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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2018 19:32:35 GMT
An ok movie i rate it 6.5\10
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Post by jeffersoncody on Aug 2, 2018 7:33:44 GMT
FIRST REFORMED - with Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, Cedric the Entertainer, Philip Ettinger and Paul Gaston, written and directed by Paul Schrader. Rating: 10 out of 10. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Reminiscent of ORDET and DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST, yet very much Schrader's own vision, the intense, haunting, spellbinding FIRST REFORMED is Schrader's finest film to date and an absolute must see. It is easily the best film I have seen this year. An arthouse exploitation film of the highest order it is right up there with TAXI DRIVER. Tough viewing, but the ambigious ending is an almost spiritual experience which left me on a high.
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Aug 2, 2018 18:24:45 GMT
White Line Fever (1975). With Jan Michael Vincent, Kay Lenz, Slim Pickens. DVR'd this off of recent TCM telecast.
This one was pretty uneven. Somebody called it a "a trucker's version of Walking Tall" which is just about right. Nicely filmed, though, I will give it that. For nostalgia buffs, it had a nice time-capsule feel to it, with some glimpses of mid-70s America. Also had a real eye-roller of a goof near the end: In the scene where Carroll Jo [Jan Michael Vincent] is heading to the Glass House for revenge, police officer Bob is sent after him to make him stop. Carroll Jo tries weaving around to run him off the road. If you look inside the tractor cab, you see "Pops" in the passenger seat lean out the window and shoot at the police car. This scene happened after Pops had been murdered! In fact, nobody was supposed to be in the cab with C.J. He set out on his revenge mission alone, so the appearance of somebody in the cab with him - especially a character who had been killed off in a previous scene - was clearly a bizarre goof.
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Post by teleadm on Aug 2, 2018 19:01:53 GMT
Här kommer bärsärkarna 1965, directed by Arne Mattsson, starring Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt, Dirch Passer, Åke Söderblom, Nils Hallberg, Walter Chiari, Karl-Arne Holmsten and many others. Swedish-Danish-Yugoslavian "adventure comedy", story: The viking chief Hjorvard has two wild sons, Glum and Garm, both notorious berserkers. I know we have made some really bad movies in Sweden, but this was even worse. Absolutely awfull! So bad it doesen't even have an English title. The movie company who made this very costly movie, lost so much money, that they stopped making mainstream movies, and started making pornos instead, Swedish Sin movies.
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 3, 2018 1:00:45 GMT
jeffersoncodyAching to see First Reformed. Going to have to wait for the DVD release which will be in about 3 more weeks. I will try to hang on until then. Thanks for the recommendation. Just makes me want to see it more.
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Post by teleadm on Aug 3, 2018 15:34:40 GMT
mikef6 . I'm looking forward to read your thoughts and opinions about Return From the Ashes 1965, A little bit because of Ingrid Thulin. In mid-1960s some of the Bergman actors went out in the world, Bibi did a western, Harriet did a spy movie and Max played Jesus.
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Post by kijii on Aug 3, 2018 16:18:47 GMT
An Enemy of the People (1978) / George Schaefer
Recorded from TCM during July when Steve McQueen was featured actor for the month
McQueen goes all Ibsen on us in this great film adaptation by Arthur Miller, with screenplay by Alexander Jacobs. This is an unusual role for Steve McQueen, but he does quite well, here, as the bearded protagonist of the play, Dr. Thomas Stockmann. Stockmann is the town's doctor who threatens the town's establishment by wanting to tell the people the truth about the dangers in its water supply.
Below is my IMDb review of this movie:
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Post by teleadm on Aug 3, 2018 17:46:28 GMT
Rebel without a Cause 1955, directed by Nicholas Ray, starring James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus, Ann Doran, Corey Allen, William Hopper, Rochelle Hudson, Dennis Hopper (!), Edward Platt, Ian Wolfe and others. Drama about a rebellious young man with a troubled past that comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies. A movie that talked to a whole generation, teen and young angst when America had built a new wealthy middle and upper middle class, the first generation were kids wasn't forced to do labour, but had loads of sparetime but nothing to to, coming up with thrills, deadly thrills. Dean, Wood and Mineo are very disturbed, they have it all materially, but they have a restlessness that makes them do and feel that they are suddenly overlooked by their parents once they are not cute kids anymore. I am of the wrong generation to feel the same, hell my 1950's movie was Grease 1978 lol. With all that said, Warners did what they usually did, taking stories from the headlines! Juvenile delinquecy wasn't a slum desiese! Sal Mineo, Natalie Wood and Nicholas Ray got Oscar nominated, Natalie Wood won a Golden Globe though. Since 1990 it has been cosen by National Film Preservation Board, to be preserved forever.
