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Post by tzarine on Sept 22, 2019 19:34:02 GMT 2
trentt love the big clock. ah, laughton! while the city sleeps - quasi not about a serial killer of young women & the journos covering him, rushing for the scoop. what a cast vincent price, ida lupino, rhonda fleming, dana andrews www.imdb.com/title/tt0049949/
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Post by slowcoach on Sept 22, 2019 21:02:56 GMT 2
Still trying to finish watching "Fury", also Fritz Lang but earlier (1936 maybe his first American film). I have a Jack Cardiff film (Cinematographer and Director) that I think I have never watched: "The Girl on a Motorcycle". It just happens to be on a tape the opens with "Hells Angels on Wheels" which so far as I have watched is pretty dreadful but it is great to watch Jack Nicholson in a rubbish film.
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Post by tzarine on Sept 24, 2019 5:35:57 GMT 2
love love love jack cardiff's work in black narcissus, the red shoes, a matter of life & death
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Post by tzarine on Oct 3, 2019 2:22:53 GMT 2
branded to kill seijun suzuki's stylish 60s tale of an assassin, the woman he loves, the phantom killer after him
great fun
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Post by tzarine on Nov 3, 2019 17:57:47 GMT 2
life of oharu
mizoguchi's look @ a woman life & struggle in feudal japan w the amazing kinuyo tanaka
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Post by sophie on Nov 3, 2019 18:46:47 GMT 2
Went to see Downton Abbey last night. Meh. Good visuals and costumes.
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Post by Netsuke on Nov 4, 2019 22:29:26 GMT 2
If you're looking for an easy on the eye, you don't have to think, feel-good movie, then this is the film for you - Holiday In The Wild.
Kate's son goes off to college, walks out the door and 15 seconds later husband says, I want a divorce! Then he walks out.
Kate goes to Zambia, Africa where she helps out in an elephant sanctuary and finds herself and a life.
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Post by Voy on Nov 5, 2019 0:07:43 GMT 2
If it comes near you, and you are of the liberal persuasion (with most of us Potters) try and see Rainin'Hell -- a documentary about Molly Ivins -the journalist who wrote the books, Molly Ivins can't say that, can she? And Shrub (about "W" Bush ) and others. She was a classmate of mine in college- and every bit as wonderful then-if not quite so perfected !
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Post by OnlyMark on Nov 5, 2019 6:56:46 GMT 2
Kate goes to Zambia, Africa where she helps out in an elephant sanctuary and finds herself and a life. I know quite well where the orphaned elephant thing happened as it is at place just to the south of Lusaka - Lilayi Elephant Nursery. I've been a few times with visitors. There is an NGO, Game Rangers International who run the place.
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Post by tzarine on Nov 7, 2019 19:08:34 GMT 2
jia zhangke's amazing the world about young migrants who work in a beijing theme park w the motto: “visit the world without leaving Beijing” hilarious & heartbreaking the relationship btwn tao & the russian dancer anna is so poignant www.dailymotion.com/video/xwyys5
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Post by trentt on Nov 26, 2019 0:03:06 GMT 2
I watched "Flower Drum Song" for the first time in my life. It's a 1961 film version of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Broadway musical, with Nancy Kwan (from "The World of Suzie Wong"), James Shigeta, Jack Soo (I recognized him as Sgt. Nick Yemana from "Barney Miller"), Miyoshi Umeki (Mrs. Livingston from "The Courtship of Eddie's Father"), and Juanita Hall (Bloody Mary from "South Pacific"). This will never make it in my top 10 favorite musicals, but there are some memorable songs, and some rather odd 1961-avant-garde dance numbers. It does evoke nostalgia for early 60s naive-cool, probably close to the tail end of an era when every woman's highest ambition was to snare a husband.
I also finally watched "The Last Picture Show" in its entirety. I tried watching it in my 20s and couldn't get into it. Now I realize how great it is. I found myself wondering why Cloris Leachman won an Oscar (she is only in a handful of scenes and in the first couple mainly sniffles and cries). That is, until her final scene, also the last scene of the film. The cast is incredible, the acting superb all around, the story is engrossing, the cinematography brilliant. Truly a great great film!
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Post by tzarine on Dec 10, 2019 19:40:26 GMT 2
trentt
just love flower drum song's kitschfest i love being a girl danced while clad in a towel!
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Post by Netsuke on Dec 10, 2019 21:18:43 GMT 2
I’ve watched both Flowerdrum Song and The Wonderful World of Susie Wong and love them both. HK has certainly changed since Suzie Wong was there!
Three Days of Christmas is an interesting film. Done in three episodes, it is about three sisters, each telling a story about their lives and each day set on Christmas Day. Very well done, you get quite involved with family, it’s as if you’re there with them.
I’ll watch it again.
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Post by trentt on Dec 29, 2019 20:47:00 GMT 2
I watched "The Magnificent Ambersons" yesterday, my first time watching the full movie. It stars Orson Welles cronies Joseph Cotten and Agnes Moorehead, as well as Anne Baxter. It's really good, tragic without being too mawkish. I guess Welles did not like the finished version, which was edited heavily at the studio's behest, but I think it's well worth watching.
