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Creepy atmospheric direction by Jack Clayton, who also directed one of my other favorite seriously-creepy eerie October staples, Disney's "Something Wicked This Way Comes" (1983). (My faithful ritual watch every alternating Halloween.)
I've been tempted to see what Clayton did with the 1974 Redford/Farrow "The Great Gatsby", since that one also has to be a little atmospherically unreal.
I've heard of this movie - Something Wicked This Way Comes - but never seen it, nor did I know anything about it until now. After reading your post about it, I looked it up. It sounds like a just-right film for Hallowe'en: eerie but not horrifying (my favourite kind of scary movie.) Now I'm intrigued; I'd like to see it. Plus, any movie with a quote from Macbeth in the title (via Raymond Bradbury) has got to have something going for it. Thanks for the recommendation.
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Sat., October 15th--One Deborah Kerr classic, one underrated movie. All times E.S.T.
8:00 p.m. "The Innocents" (1961)--Are there really ghosts on the estate, or are they just in the governess' mind?
12:00 a.m. "Eye of the Devil" (1966)--Fair horror film with a good performance by Kerr, good cinematography by Erwin Hillier.
I love The Innocents. It's truly frightening, in the best way - no gore, no hacking of limbs, nothing obvious- just a subtle eerie creepy feeling throughout. I consider it to be one of the best ghost story movies of all time.
And of course there are ghosts on the estate. Why, every time people talk about ghost story movies, do people want to explain it away by suggesting it's just some kind of heightened psychological state the ghost viewer is experiencing? Why is there always resistance to the idea that there might actually be ghosts? At least in the world of the movie. Let's not 'splain all the scaryness away every time there's a ghost in a movie. Isn't it more fun to "go with it" and accept that maybe the ghosts actually exist? Why not?
ps: Plus, the housekeeper knows exactly what Miss Giddens is talking about when she describes what she's seen.
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I suspect it's music that was composed especially for the pop-up book promo. Probably TCM has staff that whips up a catchy bit of music now and then, just for the promos.
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This choice is as drugged out as he is. Just go listen to his Christmas album, I almost died from it. lol
So, it's fair to pick the worst thing an artist has ever done and hold that up as an example of how they are undeserving of being honoured?
I agree with you, Bob Dylan's Christmas album is wretched. I have no idea what he was thinking when he made it, but I would say it is pretty bad - except as a source of humour, as jakeem seems to think, at least when it comes to "Must Be Santa". (Which I think is hilarious, possibly intentionally so...)
But to sarcastically cite this one bad album as reason to object to Dylan's receiving the Nobel Prize for literature is like citing "Kiss Me, Stupid" as reason to object to Billy Wilder ever receiving an Oscar. You don't go by the artist's worst work, you go by their best.
And Bob Dylan has many "bests".
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I know you rejected this suggestion, but are you sure it isn't Hobson's Choice ? Your description of the film you're looking for sure sounded like it to me. Read this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobson%27s_Choice_(1954_film)
In any case, it's a great film, hugely enjoyable, beautifully made, and fun.
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I FINALLY got around to watching "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" (1993). Sometimes when I have a movie on my list to watch, I prolong watching it almost as long as possible (this may have something to do with the anticipation). Like I said, I finally watched it. Leo's performance was spectacular, as was the rest of the cast. I did a little research and found out that Johnny Depp was 30 years old in this film, although in my opinion he passes for early twenties. Leo was 18/19, which is also hard to believe, since he looked about 15 lol. Although I understand looking younger than you actually are, since that is a curse I am personally forced to live with.
What's Eating Gilbert Grape is such a sad, odd, little movie.
The young Leonardo in WEGG reminds me a lot of a promising young actor I've seen in a couple of recent films, Dane DeHaan. (Check out the unnervingly violent but effective movie Lawless.)
I thought the strangest, most disturbing thing about Gilbert Grape was the morbidly fat mother. It seems Gilbert's life is filled with tragedy, and he is the one who must bear the burden of coping with its lingering aftermath.
Glad you liked it, NickandNora.
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Nosferatu
TCM aired this last night (Friday), as part of their October scary classic movies series on Friday nights. I'd seen it once before, literally decades ago. So it was almost like seeing it for the first time on Friday.
Made in 1922 by F.W, Murnau, one of the great German expressionist silent film directors, Nosferatu delivers an exquisitely eerie vampire story that in some ways has never been surpassed. The film makes no direct reference to the Bram Stoker novel, although it does seem to have been heavily influenced by it. If you go into viewing this film with expectations that it will be an early Dracula tale, you'll be disappointed.
