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Monsieur Dobbs--you have excellent taste!
Depardieu's Cyrano was his best performance.
And "Le Salaire de la peur" made Yves Montand a movie star.
Of course "La Grande Illusion" speaks for itself.
The only French films I'd add to your list would be:
Le quai des Brumes (Carne)
Diabolique & Le Quai des Orfeveres (Clouzot)
and several Truffaut films like La Femme d'a cote and The Last Metro--
but I think women like Truffaut more than the men.
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When I went to Montreal in 1996/7? with my passport--la douane was overwhelmed--they thought I was strange--Americans never had passports.
Edited by: cujas on Apr 2, 2011 4:38 PM
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that is "American Woman" Guess Who?
"I don't want your ghetto scenes
"I don't want your war machines--
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It's a famous noir film--but not by WB.
1st hint--a film about a cannon, a man, not the boom-boom kind.
Edited by: cujas on Apr 2, 2011 4:54 PM
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Take all the lyrics and clues--and remember this singer was very recently in the news all over the world, even though he is deceased.
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Do you remember the 4/5 that you liked?
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Another Ozu film I saw in France was a mid-50's entry called "Ohayo!" This was a heartwarming family comedy about how 50's technology was changing Japanese society. And there was a universal quality to it--2 little boys are angry because their parents won't buy a TV so they can watch wrestling. It could have been done in any industrialized country in the 50's. It has all the same qualities of the family dramas--with some poignancy but mainly humourous.
Edited by: cujas on Mar 31, 2011 6:47 PM
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Was Turhan Bey the Warren Beatty of the '40's?
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Well, Fred, I've got to say that I've actually seen 50 to 100 French Movies and I simply don't like this Malle film, "L'Ascenseur a l'Echafaud". In fact I gave my VHS away. I found the film too cold, mean and impersonal.
Having said that I duly recognize that this film began the great New Wave--La Nouvelle Vague--movement. And that Malle's use of Miles Davis' Jazz Improvisation for the soundtrack was an absoulute groundbreaking venture. And of course, this film made Jeanne Moreau a star.
Having said all that I still hate the film--but Louis Malle is a great French Film Director, who had the courage to shoot in English with American actors and made top quality films.
But as the French say, Chacune a son gout. (Each to his own tastes.)
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I love the way there are tried and true professionals in every dept--no one was an amateur.
From the cinematographer, to the musical directors to the character actors--everyone knew their art, craft, job and had tons of experience from the silents, vaudeville, radio or theatre.
It's fun to see how the same group actors and technicians can accomplish such a diverse set of films.
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George is an Original American Musical Genius--He has successfully fused:
Blues--John Lee Hooker
RnR--Chuck Beery
C&W--Hank Williams
Into an American genre of Funky Blues, Country Rock.
If you ever get to hear his "Willie & the Hand Jive", you'll hear the history of American Rock.
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This actress, while still in her teens, romantically starred opposite the greatest matinee idol in Pre-World War II Hollywood.
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This is an American film--to steal a Woody Allen title--les escros pas trop--about small time crooks who inadvertently get invovled in international espionage.
Edited by: cujas on Mar 31, 2011 6:01 PM
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Edited by: cujas on Mar 31, 2011 5:56 PM
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Hint--This character actress has carried her share of movies and supported the top stars--including:
Susan Hayward, Frank Sinatra, Doris Day and Bette Davis.
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No, but this movie is also a French Superstar vehicle--
Hint: The bombing in this French village force several families of different classes to live together.
Even the school has been destroyed by bombing, so the children have class in the local cafe.
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During the Golden Era--1 teenager didn't act in juvenile parts; she went straight into adult roles at the age of 15. At 16, she played the wife of an actor who was a real-life matinee idol.
Actress and Movies??
Edited by: cujas on Mar 30, 2011 7:02 PM
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During the Golden Era--1 teenager didn't act in juvenile parts; she went straight into adult roles at the age of 15. At 16, she played the wife of a matinee idol.
Actress and Movies??
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After World War II in France some people were tried as collaborationists by the locally controlled Communist governments--In this film that's the case. Also tension erupts in this war-torn town as those bombed out were boarded with families across the class spectrum.
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A movie about a cannon--the cannon is a man of a particular profession.
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Edited by: cujas on Mar 30, 2011 6:48 PM
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I believe Miss Lavenderblue is up--
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All I can do for you is to say that my song and "A Kiss etc" were both from MGM movies.
to continue:
A Heart ditto
A Kiss ditto
"If you don't know that it's a thing to have a ball about, you know nothing at (song title)-----.
Edited by: cujas on Mar 30, 2011 7:09 PM
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That was really a guess, too!
This character actresses 1st role was as a shopper in a dept. store.--no billing
In her second role, she was a lady's cook and maid.--no billing
By her third role, she was nominated for the Academy Award.-- from here on she got billing--
One actress--three movies?
Edited by: cujas on Mar 30, 2011 6:44 PM
Movie Music
in Games and Trivia
Posted
That phone that's tied up for hours,
It's all about love, it's all about love
If you don't know it's a thing to have a brawl about
"You know nothing, at all, about love."
My childhood Eddie Fisher favorite 45rpm--remember those?
Mack"Chattanooga Choo-Choo- Gordon wrote the lyrics and
Josef Myrow wrote the music.
Miles you got 2/3 of it and
Miss Lavender--you love Debbie and Eddie too--you got the movie title--"A Bundle of Joy"
Movie was a remake of Ginger Rogers' "Batchelor Mother".
Miles, you may have this thread, but if you're too busy, you can give it to Miss Lavender.
Some day soon--Miles is up--