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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2018 20:40:31 GMT
Spirit of the Beehive.
That was really interesting. I liked it. It took me a minute or two to get into because, like Italian, it took me a minute to adjust to Spanish onscreen.
If it needs an introduction, it's a Spanish movie set in the second world war but it's about a quietly sullen Spanish village where two young girls are just blown away by a free screening of Frankenstein, so the younger of the two tries looking for Frankenstein's monster because the older of the two says he comes around sometimes and if you're his friend you'll see him.
So, child's point of view movie. Not a kids movie, but a movie where kids (two really) are the main character.
I liked a lot of things about it. The emptiness of their house, the emptiness of the relationship between the parents, the incredibly brief but effective violence of shooting a (I think) army deserter who the young one briefly mistakes for Frankenstein's monster and makes friends with; the children were great, both wide-eyed with imagination, big toothy grins and imagination to spare.
I liked the fact that nothing really fantasy like happened. There was one kind of ambiguous scene where a Frankenstein's monster showed up, as if to live out the scene from the movie where the little girl (within the Frankenstein movie) reacts to the monster by giving him flowers.
The obvious comparison to me at first was Pan's Labyrinth. The more I think about it, the more it seems like a spiritual ancestor to My Neighbor Totoro.
Anyways, I adored it. Thumbs up.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Nov 7, 2018 8:46:20 GMT
BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING 1965 -- I do not know why but something about Carole Lynley leaves me cold. A lack of charisma or charm-not sure what. However, here she has a bonafide starring role and I cannot fault her in it--but she doesn't get me emotionally engaged. Anyway this is essentially the same plot as FLIGHT PLAN isn't it? I feel that it goes off the rails a bit when Keir Dullea destroys the doll and they have that weird extended play time--if the guy was really so nuts, how the hell could he do his job as a journalist? Oh well I guess we aren't supposed to think about that.
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Nov 7, 2018 18:50:05 GMT
The Bat (1959). Directed by Crane Wilbur, with Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon, John Sutton, Lenita Lane, et al. DVR'd from recent TCM telecast. First-time viewing.
This is the fourth film adaptation of a story which began as a 1908 novel The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart, which she later adapted (with Avery Hopwood) into the 1920 play The Bat. The first movie version of the play was the 1926 American silent film The Bat starring Emily Fitzroy as Miss Cornelia Van Gorder. In the 1959 version, Van Gorder was played by Agnes Moorehead.
I found the film a bit choppy and full of implausible if not downright nonsensical activities centering around a crazed, claw-handed killer known as "The Bat," who terrorizes a spooky old mansion full of people. Even the age-old plot device of the possibility that "the butler did it" amply presents itself here several times.
That being said, it's a whodunit full of lots of witty dialogue and good acting turns by all the leads. Vincent Price is in good form in this, as is John Sutton as the aforementioned butler. Worth a look for fans of this genre.
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Post by teleadm on Nov 7, 2018 19:03:39 GMT
Roma città aperta aka Rome, Open City 1945, directed by Roberto Rossellini, staring Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi, Marcello Pagliero, Vito Annichiarico, Nando Bruno, Harry Feist, Giovanna Galletti, Maria Michi, Francesco Grandjacquet and others Italian war-drama. During the Nazi occupation of Rome, the resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi aka Luigi Ferrari (Pagliero) is chased by the Gestapo. His friend Francesco (Grandjacquet), who is going to marry the widow Pina (Magnani), together with the priest Don Pietro Pellegrini (Frabrizi) help him to get a new identity and leave Rome. However, Manfredi is betrayed by his lover Marina Mari (Michi) and is arrested by the Germans. This is one of those famous movies that I absolutely can understand why it's famous. I've seen it before but it must have been long ago, since there were very much that I had forgotten, so it felt rather fresh again. Nearly the only thing I could remember was Magnani being shot in her back, since it's the picture that is showed everywhere when some author refers to this movie, but the movie is so much more. There is Fabrizi's priest whi is just a joy through the whole film, and it's also he who has some of the movie's few comedic scenes, even if his death is heartwrenching. Magnani displays such purity in her portrait of a tired widow who get's caught up in desperate ways in the horrors of the occupation. Feist as the Nazi in comand plays his role in total decandence and disgust very well. Little Annichiarico as Magnani's son is as kids always are, playfull and adventurous even if it's war, and displays such depth in his scenes, both joyous and in sorrows. Even if I'm not a big fan of every movie that is labeled Neo-Realism, this one is a masterpice. Not an easy movie to watch, but well worth it. The movie was nominated for a Best Screenplay Oscar (Sergio Amidei and Federico Fellini). The movie won a Palme d'Or in Cannes.
