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On 10/28/2018 at 8:02 AM, TopBilled said:
I'm going to do something a bit different in November.
I will be reviewing films I don't particularly like, but still consider essential.
My "criticism" will be sharper than it usually is, but I think you will still find the reviews interesting or at the very least thought-provoking.
November: An opposing viewpoint
Sometimes there's another way to look at a classic film.
MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939)
SHANE (1953)
THE LONE HAND (1953)
CAFE SOCIETY (2016)I really don't care for Mr. Smith or Cafe Society either so I eagerly await your reviews.
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1 hour ago, mr6666 said:
late Mon., 10-29
4:15 AM (ET) (Again....WHY are these premieres @ such dopey hours?!)
B/W - 95 m
Frozen Dead, The (1967)Synopsis: after the end of World War II, a German scientist (Dana Andrews) starts to thaw out a dozen Nazi soldiers who have been kept alive in suspended animation.
Dir: Herbert J. Leder Cast: Dana Andrews , Anna Palk , Philip Gilbert ."..... Reviews were generally awful, although Variety deemed it "a skillfully contrived, clinically ghoulish pic that should keep the young set riveted to their seats... May revolt adults. Faint-hearted parents should be advised to stay comfortably at home watching tv."
see TCM article: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/24768/Frozen-Dead-The/articles.html
This is what that plot reminds me of.
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6 minutes ago, Sgt_Markoff said:
trick question if you ever want to stump anyone
is this a Mercedes-Benz or not? Hood ornament says yes; but car historians say no. Body lines do not match.
the answer is that production designers 'mocked up' this phony vehicle for a movie in order to crash it.
Pete O'Toole & Barbara Hersey in 'The Stunt Man' (one of my fave flicks)
Looks a bit like a cross between a Duesenberg and a Ford.
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6 hours ago, Bogie56 said:
This may be digressing a little but I recall seeing the premiere of Leone's A Fistful of Dollars (1964) on ABC in 1977. The network addressed the character's amorality by commissioning a newly shot prologue where a prison warden played by Harry Dean Stanton commutes Eastwood's sentence if he goes to San Miguel and restores order. Eastwood is played by a stand in.
I imagine this one would have been better if they had actually got Eastwood to act in this scene. The fact this is clearly not Eastwood mixed with the random shots of Eastwood's face from later in the actual movie is awful.
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25 minutes ago, speedracer5 said:
But I’m not into the slasher flicks or the paranormal films or the “jump scenes.” Those bore me. Rosemary’s Baby, The Shining, The Exorcist... boring. Not scary.
I really like Halloween. Very intense movie with a nice soundtrack.
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7 hours ago, TopBilled said:
Can they learn about Universal westerns too? And Universal comedies?
I've never understood why people act like Universal only turned out films in one genre.
Probably the same reason people never discuss Ealing dramas.
Some studios are just more known for a certain genre even if they have some very good gems that are different genres.
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5 hours ago, Bogie56 said:
Italy’s David di Donatello 1972/73 Best Picture winners included …
Alfredo Alfredo (1972) Pietro Germi, Italy [this is in Italian with subtitles and dubbed in English]
Do you mean it was originally released as a dubbed film in English? Did Dustin Hoffman do his own dubbing?
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Moore, Ted - camera operator - the African Queen
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'The Simpsons' Set To 'Drop Apu Altogether' Following Racism Controversy
The Simpsons has been on our screens for almost 30 years and in all those years hasn't faced quite the backlash as they have with mounting controversy over the character ApuApu.
Due to this a producer of the long-running show, Adi Shankar, shared the 'disheartening news' in order to avoid a dispute over Apu they would simply drop the character from the show.
He told IndieWire: "I got some disheartening news back, that I've verified from multiple sources now: They're going to drop the Apu character altogether. They aren't going to make a big deal out of it, or anything like that, but they'll drop him altogether just to avoid the controversy."
In the 30 years of the show Apu has had some incredible storylines - he married Manjula in an arranged marriage, had octuplets, had an affair, made it big with Home in the 'B Sharps', lost his job and even lived with the Simpson family, to name just a few.
In the interview Adi claimed the news was directly from 'two people who work for "The Simpsons" and a third source who works directly with creator Matt Groening.'
