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LawrenceA
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7 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
Yeah, now I will hop up on another soapbox. Whereby I proclaim that TCM should have a Christmas in July theme.
But that's another issue!
No.
I'd prefer Christmas movies be shown on Christmas day only. In fact, only primetime Christmas evening. From 8 to 9:30 PM.
Anything else is overkill.
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5 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
We don't know if that will happen. NBC/Universal has been leasing those titles to TCM, while still making them available to Starz streaming customers.
Not to derail things even further, but it will be interesting to see what plays out with all of that. I read the other day that Comcast, which owns NBC/Universal, is in a battle with Lionsgate, who owns Starz/Encore, and as a result of this fight, Comcast may be dropping all of the Starz/Encore channels in the near future. Will that also have an impact on other streaming outlets, and what gets leased out?
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5 minutes ago, TomJH said:
Monday, Sept 2
12:45pm (EST) TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE
I've heard of this film. Word is it's pretty good.
"Good? I'll say the film is good, amigo, and I'll blow the stinkin' head off of any hombre that says it isn't! Now, Pepe, hand me those pliers and I'll show this filthy gringo how to remove a tooth."
Are there any badgers in this film?
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11 minutes ago, SansFin said:
I must wonder how many might be interested in movies which are less androcentric such as: Vampyros Lesbos (1971), Vampire Lesbian Kickboxers (2004) or Daughters of Darkness (1971).
I recently bought a copy of Daughters of Darkness, as well as Vampyres (1974). One should be self-reliant when it comes to lesbian-themed vampire flicks of the 1970's.
I haven't seen Vampire Lesbian Kickboxers. Is it as good as Lesbian Vampire Killers (2009), or as bad as Lust for Dracula (2004)?
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59 minutes ago, bukwurm said:
I have a hard time believing people have complained about too many days in October being devoted to horror films.
They do, though. In fact, every year during October, there are a few people who complain repeatedly about the amount of horror films being shown. I'm not one of them, but they do exist. I'm surprised they haven't posted in this thread yet.
Some people just don't like horror films, period. They'd rather not see any on the schedule at any time. While I don't agree with that, I do understand the sentiment, as I feel the same way about musicals.
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The Affairs of Dobie Gillis is on the 23rd at 8:30 AM.
Happy Halloween.
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I noticed that Look Who's Back is currently available on Netflix, so I added it to my queue.
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It was probably a copy of The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett.
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The Lure is a Polish Cold-War-horror-musical-romance. How many of those have you seen? The story follows two sisters, both man-eating sirens/mermaids, who decide to enter the world of man and join a two-bit nightclub cabaret act, where they become a big hit among the downtrodden clientele. This has excellent production design and cinematography, good performances by all involved, and catchy songs that work even if you don't speak Polish.
Baskin is a Turkish horror film that centers on a group of city cops who, on a late night shift, travel into the countryside to respond to a domestic disturbance. They end up literally dealing with Hell on Earth. The movie spends a long time setting up the police characters, while also lulling the audience into a sense of low-key complacency while also imbuing these early scenes with a slowly-growing feeling of dread, before everything goes crazy in the last third. Many people won't care for this, finding it too slow to get moving, or too extreme in the end. I loved it.
Attack on Titan: Part 1 is a Japanese science fiction/fantasy/horror film based on a popular manga and anime series. In the future, humanity is nearly wiped out by giant, deformed humanoids that are called "Titans". One of the last strongholds of humankind is inside a walled encampment, but things have been quiet for some time, the narrative being set 200 years after the Titans appeared. The young generation doesn't have any first-hand knowledge of the Titan attacks, and so their lack of concern leads to negligence, and a renewed assault from the horrifying creatures. This movie is silly, but rather unnerving, with the Titans a unique visual sight. The last act gets a little too Japanese-cartoony for me, and there's no real ending, as the title implies, but I still liked it.
