Sukhov
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My top 10 Fantasy films-
1. Lost Horizon (1937)
2. Baron Prasil (1961)
3. Conan the Barbarian (1982)
4. Thief of Bagdad (1924)
5. Munchhausen (1943)
6. Time Bandits (1981)
7. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1993)
8. Wild at Heart (1990)
9. Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
10. The Man in the White Suit (1951)
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The reviews from IMDB are very critical of the series too-
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Amazingly Superficial
film_poster_fan19 August 2019
I have seen all six episodes and, while none of the previous ones were very good, this sadly was the worst. It began poorly by dismissing the silent era of films in a one minute discussion and then moving on to the films of the 1930s through the 1950s. Two hours for three decades of countless classics? When the documentary feels the need to identify actors like Humphrey Bogart and Clark Gable, you feel your intelligence being insulted. Films like Citizen Kane, Casablanca, and The Searchers were discussed in a total of five minutes, perhaps. Like the the other episodes, this seems very superficial and uninformative.6/10
They Just Bit Off Too Much
Hitchcoc20 August 2019
To take the first fifty or so years of film in less than two hours is a hopeless task. And, unfortunately, the footage was some of the same old tired stuff that is seen over and over. Citizen Kane got a little treatment, but not much. When one looks at 1939, we see the most amazing set of films ever produced as a whole. How can you do justice to that. The decade by decade effort of the previous episodes had all they could do to do justice. This one was just too superficial. It's as if they didn't want to ignore most of the work and decided to throw this in.-
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6 minutes ago, CinemaInternational said:
I saw part of this finale. I fully expected it to be mostly the old standbys and that is what it was, but, if anything, the thing that disturbed me most was that whenever they had a bit lengthier a film clip, they would flash the names of the leads in the scene, as if nobody knew who they would be if they didn't flash the names, a concession to people who don't watch many classics. I guess I could understand for maybe Joan Blondell but for Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant, Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Vivien Leigh, Bela Lugosi, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Garland, and Greta Garbo as well? Kind of humiliating..... I think only John Wayne and maybe barbara Stanwyck were spared that.
Did they do that for the clips in the other episodes? I only saw the Golden era episode.
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I wish they would interview Liv Ullmann and Max Von Sydow. It would have been good to do one for Liv while she had a day of programming.
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41 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
Can you name another movie made during the studio-era where a kid fired a gun at others, with the intent of harming them. I.e. the kid knew what he was doing; shooting at others to harm and \ or scare them away.
I can't think of one.
The Home Alone movies are a solid example of a film with mostly a one-note plot: a kid using violence against criminals all done for laughs. I don't recall a gun, but hey a load of bricks on the head is about in the same category!
I think there was a Three Stooges short where a kid had a gun and shot it at the burglars.
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41 minutes ago, cinemaspeak59 said:
I saw Hour of the Wolf last night and found it beguiling. It’s considered Bergman’s only foray into horror. Much like Persona, viewers are on their own to interpret the film. There’ve been various theories about what the film is trying to say. My take, having just seen it, is Bergman returning to one of his favorite themes: questioning the importance of art, and his judgment of the artist as deceiver, unnecessary, and brought down from external and internal forces.
As you mention, there are so many haunting images. I particularly like the ghostly woman, dressed in white, who appears to Liv Ullmann’s Alma, in daylight, and tells, more like warns, Alma about the diary. Who is she? From her clothes, she resembles someone from the turn of the century. Did Alma imagine her? The castle inhabitants, the boy, are they real? This film warrants repeat viewings, although getting a concrete answer, for me anyway, isn’t the point. Sven Nykvist’s cinematography is stunning.
Liv and Max's characters are the only real ones on the deserted island, the rest are all hallucinations or ghosts in their imagination. At the end of the film, Liv explains that couples who live together begin taking on each other's physical and mental characteristics and rationalizes that she has gone crazy. I've always felt that similar to Fellini, Bergman's characters were inspired by real people he knew. Veronica Volger in particular was probably influenced by one of his affairs (in the movie it is stated that Von Sydow and Veronica created a "scandal" with their affair). The character influenced by Papageno probably represents unfulfilled love and yearning which the character expresses in the Mozart opera. It might just be me but I also felt the kid in swimming wear who sports a feminine type pose next to Von Sydow represented a suppressed childhood pedophilic or homosexual memory or something of the sort. That is how I rationalized that scene anyway. With Von Sydow pushing the kid into the water similar to pushing the memory back into his subconscious. Whatever you take from it, it is a beautiful film.
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You're upset that a kid used a gun in a movie?
I don't get it. It doesn't sound much worse than anything you've seen in the Home Alone movies. How is it "disturbing"? Is Home Alone disturbing too?
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Also besides no silents, there were no foreign films either. The only ones I saw discussed were Hitchcock's early British films like the Lodger and Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will.
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I saw the episode on Studio era Hollywood. It's an okay doc if you have never seen any film from the era before but for most of us, it probably isn't as in depth as we would have liked. You can only discuss a certain amount in two hours anyway.