No; "disappointed" is not a word I'd apply to Nosferatu in any context; let's just say your ideas about a Dracula style movie would not be met. But this is a point not really worth making, as Nosferatu is a wonderfully uncanny vampire story in its own right. *
The plot involves a young man's journey to a strange sparsely inhabited land somewhere within the Carpathian mountains. He's on a mission to sell someone in this land a house. Along the way he encounters otherwordly sights and persons, the most chilling being the host of the castle he finally reaches, the creepy and macabre Count Orlok, the earthly incarnation of Nosferatu.
But I've never felt plot is the most important feature of any film, be it a sound or a silent movie. This is especially the case with Nosferatu; in some ways the plot doesn't even really hold up. It doesn't matter. What is truly compelling about this unique silent film is its visual imagery and its dream-like quality. Watching it, you feel as though you've stepped into another time and another world. Silent films always create this feeling to some degree, partly because they're so very old, partly because there is no dialogue, and partly - I'd say mostly - because they are so dependent on conveying mood and atmosphere through visual effects.
Murnau appears to have had a profound understanding of the power of the visual in cinema; one reason I love his films is the originality and intensity of the poetic images I see in them.
Nosferatu is filled with mysterious and (literally) haunting scenes, including a hellish horse-drawn carriage with a spectral-looking driver, a ship without a crew drifting over the sea, and Nosferatu himself, probably the most horrifying-looking vampire in cinema history. The scenes where he rises from his coffin, staring with a terrifying single-mindedness at his next victim, have to be amongst the most eerie in all vampiredom (if there isn't such a word, there should be.)
* There's an article about the similarities of Nosferatu to Stoker's Dracula on the TCM page about it: here's the link, if anyone wants to read it:
http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article.html?isPreview=&id=1263065|437&name=Nosferatu
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I'm talking very little. Like one year old, maybe one and a half.
By two she was fine with it.
I hope, when she got older, that you warned her not to go to any weird parties. ("Papa told me not to come.....")
My daughter, at the age of four, was afraid of fireworks - I think it was the loud sound. She'd run away when that booming fireworks sound hit the air. The pretty sparkles in the sky didn't seem to console her - she was scared.
She's twenty-six now, and probably over it.
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There are two close to me. One, you get out and watch your car go through. The other, you stay in your car while it's going through - they give you a damp rag to wipe down your interior while the outside is being auto-scrubbed.
When my daughter as very little, she got all perturbed by the brushes and soap churning at the windows outside the car.
I was the opposite of your daughter.When I was little ( and even not so little, I got a kick out of this even as a teenager), when I'd hear my dad was taking the car to the car wash, I'd ask to go along. I loved it ! I remember being delighted by all the scrubbing,the brushes automatically squirting suds all over the windows (closed, of course), the rinsing spray, and the way the car slowly moved along the whole process. It was like a ride at the midway of the CNE !
Anyway, the following has nothing to do with the above. I was 12 when this song came out. I really liked it, but I had no idea it was about people getting stoned at a party. In fact, I used to wonder what the hell the guy was talking about. (Was this naive or just dumb?) The fine songwriter Randy Newman is responsible for this, but I like the 3 Dog Night version best.
Now I have to go put some whisky in my water.
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Here is a sweet melody ( "It was the sweetest melody....") by the great Duke Ellington, sung with style by Rosemary Clooney. Her phrasing in this is impeccable, and the Duke's band is swinging right behind her. Lovely little number.
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It's actually called the "Made in America" Music Festival.
Thanks for the info, fi. Do you ever attend it?
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Lazing? With all the construction, and the setting up of the Welcome America Music Festival at my doorstep. there will be no lazing around here.
What "Welcome America Music Festival" is that? Please explain. It sounds interesting.
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As so many have already said here, Gene Wilder was both lovable and funny. He had a particular quality to his voice - he could sound really manic sometimes, and sweet and vulnerable other times. A true comic.
My favourite Gene Wilder film is Young Frankenstein. God, what a funny movie.
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Wow, this thread has been busy since I've been away. I have some catching up to do.
In the meantime, here's a song I always like to post "in the summertime". It's almost too late, but not quite (since today's the last day of August...) Not too late to do a little lazing on a Sunny Afternoon.
ps: Anyone here seen "Pirate Radio", also known as "The Boat that Rocked" ? Quite a fun movie, plus it's got the wonderful and much missed Philip Seymour Hoffman in it.
