CinemaInternational
-
Posts
4,496 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
4
Posts posted by CinemaInternational
-
-
On 9/12/2019 at 8:55 AM, spence said:
Anyone recall the 1969 musical version of Mr Chips with 0'Toole?
I'm not a fan, but it's among his record 0 for 8 Oscar shots
Yes. I'm a big fan of that version actually.
-
On 9/16/2019 at 11:27 PM, hamradio said:
Feel sorry for the projectionist.
You know what that man in the padded cell is incessantly mumbling under his breath don't you? "If I were a rich man/Daidle deedle daidle/Daidle daidle deedle daidle dumb"
-
United Artists
The year started with a western saga
The clown and the Kid was a family quickie
The Misfits was both the final film for Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe, and was close to the end for Montgomery Clift and Thelma Ritter as well (they'd all be gone by the end of the decade). The film itself becomes a bit dull toward the end, but one thing is clear, it's Monroe's finest performance.
It was time for a Frontier Uprising
Dog versus criminals
Don Murray brought religion and hope to prison...
Flashback to the battle in Burma
the Brits served up a little horror saga
The minotaur was another sword and sandal saga
Ride 'em cowboy to a Gunfight
The Western theme continued with Jim Davis
Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, and Dina Merill entered the world of crime in The Young Savages. John Frankenheimer directed.
Robert Mitchum decided to try comedy....
A Matter of Morals is an ironic title for a film which poster makes it clear is about anything but.....
When the Clock Strikes was a law vs gangsters saga
Gary Cooper made his final screen appearence in the thriller The Naked Edge. Deborah Kerr was a woman in danger.
Toshiro Mifune was cast as a native American....
The story of Buddha made for a 70 MM epic.
Michelangelo Antonioni made a splash with La Notte with Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau
Three on a Spree was a British comedy
Ingrid Bergman fell for Anthony Perkins in Goodbye Again
back to the sword and sandals.
Fate of a Man was an esteemed drama from the USSR
Lana Turner returned to the screen for another romantic potboiler.
.jpg)
Mary Had a Little... was a provocative Brit comedy
The Cat Burglar was a little thriller
The crime theme continued in You Have to Run Fast
Teenage Millionaire was a youth oriented musical
Fredric March and Ben Gazzara were at loggerheads in The Young Doctors
Paris Blues was a lovely little bittersweet romantic drama with fine roles for Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Sidney Poitier, and Diahann Carroll, plus it had a great Jazz soundtrack to boot.
Aliens were after a plane in Flight that Disappeared
Gangsters ahoy in the Secret of Deep Harbor
.jpg)
Kirk Douglas was facing off against a group of individuals accused of sexual violence in Town without Pity. Seems to me that the basic plot sounds like the much later 1988 film The Accused.
UA secured the Best Picture winner two years in a row with West Side Story, an ever-popular musical.
The boy Who Caught a Crook was a little family film
William Shatner was a teacher in The Explosive Generation, also featuring Patty McCormick.
Gun Street was a return to the west....
.jpg)
One Two Three was an utter-delight. A whiz-bang satire from Billy Wilder, it is one of the funniest films I have ever seen.
Summer of the seventeenth Doll was a saga of infidelity set in Australia.
And another choice title was The Children's hour, with gripping performances from Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, and many others. The film had a savage impact.
And Judgment at nuremberg also stands as one of the greats. Indeed, this film, I feel is among the 50 best films ever made.
Rex Harrison and Rita Hayworth were up to no good....
X-15 was a fictionalization of the NASA program with Charles Bronson. It was the cinematic debut for director Richard Donner and co-star Mary Tyler Moore
Carroll Baker went through unspeakable horrors in Something Wild
And Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Hope Lange, Peter Falk, and film-debuting Ann-Margret were featured in Frank Capra's Pocketful of Miracles, a remake of his own Lady for a Day from 1933.
American International Pictures
The Year opened with Barbara Steele in Black Sunday
.jpg)
Followed by the horror of The Hand
.jpg)
Konga had Michael Gough on the run from a gorilla
Beware of Children was an unusual sight at AIP, a family comedy
Vincent Price and Charles Bronson took on Jules Verne....
Alakazam the Great was the company's first animated film
.jpg)
Back to horror with Vincent Price and John Kerr in The Pit and the Pendulum
_poster.jpg)
The Rough and the Smooth was a saga of infidelity
Twist All night was a dance film
Space-men was from Europe
the Phantom Planet continued the Sci-fi trend
Flight of the Lost Balloon was an Adventure film
Guns of the Black Witch was a pirate saga
Embassy
This company technically started a few years earlier, bringing in mostly small scale foreign titles or sword-and sandal films, of which there are a few here. But this was the year they made their first big impact, and for a time at least (as AVCO Embassy) they were a formidable mini-major with several Oscar nominated films. They lasted until 1986.
