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10 spots is what makes this challenging. Donat truly was a fine talent, and it was tempting to include the wonderful Julie Walters as well. Another often overlooked present-day actress of note is Miranda Richardson. Truly astonishing actress, like a chameleon.

Same here. She always steals every scene she is in in a film from the 40s all the way through the 90s....

The Ladies: Julie Andrews, Greer Garson, Deborah Kerr, Angela Lansbury, Helen Mirren, Maureen O'Hara, Vanessa Redgrave, Jean Simmons,Emma Thompson, Maggie Smith The Gentlemen: Charlie Chaplin, Ronald Colman, Sean Connery, Ralph Fiennes, Albert Finney, Cary Grant, Hugh Grant, Anthony Hopkins, David Niven, Peter O'Toole

It's currently tied up with Cinemax... and probably HBO for months after that. I found it to be rather a touching film. Sure there are Brooks-style gags in it, but the mood overall is closer to Chaplin......

I decided to throw together some films that didn't get the most attention from the last decade. (Some were up for Oscars but they didn't win the big prizes.). Some are better than others, but they all have at least a certain something that makes watching them worthwhile. These are in no order..... 2010: Never Let Me Go, Rabbit Hole, Morning Glory, Another Year, Secretariat, Made in Dagenham 2011: Young Adult, Take Shelter, Win Win, A Dangerous Method, Damsels in Distress, The Adjustment Bureau, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Another Earth 2012: Anna Karenina, Fill the Void, The Sapphires, People Like Us 2013: About Time, Begin Again, The Invisible Woman, Labor Day, The Immigrant, The Way Way Back, Belle, Le Week-End, The Spectacular Now, Saving Mr. Banks 2014: Testament of Youth, Life Itself, Infinitely Polar Bear, The Skeleton Twins, Love and Mercy, She's Funny That Way 2015: Brooklyn, Far from the Madding Crowd, Suffragette, 45 Years, The End of the Tour, Eddie the Eagle, I'll See You in My Dreams, A Royal Night Out, Irrational Man, Ricki and the Flash, The Lady in the Van, Truth, McFarland USA, Danny Collins, Mistress America, Mr. Holmes, Maggie's Plan, The Meddler, Woman in Gold, Hello My Name is Doris 2016: Sing Street, A Quiet Passion, Their Finest, Indignation, Silence, Florence Foster Jenkins, Hail Caesar, Love and Friendship, Rules Don't Apply, The light Between Oceans, Jackie, Denial, 20th Century Women, Loving, Patterson, Julieta, Things to Come, Lion, Maudie, Paris Can Wait, Money Monster, Sully, Snowden, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, The Red Turtle, Queen of Katye, A United Kingdom 2017: Gifted, Roman J Israel Esq, Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, Our Souls at Night, Goodbye Christopher Robin, Last Flag Flying, The Beguiled, Lean on Pete, The Wife, The Lovers, Stronger, The Last Word, Wonderstruck 2018: Bad Times at the El Royale, Tully, What They Had, The old Man and the Gun, Can You Ever Forgive Me, Stan and Ollie, Book Club 2019: The Farewell, Where'd You Go Benadette, Yesterday, The Laundromat, After the Wedding, Harriet

What's pleasing is that we get three rarely seen Universals as part of the mix: All-American, The Outsider, and The Perfect Furlough

It's not all bad, no. there are some choice comedies and dramas that come out still, but they are smaller in number than they used to be, and I have a feeling that with this virus shutdown they will go even more by the wayside.... Classic era is my favorite, but I also love the 70s, 80s, and 90s.... but filmwise they all feel like far-off eras already....

Cutter's Way (1981) Tragic neo-noir all in shades of gray, 70s style. It's all very tragic and very touching really. Jeff Bridges shows again what a good actor he is, John Heard goes down and dirty as the embittered paraplegic and comes up with a memorable character, and Lisa Eichhorn is so good in her supporting part, that one wishes that she had gone on to a top flight career that she wholeheartedly deserved, the same feeling I had after seeing her in Yanks...... Haunting musical score by Jack Nitzsche Source; Amazon Prime

The thing is the more i read about all of this, and the more and more I believe that Wagner is innocent.... as for Lana, the way it sounded in the film was that she wasn't a constant presence around when Natalie was alive.....

Well, you can tell it was Pre-Code.....

I usually followed Ebert more..... and given that he liked Little Shop a lot I am surprised they did not use a quote from him. And probably good thinking for the unhappy ending.

