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On 11/15/2019 at 6:23 PM, Susan Hopkins said:
I was watching the election episode of Blackadder the Third and I noticed the joke that when the "Standing at the Back, Dressed Stupidly and Looking Stupid Party" guy is explaining their policies, apart from the abolition of slavery punchline, he DOESN'T qualify that "free corsets for the under-fives" means little girls. Heh Heh Heh! Ha Ha Ha!
It's been a long time since I've seen Blackadder, (back when it was on CBC which I could pick up when I was living in Montana) even had to look up which era the Third covered. lol.
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Nice intro and outro for The Hitch-Hiker, thanks Eddie.
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Well some bonus gifs as a gift for all you Aficio-Noir-dos and Noir-istas....
I was able to visit what's left of...
...otherwise know as Honolulu's Chinatown and can report that there are still some fragment's of Noir alive and well for those adventurous enough to explore it after dark.
Here is the Sin Lounge
And The Hubba Hubba Club
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I was half-a$$ed watching it and I did see him.
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17 hours ago, CinemaInternational said:
No, I haven't actually! I think its in one of the Columbia Noir sets so I should see if I can get around to it sometime. (ditto some of her other early titles, as I only saw one she was in in the 50s)
The Bancroft films I have seen are:
Don't Bother to Knock (1952)
The Miracle Worker (1962)
The Pumpkin Eater (1964)
The Slender Thread (1965)
The Graduate (1967)
The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
Silent Movie (1976) [cameo]
The Turning Point (1977)
Fatso (1980)
The Elephant Man (1980)
To Be or Not To Be (1983)
Garbo Talks (1984)
Agnes of God (1985)
84 Charing Cross Road (1987)
Honeymoon in Vegas (1992) [cameo]
How to Make an American Quilt (1995)Check her out in another Noir New York Confidential (1955) with Broderick Crawford and Richard Conte.
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The Fat Black Pussycat (1963) New York Beat/Quasi Transitional Noir
This film is a mess. It may be Noir by meddling. It's hard to tell it's original intent as is.Directed by Harold Lea. Written by Harold Lea, and M.A. Ripps. Cinematography was by Urs Furrer, Music was by Don Bader and Harry Glass
Supposedly Michael Ripps who took a turkey called Bayou (1957) and with added exploitation scenes turned it into a hit called Poor White Trash (1960). expected to do the same here. It didn't quite work with this one. Though the added scenes are interesting.Things get a bit confusing as we go along. There is a black cat side bar with a wacko theory that the cat picks up on the brainwaves of dying people. Gruesome inserts and plot changes are evident and even our films star disappears for the final denouement.
The film stars Frank Jamus (Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)) as Detective David Walsh. Janet Damon as Janet., Patricia McNair as Mitch, Wavy Gravy as the Assistant Detective, Lynn Gregory as Susie with Hyman Augenstein, Jeffrey Bond, Manny Dworman, Hector Elizondo, Fiore, Leonard and future star Geoffrey Lewis pops up a few times.
Garbage cans. An alley. A naked woman crawls on her belly across the pave into the frame. She stops. She's dead. A black cat approaches and jumps over the woman.
It's very impressive. It starts off gangbusters. You think you are in for a treat. Nahhhh!
Then the real movie kicks in.
The plot weaves about we meet various beats, nut jobs, loft artists. I'm surprised Moondog doesn't show up at one point. One particular artist works in a pair of fuzzy slippers. More beatniks die, lots sequences of talking head police officials bog things down, and there is a paucity of what usually redeems these low budgets archival footage of New York City and particular Greenwich Village. I'll give it some credit it does show some music acts and cafe interiors.
The inserts are great, the rest of the film no, though one high lite is a sequence in a cafe where beatnik poets are reading poetry to cafe patrons. A drummer hits a cymbal or beats out sort of punctuation's at the end of various lines. Wavy Gravy is pressured up on stage. He looks at loss for words until he pats down his jacket and pulls a piece of paper out of his jacket. It's some kind of parking regulation He adds "man" to the end of each regulation.
