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LawrenceA
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Xerxes - David Farrar in THE 300 SPARTANS
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Oscar Levant
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Fanny Ardant
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Shinjuku Triad Society
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THE HAND - (5/10) - Ridiculous psychological horror film starring Michael Caine as a comic strip artist who loses his hand in an accident. His life is in turmoil as his marriage crumbles and his livelihood is gone, and if that wasn't enough, it seems his disembodied hand is now crawling about committing murders. Or is it? There may be a good story in the subject matter, dealing with the mental, physical, and spiritual difficulties of losing a limb, but this film isn't it. It flirts with the issues faintly, but settles on being a substandard thriller. Also starring Andrea Marcovicci, Viveca Lindfors, Bruce McGill, Charles Fleischer, and Oliver Stone as a bum. Oh, Stone wrote and directed this too.
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Swithin, I haven't seen Celine and Julie Go Boating. I've heard of it, but haven't tracked it down yet. The same with The Phantom of Liberty and Swept Away. The Golden Fortress I hadn't even heard of. And it's funny what you say about Thunderbolt & Lightfoot. I just rewatched it recently and thought the same thing!
film lover, I've seen all of your choices. Happy to see the shout-out for Sinbad!
TopBilled, I haven't seen Butley, Huckleberry Finn, The Little Prince, or Super Cops. I know that last one gets shown on TCM Underground occasionally.
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1974 - 151 films seen
1. The Godfather, Part II
2. Chinatown
3. Young Frankenstein
4. Blazing Saddles
5. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
6. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
7. The Parallax View
8. The Gambler
9. The Conversation
10. Death Wish
Runner-ups: Lenny, Thieves Like Us, A Woman Under the Influence, The Man with the Golden Gun, and California Split.
Larry's Choices: Dr. Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks & Andy Warhol's Dracula
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Here are the 1001 Movie to See Before You Die entries for 1973:
Amarcord
American Graffiti
Badlands
Day for Night
Don't Look Now
Enter the Dragon
The Exorcist
F for Fake
Fantastic Planet
The Harder They Come
Mean Streets
The Mother and the Wh*re**
Papillon
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Serpico
Sleeper
The Spirit of the Beehive
The Sting
Turkish Delight**
The Wicker Man
**denotes films I have not seen
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Nice choices, film lover. I just saw BREEZY for the first time recently and was pleasantly surprised. There were a lot of "middle-aged man renews life through an affair with a hippie girl" films in that era, and I didn't like many of them, so I wasn't excited about BREEZY. But it was much better than most of them, and didn't seem as phony. Both William Holden and Kay Lenz were very good, I thought.
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HALLOWEEN II - (7/10) - Sequel to the hit 1978 film picks up right where the first left off, with Laurie Strode having survived the attacks of the seemingly supernatural Michael Meyers. Laurie is taken to the hospital to treat her minor wounds, and that's where the majority of the film takes place, as the still-murderous Michael cuts through neighborhoods and eventually hospital staff in his unstoppable quest to murder Laurie. The ever vigilant Dr. Loomis is still on the hunt for Michael, and it becomes a question of who gets their prey first.
Jamie Lee Curtis returns as Laurie, and does well, although she stays in a state of shock through a lot of the film. Donald Pleasence also returns to his most iconic role, the implacable Dr. Loomis. Lance Guest, Leo Rossi, Charles Cyphers, and Hunter Von Leer also appear. Look quickly for Dana Carvey as a reporter wearing a trucker cap. John Carpenter and Debra Hill return as writers and producers, although directing duties were ceded to Rick Rosenthal. Carpenter and his frequent collaborator Alan Howarth composed and performed the terrific score. Dean Cundey provides some of the best widescreen cinematography seen in horror films of the era.
The movie maintains a good feeling of suspense throughout, although efforts to flesh out the Meyers character aren't needed and subtract from the enigmatic mood of the first film. Some of the deaths are also more grisly, in an attempt, I assume, to keep up with the slasher competition. Despite these minor drawbacks, the film is still good, and recommended for suspense and horror fans.
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I'd like to see the cut scene from FRANKENSTEIN where Fritz teaches the creature how to brush his hair and tie his boots.
Or the "Night of the Dancing Donkeys" number from BROADWAY MELODY OF 1938. I mean, who wouldn't want to see Robert Taylor wearing a Mexican peasant costume, surrounded by dancers in donkey costumes wearing giant sombreros, as he warbles out, in a bad phony accent,
"How I miss those hot nights in old Tia-juanaaaaa,
When I could dance with me burros whenever me wannaaaa!"
And, after all the restorations, they still haven't found the "rally of the cheese-mongers" scene from METROPOLIS.
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FROGS!