The Sky Above and the Mud Below was an Oscar winning documentary
The Hellfire Club was a swashbuckler with Dennis Stanton.... er I mean Keith Michell (too much Murder She Wrote here)
Journey beneath the Desert was a saga of Atlantis
Two Women was the breakthrough as Sophia Loren won the Oscar for her heartbreaking work in a shocking saga from Vittorio De Sica
The Fascist continued a look at the Italian side of WWII
Donald O'Connor starred in The Wonders of Aladdin
The Miracle of the Wolves was a French swashbuckler
Peter Finch was caught between love and politics
The Three Musketeers made an appearance
Constantine and the Cross was another epic, this one with Cornel Wilde
Marcello Mastroianni and Claudia Cardinele were an item in Bell'Antonio
Marcello's Divorce Italian Style would win the Oscar the following year for Foreign film
Sophia Loren starred in Madame
What a Carve Up was a Brit horror comedy
Now Claudia was with Belmondo in La Viaccia
Fury at Smuggler's Bay was a pirate adventure
Sword without a Country was an Italian swashbuckler
The Seven Revenges told of Mongols at battle
Hercules in the Valley of Woe was another sword-and-sandal saga
Triumph of the Son of Hercules was more prehistoric adventure
Lex Barker played Robin Hood
And Anna Magnani led The Passionate Thief
-
5
-
-
1 hour ago, MovieCollectorOH said:
I think they mentioned the TV show The Office about 10 times in that article.
Admittedly, it is the most watched show on Netflix, so they feel it's a real coup to get it back from them.
-
Just now, sewhite2000 said:
I remember one of the theaters in my hometown celebrated ONE YEAR (!) of showing Dances with Wolves in 1991. I don't know that even Avengers: Endgame would make it in a first-run theater any more than about three months today.
My father recalls when one theatre played Fiddler on the roof for about 5 years in the 1970s.....
-
1
-
-
2 hours ago, Fedya said:
Clara Bow meets Marsha Mason?
Now THAT is something I would pay to see (even though i know it would be impossible, since Clara died before Marsha made her film debut)
-
Criterion for December....
Until the End of the World (1991)
Old Joy (2006)
The Story of Temple Drake (1933)
Blu-Ray upgrade for:
Tunes of Glory (1960) -
On 9/14/2019 at 11:15 AM, Dargo said:
(…yesterday was Sophie Tucker's birthday)
"Some of These Days"!
-
1
-
-
Yes, I remember hearing about them. I conversed with some people who used it all the time, many times a month, and I remember when it began to hemorrhage money, because people couldn't go for unlimited movies anymore. To me, the service seemed a bit excessive. Its one thing if you go to a film maybe once or twice a month, but it was a whole other ballgame when people were going multiple times a week to almost every film in release. it's not surprising that they reached the end of the line.
-
On 9/14/2019 at 12:57 PM, LawrenceA said:
I also just finished watching The Mirror Crack'd, with Lansbury as Miss Marple, and seen by many as the dry run for Murder, She Wrote. The movie wasn't very good, but Lansbury has a good time with her role, and the early appearance by Pierce Brosnan was amusing.
I think that The Mirror Crack'd was pretty enjoyable, and also a bit poignant in a way. This was pretty much the end of the Line for Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, and Rock Hudson. They would all make some TV appearances (North and South, Falcon Crest, Dynasty) and a smattering of films (The Flintstones, Liebestraum, The Ambassador) but this was the last real showcase for them, and Taylor and Novak were having a lot of fun in their catty movie star rival scenes. Especially Novak. Her over-the-top performance was a real hoot for me. Looks like she finally got her chance to spoof the excesses of divas.
-
On 9/14/2019 at 2:38 PM, TopBilled said:
Do they even know who Sophie B. Hawkins is?
I know of her from two songs: "As I Lay Me Down to Sleep" (which was pretty big on the radio for a while, and I caught a snippet of it on there recently) and the end credits song of the 1996 film Mrs Winterbourne (which, for the record, was the time that a Barbara Stanwyck noir, No Man of Her Own, was restructured as a romantic comedy for Ricki Lake and Brendan Fraser..... with the murder, blackmail, and fatal train crash left in)
-
1
-
-
Just now, TopBilled said:
I don't think classic has to do with the age of a film. It has to do with it being a favorite of audiences, something that is often re-watched. A new film released in the last year or so could already be a classic if it strikes a chord with the masses.
One things for certain, as much as I liked them, the last two movies I paid to rent on the internet, on Amazon mind you, not iTunes, won't ever be on this 25 most-popular chart: The Day of the Locust (1975) last month and Citizens Band (1977) this past week.
Memo to Criterion: Get on Citizens Band STAT. True Stories (1986) proved to be a surprise bonanza goldmine for them last year, and this early Jonathan Demme film has the same mixture of sweetness, humor, and eccentricity.
-
1
-
-
Forrest Gump is listed here, and if classic means 25 years or longer, it barely qualifies, but it certainly makes me feel old listed on a list of classics......
