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Never Cry Wolf (1983) --- 9/10 Source: VHS
Disney changes their look
At a time when Disney is turning out only blockbusters, remakes, and sequels, it is sometimes worth a look into the company's past to see projects that didn't fit that package. And, under the Disney banner at least, there is no more unusual title than Never Cry Wolf, the 1983 nature drama.
What is perhaps most striking about this film is that it seems to be the complete antithesis of your typical live-action Disney film. it's often quiet, there are no children, the leading man is completely naked for nearly 7 and a half minutes of the film (many shots of his rear and subliminal flashes of his pen!s, including once in closeup, makes for a very odd Disney film and a very, very extreme PG), the ending is moody and tragic, two of the three supporting characters are in deep shades of gray. Oh, and for a company that is most famous for a cartoon mouse, the lead gorges himself on mouse sandwiches and Shish kebabs. (Watch out, Mickey and Minnie!)
In essence, while it might be more traditional for another studio, its very off-the-wall for Disney especially with it saying "Walt Disney Pictures" at the beginning of the film. it was one of the final "New Hollywood" films to hit the screen, tying with the simultaneously released Star 80 and The Right Stuff as being the last of the name-director sagas that proliferated so much in the 70s.
Although the film has more than its share of sluggish moments, it is made into a must-see by the film's intelligence, Charles Martin Smith's excellent leading performance, the breathtaking cinematography of the northern wilderness, the wolves, and an otherworldly synth score by Mark Isham. It is truly a film that is one of a kind, and certainly one we will never see the likes of again from a major studio.
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22 hours ago, spence said:
Cool, so your a fellow Fearless fan, uh wet to that on my birthday n '93 & only made $7m. & 1 Oscar shot Rosie Perez-(s. actress) I read in Premiere yrs back *Jodie Foster was fascinated about it as well
Just to compare the Best Actor nominees for 1993 were>
*Tom Hanks in Philadelphia (won)
Laurence Fishburne, What's Love Got to Do with It?
Anthony Hopkins, Remains of the Day
Liam Neeson in Schindler...
& Daniel Day-Lewis, In the Name of the Father
Matter of fact Fearless may be his very best movie along with Last Picture Show
Alost 4-got did you also see *Hopkins for that year in Shadowlands?
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Did see Shadowlands as well. In some ways, 1993 was one of the last great movie years. So many meaty dramas.
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21 hours ago, sewhite2000 said:
Highly allegorical, I suppose. All the characters are supposed to represent bigger concepts, I think.
Biblical actually.
The Javier Bardem character is supposed to be God.
The Jennifer Lawrence is a cross between the concept of Mother Earth and The Blessed Virgin Mary
Ed Harris and Michelle Pfeiffer are supposed to represent Adam and Eve
The Gleeson brothers (Domhnall and Brian) are meant to be Cain and Abel
the whole crazy finale is supposed to represent the apocalypse and the one shocking act is meant to stand in for Holy Communion.
This was one film i read the synopsis of, and just from the description alone, I found it to be deeply offensive, mainly stemming from that one act I am not going to mention here
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45 minutes ago, Roy Cronin said:
I'll have to seek this out. I really like Elizabeth McGovern.
One of these why didn't she become a much bigger star?... running acting circles around the likes of Julia Roberts.
the 80s weren't that kind to many young actresses, and come the early 90s she moved to England (where she remains with her husband, director Simon Curtis... who cast her in a bit part in his 2015 film Woman in Gold). However, she has had a major comeback in recent years thanks to a memorable supporting turn on Downton Abbey (which the film version comes out next week) and it seems that she is being sought out more again. Which is good, as she always delivers good work, and has ever since her debut in Ordinary People.
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22 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
I don't know that I've ever seen someone cite part 6 as their favorite. It's usually part 2, and the occasional person says part 4 (the Trek movie for people who don't normally like Trek or science fiction in general), and a rare few who say the first one was their favorite.
The best of the series for me was Wrath of Khan, while Nemesis is the worst, although Star Trek Beyond and The Final Frontier are very close behind.
It was tight between II and VI, but I ultimately went for the latter for one little reason: II was done on a strict budget which unfortunately made it look a bit cheap at some points, which is more that a bit sad because the others looked quite lavish. II does indeed have the best villain (I'd agree with one of the series stars who said that Ricardo Moltaban should have been up for an Oscar) though. VI took me by surprise. Nobody really mentioned what a poignant last voyage it was, nor that the villainous quartet is quite impressive. Emotion-wise and excitement wise, it really hits the heights.