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Post by vegalyra on Nov 7, 2018 20:11:49 GMT
The Day of the Jackal (1973) Wonderful film, Edward Fox is amazing in this film. Michael Lonsdale as well. Of course, the little Alfa that Fox tools around in is a star in its own right. The film has a lot of suspense even though you know the outcome. The political period of early 1960's France is a very interesting topic, with the OAS's anger regarding De Gaulle's granting of Algerian independence taking center stage in this film. There are a few anachronisms such as some hair styles and a few cars that are a little too "seventies" to be completely period correct but all in all a good political thriller. The new blu ray by Arrow Films is highly recommended. The picture is beautiful and a massive upgrade from the old non-anamorphic DVD that has been out for years.
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Post by kijii on Nov 7, 2018 21:06:53 GMT
Hombre (1967) / Martin Ritt Streamed form Amazon Prime
I really enjoyed this movie. (I even watched it twice to pick up more of the details of the story.) The cast was great and so was the story. (Think of all the possible things that could go wrong on an overland stagecoach ride. Though this was nothing like the classic movie, Stagecoach (1939), there is a lot of up-close drama going on between the characters throughout the movie.)
While Paul Newman plays the title role and protagonist of the story; Fredrick March is still vital in his next-to-last screen role; Richard Boone expertly plays one of the most brutal persons in the movie; and Cameron Mitchell plays one of the most unlikable of the group. But, watch for the way that Martin Balsam holds the story together, low key but vital to the overall understanding of the background of Newman's character (John Russell).
On second viewing, I noticed how interesting the black stallion was (at the beginning of the movie) as he leads a harras of mustangs to a water hole before they are corralled a group of Apache Indians, led by Newman. The horses are captured by the Indians to sell them to the stage line. But, the stage line is about ready to go out of business due to the progress of a new railroad coming into town. These changes lead to the motives of almost everyone in the story.
Henry Mendez (Martin Balsam): You can be white, Mexican, or Indian, but I think it pays you to be a white man for a while. Put yourself on the winning side for a change. John Russell (Paul Newman): Is that what you are? Henry Mendez : Well, a Mexican's closer to it than a White Mountain Apache, I can tell you that!
TCM overview with possible SPOILERS: By the mid-1880's, the Apache Indians of Eastern Arizona have been relegated to living in squalor either on reservations or by themselves in the desert hills. Among the latter group is John Russell, whom they call Hombre. As a child, he was separated from his white parents, carried off by Apaches, and raised as an Indian. Upon learning that he has inherited a boardinghouse, Russell decides to trade the property for a herd of horses. Once the transaction has been settled, he leaves town on the first stagecoach. Also aboard are his friend Henry Mendez, the driver; Jessie Brown, former manager of the boardinghouse; Indian agent Alexander Favor and his young wife, Audra; a bickering young married couple, Billy Lee and Doris Blake; and Cicero Grimes, an arrogant stranger. As soon as the coach is underway, Russell is forced to sit on top because of Favor's bigoted attitude. A short time later, the coach is stopped by four gunmen, all in the employ of Grimes, who have come to rob Favor of $12,000 he has embezzled from government funds intended for Indian beef contracts. As Grimes and his henchmen make off with the money, taking Audra along as a hostage, Russell grabs a rifle and kills two of the bandits, one of whom was carrying the sack of money. After retrieving the cash, Russell leads the group to refuge in an abandoned mine cabin. The next day the outlaws appear and offer to trade Audra for the money. Russell refuses and defends his decision by reminding the others that Audra stood by as her husband let the Indians starve on dog meat while he pocketed their beef money. But when Jessie attempts to take the money to Grimes, Russell goes in her place. Gunfighting breaks out, and, although all of the bandits are killed, Russell dies saving the lives of his companions.
