Bogie56
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Thursday, November 28
3:30 p.m. National Velvet (1944). This would make a good double bill with The Black Stallion (1979). Replaced in Canada with Courage of Lassie (1946).
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Wednesday, November 27
What a stunning line up.
3:30 p.m. Das Boot (1982). by Wolfgang Petersen.
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Tuesday, November 26
Bette Davis day.
6 a.m. Winter Meeting (1948). This is one that I have yet to see. Replaced in Canada by The Unfaithful (1947) with Ann Sheridan. The Unfaithful is a remake of The Letter.
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Monday, November 25
11:30 a.m. Green For Danger (1946). Everyone shines in this good British murder mystery.
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2 minutes ago, laffite said:
Thanks for all the links. Appreciate them all. I was looking for what you might think of it in your own words. This last link does look good though and I'll certainly have a look at it. Thanks, again.
The truth is I cannot recall much of that version and I've seen outtakes and such on youtube so it kind of became one big jumble for me. Perhaps it is not that bad but everyone who saw Welles' 45 minute incomplete rough cut thought that was much better than what Franco managed to do. The article I just sent tries to compare the versions.
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31 minutes ago, laffite said:
Yes, I read all that on Wiki and even elsewhere. Interesting to be sure. I'm less concerned with history at the moment. I'm concerned on how good I thought the Netflix copy I got was and was surprised to read that you apparently thought it was a "mess" or at least Franco's edit of it. I'm sure that's the one I saw. I guess I thought you would like it better.
You might like this article from welles net.com
https://www.wellesnet.com/orson-welles-don-quixote-the-enigma/
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22 minutes ago, laffite said:
Yes, I know. That the one I'm talking about too.
There is quite a lot on the subject on its wikipedia page. They had this about the 1992 Jess Franco version...
The Irigoyen and Franco work premiered at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival as Don Quixote de Orson Welles, with English- and Spanish-language versions produced. Initial reaction was predominantly negative, and this version was never theatrically released in the U.S. In September 2008, a U.S. DVD edition was released as Orson Welles' Don Quixote by Image Entertainment.[5] The footage of Don Quixote in the cinema that is in Bonanni's possession has turned up on YouTube.[15]
Spanish film critic Juan Cobos saw a rough cut of Welles's unfinished footage (which he praised very highly), and stated that the 1992 edit by Franco bore little resemblance to it. Similarly, Jonathan Rosenbaumdescribes the 45 minutes of footage assembled in 1986 as being vastly superior to the Franco edit.
On Don Quixote and the subject of the artist's rights over their work—particularly the right not to finish—film scholars Jean-Paul Berthomé and François Thomas wrote that "the so-called completed version, hastily cobbled together in 1992 by Jesús Franco … merely created a sense of regret that posterity does not always respect this right not to finish."[17]
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One of the things I noticed over the course of this thread is how diverse our foreign film experiences have been. And that I welcomed because it has alerted me to a number of films or pointed to some that I had seen that I myself wasn't that fond of that may be worth another look.
I particularly liked Gate of Hell (1953). It was number ten in my list of best films of 1953 all round. And yes, the Costumes were amazing but I also thought its score was the best of the year along with Georges Auric's The Wages of Fear. And for me the acting was just right for this film and Kazuo Hasegawa, Michiko Kyo and Isao Yamagata all were on my performers runner up lists.
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Sunday, November 24
8 p.m. Roman Holiday (1953). Always enjoyable and usually much more so than you remember. The charisma of its two stars is captivating.
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I would like to thank everyone who has participated in this thread since it started two years ago. I have gained a broader knowledge of the foreign films that are out there and worth seeing. As a list maker I've added the films mentioned to my 'To Be Seen' film list and have already managed to seak out quite a few of them. Now if I can only live to 150 I might be able to see them all.
I've changed the title of the thread to simply Your Favourite Foreign Language Films. It is open to anyone to come back and post about any new FF's they have seen that they would like to share with others.
On that note I would like to recommend a very powerful documentary that I have just seen ...
The Cave (2019) Feras Fayyad, Syria
It tells the story of a city in Syria that is under daily siege from government and Russian war planes. 400,000 people have not been able to escape and many die each day. The film focuses on one female paediatrician who also manages the underground make shift hospital. Not only does she come under fire from above but incredibly draws criticism from some of her patients who don't believe a woman should hold such a position. Seeing children suffering from chemical bombs is tough going but after 90 minutes one comes to appreciate that these civilians are not that much different than us and really deserve our help. It is yet another good documentary from National Geographic.