I also saw "A Simple Favor", starring Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively. The plot is preposterous, but the acting is so good that it's easy to forgive its implausibility and just enjoy the ride. The music is brilliant, and I posted one new favorite in the Music of the Moment thread.
A few weeks ago I watched "Us", recommended by Scrubb some time ago. It is an enjoyable departure from the usual cliched horror film, often compared to "Get Out", though to me that seems a shallow comparison given that the only real commonality is that the main characters are black.
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Post by auntieannie on Dec 29, 2019 21:18:05 GMT 2
oh, I need to watch more films. I was wondering why you posted this old song, dear Trent!
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Post by Voy on Dec 30, 2019 2:33:41 GMT 2
has anyone seen Little Women yet? I might actually go to see a movie...
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Post by trentt on Dec 30, 2019 2:56:59 GMT 2
Yes. Margaret O'Brien will have you in tears.
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Post by Scrubb on Dec 30, 2019 5:59:09 GMT 2
I watched "The Magnificent Ambersons" yesterday, my first time watching the full movie. It stars Orson Welles cronies Joseph Cotten and Agnes Moorehead, as well as Anne Baxter. It's really good, tragic without being too mawkish. I guess Welles did not like the finished version, which was edited heavily at the studio's behest, but I think it's well worth watching. I read the book a couple years ago - think I'd like to see it. I'd have trouble watching Agnew Moorehead and not waiting to hear her call some one Derwood, though. Glad you liked "Us". Looking back at it, the last 1/3 or so was a bit weak. But the first part was really, really well done. Voy - I want to see LIttle Women. It's getting great reviews. I don't think I've ever watched a complete version, although maybe I did see the Katharine Hepburn one.
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Post by slowcoach on Dec 30, 2019 7:05:58 GMT 2
I find that it is a movie chronicling the lives of people I couldn't care less about and find to be extraordinarily dull.
Boring people living through interesting times and failing to engage with anything and ultimately with me.
I have never watched the end, it coming sometime after I lose the will.
I am a tremendous admirer of the magnificent self-publicist but unlike most I think his films got better.
This film, like his famous reference to cuckoo clocks, are wonderfully Welles but simply not for me.
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Post by trentt on Dec 30, 2019 15:28:08 GMT 2
Scrubb - the big reveal towards the end of "us" caught me by surprise!
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Post by tzarine on Dec 30, 2019 23:26:33 GMT 2
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Post by trentt on Dec 31, 2019 20:04:07 GMT 2
Gosh. The Ambersons have always spoken very highly of you, slowcoach.
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Post by pepecura on Jan 2, 2020 17:50:37 GMT 2
A very good movie, it think, however might be muchly disturbing for some.
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Post by tzarine on Jan 14, 2020 20:17:13 GMT 2
the bridge a 80s german anti war flick about a group of teen would be nazis in the waning days of the war.
heartbreaking powerful
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Post by Baz Faz on Jan 15, 2020 1:08:56 GMT 2
Guys and Dolls with Jean Simmons, Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra. Love the music. To be frank I saw the theatrical performance decades ago and preferred that. But the lyrics, the vitality, the upbeat ending can't be beat.
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Post by sophie on Jan 15, 2020 4:01:43 GMT 2
Shazam. It was on the tv when I had a few lazy hours this afternoon watching snowflakes. It is a bit of a adolescents film with the super hero idea but it is a great story about the need for a family, even if it’s not biological. Entertaining. And it helped pass a lazy afternoon.
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Post by slowcoach on Jan 15, 2020 6:33:02 GMT 2
I have just been watching the beginning section of Tampopo. A wonderfully universal film beautifully made.
With me, it is the pervading Buñuelian spirit that resonates, rather than the perhaps more spelt out satires.
And like his films, I don't need to consume it all in one sitting to enjoy, nor do I need to spot all the doubtless many references that I miss.
Somehow the whole is in each shot, which is to say little more than that it has an abundance of style.
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Post by trentt on Jan 20, 2020 17:29:44 GMT 2
I've been sick with a bad head cold for a week, so have spent hours in an easy chair binge=watching TV series and films. I've seen quite a few good flicks, but will start with 2 recommendations from 1949:
"Act of Violence": Van Heflin stars as a World War II veteran with a new family in post-war California. However, he is stalked by former comrade-in-arms Robert Ryan, bent on vengeance after Heflin betrayed him and several other men in a Nazi POW camp. Janet Leigh co-stars as Heflin's bewildered and beleaguered young wife, and the marvelous Mary Astor plays the barfly with a heart of gold. The tension builds quickly in this film and there's no relief until the bitter end. Superior dark thriller.
"The Hasty Heart": Set in a field hospital in Burma at the end of the war, Patricia Neal's task as ward matron is to coach a motley group of recovering wounded in an effort to befriend and comfort a surly Scotsman who is unaware that he has but a short time to live. Patricia Neal is wonderful in her role, and Ronald Reagan pushes his acting boundaries a bit in his role as the "Yank", but it is Richard Todd as the irascible, proud Scottish highlander who steals the show with his believable and affecting performance. This film should be compulsory watching for old movie buffs.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 12, 2020 0:31:58 GMT 2
love love love pat neal!
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Post by tzarine on Feb 19, 2020 10:10:17 GMT 2
nazi kitschfest boys from brazil marathon man
sir larry plays both sides & those accents!
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