Evolution is a slow-burn fantasy (?) drama set in a coastal community that seems to be populated only by grown women and young boys. The story focuses on one such boy, who begins feeling poorly. His mother/guardian takes him to a doctor, where an ultrasound shows him to be pregnant. Soon after, surgery removes a small writhing creature from the child's abdomen. Such are the strange oddities in this bizarre, inscrutable movie. In a era when most films over explain things, where audiences seem to only consume stories that are clearly defined and laid out in simple A-B-C fashion, and nothing is asked of the viewers, Evolution is the complete opposite, a difficult, dream-like (nightmarish may be more accurate) sketch of a movie where nothing is explained, and it's almost all left to the viewer to deduce or extrapolate (or not; the movie works either way). I also liked the H.P. Lovecraft-style imagery. Again, this won't be to many viewers' taste, but I applaud the filmmakers' effort.
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- The Lure, Agnieszka Smoczynska, Poland
- Baskin, Can Evrenol, Turkey
- Son of Saul, Laszlo Nemes, Hungary
- Attack on Titan: Part 1, Shinji Higuchi, Japan
- Evolution, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, France
- The Assassin, Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Taiwan
- Ip Man 3, Wilson Yip, China
- Victoria, Sebastian Schipper, Germany
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1001 Movies You Must See
- Son of Saul, Laszlo Nemes, Hungary
- Victoria, Sebastian Schipper, Germany
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51 minutes ago, speedracer5 said:
I’m not surprised you had a bad experience. Mickey Rooney just seems like the person whom you would have a bad experience meeting.
Im not a Mickey Rooney fan if you can’t tell. I cannot tell what his appeal was. I always laugh when I read that Errol Flynn acted as his wingman at clubs. Hmm Errol Flynn would be a terrible wingman. Who would you pick? Flynn? Or Mickey Rooney? Blech!
Mickey Rooney was the Luke Perry of his day. Maybe now you understand why they called it the "Great Depression".
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55 minutes ago, laffite said:
I have finished the first season of The Handmaid's Tale after which I had to resist the urge to go out and torture someone. I have missed my last two SM meeting due the satisfaction of watching this and I got a call from my dominatrix who was wondering where the hell I have been. I could hear the cracking of her whip in the background. I said who needs a whip when you can engage high **** [m a s o c h i s m] just by sitting in front of the TV. This show is a masterpiece of dystopia. It just keeps on coming and very nearly get exhausting. One outrage against humanity after another. It is well conceived story though and it survives censure because of its artistic integrity and execution. I mentioned earlier that Elizabeth Moss is good in this but I found after awhile I began to tire of looking at her face. She has close ups galore most of which she is shown in the throes of various expressions of agony, physically and emotionally. I have to say that I am indeed TIRED OF LOOKING AT THAT FACE. And although she is not bad looking it begins to strain credulity that she should be so desired by powerful men (or should i say VERY powerful men, since all men are powerful in comparison to women (unless he happens to be married to one he loves and have to watch her being a handmaid, or if you otherwise oppose the regime). Overexposure to this show should be avoided and I therefore believe, at least for myself, that binge watching is not recommended. I don't even have the Second Season in the queue as I am taking a break. It's not certain that I will even continue. Even if I can get through S2, there is a S3 as well. And if that's not enough, I read in the book section of the NYT that Margaret Atwood, whose novel the show is based, has just finished a 800-page sequel, which could mean another TV show. And now, to Season 3 (a new story each season) of Fargo. This show has gotten a little rough over the first two seasons, but it's a nursery rhyme in comparison, ///
Some reviewer or another coined the term "misery porn" for shows that elicit the type of feeling you're describing watching The Handmaid's Tale. Shows that seem to wallow in making their characters miserable before occasionally killing them, making the surviving characters that much more miserable. The first show I recall getting that label was the AMC police mystery show The Killing, but the label has been given to other dark shows such as The Walking Dead, The Leftovers, and even Game of Thrones. There have been others, but my mind is still fuzzy from a nap and I can't recall any more at the moment.
I liked Fargo season one a lot, season two even more, but season three not as much. It's still worth seeing, and better than most else on TV at the time. Season four is said to be airing late next year.
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A Man for All Seasons (1966) will be released on Blu-ray from Sony Pictures on October 22.