Wavy Gravy: Parking in a hospital zone is strictly prohibited. Man. [cymbal] Crossing the white line is punishable by a fifteen dollar fine... Man. [drum beat]...
Later he's surrounded at the bar by fans
Woman: Hey baby I dig it. Your zones are groovy.... like the hospital zone... and the white line...
It's chuckle inducing.
Wavy Gravy real name was Hugh Romney. He was born in the Hudson Valley in East Greenbush, New York in 1936. He's a genuine beatnik. In 1958, he began reading poetry regularly at The Gaslight Cafe in The Village in Manhattan. He knew Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, Dave Van Ronk and the Hudson Dusters, etc., etc.
Then comedian Lenny Bruce becomes his manager and brings Romney to California in 1962. There he gets into the beginnings of the Hog Farm commune, He also later became the manager of "Tiptoe through the Tulips" singer/ukulele player, Tiny Tim. Gravy was also at the original Woodstock Festival with the Hog Farm collective helping to set it up in 1969.
Another Quasi Transitional Noir with some sputters of brilliant inserts, but minimal archival location footage. It does have some value depicting the late beat scene in the 60s and it's music taste variations Available from Something Weird Video. Full review with some screen caps in Film Noir/Gangster Pages. 5/10
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19 hours ago, NipkowDisc said:
much better than the 1962 film. Scorsese has never gotten the credit he deserves for this superior remake.
Horse Poop, the remake is sub par.
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51 minutes ago, sewhite2000 said:
an early example of woke culture
explain "woke culture" never heard of it.
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6 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
So obviously you favor long titles.
on those obviously.
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The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?
And quite a few of Lina Wertmullers Italian titles...
Overwhelmed by an unusual destiny in the blue sea of August (original title) aka Swept Away (1974)Film of love and anarchy, or 'this morning at 10 in via dei Fiori in the famous house of tolerance ...' aka Love and Anarchy (1973)
The end of the world in our usual bed on a rainy night aka A Night Full of Rain (1978)
Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil (1986) they used the direct translation.
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22 hours ago, misswonderly3 said:
What ? Where are all the Noir Alley fans today?
I'm on Oahu the last week or so, and out of the loop. Though I have some great images of whats left of "Hell's Half Acre" that I'll share with Noir Alley fan's when I get back. 😎
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On 11/6/2019 at 9:55 PM, TomJH said:
I just saw Lawman for the first time, and quite enjoyed it, though the ending left me a little flat. I was pleased that Robert Ryan had the opportunity to play a role with some complexity, his performance here reminding me of the depth he had brought to his character in The Wild Bunch two years before. I would agree that The Professionals is probably by favourite Lancaster western.
Besides The Professionals my favorite Lancaster Westerns are Lawman and Ulzana's Raid
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1 minute ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
Yeah, the makers didn't figure in how the malaise of the 70's; cocaine in the 80's; and prescription opiods and internet p*rn from 2000 onwards would set back the progress of technology.
(personally, i think it's kind of for the best)
Yea otherwise this.....
Twump Luna Lago could be a reality
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12 hours ago, John Louis Gerdes said:
Please, do let me know if I missed any great ones!
Sergio Leone
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11 hours ago, misswonderly3 said:
but I've often thought of starting a thread titled "Noir Comedies" or something like that. I actually maintain that a lot of noirs are funny, or at least have a lot of comedic elements to them.
There are some for sure I call them the Screwball Noirs...
A small sub genre of Noir, Manhandled (1949) Deadline at Dawn (1946), His Kind of Woman (1951), Shack Out On 101 (1955), and even Lady In The Lake (1946), has some of this quality, there are probably a few others lurking in the Classic Noirs. Neo Noir contenders are Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), Seven Beauties (1977), The Late Show (1977) After Hours (1985), Down By Law (1986), Delicatessen (1991) and The Big Lebowski (1998).
