feaito
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Beauty and the Beast is awesome & bewitching Keith... it's "supernatural" at its best...
"Brazil" has also been a fave of mine, I love it!!!... "Blade Runner" too, "Dune", "The Clockwork Orange"....I also love Almodovar's early films, Erich Rohmer, etc.
Never had the opportunity to watch "The Rocky Horror Piccture Show", completely, only exerpts...they say it's a knock-out!
What About "Young Frankenstein"?? Extremely Funny!!
You are right that a film does not has to be necessarily bizarre to be considered a "cult" film....'cos for me, at least, "Portrait of Jennie" and "Letter from an Unknown Woman" might be considered "cult" films....in fact, one of the greatest madcap-screwball comedies of all-time "Bringing Up Baby", was a flop after its initial release....and gained a big "cult" following only since the 1970's?? onwards (whe it was sort of re-discovered by film buffs and critics) and now stands as one of the greatest "essential" classics!
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Abbott And Costello meet Frankenstein
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My fave Calamity is Jean Arthur in "The Plainsman"..... BTW the "real" (historical) Calamity had nothin' to do with the beauty and femenine traits of any of these 3 stars (chuckles)
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Calamity Jane?
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Carole Lombard, a beauty and a "real" person. I just love her.
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You are right Antar, real beauties...Susan Hayward too...How can anyone say there were no good looking ladies then....when it was in that Era, when we had FACES.
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Maybe I've said it previously, but I've always been a classic movie buff, since childhood, watching when I was 3 years old, stuff like Garbo's "Anna Karenina" or Kate Hepburn's "Mary of Scotland" (I like period/costume dramas)... for sure I didn't "get" (being a small kid) all the "implications" of the plots of these movies, but there was sth. in them that "caught" me under their spell...images like Garbo throwing herself to the running train or her farewell to her son in "Karenina" or Kate Hepburn walking to the scaffold in "Mary...", have been in my mind ever since...as magic moments from my childhood.
But then in the early 1990's I watched "La Boh?me", the 1926 film with Lillian Gish and John Gilbert...and a "new world" was born for me...a new language...a new way of expression...before, I only had seen stuff like the Keystone Kops slapstick, and that was Silent Film to me. Because I had never experienced a Dramatic Silent Film.
Then, I had the chance of watching stuff as Hitchcock's "The Lodger", Fritz Lang's "Metropolis", "Evangeline", "The Thief of Bagdad", "The Son of the Sheik","Robin Hood", "The Garden of Eden", most of Chaplin's feature films, the two-hour version of "Greed" (still haven't been able to watch the restored 4 hours film).... and they have grown in me as a "freely-acquired" taste.
Whe I watch a silent, I completely forget it is a silent, in other words, I've learnt to lose the "awareness" of being watching a "piece of history" and I try only to "enjoy" the film, just like a person/cinemagoer from the 1920's, and "let it loose"... In fact, I was chatting about this subject (regarding early talkies) with a pal the other day, and she expressed correctly my feelings with her words, 'cos she also feels this way.
This month I've watched two Von Sternberg's silent masterpieces from the 1920's (Paramount releases) "The Docks of New York" and "The Last Command" (both 1928), which I had the luck of buying on the internet. They impressed me so much!. This is a totally different Von Sternberg from the early '30s "Svengali" who created this "magic world" in which his "creation", Marlene Dietrich, lived, breathed and reigned supreme (I love these films too). Those 1920's Von Sternberg, especially "The Docks..." show a more realitisc and grim world....
Now I'll get Von Stroheim's 1928 "The Wedding March" with lovely Fay Wray...Looking forward to it...
The Silent Film, has this special magic of its images... the lack of dialogue gives so much strength to the image, to the facial expressions, the mood, everything in these pictures, rests on the images and the abilty of the actors (who had to be sort of "pantomimes") to "transmit" their characters/roles/feelings to us.
I've read that the epitome of this came in Falconetti's performance in "The Passion of Joan of Arc", I movie I'd love to watch.
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Trasher, when you say "cult classic films", you mean stuff like "Freaks", "The Old Dark House", "Island of Lost Souls", "The Most Dangerous Game", "The Bride of Frankenstein"...perhaps, "Peter Ibbetson" or "The Story of Temple Drake"? I love those movies. I consider them "Cult" movies from the 1930's.
The "Cult" Label may apply to a variety of films from all the Eras, IMHO, especially horror films; many people consider "Night of the Living Dead"; "The Fall of the House of Usher" (in fact all the Poe's films of AIP directed by Roger Corman) or the Hammer Films, the Dar?o Argento films, or even Dreyer's or Ingmar Bergman's filsm, as cult films....also, many european films, are considered "Cult" films, like Jean Cocteau's "Beauty and the Beast".
BTW, welcome to the Forums.
