LornaHansonForbes
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6 minutes ago, AndreaDoria said:
Strange Relations
Paul Riser plays a 40 year old New York psychiatrist. His mother (Olympia Dukakis) tells him, for reasons, that he's adopted and his biological mother, (Julie Walters) lives in Liverpool. He goes to meet her. I watched it because I love those two actresses and I was not disappointed. It's very funny, sad, and heart warming. On Tubi.
TUBI is where it's at, Mama. I just noticed they've got DEATH AND THE MAIDEN and JUST A GIGOLO with DAVID BOWIE and NAKED LUNCH and all kinds of other stuff. Wild stuff. a lot of cool stuff from the 80s and 90s.
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NASHVILLE sucked though.
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41 minutes ago, CinemaInternational said:
A selection of films I admired from the 70s
The Ballad of Cable Hogue, The Beguiled, The Boy Friend, The Night Digger, , Sunday Bloody Sunday, Cabaret, Charley Varrick, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Ali:Fear Eats the Soul, The Taking of Pellham One Two Three, Dog Day Afternoon, Farewell My Lovely, The Man Who Would Be King,, Nashville, Night Moves, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Obsession, All That Jazz,
I abridged your list down to the above titles because they are all 70's films that I have seen for the first time ever in the past 5 years or so, and with the exception of NASHVILLE I liked them all a lot or found them worth watching at least. (emboldened are the ones I ESPECIALLY liked or even loved)
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12 minutes ago, CinemaInternational said:
A selection of films I admired from the 70s
1970: The Ballad of Cable Hogue, Catch-22, Darling Lili, Donkey Skin, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Little Big Man, Lovers and Other Strangers, Patton, Puzzle of a Downfall Child, Ryan's Daughter, Sunflower, The Walking Stick
1971: The Boy Friend, The Emigrants, Fiddler on the Roof, Nicolas and Alexandra, The Night Digger
1972: Avanti, The Godfather, Lady Sings the Blues, 1776, Sounder, Travels With My Aunt, What's Up Doc
1973: Cinderella Liberty, Day for Night, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Paper Moon, The Way We Were
1974: Alice in the Cities, Ali:Fear Eats the Soul, Chinatown, Claudine, Harry and Tonto, Murder on the Orient Express, Thieves Like Us, Young Frankenstein
1975: Barry Lyndon, The Day of the Locust, French Connection II, Love and Death, Nashville, The Sunshine Boys
1976: Bugsy Malone, Face to Face, Family Plot, Mikey and Nicky, Network, Obsession, Rocky, The Shootist, Silent Movie, Small Change, Taxi Driver
1977: Black Sunday, Citizens Band, The Goodbye Girl, Julia, Star Wars
1978: Autumn Sonata, Death on the Nile, Fedora, Foul Play, An Unmarried Woman, Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe
1979: Agatha, All That Jazz, Breaking Away, A Little Romance, Norma Rae, Starting Over, 10, Time After Time
A selection of 202 films I admired from the 70s
1970: The Aristocats, The Ballad of Cable Hogue, Brewster McCloud, Catch-22, The Conformist, Darling Lili, Donkey Skin, Five Easy Pieces, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, The Great White Hope, I Never Sang for My Father, I Walk the Line, The Landlord, The Liberation of LB Jones, Little Big Man, Lovers and Other Strangers, MASH, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, The Only Game in Town, The Out-of-Towners, Patton, The Phantom Tollbooth, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Puzzle of a Downfall Child, Ryan's Daughter, Sunflower, Tell Me You Love Me Junie Moon, The Twelve Chairs, The Walking Stick, Watermelon Man, The Wild Child
1971: The Beguiled, The Boy Friend, The Emigrants, Fiddler on the Roof, Harold and Maude, The Hired Hand, Klute, Kotch, McCabe and Mrs Miller, A New Leaf, Nicolas and Alexandra, The Night Digger, Play Misty for Me, Summer of '42, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Tales of Beatrix Potter, They Might Be Giants, Wild Rovers, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