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52 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
I’m not sure if anyone else has mentioned this, but “blade runner” (1982?) is actually set in November 2019, so it’s supposed to be happening now.
(Oogie boogie)
Yea they should have went with 3019 like 2001 A Space Odyssey should have went with 3001.
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A note from a friend who attended:
"I walked up to the Balasco box-office at 3pm to buy tickets for the 7pm show and had no trouble scoring Orchestra center seats 9 rows from the screen. I thought, huh, there must not be much demand. When I returned at 6:30 there was a line stretching down the block and a woman circulating telling everyone the show was a sell-out. One guy in line asked the woman if she could give a quick review. She said, "You kiddin'? It's Maaa-tee!" "That's the review?" "Yeah. Two words."
Inside there were people moving about with some kind of newspaper parody with the headline: "Where Is Hoffa?" Apparently these were available downstairs next to the concessions and toilets. I went down and the place was all promo'd up: there were 4 phony phone booths and two phony newspaper dispensers. You opened the dispensers and pulled out a copy of The Irishman Daily, an 8-page edition claiming to be from August 1, 1975. In addition to "articles" and "ads" that tied in to the events of the movie, but there were also what appears to be actual pieces from back in the day: a story that Billy Martin was coming to manage the Yankees, a notice that the MTA would be raising fares to 50 cents, an announcement that Springsteen's new album Born To Run would be released Aug. 25. Good fun.
The phony phone booths were set up with a video screen. When you stepped into the booth and lifted the receiver you heard dialog from the film while images of the movie played. People were posing in the booths while their friends snapped pictures--losers, every one. On a table there were 5 different 2-sided lobby cards available to cadge. Hey, all this extra promo material and the tickets were the standard NYC $15!
I tapped my radiator (before a 3 and half hour movie, natch) and headed back to my seat. A good thing as there was no intermission. There were two trailers and then they got right into it. Three-and-a-half hours later we finally got to the opening credits. The lights came up and I turned to a red-eyed Mrs. Jenkins and said, "That was a loooooong film, eh?" She did not reply. We staggered out of the theater and found ourselves back on 44th and 6th Ave. It was only 4 blocks to Grand Central Terminal. There was an express waiting when we arrived. We were home before midnight, and we were exhausted."
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14 hours ago, lavenderblue19 said:
Do you guys think Falco dies in the end or beaten up badly but survives, I'd appreciate some opinions, thanks.
I'll go with beaten up badly.
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MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN (2019) Wow very impressive Neo Retro Noir along the lines of Chinatown, but set in NYC. Great Cast also, highly recommend for Noir Lovers. With a great cast too boot. 9/10
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Just a heads up for Film Noir fans. Motherless Brooklyn (2019) Wow very impressive Neo Retro Noir along the lines of Chinatown, but set in NYC. Highly recommend for Noir Lovers. With a great cast too boot. 9/10
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MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN (2019) Wow very impressive Neo Retro Noir along the lines of Chinatown, but set in 1950s NYC. Highly recommend for Noir Lovers. With a great cast too boot. 9/10
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21 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
Hard for me to pick which Payne noir I like more Kansas City Confidential or 99 River Street, since both are fine, well made films.
Not for me I like The Crooked Way (1949) better than both of them.
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16 hours ago, speedracer5 said:
Was that The Rat Race ?
Robert Mulligan's The Rat Race (1960) was about taxi dancer Debbie Reynolds and musician Tony Curtis with the villian being Don Rickles. It almost plays like a noir comedy.
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It was 70 yesterday 43 last night, 64 today but going down to 33 tonight first time this year.
Best Films of 1970
in General Discussions
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(The) Ballad of Cable Hogue
Soldier Blue
Five Easy Pieces
Barquero
The Honeymoon Killers
Little Big Man
Two Mules for Sister Sara
El topo
Mash
El Condor
Companeros
Darker Than Amber