This upcoming Tuesday on HBO 9 PM ET.

I plan on seeing it. Obviously Natalie's own daughter is the host and of course Robert Wagner is interviewed as well. In the trailer on HBO, they also had brief glimses of Robert Redford and Mia Farrow.

Very simple, just rank the decades in terms of how much you enjoyed their films. Vote for as many decades as you wish..... and if you want you can add descriptions of why they are ranked the way they are, although I'll have to add them for my own later seeing how I am crunched for time..... although I'll make a few little notes ❤️ 1940s 1950s 1930s 1960s 1980s 1990s (the earlier half especially) 1970s (simply need to see more to counterbalance some mistakes I saw) 1920s (I need to see more silents. I love them though.) 🤨 2000s ( I saw a lot of misfires, but I still feel like there are plenty of interesting films I still need to discover here, plus some films truly were wonderful) 🤐 2010s (I already feel like I've gleamed some of the best regarded of the decade, and I run very hot and cold on them. Either love them or am indifferent or dislike them. )

That reminds me of a bait and switch earlier in the year. I was thrilled to find at the beginning of the year that 70s era SNL episodes were on demand on the TV, and they were scheduled to stay through September, but they vanished by March or April actually.

Comcast owns NBC and Universal, so that is why you got a free Premium membership, because you still subscribe to their cable package, you get early access to it (the service does not go live for non-Comcast customers until July) and you will never have to pay a dime for it even after the introduction. It's a special perk and come-on. Similarily, when WB starts their HBO Max service on Memorial Day weekend, all people currently subscribed to HBO in their cable packages (like me) will get it for free.

Yes, the one with the blue cover with the plant holding the cast in its tendrils. And, yes, it sounds like that Blu-Ray has both versions. The Amazon image of the back confirms it because if you look , it has two different PG-13s and two different run times listed. meanwhile, the film turned up on HBO On Demand today , and both versions are on demand there, both happy and tragic.

Yes, as you probably saw on Wikipedia, the mood went ice cold in the testing process when the tragic ending came through. The one audience gave it an average score of 13 out of 100. The curious thing about Little Shop is that they have two DVDs of it on the market..... and neither one has been taken off the market as far as I know. I know i had no desire to see the tragic ending.... i got too attached to Ellen Greene. The film as originally planned with the tragic ending..... And the way it was shown in 1986 with the happy ending....

Also Sound Editing has been axed.......

VHS kick currently. I've been withdrawing tapes, keeping quite a few (because otherwise they would go straight in the trash), and been watching some. Today I caught up with 2000's Nurse Betty, a film that deserves a second look after its leading star just won her second Oscar. Here is a review I wrote.....

The movie i saw just before bed last night fits the bill...... Much of the movie is a charming fish-out-of-water romance comedy but its attached to the mother of all lockdowns. Brendan Fraser (hey, nice to see the lead of a movie who actually has the same first name as me!) plays a young men who sallies forth into 1997 LA to find supplies, food, and a bride, after spending all 35 years of his life in a fall-out shelter built by his father Christopher Walken. Walken sealed himself and very pregnant wife Sissy Spacek in the shelter after what he though was the opening salvo of World War III in 1962. in actuality it was a plane crash that destroyed their house. No matter though as Walken puts locks on the shelter that don't open for 35 years, bringing the family into an entombed world of Perry Como records, shuffleboard, Jackie Gleason reruns, and Readers Digest Condensed Books, safe from massive changes in society. Walken and Fraser fare rather well during it all, Spacek, getting cabin fever within minutes, starts hitting the cooking sherry with gusto. Needless to say they are in for a rude awakening when they reenter society.

Sure am.

The Hired Hand (1971) Quiet, elegic western with Henry Fonda returning to wife Verna Bloom years after leaving her to wander the West. Warren Oates is Fonda's friend. I had heard of this film before via a book I own about the films of Universal, but I hadn't heard much else, so I am happy to say this was a pleasant surprise. It's a knockout. It's so well-acted, beautifully photographed, with a hauntingly melancholy musical score that serves as an elegy to the West. that its a shame it isn't more well known.

They were actually both old RKOs but something was holding them up for a long time, I don't know why. Silver Cord actually appeared on the late, lamented Filmstruck shortly before it died in 2018. I saw it then. It's a strong film, and Laura Hope Crews makes a very memorable nasty mother.