1972: Avanti, Brother Sun Sister Moon, Butterflies Are Free, Cabaret, Chloe in the Afternoon, The Godfather, The Heartbreak Kid, Images, Junior Bonner, The King of Marvin Gardens, Lady Sings the Blues, The Last of the Red Hot Lovers, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, Man of La Mancha, The New Land, One is a Lonely Number, Play It Again, Sam, 1776, Sounder, Travels With My Aunt, What's Up Doc
1973: Charley Varrick, Cinderella Liberty, Day for Night, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Godspell, Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing, Oklahoma Crude, Paper Moon, Papillion, Serpico, Sleeper, The Spirit of the Beehive, The Sting, Summer Wishes Winter Dreams, The Three Musketeers, Tom Sawyer, A Warm December, The Way We Were
1974: The Abdication, Alice in the Cities, Ali:Fear Eats the Soul, Blazing Saddles, Chinatown, Claudine, Conrack, The Conversation, Daisy Miller, The Gambler, Harry and Tonto, Mame, Murder on the Orient Express, The Odessa File, The Parallax View, The Taking of Pellham One Two Three, The Tamarind Seed, That's Entertainment, Thieves Like Us, A Woman Under the Influence, Young Frankenstein
1975: Barry Lyndon, Crazy Mama, The Day of the Locust, Dog Day Afternoon, Farewell My Lovely, French Connection II, Hearts of the West, Hester Street, Love and Death, The Magic Flute, The Man Who Would Be King, Mirror, Nashville, Night Moves, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, Smile, The Story of Adele H., The Sunshine Boys
1976: Bound for Glory, Bugsy Malone, Face to Face, Family Plot, Freaky Friday, The Front, The Last Tycoon, A Matter of Time, Mikey and Nicky, Network, Nickelodeon, Obsession, Robin and Marian, Rocky, The Shootist, Silent Movie, Small Change, A Star is Born, Taxi Driver, Voyage of the Damned
1977: Black Sunday, Citizens Band, The Duellists, The Goodbye Girl, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Islands in the Stream, Julia, The Late Show, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Opening Night, The Rescuers, Roseland, A Special Day, Star Wars, 3 Women
1978: Autumn Sonata, The Cheap Detective, Comes a Horseman, Days of Heaven, Death on the Nile, Fedora, Foul Play, The Great Train Robbery, The Green Room, House Calls, I Wanna Hold Your Hand, Movie Movie, Remember My Name, Superman, An Unmarried Woman, Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe
1979: Agatha, Alien, All That Jazz, Apocalypse Now, The Black Stallion, Breaking Away, Chapter Two, The Electric Horseman, Kramer Vs Kramer, Last Embrace, A Little Romance, The Muppet Movie, My Brilliant Career, Norma Rae, A Perfect Couple, Starting Over, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, 10, Tess, Time After Time, Yanks
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21 hours ago, cigarjoe said:
I think Deliverance is another Noir one of those Film Soleil Noir. Noir has a Yin and Yang, the yins are the Dark Film Noir of shadows and cities where what you cant see an kill you. The Yangs are the Film Soleil those sun baked, desert, tropical, or outdoor set Noir.
I'm gonna have to watch both Klute and Deliverance with my noir shaded glasses on and see how they shake out. 😉
I can’t get in to KLUTE.
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No, it works as one word.
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17 hours ago, HoldenIsHere said:
Disaster movies with all-star casts were big box office draws in the 1970s. I watched AIRPORT 1975 (1974) for the first time recently. This is a movie I’ve wanted to see for a while but somehow didn’t make it happen until now. It was a follow-up to the highly successful AIRPORT from 1970.
This movie was a lot of fun with moments of genuine tension as the air disaster unfolds as well as enjoyment of some of the cheesier elements when seeing this movie in 2022. I will say Charlton Heston rocks his yellow turtleneck.
