Bogie56

Old Film Lover, I had a short Kwai thread a while back that you might find interesting ... I was trying to post the link and this is what came up. Hopefully you can find it without too much trouble.

MANDRAKE Ah, oh no, I ah... I don't think they wanted me to talk, really. I don't think they wanted me to say anything. It was just their way of having... a bit of fun, the swines. Strange thing is they make such bloody good cameras.

Tuesday, June 2 Ann Sheridan SOTM 8 p.m. Black Legion (1937). Pretty decent Bogie picture before he hit it big. It deals with racism in America.

Monday, June 1/2 Jazz In Film. 3:30 a.m. Bullitt (1968). Music by Lalo Schifrin, or as my Bullitt movie poster says ‘Lalo Schinn.’

This explanation might not be good enough for you but I think they recoil from the "war lover" that they have seen take aim at the men below. He does kill an English prisoner of war after all. In any event its source comes from Shears' earlier criticism of Warden and his mission drive even after he is wounded. Shears thinks Warden is dead inside. The girls represent life. I have to admit, it doesn't fit like a glove but the symbolism is still strong.

I had the good fortune to be dining in a restaurant one table over from Claudia Cardinale in Montreal about 1983. The most beautiful woman I have ever seen. I think she may have been there to pick up a lifetime achievement award at the festival. Around that same time in Montreal I saw a film shoot of Once Upon a Time In America. I wondered later if he might have been at the table with his back to me. A close second would be Jacqueline Bisset who I saw in Mexico about six months later. That was just for a minute or so.

Sunday, May 31 6 a.m. The Big Parade (1925). I saw this film at the BFI Southbank a few months ago (Before Covid) and the brilliant piano accompanist played for 2 and a half hours!

Saturday, May 30 10 a.m. Popeye Meets Rip Van Winkle (1941). 10:07 a.m. Hard Boiled Mahoney (1947). A Bowery Boys film with a 6.3 imdb rating.

Indeed. I made a short spoof safety film in the mid 70's that featured absolutely stupid accidents on a construction site. Probably inspired by Monty Python.

Friday, May 29/30 5 a.m. Shake Hands With Danger (1980). Ouch! Men getting mangled by machines short subject. Sure to be a lot of laughs.

Thursday, May 28 Don DeFore day. 5:30 p.m. Return From Nowhere (1944). Amnesia short subject starring … oh… um … dash… um … it’s on the tip of my tongue …. Don DeFore ! And Peter Cushing. 11:45 p.m. Scarlet Street (1945). Edward G. and Joan Bennett at her sleazy best.

1989 Tetsuo the Iron Man (1989) Shin’ya Tsukamoto, Japan Shin’ya was smoking some weird **** when he made this film. A young man gradually turns into a steam punk pile of metal junk. Outrageous, funny, violent and one-of-a-kind. It becomes a tad one-note but thankfully it is only just 67 minutes long. 1992 and I’ve also seen … Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992) Shin’ya Tsukamoto, Japan. Perhaps if I had not seen the first instalment I would not have been so bored by this effort. It made me wonder why I gave the first film a benefit of the doubt as this too is very much like an incoherent student movie.

Wednesday, May 27 1:45 p.m. The Singing Nun (1966). With Debbie Reynolds. Anyone seen this? I seem to remember seeing the real nun performing on television.

Tuesday, May 26 7:45 a.m. A Night to Remember (1958). Classic Roy Ward Baker version of the Titanic sinking. … Whoops! I should have said Spoiler! Honor Blackman (1925-2020)

Hi Bob and welcome. Just a suggestion but maybe you could post this topic again in General Discussions where it will get more readers. You're not really supposed to post the same thing in different spots but in this case I think more people might like to read what you wrote and the place for that is in General Discussions which is more about films. I have Whelan relatives in Scotland - though they came from Dublin!!

Monday, May 25 8 p.m. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). For Dargo.

The 2019 winner of the Cairo International Film Festival's Best Picture Award was … I’m No Longer Here (2019) Fernando Frias, Mexico The 2019 winner of the Cairo International Film Festival's Best Arabic Picture Award was … A Son (2019) Mehdi Barsaoui, Tunisia

Sunday, May 24 8 p.m. Hell to Eternity (1960). Today’s lineup has a lot of great classics but I’m picking this one because it has Vic Damone in it!

Well, when it comes to smoking in films I think I may have seen it all now. In the British film, Broken Journey (1948) someone offers a man in an iron lung a cigarette.

Saturday, May 23 8 a.m. Captain Caution (1940). Victor Mature in War of 1812 saga. Probably the most obscure of today’s films. Replaced in Canada with Seven Days Leave (1942).

Friday, May 22/23 2 a.m. The Harder They Come (1972). I found this not as good as it was touted to be but there are not a lot of feature films out of Jamaica.

1978 Firebird Daybreak Chapter (1978) Kon Ichikawa, Japan This is a very weird film. It takes place in Japan circa 180 A.D. It begins as a rather violent One Million Years B.C. but then becomes The Never-ending Story with Batman like cartoons now and then and a really cheesy 70’s American tv movie score. Try reading the film summary on the imdb and you will quickly get the idea. But it does star Tomisaburo Wakayama of Lone Wolf and Cub fame along with Tatsuya Nakadai and Mike Takamine. For the curious.

Thursday, May 21 6:30 a.m. Yellow Jack (1938). I haven’t seen this one which is about Dr. Walter Reed’s fight to cure yellow fever. With Robert Montgomery, Virginia Bruce, Charles Coburn and Buddy Ebsen as ‘Jellybeans’.

Wednesday, May 20/21 1:15 a.m. The Sand Pebbles (1966). Cool Steve McQueen film in China by Robert Wise. Great cast throughout. Richard Crenna and Mako are stand outs. I was at a Q&A screening of a film with Richard Attenborough and he spoke of his friendship with Steve McQueen. He recalled that McQueen called him up with the offer of a part in The Sand Pebbles. He laughed because the character was called "Frenchy."