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Post by Prime etc. on Aug 14, 2020 6:53:10 GMT
5 CARD STUD 1968
Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum, Roddy McDowall, Yaphet Kotto, Inger Stevens, Katherine Justice...It's Roddy McDowall's movie I think--I did not expect him to have this kind of role--a rough and tumble gunslinger who is so unpredictable--he jumps on Yaphet Kotto, has to be pulled off by Dean Martin who he then tries to beat with anything in reach--he wasn't even afraid of Robert Mitchum.
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Post by teleadm on Aug 14, 2020 17:28:54 GMT
5 CARD STUD 1968 Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum, Roddy McDowall, Yaphet Kotto, Inger Stevens, Katherine Justice...It's Roddy McDowall's movie I think--I did not expect him to have this kind of role--a rough and tumble gunslinger who is so unpredictable--he jumps on Yaphet Kotto, has to be pulled off by Dean Martin who he then tries to beat with anything in reach--he wasn't even afraid of Robert Mitchum. I read somewhere that having both Robert Mitchum and Dean Martin in the same movie would be like lightning the fuse to a bomb, and that it would be a long drinking feast. Apparently both behaved and kept in their trailers, maybe scared of old Henry Hathaway.
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Post by teleadm on Aug 14, 2020 20:55:58 GMT
The Star of Africa aka Der Stern von Afrika 1957 directed by Alfred Weideman. A bio about luftwaffe ace Joachim Marseilles, and as bio movies goes some adjustments to appeal to wider audiences has to be made, just like Hollywood did. After the mid 1950's West Germany begun to make movies about the days they came under Nazi rule. Marseilles was like a restless soul, didn't care about rules (think Tom Cruise in Top Gun). Always in trouble with authorities. Liked American Jazz Music. He also had the looks of a great Arian, favoured by the Nazis. With the Luftfaffe African korps he is said to have shot down 150 enemy airplanes, until he was killed in a freak parachute accident. It's interesting to see a movie about the other side, they didn't fight because they supported the Nazis, they were just enemies, and I though this was a good watch, something I didn't care much about is that subtitles were awful (some people always complain), but that was nothing I cared about.     The real Joachim Marseilles on the left, the black man on the right was "Mathias", who was a South African RAF POW, and since he was black could't be mixed with other clean white prisoners. He became a sort of wingman/servant to Marseilles, and they had a special bond (and marginally featured in the movie), he was freed in in 1944 by the British, and never heard of again. Until a monument was built for the German Afrika Korps in 1985, survivors thought it would't have complete wihtout "Mathias", and once again in 1989, then he disappeared again t
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Aug 15, 2020 12:09:16 GMT
Ocean's 8 (2018).  
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Post by kijii on Aug 15, 2020 14:28:11 GMT
In Cold Blood (1967) / Richard BrooksThough I had seen most of Richard Brooks' movies, this is the first time I have seen this one from beginning to end...Very engaging as Truman Capote's novel tells us about the killers from their point of view and how this all came to be..
This is one of those great wide-screen black and white movies from the 60s.
Perry : It's true! Really true! We're on our way and never coming back. Never! And no regrets.
Dick : For you. You're leaving nothing. What about my old man... and my mother? They'll still be there when my checks start bouncing.
Perry : It's nice the way you think about your folks.
Dick : Yeah! I'm a real thoughtful bastard.
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Post by Prime etc. on Aug 15, 2020 22:07:41 GMT
SAPS AT SEA 1940 Laurel and Hardy go on a boat to get a break from working in the horn factory.
There were many laughs. Been a long time since I watched it.
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Post by vegalyra on Aug 15, 2020 22:45:12 GMT
Un Flic (1972)   Pretty good Melville film (his last), and Delon is excellent as usual. The worst part about the film was the train heist and it's unnecessarily long shot of obvious bad model work. The good parts outweigh the bad, especially the opening heist of the bank. The tension just builds and builds. |
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Post by louise on Aug 16, 2020 13:14:16 GMT
Foul Play (1979). Quite amusing but overlong comedy thriller.  |
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Post by louise on Aug 16, 2020 15:13:07 GMT
Sam Whiskey (1969). Amusing comedy western. Wealthy widow Angie Dickinson hires Burt Reynolds, Ossie Davis, and Clint Walker to retrieve the gold bars stolen by her late husband from a sunken riverboat and return them to the Denver mint. Naturally there are others interested in the gold. Very entertaining. I enjoyed the novel idea that they are trying to get gold into the mint rather than out of it.  |
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Aug 17, 2020 11:23:06 GMT
Leave No Trace (2018).  
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Post by Prime etc. on Aug 18, 2020 6:04:20 GMT
THE MAN WHO HAUNTED HIMSELF 1970
First time I saw this, it was a riveting experience. I didn't know if they would really give the audience the pay off the story was heading towards but they did.
The most intense Roger Moore performance.
And he even references James Bond in the dialogue.
