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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2018 21:26:12 GMT
Deep Impact (1998) He's Just Not That Into You (2009)
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jul 16, 2018 10:22:02 GMT
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Jul 16, 2018 10:41:27 GMT
Crime Wave (1954). A good solid film.
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Post by kijii on Jul 16, 2018 13:13:56 GMT
The Way West (1967) / Andrew V. McLagle Suggested by Pulitzer thread Good movie about the formation and trip of a wagon train traveling from St. Louis to Oregon in 1843 (before the California Gold Rush). The wagon train is formed by Senator William J. Tadlock (Kirk Douglas) who hires Dick Summers (Robert Mitchum) as his scout. This was Sally Fields' first feature film. Lola Albright and Richard Widmark round out the cast.
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Jul 16, 2018 17:00:57 GMT
Harper (1966), directed by Jack Smight. With Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, et al. DVR'd from recent TCM telecast.
Probably my 6th or 7th viewing of this detective classic based on Ross MacDonald's Lew Archer, private eye, with Paul Newman as a cocky, gum-chewing private investigator tasked with finding the missing husband of a wealthy California woman (Lauren Bacall). This one has lots of weird twists and turns, more than a few dead bodies, and borders on film noir in several ways. Nicely filmed in color, which, some 50 years later, somehow makes it seem fresh and contemporary, though I have to admit there are a number of things in it that make it seem horribly dated, but certainly not enough to ruin the picture.
This has a great supporting cast that is always a pleasure to watch: Robert Wagner, Arthur Hill, Pamela Tiffin, Shelley Winters, Janet Leigh, Julie Harris, and last but not least, Strother Martin as a slightly bonkers "priest" of a wacky mountain-top religious cult. Interesting to see Paul Newman's and Strother Martin's interaction in this film, then compare it to their more volatile relationship a year later, in Cool Hand Luke (1967).
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jul 16, 2018 18:57:06 GMT
Harper (1966), directed by Jack Smight. With Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, et al. DVR'd from recent TCM telecast.
It's a film I find endlessly enjoyable on multiple re-watches, with its irresistible cast of colorful characters, bright dialogue and brisk pacing. Part of its appeal lies in the way it bridges two eras, closing out the slick and glossy "big studio" style of the '50s-early '60s, and anticipating the grittier frankness of the late '60s-early '70s, yet avoiding trendiness that date so many other films of its time and remaining fresh.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jul 16, 2018 21:57:20 GMT
Shot in 1935 in the San Bernardino mountains, The Trail Of the Lonesome Pine was the first feature film to take three-strip Technicolor cameras to outdoor locations, and was a solid retelling under Henry Hathaway's direction of a 1908 story, already adapted multiple times for stage and screen, examining the effects of progress and modernization upon two remote, feuding families that have long since forgotten what started their century-long conflict. When coal mining company engineers require the cooperation of both for the construction of a rail line through their properties, a guarded - and ultimately short-lived - armed truce is joined, but jealousy, mistrust, betrayals and intra-family squabbles intervene. This sort of simple, rural tale is not normally my cup o' moonshine, but our cable system offers an "HD On Demand" collection of films furnished by various channels (this one from Movieplex), the stellar cast was promising and the pristine broadcast dub rendered it in sparkling clarity and vivid yet natural hues that couldn't have been more impressive on the 1936 day it was first screened. I only wish the frame grabs below did justice to the image quality I witnessed. Details as fine as the textures of fabrics, Sylvia Sydney's vaccination scar or the makeup covering a rash on Fred MacMurray's chin reveal the high quality of even the earliest examples of the then-new Technicolor "System 4." It always induces a bit of personal eye-rolling when the review of a DVD or Blu-ray of a newly-mastered and/or restored film of, say, 30 or 40 years ago praises the image quality of a film "considering its age," and few things excite me more than seeing one - even if I'm lukewarm on its subject matter - looking as it must have when first released, virtually bringing a period nearly 85 years gone back to life.