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1 hour ago, LawrenceA said:
I'm about 30 minutes in, and so far this is boring me to tears...hopefully it picks up after my break.
Edit: It didn't. 5/10 for me, and that's being generous.
Did you at least like the soundtrack? I thought this piece was beautiful.
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Did the series even cover anything from before the fifties? I don't think any silent films were covered in the series at all.
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Sorry you didn't like it. I thought it was funny and a good satire of the Holocaust and WWII.
I also thought it had great camera work (particularly the scene where the Jewish ceremony and the Nazi collaborator speaking to Kropfkringl are shown through one continuous shot).
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4 hours ago, David Guercio said:
Is this an upcoming event that will air here on TCM this October?
Yes.
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3 hours ago, Det Jim McLeod said:
Hour Of The Wolf (1968) 8/10
An artist lives in a remote cottage on an island with his wife. She reads his diary and finds out some shocking things. Max Von Sydow and Liv Ullmann star.
This is a first time viewing for me, one of the best Ingmar Bergman films I have seen so far. I was drawn into it right away as Ullmann speaks directly to the camera. The images are some of the most bizarre and shocking I have seen in a film. I kept wondering are the strange encounters ghosts, hallucinations, pure fiction written in his diary? I guess I will have to keep wondering...
This one is one of my favorites too. Bergman's fears, loves, emotions, etc. are portrayed through both Liv and Max's characters. My favorite imagery is the creepy scene of the old woman removing her eyeballs and face. I found that very disturbing. I also liked the "winged" host inspired by Papageno from the Magic Flute. I found him both dark and humorous.
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1990)
Max von Sydow as Zarathustra
Gerard Depardieu as the Pope
Mike Anderson as the Dwarf
Dolph Lundgren as the Ubermensch
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
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Higgins did seem like a bit of a fruit. It is hard to imagine the lower class Eliza would actually want someone as dainty and bourgeois as him. It's better that in the original play they don't get together. It kind of misses the point.
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2 hours ago, Sepiatone said:
Y'know JAMES...
I apologize since most of my commentary was based on what I remembered about a movie I haven't seen in many years. But as it happened, just a couple or so short hours after getting out of the forum yesterday, I caught the last 45 or so minutes of the movie on TCM. And what struck me was this......
MARTHA was upset because she thought she was the cause behind all the scandal and Karen being dragged down by it. By the dialog, it appeared to me that Martha was struggling with confusion about her sexuality, and it was SHE who (and mistakenly) thought the girls at the school "picked up" on some "subliminal" or "subconscious" hints of her possible lesbianism. And the only "sexual tension" was HER feelings for KAREN, which really isn't true sexual tension, since(as the saying goes) it takes two, etc. But after her confession of her feelings to Karen, the girl's Grandmother comes in and apologizes for everything because the girl confessed to her that she made the whole thing up. And it showed Martha that if she just kept quiet, there would have been a "no harm, no foul" conclusion to the incident, But that she couldn't bear the needless "coming out" to Karen about her feelings and all, well, that might have led to her suicide.
Sepiatone
The kids might have also just thought she was a bit butch.
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6 hours ago, HoldenIsHere said:
Bob Balaban's character in MIDNIGHT COWBOY was meant to be perceived as "nerdy" in 1969," but his style today would be seen as "hip."
The same is true of Harvey Klinger, the young entomologist that Marcia crushed on in that second season episode of THE BRADY BUNCH, "Going, Going . . . Steady."
He looks like he would be a huge dweeby "soyboy" if he were alive today. Hardly hip or cool in any way.
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On 8/11/2019 at 8:15 PM, karlofffan said:
They should do this only if it's Russian and Swedish films from 10 pm - 4 am to really set the mood. OK, a few Canadian films, plus With Byrd at the South Pole, Ice Station Zebra, and Slap Shot.
10 pm- 4 am would also be the perfect time to show Hour of the Wolf. 1 am is "Vargtimmen" after all.
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2 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
I assume neither of the two women committed suicide (but as you already noted their lives were ruined).
Also, in the original case was one of the women engaged?
It doesn't say.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Pirie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_Woods
"I am utterly ignorant of what was laid to my charge and I am not conscious of anything," Marianne Woods told one mother.[5]
It was purely slander against them though, certainly.
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10 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
Of course maybe 'it' played out the way you're saying and it was just a rare coincidence that one of the two teachers was a lesbian making the lie much more damaging to these three.
(because if Martha wasn't a lesbian, she wouldn't have killed herself).
In the original case, none of them were lesbians. They were both straight and the rumor was slander by the little girl.
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3 hours ago, EricJ said:
That's, er....the problem. He DOES seem like he's genuinely asking a TCM classic-movies cable forum about Disney VHS tapes he remembered as a kid.
At least he didn't ask "When will TCM air 'Mickey's Singalong Circus'?" as a cleverly disguised excuse to post it.
Yeah, it was speculated in the other thread that he might be either a troll or just a bit "out there."
I don't get it. It doesn't sound much worse than anything you've seen in the Home Alone movies. How is it "disturbing"? Is Home Alone disturbing too?
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