It's sort of like Jekyll and Hyde but less sinister.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 on Aug 18, 2020 10:46:23 GMT
What About Bob? (1991) 
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Post by kijii on Aug 18, 2020 13:31:58 GMT
Bite the Bullet (1975) / Richard BrooksThis movie has its moments, but overall it was not that satisfying. Here, Candice Bergen plays a prostitute and Gene Hackman and James Coburn play two former Rough Riders. They all participate in a unique horse race with high prize money for the winner. The race takes place in the American Southwest near the turn of the century and consists of racing horses 700 miles over 7 days. One might call it the "Iron Horse" contest if compared to the "Iron Man" contest.
Sam Clayton (Gene Hackman) : We came out of the jungle and there it was - San Juan Hill. The Spanish guns lookin' right down our throat, the sharpshooters pickin' us off and we just charged right up that hill!
[starts to ride off, but returns]
Miss Jones (Candice Bergen): I've been around a lot of cowhands, one way or another. A cowboy dresses from the top down. The first thing on is his hat. And he undresses from the bottom up. Last thing off... hat. Oh, and another thing - to be a cowpuncher, that don't mean you actually got to go around punching them, you know.
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Post by sostie on Aug 18, 2020 13:47:54 GMT
Desert Mice (1959)
A British entertainments troupe in North Africa during WWII end up foiling a Nazi plot. Not the pinnacle of British comedy but with a cast that includes the likes of Sid James and Irene Handl it was for me worth my time
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Post by teleadm on Aug 18, 2020 17:38:09 GMT
The Quiet Man 1952, directed by John Ford. Thought I should see a movie with Maureen O Hara since it was 100 years she was born, August 17th. Former boxer, who has killed a man in the ring, returns to his childhood's Ireland, falls in love with a red-headed young woman, intends to marry her, but her brother stands in the way. Forget realism, and enjoy a first-class fairy tale instead, with a mix of sentimentality, male chauvinism, fist-fighting, consuming of a lot of alcohol and tons of humour. Plus great and beautiful cinematography, even if some sets looks a bit artificial, they are beautifully lit. I hadn't seen it since sometime in the mid 1980s, so I had forgotten a lot of scenes.  
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Post by kijii on Aug 18, 2020 20:27:25 GMT
Alan Parker memorial watching schedule-Part 13 (The last of watching his complete feature films). Mississippi Burning (1988) / Alan ParkerIt seems as though I may have saved Parker's best film for last!! This film received seven Oscar nominations including one for Parker's direction; Gene Hackman for Best Actor in a Leading Role and Frances McDormand for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
In 1964, when two FBI agents come into Mississippi to investigate the murder of three civil rights workers--2 white students and a black man---they are faced with being the minority in a small racist town in the Jim Crow-era South where the pillars of the town could commit violence behind their KKK hoods at night without any problem. But, who are these people and how can be be caught and prosecuted for their crimes? The two FBI agents come from very different backgrounds: Ward (Willem Dafoe) is a very dorky Northern by-the-book agent while Anderson (Gene Hackman) was born was raised in Mississippi and knows more about how to deal with the situation they are facing.
This all leads to an intense real-life drama...
Mrs. Pell (Frances McDormand) : It's not good for you to be here.
Agent Anderson (Gene Hackman): Why?
Mrs. Pell : It's ugly. This whole thing is so ugly. Have you any idea what it's like to live with all this? People look at us and only see bigots and racists. Hatred isn't something you're born with. It gets taught. At school, they said segregation what's said in the Bible... Genesis 9, Verse 27. At 7 years of age, you get told it enough times, you believe it. You believe the hatred. You live it... you breathe it. You marry it.
Anderson (Gene Hackman): You know, if I were a Negro, I'd probably think the same way they do.
Ward (Willem Dafoe) : If you were a Negro, nobody would give a damn what you thought.
 
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Aug 18, 2020 21:41:34 GMT
Mary Shelley (2017).  
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Post by teleadm on Aug 19, 2020 6:45:18 GMT
What About Bob? (1991) Thanks, you gave me an idea, and I watched it too.
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Post by Prime etc. on Aug 19, 2020 9:12:06 GMT
THEODORA: SLAVE EMPRESS 1954 Gianna Maria Canale--I really need to pay closer attention to names and not get her confused with the guy from the Eastwood westerns.
She is really something else-and this early peplum has her winning a chariot race against the Emperor of Rome.
Irene Papas portrays her scheming sister. They worked together previously in a George Raft movie which I must seek out now.
WHY MUST I DIE? 1960 When I started this I did not know that it was going to end on Debra Paget's birthday. What a fitting movie too-I've never seen her like this. She is a safe cracker, commits armed robbery, two homicides (shoots a blind man in the back) and says mean things like: "Speed it up creep! I'd enjoy putting a bullet in your guts!"
She causes Terry Moore to end up on death row and Bert "I was Columbo first" Freed can't help her.
The final act is kind of implausible ridiculous but who cares. A must for Paget fans.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 on Aug 19, 2020 13:41:01 GMT
What About Bob? (1991) Thanks, you gave me an idea, and I watched it too. Glad I could inspire. I'd been really wanting to rewatch it for awhile now, glad I did. Both guys at the top of their games. 
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