Sukhov
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24 minutes ago, jakeem said:
Just noticed "The Longest Day" -- Darryl F. Zanuck's 1962 re-creation of the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II -- is scheduled for the afternoon of Saturday, January 5. Will it be TCM's first-ever telecast of the film?
According to Moviecollector's database, it has been on TCM 11 times. The last time was January 2017.
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Admiral Ushakov (1953) - This film is about Admiral Ushakov from the 18th century. The film follows his court intrigues, his exploits in the military (including ridding a town of the plague and building ships) and his fighting in Crimea. This one has nice recreations and nice costumes. I recommend it.
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Grayson isn't a bad choice. The Desert Song is always a treat.
I wish they showed the Vagabond King too. I don't think I've seen that one before.
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Mexicanos al grito de Guerra (1943) - I saw this one almost a decade ago when TCM was showing Mexican films because of the 100th anniversary of the Revolution. In this film a Mexican patriot and the daughter of a French ambassador of Napoleon (who was occupying the country at the time) fall in love. I don't remember much of this film but I remember the funny and clumsy way Napoleon III was portrayed. Napoleon III tries to tax every window and door! (not sure of the historical accuracy of that) This film is decent and worth a look.
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Zou-Zou (1934) - Another Josephine Baker musical. Baker plays a woman who grew up in the circus. Her friend she grew up with is accused of murder and she must set things straight. This one had a few good numbers and is worth a look.
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The French Way (1940) - This one was a TCM Import a few months ago and I saw it then. This film was shot in 1940 but was only released in 1945 after WWII. Josephine Baker is a singer who helps two lovers get together. The lovers' parents hate each other so they have to hide and sneak around. All this while bombs are dropping and people flee to the air raid shelters. This was an okay film. Worth viewing for any Baker fans.
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2 hours ago, mr6666 said:
Tonight's SILENT SUNDAY......
This is a very beautiful movie. I don't usually cry at movies but I cry at the end of this one.
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A Small Town Idol - condensed version of the 1921 Mack Sennett film. Ben Turpin is a small town man who is falsely accused of bigamy by a romantic rival so he leaves to Hollywood. He comes back as a star but the villain is still there and won't let him have a break. This one had some funny gags and looked well shot. Unfortunately the full length version does not appear to be online or available anywhere. I hope it turns up some time though.
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The Mouse That Roared
Next: non-musical with musical sequences
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9 hours ago, spence said:
Now you grand folks gotta' get legal rights to the all-timers DUMBO, PINOCCHIO, FANTASIA,etc
But strangest of all is *GFI & *GFII?
Those films are good but they cost a lot of money so I wouldn't wait to see them on TCM any time soon.
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I think I saw Odd Obsession last time it was on TCM too but forgot about it so it may not be on my list. Didn't really care for it either way.
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6 minutes ago, Fedya said:
It's Spence, ignore him
I've told him straight out several times that his writing tics make his posts difficult to read, yet he keeps deliberately doing it, just to p*ss us off.
I don't think he's doing it on purpose or trying to be rude. I think he can't help it.
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Bornstein, Charles - film editor of Close Encounters of the Third Kind
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3.) Conductor Richard Hageman, who played Carlo Santi in the film, actually knew Enrico Caruso and led several performances with him at the Metropolitan Opera, including the 1918 War Relief Benefit re-created in the film.
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Lucy Gallant
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Skipping X
Yablans, Mickey
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Philosophy and Truth, Jean Flechet, France (1965)
Philosophy and Truth - "Postmodernists in their cars and libraries getting coffee" is a good way of putting this documentary. The film revolves around a discussion of truth, philosophy, the grand epoch, and how they all form together in totality. Among the philosophers present in the discussion/ interview are Foucault, Badiou, Dreyfus, Hyppolite, Canguilhem and Ricoeur. This film is largely static shots but the intro and scene changes reminded me heavily of the French new wave films of the era, particularly with the soundtrack and rapid cuts. I recommend this one to anyone interested in postmodernism. This film is Foucault's only screen credit on IMDB btw and he only speaks in the first few minutes. He did not seem too interested in the conversation as he was more interested on how to work with philosophy. The rest seemed to question his opinion of discourse as a philosophical truth. Overall I give this one a 6/10. It is a decent overview of postmodern thought but nothing particularly interesting or engaging. I saw this one on YouTube. It is up with English closed captions.
