feaito
-
Posts
4,187 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Posts posted by feaito
-
-
Clue # 10: A period film
-
...and Blithe Spirit, Brief Encounter, Passport To Pimlico, Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Mouse That Roared, Ladykillers...british films are excellent
-
Agree with you Path "Diaboliques" is magnificent movie...dark, atmospheric, with great performances by Simone Signoret, so beautiful when young and Vera Clouzot... Of higher quelity than the remake done in the 1990's
-
The plot sounds just amazingly entertaining classicstarlets...thanks for sharing!... I love ZaSu Pitts too...I agree with you that TCM should borrow this gems from Paramount....well, from Universal, who owns the rights for most of Paramount's '30s films...
-
Nope Mongo...thanks for keep playing
Clue # 9: A Trial
-
I absolutely recommend most of the french films from the 1930's and 1940's...Renoir's "La Grande Illusion" (with Jean Gabin, Erich Von Stroheim) (1937), remarkable....Marcel Carn?'s? "Hotel Du Nord" and "Le Quai des Brumes"..."Les Enfants du Paradis", .... 1936's "Mayerling" starring Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux.....1936's "Pepe le Moko" with Jean Gabin and Mireille Balin....Gabin's 1938 "la Bete Humaine".... 1939's "La Jour se Leve"...1935's "La Bandera"...there are great french stars from this period, Arletty, Michele Morgan, Simone Simon, Pierre Fresnay, Josette Day, Annabella, Jean Marais, Micheline Presle, etc...
-
BTW..talkinga 'bout "Queenie" Oberon....did you guys liked her (unofficial) TV biopic "Queenie" starring Mia Sara?...I remember watching it....all right with me...maybe too romanticized?...wasn't Kirk Douglas the one who played the Alexander Korda character?
-
Joan Crawford
-
Path don't feel sorry... I Do have a sort of "taste" for foreign, european and oriental films....but some of them seem unbearable for me...just as some american ones (i.e.: Cronenberg is great, but "Crash"...I utterly disliked it)....I also got bored and couldn't stand "8 1/2"....I dislike Ermano Olmi's films....find them long and boring...Kieslowski's trilogy; White, Blue and Red is OK....but not awesome IMHO...on the other hand try Jacques Tati comedies, Mon Oncle and Monsieur Hulot on Vacation?....Try cocteau's Beuty and the beast...wonderful...Erich Rohmer has some fine stuff too...i.e: Le duc et l'anglaise....De Sica, Herzog, Fassbinder, all of them have some worthwhile stuff......1900, Death In Venice (you'd love the music M.L.), Garden of the Finzi Continis, all mentioned below...
-
No
Clue # 8: A "Just in time" shooting of the vengeful woman
-
Thanks for the feedback MovieJ...I've read a lot about G & Fred, but never seen it...
Talking about excellent movies...I also recommend "Lady Jane" (1985) and "Shadowlands" (1993)....
-
Thanks for answering ML.
Friendly Persuasion....a great film, I loved it...with Gary Cooper and D. McGuire... a very young Tony Perkins was in it too....
I've always been intrigued about Mitzi Green...she had a short period of child-stardom...I'd love to see her acting in a movie....she was in early versions of both "Tom Sawyer" and "Huck' Finn" with Jackie Coogan...and in "Skippy" with Jackie Cooper and Robert Coogan (Jackie's brother)....I'd love to watch this early Paramount stuff.....
-
You're right M.L. La strada's music is great...and Masina's performance as Gelsomina heart-wrenching...
I haven't seen Amarcord...the Fellini films I'd like to watch are "Satyricon" and "Juliet of the Spirits"...
Sweet Charity, is based upon a story that had been filmed previously by Fellini, called "Le Notte Di Cabiria" (Nights of Cabiria) in which Giulietta Masina, the director's wife, plays a prostitute (basically the equivalent character of Shirley MacLaine's musical version or Broadway adaptation of the story)....Critics say that this film is excellent...never seen it...it's available in the market.
Ginger and Fred is another film of him I'd like to watch.
-
Maybe M.L. or childstarlets can tell us what was of Mitzi Green, one of Paramount's early 30's child stars...I'd be delighted to know more info about her...