When IndieWire approached The Simpsons executive producer, Al Jean, for a comment on the topic, he simply said: "Apu appeared in the 10/14/18 episode 'My Way or the Highway to Heaven.'" - a rather cryptic response that leaves us almost as much in the dark as before.
However, Apu is seen in the episode in single wide shot that also shows dozens of other characters wearing white, with halo, all standing around God.
The controversy really spiked following the 2017 documentary by Indian-American comedian Hari Kondabolu The Problem With Apu in which he said he initially saw Apu as a representation of his people on screen, but eventually only saw the character as a rude stereotype that acted as a contribution to racism against South Asian people. Hari described Apu as 'a white guy doing an impression of a white guy making fun of my father'.
Back in April Hank Azaria, who voices Apu, said: "Of course I understand. It's come to my attention more and more over the past couple years. The idea that anyone young or old, past or present, being bullied based on Apu really makes me sad. It certainly was not my intention. I wanted to bring joy and laughter to people."
He added: "I'm perfectly willing to step aside. It just feels like the right thing to do to me."
This may certainly be the case in the upcoming episodes that may no longer feature the long-running character.
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11 hours ago, DougieB said:
I have to admit I've always been a little indifferent to her, so this will be a good opportunity to change my mind. It seems MGM in particular liked to put classically trained singers in the position of selling a combo of classical and popular material. I never questioned the artistry of the singers, but sometimes it seemed something like slumming and it could give popular material a shriller edge than I'm comfortable with. Also, the grande dame/diva persona often associated with the classical tradition doesn't necessarily translate into relatable characters in more proletarian fare, in my opinion. I've always given Kathryn Grayson A for effort, but I think the actual results could be mixed. I probably won't watch all of these, but I'll give what I do watch my best attention in hopes of being won over.
If you have to watch one my recommendation is the Desert Song. It's a very beautiful operetta where Grayson plays a Foreign Legionnaire's daughter who falls in love with a mysterious hero.
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This discussion has appeared on these boards quite a few times already. Filmstruck was more niche than TCM and it didn't pan out. TCM is a very successful business so I don't see it going under or radically changing any time soon.
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1 hour ago, LawrenceA said:
1972's The Way of the Dragon was released here as Return of the Dragon, and only in recent years has it gone back to the original title.
And Return of the Dragon isn't to be confused with Revolt of the Dragon (AKA the Brave Lion) an absolutely terrible martial arts film from 1974 that I saw.
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1 hour ago, LawrenceA said:
1001 Movies You Must See
- Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Werner Herzog, West Germany
- The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany
- Cries and Whispers, Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
- The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Luis Bunuel, France
- Red Psalm, Miklos Jancso, Hungary
From the foreign editions-
1.) Eight Deadly Shots, Mikko Niskanen, Finnish edition
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My top FF films of 1972
1.) The Dawns Here Are Quiet, Stanislav Rostotsky, Russia
2.) Aguirre the Wrath of God, Werner Herzog, West Germany
3.) The New Land, Jan Troell, Sweden
4.) Cries and Whispers, Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
5.) The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany
6.) The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Luis Bunuel, France
7.) Fellini’s Roma, Federico Fellini, Italy
8.) Fist of Fury, Lo Wei, Hong Kong
9.) Tout Va Bien, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, France
10.) Lacan Speaks, Françoise Wolff, Belgium
Man of the East, Enzo Barboni, Italy
Chung Kuo- China, Michelangelo Antonioni, China
The Flower Girl, Ik Kyu Choe, Hak Pak, North Korea
Chloe In the Afternoon, Eric Rohmer, France
Godzilla vs Gigan, Jun Fukuda, Japan
Don’t Torture a Duckling, Lucio Fulci, Italy
Queen Boxer, Feng-Chi Yu, Taiwan
Sacrifice!, Umberto Lenzi, Italy
Cut-Throats Nine, Joaquin Luis Romero Marchent, Spain
Justine de Sade, Claude Pierson, France
Baron Blood, Mario Bava, Italy
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22 hours ago, cigarjoe said:
What the F are you on about? Nino Franc and Jean-Pierre Chartier wrote two articles in L'Ecrain Français, in 1946, they listed six films as being part of this new "Film Noir" revival from America. Lost Weekend, The Maltese Falcon, Laura, Murder, My Sweet, Double Indemnity, and The Woman in the Window.