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21 hours ago, spence said:
Ever see The Remains of the Day from 1993? In my view he delivered o0ne of the all-time finest performances as Mr. Stevens & I usually don't care for costume dramas Most will scoff & say no Hannibal Lechter of course, magnificent role but is technically on screen about 22 minutes, like *Finch in Network he campaigned for lead actor though *Hopkins himself kept telling all that Nick Nolte in Prince of Tides was gonna take it. On that note *Tracy was in 1936's San Francisco (M-G-M) (***1/2) only 17 minutes but was of course up for Best Actor.
Plus, how about-(I'm in the minority here I'm positive) 1984's accurate from all accounts version of The Bounty (****-stars!) I've always felt strongly that he was robbed of what woulda been his first Oscar shot as Capt Bligh Plus, great score by *Vangelis again
& try to find another vastly underrated role &movie The World's Fastest Indian-(true story)
It's almost a tie for me who's the greatest living actor him or *D. Day-Lewis=(also in the Bounty)
Yes, have seen the Remains of the Day and out of the official academy nominees for 1993 he wiould have been my pick. (in a personal lineup, its close betweeen him and Jeff Bridges in Fearless)
21 hours ago, spence said:Just to compare and see who woulda' bumpedfor Best Actor in 87 Charing Cross Road (***1/2) (NOTE: To editors, it's eating words again fellas?)
Best Actor Oscar nominees for 1987>
*Michael Douglas in Wall Street
William hurt, Broadcast News
Jack Nicholson in Ironweed
Marcello Mastroianni, Dark Eyes
Robin Williams in Good Morning, Vietnam
Personal lineup for 1987 actor would be:
Anthony Hopkins/84 Charing Cross Road***
John Candy/Planes Trains and Automobiles
Nicolas Cage/Moonstruck
Kevin Kline/Cry Freedom
Lou Diamond Phillips/La Bamba-
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Finished up the original part of the movie series last night. So to rank them:
1. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country 👍👍
2. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn 👍👍
3. Star Trek: The Motion Picture 👍👍
4. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 👍👍
5. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock 👍
6. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier Borderline between one thumb up or one down -
Judgment at Nuremberg
Libeled Lady
Keeper of the Flame
Pat and Mike
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Fury
Cass Timberlane
State of the Union
A Guy Named Joe
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On 9/7/2019 at 1:11 PM, spence said:
*Hopkins has been undernominated over the years?
Well he should have been up for 84 Charing Cross Road back in 1987, and a nomination for either The Lion in Winter or The Elephant Man would not have been amiss.
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Just now, LawrenceA said:
It's not for acting, but Martin Scorsese has done it via Best Director nominations.
And it looks like he might contend for the win this year, at least from this current vantage point...... (and I kind of hope he does, one directing win for his long career seems paltry;for the life of me , I have never been able to understand why he didn't get enough votes for a directing nod for Taxi Driver in 1976)
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One little trivia note. If Hanks gets nominated this year, he becomes one of a very small group that has been nominated in the 80s, 90s, 00s, and 10s (others being Meryl Streep, Denzel Washington, Daniel Day Lewis, Julia Roberts, and Frances McDormand ;Meryl Streep was nominated in the 70s as well.)
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On 8/28/2019 at 1:19 PM, LornaHansonForbes said:
i've never seen THE CARDINAL, but I want to because I like JOHN HUSTON as an actor very much and it was the one time he was nominated for an Oscar for his acting. it's also the second of PREMINGER'S TWO BEST DIRECTOR NOMINATIONS, the other being for LAURA.
I don't remember her in BROADCAST NEWS! It's been A LONG TIME.
I have seen DEATH ON THE NILE A WHOLE WHOLE LOT OF TIMES GOING BACK TO MY YOUTH, and even as an eight year old, I remember thinking, "WOW, SHE SUCKS!"
LOIS CHILES'S two best worst moments IN DEATH ON THE NILE are
1.a scene with ANGELA LANSBURY which is amazing for its demonstrative AND INVALUABLE lesson in GOOD BAD ACTING vs. BAD BAD ACTING. Her reading of the line that ends with "...your vulgar dribble!" is SO BAD and yet SO DUBBED, it is mindboggling to sumise that THIS WAS THE BEST READ SHE GAVE OUT OF MULTIPLE TAKES WHILE SITTING IN AN ADR BOOTH IN LONDON.
2. The scene where SHE IS SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD AND SHE BLINKS. I think even DREW BARRYMOORE could convincingly play dead...although she always has the capacity to surprise me.
Time to bring in Pauline! (Kael that is)
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I've been making my way through the original part of the film series, and they are very entertaining and the cast is very endearing.
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On 9/6/2019 at 11:19 PM, Nightbird311 said:
Fascinating! Thanks for the link. Boy, they sure were scrounging around for Best Song nominees in the ‘70’s especially. And yet, somehow, “Let It Be” didn’t get nominated!
