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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 22, 2020 2:27:02 GMT
URBAN COWBOYThe music is the best part of the film which I remember liking MUCH more than I did today ! Now, I just want so much to smack the annoying main characters !
I remember noticing Scott Glenna and James Gammon in this when I first saw it and predicted greatness for them ... semi-achieved !
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Post by jeffersoncody on Dec 22, 2020 7:39:31 GMT
THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS (1946) with Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Kirk Douglas, Lizabeth Scott, Judith Anderson and Darryl Hickman, directed by Lewis Milestone. My Rating: 9 out of 10. Highly recommended. On Blu Ray.This is my third viewing of THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS, but it's the first time I have seen it on Blu Ray. While the restored print is still not perfect, it's pretty damn good and light years better than the public domain VHS and DVD prints I first saw this charged noir on. Plus, it looked a treat on my new Samsung TV. Suffice to say, the missus and I were transported to another world and gripped from beginning to end. I enjoyed it even more than before. I guess third time's the charm. What a movie, what a cast.     
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Post by teleadm on Dec 22, 2020 18:57:24 GMT
Miracle on 34th Street 1947 directed by George Seaton and starring Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Natalie Wood, Gene Lockhart, Porter Hall, William Frawley, Jerome Cowan and others including an un-credited Thelma Ritter in her screen debut. I've never seen this version before, only seen the 1994 version, and while it is a very charming movie I was also surprised at the satirical swipes it thew'd against over-consumption and over-commercialism in selling unwanted crap instead of what consumers actually needs and wants. It has a great mix of comedy and drama and never falls into the trap of being cloying and/or sentimental. A man calling himself Kris Kringle is hired on the spot for a huge Christmas Parade for a famous department store, but who is he? A harmless nutcase or the real deal? I won't give anything away in case there's more still who hasn't seen it... Gwenn won a Supporting Oscar, even if he dominates nearly the whole movie, and he is an ideal Kringle. George Seaton and Valentine Davies both won Oscars for their Writing and Original Story.     A little trivia: When Edmund Gwenn accepted his Best Supporting Actor Oscar, he said, "Now I know there's a Santa Claus".
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Dec 22, 2020 19:05:39 GMT
Come to the Stable (on TCM) with Loretta Young. I've always loved Loretta Young, I used to watch her TV show as a child. Beautiful lady and a beautiful voice.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 22, 2020 23:29:56 GMT
 The second made Bond movie with the one and ONLY James Bond playing himself ! "Sean Connery called this movie his personal favorite of his Bond movies."  agree ! A blond Robert Shaw has hardly any dialogue until the film is almost finished ! Less gimmicky than the later Bond films with a plot that almost makes sense ! |
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Post by kijii on Dec 23, 2020 5:32:02 GMT
The Social Network (2010) David Fincher
Re-watched ----
I had forgotten how much kinetic energy this movie had. It is loaded with rapid-fire conversations and cuts from one episode to another and one person to another. It is entertaining, but almost TOO clever.
Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) : You signed the papers.
Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield) : [almost in tears] You set me up.
Mark Zuckerberg : You're gonna blame me because you were the business head of the company and you made a bad business deal with your own company?
Eduardo Saverin : This is gonna be like I'm not a part of Facebook!
Sean Parker : It won't be like you're not a part of Facebook. You're not a part of Facebook.
Eduardo Saverin : My name's on the masthead.
Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake) : You might wanna check again.
Eduardo Saverin : Just because I froze the account?
Sean Parker : Did you think we were going to let you parade around in your ridiculous suits pretending you were running this company?
Eduardo Saverin : [cutting him off; screaming] Sorry! My Prada's at the cleaners! Along with my hoodie and my 'fuck you' flip-flops, you pretentious douchebag!
Sean Parker : Security's here, you'll be leaving now.
Eduardo Saverin : I'm not signing those papers.
Sean Parker : We will get the signature.
Eduardo Saverin : [to Mark] Tell me this isn't about me getting into the Phoenix.
[Mark scoffs]
Eduardo Saverin : [in disbelief] You... You did it! I knew you did it! You planted that story about the chicken!
Mark Zuckerberg : I didn't plant the story about the chicken.
Sean Parker : What's he talking about?
Eduardo Saverin : You had me accused of animal cruelty.
Sean Parker : Seriously, what the hell's the chicken?
