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Post by teleadm on Feb 5, 2021 6:52:40 GMT
 Harlow 1965 directed by Gordon Douglas and based on a book by Irving Shulman and Arthur Landau (who was Jean Harlow's agent), and starring Carroll Baker, Red Buttons, Martin Balsam, Mike Connors, Angela Lansbury, Peter Lawford, Raf Valone, Leslie Nielsen and others. A so-called biopic about 1930's movie star Jean Harlow, the kind of old-fashioned biopic where facts are put aside and in this case make a very trashy and sleazy movie, that mostly have nothing to do with it's subject, and the few facts that actually happened seems more like they are "purely coincidental", as they used to write in the titles sequences in old movies. I knew what kind of movie this was going to be, I just wanted to see it by myself. It should be remembered that Jean Harlow's mother was still alive at the time when this movie was made, and maybe producer Joseph E. Levine didn't want to get any lawsuits on his hands. There are some good acting and some very nice vignettes buried in this movie.    
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Post by FilmFlaneur on Feb 5, 2021 16:28:09 GMT
Cent mille dollars au soleil/Greed in the Sun (1964) www.imdb.com/title/tt0056917/reference A poor man's Wages of Fear co-starring Jean-Paul Belamondo and Lino Ventura (one of my favourite French character actors) as two former friends in a chase for a valuable hi-jacked lorry and its load. Its action style reminds one of the work of J Lee Thompson, with plenty of truck driving through desert roads and an on-off buddy-buddy relationship. Great fun shot in an epic, widescreen black and white, even if the film ultimately proves how much better it is to travel hopefully than arrive. Goldfinger's Gert Frobe plays a sweaty, diabetic truck company owner.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 on Feb 5, 2021 18:06:34 GMT
Niagara (1953) Been watching so many Marilyn Monroe movies in black and white, it was a bit of a shock to see this one, in technicolor. Marilyn in a noirish role, very cool.  Also, the actor playing Ray Cutler (Max Showalter) looked so familiar. He plays one of Molly Ringwald's grandfathers in Sixteen Candles (1984).  
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Post by teleadm on Feb 5, 2021 19:20:14 GMT
Cent mille dollars au soleil/Greed in the Sun (1964) www.imdb.com/title/tt0056917/reference A poor man's Wages of Fear co-starring Jean-Paul Belamondo and Lino Ventura (one of my favourite French character actors) as two former friends in a chase for a valuable hi-jacked lorry and its load. Its action style reminds one of the work of J Lee Thompson, with plenty of truck driving through desert roads and an on-off buddy-buddy relationship. Great fun shot in an epic, widescreen black and white, even if film ultimately proves how much better it is to travel hopefully than arrive. Goldfinger's Gert Frobe plays a sweaty, diabetic truck company owner. Agree with Lino Ventura! hard to find with subtitles though...
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Post by teleadm on Feb 5, 2021 19:50:48 GMT
 ' Let Us Live 1939 directed by John Brahm and based on a real story, starring Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Sullivan and Ralph Bellamy. Henry Fonda once again finds himself on death row, but this time for a crime he did not commit, but hard to find evidence. Fonda is a taxi-driver who's car just happens to be in the wrong spots. His young wife, played by O'Sullivan, and a police detective who also had doubts, played by Ralph Bellamy, begins to search for evidence. It started as an ambitious movie by Columbia Pics, but when threat by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,maybe Harry Cohn got cold feet or got an "offer He couldn't resist", the budget was cut, many scenes were cut, and any mention of Massachusetts was cut out, though they left a clue, that the answer might be in New York, and it's only a 2 hour ride by car. It was in Lynn, Massachusetts. It's still a solid 68 minutes, with a great young Fonda, and some great at times expressionistic cinematography.  
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Post by persistenceofvision on Feb 5, 2021 20:52:19 GMT
Schalcken the Painter (1979 TVM)
There was an annual BBC tradition in the '70s that at Christmastime they would show an adaptation of a ghost/horror story, often adapted from a story by M.R. James. This one is based on a Sheridan LeFanu story about a Dutch apprentice painter whose master contracts his niece, whom the pupil loves, to a ghastly sunken-cheeked old suitor who might be the figure of Death incarnate... This was made on film, not video, and looks more cinematic than most of the low-budget theatrical features Britain was cranking out in the period, as each shot recreates the look of a seventeenth-century Old Dutch Master (it's recently been restored by the BFI). Chills, tragedy, black comedy, a bit of art history, and a great cameo from John Justin, once the handsome young hero of The Thief of Bagdad, as the demonic tempter.
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Post by FilmFlaneur on Feb 5, 2021 23:22:05 GMT
Cent mille dollars au soleil/Greed in the Sun (1964) www.imdb.com/title/tt0056917/reference A poor man's Wages of Fear co-starring Jean-Paul Belamondo and Lino Ventura (one of my favourite French character actors) as two former friends in a chase for a valuable hi-jacked lorry and its load. Its action style reminds one of the work of J Lee Thompson, with plenty of truck driving through desert roads and an on-off buddy-buddy relationship. Great fun shot in an epic, widescreen black and white, even if film ultimately proves how much better it is to travel hopefully than arrive. Goldfinger's Gert Frobe plays a sweaty, diabetic truck company owner. Agree with Lino Ventura! hard to find with subtitles though... http://www.worldscinema.org and www.rarefilm.net between them offer a huge selection of films including those with subs, free to download.
