Hibi
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Yes, much better! It was creepy looking in the film. LOL.
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5 minutes ago, filmnoirguy said:
The billing was: Olivia de Havilland in Daphne du Maurier's "My Cousin Rachel"
with Richard Burton (below the tile) which, back in the day, automatically put him in the Supporting Category by the Academy.
I thought it depended on what category (pushed by the studios) the voters voted for them in?
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5 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
I was ambivalent towards DAVID LYNCH until I recently watched BLUE VELVET, which I liked very much and have taken a great deal of amusement from the fact that I work right around the corner from the Diner and Isabella Rosselini's apartment building.
I'm fine with CARNIVAL OF SOULS, I've seen it straight and with commentary from RIFFTRAX, which I did find amusing although they were too hard on the film because it's not a bad movie at all.
ROB ZOMBIE also p!sses me off.
Are you kidding??? FAR OUT!!! Is the building an actual apt bldg?
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39 minutes ago, Det Jim McLeod said:
I liked this one. Although filmed in 1978, it wasn't released in the US until 1988, 4 years after Burton's death. That's when I first saw it.
It was written by Anthony Shaffer, the author of Sleuth, so there are some twists and shocks in it.
Burton gives a fine performance here as the priest who is deceived by a disturbed student in a boys school.
I've never heard of this one!
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1 hour ago, Mr. Gorman said:
I've seen a few Burton movies that are from his later years.
WILD GEESE, The (1978-UK) is pretty good. Stewart Granger is a double-crossing muthafocka in this action pic!
ABSOLUTION (1978-UK) was a decent movie. LIES! Filthy stinking LIES!
I've already mentioned THE MEDUSA TOUCH (1978-UK) but I'll mention it again: Don't pysse (sic) off a telekinetic Burton! You'll Pay!
HAMMERSMITH IS OUT (1972) is worth watching once, I think, just to check it out. Burton is a crazy mental patient in this one. With Miss Liz, Beau Bridges and Peter Ustinov.
CIRCLE OF TWO (1980-Canadian) is ok. Considering the plot of the movie it could a very exploitive film, but it's not. You see Tatum topless for a couple of seconds and then Burton insists she get dressed. That's it for 'exploitation elements'. There's 2 versions of this movie; each version has different footage not seen in the other; one version is not simply a 'cut' version of the other. The music score is different, too, plus the ending is different in both.
BRIEF ENCOUNTER (1974-UK Tvm). I've yet to read a positive review of this Sophia Loren/Richard Burton remake of the '45 film, but it's the only movie I can think of where the word "furtive" is used! So that's gotta count for something, right? Heck, even the U.S. Magnetic Video Corporation VHS release makes use of the word "furtive" on its plot summary. Sophia Loren says later in the movie how her relationship has grown "dirty" and "furtive"! 😲 (Say it ain't so . . . but 'tis).
→ So remember everyone: Don't let the word 'F-U-R-T-I-V-E' end up in the scrap heap of history! Use it in a sentence today! You'll be glad you did! 🤪
I've always wanted to see Hammersmith Is Out! I think it was independently produced and there are probably legal issues. Liz as a bleach blonde hash slinging waitress am sure is something to see!
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images.webp Hope everyone enjoyed my film, Hollow Triumph. Wasn't I good???
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36 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
it was veryverymuch like a waterslide. i don't think any of those roads through the hills have gutters or storm drains.
edit: like a waterslide that had been coated in motor oil.
Yuck.
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11 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
it was veryverymuch like a waterslide. i don't think any of those roads through the hills have gutters or storm drains.
Wow.
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I will have to disagree with you there.
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14 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
I was in a torrential rain one time in Los Angeles, and I was driving down Beverly Glen Boulevard which is one of those serpentine mountain roads. It was absolutely terrifying.
I can imagine!
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10 hours ago, Swithin said:
Re: Becket, maybe this falls into the politically correct/woke category. Although we don't expect these quasi-historical films to be accurate, making Becket a Saxon in the play and then film was outrageous, and was probably a mistake from Jean Anouilh. Becket was a Norman. If anything, Henry II was partly Saxon, through his material grandmother (Margaret of Wessex). Making Becket a Saxon sets up the whole class consciousness thing that informs some of the movie, so it's just too wrong. (But it is a great movie, and both leads would have been better choices for the Academy Award for Best Actor than the winner that year (possibly the worst Best Actor choice in Oscar history, considering the four other nominees)!
You think Rex Harrison is the worst best actor choice in history?????