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Post by kijii on Nov 8, 2018 6:40:21 GMT
Edge of the City (1957) / Martin Ritt Streamed on Amazon PrimeThis installment to my Martin Ritt viewing was his first feature film. The movie about is set on the docks of NYC, with tension throughout. Yet, we don't understand why the John Cassavetes character (Axel Nordmann) is filled with such a fear to reveal his past until well after the middle of the movie. Axel takes a job as a freight car loader on the docks and quickly builds a great friendship with easy-going workmate, Tommy Tyler (Sidney Poitier) and his wife, Lucy (Ruby Dee). In fact, it is the Tylers that try to "bring him out of his shyness" and even set him up with a date, Ellen Wilson. It seems as though Tommy and Lucy Tyler feel no racial tension whatsoever, even though this 1957 movie was still very early in (even before) the civil rights period. However, racial tension builds between Charlie Malick (Jack Warden) and Tommy on the docks. (This was Jack Warden's first feature film, so it would be hard to realize that he would later go on to do many movies in which he was not the "heavy" as he was here.) Both Tommy and Malick were competing to have Axel working for them on their "team." This competition would finally lead to violence and death. The problem with this movie is that it lacks any good presentation of the drama that finally unfolds. It also lacks any satisfactory resolutions, leaving us with a bunch of wounded characters with unresolved problems..
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Post by koskiewicz on Nov 9, 2018 18:07:35 GMT
I just finished the reboot of "Papillon" w/Charlie Hunnam. It is much better than I expected.
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Post by teleadm on Nov 9, 2018 19:07:05 GMT
Time Bandits 1981, directed by Terry Gilliam, staring Craig Warnock, John Cleese (Robin Hood), Sean Connery (Agamemnon), Shelley Duvall, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm (Napoleon), Michael Palin, Ralph Richardson (Supreme Being aka God), Peter Vaughan, David Warner (Evil), David Rappaport, Kenny Baker and others, including future Oscar winner Jim Broadbent as a sleezy TV show host. British Adventure-Comedy-Fantasy about a young boy who accidentally, via his bedroom, joins a band of time travelling dwarves, as they jump from era to era looking for treasure to steal. One of those movies I fell in love with immediately the first time I watched it, even if it's humor is a bit hit or miss. The kind of movie I wished was around when I was a kid in Kevin's (Warnocks) age. Sticking out is Connery's warm and charming Agamemnon (and later in the movie does a cameo), Warner's Evil who is more interested in modern technology like microchips than creating 48 different parrots, Richardson as the Supreme Being or God "I am the nice one" and when asked why he created Evil answers "I think it has something to do with free will", and offcourse all those short actors that are scheming, lying, rascalious, thieving and manipulative. Understanding that it's not to everyone taste, but I love it. Ex-Beatle George Harrison sings a song during the end titles, and he was also one of the executive producers of this movie. The movie won a President's Award by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films in USA in 1982.
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Post by petrolino on Nov 9, 2018 19:20:55 GMT
'Dark Command' (1940) - Western inspired by the story of Quantrill's Raiders, a guerrilla unit active during the American Civil War. It's based on a historical novel by crime writer W.R. Burnett. Director Raoul Walsh shoots a wagon spilling over a cliff, bringing to mind a sequence he mounted for the widescreen western 'The Big Trail' (1930) in which wagons are carefully lowered over a cliff.