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Post by kijii on Feb 6, 2021 5:17:24 GMT
Camille Claudel (1988) / Bruno Nuytten
This 2h 55 min film features Gérard Depardieu (as Auguste Rodin) and Isabelle Adjani in the title role as Rodin's protégé, mistress and, perhaps, his muse too. This was Isabelle Adjani's second Oscar-nominated role as a real mad French woman; the other was for L'histoire d'Adèle H. in which she portrayed the psychotic daughter of Victor Hugo.
Camille Claudel (Isabelle Adjani): My little Paul, you came to see me in May... and I made you promise not to neglect me so terribly. Madhouses are made to inflict suffering. It can't be helped... especially if you never see anyone. They try to force me to sculpt here. They don't succeed, so they make trouble for me. Don't forget, Paul, your sister is in prison with madwomen. Mama wrote the doctor... that I mean to harm you. That I detest you and am out to hurt you. It's not true. I wish she would take me to Villeneuve with her. Do you think I enjoy spending months, years like this without any news or hope? Where does such ferocity come from? How did they manage to change you so? I'd really like to know. You might as well send me to Siberia. Did you take care of my things? Are they in Villeneuve? Be careful they don't fall into Rodin's hands. He's so afraid I might come back. That's why he's keeping me here, isn't it, Paul? I would like to go home and close the door tightly. I don't know if I'll be able to realize this dream to be home. Oh, God, I wish I were in Villeneuve. Your sister in exile.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Feb 6, 2021 14:15:10 GMT
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Feb 6, 2021 18:18:18 GMT
It Happens Every Spring with Ray Milland, fun Baseball movie
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Post by Rufus-T on Feb 6, 2021 18:33:11 GMT
Screamers (1995) - First movie I watched in about a month. This based on a Philip K. Dick short story Second Variety. I read the short story a while ago and loved it. It was as much a horror than a sci-fi about these bladed robots that ripped people apart. The movie did follow the original story very closely. Very strong movie for the most part despite the cheap look and a weak final segment.
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Post by HaveYourselfaMerryLittleAckbar on Feb 6, 2021 18:35:54 GMT
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Post by Salzmank on Feb 7, 2021 4:47:04 GMT
Watched The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974, dir. Joseph Sargent).  Absolute thriller classic, with a crackerjack script and a brilliant Robert Shaw performance (as usual). __________________________________________________ Watching The Rage of Paris (1938, dir. Henry Koster) right now.  Charming little romantic comedy. Some funny lines, especially from Helen Broderick, but the pace is a bit slow, and it’s not hilarious. But—Danielle Darrieux is adorable in it. She’s pretty and funny and cute throughout, and the flick is worth watching just for her. |
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Post by kijii on Feb 7, 2021 5:11:01 GMT
Emma. (2020) / Autumn de Wilde
Emma is no where near the story quality of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice or Sense and Sensibility. The plot is far too complicated for the story's eventual outcome. But, even then, I prefer the 1996 version with Gwyneth Paltrow.
I still can't get use to the overuse of computer-generated imagery of 21st century movies. I am always aware of the CGI and can't get it our of my mind while watching the movie. But, then that is another subject.
Mr. Woodhouse (Bill Nighy): Emma, you should not make matches, or foretell things. Whatever you say, always comes to pass! You must not make any more.
Emma Woodhouse (Anya Taylor-Joy) : I promise to make none for myself, Papa, but I must indeed for other people. 'Tis the greatest amusement in the world, and after such success you know...
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Post by persistenceofvision on Feb 7, 2021 5:43:46 GMT
Birdman - not sure it deserved all the plaudits and Oscars it got a few years ago, or to be in IMDb's top 250 (as I seem to remember it was), but I enjoyed it.
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 7, 2021 7:41:29 GMT
SEWERS OF GOLD 1979 - As a discussion of UK actors came up in another thread, here we have Ian McShane in a leading role--I had wondered why I saw so little of him before his Lovejoy years. In this he is leader of a bank robbery orchestrated by a gang of fascists. It's often humorous but they don't dwell on politics which allows the story to play out as a standard heist film--but with some amusing moments like when the career criminal assisting their plan cannot believe McShane intends to give away half of the money to a political cause. Here's a rare movie where the protagonists have a Hitler portrait in their headquarters and you are sympathetic to their leader's escape from custody!
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Feb 7, 2021 23:51:19 GMT
It Chapter Two (2019).  
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Post by kijii on Feb 8, 2021 5:17:26 GMT
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 on Feb 8, 2021 13:40:42 GMT
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 
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Post by teleadm on Feb 8, 2021 18:13:16 GMT
 Escape from New York 1981 directed by John Carpenter. So this is how they envisioned New York in 1997! I know a lot of people love this movie, but it just wasn't for me. Fun to have at last seen it though.
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