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Totally agree with you Keith, Barbara Stanwyck looked really ravishing in some of her films, i.e.: in "The Lady Eve"...she looked so elegant & sexy...Also in "Ball of Fire"....let's not forget "Baby Face" too,...perfect combination, beauty & brains.
Norma Shearer, looked radiant especially in such Pre-Codes as "Strangers May Kiss", "Let Us Be Gay", "Riptide"....and also in later films such as "Escape".
And the exotic & alluring Merle looked great in "Wuthering Heights", "That Uncertain Feeling", "These Three", "Till We Meet Again".....
These three ladies you mention, in particular, also share a trait no very popular nowadays, they had class.
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Just to guess......The Lady Eve?
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Hedy Lamarr, Kate Hepburn, Frances Dee, Gene Tierney, Jeanne Crain, Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, Helen Twelvetrees, Constance Cummings, Ingrid Bergman, Miriam Hopkins, Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Jennifer Jones, Thelma Todd, Dolores del R?o, Leila Hyams, Kay Francis, Loretta Young, Rita Hayworth, Mary Astor, Margaret Lindsay, Ann Sothern, Ann Harding, Myrna Loy...these are only a "few" of the great-looking ladies from the 1930's and 1940's.
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These boards-sadly-have become so "messy" and full of "bashing"...but, seriously Mr. Rogan, can you explain to me why you call "idiot" gwtwbooklover, when he's not even posted in this thread? It escapes my understanding... its beyond it, really. And please let us be respectful to each other, we don't need/want "bashing" here or "name calling"
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Take me out to the ball game?
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Great movie!
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Sorry Moviegeek, I misunderstood.
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Nothing Sacred or Living It Up?
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Could it be Roman Polanski's "The Dance of the Vampires" aka "The Fearless Vampire Killers"...starring him and the doomed Sharon Tate??
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Of course I'm a fan of the '40s too, read carefully what I'm stating: the thirties are my weakness (one cannnot "explain" its own tastes)..., I'm not at all "dismissing the '40s", in fact it is my second fave decade.... many of my fave movies were made during the '40s..."Letter from and Unknown Woman", "Portrait of Jennie", "The Lady Eve", "The More the Merrier", "High Sierra", etc, etc.
Maybe, as said, it's because always movies from the '30s were more difficult to obtain/watch (at least in my country). Love Pre-Codes.
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Bells are Ringing?
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Elena, I've read that you can rent at Netflix 1930's Paramounts, released on dvd like "Love Me Tonight", "Trouble In Paradise", "Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde", "Scarlet Empress", etc. You can also purchase them at Amazon.com and Amazon marketaplece sellers/Z Shops; at Movies Unlimited too. There are also many Paramounts on VHS (Supernatural, Island of Lost Souls, Death Takes a Holiday, Midnight, many Marlene Dietrich vehicles, etc..)...And many of them are being scheduled by TCM, like "The Smiling Lieutenant", "Love Me Tonight".
For fabulous stills of Paramount's early films, there's the Dover edition of "The Astoria Studios and its Fabulous Films" by Richard Koszarski.
There is also a book called "The Paramount Story" by John Douglas Ames, which covers all of the classic Paramounts & more, with stills and info; and "Mountain fo Dreams- The Golden Years of Paramount Pictures" by Leslie Halliwell, is full of B&W posters, of all kinds an sizes.
Ahhh "The Paramount Pretties" by James Robert Parish, has many small pictures of films of many of Paramount's most famous female stars: Claudette Colbert, Gloria Swanson, Clara Bow, etc.
Another good source is "Sin in Soft Focus/Pre-Code Hollywood" by Mark A. Vieira, great photographs.
Hope this helps you.
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I love the 30's too..I've got a weakness for 1930's in general....especially Pre-Codes....But still, I also love silents , 1940's films & 1950's, even early 1960's. Dramas, Comedies and musicals, mostly. This does not mean that there are many good movies from the 1960's until the present day....but the '30s got sth.....they do "sth. to me"...as the Cole Porter song says.
I also havw a weakness for Paramount's pre-codes and 30's movies in general, maybe beacuse they're so difficult to obtain??...
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Spy?
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Way to go Lolite!!!! You got it!! your turn!!!
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Way to go Moira!!!! You got it!! your turn!!!
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Welcome tflight9!
Maybe you're right, Errol Flynn, might have been more "suitable" for the role of the "dashing" Anthony...and besides he was always perfect, opposite Olivia de Havilland!
What you say about March being mistaken for the lead, reminds me of what was also said of his role as Benvenuto Cellini in "The Affairs of Cellini", which has fame of being a good film, but somehow "flawed" beacuse of this "miscast".
I'm a huge Fredric March fan, but maybe he wasn't right for these roles, in spite of his great acting ability. Matter of opinions.
And Korngold, words cannot describe his talent, I love all of his scores.