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Aug 4, 2018 6:08:38 GMT
Scene of the Crime (1949). Directed by Ray Rowland, with Van Johnson, Arlene Dahl, Olivia DeHaven, Tom Drake, John McIntire. DVR'd off of TCM's Noir Alley series (the last one before their August break; "Noir Alley with Eddie Muller" will resume Labor Day Weekend).
I thought this was a good MGM-produced B&W crime drama, and a darned good policier, but much like I felt with Party Girl(1958) mentioned here earlier, I had a hard time getting the true noir vibe out of this one. Too much polish, style and elegance in it for me to find that creeping dread, sweaty desperation and sick suspense that should permeate a true film noir. Van Johnson seemed more than a little mis-cast: try as I might, I just couldn't see him as the tough homicide cop he was supposed to be portraying. And his wife, played by Arlene Dahl, so elegantly begowned and coiffed, seemed like someone who belonged in a New York penthouse suite, *not* a woman married to a Los Angeles police detective.
Be that as it may, it was still a good watch: I'll probably view this one again before I delete it from my DVR. Alert viewers will note that a certain loudly-played jazz song in this film made its appearance about a year later in a very crucial scene in another MGM crime drama, 1950's The Asphalt Jungle.
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Aug 4, 2018 6:27:21 GMT
The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933). Directed by Alexander Korda, with Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Elsa Lanchester, Merle Oberon, Binnie Barnes.
Enjoyable historical drama about England's King Henry VIII, well-portrayed by Charles Laughton who would receive a Best Actor Academy Award for his performance. The film was also the first British production to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
I was expecting more scenes depicting various degrees of depravity and possibly brutality of Henry, but instead it was a largely sympathetic look at one of the most famous (or infamous) royal characters in all of history. There are plenty of thoughtful utterances by not only the King, but many of his wives, cohorts and subjects as well. Elsa Lanchester - who was Laughton's actual wife in the "real world" - provided some very good comic relief in her portrayal of Anne of Cleves, a partly clueless, partly shrewd-as-a-fox German princess who seemingly stumbled into an arranged marriage with King Henry (his 4th wife), only to stumble right out again. Luckily, the two parted on the best of terms. In other words, she got to keep her head. Others... not so lucky.
All in all an excellent, and very enjoyable film. It's also one of those historical dramas that makes you want to go read up on the subject at hand, which I've been doing since I finished watching the film. In the course of those readings, I ran across this little bit from a Wiki page, thought it was really worth sharing, as it clearly relates to the film:
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Post by kijii on Aug 4, 2018 6:31:35 GMT
Deathtrap (1982) / Sidney Lumet
Streamed from FlimStruck
FilmStruck is currently streaming works written by Ira Levin, and this new discovery was a real treat to watch. This movie, based on a play by Ira Levin, is about a Broadway playwright, Sidney Bruhl (Michael Caine). After seeing his own latest Broadway flop and reading the reviews, he comes home to East Hampton to tell his wife, Myra (Dyan Cannon) that he needs to write a successful play.
As they talk, he comes up with the idea of using a flawless play, a play actually written by one of his students from a seminar he had given on the subject. [His student, Clifford Anderson (Christopher Reeve) had sent it to him for his comments and input.] When Bruhl discovers that Anderson has no relatives, friends or car, and was renting a flat in NYC; he comes upon the idea of luring him to his house with the one and only copy (the original) of the play, murdering him, and then taking credit for Anderson's play.
The play takes on so many twists and turns that we get caught up in an interesting murder mystery as the play we are watching becomes the story about the play they are writing.
This is one of those play-based movies that is so clever that it reminds me of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) or Anthony Shaffer's Sleuth (1972), in which the cast is basically two main characters trying to outsmart each other in an endless series of ploys and counter-ploys.
Clifford Anderson (Christopher Reeve): Would you like me to explain? Sidney Bruhl (Michael Caine): What, that you're a lunatic with a death-wish? Clifford Anderson : Ha ha ha. I've got the same wish you have, Sidney - a success wish!
Sidney Bruhl : Clifford, my dear, in your run-ins with the law, in your infancy so to speak, did any of the doctors, policemen, shrinks, did any of them ever use... the... word...? Clifford Anderson : What word Sidney? Sidney Bruhl : Sociopath? Clifford Anderson : Does that word... frighten you, Sidney? Sidney Bruhl : No, no. It does however, give me pause.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2018 19:49:07 GMT
Good movie i give it 9\10
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Post by jeffersoncody on Aug 6, 2018 10:01:16 GMT
BREATH (2017) - Actor Simon Baker makes his feature film directorial debut with this beautiful, sensitive and soulful coming-of-age surf drama based on lauded Aussie writer Tim Winton's acclaimed novel. Rating. 8 out of 10. Recommended.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Aug 6, 2018 11:34:32 GMT
Bear Island (1979), a sort of whodunnit set on a Norwegian island (but filmed in British Columbia), based on a book by Alistair MacLean. Starring Donald Sutherland, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark, Lloyd Bridges, Christopher Lee, and a very young Bruce Greenwood, making his film debut. A few other Canadian actors that only Canadians would recognize too. Lots of nice wintery scenery and an interesting plot. Just found it by accident on YouTube, a nice quality also.