"let It Be" did make the top 10 that year, but lost out in the tiop 5, and lets face it, two of those films that did make that cut in 1970, Madron, a western with Richard Boothe as a gunslinger and Leslie Caron as a nun, and Pieces of Dreams, the saga of a priest played by Robert Forster breaking his vow of chastity with a romance with Lauren hutton, have been completely forgotten, and weren't even much on the radar at the time. The Beatles should have easily made it in. (As for the other slot, take your pick between the MASH there song or the number from The Aristocats)
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The discussion in the Carol Lynley thread involving 60s comic actresses who seemingly just vanished into thin air was the catalyst for this. Just simply name some screen personalities who you never feel received the stardom that they deserved, or the roles, or momentum. Can be past or present, or someone working both now and then.
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Just found this list on Letterboxd and decided to share it. Its quite interesting really. It lists films that made the Academy shortlists in tech categories (or short films or foreign film or documentary) over the years, but missed out. None of them were ultimately up for anything (sadly in some cases, for the best in others). The person who composed it has not been able to track down most 80s and 90s titles, but its still a great effort and fascinating...
https://letterboxd.com/adamwaldowski/list/films-shortlisted-and-not-nominated-for-an/
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5 hours ago, Hibi said:
I think for once the Academy had the good sense not to nominate any Xanadu songs. YUCK. I know many were hits, but that doesn't mean they were good. I saw Xanadu once, thankfully I don't remember much about it, except I thought it was AWFUL. Poor Gene Kelly.
I did have to feel a bit for Gene in the one scene where they had him in all of these gaudy outfits. One made him look like David Byrne of the Talking Heads. Another made him look like Roy Rogers, minus Dale Evans and Trigger.
But, otherwise, he still had all of his class intact, and even if its unexpected, his one song and dance scene with Olivia Newton-John is lovely. It could have come from one of his MGM musicals in the late 40s/early 50s. Simplicity and great charm intact. Not to mention great dancing.
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tracking is difficult in advance. Its a guarantee every Oscar year that at least one film will overperform expectations, while another will crash and burn unexpectedly. That said, with Hollywood the way it is now, the field of potential nominees is much samller, so you can arrange a list like this by studio and map out most of your possible contenders:
Netflix
The Irishman
Marriage Story
The Laundromat
The Two Popes
The King
the Last Thing He Wanted
Columbia
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Little Women
Universal
1917
Us
Cats
Queen and Slim
Warner Bros.
Joker
The Goldfinch
The Good Liar
Motherless Brooklyn
Just MercyFocus Features
Harriet
Downton Abbey
Dark Waters
Fox Searchlight
Jojo Rabbit
A Hidden Life
Lucy in the SkyA24
The Farewell
The Lighthouse
Uncut Gems
20th Century Fox
Ford Versus Ferrari
Ad AstraTriStar
A Beautiful Day in the NeighborhoodNeon
Parasite
ClemencySony Pictures Classics
Pain and Glory
Roadside Attractions
JudyParamount
Rocketman
Gemini Man
Disney
Toy Story 4
Amazon
The Report
the Aeronauts
United Artists
BooksmartThat's pretty much what the lineups will be made of. it's hard to say what will win Picture at this point with the changing face of academy voters. As for acting winners, at this point I would guess: Joaquin Phoenix (Joker), Cynthia Erivo (Harriet), Brad Pitt (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood), Laura Dern (Marriage Story) Although Pitt won before for producing 12 Years a Slave, all four would be first time acting winners.
Also, keep an eye on Maggie Smith. If she gets nominated for Downton Abbey, she will shatter a long-held academy record for acting nominations over the longest span of time.
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In the top right hand corner of the screen is your username. Click on your username. A little menu comes down. Press Profile (the first option). One of the things at the top of the profile is your username all in caps. To the left is a box where an image would be. In the lower left hand corner of that box is a little symbol. Click on it. it should have a little box pop up. Go with upload photo. Should be a little green box below that saying choose single file. If you have any photos saved on your computer, they will pop up and you can choose which one you want to use. After you select it, crop it as you wish and press confirm.
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Just now, rosebette said:
I happen to own an old copy of the novel King's Row, which is much racier than the movie, and although I've never read Peyton Place, I wonder whether King's Row, the book, might not be more salacious. There is nude swimming, at least one gay character, the clear implication that Randy (the Ann Sheridan character) is sexually active with boys at an early age, at least one other female character is sexually promiscuous, as is Drake (Ronald Regan's character), and the incestuous relationship between Cassie and her father is quite obvious. While its only implied in the film, it's pretty clear that Randy and Drake are having a sexual relationship before marriage.