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Post by kijii on Nov 10, 2018 6:54:23 GMT
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) / Martin Ritt Streamed from Amazon Prime
This black and white movie is based on John le Carré's great novel and received two Oscar nominations: Richard Burton for Best Actor, and a group for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White. It was released during the height of the Cold War when "spy movies" were the rage. But, this one not like those we had come to expect.
The spy game is not (and was not) a pretty game. There are spies, counter-spies, and those that end up just being pawns in the whole game of discovering of who is which. This movie has more twists and turns in it than a corkscrew seen through multiple mirrors. After watching it three times, I just decided to buy the movie and keep it on my viewing cloud. It is good enough to see over and over again and still discover new angles. This is a great story, very well photographed and directed. And yes, the black and white art decoration is wonderful as it produces great atmosphere in and around Checkpoint Charlie.
Richard Burton plays a British spy who acts as a counter spy by defecting from the West and going over to the other side in East Berlin, in order to neutralize one of their top spies. But, he soon finds out that he, too, may be a pawn in the overall game.
Alec Leamas (Richard Burton) : It was a foul, foul operation, but it paid off. Nan Perry (Claire Bloom who plays an innocent British Communist): Who for? Alec Leamas : What the hell do you think spies are? Moral philosophers measuring everything they do against the word of God or Karl Marx? They're not! They're just a bunch of seedy, squalid bastards like me: little men, drunkards, queers, henpecked husbands, civil servants playing cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten little lives. Do you think they sit like monks in a cell, balancing right against wrong? Yesterday I would have killed Mundt because I thought him evil and an enemy. But not today. Today he is evil and my friend. London needs him. They need him so that the great, moronic masses you admire so much can sleep soundly in their flea-bitten beds again. They need him for the safety of ordinary, crummy people like you and me... Nan Perry : You killed Fiedler! Alec Leamas : How big does a cause have to be before you kill your friends? What about your Party? There's a few million bodies on that path!
TCM Synopsis with SPOILERS: Alec Leamas, the British intelligence officer in charge of espionage in Germany, is sent home after another British agent is killed at the Berlin Wall. The British service, led by Control, wants to eliminate Hans-Dieter Mundt, head of the East German organization. Leamas acts as an alcoholic to undertake the assignment. He obtains a job as an assistant librarian and slowly becomes involved with librarian Nan Perry, a Communist. Sent to jail for fighting, he is released and offered a sum of money to reveal his secrets. Leamas accepts and meets Fiedler, Mundt's assistant. Fiedler, a brilliant Jew who is eager to frame Mundt as a double agent, arranges a secret trubunal with Leamas as the star witness. At the tribunal, Nan Perry is called as a surprise witness, and Leamas realizes that the purpose of the plot was to eliminate Fiedler and strengthen Mundt, who is really a British agent. Mundt arranges for Nan and Leamas to escape over the Berlin Wall, but when Nan, a security risk, has to be shot, Leamas stays behind and is also killed.
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Nov 10, 2018 21:35:46 GMT
High Anxiety (1977). Produced and directed by Mel Brooks, who also plays the lead character, psychiatrist Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke (you’ll have to watch the film to find out what the “H” stands for). Also features Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman, Madeleine Kahn, Howard Morris, Dick Van Patten, Barry Levinson, and Ron Carey. DVR’d from recent TCM telecast. 2nd viewing for me.
This is a comedy that parodies a host of classic suspense films, most notably Hitchcock films, but the astute viewer will note a few others as well. I pretty much enjoyed this film - it contains all sorts of zany physical and visual gags, and is a lot of good, silly fun, though at times it comes across as maybe a bit too silly, leaving you feeling Brooks could’ve used a bit more sophistication in his treatment of Hitchcock films, even though this is a parody of them.
Interestingly enough, the master himself, Alfred Hitchcock, actually worked with Brooks on the screenplay, and later, upon viewing the finished film, went on to tell Brooks the film was splendid and even sent him a congratulatory case of expensive wine as a token of his appreciation.