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8 minutes ago, spence said:
Who else rates Walter Hill's 1975 depression era heavy drama Hard Times as a great work? I'd even go so far as voting it his best motion picture barely over 1982's 48Hrs
Walter Hill's best films:
- The Long Riders
- Southern Comfort
- The Warriors
- Johnny Handsome
- 48 Hrs
- The Driver
- Extreme Prejudice
- Hard Times
- Last Man Standing
- Streets of Fire
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17 minutes ago, speedracer5 said:
I agree with you re: the labeling. I also agree with Joe on noir being subjective rather than a definitive genre. TCM doesn't even label the films as noir. I'm sure most films possess traits of multiple genres.
It's hilarious to me that someone would be so upset about Muller's "mis-labeling" of a film that they would actually leave the room. Just think about what other trivial things they probably overreact to in their day to day life?
There used to be a poster on these boards who would flip out in much the same fashion when it came to determining if a movie was noir or not. Insufferable ****. Thankfully he's gone.
I get tired when those kinds of debates start, and try to avoid them at all costs. Just talk about the movie.
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7 hours ago, TikiSoo said:
Another perfect example of how low standards are. Everyone thinks they can write reviews, everyone thinks they can do better than professionals, everyone thinks their opinions matter.
Even you, apparently.
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11 minutes ago, cigarjoe said:
Leslie Banks I was not familiar with,
I'm surprised to see that you don't know Leslie Banks. He was a successful star in English films for a few decades. I like him best in The Most Dangerous Game (1932) as Count Zaroff, the prototypical aristocrat who likes to hunt people. He appeared with Olivier and Leigh in Fire Over England (1937). One of his last appearances was in Olivier's Henry V (1944), so the two must have liked working together.
Banks was a standout in the original The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), Sanders of the River (1935) alongside Paul Robeson, and Went the Day Well? (1944).
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The Story of Temple Drake (1933)?
Or the 1961 remake Sanctuary?
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The Night of the Sorcerers (1974) - 3/10 or 8/10
Spanish horror film from writer-director Amando de Ossorio. A group of European scientists and surveyors camp near a village in the (fictional) African nation of Bomasa. Unluckily for them, there are zombie tribesman with a white vampire queen nearby. With Simon Andreu, Kali Hansa, Maria Kosty, Loreta Tovar, Jose Thelman, Barbara Rey, and Jack Taylor. This is terribly written and badly directed, but it's also so ridiculous as to be entertaining. The tribal ritual used to create more vampire women involves tying a woman between two trees, whipping her clothes off, then beheading her, causing the head to roll down a stone altar where it lands upright, springing to life with vampire fangs at the ready. Somehow the heads are reattached to the bodies, and the women are given leopard print bikini outfits complete with mini-capes and fringed boots. They also run around in slow motion, making it that much sillier.
Source: Scream Factory Blu-ray
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Race with the Devil?
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Moses (1974) - 4/10
Biblical epic with Burt Lancaster as the Israelite raised in the Egyptian royal house who, after a period of exile, returns to secure the freedom of his people out of bondage. With Anthony Quayle, Irene Papas, Ingrid Thulin, Laurent Terzieff, Mariangela Melato, Simonetta Stefanelli, Paul Muller, and Paul L. Smith. This was the 142-minute feature version of a 6-hour TV mini-series, and as such it's very choppy. Familiarity with the story helps fill in the gaps, but it's still a mess. Producer Lew Grade and director Gianfranco De Bosio seem to be going for a neo-realist tone, rather than the slick showmanship exhibited in Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 The Ten Commandments. Everything looks ugly and dirty. There's also as much emphasis on the post-Exodus part of Moses' story as there is on the Egyptian/plagues section. It also doesn't sugarcoat the implementation of the New Law, with various gruesome executions committed against offenders.
Source: Lionsgate DVD
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4 minutes ago, The Keeper said:
The Flex service through Comcast, a streaming only box for Internet customers, starts off with many freebies.
I hadn't heard of this. That may be something I'm interested in looking in to.
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Just now, CinemaInternational said:
Again, too dense and quick. Sigh. I'm always making mistakes.....
It's fine. You're doing a lot of research, and I appreciate your work. I can't believe so many of these people have not appeared in a BP nominee, so I'm looking up each one that seems egregious. 2 out of all of those isn't a bad average on your part.
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3 minutes ago, CinemaInternational said:
Kenneth Branagh was supposedly an extra in Chariots of Fire, that's his only BP nominee.
He was in Dunkirk.
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