Eduardo Saverin : [leans down close to Mark, his voice low and dangerous] And I'll bet what you hated the most was that they identified me as a co-founder of Facebook, which I am. You better lawyer up asshole, because I'm not coming back for 30%, I'm coming back for EVERYTHING.
[backs away from Mark slowly, still looking at him]
.jpg)  Plot Summary from Wikipedia with SPOILERS:
In October 2003, 19-year-old Harvard University sophomore Mark Zuckerberg is dumped by his girlfriend Erica Albright. Returning to his dorm, Zuckerberg writes an insulting post about Albright on his LiveJournal blog. He creates a campus website called Facemash by hacking into college databases to steal photos of female students, then allowing site visitors to rate their attractiveness. After traffic to the site crashes parts of Harvard's computer network, Zuckerberg is given six months of academic probation. However, Facemash's popularity attracts the attention of twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and their business partner Divya Narendra. The trio invites Zuckerberg to work on Harvard Connection, a social network exclusive to Harvard students and aimed at dating.
Zuckerberg approaches his friend Eduardo Saverin with an idea for Thefacebook, a social networking website that would be exclusive to Ivy League students. Saverin provides $1,000 in seed funding, allowing Zuckerberg to build the website, which quickly becomes popular. When they learn of Thefacebook, the Winklevoss twins and Narendra are incensed, believing that Zuckerberg stole their idea while keeping them in the dark by stalling on developing the Harvard Connection website. They raise their complaint with Harvard President Larry Summers, who is dismissive and sees no value in either disciplinary action or The facebook.
Saverin and Zuckerberg meet fellow student Christy Lee, who asks them to "Facebook me", a phrase that impresses them. As Thefacebook grows in popularity, Zuckerberg extends the network to Yale University, Columbia University, and Stanford University. Ling arranges for Saverin and Zuckerberg to meet Napster co-founder Sean Parker, who presents a "billion-dollar" vision for the company that impresses Zuckerberg. He also suggests renaming the site Facebook. At Parker's suggestion, the company moves to Palo Alto, with Saverin remaining in New York to work on business development. After Parker promises to expand Facebook to two continents, Zuckerberg invites him to live at the house he is using as company headquarters.
While competing in the Henley Royal Regatta for Harvard against the Hollandia Roeiclub, the Winklevoss twins discover that Facebook has expanded to Europe with Oxford, Cambridge and LSE, and decide to sue the company for theft of intellectual property. Meanwhile, Saverin objects to Parker making business decisions for Facebook and freezes the company's bank account in the resulting dispute. He relents when Zuckerberg reveals that they have secured $500,000 from angel investor Peter Thiel. Saverin becomes enraged when he discovers that the new investment deal allows his share of Facebook to be diluted from 34% to 0.03% while maintaining the ownership percentage of all other parties. He confronts Zuckerberg and Parker, and Saverin vows to sue Zuckerberg before being ejected from the building. Saverin's name is removed from the masthead as co-founder. Later, Parker is apprehended for cocaine possession at a party celebrating the 1 millionth user. He attempts to blame Saverin, so Zuckerberg cuts ties with him.
In separate depositions, the Winklevoss twins claim that Zuckerberg stole their idea, while Saverin claims his shares of Facebook were unfairly diluted when the company was incorporated. Marylin Delpy, a junior lawyer for the defense, informs Zuckerberg that they will settle with Saverin since the sordid details of Facebook's founding and Zuckerberg's callous attitude will make him unsympathetic to a jury. Alone, Zuckerberg sends a Facebook friend request to Albright and repeatedly refreshes the page.
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Post by teleadm on Dec 23, 2020 19:32:53 GMT
The Lodger 1944 directed by John Brahm and based on a play by Marie Belloc Lowndess. Starring Laird Cregar, Merle Oberon, George Sanders, Cedric Hardwicke, Sara Allgood and others. Took a break from the Christmas themed movies and watched a foggy gas-lit London murder mystery instead. I've seen it recommended so many times here on CFB but for some reason or other I've pushed it forward to watch it myself, until now. In late Victorian London, Jack the Ripper has been killing and maiming actresses in the night. The Burtons (Hardwicke and Allgood) are forced to take in a lodger (Cregar) due to financial hardship. He seems like a nice young man, but Mrs. Burton suspects him of being the ripper because of some mysterious and suspicious habits, and fears for her beautiful actress niece (Oberon) who lives with them. Inspector Warwick (Sanders) is on the case to catch the Ripper, and maybe the beautiful niece too for personal reasons... The movie gives a very eerie feeling of a foggy gas-lit London that probably never was, except in movies. Eerie too is the Lodger as played by Laird Cregar, if a bit too over-obvious in that he certainly is doing some things that a very strange. Sanders gets the chance to play a charming good guy here, Oberon get's the chance to show her dancing skills. Hardwicke and Allgood are nearly comic reliefs, but they are not dumb and unnecessary characters, they do help the plot to move forward. Entertaining is he or isn't he murder mystery. The real murderers victims are killed in a very gruesome manner, but are mostly only hinted in sparse sequences in this movie.    
