slaytonf
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Sorry to hear that, a great actor. Might as well spout his name.
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Yes Nora, it's Nova! Did you get my quip about not knowing too much about her? Pretty clever, huh?
One more face:
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Regardless of whether people today like musicals or not, they were a huge part of the studio film industry from the beginning of the sound era. And Donen was second to none in the development of the Hollywood musical in it's golden era.
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Why don't you want us to identify the second woman? She's one of the few I recognize. Dang.
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You know, I'm afraid I don't know too much about her:
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Hair? I thought that was an invading alien life form that clapped onto women's heads and controlled their thought processes.
I still don't know her name.
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Don't you mean Seven Brothers for Six Brides?
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People are too obliging?
KIdd, blurt.
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Don't nobody know or care who this guy is? Need a clue? or are you game to guess?
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Oh! Oh! You got me! Stabbed to the heart! Goodby, Horatio. I'm not long for this world. . . . hard to breathe. . . .(cough, cough). . . .light fading. . . . .everything dim. . . . .
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Well, there you go. You don't have to like a movie to recognize it's quality or importance. There are many important or well made movies I simply don't like, Last Year at Marienbad, for instance. I know it's a great film, but I never get past the first fifteen minutes of it. There are even great movies I like, but I don't watch them often. I consider Metropolis the greatest film ever made, yet I watch it less than once a year. On the other hand, there are films I watch a lot which I know are not much, but I like them, and I have fun watching them. There you go.
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Gosh you make me feel all warm and fuzzy.
Norachas, you got him!
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>VX:
>It was definitely a product of its times, but I think it holds up very well.
One of the things I like about it is it's capture of the Mod London atmosphere.
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Thanks, VX! It's so rare to get unqualified approval.
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He looks like he could have played Poirot, but I don't think he ever did.
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I've been watching Paul Robeson films and films of Jean Gabin
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Thank you for your heads up about Blow-Up, but it was not necessary. I've seen it many times before, and had recorded it, but it became inaccessible. Thus my anticipation of a long awaited airing, and my all that much greater exasperation as I pushed the record button and watched the ugly error message come up.
I am not sure if Blow-Up is a great film, but it certainly is a film by a great director, and there are some great things in it. My personal favorite is the presence of Sarah Miles, who does more with the little she has than the other actors with larger roles.
You were looking for a standard whodunnit, and were disappointed when the film didn't do what you wanted it to. I don't mean it to sound patronizing, but the movie is about how you know what's real, and what you use to establish reality. The murder was made unreal by the elimination of evidence for it. Even the last bit of it, the photo of the body itself, has its veracity degraded by the absence of the other photos showing the sequence of the murder, if it really happened. By the end of the film, Thomas begins to doubt his own experience. To complete the destruction of his bearings, he is presented at the end of the film with an imaginary tennis game made real by the insistence of the group of young revelers. (The same you see at the beginning of the film. The activity they were pursuing was fundraising for charity. English people would have picked up on that readily, as it is as common there as Girl Scouts selling cookies are here--have you got your Thin Mints yet this year?)
Of course, there's a lot of other things going on all around, including observations about art, creativity, conformity, relationships, disappointment, futile yearning, the lack of communication, and Antonioni's characteristic indictment of bourgeois values.
As for Shoes of the Fisherman, the few minutes I watched of it confirmed my expectations. Like most movies on an epic scale, especially those with a religious theme, it was bloated, ponderous, formulaic, self-important and pretentious. It's no wonder it's forgot.
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Yayy Dabb!!
Re twinkeee:
kinda sorta, but not kinda enough.
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How'd you get her!? Ok, try this guy:
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Definitely one of the world's great moustaches:
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Vertigo is more inexpertly praised rather than overrated. As I like to approach it, it is definitely Hitchcock's best film, but it is not the best "Hitchcock" film. For that you can look to North By Northwest, The Birds, or one of his earlier bw films, according to your taste. Vertigo is not a "Hitchcock" film. It is a slowly paced film (no, not boring) that is character driven, with extensive analysis of people's faults, motivations, and preoccupations. The standard Hitchcock film is plot driven, which moves along at a nice pace, and the characters are constructed to suit it. In a standard Hitchcock film there is a MacGuffin around which all the action swirls, an item lacking in Vertigo.
Some people seeing the Hitchcock label on a film have certain expectations, which are disappointed by Vertigo, leading them to dislike the film. And some people simply don't care for this kind of film. But make no mistake, Vertigo is a masterwork, a wonderfully disturbing look into people's perverse obsessions, hang-ups, the dissolving of the boundary between hard reality and fantasy worlds, people's retreat into them, the domination of one person over another's identity, and the reshaping of it to their desires, the willingness for some to allow that to happen to them because of a desperate need for love, or emotional security. Of course, things so wildly unrealistic must lead to catastrophe.
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Percy it is! I saw him in a Paul Robeson film I saw just the other day: Song of Freedom.
And since you didn't post a pic, I will take advantage of the opportunity to post oneumyonwn:
Oh, that face, that fabulous face II - Post 1950's. Whose is it?
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She is. . . .wait for it. . . . Anjelique Pettyjohn.