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Post by Aj_June on Jul 16, 2018 22:11:11 GMT
There are some movies that you know just after watching first 5 mins that it is going to be a great watch. So was the case with Deliverance (1972) that I finished watching first time last night. This was a good movie through and through. Spoilers ahead
I just wonder what I would have done if I was one of the 4 friends? Would anyone try to answer what they would have likely done when they came back or when then the first person was killed?
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Post by teleadm on Jul 17, 2018 17:28:30 GMT
A thread here on Classics made me search this one up... ...and justice for all. 1979, directed by Norman Jewison, screenplay by Valerie Curtin and Barry Levinson, staring Al Pacino, Jack Warden, John Forsythe, Lee Strasberg, Jeffrey Tambor (movie debut), Christine Lahti (movie debut), Sam Levene, Craig T. Nelson and others. Drama about a lawyer (Pacino) is forced to defend a guilty judge (Forsythe), while defending other innocent clients, and trying to find punishment for the guilty and provide justice for the innocent. Something is rotten with the judcial system in this movie that I would call a drama-satire. I must admit that I thought it to be a bit uneven though still a worthwhile movie to watch. Done at a time when Pacino didn't pop up just about everywhere in every sort of movies, so I guess that movies he acted in was something of an event back then. Some characters are a bit over the top, and that's why I think some of it as satiric, while other characters are more dramatic, human and sad. Jewison manage to balance those counterparts well, most of the time.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jul 17, 2018 18:13:49 GMT
Operation Bikini (1963) Frankie Avalon + bikinis = Beach Movie, am I right? NO! This was a WWII movie about a sub headed to Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific. Tab Hunter is here along with Jim Backus. Beach Party (1963) came out the same year, not sure which came first, but the marketing makes me think they were trying to cash in a little on the success of Beach Party.
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Jul 17, 2018 21:08:39 GMT
Operation Bikini (1963) Frankie Avalon + bikinis = Beach Movie, am I right? NO! This was a WWII movie about a sub headed to Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific. Tab Hunter is here along with Jim Backus. This one is going to be aired on TCM this coming Friday. It sounds sort of interesting, so I plan to DVR it. I guess they're doing a big Tab Hunter tribute on Friday, showing at least 7 films starring Tab Hunter. He died about ten days ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_Hunter
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jul 18, 2018 0:07:12 GMT
Operation Bikini (1963) Frankie Avalon + bikinis = Beach Movie, am I right? NO! This was a WWII movie about a sub headed to Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific. Tab Hunter is here along with Jim Backus. This one is going to be aired on TCM this coming Friday. It sounds sort of interesting, so I plan to DVR it. I guess they're doing a big Tab Hunter tribute on Friday, showing at least 7 films starring Tab Hunter. He died about ten days ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_Hunter
I should have waited, but I didn't know TCM was having a Tab Day.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jul 18, 2018 15:13:01 GMT
Back To The Beach (1987), in which Frankie and Annette return to the beach in California, after having gotten married and moved to Ohio to have a family. The movie is both a loving tribute to the original 60's movies and surf culture, but also it is a more modern comedy with some fun jabs at both time periods and some great music. Although I wasn't born yet, I am a big fan of the 60's beach movie series. I saw this long ago in the 80's when I had not yet seen any of the previous beach movies. To say I appreciated it more now upon a rewatch, would be an understatement, dude! I was a little taken aback by the O.J. Simpson cameo though, when I first saw it he was not as notorious as he is now. Annette Funicello found out during the filming that she had MS. It was her final theatrical film. It was also the final theatrical film of both Bob Denver and Alan Hale, Jr. from Gilligan's Island. It was also the final theatrical appearance of Stevie Ray Vaughan. That's a lot of finalness, but the movie is fun and you should check it out!
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 18, 2018 17:08:58 GMT
Must be summertime .. Lebowskidoo 🦞 's at the beach again ! Yay !