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Post by kijii on Dec 24, 2020 5:21:42 GMT
Gone Girl (2014) / David Fincher
Re-Watch
So far, I notice that all of Fincher's movies are dark and yellowish, sort of back and yellow as opposed to B&W. Now, I am starting to think that is a trademark of his.
Ellen Abbott : I so appreciate you giving us this time, Nick.
Nick Dunne : You went on national television and told people that I murdered my wife.
Ellen Abbott : Well, I go where the story goes.
Nick Dunne : You implied that I had carnal relations with my sister.
Ellen Abbott : I didn't use the "I" word. I said you two were extremely close.
Nick Dunne : You had a pile of nitwits diagnose me as a sociopath.
Ellen Abbott : Icebreaker.
Ellen Abbott : [shows him a robot cat toy] To go with your robot dog.
Nick Dunne : I'll go find Amy.
 
^^^Typical bile-like Fincher hues and colors, as if shot though a bottle of urine^^^^^
Plot Summary from Wikipedia with SPOILERS:
On their fifth wedding anniversary, writing teacher Nick Dunne returns home to find his wife Amy missing. Her disappearance receives press coverage, as Amy was the inspiration for her parents' popular Amazing Amy children's books. Detective Rhonda Boney finds poorly concealed evidence of a struggle in the house. Suspicion mounts around Nick, whose apathy is interpreted by the media as characteristic of a sociopath and even sows doubt in his twin sister Margo.
Flashbacks reveal how Amy and Nick first met. Amy later revealed to Nick that Amazing Amy was a perfected version made up of the real Amy's failures. Their marriage disintegrated over time; both lost their jobs in the recession and moved from New York City to Nick's hometown of North Carthage, Missouri. Nick became lazy and distant, and began cheating on Amy with Andie, one of his students, while Amy became increasingly resentful towards Nick for making her move with him to Missouri, having loved her life in New York City.
Forensic analysis of the house uncovers cleaned bloodstains, indicating a probable murder. Boney unearths evidence of financial troubles, domestic disputes, and Amy's recent willingness to purchase a gun. Medical reports indicate that Amy is pregnant, which Nick denies knowing. Amy and Nick had played treasure hunt games on every wedding anniversary; this year's clues include profligate items purchased with Nick's card, as well as a diary highlighting Amy's growing isolation and ending with the fear that Nick will kill her.
Amy is revealed to be alive and well, having gone into hiding in a campground in the Ozarks. Upon discovering Nick's affair, she concocted an elaborate plan to punish him by framing him for her murder and making his motive appear to be monetary in nature. She fabricated a long-standing diary that was accurate in its early entries but later evolved into false accounts of spousal violence and her increasing fear of Nick. She befriended a pregnant neighbor, told her fake stories about Nick's temper, and stole her urine to fake pregnancy results, all while hiding the friendship from Nick. She planted corroborating evidence of Nick's guilt in the clue spots for the "treasure hunt" for the police to find. She also splattered her own blood across the kitchen, and cleaned it haphazardly. She anticipated that Nick would be convicted and executed for her murder, and contemplated committing suicide after his conviction.
Nick deduces Amy's plan and convinces Margo of his innocence. He flies to New York and meets Tanner Bolt, a lawyer known for representing men accused of killing their wives. Nick also meets Amy's ex-boyfriend Tommy O'Hara, who says that Amy had falsely accused him of rape, planting evidence around his house and forcing him to register as a sex offender to avoid jail. Nick approaches another ex-boyfriend, the wealthy Desi Collings, against whom Amy previously filed a restraining order, but Desi turns him away, refusing to share any details.