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13 hours ago, laffite said:
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You wrote: Jess Franco's mess of Welles' Don Quixote is the flip side. Franco perhaps made what he could of the footage available to him at the time. And of course he had no access to any of the actors. But I hear even Don Quixote may get another try as more footage from a separate collection has apparently become available
I'm surprised at your opinion. I loved it. Maybe I'm making allowances because of its tortured history. It was connected (pasted together, whatever) more completely that I expected. What should Franco have done differently? Anyway, Franco aside, the wonderful Wellesian touches seem to be there. The camera is great (reminds me of Ophuls). Welles own voice overs are damn good. The Wiki page asserts that the windmill scene was done in one of the later "modern" scene settings. Not the one I saw. It was shot out in the plains, great sound (creaking), there's Don seen riding up as seen through the winding arms of the mill (in a sequence other than the above). I recall a Russian 1957 version of DonQ and our hero attacks and get caught in the spokes/lattice of the arms goes round and round. It was very good. Welles may have seen this and prudently decided not to copy it. But the Welles way is good too. I like to retain the 4:3 with old movies but this one looked fabulous at 16:9. I see the Welles version of DonQ as a treasure.
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I was referring to Jess Franco's 1992 version of Welles' Don Quixote. For one, it seems he may not have had access to all of Welles' footage.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104121/reference
Here is a page on Welles' version of the unfinished film at ..
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Saturday, November 23
10 a.m. Popeye: Never Sock a Baby (1939).
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Here are our choices for the best foreign films of all time ...
Seven Samurai (1954) Akira Kurosawa, Japan
The Nights of Cabiria (1957) Federico Fellini, Italy
The Seventh Seal (1957) Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
The Confession (1970) Constantin Costa-Gavras, France
The Conformist (1970) Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy
and these films featured more than once in our various top tens ...
Seven Samurai (1954) Akira Kurosawa, Japan (3)
The Seventh Seal (1957) Ingmar Bergman, Sweden (3)
Metropolis (1927) Fritz Lang, Germany (2)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) Carl Dreyer, France (2)
Grand Illusion (1937) Jean Renoir, France (2)
Shoeshine (1946) Vittorio De Sica, Italy (2)
Fanny and Alexander (1982) Ingmar Bergman, Sweden (2)
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Friday, November 22/23
5:30 a.m. Summer of ’63 (1963). For nostalgia lovers. “Teens on the make spread syphilis among their friends.
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14 hours ago, laffite said:
I have this movie about Don Quixote coming from Netflix. I had thought that this was a project that he never got around to finishing. So what's this then? Comments?
Check out the imdb page for The Other Side of the Wind (2018) and this thread in General Discussions ...
http://forums.tcm.com/topic/167147-orson-welles-the-other-side-of-the-wind/
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Thursday, November 21
1:15 a.m. John Ford, the Man Who Invented America (2018). New documentary from France featuring Ford biographer, Joseph McBride. McBride's Searching For John Ford is one of the best biographies on film directors that I have read. McBride also happens to have worked on and appeared in Welles' The Other Side of the Wind.
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48 minutes ago, speedracer5 said:
This must be one of the last films Edmond O'Brien made. I know he had to stop making films at some point in the 70s because Alzheimer's was starting to affect his ability to remember his lines. By the time of his death in the mid-80s, his Alzheimer's was very severe.
Check out its imdb page. There are quite a few stars in it who never lived to see the release including John Huston who plays the lead.
Some think it is a mess but I loved it. The style is intentional. At one point they are running the film within a film at a drive-in and somebody complains to the projectionist that he is playing the reels out of order. He responds, "does it matter?"
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2 hours ago, speedracer5 said:
I haven't seen this one. When was the film originally made?
Welles shot it in the early 70's but it was never finished until this year. There is a documentary about the Herculian effort to finish it called They'll Love Me When I'm Dead. Both it and the Welles feature were financed by Netflix.
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Wednesday, November 20/21
3 a.m. The Wild Bunch (1969). Top Notch in every way. I love the bit where Borgnine grabs the woman as a shield in the gunfight. A very shocking moment given his usual cuddly persona.
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12 hours ago, speedracer5 said:
Agreed! Another Part of the Forest was a great film. I watched it as part of my Edmond O'Brien kick a few months ago. I thought O'Brien was excellent in his rather villainous role. Dan Duryea's character, while not great, was actually not the worst person in the movie. O'Brien and Blyth were my favorite characters. I hope that TCM airs this again soon.
Did you watch Orson Welles' The Other Side of the Wind (2018)? O'Brien is quite good in that one too.
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Tuesday, November 19
Bette Davis day.
10 a.m. The Little Foxes (1941). When she’s bad, she’s good.
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1. The Conformist
2. Five Easy Pieces
3. Little Big Man
4. Ryan's Daughter
5. The Great White Hope
6. Tristana
7. Quakser Fortune Has a Cousin In the Bronx
8. Loving
9. MASH
10. Woodstock
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1 hour ago, speedracer5 said:
I agree with this! Donald Crisp is in everything! Lee Patrick is seemingly in everything too, and she’s also in this film.
He also directed a large number of silent films.
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3 minutes ago, Sepiatone said:
Ach. We'll just have to agree to disagree.
Sepiatone
Sure. But most of his "teddy-boy" films are not shown in North America.
Your Favourite Foreign Language Films
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The Man Without a Face (1950) Juan Bustillo Oro, Mexico
I wanted to like this one. It has Arturo de Cordova in it. But everything is telegraphed from a million miles away and it is a bit of a bore. There are even a few cheesy surreal dream sequences that to my guess were inspired by Dali's Hitchcock work in Spellbound (1945).