:16 GMT
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Post by stryker on Feb 7, 2023 4:08:41 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Feb 7, 2023 16:28:11 GMT
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Feb 7, 2023 17:18:09 GMT
Rat Race (2001) Far from the greatest movie ever made, but i enjoy it for the most part. But one thing that drag this movie down for me is the ending, i really hate the ending.
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Post by teleadm on Feb 7, 2023 18:19:45 GMT
Shake Hands with the Devil 1959 directed by Michael Anderson Ireland 1921, I.R.A. members are being lead by the war mongering Dr. Sean Lenihan (James Cagney), as they fight oppressive British forces. Including a pacifist (Don Murray) who don't wan't to be involved, but circumstances forces him to be involved anyway. A Cagney movie is always interesting and the story is certainly interesting, I wish it was better as a whole. A good cast included Glynis Johns, Dana Wynter, Cyril Cusack, Michael Redgrave, Sybil Thorndike and in an early role Richard Harris. It takes up a serious question, if the one we think fights for "us", turns out to be one who wan't to fight forever, he is the one who instead becomes dangerous for "us" since his fight is not for the cause anymore.
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Post by CountVolpe on Feb 7, 2023 20:08:37 GMT
Top Gun (1986)
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Post by stryker on Feb 7, 2023 21:59:21 GMT
EMPIRE OF LIGHT (2022). My Rating: 9 out of 10. Poignant and powerful, nostalgia-inducing story of a once grand cinema in a British seaside town in the eighties. It's as much as about the misfits who work at the Empire as it is about the gorgeous old cinema itself, and the filmgoing experience. It's also about mental illness, an unlikely romance, racism, and writer director Sam Mendes' ( Road To Perdition, 1917, American Beauty, Spectre) memories of his mother, the movies - and the way we used to watch them. Like The Fabelmans and Babylon, it's a celebration of films - and, in this case, the glorious picture palaces of old, which is highlighted by its technical excellence, the magnificent, Oscar-nominated cinematography of Roger Deakins and another astonishing performance by Olivia Colman - who should have been nominated for an Academy Award too. It's a towering, intense turn from Colman - whose range seems endless, but there are also splendid supporting performances from young British up and comer Michael Ward and screen veterans Toby Jones - as the lonely projectionist, and Colin Firth - who is terrific as the sleazy manager of the Empire. Empire of Light, which has been nominated for an AARP Movies for Grownups Award in the category of Best Grownup Love Story, is one of the best 2022 movies I have seen and is most HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Hilary (Olivia Colman) watches her first film - the Peter Sellers-starring BEING THERE (1979).
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Post by CountVolpe on Feb 8, 2023 19:53:34 GMT
Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
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