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Post by teleadm on Jul 18, 2018 17:52:50 GMT
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers 1956, directed by Fred F. Sears, based on a book by Major Donald E. Keyhoe, starring Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor, Donald Curtis, Morris Ankrum, John Zaremba, Tom Browne Henry and others, but the real star is the special effects by Ray Harryhausen. Science-Fiction "While driving through the desert with his wife Carol Marvin (Taylor) to a military base to send the eleventh rocket into Earth orbit to assist the exploration of outer space in Operation Sky Hook, Dr. Russell A. Marvin (Marlowe) and Carol see a flying saucer and accidentally records a message on their tape recorder. Once in the base, Dr. Russell is informed by his father-in-law and general (Ankrum) that the ten first satellites mysteriously fell back to Earth. When Dr. Russell decodes the message, he encounters the aliens, who ask him to schedule a meeting with the leaders of Earth in Washington in 56 days". Well, the extraterrestials turns out not to be of the friendly kind... Marlowe and Taylor is appropriately cardboard, and they are surrounded by seasoned charactor actors. The real star is as I mentioned Ray Harryhausens special effects, and they are quit good for it's time, and some are really good. The aliens are using magnetism to their advantage, so our hero develops an anti-magnetism weapon. If the aliens is so intelligent and advanced, how come when they walk around on earth they walk in a swagging way as if they didn't have any knees in their space suits? Well, it doesnt matter because that is part of the charm of those older Sci-Fi movies that makes them fun and entertaining to watch.
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Post by mikef6 on Jul 18, 2018 18:22:47 GMT
The Black Camel / Irving Cummings (1931)The fifth entry in the Charlie Chan film series and the second with Warner Oland as Chan. Full review in the Classics board weekly thread this weekend. <iframe width="14" height="19.159999999999968" style="position: absolute; width: 14px; height: 19.159999999999968px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none;left: 5px; top: 101px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_51825736" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="14" height="19.159999999999968" style="position: absolute; width: 14px; height: 19.16px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 640px; top: 101px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_70579979" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="14" height="19.159999999999968" style="position: absolute; width: 14px; height: 19.16px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 5px; top: 988px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_94980904" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="14" height="19.159999999999968" style="position: absolute; width: 14px; height: 19.16px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 640px; top: 988px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_58279367" scrolling="no"></iframe>
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Post by kijii on Jul 18, 2018 19:58:38 GMT
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers 1956, directed by Fred F. Sears, based on a book by Major Donald E. Keyhoe, starring Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor, Donald Curtis, Morris Ankrum, John Zaremba, Tom Browne Henry and others, but the real star is the special effects by Ray Harryhausen. Science-Fiction "While driving through the desert with his wife Carol Marvin (Taylor) to a military base to send the eleventh rocket into Earth orbit to assist the exploration of outer space in Operation Sky Hook, Dr. Russell A. Marvin (Marlowe) and Carol see a flying saucer and accidentally records a message on their tape recorder. Once in the base, Dr. Russell is informed by his father-in-law and general (Ankrum) that the ten first satellites mysteriously fell back to Earth. When Dr. Russell decodes the message, he encounters the aliens, who ask him to schedule a meeting with the leaders of Earth in Washington in 56 days". Well, the extraterrestials turns out not to be of the friendly kind... Marlowe and Taylor is appropriately cardboard, and they are surrounded by seasoned charactor actors. The real star is as I mentioned Ray Harryhausens special effects, and they are quit good for it's time, and some are really good. The aliens are using magnetism to their advantage, so our hero develops an anti-magnetism weapon. If the aliens is so intelligent and advanced, how come when they walk around on earth they walk in a swagging way as if they didn't have any knees in their space suits? Well, it doesnt matter because that is part of the charm of those older Sci-Fi movies that makes them fun and entertaining to watch. This is interesting. I just watched The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) last night and that was another flying saucer movie with Hugh Marlowe in it. I thought that it was a very good movie (with a remake later), but I see your point about the special effects person, Ray Harryhausen, in the movie you reviewed. I once wrote a review of TDTESS (1951) for the old IMDb, but alas, I can't find it anymore. It I could find it there, I would re-post it here. The premise of the movie runs something like this: Give up your weapons or we will destroy the earth. Quite a strange ultimatum......