Are you also fans of the young Mary Brian ...when she acted in silents in the 1920's (Peter Pan et al)... well she debuted when she was 17 or 18 years old, but anyway she played Wendy opposite Betty Bronson's "Pan"....another fave of mine... although I haven't had the oppurtunity to watch most of her films.... Mary Brian turned into a lovely leading lady, throughout the 1930s, and looked as beautiful as Frances Dee was...thier had similar looks IMHO
-
sorry: "and" vengeance
-
Nope
Clue # 7: A Woman with her heart & soul full of hatred an vengeance
-
Try Fellini's "8 1/2"...it's even more "sophisticated"....
I like better his older films like "La Strada" with Giulietta Masina and Tony Quinn...or "Il Bidone"....
I like Italian neorrealism too: Rossellini, De Sica..."Bicycle Thief", "Shoeshine", "Ossessione".....
One movie I never liked was the 1966 "Blow-Up"...ahh, and the 1968 "Boom!"...
I'm gonna stick to older classics....although there are some awesome european films from the 1960's and 1970's like Bertolucci's "1900" (hated his "Last Tango..") De Sica's "Garden of the Finzi Continis", Visconti's "Death in Venice", Herzog's "Aguirre the Wrath of God"...
-
I'd never would have guessed...
-
I agree completely with you..his style of acting was subtle, understated, not the sort of overblown or theatrical styles other actors had...if Gary Cooper (similar screen personae) became such a big star, McCrea, should had became, just the same....Frances Dee, such a pretty face....They had a beautiful, low-profile, marriage & lives....admirable...
I'm waiting for Criterion to release "The Palm Beach Story" on dvd...If they released "Sullivan's Travels", a gem, why not "The Palm...."????
BTW he was good too as Buffalo Bill with Maureen O'Hara in glorious technicolor...Although my fave Buffalo Bill yarn is DeMille's 1936 "The Plainsman" with Cooper & Jean Arthur
-
No,
Clue # 6: An evil Uncle
-
Haven't seen any of those, except "Bird..."...although I did tape "The Primrose Path", and I will watch it promptly...
I have read somewhere, that some people prefer the 1951 version of Bird of Paradise, with Louis Jourdan, Debra Paget and Jeff Chandler...which I watched as a kid, and loved it....I always had wanted to see the King Vidor 1932 original, until i bought the Roan Group DVD release and it didn't disappoint me at all....although I must say that the 1951 film, had a more "ethereal romantic" quality, about it, the 1932 version is more "earthy"....much more "sexual?", maybe Let's not forget it's a pre-code....
In the 1951 film you get to watch the girl **SPOILERS AHEAD** actually jumping into the Volcano...which you don't see in the 1932 Dolores del R?o...version...on the other hand you have the nude diving sequence of polynesian Dolores....which reminded me of Maureen O'Sullivan's in "Tarzan and his Mate"
Especially highly recommended from the bunch of films I mentioned below, are "The Richest Girl in the World", extremely entertaining comedy...script or story by Norman Krasna?...and "Bed of Roses", which contains a super-funny performance by Pert Kelton...
I didn't mention "These Three"...which is a Fave of mine..also with Miriam Hopkins and Merle Oberon, too...and villanous Bonita Granville...
"The Silver Horde"...a wonderful early adventure yarn whic takes place in Alaska or a very northern Canadian territory?...about the Salmon Business...good!
-
No, good movie
Clue # 5: A daughter estranged from his father since childhood
-
Nope
Clue # 4: An unborn child who's being "condemned"
-
Beau Geste?
~*~Classic Film 21 Questions~*~
in Games and Trivia
Posted
Lolite...I liked both movies...BTW, The Virgin Queen is from 1955, and features a young Joan Collins too....but I think I liked better Bette in "Private Lives of Liz & Essex"...although most of critics said she had no chemistry with Flynn....Henry VIII, I've just watched once...a loong time ago...I'd like to watch "Rembrandt" (1936)..."The Private Life of Don Juan" (1934) starring Fairbanks Snr...and "Private Life of Helen of Troy " (1927) with Maria Corda...Loved "Scarlett Empress", "Queen Chistina"..."Catherine the Great" (1934) starring Elisabeth Bergner was ok...enough of period films...let's go to next clue:
Clue 11: A Banker
It's 7:06 am of Saturday 8th..I have to attend a mass and go to the cemetry, because a dear friend of my father's passed away....so I'll be back as soon as I can, hope some of you can guess this film...read carefully all the clues...it's a very well known film, dearly beloved by people and critics alike, with many characters...a classic of classics...it much easier than you think. See ya Pals!!