I particularly enjoyed the character of Brophy the chauffeur (played by the late Ron Carey, “Officer Carl Levitt” of Barney Miller fame), who never could quite seem to succeed in lifting heavy objects. His catchphrase in the film, “I got it, I got it... I ain’t got it,” has worked its way into my personal vernacular, and I use it from time to time.
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Post by kijii on Nov 12, 2018 5:34:30 GMT
The Black Orchid (1958) / Martin Ritt Seen on Amazon Prime
This is a very simple melodrama about two Italians: a widow, Rose Bianco (Sophia Loren), and a widower, Frank Valente (Anthony Quinn). The widow's husband had been killed by his fellow mobsters. The widower's wife had died after giving birth to his only child, Mary (Ina Balin), and suffering from post-partum depression for the rest of her life. Rose and Frank fall in love but seem unable to marry each other due to the objections of their children.
As I say, this IS a simple melodrama with a somewhat predictable outcome. What saves the movie from being slightly more than mundane is the combined acting by Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn, both of them in roles well fit to them. The movie was produced by Loren's husband, Carlo Ponti.
Frank Valente (Anthony Quinn): Working at night? Even God doesn't work at night. Rose Bianco (Sophia Loren) : To make a living people do many things God doesn't do.
Wouldn't Quinn have made a good Alvaro Mangiacavallo opposite Anna Magnani in The Rose Tattoo (1955)?
TCM Synopsis with SPOILERS: After her husband Tony is murdered by gangsters for his role in a bank robbery, Rose Bianco, having emigrated from Italy to marry Tony, recalls their wedding day, when she danced gaily with him and told him about the beautiful house she wanted. Now widowed, Rose takes a job making imitation flowers to support herself. One evening, while wrapping flower stems at home, Rose is interrupted by her nosy neighbor, Giulia Gallo. Giulia invites Rose over to meet Frank Valente, a widowed family friend who has become enamored of Rose and comments that because of her mourning attire, she reminds him of black orchids. Distraught over her son Ralphie, who was caught robbing parking meters and placed in a state work farm, a bitter and withdrawn Rose rejects Giulia's invitation. Frank, whose daughter Mary is preparing to marry and move to Atlantic City, is undeterred and begins speaking to her as she works on her back porch, but Rose ignores him. Later that night, Frank brings her some food from Giulia and asks to accompany her when she goes to visit her son on Sunday. During Rose's visit to the work farm, an official named Harmon warns Rose that if Ralphie attempts to run away again, he will be sent to a reform school. While Frank waits outside, Ralphie makes Rose cry by saying that he hates the work farm and implying that she is responsible for his unhappy situation and his father's death. The following weekend, Frank takes Mary to a surprise wedding shower given by her friend Alma Gallo, after which he meets Rose for ice cream. Frank tells Rose that after Mary's birth, his wife became mentally ill, then later died. Next, he mentions that he would like to buy a little house near his business in Somerville and asks her to marry him. To his great surprise and joy, Rose accepts, but Mary, who is worried about her father marrying a gangster's widow, rushes home and confronts him, whereupon Frank assures Mary that nothing can threaten his love for Rose. At the work farm, Frank takes a walk with Ralphie and asks for his mother's hand in marriage. Ralphie is pleased at the news, and overjoyed upon learning that he will be allowed to live with the couple. Although Mary and her fiancé Noble have plans to live in Atlantic City, Mary insists that they move in with Frank, as she believes that it was his loneliness that drove him to seek out Rose. Exasperated, Noble sends Mary home, where she finds Frank and Rose kissing. In a fit of pique, Mary locks herself in her room for several days, just as her mother had done. Insisting that Frank stay with his daughter, Rose breaks off their engagement. Later, Rose learns that Ralphie has again escaped from the work farm. On Sunday, Frank goes to church to pray for Mary and Ralphie, while Mary decides to stay home to wait for Noble's call. During mass, Ralphie enters the church and is surprised to learn that Frank's problems, not Rose's, have ended their engagement. Meanwhile, Rose visits Mary and, admitting that her greed led to her husband's demise, begs her to allow Frank some happiness. Eventually, Mary relents and invites her to stay for coffee. Soon, they begin cooking breakfast, and when Frank enters the kitchen, he is thrilled to see them getting along. He informs Rose that he returned Ralphie to the state farm and talked Harmon out of sending him to reform school. When Noble enters, the two couples sit down to breakfast. Sometime later, Frank and Rose fetch Ralphie from the work farm, and the three set out for their new home.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Nov 12, 2018 5:48:53 GMT
Re: High Anxiety "Here's your newspaper! Your newspaper!!!"
