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2 minutes ago, sagebrush said:
I forgot to mention lovely Glynis Johns( who was also in the aforementioned VACATION FROM MARRIAGE/ PERFECT STRANGERS.)
Same here. She always steals every scene she is in in a film from the 40s all the way through the 90s....
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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
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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......
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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
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What's pleasing is that we get three rarely seen Universals as part of the mix: All-American, The Outsider, and The Perfect Furlough
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5 hours ago, Sepiatone said:
Well, I'd guess the choices in newer movies is sparse once you weed out over produced fantasy films, revisionist period pics, teen-aged vampires and zombies. But I don't think it's ALL bad, .....is it?
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....
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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
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2 hours ago, Bogie56 said:
According to an article out today in The New Yorker the film produced by Wood and Wagner's daughter has an agenda which is to exonerate Robert Wagner. Wood's sister, Lana who had suspicions about Natalie's death is apparently portrayed as a 'hanger-on.'
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.....
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Well, you can tell it was Pre-Code.....
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3 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
Siskel was a dweeb.
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.
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1 minute ago, spence said:
Exactly what is the date???
This upcoming Tuesday on HBO 9 PM ET.
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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.
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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
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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.)
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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)
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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. )
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1 minute ago, LawrenceA said:
Yes, I was aware of why I received it. My only question was as to the nature of the "premium" nomenclature, since I was still made to watch several commercials beforehand. I'm not really that interested in the details, though, or I would have researched them online.
I doubt it's a service that I am likely to use often, especially considering the "quality" of the original programming based on the available previews. I had held out hope that the 1980's-era SNL full episodes would be available, but only episodes from the past 5 years are there at the moment.
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.
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5 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
I was searching through my cable TV options late last night when I discovered that the new Peacock streaming service had gone live. It's the NBC/Universal entry in the ever-expanding streaming market. As a Comcast customer, I get a free "Premium" membership. I'm not sure what premium means in this context, as I still had to watch a couple of commercials before a program started, although there were no interruptions while the program was going.
I mention this here because there are a lot of movies available, including many studio-era Universal titles. There didn't appear to be any of the long-sought-after rare Universal titles, or the early Paramount titles that Universal has control over, but there were still enough classic films available that fans of such may be interested.
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.
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15 hours ago, Mr. Gorman said:
Were any of the DVD releases of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS the original happier theatrical ending? (I would assume all the VHS releases were the theatrical version).
Yes, the one with the blue cover with the plant holding the cast in its tendrils.
15 hours ago, speedracer5 said:I am distressed to learn that my copy of Little Shop of Horrors sustained flood damage a few years ago. I had the DVD (the type with the plastic tab that snaps into the case) with the blue cover that Cinema Int'l posted earlier.
Obviously this means only one thing: I need to buy a new copy.
Do you think that this version contains both the original ending and the theatrical one?
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.
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19 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1986) is on movieland right now, I’ve been watching it for the first time in years and really enjoying it.
until I realized that they’re running a version with the *** fully restored*** ***original ending*** which I did not know existed (I thought only the raw B&W footage existed- I’ve seen that on YouTube)
it is HEARTBREAKING, just crushing.
I think they were absolutely right to change the ending, 100%. (And I am usually time darkside!!!)ELLEN GREENE just breaks your heart though, and she has a killer last scene.
19 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:If they had gone with this ending in 1986 people would’ve burned the **** theater down.
And I would’ve been front and center splashing lighter fluid on everything, and I was eight years old at the time.
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....
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Also Sound Editing has been axed.......
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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.....
QuoteNurse Betty was billed at the time as a dark comedy, yet in spite of its quirkiness, its more of a bittersweet tragedy. Renee Zellweger plays a naive Kansas waitress who is so obsessed by a daytime soap opera that she does not know that her husband Aaron Eckhart is having an affair and is deep into the world of illegal drug dealing.
One night, on her birthday, father/son crime duo Morgan Freeman and Chris Rock corner her husband and kill him gruesomely. Zellweger witnesses the crime and in shock she snaps and believes that the soap she has been watching is real. She then drives to California to try to romance the show's romantic lead Greg Kinnear, fully believing he is the affable doctor he plays, not the caddish actor that he is.
Meanwhile, Freeman sees pictures of Zellweger, and he falls for her, even though he is pursuing her. That leaves us with a film in which the two leads, a harmless woman and a dangerous man, find that the dreams they have built up are the only things that are keeping them going. And ultimately, both will find out that dreams are often entirely different than reality.
That leaves a tragic quality to the proceedings that really draws you in. I myself could not call this film a comedy because I did not care to laugh at Betty. She is a truly sweet character, wonderfully portrayed by Zellweger, who like all of us is drawn in by show business, and who among us hasn't nursed a crush about a performer or wished to have one as a friend? And Freeman is skilled at easing tender notes into his portrayal of a hardened man.
Nurse Betty is sometimes a shockingly violent film (the Eckhart death scene almost got the film an NC-17), but as grisly as some of its scenes are, the most painful scenes are the ones in which its leads wake up to the truth. Zellweger's scene in particular is brutal. It might be one of the most devastating scenes of emotional betrayal since Vertigo and she executes it perfectly, making you feel all the pain, disillusionment and hurt she feels without even saying anything. As someone who was devastated like that before, as someone who idealized individuals and found that some of them did not even like me, it really felt like the true thing.
In light of Zellweger's second Oscar win for Judy earlier this year, I hope that others catch up with this. Its not perfect and like any genre fusing film, it sometimes has trouble sticking all the changes, but it still a good film, one of the better ones of a weak year, and so much better than its average here would indicate. Do give it a try.
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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.
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17 hours ago, TopBilled said:
Are you going to resume your coverage of UA titles? I know you said you were watching some of them on Amazon Prime.
Just wondering!
Sure am.
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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.
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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.
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Name 10 British Or UK Actors You Like Best
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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.