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Violent Midnight (a father's murder is labelled an accident but is revealed to have a different cause at the very end of the movie)
Next: set in Tahiti
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4 hours ago, EricJ said:
Since I know better than subject myself to the entire series--only looked at bits of 3, and the goofy #2, back when Jason still wore a burlap sack because "The Road Warrior" hadn't come out yet--settle a bet:
Along with "James Cagney never said 'You dirty rat'" and "Humphrey Bogart never said 'Play it again, Sam'", I've always thrown around the movie-lover's nitpick of "In the original Paramount films, Jason never wielded a chainsaw". (As he's often depicted in goofy pop-culture references, especially around Halloween time.) That was the other guy--Jason preferred phallic weapons, like long machetes or skewering weapons.So...DID Jason ever use a chainsaw in the later films? Did one of the later campy New Line producers ever ruin that bar bet for us? ?
I don't think so. In Jason X, he uses axes, knives and even skewers people on futuristic piston looking things in the spaceship.
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39 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
White Sun of the Desert (1970) - Russian action flick from Mosfilm and director Vladimir Motyl. Sukhov (Anatoliy Kuznetsov) is a former soldier making the journey home across the desert near the Caspian sea. He ends up tasked with protecting the harem of a notorious bandit leader named Black Abdullah (Kakhi Kavsadze), after the bandit left them for dead while running from the Soviet army. What should be a short and simple escort mission turns into a perilous battle when Abdullah returns for his wives, leaving only Sukhov and a handful of allies to defeat the bandit army. Also featuring Pavel Luspekayev, Spartak Mishulin, Raisa Kurkina, Nikolai Godovikov, and Tamara Fedotova.
Most of the Soviet films that I've seen have been the propaganda works of the late silent era and the coldly remote intellectualism of Andrei Tarkovsky. However, much like The Amphibian Man which I watched last week, White Sun of the Desert is an entirely different kind of Russian film, much more fun, vibrant, exotic, and entertaining. Sukhov makes for a great change-of-pace hero: positive, confident, and romantic, as depicted by his frequent narrated composition of love letters to his beloved back home, which often amusingly contrast with what's being shown on screen. The action scenes are capably done, and there are many funny lines of dialogue ("He had the wrong grenades.") that work across the cultural barrier. There are some surprisingly dark plot turns, but instead of derailing the adventurous mood of the film, it just makes it feel more Russian, somehow. Recommended. (8/10)
Source: Amazon Prime video. The subtitles could use some improvement , but otherwise a nice copy.
(Thanks to Gershwin fan for letting me know about this movie, which I had never heard of before his recommendation in another thread.)
I'm glad you liked it. It's probably the best "red western." I agree that the scenes with Vereschagin, Petrukha and Gyulchatai in particular were very dark but moving.
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3 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
I hate myself, so I've been watching the FRIDAY THE 13TH film series on AMC ON DEMAND, which means they have both commercials (although, unlike regular AMC, commercials comprise only 30% of the total viewing time on AMC ON DEMAND as opposed to a solid 70% on regular AMC) and the films are edited for content,
so...I dunno, non-alcoholic beer anyone?
I grew up on these, and they are all terrible (although it's worth noting that Part 3 in 3-D has a certain zietgast to it and PART VI at least has some clever(ish) humor and action as well as the hot guy from RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD as the protagonist)- but they're still noteworthy studies of the times.
i'm one of those who ultimately feels like film is a reflection of the values of society and not so much an influencer on said social beliefs, but still- you can really see the beginnings of society's collective loss of empathy in these (not to mention the makers had some clear issues with women.)
I don't know why, but I am highly amused by the fact that about 30% of these films are comprised of "looking for Tina"- ie there is ALWAYS a character named Tina and there is always a lengthy scene where someone wanders through the woods or cabins looking for her and urging her to "stop screwing around."
Like, why even invite Tina if this is all she does?
The worst of the series was JASON GOES TO HELL, with a viable case to be made for JASON TAKES MANHATTAN, but again- they're really all pretty atrocious.
(Yet repeatedly watchable.)
I actually really like this series. Just watching an evil man stalking some clueless people for an hour and a half is actually pretty fun. I like the first few films of the series best but of the newer ones, Jason X has some charm to it. It really satirizes the earlier films and the slasher genre in general.
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why can't tcm show stuff like I'm gonna put on a DVD?
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Most of these 50 yr. old B movies are in the public domain anyways.