I watched a 1971 tv movie A HOWLING IN THE WOODS which is notable as it reunites Barbara Eden and Larry Hagman after I Dream of Jeannie. Many of these tv movies usually put the husband through hell, but perhaps they had a soft spot for JR because this one isn't hard on him. She wants a divorce and phones him, and there is a near naked woman standing in the background and so we assume he is cheating-but then we learn he is a photographer. In fact he leaves the job so he can find Jeannie. The ending has them back together.
HUNDRA 1983 - sword and sandal film that is yet pretty good thanks to Ennio Morricone's score and higher production values than your average Xena episode. Much better than the Brigitte Nielsen flick that came a few years later.
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Post by kijii on Nov 13, 2018 1:49:19 GMT
Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962) / Martin Ritt Streamed from Amazon Prime
Based on Hemingway's collection of Nick Adams short stories, this screenplay by A.E. Hotchner is really quite good. The Nick Adams short stories are largely based on Hemingway's own experiences as a young man and are, therefore, semi-autobiographical in nature. So, Nick Adams (played by Richard Beymer) would be Hemingway. His father, Dr. Henry Adams (Arthur Kennedy) is a country doctor in a small Michigan community; Dr. Adams loves hunting and fishing with Nick. However, he always seems to capitulate to his domineering wife (Jessica Tandy) whenever there is a disagreement about Nick's activities or future.
Tired of witnessing this relationship between his father and mother, Nick decides to leave home for NYC in the hope that he can write for a newspaper there. But, his cross-country journey is comprised with other stories that go to make up the vignettes of the movie. For example, after being thrown off of a train by a brakeman, Nick finds a couple hobos and tries to join them until he finds he does not fit in. This corresponds to the story, "The Battler" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battler. Other episodes in the movie involve a drunk (Dan Dailey) traveling to promote a burlesque show, and Nick joining the Italian Army in NYC during WWI (foreshadowing the story later told in A Farewell to Arms).
TCM Synopsis with SPOILERS: Eager to escape his weak-willed physician father and domineering mother, 19-year-old Nick Adams leaves his Michigan home in 1917 and sets out for New York to become a writer. After a few days on the road he is thrown off a freight train by a cruel brakeman and finds himself in the company of a punch-drunk ex-prizefighter, "The Battler," and his black manager, Bugs. He soon decides to wire his father for money to return home, but a philosophical telegraph operator subtly talks him out of it; instead, Nick becomes assistant to the drunken, drug-addicted Billy Campbell, who acts as a publicist for Mr. Turner, a burlesque promoter. Turner replaces Billy with Nick until the show reaches New York, where Nick tries to become a newspaperman. Rejected by a newspaper editor for lack of experience, Nick becomes a busboy at a banquet held to recruit ambulance drivers for the Italian Army in its war against Austria and Germany. Nick signs up, and later saves the life of Major Padula, his commanding officer in Italy; later, his own life is saved when John, an Italian-American orderly, pulls him out of a bombed trench. While convalescing, Nick falls deeply in love with his nurse, Rosanna Griffi, but she is critically wounded when the hospital is bombed; he begs a priest to marry them, and the young woman dies in his arms during the ceremony. Upon discharge, Nick receives a hero's welcome as he returns to the Michigan lake country, but his celebration is ruined by the discovery that his father committed suicide during his absence. He remains with his mother until her possessiveness becomes too much for him, and then leaves home again--this time as a man, not a boy.