I haven't read Peyton Place either, but from what I could glean from people's comments, PP was provocative in its day due to much rough language, the incestuous rape theme, premarital intimacy, and it seems in the boook that Selena had an abortion, whereas in the film it was a miscarriage. Also much of the characters were seemingly more mixed-up on the page.
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40 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
It was so bad. I do not know what happened during filming, but- (it's been a while since i saw it)
I recall feeling as if maybe they spilled something on the master print and had to slap together a new one last minute with footage of the actors just running lines and rehearsing hitting their marks.
something HAPPENED during the making of that film, I don't know what, but the end result is just an off movie all-around.
ps- as much as I do like BETTE MIDLER, the performer, I think she is...um, difficult and that difficulty has actually been a problem on some of her other films to where it has affected how everything turned out.
PLEASE DON'T COME AT ME, FANS OF BETTE
Isn't She Great did get its fair share of bad reviews. i remember Roger Ebert gave it a low grade, and looking at his review, it was pretty low-key for a film he disliked so much. he just felt it was a big miscalculation (he thought that Stockard Channing who had a smaller part in the film should have played Jackie). Other reviewers were blunter:
QuoteQuoteAs bumbling and mindless, as naively misconceived, as that clapping-through-tears moniker. ; Entertainment Weekly
QuoteHas to be among the worst movies ever made.: The Philadelphia Enquirer
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8 minutes ago, speedracer5 said:
I don't have Fox Movie Channel. It's available, but I don't have that package. I may be able to find it at the library.
Fox's movie channel repeats so very often, but its still a good way to pick up on maybe 20-25 Fox films that it otherwise costs a bit to see.
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7 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
Say it FIVE TIMES, FAST.
(Not because it's hard, because it's FUN!)
Also drives cats crazy.
Speaking of pets, dogs always get a strange, kind of sad look in their eye if you bring up the name Sugarpuss O'Shea. (the Barbara Stanwyck character in Ball of Fire) They never fail to look at you.
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On 9/1/2019 at 8:12 AM, TikiSoo said:
I love how people interject emotions into the equation.
It's all about what movies are available to broadcast and how much they cost. Typically, Svengoolie (or whomever owns the broadcast station) has gained exclusive "rights" to show Universal horror movies (which include some Hammer) and they're simply not offered to other stations, like TCM.
Sometimes in order to get rights to show one movie, the station has to buy a "package" and is obligated to show all the movies in the package. Often the other movies are not suitable for broadcast on the particular station. Why the heck do you think XANADU is on TCM UNDERGROUND? Why do you think TCM even HAS an Underground? It's the "catch-all" for all the oddball titles bundled in a package.
There have been some other TCM Underground titles that have been mainstream (or were mainstream) as well: After Hours, Blue Velvet, Barbarella, Poltergeist, They Live, Freaks, The Dead Zone, The Hunger, Performance, the Amityville horror, Zardoz, Demon Seed, Dreamscape, Caged, and the forthcoming premiere Making Mr. Right (which I must say sounds intriguing)
The four watchable Bond movies.
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Almost a decade ago (and I can't believe it's been that long already), I made my way through the first 20 films of the series (I've never seen the most recent 4, although I have heard raves for Casino Royale and Skyfall, both of which I should see sometime). The films I was most impressed by were Goldfinger, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and The Living Daylights. With such a long running series, many of which had the same basic structure (provocative title sequence with a new song, dastardly supervillain, unusual henchpeople, beautiful women, gadgets, gizmos, destruction of the villain's plans, followed by his death), it was the little quirks that made each film different, and some better than others.
In the four I mentioned, each added something different to the plot....
Goldfinger, sheer snazziness, great pace, colorful villains
You Only Live Twice, an exotic setting in Japan replete with some surprising twists
On Her majesty's Secret Service, the best of all the Bond women in Diana Rigg and the most telling of all the films in the perils and consequences of living a life on the ledge and how happiness can be robbed from you in the blink of an eye.
The living Daylights, Timothy Dalton and Maryam D'Abo had the best chemistry of any romantic pairing in the series, and in some ways, I like to feel this is an epilogue to all of them, because its at its warmest and most romantic here. Plus John Barry's last score for the series is a strong one, and the serious treatment of the whole film is a breath of fresh air.
Some episodes could have been better then they ended up being. I am reminded of The World is not Enough. That 1999 film has more than its fair share of problems, and yet there were parts of it that worked perfectly: Desmond Llewyn's poignant series farewell, Brosnan gave his best performance of his 4 films, Sophie Marceau was riveting, and the film had some operatic notes of tragedy. Unfortunately, it all ended on a campy and cringeworthy comic note. But even despite that film's other downfalls, there is promise in there.
[I could try to rank the Bonds, the villains, the love interests, songs, etc, but I feel that should be another post]