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18 hours ago, nakano said:
Equus showing tonight,there is some tough scenes with horses in it.The movie was entirely filmed in Ontario Canada a US-UK Production though.I always liked and remebered Sidney Lumet line about his problems with the film he said ' The producers wanted a happier ending so we changed it so that Equus wins the Kentucky Derby' but they refused this one...🙂
Too bad they showed it in the middle of the night. He should've won the Oscar for that. Academy didn't like him, I guess. Not even an honorary one.
I guess due to nudity
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2 minutes ago, Fausterlitz said:
Oddly enough, he has much more screen time than she does--40 minutes more, according to the article below. He's onscreen 85% of the time! This makes it the second-longest performance ever nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar: 1 hour, 23 minutes, and 57 seconds. (The longest in absolute terms is Frank Finlay as Iago in the 1965 film version of Shakespeare's Othello, although Finlay is only onscreen 55% of the time [1:30:43], since the film itself is so much longer. )
WOW. What made them pitch him as supporting? Was the Best Actor category crowded that year? (He lost anyway!)
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9 minutes ago, 37kitties said:
Many movies aren't - but few that take themselves as seriously as this one seems to are this reachy.
Whatever. You have your opinion. I have mine!
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31 minutes ago, 37kitties said:
I didn't buy the premise. An absolutely identical copy of a man - including the voice, just by happenstance? And long-time associates don't catch it?Not believable.
Many noirs aren't when you examine them.
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45 minutes ago, laffite said:
...in the rain
I've always wondered why its always raining torrentially in films (even in LA!) I read recently it's because rain doesn't show up well on film so the rain machines are turned on full blast.
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41 minutes ago, filmnoirguy said:
Yes, with the exception of 1964's The Night of the Iguana and probably his best ever performance as George in 1966's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ( He was robbed of the Oscar for that one!) My Cousin Rachel was his first American movie and he received a Supporting Oscar nod, although it seems he does have as much screen time as Olivia de Havilland.
Agree with all your points.
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11 minutes ago, nakano said:
I think Beckett was produced by Hal Wallis (Elvis complained that Wallis was using the profits from his Presley movies to make good serious films ! ) I noticed a lot of Hal Wallis movies ,the ones he did as an independent are not shown or very rarely on TCM
Because they were released through Paramount (after he left Warners in the mid 40s)
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40 minutes ago, Peebs said:
They are doing something similar for Robert Redford's day, showing A Bridge Too Far . The movie is almost three hours long and Redford has a pretty small, if memorable, part.
YUP!
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21 hours ago, laffite said:
...though probably not many singing.
Singing with joy?
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15 minutes ago, lydecker said:
I would have loved to have seen some of his early British and early Fox films (My Cousin Rachel, etc.) Most of the post Cleopatra stuff is trash.
Agree.
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Cheap way to fill up space (Longest Day) and I agree. You'll find this a lot in SOTM picks. I remember one year on Lillian Gish day they ran Intolerance where she's in it maybe 5 mins, but it did fill up a long running time slot. I think Becket is a Paramount film which would be more expensive to show.
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17 hours ago, laffite said:
Hollow Triumph is a hollow triumph in itself, if it be a triumph at all. For Noir fans only, who are so wedded to their taste that anything can be counted as good. The cast is a strong asset, if there be any. If Paul Henried is not a saving grace, then Joan Bennett surely must be. The ending reminded me of Algiers. That John Muller (no relation, I knew he would say that) is not recognized straightaway by anyone is perfectly ridiculous. But wait, this is noir, it's okay. I slogged my way through it, only because it was Noir Alley. Eddie (that other Muller) was excruciatingly boring, for movie historians only. Don't blink, you might miss the murder.
Couldn't disagree more. I think the film is a gem. And the fact people don't recognize the scar (the cleaning lady is confused) is the films comment on how people don't really pick up on details.......I thought Joan was great in this. Very realistic portrayal of a woman who's seen it all.
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11 hours ago, Moe Howard said:
Well I liked it. So I salute all the disgruntled with a super gulp size Bronx cheer.
From Eddie's pre bumper I mistakenly assumed it was the brother that was the real shrink. THAT would have worked a little better with the look alike angle. Twins rather than some random doppelgänger.
Whatever though. I like Joan Bennet, she gets extra credit for The Woman in the Window, which is excellent. And Hollow Triumph gets points for the Fotomat screw-up. Nice touch!
Yes, the first time I watched it, I thought it was his twin at first, until the brother showed up. I think it would've worked better with that scenario. It reminds me of Bette Davis' Dead Ringer and A Stolen Life where the one twin assumes the identity of the other one, not realizing what secrets that twin had that might show up later to haunt her.
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Love the fountain! Does it run year round or do they turn it off during the coldest months?