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Nov 13, 2018 2:28:46 GMT
BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING 1965 -- I do not know why but something about Carole Lynley leaves me cold. A lack of charisma or charm-not sure what. However, here she has a bonafide starring role and I cannot fault her in it--but she doesn't get me emotionally engaged. Anyway this is essentially the same plot as FLIGHT PLAN isn't it? I feel that it goes off the rails a bit when Keir Dullea destroys the doll and they have that weird extended play time--if the guy was really so nuts, how the hell could he do his job as a journalist? Oh well I guess we aren't supposed to think about that. With The Zombies playing 3 songs om the television. Zombies also did a short song for the radio ads.
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Nov 13, 2018 2:48:01 GMT
True Romance.
Great movie surrounding four incredible scenes.
1) White boy day 2) Chris Walken/Dennis Hopper 3) Gandolfini/Patricia Arquette (really great) 4) Elevator/Hotel Shootout
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Post by teleadm on Nov 13, 2018 18:21:06 GMT
Mr. Klein 1976, directed by Joseph Losey, staring Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, Francine Bergé, Suzanne Flon, Massimo Girotti, Michael Lonsdale and others. French-Italian drama-thriller. Paris, 1942. Robert Klein (Delon) cannot find any fault with the state of affairs in German-occupied France. He has a well-furnished flat, a mistress, and business is booming. Jews facing discrimination because of laws edicted by the French government are desperate to sell valuable works of art - and it is easy for him to get them at bargain prices. His cosy life is disrupted when he realizes that there is another Robert Klein in Paris - a Jew with a rather mysterious behaviour. Very soon, this homonymy attracts the close - and menacing - attention of the police on the established art trader. Is he slowly going crazy, or is it the Nazi secret police that is trying to smoke him out? This is one of the best things I've ever seen Alain Delon act in, from the bourguise snob in the beginning to the slowgrowing panic that begins to haunt him when he is trying to locate the other Mr Klein, that goes stranger and stranger. Though the other actors are good, it's Delon that sticks out. Losey's great direction also let's the story grow slow but surly forward with small signs here and there that someone might be out to get Mr Klein, that the story moves forward slowly benefits this movie as layer after layer becomes evident, and the ending was, at least for me a surprice. Great use of Paris locations too. Highly recommended, but be patience. The movie won French César Awards for Best Movie, Best Direction and Best Production Design.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Nov 13, 2018 19:58:45 GMT
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) Okay, so I am a massive Queen fan and was ready to nitpick this movie to death...but Rami Malek IS Freddie Mercury, his performance is a result of one of those all time perfect casting choices. He makes you love Freddie even more. The movie is mainly about Freddie and not the other band members, but let's face it, Freddie has the best story to tell. The movie includes Queen doing "Radio Ga Ga" at Live Aid so I really have nothing negative to say about it.
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Post by kijii on Nov 13, 2018 22:11:02 GMT
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) Okay, so I am a massive Queen fan and was ready to nitpick this movie to death...but Rami Malek IS Freddie Mercury, his performance is a result of one of those all time perfect casting choices. He makes you love Freddie even more. The movie is mainly about Freddie and not the other band members, but let's face it, Freddie has the best story to tell. The movie includes Queen doing "Radio Ga Ga" at Live Aid so I really have nothing negative to say about it. Lebowskidoo--- I took my wife to the movies this weekend and saw this movie BY MISTAKE (I thought the ticket seller said that theater 4 was for another movie). Seeing this one instead was the best mistake I ever made. We LOVED It!!! Wow, what an entertaining movie!! We even stayed to watch the credits at the end of the movie where live shots of the real band were on the screen beside the credits.
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