When Amy's campground neighbors rob her of her money, she calls Desi for help, convincing him that she fled from Nick's abuse. Desi agrees to hide her in his lake house. After Andie reveals their affair at a press conference, Nick appears on a talk show professing his innocence and apologizing for his failures as a husband, in the hope of luring Amy. The show airs shortly before the treasure hunt clues land Nick arrested for murder. However, his performance rekindles Amy's feelings for him and modifies her plans. She uses Desi's surveillance cameras to help make it appear that Desi kidnapped and raped her. She seduces Desi, murders him with a box cutter, and returns home covered in his blood, clearing Nick of suspicion.
When Boney probes into the holes in her story, Amy chastises her as incompetent. The FBI sides with Amy, forcing Boney to back down. Amy tells Nick the truth and admits to Desi's murder, saying that the man she watched pleading for her return on TV is the man she wants him to become again. Nick shares this with Boney, Bolt, and Margo, but they have no evidence of her guilt.
Nick intends to leave Amy, but she reveals she is pregnant, having inseminated herself with Nick's sperm stored at a fertility clinic. Nick reacts violently to Amy's insistence that they remain married, but feels responsible for the child. Despite Margo's objections, he reluctantly decides to stay with Amy. The "happy" couple announces on television that they are expecting a child.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Dec 24, 2020 7:51:00 GMT
Emma (2020).  
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Dec 24, 2020 10:29:27 GMT
"Pygmalion" with Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller (just got the DVD in the mail yesterday afternoon).
This morning I'm going to watch "Visit to a Small Planet" with Jerry Lewis. Some movies are so hard to find for Region 1. I'm still looking for "The Passionate Friends".
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Post by teleadm on Dec 24, 2020 17:39:11 GMT
Harry and Tonto 1974 directed by Paul Mazursky and starring Art Carney, Ellen Burstyn, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Arthur Hunnicut, Cheif Dan George, Larry Hagman and others. Harry (Carney) is a retired teacher in his 70s living in the Upper West Side of New York City, where his late wife and he raised his children, where he's lived all of his life. When the building, in which he lives, is torn down to make way for a parking garage, Harry and his beloved cat Tonto begin a journey across the U.S., visiting his children (Burstyn and Hagman), seeing a world he never seemed to have the time to see before, making new friends, and saying goodbye to old friends. This was a revisit after many years, and I really liked re-watching it a again. I live in the wrong country to know anything about Art Carney, and didn't know anything about The Honeymooners and all that, he was a fresh, but old, face to me. This is a wonderful movie, even if you don't like cats, and interesting to see how America looked like in the early 1970's, not just New York but also Chicago, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. It's interesting to see how the Harry character adapts and matures the more he sees and learns, and that farewells is not sentimental, but mature meetings and let's go on with our lives in our own ways of life after we parts. If this was actually written as a vehicle for an aged Jack Benny, I can now see a few hints that could have worked for his kind of comedy in a few scenes. There is a Christmas connection in this movie, once Harry comes to Los Angeles and Santa Monica one can see Christmas decorations, but nothing whatsoever is mentioned about it, the decorations just happens to be there. Art Carney won an Oscar, and the screenplay was nominated. Tonto was played by at least two cats.    
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Post by kijii on Dec 24, 2020 18:13:12 GMT
Harry and Tonto 1974 directed by Paul Mazursky and starring Art Carney, Ellen Burstyn, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Arthur Hunnicut, Cheif Dan George, Larry Hagman and others. Harry (Carney) is a retired teacher in his 70s living in the Upper West Side of New York City, where his late wife and he raised his children, where he's lived all of his life. When the building, in which he lives, is torn down to make way for a parking garage, Harry and his beloved cat Tonto begin a journey across the U.S., visiting his children (Burstyn and Hagman), seeing a world he never seemed to have the time to see before, making new friends, and saying goodbye to old friends. This was a revisit after many years, and I really liked re-watching it a again. I live in the wrong country to know anything about Art Carney, and didn't know anything about The Honeymooners and all that, he was a fresh, but old, face to me. This is a wonderful movie, even if you don't like cats, and interesting to see how America looked like in the early 1970's, not just New York but also Chicago, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. It's interesting to see how the Harry character adapts and matures the more he sees and learns, and that farewells is not sentimental, but mature meetings and let's go on with our lives in our own ways of life after we parts. If this was actually written as a vehicle for an aged Jack Benny, I can now see a few hints that could have worked for his kind of comedy in a few scenes. There is a Christmas connection in this movie, once Harry comes to Los Angeles and Santa Monica one can see Christmas decorations, but nothing whatsoever is mentioned about it, the decorations just happens to be there. Art Carney won an Oscar, and the screenplay was nominated. Tonto was played by at least two cats. Great film isn't ii?