Karen Black stars as the head stewardess (as flight attendants were called back then) of commercial Flight 407 bound from the east coast for Los Angeles, and she is wonderful in the role. The disaster begins when a businessman (played by Dana Andrews) suffers a heart attack while flying a private plane and crashes into the cockpit of the commercial jet, killing the co-pilot and leaving the pilot unable to see! What’s Head Stewardess Nancy (Karen Black) going to do? She’s going to have to fly the plane!
The stewardess’s estranged boyfriend (a pilot played by Charlton Heston) and the airline executive played by George Kennedy (the only AIRPORT cast member who is also in AIRPORT 1975) give her instructions over radio. I’m not a big fan of Heston (even though he went to the same high school in the Chicago suburbs that I did), but I like him a lot in this movie. And Karen Black strikes just the right balance between panic and calm when forced to take control.
Much of the fun comes from the all-star cast playing the passengers. There’s Linda Blair (a year after she appeared in THE EXORCIST) as a girl in desperate need of a kidney transplant. Myrna Loy is a hoot as a woman who loves her booze. Sid Caesar plays a man who took the flight because he had a bit part in the movie being shown on the plane. Pop singer Helen Reddy plays a nun who (surprise!) sings a song to the kidney patient. And then there’s Gloria Swanson as HERSELF, who is dictating her memoirs. AIRPORT 1975 would be Gloria Swanson’s final movie appearance.
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2 hours ago, TikiSoo said:
Sometimes I love the simplicity of the male mind & other times, exasperated by it.
Please know that you are not alone in this.
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**although, HAVE YOU READ the NUTRIONAL INFORMATION on THE CAESAR DRESSING????
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21 hours ago, EricJ said:
That's probably why [THE TOWERING INFERNO] confusingly has TWO heroes--
of all the problems that I have with THE TOWERING INFERNO, the film having TWO HEROES isn't one of them, and I think it's actually handled really well, maybe as the result of a happy accident resulting from what I can only imagine was a CONSTANT behind-the-scenes d!ck measuring contest between NEWMAN and McQUEEN- they both have the exact same number of lines and (more or less) two scenes together, mid-way through and at the end- and the rivalry is able to be played out between the two onscreen, one (correctly) blaming the other for the whole mess, and the other trying to assert that, NO, HE is THE JOHN MCLANE of this particular picture.
when you get right down to it, PAUL NEWMAN'S character in THE TOWERING INFERNO is a well-meaning idiot and a crappy architect who gets a lot of people killed.
wise that he stuck to SALAD DRESSING in real life.
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** Of course, now that you mention that Siskel and Ebert didn’t like it, I kinda wanna go back and find something nice to say about it…
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8 hours ago, EricJ said:
That would be Tom Hanks, unless you were trying to be John Heard's boardroom-competitive jerk. (But I know what you mean, I had the same Tom Hanks reaction watching the first Fantastic Beasts movie.)
No, believe it or not, I thought about it before I wrote that reference to BIG.
When Tom Hanks as a 12 year old in the body of the 30 year old says “I don’t get it”-he just means that in his naïve, childlike innocence he can’t wrap his mind around what it’s all about (Alfie)…like how I feel about THE LOVED ONE
But when John Heard in BIG says “I don’t get it” He means “I don’t see who this is for, I don’t see who thought this was a good idea, I don’t see who greenlit this” and more so “I don’t get WHY THIS EXISTS”- questions I asked repeatedly watching AMERICAN POP.
I kind of hate to feel like one of those heartless studio executives in a Coen brothers movie, but seriously, I would’ve told anybody who elevator pitched this film to me to get the hell out of my office then and there.
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1 hour ago, EricJ said:
If I had to righteously and retroactively turn my back on every star who messed up his reputation, I'd have to throw out my Bill Cosby records from the 60's. Not gonna do it, ha ha haaa...