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Post by kijii on Jul 19, 2018 5:20:44 GMT
These Wilder Years (1956) / Roy Rowland Previously Recorded from TCM
Whether this is drama or melodrama, I loved this story about a business tycoon, Steve Bradford (James Cagney) who leaves his business behind for a few weeks (or months) to retrace and discover some ghosts from his past that had haunted him for the last 20 years. He travels back to his home town to try to find (and perhaps claim) his now-adult son. When he goes to an orphanage/home for unwed mothers, he runs into a blockade from the woman who runs it, Ann Dempster (Barbara Stanwyck). Dempster refuses to give out any information about Bradford's son. However while in the home, Bradford befriends a 16-year old pregnant essentially-orphaned girl, Suzie (Betty Lou Keim).
When Bradford takes his case to court to sue Ann Dempster for information about his son, he is represented by his old friend, James Rayburn (Walter Pidgeon). Rayburn warns Bradford that the case of a nationally-known tycoon taking on a Dempster would not look good and that he had little to gain by finding his son 20 years after he had left the son's pregnant mother without marrying her.......
Full TCM synopsis with Spoilers: At his steel company in Detroit, tycoon Steve Bradford informs his board that he will be away indefinitely on personal business. On the plane to the small town of Bufton, where he grew up, Steve notes the despair of a college football player who has just lost the big game, and urges him to remember his wins rather than what he has lost. At the Bufton orphanage, called The Haven, Steve reveals to proprietress Ann Dempster that he is searching for the son he abandoned as an infant twenty years earlier. When Ann questions why he wants to know his son after all this time, Steve confesses that he has everything in life¿success, money, prestige¿but still feels empty, and wants to make up for his past mistakes. Ann explains that adoption law precludes her from giving away the young man's information, after which Steve informs her that he always gets what he wants. They are interrupted when a couple comes to pick up their adoptive baby, the sight of which causes pregnant teenager Suzie Keller to burst into tears. Suzie is staying with Ann until the birth of her child, but cannot bear the thought of giving up the baby. Feeling a kinship with the confused youth, Steve consoles her, and later invites Ann to dinner, hoping to befriend her. Although Ann consents to Steve joining her and Suzie for dinner at their apartment, she is called away before he arrives. Suzie cooks for Steve and informs him that after her boyfriend was drafted, she had to leave town in order to avoid disgracing her parents, who are wealthy socialites. When Ann returns later, Steve serves her dinner, and Ann counsels Steve that, because his son already has a life and parents he loves, Steve's intrusion into their lives could be cruel. Although Steve tries to tempt her into giving him information by offering to donate a much-needed new dormitory for the orphanage, Ann refuses. The next day, Steve visits local lawyer Leland G. Spottsford to consult about his rights regarding his son, but upon finding the lawyer a fatuous braggart, orders expert attorney James Rayburn to come to Bufton to help him. While awaiting Jim's arrival, Steve attends the local court, having learned from Ann that Suzie's juvenile court hearing will take place that afternoon. In court, he hears the truth about Suzie's situation: her father disappeared when she was born, her mother is dead and the baby's father is falsely denying his paternity. The court allows Suzie to remain with Ann until the birth of the baby, as long as she promises to place it up for adoption. Later, Steve tracks down his son's mother, Emily, by contacting her high school alumni association, and upon learning that she lives in New Hampshire, flies there to speak to her. At her family store, however, he discovers that Emily died years earlier. Although Steve tries to charm information out of Martha, Emily's sister, Martha knows who he is and coldly notifies him that he should "leave well enough alone." Back in Bufton, he finds Jim, who informs him that with enough time and money, he can find a loophole in the adoption laws. Later, Steve runs into Suzie while she is Christmas shopping, and walks her home. There, Suzie conspires with Steve to urge Ann to go out with him, and he accompanies her to a department store, where he buys expensive earrings for Suzie, then pretends