-
Looks like The goldfinch is the unexpected bomb. Scratch it from the roster of contenders.
-
1
-
-
Just now, Vautrin said:
They do provide a nice comic touch to all the killing. I recognized the actor who played
Mr. Wint, as I've seen him in other roles. Mr. Kidd not so much. It would have been fun
to have a tag team wrestling match between them and Bambi and Thumper.
The man who played Mr. Wint is the father of character actor Crispin Glover, best known for playing Michael J. Fox's father in the 1985 blockbuster perennial Back to the Future.
The best thing about this film is the song song by Shirley Bassey. WOW!
-
31 minutes ago, EricJ said:
I'll forever associate this movie with the critic who once described "1981 - The Most Depressing Christmas Season in Movie History".
Although it also had Ragtime, Reds, Ghost Story and Taps to help it out, all paled in comparison to Steve Martin in a noose.
(Don't...try to figure it out. A line word-associated itself in his head at the very mention of P&M, and he wanted to show off what a Beloved Film Fan that he could quote it to us fellow Beloved Film Fans, in the exact same context as it was in his head. That's the nature of the disease.)
I don't know, Taps had that scene where MAJOR SPOILER: Character death details.
a 12 year old got machine gunned......with the camera lingering over his quivering hand and the blood flowing out of his mouth.
-
On 9/11/2019 at 8:40 AM, Det Jim McLeod said:
The Slender Thread (1965) 7/10 TCM
A college student (Sidney Poitier) volunteers at a crisis center and gets a call from a woman (Anne Bancroft) who has taken an overdose of pills.
I believe I had seen this many years ago, but did not recall it. It totally kept my interest throughout the entire 98 minutes. Both stars were recent Oscar winners and they help maintain the suspense. Bancroft has a majority of the scenes as we get some flashbacks of her life while Poitier tries to keep her on the phone. There is a supporting cast of future stars of TV- Telly Savalas (Kojak) plays the supervisor of the crisis center, Edward Asner (Mary Tyler Moore Show) is a cop and Steven Hill (Mission Impossible) portrays Bancroft's fisherman husband. There is nice B&W cinematography and on location shots of Seattle. Fans of 1960s music will enjoy a funny scene at a discotheque where rock group that resembles The Yardbirds play some catchy music.
Just finished it. Excellent film. And a landmark one for me, as it was my #400th film from the 1960s.
-
1
-
-
Being a big fan of Renee Zellweger's, I really hope she gets at least a nomination. the 2016 Bridget Jones film aside, its been too long since she's been seen. She has this innate likability.
-
Just had to ask this after seeing this 1970 ad on Warner Archive's Facebook page for Brewster McCloud. MGM was clearly at a loss on how to sell it.
Have there been any other films that by posters, ad campaigns, or trailers have shown a company at loose ends with a film (well outside of this and Brazil, which famously came close to not being released)
-
13 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
The later films work better if you don't try to compare them with the original cast films, as they're too different in style and temperament. If you're familiar with the characters from The Next Generation series, and have watched a lot of the episodes, then the later films are enjoyable to varying degrees. First Contact is one of the best films of the series, even though it's not without its faults. Insurrection feels like a feature-length episode of TNG. Generations is pretty bad, though, and the fate of Kirk is handled very poorly, in my opinion. And Nemesis is just a complete misfire.
As for the New Trek, J.J. Abrams-era films, I'm not a fan, but I seem to be in the minority in that.
I just took the liberty of downloading First Contact from Amazon Prime.... Thank you for this.
-
On 9/10/2019 at 8:24 PM, NipkowDisc said:
shatner would not be too old to play kirk on an audioplay disc but I think paramount would be too scared sheetless to give shatner permission to do even that.
they killed star trek and they know it.
he's still the heart and guts of STAR TREK
Not that I've seen any of the other films yet, but I know I'd miss Nimoy, Kelley, Doohan, Koenig, Nichols, and Takai as well. Whetever differences were offscreen, they made a great onscreen team.
-
7 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
please don't think I'm HATIN ON TCM for making what was probably a savvy yardsale acquisition of all the BOND FILMS, i have just never been able to muster even the SLIGHTEST interest in them...outside of A VIEW TO A KILL, which I really just like to think of as GRACE JONES: THE MOVIE.
(TRUE STORY- 8 year old me cried in the theater when she dies.)
She is definitely one of two things everybody recalls from that film (the other being the booming, blasting Duran Duran theme song). She steals all of her scenes.
-
1
-
-
it's the best film of 1981, and Bernadette Peters gives one of the best performances of the 80s.
-
1
-
-
1 minute ago, Hibi said:
Aside from Connery's return I dont rate Diamonds very highly.
it's the least favorite of the ones I've seen.
Teachers In Movies
in General Discussions
Posted
Lovely to see a mention for Madame Sousatzka. I think it is one of the great unheralded masterpieces of the 1980s.