I was on a binge for watching all those 70's disaster movies on DVD that my parents had no interest in seeing when I was a kid, and if I had to pick "the" definitive one--not just "good", but good in a way that demonstrates all the historical tropes--if it came down to a three-way tie between Towering Inferno, The Poseidon Adventure, and Airport '77 (and The Hindenburg disqualified as separate subgenre), Inferno is the one I'd see put in a glass museum box for posterity. The other two might have better casts or scenes, but Inferno puts all the Irwin Allen rules into play, and looks good doing it. There's a reason this one got the trendy box-office-fueled Oscar nom.
(Earthquake had too much hammy Charlton Heston, Airport '79 had two quick-bite mini-disasters but felt cheap and rushed, and the other Irwin Allen films were as ridiculous as his Lost in Space years.)
That's probably why the movie confusingly has TWO heroes--Which book had maverick anti-authority architect Paul Newman, and which book had maverick anti-authority fireman Steve McQueen?
now that you mention it, ROBERT WAGNER should probably get a MR YUCK sticker too.
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1 hour ago, Roy Cronin said:
I had the marvelous opportunity to see "The Towering Inferno " in a theater on opening weekend. I loved it, as did the entire audience.
I had read the two "novels" which were cobbled together to create the storyline, "The Tower" and "The Glass Inferno."
If you've seen "Fame" you may recall that one of the students re-enacts OJ in the movie for her Performing Arts audition!
(Susan Flannery bursting aflame out of the skyscraper window was quite spectacular to see in a theater.)
I’m jealous! These kids today just don’t understand what it was to see a movie like that in a theater, especially a packed house.
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55 minutes ago, Bethluvsfilms said:
I also agree with you on O.J...., I still want to puke every time he's on screen.
And not JUST because of his acting (although that’s enough.)
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9 minutes ago, CinemaInternational said:
Faye is extremely glamourous here
FAYE is NUCLEAR LEVELS OF GLAMOUR.
It’s like she’s single-handedly trying to make up for everything about the first four years of the decade being so BUTT UGLY , (and she comes damn close.) -
55 minutes ago, speedracer5 said:
Here you go!
OH THANK YOU!
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I mean, they allowed me to post the video for I WANNA HAVE SOME FUN by SAMANTHA FOX in a thread in GENERAL DISCUSSIONS a couple weeks ago, so I think they're pretty cool and open-minded for the most part.
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6 minutes ago, misswonderly3 said:
Hmm, couldn't find Lorna's post anywhere on this thread. What's going on? Did ottocensor delete the link? But I think it would have to be an actual human to do that, go to the link and see the clip and then decide to delete it from this thread.
Doesn't matter, I'm pretty sure I found it anyway on youtube. If Lorna's youtube link to the South Park parody was deleted by a censor/ moderator here, that's ridiculous. It just wasn't that offensive, and anyway, we're all adults here.
Alternatively, maybe it was just deleted on my own access to this thread because I'm in Canada. But no, if that were the case, I wouldn't have been able to access it on youtube. Which I did.
Either way, it's crazy that Lorna's post is missing.
I bet you anything it was a copyright issue. someone on youtube noticed it had been embedded elsewhere and asked it be removed (which they can do), not a censor issue or moderator being harsh...VIACOM I think still owns SOUTH PARK and they can be hardcore with their copyrights
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16 minutes ago, Allhallowsday said:
HEAVY METAL was even more sexist and "offensive" than I remembered. It did make me laugh again...! Animation is meh.
it's kind of like watching the contents of a spiral binder from a 1980s middle school get the FANTASIA treatment
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ALSO, i'm sorry, but if I could cover OJ'S face in the above photo with a MR. YUCK EMOJI, I would.
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and RICHARD CHAMBERLIN reminds me of BEA ARTHUR.
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JENNIFER JONES always reminds me of DIANE KEATON in this movie.
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ah, yes. ok, I see.
edit: maybe next time, use bold instead.
"they don't call it a cockpit for nuthin!"
(gets the point across I think)