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I remember seeing Street Angel on TCM when they aired it a few years ago. I really liked it, thought it was touching and evocative in that way that only silent movies can be.
Speaking of which, I'm very surprised that Janet Gaynor's SUTS day did not include Sunrise, a great silent film and a nice vehicle for Gaynor. I know TCM has or can get the rights to it, as they have shown it in the past. It seems very odd that on a day celebrating this actress' work, Sunrise, one of the best films she was ever in, was not on the schedule.
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This is my idea of a good song. The "Blonde on Blonde" version is impossible to get on Youtube, but I found this. I hope some message doesn't pop up, "You have no right to listen to this song on the net."
"Absolutely Sweet Marie", both the music and the lyrics. One of my favourite tunes off one of my favourite Dylan albums.
https://www.izlesene.com/video/bob-dylan-absolutely-sweet-marie-blonde-on-blonde-11/5146239
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I'm curious why they didn't give this song a title that had something to do with the lyrics of the song, which were a brilliant antiwar diatribe., similar ro "Wooden Ships".
I'm not crazy about "Wooden Ships", precisely because it's so hippyish. And I never really thought it was that good a song, regardless of its lyrics. Sorry, fi, I know you like it.
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So, you're trying to tell us you're NINETEEN years old?
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Why shouldn't she be nineteen? I think it's great when young people join these boards. And why should we assume that only middle-aged to old people are members here?
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No she doesn't.
Hedy Lamarr was beautiful, almost perfect-looking.
I never thought Ava was "beautiful". Sexy,maybe. But except for the dark hair, these two female stars do not resemble each other at all.
...I never really understood all the fuss about Ava. Her looks, I mean. I respect her as an actress, in fact she can be quite likable ( as in her character in Night of the Iguana, for instance.) But I never really got why she's always spoken of as one of the ultimate beauties of Hollywood. Maybe you have to be a straight male to appreciate her particular style of attractiveness.
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Moving on to a less repugnant topic....
I know this is pretty obvious, but I don't care. A nod to Rio seems apropos today.
I tried to get the Frank Sinatra version, and for some unfathomable reason it's "not available in my country". What the frig?? ! This is such an old recording. And all the other tracks on "Come Fly with Me" are available in Canada.
I am so sick of this "rights" business.
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And even worse, he left some pooh...yep, right in the corner of a page.
Yikes !
I have heard of people using the pages of old books for toilet paper, but this is ridiculous.
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Well, Kobil, you started this thread just over 24 hours ago, and I see you've not been back yet.
Why, oh why, do so many posters like you do this? You go to all the trouble to register as a member of the TCM message boards, swoop in, write your one and only post, and then swoop out, never to be heard from again.
Christ on a cracker (thank you, Lorna), what is the point? You could at least come back and respond to some of the posts you must have read here. It's like guerrilla internet fighting, you strike and then leave before facing your opponents.
Good gawd, nobody has any commitment nowadays. If you feel so strongly about this, why have you deserted your thread here? True, it does seem as though just about everyone (including me) disagrees with you, but that's no reason to flee.
Be a man. Or a woman. Or a trans. In any case, come back and stand up and fight for what you believe in. Don't post and run. Don't make this a one-post stand.
Maybe you have a thread in every site. You're that kind of poster, ay? And did you ever return to your poor neglected threads, the ones where you posted and ran?
Cause if you didn't, why did you bother in the first place?
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I maintain that this is the best single Jefferson Airplane ever recorded, better than "Somebody to Love", which was a big hit. This was not. Anyone agree? (I think that "House at Pooneil Corners", which was never a single, was their greatest accomplishment).
It is a little-known fact that Marty Balin got into a huge fist-fight with Paul Kantner over this song. Apparently it had something to do with Paul's borrowing Marty's copy of The House at Pooh Corner and returning it with clear evidence that it had been read in the bathtub.
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Damn long haired, dope smoking, dirty
hippies and their rock and roll "music."
But it's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
Thought I'd mention here, since The Dead have come up: I used to detest them, thought they were pretty much as you describe. Way too hippyish for me. But recently I've been giving them another chance, and they're not half bad.
Off Topic: Favorite Music?
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Yeah, Boogie Nights. I'd forgotten about that movie. It was pretty darn good, I'd like to see it again. Paul Thomas Anderson is always interesting. Thanks for the reminder, Holden.