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 6, 2018 16:16:51 GMT
The Bat / Crane Wilbur (1959). This is at least the third movie made from Mary Roberts Rinehart’s 1920 Broadway hit of the same name; the first was a silent film in 1926, then a 1930 release (as “The Bat Whispers”). Agnes Moorehead and Vincent Price head up the cast.
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Post by kijii on Aug 7, 2018 0:13:29 GMT
The Set-Up (1949) / Robert Wise
This is Wise's first fight movie. His second was Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956). Though its subject and setting are sleazy, it did have a moment or two...
Stoker (Robert Ryan): Yeah, top spot. And I'm just one punch away. Julie (Audrey Totter): I remember the first time you told me that. You were just one punch away from the title shot then. Don't you see, Bill, you'll always be just one punch away.
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Post by teleadm on Aug 7, 2018 18:46:42 GMT
Come September 1961, directed by Robert Mulligan, screenplay by Stanley Shapiro and Maurice Richlin, starring Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin, Walter Slezak, Brenda de Banzie, Joel Grey and others. Romantic comedy: Wealthy industrialist Robert Talbot (Hudson) arrives early for his annual vacation at his luxurious Italian villa only to find that it's turned into a luxory hotel, with guests, very young women, and that his once a month every year girlfriend (Lollobrigida) has decided to get married to another man. Complications follows... Beautiful Italian locations! The kind of movie they can't make anymore, with the right kind of lightness such stories needs. This is charming delightfull fluff, were I can sit with a smile and enjoy. Hudson and Lollobrigida makes a good comedy team with their different temperaments. Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee met and fell in love whilst filming this movie and shortly afterward got married., and Darin sings "Multiplication", that I must have heard before because I recognized it. Darin won a Golden Globe, as Most Promising Newcomer - Male. Together with By Love Possessed 1961, became the first movies to be shown on transcontinental and intercontinental flights. Robert L. Talbot (Hudson): You're not making any sense! Lisa Helena Fellini (Lollobrigida): I don't have to make sense! I'm Italian!
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Post by teleadm on Aug 8, 2018 18:17:11 GMT
Die Welle aka The Wave 2008, directed by Dennis Gansel, based on Ron Jones' short story and protocols, staring Jürgen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Max Riemelt, Jennifer Ulrich, Christiane Paul, Jacob Matschenz, Cristina do Rego, Elyas M'Barek and others. German drama about a school project that goes horribly wrong: High school teacher, Rainer Wenger, may be popular with the students, but he's also unorthodox. He's forced to teach autocracy for the school's project week. He's less than enthusiastic at first, but the response of the students is surprising to say the least. He forces the students to become more invested in the prospect of self rule, and soon the class project has its own power and eerily starts to resemble Germany's past. Can Wegner and his class realize what's happening before the horrors start repeating themselves... A very hard hitting movie, about how easy it is to manipulate minds at a certain age (like Hitler jugend). The pupils takes it as some fun and games at the beginning, but over a very short time takes it more and more serious, some takes it even farther, and forgets that it's just a school project. The movie was a huge hit in Germany. It's very well worth your time. Even if I don't speak any German, I found it very easy to follow the story via subtitles. There is an earlier American TV version from 1981, and it's based on a real incident that happened, if my memory don't fail my, at a school in California.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2018 20:01:17 GMT
First time in probably 20 years that i watched this movie. I think i enjoyed it more 20 years ago. But still a good movie i give it 7.5\10
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Aug 8, 2018 20:53:48 GMT
The Cockeyed Miracle (1946). Directed by S. Sylvan Simon, with Frank Morgan, Keenan Wynn, Cecil Kellaway, Gladys Cooper, Audrey Totter, Richard Quine. Based on a play written by George Seaton. DVR'd off of recent TCM telecast, part of the "films featuring Audrey Totter" day.
Amusing ghost-story type of movie in which even death and the deceased are almost made to seem funnier than life itself. The special effects - namely, "dead" people walking cleanly through walls and windows (although somehow still able to solidly sit in chairs and lean on bales of hay, etc.) - must've been startling back in the mid-40s. All in all a good, cute movie: plenty of clever dialogue, Audrey Totter looks quite radiant, and some of the lessons it teaches about the dangers of imprudent investing and handling of money are as relevant as ever. Interesting to note, though, that oddly enough, the picture was a box-office flop, racking up a loss of $182,000.
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