From The Guardian
"French audiences were busy catching up on all the Hollywood pictures that they'd missed during the Occupation: in a few short weeks they saw Barbara Stanwyck seduce Fred MacMurray into killing her husband for cash (Double Indemnity), Dick Powell's Philip Marlowe taking punches and syringes and falling into a "crazy coked-up dream" (Farewell My Lovely) and Bogey snogging the face off a lying no-good two-faced Mary Astor (The Maltese Falcon). A new genre was suddenly more visible in France than it had been to anyone on the other side of the Atlantic. Frank and Chartier took their inspiration from the roman noir - French detective fiction that was always published under sinister dark covers. It's appropriate that they did: if the Americans had named the genre for themselves then they would have been forced to call it Black Cinema, and there weren't many in 1940s Hollywood who wanted to go there."
I think he's talking about the original 1931 version of Maltese Falcon which arguably isn't a noir.
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The Shield and the Sword is very good.
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The Shield and the Sword, Vladimir Basov, Russia, Poland & East Germany
The Shield and the Sword - This is my new favorite of 1968. Alexander Belov is undercover in Nazi Germany during WWII as "Johann Weiss." There he gets a job as a driver but is promoted to an important military position. It is his duty to get important information on Nazi military plans back behind the Soviet lines. This is a good spy movie and Stanislav Lyubshin plays Belov as a slick agent and operative, quick on his feet and always one step ahead of the Germans. The German civilians are also shown in a humane light as unfortunate working class people swept up in the Nazi world beyond their control. They have to serve in the military and fight and die just to stay alive. They are shown as very human and with weaknesses and strengths like everyone else. This is a very good film and I definitely recommend it.
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Bob - John Michael Graham in Halloween
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On 10/23/2018 at 2:51 PM, mr6666 said:
Wed., 10-24 FOR Bela Lugosi......
10:30 PM (ET)B/W - 76 m
Night Monster (1942)Synopsis:
Dir: Ford Beebe Cast: Bela Lugosi , Lionel Atwill , Leif Erikson .LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:? Ford Beebe. CAST: Irene Hervey, Don Porter, Nils Asther, Lionel Atwill, Leif Erickson, Bela Lugosi, Ralph Morgan.
Intriguing grade-B thriller about creepy supernatural figure stalking country estate, murdering doctors who are visiting crippled Morgan.
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12:00 AMB/W - 73 m
TV-PGHuman Monster, The (1939)Synopsis: A series of interconnected murders in London lead back to a life insurance company run by Dr. Orloff.
Dir: Walter Summers Cast: Bela Lugosi ,LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:? Walter Summers. Cast: Bela Lugosi, Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt, Edmon Ryan, Wilfred Walter.
Absurd, sometimes engaging Edgar Wallace tale of evil Lugosi using blind men as pawns in elaborate murder scheme. Original British title: DARK EYES OF LONDON. Remade in West Germany as DEAD EYES OF LONDON.
I saw both of these yesterday. Night Monster was pretty good and I liked the telepathic plot points. I hope they show it again. The copy of Human Monster they showed though was very sub-par and the plot didn't intrigue me very much.
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Pervert's Guide to Cinema
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16 hours ago, jaragon said:
"White Zombie" (1932) Lugosi gives one of his best performances as the Zombie Master a truly evil character. This is an atmospheric almost poetic horror film.
The creepiest part is when he makes that guy mute. Very disturbing.
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Sampo, Aleksandr Ptushko, Finland, Russia
This fantasy film is based on a Finnish fairy tale. The evil witch captures Annikki so that Lemminkainen and her father are forced to build the Sampo that she desires. After he outsmarts her and gets his daughter back the witch steals the sun plunging the world into permanent night. Lemminkainen goes off to do battle with the witch and save the planet. This one is a very well made film with nice effects and an interesting story. Annikki's actress is very pretty too. I recommend this film.
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Poor MacDonald. Always getting mocked on here. I must be one of the few who really likes her.
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TopBilled’s Essentials
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I completely agree. They are objectively well crafted films.