cigarjoe
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It's taking forever to load, lol.
It would be better in list form without the posters. But looking at some of the titles I'd agree with sewhite2000.
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8 hours ago, NickAndNora34 said:
MULHOLLAND DRIVE (2001) *Score: 5/10*
Starring: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Ann Miller, Dan Hedaya, Brent Briscoe, Robert Forster, Katharine Towne, Lee Grant, Scott Coffey, BILLY RAY CYRUS.
I watched this for the first time over the weekend, and let me just say: it's overrated. All the reviews I read saying it was a "masterpiece" and "an amazing piece of art" are simply ludicrous. I will say that I managed to watch the whole thing, so it was entertaining enough, to say the least. The acting was okay, but that's all I can say. Ann Miller annoyed me to no end in this, so thank God her scenes were few and far between (I liked her in things from the 30s-50s, but this just wasn't it for me). The story and concept were interesting, but I just don't like this movie. It's also not one that I would purchase and keep in my collection.
It takes a couple of viewings sometimes to click with some films.
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Go to profile, hit cover photo button (top right screen), find a photo and upload it, the only problem you may encounter is maybe the size of the file you are trying to upload. They usually want postage stamp size (and shape) images. If you pick too big a file it wont load it or something like a wide screen image probably wont load.
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With Ahn we'd get a two fer, SOTM and he was the bad guy in Tiki Film Noir Hell's Half Acre, and he's also in other Noir's Impact, Macao, and Hong Kong Confidential.
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9 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
To me a more realist (more noir) ending is having Skip pick-pocket the wallet of someone while leaving the police station and then taking Candy out on the town.
and then become Candy's pimp.
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9 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
PS: I wondered if the ending was such because the studio wanted to show Widmark in a better light; I.e. Not have him be such a 'bad' type of character, BUT, his next film was No Way Out, so forget about that!!!
It could be a dictate from the MPPC that it look like he and Candy were going straight. But a real Noir ending would be Skip gives up pickpocketing and now becomes Candy's pimp. 😎
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20 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
Sewhite's post was 10 hours ago. Yours was 7 hours ago.
You're right I missed it, my bad. Apologies to Sewwhite
That's the correct way to respond when your wrong.....
Now if I was a Twump Reped-lick-can I say it was fake news....
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I did mention Ahn before either of you
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Gabby Rodgers - Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Joanne Whalley (gun in handbag) - Kill Me Again (1989)
Teresa Russell in Impulse (1990)
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I don't know if I'd call Carmen Miranda. Ricardo Montalban, Fernando Lamas, Dolores Del Rio, Cesar Romero
and Lupe Velez non Caucasian.Anyway these below....
Pedro Armendariz - 128 credits
Philip Ahn - 186 credits
Isabella Rossellini - 87 credits
James Hong - 443 credits
Victor Wong - 38 credits
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18 minutes ago, misswonderly3 said:
Yes ! I enjoy that scene so much. How 'bout the way Lightning Louie keeps eatign his Chinese food, very methodically ,doesn't even look at Candy. Nor does he look at his food, come to think of it -- he's just staring straight ahead. This guy has only one scene, and it's only about 5 minutes at that, and yet you remember him. I love the way he's eating with chopsticks, and twice (twice ! it's even funnier the second time), he asks /demands more money from Candy for the information he's about to give her, and when she indignantly slaps the cash on the table, he picks the bills up with his chopsticks and neatly tucks them into his pocket. All with the chopsticks.
This is the kind of "actor's business" that I referred to before...did Fuller direct the actor to do that,, or did he (Vic Perry) himself think of picking up those bills with his chopsticks like that ? Either way, there's something about that scene that is hugely entertaining.
Here 'tis:
And after both times picking up the germy money he continues to eat with the same chopsticks.
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Love the Chinese restaurant Lightnin' Louie sequence. Vic Perry (Lightning Louie). Perry was a real pick-pocket and was a technical adviser on that aspect of the movie.)
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Re: Pickup On South Street.
My, my what they could slip past the square johns....
Skip: Hows the wip?
Detective Winoki: Always in the pink.
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Not an expression but interesting anyway. Watching Pickup On South Street notice that Thelma Ritter wets her pencil every time she writes a name down. Any body know why? Did pencils have to be I guess you could call it "Charged" with saliva at one time to get them to write better?
And here is a good risque expression from the same film;
Skip: Hows the whip? Cop: Always in the pink.
My my what they could put over on the square johns.....
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2 hours ago, rosebette said:
Satan Met a Lady (1936) - I watched this because it's one of the first "takes" on The Maltese Falcon. In its own way, it's very entertaining, with Warren William as the wolfish and witty detective, Bette Davis as the femme fatale, and Alison Skipworth as Sidney Greenstreet (!), and Arthur Treacher as Peter Lorre. Ok, it sounds implausible, but played strictly for laughs most of the time. More of a whodunit with an unmarried and lower brow Nick Charles than anything that's faithful to Hammett's original intentions, but worth 77 minutes viewing.
If I remember right, Satan Met A Lady is the only film version of The Maltese Falcon (book) that shows/covers the burning of the cargo ship that the falcon arrived on.
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1 hour ago, kingrat said:
That light over the circular sofa looks like a spaceship. Thanks for posting this picture. It's great.
Isn't that the spaceship house from Body Double? 😎
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11 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
the longer cut of Lynch's Dune
That one, never saw the mini series
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7 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
Foxy Brown,
I think that's the only other early Pam Grier film I've seen.
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7 hours ago, TikiSoo said:
That's all I need to hear (plus recent Elaine May interviews about it)....calling the library now-
I saw both versions, liked the longer version mostly because there was more Dune.
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Coffy (1973) Blaxploitation
Pam Grier is out for vengeance and after the pushers who got her little sister hooked on heroin. Groundbreaking with a strong female lead. Of course it has healthy doses the T&A that made America great. Noticed Sig Haig from Jackie Brown, and House of 1000 Corpses, and actress Linda Haynes who played Gretchen in The Drowning Pool as part of the cast also. 7/10
Source TCM
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On 6/9/2019 at 8:18 AM, TikiSoo said:
Looks about 3 inches tall, not so scary.
It's an ankle biter.
I Just Watched...
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What?
Where are your reviews for:
Flesh and Lace (1965)
Hot Skin And Cold Cash (1965)
Love Statue (The)(1965)
Tell Me in the Sunlight (1965)
Did I miss these?