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 25, 2020 1:05:44 GMT
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Dec 25, 2020 2:23:42 GMT
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Post by Prime etc. on Dec 25, 2020 4:23:52 GMT
SCROOGE 1935 - A much more satisfying watch than the 1938 version which I viewed last year, with clever uses of shadow in places. Hicks gives a more believable performance than some I have viewed--his transformation comes across as more heartfelt--the scene I always like in this story is where he visits his nephew and the reaction of his nephew's fiancee. I assume it is meant to flashback to his own fiancee (how many kids did she end up with? Looked like a dozen to me).
Also not overselling Tiny Tim worked well here--no need to have him showing up at the end. But what the hell was the point of the Queen Victoria scene?
And wow to seeing a young Maurice Evans and I didn't recognize Athene Mrs. Karswell Seyler as Scrooge's charwoman.
Now to watch a very similar film, DIE HARD 2...
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Post by louise on Dec 25, 2020 19:05:14 GMT
Coming to America. Always fun.
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Post by teleadm on Dec 25, 2020 19:57:52 GMT
With Mank 2020 out and remembering a thread of movie stars one has never seen, I came to think of Marion Davis, said to have been a good comedian rather than being the dramatic actress her famous lover wanted her to be be. Since I had never seen a movie with her before, I gave it a shot... Polly of the Circus 1932 directed by Alfred Santell and based on a play by Margaret Mayo. Starring Marion Davis, Clark Gable (without moustache), C. Aubrey Smith, Raymond Hutton, David Landau, Ruth Selwyn, Maude Eburne, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams and others. When Polly Fisher (Davis), a circus aerialist, is hurt while performing, she is taken to the house of a nearby minister, John Hartley (Gable). As she recuperates, they fall in love with each other and secretly marry. But when the truth leaks out, John's congregation rebels at having a circus woman as their minister's wife, and he is fired and can't find a job anywhere else. Should she return to the circus for economic reason to make ends meet, or should she take an even more decision... There are some really good high-wire air footage of actual circus performers here, taken from surprising angles for such an early sound movie. There are also some great pre-code dialogue and a few sharp one liners too. A young Gable is good as a rather open-minded Minister. Davis is okey but not more, better in the lighter humorous parts than in the more melodramatic parts. It's thankfully short, just under 70 minutes, but it was an interesting watch, and I don't consider it was a waste of time actually watching it.     |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 25, 2020 20:06:39 GMT
George C. Scott Christmas Carol The VCR decided to quit every five minutes so resorted to watching it on the Roku Channel ... five commercials every ten minutes instead !  Beautifully done except for having the least appealing Tiny Tim in any of the many versions ! |
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Dec 25, 2020 20:29:29 GMT
Babes in Toyland on TCM, classic Laurel and Hardy. The battle that the three little pigs, Cat and the Fiddle, early Mickey Mouse etc. waged against the Boogymen reminded me of the Ewoks battling the stormtroopers in the Return of the Jedi. I wonder if George Lucas got some of his ideas from this film.
Tonight I'm going to watch Miracle on 34th St. with Natalie Wood, luckily I have the DVD, I just found out that since Disney bought 20th Century Fox, this is one of the films that will no longer be shown on regular TV, what a shame.
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Post by divtal on Dec 25, 2020 21:19:37 GMT
Roxie Hart (1942), starring Ginger Rogers, Robert Montgomery and Adolph Menjou.
I was so sorry to hear of Anne Reinking's death, a few days ago. I remember seeing several videos of her performance as Roxie, in the Broadway revision of Chicago. I'd never seen the 40's film, and found it on YouTube. Very enjoyable.
As are so many others, I'm being a hermit, today. That's a great opportunity to have fun with movies. I think that Monty Python's Life of Brian will be next. I have that on DVD, and it's been a couple of years since I've seen it.
Hoping that it's a peaceful, pleasant day for all!
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