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From the little I've read about Bowie's claim to be gay, it
seems, especially in retrospect, more of a p.r. ploy than
any actual attempt to come out. He would later claim to be
bisexual, but I wonder about that too. Bowie was a pretty
good marketing guy on his own. In the US, Alice Cooper
was also into make up and semi-glam things, along with
a very theatrical concert presentation, likely before the
glam rock movement in the UK took off. I'm thinking Bowie
might have been a little jealous of T. Rex's singles success
for a few years in the early 1970s. I don't believe there
was ever Bowiextasty. This is pretty much ancient history
now, but it's fun to go back and take a look at these things
on the sad occasion of Bowie's death. FYI, the only surviving
Spider(s) from Mars is drummer Mick "Woody" Woodmansey
I read a rather exhaustive biography on Bowie a couple of years ago that said a lot of what you're saying. The sexual ambiguity was more of a marketing ploy than a reality, although he did have a couple of male encounters. He also felt a strong rivalry with Marc Bolan in the beginning, but quickly eclipsed him.
All in all, I'd have to say Bowie was an incredibly influential and inspirational rock act, behind only Elvis and the Beatles.
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GALAXY OF TERROR - (6/10) - Bizarre sci-fi movie from producer Roger Corman. A rescue team travels to the planet of Morganthus in search of a missing expedition. What they find is a giant alien pyramid crawling with nightmarish creatures. Can they discover the secret of the pyramid before they're all picked off one by one? Starring Erin Moran from HAPPY DAYS and Edward Albert from Eddie Albert. Also with Ray Walston, Grace Zabriskie, Zalman King, Robert Englund, and Sid Haig. James Cameron worked on production design, which is pretty good considering, and there's excellent basic fx work. There's a somewhat decent attempt at world-building with the script, but it pretty much falls apart by the end. I'd still recommend it for sci-fi and monster enthusiasts, and there's at least one unforgettable scene.
"Aren't you afraid?"
"I'm too scared to be."
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This show would have been one of my favorites when I was a kid. I loved seeing how they designed and applied the make-up effects, and even dabbled some in it myself in an amateur way. My old stories, and this FACE OFF show have inspired my youngest nephew to go to make-up and special effects college, and his first semester is in the fall. He's already been taking basic makeup and cosmetics classes at our local community college. So that show affected one life, at least.
It is enjoyable, and seeing the various design concepts, and how they overcome technical obstacles, can be fascinating. It manages to keep the conventional reality-competition show shenanigans to a minimum, as well.
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Othello
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ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW
Next:changing a flat tire
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Open Thread
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Bogie, I haven't seen DISTANT THUNDER, THE MOTHER AND THE HOE, or THE ICEMAN COMETH.
Swithin, I've seen all of your choices for once!
TopBilled, I haven't seen THE KILLING KIND, LOVE AND PAIN AND THE WHOLE DAMN THING, SWEET JESUS PREACHERMAN, and TOM SAWYER.
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THE FUNHOUSE - (6/10) - Slick, goofy horror flick that follows a quartet of teens and one monster-obsessed little boy as they are chased around a travelling carnival by a masked killer. Elizabeth Berridge from AMADEUS stars, with William Finley, Sylvia Miles, and, in an odd creative choice, Kevin Conway as multiple carnival barkers with a variety of costumes and accents. The widescreen cinematography is polished, and everything moves along quickly enough. Rick Baker did some make-up design work. Director Tobe Hooper was selected to direct the following year's POLTERGEIST after producers saw this.
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1973 - 176 films seen (most until 1985)
1. The Exorcist
2. Mean Streets
3. Serpico
4. Papillon
5. The Wicker Man
6. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
7. Day of the Jackal
8. Enter the Dragon
9. Badlands
10. The Last Detail
Runner-ups:Scarecrow, Sleeper, High Plains Drifter, Lady Snowblood, and Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural.
Larry's Choices: Godmonster of Indian Flats & Female Vampire (a.k.a. Erotikill)
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Here are the 1001 Movies to See Before You Die entries for 1972:
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant**
Cabaret
Cries and Whispers
Deliverance
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Fat City
Frenzy
The Godfather
The Heartbreak Kid
High Plains Drifter^
Last Tango in Paris
Pink Flamingos
Sleuth
Solaris
Superfly
^I have this listed with the 1973 films
**denotes film I have not seen
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The use of handheld or simulated handheld cinematography goes back awhile. It supposedly tricks the brain into 1) thinking you're there in the middle of the action, and/or 2) adding realism by simulating the type of camerawork we're used to seeing in newscasts or documentary films. Originally it was just used during action or suspense scenes, but in the last decade they use it even in one on one dialogue scenes, which for me anyway takes me right out of the picture. So-called "shaky cam" isn't pleasant on the big screen for me, but on tv it's not quite as irritating.
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