they are trinkets. Back at the apartment, Steve and Ann begin to forge a friendship while discussing Ann's devotion to her job. Ann is advising Steve to think of his son rather than himself when Jim calls to inform Ann that she has been subpoenaed for fraud, and she angrily throws Steve out. The trial soon starts, in which Ann is accused of deceiving Steve by placing his son up for adoption without his consent. Although Steve knows the charge is false and that the ensuing publicity about his past actions will ruin his reputation, he believes the trial is his only chance to gain access to his son. As Ann steadfastly refuses to hand over documents, however, placing her in danger of being in contempt of court, Steve grows more miserable. On the witness stand, Ann explains that if Steve is allowed to wreck his son's peace, adoptive parents and children everywhere will fear the same could happen to them. She asks for a continuance, and when she returns, reads from the stand a statement Steve made to child welfare services twenty years earlier, in which he denied paternity of Emily's child. Steve recognizes the same words used by Suzie's boyfriend, and is shamed into silence. After the judge dismisses the case, Ann informs Steve that Suzie has been hit by a car and is refusing a necessary operation for fear that it will harm her baby. Steve rushes to the hospital, where he confesses to the girl that he cannot afford to lose her because he is too lonely, and convinces her to have the operation. He waits all night until the doctor assures him that both Suzie and her newly born son are healthy. Exhausted, Steve walks to a nearby bowling alley to relieve the tension. He is followed by a young man who begins playing alongside him, then reveals that he is Steve's son, Mark Nelson, and has followed the press coverage of the trial. They try talking at the hotel bar, but the noise level drives them out onto the street, where Steve tries to explain his desire to make up for wronging Mark and his longing to meet him. After describing his beloved adoptive father and admitting that he has followed Steve's career through the newspapers throughout his life, Mark states that although he planned to tell Steve he despised him, now that he has met him, his anger is fading. Mark tells his father, "I missed you, too," and refuses Steve's offer of help, stating that all he ever needed was this meeting. Steve, knowing Ann must have contacted Mark, goes to The Haven to thank her. After he insists on donating a huge sum of money to the orphanage, Ann gently suggests that he could help Suzie, too. Within weeks, Steve readies to return to Detroit, alongside his new adoptive daughter and grandson, Stevie.
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Post by teleadm on Jul 19, 2018 18:00:15 GMT
The Odessa File 1974, directed by Ronald Neame, based on a novel by Frederick Forsyth, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, starring Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell, Mary Tamm, Derek Jacobi, Peter Jeffrey, Klaus Löwitsch, Hannes Messemer, Shmuel Rodensky and others. Simon Wiesenthal was on board as an advisor. Perry Como sings "Christmas Dream" by Webber and Tim Rice. Drama thriller that places it in 1963 shortly after the murder of John F. Kennedy, "After reading the diary of an elderly Jewish man who committed suicide, freelance journalist Peter Miller (Voight) begins to investigate the alleged sighting of a former S.S. Captain (Schell) who commanded a concentration camp during World War II. Miller eventually finds himself involved with the powerful organization of former S.S. members, called "ODESSA", as well as with the Israeli secret service". I liked this movie as bit after bit unfolds, though it's called a thriller it should be said that it's not an action thriller even if there is a few action scenes in it, it's more like a detective thriller story that has a few surpricing twists and turns, so I understand that those expecting a Bond-like action movie might be disappointed . It also benefits from location shooting in Hamburg, Munich and Salzburg giving it a cold eerie feeling. Fun to see Jacobi in a pre-Claudius role. This is the only movie in witch sibblings Maximilian and Maria Schell acts together, though they don't share any scenes, and Maria only appears in one scene as Voight's characters mother. Well, I enjoyed watching it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2018 21:07:02 GMT
Just finish Red Dawn (1984)
A decent movie
7\10
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